skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always read this comment and and amazed how people here underestimate the complexity of running a large business with global reach and billions of dollars in transactions. Airbnb is in >100 countries and uses home grown payment system. Now imagine the number of currencies it needs to process and number of finance and tax laws that it needs to follow. Also, when you have traffic at Airbnb's scale, architecture and engineering becomes competitive advantage. Every millisecond of performance improvement or every last % of latency improvements lead to dollars. Finally, Airbnb is heavily regulated at the regional and city level. So I am assuming they require army of lawyers and ops people at these regions to comply. This is a start, and I haven't even touched the customer support side or defense against fraud and other malicious actors.
Sure bail them out and take an equity position.
I didn't put much thought into the post, its a pretty raw idea that could be refined (and of course abused) but it doesn't have to be very Orwellian.

We have professional communities who get things wrong regularly but the rest of the time they do a very good job. Professionals have a tendency to get things right sometimes.

In the media we see journalists interview experts and twist their words into click bait. Journalists loves to attribute the work to professional sources. There is an abundance of professionals who could operate a thumbs up/down interface. Doing this comes with a certain risk to their career. When hiring someone you can pull the articles endorsed from the database. The choice to voice their opinion depends on how much they care about a topic.

The article can be published regardless. The banner will just say something like: "Zero security experts endorsed this article."

Then we will see how many dieticians are willing to put their name under the "Eating chocolate every day can help you lose weight" publication. The endorsement doesn't have to be permanent but the log will be.
It's plateaued and has been hovering around 100k per day for 2 weeks (outside California clearing its backlog on 4/4).
The White House promised 27M by 3/31 and we were at 1M.
It doesn't look like it's ramping up.
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No OP, but IMO the Ivey incident can be distinguished because he tricked the croupier into acting on his behalf, whereas Larson just observed normal behaviour and didn't seek to influence it (beyond normal play of the game). Indeed, I would say the Supreme Count (in Ivey) made reference to this distinction:

> It may be that it would not be cheating if a player spotted that some cards had a detectably different back from others, and took advantage of that observation, but Mr Ivey did much more than observe; he took positive steps to fix the deck.

Whether this means Ivey shouldn't be paid is more debatable IMO. On one hand, he didn't hide his actions and the casino in some sense accepted them into the game, nor did he tamper with the cards. On the other, he deceived the casino into acting outside the normal and intended rules of the game and in in his favour, which, regardless of the means used to do it, can be seen as cheating/dishonest.

I'd come down on the side of the latter, but it's not a particularly firm opinion. I can envision cases why I might feel differently, such as if someone _genuinely_ asked for the cards to be rotated due to superstition then _later_ realised that the cards are aligned as such (though I'm not quite how you'd show that was the likely order of events).
I bet these are not majority employees, but contract photographers or even Airbnb hosts
> I have trouble believing that the majority of Slack users either have a direct public IP or a convenient way to conduct NAT traversal successfully.

Google's libjingle documentation[1] alludes to a statistic that says that "8% of connection attempts require an intermediary relay server".

This will obviously depend on the user demographic, I would guess that users on corporate connections are probably less likely to form successful p2p connections.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/talk/libjingle/important_conce...
Zoom Sued for Fraud over Privacy, Security Flaws
> In the U.S., the salary cut is 30% for vice presidents and above, 20% for directors and above, and 10% for others

That looks like a nice, reasonable gradient. I wonder what it looks like when divided by relative wages.
Its hard to not be cynical about corporations after reading that excellent post.
What's confusing you? (not in a hostile way, genuinely curious)

Server side rendering is challenging to do correctly for any app with transient state, inter-app navigation can be slow, it has user experience challenges around interactivity.

It also has advantages, like providing a more resilient history stack and a faster initial render.

There's no one reason why an app would choose a SPA over a "traditional" SSR app, but there are definitely advantages and disadvantages to both. It shouldn't be a surprise that many web apps, especially ones with a lot of client state to manage or a high level of interactivity, find SPA a more attractive option.

Sure, there are definitely examples of overzealous SPAs (cough Reddit cough), but there are also plenty of complex sites that are being SSR'd and that hurt for the interactivity and intra-app navigation speed of a SPA (thinking about kludgy enterprise software).

Ultimately, for most projects of any significant size, you end up using both in some way. Lots of companies will use a static site, CMS, or simple SSR'd app to handle "front-of-house" concerns - homepage, marketing, blog, login page. The main app will typically be a SPA.
Besides being Apple's CEO, Tim Cook is also possibly the best supply chain guy on the planet (that's why he became Apple's CEO). I was hoping he would get involved with pandemic supply chain issues, and now he has.
Maybe?

The current system is mostly consistent with the way that SSL UX works, it's consistent with the way modern browsers display URLs. From an engineering perspective it's silly, but we're also thinking about ways to easily get across to users 'who owns the thing you're looking at'. It's also nice to have a rigid boundary somewhere, because it allows us to turn on isolation by default; the same-origin policy isn't something programmers have to remember to opt into. So there's UX questions like, "by default should cookies only resolve to a single URL, and programmers have to whitelist subpaths? Would any of the web operators doing this today care enough to actually implement an optional security feature?"

All that being said, I'm broadly sympathetic to an argument that same-origin policies didn't go far enough. I think you can make a very reasonable argument that origins are pretty arbitrary, and that the problems I list above are solvable, and that regardless of the original design we should adapt to what users want to do. That's a fine position to take.

I'm not sympathetic to the top-level argument I was originally responding to; that Javascript has fundamentally made things worse, or that the same-origin policy is a house of cards waiting to collapse, or that that browser policies like same-origin and SameSite aren't basic security improvements over what the web used to be before JS. The truth is, while imperfect, web browser security is still (broadly) very good. I question if there is any user-accessible native platform that comes even close to the web in having decent process/network/data isolation. There is no house of cards collapsing, in reality most native platforms like phones are largely playing catch-up to implement the same sandboxing features that the web has had for nearly a decade.

I get that's not the argument you're making, you're looking at this through the lens of, "should this be supported?". And again, that's reasonable. I do want to re-emphasize though; if you still want to host using userdirs, no browser capabilities have been removed, and nothing is any more insecure than it used to be. You're using the word 'broke', I'm not sure I get what you mean by that. There was an insecure thing people were doing, and they can still do it today with the same consequences. Nothing has fundamentally changed.
Would you provide links elaborating your both points? I haven't kept myself up to date with the web's security and I'm curious how those two problems were solved.
Possibly the GP meant there is not much leadership skill required in their senior dev roles and the amount of programming language trivia is same as everywhere.
Somewhat related: A lot of random networking hardware seems to use "1.1.1.1"

I have even had Wi-Fi networks ask me to go to 1.1.1.1 to load their payment page so I can pay for the internet service.
I would like that as well, but I think the risk of lawsuit is too high.
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This sounds like complete nonsense, and zero evidence is presented. It's just an ad for some app, as if what people who can't sleep need is to be bothered by their phone. There are myriad causes of insomnia including physical, psychological, environmental, and combinations. Stress and anxiety are the biggest factors for people like me. I sincerely doubt this guy has ever had insomnia from anything other than partying too much. If I followed any of the listed advice I'd be up for a week at a time.
Well, dying at the age of 50 to throat cancer is not exactly on my list of expectations for life.
This is only true if Airbnb creates demand for owner-absent short term house lets. Otherwise it's just a platform taking market share from other platforms like VRBO or Craigslist and the amount of housing supply would be the same with or without Airbnb.

And of course it is the latter. The great majority of listings on the platform are for owner occupied dwellings where a room, loft, basement, or guest house is being let out. This does not keep supply of housing suppressed.
The Fabulous Forgotten Life of Vita Sackville-West
There is a lot more to the story. The Soviets were convinced enough about their sub being rammed that they contrived to ram a US vessel in retaliation.

Navy ratings involved in the operation, not bound by secrecy, in interviews said the part of the sub retrieved was fatally radioactive, and ended up buried somewhere south of San Francisco.

The ship was more or less useless afterward--too big and expensive to operate, for anything that anyone could think of to use it for--and was sold at auction for scrap value.

There was a claim that the sub had been involved in an operation to launch a nuke at Hawaii, in a way meant to look like the Chinese were responsible, but that it blew up instead and sank the sub, possibly by triggering an anti-sabotage mechanism. Most observers think that's nonsense. (AIUI, Soviet naval missiles just float out of the sub to the surface, and launch from there.) A sensationalist book, Red Star Rising, claimed to be based on such interviews and other details about peculiar personnel scheduling aboard.

I don't know what's true, but I was astonished that Soviet naval staff activity was so transparent.
That’s a great spin on an old classic: https://xkcd.com/528/
You think no one would simply fill the void if they go away? That model is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Hello! Your website says:

“Most qPCR instruments have low throughput (they can run 1- 48 samples at a time) and they all compete for the same reagents.”

Is it more accurate to say that FDA-approved qPCR machines can run up to 48 samples at a time?

Most qPCR machines can handle 96 samples at a time, and there are versions that go as high as 384 at a time.

The FDA has only approved qPCR machines that go up to 48, correct? Do you know why they’re not running on the more parallel machines?

Thanks!
>The housing prices are inflated and because of AirBnB

You can't prove this.
This is a tough call, and I agree with others that it depends if you guys are at risk, or around people that could be at-risk, ie living your your parents / grand parents. BUT, how I would approach this is that if I hated doing those things, which I personally wouldn't do 3-6, and would just do gloves / mask, then wash hands, and if that doesn't work for the wife, I would tell them to go buy the groceries as a compromise since it bothers them more then me.
Isn’t this a log-scale problem? (binary tree)
> I don't think exploiting loopholes is dishonest

What is "dishonest"? It's a word. That's all; just a word. The meaning it has is based solely on the context in which you use it. There is not an ontological reality for the meanings of words. It means what you want it to mean.

We could argue what is and what is not dishonest. We could go back to the etymology of the word. We could see how it came to be. We could see how most people have used it. We could argue what meaning would be least surprising for most people. But in the end, when you utter the word "dishonest", you have a meaning in mind and, for you, the word has that meaning.

In fact, this is just the same as every other game you play. It's just a loophole. It's an advantage you can hold over others. You spoke. It is your meaning. I can misinterpret what you said, but it is forever my fault for not understanding your meaning. I can argue until the cows come home that I don't think it should mean what you want it to mean, but it's useless because the sentence you spoke is meaningless unless it has the meaning you intended it to have.

Most of your post is a tautology - I do not think it is "wrong" because I do not define "wrong" as being this. Discussion is not necessary.

> but I'm sure some would disagree

And this is where life gets interesting. "Some would disagree". Isn't that how games are supposed to be played? With others? Isn't the goal of a game to enhance everyone's well being, not just one "winner". Aren't the rules there to coax the maximum possible extraction of fun for all involved? Wouldn't be an extreme debasement of this concept if we abused the intent of the rules simply because we could?

You can do what you want, but don't be surprised if I have more fun than you even if I don't "win" ;-)
I thought most airlines are not giving refund due to coronavirus cancellations but rather like a voucher or an option to rebook.
RE: not storing address in a single field, splitting an address into semantic fields feels like a premature optimisation. You’re forced to anticipate all the fields that you may want to aggregate by, before you may actually even use them.

Instead, you could just create a custom function that takes in a string and tries to identify the city or street number or whatever element you want extract from the address e.g.

select * from users where extract_city(address) = 'london';
The Man Who Got No Whammies*

Technically he did get one Whammy.
According to https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html#fn1 The probability of being 49 and dying within the year is about a half a percent. So it's not that uncommon an outcome.
I guess one big difference is who is paying the fee. In an ethereum "app", the code stays dormant until a user interacts with it and pays a transaction fee.
FedEx likewise "lost" the StubHub contract to UPS, but they didn't lose much of anything. They've mostly eliminated physical shipments anyway.
This guy has been writing about Clojure now and then for many years.

More generally.. if we start shaming people who discover Lisp after its creation (1958) it's put in a rather unfair advantage!
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If costs get low enough, it might be possible to do multiple delivery attempts per day. Something like "your delivery device will be on your block at 7:00, 9:00, 12:00, 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00".

Or, more optimally, you would configure delivery windows and tell it when someone will be available and they schedule one or two delivery times in that window.
your business is at high risk of failing instantly when an event of 3 standard deviations or more takes hold.

That’s 99.7th percentile if I understand you right. That seems like something reasonable to think about, and then accept the risk. It seems pretty bold to call them incompetent.
Singapore bans public and private gatherings of any size in outbreak fight
>> a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic.

Or a “links” page. I haven’t seen that in a long while. No affiliate garbage or anything just a page linking to other sites that the webmaster liked or whatever. It’s hard to remember when that fell out of fashion but it did seem to add a personal touch as well.
Wow. Time flies when I'm paying attention to other stuff ;-)
I appreciate that you're "showing people the door", morph3us.
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Some people have nicknames and prefer to be called like that. A known singer would prefer to use a sign instead of a name.

People can have thousands of preferences and an app can't account for all, but for the majority of use cases.
For a primer on this period take a listen to the now defunct Bing Thinking History Podcast

http://bingethinkinghistory.blogspot.com/?m=1

And the early episodes of Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast.

https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

Together these really disabused of the propaganda taught in American schools like that the entire world was under tyranny before the American Republic, that the founders were geniuses that came up with religious toleration, consent of governed and seperation of powers all on their own, etc.
Most IT departments I've seen are composed of "Desktop Support" kind of personas and are viewed as cost centers.
So they are understaffed and underskilled and use a very conservative approach to system management.

Want to encourage power users? Invest in your IT department, improve developer/engineering - IT relationships.

In my current gig, the IT department has a somewhat friendly cooperative relationship with the SRE org. The SRE's build some automation for important tasks (like onboarding) which the IT team operates; the SRE team is available to help the IT team when things go wrong with such tools. Its not the main focus of either team, but the relationship has produced a very effective IT org.
We have already seen 13k deaths in 2 weeks, with unprecedented lockdowns. According to president genius we should have been at zero cases and shouldn't be shutting down the economy. If we treated this like a regular flu, I won't be surprised if we saw numbers at the high end of the projection. And lol, 48 states ? He won barely by 70k votes and lost by what 3mn in 2016 against the most hated candidate, with Russian help, and with FBI meddling 7 days before the election. Look how we lost what 400 seats in 2018. If indeed America elects this incompetent and malicious imbecile, who trades American lives based on which states have sucked up to him, thinks his ratings are more important than 1000s of people dying, then we truly are lost. But I will not be moving to Canada, but fighting everyday to keep our democracy which is threatened everyday by this man in office
While I agree that one would expect a tech company to spend a lot on R&D, I'm not sure how accurately this definition corresponds with what people mean when they say those words.

Alphabet only had about 20% of its expenditures going to R&D in 2019, so does that mean it's not a tech company?

Meanwhile, Tesla have had close to 50% of their expenditures going towards R&D year after year. Ford had less than 5% of expenditures go to R&D in 2019.

By this measure, Tesla is definitely a tech company, but Alphabet might not be. I might... actually want to agree with that, but again, I don't think people who use the phrase would.
Still screwing people though. We had reservations that fell outside of their "coronavirus window" (the 24th) so they wouldn't give us a refund.

When Trump extended his guideline, they only offered half the cash back or all of it in credit. That doesn't even feel legal to me.
Everyone above 30 is senior developer. When they all consider themselves leaders and try to lead simultaneously, it is pretty much political hell.

In some startups, everyone above 25 is senior developers. Everyone else is junior, there is no middle role. So it is not like companies had much choice how to label people.

Imo, most of what people write about "senior engineering" is what they personally admire in this or that senior, what they aspire to be or want others to be. It is not what actually role labeled "senior developer" is.
>Society should be structured in such a way that charity is not needed.

This is only possible in a world where there is no bottom rung of the ladder. That's impossible.
If you're a retail worker and you haven't trained yourself to not touch your face while in work mode, I don't know what to tell you. Be better?
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Facebook ships an experimental app for couples
He has a presentation from 6-7 years ago called "Clojure Is New C"

I never watched it because the title annoyed me too much
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When roboform was still popular a lot of its users had it fill out username and password automatically.
The contract companies (Wipro, Infosys) hire graduates by the 100's from mediocre engineering colleges, slap on a little bit of training and advertise them as world class. The starting salaries are something like INR 25,000 (USD 350) per month. An onshore posting for these low skilled graduates is a quick way to make money. So they suck up to their managers who suck up to bigger managers. Their main criteria is to get hold of contract work by undercutting, knowing very well there is vendor lock in.
"electronic community is a commercial enterprise that dovetails nicely with the increasing trend towards dehumanization in our society: it wants to commodify human interaction, enjoy the spectacle regardless of the human cost. if and when the spectacle proves incovenient or alarming, it engages in creative history like, like any good banana republic."

Whoa.
Serological tests are useful and needed right now, not at some future stage.

It takes about a month before an antibody test is accurate in someone who has had a virus, so using them now would only detect cases where the person had the virus in early March. That limits the value of serological testing considerably.
What is 1B going to do that the 2 point something trillion that the gov just spent can't?
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Lol. Just like Govt contracting.
Could you share the 35 line library? I’m curious. I recently asked the Common Lisp subreddit why so many of their libraries lack extensive documentation and most agreed it is a wart on the language.
Even Google Search had this. I read an old O'Reilly book back then that was centered around API mashup projects (remember that term?) using the many Google APIs, which have mostly been shut down.
Do your tests distinguish between active (infectious) SARS-CoV-2 DNA and remnants that aren't infectious by themselves?

Do they detect antibodies?

What is the false negative rate for nasal swabs vs anal swabs?
Just store GPS coordinates, floor number and apartment number. :D
Is there a HIDDEN message in the £20 bank note
The Future of Bots on Discord
> but I am shocked at how little that matters to modern development shops. It's been a really disheartening experience.

Modern development shops operate in a hyper competitive environment with razor thin margins. Unfortunately, great documentation is often the last thing that's prioritized for such shops.

Personally, I think this is a HUGE mistake; talented technical writers are in good supply and should be hired by any development shop to improve adoption of their product. HOWEVER, as a developer, the shop will prefer that you work on features rather than documentation.