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Generic credentials and experience provide very little information to me on their expertise. The CSO of JP Morgan, James Cummings, was highly experienced and credentialed when JP Morgan was breached in 2014 in one of the largest data breaches in history. The CSO of Equifax, Susan Mauldin, was highly experienced when Equifax was breached. The head of security for Windows at Microsoft is probably highly credentialed and experienced, but we all make fun of the insecurity of Windows. This is why I am interested in the specific projects they worked on and how they stack up. It is much harder to game the system if there is concrete, auditable evidence backing their expertise.

Yes, guidelines are not the end-all-be-all and you can never be sure, but when a civil engineer approves a bridge, they assert that they are confident that human lives can be trusted to the bridge (in certain configurations). They can do this with reasonable confidence because they have seen systems that have stood the test of time that prove out the techniques that they are applying. That is what I am interested in, do you/they have that level of confidence? What justifies that confidence? What systems prove out the techniques that were used? Did any techniques they invent stand the test of time (this provides evidence they can invent new techniques)?
> Not necessarily labor

You can say that again. The result of the medallion systems was that often taxi drivers had to pay to work, by renting a medallion from wealthy owners. Even in countries where the owner of the medallion couldn't rent it, they were sold at very high prices when the owner retired, making it into a middle-class privilege.
First you solve decoupling healthcare from employment, then you can loosen things around the gig economy.

Going the other way around is massively unethical considering the state of healthcare in this country and the dependence on employment for health benefits.
Got some feedback from my Canadian coworkers who stated Covidwatch.io didn't work/load since they have no Counties or States.

Feature request: Always default to a feasible geo-context.

Is it possible!?
So they don't want hobbyists anymore? Interesting approach to growing the userbase and providing at-home labs. But maybe this is the purpose. Perhaps it is a precursor to sunsetting openvms into obsolescence?

I wonder how much bitrot and technical debt there is now accumulating in openvms?

Reminds me of IBM and z/os where they are positively hostile. Then they wonder why they can't find young COBOL programmers etc. Especially those with workable familiarity with a platform and ecosystem.
So then the next question is: who should be responsible for providing the quality of life floor?

We as a society (rightly) demand a minimum standard of living for everyone, and we collectively pay for that one way or the other. Either we pay taxes to fund a welfare state (single payer healthcare, UBI, food stamps), or we pay inflated prices for goods and services to maintain wage floors.

I'd argue that paying taxes for welfare is more progressive, as the burden falls on richer people. Paying inflated prices for goods and services is regressive as it's a burden that falls equally on the rich and the poor.

What we're clearly seeing is a well functioning market driving down the cost of driver labor to the minimum possible price (ignoring for a moment the need to make sure externalities are included in the price via congestion taxes). This is good for consumers, since the good/service is now accessible to people lower on the socioeconomic ladder. If the problem is that some of these drivers aren't making enough to survive, then wouldn't a more optimum solution be to simply give them a little bit of money (or in-kind services)?
Coronavirus and the Future of Surveillance
Very cool. Just installed and played with it. Very nice. Thanks for the tip!!
how much of a math background do you have to understand discrete math? I was going it try to self teach what was effectively engineering math (most of calc, linear algebra, differential equations), but found my foundational algebra and precalc were too full of holes and have had motivational issues. Discrete math seems a bit less, mathy for lack of a better term, so I'm wondering if I'd have better luck with that.
Netflix also seems to be acceptable.
There is a difference between short term and long term impact. Short term regulation costs money and a large player doesn't want that since it'd hurt their stock price. Long term they probably benefit from it but wall street doesn't care as much about that.
As someone who demos software frequently, GoToMeeting is the only one that ever held a candle to Zoom for me. Webex does weird shit to screen shares on Windows, and don't even get me started on Teams/Skype. The rest are pretty obviously not designed to be used for screensharing.
Take a look at datomic, it uses datalog.
This is the single biggest blocker to running something like Postfix in ECS. This is a huge, huge win.
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What would be the equivalent trio of books for the SWE?
Some of us know COBOL but .....

A. We're retired and too old to bother going back to work.

B. We're living elsewhere, so not on hand. And we don't feel like working from home.

C. But mainly, it's been so many years since we actually worked with COBOL that it would take us quite a while to get back to speed.

Having said all of that, I must admit that I liked programming in COBOL. Yes, there was a lot of writing but it was easy to read, review and understand later. And I retained a lot of programming policies from my COBOL days that I used later in programming other languages.
Oh it posts hangout rooms every X hours in any channel you want so you and your colleagues can have a 10 minute chat. It's a fun break from work
That's typically a matter of the employment agreement and not a regulatory condition:

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/full-time

Overtime compensation tends to be regulated.

Unemployment is also sort of tied to work hours, but it's not particularly a job benefit (it's operated as insurance, so it's basically coming out of wages...).
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Those studies are mostly hot garbage.

One compares 28 hour shifts to shifts that were 'reduced' to 24 hours, for example. You're going to be zonked long before that, so the change has a fairly small benefit. Handoff is also something could be presumably be fixed with better training and/or technology, whereas sleep deprivation is bumping into fundamental limits of human physiology.

It baffles me that the medical field is so attached to these hours when there's tons of laboratory experiments and real-world data (pilots, long-haul truckers, armed forces, etc) showing people don't do well.
That is the most likely reason in my opinion. Usually, when something in our natural environment is pleasant to our senses, that's because it's a good thing from an evolutionary standpoint. Vice-versa with unpleasant things.
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I have a Scientific American blog post too, which takes yours to task on the weak evidence the author is citing.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fall-...

> Not only was the paper’s result weak, but the same analysis showed that male rats in the high-RF group lived significantly longer than the unexposed rodents. It would, of course, be utterly and equally fallacious to claim that RF exposure increases life span. Yet the fact that anti-5G activists are happy to gloss over this detail shows an alarming degree of cherry-picking afoot.

> The most reliable data come from large and robust trials, with careful controls and large sample groups. The 13-country INTERPHONE study is one example: its unequivocal conclusion was that there was no causal relationship between phone use and incidences of common brain tumors such as glioblastoma and meningioma. The dose-response curve from this undertaking is telling, because it clearly does not betray any obvious signs of correlation. A similar Danish cohort study also did not reveal any obvious link between phone usage and tumor rates.

Now, you're saying:
> Rolling out a potentially unsafe technology is dangerous, even if the technology is harmless.

So great news, the evidence that 5G is potentially unsafe isn't really there. Heck, there's evidence that it could make you live longer, so maybe we're being irresponsible by waiting to deploy it.
Millions Are Working from Home with Unreliable Cell Signal and Internet
Aren’t a lot of vaccines just weakened versions of natural viruses?

Insulin is natural, would not they require testing before it could be used to treat a new disease?
sure thing; it is!
There are other options than not do anything or kill what you don't need. For example the news reader could be easily split off or sold. theoldreader seems to be doing well even though they had to reimplement the whole service.

Wave got partially opensourced, after a while. I'm sure someone would buy Google trips.

Sure, Google itself wouldn't benefit much from those, but if they're killing the service anyway, it would improve the image.
So far my experience of her as a CEO is that she is very frank and direct. She's not as reassuring as Chris Beard was (the previous CEO), but personally I prefer the direct, sometimes openly unassured communication that I think more honestly expresses what she thinks and where Mozilla is at.

When she started as interim CEO she herself noted that she has been warned that her directness has been interpreted as negative in ways that she has not intended, and asked us to take account of that. I have, and I feel okay about that. I prefer it to the bland opaqueness that is the norm for executive communication.

It is very easy to read that obituary in her voice. I had not read it before, but it doesn't surprise me. I'm sure I wouldn't write an obituary the same way, but if I was going to be memorialized with either something bland and impersonal (sadly the norm), or something like this, I would prefer the latter.
Most Google engineers don't have root on their own machines anymore.
Hijacking DNS with GitHub and Cloudflare
They need to do the work to get on the Mac App Store
Do you have a source? That seems pretty wild if true.
Absolutely! If you don't do this, you're just building the next unmaintainable distributed monolith.
Thanks for sharing what you've been building. Very cool!
does that mean they are not even using containers?
Btw we just added the paid tier today!
French researcher treated 1000 virus patients with 99.3% success rate
Fun to read, but there's a lack of detail here that I'd like to see. For example, this talks purely about code changes. However times a code change requires a database schema change (as mentioned above), different API's to be used, etc. In the percentage based rollout where multiple versions are in use at once, how are these differences handled?
I had an old am radio and the battery lasted for years...so good power management
Exactly as you say: if customers (that is, the people paying for the software, not necessarily the people filling in forms) need it, then it's a requirement.

The point is that while sorting by last name (say) might not seem important to an engineer, and requiring a last name might seem outright stupid to a person filling in a form, nevertheless it is often an important requirement. Frequently folks will observe some "stupid" form, and link to some "falsehoods engineers believe about X" document, suggesting that engineering "got it wrong", when in fact they have simply misunderstood who the software is actually for.
We (Gumroad) open sourced ours: http://github.com/gumroad/wilfred

Here's what it looks like: https://twitter.com/shl/status/1128039742308737024/photo/2
Linux user here. I have tried them all and Zoom is not perfect but is multiple levels above any of the competitors. Don't even get me started with WebEx.
All the examples given in that article are people belittling complex programming tasks. But this was just a simple a reading comprehension and logical deduction task, not even remotely in the same league.

But maybe to you this was a similarly difficult task, so I apologize if I was being insulting by belittling it. Sorry!
Signal server should respond with "I either don't know this person or they have not approved to be contacted by you". You should only get a prekey if they are in fact a signal user and have opted in to be discoverable by everyone or only by select people including you.
I uninstalled zoom and refused to use it after they did that skanky "start up a local webserver to avoid Safari's user-safety questions". Then everyone was using Zoom, so I gave them another chance and installed the native client. Turns out the native client install also contains skanky hacks to avoid user-safety questions. So I uninstalled it again, and now my company has told us all not to use the native app.

Once may have been an honest mistake. Twice (and now more) is definitely a culture problem that's not going to be fixed without massive turnover.
Looks cool!

Obligatory note: Cool Retro Term (CRT) https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term is pretty cool ;)
Car services have worked like that for decades. My uncle has had his same driver for something like 40 years. The driver is not an employee, he is a contractor.
But why this unusual level of scrutiny? The book is published and endorsed by both Google and O'Reilly, two of the most respected brands in this domain. Why are they not a satisfactory "third or first-party confirmation of expertise" but random commenters on Hacker News would be?
> If a platform can't scale to handle content moderation requests, it shouldn't exist at scale.

Agreed. This whole "we got so big chasing crazy growth that making us responsible for cleaning up our own mess would make us lose money" argument is very tiresome and one that I can't see holding any water outside of tech.
And then those same Lispers will whole sale write off procedural Algol like languages as being "lesser", despite everything that that has been accomplished with languages like C.
100% agree with these. And it seems like decoupling healthcare and other benefits from full-time employment opens the door to your last point, a 4-day work week.

Right now in almost full-time job, if you want to switch to 4 days a week you need to basically get a different job. You'll lose your benefits like healthcare, paid vacation, 401k matching, so even though you'd be working 80% as many hours your effective pay at the same hourly rate would be much less than 80% of what you made previously.

The more that benefits are decoupled from work, the easier it would be view employment on a more sliding scale for many jobs - i.e here's the hourly rate, you can work 2 days a week or 5, it's up to you, but you'll still be a "full" employee in the sense that full-time workers are today.

Obviously not all kinds of work lends itself to this flexibility. If you're trying to climb the ladder and get promoted quickly you'll probably still need to work a lot. But for a lot of jobs, for instance for IC software engineers, I don't see why this flexibility wouldn't work.
It is a mystery to me why anyone downvoted you. Yep; exactly so. There are people on the edge of an economic disaster where 80% odds of being fine are substantially better than the economic stresses they are being put under. Someone without a good social network could be facing a risk of actually starving to death if they lose their job and all local businesses shut down in line with the quarantine. The disruptions happening are profound.

I'm cautious and I'm not about to venture out of my apartment until we all know what is going on, but the data we have so far isn't a compelling story that would convince everyone.
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Thanks so much! Loved the first two Foundation books, but did not find the humans really any more morally or ethically advanced than us today. What I must dug about the stories was the vast sense of scale they shared, and allowing things to happen naturally at the right time and place.
In my case this is usually caused by a conflict with firefox's anti-fingerprinting. Which I think is fair enough.
Every coal plant closed is a coal plant closed.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

China can make no changes and we can still make the world a better place. Start with your neighborhood first.
I'm seeing references to Zoom "getting over these security issues". Some of the issues (e.g. not requiring passwords) can be relatively easily addressed. Others, like transmitting symmetric encryption keys over the wire and storing them in databases in China, are more fundamental to Zoom's corporate strategy. I doubt Zoom would change the most jarring of their security gaffes in a way that would satisfy security-focused companies like Google.
Or those places aren't testing? The UK has ~62,000 confirmed cases and ~7,100 deaths - that implies a > 10% mortality rate which is definitely not true. Why is the mortality rate so high? Because they only test those with severe symptoms - the actual number of cases is much higher than 62,000.
But those vulnerabilities were there, at least on OSX, because they were trying to avoid OSX's security warnings. And this is not the first time they've done something skanky like that.

Once may have been an honest mistake; 2+ times is now a pattern.
I'm not sure why you think they don't negotiate with other search providers.
How did you sign up? It is asking for an invitation code.

NVM it works on browser by not entering a code, does not work when you try that in iOS app
True, the attacker is much less likely to have anywhere near the funds of the target, and they don't want to hurt them.

Regardless of the actual price multiple, it costing anywhere near the price to serve as the price to solve just seems to defeat the point. Really, it costing any money per captcha served just punishes sites that happen to face a higher volume of bots, even if they're a small site. It's just going to push the company to switch to a different captcha service, which may be even cheaper for attackers to solve.
> My mom would sew layer after layer of patches on my jeans. Nobody does that anymore

> In general, things are so cheap it makes no sense to fix or maintain them. Just get another one.

> Steak is much, much cheaper than when I was a boy.

> Fresh food from all over the world, 12 months a year,

This is terrible for the planet. I'm on board with the other stuff but our disposable economy and distant supply chains are a disaster.
I don't have any issues with Skype and it's my #1 choice when videocalling my friends all over the world. What exactly are the issues with Skype?
Audio < Text when too many people are trying to communicate at the same time.

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We are supposed to be engineers here. I regularly see this attitude that one thing is always and inherently better than another. Life is (mostly) a zero sum game and it is our job to pick a solution for the problem at hand. And the more we can constrain that problem, the better, cheaper, more reliably we can deliver a solution. More information is not better. Maybe for interview body language is important but for deciding what story to pull or what commits you did? Not really.

</rant>
Google banning it is almost an endorsement for me. Anything the Chocolate Factory hates can't be all that evil.

Joking asides, this is a weak way to promote the fact they have a competing tool.
I know some of the content contributors for the book and some of my work is discussed it it’s text. I’m a SWE and a huge amount of the material in the book is directly relevant to development.
There are 2 big problems with on-demand/ gig employment.

#1 Our current system of coupling healthcare and other life essential benefits with employment is broken. It makes it difficult for people to work small jobs or switch jobs. In order for gig jobs to be viable, people need to be able to get survive a broken foot without going bankrupt.

#2 Gig-style businesses tend to vastly underpay employees. The early claims that Uber drivers were averaging $15-20/ hour or more were completely fabricated. The reality is most gig jobs require people use their own vehicles and don't pay them for inevitable downtime which means they are vastly underpaid. Minimum wage for gig workers should include payment for expenses (including a reasonable $0.50+ / mile for travel) and downtime between gigs.

If those things are fixed, then suddenly gig work is amazing, but that's a pretty big ask.
WebRTC is much better at having "consistently good video quality" as this benchmark convincingly shows: https://jitsi.org/news/a-simple-congestion-test-for-zoom/
It doesn't seem like a huge problem for ML to solve. Have someone wear a consumer EEG headband and an expensive medical device which measures their actual sleep state. Penalize the consumer device when its findings are off of the medical device. If the consumer device is still inaccurate after many iterations, add another input like a wristband with multiple sensors. Use both the EEG band and wristband as inputs to the ML, and train the ML until it's close in accuracy to the expensive medical device. In my mind, there just has to be some combination of easy measurable inputs that, together, correlate very well with sleep state.
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> Maxwell's equations are difficult to view as a whole since they are 6 or 7 separate things that should each be understood individually

How so? You can't understand electricity and magnetism separately because they both affect each other; the clearest triumph of Maxwell's equations is that they describe electromagnetic waves, but you need the complete system of equations to do that.
> Decouple healthcare from employment (Universal healthcare)

No, fix healthcare costs instead. Given current healthcare cost structure, even 'universal' healthcare will not decouple it from employment. Fix the cost problem, and everything else gets way easier, including safety nets.
> The safety nets in the US are independent of the businesses

I think the fact that health insurance is tied to employment is one of the few things both sides agree is bad. Decoupling health insurance from employment can go a long way to making the distinction between "full time" and "gig worker" unimportant.
I'm more curious about how DB rollbacks occur in situations where a PR changes DB and is then reverted.
Yes. Though I would prefer it's not designed by people who have a history of exploiting people who perform the services they sell.
I can't imagine not using class-transformer[0] or class-validator[1] in any TypeScript project that deals with external/third-party APIs, remote or not.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/class-transformer
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/class-validator
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The privacy statement consists of the following: "Your test is private".

I didn't sign up.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act took away pretty much all "Unreimbursed Employee Expenses" deductions for most classes of employees. Thanks, Obama. Err, Trump.

We generally do alright but these are unusual circumstances. I'm sure I'll hit a breaking point eventually and move my office to a room that gives me more isolation from everyone else.
> Things have changed and today misrepresenting encryption and privacy is a much more grave sin that consumers are more concerned about.

Not disagreeing but I think we have to remember that 99% of consumers are not HN tech gurus and really don’t care. They only care about the quality of the product/experience, and clearly Zoom has topped the market on those (similar to slack for enterprise chat).
Yeah, that's true, although we all know they're just in there so the acronym works.