skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top Fantasy Series for Quarantine
Trump encourages US to mine the moon
Ask HN: Should I join Apple? Will I risk getting laid off?
I have recently received an offer to join a team at Apple as an engineering manager. What are the chances of getting hit by layoffs?

The team is part of Eddy Cue's org (IS&S).

I work for an organization with pretty much zero risk of layoffs. The work is humdrum, and I make $ 250k in total comp in a HCOL area. The Apple job will pay $350k.

The recent discussion on the terrible status of the IS&T org at Apple along with the impact of the virus is giving me pause.

On the one hand the job is an unparalleled opportunity to work on some cutting edge systems in a name-brand company and accelerate my career and personal financial milestones. On the other hand, i’m on a visa, and getting laid off will have catastrophic personal consequences.

Do you think it is worth the risk?
It's an alternative to mailhog or mailcatcher so no email is actually sent. It's just for testing sent emails.
I would not have even considered trying to make use of the existing Sanger sequencing machines. This opens up a whole extra set of hardware to increase testing bandwidth. Thank you.
The asterisk makes them suspect, deserved or otherwise, but it is a tarnish.

That is the problem.
> you only call it politics when you are losing

Gonna remember that one.
Note that on mobile chrome I see the numbers for "Here’s how it works" offset in a wonky way.
Little a Clojure, as a treat
He is where he is because he married the eventual President's daughter, not because he got a free pass at top schools (though he did).
Ask HN: Should cannabis start to be considered for Covid-19 treatment?
It's only anecdotal evidence, but I have two friends who are both immune system compromised, both are nurses who work at different hospitals, both who have been diagnosed with COVID19.

Both have experienced similar symptoms. Basically drowning in fluid, extreme shortness of breathe, horrendous body aches, and not being able to sleep.

The interesting part is both started taking pretty potent edibles to see if they could help. Both have taken cannabis in some form for other ailments in the past. Surprisingly, both said at about 180-225mg of THC, it dried out their sinuses, relieved their body aches, and allowed them to breathe well enough to be able to climb stairs, mitigated their coughing fits and allowed them to sleep through the night.

Both are still surviving, neither have been admitted to the hospital and both said they will stay quarantined until they get better. They're 18 days in, and are slowly coming out of this. I should also mention this is in a state where medical cannabis is legal, recreational use is not. Obviously because of their nursing license it's impossible to get approved for a medical cannabis card.

My question is, should the medical community start to more closely examine cannabis as a way to lessen the symptoms of COVID19?
FWIW -- according to LinkedIn, they have 14554 employees, with the top two functions being:
1. Arts & Design (3365 employees)
2. Engineering (1990 employees)
Excerpt:

"McCarthy explained Lisp to his readers by building it up out of only a very small collection of rules.

Paul Graham later retraced McCarthy’s steps, using more readable language, in his essay “The Roots of Lisp” (http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html).

Graham is able to explain Lisp using only seven primitive operators, two different notations for functions, and a half-dozen higher-level functions defined in terms of the primitive operators."
Yes.

You think there will be alot of folks to choose from?
Because it's an early indicator that Amazon doesn't have the logistics and operational advantage over fedex/ups that it claimed to have...
The text does seem pretty huge:

mobile: https://i.imgur.com/TJ7tnsG.png
pc: https://i.imgur.com/423b2oU.png
User-specific subdomains have their own set of problems too. This is why, for example, GitHub Pages switched their hosting from username.github.com to username.github.io - even with HTTPSOnly cookies, you can still set cookies for other subdomains.

https://github.blog/2013-04-05-new-github-pages-domain-githu... and https://github.blog/2013-04-09-yummy-cookies-across-domains/ are relevant
> The modern web stack is a security house of cards, as demonstrated.

Perhaps, but I feel like major recent changes are fixing most of these vulnerabilities:

1. Content Security Policy locks down most of the vulnerabilities that result from something on a page being able to contact something from a different origin. Of course, it's not set by default and these days requires a lot of trial and error to figure out the "right" way to set it, but it solves a lot of issues.

2. On the cookie front, the recent changes to the default SameSite behavior also pretty much end CSRF bugs.
File under: Universities are silly places.
Your forgetting the obvious overcorrection against remote once it's "safe" everyone who felt they lost control is going to be way worse. Others who are smart will be better. Also you're assuming there aren't a lot of terrible employees taking advantage as well.

There are a lot of terrible managers and terrible employees ruining things for everyone else.
It's the same article, published on multiple sites. Is there a reason (eg: only one site has the rights) to prefer Huffpo? My inclination would be the other way.
You wrote: "We are all supposed to rely on what YOU can and cannot think of?"

No, of course not. I asked for your help in identifying "a purely objective stance on topics" precisely because I am limited in my understanding.

I am expressing my ignorance. You imply such sources do exist, so please educate me.

You wrote: "I pointed at blatant intellectual dishonesty which is stating things either false or in a fashion that might provide a more naive reader with a false pretense or to perhaps make something concrete appear ambiguous, etc."

Where did you point that out? You implied it, but have yet to demonstrate a concrete example.

> "you are either a troll or a supremely dishonest individual"

While you have yet to take any of my questions seriously.

1) "What searches are you doing to end up there?".

To clarify, among other things, RationalWiki contains summaries of activities by people that leftists sometimes categorize as "fascist", "fascist adjacent" or "white supremacist." It is one of the few sources which do that. So if you search for those names, then it's likely you'll come to a RationalWiki page.

2) "And are their answers incompetent?"

To clarify, I used "incompetent" because your top-level comment used "incompetence." I wanted some examples of answers which were demonstrably wrong, and some indication that they were wrong more often than other sources that Google might use, and perhaps some indication that their biases were the reason for being wrong.

You wrote "Dropping an apple from a window always causes the apple to fall towards the earth and not away from it."

But dropping a helium-filled balloon does not.

So if you are news source, and only talk about falling apples and never about helium-filled balloons floating away, you are reporting the facts yet resulting in biased reporting.

If your news show often reports about fraud in the welfare system, and never covers wage theft, then it too is both factual and biased.
all of the underlined "filling out this form" links are bad
MIT made all classes this semester effectively pass/fail. Makes sense to me. It has been wrenching, with different impact depending on each student's situation.
Personally, I don't think your interpretation is more charitable. If they think that their initial results possibly aren't correct then launching a business and claiming things like "Extremely Accurate" and "on par or better than other COVID-19 tests available" is fraudulent.
Would like to second that the format and structure of this channel and community are a refreshing and useful take for the exact demographic mentioned above, in my experience
There are ways to show initiative. Contribute research for one. Could be a mark of honor.

Automatic pass sounds like Goldman buying a private jet with a shower when 2,000 people are dying a day.
Can live up to X hours != Will live up to X hours

Let’s say it’s 50/50 whether it lives 24h without help. That’s would be a pretty bad false negative rate for your test, but a 50/50 of potentially getting infected by your mail is pretty high.
I actually prefer this instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/nipponnoiro/

It's the same concept, but one color for every day of the year. It's a lot more browsable/readable, though it's not searchable at all and has no romaji.
They’re fine little web browsers if you manage to enable web browser acceleration for the integrated intel video card.

If not, they can’t even run JavaScript ads, because apparently ads like to refresh the screen with a static image at 60fps. Software rasterizers can’t keep up with that (even on 32 core, >200W TDP xeons, from what I’ve seen...)

The web really sucks at everything other than network effects.
I would argue that the root issue you're describing which leads to XSS on the same host is allowing un-sanitized input leading to code injection.

It is entirely possible to design your own application which uses unique userdirs without using any of Apache's built in functionality that are completely immune to XSS because it is not possible for any of the users to place malicious scripts on the server.

Likewise it is also entirely possible to build a web app that doesn't use userdirs at all in any form for anything and still be vulnerable to XSS because of underlying input sanitization or code injection problems.

So whatever you're going to do, just do your homework and do it well.
> I don't see how could that scale.

Similarly to UPS and FedEx, one would assume.
>The mailbox_id from the above setup should be included somewhere in the text of the email, the subject, the bcc address, the headers, or any other field (even email address of the sender or recipient will do).

Sorry... how does it know what mailbox id to look for?
Where have all the heart attacks gone?
Or maybe they're all moving so much toilet paper that they have to cut less essential deliveries.
I don't see it being a major issue for a single semester. If they were meant to fail Calc 1 and instead move to Calc 2, that's on them to learn the old material or they will fail.

They'll be forced to relearn the material or continuously fail.
Great start, but plain text in 2020?

I propose we design a markup language so this can be parsed. How about DTML? And maybe some styling rules as well, we can call it DSS. And we can't forget a basic scripting language called DJS.

I'll start working on the parser, we can call it a drowser.
I would be grateful if any Apple insiders here can discuss the risk of layoffs if one were to join the company now.

I have an offer to join an engineering team at Apple, but the chances of getting hit by layoffs is giving me pause. More details on my situation are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22809769
Thanks for pointing this out because I was just going to say the same thing. It’s most definitely not a Javascript problem, as Javascript is just a language, and nothing about the language design is inherently insecure. The problems are with the implementation of the browsers’ security mechanisms, some of which are indeed controlled via JS.
My porch roof and rail and that huge ass rhododendron do. I'd have trouble landing a drone there myself without a 1" box attached
This is entirely reasonable. You should not wear "outside clothes" in as much as possible.
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On average, a Google internal tool is better than a commercially equivalent tool elsewhere, especially if it's developer critical.

For example the code search, testing, code review tools are amazing and better than any commercial equivalent.

Other tools like the bug database are on par with the industry.

Others like the food, directory and interviewing tools are still pretty damn good and even if they are lacking some polish, are often far more functional than the average commercial equivalent.

And of course they are hit and miss - because there are so many of them. The ones that are commonly used are well funded and have lots of people working on them.

I no longer work at Google but still consider it a role model for how companies should take tooling seriously.
It's not necessary for each individual clause of a contract to have consideration for both sides, only for the contract as a whole to have it. The consideration is that you get to use the service in question.
For clarity, a 500-patient study in WA (not yet peer-reviewed) showing self-swabbing to be as effective as swabbing by health care workers has prompted FDA to allow patient to self-swab at clinics, just not at home: https://medcitynews.com/2020/03/fda-says-patients-can-self-a...
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> If a student feels confident they will have learned enough Calc I to take Calc II for the fall semester, then why not let them?

Limited seats and the Dunning-Krueger effect [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
Ok, now that we agree this is neat (I am impressed!), what’s the solution?

Google or not, what can help me discover the right recipe, the right content, the right answer to my coding error?

Search algorithms that keep “mutating” even randomly? Ranking system? What?
It sounds like you are advocating people not fight for their livelihood.
I must not be alone in the macroservice to microservice spaghettification migration. If you spend a minutes detangling headphones, but stop half way into it, that's where we're at. At which point, please just give me the monolith. I can accept it isn't the correct architectural vision. Let novel services the business identifies be properly implemented as true microservices. A pinch of pragmatism can go a long way.
Ok downvoters, it's from Aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q
Plus this is happening to pretty much everyone currently in school (at any age). Learning is being massively disrupted everywhere, not just at Yale.
That's just for public data reporting, so doesn't stop people from actually doing tests.
I think anything is unreasonable if it isn’t based on what we know or reasonably suspect today. Mark and gloves are fine but there are huge caveats. 3-6 aren’t based on what we know or reasonably expect today so I think they are unreasonable. Replace 3-6 with “wash hands and any grocery containers”.
Single-Atom Transistor
Like Reddit comments with a thousand edits after they become popular.
A turn around time of 24-36 hours should be easily achievable for the performing lab, depending on the time of day the specimen arrives (morning vs afternoon). It takes about 1 hour for the initial RT-PCR amplification, and sequencing takes about 12 hours.
I learned this the hard way with a C+
> It sure would be nice to have everyone proactively choose to act in a way that matches the "spirit" of the law or rules, and maybe this did used to happen in more homogeneous/authoritarian societies? But without that synchronization it seems to fall to the legislative bodies to codify as much as possible of the various moral behavior which is very hard in practice and easy to exploit.

I suggest you read into the history of common law as it pertains to the history of legal practice in the UK and many of its former colonies. It is still strong today in both the US and the UK, though I am not familiar with other commonwealth nations.

In a common law legal system, laws are discovered through trial rather than ordained by legislation. Precedent is built through case law.

This is a system that is all about the "spirit" of the law.
> Where? How? How instead should you store groups of things? Blog doesn't say.

By normalizing. This is obviously a guide for to do and not to do, not a 101 level course on database design and normalization. You first step should be to google database normalized forms, and even specifically second normal form or third normal form. I know from experience that Wikipedia has articles covering these. I've read portions of them.

> If you just remove fields, then you absolutely are losing data. _YOU_ might be able to infer it, but your software sure as hell can't unless you put the data somewhere else. So where should the data go instead? What should that look like? Blog doesn't say. Blog doesn't even actually say that you should remove those fields. That's just one possible course of action.

> Again, just deleting fields is 100% losing data unless you put those values somewhere else. Where should they go? Blog doesn't say

The point is that if you're working towards normalizing that data, then you have the data in a different location.

The blog entry also doesn't explain what SQL is, or what a primary key or foreign key is. When you encounter terms that are not defined, you should make sure you understand them. If you don't, then the information is likely not aimed at you. If you don't understand normalization, you aren't going to understand what's being recommended. This obviously isn't a guide on how to normalize perfectly, it's a recommendation to do certain things, some of them to do with normalization, and a justification for why.

Consider it the equivalent to telling someone that they should eat a balanced diet for their health and notes some problems too much of certain types of food can cause. It's still valid advice even if it doesn't come with an explanation of exactly what to eat, and references medical phenomena without explaining what they are. That doesn't make it a bad article, it just makes it not terribly useful for people that it isn't aimed at.
You forgot the most important thing - noise.

Drones are loud. Incredibly loud.
High doses of CBD maybe?

One strain example that has helped lots of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte's_web_(cannabis)
Cool you missed "actually understand the legacy system" and went right to the grand rewrite into microservices. If you can't be bothered to understand one service from 30 years ago, how is someone 30 years from now going to understand your 45 service masterpiece let alone run the out of date kube cluster you deployed it to.
Bazel 3.0
A civilized place would not permit the sort of noise pollution that a large-scale drone deployment would generate.
You can still retrieve messages sent to the service, and use it to signup to whatever web sites you want. Verification links are trivial to extract from it.

That it doesn't actually relay mail doesn't hinder its spam potential.
Case study on Regenxbio (AAV gene therapy)
South Korea shows that test and trace works just as good or better than lockdowns. Which is why our failure to get high testing rates early on is such an utter travesty.
I don't work for Apple but they have 200 billion in cash on hand. I doubt you'd be at any lower risk of being laid off at any other company all else being equal
I would wager that for the vast majority of students attending Yale that the reduction in social time is way more than the increase in family duties. At least they should have reduced social interactions at this point.

Sure there are some impacted, treat them individually (that's one of the things you pay Ivy league rates for, right?). Wheeling out a sob story of a handful of students in order to grant benefits to everyone just doesn't make sense. The school should be rigorous and push students as best it can.

That's how I viewed school, though, and I realize it is a minority opinion.
To review the profits that AAL posted you should look at the "Net Income" charts[1], and not the "Gross Margin" charts that you linked to.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAL/american-airli...
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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners (2018)
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A plan that included saving rather than leverage would be well suited to many sorts of disruptions. You couldn't hire McKinsey to write it for you, however.

Underlying all this whinging there seems to be a remarkable expectation that the world is supposed to be fair, and when it's not the taxpayer and the Fed should make it so. If the objects of all this fairness were human, I could see the point. However, you're talking about corporations, so there is no point.
I've programmed Lisp code for several years and personally I do find Lisp code harder to read, especially when doing arithmetic.

The direct benefit of Lisp syntax is that everything is consistent. Arithmetic operators have the same syntax as regular functions. Because all Lisp code has a consistent structure, that makes it easy to do some really neat things. For example, it isn't hard to write a program that takes Lisp code as input and processes it in some way.

This is the reason why you see so many people write a toy Lisp interpreter. It's really easy to write code to evaluate Lisp code because all Lisp code has an identical structure.

As a Lisp programmer, this benefit emerges in the form of macros. Macros run at compile time, take some Lisp code as input, and spit out new Lisp code as output. The new lisp code is then substituted for the old one.You can think of macros as a very small user-defined compiler. These let you build all sorts of language constructs that you couldn't build in other programming languages. For example, you can add pattern matching to a Lisp with macros. The macro would take a list of patterns and corresponding expressions as input and spit out some code that checks for the patterns and runs the corresponding expressions if the pattern matches.
HardenedBSD got the userland running fine. It was iirc mostly irrational fear by the FreeBSD team that someone's bad application would break.
It will be drones owned by people, similar to kindles or echos. There is no fleet, no (or very few) drones shot down or stolen.

Every family will have a drone “pet” with sole purpose if delivering Amazon stuff, in this case literally.
What modern language doesn't have first-class functions and closures?

(Except for C, but in that case it's obviously by design, and for good reasons.)
At this point the question is the form of the disaster that "pushing back" will entail.
Please look into this app and the screenshots the developer has posted: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bizvideo-ec/id1409523106

Organs per individual go for $2,000,000 if a full ECMO harvest can be done.

That is quite a bit of money, but illegal medical experimentation, as documented by the book "ScienceMart", generates an equivalent amount. Obviously the experimentees might not wind up completely dead like the organ transplant victims though.
This is potentially misleading. Viral load is a significant factor in the seriousness of most infectious diseases. This is why you'll likely be ok if you pass a coughing TB patient in the street and inhale a few bacteria, but are much more prone to contract TB if you spend an entire day cooped up in a small room with the same coughing, infected individual.

This is thought to be why an unexpectedly high proportion of young, healthy doctors and nurses are getting seriously ill from Covid-19. Statically, you'd expect almost all of them to get mild disease.
Being complete garbage didn’t stop JavaScript either :/

At least JS had the excuse of being designed and implemented by a single developer in three weeks. X Windows was part of Project Athena, a $50 million project from MIT, DEC, and IBM with a five-year schedule.