skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Vaping companies have jumped on the "help older smokers quit" angle while marketing candy flavors and hi-tech e-cigs that are clearly not aimed at established cigarette smokers. Vaping may also be relatively safer but the ridiculously high levels of nicotine are solely intended to hook very young kids for life.

To help smokers quit, vaping only needs to temper their physical and psychological cravings and be in the same realm of affordability, availability and ease-of-use. Selling cotton candy vape juice delivered with a apple-esque vaporizer and slick ads & commercials is not to "help smokers quit"
Mozilla to Launch Hubs Cloud, Toward an Open Web-Based Metaverse
≠ represents a gate [1], which the routing engine probably assumes you can go through; if it's not possible to open the gate, it should have an access=private tag added to it to indicate that it's not passable.

If you click on the mouse cursor button on the right and then click on the symbol, it will show you the details for that object.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dgate
>Stripe is getting free data to train its fraud-detection models and potentially selling that information to advertisers.

That's ridiculous. It's not getting free data to train it's fraud model, it's getting data to _use_ the fraud model!
This is the mandatory rule for Chez Scheme which was only broken once when their entire backend was rewritten, and also (from what I have heard) a large guiding principle for the C# compiler at Microsoft.

It's extreme but it's a good idea because it treats compilation time like an actual budget, which it is. You can't just add things endlessly. But it's not easy to achieve in practice.
I am not sure Teams does anything well, but it does many things! Actually, I take it back, it is the best interface into SharePoint!
That's how Amazon handles non-competes as well. Are they going to enforce your non-compete? Who knows, just sign on the dotted line, and don't ask any questions.
I never said it couldn't work, I said it was a terrible idea.
>Furthermore, restaurants in developed countries have to follow rigorous health and safety practices when preparing and distributing food.

The existence of the laws, and the actuality of most commercial kitchens, would likely surprise a lot of people who haven't worked in food service.
Oh I thought they were trying to say the reporter isn't elegible for a bounty...but then saw there is no bounty.

Why do they care whom the bug reports come from? Or is it just some ploy so they can discard reports when they want...if so why even have this in the first place??
Interesting question, since the web used to exist and work just fine before online advertising. I'm not saying that we should go back in time, but claiming that ads are a requirement for the web to exist is a slight overstatement.
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The NSA does a lot of things. A lot of them are good. Some of them are bad.

When the NSA asks you to help them do bad things, you say no. If you feel inspired to give them a cheesecake discount because of the good things they do, that is fine.
Yes, I mentioned all of that. All I was saying is that WSL2 is still technically a subsystem by name, even if it is "just running the Linux kernel". NT Subsystems have always varied in nature of how they operate. Yes, it's disappointing that WSL2 is "less cool" or "less proper" a subsystem, but they still call it a "subsystem for Linux", not a "Windows VM Host for Linux" or anything like that. (It might be less confusing between WSL1 and WSL2 if they had had chosen a name like "Windows VM Host for Linux" for WSL2.) To the NT Kernel naming perspective these "micro-VM hosts" still appear to be called "subsystem", even if they are doing so much directly less Kernel work than a "proper" subsystem in the Win16/Win32/Classic POSIX/OS/2 1.x or even WSL1 sense.

Though this is getting into semantic weeds and drifting away from the original point that more subsystems, especially retro-computing inspired ones would be fun to see, even if they are more just "micro VM hosts" than full NT Kernel "flavors".

(ETA: Also, it's a small stretch that Microsoft "gave up" on the WSL1 approach. They will still be supporting WSL1 side-by-side WSL2. The numbered name approach makes it seem that it is a strict "upgrade", but it's more a side-by-side trade-off option than the numbers imply.)
I‘d guess that the german „Sachmangel“ would apply here. However, this law applies to the seller - so every dealer would have to start arguing with WD about getting their money back. Sachmangel does not apply to the same extent for business customers...
If you want to split hairs, I don’t have a problem with LabCorp profiting per se from the test. I have a problem with the cost being a barrier to people getting it. If the government were to pay them cost + a small profit to offer it free at the point of delivery, I would have no issue.

I have a philosophical problem with profit being the only motivation for producing the test, but that takes a backseat to practicality here.
Any embedded system that uses a recent version of buildroot and includes openssl. Starting with at least version 2019.02.9
Exactly. Working remotely by itself doesn't lead to higher pay; it's only a perk of an employee with leverage.
Don't single out Stripe, this is how many parts of the world work. Like @ryneandal said, what you're allowed to do with the data is usually covered by legal contracts.

Mastercard and Visa see all the transactions processed for the cards and so does the institution that issued your card (your bank). Unlike Stripe, they do a lot of non-fraud-related analysis on that information.

But putting fintech aside, GCP and AWS have access to everything on their customers' platforms, unless it's E2EE. They could (very illegally, and very stupidly) access all that data. There is no concrete difference between this and what you're talking about.

No matter how much encryption you put on it, your ISP has access to a history of a the IPs you directly connect to. To all the connections you make through them.

It's the nature of a middleman service provider to have access to these things. We can push to improve the status quo (more E2EE, decentralized designs and what not) but a better alternative has to exist before you can cry wolf about those that follow the norm.
CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus this winter will likely be worse
It's sad that his page about self-studying CS [1] does not include any book specific to the Theory of Computation and Computational Complexity.

[1]: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
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Not unless it's released. Anything anyone creates is automatically under copyright whether they declare it or not. Of course, most people making amateur porn probably won't defend their copyright in court, which is de facto the same thing.
It was my understanding, that its easy to get false negatives with this kind of test because the virus moves down the respiratory track as time goes on. Too early, its not sensitive enough. Too late, nothing there. It has to be in a specific window of opportunity. Can somebody jump in and correct me if I am wrong?
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Yes, there was a malicious compiler system for Apple iOS that was released in China a few years back and subverted a large number of mobile applications, including apps used in the US and Europe. There was also a subverted Delphi compiler a number of years back, though I don't think the subversion was dangerous it was more like a test case. And of course, Ken Thompson demonstrated the attack in the 1980s. There may be others, but I remember those offhand.
Because I don't 100% trust this to stay up (and because it's a bit hard to find the actual content without css):

> Apple doesn’t let employees contribute to unapproved OSS projects (even in their personal time). So some of my projects could use a maintainer to manage PRs: - https://github.com/mdiep/Tentacle - https://github.com/mdiep/Logician - https://github.com/SwiftGit2/SwiftGit2 … If you’re interested, please let me know!

>> I’d love to help out with Tentacle! I’ll take a look at open issues and PRs today

> Awesome, thanks! I just gave you access. Tentacle is very low maintenance, but there’s a Swift 5.2 PR open now that looks like it may need a little help.

>> Has this ever been enforced that you know of? What are the consequences?

> No idea. [shrug emoji]
I don't know what they were doing before but I remember Hangouts video chat taking 10 MB/s, while WhatsApp just 3MB/s.
The same way businesses have always been funded - by selling things people think are worth buying.
C'est bien. Je commençais à en avoir ras le bol de Hacker News. Ça bouffe tout mon temps ce truc la. C'est un casse-tête.
No worries. I am glad Stripe was there to help us when we needed it
I bet that it's only for very low bandwidth usage. In that case it would probably only have to encode a 640x360 frame (or even lower) at 15fps. It could also take shortcuts to reduce the encoding complexity (like block size and motion estimation). Still an important step forward.
I think in most states, if you are the original owner of the debt (i.e. you or your business lent the money), you can just go collect it.

But in a case where you're collecting a debt you did not originate, you'll need a debt collector's license in the state where you plan to operate. The license isn't hard to get, but typically there is a very large bond that needs to be posted.

And you're right: if you have the stomach for consumer debt collection and are good at being nice to people (being nice has a much higher success ratio than being a dick when trying to collect), and you're incredibly patient (the really cheap debt is almost uncollectable) it's basically printing money.

source: wife used to be a commercial debt/receivables collector and a long time ago I considered writing debt collection software.
Frankly, it’s a little misleading. Not so much the CV itself being worse, but more about if it coincides with with the peak of flu season, rather than several weeks later as it so happenend.
That's interesting. I wonder how they calculated the area. There's no way Yonkers is twice as dense as Auckland in a practical sense (I would guess it's similar). As for Wellington, there's a very limited amount of space to build on because of the topography. As a result, houses are small, streets are narrow, cars are small (I had a difficult time driving a tiny hatchback). The CBD is unusually big and dense for a city with a metro population smaller than Madison, Wisconsin. The airport is shoehorned in to the only flat space in the region. So why does it have a low density? I'm assuming undeveloped regions are being counted here. I suspect density in terms of "used space" is quite high. Totally anecdotal obviously.
You are misunderstanding the comment, because it's specifically talking about the case when panic is set to unwind and there is catch_unwind handler.
Merci ! Je suis en train de réviser mon français, ce lien peut me servir :)
Mine has a "running with..." part after that.

built with OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019 (running with OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020)
Who cares?

get their symbols into unicode, and have someone write up how the language works phonetically so we don't lose anything historic.

why does someone speaking it matter?
Is this in any way related to WebRTC, or just Duo-specific?
As a current graduate student specializing in systems at Georgia Tech OMSCS, I would love to see this class offered online. What's piques my interest is are the following two labs: preemptive multitasking (i.e. implementing processes) and FAT32 file system (i.e. implementing a file system, something I've always wanted to do)
A camera developer might find "having issues with zoom" as confusing as a dev dealing with timezones finds "having issues with time". Everyone has a different context that may make your name confusing to them.
When your business gets big enough the mafia government will step in and take it from you
You can catch covid in many ways, it lives on hard surfaces for days.
Ask HN: Is it possible to get hired by FAANG as a European graduate in the US?
I have interviewed 100+ companies and got rejected by all of them because of lack of experience. According to the feedback, my data structure and algorithm skills seem to be fine. A year ago I started out on this journey. I need help.

I want to work at Google as a software engineer or creative technologist (collaborative culture, amazing pay, 20% time, focus on best-practices instead of "fail fast").

Despite that I applied for 6 years to Google (mostly) and Facebook (somewhat). I never got a phone screen.

I have learned that some Full-Stack Academy graduates do get a phone screen. Even if they didn't know coding 3 months prior. So less experienced people than me (see my profile) do get a phone screen.

Is it because I'm not from the US? Or am I potentially doing something else wrong?
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>By many measures the USA is one of the most corrupt countries ever to have existed.

Source?
I have never signed a non-compete or a "we own everything you do" clause. However, rather than just saying no, I offer a compromise. I agree not to go after clients if I leave, and I agree anything I make ON COMPANY TIME is solely the property of the company.

It's been a non-started for a couple of companies, but if that's the case, I don't want to work for them anyway.

Once I worked for a company, and me and the owner had a disagreement that wasn't resolvable so I said that I'd have to quit. She leaned back, smirked, and said, "remember that you signed a non-compete." I simply replied, "No, I didn't." She suddenly had an "oh crap" look on her face and looked at the HR director, who said, "I thought I'd get him to sign it later so we let it slide when he came on." The owner then tried to stop me from leaving, but after seeing that shark smile on her face I knew it was only a matter of time before she found another way to screw me and left anyway.

There are more of us than there are them. We all need to stop agreeing to these clauses.
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Just guessing: it could be related to the fact that they have been reported to use an unusual setup (kernel TLS on BSD). https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/slides/Kernel%20TLS%20and%20TLS%...
Right off the bat Joel makes what appears to be a very serious mistake regarding work for hire. His opening logic is as follows:

- When you hire a contract photographer to make some pictures, he owns the copyright on those pictures even though you hired him.

- The same goes for your programmer employees. They own the copyright on their work.

- Therefore you need to require your programmer employees to sign an agreement to sign their work over to you.

I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's a gross misunderstanding of work for hire. If someone is your employee, they are doing work for hire and you own the copyright on their product. Photographers own their work because they were independent contractors and thus their work was not work for hire. I believe work for hire doesn't apply to patents, thus possibly justifying a patent agreement. But seriously, this (AFAIK) broken explanation is his opening justification?
Yeah, I've been using Flickr for my project but I was just curious if something else in the public domain existed. Also, does Unsplash accept pornography? I couldn't really find anything on there.
Who got the 3.5" part of HGST? Wikipedia says Toshiba, but WD is selling drives under the Ultrastar name, not Toshiba.

I mean, where do you go for reliable storage at this point?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
I hate to be super-negative, but I'm not even sure a bachelors in CS is a good idea. Oh sure, you learn a few good things along the way, but then the professors start dragging you down their favorite theoretical paths. I'm all for philosophizing and navel gazing, but there's not much practical in things like lambda calculus, NP-completeness and some of the other topics. To make matters worse, these pursuits can confuse the brain. I know one fancy CS major who dismissed a problem as unsolveable because it was NP-complete. He missed the fact that the dimensions of the problem were such that a quick heuristic did perfectly fine.

The sad thing is that large parts of the curriculum aren't that valuable. Data structures used to be my favorite, but today it's not that important because we stick everything in hash tables or database tables. We rarely use LISTS!

The same goes for compilers. No one writes a compiler any more. Apple just repurposed LLVM when they made Swift. But all of the undergraduates have to pull their hair out making toy compilers and for what end?

Most of the CS curriculum is pretty extraneous. This is why many companies are deliberately hiring technically competent people from tech fields like physics or chemistry. They learn practical skills to analyze their data-- the kind of practical skills needed by corporations not theory heads.
I think this is where like/dislike is polarized.

Some may see the language being way too opinionated for that aspect, while some may be fine. (Also if such style is already aligned with their own established preference.)

I myself prefer less opinionated languages. As a professional, if someone presents me with a Go code, I will of course work with one, but it definitely won't be my go to language.
A coronavirus PPE retail campaign that relied on email spam
I think you can send voice messages and/or make a video straight from FaceTime UI and send it immediatelly.
You are correct that official coronavirus deaths are low. But official influenza deaths (blue diamonds) were almost double their baseline value (green line) and above a threshold value (purple line, but I don't know enough Japanese to know what threshold) back in week 8 of this year (late Feb, early March, depending on how you count it.)

https://www.niid.go.jp/niid/ja/flu-m/2112-idsc/jinsoku/1852-...

I wonder if there are other, non-coronavirus causes of death that are significantly above their normal values?
Slightly off topic, but does anyone else find customer support emails that start like this to be particularly ingratiating?

> Hi Michael,

> Thanks for getting in touch. Faith here from Stripe support.

> Jumping right in, ...

Are those first sentences really necessary? It’s not like the customer expected to have a conversation and you need to apologize for moving directly to the point of the email.

At some point I was taught that it’s best to put things like “hope you’re well” or “thanks for getting in touch” at the end of the email, because putting them at the beginning just makes whatever comes after seem extra disingenuous. Eg “Hope you’re well! Just wondering when you’re going to send the signed contract over.” Doesn’t really sound like you care about my well being, does it?Always better to get straight to the point.

Anyway, pedantic rant over. Now back to the regularly scheduled pedantic rants.
Isn’t one of the theorized initial vectors people in China eating bat or pangolin?
Oh I agree, but I'm here to learn more than anything. And I'm certainly not underpaid compared to market.

Before this current job I hadn't worked as a professional (outside of minor freelance work in my home town) so I see this as bootstrapping a career with zero student debt, plus there's perks like travel opportunities and accelerated career growth which I couldn't easily get elsewhere.

> Also, we work in computer science and a for a vast majority of developers it's business as usual. So I wouldn't say that it's particularly generous or lucky.

I was lucky enough to be born into a good family, where I could learn the skills to be where I am today, no?
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Would such a clause be legally permitted in Switzerland?
Yes, that's right, that's another story about a subverted compiler. I don't have any way to verify it, but I have no reason to doubt the story. It is quite possible, and not even that difficult to do if you want to be that malicious. I don't have a URL for it, maybe someone else can provide that.
> The only viable long-term solution to homelessness is building socialized housing with integrated mental health services.

Back up that assertion with evidence. Also include evidence showing that places like Seattle and San Francisco are the best places to implement such solutions.

> and this is what the Tax Amazon movement is trying to accomplish: https://www.taxamazon.net/sign

Why should Amazon pay for this? If you think this is so important and the right solution, how much money have you donated towards this? If you're expecting Amazon to pay for this then you've got no skin in the game and risk nothing by being wrong.

> I ardently advocate for this and my salary isn't paid by it

And as an ardent advocate, how much have you spent on this?

> Your vision of society is, what, to ship people off somewhere else? Out of sight out of mind, right?

I have no vision. I'm a utilitarian and care purely about successful outcomes, optics be damned. I'm just not so naive as to think that the best place to try and get people back on their feet are places where they stand the least chance of doing so because even competent, educated people that have no vices like drug addiction have to work hard to succeed in a place like Seattle and San Francisco.

Your approach just puts people in the middle of the ocean, but gives them a life jackets. They are almost certainly still going to drown under those conditions. My proposal is to find a kiddy pool or at least someplace shallow with calm waters and give them a life jacket.

You have to have more heart than brains to think some of the most expensive, competitive markets like Seattle and San Francisco are good places to try and get people back on their feet again. And if you genuinely think that such an approach is a good one, you should be the first to spend your hard-earned money to prove it.
The supply chain may not be fragile but other areas are more tenuous. We should acknowledge that it is very harsh times for a lot of people right now.
It says at both the top and bottom of the page not to trust him, and at the bottom it says to implement it yourself if you care about security.

Seems fairly "disclaimed" to me.
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except web only supports two callers. Not group chat
Two months ago we were being told the most important problem that needed immediate resolution was planetary climate change. We needed to rely on experts for that one too. It also didn't matter what costs the industrial world would have to pay. It needed resolution. Actually if climate change is the problem the experts claim it is, I would put that one above the current medical crisis. It effects all life on the planet, not just a certain subset of mammals. In six months the crisis du jour will be the economy. Of course the experts will be sure to tell us how we must change our lives to survive that. After that we'll have an environmental crisis because 3 to 4 billion starving humans will wreck havoc on the Eco-systems they live in.
Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in US veterans hospitalized with Covid-19 [pdf]
Didn't they have allo? seems like there's zero communication internally at google that they build competing products lol
I think growing up I feared the social stigma more than anything else. As I've become older though, and heard accounts from some of my friends who tried harder things... I realized what I don't like is the idea of an artificial high. I gain joy from the simple pleasure of taking a walk through nature, or listening to music with pleasant harmonies. Wouldn't an artificial high, being more powerful, work to make those things less joyous in comparison? Whether it's true or not, my fear of that possibility has steered me clear of the stuff for good. I don't want to depend on some substance to enjoy life, I would rather just enjoy what's already around me.