skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never really "got" it when it comes to tools like Slack or Teams.

I've used everything from IRC and ICQ through XMPP and HipChat to Slack, Discord, and Teams and let me share why I think Teams is so much more than all of its predecessors.

As someone who manages a large Active Directory domain and Office365 setup, Teams comes free. All I had to do was install the Teams client on users desktops and everything just worked instantly. Users logged in, installed it on their mobile devices, all secured by O365 2FA. I created an AD group for managers and all of them got the ability to send out Teams meeting requests via a local dial-in number for $4/month. When they schedule a meeting, the attendees can use Teams desktop app, mobile app, web app, or just dial-in via phone. Without this $4/month, users get everything except the dial-in phone number.

I created a few "Ask [Department]" channels in Teams and my users are using them in the appropriate way without over posting. Users message others in groups of 2-5 and create their own channels without asking IT. My users have conducted Teams webcasts for 40+ attendees, frequently video chat with groups of 8+, and have drastically reduced texting via their personal cellphone or using the old internal IM client. All of this without any training from IT.

So Teams is different because except for email, it has replaced text IM, SMS/MMS, forums, audio conferencing, video conferencing, and screen-sharing. It can also replace file-sharing and co-authoring but for business reasons I disabled that as much as I could. Also it automatically integrates with Outlook Calendar so users are alerted the same as before, just with a Join URL now. We were paying over $2k/mo for audio conferencing and now it's barely a few hundred dollars for a better, more stable product. Other than audio dial-in, Teams is effectively free for us because we have been on the O365 Enterprise plan for years now.

I last used Slack about 6 months ago and back then it had poor audio conferencing and no built-in video conferencing or screen-sharing. I was hoping after they bought Screenhero, at least screen-sharing would be native quickly but that was not my experience. Overall I like Slack, just that for enterprises already on O365, Teams is a no-cost no-brainer. Not even going to try setting up Slack.
> My use case when searching for information about a disease is usually to explore broader information about the disease, not just look up a listing of most common symptoms.

OK, I see the problem, and I'm not sure how Google can solve it. The problem is that you are unlike the vast majority of other Google users. Most of the time someone is searching for an illness, it's because they think they (or someone they know) has it. Mayo Clinic is great for that.

I personally sometimes search for more detail, but then I usually go directly to Wikipedia (which has as much info as a layperson like me can understand, but much more than Mayo Clinic).
I think communicating positions like this is a major unsolved political messaging issue. How do you say "this government agency is unreformable and we need to get rid of it" without implying that the government should completely ignore the agency's responsibilities? It'd make things a lot easier if there were a good way to phrase that.
I don't understand the need to insist on the righteousness of your particular opinion with regard to remote work. To conclude that an organization that doesn't meet your expectations about remote work as you is "all about power" seems to me to be a huge leap.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dolphinconspiracy/
Rapid Disk: Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching Kernel Modules
> I think the argument is that things like Wix put web developers out of business.

When I started only the most keen companies even had websites and I build them and many weren't much more complicated than you can do with Wix.

Now every company needs an online presence and most can get by with Wix but the number of companies that need a developer to build something competitive is larger now than it was back then.

The market is growing faster. But also the sophistication that users demand is going up as fast as there are tools to accomplish what was perfectly acceptable 10-15 years ago.
In my opinion it will provide growth for the software industries, as it lowers the cost of entry for many companies who would otherwise not develop anything.

It will also increase demand for integration and plugins for those (low-code) ecosystems, just like all platforms create.
In the right quantities water is poison too.
Yea it seems pretty clear to me. If samples degrade during transport, you could get false negatives. I can understand the FDAs concern here.
One of my favourite passages from Sapiens:

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order. Let’s consider, for example, the popular desire to take a holiday abroad. There is nothing natural or obvious about this. A chimpanzee alpha male would never think of using his power in order to go on holiday into the territory of a neighbouring chimpanzee band. The elite of ancient Egypt spent their fortunes building pyramids and having their corpses mummified, but none of them thought of going shopping in Babylon or taking a skiing holiday in Phoenicia. People today spend a great deal of money on holidays abroad because they are true believers in the myths of romantic consumerism. Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can. We must open ourselves to a wide spectrum of emotions; we must sample various kinds of relationships; we must try different cuisines; we must learn to appreciate different styles of music. One of the best ways to do all that is to break free from our daily routine, leave behind our familiar setting, and go travelling in distant lands, where we can ‘experience’ the culture, the smells, the tastes and the norms of other people. We hear again and again the romantic myths about ‘how a new experience opened my eyes and changed my life’. Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible. If we feel that something is missing or not quite right, then we probably need to buy a product (a car, new clothes, organic food) or a service (housekeeping, relationship therapy, yoga classes). Every television commercial is another little legend about how consuming some product or service will make life better.

Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism. Their marriage has given birth to the infinite ‘market of experiences’, on which the modern tourism industry is founded. The tourism industry does not sell flight tickets and hotel bedrooms. It sells experiences. Paris is not a city, nor India a country – they are both experiences, the consumption of which is supposed to widen our horizons, fulfil our human potential, and make us happier. Consequently, when the relationship between a millionaire and his wife is going through a rocky patch, he takes her on an expensive trip to Paris. The trip is not a reflection of some independent desire, but rather of an ardent belief in the myths of romantic consumerism. A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted.
Wasn't this the result of the project changing its scope to be outside of what the FDA authorized? They put out a press release [1] on May 14 which explained why they were being shutdown--the FDA authorization allowed them to collect samples but not to return the results. By starting to share the individual test results back to those who provided the samples the program was no longer operating within its authorization and was shut down until a new authorization could be secured.

While I don't agree with the FDA on their response, it seems disingenuous that this article doesn't mention the reason why the program was shut down. It is clearly much riskier to provide individuals with their test results than to collect aggregate data. Consider for example if you gave 1 false negative, and that person then took that false negative as an excuse to return to work -- potentially infecting many more. With aggregate data a few false positives/negatives could throw off the statistics but the standards the tests need to be held to for survey purposes are certainly different than those being used for diagnostic purposes.

[1] https://scanpublichealth.org/updates/2020-05-13
Agree.

I was working on 20 years old software with quite some technological debt and then on software doing fraction of the same thing for 4 years, written from scratch by today "methologies" (move fast, abstract is everything, so is framework, vm shipped, opensource integrated everywhere,...).

The "new" software has technological debt that far surpasses the old software - but this happened in 4 years, and the team surpasses size of the team for old software. I just cant see how it could survive 20 years. But it was written faster, on the other side, no one really knows its internals - however they brag - due to huge pile of code taken from open source projects. I predict that "death by thousand cuts" will occur spontanously.
Reddit Enhancement Suite [1] can do that for you - and more.

[1] https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite
I’m not sure what you’re trying to achieve by leaving multiple successive comments threads about the same topic. I will reply to this message and will withdraw after this.

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The sentence reduces to “trademark violations are considered to have taken place regardless of when there is either an intention to mislead or if a customer was unintentionally misled.”

If the grammar was poop and you can’t make a good faith reading of it (to go so far as to follow me around on this post) then by all means feel free to comment away but I won’t be responding to it.
I agree with you, but this is predicated on there being a healthy demand-supply ratio.

My personal expectation is that there is a lot of developers out there and at least at non-junior levels the differentiating factor is skill, experience and timezone, as you say.
Developer preference. Simmons is famous in the Indie Mac world, even though a good portion of his career has been at companies. He’s still most well known as the guy who developed the original NetNewsWire before selling that to NewsGator, a kind of Feedly before Feedly existed, and then after some events I really can’t quite remember, taking it independent again and eventually selling it to Black Pixel who gave it back. I believe they were acquihired a bit after that if I’m remembering correctly (but don’t quote me on that), so it might have been because they knew they were soon to sell.

This particular iteration of NetNewsWire only shares the name. NetNewsWire 5.0 was originally being developed as Evergreen because Simmons got interested in making another RSS reader. It would never exist as a web app simply because he’s not the type to want it to be anything other than a native app.

Less well known is he was also the original developer of MarsEdit before selling to Daniel Jalkut. MarsEdit to write blogs, NetNewsWire to read them.
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Did you check the responses to the numerous other submits of this same question?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There is a point where you re-key faster than your key leaks through that specific timing attack. Or re-randomize memory layout, etc.

Or where the payoff (due to limits/quotas) implies a cap on the effort that's still worth it. It's like Backups: you do as much as you want to pay for, considering the amount of risk you'll be left with.
So you decided the best way to help was to scold OP about his English mistakes.
I do agree with your remarks, but I wonder what is it that reinforces the negationism to that new reality by most commenters here. I have doubts that companies want to go the offshore routes of yore, but effectively I expect this wfh trend will create a lot of new competition between IT work force, in the USA, at least.
E2E encryption for zoom meetings (whitepaper) [pdf]
> Employees will be less able to bond, and their personal conversations will be easier to spy upon.

How does the freedom to work remotely make one more prone to being "spied on" than being in an office?

Also, when did tech have any "labor" power? Last time I checked any talk of "unionization" will get you fired at the drop of a dime.
Holy crap! I'm surprised that evidence of [redacted] and [redacted] projects, which are really private clouds for large gov customers made it into the public domain!
commondreams? Are you by chance browsing /r/politics? I find the most useful way to browse /r/politics is to sort by controversial because it pierces the bubble.
I had a similar experience in France in the early 2000s. I went to the unemployment office (ANPE) to ask for a training and they told me that software was a dead end and that it wasn't possible to get training. So I did my own research, found a training organization and went back to the unemployment office giving them the exact reference of the training I wanted. The exact same person then reluctantly pulled a drawer of her desk and gave me an application form. That training kick-started my career in software.

Another thing that was commonly said over the 2000s period is that all software jobs would be quickly outsourced to India. That didn't happen either. Some big companies obviously tried that (and some still do) but a lot of them eventually realized that software wasn't something you could just specify and outsource to a team far away, with a different time zone, culture and language and expect to magically get working software as a result. In the meantime, I think that demand for software in India has also grown. I laughed at loud when in the early 2010s I received an email from an Indian recruitment agent offering me to come work in India.
Ask HN: Did Reddit ever end up giving equity to any of its users?
https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6874353/reddit-50-million-funding-give-users-10-percent-stock-equity

I always thought this was a bold idea and yet I never heard anything about it after was this one comment from Sam Altman's AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altman_lead_investor_in_reddits_new/ckwqv8x/

Did it not pass regulation or did they just abandon the idea?

Gigster also made similar claims and I have not heard anything since:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/gigster-fund/
I think in summer you might find the mosquitoes too annoying to be outside with, and in winter -- you have to keep in mind its not just a shorter day, its also permanently sunrise/sunset on sunny days (depending on your latitude, it could also be just really dark) and mostly slate grey skies anyway so the concept of a "sun room" doesn't really make sense. I quite like Scandinavian winter (I'm in Sweden), but its not for everyone.

It is very beautiful up in Norway though, and the Norwegians
are nice people.
I don't really get it, there are LOTS of RSS readers out there, why people still reference a product that doesn't exist since several years?
Speaking of “dafuq” streaming services, RDM has a new series on Apple TV+ called For All Mankind which is an alternate history of the space race. It starts a little slow, but it’s worth your time.
https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html
I guess mine
> With all of the malware and ransomware that is constantly bringing down governments and organizations, the “security model” isn’t working.

The three largest ransomware vectors are people leaving RDP exposed to the internet, phishing emails to get login credentials that are then used to gain access to internal systems, and vulnerabilities in existing software. None of those requires the user to install third party malicious software.

> Would you do banking on a random computer?

Would you do banking on a random iPhone? I wouldn't. There have been more than enough vulnerabilities that you have no way to know if it has already been compromised.
Yes, my first thought upon reading the post was "doesn't Google already offer this?" Didn't realise they'd killed it.

I use DuckDuckGo as my main search engine these days and I'm actually reasonably happy with it. The results used to be laughably bad but they've really improved lately.

Sadly, the one thing where DDG is usually crap is for anything code-related, especially if I'm searching for something very specific like an error message or an obscure library. That's when I have to jump back to Google (well, actually Startpage.)
There is a saying in Russian “To kill the beaver, to save the tree”.
I've done this for the past 10 years and had a great ride, but I'm getting tired of it; after leaving one place, I start to missing the friends made in the last place.
If your team or company's culture sucks, then Slack will amplify it. On the other hand, if you work in an environment where people respect each other's time, communicate clearly and don't try to pass the buck, then Slack will amplify this too.

Our experience has been very different from many of the people here.

We were forced to switch from being in-house to remote only due to the Covid-19 outbreak. We were using Slack before the whole company started working from home. If it weren't for Slack, our transition would have been much more difficult.

The features have been great, including the ability to start a call that anyone in the channel can participate in. The UX has been great. The uptime has been solid too.
it is registered on 31st of April

That would have made it immediately untrustworthy to me.

But seriously: this is a lucrative strategy now: marketing only by social media, relying on the poor critical thinking skills evident in most avid consumers of social media.

A great example is a new Facebook campaign by a company calling itself "Javapresse", saying their coffee in the "top 1%" of worldwide coffee and selling their beans for what turns out to be (if you do the actual math) for $24/lb. for blends of unstated origin. Their site has ~200 "reviews", every single one is "five stars", which somebody called them out on eventually. The founder even claimed to be "good friends" with Alfred Peet, who's been out of the industry for 30 years and dead for over a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_sucker_born_every_mi...
I can understand the FDAs reluctance for home tests. They do want to make sure people aren't getting false negatives from degradation during transport. That seems like a legitimate concern.

But what I think is a greater concern, are civil rights. Several states are now giving the addresses, and sometimes names, of people who test positive for CoV-2 to law enforcement officials[0,1], and apparently health an human services used some legal gymnastics to claim that this somehow doesn't violate HIPPA[2].

You might be tempted to say "Well this situation is special," but before you do, imagine if we started doing contact tracing on people infected with HIV.

[0] https://tennesseelookout.com/2020/05/08/health-department-gi...

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/most-states-sharing-corona...

[2] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-hipaa-and-f...
The premise that we are on the verge of some breakthroughs in software development that will significantly reduce the need for engineers is really weak, and is something people have been saying for decades (see the failed fifth generation of programming languages from the 1980s for an example).

In my experience, software engineering is endless, complicated decision making about how something should work and how to make changes without breaking something else rather than the nuts and bolts of programming. It’s all about figuring out what users want and how to give it to them in a way that is feasible.

The idea that we will have some abstraction that will someday (in the foreseeable future) save us from all of this difficult work sounds very far fetched to me, and I can’t imagine how that would work.

Even the example of hosting complexity being replaced by cloud companies seems kind of silly to me. Maybe that’s saving very small companies a sizable fraction of their engineering resources, but I really doubt it for medium or larger companies.

The cloud saves us from some complexity, but it doesn’t just magically design and run a backend for your application. You still need people who understand things like docker, kubernetes, endless different database options, sharding, indexing, failover, backup, message queues, etc. Even if the pieces are now more integrated and easier to put together, the task of figuring out how the pieces will interact and what pieces you even need is still outrageously complicated.
I’m a first time user and I looked at those pages and found it pretty valuable since the site itself isn’t really clear.

I’d expect a site like this to have a big list of extensions on the first page.
That's an insightful perspective that I hadn't considered.
It's about socialising with like-minded people though isn't it? I used to enjoy the mix of semi-intellectual discussion about the book and socialising at the book club I used to go to.
What makes you think people won't start working with US timings if they get enough money for it?
If you right click on the larger image that appears in the dark sidebar popout in Chrome(ium), and select 'View image..' that also works (most of the time).
I feel like Retool and external.io are trying to do exactly this.
Yeah, it's a relatively good high level post about SNARKs, but there's some confusion about the role of PCPs in SNARKs.

(all SNARKs have some probabilistic checking at the core; that's how you get succinctness)
Multiple states can consider you to be domiciled there, and you are liable for state taxes in each.

There is no constitutional protection that prevents you from having to pay multiple resident state taxes, though in practice, it doesn't happen often. NY is notorious for claiming people are still residents after they have left-one factor is spending any part of 183 days in state, but another is intent and emotional attachment.
Please don't take this as rude, but this comment seems incredibly naive. Bay area is easily twice as expensive as many other locations. A 50% or even 100% increase in compensation seems like a very bad deal.

You might more successfully argue the benefits of bay area weather. But those arguments are harder for Seattle or NYC.
While the Serenity OS does not address the layers below, it does address layers above, e.g. the browser.

If you have a blog, I would like to read about your experiments!
I'm working on an app that will deliver daily emails of all the stuff that matters to you (rss, calendars, weather, so on..) will need beta testers soon.if you are up for it I'd love to have you test it since you seem to be one of my target users :)
I'm waiting for someone to come into this thread and say the dolphin was just doing it for food.

Some can not accept that dolphins are more sophisticated than some humans, on the basis they are smart and maybe bored.