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Half a Dozen Key Headlines
# 1 Domestic air travel hasn’t yet reached an inflection point. Based on the May 9, 2020, year over year ~-91.76% in TSA passenger rate, even a meaningful partial recovery is far away.
#2
TSA needs to provide us (or US) detailed, ultra-specific information by airport, terminal, and airline. On a timely basis. Free of errors. And they need to talk to BTS.
#3
Newark and LaGuardia airports have better metrics than JFK. EWR and LGA are vital to many consumer segments in the ~21M population, trillions in GDP, and the best pizza, NY Combined Statistical Area (CSA). Any talk of shutting them down -- even temporarily-- is non-empirical nonsense noise.
#4
Atlanta and Dallas are 2 key, non-coastal airports with rich data. Key insights await discovery. These datasets will help me make the best models with the lowest errors and highest predictive power --still with a huge error range.
#5
San Francisco International leads California with the best TSA metrics. ~39 miles away, San Jose Airport has a ~9X higher TSA personnel infection incidence rate. This is only partially explained by Santa Clara county’s higher overall COVID-19 rates.
#6
TSA and BTS need to up their game. Give us detailed, ultra-specific data, in a near-real-time API. And free and error-free.(Took me a bit of time and money to solve all the data errors, issues…) And they need to talk to each other. (Wasn’t this supposed to happen after 9/11?)
You're suggesting bureaucratic "software" works better?

I don't put as much faith in that as you.
These are written, not oral. The point is it's written in the agreement that the company can unilaterally change the compensation without notice or reason.
Spread across the entire country/world? Unrealistic to think FB alone moves the needle. Maybe if all of FANG+ followed Facebook's lead, you'd see this effect.
The thing that really sucks is that higher base comp is usually always better, even with higher COL. If you consider things like 401ks, IRAs, out of pocket maximums - having higher base comp is just better. Even if in SF vs. Boise, you're taking home 50% of your paycheck (and spending 33% of that takehome on rent), you're still paying more into those things in SF than Boise.
/r/portland is definitely a challenging place to moderate. Frankly I've never seen a local city sub quite like that one.
> It’s been devastating, but nothing like 1918

Well we won't really know until we finish the third wave too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#/media/File:1918_s...
There are two liberties in tension: the right to do what you want on your own land, and the right to live in peace on your own land (which requires you to restrict what your neighbors can do on their land).
It’s crazy how much demagoguing is going around, and arriving at the conclusion to silence these people.
60ms won't get you stabilized voltages on motherboard, let alone a reboot.
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Then negotiate for the higher salary, but keep in mind you'll be competing with people willing to take a lot less than you because they can afford to.
Do you think it's ever ok for anything to be illegal? Every illegal thing represents the removal of a choice to do that thing.
Yep UBI is more guaranteed money into the hands of rent seeking landlords and co.
Ask HN: Simple splash page for mobile apps?
Is there a (ideally GUI) service that allows me to create a really simple splash page for an app?

I'm looking for something like this: https://www.getchops.app/

1. Name
2. Screenshot
3. Tagline
4. Submit email
5. Social links
Rabbit doesn't have Kafka's ability to massively distribute and scale (it does have a distributed story but from what I hear few explore it). But Rabbit also supports more complex use cases than Kafka because its messaging protocol (AMQP) is more intelligent. Unless you're a "web-scale"/s company, Rabbit's scale even on one node is likely enough.

I've been using Rabbit in production for RPC and pub/sub for the past 5 years (single instance running on a non-dedicated VM, medium traffic) and its been pretty easy to setup and has been pretty reliable in practice.

I've always been concerned about losing messages, and I did have to learn to turn on persistence and durability for messages to survive server interruptions, but it was easy enough. Message acknowledgements are also a nice feature, and Rabbit is able to achieve at-least-once messaging semantics.
With all this remote work going on, does anyone know whether this will affect whether companies are willing to relocate people to the USA? Would be a real shame if that was to go.
My first thought was students who don't have access to a computer outside of school. It seems like these students are taking the exam from their phones:

> But the testing portal doesn’t support the default format on iOS devices and some newer Android phones, HEIC files.
I think the attempt is to tie you value as an employee to you disposable income instead of your housing and basics income.

I find them usually often inaccurate, though.

For companies that don't pay at the top of the scale, the people in the high-cost areas are comparatively screwed (software engineers having to resort to living with roommates!?), whereas for the companies paying more, sometimes it tips the other way (like failing to account for how most costs don't scale with area the way housing does, so you could end up with a $500+ disadvantage in disposable income in one of the cheaper areas).
"English libel defendants must prove that each statement is true" is one of those sentences that rock you for a moment and remind you that you really can't pretend that all Western Democracies are basically the same.
I know contractors that use Ryobi because if it gets ripped off, broken, or lost it's nothing to replace. Site theft is tragically a too common thing when the economy sucks, like now.
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A friend of mine lived in the bay area for a bit and ended up leaving because he couldn't handle the virtue signaling. From his experience a significant amount of people would talk about helping low socioeconomic folk, oppression, or any other in vogue topic but never actually do anything. These would then be the loudest voices lobbying against having a methadone clinic in their neighborhood. He's living in Denver now which has a similar problem but on a palatable scale, according to him.
Yeah, keep pimping these "mitigations" instead of a better security model that doesn't require everyone perfectly jumping through hoops. When you get fucked over by one of such security exploits it will be a great relief to know that it could have been prevented if only the software vendor did the right security voodoo dance (which gets more elaborate by the month).

Edit: can't wait for the usual replies with "what is your solution?"

The obvious flaw in modern web security is that the domain isolation model does not make any sense today. It's an outdated hack. Software communication should be done thorough something resembling actor model where code running locally is thought of as completely separate entity from the web server. It shouldn't have anything to do with domains. Communication from any actor to any other actor should be subject to the same security model, regardless of where their code was loaded from. Escalating privileges between actors should be a universal and well-established process with known guarantees, not a bloody mess of ad-hoc conventions, headers and "best practices" that change with every browser, app and year.
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Still is to some extent, and a lot of people just cannot pull them off, so stigma or no they do look worse just like if they were wearing crappier clothes (I'm this way, a bit—hard to find glasses that look at least OK on me rather than awful).
> settle right down as soon as a familiar human come into view

After a period of sulking first, of course.
What saddens me the most is to see those kids who grew up with a smartphone in their hand trying to convert a picture by renaming it. It is a problematic form of computer illiteracy.
Oh wow. I didn’t expect it to vary that much.

I’m actually near a big university and I’ve heard it’s hard to get diagnosed here. I however don’t attend the university so the doctors I went to are outside.

My experience is in Indiana.
Popular image manipulation libraries work with raw bytes and they identify the encoding from the first few bytes of headers. When a software work with common libraries, there is a good chance that it can deal indifferently with all the formats the library can understand (JPG, PNG, GIF, etc...)

A file explorer or website may filter by extensions, preventing to submit formats that are actually supported. A workaround is to rename the extension and hope it is supposed anyway.

Didn't work in this case. They tried and the picture was corrupted. It doesn't support the new apple encoding.
Ironically the person from the article who attempted converting the HEIC files to JPG by renaming them was taking a Computer Science test.
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Yes, if only.
But surely this multi-tiered approach is not articulated logically or linguistically by the dolphins themselves. They can't be cynical if they don't reason. So the instinct or memory that makes them associate humans and food must manifest as some kind of feeling, right?
How do y'all think this nationwide housing crisis will precipitate?
But hasn't .NET been always copying from Java from day 1?
> migrate all my "real" searches to Tor (already pwnt)

Can you please explain for someone not up to speed on the topic?
There's a line in there that really stands out to me:

>McDonald's spent several million pounds, while Steel and Morris spent £30,000; this disparity in funds meant Steel and Morris were not able to call all the witnesses they wanted, especially witnesses from South America who were intended to support their claims about McDonald's activities in that continent's rainforests.

It's pretty galling that the justice system, which is a public tool, being gamed in this way by a party with vastly greater assets. It's a bit tricky to see exactly how to fix this, since you don't really want to just give each side a court-appointed lawyer: you really should get to pick your own lawyer. But what to do about the fact that you might want to pick an expensive lawyer?

It seems to me that one compromise would be to recognize that you can legitimately have a strong interest in the case having a just outcome, and thus want to spend more money fighting it, while at the same time not allowing one side to outspend the other.

One way to achieve this would be requiring that each side can only pay into a common pool of money, which is then split equally between the defence and prosecution.

The practical difficulty in implementing this is that a large company (e.g. McDonalds) will have in-house counsel who are not just hired for solely this case, and it would be hard to dis-entangle just how much of their salary should be counted as being for this particular case.
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I'm doing my part to extract as much wealth as I can from my Bay Area salary to buy a home somewhere else. Anyone else doing the same?

It would be financially irresponsible to buy property here even if I could afford it.
Libertarians are 100% behind relaxing or abolishing zoning.

There are just very few of us, and we don't matter.
You clearly don't have children. No amount of fantasy projection makes up for the trouble you go through. You have to be spiked with oxytocin to cope with it.
As an employee, it doesn't matter if it's more productive. You greatly increase your pay per hour of work given that you don't have to commute and you definitely don't spend 8 hrs of work consumed by work like you are forced to when in an office.

Productivity as an employee is about meeting a bar (that you partially define along with your employer). Caring about maximizing productivity is the goal of your employer. But you have some leverage in this job market so it's not like they can squeeze you dry. Remote only helps the employee side of that adversarial relationship.
>The only realistic way for China to take over Taiwan is via a democratic process, by a charm offensive.

They haven't been doing all that well with that lately.
Why don’t we just make the poor people move? Once they leave to more rural areas, wages will rise from there being fewer laborers balancing everything out.
A small nit: "Original Medicare" isn't really a UBI because you don't really get to choose your healthcare. A key benefit of a UBI is that the government provides cash to buy goods & services, rather than providing the goods & services themselves. Medicare is a government-run service, where the service is a combination of catastrophic insurance, cost-sharing, and general payment.

Medicare Part C, or Medicare Advantage, is much closer to a UBI than "Original Medicare". Nearly 40% of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan.
I work for myself and dictate the cost of my services. There’s a market involved, sure, but it’s not a race to the bottom like the commodity markets.

I dictate my value, not my zipcode or employer.
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Sure, I think that's a likely outcome, but this is a great time to make that realization. We're trying to get people to slowly trickle back into offices as a public health measure; if it happens organically as people decide remote work isn't for them, that's a win-win-win for all parties. (I haven't heard of any companies making plans that they're gonna, like, sell all their offices.)
Not saying this applies to everything, but the houses I lived in without usable basements were close to the water line, which would have made a full-sized basement a liability for the house.
Some tests require symbols (like greek letters), which aren’t easy to type by default. Also, people have been practicing all year by handwriting responses (since we didn’t know it would be online, obviously) - so a handwritten option is accommodating that.
I definitely see where you're coming from, but remember, the current situation isn't normal. I used to live by myself in an apartment working from home too. I still went out to lunch with friends and business associates. I could meet friends for drinks after work all over the area and didn't have to worry about my commute home. I'd work in co-working space, at coffee shops, on vacation, or anywhere else I wanted.

That being said, if I was in a new city with no friends or family, I would 100% want to have an office to go to.
It's for public use...which was originally supposed to be paid(to help make the apartments affordable), but got turned into free parking. It was an odd turn of words, but was explained later on.
Thanks @cannabis_sam, never thought of this but yes absolutely. The tech is slowly getting there... but innovation would speed up a lot more if there was a significant enough pain (and therefore significant enough upside).
I'm an undergrad research ~intern for one of the professors on this paper! :)

Edit: I've been corresponding with Professor Fehren-Schmitz of the Human Paleogenomics lab at UCSC for the past few months and will likely be focusing on improving computational workflows at the lab in the next few months. One recurring theme I've noticed in paleogenomics research is that the people who do the actual paleogenomics aren't always the same people who develop the computational genomics/bioinformatics tools [1], meaning there might be a bit of a disconnect between those two fields. My understanding of computational paleogenomics is still pretty rough, but it seems to me like a lot of the tools still have a ton of room for improvement.

[1] Patterson et al., 2012 (Ancient Admixture in Human History)
I like strict building codes because they prevent for example fires, or catastrophic failure in a storm or an earthquake. I'm not so much in favor of the weird zoning laws many areas in the US seem to have.
There's a good doc on YouTube covering the case. The pressure looks immense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V58kK4r26yk

Interesting aside: one of the pro bono lawyers was Keir Starmer, now Sir Keir Starmer who went on to become Director of Public Prosecutions, before entering politics, and recently elected Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition. By all accounts he's showing up our utterly useless PM for the incompetent fool he is.
Keep in mind, they are surveying existing employees who chose to work at a job that doesn't allow most people to work full time remote. If you interviewed the entire pool of potential employees -- ie people that live in topeka, kansas -- I imagine the number would be much higher.
In 1968 the number of books on 'environment movement' here rockets up. It will be more compelling if there is a link between events related to housing regulations and the other massive upswing in 1985, and then the downswing in 1997.
Why shouldn't a community be able to decide that they want quiet nights?
I was going to downvote out of disagreement, but, on second thought, this makes good sense. We probably wouldn't hesitate to say "I don't believe $NONHUMAN_ANIMAL parents love their children, and vice-versa...." about most animals. There might be hesitation when it comes to apes, monkeys, and maybe dogs, but I can imagine people would say it about, say, hyenas, and it would seem plausible.
It may be, but there is a behavioral difference in different economic environments —though even within lower income communities many people who are forced to live there “put up with” these quality of life issues because they don’t have the ability to afford to live in communities that observe these standards. Not all that different from people complaining about the loudness of living next to college student rentals on Friday’s and weekends.

Truth be told I had a loud muffler back when I could barely afford my share of a three way apt rental. Nowadays I would find it hard to tolerate the noise I caused back then. But that was a diff neighborhood and it was accepted.
I'll try Preview next time instead, thanks! iMazing works fine for the actual functionality but has some sort of bug where it won't re-open if I closed it without force quitting it. Minor but annoying.
Yeah, equilibrium is 2.4 kids right?
>Personally, this is a deal breaker for me. I don't want to get paid less for doing the same amount of work. In a remote world, deciding where to live should be a personal decision of how one spends their income.

Obviously, you're free to work wherever you want but I simply fail to understand the sentiment here.

The "same" house that costs $1M in the Bay Area costs $300k in Atlanta. A pound of chicken or gallon of milk is also half the price. Day care for children? Twice as expensive in CA. Why should FB pay Bay Area living wages to someone in Atlanta, when they can pay them top dollar for their own market?

Does this suggest a company should have to pay the entire workforce, whatever they pay the individual in the highest-cost-of-living area? These are businesses, not charities.

As a side note, Bay Area inflated prices will probably drop as a result of this.
This is a bad trend. If scientists in China contradicted the government (and directly - the WHO), it seems like YouTube would have censored them. Debate is what sustains free society and free society will perish when certain narratives become unquestionable.
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having technologists teaching the lessons to themselves is just jerking off... HN has more potential than that.

for everybody else to learn lessons is a great objective, but doesn't need to be the objective among this crowd.
>why don't they knock down their house?

You kid, but redevelopment of less productive buildings is a pretty important part of preserving open space.
Civ VI is also freemium on phones/tablets, with the move limits removed via an in-app purchase.
And in a country without food, everyone is fed because the population is zero.
agreed...

> with your coworkers is inherently easier to work with than working remotely

This is so dependent on the coworkers. There's plenty of folks who I can work with remotely OK preciesly because we're remote. Sitting next to these people 6-8 hours per day would be extremely counter productive. I'm sure there's plenty of folks that can take me only in small doses, and 8 hrs/day of working with me face to face would be too much - I don't fault them for that!
> You seem to think that introverted people are not as good as everyone else because they struggle to make friends. That is fucked up. That is the kind of shit they deal with all the time and you wonder why so many introverts have social anxiety.

No, that’s absolutely not what I said or even insinuated. To be very clear, there is absolutely no value judgment on being an introvert or an extrovert. Instead, I think people who undermine and write-off people who appreciate being around others as superficial and “surface” (like you have repeatedly), are assholes trying to overcompensate for something. You don’t know me and I don’t know you. I’m not a classic extrovert. I’m definitely comfortable around people and probably come across as a typical extrovert, but I’m perfectly happy being alone and had to work extremely hard as a child to be be more comfortable around others. And I’ve had diagnosed anxiety (sometimes so crippling I couldn’t pick up the phone and call to order pizza and at times couldn’t even leave my house), since I was 6 years old — so you can fuck right off with the insinuation that only introverts have social anxiety or that they are even remotely linked. They aren’t. So stop with the straw man arguments.

Remote or in-person, if you want to build an actual friendship with someone — whether they are a coworker or not — it takes work on both sides. Most of the people we call “friends” at various times in our lives will not be around for prolonged periods of time — just as most of us won’t be on beck and call to a person they went to school with 20 years ago and only interact with as much as liking the occasional Facebook post. That has absolutely nothing to do with remote work.

Those “close friends” you speak of for introverts — a not insignificant portion of those friendships were absolutely built at work.

You’re the one putting negative value judgments on those who dare opine that they enjoy having an office because they like to engage with others by undermining and dismissing their relationships — not me.
Exactly. Simple tech literacy was missing in the 1% of students that failed this test through their HEIC submissions. Even though I acknowledge the panic of a weird circumstance during an important test, editing the extension in file explorer is just too far from logical.

Apps are becoming so streamlined and gesture intuitive that children and young adults might actually be regressing in their tech competence while increasing their reliance on it. This is akin to cars packed with electronics, easing use while decreasing DIY repairs and understanding. This decreases our right to repair as a consequence of ease.

Many children will not navigate the antiquated forums and php sites that taught me problem-solving and a degree of independence. I'm not sure what will replace this lost experience for them.

I guess I joined the tech admin / helpdesk fields as a way of putting my money where my mouth is, like buying calls on these services' growing necessity.
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Thanks for the info.

I'm already using Cloudflare Workers so it would make more sense to simply use Workers KV instead of Redis which are stored at the edge:

Heroku Redis:

- $15 per month

- 50MB of memory

- 40 connections limit

Workers KV:

- $5 per month

- 1GB of storage (then $0.5 per GB)

- 10M reads (then $0.5 per 1M reads)

- Unlimited connections (via API or REST)
It’s possible, Y Combinator Research seems to be doing just this with a randomized controlled trial study in two states: https://basicincome.ycr.org/our-plan