skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"asking for the rules to be suspended during the outbreak to prevent further environmental and economic damage"

It's not like having those planes full of people results in less environmental damage.
> but it will also hurt your local newspaper pretty badly.

I already pay for my local newspaper (and most of their content is behind a paywall anyway).
“If you’re unsure whether you have a strong value proposition, look at your word of mouth”

It’s so difficult to track word of mouth because you can only see it as unattributed growth on your product, but I definitely agree it’s probably the single most important metric for P/M fit. One way to really know if you’re on to something is if people start mentioning your own product to you not knowing you’re the maker.

Luckily there are things like f5bot.com which are also greatly helpful!
Graph databases can hold totally bespoke data that makes sense only to the consuming application or they can hold data that has been factored and connected to outside terminologies and external datasets. One holds data, one holds knowledge.
I don’t think anyone is advocating for choosing a different language per function, but rather you can use the best language for the job. For example, we have a Python monolith that has one route that is CPU-bound and would otherwise be an ideal use case for a language with real multithreading. The Python version often times out (60s) while a native Go (or perhaps Java) version would probably be on the order of a single second.

In our case the limitation is less about the monolith architecture and more about our team’s unwillingness to learn a new language.
Did you read the article?

Inventing a currency out of thin air so they can mint as many dollars as they want and you and other geniuses can form a secondary market where all of you can trade it is the genius of brave and the point of this article.

Instead of paying you, they make their own currency and pay you. You can make some money off of it in the secondary market because some other idiot thinks it's worth actual money.
Similar points to this critique, previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21776990
This looks exactly like one of those "Buy this domain" place holder sites.

Compare the pair:

- https://www.matchmypaintcolor.com/ (this site)

- http://surfweb.com/ (fake site)
And having source available, and most important can be compiled from those sources, means can be scrutinized for vulnerabilities by security experts, yes? That sounds good enough for me.
Ah. Memes. I should have googled IT.
Profit is good, if you are in the business of producing a good or distributing a good to the intended customer, that is, if you are a manufacturer or part of the normal retail chain.

Profit is not good, if your business is basically black marketing. That is, removing a product from its normal retail chain just so that you create a shortage and then sell with a profit due to the shortage created by you.

And with medical supplies, we need to make sure that all those, who are in desperate need, get the needed supplies.
nicely done ... I wonder what the laptop battery draw difference would be if this had been written for WebGL rather than canvas ?
How well would this work if it was only once a year? Many pop culture references and memes change on a monthly, if not weekly, basis
> You want a wide palette of cultural idioms and metaphors in order to find better ways of connecting with your students.

Some of my (law) students barely know what the TV show Seinfeld was — and one semester a couple of them, native-born Americans no less, weren't familiar with Friends.
On mobile there is. Not sure about desktop
I’m 37 and as such doesn’t qualify as old, but I recently got into the Blood Bowl hobby. I haven’t done miniatures since I was a little kid, but some of my real world friends picked it up and I was quick to jump on the wagon as I had been looking for a non-digital hobby.

Anyway, being 37 my purchasing power is obviously a lot greater than it was the last time I was into miniatures, and that has lead me down a rabbit hole of hobbyists who enjoy miniature war/board games (not really sure what to call them yet). A lot of these people are well into their 60ies, yet they attend weekly brawls at local libraries. They hold weekend tournaments. Have lively Facebook groups to organise their different leagues and everyone is welcome.

It’s really been inspiring to see that old age can be a lot different than what it’s been for my own family members.
> I’m always shocked at how many people will argue that torture is always ineffective.

It's effective at getting the victim to say whatever they think will make the torture stop. People aren't stupid though, they know the truth won't necessarily achieve that goal. Sometimes the truth will simply encourage more torture.

Falsfiable statements then require verification, presumably against a more reliable source of information. But if you have a more reliable source of information, what additional confidence did the torture provide? And if you don't have a more reliable source of info for verification, then the torture still provided no confidence in the information.

The best interrogators know that befriending your captives provides considerably better information, and it doesn't produce more enemies or escalate the conflict. Imagine if torture had been routine during the Cold War.
We're just trying to slow the spread so not all the vulnerable population - there's a large number, end up in the hospital simultaneously.

If that happens, then everyone is more likely to die when they need the hospital for unrelated reasons and can't get treated because its doors are shut.

You may be young and healthy and not be concerned, but if you're spreading it around carelessly you're facilitating the nightmare scenario of a collapsing healthcare system.
> Discover a new drug for a anti-biotic resistant infection? Great, here is $500M as long as you agree to produce as much drug as needed for free or some nominal cost.

Most AR bacteria can be killed by trying different antibiotics. Sure they can mutate to something more dangerous, but it doesn't make sense to make drugs for bacteria that don't even exist yet. There are too many variables to account for.
These are just a bunch of anti consumer measures anyway. No big loss.
Oh boy, neither GCC nor Clang liked the Unicode one bit:

$ make 2>&1 | head
c++ -std=c++17 -Wall -Wextra -Os -MD -MP -MF cxxmatrix.dep -c -o cxxmatrix.o cxxmatrix.cpp
In file included from cxxmatrix.cpp:595:
glyph.inl:78:2: error: converting to execution character set: Invalid argument
78 | {U'�', 21, {127, 65, 65, 65, 65, 65, 127, }},
| ^~~~
glyph.inl:79:2: error: converting to execution character set: Invalid argument
79 | {U'�', 21, {573695, 2072768, 104616, 104344, 37000, 1609860, 430211, }},
| ^~~~
glyph.inl:80:2: error: converting to execution character set: Invalid argument
80 | {U'�', 21, {164354, 260859, 2015779, 1221155, 692770, 429602, 1238014, }},
Quote: "You’re going to be browsing the web anyway; you’re going to be inundated with ads anyway;"

Naaaah, Firefox with uBlock Origins and Privacy Badger makes sure I don't see ads, but thank you for trying.
Because otherwise airlines can buy up all the slots so competitors can't operate.
A non-original idea is to create a market for landing slots.
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If you use DDG as your universal search but want to go to WolframAlpha for your query:
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They are paying for the fuel. So?
You made it further than I did. The majority of machines out there today probably do not support the required -std=c++17. I know none of my OS installs (and their compilers) do.
The difference is now the flights can be canceled without impact to anyone else.
Discrete math is extremely important if you want to write correct or efficient systems software. It doesn’t give much of a “time to first solution” win, but most people I know with strong discrete math backgrounds produce systems code that is simultaneously about 10x more concise, performant and correct than those that do no. (The Haskell and TLA+ crowds get this, but I’m talking about C++ and Verilog code here.)

If you want to do machine learning or use supercomputers, then normal undergrad math like Linear Algebra, Diff Eq, etc. matter a lot.

If you’re happy writing CRUD frontend logic, then you probably don’t need much math. If you want to build the stuff that relies on, then math will help a lot.

This becomes more true past the 5-10K hour marks, partially because you need the math, and partially because the math background will make it easier to sustainably improve your skills.
>Ethereum is a scam and doesn't scale

baseless
Russ Cox was involved in this, and also Go. There are important connections between them.
A new audio format 'Reekpie'
This audio format is claimed to be better than WAVE/AIFF because of its simple structure and minimalist header
(always 10 bytes), while WAVE/AIFF's size can vary.

Has included reference programs for encoding/decoding.
(https://github.com/tryamid/reekpie)
What am I supposed to do with it?
Maybe I'm culturally irrelevant & just don't realize it, but IMO the banal movie star pop culture isn't significant, it's other things like the VW scandal, train delays in our town, city planning, energy planning, Tesla, e-mountain bikes, local snow trends, etc that I talk with people about. That stuff isn't just crap and it's worth paying attention to.
Fuel is being burned, creating more CO2, without any benefit to society.
nor have they historically shown any such willingness

You are uncritically repeating libertarian propaganda. The first Google hit for "FDA fast-track" is a press release from FDA for the approval of azidothymidine. Anyone who remembers the early days of the AIDS epidemic will know what kind of a wonder drug zidovudine was. Approval was in 1987; they discovered the HIV virus in 1984. 3 years from early discovery to market. A record, but AIDS was a public health emergency.

Please do not repeat lies.
...When it isn't crashing.
Thank you for your comment. Do you have some screenshots, animated GIFs or videos of gomatrix which I can link from cxxmatrix README (https://github.com/akinomyoga/cxxmatrix#the-matrix-rains-in-...)? I could only find unofficial one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUXFxSmZMis (maybe I can add a link to this unofficial one)
Climate change and depleted resources impact obviously
This is the part where public corporations come in.
Scraping away the JAMStack hype…

Netlify's core USP appears to be making the process of deploying and operating a static site easier - auto-deploys from GitHub in build process, HTTPS cert management, simple CDN config etc.

Claimed 'performance' gains come from static hosting closer to visitors but AFAIK their CDN runs on AWS, and relies on nginx which means HTTP/2 prioritisation is broken - they've got a lot of work to catch up with Akamai, Fastly or Cloudflare on this front.

The whole JAMStack approach seems to result in companies re-inventing the wheel in non-performant ways - Contentful CMS delivers sites via Netlify but all the content is requested as JSON which JS components then render to the page.

Taking away the deploy pain is definitely a win for many of use but it's something I could imagine Cloudflare launching, which coupled with their other features - image optimisation, edge workers etc could probably blow Netlify out of the water
Create? They're already auctioned off and traded freely.
Because on the flip side, airlines could keep canceling flights on less popular routes when they're not at full capacity (i.e. not/less profitable). That would inconvenience passengers. Under this regulation they could lose that route to a competitor that is more willing to service customers (or can operate at a lower cost).

EDIT: I found the EU page outlining the regulation here: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/airports/slots_en

EDIT 2: This appears to be a global practice: https://www.iata.org/en/policy/slots/
I think Xcode has shipped with a compliant C++17 compiler for over a year, but I used GCC to compile this one :)
Consult any chart of the glycemic index of various foods.
What's the next big thing?
That practically amounts to having large redundancy in cheap backup workforce as part of your economic system. That redundant workforce is on standby most of time.

The trouble is that it simultaneously requires sacrificing interests of both the redundant workforce and leads to resentment of those pay for them in normal situation.
But it's ok with you that they buy up all the slots so competitors can't operate... just so as long as they burn fuel while they do it?
Agreed. As a 42 year old, more often than not I find myself to be the oldest person on any given team. My advice is to take advantage of it. You get a free pass to opt out of the inane pop-culture discussions. You also inherit a default "guru" status on most teams as long as you don't screw it up.
Thanks for your advice! Appreciate that. I'll try my best.
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Apparently noteworthy because late last year they ported the original x86 to RISC-V.
Not to mention, if someone manages to make a useful product that benefits users and makes themselves money isn't that exactly what we want? Rarely do incentives align with consumers these days.
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Many of your saying resonates with what I experience(d). Never watched GoT either ;)

Got my first computer later though. But BW TV and smoking on airplanes was a thing I remember well. The later absolutely incredible these days.
It is temporary. Any suggestion to the contrary usually comes from a BTC maximalist who fears his investment in a 'digital-gold' is in jeopardy from a network which is actually achieving useful things.
So if I have a corporation I have to benefit society with it? Else what, the government must expropriate my corporation from me?
Covid 19 is a good opportunity for extremely sensible change. Lets all stop needlessly flying, lets all work from home (if your just doing an office job anyway), lets use local products and not stuff from half way across the world.
If that’s a problem, maybe fuel should be more expensive.
You might not be aware that there’s actually no solid evidence that Bezos’s phone was ever actually hacked.
RustCrypto AES/GCM and ChaCha20+Poly1305 Implementation Review
Learn about Unix internals on something much smaller than the available alternatives?
> Just the outside has changed.

People think that, but it's an illusion. The appearance affects self-perception and, eventually, behavior. And, normally, you become different by getting wiser, and that's not a small thing. You talk different. You do your work differently. (On the other hand, people who try to appear younger than they are look creepy.)
This rule says it's ok to squat on slots just as long as you burn fuel while you do it.
It's nice to know there are a few "safe" Rust crypto primitives (especially the `ChaCha20+Poly1305` which is also found in `libsodium`):

* AES/GCM: https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/tree/master/aes-gcm

* ChaCha20+Poly1305: https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/tree/master/chacha20poly...

Quoting from the "key findings" of that report:

> NCC Group did not find any vulnerability in the audited crates.
>
> The RustCrypto implementations use all the recommended techniques to achieve constant-time implementations; in particular, the fallback AES implementation (to be used when there are no usable hardware AES opcodes) uses bitslicing to avoid any table lookups at secret-dependent addresses. Similarly, received authentication tags are compared with constant-time comparison functions.
>
> A few cosmetic remarks, mostly related to potential performance improvements, have been assembled into RustCrypto.

----

It seems that the audited code includes also:

* `aes-gcm` and `chacha20poly1305`: https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/tree/a15698fdba23ffb17b8...

* `aes` from RustCrypto/block-ciphers: https://github.com/RustCrypto/block-ciphers/tree/e385f1ebb2e...

* `chacha20` and `salsa20-core`: https://github.com/RustCrypto/stream-ciphers/tree/1235638004...

* `aead`, `stream-cipher` and `universal-hash`: https://github.com/RustCrypto/traits/tree/4569d256f02ac0ecef...

* `ghash`, `poly1305` and `polyval`: https://github.com/RustCrypto/universal-hashes/tree/1ab06bd7...
This project seems like a more updated fork although it's also not maintained

https://github.com/fliot/ScrapyKeeper
Doesn't it depend on whether the people are then on additional trips, or transferred from other trips. If they're taking ghost planes instead of other modes of transport, then they may be reducing environmental damage?
According to [1] the likelihood of approval for a drug entering Phase 1 trials is about 12%. So that's one reason to not be too excited. Another reason is that coronaviruses are one of the causes of the common cold (rhinoviruses another one). People have been looking for a cure for the common cold for hundreds of years. It's been challenging. It's possible that the efforts were not that focused as the common cold is not very deadly. Now that Covid19 appears to be more deadly, maybe the efforts will redouble. But maybe there are some fundamental reasons it's difficult to come up with a cure/vaccine for coronaviruses (like they mutate too quickly). I personally don't take for granted that there will be a vaccine in the next few years.

[1] https://www.bio.org/sites/default/files/legacy/bioorg/docs/C...
Interestingly, it was exceedingly laggy on Terminal.app for me. iTerm seemingly handled it better.
Maybe if instead of BAT, they could use a credit card payment or PayPal.... They've proven to scale very well too....
And also cleared him, for what that's worth. If this concerns you, go [here](https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols) and disable location history.
Thank you. This issue is discussed here https://github.com/akinomyoga/cxxmatrix/issues/3

It is caused by the UTF-8 unaware awk. I haven't yet figured out why it happens, but at least you need to set your locale to one of UTF-8 locales.
To me, the most important job in the world is my bus driver.
> the platform uses an escrow system (multi-signature BTC addresses),

But still acknowledges that some methods can result in the money being recalled after the BTC has been released.

> account age signing (an old account is unlikely to have been stolen)

Unlikely, but you still have to trust that the account hasn't simply been used to build up trust before the big score, which is something we see over and over and over again in the cryptocurrency space.

> Bisq provides very similar decentralization and privacy guarantees as Bitcoin

Which is absolutely not the same thing I pointed out to you as the problem. You can't just say "but bitcoin!" to wave away that this platform still involves trust, and not trust in a regulated actor like a bank, but trust in a number of actors, any of whom may not be trustworthy. You may not have to trust the platform itself, but it's not clear to me that that is any sort of positive.
What 'benefit to society' do full planes achieve?
Mandating flights seems like a bad solution to carriers canceling flights unilaterally. Why not just force them to provide comparable alternate arrangements and/or pay the passengers financial compensation?
OK, let's get real

What is your argument - that "think of the children" therefore ban all end-end encryption? If so, then any form of encryption should be absolutely banned. So should carrier pigeons, as they are very hard to intercept, and a leg band could carry a chip w/gigabytes of CSAM images.

My point is that in within a regime of highly restricted encryption (for the purposes of CSAM prevention), there should be space for a text-based conversational system that is very useful for text comms, but highly impractical for CSAM.

Limiting it to 30KB/day of transmission leaves plenty of room for useful conversational communication. That's ~45min of world-record typist speed on a full keyboard (17char/sec), or about 10 pages of single-spaced text -- a more than adequate secure conversations channel.

Yet transmitting a single 1MB image in Base64 encoding would take 45 days. One could literally be 2x faster by carrying it on a bicycle from Los Angeles to NYC.
Is youth constantly reinventing solutions to already solved problems due to amnesia, or are they perhaps creating new ways to reason about already identified problems?

I believe the commonly accepted viewpoint is simply that the established generations have too many accumulated biases or baggage, too much at stake, or dug themselves in too deep of a hole to consider new facts or new approaches to old problems. E.g. the famous quote:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
How does this compare with a general solution like Apache Airflow?
Signal without phone numbers built on blockchain technology and with its own crypto currency? I think I'll stick to Signal.
In other disease areas that makes sense, but for anti-biotics that 500 million is more than you'd be able to make on the market. Especially if the antibiotic is really good - the better it is the less it will be used since we want to prevent resistance developing to our best drugs. That 500 million might be necessary to make the development be worth it.
Transportation of passengers ?
There’s a flag for a built in reader mode on Chromium. It’s not very good, but it does work.
This is a stupid rule. This is not an unforeseeable case. Just sell the slots. You can sell them once and forever or you can auction them yearly or every two, three, five years, whatever. Demanding planes run for no one’s benefit is just setting money, and more importantly resources, on fire.
Can a similar level of privacy be reached through extensions with Safari on iOS or Chrome on Mac?
If your corporation is doing harm, laws will be passed to prevent it and ultimately courts will shut you down if needed.

The first step on this long path is raising public awareness, which this article is doing.
Exactly - add uMatrix to the picture and it decreases page load time and gives you even more control over what can load in a website. I am tired of this constant social media promotion of this clone of a browser that is built to support the online advertising industry (an industry that constantly "innovates" to violate our privacy while irritating us in the process).
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Yes, fuel should be more expensive, but in order to take in all the externalities it would probably be so expensive that all airlines would immediately have to close down.

Maybe that's where we need to get to, all jet fuel based air journeys stopping, but it's not going to please the many rich people - who control the regulations - who wish to use air travel.

If we could properly price in externalities then yes, we'd probably have a better system.

There is a proviso to that, should monetary wealth dictate access to resources like 'ability of the planet to sink carbon' or should that be a separate thing, like access to water. Shouldn't we share such natural resources rather than hand them over to those who already own everything else? In which case, you'd need to price in externalities, and pay to acquire carbon credits (or whatever) if they were available: under such a system people might choose to not "spend" their share of carbon credits in order to faster reduce planetary decline.
GCC has supported this for more than a year, too (at least since 7.4.0).
The only thing I miss in DDG is number of results. I use it often to check for the right way to compose a phrase. If there is a significant difference in numbers between the two alternatives, it pretty much indicates what's the right one.