skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the premise of his comment is that there is a finite amount of money to be invested across all YC participants each season and that “back room” deals prevent startups that are less connected from having the same opportunity. Demo day could be seen as a way for all startups to compete for that finite investment on equal terms.

That’s not to say that I agree with the premise that it’s a zero-sum game. At the same time I can see eager investors losing interest in hearing from other startups after securing investments in the hot startup earlier on. A lot of startup investing isn’t merit-based, it’s more about hype and gossip than you’d expect.
> In Swift, value types have what's called "copy-on-write" behavior, which means every time a value type is written to a new variable, or passed to a function, a copy is made.

That isn't copy-on-write, that's just copy.

Does "copy-on-write" mean that Swift behaves as if it is doing this, but actually defers copies where it can, passing references to the original until a function needs to modify its 'copy'?

Rust lets you do this explicitly via the Cow smart pointer:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/borrow/enum.Cow.html

But it's not transparent, and it's not used a lot in practice.
"Quickly enable frictionless authentication for your platforms so you can focus [[on]] building your product."
Looks like there's a typo on the first text we read.
Bill Gates and Elon Musk Just Issued Different Responses to the Coronavirus
ANS the First Synthesizer
Agreed. It really blows generic compression algos out of the water. Didn't know about Zstandard dictionary encoding. This might just be what I'm after. Thanks
I will regret this but... Animated ligature emojis or some sorta crontraption... Animated characters is the next stage. If emojis are different between carriers meh.

Course I find it silly that they swapped a real gun emoji for a water gun. How will my friends know I intend to go hunting and not play water guns with my nephews or whatever.
The way I see it, it doesn't matter if it impacts the project or not. It's about getting a fair deal for the effort you give to the community, not protecting the project. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of the Googles of the world making a profit off of my work for free. If they want to use the code, then they can pay their due and purchase a licensed version or give back to the community.
For the UK it's maybe 10 apps (or it was some time ago). On the continent you'll be fine with one RFID card.
You are not missing much, the article isn't groundbreaking.
> not many US companies are encouraging or requiring their employees to work from home

My company does not do WFH at all. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to be 100% WFH (when there isn't a deadly plague going around, that is), but I think having one or two WFH days a week on a regular basis would be awesome for getting some dev tasks done.

I have a nice home office, that mostly goes unused during the week :(
Supposedly more Lutefisk is eaten in the US than in Scandinavia: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/scandinavians-strange-...

Living in Norway, I can think of one person I know who likes it, and most others hate it, with a few being closer to neutral on it.
> It would be like going to doctor and blaming the doctors for why I was sick.

To be fair, I am sure doctors experience that a lot.
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Has antivirus always been this sloppy? I recall a time in the 90s/early 2000s where the engineers working on these products were considered the best in the business.
Outside of a very small number of admittedly very large coastal cities, the action is in the burbs, not the city.

Metro areas that are under, perhaps, 10M people, generally have nothing to do in the legacy cities. Everything fun has been built in the burbs for half a century. NYC is fun to visit, but only 8M people live there compared to 319M not living there. 98% of the population will never participate in "new urbanism" and so forth.
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I think it's related to how sick days are paid in Europe. In Poland, I get paid 80% of my salary on sick days, as such, to avoid abuse you need to go to the doctor to get it verified. My understanding is that in the US it's much easier to get a sick leave, but you don't get paid for its duration.
There's a cmdlet for that

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
Ask HN: How is Covid-19 affecting your daily life?
I think if you ship the font in your app to get consistent emoji renderings across platforms (no need to dump unicode for this) you might have appeased the people who want emojis to look the same on all platforms, but then you will enrage the people who want emojis on all of their apps to look the same.
Ask HN: What is your favorite database and why?
I want to build an Email tool, I will collect contacts etc.. So I'm asking in the same time !
Just block all cookies for medium
Bread takes about 10 minutes, leave it to rest, then bake it. And several loaves can be done at the same time. If you have a bread maker then that's even less work. Pasta just takes a boiling pan. Rice, a pan or a rice cooker. Starches largely cook themselves.

Vegetables/fruit take a minute or two to chop and pan-fry / prep as you like.

Protein can be as simple as a poached chicken breast, roasts again just stick them in an oven. Beans in a pressure cooker, that's also pretty automatic too.

Cooking's as time-consuming as you make it.

And then these can be batched-up / prepped as a morning chore; I find it takes less time than cleaning the house. I don't batch as I like the break in the day of another activity. It's less time than a commute.

YouTube is packed full of easy, tasty recipes if looking for somewhere to start.
Hmm... I'm pretty sure MURS allows for this type of traffic as of the last rules revision and would be ideal for this use with the higher power allowance, but MURS is a USA only thing so that kinda limits you if the goal is something that works all around the world.

OP is also talking about using off the shelf LoRa boards and their project is more about the software, so they are stuck with the bands available on the commercial LoRa transceivers those boards use.
outbreak.cc is also a great resource
And if private healthcare can’t work during a crisis, then what use is it?

A large public system cannot be conjured out of thin air to met each crisis.

We will see the large well funded social medical systems, with their “inefficient” over capacity, over-perform the operating on thin margins private systems.

I’m terrified here in the US.

(FWIW - give me 90% socialized medicine with room on the margins for private clinics, like the vast majority of the 1st world)
Russians call that last thing "shuba," coat (for the herring). One of my favorite things. Glad we agree!
The AGPL burdens you with requirements related to simply running the program, even if you're not a money-making corporation.

Say you want to put up some wiki or something, for some volunteer organization of yours. If you run some AGPL thing and customize it in any way, you're burdened with having to serve everyone the code.

Come on, are you saying that if some corporation uses your program that took ten man-years of effort, and re-distributes the code due to making some trivial one-line change, then they have given something adequate in return?

If you don't like corporations using stuff for free, then just put a proper shareware license on it: "free for non-commercial use".

The motivation for the AGPL isn't about giving back to the community; it's just a wrongheaded attempt to attack the problems caused by SaaS. Namely, that users are tied to using programs whose installation is on remote equipment they don't control, and whose behaviors are a blackbox.
Go get them. https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf
Eh, I've seen bigger.
CIA funnels cash to private company aimed at defeating Huawei
Show HN: Nius, Telegram public channels reader
Checkra1n/jailbreak for Apple's T2 chip
Ya know, this never even crossed my mind. Hah. Good point.
Except bitcoin is speculation, not investing.
In this case, Google is just being allergic to a non-free license. It's no different from not being allowed to check into Google's monorepo something with an IBM copyright on it, without any wording about free redistribution and use.
Psst…there's a Linux harness to load the DLL.
If I only wanted to provide a service people used then I'd just start a company and charge for my product. This is about getting a fair deal in the case where I distribute my work for free. I'm not OK with a company turning around and profiting off of it without paying their fair shair, whether that be a licensing fee or by giving back to the community.
>The dinosaurs have been refusing to innovate in many areas, screwing customers with exploitive dealer networks

Yeah, cars have had no innovation over time...wait, when's the last time you've been in one?

And for the most part dealers are independently owned, not some scandalous way to rip off customers. I have owned many new cars in my life (I like tech, so I lease). I've never had an issue with the dealer that wasn't pleasantly resolved. I realize that isn't the case for every person, but dealers are not universally bad, or any worse than any other business. In fact, my wife likes the brand dealer so much that she continues to purchase her cars from them based on that alone.

>The dinosars deserve to get their ass handed to them until they wake up and serve customers.

You should look around the Tesla forums and Twitter at the complaints. The 'dinosaurs' may be bad, but the idea that Tesla service is somehow better is laughable.
Family is a big one. I live with my parents, and WFH occasionally (when sick for example), and it's very hard to convince them that I am WORKING from home. And no, just because I am on my PC all day doesn't mean I'm playing videogames all day.
Viaweb was founded in 1995 and sold in 1998. It WAS part of the first bubble. And no, people were not routinely writing web server based "applications" in 1995. They were, at best, making some early websites. Also nobody was thinking of pages as screens in an app powered by server based software. OpenMarket, I suppose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Market

But they were only founded in 1994.
> If you set an autopilot to hold a heading, it will hold a heading. You don't have to supervise it, you can concentrate on other stuff.

Not _strictly_ true; faults can occur and the system always needs monitoring. Strong turbulence will also disconnect the autopilot (with appropriately attention-grabbing aural and visual alerts).
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> amount high enough that it's sure to bankrupt Oracle

And hopefully leave a radioactive crater large enough to dissuade anyone from ever trying this one again.
Whenever I hear Oracle mentioned it reminds me that it's once again time to re-watch the "Never make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison" rant.

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2085
You mean Y2K? Yeah I remember there was even a Simpson episode about it being absolute chaos (one of the Tree House Horror episodes). And then pretty much "nothing happened" (a few ATMs here and there spitting money randomly, a few funny incidents, but nothing of scale) and the world thought IT people had been paranoid over nothing.

Fast forward to 2020, we still have Feb 29 bugs around (I saw a few posted on twitter, none in person). The response back then was huge and adequate, but totally underappreciated as time went by.
If spying on your customers is malware (I think it counts), then Windows 10 itself is malware.
Yeah, but you'd still need a JavaScript VM escape to access them from a webpage.
> The bsd licence gave us the iPhone.

I wouldn't put it like that. It wants to "bill" people for a grand each, and gave billions to some company. But most importantly, what about the guy who wrote that BSD code - he didn't die unable to buy medicines for cancer? No? Then it's all good.
The mafia figured this out when exactly? Does it still apply?

I doubt it does. Everyone wears a smartphone these days. There's security cameras everywhere. Mics are everywhere.
Or you can right click on the file in explorer, choose properties, uncheck the checkbox at the bottom (I forget the text in it, sorry) then click OK.
Show HN: Paced Email
> Whereas most kernels are easy to understand

Have you taken a look at Linux?!
Hello, I'm Rikki Pitt, the founder of Paced Email (https://www.paced.email).

Paced Email aims to help reduce distraction in your inbox. It batches up emails and newsletters into paced summaries, so you're able to concentrate more effectively. Daily, weekly and monthly intervals are currently supported.

How it works:

- Grab your username
- Create programmable email aliases on the fly
- Use your aliases on sites that send you emails too frequently

At the end of each period, your real email address receives a single email containing all of the messages the alias received over that timeframe.

Examples:

johndoe.shopify@daily.paced.email
johndoe.stripe@weekly.paced.email
johndoe.github@monthly.paced.email

More ideas are on the roadmap and will feature in due course. Team support is also in the pipeline. For those that are interested in the inner workings, I've started a document about how I built it: https://www.paced.email/docs/how-it-works.

The app is still in its infancy, but I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions. Which services would you use your aliases on first?
Security theater at work
And we've come full circle: your argument here is exactly the same as here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22528636

I am happy to let you keep showing off your circular reasoning to the world, and will happily repeat myself pointing out all my counterpoints you did not engage with and ignored.

For example:

- I claimed a technology's existence is enough to cause real world consequences. You ignored this point.

- I mentioned you are not including safeties to building a tool to protect its user[0] (the "first party" user of your tool) and its targets ("second party" people the tool-users are subjecting to your tool). That makes it legally/morally unappealing to use as a tool(puts self in danger), and morally unappealing to be subjected to. Why build a tool this way to be completely legally/morally unappealing, unless you want to cater to users specifically that do not have such legal/ethical concerns? You ignored this point.

- I have invited you to clarify your ethical view. You are circling back to a previous non-argument.

- You simply refuse to verbalize your implicit moral stance -- that your role as a "toolmaker" absolves you of all the moral consequences of its use[1]. If this is incorrect, I welcome clarification from you.

[0] The laundry list of features of other scrapers I mentioned, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22533439

[1] This moral position has long been well-criticized and is not a sufficiently nuanced moral stance in this day and age. For an old example, consider Tom Lehrer's criticism of von Braun: "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department', says Wernher von Braun." [2].

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
which was my point :)
Its users may like and enjoy it, but only ever as users. The community has lost the right to shape the project as they wish. The software becomes a tool of influence over its users. I don’t think that benefits them.

> The bsd licence gave us the iPhone. Doesn't that benefit mankind?

The BSD license gave Apple a start to build the iPhone; Apple gave us devices that we aren’t given full access to even though we ostensibly own them. No, I’m not sure that’s a net benefit for humanity.
It seems pretty much inevitable, for every country that allows reasonable freedoms in travel.
>I was quite wowed when riding in a Tesla for the first time. It feels like a car designed entirely by a tech company as opposed to an incremental improvement over a classic car,

Pary tell, in what way are they better? I've been in both a Model S and 3, and neither of them have a great fit and finish. My VW is far more polished than either. High level Mercs or BMW are way beyond.

I wonder if people saying stuff like this have ever been in a nice car?
How many nukes equivalent?
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On a side note, I remember watching an episode of How The Universe Works and they were talking about a massive explosion that was so big and gave off so much energy in two minutes, the analogy used was this:

It was the equivalent of 1000 trillion nuclear bombs going off every second for 100 billion years.

And that's what it put out in two minutes!

Mind blown!

Edit: I think the total energy was measured in Yottawatts. Oh and it was Michelle Thaller and Hakeem Oluseyi that quantified it if it makes any difference...

Edit2: Found the episode here: https://youtu.be/BhME6wejT6U?t=1830
Sabine Hossenfelder: why physicists are bad scientists
The hyper-db folks do great work. Indeed, Huanchen collaborated with Viktor Leis (one of the senior folks on HyPer) on the SuRF "Succinct Range Filter" (think Bloom filter but for range queries) work: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~huanche1/publications/surf_paper.pdf
and github: https://github.com/efficient/SuRF

and both Viktor and Thomas Neumann's work in this area is fantastic and everyone should go read it. :)

The code for several of Huanchen's projects is available in our group's github repo: https://github.com/efficient/

The order-preserving compression work outlined in his thesis will be appearing soon at SIGMOD, but there's no need to wait for it, since it's roughly the same in both. We'll get the source to that released by the time of SIGMOD.
https://www.avast.com/bug-bounty

Have at it
The more features like this a browser has the less excuse manufacturers of connected devices have for relying on mobile apps.

We were moving too far into a world where anything connected required a mobile companion app that inherently has a lifespan because of how averse to legacy apps the mobile ecosystem is.
It depends. I blame the dentist that fixed my tooth in a substandard way and then I had to have it removed, because the bad fix had it broken a couple of years down the line.

I also blame him because, over the years, other patients of him had trouble for his sloppy work.

I absolutely praise the dentist I went after that one, who made his best to fix everything, explained me the pros and cons of every decision he made, and ultimately got me top notch (as best as could be done).

Sorry for he weird "counterpoint", but the example could be open to ambiguity. I still get the point: don't blame the guy fixing things when it's someone elses responsibility.

In my case: I'd be wrong to blame the 2nd dentist for the mistakes of the 1st.
Obviously Netflix is low hanging fruit. Its just that people use the term GAFAN sometimes, and sometimes GAFAM. I don't know the exact logic of why using one or the other, so I did mention Netflix and Microsoft.

Twitch is Amazon.

I'm aware of wrapper usage. I just use youtube-dl from CLI whenever I see a YouTube linked referenced which should interest me.
has anyone found that doing math, geometric puzzles or problems helps a lot? i found this out by accident, and it works most of the time. as soon as i realize i'm spiraling down i start doing problems. usually i try to do one or two a day so that i don't have to ramp up during the next "episode".
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That's the problem. The executable was missing the Unblock checkbox despite throwing an "app has been blocked for your protection" pop-up.
I suspect the latter is a significantly smaller group though - I would expect people care more about their messages coming across unchanged
This reminds me of the gameboy copy protection. The device looked for the Nintendo bitmap in the cartridge boot screen before it continued execution.
That way you couldn't make third party cartridges without stepping on their trademark.
(On mobile so can't find video source)
Google pulled Iranian coronavirus app from its app store
Not disagreeing in the slightest. My home laptop (Inspiron touchscreen model) will be on Ubuntu when the HDD gets replaced, with little regret.
The German car makers' arrogance and complacency cannot be overstated.
Working from home and now it turns out I have to shit in my own toilet. This is an outrage.

Hoping I can expense the tp at least.
German, a European language that has been more or less standardized for several centuries, with a Latin-based alphabet, added a new letter (ẞ) to its alphabet in 2017. As long as that continues to happen, Unicode will have to add new characters, even if no more ancient scripts are discovered and no new writing systems are developed for currently unwritten languages.
I think you're trying to say that written communication is more efficient, but your responses here just read like "No" without any supporting argument.
That’s maybe true for current 3D graphics heavy projects, but is not necessarily true for any arbitrary future use of GPU compute.
Props for listing the biases. Specially self-described centrists are prone to thinking their viewpoint is the unbiased one. At least from my experience.

Edit: One question. You say "new articles are easy to spot" but how do I spot them?
There was an aspect of that in the first part of the thesis, but the rest has techniques that are independent. You can roughly break the thesis down by paper:

* Hybrid Indexes (a read-only, full-block kinda thing where you have to handle inserts by using a second read-write tree)
* SuRF, a succinct range filter data structure
* Order-Preserving Key Compression for In-Memory Search Trees

Each of them can be used independent of the others, or combined. You can find two of those papers on Huanchen's web page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~huanche1/
the third is to-appear, but you can find a preprint on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02391
"bork" is dog-talk for "bark", and so something that randomly gets an updog going being named such makes sense too, it's just a slightly more obscure joke.
Sure, but keep in mind all the German car makers were complicit in Dieselgate, which is far worse.
Ask HN: Checklist for highly available bare metal deploy?
We're a small startup in Shanghai, China, currently in stealth mode. Our core algorithm is relatively computationally intensive, and better adapted to CPU.

Cloud here is not cheap (comparatively), e.g. a measly on-demand 1 core 1G RAM instance could run up to $23/month + traffic + storage. Prepaid is ~$10.

However, we're able to buy (own) bare metal 2 x 2893v3 (24 cores) + 256G ECC RAM + 5 x 300G 15K drives with a battery-backed hardware RAID for about $1500. Another $60/month for 1U colocation with unlimited power and 10M unlimited link (bandwidth is crazy expensive in China, e.g. dedicated 100M link can cost up to additional $1500/month). I'd say 10 of these should be enough at our scale.

The load is pretty typical web & database flow with some heavy Numpy/Scipy spikes from time to time.

Let's assume that the engineer labor cost is zero.

Could HN recommend some learning resources for minimizing pain with this setup?
The Soviet Tsar Bomba had a power output of about 5 Yottawatts (about 1% of the Sun) - only for a few nanoseconds though!