skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not equal to all the others, which I couldn't say because I don't watch any of the first 4's events, but I've definitely watched the livestream of the WWDC keynote and SOTP each year.
As others have pointed out, the headline is much spicier than the story, which barely qualifies as news:

> On Friday, independent researchers funded by the Museum of the Bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments are modern forgeries that duped outside collectors, the museum’s founder, and some of the world’s leading biblical scholars. Officials unveiled the findings at an academic conference hosted by the museum.

> “The Museum of the Bible is trying to be as transparent as possible,” says CEO Harry Hargrave. “We’re victims—we’re victims of misrepresentation, we’re victims of fraud.”

So a museum acquired some pieces it believed to be legitimate, but was concerned they may not be authentic, so it investigated, discovered the pieces were fake, and is now informing the world. Sounds like reasonable people who did the right thing.
well, I witnessed it, so it's not really a supposition is it?
> Study of user-chosen 4- and 6-digit PINs collected on smartphones for device unlocking [...] a set of "easy to guess" PINs is disallowed during selection

So we are trying to avoid the now-common ones, which (aside from the obvious 4x one digit or 1234, etc.) will result in those becoming less common, and then to re-evaluate we have to submit one in a hundred PINs from all app users and sort of load balance who can use which PIN?

Or we just generate random ones and memorize them. If you care enough to install an app like this, this seems like the easiest solution such an app could offer: read a few bytes from /dev/urandom until there are 4 digits and display them on the screen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/fgty65/a_closer_look_...
Me personally? Great! I'm always glad to help people stay away from large companies.
There is very little known about this particular case - for instance what testing procedure were they using. It could be that the first test gave a false negative, or the second a false positive.
> it's madness that the economic impact is supposed to just stop at landlords, moneylenders, etc.

Who is advocating this position that you think is "madness"? This is an evolving situation that individuals, local, state, and national officials are figuring out as we go along. There is no consensus on any of this and the response needs to be (and actually is) distributed not centralized, IMHO.

Never mind the fact that the huge difficulty with this situation is that the ultimate impact is unknown at this point. How many people will need to be hospitalized? What treatment plans will be discovered? What is the impact of putting the economy on life-support for weeks? Will social distancing be enough to stop the spread?
Helpful, but not much good if somebody was coincidentally between jobs before this started. I bet not a lot of hiring is going in (although the linkedin recruiter spam hasn’t stopped)
> random stuff which isn't obviously efficacious off the back of a misunderstanding of the science

1) It's not random stuff; there is associated research and a theory of operation how it counteracts the virus

2) Lacking obviousness? By the time the research is settled, you may be very sick already.

3) There is no misunderstanding, there is a risk analysis based on the currently available knowledge. Risk of chloroquine poisoning X probability of effectiveness X risk of acute viral infection.

4) Crowd-sourcing information has shown to be very effective in other times of crisis, a viral outbreak is no different.

The internet is not a place for the information police. We share our ideas here.
A shiny nickel says that right now, there is an ISP sales VP asking if the terms of service for customer lines exclude using a VPN to get in to work, and if this can be detected and used as a forced upsell.
yes, updated the link

thks for pointing out the error
I just downloaded it and booted up Minecraft since I was curious too.

The article are held in books like this: https://i.imgur.com/KZoknDt.png Note the button to turn the page on the bottom right.

There actually don't seem to be a lot of articles. The room with the "TRUTH" art display doesn't have anything to read other than a little blurb explaining what the display means. The bookshelves are non-functional, they are just scenery.

After that I entered the Khashoggi room. As with the previous room, all the bookshelves are decoration. There is a little display in the middle with three of his articles. On one side you can read the articles written in English, and on the other side of the display you can listen to someone (Khashoggi himself?) read them in Arabic (making use of Minecraft's record player function). Really, it's a neat use of Minecraft's features.

Then I entered the Vietnam room, which contains two articles by Nguyen Van Dai, with a similar format (English text, then Vietnamese text rather than audio).

I didn't explore more, because the building is HUGE with a ton of space between rooms. Wherever they're hosting this, they need to keep flying turned on, because it would take forever to navigate by just walking.

Overall, it seems pretty underwhelming. The build itself is beautiful. I could go around exploring this just for the scenery. But my gaming PC gets a little choppy from the sheer scale of this thing, so people with low-end computers would likely have trouble using it at all. It's very inefficient for just 2-3 articles per room. I definitely agree with the people saying a basic proxy server would be more suitable.

It's really impressive, though, if you approach it as a piece of artwork. This is basically a virtual museum with some very well-designed rooms.
I dunno, maybe around $80K-$100K? In expensive cities, more? At FAANG, more still? A lot of kernel hackers work remotely.
Tunisia kicks out Italian tourists after they refused to self-isolate
I mean, I don't know what Glitch's story is, but it was really easy for us to get posts on the front page of HN back in 2010; I wrote Kiln blog posts in particular practically for this audience at times. I appreciate my personal blog's not the same cachet, but it's definitely a lot harder to break that threshold these days.

That said, I have no idea if that's why Glitch has fewer articles or not. It could also be different culture; the FogBugz, Kiln, and Trello teams have all gone away. I don't think I even know anyone who works at Glitch these days. They may just emphasize blogging less.
Yep, and this makes me feel more like they actually may have just been really naive when it came to that case. Naivete is no excuse, of course, for what happened there.
Also, the 'hello' is a reference to Macintosh

https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/03/56f95647b...
Even with Apple earbuds battery could be easily replaceable if the cylindrical part of the piece was screw-able to the top. Just like a flashlight.
Congrats! I have told a lot of people about Sourcegraph and they all seem to see it as a viable alternative to their current code search and navigator. I wonder what the future of the product looks like. It is also one of my favorite open source projects to just browse through and understand the code base.
Just enter a bogus email and you will be able to read the rest of the article.
Even without it, we're doing a terrifying balancing act with the economy. We want a V-shaped recovery and the best way to achieve that is the swiftest resolution to pandemic.

A U-shaped recovery would be bad for a lot of people, especially if prolonged. Last thing we want is an L-shaped market with no real recovery.
Warning: video
Denmark to close borders to stem coronavirus spread
> But how do union dues work?

It depends, some unions have it as a percentage of salary, others have a set rate per position (all juniors pay X, all mids pay Y, etc.), and yet other have a single fixed amount for all members.
There are some cultural groups in North America where, in a time of crisis like this, Standard Operating Procedure is to bring food and company and let the affected person chose when or if to talk. You just sit and do something else, and if they need anything you're there, and if they want to talk about it they can, but they don't have to if they don't want to.

It comes up as a joke trope in some movies, but I grew up around that sort and it's not inherently bad. It has a way of avoiding scenarios like the one you illustrated.

I recall I was fairly young and we lost a family pet, and every time someone tried to console me by bringing it up it was like a doctor palpating an injury. Yes, we know it hurts, why are you touching it!? It felt a bit like it was happening all over again. It felt, to be honest, a bit cruel.

If I had been in your situation, at that age, I might have written it down on a piece of paper, so I only had to get through admitting they were gone the one time on someone else's terms.
'all' of the ones at the museum is a correct statement isn't it?
Superheros are just angels or demi-gods with a more exciting story behind them. Miracle workers, they look like us to some extent but have superpowers. It's the same old story in a new dress.
This sounds more like confusion about definitions than anything else. If someone was an excess death attributed to the Spanish flu, they might not necessarily have ever been a "case", depending on how you define "case". For example, do you have to have been diagnosed by a doctor to be a case? etc.

Beyond that, simplistic summaries like COVID-19 is/is not like the flu seem silly and confusing. Better to just enumerate the ways that it is and isn't, and especially those ways that aren't even really known yet.
I was just going to ask this question! I'm currently unemployed and starting to look for a job. I was looking forward to being picky about it - I'm particularly set on finding a company that's working on climate change. Now I'm wondering if I should lower my expectations. Maybe I should snatch up whatever job I can before companies restrict or halt hiring. I'll need some employment before all of this blows over.

It's scary to watch the chaos grow without the security of a paycheck (and all the other perks and protections that come with a full-time job).
Procrastinate Much? Manage Your Emotions, Not Your Time
>Did you have a solid safety net when you bailed?

Yeah, took cash positions before leaving.
This is a tough essay to read but beautifully written. I didn't notice how the background was changing as I read it till I got to the end. The fade to black hit me like a ton of bricks.
The signals were not secret, the physical structure was not necessarily viewed in the west until satellites took pictures. Certainly the mission in all its details and expectations are still classified and therefore secret.
Seems like they sold products below cost to drive out competition, with this apparently not being allowed in some US states / Germany, at least for staple food.

https://ilsr.org/walmart-charged-predatory-pricing/
Lenses have other uses, you know.
Yeah, in DCSS they certainly trade tactical depth and crazy combinations of Nethack for what they call streamlining, aggressively cutting features from the game. Autoexplore in particular feels to me like a plug for the lack of micro, which is less important in DCSS than in Nethack. Not to say one is better or worse than another - DCCS is a great entry point into the "big four" of roguelikes - they just follow different principles.
Great find. Going to read up more on Patrick Vallance's plan.

This was an interesting point from a Guardian article where he defends the plan:

“If you suppress something very, very hard, when you release those measures it bounces back and it bounces back at the wrong time,” he said. The government is concerned that if not enough people catch the virus now, it will re-emerge in the winter, when the NHS is already overstretched. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/coronavirus-sc...
Anyone interested in this topic should check out the documentary "Don Verdean".
It is open source?
Tell HN: Your old Yahoo Mail emails are probably gone
If you haven't logged in to your Yahoo Mail account in the last 12 months, logging in now will create a "fresh" account for you, that is completely empty. I just lost 22 years of emails.
There was a good NOVA (or maybe Secrets of the Dead) episode on PBS that noted how there were a bunch of supposed dead sea scroll fragments that came onto the market that in many cases ... found buyers who just happened to be interested in the the text that were on the fragments.

The market of private dealers working with secret sellers and buyers is very opaque and the middle men seem to pride themselves on secrecy more than authenticity and seem a lot like scam artists of their own.
No, that was a microlens array. This one is just a lens, it just focuses the light (within the near-field zone!) in a way that I wouldn't have imagined was possible.
I couldn't quite believe that one would have to go so far as to take a drug like Chloroquine as a Zinc ionophore, so I looked around and found naturally occurring stuff like so: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf5014633

however, I don't know about how it compares and if these are as potent as Chloroquine so it would be nice if an expert could opine on whether these natural compounds are as potent.
Given how widely publicized request smuggling was, I'm surprised it's still a problem for apps with large user bases like Slack.
Is hosting your app in a proprietary cloud becoming too risky?
Do high humidity levels decrease potency in case of Coronavirus?
John Crestani: 28-Year-Old Medical Test Subject Turned Internet Millionaire
Based on your opinion, you think productivity will slow and inflation will rise (regardless of cause) that is the definition of stagflation and by definition bad for the economy, bad for equities. Given these two things, higher inflation lower productivity, we would expect to see the price of equities go lower.

Also side note which is interesting, but not entirely sure how it effects things.

This article hints that the Fed might be moving to a longer term asset purchase plan

https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/2020031215079/fed...
Those temperatures are normalized to sea-level. If you go to say La Paz or Macchu Pichu expecting scorching weather based on that graphic you are going to have a bad time.
Show HN: Use face detection to auto pause a YouTube video when you are AFK
Considering the times we’re in.
Maybe! You'd be sacrificing most of the light, though.
> Übermenschen – machine-men, aerialists and space-bound conquistadors – tantalised philosophers and beguiled fascists

Articles like this seem to take advantage of the misunderstanding of Nietzsche without directly endorsing it. The actual concept of "ubermensch" would have no place in this article.

The term was coined by Nietzsche and referred to a futuristic human who was raised without the influence of religion or superstition and without having interacted with anyone who has such influences. In his view these people would be liberated from what he saw as the oppression of Christianity (and other Abrahamic religions), which he felt encouraged people to accept meekness, suffering and poverty in exchange for a pleasant afterlife. He called Christians "preachers of death" and encouraged people to abandon complacency for a "will to power". It is an appeal to a superior type of person but it is intended to encourage rational cultural development. The term itself has nothing to do with technology or ethnicity.

By now everyone knows that his work was bastardized by the Nazis but many seem to prefer the controversy of the Nazis' version over what he actually wrote. He spoke out in defense of the Jewish people and even stopped doing business with and publicly rebuked a publisher who was an anti-Semite. We have gotten really good at remembering the hateful and forgetting the rational.
Project to create open source ventilators
They seem to have plenty of capacity, no issues in Bay Area despite many more people WFH or working less and streaming more.
> the servers are chopping those careful requests up and sending them to random places.

I understand that the backend is parsing different requests than the frontend, but I don't see how the cookies ever get sent to the attacker's domain.

I understand three requests as moving like this:

1. attacker -> frontend -> backend (partially) -> frontend -> attacker
2. victim -> frontend -> backend (including a bit of 1) -> frontend -> victim
3. (after 301) victim -> malicious server

The second request results in a 301, causing the victim's client to make a new request to the target of the 301. This new request does not include cookies, because it is to a different domain.

What am I misunderstanding? When do the cookies get sent to the malicious server?
There's a lot to be said for shutting up and calculating. If I were a physicist, I might subscribe to that myself. Since I can't calculate myself, I try to remain agnostic even to that extent.

That said, physics advances do sometimes come from asking "What if X is real?" The positron and electron spins are both poster children for that. Instead of just shutting up and calculating, people focused on the part of the calculation that seemed to imply the existence of an unobserved thing. We could, in fact, have kept going with a physics in which positrons were merely calculation conveniences; that physics is valid. But we might not have discovered the Standard Model that way.

So I'm of two minds... and in a lot of ways, I'm not really entitled to be of any minds, since my formal education stopped at undergrad, and I'm no longer capable of doing even that much math. I get leery when people with even less education want to "understand" without doing any of the math, because I fear that the best of explanations will only mislead them.
One can only hope. I absolutely loved Three UK for their unlimited 4G, it was my only Internet provider.
> ix.netcom.com

Nice, that was a blast from the past. I used netcom.com for a few years in the early 1990s. Good times.
No IRL
I think the title of the post is slightly misleading. The title is in the passive voice

> A Vacancy Has Been Detected

Whereas the email is in the active voice

> We have detected a vacancy in your room

The active voice sounds a bit more personable and less robotic.
When you do have your 1:1 synchronous time (probably remote, especially these days), make sure you're organized. I work with some of my mentees to put together a standard agenda for each "meeting". Sometimes that'll be a discussion of some code, sometimes it'll be actual pairing, sometimes it'll be just chatting about a recent interview experience.

Especially with respect to reviewing code, the further in advance you can provide the code to the mentor, the better.
Yes. Some did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles#Cult

Although if instead of the verb "pray" you use the verb "worship", the distinction between ancient heroes/half gods and modern day super heros becomes much smaller.
It may not be entirely trivial but if enough people are willing to contribute it could be trivial on an individual basis.

I'd be interested in giving it a go. If anyone else is, just leave a comment on this issue. https://github.com/ethanwillis/oss-twilio-video-backend/issu...
Thank you for spreading awareness of Sourcegraph!

For anyone else interested, our code is browsable and searchable at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph (on Sourcegraph itself, naturally) and hosted at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph.

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In addition to this article, a very good video discussing unions in the game industry that includes an interview with Game Workers Unite and testimonials from people working in the industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TSB5YQqDiY
DCSS has definitely been dumbed down over the years which is kind of saddening. I remember it was really fun in the 2014-2015 era but I haven't really checked in since.

Path of Exile on the other hand has only gotten more and more baroque, which is awesome if you love the theorycrafting aspect of it
Some folks think they're clever by repeating "Economists have predicted nine out of the last five recessions," but they don't seem to understand the Fed's purpose.
I don't have to wonder, my PIN is 6 random digits that I memorized by using it a few times per day the first few days. It really isn't that hard with spaced repetition.
Yes, they're cheap and widely available. That's because we import them from China.

If your plan for resilience against a long-term disruption of global trade has a critical dependency on global trade, you may need to rethink it somewhat.
Show HN: Infinite prose generated by Open AI's GPT-2 trained on “Infinite Jest”
How does this compress data though even if you could easily find parent states? Don't you have to have at least one bit per cell (alive or dead) for your whole grid?

You have some information which is X bits long, so you turn it into a game of life board. Then you find a parent state which is still X bits long. How does that help with compression?
In a crisis like this, the organizations providing services people rely upon are the ones with leverage. Not their customers.
A Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming
Integers represent the binary field of integers modulo 2^b, where b is the width of the integer. For signed integers, any value v >= 2^(b-1) is interpreted as being v-2^b instead.

That's how you specify "exactly what must happen on integer overflow". You thought I would have to take every undefined special case one by one and define them? That's naïve.

A similar argument can be made for pointers: pointers are integers that represent memory addresses. Dereferencing a pointer to an allocated region gives you the value stored in that region (insert casts, uninitialised values, trap representations etc here). Dereferencing a pointer to a region that is not currently allocated is undefined.

And voilà, we no longer care how a pointer was constructed then dereferenced, we only care about the address, and whether it pointed to an allocated region (and initialised with a compatible type etc, though that part could also be simplified).

> That's a very specific scenario.

I'm currently reporting a bug in the Libsodium cryptographic library because its Scrypt implementation (password hash by Colin Percival) has precisely this bug. My guess is that Colin was a little too clever there, and treated C as a lower level language than it actually is.

A very specific scenario that may be, but it's a scenario we do encounter in real life.
The Earn IT Act Puts Us All at Risk
It was also far easier to prevent global travel, specifically individuals, like we have today. The changes cut both ways...
If you would like to try it out, you can do it in the browser:

https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls

Zero setup, just login via your GitHub account.
On the off chance that you are genuinely seeking truth, perhaps you would like to venture an opinion on one of the following rephrasing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22566315

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569847