skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why this is getting down voted. Outside of official statements from the content providers, who are happy to bury their heads in the sand and pretend the flagged problems don't exist, general consensus is that most anti-piracy measures ruin the experience for legal users far more than for pirates. Pirates might accept lower standards of service given the all time low price of free. Paying customers of course have much higher expectations.

And the fragmentation of titles across platforms doesn't help one bit. We're basically heading to the same situation with today's cable business.

Personally, living in a country whose language I don't master means many of the titles in my Netflix catalogue are unwatchable. Anime being in Japanese and only dubbed or subed in the local language and nothing else. In English speaking countries the exact same titles have English sub or dubbing.
Back on my .com days, we would just start the application using localhost and make a OS request to use the system browser, but what do I know.
> I still find myself entitled

I think that sums it up pretty well. Thanks for at least being honest about it.
Huh, I just realized tax season is coming up soon.
Oh that's great. I wanted a nice, updatable eink screen for things like "this weeks recipies" and have been trying to work out how to drive it / power it without spending too much. A jailbroken kindle and a server somewhere could work nicely, but there's a lot to that and I don't really want to spend too much time maintaining things.

Would be interesting to know if people have got it working with other NFC apps / how hard it is to add to your own app.
> Microsoft for all intents and purposes killed Atom

I don't think so. When VS Code came out my reaction was "Wow! It's like a 1.0 version of Atom!" I.e. an electron (or similar) based editor that works, whereas atom always seemed like a beta release. I tried to use atom a bit but it came with little out of the box and the plugin ecosystem was a complete mess. I filed an issue asking if obsolete/dead plugins could be somehow removed from the plugin repository, but nothing came of it.

Atom wasn't killed, it died on its own.
> There are two commas you can remove and one you can add (after "unfortunately"). Overall great edit.

I have come to appreciate over time that most people have an inbuilt, highly intuitive command of where commas should go, and that any two people will disagree mightily over it. To me, those commas can be removed, but doing so disrupts the readability of the sentence since they are usefully signalling where one might pause—but I know from experience that plenty of people, including fluent native speakers of English, use way fewer commas than I do.
You’re suggesting a handout to house owners (especially those with large houses) over renters would be better?
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This is only being considered as a device of last resort, if and after the medical system has collapsed and there are no alternatives.
>I'm a huge fan of swing manouche (jazz style developed during the '40s). I can't find albums in legal sources that I can instead find in Nicotine++ (a Linux version of the old Soulseek). What should I do? Accept that I won't find it?

Not sure if you've heard of it or not, but Discogs might be a great place for you to source and purchase a used copy of those albums.
Not everyone has the privileged to do this, but I would actually refuse to work at a place that doesn't have SSDs in developer machines. Holy crap.
As long as the money is given to folks who need and/or will spend it, it feels like this is the exact situation where the federal government steps in for stimulus.

There’s no pull yourself up by your bootstraps talk right now and there shouldn’t be.

I know the single parent working a couple of jobs will spend every dime they’re given in a time like this, just to survive. A yuppie like me would just park it in my savings account until I feel we hit bottom, then invest it.

I’m not the type of person you want to give money like this to. Save it for folks who are really living hand-to-mouth and don’t shortchange them.
Roche Ships First 400,000 Covid-19 Tests
1. I'm not calling you dumb.
2. It's prestige you're after. It's clear from your answers you want some validation from society. There are brands you can chase - BCG for consulting, Google (no Amazon doesn't carry the same weight), Rhodes scholar etc..
> The famous opening line of Pride and Prejudice relies on passive voice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." If you specify who's acknowledging it then the joke doesn't work.

While it doesn't have the same punch (possibly because just lacking the familiarity), what spoils the joke about "Everyone acknowledges that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"?

EDIT: mrob points out elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22604262), there regarding the use of 'all', that words like 'everyone' may imply literally every single person in a way that 'universally' doesn't; but then this may easily be dealt with by a constrution like "The mass of humanity acknowledges …" or "Civilised society acknowledges …".
Open source code to write the image using libnfc and node.js 8.x: https://gitlab.com/bettse/wne_writer
> Why do this kind of work in the shell

It can be quicker & easier to write. Also individually these tools can outperform any code you write by hand. Shells are also common on a far wider range of operating systems than typical programming languages like Python et all. Additionally if you want to improve your productivity you may create your own shortcuts (e.g. "build_myproject" which understands what that entails & may involve some amount of text processing among other things). It's typically far more convenient (shorter, simpler & generally easier to understand) to invoke other programs from shell languages since that's what their programming interface is optimized around.

Sometimes it's good to even wrap the entrypoint for common scripting languages like Python in shell so that, for example, you can setup a virtual environment to run out of or use the proper version of Python.

> Isn't it better to do this in a programming language that can run on all operating systems?

Bash & coreutils have been ported to every operating system under the sun (including Sun operating systems). They're even more common & available than any other programming language that doesn't require a compiler (e.g. `adb shell` will get you into an environment where you can grep & do these operations even though there's generally no python or other scripting language available).

> What are Windows users supposed to do?

* cygwin

* WSL

* Windows ports of Bash (http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/, https://gitforwindows.org/, etc)

* msys

Let me conclude this post that you shouldn't really write anything complex or maintained by multiple people in shell if you can avoid it and if you can make guarantees about (for example) the available of a Python interpreter. That doesn't mean that shell scripts aren't a valuable and important part of the development ecosystem.
Note that Yahoo! Japan is separate from Yahoo. When Verizon bough Yahoo, certain patents, holdings and investments were not part of the sale and were spun off into a new business called Altaba.

The (minority) stake in Yahoo! Japan that was owned by Yahoo is now owned by Altaba. Probably the only connection between Yahoo and Yahoo! Japan is the name, which Yahoo! Japan license from Verison.

source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-m-a-verizon-idUSKCN...
Coronavirus spreads quickly and sometimes before people have symptoms, study
I saw a discussion of this on reddit, there was NOT info on if these individuals eventually developed symptoms, so take this with a grain of salt.
I actively avoid Oracle and IBM and the companies that use their products when job hunting.
The dangers of overcentralization of shopping. The country in which I presently live went into lockdown a couple of weeks ago, but I have still been able to order all kinds of stuff and have it delivered to my home: some furniture, some books, vinyl records, a new vacuum cleaner. That is because none of the disparate online shops here to which one turns are overburdened. Amazon’s decision to be the one-stop-shop for everyone and sell food as well, now makes it unable to provide the rest of its inventory.
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Single client implementation is the easy part. The hell starts when you need to use several different clients (think iOS, Android-built in or Strongswan, Windows, Linux Libreswan or Strongswan, also throw in several appliances by different vendors) and each of them has different ideas about what is acceptable in their algo list[1].

And that's just cipher negotiation. Don't get me started, what the clients expect to be in the certificates as CN and SAN. You have IPSec gateway behind NAT (so the internal IP of the gateway is different than the public IP), with dynamic IP, so you need to use DNS instead of fixed IP? Good luck with configuring your Windows clients.

[1] I.e. libreswan has deprecated MD5 and SHA1 in their default algo list; if you need them, you must find out how to configure the client that uses it as a backed. Ubiquiti routers on the other hand support SHA1 as their strongest auth algorithm, so there is no match, leading to forum posts like this: https://community.ui.com/questions/L2TP-unusable-on-Fedora/d..., where people butcher it and end up using 3DES and DH group 2. Yay, great for security.
I feel like that would advantage folks who have a lot of debt ... who in fact might actually be not in need of assistance as it might otherwise seem.
Ha, I had a completely opposite connotation to the headline and was briefly confused when I read the body. In the couple of large factories I know of operators, mechanics, and others generally are thrilled with overtime, so I thought this was supposed to be a good thing. But the article body spun it very negatively. I wonder what the sentiment is in the factories there. Maybe it's different in the UK.
Both would be better, obviously. And I don't think any house owners are looking for debt forgiveness, I think they, like renters, know that an economy where there are no jobs but debt is still owed is unsustainable.
The most important aspect of the claim about spending money is the broken window fallacy. Henry Hazlitt wrote a great book on the subject called Economics in One lesson.

The simple example is that we can't go around breaking windows to stimulate the economy. Sure, the window manufacturer and the window replacement companies might benefit, however that money which went towards the window could have gone elsewhere.

Engineering taught me one very important lesson. We can never get something for nothing. There is always a trade off. If the government is handing out money, it has to come from somewhere. Its either taxes, which means that tax money collected can't be spent elsewhere. Or it has to be printed, which is inflation.

Some people say, people aren't spending it, they are saving it! Thats important too. Unless they are keeping it in their mattress, that money is deposited in banks, which loan out the money for capital improvements, etc.

Lastly, my anecdotal experience is that "free money" tends to be squandered more than earned money. Which means poorly allocated funds towards resources less valuable to a strong economy.
Good god, the scroll hijacking on that site is dreadful. Makes it impossible to scroll comfortably on mobile.

That being said I’ve always admired the Remarkable tablets.
Hmm. A lot of businesses will get into big trouble over the coming weeks and potentially months. Bars, event organizers, even shopping malls. They're all going to go down to almost zero profit for a while.

The problem is if you just give people money right now, they literally can't spend it on those things because they are or will be closed during that time. Money isn't the reason they're not going, Corona is.

The money would be spent on things that are doing well now anyway (rent, food and netflix/videogames/etc.).

Maybe right now the focus should be on not making people homeless, but then giving people money after the crisis so they can spend it in the industries that are suffering right now.
I had Word on three disks for the Amiga, yes the disks were 880K each, but Microsoft figured out how to use it all. I design and built a three drive enclosure to add to my Amiga (The Amigas could support 4 drives) and not having to swap disks while you worked or printed made a big different in ease of use.
And now please answer MIT vs NCSU ? If you reply with NCSU then we're done here. No point even discussing with someone who is lying.
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In this case, it is better than just stimulus. It makes it possible for people to stay home.
The situation is in no way symmetric, as only one party is claiming a non-standard limitation on valid uses of the language. The other parties are claiming both a standard and more permissive use.
Mnuchin Seeks $850B in Coronavirus Stimulus -Report
This message will get mangled out in the public. Hopefully it won't trigger a run on Amazon and make things worse for the fulfillment centers.
Non-sensationalized title: "iPhones have a bug where 'Uninstalled apps' are using a significant amount of data"
>> So now they gets taxed twice?

>I don't understand this argument. I've seen it so many times among a certain crowd of people, but I still don't get it.

Wealth tax makes no sense because if you earned that money, then you have already paid taxes on it. Taxing assets/stocks makes no sense because the value is constantly changing. One day you could have millions and the next you could be broke. Plus, if you had zero cash on hand, you would have to liquidate an asset just to pay the taxes on it?

> Sure, an omnipotent being that knew all outcomes in advance could set a perfect single-tax rate for each person's individual circumstance that only affected their income.

A flat tax would work fine too, and be the most "fair".

> taxing wealth as a correction

I don't think the main purpose of taxation is redistribution. Who says there needs to be a correction in the first place? I don't think people really care about equality, because no one cares about the inequality of the rich vs. the super rich. They care about the lowest end, and if they have at least enough to support themselves. Which if you're making under a certain amount and have kids you pay basically zero taxes. In fact, you may even get money from the government.
From Microsoft's perspective, what's the advantage to them or their users to pay for two somewhat similar free offerings to be worked on in parallel? Given that one was gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds while the other was rapidly losing market share and relevance, what course would you recommend? "Fund both indefinitely, to keep the handful of atom users that want new features happy"? Be reasonable.
It's a small bug, Apple will fix it. That is not a reason for "millions of users to quit iphones", relax.
Anyone find if the NFC protocol is documented somewhere?
Like high viral coefficients, the marginal propensity to consume at (or even above) 1.0 has a huge multiplier effect that beats the heck out of a tax cut or other spending.

Agreed, and this makes total sense in a crisis like this.

Even better: folks will actually need the money and it will be doing some concrete good, quickly.
Putting this out there in case folks aren't aware:

DuckDuckGo is powered almost entirely by Yahoo!. In turn, Yahoo! search is powered almost entirely by Bing.
Hmm unless they buy the loans and we have to pay the government for that... doesn’t sound like it would work but I’m curious of what the economists here think of that
Had the same reaction. Its forced overtime so maybe they'll complain? But with the virus hitting, if correct safety precautions are taken the extra cash seems like a good thing? We'd need to actually talk to Amazon workers for their opinions. Also important how Amazon responds if a worker doesn't want the overtime.
This is really excellent. Various projects I've wanted to do with old iPads all require a power source. Price is a little steep but hopefully lower in the future?
In the video Trump insists that Google is working on a website that the media says Goggle says.. well what is going on really?
The remarks about the author detract from Hacker News more than the information in the comment adds to it. Removing those remarks would improve the comment. Adding links to the resources might improve it further but won't make it good Hacker News comment if the remarks remain.
Shiny Tiny RPG – Game Dev Using Shiny Stats
Clickbait title much?

The story is that an iOS bug is burning through data allowances, with no sign of a fix from Apple.
That isn't far off what cable costs...
A 'serious correction' would erase the wealth of the home-owning middle class. A pause on mortgage payments and interest simply extends the mortgage schedule by a year.
Is this actually a problem? Why would people want more of their net worth tied up in their home? Wouldn't cheaper homes make the properly ladder game more accessible? Are people leveraging their current home value enough to need it to be higher?
ReMarkable 2. The next-generation paper tablet
Them and the ecosystem of data brokers and marketing companies that are invisible to consumers and yet do far, far sketchier things with personal data.

Like, remember that thing where cell carriers were literally selling real-time user-specific location data to, essentially, anybody who could pay? And probably still are? I can't conceive of how people can be so angry at "Big Tech" but not at these shadowy fuckers who are doing so much worse things wrt. your data.
You forgot the Respiratory Therapists.

As a former respiratory therapist I understand you concern about a project like this. I doubt anything beyond a CPAP machine is helpful for home care without risking a ventilator lung injury which is often characterized as the same lung pathology that COVID-19 creates in the acute respiratory cases.

That said, at home you could help at home patients relieve some symptoms until proper medical attention is available by doing positive breath holding exercises and chest percussion therapy to recruit more alveolar activity.

Paging Dr. Scott Weingart

https://emcrit.org/emcrit/some-additional-covid-airway-manag...
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>The simple example is that we can't go around breaking windows to stimulate the economy. Sure, the window manufacturer and the window replacement companies might benefit, however that money which went towards the window could have gone elsewhere.

The "windows" in this metaphor are already broken by the coronavirus. Our only choice now is how soon to fix them and which windows get fixed first.

>Unless they are keeping it in their mattress, that money is deposited in banks, which loan out the money for capital improvements

This isn't borne out by evidence, banks refused to lend during the 2008 recession.
> The Pew Center’s analysis of IRS data showed that in 2014, people with an adjusted gross income, or AGI, above $250,000 paid 51.6% of all individual income taxes, even though they accounted for only 2.7% of all returns filed. These “wealthy” individuals paid an average tax rate (total taxes paid divided by cumulative AGI) of 25.7%.

> By contrast, while people with adjusted gross incomes below $50,000 filed 62% of all individual returns in 2014, they paid only 5.7% of total taxes collected at an average tax rate of 4.3% per person.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/who-pays-the-most-us-income-tax-33...
No, I am not kidding. Several subreddits kept track of all reputable worldwide news sources of all kinds: news agencies, governments, health organizations...

Deciding who you trust or not is your call, but those news subreddits are invaluable to get updates from all over the world.

I have not claimed all are to be trusted or anything like that, so please do not make strawmen.
Pretty worrying that the phone is sending "audio visual" data to unknown 3rd parties and not tracking who / where / why.

Or do modern clown-world inhabitants think this is great?
Amazon is hiring 100,000 in the US to meet the demand and increasing wages to help with retention.

Last I checked, employment and OT was voluntary.

This is all good stuff.
I remember when people complained that cable wasn't à la carte. Now we complain that streaming services are à la carte. Its a fun cycle.
>I remember once writing to an Aussie record label asking for a copy of an old album of Brett Garsed

I applaud the effort at legitimately trying to get a copy. However, sounds like an opportunity still might exist. Small record labels are always hard pressed for cash. Maybe there's a business deal to be made. I'm sure they would be open to licensing the music to you. You could then release the album yourself, or maybe a compilation album with tracks from other artists in the same style of music. Now you have the opportunity to bring that music to a wider audience based on your interest while maybe making a little money on it as well.

This is HN after all. Maybe there's some new website you can make that allows cash strapped record labels to distribute the music legitimately using some new programming language of the day. You could then write up a Show HN and let us all know. We might even be interested.
I tried using this, 1st of all the music was in CDs by a third party seller - which is not a deal breaker but may be to some others.

However,seller declined to ship me discs(to india) even though i was willing to pay shipping. He said customs tends to seize items like music cds
>>I was tempted to dismiss it....

>Goes on to completely dismiss it.

Then I failed to properly express myself, and I apologize. Having watched the YouTube playlist, NsCDE is indeed an extremely thorough clone that mostly matches the original and in many places exceeds it. In particular, it does appear to have globally-available help, which lacks the "click anything and get a description" mode but otherwise is a match for the original. They've even somewhat addressed a problem with running the original in 2020 by making it support even non-native applications (through QT+GTK theme support).

So yes, this is very impressive, and not at all the shallow skin that I initially expected.
Apparently school closures work very well because it also forces adults to stay home from work to take care of their children.

Source: https://samharris.org/podcasts/190-respond-coronavirus/
https://www.payetteforward.com/uninstalled-apps-using-data-i...

> Uninstalled apps aren’t using data on your iPhone. “Uninstalled Apps” is the sum total amount of data that apps you’ve uninstalled from your iPhone have used since the last time you tapped Reset Statistics.
Such an uninspired name.
Or re-capitalizing existing ones.

Honestly I would not worry about airlines, restaurants and other non-essential business at the moment. They will be all right eventually, when demand for their services comes back. If not, someone else will step in.

I would rather be giving unlimited tax money to Roche for increasing capacity in producing as many tests as necessary and more, to LVHM for converting their Chanel No 5 production lines into producing hand-sanitizer, to Roll-Royce for producing ventilators and to other front-line business,
It is because of the consequences of covid-19 on the lungs of some people, which needs intensive care and specialized equipment to cure them, that is rare (ventilators etc.).
Literally unviewable and it is not consent if there is no option to say "no".

Ianal but this website is probably violating GDPR:

https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/consent/
Yeah, it is, and it’s at the top of my todo list.
How to Hire Software Engineers During a Remote Work Crisis
Like other ever other commercial browser?