skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an MSDN subscription which gets me ~200/mo Azure Credit, I think. I use the F4 instance which is 4 core/8GB. I set it in azure to shut down around 10pm, and get an email asking me if I want to extend it. Doing this, I have a few bucks to spare on my credit each month for Azure App Service, etc. I use mRemoteNG to connect to it. I keep all code, databases, etc. in source control and on a separate disk. This way, if I want a new dev VM, I just spin it up, install dev tools (I have a chocolatey script for that;) and attach the disk.

It really is enabling to have my machine be separate from my dev environment. I used get so annoyed with all the cruft dev tools, SDKs, etc. add to a system, hog disk, and bog it down. Now I just have outlook, mremoteng, and office on the local machine.

May not be appropriate for heavy media work as 1) you need more RAM and 2) audio/video may be choppy through RDP. If you can afford it, though, I highly recommend this approach.
'if you are not looking at the real to gather your data, you're playing fantasy football.'

Well put my friend.

Your comment has made me curious about your stance on Hayekian economics v. Keynesian.
I love that the app he wants to build is an RSS reader. I just did a post on why we should be making more use of RSS as individuals:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/rss-the-original-federated-so...

Interesting he ran into the CORS situation with PWAs. It makes sense. It feels like even PWAs aren't that far off from Electron. Sure you're not launching another browser and can share a browser engine, but you hit other limitations.

I'd rather have a real, lightweight, stand alone app most of the times honestly. I wish people would write more stuff in Qt5. You can bundle Python+PyQt5 together for a reasonable licensing fee. A great example is the Resolve color/video editor is written in C++/Qt5.
Might the difference be the the quality of the Public Service in China and Singapore is much higher than elsewhere?

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-24873-5_...
Try clicking your own cores. Thats a common stuck point
Amazon pauses sellers' loan repayments amid coronavirus
Pretty slick.

I was a bit put off by the subscription model, but that includes a backend service for multiplayer games? Nice.

What are the limits?
autoexec.bat, those were some good times, loved hacking the config.sys file
Isn't Unreal already the dominant engine for AAA games?
I do not see how you would need to use divisions in that case.

But even if that was the case, you could just pretend to the OS that you have 7 sectors of 512 bytes each rather than a single sector of 4032 bytes. (or if that was not possible you could just take the hit)
Tech’s coveted internships are getting canceled due to Covid-19
https://github.com/Metapyziks/SourceUtils
Minty 3.0 for remote work with artits
What else is new? I can't find a source right now, but IIRC NIST doesn't even follow their own password guidelines. This seems like a relatively minor flub in comparison. If the verbiage was tweaked a bit to say something like "the https ensures that you're actually connected to the website whose name shows up in your address bar" I think there'd be nothing to complain about.
It's illegal to sell them directly to customers in the US as of now. You can buy them in bulk relatively easily.
Hey! I worked with Construct 2 for a while - it's really cool :) If people are looking for a browser based tool to write games, check these guys out!
What failures are those?
I learned assembly on a TRS-80 Color Computer (6809 CPU.) Interactions with the machine were fairly straightforward.
Staying fit is part of their job, so it's not completely out of nowhere.
I actually do p2p syncing of git repos almost every day, with git-annex's sync feature[1].

It is pretty clever, when you sync, it will push the current branch to every eligible remote into an unchecked out branch (master -> remote/synced/master), which gets merged when that peer syncs (or there can be a daemon that does it for you on the remote).

I use git for filesets and wikis, so true p2p is really helpful. I love seeing new stuff that can be done with git.

[1]: https://git-annex.branchable.com/walkthrough/syncing/
So, this is the first I've heard of UFS, and I'm wondering... what's with the fish fin on the cards?

If the point is to prevent it being accidentally inserted in a microSD slot, couldn't they have just used a slightly different size, like a millimeter wider, and keep a rectangular shape?
I did set up my own gitlab on a VPS. That ended up feeling quite fragile thought tbh. Even a working deploy (docker) seems to be spitting out a fair number of warnings. Jikes.

So new plan is google source repo + mirror somewhere safe for backup / non-google backup
Unity's dominant on mobile compared to Unreal.

We (a FAANG) are actually looking for a dev experienced with Unreal on mobile devices. If anybody sees this and is interested, hit me up. Contact info in my profile.

Edit: Added emphasis that we're looking for an Unreal mobile dev, not Unity.
I wouldn't be surprised but I would definitely be upset.
You can't scan it but you can listen for traffic on it.
Why don’t I know anyone who knows anyone with Covid-19? [pdf]
Thanks for the explanation.

> I wrote this letter to myself because I know what I would do differently 12 years ago and I have the benefit of hindsight now.

> keep in mind what ended up happening 12 years ago is that everyone lost their jobs

That's my fear for this pandemic, too. It's a really awful situation.

Stay safe.
100k miles and one week with an iPad Pro
To beat the game you will need to access the secure network at some point.

Loved the game - thanks for the mind workout.
I think maybe a little. His point is that doing multiple small layoffs to avoid pain and failure ended up causing more pain and failure. He's not saying he should have cut more than needed, he's saying he needed to cut more, because fundraising wasn't going to happen and getting profitable was the only way to survive. But presumably he didn't admit that until it was too late.

The 'right thing' in this case means something like 'face reality clearly, instead of clinging to fantasy because things are too painful or scary'. If you read to the end where he says "People are counting on you to do the right thing", he's telling founders not to shy away from difficult decisions because they're afraid of what outsiders might say. The point is that if you know deep down what needs doing, you're not helping anyone by avoiding it.
I wouldn't trust a projection from 2015 (!) about relative US-vs-China manufacturing volume. Hell, I wouldn't trust a projection from 2 weeks ago.
It is?! The only public way to decrypt that which I'm aware of stopped working 15 years ago.
Hi Lee,

I hope you and your family are staying healthy. I am reaching out on behalf of LogN (https://www.logn.co/) as I saw on News.YC that your company is looking for software engineers.

We provide contract engineers in Central America (timezone: PST+1, EST-2). Three of our engineers are available to start a new engagement as soon as April 1st. They just rolled off of another long term project for a company that is funded by Benchmark Capital. Here are their resumes. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A4nHUDWcHr9F4fVxYC0b...)
They have also worked with several US-based startups and big enterprises.

Please let us know if any of them is a good fit for your needs and we can help schedule a zoom interview with them.

You can find more information about our services here. (https://www.dropbox.com/s/pu7f2o3x2yvi8vn/LogN-Services.pdf?...)

Jonathan Gonzalez
Head of Business Development
Phone: 415-894-2656
email: jonathan@lognllc.com
San Francisco, CA &
San Pedro, Costa Rica
More information on the signalling server we provide can be found here:

https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/...

We also have a build service for paid plans that allows for easy building of your games into deployable signed APKs.

If the subscription is a deal breaker, a lot of users do use our free edition which has a 50 event limit if you use it logged in to a Construct.net account (and a few other limits).
Looks like this is what I was looking for:

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
Is that really worth an in-person ticket and hassle? It's not like they mingle anyway.
Thats a valid point, I am not suggesting the Market is primary in all things, merely the narrow function of price setting. In the US, the Market is primary for price setting in ordinary times. Very rarely does the US government set prices. You're right though, when push comes to shove, unstable market conditions such as War, financial panic, the Government has stepped in to mandate setting stable prices. Still it would be better if the government can create stable market conditions.
MMR? Do you mean Modern Monetary Theory aka. MMT?
IBM helps bring supercomputers into the global fight against Covid-19
It doesn't sound right, but that's how it is most of the time.
Thanks for the recommendation :) Much appreciated!
The note says:

1) .gov means the site is official

2) https:// means it's secure

Author takes #2 out of context provided by #1 and argues that https:// doesn't necessarily mean it's secure because it could be phishing. However the point is that it's secure if it's both .gov and https://

Author then claims that just about anybody can get .gov domain which is untrue.
Turkey arrests 410 citizens for “provocative” coronavirus posts
Well, as someone on that pages comments points out, a distance of just a few meters would give you over 10ms of latency, so I reckon there is some more leeway.

It's definitely a tricky problem though, which is why I figured a more customizable solution would be better.
Home screen installed PWAs are treated as a separate web browser.

So installed PWA's do have automatic deletion, but that basically only applies to third party content (like advertiser tracking cookies, or content from other sites you show inside an iframe), since the number of days used since last interaction counter will stay at zero for the main site.
It didn't seem like Discord sent desktop audio with the screen share. Does it do so, or did your friend do some magic to get it to work? I've read for ex you can use pulseaudio on linux to mix the input sources and then use that virtual output for Discord, but I'd be happy to find an easier way.
Dell now lets you control iPhones from its PCs
erlang is more fun, and is was designed for what your discussing, but you'll want to learn both the language and OTP
I went through a bunch of Unity courses. Wrote about the best one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22688437

In fact, it was my best experience among online courses on any subject.
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Interesting numbers. I see, "gross revenue" means:

> In the last reported year, customers spent an estimated 54.2 billion U.S. dollars on on in-app purchases, subscriptions, and premium apps in the Apple App store.

So, roughly 30% cut goes to Apple - which is around 16 billion; and developers got the rest, around 38 billion.

With PWAs, 100% goes to developers. As you pointed out, that's a threat and motivation for Apple to continue racheting up their closed ecosystem, and keep PWAs crippled on Apple devices.
I'm guessing it doesn't handle people pausing the video like Netflix Party or SyncLounge does then?
It's a semi-regular question, the HN archives have good pointers. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21457029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17399340

Personally I'm impressed by https://docs.konghq.com/ and like the freshdesk.com layout, e.g. https://zapiet.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/6... (more a knowledge base than base documentation)
Its absurd that paying customers get a worse experience than just using the piratebay.
Nice. This looks promising. Very clean API. I like the focus on a narrow use case.

Do you have any information on security topics like using TLS, client authentication, etc?
Not that this isn't a great idea and something I am now thinking of doing, but I wonder if you're breaking some digital rights law here (?)
Not for the rest of the country
That course isn't even premium content I don't think.
Folding Home now has more than 1 Exaflops for SARS-CoV-2 research
Hi,

I hope you and your family are staying healthy. I am reaching out on behalf of LogN (https://www.logn.co/) as I saw on News.YC that your company is looking for software engineers.

We provide contract engineers in Central America (timezone: PST+1, EST-2). Three of our engineers are available to start a new engagement as soon as April 1st. They just rolled off of another long term project for a company that is funded by Benchmark Capital. Here are their resumes. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A4nHUDWcHr9F4fVxYC0b...) They have also worked with several US-based startups and big enterprises.

Please let us know if any of them is a good fit for your needs and we can help schedule a zoom interview with them.

You can find more information about our services here. (https://www.dropbox.com/s/pu7f2o3x2yvi8vn/LogN-Services.pdf?...)

Jonathan Gonzalez
Head of Business Development
Phone: 415-894-2656
email: jonathan@lognllc.com
San Francisco, CA &
San Pedro, Costa Rica
Via https://www.golem.de/news/coronakrise-sars-cov-2-forschung-u... (German)
The point is that you need more bits to store a longer key, but the storage space saved is very little in this case compared to how much easier it is to crack.
Not any more. Even the terminal needs to request access to parts of the file system.
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This is an interesting counter-point. Can you elaborate?
To be fair to them, how the hell do you possibly explain what that means to people who don't know or care how any of these things work? How do you explain TLS and DNS and HTTP and web servers and all this stuff in less than an hour in a way that makes any sense to someone that doesn't care about technology and just wants this stuff to work?
love the discussion here - I'ld like to provide a bit of clarity on the architecture for context.

The `dgit://` protocol that gets registered with the `git-remote-dgit` helper is not in itself a remote resource, but rather a deterministic identity that has been registered with the Tupelo DLT (zonotope provided good details on this below). Therefore the ownership as well as the current state (branches, tags, maybe PRs in the future :), etc) of the remote repo is decentralized away from a single entity (aka GitHub/GitLab) - as the owner, you fully control it, nobody else can modify it - not even the dgit team.

The storage part of your dgit remote is much more on the "distributed" side. We chose sia's skynet because we think it's a great fit for this. However, the actual objects of the repo could be stored anywhere, S3, IPFS, exchanged over bittorrent, or even your local raspberry pi. Regardless of where the git objects live, there still remains a single, trusted, distributed index of your repository on the Tupelo DLT.
I guess that the dgit remote URL specifies the sia network as a whole, without explicitly pointing to a specific node. When new nodes join, you don't have to change the URL of the remote.

But if you want to use normal remotes as a distributed network, and then a new node joins, you have to add a new remote with a new URL before you can use it.
Given that the OneNote web and Windows 10 apps don't implement Find&Replace (just Find), 5-10 years after their first release, I wouldn't hold my breath for usable Office PWAs.

Edit: the official help page on how to do Find&Replace reads like a joke until you realize it is very real:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-and-replace-...
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Those sound like problems for the developer, and not the end user.
It keeps microSDs from fitting into a UFS only slot. They won't work in a microSD only slot because the data pins are moved to a new row.
@OP: Perhaps it is interesting if you add more information about why you want to know it.
I wonder why not Axure? It is much closer to UX type of work, and Affinity Designer is more illustration-focused.
OpenGL is actually pretty high-level. I don't know how much detail of the hardware it lets you get - probably mostly through hardware-specific extensions. The most basic usage is really hardware oblivious. There are many even more high-level toolkits on top of that, such as Qt. But if you need some flexibility and performance, using OpenGL is probably your best bet.
Ask HN: Is there anyway besides a private VPN to make the Internet less hostile?
One issue I always encounter when I'm out of the USA is how hostile the Internet is.

Captchas upon endless Captchas designed to create friction, geoblocking, inability to log onto financial services because of very basic conditional access rules that don't take into account 2FA whitelisting.

Of course the customer service is non-existent, automated, or simply does not comprehend what I'm talking about and defaults to my "computer" is broken.

Running an VPN on an Azure/AWS/Digital Ocean instance is not viable because the whole ip range is blocked by automated services like cloudflare, even if it's static.

This also applies to public VPN vendors like PrivateInternetAccess. You also run the risk of being commingled w/ other "malicious" users and general account bans by IP address from basic meta data analysis (Time/Date + IP address + Account accessed = disable access basically.) and then have to beg to be enabled, further confirm your identity and minimize plausible deniability for "risk management."

Besides running a VPN from a residential node, is there something I'm missing?
Being visually distinctive is important, no?
Thanks mikesholiu, would love to hear how that goes for you!
Okay, that makes sense - counter is third-party domains only. Thanks!
Off topic, but how is this experience using the Surface Pro X as a PWA machine? Does Windows / PWAs work well in tablet form? I was thinking of switching to a similar setup and using it essentially as you describe. Seems like it could be a really lightweight and simple computing environment similar to Chromebooks but still allows you to run traditional Windows apps as well if you need.
very fun, the game-within-the-game was neat, too
Productivity apps for remote teams and startups
> It keeps microSDs from fitting into a UFS only slot.

Did you mean that backwards? If a microSD doesn't have fins and the slot has additional space for fins, how would it prevent the insertion?
Not sure about pinning, but bookmarking should not grant any extra rights. Even the useful websites should not be able to track me forever.

Look, we already have lots of website prompts, like camera and location. The best thing, privacy-wise, would be an explicit prompt: "this website wants to store information, possibly including tracking identifiers, forever. Allow?"
Based on the blog, it sounds like he wants to downloaded RSS feeds to the user's device, and not store them on his server to speed up development (all those complaints about FAANG being able to develop at web scale and him not wanting to run a backend).

Then, if the user clears cache or changes computers, they lose the stuff they were following and have to wait for new items, but it's not the end of the world. They might even expect it if you name/describe the app a certain way.

E.g. if you download an app called "Podcast Downloader" that says it just downloads any new podcasts from feeds you follow for your later offline consumption on your current device - you might not expect a podcast on your phone to magically jump to your desktop without a re-download from the original site.

Seems like it could be a valid trade off if it lets a front end only web dev publish apps he couldn't publish otherwise because he can't/won't do backend. Storing user media on the backend is not cheap. The company I'm at has spent months of developer time moving over from Google to Amazon, for example, just for infra cost improvements that come from serving terrabytes of data off one instead of the other.
Exactly. This is going to turn into a game of whack-a-mole whereby we need to load the latest firefox extension that tricks websites into thinking we're using Chrome.

Or we could build for Firefox. There's always that.
The data on Macs agrees with slizard's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574795, concerning Folding@home:

[Folding@home] lack[s] crucial SIMD optimizations to allow making use of AVX2/AVX512 on modern x86 CPUs as well as the years of algorithmic improvement and code optimization we made. These two factors combined lead to _significantly_ lower F@H CPU performance compared to what they had we're they using a recent GROMACS engine.
I think the counter point was that if they are actually efficient businesses, then they will return more or less the same, as soon as there is economic capacity for them. I think an argument that it would actually be cheaper for the economy to mandate that taxpayers keep them afloat is interesting, but would argue the burden of proof should be on that side.
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I've noticed far more people running where I live in the U.S., too. Today, it was cold and raining, and runners were everywhere. Ordinarily, I'd have expected to be the only one.
Home screen installed PWAs are treated as a separate web browser.

For all web browsers, content is only deleted after 7 days in which you use that browser. So if you shut for phone off for a month, and then turn it on, and open safari, that whole month only counts as one day, since you did not use the safari browser during that month.

The same rules apply to PWAs installed to the home screen, which are being treated as seperate browsers. Of course, the count of days of use of this "browser" without using the main site will always remain zero.

But for third party cookies, or third party content from an iframe that uses local storage, those would get nuked if the home screen installed PWA is used on 7 different days without interacting with those domains.
Godot 4.0, with Vulkan support, will replace Unity really quickly.
Advice for freelancers and small businesses during the coronavirus outbreak
Or... quit using buggy app?
Is the "privacy budget" an actual feature of chrome or just an idea? I've never heard of it until now.
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...
sorry, anyone knows the link of the original source of this?
Unemployment/SNAP /etc.
But then why don't they already force visitors to accept push notifications?
Would you exclude compiler/assembler developers ? Are they not using the bare chip capabilities? Is assembly an abstraction ?
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I use (and highly recommend) Timeshift [1].

The GUI is nice and intuitive, and it supports both simple rsync snapshots and more complicated btrfs drives. It took me about five minutes to set it up to automatically back up once a day / week / month.

My personal setup excludes the home directory and saves backups once a week to a `/timeshift` folder, but you can easily set it up to write to an external drive, include your home folder, or back up manually. Somebody even wrote a script to take a backup before a system update with pacman hooks.

[1] https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift
Exactly. Things can be very emotional, convincing, and completely fabricated.

I'm honestly not deciding either way in this case, but even in a pandemic we must seek truth.

I've lived in Madrid and have friends in Spain and it'd make me very sad if it were true. But we must seek the facts.
So let's say I launch the zombocom app, then click a link inside the app for "zombo updates" that goes to their twitter.

Then the next few times I switch to the app, I don't launch it from scratch, I just look at the twitter.

Then I've gone seven days inside the zombocom app without touching their actual domain.

Does everything except the twitter cookies get deleted?