skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine used to actively enjoy doing this. Most of the calls he got were of the "we hear you've had an accident" variety, and he would start with a generic story about something like a car accident. The story would slowly get more and more bizarre until he's eventually telling them a story like how he hit a lorry full of miniature circus animals, with loads of tiny tigers and giraffes bouncing off his windscreen. He'd see how deep he could get them into the story before they realise they'd been had.
We have ARM support. I wrote the original ARM code. I'm also, sadly, responsible for some of the not-too-ergonomic API code from the original release - it was always more intended to be a quickie research code at first so the API was a bit of an afterthought. Glad to see that it's been improved by other folks.
Last recession was vacation compared to this. This is a very very different scenario. This is like being in war, business cant happen even if you wanted to, even if there are customers.

I am not outraged, i just pointed to the consequences of what you are enjoying so much.
Worth thinking about the number of companies globally that make a living writing software in the following categories of development tools

a. Debuggers

b. IDEs

c. Querying Tools

d. Text editors

e. Source control tools

f. Build systems

The market for development tools does not look particularly vibrant based on the above.
I would, and I'm actually considering, to offer them $2000 just to compile me Omnifocus 1 (latest of v1 branch) as 64bit app, as it's currently 32bit and can't work due to CatalinaCurse.

Omnifocus 2 was a joke in any category, while I have mixed fealing about 3 (speed, ergonomics, features).

Anyone want to chip in? :)
What’s wrong with it being transparent?

Sounds to me like you object to false signalling, rather than signalling in general. Just think of all the positive forms of signalling like giving someone a gift to indicate that you’re thinking about them. Is that repellant?
Meaning what? That doesn't bring any light to the question of whether these things are capable of suffering. As someone else said, this is a hard problem to reason about.
If something cannot be assessed, then are we still accountable for the result? Or, do we simply discard the assessment?
Virtual Rejekts 2020
The average wage for software developers in the US is roughly double Belgium. I don't know if you could convince anyone to give up 50% of their pay for I'm guessing 5% or less extra money in severance pay.

I wouldn't. Not even for 10% less.
Also this -> https://keithclark.co.uk/labs/css-fps/ - 3D using CSS :)
2015 (my words):

>Obviously the aforementioned experiment would be completely unethical, but it's interesting to ponder it as a hypothetical - that today we may have the capability to bootstrap a superintelligent machine using biology as a computational shortcut. But we can't, because ethics. [0]

2020 (article):

>Chong said the pair were interested in the idea of artificial general intelligence (AGI for short)—A.I. that has the flexibility to perform almost any kind of task as well or better than humans. “Everyone is racing to build AGI, but the only true AGI we know of is biological intelligence, human intelligence,” Chong said. He noted the pair figured the only way to get human-level intelligence was to use human neurons.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9973122
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I guess if the stem-cells are taken from you as a donor then they would be genetically identical to you as much as twins are genetically identical individuals?
How could this theory be applied to fund dev tools, I wonder?
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Remembers me an effect I wrote (in text mode) for neercs, a GNU screen clone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQr42LjaNCY
Took a meeting with a potential customer years ago. He was high on our technology and seemed certain to purchase. At our last lunch he told us their software company's CEO had a policy, they only used FOSS software. The irony of it hurt. Still does.
What was your motivation? The kudos of having a popular project, making money down the line or filling some space in your life? If it is one of the first two I would say move on. If it's none of the above and you genuinely just want to help people I would also say move on as you have no users.

I'm an older guy who spends less time solving tough problems no one else cares about. Time is too short. I'm sure the skills you have learned will not be lost and put to good use elsewhere.
Isn't it obvious? It's the NSA - same reason they haven't fixed the SS7 flaws.

I'll bet anything that even this "authentication" requires some sort of man-in-the-middle attack for the NSA before implemented, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing this announcement.
Just because nobody knows you gave $50 to wikipedia, doesn't mean the reason you gave $50 isn't because you were asked to, and you've evolved to act as if it were a public face-to-face transaction, your post-hoc rationalisation of it notwithstanding.
Oh wow it's April first
Original submit, no paywall 170+ points

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715541
Not sure what happened there, but https://www.ffii.org/ brings you to a hetzner konsole.
Interesting, but I wonder if Swift and Swift UI isn't cheating, since I'd assume most of their runtime is already present on iOS and macOS for them to link against. This is also often true of all these "native" solutions. It's more that the toolkit and the runtime is bundled into the OS they target, where as Electron or Java apps bundle absolutely all their dependencies including their own runtime. Though with Java, I think you could assume the user would install those separately, and you could just to use the existing ones.
H.264 has a spec for 'scalable video coding' [1] where one stream can contain multiple quality levels, allowing a video's quality to be reduced by just selectively dropping packets.

(No idea how widespread encoder/decoder support is compared to vanilla h264 though)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Video_Coding
Fostering R-mode and capturing insight
Or the lament configuration.
The situation around weather apps really confuses me: my understanding is that most weather predictions come from massive networks of weather stations and very complicated and expensive simulation, both of which are publicly funded. This information must be available via some public API.

Making an app is "just" providing an interface to this. I don't mean that front end design is easy (as demonstrated by a lot of badly designed weather apps), but it does mean that most apps should give you exactly the same information.

With this in mind I just looked for a publicly funded app (so no adds, free) and ended up with Yr. Am I missing something here?
I don't see this idea working, but normally alcohol also has sugars in it. Even distilled alcohol has sugars. Inhaling sugar sounds like a great way to cause other problem. If this were to have any success the alcohol would have to be extremely pure.

also alcohol would also dry out the airways I bet.

As to why its not been tried recreationally before. Lower proof alcohol beverages don't vaporize as easily. So other methods would probably work better. Although there is stuff like everclear.
Presenteeism and the ability to watch people doing pretend work plays a huge part in bullshit jobs. Arguably, it’s the main reason those jobs exist at all.

Where’s the point in employing someone to act as if they were doing anything useful if you can’t watch them while doing so?

There might be a remote work variation of this but in general bullshit jobs shouldn’t fare as well in that kind of setting.
I'm torn between a keep calm and carry on attitude towards April first this year, or a more somber one. The title certainly did get a reaction from me.
I don't know. Since the entire country is in lockdown the infrastructure arm of the Dutch government has been fast-tracking all kinds of infrastructure maintenance and upgrades that would usually disrupt traffic.
I remember laying people off during the GFC, and they all had a good laugh. Nobody was surprised. Nobody broke down, even though a couple of them had a pregnant wife to look after.

What's the secret? Communications. Don't say everything is fine if it isn't. Don't pretend that the potential saviour plans are more likely than they actually are.

Earlier in my career, I'd been through layoffs too. Management would say "this is the last round" several times. You could see teams vanishing from one day to the next. On a trading floor it's pretty obvious. But also in a major tech firm I'd worked at, it was the same, "this is the last time".

Fact is you don't know if it really is the last time, so don't say so. You can lay out the plan - staffers appreciate whatever detail management can give - and you can say why you think you're about to turn the corner. But don't act like it's a given.
That's right!

Unfortunately (for the EU) they just got our country back, and they're not looking to give it up anytime soon. I hope that they can get as much money as possible and then leave this nightmare once they're in good shape.

Not bad, uh? I wish Italy had the same courage. Unfortunately even in the middle of a crisis like this one our spineless PM goes to the EU begging Germany for peanuts.
The Shocking Truth About Government Debt
If only.

Let me guess, April 1st?

[edit]: Francesca Minarogance, spokeswoman of Bully Diagnostics LLC

lol.
Wait, caller-id was not authenticated all the time?
Hundreds of projects innovating about Covid-19
Please be careful when citing Wikipedia, it's notoriously shoddily written and is at best usable for finding primary sources.
Wikipedia rated that article as "Start Class", which means it's far from complete or informative.
Well the idea would of course be to use the budget to invest into suitable European startups. To create a market, where startups could operate and innovate.
if it was not submitted on the 15th I would probably think this was an April fools joke.
This attitude blows my mind. There have been comments on HN, and for that matter by people I actually know, that covid isn't a problem because only a few people have it (heard that less than 2 weeks ago, just 1 day before UK lockdown started).It's as if they cannot see the future and they literally have to crash into something before they acknowledge it exists. That kind of blindness will kill a lot of people. I just don't understand it.
It's not just about the resolution, but also the bitrate and fps. Perceived video quality is a big deal to companies like Zoom. I don't blame them for not using E2E, it's a tough technical issue, but I do blame them for lying about it.
Easier still with wget perhaps? https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Very-Adva...
Not sure this fake should be publicised, as it's good enough that some people could easily be fooled by it (like a certain 5-letter president).
Fooled!
Please read my fourth sentence again. Messages cant give them a competitive advantage on their platform if it's on competing platforms.
Defining the Habitable Zone
Safe removal is only possible if you know it is already in filter. The 'you can delete from cuckoo filters' bit I feel is often oversold.
You can vape alcohol. Not familiar with it but I know it's a thing. You'd usually heat it up to get a buzz, but alcohol has a high vapor pressure so im sure if you vape it long enough unheated you'd get some sort of effect
By now, I have already heard of corona and don't need another "How to wash your hands" post. THX!
Mercedes F1 help develop coronavirus breathing device for health service use
One of the issues suggests holding down your device's power button.
Really good people. :-(

Been a customer since their web browser for NeXt. Dang.
Is performance an issue? If not, occam says go with the simplest which is bloom. If performance matters and you are prepared to burn a bit more mem for speed, blocked bloom filters, which are likely optimal for speed and still simple.
1/3 of the human brains in the world already exist with no rights. If we can enslave rats instead it will be a big step up.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22743840.
MySQL appears to still be mulling it over. https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12654
They saw what happened in other EU countries where guilt-ridden citizens don't have any respect for their own county anymore, and were not looking to repeat their mistakes.

The vast majority of immigrants are economic migrants that have no right to ask for political asylum, and were let in by left-wing government who—contrary to popular belief—are now hand-in-hand with big companies rather than looking out for workers, and kept letting them in just to keep salaries low and make their masters happy.

Back when I was a kid in Italy I used to pick grapes for something like 15/h, now there are Africans that do it for 4/h and are literally treated like slaves. Very sad.
I've also written and tried to optimize a hand-rolled JSON parser for exchange messages, just to see how fast pure JS could go. I tried many different things, but I only ever got near to the native implementation once I started assuming certain offsets in the buffer or optimistically parsing whole keys which were highly unsafe. My verdict was that you will never really get close to native, let alone close to hand-optimized C/C++.
I have seen this myself - every software startup feels that everything they build upon must be a commodity and the only value add should happen at their layer.
Suspected SARS virus and flu samples found in Chinese biologist's luggage: FBI
Why would making revenue be preferable in this case? If I have to buy gas for $1 a gallon from my supplier and can only sell it for $0.90, why not close up shop for awhile, then I don't have to deal with maintenance, don't have to pay the cashier, etc.

Sure if you have fixed costs like debt you have to pay you may make a loss on your business as a whole, but selling at negative gross margins only makes sense if you're somehow being strategic about it.
You can use a counting Bloom Filter that allows deleting. Depending on your update requirements you might also be ok with two bloom filters, one for that has the group memberships and one that has group removals.
Any source on this? I'd be surprised if sugar would be in the distillate. It might lower the vapor pressure of alcohol itself but it shouldnt vaporize and recondensate
I had this exact thing happen to me yesterday.
I copied a function header from GitHub and searched in GitHub search for it to find the declaration. No results. Clonsed the repo, and clicked "Go to declaration" in my IDE bum "you have reached your destination".
Wtf?
The issues with the DMOZ approach were basically speed and corruption:

1. It was slow to add categories/sites, which especially hurt categories where things change pretty quickly (gaming, tech and media are good examples, since new systems and frameworks need to have categories added ASAP).

2. Editors were often drawn into corruption, and either judged submissions based on how much they were paid elsewhere or prioritised their own/friends/family's websites.

Both of these issues could potentially be fixed with some more resources and better oversight, but it may mean any future DMOZ equivalent would need a lot more funding than the previous one.
There is a great episode of 99 percent invisible about this.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/
I live in Belgium. I receive such a call on average twice a (week) day. Sometimes it's just blank call (nobody answers) sometimes they're offering gifts if I go to shop X, they ask if I want to compare my phone/energy bill.

The funniest one is when my fixed line provider (let's call it P) calls me on my mobile phone (which is another provider) and ask me if I'm one oh their (P) customer :-)
(the explanation is that the mobile/fixed businesses are separated to avoid monopoly and, since they can't share customer data ('cos of data protection rules), they have to ask them again :-))
Dear Honda,
my next car is now much more likely to be a Honda. I am literally at less risk of dying with controls I don't need to look at.
Thank you.
We should refrain from judging things as absolute “good” or “bad”
"Fool me twice, shame on me"

If you live in the EU or California and didn't send Marriott a GDPR/CCPA deletion request after the first breach please do it now: https://yourdigitalrights.org/?company=marriott.com
Not impossible, but it's a big part of how the site makes money.
Ask HN: What will be a solution for Corona?
Hello,

I'm afraid there won't be a real solution for Covid-19 (Corona) we will and need to live with many dead people.

Solutions, which aren't solutions:

* Quarantine until good medication, treatment is found (nothing on the horizon)

* Quarantine until a vaccine is found (minimum 2 years, probably more)

* Quarantine, lockdown, open up, quarantine, lockdown etc. etc. until 60 to 70 percent of the population is infected. Which would take, you guess what? Take around 2 to 3 years... Also, the population won't take it... soon or later they will just ignore it.

Conclusion: We need to live with 5 to 10 percent dead people around the globe and there is no way around it. (not in developed world probably, but refugee camps, India etc will have around 20 percent dead people...)

Or I´m just a pessimist?
> If Google becomes useless people will organically move to something else,

This is not what happens easily. In a near monopoly, the monopoly product can be significantly worse than other options, or what is reasonably possible, but people will continue using it for a long time because of various economic, network, psychological lock-in effects.
Are you debouncing on tactile or is the hardware doing it for you?
> 720p would be too much IMHO.

I may be spoiled with a good real 50/10 Mbit connection but for me in 2020 720p is the bare minimum. Expecially when screen sharing.
Embox v0.4.1 Released
And road crews generally don't need to be super close to work effectively. Brilliant.
What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml?
Centivax is working on generating antibodies blocking the corona virus
Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script
New randomised study shows hydroxychloroquine works when administered early
The original motivation was to prove mostly to myself that something was possible. It is not a tough problem but very time consuming. It turns out that I enjoy doing it and I like the result but I am wondering if I am wasting my time.

I remember reading on HN someone who had spend 6 years of his life writing a programing language as a personal project. No one will ever use this language. Would you call is a waste of time or an amazing journey ? It all depends on the motivation for sure, but motivation is not always 100% up and feedback and the possibility to talk to someone is important and this is what I miss really.
Ask HN: Software for musicians to play music live together with little latency?
> Amazon make huge profits

Not taxable profits ;)
> A. Attach/detach the thread around every set of JNI operations. This stops scaling really quick & gets super-complicated for writing error-free composable code (literally manifests as the problem you're concerned about with code flow changes resulting in silent bugs).

Sounds like a monad would be a perfect fit, assuming your native language is capable of that. That's how I work with e.g. JPA sessions, which are intended to be bound to single threads.

> At the end of the day you're actually also lying to yourself and trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. JNI is defined to use global state implicitly throughout its API - there's defined to be 1 global JavaVM single instance.

Of course if you're using an API that's defined in terms of globals/singletons then you'll be forced to make at least some use of globals/singletons, but I wouldn't say that's a case of singletons being "useful" as such. And if you're making extensive use of such a library, then I'd look to encapsulate it behind an interface that offers access to it in a more controlled way (using something along the lines of https://github.com/tpolecat/tiny-world).
Coronavirus: The Zebra Swan
Human neural networks definitely are capable of suffering. These researchers might be re-inventing slavery.
Virtual Reality porn permanently damages the brain of viewers
Eclipse Releases IDE to Replace Visual Studio
Sick leave backed up by social security works well in most social democracies I'm aware of.
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Actually, what you've been doing is already beyond bannable, and we've had to warn you more than once in the past. Please stop this and don't do anything like it on HN again.

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> 3. The onboarding for new users (basically just share a link) is dead simple. Zoom realized that the install process was a significant barrier and did more than anyone else to lower that barrier (of course, with lots of security/privacy issues to boot, but your average Joe isn't aware of those).

I really don't get why Jitsi hasn't taken over the world yet, given that it's even simpler: just share the link, and the receiver doesn't even have to install anything.

(Also, doesn't the gallery view exist in every major videoconf platform? I've seen it in at least Jitsi, Whereby and Gotomeeting... And Zoom's browser mode (which is less accessible than Jitsi's) doesn't even support it.)
so it's "physically" impossible, even with only audio?
We're not talking about a monopoly on selling particular phones as physical products. We're talking about apps, which often, but not always are much more 'burger-like'.

I think the best analogy would be video games on console platforms, does Sony have a 'monopoly' on PlayStation games? Well, kind of if you squint really hard, not that it seems to stand in the way of a vibrant and competitive console industry and that's the key issue. If there's a competitive market that is serving customer needs, and no deceptive practices so customers have a clear choice then it's hard to argue there's a market dysfunction such as a monopoly.
When working from home gets lonely: an office ambience noise generator
Why It’s So Freaking Hard to Make a Good Covid-19 Model
time_t is also used in code for relative time and that has to be signed.
Worse. My posts/links are ignored or downvoted with no reason given.
To clarify, this zoomAutenticationTool† is part of the preflight "script" that gets run inside the Zoom installer. It is a signed binary that happily runs anything, including unsigned scripts. This generic-looking tool can be used to bypass code signing requirements. (It does prompt the user for administrator privileges.)

†: I didn't misspell the name of the executable. It's missing an h.
There are many quick one-off scripts that have no specifically best tool to implement them in, this totally seems like one of them.

I would reach for python if I needed some advanced text analysis - like nltk, spacy level - but otherwise I would reach for whatever language I was trying to improve my skills in or whatever language I was using the most in other projects so as to not have to context switch so much.