skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whetever it works or not, I find the introduction confusing.

Compare and contrast it with the clarity of these introductions:

- https://git-lfs.github.com/ (Git Large File Storage)

- http://paulfitz.github.io/daff/ ("data diff for tables")
Agree.

Also surely one of the limitations here is technical / usability. One of the big features of Zoom is transcoding streams from all manner of devices and sending them to all manner of devices. Doing this on the fly is still computationally demanding and not feasible for consumer devices (or the E's in the true E2E model).
I'd argue that the entire concept of "pristine wilderness" derives, maybe not so much exactly from the loosely seen specter of colonialism, as from the constructed distinction between "man" and "nature". As the article touches on but fails to explore, the idea of a place where human feet have never trod only seems special from a perspective wherein human habitation is necessarily in some way unnatural. It fails to recognize the possibility of a way of human living that seeks to cohabit with what we think of as "nature", rather than to extirpate and replace it with sterile, static dioramas pretending to represent what was there before.

Which, of course, brings us back around to colonialism, because that's also what colonization does. I'm not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg; the false man/nature distinction could be as much or more a rationalization as a premise, and I don't know the relevant historiography as well as I'd like.
Ask HN: Which free email provider for custom domains?
I have several personal domains that I have self hosted until recently at SoYouStart. With the ongoing pandemic, it becomes hard for me to access my funds through the payment card so I have to cancel the server. I've been researching the free email hosting options last few days and it seems like Yandex offers the most for custom domains but wanted to ask if anyone uses anything that can be recommended. I don't need more than 5 emails addresses per domain (plus few aliases).
I was looking also at Zoho Mail, but they allow only web mail access with the free tier plan.
The devil is all in how one defines "properly". I've seen a bit of what passes for bureaucratically defined security policy and I'm not impressed. It is largely an exercise in checking boxes for liability reasons and nothing more.
> In fact, Zoom is using its own definition of [end-to-end encryption], one that lets Zoom itself access unencrypted video and audio from meetings.

It's not a standard. If you want compliance to a standard then create/adopt/require one. When you go by marketing materials all you have is "Trust us, everything will be fine"
Correction, you are looking for participants for a vague DevOps survey
The Thai king with an entourage, has moved to some German town and rented out a whole hotel. And the claim is members of the entourage that tested positive were sent back to Thailand.
What people used to do, and probably should do again in this case, is quarantine all travelers. Not this voluntary but mostly unenforced self-isolation, but actual 3 weeks locked up in full quarantine until it's clear whether or not they carry the virus. That's the only way to be sure they're not bringing the virus to a new community.
Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
This is a nice distraction. Thanks for posting!
Key ingredient in coronavirus tests comes from Yellowstone’s lakes
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Thinking about the same and doing a deep dive in real estate actually (not thinking of investing through funds but rather doing buy-to-let). Any solid resources / strategies recommended for a complete beginner?
Also, Zoom's entire engineering team is based in China [1]. China and Chinese companies have no real culture of user centric privacy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707528

Edit: Why downvote me? I am not trying to stir up flame wars. Saying anything against China has become impossible to do on HN. Voices get drowned despite of raising real legitimate concerns about privacy, especially for a tool used by millions all of a sudden during this pandemic. People should be speaking up on HN. I know, I am not supposed to complain about downvotes on HN, I've read the guidelines.

Edit2: Not able to find the source for Tianjin datacenter, I will reply if I can find it. Please take it with a grain of salt.

Edit3: Holyshit, so much attention on my comment. Redacting unsubstantiated claims and adding more sources that can be traced on the wikipedia section of Zoom privacy criticisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Crit...
> Going to base 10 is a step backwards because 10 has so few factors. The meter would have been massively easier to use had it been base 12 or 60.

Only when you also use that same base for everything else too. The decimal system works so well because it uses the same base as the number system we use (almost) everywhere.

And actually I don't really think the lack of divisors is really a problem in base 10. It may be different if you're used to imperial units, but when using the decimal system you don't think in fractions all that much. You either use more places after the decimal point, or move to a smaller unit.
Maybe donate to charity to help people who have lost a lot more than their investment returns...
Having had the beer game at MIT, I'd say it's the only action learning experience that is worth something. Fun.
> While Google and Microsoft both offer a product that "just works" with only a browser.

But those products don't always "just work", at least not in my recent experience. I have had repeated problems with Google meetings while working with an external entity, and most of my employer is a Microsoft shop, so I've had deal with issues with both Teams and Skype, both via browser and OS X app.
>do you honestly believe that without that rating system offered to the Institutional Investment crowd I mentioned earlier they'd be at even a fraction of their valuation/purchase price?

Standard license is $299/ mo, even with only 3000 paying customers, and there are likely way more than 3000 paying customers, that would be $10M a year in revenue

CMC is a good asset and a valuation/purchase price of $400M is a fair price for the API product only, let alone the ranking /rating aspect
I think no news is good news in this case. And a positive for Wire is that since it's all open source, you can go right to their github and see how active their development is.

It would be nice if The Intercept and other journalists would include these actually E2E-encrypted alternatives besides the Mac/iOS-only FaceTime.
If we learned one thing with this Pandemic, it’s that basically whatever is at the edge of your mind needs to happen right away. If you think we need to close state borders, then we probably needed to have done it 2 weeks ago, let alone right now. If you think $1200 is not enough, we probably need a bill on the floor right away for another month of stimulus.

Whatever even pops into our head is already 2 weeks behind.
> It's open source after all, the control is in the hands of the user.

That's true of proprietary software to roughly the same extent: if I don't like how things are I am free to make my own or just not use it.
Reading Goldratt (recommended in other threads here) is a lot more fun than Simchi's book, though.
It would be extraordinarily difficult for me to sell consulting services, and guarantee 100% on time delivery with zero defects.

Which is why, when I was consulting, I did not promise these things, nor did I say things that could be easily misunderstood to imply them.
Maybe. But honestly AMD server HW is <50% more expensive than their non-server hardware. Also their consumer chips do offer ECC support, and you don't need anything else really for those applications.
He Raised $300M to Grow His Cannabis Business to over 1k Employees
This is like saying there's nothing dangerous about guns, because it takes a human to make them dangerous.

C is not unsafe if you only write safe code. But humans are fallible, and "just don't write unsafe code" is not a solution.
It just amazes me that the "just works" solution here is still a native app. Plenty of reasons to use native apps but in 2020 video conferencing really isn't one: WebRTC is capable and supported by every major desktop and mobile browser. It's literally one click and you're done!
Economic losses can't be equated to human life, and it's a fool's errand to do so. We flatten to reduce demand on health care. We do so because it's the compassionate thing to do, because human life matters more than GDP figures. Quarantining won't kill people. There will be economic consequences, but quarantine won't leave you with permanent lung damage, either.

Look at how our country's national security policies were forever changed after 3,000 deaths on September 11th. This disease has the ability to take away two magnitudes more people -- hundreds of thousands. We shouldn't be surprised if profound policy changes emerge as a response to pandemic.
I don't believe substituting tau for 2-pi requires redefining either pi or radians. Rather it simply changes what you say you are multiplying by: instead of a circle being 2-pi radians, it's tau-radians. These are both saying the same thing, without changing pi or radians.
Why Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Far Lower Than in Other Countries
"Real hardware" is also an abstract machine. Until you get to the level of each individual transistor, it's hardware abstractions all the way down. Caches, reorder buffers, load and store buffers, instruction decoding are all abstract concepts sitting at a much higher level than the individual transistor.

Those abstractions are there mostly for the purpose of speeding up code execution, but also for enabling hardware designers to think about the machine in terms of real-world concepts and not just as an incomprehensible mind-blowing collection of a few billion transistors.
Driving to a 2nd home in a more sparsely populated area might endanger people if some people leaving cities are carrying Covid 19. If those more sparsely populated areas have relatively easily overwhelmed healthcare systems, then they're especially dangerous places to have or spread the virus. Covid 19 is likely to be more common in big cities, which tend to have the best resourced healthcare.

Driving to a 2nd home in a more densely populated area might be less dangerous, but could still spread the virus.
Super cool. If someone wraps this with Clojure for the backend, ClojureScript for the front-end, and hides jpackage and NPM (or whatever ClojureScript uses) details, this would be a great Electron alternative.
You're not misremembering -- Linux has releases every 6-7 weeks. WireGuard was merged into 5.6-rc1 a little over a month ago and the story was posted to HN from memory.
Basinski is famous for his Disintegration Loops. The cover art for them features a photo of smoke coming from Lower Manhattan the night of 9/11.

Basinski was a struggling avant-garde musician who had been working on the Disintegration Loops and similar projects for some period of time before 9/11. None of the projects were taking off.

Basinski alleges to have performed Disintegration Loops (likely untitled at that point) for the first time on his Brooklyn rooftop with some friends the day of 9/11. The idea is that they played this somber tape music an wallowed in their collective grief.

The problem with this is that he took his amateur music (he was by no means a celebrated musician at this point) and covered it with the trauma of a national tragedy just to make it seem profound and stirring.

This isn't to say that Disintegration Loops isn't a decent tape project. But it is by no means innovative or even exemplary for the time, except for the extraordinary and painful circumstances surrounding its release. Basinski failed here for trying to take credit for the character of these circumstances as his own.

This is not my original line of thought. All credit here goes to Chris Ott [0], that evergreen of music criticism.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGE7q0oDlEI
I'm not so sure most of those locals benefit from that 'London money'. But they do get the added inconvenience and risk brought by entitled rich people.
How Big Is the VR Market Today?
Medtronics killed the low cost ventilator
Lot of concepts here.

1) 0% may feel like a threshold, but it's not that quantitatively different from the sub 2% interest rate environment we've been living in for many years from a wealth generation standpoint.

2) Should you stop saving? If you mean should you be generating more cash that you spend, the answer is that's probably a good idea unless you have a pressing cash need now. If by saving you mean putting your money in a Savings Account, then yeah there are probably better uses of your capital since most pay effectively 0% interest.

3) So where should you put it? This depends a lot on your tolerance for risk, and your forecast for how quickly you might need the cash. If you need it soon and/or have a low appetite for risk, then go for safer, less volatile assets like treasuries or CDs. If you have a bit of time and risk tolerance, stocks have pulled back considerably so buying in at depressed prices and waiting for the recovery might be a good idea. Real estate is probably similar depending on where you live. If you really want to swing for the fences, go ahead and start a business, although ultimately there are a million factors that will determine your success before the interest rate environment will.

4) Should you take out debt to buy even more assets than you could with my own cash? Maybe, this all depends on your risk tolerance. If your investment decisions are good, you will reap even more returns. But if they are are bad, you will have to pay back the debt after incurring losses. So it just pushes your outcomes towards the extremes. You probably should not do this solely because interest rates are low.

A final note-- your approach to wealth generation shouldn't change based on interest rates. I think your upbringing is mostly correct, if you work diligently and spend less than you make, you will be on a road to building wealth.

The question is what to invest your free cash flow in, and the answer is almost always: all of these options. Diversifying is the best way to minimize unsystemic investment risk.

The question is then: how do you allocate your capital between risky and safe assets? That depends on the interest rates, your near to medium term cash requirements, your risk tolerance, and your age. That said, a rule of thumb is to do (100 - age)% in riskier investments, and your age% in safer investments.
WG 14 doesn't seem that interested in improving C's security story.

Right now I see more efforts coming out Microsoft and static analysis tool vendors than any WG 14 mailing.
Unfortunately, the article doesn't discuss why the death rate is far lower.
Popular software engineering metrics, and how they get gamed
It literally will, you don't think GANs and natural language processing will improve in 30 years to the point of autogenerating stories?
Why? How is it related to Jira?
A neat trick is to use your friend's/spouse's phone as an off camera light. doesn't have the same impact of a speedlight for things like freezing motion, but is very effective at getting a 3d light source on a face or whatever.
CS106A – Code in Place: Free coding education in the time of Covid-19
Implementation defined behaviour is not the same as undefined behavior.
The ones that use victims use them by making others worship those victims. I'm not saying this is good or bad, it's just an easily observable fact.
for a science fiction take: the economy is in negative inflation in Frederik Pohl’s _The Other End of Time_. There is a scene where some astronauts are on their way home from a day of preparation, and as part of their routine convert their paychecks into cash and browse various sidewalk tables full of collectibles and antiques on the way home, converting their cash into miscellaneous items that would cling to or appreciate in value.

this book was pre-web, and the scene a very minor scene of one relevance to the larger plot, but I still think about it a lot
I don't think anyone suggests using C as an alternative for microarchitecture classes. C still remains one of the best ways to access hardware relative to other software languages. No language is "how computers work" unless you're writing Verilog, but C is the closest to the metal relative to other software paradigms while still being more convenient than assembly.
Remember what they did with Facebook?

It’s how the outrage made operates
> Correct me if I'm wrong

Can you start with any evidence?

Correct me if I'm wrong: Gates projects are less productive than NIH, counterproductivey harming education policy, and focused on different, cheaper problems like non-US basic health and malaria.
> I think, most people have potential to be able to code. By "can" I mean if they applied themselves to learning.

My time spent teaching makes me think otherwise. I saw so many smart, motivated young people who simply could not get their homework done. This was especially discouraging since my alma matter has a very strong focus on pedagogical programming.

There's something about programming that "clicks" for some people. They can look a the little pieces and immediately understand how to put them together. If you don't have that spark it's going to be an extremely challenging journey.
Not really, assembly language is extremely close to microcode, much much closer than it is to C. C has a whole bunch of baggage like pointer provenance, inability to read uninitialized memory, doesn't understand cache aliasing, etc that don't fit hardware well.
"Encryption we can't backdoor isn't acceptable"
M............................................C

M..............................................Java

Look. C is much closer to how the machine (M) works.
> Don’t Google and Microsoft answers both require accounts, and carry with them the expectation that everything you do on their platforms is recorded for the purpose of selling ads?

For Google, the answers are "sorta but not really", and "no":

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303164: "Note: Guests on the web don't need a Google account to participate in a meeting." The initiator of a meeting needs a G Suite account, but others can join without one.

https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...: "Google does not collect, scan or use data in G Suite Core Services for advertising purposes."

(Speaking for myself, not Google.)
I guess we never learn from history. I suggest looking into temiflu fiasco.

I even got it prescribed recently when I got diagnosed with influenza. Basically, the US and European governments have spent massive amounts of money on this drug to help with the flu. People soon learned that temiflu is very close to placebo in efficacy.
>my understanding is if you deduce something true from an assumption it means nothing.

That's not the case, even without axioms if you start at A and deduce B then this proves that "A => B". And usually you start with some axioms (i.e. statements that are true by definition; in the context of the article these are the types that have an implementation). Anything that follows from those is also true. At the end of the article the author stumbles upon the fact that you can add implementations / axioms for anything you want (however there's no guarantee that your theory will remain consistent).

>you need to deduce something false and thus the negation of your assumption is true.

Ironically it's precisely the reasoning "<contradiction> follows from B therefore not B" that's currently being questioned by mathematicians. Although in most context it is still a valid line of reasoning.

And what's entirely missing from the article is the distinction between true and provable. These aren't quite the same. Sure Goedel did prove that all statements that hold for every possible model (~implementation) of a theory are provable, but he also showed that no theory of arithmetic can have a unique model.
Just to update, upon a little closer inspection:

What it looks like is that updates are posted once a day to the news article, and later on the NYT pushes the previous day's data to the repo.

So, afaict, there's a >1-2d delay for NYT's latest data being pushed to the repo.
Many countries did this already, for example here in Czech Republic you need to stay in quarantine for two weaks if you travelled to affected area (which at this point is pretty much after any travel) or risk jail time.

It event went so for as banning cross border work with neighboring countries after a few cases of infection tracked to that.
Can you continue about your opposition to it existing?
Tax is independent of spending, thanks to fiat currency.
> I'd rather history see me as the one who went too far in pursuit of the public good

What people think after you're dead shouldn't outweigh the public good in this.

They have a responsibility not to recklessly take on existential risk; it's in the best interest of their cause that they continue to exist. This is doubly true in a time of crisis where people need stable institutions to rely on.
It comes packed as a k8s app in the Google Cloud Marketplace
I know, but for me accessibility tools are a must, if needed I will compile, use wine or write my own because i need them.
But from my experience (with KDE at least) you can customize every keyboard shortcut with a GUI and I could submit patches for issues I found and fixed. If you use a distribution like Debian or ubuntu then installing the required development libraries and rebuilding a package is simple enough in most cases.

I understand why compiling sucks though and this is why I am considering to use Python for a program I want to make and open source despite the fact I dislike it's syntax.
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Even binary code isn't "how the computer works" these days.
>beneficial to society

Isn't the point that being a 'loner' is beneficial to the individual (slimemold), regardless of society?
I agree with you, having a poorly documented qt binding which may break on any update is not the ideal way for a modern language to have GUI functionality. Java is good in the sense that it has JavaFX, a modern and rather full featured GUI framework available for it.

Rust, Go, etc is very far from being recommended for production desktop apps with GUIs.
It shouldn't need explaining to anyone who's been paying attention at all for the last two months, but: You can spend up to two weeks infected and contagious before you start showing symptoms. So when you drive a long way, from a place with lots of cases to a place with few or none, and then do stuff like go to stores to get groceries or whatever the hell rich people do to open up a vacation house that's been uninhabited for a while, you're quite likely to be spreading the disease without realizing it. That's a favor to the virus, but not so much to the townies of whatever picturesque vacation destination you're gracing with your property taxes - and where hospital support is weaker in any case than wherever you conceive of yourself as fleeing from, because picturesque vacation destinations don't need much or any ICU resource most of the time.
An Echidna for All Seasons
What is a BAA?
Or listen to the Beatles https://genius.com/836309
If you look at the URL you'll see "commentisfree".
I have run into a few of these, I do have to admit, but I don't find any of these to be show-stoppers, necessarily .. like you I like the ES-series, in spite of the flaws. It's comfortable, once you move in.

One last question, platform.io? Pretty good ecosystem in general - and with the wide variety of assets to select from, a lot of your points become less painful ..
State isn't really best level of granularity. States do provide clear lines of demarcation, which allows for good enforcement, but closing, say, CA as a whole doesn't do much.

You'd really want to go as granular as possible, which is what these stay-at-home orders are about.