skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so excited to try this out, thank you so much for building it!

Halfway through the video, we were just about done and then you did it on a phone! Great work and great demo!
crypto is like cruise lines to me. I know it is there but I never used it to buy something.
Half way down the page and there are zero arguments in favour - deeply disingenuous article.

Much of what this "discussion" focuses on casts every innovation (of which there are many) into the Bitcoin Proof of Work pidgeon hole.

Bitcoin is a primitive protocol - nothing more than a technical proof that can now be used as a gold store.

There are some serious upcoming corporate monsters building their foundations right now.
Cardano, Chainlink, ETH(Maybe), Augur.

All of those are real companies not anarchist dreams.
Serious scientific minds like Philip Wadler, who has contributed majorly to Haskell and Java, this is not some libertarian dream.

This is IoT and the eventual interface with AGI.

But yeah, focus on the silk road for gods sake.
> It works really well.

Does it?

Asking because I just left a zoom meeting with horrible sound quality and extremely bad video quality. Why would anyone prefer that to Teams is beyond me.

Edit: interesting this is _heavily_ downvoted. Can't a person have a bad experience and tell HN about it?
You can get good printers used too. My last printer served me for about 10 years. I don't print a lot, so I only did a couple thousand prints during that time. Not enough enough to finish off the cartridge that was in it when I bought the printer. I paid $50.
I wonder how much of an uptick Adacore has seen with people using Ada and especially Spark in projects lately. Ada has a different niche than Haskell and Rust, but they're obsessed with software quality and provability. I've only played with Ada, but really liked the code that came out of it. If only they could make strings less painful to deal with.
If you think this is cool, wait'll you see what un-upgraded UNIX-derived systems do on Jan 19, 2038 at 03:14:07Z.
Yes, I think this is an important skill that engineers learn. Restarting work on a very broken code base can be a mess of remembering all the context of which parts work and what you needed to still do.

I've found that breaking tasks into smaller chunks and trying to complete the code one chunk at a time works better. Estimating how long a chunk will take and checking against the time before the next interruption is the next step.
Try reasoning about a code base that is 5million+ LOC, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of functions and has 300+ people working on it. THis

>If you have a good understanding of the code you're writing, you won't put yourself into a position where globals cause problems

Becomes basically impossible.
>unimaginable energy waste of mining cryptocurrencies
Not all cryptocurrencies require a massive amount of energy.

>Cryptocurrencies have existed for eleven years, they should have something to show for right now

I'm using a cryptocurrency for feeless, instant microtransactions in a browser based game. It happens to be a near ideal solution. That, said I won't force it upon anyone. It is a purely voluntary proposition.

>Ponzi

This is somewhat true. When there is no actual use case, there is no actual value. But again, the author generalizes. Not everyone is in it to promote some coin. Some of us are just looking for a technical solution.

Let's take a second to remember what happened with e-gold and liberty reserve. There's a reason why cryptocurrencies are necessary. They aren't backed by anything because they are decentralized. They can't be backed by the obvious (precious metals) because that is highly regulated.

>Those regular currencies provide tremendous value to our societies.

This is as far as I have time to go right now. If you think there's no issue with traditionally issued paper and digital money, then there's very little to say here. The US is about to issue $2 trillion in monetized debt.

From Roman coin clipping to the Wiemar republic's hyperinflation, if you can't see what is happening and actually believe that this process is 'adding value' to society...

If hamburgers were once 5 cents each, how has value been added?
Great article! Incredible how fast did you manage to implement fully working application.
I don't know, how much energy is spent producing reality TV shows?

A fraction of a percent of what gets used on cryptocurrencies.
Consider the case where software remains proprietary. Those more intangible benefits will never come about. The software will be developed under a product manager with feedback only from existing customers. It will be developmentally trapped in a bubble on many levels.

On the other hand, paying developers is easier with proprietary software. Also profit. If software is your product keep it closed. If software is part of your infrastructure consider opening it, or using something that already is open.
Zoom Phone has been a game changer.

1 of the 2 big cell phone networks we have: Rogers, is regularly failing to connect calls during peak hours for the past week. Being able to do digital calls has changed a lot, and probably took a load off their network.

(I say 2 big networks because Bell and Telus share tower infrastructure, Dunno where it separates out again, possibly just billing.)
How about Higgins time...

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-August/026774.html

I'd link to JWZ's blog where I read about this, but he blocks HN referrals.
>Is this something that all US readers would know?

They should. "Urgent Care" "Immediate Care" etc are oftenin office parks next to lawyers/realtors/dentists. They are where you go when you do not have a primary care provider, or can't be seen by your primary care provider, and are sick. You take your kids to them for physicals for their school sport or when you have a bad cough and don't want to/can't wait a week for your doctor to squeeze you in.

You walk in, sit in a waiting room with 10-20 sick strangers and wait sometimes for hours to be seen, then meet one of umpteen doctors working that you've probably never seen before and will never see again that looks at you for maybe a minute and writes a prescription or tells you to go to your doctor.

They are 100% for acute, non-life threatening illnesses and injury.
And yet, proof of stake has led to no cryptocurrency that can claim anywhere near the activity of Bitcoin.
I, for one, enjoy watching all the speculator drama, much like watching a reality TV show. Plus, it lets me buy LSD online, which is something that I believe I should definitely be able to do but currently cannot.

Unjust laws change by disobeying them, and if you clamped down on that 100%, neither homosexuality nor cannabis would be legal now.
Thank you! We are not native English speakers and your feedback really helps!
It’s good because it solves problem for me. The problem it solves is absence of financial system that is impossible to censor or control and monetary system that is impossible to debase.
Ask HN: What netflix bitrate are you seeing?
In UK I'm seeing 4K streams down to 7.5mbit/sec, which is watchable. Non-4K streams are now streaming at either 0.98mbit/sec or now 0.37mbit/sec which looks absolutely terrible.

Using fast.com shows full gigabit connectivty to them and other sites are fine. The EU suggested a small bitrate drop, but this is down to less than 5% of a standard 1080p stream.

Wonder if they are having capacity problems?
I would cheerfully listen to recommendations.

And I should add that I'm trying out MS Teams as an alternative. After six days, and multiple e-mails back and forth with our IT department, I think I've almost got it set up properly.
Google Calendar has a World Clock functionality built-in.

When scheduling events, it will show times in the time zones that you have added under World Clock in settings.

The world clock will display on your left sidebar.

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37064
Yeah, if only WW1 never ended, we'd all have plenty of masks!
"You're supposed to use urgent care for minor things like an earache or prescription refill."

And the cold, flu, et all other non-critical conditions. The problem is, O Care or no care, many people still go to the ER for immediate care. That is why hospitals are in jeopardy of being overwhelmed in the US. That, the under-staffing of caregivers in said facilities and the leegions of drug seekers(addicts) that abuse the system daily. The core problems of For-Profit Healthcare in the US have never been addressed, nor will they be in any "Aid" packages, so long as the few "Groups" are making billions in "not-socialism" Guv paybacks & handouts. Crisis times are going to be hugely profitable for the administrations, regardless of the toll it takes on the practitioners.
Germany plans mass study to track immunity to coronavirus
That's why I was so surprised! I've heard of early PCs omitting floating-point, but it seems crazy for a platform designed specifically for games, for precisely this kind of reason.
Its also far too dependent on the ignorance of the primitive BTC proof of work protocol to move its simple minded argument forward.
Right, exactly. A runaway bacterium that ate medical equipment, electronic equipment, industrial equipment, vehicles, food packaging... that would be a Bad Thing. It would mean an end to much of the modern world.

I'm reminded of a reddit discussion on how awful it would be if a coronal mass ejection event destroyed all electronics on Earth. They were lamenting how tragic the loss of Netflix would be given the current lock-down, oblivious to that it would presumably result in society collapsing, with millions or billions dying in the ensuing famine.
You can use changing IDs and publish ID history (or ID generator seed) for confirmed cases.
We should be able to have an interesting discussion based upon just how wrong this article is.
It would be wasteful to have to replace almost all vehicles, appliances, computers, and so on.
> Neither was the result -- that's a Dot Matrix printer.

You’re mistaken.
Zoom tells me I have no audio devices and need to reboot every time I launch it. I ignore the message and it magically works fine. Great piece of software /s
If drugs are illegal, then that's the law. Fair or not, that's beside the point. If you don't like the law, feel free to lobby for changing it, but in case you're selling drugs illegally, then you should go to jail.

In general people breaking the law should incur the associated costs, especially when they are doing so knowingly.
I think you hearing a lot about it because (a) everyone is quarantined and wanting to use the tools they use at work to help setup book club meetings, table-top RPG sessions (did this last night and it actually worked great), etc. (b) it's perhaps easier to use than some others, (c) there's likely a huge PR push right now, and (d) I believe its pricing is better for non-enterprise use than others.

My company's virtual meeting solutions are a mess; it's the one really messy area in our tooling. For the longest time we had GoTo, but then the dev team specifically also had hipchat for Slack-like interactions. Then hipchat went away, and for some reason the org took that as a cue to do an org-wide rollout of MS Teams, with no approval for us to use Slack. Somewhere along the way certain people somehow acquired Zoom licenses and started using those. Then just about two weeks ago the whole org was told to switch to Zoom, but now not enough people have licenses and all the old GoTo licenses are kaput.

Anyways, the reason I have heard various people from the business side give for why they like Zoom is "GoTo was too hard to use." I don't really see that, and I also wonder if there's some sort of 'FOMO' going on. A couple big vendors we interact with use Zoom, Zoom is big in the news currently -- "everybody uses Zoom!" I do also think it's maybe a bit cheaper at enterprise scale.

I don't mind Zoom from a UX/call quality perspective. I think Alt-A to unmute is super unintuitive but that's a very minor quibble, and for all I know shortcuts are customizable. I am, however, very discouraged by Zoom's privacy story as we're discussing here.

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As my own side note, I am generally on board with almost everything MS has been doing lately -- we're mostly a MS shop as they help us with pricing, given we're a nonprofit, while AWS told us 'no chance' -- but Teams has to be the single buggiest MS product I've ever used. Just now, over the past month or so, I've noticed it very slowly improving. But for the first year of our usage, we experienced constant issues. Dropped calls, silent crashes, daily sync failures. My favorite one was, every time I would shut down Teams, it would relaunch itself a few seconds later with a message saying "sorry, Teams has crashed, we're recovering." Apparently every time the program received a shutdown msg it just assumed "oops, another crash."
Did you know they also make a public address book in your entire organization of people on zoom? You can't easily opt out of this. I'm currently contracted at a govt organization which other than mundane conference calls you have to reserve a spot for by email (which nobody does because it's not 1998) doesn't have any remote video/audio infrastructure so basically each team is doing their own thing. Some use zoom, others discord and so forth. A lot of teams started to use zoom and they sign up with their @xyz.gov e-mail. Literally everyone is then public to everyone on @xyz.gov and whether they're currently in a call.

Everyone is still on the free plan and reconnecting after 40 minutes (it's basically standard procedure when the 10 minute countdown starts to rejoin). I bet it won't take long before zoom sales get in touch and you think the person going to approve the tailor-made $$$ contract cares about privacy? Or the 700 people already using it except for a small minority who don't have any influence in this kind of decision making?
Thank you! We'll fix it now!
Is Zoom-dissing just in fashion these days? In the last few days I've seen these on HN:

- Having the Facebook SDK installed in their iOS app, which sends user data to Facebook even if the user has no Facebook account

- Having a setting, that's off by default, that lets other callers see whether you have the Zoom app in focus

- Having a general "accessibility over security" engineering attitude, which led them to eg shipping their desktop apps with a builtin HTTP server (and with it a much bigger security surface area), just to skip one extra step in the join-meeting-via-a-zoom-link-flow. They removed it after a backlash, but the engineering attitude probably didn't change.

Now, I agree that all of these are bad. It's OK for outrage to happen over these things, every single one of them are shit and major companies like Zoom need to get their act together.

But I also think that many apps out there do stuff like this. The majority of popular apps, I'd wager. Why is Zoom being singled out? First Vice, now a Harvard blog, a bunch of unsubstantiated tweet storms.. Is it just, en vogue to diss Zoom somehow?
The 'Rule of One' Is the Winning Formula for Startups
1. Paid service 2. Privacy is important.
I have about a year of near daily anecdotal evidence to the contrary. So, in my experience, yes it works extremely well. I'm not saying it's better than Teams at all, I've never used that, and it looks pretty awesome from their marketing page. Microsoft has really stepped up their software quality game recently.

I can say Zoom is way the hell better than: Slack/Screenhero, TeamViewer, join.me, GoToMeeting, WebEx, Skype, Google Hangouts, BlueJeans, ugh the list goes on over the past years.
Apparently the outage is caused by a third party router bug: https://twitter.com/uhoelzle/status/1243398255083311105
There is one stage missing: Where the software becomes closed or at least doesn't become somewhat closed. This is what the .NET libraries DocX, Fody and EPPlus have followed.
This was a generic, rack mount Intel server running Debian 3.x.
China: As of March 29 airlines limited to 1 flight/week from any foreign country
Can you change the page titles to be more descriptive? I've bookmarked a few of these pages but had to manually change the titles to have the book title in them.
Most people support crypto for its novel technology, societal antagonism, and it's ostensible 'freedom'. Possibly also it's Ponzi scheme appeal.

But they tend to not have any grasp of currency, economics, finance and how things really work in this world.

Yes, it would be nice to rid ourselves of Visa and possibly even get rid of the Fed, but at least in the later, there are existential issues at hand.

Currency is a social contract it will always involve 'trust' of some kind.

There is absolutely no way around that.

There is no such thing as a 'trustless' currency or store of value.

Digital currency has a bright future, and maybe someday we'll get rid of Vias fees, but outside of that, we're not getting away from central banks.
UK cabinet is about to find out what "zoom bombing" means the hard way...
> I agree that privacy is an issue but can we tone it down a bit considering the global situation at stake.

It seems to me that this is the best possible time to make some noise about Zoom's privacy problems. What better time for that could there be than during a period of mass adoption? What better opportunity to shame a company into compliance than during a global pandemic when the responsibilities of companies to the community is being emphasized?

You might have a point if castigating Zoom for spying on users somehow facilitated the spread of corona, but it doesn't.
Well, that part I think they've actually made pretty explicit. The general public isn't taking coronavirus seriously enough (which I agree is true!), so it's their job to try and make the public more scared. Which is really obnoxious to those of us who live in a county that takes it as seriously as possible, let me tell you.
`brew install coreutils` goes a long way to help with stuff like that.
Done it under macOS and it is easy. Just in case:

- download the minivmac said linked web site.

- you need to download also the vmac.rom and the system7.dsk.

- you can run the "mini Vmac.app" by clicking and drag and drop first the vmac.rom then the system7.dsk.

- your own disk needed to be created and drag-and-drop to the mini Vmac.app.

- follow the instruction.

- press control (and hold it) press H and other commands under H (you need to press control).

- it is a Mac the original one and hence you have to press the menu all the time :-). Forget that.

- and within a couple of minutes you have your first think C program in Mac 7.

Not sure I will go through the whole volume of Think C. One day may be one day.
I wouldn't be so confident. Making things illegal works pretty well in discouraging usage, and shutting down the "exchanges" like coinbase would tank the value for crypto, as most normies would no longer transfer surplus cash into bitcoins.

Of course no one can take those long numbers from those cold wallets.
Yeah, that happens. Here is an example of an actual bug opened a few years ago on our system. Dev team spend some time tracking the issue and found out incorrect variable type used for sessions, it was unsigned long used for milliseconds, like in the OP. We were joking that we need to allocate 50 days to verify the fix :) .
https://imgur.com/a/HS3fcTj
the story that makes you love an incestuous homicidal genius.

I thought the anime really glossed over that story terribly.
Something something IPMI backdoors something.
> So some company I don't like will advertise at me. I don't like it, but I don't care that much.

You're normalizing it and making your students use it though, so it's really not "it affects me, but I don't care enough", it affects others as well. And let's not kid ourselves: once it's established, nobody will switch to something else, because they'd have to explain and guide everyone they want to talk to to install another app etc.
Take a look at what Compute North is doing - reframe what an energy producer is.
Electric power plants will have the market cornered on computation cost, they will be the miners using surplus load, fluctuating with the market and generating tokenised wealth at the point of generation.

Tokens created at the point of value generation - not abstracted to a few interest rates and financial levers.
This is a myth that cannot be proven or disproven. Nobody was ever able to keep Windows 95/98 up for that long.

Jokes aside, around 2001 I was asked to do some maintenance on a machine running Windows 3.11 that was running an app to control all access within the building. When I asked about potential upgrade the guys balked at me saying the machine has couple of years of uptime and they are not very keen to have to restart it on a schedule due to windows 95/98 bugs.
Self learning would imply that the person is teaching themselves, not that the person is attending a coding boot camp.

People that claim to be data scientists after attending a coding boot camp must be clowns. I’ve never come across such a person. All the data scientists I know are smart self taught people, not people who went to a boot camp.
Show HN: Rezi – A clever, privacy-focused resume software
We've launched a few new interesting features as well as made the software free considering the pandemic. Happy to share again.

https://www.rezi.io/

Rezi A.I. helps you get past applicant tracking systems (ATS) by optimizing your resume with targeted keywords found in the job description.
That just doesn't seem like a fair standard. Why should only experts in a relevant field talk about the coronavirus? Nobody tries to stop people from sharing hospital stories from their friend's cousin's boyfriend who's a nurse.
I appreciate listing the areas in which Zoom beats competitors. It helps people understand where work should be done on alternatives.

My company has been remote-only for about 1.5 weeks now and we have 4 different conferencing systems that people are using. It's interesting that everyone has their preferences, but for small meetings nobody is using Zoom as far as I've seen.
OTOH if you’re making money from your product why trash it yourselves
There's a similar blog post by Gabriel Gonzalez which focuses on the incentives set in Haskell:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2016/04/worst-practices-should-...
Zoom is the first video conferencing platform that I've used, that works reliably. They are gonna come out of this mess smelling like roses, no matter what carbuncles are exposed.

I've been doing videoconferencing for over 30 years (Yes, they had it back then -we used PictureTel systems, over ISDN).

I regularly participate in Zoom meetings with 20 or more attendees. I know of ones that have over 400.

An amazing thing to me, is that technophobes can pick up on it very easily. Very little of that pre-meeting "Mute your mike!", "Can you hear me?", "Whose dog is that?", tons of texts, asking for help, etc, stuff.

Skype is very bad for more than a small handful of attendees.

WebEx and GoToMeeting are OK, I guess, and I've heard good things about BlueJeans.

But Zoom is what I use, and Zoom is very popular with people that suddenly need to gather, and can't do so, physically.
You'd be lucky if it was all just a chain of methods. In reality one of those links would be replaced by space. Which is an implicit method call. (Invisible parenthesis)

I find this infuriating because the DSL isn't discoverable. You have to know what each method returns. Is it self, or is it a value.

Spot the difference: Expect(myFunc).WithParams(4).To BeCalled(1).Returns(8).InUnder(2). Milliseconds().WithEspilon(30).Microseconds().