skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm one of the paying client for the API, people in the comments fail to understand that CMC API has many paying customers

Ok, I'll bite as I think I have somewhat of an idea what their underlying value is from this service, even though I admit I don't trade; 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?

I ask because gaining a paying client list, which is probably a rounding error in comparison to Binance's current accrued trading fees, cannot really be the main selling point for this deal. Especially when investing in various cryptocurrencies itself is likely to have a higher risk-reward ratio than this API being the best thing since Bitcoin's Layer 2.

It's at best a (minor) value added service, in comparison to the potential of targeting and capturing the (predicted?) incoming waves capital flight risk, now that all this hot money is entering the Economy from China, US, EU, Australia, UK etc...
Which is this from? I would like to read it.
Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB
Worldwide Covid-19 Dashboard Map
The thread in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22701891

Dang disappoints me again.
There is a "Fight club" feel to this crisis. All the "key worker", necessary job that need to be done regardless the catastrophe society is facing are literally the least desirable job on the market and often the least paid too.

Hopefully there is going to be wake up call in society. Surely a large scale demonstration like this would convince people that your "free market capitalistic assigned worth, i.e. your salary" is not a sufficient measure of your value in society and external adjustment (eg: government regulation or welfare or ...) is actually quite reasonable.
Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment
Your neighbours to the north do it the same way. In school (elementary, high school), all of the science classes are going to be in SI units, minus maybe a lesson or two in unit conversion. It wasn’t really until engineering school where they started really forcing us to be comfortable with problems that had a bunch of unit conversions; the engineers were really happy to give us problems with grams, pounds, miles, and litres, and expect us to get the right answers.
I agree. I'll look into the DO Kubernetes offering, maybe that's more sustainable. I'd really like to keep running on k8s, but if it doesn't work out... I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and do my walk of shame back to droplets.
Reagan shot 39 years ago. Moments after been shot
Catalina 10.15.4 Broke SSH
I used to get this really bad back on Ubuntu 14.04/12.04 etc. It's a lot better now, barely have an issue on an 18.04+ machine.
I really wish they'd make the client available in the Mac App Store. Not only is the installation experience better than this, things also stay nicely up-to-date. If your company runs an MDM for your Macs, it's easy to deploy apps en-mass to everyone.
> And to cut off anyone that says passwords shouldn't be shared in a private chat, that's irrelevant. Good infosec security practices in one place do not preclude criticism of bad practices elsewhere.

It's not irrelevant. There are phone apps with no other purpose than to publicize your location. If you should happen to be a fugitive, using such an app would be a bad move. Does that make the privacy leak in the app a security problem? No, how could it? If you don't want your location publicized, the answer isn't to remove the only feature from a location-sharing app so you can run NOPs in peace. It's to stop using the app.

Your misuse of a feature that performs exactly as advertised can't justify calling that feature a security problem. The people responsible for the feature don't know how you're using it. The use pattern is the security problem, and it needs to be addressed by people who (1) know what it is, and/or (2) are responsible for it. Zoom fulfills neither criterion.
Holy moly $400m for website that aggregates crypto coins data. Congrats to Coinmarketcap. I remember first using it in 2013, it was just another crypto website but it became the most popular soon after.
Same here. I thought the process didn't finish until I tried launching the app (which I was supposed to do by clicking a link in the browser, which is also rather unintuitive).
Internal Server Error

Chinese censors hackers must have seen this article title and are now DDosing WSJ
Part of the benefit of macOS apps is that you can just put them in the trash and they're gone. Breaking that contract isn't like awful but it is frustrating.
Building a Covid-19 tracking site in Rails in 2 days (100k+ daily visitors)
That orbital velocities don’t do that was one of the first mysteries which led to people thinking about dark matter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve#/media...
https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/
Right now public sentiment is highly favorable to the people left enabling online shopping, groceries, and prescriptions.

Workers are easily replaceable at the moment, but companies should tread carefully in treating workers as expendable.

In a time of crisis legislation, investigations, and executive orders have a way of happening a little faster than normal.
I have just reported them to the data protection officer in my member state[1]. A list of contact addresses for individual EU countries can be found here: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/unsere-rolle-als-aufs...

[1] citing a list of 10 links from here https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... including this story
Comparing async JavaScript functions and callbacks on AWS Lambda
My simple implementation in C / ClojureScript.

https://dimovich.github.io/art/
Are frequent releases a good idea?
...and you can login to your Zoom profile and disable that feature, so?
Why would it be reasonable? If you're not willing to perform a job at the current pay grade, just quit your job. Either you get replaced immediately or you've got yourself a chip in your salary negotiation.
> Enterprise customer DO give a damn about security

You are wrong. Even without extensive experience in the space, you can very easily see how even large companies don't secure themselves at all. The US has had equifax recently, and it's not like that was an isolated example either. There just isn't a security culture at the eye-watering heights of corporate upper management and while everyone's as busy making money as they are, there never will be. It doesn't fit into the system, and anyone who tries to change it gets muscled out by people who don't want it to change - because that is simply what's most efficient.
Enforcing Code Consistency with SwiftLint
We just had a corporate presentation with around 250 people. Normally we use Teams or Slack for internal communication, this was also stated by management, that Zoom should only be used for 'big' meetings like this. I think they know the other solutions will not work as well for bigger groups. I've not had issues with using either solution for small group meetings.

Actually I have to go out of my way to run Zoom in the browser instead of using the installer. I have to use Chrome instead of Firefox, download but not install the app and wait for the "or run in browser" link to appear after that.

I really don't like macOS installers anyways and passionately hate them as "installing" and App on macOS should be nothing more than moving the .app from a zip or disk image into your /Applications folder. I just don't trust them in not placing additional crap like auto updaters or kext's when I don't need them.
You still had truces breaking our on December 1915 which was 17 months or 1/3 of the length of the war, but officers where fighting them much more effectively.

What’s important from my perspective is they required large percentages of both sides willing to abide by a truce. You don’t get a truce if even 10% of each side keeps firing.
The limiting factor here isn't implant technology. The limiting factor is the rate we can implant electrodes and do new science.

Don't get me wrong, I love Elon as much as the next fanboy but there are serious ethical implications at play here that you can't just engineer your way around.
I've investigated this question a lot and come to conclusion:

1. It's network effect and lack of regulations.

I can buy a $50 welder from china, which European or American company can sell me $50 welder delivered to my home?

2. I am in India now and to get any company to even to listen to me, they'll require several phone calls and then they'll quote me some rediculous price, no one responds to any email or text in queries. But Chinese are happy to do so.

Chinese are happy to declare lower value in invoice so that importer can lower the import duties at their end.

3. If you can arrange a logistic partner, any Chinese company will drop the goods/samples to your local wharehouse within a day or two.

4. Even illiterate or village laborers can work in Chinese factory as long as they are getting work done. Heck, they can even create new product for their employer and get paid handsomely for that. I know one Chinese guy who today owns an electronic company, he dropped out in highschool and started selling custom designed electronics. In how many countries, you can design electronic device and sell it without undergoing various checks?

5. One of my friend imports Chinese product (with made in India mark) and inserts a bolt at the destination and gets all the publicity for making in India in local newspapers. Pretty, sure it's also true for many European companies who get everything done in china.

You can start at very bottom, you need to follow any rules as long as you aren't causing big problems for everyone, you are in business.

I've spent time in China, Europe, US sourcing products for my customers. China is completely different ballgame, you need very little money to get started in Chinese business.

My team was trying very hard to source locally made goods from india, now we gave up and went all china.
I'm afraid you're either mistaken, or you're trying to revise history yourself.

> It's not a trademark because they didn't apply for one.

Not true!

They were applying. It wasn't working, so they gave up, and it lapsed.

Source:

https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...

"OSI's application for an Open Source trademark had lapsed"

Why did they let it lapse? Because (as they knew) it wasn't trademarkable as it's a simple generic descriptive term.

"We have discovered that there is virtually no chance that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would register the mark "open source"; the mark is too descriptive."

> The origin of the term is well documented: OSI did invent it.

Not true!

See the links the my sibling commented posted for prior specific examples of 'open source software'.

And of course 'open source' is just a normal phrase that's been in use for much much longer! That's why they can't trademark - it's just a normal phrase people were already using.
> For me, dub music (not dubstep) was the most astoundingly un-aggressive music.

Agreed! I feel myself relaxing every time i hear the opening notes of this track - Harry Mudie and King Tubby's 'Full Dose Of Dub':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcpoD5gmvhY
Are you awful or just trolling? I've said that naming is very important, but I didnt't suggest that people should choose a longer word when two are equivalent. A real way to give 'more meaning' to the index is to indicate to which collection it belongs.
Creep it enough, that Google created the Kernel Self Protection Project.

https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr...

One of their first activities was to clean the kernel from all usage of C's VLA.
The Life and Death of 3D [video]
This reminds me of the “Fifteen Million Merits” episode of Black Mirror[1] where people are either automatically charged to skip certain content or forced to watch if they can’t afford to skip.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
I never understood why Apple still supports the pkg format. It seems a half-baked leftover from the 2000s and even then I was already surprised that there is no way to uninstall things through the macOS GUI. I am not sure if this has changed (I try to avoid pkg files and use Homebrew cask to uninstall such packages), but IIRC you had to list the files with pkgutil on the command-line, remove stuff by hand and then --forget the package.

They should just kill the format. Everything should just be drag to install, drag to trash to remove.
Masks4All: Wear a mask to stop the spread of Coronavirus (Jeremy Howard)
Replying to myself -- case in point: the page you linked doesn't have a single sorting method that makes any kind of practical sense. It's carefully curated to have an Intel product at top in every category.

I'd go as far as declare UserBenchmark actively harmful if you are trying to figure out benchmarking results. You're likely better off by just throwing dice!
So they are treating companies like lottery tickets with some residual value (offsetting taxes)?
> What does bankrupcy actually mean if all of the bankrupt person's assets are in crypto and only they know the private key? The bank cannot recover these assets.

There are two cases: either the person declares these assets, or the person tries to hide these assets. If these assets are declared, they must be sold to pay as much as possible of the debts, or the debts won't be forgiven. If the person tries to hide these assets, the consequences are much worse; a quick web search tells me the debts won't be forgiven (or the forgiveness will be revoked after the fact), these debts cannot be forgiven later on another bankruptcy, and the person can even be arrested and/or pay a heavy fine (source: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/bankruptcy/hiding-as...).
I can't tell from the font - is it DOLT - delta Oscar lima tango - or DOIT delta Oscar India tango?
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Interestingly this has started happening on my mac, as of a few years ago. Obviously unrelated to Linux.
It's like the opposite of the Galt's Gulch strike by the titans of industry in Atlas Shrugged. Unfortunately for the workers, the sudden spike in unemployment might make them easily replaceable, though there will be a training cost incurred by the companies. Their best hope is that enough unemployed people are comfortable with their government checks (stimulus and unemployment) combined with hope that their jobs will come back in a month or two, to not bother picking up jobs at Whole Foods or Amazon.
I graduated in international business and logistics 14 years ago, worked at a freight forwarder, customs broker, ocean carrier, and a manufacturer. Broadly, this topic can be broken up into 3 overlapping concerns:
- Operations (product, plant, human/physical resources)
- Supply Chain (production, network inflows/outflows)
- Logistics (warehousing, transportation)

All care about having reliable partners, quality, efficiency, and timing (procurement, production, and fulfillment).
I recommend you do a combination of lightweight textbooks for a high level overview, (like Wiley "for dummies") and a few case study style books that provide history and deep context (like "The Goal" and "Lean Thinking" by James Womack). These last two books are classics dealing with physical production. However, don't overlook service operations like healthcare and military which are good examples where the end customers primary concern is strategic procurement and distribution. I don't have any recommendations for these industries but maybe someone else.
There are links to sites for several other countries
China’s Digitization Endeavors: National Blockchain Platform to Go Live in April
I missed the part where Zoom is holding people's computers for ransom, or formatting the drive, or exfiltrating sensitive information to criminals or state intelligence officers, or mining bitcoin, or other similarly malicious behaviors.

An admin can write to /Applications without privilege escalation? That's a macOS bug. If the operating system didn't rely on an 80s-style put-all-the-executables-in-one-place app launch paradigm, maybe there'd be less incentive for app developers to ignore the per-user Applications folder that macOS supports.

An app can spoof or abuse privilege escalation dialogs? That's because macOS doesn't implement an Orange Book-style Trusted Path. It's why Windows and similar operating systems have secure attention keys in the first place.

So yeah, Zoom is (ab)using flaws in macOS to get itself installed with minimum fuss, but it isn't doing it with evil intent. They fixed past issues; they'll probably fix this. Meanwhile, these long-standing macOS security flaws won't be addressed by Apple, who has a terrible track record about these things except when it lets people bypass their App Store.

P.S. As an enterprise customer, I'm much more worried about end-to-end encryption in Zoom, and the apparent lack thereof. I'm also not sure how that compares with other video conferencing services.
> CUDA is a pest that needs to either open up or be replaced.

My main problem with cuda is not that it is un-free, it is that the source code is unavailable and consequently you have to deal with a badly packaged, badly supported blob that turn only on a restricted set of compilers.

The consequences of that is that every software depending on cuda is a pain in the butt to distribute. Even major software like Pytorch or tensorflow need to have separated released due to cuda.

It is particularly sad that Nvidia in 2020 did not understand what Mellanox understood 10 years ago: that successful leadership in hardware is compatible OSS with an software stack.
They are practising hypocrisy.

"Open source is great! We heavily rely on open source! We support open source! So let us maybe give you a key that lifts artificial restrictions from our proprietary code. Only if you're open source. Oh and you mustn't do exactly the thing we do: try to make profit with open source."

If I had made something Gitlab needs, they would not need to ask me to give anything for free because that's what I do by default. I don't build artificial scarcity in my stuff.
The reputation hit that Amazon is setting itself to take due to the ongoing treatment of some of its staff might do more harm to it than just keeping the company's staff happy.
Oracle Forms project for students free download
Covid domain registration issues with Nominet
Tried to register a domain with google domains and got this email from nominet:

.................

Hi,

Your recent application to register the domain name covidchart.co.uk has been submitted to Nominet by your registrar. Nominet is the central registry for .uk domain names.

The application has triggered some automated checks and will not been accepted until you provide some additional information.

This means that the domain name will not work as an internet address until you have contacted us and we agree that it should be accepted and activated.

Please provide us with the following by email to abuse@nominet.uk:

1. A copy of some verification of your identity, such as a passport, driving licence or national identity card, together with a close up photograph of yourself holding your identification; and

2. Your reason for registering the specified domain name.

We may request further documentation, and in some cases may request that you join us in a conference telephone or video call.

Yours sincerely
.UK Customer Services.
Tel: +44 (0)1865 332244
E-mail: abuse@nominet.uk
Web site: https://www.nominet.uk

.................

The domain was to host a chart that is pulling covid data from John Hopkins (nothing dodgy). Just surprised that nominet asks users to send documents like passports via email, seems really insecure to me.

Just thought I'd let everyone know that it's not a good time to register anything relating to covid in the UK currently.
No one cares that their products are made possible by literal slave labor. Most people care so little, they aren't even aware which of their belongings are made possible through slave labor. You really think anyone is really concerned with how companies treat human life? Concerned enough to sacrifice their own benefits instead of just parting with pretty words? I don't think so.
The Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination
Send an email with the question to info@ycombinator.com . These post may fade away unnoticed.
Efficiency does not matter if solution does not work.
> (does a good/community agreed upon one exist for rust yet?).

I just ran across this: https://csherratt.github.io/blog/posts/specs-and-legion/
A bunch of interesting things going on at that forum, Opennet.ru/forum :- )

Nice to be able to "preview" a discussion directly on the topic list page, and interesting shortcuts the forum has:

Открыть первые 10. — Open the first 10. (I used Google Translate)
Открыть последние комментарии. — View recent comments.
Раскрыть ответы 1 уровня. — Expand Level 1 Answers.
Линейный вид. — Linear view.

Sth like the expand-level-1-answers button is something people have suggested for Talkyard too.

> It is [...] enough for most users most of the time

Ok, thanks, interesting to know
Is that true?

There was a throwaway comment about that at a press conference and lots of rumors (positive and negative), but the white paper only mentions “monkey” once—-and in a reference to another group’s paper.
they don't need an office in EU - GDPR is relevant as long as they're processing EU citizen's data. Report them!
I've been bouncing between the new Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem: Three Houses on Switch. FE3H in particular has a ton of replayability, and a regular playthrough can provide a fun timesink that doesn't get old.

If you don't like strategy games or how chill, happy, and stop-and-start Animal Crossing is (eg, around 20 mins per day), the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is a really immersive and difficult (but fair) shooter with RPG elements. It's roughly based on the Roadside Picnic novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and is probably the best shooter (and the best post-apocalyptic game) I've ever played.

There's a free mod called S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly which combines the maps of all three official stalker games and adds a tone of features, quality-of-life changes, and is generally the best version of the franchise on the market (despite being completely free).

Other than that, I'm looking forward to both the Resident Evil 3 remake (the RE2 remake was excellent and the demo of this one seems to be of the same quality) and Final Fantasy 7 remake. It's a bit of a shame that the biggest games to look forward to this year aren't fresh IPs, but the remakes and sequels are high enough quality to still be worth your time.
They're much more likely to lose it to Microsoft Teams, which has been doing great the last several weeks.
Jim Creek Naval Radio Station
I haven't seen that in default Gnome for years, but it still happens when using i3 or Regolith.
Perhaps you would prefer Lee Perry's artisanal cow impressions on 'Cow Thief Skank':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alGgaKPaswI