skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not self-isolating or locking down, per say, but I am working a lot more from my own office. As a result I've been able to apply a lot of works to my cyberpunk hacking simulator game. I'm hoping to have an alpha out there in a month or two.
Wasn't it due to saying they were going to do it and then backtracked actually doing it?
But it was a reply to someone suggesting to use cooperative multitasking for scheduling userspace processes. It does not apply to the article but it does apply to the comment it is replying to.
I really hope that this stupid "short seller conspiracy" meme is going away soon.

According to the article Apple does end-to-end encryption for video conferences. Also other providers are not lying about it like zoom does.
I also write the most dumb and simple code and if it works, then great, I don't touch it until it needs to be optimized or more likely: removed.

Sometimes I don't really know what I'm doing, just getting all tests to pass. Then once it's working, when I know why it works, I will clean it up by removing unnecessary variables, double negations, and name the magic numbers, etc, and try to make it as simple as possible.
When you say "neuro-diversity" is beneficial, what exactly do you mean?
Case clojed.
I didn't even notice the checkbox on the right. It's just a white square with a border. The previous one is very well-known. That's a real shame.
Doom Eternal doesn't even have a main thread and uses a dependency graph of jobs, so should paralellize reeeeally well across multiple cores
Just hit Escape a couple of times while the page is loading.
Yeah somewhere in their documentation they state that they are end-to-end encrypted because the connections peer1<->zoom and zoom<->peer2 are encrypted. I cant find the page anymore but they really tried to redefine the name for end to end encryption...
> so why accept single character name?

Because readability suffers with repeated long variable names

There's a reason why math uses i,j,k and x,y,z and it's not to be petty.
> really dumb looking code

You cannot imagine how I'd value having really dumb looking code in my life.

Yet here I am, swimming in a swap of cleverness that I can't refactor nor will ever be able to wrap my head around.

I envy you.
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Funding of early fundamental and clinical research rarely comes from VC capital, since the probability for a positive ROI is quite low.

This is why early research is mostly funded by governments.
Sadly, a lot of conditions are not properly researched due to lack of funding.
Some governments are better at distributing funds than others.
The current US administration isn’t.
It’s an unnecessary artificial solution to a non-problem. If you need a reusable drop down you are fortunate because it already exists with full accessibility: the HTML select element. But but but it looks boring... CSS. But but but form elements are impossible to style and modify their behavior... probably because you are breaking accessibility for vanity.

My complaint is that this idea is an unnecessary work around to sole something that isn’t a real problem to supplement your unnecessary work around (your giant framework). I have reinvented this wheel enough to know that people frequently want nonstandard things for nonstandard reasons because vanity is more important than everything else, accessibility is an add on to worry about later, and they are hopeless without the world’s largest framework to do their jobs for them.

I already have to be saddened with framework nonsense spaghetti code by incompetent developers at work. The idea of taking mental laziness and bad ideas to another level for some senior surrogate dev to parent is horrific.
Not really native - it's JavaFX.

I love clojure but personally flutter seems way more viable for the use cases I could imagine using this.
I think this post dropped from view from HN once the religion discussion started. Oh well.
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I wonder what happened with the other, dead reply to your comment. Looking at the other comments from that user there seems to be something wrong with YC News or someone with lots of karma was triggered and went on a rampage.
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This, in a nutshell, demonstrates where the internet has gone awry.

Wikipedia is hard to monetize, but it's still a "big thing." Luckily, it's organised in a way that doesn't require S&P 500 revenue targets.

The economics of startups->dragons is such that it's near impossible for certain mass-market services exist even thought they are useful and economically viable.

The internet makes it possible to serve tens of millions on a modest budget. In theory, this enables a business to exist on a modest budget. In practice, serving tens of millions represents more-than-modest potential and that chance, even if quite small, is worth more than the business.

Say a service like meetup makes $20m revenue, expenses of $16m and is growing @ 10% pa. In theory, a nice business. Should be worth $50m-100m.

In reality though, a business like this is not just a business. It's a chance, however small, to be the next FB. At the least, it's a chance to be a FB acquisition. Even a minor threat to FB could easily be worth $1bn.

Chances of success don't have to be very high for the "risk the house" strategy to dominate. A 10% chance @ $10bn is worth $1bn. Systemically, that means a meetup is destined to be continuously bought or funded by investors taking that chance. It can never settle into a steady, viable state where it just does its job.
If you fucked up bad enough multiple times people will find lore. Years ago it was constant news about uber now its zoom. If a company is dishonest enough you will find enough more bad news, and as long as bad news get clicked...

But i am happy theres media attention for this exact topic because it was dishonest all the time and people have chosen zoom over other solutions because zoom is the only one claiming end to end encryption.
End-to-end encryption has been named as a required feature for telehealth in Australia. Interest in telehealth has gone from zero to infinity over the past two weeks for obvious reasons. So I've been trying really hard to work out if Zoom is E2E, and reached the same conclusions as the article. First, it isn't, and second, Zoom are really going out of their way to obscure that fact.

It's great that The Intercept is taking a look at this, because it's absolutely beyond the capabilities of healthcare practitioners and the professional bodies to get to the bottom of. There's a ridiculous amount of confusion here, compounded by "you need to get the HIPAA version because HIPAA means privacy".
This is the first pre-publication of the very first study on HCQ efficacy that was started early February (source http://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojen.aspx?proj=48880) in Wuhan by Dr Zhang Zhan.

These results are very encouraging.
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> Microsoft 365 builds on the foundation of Office infusing new artificial intelligence (AI), rich content and templates, and cloud-powered experiences

How do you opt out of this?
That's slightly misleading. The applications that get directed to a "screen-wibble" terminfo entry will behave as if they are running under screen, because there will be no terminfo ritm/sitm capabilities and they won't emit any control sequences for specifying italics.

tmux's own behaviour does change, but that is secondary, and a bit of a bodge. (The applications will emit what they think is something else, but will end up emitting the ECMA-48 code for italics, so tmux refuses to recognize it.)
It does not need 840 MB of memory — it uses it because the purpose of this example is to show that packaging is now easy, and non-essential parts were left out to keep it simple. I just tried limiting it to 50 MB and it runs just fine.
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An opkg (for e.g. OpenWRT) with this mesh software would make it possible to use WiFi/LTE routers with a LoRa transmitter/receiver connected over e.g. USB or Mini-PCIe.

... cc'ing from https://twitter.com/westurner/status/1238859774567026688 :

OpenWRT is a Make-based embedded Linux distro w/ LuCI (Lua + JSON + UCI) web interface).

#OpenWRT runs on RaspberryPis, ARM, x86, ARM, MIPS; there's a Docker image.
OpenWRT Supported Devices:
https://openwrt.org/supported_devices

OpenWRT uses opkg packages: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg

I searched for "Lora" in OpenWRT/packages:
lora-gateway-hal opkg package:
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/lora-gat...

lora-packet-forwarder opkg package (w/ UCI integration):
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/8320

https://github.com/xueliu/lora-feed :

> Semtech packages and ChirpStack [(LoRaserver)] Network Server stack for OpenWRT

> > [In addition to providing node2node/2net connectivity, #batman-adv can bridge VLANs over a mesh (or link), such as for “trusted” client, guest, IoT, and mgmt networks. It provides an easy-to-configure alternative to other approaches to “backhaul”, […]]
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/batman

> I have a few different [quad-core, MIMO] ARM devices without 4G.
TIL that the @GLiNetWifi devices ship with OpenWRT firmware (and a mobile config app) and some have 1-2 (Mini-PCIe) 4G w/ SIM slots. Also, @turris_cz has OpenWRT w/ LXC in the kernel build. https://t.co/Rz0Uu5uHJQ
"LoRa+WiFi ClusterDuck Protocol by Project OWL for Disaster Relief" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707267

> An opkg (for e.g. OpenWRT) with this mesh software would make it possible to use WiFi/LTE routers with a LoRa transmitter/receiver connected over e.g. USB or Mini-PCIe.
It will happen, slowly but it will, liability law suits and media exposure just need to increase, then more companies will start paying attention to security.
Really appreciate your input (and congrats!), Jason ;-)

I have been running 2 simple standalone WireGuard VPN servers for remote access and encrypting traffic (2 EC2 instances inside a VPC, scripted configuration). Admittedly I didn't dig deep enough to think about or leverage VPC's DHCP and/or DHCP servers running on other EC2 instances in the same VPC over the last 2+ years (facepalm), which also means, WireGuard has been set & forget (reliably working ;-)

Will dive into obfuscation and compare with (known to work) solution V2Ray (WebSocket + TLS + Web) / Trojan for next battle with the GFW.

BTW: Gravitational has built a WireGuard based overlay network CNI for k8s called wormhole [1] which can be used to replace flannel when encryption is required for in-cluster traffic across the overlay.

[1]: https://github.com/gravitational/wormhole
I'd love that, and it's possible. But given how hard other coronavirus vaccines have proven to be and quickly these viruses mutate...
I get the idea of ios/android apps supporting dark theme, but since when did this concept apply to websites?
end-to-middle-to-end encrypted...
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> does a good/community agreed upon one exist for rust yet?

Specs? At least that's what Amethyst uses.
I don't have the Lewis-Stempel book at hand to go digging for quotes, but this is from an eyewitness account of the Somme:

> "It was the birdsong," he said, "the birdsong in that short gap when the artillery barrage stopped and before the whistles blew for us to get out of the trench and start running - it was beautiful."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36689445
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It's electromagnetic interference from the electronics. A hulking powerful "big iron" PDP-7 makes a much better RFI broadcast antenna than an iPhone, but it broadcasts at much lower frequencies, that an AM radio can pick up.

You can hear a little bit of interference on an FM radio, but it sounds much stronger and more interesting on the AM dial.

PDP-7's were actually relatively sleek fast inexpensive computers for the time, and were only 18 bits compared to the PDP-6's and PDP-10's 36 bits. ("If you're not working with 36 bits, you're not working with a full DEC!" -DIGEX) But physically they still have a lot of "big iron" parts and use lots of power like mainframes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7

The other sibling post by nitrogen referred to "tempest", which is a (no longer) secret NSA codename for "Telecommunications Electronics Materials Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions", a certification for shielding equipment from spying on it via electromagnetic radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

The slower the computer, the more "details" you can hear of the computation. Modern computers are so fast and have so much going on and are so much better shielded (they need to be, since they have their own radios they don't want their own RFI to interfere with), that they aren't nearly as interesting to listen to on AM radio. I loved to listen to my Apple ][ on AM radio, especially compiling my FORTH system and applications (it's satisfying to listen to your own code you wrote compiling and running)!
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Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I explained the situation in a reply to grandparent comment if you are interested to know why it is like that.
I wonder if they measured some other music too. I'm pretty sure listening to something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Y_ztEW1NE will do equally good or better job in reducing anxiety.

Why not listen to sounds that are both great and calming instead of just calming.
It means less visual business, making it easy to pick your way through it. I find all those borders and shades in the NEXT interface distracting and I bet overall it slows people down when interacting with it. Besides, ideally, most elements should be intereactive in some way anyway. Hovering over them should provide enough indication of what type of interaction is available.
End to End encryption in conferences of >2 participants causes substantial quality degradation for the same bandwidth use, since you can't have a central server re encoding streams to produce low quality streams for those participants who need it.

I believe zooms reputation as being more likely to 'just work' in part hinges on that,
Large-scale urban air transport would also have to be entirely autonomous. Drunk/distracted driving is already a major issue and cause of death in the United State. In three dimensions and when failure of control can result in collision with any arbitrary part of any structure, this is obviously a non-starter. So getting the FAA to sign off means not only producing a design that must be, elevator style, mechanically essentially incapable of failure, but also getting them to sign off on an autonomous low-altitude flight system for use in dense airspace.
Well the site is pretty broken on Android for Firefox.. that aside I sympathize with the mission but not sure preaching about wasted effort is going to help anything. Presentation should be completely up to the client, we need a UI that can understand what is being sent back from the server and dynamically visualize it in various ways based on user preference. We should not be stuck with whatever JS and mark up is sent back from the server. Ie we both are visiting hackernews but we should be able to configure our UI to view it in completely different ways based on preferences. And this can't be based on a standard per se because there won't be buy in. There just needs to be a UI client that is basically intelligent that you can tell it how you want your data visualized or presented and it will do it for you magically.
Ears aren't connected to the respiratory system. Lacrimal ducts are, that's why eye protection is important. The virus doesn't enter your lungs through your skin pores either.
Is there any confirmation if this means Ryzen 2 only or also Ryzen 3? Lots of the enthusiasts expect this to include the upcoming Ryzen 3, but the wording is very vague.
I think there's a genuine reason for them to be worth more since they are closer to the original painting. There's a fantastic (and long) series on Youtube about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhiMCSvtCc
GoToMeeting claims end to end encryption[1] and in the same sentence say it's just SSL just like Zoom. Never the less they offer call-in as well so end to end becomes impossible right there. I have serious doubts about any conference software offering real end to end encryption as it's unrealistic for clients to be dealing with that many av streams.

1. https://support.goto.com/meeting/help/security-faqs-g2m05001...
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Looking for esports technology or gaming technology startups that are doing interesting thing with data.
(eg player stat analysis or screen reading game highlights or any other tech being used for esports / gaming)

Tag / Link any that you know or have heard of, happy to discuss ^_^
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Yes, it was way better. That is why people started using it outside the kernel. People forget how old Git is and think GitHub started it.

Hg back in the day was quite limited and followed other VCS paradigm (which was enforced on you, by the way).
BD no longer makes ventilators. Stryker never did, they make mostly O.R. and hospital kit, tools and accessories. No idea who S&N is.

These are the major global manufacturers:

- Philips Healthcare (Netherlands)

- Vyaire Medical (US) formerly Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD - US)

- Getinge (Sweden)

- Dräger (Germany)

- Smiths Group (UK)

- Hamilton Medical (Switzerland)

- GE Healthcare (US)

- Air Liquide (France)

- Zoll Medical (US)

- Allied Healthcare Products (US)

- Airon Mindray (China)

- Schiller (Switzerland)

- Löwenstein Medical (Germany)

- Medtronic (Ireland after corporate inversion from US)
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It doesn't really need 840mb. If you force a GC after waiting for it to load the stories it needs "only" 350mb. Try "jcmd main GC.run" (if you have any JDK 11+ installed).

The problem is Java sees lots of memory lying unused and figures ... why should I work harder to free it up? It'll waste CPU time and energy and I might need the memory later.

In theory it actually will do background GCs and free memory back to the OS anyway so I'm not sure why it's not happening here; possibly that feature needs to be explicitly activated or maybe I just didn't wait long enough to see it happen.

As for why it needs 350mb of RAM, let's take a quick look:

$ jcmd main GC.heap_info
Tue Mar 31 10:53:42 2020
61074:
garbage-first heap total 102400K, used 28139K [0x0000000700000000, 0x0000000800000000)
region size 1024K, 0 young (0K), 0 survivors (0K)
Metaspace used 58206K, capacity 65566K, committed 65868K, reserved 1101824K
class space used 10342K, capacity 12810K, committed 12928K, reserved 1048576K

So as a first approximation, even after a GC and subsequent heap shrink, it's holding onto about 3x what it really needs. Total heap memory is only 28mb. That's a bit odd. Perhaps G1 is still not aggressive enough in releasing memory back to the OS. For desktop apps it'd really be better to aggressively let go of heap as fast as possible (NB: native apps don't always do this either).

The "metaspace" is holding a lot of stuff, mostly VM internal data structures. But I thought metaspace was primarily class metadata, but here there's only 10mb of that, so what's filling it up?

There's "jcmd main VM.metaspace" which tells us about 8mb of it is wasted due to fragmentation (I think). It doesn't tell us much about what's going on though.

These numbers look extremely high for a normal Java app. If I recall correctly Clojure [ab]uses the JVM in odd ways, for instance, by creating a class for every single function in the program instead of mapping them to methods as you would expect. This can easily cause a lot of overhead in class metadata compared to a normal program.

However the bulk of the memory usage you see is really just an "optimisation" - it's there, so why not be lazy and leave garbage lying around until you need the space.
Anyone knows how Jpackages compares to good/bad old JNLP or is that complementary?
It's disappointing to see a company that has better tech than its rivals playing these games. I have been singing Zoom's praises, but this really makes me want to look elsewhere. What a bummer.
But the WHO say this is not the case. Who should people be listening to?
For those on phones:

https://explainxkcd.com/2287/

Title text is below the image. And here, for the impatient:

"We're not not trapped in here with the coronavirus. The coronavirus is trapped in here with us."
Ears are directly connected to the sinuses (via the Eustachian tubes), which is part of the upper respiratory system. There's a reason we have Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat doctors. It's all connected.
They tried this, it was called Kindle Unlimited and it turned out to be terrible for most authors.
Perhaps there's more than one school here. I don't know because it's not my field.
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Cars move in a 2-dimensional space (surface), aircraft move in a 3-dimesional space (without costly highways), so you can utilize space way more efficiently and move more people per square mile.

The safety distances will probably reduce due to automated collision-avoidance systems which may become mandatory in dense flight areas.

Although, I don't know how planes compare to cars in terms of energy utilization efficiency. A car only needs energy to move. A plane needs energy to move and stay above the ground.
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I'll share a few examples or references.

https://insights.gg/

https://gamingmonk.com/

https://www.toornament.com/en_US/

https://battlefy.com/

https://pvp.com
Has a project like this achieved anything over the past 20 years they've existed.
Graal won't make apps run faster. The responsiveness of most Java desktop apps isn't CPU constrained, like on the web, slow reactions come from elsewhere. On the web it's mostly the heavy reliance on the server to do basic tasks meaning there's roundtripping. On desktop apps it's mostly like on mobile - if you hit disk or do other slow operations from the GUI thread then you can get "jank".
“Mercurial” doesn’t mean ill-tempered. It typically means fickle, changing. That can be related to moods (regularly pleasant, but inclined to fly off the handle with little provocation) but that is by no means its only application. It can also mean sprightly (connecting with the “changing” meaning), which is quite the opposite of ill-tempered.