skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. I remember there being articles about Neandertals having almost no curious explorers, being very catious, whereas homo sapiens skeletons found in swamps, with deadly mushrooms in their stomach and whatnot. So even though Neandertals had a more advanced brain during their time compared to the homo sapien competitor, they died because they did not make it, maybe because they did not take enough risk.
I know a >250x programmer. That is strictly objective: on a 500-engineer 6-month death-march project, fully half the code delivered was his. He knows somebody who he estimates at 10x his own rate, and who wears out 2 keyboards a year (or did, 20 years ago).

(You might object that this makes him a 500x programmer, but he doesn't agree: a fair bit of code was written that did not end up in the product, an unknown fraction of which was good.)
While I agree about the hope for this being a solution to mass transit in urban areas...

Cars don't merely require "space", they require space that has road on it with tarmac and signs and lights and junctions, and they require it in a limited 2D plane and that is the same 2D plane that we need space for buildings etc.

Planes work in basically any space and require no infrastructure.

There is a metric shit tonne of space for planes right now just waiting for use. The same is never true for cars.
In Virginia, it's a Class 6 felony. There are two medical exemptions. One requires carrying "an affidavit" from a licensed physician or osteopath, which specifies "the medical necessity for wearing the device and the date on which the wearing of the device will no longer be necessary and providing a brief description of the device,"

The second is "the declaration of a disaster or state of emergency by the Governor in response to a public health emergency where the emergency declaration expressly waives this section, defines the mask appropriate for the emergency, and provides for the duration of the waiver"

Although the Governor issued an Executive Order, yesterday, telling people to stay at home, he did not include a declaration about masks.
But it goes the other way too.

I've had a miscommunication before because I told someone who grew up in China that something was "alright". Which as an American I meant "it's really fucking good, but I'm not ballsy enough to say so because there might be something I don't know about which will make it look like a toy". But the person I was speaking to actually thought I meant it was actually "just alright" as in very average.
End-to-end encryption doesn't require participants to receive full-quality video from everyone. Each client can be responsible for encoding their own video feed at multiple quality levels simultaneously – what WebRTC calls simulcasting. That does increase required processing power and upload bandwidth, but not to the point of infeasibility. And you do inevitably leak the identity of the person currently talking, as the server has to know whether to relay the high- or low-quality video stream for each participant to each other participant, and it can trivially tell the difference between the two based on bitrate. But that's much less bad than leaking the whole video stream.
You abandon the server-side processing part and have all 50 participants share a single key. The server then acts as a dumb broadcast network. It's definitely not easy, which is probably a big reason no-one in this space is doing it.
It would be cool if someone made a miSTer 68k CPU replacement, like how Vampire can accelerate an original Amiga.
There's no way the audio can be end-to-end encrypted, because I can call in from a normal telephone and hear everyone.
That’s not an honest mistake. It’s an inexcusable fuckup. End to end encryption is not a difficult concept. Redefining the “ends” doesn’t excuse Zoom’s continually shady behavior.
I notice a lot of people here feel uncomfortable when other people can see their screen. I completely recognise that feeling, though over time I learned to ignore it, and these days I just don't care anymore.

That said, there has been one situation where it was actually an advantage that everybody could see our screen. We had the most terrible working spot you could imagine: next to an intersection of two corridors, in a room that was open on one side, had a glass wall on another, was shared with another team, and had only a single window. A co-worker was sitting with his back to the intersection so everybody could see his screen. At the time, we were playing around with Neo4j, which has a nice graphical browser interface, and everybody seeing that, got us into contact with a couple of other teams we didn't know before that were also using Neo4j.
Congrats to the CMC team, but I fail to see how barring some special IP this makes sense at that valuation; they're an index that, while useful to an exchange, can't really be worth $400 Million in a current (albeit resilient) crypto Bear Market.

Binanace must be wanting to get rid of some Yuan as the CCP is just dumping Billions of it into the Market via bailouts, while people in Wuhan are supposedly coming [1] back online and wanting to 'Revenge shop.'

As for the idea of monopolizing such information, sites like Coingecko have been around for nearly as long as CMC, so it makes no sense. The other notable purchases Binance as made have been other exchanges, and a news site in China, which make actual sense to strengthen their position or get a foot-hold in other Markets in their core business as an exchange.

1: https://oklahoman.com/article/5659041/time-to-revenge-shop-c...
Aircraft require significantly more space between them in order to operate safely so I doubt the efficiency is there even taking into account stacking in an extra dimension. They're also pretty weather dependent in comparison to other options so capacity can vary a lot.

If we actually cared about efficiency in urban transport we wouldn't have personal vehicles beyond bikes and small electric vehicles. We'd rather rely on public infrastructure like subways, trams, trains and buses.
To be fair there often is a key chain in place nowadays, for booting a PC. It's a little bit better even though I don't like how basically Microsoft controls the keys.
> The notion that removing all shades and shadows is "cleaner" is a fad. This fad will end, and the sooner it ends the better it is for all of us.

It will not end so soon. They just rediscovered windows 1.0 and there is a lobg way till 95.

> Windows 10 doesn't have shades and shadows. It is "cleaner" in that sense than NeXTSTEP. But few will argue that it is more beautiful.

I fixed it for you.
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Huge amount of web traffic from crypto traders. I'd imagine they will direct those people to their exchange and make the money back in trading fees.
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That's terrible for national security. Zoom engineers are based in China: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...
Neuro-diversity usually means autism. It's unclear how people on the low end of the spectrum (those who can't speak nor live by themselves) contribute in any way to society. [Note: I didn't say that society shouldn't help them even if their contribution is zilch, in fact this is the proper of a developed society to take care of its member in need]
I've exactly the same problem with perfectionism. It's not what the industry wants.

And I mean anywhere: "If the language I'm working in supported FP, then my world would be much better" :) I've seen the fuckups that are possible in FP, and indeed worked with a guy who used it to make things as complex as possible. You can really produce nasty code because of it's much-touted compositionality in the hands of a dickhead can generate horrors. Map within a map composed with a reduce composed with... in one statement.

Add in statelessness, which can complicate things in some cases, if said prat pushes statelessness due to the latest blog article he read, it can get worse.

From memory: "against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain".
Virgin Orbit designs mass-producible ventilator for Covid-19 patients
I really have to agree with you. Anxiety is more than being anxious for a reason. Sometimes I will be sitting down perfectly content and all of a sudden my heartbeat will start racing for no reason and I start to panic and everything spirals out of control.
Actually zoom despite its privacy concerns is on the whitelist for telemedical application by the insurers in Germany, so I think they understand how to play the game...
You lose a lot of features, too. No calling in from a normal telephone if your Internet connection sucks. Everyone has to share the same stream, so no tailoring res/bitrate/etc to individual participants.
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> Firefox with more than 100 tabs opend consumes 1.2 GB,

Really? On my machine it eats 2gb for 10 tabs.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but aren't there small PCs that have been designed to be portable? Guy I worked with had one and it was tiny. Get one a little less tiny and you have ventilation + expansion (not as much as a desktop but still better than a laptop). Just have a monitor at work & at home, carry the pooter around.
In my experience Wireguard is nearly trivial to setup so I don't see the point of algo
I may have missed something but shouldn't the radius be 3 feet? With a 6 foot radius, wouldn't everyone be 12 feet apart? The maths is new to me (I was OK up to πr2!) so this might be my mistake.
I worked at something a bit like the Allen Institute, but that is governed by a public university. It's not an issue if done right.

We collaborated with them quite a bit by the way, and they faced almost exactly the same issues. Salaries aren't that good really (maybe 10-20% higher than in US national labs), they struggle to hire people who usually can make twice the money at Amazon or Microsoft. And you still need some ties to academia.

From my point of view, as a developer who didn't understand anything about the science my platform was used for:

- I think you probably want to have a few PhD students, postdocs and professors. They are the ones who can be creative given the right environment: no pressure to publish, access to sufficient resources (material and human) that enable their work.

- You need more money, but more importantly to spend it wisely. Pay people enough (in my case 20-30% more) and you'll cut the turnover by 2-3x.
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To add on this, an encrypted stream with a variable bitrate encoding allows to guess the amount of transmitted information entropy.
I dunno about dumbest, but this guy is proposing spiking the curve without any evidence or even vague correlation of variolation and mortality in Covid-19.
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> transparent gradients

Oh crikey - I forgot about the workarounds to achieve transparent gradients back in the old days! And we not that long ago got the ability to [finally] open PDFs with more than one page, which is - well, the fact that it didn't happen a decade or more ago - telling.
> Have you ever shopped for closets? Every major closet retailer has pictures of their product holding a ridiculously small number of apparel.[1][2] I, and especially my wife, have more than 4 shirts. I would like to see how a closet design looks when full. Sure the nearly empty closet looks cleaner, but it does not represent my use case, or that of anyone I know.

Ok. That explains it. So the new UI's (or UX's) are like closets waiting to be used. You just have to add a pipe (you need to figure out where because real programmers don't ...) and a closet seat lid and it's ready for use.
I've seen a lot of posts comparing numbers of people infected and numbers of deaths across different countries. That's problematic because different countries have very different methodology.

Even in the UK we have a couple of different methods.

The Office for National Statistics give details here of their method, and they explain why the ONS numbers do not match the numbers from Public Health England.
Another somewhat unsettling Aphex Twin song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p71GvWkLw9k
My subjective and personal observation is that LCD panels represented black by turning on the pixels to become opaque and stop the backlight from pass through the panel. This strategy worked well to get to relatively black pixels but a few years back typical consumer LCD panels were not very good at this and allowed a significant amount of light to pass through. When applied to large areas of the screen this, at least to me, made the screen look wrong and not enjoyable, specially after being exposed long enough. Therefore, as the user experience with non-dark modes was better, dark modes were simply not used.

Nowadays consumer-grade LCD panels are able to represent better contrast, thus the overall experience has improved.

My 0.02€.
I was wondering what license a music generated like this would be under?
The subject would be in the center of the circle.
^ it seriously looks they don't have a designer on this project and the end result is programmer art
Since Wil Shipleys presentation "Git as a Document Format" (AltConf, 2015, [1]) the idea of using git to track data has stuck with me.

Cool to see another approach at this.

From the first look, I miss the representation of data as plain-old-text-files, but I guess that's a little bit in competition with the goal of getting performance for larger data sets.

Anyway, I am wondering, did somebody here try using plain git like a database to track data in a repository?

[1] https://academy.realm.io/posts/altconf-wil-shipley-git-docum...
I never saw anyone advertising zoom had E2E.

Who expected that? There are so many privacy concerns with zoom... not surprising they don't encrypt meetings.
I am not sure but I really hope the trend continues. Especially for Excel/Word. My eyes are are pretty sensitive and while my OS and most of my apps are using "dark mode" opening Excel or seeing a white web page actually hurts.
Partly related, the book "Where poppies blow" is most likely (didn't read it) named after the Poem "In Flanders Fields" of which this is kind of a line.Or at least it reminds me of it so I'll share it:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

EDIT: And actually the poem mentions the "larks" (birds) that were still singing. So the poem also confirms that birds could be heard.

Although they are indeed added to the audio afterwards.
> When you cannot pay $4 or $19 per month extra for each employee

Not per employee, per user! Letting customers file issues and participate in the process can be impossibly expensive if they're paying $10/month for your product.

Admittedly the $99/seat/month supports free guest users.
It was standard for MS-DOS, the VT100, and many other things of that era. It was common with X on UNIX-like systems in the early 1990s.

Once WYSIWYG document processing became popular, people wanted computers to mimic normal paper documents.
I'm curious about the same thing. With my Ada background, I see a completely sensible interpretation of MemoryHolder:

A Holder type is a managed (RAII/garbage collected) wrapper that has a reference to some unmanaged/primitive object. If that primitive object is some notion of a contiguous region of memory, then MemoryHolder is a perfectly good name for it.

A name like "Buffer" might not automatically tell the users that the type is managed, or that it wraps some underlying primitive type. That may or may not be relevant to the user, but it's not obviously always irrelevant, at least.
It already is the biggest Exchange by a large margin:

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/binances-crypto-exchange-ma...

You're telling me you think they'd drop $400 million in HOPES of just getting that back x-fold via trading fees via a convoluted Marketing scheme?

That's crazy, but hey... let me use CMC to see how many Alt's have a smaller Market cap than the recent $400 Million purchase price tag.

Edit: Forget that, that's a waste of time; I did some legwork on potential IP or exclusive deal and found this from 2 weeks ago:

> Crypto Briefing Announces Partnership Integrating Company's SIMETRI Digital Asset Ratings on CoinMarketCap

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200317005241/en/Cry...

That makes more sense, if the assumption is that institutional level investment is primed to get in and CMC's SIMETRI rating system is the seen as the most trusted way in.

Which I have serious doubts given how so many Banks and Hedge Funds already have established systems in place. Fidelity being the most notable in the US for example, but are much larger outside of the US.
I dont know, their competitors are probably the reason for their popularity. It’s definitely a space with a lack of genuinely UX focused competitors.
I am an author with three books on there, and I've just emailed them to opt out. One reason authors are fine with libraries lending out their books for free, electronically or otherwise, is that borrowing a library copy is always a little bit less convenient than buying your own – with waits for availability and so on – which gives readers an incentive to pay if they can afford it. Once the library experience is almost indistinguishable from the paid experience, there is no reason for anyone to pay except as a kind of donation to the author. Yes, some generous people will choose to do this, but others won't, and we lose sales.

I am a mid-list author. I am not so successful that I will do fine whatever happens, nor am I so unsuccessful that writing is just a weekend hobby for me. Like many authors, writing is my career, but it's on a knife edge, and every sale counts. I've sat for an hour at a signing table just to sell four books, and I would again.

I spent five years working on my last book. People complain about 'legacy publishers', but I couldn't have done that without the support of a legacy publisher. Everything that further chips away at my sales reduces the chances that my publisher will be able to support me in the future, and so it reduces the chances that I will be able to put that same time and effort into another book. By 'liberating' the literature of today, these people are strangling the literature of the future.
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Though it is probably not practical today, there exists a research field for this kind of problems. The keyword is "homomorphic encryption".
1. Clients negotiate end-to-end encryption session key between themselves the same way as a chat app would.

2. Each client sends the server two (or more) encrypted video streams, varying in bandwidth and keyframes per second, with unencrypted markers showing where they can be sliced and joined. If you can upload a 1080p stream, chances are you've got the bandwidth to send a 360p stream too!

3. Each client tells the server which other call participants they'd like to see, and the server sends them the appropriate encrypted streams, switching between low and high bandwidth as appropriate.
"Zoom... claims to implement end-to-end encryption, widely understood as the most private form of internet communication, protecting conversations from all outside parties. In fact, Zoom is using its own definition of the term, one that lets Zoom itself access unencrypted video and audio from meetings."
I find impossible to read those kind of things when you use the United States customary units
> Phi spirals -- seem to construct themselves

They are not self replicating. Some other process is creating them (usually life).
If we're packing circles, don't we need to take into account that the 6ft distance is to the next person -- that is the centre of the next circle, rather than the boundary of it?

That means circles of radius 3ft, for a total of 8,693 square miles.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22141022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22147369

Tried this >

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bsl%20p4%20function%20...
End-to-end encryption is hard to implement, might cost more processing or bandwidth or storage (depending on the product) and does not yield benefits for companies interested in processing user data.

If it's not clearly advertised on the front page, _emphasized_ and not a foot note, then it's NOT e2e encrypted.

Example: https://signal.org
The thing is that cars (and bikes, and to some degree planes) are point-to-point. This decentralized mode of transportation is much more efficient when it comes to satisfy the needs of many commuters. For instance, by bike I save at least half of the time compared to Subway. And I have access to a well-developed subway and I do not need to change.

I agree, though, that planes will never be a replacement for cars or even bikes. That is because the utility per € is much higher for the former. A bike is generally cheap. A car is much more expensive but can carry four or more persons very far in pretty much every weather. A small electric plane is going to be even more expensive (conjecture) but otherwise worse than a car.
I'm a bit baffled by WireGuard. From 10 000 feet, the protocol is similar to IPSec - encrypt packets, and send them over the internet using a connectionless protocol.

So why is it so much better?

Is it because it's a new and simpler implementation than what we have for IPSec?

Is it because the protocol, being newer, is simpler and cleaner than IPSec?

Is it because, being newer, it can use a modern ciphersuite?

Are there fundamental advances in the design?

One of the nice things about IPSec is that it's a standard. There's a reasonable chance that two endpoints written by separate parties will be able to communicate. Introducing a whole new protocol whose main implementation is its definition seems like a step backwards.
Where does it say they have e2e video encryption? I can only find something about chats.
Search indicated that ShadowSocks (or its variants) can be used to tunnel WireGuard traffic, however, ShadowSocks is already on the way out due to continuously evolving GFW. I am looking to see if V2Ray is a viable option.

In the meantime, can anyone recommend a obfuscation proxy for Linux?
Most interesting takeaway for me was jpackage working with GH actions. V useful. Who needs a local build system now? ;)
Somewhat related. Newton did some of his good work while being isolated during the plague.

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/variety/how-social...
>Unlike computers, cells like to do their own thing

As an ex-repair tech, I can't applaud this comment.
Just an anecdotal observation. I bought a micro ATX MSI motherboard (a relatively niche product) together with my Ryzen 1700X way back when and they provide support for the latest Ryzen CPUs via bios updates. I'd be surprised if other more popular boards did not get updates.

So I can run the latest 3000 series with my current first gen AM4 board which is great. As you point out though the 16 and 32 core chips might be too power hungry for some boards.
Honest question, what do you find is better about zoom?
Compared to webex, skype, slack call…

What do people like about zoom?
My problem with this is Zoom's misleading claims. If Zoom can't implement end-to-end encryption, it shouldn't claim that it does.
This is key. Competition is about squeezing inefficiencies out. It is about accepting risk of supply chain disruption in order to reduce cost.

The more cynical way to put it is nobody gets a raise for a detailed continuity of operations plan. They do if they reduce manufacturing cost by 20%.