skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a couple more arguments:

Amateur radio has usually been sold to regulators as a way to encourage international goodwill. Setting up a private point to point link is inherently in opposition to public goodwill. Like the difference between zoning real estate for public park to increase public happiness, vs zoning private warehouse space; they can't coexist in the same location.

The FCC provides elaborate services ... to SOME services. If you interfere with aviation navigation signals, ambulance dispatching, or megacorporation broadcasting they have in some cases visited with swat teams. If you have no borders and no categorization there can be no differential services. If some idiot decides to use the middle of the 80 meter ham radio band for broadcasting and spectrum enforcement is a free for all then nothing will work for anyone anymore. This was the justification for a TV broadcast license costing roughly 1e5 times as much as a ham radio license, which also makes problems. The real estate analogy is no zoning at all of any kind usually doesn't sell very well to endusers once its explained what will happen. No one likes excessive zoning regulation, but none at all is usually worse.

We're exiting a local maxima of personal freedom and for most of the lifespan of the technology the idea of letting people say what they want on the radio is on the downswing along. The easiest way historically to deal with "this speech is not a hate crime if spoken in Morocco but is a hate crime to be heard in Germany" or similar was always to make encryption illegal thus abstract out the technology of radio. This also helps with espionage. If its illegal to send encrypted codes (internationally and locally), and you don't send any, its kinda hard to get prosecuted for sending CP or industrial secrets or hate speech or whatever.
Its hard to see why the JS frameworks came to be, and easy to see the up front complexity of most of them. People who started before good frameworks were around take it for granted that people know what happens when you build complex sites with vanilla JS: You get a mess, or you get your own framework.
You fear a revolution towards healthcare, housing, food, etc. as human rights?

Personally that revolution can't come fast enough. This country has betrayed its constitutional duties to its people for decades (supporting the general welfare, anyone?).

We NEED revolution at this point since it seems both of our two parties are on the same side when it comes to Working Class America.
Tough situation to be in, I feel bad for the author. TBH I only read the article up to the point it became a rant IMO.

Still I don't want to discourage anyone from writing and sharing their experience and feelings as I believe it will provide valuable insight for future generations to understand how people experienced the great quarantine of 2020.
The response was as expected. Nice people, but it wasn't confirmed if they have documentation or not, and I was told that if they do or don't the policy is not to make any of that public.
>As for e2e encryption over webrtc via an SFU - yes, this is possible, but its currently very messy (wasm video encoding and encryption streamed over an SFU-bound datachannel with full mesh distribution of the encryption key). There are plans to implement "Insertable Streams" which you will be able to transform (e.g. encrypt) which will allow this to work without the hacks.

So currently Jitsi meet the one on the web site is NOT e2e encrypted?
An "ideal" scheme is once again derailed by reality, where predictability is valued; where antennas and signal processing equipment are physical objects, that cost money to procure and install, and are subject to engineering limitations which limit their flexibility.

Remember, the free market is only efficient when transaction costs are low.
Because webpack is not part of the language specification.
"The economic impact is largely going to be a question of how much do we shut down to save lives?"

i think about that a lot. I have so much respect for the task force setup to work on this, but man, i'm glad i'm not on it.
Sure, either Javascript is an intrinsically good language, and you should therefore be able to use it as is, or it is not good, in which case the sane response would be to use it as little as possible. Every language has warts, but most can at least go out in public without layers of makeup.
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> eventually a player without that track record will come along and eat their lunch.

And that player will need to be in the App Store, follow Apple's policies, and give them a cut of any IAPs. Either way, Apple wins.

iMessage just needs to have a better reputation than the built-in messenger for other platforms. It does _not_ need to beat all other messengers.
Maybe try Zepto?
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> Just because unions did that historically, doesn't mean they can do it today.

You said Governments, not USA specifically. Unions are very politically active all over Europe, a large number of top politicians have been or were union leaders. So to me USA seems to be the odd one out on this rather than the rule.
I don't know exactly what is the main security issue right now, but as I understand it, it's mostly related to this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zoom-lets-att... (on Windows).

The windows changelog[1] doesn't talk about a version released on April 1st, like the press release says[2].

So is the only way to mitigate that issue for non-techie users is to deactivate the chat feature for all conversations?

[1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201361953-New-Upda...

[2] https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-u...
And is built in react. It's about choosing the right tool for the job.
I’m paying $2,500 per month per child (I have 2) in NYC so that’s $5,000 down the drain. And that’s considered cheap.
> wrapping prometheus and giving you that production readyness that they're claiming the OSS project won't give you out of the box

No! Prometheus is and has been production ready for many years. Cortex is a clustered/horizontally scalable implemention of the Prometheus APIs, and Cortex has just gone production ready. Sorry for the confusion.
I'm in the same boat. I've tried a number of packages but they all have flaws:

* GNOME Calendar - ridiculous 100% CPU usage at all times, poor reminder handling, restricted to a few providers

* Thunderbird - poor reminder handling, out of place look/feel, clunky email integration, no minimize to tray

* Wavebox - basically an Electron wrapper around Google Calendar, incredibly expensive for what it does ($120+/year to have a calendar that minimizes to tray)

* Evolution - no longer supported

Of all that I've found, Evolution was my go-to for a long time but its age is showing and it frequently crashes on modern Ubuntu. Wavebox is a good runner up for Google Calendar but the cost is easily an order of magnitude more than the value I get from it, so that's a no go.

I'm very interested in other solutions!
You bet their marketing guys had a background story then just like they have now.
What's wrong with having names that are public that doesn't match with a version number?

Like you said, even model/sku numbers are mostly random. Why the expectation of a monotonically increasing version number if intel has almost never done it before?
> But LTE happened and there was a lot of money to be made to sell the spectrum to big corps...

But isn't the spectrum owned by the government? There is no compelling profit motive for government-provided services. The sale vs granting to the public likely had to do with the revolving door between interest groups and government.
I've learned through personal experience that it's not sufficient to discuss this with a professional biologist. I've found several biology PhDs ill prepared for this topic. I discovered that even at the PhD level some biologists take evolution on faith without having a decent understanding. I think it's much better to read books or view lectures created by specialists in the field specifically for the purpose of confronting evolution skepticism.
We just did that yesterday. It actually works out better for a lot of people. The break even point in California is around $25/hr. If you made under $25/hr it pays more to be unemployed. For some people who were part time at $15/hr or less they will actually see paychecks double. And you no longer have to even be looking for work to keep getting the money, at least through July 31.
> Everything from Markov Chains, stochastic processes, ANNs, controls, signal processes, electrical systems, finite automata, Turing machines, etc can all be formulated in those terms. The cool part is when you break apart those specific formulations into the abstract notion of a signal flow graph (a directed graph that represents the operations of F and G) you start thinking a lot about homological algebra, category theory, and the general nature of things.

Very interesting! Do you have any references where such reformulations are done? Or where control problems are formulated in terms of algebra or category theory?
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55% in the latest Morning Consult poll[1]. And this is after a heavy push from the healthcare industry against it, as well as strong opposition from all of the Republican leadership and most of the Democratic leadership. Before the recent blitz against it, polling was 70%[2].

[1] https://morningconsult.com/2020/04/01/medicare-for-all-coron...
[2] https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403248-poll-seventy-pe...
The US media reporting has also been terrible. CNN even noticed that a lack of testing was correlated with a higher reported percentage of deaths... and then went and concluded that the reason for this was that more testing caused fewer people to be infected, even though this wouldn't directly affect the mortality rate and there was other evidence indicating that the lack of testing had screwed with the denominator in the calculation.
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Is there a state wise breakdown?

I would guess NYC is contributing a big chunk, and if things turn around there in a month or two should be okay.
Modern Web browser don't allow true peer-to-peer, you always need a server.

Jami uses a fully distributed network (DHT) to initiate connections.
Agreed, but my point is that the numbers from the report only include US jobs, but they ignore the fact that we have a global economy. Most consumer goods are produced outside the US, and the US also imports a lot of its food (from Mexico, for example).
Hi everyone, I've been working on this extension for more than the one weekend I promised myself, and hope there are some people that find it useful :)

I've personally been using this in my browser while I've been building it and have definitely enjoyed having it around.

One of my favorite things about HN are the book recommendations you can find from other users, especially in those long "Ask HN: What are you reading" threads. I've found some of my favorite books by going through those kinds of threads. At the same time, while I am a Goodreads user, I almost never look at the user reviews at the bottom of Goodreads because I find they do such a bad job at selling me on why I should read a certain book. Often, they're just beat by beat summaries of what occurs in a book and don't say anything about why you might want to read it. Whereas, I think the opposite is true on HN. When people recommend books here it's, in my experience, brief and much more meaningful, and seeing a single person on HN saying: "this is my favorite book ever" + child comments that say the same thing, makes me much more interested in reading a book than almost anything else could. So, I wanted to bring that experience to Goodreads and that is why I decided to build this.

It's far from perfect, and will display comments that aren't relevant just as soon as it will not display enough comments. However, after quite a bit of tweaking, I think the extension is at the point where it's pretty useful - even with these issues.

I would love to hear any feedback or suggestions you might have.
Thanks!
I don't understand- they are not providing the service but also not reimbursing fees? That makes zero sense to me- do you pay monthly, and ahead of time?
Neuromatch was a resounding success a few days ago. Yoshua bengio had a talk too. You can find the recordings on youtube
I’m working on a domain-specific language for building GraphQL APIs in no time.

I’m building this because I think that building APIs is unnecessarily tedious and I wanted to he able to iterate on ideas faster.

It’s called Pragma (https://pragmalang.com). I would really appreciate any feedback.
...in Wisconsin. https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2020/04/01/new-marquette-law-...
It will be open-sourced soon: https://twitter.com/gannimo/status/1245630618462867457
This is one of the things that bugs me a little in the AI vs Human games. Reading the board is such a difficult skill in GO and humans get fatigued. We have to visually track all the places we could move. It only takes missing one of the top 10 moves on any given turn to lose against Alpha. It would be interesting to have AG or AZ play Lee when he has a day for each move. I'm not saying Alpha wouldn't still win but the computer is so fast and can consider so many things that a human can't hold only in their thoughts.

I do think it is a great achievement how far AI or ML has come. Not to take anything away from the team's accomplishments.
It doesn’t affect me (because I don’t trust my government enough with this data to use that voluntary service, use of any such things tends to expand more and more and deleted data hasn’t been deleted), but when I first read that Palantir is one of the companies being talked to I had to laugh.
Great explanation, thank you kindly!
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Where I live, there's a sign that says "limit 1 per customer" in front of a shelf that's been completely empty for over two weeks now.
This doesn’t account for the vast poor and underemployed population. Keep in mind NYC consists of 5 boros, not just SoHo.
It also implies “we knew things were bad but we intended to only compromise the security and privacy of people working in enterprises”
I'll lose my job because I'm a mom but you might lose your life
I assume if they do it they'll just be blase about metadata and only encrypt content.
https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-u...
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Seriously, the poster is going to have to host their files somewhere eventually if they intend anyone else to ever see it. I can't believe they rewrote all their JS because they were forced to access over http:// instead of file://. This seems nonsensical.
In general Java's ubiquity means that a lot of substandard programmers know java. Nothing wrong with the language per se.
Biden is the candidate even of 'the righteous' . Highly doubt your statement.
Honestly, while axios is nice to have on the server side, the websocket API in the browser is very simple to use. Which IMO is a consistent theme with modern browser APIs.
Technically that's not an either/or, you know.
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As I understand this, the approach here is to bet on personal responsibility. This technology cannot be used to enforce quarantines as the authorities have no access to the data.

Basically, we have to stop 2/3 of infections to get an R<1. If 2/3 of the population use the app honestly and we keep up some other measures (no indoor events where people are in close contact, wearing masks while shopping, no visitors in nursing homes and hospitals, etc.) then this might be enough to contain the virus until we have a vaccine.
Not cunning; it's a low effort hand wave. The rest is true.
Eh. That poll is just for
Wisconsin. Nationally it's up to 55%
I've used it several times to chat with family members all over the globe, and I use Zoom at work. Jitsi's great - I don't perceive a difference.
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>Would you trade 9 million unemployed for 9 million dead?

No, I'm not advocating to abort a quarantine and have people return to work.

>It's a fantasy to assume people will just go back to work, the economy will get better, and everything will return to normal

Agreed. I'm advocating we stop believing in this fantasy and face reality that this is the start of a long term recession.
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It's actually way more ironic than that. It's traced back to the public stance of the British government during the spanish flu pandemic in WW1, where they decided that keeping the economy going was more important than trying to slow the spread of the flu.

"According to Dr Honigsbaum, the “carry on” advice may well have been responsible for thousands of the 250,000 Britons who ultimately died in the Spanish flu pandemic."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/coronavirus-...
I'm also running a website where I ask people exactly that! :) https://myhandmadestory.com/ (success stories from independent makers who sell handmade stuff online)
Maybe a blog post saying "Yes, we acknowledge that we deliberately ignored major portions of security practices and just did whatever got us market share fastest. We can't change the past, but we're going to clean house and do privacy and security for real from now on, and we hope you'll stick with us, or come back after we've fixed <pointing to all of this>."
> And is built in react. It's about choosing the right tool for the job.

React is useless here. Try browsing the website without JS and notice how litterally nothing changes.

The only things that need JS are the light filter at the top and the fast navigation using body/head swapping + pushState, none of which require React.
I think it’s fair, given the way people in NYC have treated the underclass for a long time.
It’s not veneration it’s the idea that devs should understand the way things work underneath the over engineered abstractions FAANGs developed so they could onboard new grads to web development faster.
Give with the left hand so we can take with the right. How about not giving to the affluent in the first place and not lose on friction?
>I understand why authors find arguments like mine upsetting. Their "pay a toll per copy" business model is obsolete. It's been obsolete for years.

I am an author in the UK. Revenue from digital book sales – i.e. what you would call "paying a toll for copying a file" and what I would call people buying books they want to read – went up 3% between 2018 and 2019. I'm not sure sales increasing is very good evidence for a business model having been "obsolete for years". Sure, there a lot of serious problems with the publishing industry, but if this is the "pain" I'm "prolonging" then I think I can endure it for a little bit longer.
TypeORM seems wonderful for basic stuff, but also in dire need of maintainers/contributors, at least based on its GitHub issues and docs [0] to get that last 20% (that takes just as much time as the first 80%).

https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/blob/master/docs/query-ru...
Just want to say, I use prometheus. It's amazing.

But readiness depends somewhat on your use case. If you're on a multi-tenanted cluster and you don't want to explicit trust your users / admins, how do you stop them from messing with your metrics whilst allowing them to maintain their own?

I typically did it via github flow, some others used the operator to give us many proms, some others would just suggest it's missing features.

Indeed, I could probably word my example better though. Apologies if I were putting words in your mouth.
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The weekly numbers are unemployment benefit claims, whereas I think the monthly employment statistics are based on surveying the population and counting the actual number of people who are employed, seeking work, etc.
Gotcha, sorry, I read your comment as a "we all need to unpause and return to work" message, when it wasn't.

This is definitely the start of interesting times - we don't know how things are going to look at the end of all this. The best economics times have come on the tail end of adversity.
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> You're better off learning sam or acme

I beg to differ. Emacs is an excellent text-based operating environment, simply the best, without peer. I’ve used sam & acme, and they don’t compare.

> SBCL I have no experience with but my guess is all the tooling and libraries are built around a 50 year old operating system.

Some of the hairiest bits of Lisp (e.g. the pathname abstraction) are due to the fact that it doesn’t assume Unix.

Regardless, while I would prefer to boot directly into some sort of 21st-century Lisp OS which takes a lot of great ideas from Plan 9, that doesn’t exist; Plan 9 does. And if I ever get the spare time I intend to port Emacs & SBCL. And hope someone else will port Firefox.
For now, I'm hoping it's an xor.
I have feeling this is a lost art and wasn't used since xbox one / ps4 release (and probably way less before that).
Saw an exhibition of his iPad work recently, really worked well in person because as you approach them the strokes begin to break up into crisp digital primitives.
I can't confirm it, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least. Throw some scripts in there at boot to do some env setup and then let 'er run. Probably plays nicer with COTS hardware, and no heavy back-end coding required.

Which is essentially the point of re-releasing that, or selling old Nintendo games on the Wii/Switch market -- easy cash grabs with little overhead effort.
Bread:
https://pearlbakery.com

We are moving the operation out of downtown Portland OR, but this virus will slow down our opening.

There’s a surprising number of ways to apply technology to bread baking. Inventory management, formula calculation, delivery planning, etc. There’s also the problem of trying to optimize the production schedule , i.e. when to mix, how long to rise, when to shape, and when to bake, across your entire menu with orders changing day to day.
Yep, when Darwin got Wallace's letter, he realized that Wallace's ideas were close enough to his own that he would be scooped if Wallace published first. Later in life, Wallace got swept up in the Spiritualist craze, but continued to defend Darwin's work.
Most places. California, New York, anywhere with a decent unemployment insurance program.

If you made $15 an hour in California you were making $600/wk. On unemployment you now make $877/wk. That’s a 46% increase. It’s huge.
The IT guys in the industry know very well what constitutes an E2E encryption. Those two ends must be "trusted" which means it's either you yourself - your computer, or the other party which you want to talk to. Everything in between is third party and must get only encrypted data. If they redefine one of the "ends" as Zoom server, that's definitely intentional, blatant, and therefore fraudulent.
I do all my personal mvps now in vanilla JS, I can get ideas fleshed out faster without fumbling over frameworks.
https://e.foundation supports more devices (still based on LineageOS, but actively de-Googled). My Nexus 5 is one such. They also sell refurbished phones with /e/ pre-installed (in Europe).
EUPL (European Union Public Licence)
Are theses internships paid?
> https://agoric.com/papers/

For someone who hadn't really read about this before, I found this[1] article, linked above, to be a really nice introduction.

[1]: http://habitatchronicles.com/2017/05/what-are-capabilities/
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So wait.

Are they the big bad all-present panopticon, or are they incompetent, inexperienced muppets?