skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider emailing the site admins (footer Contact link) and ask them for a userpref to disable italics. They provided the italics feature and so it will be used for various purposes, but if it's materially impacting your ability to use the site, they'll certainly want to hear about that. I'm not guaranteeing that they will reply or agree, as I'm not an admin.

Do you have any recommendations for browser addons/extensions/etc. that strip italics from all sites? I wasn't able to find any in a simple search and I imagine you'd have more experience in this area for others seeing your comment, agreeing with it, and then wishing something like that existed.
Apple has intentionally crippled WebRTC for years to stifle FaceTime competition and drive up dev costs by forcing native app development. The video chat startup I co-founded in 2015 was impacted.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG...
It might be a variation on: If you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you, but if you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank.
I agree lukifer. Immutability is useful and interesting, but `const` in JS not really about immutability, it's about variable reassignment (which is trivial to handle really, even for a noob programmer).

const arr = ['foo'];

arr[0] = 'bar';

assert(arr[0] === 'bar'); // !!!

Something like that would make sense though IMHO:

const PHI = 1.618;

I don't get how JS is designed really, they try to solve a bad design (`var`) but they introduce another bad design (`const`) and they make things even messier. Many devs ship JavaScript thought TypeScript these days, so I hope Microsoft can clean this mess one day.
inside the USA currently on stem opt.
There is schism if you are into Schemes, but it does rely on experimental support for tail calls and reference types.

https://github.com/google/schism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7IxiMjKWZM
Norway's like that. Last time I was there the taxi driver taking us back to the airport knew more about the CUDA API than I do (not a terribly high bar, but still...).
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> The OP was literally advocating for a centrally ("democratically") planned economy. Having production dictated by the political process as the default is the extreme position.

No. You just seem to have reacted reflexively seeing the word "planned" placed next to the word "economy," without seeking any clarification or understanding or even really putting it in context.

The OP was clearly focused on criticizing prioritization of profit-seeking over all other interests, and the corrosive effect that has had on our ability to respond to this present crisis.

> Developed countries all find some balance between central planning and laissez faire, but they do so by assuming the free market as the default. Intervention and central planning is only applied to specific cases where there is a concrete public interest in doing so.

And you know what? This crisis is uncovering a lot of areas where less laissez faire and more government intervention would have been "concretely in the public interest."

The market system is an imperfect means to an end, not an end itself.
Yeah, in fact, that is USUALLY the way people screw up and roll their own crypto.
The Dance of Death
And yet, the only way to actually complete that charter is to "interpret" or "compile" that charter into something imperative.
People have a very clear grasp of a list of instructions to follow in order. At the same time, a set of constraints that describe something is a very advanced topic that requires a lot of getting used to and some extra focus.

Programmers tend to favor the declarative approach because it leads to simpler programs, but it's only easier to understand if you are trained in (somewhat advanced) mathematics; most people succeed in avoiding learning any mathematics.

But yes, mutability is surprising. It's something to explicitly teach.
Got it in there now!
Have you tried Simutrans?

https://www.simutrans.com/en/

It's a while since I played it, but it's similar to Transport Tycoon and seems to have variants ("paksets") with different levels of graphical detail.
"The use of ECB mode is not recommended because patterns present in the plaintext are preserved during encryption."
There was another bug in the original Transport Tycoon (not Deluxe) that gave an even easier way to make massive amounts of money. If you built a tunnel through the whole continent the price integer rolled over and instead of paying a ton of money for the you actually received billions of dollars.
What does that have to do with boxed food at gas stations?
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> The difficulty is in deciding what needs to "stop". Do you "stop" rent payments when those businesses aren't allowed to operate? If yes, do you "stop" loan payments for landlords who depend on rent to repay loans? What about landlords who only half depend on rent for loan payments?

Someone's going to end up getting left holding the bag, and it's going to suck for them, and it's not going to be fair. Life isn't fair. There's going to be edge cases, and those edge cases won't be dealt with correctly, but we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I think the ROI on letting shuttered businesses keep existing in limbo is better than the ROI on making sure lenders and landlord-owners get paid... Because the businesses, not the lenders are the engines of the economy.

The current approach to bailouts/economic aid does little but funnel government money directly from taxpayers into the pockets of landlords and lenders. It's miles better than letting everyone starve to death, but it's the least good of the options that we have.
Certainly not a bad time to have some cash.
Apple will always make the right choice—until it messes with their business model. There are uncountable examples of ways in which they have intentionally crippled their own hardware and software to prevent users from using their own purchase.
Cross-platform Rust GUI Library 'Iced' 0.1 released
2 notes about the parent. 1) The parent is written by an employee at Facebook and 2) it does not deny the claim instead redirecting the readers attention.

None of this makes the original claim true or false. I'll be curious to see what comes to light around that. I just like to notice these subtle things.
In the readme now!
No comment on the original claim, but that example is encryption applied to an uncompressed image. (Adjacent identical pixels are not typically represented individually when compressed, and thus encryption could not cause the banding patterns seen in those regions of the image if it were compressed prior to encryption.)
You can find a partial list of companies that use some clojure on clojure.org: https://clojure.org/community/companies

It's not complete or up to date.
Ask HN: Lifestyle Change During Lockdown
This complete lockdown is unprecedented, and has resulted in some behavioral changes in me & my family. Wondering how this impacted you, and what social & behavioral changes have you encountered. Some of these are contrary to what the situation offers, so I find those interesting.

- My productivity sunk 50%, in that I spend more than on an activity that I used to

- My perception of weekday and weekend has become murky, and that is unsettling. My work overflows into weekends, my colleagues & extended colleagues work over weekends. And I spend "weekend" times during weekdays.

- I feel I have more time in hand, but I am constantly distracted

- I miss "bouncing off ideas" with colleagues over a coffee or along the corridor

- Contrary: I spent far less time being active, exercising or playing because of fear of going out. Wish I had bought exercise gear before these.

- As a result, I struggle to get good rest at night, though I feel lazy all day

- I now have a heightened sense to keep things around me clean, sanitizing hands, etc.

- I think employer-employee tide has changed direction for a foreseeable future. Its employer's turn now.

- Social distancing is good a way that I don't have to interact & spend time with people I don't want to.

- Contrary: Spent far less time reading a book, or a long article

- Time I spend on podcast reduced by 80%

- I spend more time in the kitchen, cooking or nibbling something. I spend about 1 hour per day more in the kitchen

- I watch more YouTube, Netflix. I used to watch 1 movie per week earlier, now 1 movie per day!

- I constantly worry about running out of food supplies for the community, should this continue. I have not stocked any more than what is required for 1-2 weeks
Me? I'd look into breaking the rent contract, or at least "suspending" it. That's supposed to be a thing, at least in the US (though I have no information on how or even whether it actually works). But, basically, "Hey, owner, I can't pay you the rent while this is going on, because I don't have any customers. You can sue me, and I can declare bankruptcy. Or I can just not pay you until things get back to normal, and when they do, you've got a customer for your space again."

Note well: This is not legal advice. It's probably worth asking them, though.
Ensure your website is available and usable for everyone during Covid-19
There are more possible explanations than could be fit in an HN comment. What are you looking for?

I think Reiki would say that "energy" assists you to heal your own back, but it doesn't specify how that healing takes place. In addition, I think Reiki distinguishes between the "energy" of the practitioner, and "energy" of the universe which flows via the practitioner, and ideally the latter assists you.

If we assume (for the sake of this discussion) the relief of tension in your back takes place and you are then looking for a mechanism, I can immediately think of numerous plausible explanations we could begin to explore, some of which we could measure, and others are beyond our capabilities to measure.

I'll give some examples of plausible:

- The tension is caused by signals in your neural system. The Reiki experience caused a change of data in your neural system due an information "covert channel" that exists between your system and the practioner, and your muscle tension is relieved.

- The tension is caused by chemistry in your muscle cells or intercellular matrix. The Reiki experience caused a change of gene expression due numerous hormonal changes that occur in your body when you are in that environment.

With both of those examples we have scientific study methods for looking into more details. E.g. for the first, it would involve looking at neural signals and the practitoner's neural signals and other factors such as position, timing etc. to detect hidden signal transfer. For the second we could monitor all the hormones we might think are relevant, or if we want to search more broadly than just markers we already know about, perhaps monitor some general molecular distribution signals such as chromatography or spectrometry.

There are numerous modern methods for looking for signal relationship, but also numerous confounding factors.

The list of plausible things to explore is vast though, so ruling out one or two doesn't rule out there being a mechanism. However as you explore mechanisms, if you find something that shows a signal relationship, then you can zoom in and look into plausible underlying mechanisms for that mechanism, and repeat. There is no bottom, but the more levels deep a signal is shown, the more people are likely to call it a mechanism rather than an effect.
Not a standalone browser app, but if I tap a link in say the watchOS Mail app, it'll display a web view. Developers can optimize their site for the watch display. It might sound crazy but it's useful for glancing at brief information on the web.
Yes in theory.

No in reality. Because of debt. Those forgone revenue cashflows were going to service debt. So a quarter of no business is existential.

Now, could we try to plug that gap with printed money? Yes! Hence the SBA.

Now whether it's possible to actually get than money with less than 30hrs of work filling out forms, I have yet to hear.
AES-ECB isn't necessarily insecure, it's just very easy to misuse (and I agree what the article described is a misuse). I think the argument is that if there are patterns in the input data, the same patterns will show up in the AES-ECB encrypted data, just with different values. Compressed data should be high entropy and hard to predict, so there really shouldn't be structure or patterns to the input data. There's no guarantee that any given compression algorithm provides sufficient randomness, though.
With a scenario this immense, I'm not sure you're all that much more protected in a 9-5 'job' vs being a self-employed consultant. I do agree that many folks jump ahead without too much planning for the future, and... sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. I've been burned a few times in the past, and while I am still self-employed, I've become a lot more cautious and reserved in my operations and personal life.
Stop saying "atomic" for Christ's sake. Unless the company is literally going under companies usually take the time to have a 1:1 chat with the person being laid off.
There is somehow a pretty obvious way to do C interop from Common Lisp, even though C has one namespace for functions and variables.
We need more bankruptcy, businesses where the equity holders were too risky getting transferred to the debt holders. Force companies who want bail outs into bankruptcy, and if they let people keep their jobs let them hold some small amount of the equity when the company is rebalanced. Let the system work as designed instead of bailing out the bad decision makers.
Apple is easy to hate if you want stuff that you can trust to work over time. Anything that locks you in as much as they do is not a friend of mine (anymore).

They aren't the worst player, or even close really however. It's just there's a lot of power and influence in that company, so you hear a lot about it.
I wonder how much impact this even would have had.

But rolling it back is fine if they're going to go through with it later.
Can compressed sensing be used to solve Covid-19 testing kit shortage?
Yes you're correct, miniled
Well in that case I definitely want to read the stuff you have been holding back :-)
I'm just going to address the economic impacts.

Imagine a company that makes small plastic bits (like straws). Despite a crisis, they still have to pay their rent, and their loans. Because no restaurants are buying straws, revenue drops effectively to zero. The company can't stay afloat, and they have to shut down.

Why aren't loans/rent/mortgages just put on pause? Well then the lenders suffer. Why doesn't the government reimburse the lenders? Well then the taxpayers suffer. It's all interconnected, and somewhere along the way someone is going to suffer somewhat.

Back to the plastics company. Their machines are sold off at half price. Money is spent to remove equipment from the store. Employees who have been trained move on to unemployment or other jobs. All of those things represent an overall loss of capital that has been built up (it's not that black and white, but I'm hand-waving it). Once the economy gets going again, the economy is that much smaller. Those jobs don't exist anymore, and it will take a lot more capital to again build up a similar plastics company. If the owner decides to reopen that plastics company, he'll need new equipment, to train new staff etc etc.

On the other hand, an enormous amount of capital is being built up in other ways. Many people are learning how to work remotely. Many processes are being made more efficient (unnecessary meetings).
> I know, it sounds like a nitpick

No, you're right. It's always about the perceived value or impact. And that perception can be formed by deceiving, bribing, showing your books, etc.
The Dissolution and Insolvency of the USA
Make the tileset and I'll make it happen :)
Lots of industries will not be the same for many years. For example people will not be going back to restaurants like they did. Their habits have changed and many people's attitude to being out with large groups of people is going to be changed forever. Same with tourism.

Many workers will drift into different jobs and for other reasons not return to their former employers. All of their institutional knowledge is gone. Supply lines are broken and will not all turn back on at the same time. Many businesses will not recover from that.

Plenty of economic activity will not be covered by the bailouts and those parts of the economy are now dead forever.
Compression already makes a compressed file roughly indistinguishable from random noise (module access to the decompressor). So the patterns have been removed.

That doesn’t make this good, but it means that one specific example isn’t immediately applicable.
That's a cool idea, I like it.
I probably am naive, but I like to think it's only in relation to the domain which has been corrupted with fakery. I use the word corrupted to mean that it's so competitive that everyone at the top is bending the rules or misrepresenting their work--and becoming disconnected from their audience.

FWIW, this photographer fully documents that the golden light was an off-camera flash. But when the image gets published in magazines, I bet that detail is not included. I'm still curious if that information was included in the submission for the photo contests.

Here are 2 images of his where it's clear he used artificial lighting:

https://500px.com/photo/1053642/Full-Moon-Mesa-by-Marsel-van...

https://500px.com/photo/1053782/In-The-Dead-Of-The-Night-by-...

You see those pictures and you think "light painting."

And then there's this one where you think "capturing the last glow of the sun in just the right place:"

https://500px.com/photo/17176603/Double-Light-by-Marsel-van-...

But now that one also looks like artificial lighting. To me, adding sun-colored light that is otherwise absent no longer qualifies as "nature photography." It might make a nice image, but that it wins nature photographer prizes just makes me cynical of the whole industry. Seems like you're saying I should've been cynical all along, but there always comes a day when the realization happens.
I mean, an over-leveraged business failing is gonna create over-leveraged workers failing. I don't really see the material difference, anyways.
Super cool backstory. I also wondered what brought you here as well.
Actually if one downloads the ZIP instead of the DMG file, it seems to start flawlessly on macOS 10.11.

I cheered to soon...
Sincere question: If you had a voice in the decision, what would you have done differently?
Microsoft edge (chromium) surpasses Firefox in users
This is really neat. I logged in for a few seconds to check out the interface (should have taken a screenshot). The center of the meeting shows a large white square window and smaller colored squares indicating other meeting participants. You can drag your square (avatar) around the window to place yourself next to others.

I have a standing virtual happy hour with some friends every week. If I can figure out how to get this to work with my docker/traefik deployment, I'll have to try it with my friend group and see how it works.

Thanks for creating and sharing this!
Are you saying that buying a company and having it take on debt should be illegal?
Non-gigantic grocery stores are going to start closing because contrary to the official positions logistics is broken. Smaller grocery stores have very small margins and operate on COD basis. A friend of mine owns one. His distributors raised prices between 10-50% across the board and removed all the incentives. He does not have enough money to stock up at the new price points so he is slowing the buys, cleaning out inventory and is going to close unless the social distancing goes away by the end of the month. Anecdotally, other small supermarket operators are thinking about doing the same.

Effective grocery store prices are 2x - all of the sales have been removed. Eggs in Queens went from $1.69/dozen to $7.99 a dozen.

$1200 tax credit for 2020 ( this is what it actually is ) is nothing for people who live and support high cost areas which are the people who allow for the white collar jobs to exist.
Marx said it 174 years ago... "The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie"

The state is created by the class of people who own capital, in order to mediate, protect, justify and manage a world in which they continue to own and profit from their ownership of capital.
The only thing I can think if is that maybe the protocol Zoom is using precludes prepending the nonce due to the packet format. But surely there's some way to do this with packet counters and user IDs. It's possible this was an intermediate step but I'm really stretching for excuses here.
A few months ago, I stumbled upon an antique store in Paris where the owner had thousands of notes taken from Grothendieck's house after he died. Apparently he was in charge of appraising them. Which is pretty stunning since Grothendieck didn't publish anything for the last few decades of his life, so it's quite possible there's new math there.

Anyways the guy described how Grothendieck's house didn't have a roof and was pretty decrepit. Which made me pretty sad. One of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century dying alone in a house with no roof. Part of me wonders if maybe, had he gotten proper mental health care, Grothendieck could have enjoyed a longer, more healthy career. Or career aside, could he have just had a better life? In the mathematical community it feels like there's a bit of an acceptance of idiosyncrasies bordering on potential mental health issues. Well I say acceptance but really it's bordering on willful ignorance. How many advisors give their doctoral students advice on mental health? How many advisors themselves received training on mental health? It's worth analyzing.
oof this is very unfortunate; we're also signed up for Azlo through Stripe Atlas
Thats called Private Equity.
You need different index structures. Yes, it matters.

Hard to believe that spatial queries over geometries more complex than points will meaningfully benefit from "vectorized executions on columnstores".
It's harder to extract patterns from high entropy data. I don't think anyone's saying that this is even an OK thing to rely on, at all, just that the nature of the data means that this specific weakness is likely more difficult to take advantage of.

If zoom were transmitting text this would be relatively more serious.
I use Safari for two reasons:

1) Way better battery life. Until the other browsers give a damn about battery life I won’t even touch them!

2) Cross-device syncing. My passwords and my tabs are always available on both my iPhone and my MacBook. Everything is synced through iCloud. I go back and forth so often every day that I could not see myself using a different browser on my Mac.
While they may be rolling back at the browser level, if you have any role in administering a site, you should still consider turning them on.

In php.ini, this is as easy as

session.cookie_samesite = "Lax"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22766639
That’s where a freezer and fridge come in.

Make 3 days worth of rice in the fridge. Freeze small batches of stews/soups/vegetables. Scramble eggs with different ingredients. Different spices/sauces. Eat fresh stuff on shopping days.
You nailed it. It is the trust issue. This warning may have absolved them, "your shared encryption keys may be issued from data centers in China". It also would have destroyed their business.
Maybe, it makes the "Ministry of State Security
of the People's Republic of China" job easier? It would allow them to easily access lots of data.