skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Ben Folds's perspective on the institution of the symphony orchestra as a celebration of civilization itself. The performing arts are all about groups of people coming together to pull off something greater than the sum of its parts.

But the unfortunate corollary is that you cannot just stack up the parts and have a successful production by magic. It takes a lot more than that. The institutions and structures currently doing it season after season have a kind of life of their own, and it's absolutely subject to decay and death. The ecological niche they occupy is extraordinarily harsh, so they're not easily replaced either.

Practically speaking: you need space and equipment. You need artistic direction with taste and vision to hire the right performers and designers and communicate it to them. You need skilled craftsmen to implement the designs, quick-thinking managers to wrangle the logistics, ambitious 2nd assistants to make the coffee. You'll need all this for months before you turn a dollar of revenue. Then you need marketers to bring in an audience, front of house staff to deal with it, professional schmoozers to pry open the rich ones' checkbooks (ticket sales are never enough).

If it turns out the creative vision was too safe, it'll be panned as boring and derivative. If you take a risk and fail, you'll also get eaten alive. So you have to take a real risk, and have it go your way, every time. At any point, one of the key people who held it all together by the seat of her pants could retire to take care of her sick mother. Or a crucial benefactor (public or private) could have a change of heart. Or Walgreens could snatch up the lease on your performance space. Or an influential critic could be in a bad mood. Any one of these things could be the end.

Please do not take performing arts organizations for granted. There are many once-grand theaters and concert halls in this country abandoned and rotting away. Even more that were simply erased. These things hang on to life by a thread in the best of times.
> Why would they lie?

I kind of doubt it was intentional. Developers are not marketing, typically, and it seems reasonable to assume that a technical person said "aes" when a marketing person asked "do we have encryption?". And then the marketing person searched for "aes" and assumed that meant "aes-256".
I'm on H1B trying to start a company. I have been working in USA for 10 years now and was on H1B the whole time (Born in India). What are my options to start a company? I have a co-founder in mind in similar situation with H1B visa. How much money should I raise to be able to sponsor H1B for my own company?
I have nothing against Kotlin, it is a fine language, a pleasure to work with. Nim, however, has different priorities (utmost simplicity, native compilation, near-C performance, opt-out automatic memory management, excellent FFI capabilities, best in class macros).
Somewhat notable is that a test article from a recent Crew Dragon parachute test was also just destroyed due to problems with how they set up their test

https://spacenews.com/spacex-reports-problem-in-crew-dragon-...
I'm not going to play "guess what my username means" with you, sorry. I'm also not going to play "who knows more people that lived through the 3rd reich" with you.

Me administering a Zoom account for my fellow employees and my students does not erode anybodies right. For me it is a choice between a GDPR compliant vendor and a vendor that does not care about the GDPR. Personally I have had good experiences with the GDPR (Facebook finally having to delete my account even though I would not verify it with a personal ID and cell phone number after I went through the irish data protection authority) and Zoom claims to be GDPR compliant.

So, frankly I'm not sure what you are talking about. It seems like you are going for a slippery slope argument I don't agree with.
Software Engineer at a large software company (Fortune 500), 7.5% pay cut, but happy to still be employed. I am billable to our customers, and have a decent backlog of work, so I am hopeful.
My bad, 200 all in.

Your point about the code of ethics is intriguing! Do you point them to the code of ethics before or after the fact? Or to push back against someone trying to get you to do something unethical?
All I see is two snakes (FB, NSO) are fighting on which one will eat the little white mouse (our privacy). I did the article because there is always some thing to learn even in the gutter.
What you need to know about Twitter on Firefox
"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.
Huh, today I learned you can convert a UUID to decimal and prepend {joint-iso-itu-t(2) uuid(25)} to get a really big OID.
communications on the platform aren't encrypted at all. That's what the article says.
Isn't that what an OS would do, essentially?
Amazon typically sells books below MSRP, whereas it seems that Bookshop sells at MSRP (ie. the same price that you'd buy the book in a brick and mortar book store).
I would guess that there are more great apps published daily than ever before. The issue is probably discovery. Even if you build something great, you are competing for attention, and people who can pay for ads get the most attention.
Do you celebrate Easter, Passover or Ramadan? Covid-19 is going to change things
Debian tried that ~15 years ago with debian gnu/hurd.
I found your exact comment in the library of babel, page 82 of a book.

https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?m_hnrvffbgsqubi.82
I'm possibly looking for an attorney for my h1b. Can you send me an email (max6387 at gmail dot com) with your contact info (the basics of my case are in this thread).
Aren't google products services they have to pay to keep alive? Apple apps like this likely cost less to leave alone.

Also, I wouldn't call Google a youthful company, even if Apple is 44 years old.
You Can Do This?
'Immunity passports' could speed up return to work after Covid-19
As a total novice to crypto stuff, is there any way that someone with access to unencrypted audio/video from the sensor could work out some sort of "baseline" and then factor it into their cryptanalysis of encrypted content produced from the characterized sensor?
In Iceland it's 50% so meh, this seems correct enough.

What does it mean though?

How does China not have mass deaths atm then? They have lied a lot in Wuhan, but they can't outright hide mass kill offs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/iceland-coronavirus-pandemic...
So basically Twitter wasn't setting its Cache-Control directive correctly? Why is this behavior different from Safari and Chrome?

It looks like "no-store" is in this IETF RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-5.2.2

EDIT - Ah, I see, it's in the original post:

> Testing from Twitter showed that the request was not being cached in other browsers. This is because some other browsers disable heuristic caching if an unrelated HTTP header, Content-Disposition, is present. Content-Disposition is a feature that allows sites to identify content for download and to suggest a name for the file to save that content to.

> In comparison, Firefox legitimately treats Content-Disposition as unrelated and so does not disable heuristic caching when it is present.

It looks like Twitter only tested this in Safari and Chrome and called it a day. Their wording implies that it's Firefox's fault, which is misleading.
Devolved, but still superior in some ways.
> How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go?

I think it goes something like the Open Source saying "that person doesn't owe anyone their intelligence to work on so-called important problems for free, just because it might be nice if they did".

Want smart people to solve important problems? Find a way to pay more for that, than for ads, or find a way they don't need to earn money to live at the standard they want.
> That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident.

Exactly what I was thinking.
How up-to-date is this? I was able to join a zoom videoconference yesterday evening from the web browser.

And while on the topic of the web client, it turned out to be a very disappointing experience. There was no way to set focus on a given attendee; I wanted to view the host's video feed but the website kept switching feeds, seemingly haphazardly, to different attendees.
What is it that you'd educate me about? That someone could have snooped in on my departmental meeting? Before Covid-19, these meetings were held in in an open room, in an unlocked building where people walk in and out all day. Anyone with the desire to snoop would have had no difficulty.

I think the argument would be that you could secure those meetings if your management felt it was necessary. Many large companies have badge readers, cameras, and the like at various places in their buildings. If they need to hold a secure meeting, they can hold it in a secure area.

With Zoom, there's no such thing as a secure area. Your company is basically forced to hold meetings in a wiretapped room.
The money thing is more a power law thing. There is DEFINITELY money to be made in the app store (I worked on an app that made a billion in revenue in seven months from a product with only twelve engineers directly working on it) but it’s almost all going to the winners in a specific category.
I did find it, it was Eric Raymond and "The Luxury of Ignorance" http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
The problem is that it’s increasingly difficult to figure out how to start. Let’s say you have a Store app andafter a while you realize that screenshots would be a good feature. You should be able to add this without having to rewrite the whole thing. That’s why a lot of people stick to WPF because it’s predictable and you don’t have the risk that some Store rule will trip you up later.
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774409
If they don't investigate the science behind "why" how do you think they come up with new ideas and improvements? I'm sure they don't discard their learnings!
Well, except for the part of the article where it is made clear that they don't implement any sort of encryption at all.

Zoom is an interface for secretly sending a message to the Chinese government, and then hoping that they secretly relay that message to the person on the other end of your call.
> This is because some other browsers disable heuristic caching if an unrelated HTTP header, Content-Disposition, is present.
Yes, probably! But you can do it yourself without one.

Here is an example in C using libopencm3, that uses timers to trigger an interrupt used to flash LEDs https://github.com/libopencm3/libopencm3-examples/tree/maste...
The parent comment and the one it's relying to are about keeping a credit card to build credit history. I don't see what your comment has to do with that. Am I missing something?

Did you think they were still talking about paying a fee for credit cards? Typically in the UK there's no fees for credit cards, the cost is just in the interest if you don't pay it off in time. In fact there are usually less fees for financial services in European countries e.g. checking accounts and ATMs usually don't have fees. (I mean there isn't usually a fee just for having a checking account, but there are of course fees for doing certain things with it such as a CHAPS transfer.)
You should explain what kinds of fractals these are (are they L-systems?) and how you go about crossing them.
Thanks for the response. Appreciate that you're working on it. Good luck. Let me know if you want some help :)
I sumizes the vaccine mRNA acts analogues to macrophages?
Tell HN: Come to think of it the name "Zoom" bugs me.
In the advanced settings you can disable plane usage for the bots, and then restrain yourself from using them. This forces you to build an efficient network using trains, trucks and ships. I recommend in general poking through the advanced settings to see what else could increase the difficulty.

Also, early stage I try to optimise for high profits, late stage my mission focuses on the company performance score: there’s a maximum score of 1,000 which is actually quite tricky to achieve. Aligning your goal to get as high as you can faster than the bots is definitely a challenge.
I don't think restaurant demand was cratering before coronavirus? Coronavirus will at some point not be so important, either because it will be eradicated (unlikely) or because we'll stop caring (more likely), and treat it like we treated polio in the 50s, which didn't cause economic disruptions the like of which we see today.
Clearly a bug on Twitter's side but the behavior to disable caching when content-disposition is used seems sensible.
Share price aside...it's the most reliable video conferencing app while others are crumbling to infrastructure pressure (UberConf, GotoMeeting, etc). Their downloads are through the roof right now:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/zoom-tops-weekly-d...
This is pretty cool. Can I interact with the switch directly? Can I use a little magnet to trip the switch on an iPad? Or a mac? What about iPhones, do those have hardware disconnects too?
In the general case, it’s bad practice to do business with liars. That’s one reason why an educational institution would care.
> Arbitrary Swift code can run as evidenced by Swift Playgrounds.

Arbitrary Swift code which can only run because Apple grants themselves private entitlements that let it work.
Actually, being involved in ad tech can get you involved in some really cool tech. It's an incredibly fast-paced industry, lots of parallels to HFT.

And yes, everyone in the industry knows that ads don't work, you have all the ad blockers, etc.
This type of site has excited for almost 15 years in Denmark (antikvariat.net). It's a shared archive and purchasing platform for all used book sellers, and it has proven to work exceptionally well.
Sensor noise does not translate nearly as well as one might think in compressed videos. And there are likely repeating data blocks big enough to analyze.
Screen sharing a presentation is problematic; lots of discrete blocks of bitmap image being repeated.
Covid-19 Triggered the Turning Point
Just replace a random subset of words with their nearest neighbors computed using a fancy word embedding model like BERT or GPT-2.

If you cannot do that due to them not including a vocabulary file, you're stuck using something like word2vec/FastText which is fine but not ideal if you're looking for grammatical correctness...
Unfortunately a lot of student loan debt is not in federal loans.
Amazon to delay Prime Day event due to coronavirus, outlines cloud risks
> I am now extremely curious about what the inside of that cave looked like

Here's Project Gnome's: image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nougat#/media/File:P...
better color https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/1fgvt8/a_perma... video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFJ2MyWlXgs&t=1442
report with diagrams https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4612556 cross-section http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/GnomeDiag1024.gif
The faint hope of freedom for the last of China’s 709 lawyers behind bars
We are 2 or 3 cool projects like these away from the McGuffin tech in Neal Stephenson's REAMDE.
>economically versed individuals

Economically versed individuals would agree with the parent comment, not yours.
If the website is run as poorly as that article is written I don't have high hopes. They wait until the 10th paragraph to tell you how the hell it works!
> I am arguing against 0x262d's actual, explicit, literal Marxism.

0x262d's positions actually seem pretty reasonable and interesting, though we'd probably find disagreement if we got deeper into details.

I don't know much about Marxism, but I do know it's broader and more varied than some strawman desire for a Soviet Union Part Deux. I also think it will be possible to transcend capitalism without disaster, and libertarians have done a good job convincing me that's a worthy topic to think about and a worthy goal to work towards.
Corona Beer Stops Production
Microsoft has already updated Window's native web-view to Edge, from IE. There are already some projects that take advantage of this and enable multi-platform app creation, with executables much lighter than Electron. A good example is https://github.com/zserge/webview. I have tried its Rust binding, and it works very nicely.
This is awesome. Please leave instructions for people to run it at home so that no one can accidentally commit a hippa violation.
This is unexpected to me. If I remove an application I do not expect it to run. If the OS is willing to reach into the Time Machine backups will it also modify them? What if I delete an app, run it then install an update? Will it install to the backup? That would be very unexpected.

Looking at multiple application directories is one thing but executing things from the backup directory is another.
Vultures, Growth, and Decline
I prefer to surface key data from article right upfront. WP title felt constructed to create a sense of clickbaity drama
Wealth bad, poor good is certainly not the reading I have of Marx. If anything Marx was entranced by wealth and despaired its concentration and waste. How autocratic narcissitic tyrants like Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot made use of some of his words is another story entirely.

I also think the definition of "industrial labour class" has changed significantly. The analysis still applies.

In the Anglo-American world we get caught up with Marx's use of the word "class"; because to us it has the connotations of social class; aristocracy, gentry, etc. But Marx had a very specific technical economic meaning, and it had to do with proximity to economic power and control. I don't think that's substantially changed, though it has become more subtle. In large part because of the post-WWII settlement between labour and capital in the west that created the 'middle class', which was really just a prosperous section of the working class.

That segment of society is shrinking though.
Sounds like an April fools joke, right?
Actually, occasionally Waterstones is actually cheaper than Amazon :)
Blackmagic's ATEM Mini Pro livestream switcher can broadcast without software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7AONv3FSg
The reason social unrest would be caused by lockdowns is because the population is too poor to go that long without starving to death.

I suspect deaths from COVID-19 will pale in comparison to deaths already occurring from various diseases and conditions that arise from not having clean water and functional septic systems.
I don't think this release is what you're after - it's 4.7 inches, not 4 inches.

I'm an Android developer and generally prefer Android as an operating system, but I switched to a 128gb iPhone SE a year ago and still love the phone. I can still recommend that model if you find one second-hand.
Use. The only way I'm willing to use it is from a dedicated user that has access to nothing else. I don't want it installed in the system.
You're forgetting about the technical intricacies of compressed video. Compressed video is a mix of high and low entropy content, with a predictable time pattern to this. For example, one can easily use traffic analysis to find B-Frames, and run analysis on that. Bam, you get very low entropy due to the stationary nature of video conference.
Most situations—another bank buys them. Sometimes with a deal sweetener from the FDIC (U.S. taxpayer). Extreme cases such as in 2007-2010 the Fed can offer financing deals for another bank to buy those distressed banks.
This is just today. https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector/issues/7
I wonder how that approach can continue to make sense unless they hire more Lisp moderators.
Corporate America Knows the Bailout Is Baked In
I put an 8gb stick into mine, giving it 12gb. Officially it only supports 8gb but it seems to use more just fine, 10+ containers can be taxing at times.
> No all these companies in need of a bailout are suits without skin in the game.

You may be replying to the wrong comment. I explained the reasoning for bailouts in general. Your characterization is besides the point. I only gave Tesla as an example of investing based on future expectation of value, similar to the reasoning behind some bailouts.

I wish people would stop getting so riled up at the mere mention of Tesla, so much so that reading comprehension flies out the window.

This being said, at times Elon has also gone to great lengths to mislead the general public and the shareholders in order to pump up that value in critical moments ("funding secured", "virtually certain") or bailout family with other people's money (SolarCity). Court decisions already stand to confirm this. I guess everybody's "a suit" when it suits them.
Which competitors are you talking about?

ISRO launches are cheaper than SpaceX

RocketLab is in the same ballpark for a smallsat launch (when compared to the SX smallsat program, I realize there are other rideshare options that exist https://www.spacex.com/smallsat)

Unfortunately ULA's launch cost calculator doesn't show final prices anymore (https://www.rocketbuilder.com/), but they're now selling Atlas launches for under $100 million (their "ULA Value" numbers due to reduced schedule slip might be a bit generous but aren't any more egregious than how Tesla includes "potential savings" in the purchase price).

Ariane launches are in the same neighborhood as ULA, perhaps a bit cheaper although they've had occassional schedule issues due to the geopolitical situation in their remote outpost of the EU.
I assume that lots of people have financial stake in Tesla, and because of that have an inherent bias that often shows up when they comment on things. If you believe in Tesla, you may be long $TSLA, and you might tend to want to see the bright side of everything they do.
That's too bad because it is the only way I am willing to use Zoom.