skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't really have one. We may never have one. We just knew there was a real problem here.

If the app merely helps people get what they need and get home sooner (away from the virus) and doesn't cost us a fortune to maintain, then that's ok with us. If there's a business to build around the app, that'd be great too.
I'm not argusing that he's not cagey. Simply that there is no issues of a language barrier (instruction in Japanese at Japanese university is a complete red herring when talking about what language he engages with the international mathematical community in).
The talk is not about pdf viewers but about framework/APIs that developers can use to build all those 'others' solutions. pdfjs.express makes this a piece of cake, you get the source, and companies can outdo competition will less developer $$$ sunk into reinventing the wheel
I built a tool that allows you to compare Covid-19 cases/deaths across different areas (countries, states, counties). It also has some pretty nifty features under the "advanced" section - like starting the comparison with every region at 50 confirmed cases.
Palm Phone for Minimalists
Yeah. This sounds like modern day economics.
Inspired by Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, I do Aikido sword kata with a 2cm x 30cm steel bar. I move rather slowly, and don't put much momentum into the bar. So the practice forces good form, in addition to maintaining strength.

Edit: Yes, Snow Crash.
It’s to avoid collisions altogether, not to prioritize the custom commands over the standard ones.

For example, let’s say I have a script that improves upon the systemctl command, and I want to use it all the time and not type a bunch of characters to invoke it. I might call it “sc”, forgetting that I also use the spreadsheet calculator sometimes.

If I always prefix, then “,sc” is my shortcut, and “sc” is the spreadsheet calculator.
While some people do hate cars, I think most of the people who speak against cars are really speaking more against the land use patterns that make us fully dependent on cars.

As far as the pandemic, it's interesting that it's obvious to most folks that people riding the subway to work in a big office tower represent a lot of concentration and exposure, but not so obvious that the people driving in from many miles around to the Costco also represent a similar concentration and exposure.

If you'd like a more detailed explanation of this, I found this article really thoughtful: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/3/25/effective-quar...
I liked it but I was on a mission to complete the community center and the mines and then was done. So I didn’t pour myself into the farm too much, and the game had a decent end point. But I could totally see someone playing it differently
This is useful. Thanks! Out of ~22,000 AES blocks, this has ~1000 colliding blocks:

04608c1c211004608c1c00000007419b: 4 samples
1004608c1c211004608c1c0000000741: 4 samples
0963211004608c1c211004608c1c0000: 5 samples
33c00963211004608c1c211004608c1c: 5 samples
63211004608c1c211004608c1c000000: 5 samples
f7df7df7df7df7df7df7df7df7df7df7: 5 samples
0001000003ff0000000e000004000000: 6 samples
211004608c1c211004608c1c00000007: 7 samples
c00963211004608c1c211004608c1c00: 8 samples
0001000003ff00000014000004000000: 9 samples
0001000003ff0000000d000004000000: 25 samples
75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75: 31 samples
5d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d: 33 samples
00000b0000000b0000000b0000000b00: 34 samples
d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d75d7: 34 samples
7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9: 39 samples
f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9f: 40 samples
9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe: 42 samples
cfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f: 42 samples
fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7: 42 samples
e7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f: 43 samples
f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcf: 43 samples
fe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3: 46 samples
3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fc: 47 samples
aebaebaebaebaebaebaebaebaebaebae: 60 samples
baebaebaebaebaebaebaebaebaebaeba: 63 samples
00000000000000000000000000000000: 69 samples
ebaebaebaebaebaebaebaebaebaebaeb: 73 samples
00060000000600000006000000060000: 147 samples

The collisions occur in runs, so, for instance, there's a run of ~40 "fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7f3f9fcfe7"'s towards the end of the file.

I-frame macroblocks in H.264 are DCT'd, like a JPEG; I have no intuition for what the repeats would signify, except that the encoding is deterministic and, I guess, within an I-frame, stateless? So identical samples will show up in the output?

(It might be easy to instrument an H.264 decoder to get an indication of what frame I'm in when I see a collision, which is I guess what I'll do next).
There's a claim in one of the reply threads that they contracted HP to build a replacement years ago, but the project didn't succeed: https://twitter.com/tradel/status/1246526465207869440
So cases don't get worked and UC doesn't get paid. In other words: working as intended.
What are you considering building?
good point. we agree that this would be useful, even if the information isn't perfect.

you're exactly right to point out that the information isn't perfect, by the way. I was just at a store earlier doing some personal shopping and I noticed they had employees counting the items because their inventory system wasn't reliable.
http://strlen.com/treesheets/

Open Source Free Form Data Organizer (Hierarchical Spreadsheet)
Since it took a bit of digging, I figured that I'd put this here:
"Eclipse Dirigible is an open source project that provides Integrated Development Environment as a Service (IDEaaS) as well as runtime containers integration for the running applications" [1]

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[1] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ecd.dirigible
I don't know why someone would think that, Reason is actually pretty niche ;-)

Of course, I would love to see it go mainstream, but realistically speaking that will need to happen slowly.
I mean, I've been doing it for the vast majority of the last decade, so my feeling is that it can only increase. The housing prices and the sheer stress of living in bay area / nyc are so overwhelming.
A non nuclear submarine can be parked and carried around inside a midsize container/cargo ship for example. An operation for a small well financed, though probably well less than a billion (otherwise it is just cheaper to build a sub yourself) team/organization.

>Real life is not a James Bond movie.

True. For example James Bond's jetpack was much more inferior to that
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
Setting the correct collation in your database can’t be that hard...
Not OP. I've only visited the Bay Area a few times. Human filth, needles, and just so many people packed into the space. I can't imagine raising a family in that situation. Contrast that with where I am now: I have a very large house on 10+ acres of land on the edge of a lake. Each of my kids has their own room and there are lots of rooms and corners to "get away from each other". We have room for food storage, a home gym, and are not dependent on the city for water or gas (though we do have to fill our propane tank a couple times a year). If I walk to the edges of my property, I can see a couple other houses. We have bon fires, ride ATVs, go fishing, shoot guns and bows in the back yard. We have full on seasons (granted that winter is the largest, but we like cold and snow). Not to even begin talking about the political differences.

The few things I liked about the Bay Area: lots of economic opportunity (esp. as a software dev), nearby greenery, and lots of food options. Oh, and the ability to find others who would like to play board games. I can't find anyone to play board games with out in the middle of nowhere (my family is not interested in any).
A Parable. (1993)
I figured it already is. China could make N Korea stop their shenanigans any time, but they don't. I figure they like having them there most the time stiring things up. And if they wanted to actually start trouble having them start it would provide a layer of deniability.
> I wouldn't work in a plethora of roles. In fact, the vast majority of "jobs" that have existed in the history of humanity I would prefer not to do.

Examples and why would you prefer not to do them? Are they legally allowed in your country anymore? Is there a reason for that? Perhaps because they are now considered exploitative?

> That doesn't mean anyone doing them is being "exploited". And if that is your definition of exploitation, you've reduced the word to be effectively meaningless.

It sounds to me like you don't even have "exploitation" in your vocabulary, as your bar is so low, you wouldn't consider anything exploitative.

Literally multi-nationals exploit labor law differences to extract cost savings, and obfuscated supply chains to launder the blood off the raw materials they put into products. This is exploitative. Perhaps you should just come to terms with the fact that you are OK with it.
That, and I don't imagine there's any tests written for a lot of these systems. :(
Rune Factory is the usual comparison. Rune Factory 4 just re-released on Switch and I played a decent chunk to tide over my AC longing before it launched, and I quite liked it. Much more story focused, combat, and not real time.
The Photographer Who Inspired “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” (2016)
They already control it by proxy.
That seems to be the norm in journalism these days. Link to ads instead of sources. Thanks for the link.
He didn't give his two biggest critics the time of day. You can't fault them for sticking to their conclusion, the authority to the contrary is completely uninterested in defending their position.

We'll probably never know if he actually solved it. Few have the knowledge, fewer had the patience and nobody has had rebuttal. Scholze and Stix conclusions hold exactly as much weight as Mochizuki's. They are unwilling to change their mind and recant, just as much as Mochizuki is.

This whole fiasco reflects very poorly on the mathematical community in general.
Honestly I think it’s a way for those that owe million to VCs to feel like they have one over us businesses that grew at a healthy pace, have money in the bank, and money in the bank goes up not down every month.

At least that is how lifestyle business is slung here. No one in my local business association would scoff at businesses growing at a healthy pace and no debt. Also nice if no VC gives me another round, I don’t have to shut down tomorrow.
I stopped reading the news entirely. Doesnt even matter what they're saying, I'll hear about it eventually.
COBOL copybooks are just .h files basically.
You don't realize who you're arguing with here, do you?
It's not the country's elections, it's a political party's. And last time, the result was decided in advance, so not actually that democratic...
contractors aren't summoned from the aether, they still live in houses.
I’m guessing that celebrities can get much better rates than the $120 - $240 per hour you’re suggesting. I’d be surprised if even niche YouTube ‘stars’ couldn’t do better than that.

It seems like it’s a business model that doesn’t scale well.
Merchant Princess started off as "secret royal heritage" fantasy - the first 3 books (which were later recombined into one larger book, IIRC) were closer to alternate-universe fantasy than the subsequent books, which are more sci-fi/[rot13-spoiler]nygreangr-uvfgbel[/rot13-spoiler]/wormhole-opera? Also, I need to catch up on the series
The only reason I got home to Slovenia for Easter is, it's a 4-day-weekend in the UK.
Huh. I live in a rural area. Tourism (hunting, fishing, etc) is the main driver for visitors. Now many locals do not want visitors, notwithstanding the money that they spend.
"We’ve also decided to continue offering the first halves of our Elixir and Rails 6 courses for free (no signup, no email required). Just jump right in and enjoy!"

https://twitter.com/pragmaticstudio/status/12460884152858583...
> 1. My guess is that you're right, the main reason this is happening is a nationalistic wish to blame others for the spread.

More than half of the world's population is under lockdown within their countries, and you still think that shutting down air travel is a nationalistic wish?
I'm puzzled by your comment. When I grab a link using their Chrome extension they don't alter it in any way. And the fact that their format is essentially markdown means that nothing is lost when you use the markdown export feature - making migration away much cleaner.
As far (though little) as I know, that's way beyond feasible still -- lean has a ton I think, but is nowhere near covering the "seam" of mathematics -- many fundamental objects are not even defined themselves yet, so you'd have to do lots of extra work there, not to mention all the work to define your own new things.

Lean is amazing (and I played around with it a bit, should do so more) but I don't suspect it's realistic to expect new theorems of this magnitude to be written in it at this point yet, doing so is a huge huge effort on top of the life-altering effort that the theorem itself requires.
From what I've heard a lot of specialized finance applications run OCaml/Haskell/etc. because of the extreme need for safe and reliable code while also preserving performance.
> it's complaining that those companies have an awful low productivity.

That is just human nature, once the company starts going big and has the funds, the managers start empire building.
NJ's Struggle with Processing Unemployment Because of Old COBOL System(s)
Got it thanks -- that's what I was calling "namespacing" then yeah.

Not a problem I've ever had, but I guess I like the solution if it's one you do often.

Thanks for confirming.
Or hey having build completion fire a notification would be useful tooo
How is it a rash decision? There are multiple alternatives that respect privacy and do more than pay lip service to security.
Really?The way it was reported says something else.I guess I need to go talk to a lawyer. Here is the link to the executive order https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/01/31/2020-travelvisa-restrict...
Most of what I have read indicates that out of area (travelling) nurses are being _offered_ extra compensation to work in a high risk zone. That is the no more gouging than a store having a high discount fire sale.

Plus the diagram category of "intellectual consistency" makes this read like click-bait.
I meant significant. I don't think Russia is at a point that compares well with South Korea. For SK I can understand when they differentiate between domestic and international fights.
I remember reading something about this about a decade ago maybe in wired or popular science?

It was interesting because some organizations didn’t want to know that level of detail, which drugs were being used when, how many students came to school drunk etc. and all by sampling the sewage system regularly
Has Eclipse improved in recent versions? I do .net so I use Visual Studio 2019 mostly, and just used Eclipse back in the day for Java development, and then for Android. When Google did a fork of JetBrains as Android Studio I felt it was a pleasant improvement and an indication that the Android community wasn’t happy with Eclipse either, but I may have read too much into this change.
Here's an idea for OP:

- track what users are searching for in an area (e.g. toilet paper)

- use GPS to determine who is at a store nearby that hasn't had that item updated recently

- prompt the user via notification with something like "Does [grocery store you're in] have toilet paper in stock?"

Admittedly it's not motivating anyone to answer, but it might help to keep data fresh.
Yes, it will, especially in terms of ecosystem and integrations with various other technologies in your stack. But in the meantime I would recommend experimenting with it just because when you hit the sweet spot, it can be very productive. One option is a framework I'm working on: https://github.com/yawaramin/re-web/
Intel’s single core turbo frequencies are rarely achieved much less sustained on desktops with big water cooling. Their marketing based on turbo gigahertz has always been very misleading. I’m skeptical that they’ve changed any of this with their 10nm parts, especially because we’re talking about thermally-constrained laptops here.

Ryzen 4000 has Intel running scared. This next generation should be interesting!
Top Epic Fantasy Series to get you through quarantine
There's a very similarly named InStok [1] that offers a website.

1. https://www.instok.org
Great work! I’m curious, how did you get all the critter info?
"Where is the dividing line between building your body up and wearing it out?"

From personal experience: roughly aged 50 (give or take, probably give.) That's without farting around with big weights.

600lbs is about 270 kilos. There is no reason for your body to need to deal with moving weights like that unless you are in a competition or trying to save a life. Hence it is not built for loads of that magnitude on a regular basis. Running with an 80-100 lb pack/load on your back and holding a 20 lb lump is a reasonable load to put on a very fit body, aged up to say, around 40. Your local Army, Marines, etc will know better than me what to encourage here. Try this lot: https://www.paradata.org.uk/unit/infantry-training-centre-ca... for example.

I'll just suggest that for most people, messing with weights like that are simply daft. We are not fork lift trucks. In the rest of the world, 25 kilos is considered a normal one man lift.

Humans as a species are designed for endurance, not huge loads.
I’m not sure how they’re putting investors first? Maybe they’re putting the employees remaining after the cut first?

Of course you can alternatively say to everyone the company will be dead in 3 months, but I’m not sure that’s better.
Thanks for the response! 2 is my personal hobbyhorse right now, so I was probably overeager to tie something only kinda related back to it (I'm strongly against this idea that all of our technical/financial/cultural elites should live in like 5 cities, and view it as a disastrous national policy).

As it relates to the suburbs, honestly, you've probably seen more of the US than I have so you're likely correct. I personally grew up in a rural setting here, so I spent the afternoon thinking about how that relates or doesn't relate to what I guess suburban living is like (we were more isolated but I don't recall feeling lonely, parents would take us over to a friend's house for the day to hang out, etc.) But I was considering the sociology of rural, suburban or urban living, not sure I have any grand proclamations yet
I've lived in and owned a restaurant in NJ and I can attest to their pathetic systems. It permeates not only their tech stack, but their employees as well.

I've vowed never to do any business, nor live in NJ for the rest of my life because of it. You can tell the ethos of "just work on the facade, and don't worry about anything else" is prevalent just by looking at their upper class houses- the front is made of immaculate stone and brick, but the sides and back are made of the cheapest shingles. And the interiors of the "wealthy" houses I've been in were decorated with Ikea. Not bashing on Ikea, but you get the idea.
It all depends what you want in life. Pittsburgh you can afford a beautiful home and support a family on $100k. That's studio apartment survival money in the bay. The portion of us who will ever make it to the big leagues and land that $300k FAANG job that allows you to buy a home and raise a family in the bay is infinitesimal. But if you just want to live that single lifestyle, enjoy the big city, and play the startup lotto, then go for it.
It's not like there aren't other options out there they could be using. I'm sure this was factored into the decision given current events.

At this point, I think it's more than fair to be worried about Zoom's security.
> I’m much more concerned about people who aren’t venture-backed founders right now.

I'm sure most bootstrapped founders are ecstatic that their competitors who have been dumping product at below cost for years are now mostly going out of business. Not seeing much complaining on Indie Hackers.
San Francisco is not the whole bay area, but it is pretty gross.
Popping a root shell on OS X exploting a priv escalation on Zoom
In the novella, humans are treated quite differently than in the Will Smith movie.
Except this new Windows light and dark mode option only changes the colors on a handful of applications, meaning most Win32 apps then look out of place.

Whereas that older style of Windows color configuration would automatically adjust each and every well behaved Win32 application.
> On the plane itself, there is extremely good ventilation and what limited evidence I've seen suggests that transmission is low, but in airports that might not be the case (I'm not sure).

I doubt that airplanes are in any way safer than airports. In an airplane it's hard not to touch places other people's droplets have reached.
Can't see the mailbox name I'm creating in Firefox. Field stays black but does accept the field.
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Easier said than done.

UI is mostly federally funded so they need to coordinate with them, and the complexity of the business rules and minimal funding during good times makes it a difficult task.

Also these systems generally work well, and it’s hard to fix things that aren’t broken. They just cannot handle the never before seen volume — it’s unlikely that a more modern enterprise system would either.
You cannot disrupt a market if the market itself ceases to exist. This is basic stuff.

A whole load of VC stuff relies upon the larger market to predate, has stupidly vapid IPO targets (which the actual big boys, Central Banks, are now culling off, since their actual liquidity stuff like Reits etc are crashing) and basically 100% worthless business models.

"Juicer" or whatever it was?

Go look up what Glencore is doing (20% emerging markets just disappeared) and get back to this thread and start figuring out an exit.

No-one in this thread seems to note this: try finding some ex-Soviet citizens who lived through 89-96 and ask them some serious questions.

~

Seriously: I was told HN was were the semi-smart tech people hung out.

It's like WeWork in here.
YES, and I don't care how you get rich, keeping all that money is immoral!!!
Ah yes, the quantified toilets joke from SIGCHI 2014 has come to unironic fruition:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/what-...

It was meant as a prank, not an instruction manual.
Is there any way to learn the ecosystem? Last time I looked, you couldn’t just spin up z/OS in VMware and start hacking, which made it hard for me to figure out how I’d actually learn.
"Zoombombing is a type of cyberattack"

Uh, I guess. Assuming prank calls are a "cyber attack" as well.

Edit: Okay...emailing awful images and videos then. It's rude and all, but "cyberattack" just isn't the right word. Put a password on your meeting.
> No company wants to deal with the hassle and legality of bit torrent.

counterpoint: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.delphicode...
Nothing wrong with recognizing that few things are all black or all white. In fact, I suspect those beautiful things that you mention happened at least in part because people were motivated by the darkness they saw.
Ask HN: Stream of News Headlines?
I'd like a daily feed of all the major global newspapers prominent headlines. Does anyone know of any good sources to start compiling this data? Besides independently scraping hundreds of sites ?
Isn't it curious that they make a distinction between international and domestic travel at this point? If air travel is spreading the disease, why not shut it all down?
Yeah that's one reason I keep wanting to try desktop linux again. But then I remember how much work it will be to get drivers working reliably and consistently. Also the fact that there's still really no consistency on linux, e.g. certain apps refuse to respect the "theme" and stand out like a sore thumb.
Am I the only one who finds pandas to be terrible compared to dplyr?
many still have RSS feeds. or email newsletters.