skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can stream most movies and TV shows online for free if you are willing to spend the time looking for them!

Friendly reminder that there is nothing immoral about "piracy" of digital content. Culture should be free, so if you're not in a position to afford content, don't pay for it.
I have a job. I am a programmer.

I help out with various studio's energy exchange programs because I love the community that working at home alone lacks.

I suggest you try it out!
I'm really curious what your point is, since the willingness of capital markets to extend financing seems like it'd be very related to a company's capital structure and leverage. Like, were the businesses in question not over leveraged, they'd find it much easier to find the capital to continue operations during a downturn.
Violating humanity's privacy?
It is delusional that stretching out achieving herd immunity to a year will not be destructive.

Because, that’s what you’re betting on.
There is little to no penalty if your software is crap from a security or privacy point of view and you are popular enough.

The example I used is Whatsapp. On the early days, but definitely after their popularity was already high in Europe, you could still impersonate any user on the platform trivially. Their only real security was obfuscation of the client source code, obfuscation of the protocol. Doesn't help much when you still have a Java (J2ME) client that is trivial to decompile. They still became hugely popular.

People quickly forget about this type of issues, or they don't assign blame where it belongs. They will just shrug over it and start believing that it is normal for computers to get hacked from time to time. After all, it appears all the time on TV.
Is this maybe a side effect of leadership in these startups being more junior themselves and not realizing the value they're missing out on by not pulling in some of that experience?
It's one thing to have emotions, it's another to make emotion driven policy decisions. Policy outcomes depend on physics, not on our wishful thinking. If someone has good arguments that ignore emotions it doesn't make their arguments worse or weaker. What you should then do is consider their arguments and propose something that still largely addresses those issues but also addresses the emotional parts that you seem to care about.
I’m surprised they weren’t told about it at all in advance. Is that standard for Apple nowadays?
'#!' is implemented by associating file extension with some specific application. For example you can associate '.py' files with 'python.exe' and when you double-click on 'app.py', it'll be launched using python. So it definitely not this thing.

I, personally, didn't understand what this article is about and why would I use this mechanism when simpler one exists and works for decades.
Everyday you just learn something new.
Well, they shouldn’t have levered up as much as they did. Sorry. Maybe the new owners of the business will make necessary changes to run the business lean and not take out as many loans.
The students are all forced to agree to these abusive third party TOS simply to receive the education to which they are entitled/for which they have already paid.

That’s a bait and switch on the part of the university. “You’ve already paid, but now you have to give up your civil rights against this third party you’ve never heard of to get the service.”

There should be liability for the schools for doing this. A class action, perhaps?
This is the same suggestion I just made to one of the owners.

If the government is literally blocking you from opening the door to customers, the building is worthless for the time being, and she shouldn't be expected to pay anything for it imho.

This is more her landlords problem than it is her problem imho.

The landlord's government has declared that their land is not allowed to be frequented by customers for the time being.
It's the end of the world as we know it
Last week in Seattle nurses were protesting because they were not allowed to wear masks for the same reason. Yep! Nurses! It’s absolutely horrible and at least partly a function of top-down bureaucracy in all cases.
But when I see "roll their own encryption," it tells me that they went out of their way to create something subpar. There are some things that one should never* roll one's own of, and encryption has to be the top of the list.

* OK, if you're an encryption expert, you obviously would roll your own to advance the state of the art, but Zoom are quite obviously not encryption experts.
I'm really finding it hard to please this rule. Would it be okay to say just:

> The difference is the US is a democracy and there are many more checks and balances vs the Chinese authoritarian government.
Now do WebAssembly.
Ask HN: Etymology of post-mortem as unrelated to death?
Just curious, anyone know the etymology of how the term postmortem came to be used for any kind of investigation of something unsuccessful as opposed to just deaths (along with a time line of this change)?
Thats probably why they switched Edge to chromium. Instead of each electron app running its own copy of node and chrome, those components can be build into the os, which is much better for battery life.

Even their flagship app, teams, is running its own copy at the moment.
lol, nice job finding a link that 404s and basing your entire argument on it. Here is another one for your next post: https://www.webex.com/sdvfebdwq3433t8hjaxcxqadxe
As I alluded to in another post I am from Germany and certain people I work with actually went through the "... they came for me" phase.

Your point does not stand on its own.
This sounds like a feature, at least as a user. Sandboxing that is fantastic. I wonder if they also block the app from reaching into the copy/paste buffer.

If they successfully sandboxed to that level, that is basically mobile device level of app severity. Fantastic!
Not just American. Someone posted a screenshot on HN yesterday or the day before of the prime minister of the United Kingdom having a video chat with about 16 other top government officials over Zoom.

Anyone want to wager how many of their computers are now p0wned.cn?
More like Lisp stuff gets guaranteed upvotes and visibility. HN does a lot of Lisp service. This is Paul Graham's site after all.
"He alone is capable of pulling the sword from the stone."

Does this imply he can pull the sword from the stone by himself or that only he can pull the sword from the stone?
Why do you assume that your local restaurant or book shop has taken out many loans? It might simply be operating on a tiny margin.

Plus it’s not unreasonable for someone setting up a restaurant to take out a loan for the initial fixtures and such as they will be intended to be amortized over several years.
As someone running a company that is trying to keep people employed by cutting salaries: we don't want our employees to be scared about not having healthcare the moment they might need it the most. We talked it with everyone, we are all taking a pay cut (us, founders, were the ones making the least already so I think our employees understand) and we are doing everything possible to extend our runway until at least next year. We also setup a scheme where we compensate our employees with stock options equivalent to the salary lost, until things get better.

This situation sucks, but there's no way losing healthcare now would be 'more humane' than taking a pay cut.
The banks are doing everything they can to make it a challenge to file for this program. You can't really blame them since it doesn't make sense for them to be lending given that 4/5 of the amount is likely to be forgiven. This should be done through spa.gov or some other government service.

For BOA you're required to have a lending product in addition to a checking account. While Chase first delayed their roll out and now are only offering a call back (with no details as to when or what they will require). I hear similar things about the disaster loans offered by the Government (not hearing back within 3 days) but at least in that case you can actually file an application. What are you supposed to do if you don't have an account with BOA or Chase? You're at the mercy of whether or not the bank wants your loan on their books. I can't see the upside in doing this through the banks other than to make it a logistical nightmare for small businesses - if anyone has thoughts otherwise I would really like to understand.
Another commenter says that there’s a HiDPI option in the settings now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22773440
Russian mercy mission to Italy is a front for GRU intelligence gathering
And if the situation stabilizes after a few months then the bandaid will have worked. If there’s a year or two or more of recovery than the bandaid will have adequate (perhaps another will be possible, perhaps not' who knows)
Mathematical Proof That Rocked Number Theory Will Be Published
An 'esoteric tradition' cannot be overturned by direct observation available to anyone.

To an extent, there's certainly an 'esoteric priesthood' in many sciences which can be quite dogmatic about certain models. It's certainly true that valuable observations will sometimes be ignored for a time - but eventually, theory increasingly fits observation.

It's certainly not a 'nothing but' in the same sense as tantra. The predictive power of theories is essential to their fame. Einstein's early 1900s models - which seriously refuted earlier models - anticipated many later observations.

Esoteric traditions like tantra have been overturned by the experiences of one individual and the insights they transmit to others. All part of the same play.
Very bullish on Nim. It's Python with C-level performance.
Why doesn't NPM first check if the package is already installed locally?
And then a symlink or something of the sort could be created - or perhaps even a copy of the module in question. Why isn't this the way npm works?

If I initialize 10 different projects, and they all need React, I'd presumably do npm install react 10 distinct times. Which is fine, since each app is standalone - but why "waste" bandwidth by making separate requests for each one?
In this case it is not their fault. The government ordered people to stay home and shut the economy down. The government is merely compensating business for its own actions, so people may have jobs to go back to when the restrictions are lifted.

In other cases I would totally agree with you. GM never should have been bailed out, and most of the finance companies and banks should have been allowed to go bust in 2008.
Some people seem really unhappy that it might mean a reference is constant, rather than a value, if the value happens to be a reference. If that makes sense.
On the other hand, Elon Musk’s personal finances are so closely tied to the success of TSLA that he has an incentive to stretch the truth and push the limits to pump the stock price up. See ‘offer to go private at $420’ and the delivery numbers reported AH yesterday followed by a huge fade today, and that’s just scratching the surface.

It’s usually not good when the SEC is chastising and/or disciplining the CEO of a company.

I’m not long or short TSLA, just presenting the bear case :) I stick to trading the indices
Seems plausible. My issue with companies that do bug bounties often is that they appear to use it as a replacement (not an addition) for doing any internal security or penetrating testing. Which at times is obvious by the low hanging fruit that is sometimes found.
Sounds like a binary search problem, problem is we would need larger samples >:)
that dichotomy isn't helpful. most of us (bottom 80-90% or so), small businesses (~<$10MM in revenue, low-growth), startups (small-ish but high-growth, negative cash-flow businesses) and the like need leeway to take risks. fault or not, it's reasonable to band together to try to keep these consituents, society, culture and way of life afloat through economic arrest.

the wealthy, large businesses and transnational corporations like to play by ruthless financial rules (particularly against the less powerful) and should be allowed to die by those same rules (or at least sacrifice significantly in exchange for help).
Clojure (not Common Lisp, but a lisp) is more prominent than many people think. I use it, and it's a primary language in a R&D area at the fortune 50 company where I work.
It's awesome that you suggested Matrix to a user named Neo.
I work for a remote company that writes Haskell and might be hiring at the moment. Email me if you're interested and I can share more details :)

edd [at] theoryof [dot] pl
The latter. Lisp is too academic for anyone to care to do it. Compilers need to be dogfooded, i.e., the people who work on it also write non-compiler programs with the compiler. TypeScript and Emscripten are mature because they are used to create real web applications. No one uses Lisp to write regular applications, much less web applications. Web applications in Lisp are unlikely to be its hidden niche after all these years, so very few people bother altogether.
‘Space Jam’ Forever: The Website That Wouldn’t Die
Try to find a single area which is easy to measure where these "alternative medicine" successfully surpasses medicine based on the scientific method. Just one.
Enjoy the time to recuperate and learn.
you can’t really write off your gambling loses, you can just use your loses to offset your winnings
previous thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22652241
I think what happened to the popularity of .io domains could.. maybe.. be called a fad. I think that doesn't dig deep enough. It came on the scene and was popular with technical services and startups because it sounded techy and cool and short names were available.

When I did personal research about domain names I found people in the US are familiar with .com first, .org second, and everything else is a distant 3rd. While I'm cherry-picking an old quote from a PG essay [1], the stat he provides is pretty interesting. It really drives home how important owning a .com is for easy discoverability of your online presence.

All of this is in addition to the ethical and security issues the posted above listed.

Quote > 100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do. But only 66% of companies in the current batch have the .com of their name. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest, one way or another.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
New York City Allows Cremations 24 Hours a Day
Is this a bug in WebKit or in the algolia site?
Marx's observations need incredibly severe adaptations. By Marx's original standards, Uber drivers should be some of the least exploited workers in the world - they own the means of production!
who is the judge of what businesses are important to society?
Anybody got USB communication (CDC class) working on this platform without the proprietary libs?
You only start to appreciate the sheer incompetence the public sector has when you start working in local government. The amount of people there who would never make it 5 mins in the private sector is incredible and to have a female boss aswell unlucky mate! There's a reason why both men and women prefer Male bosses.
Chipotle: California Consumer Privacy Act Form
No, it got canceled for me. I'm on F-1 based in US and with the borders closed there's nothing that Shopify could do. Such a tangled situation :)
Yeah, hardware is unforgiving like that. Made a mistake in calculations? Start over and spend a few weeks making another widget. There better not be a mistake in that, otherwise lather, rinse, repeat until you figure out how not to make mistakes.
I never claimed any "conspiracy"; there's no meeting or discussion (well, I guess there is stuff like Davos or whatever, but let's put that aside, that's mostly theatre).

The formal mechanisms of the modern nation state were the outcome of a 200 year process, a development over time. The nation state _emerged_ along with the capitalist market system. Before that we had feudal autocracies. What we call a government now is a product of push and pull, trial and error, experimentation. And the dominant force shaping it has been the need for those with wealth to preserve a market of private ownership that keeps them wealthy, and to keep the simultaneously emergent forces of popular democracy from threatening that.

The Marx quote might make it sound conspirational, but in the context of all the text around it, that's certainly not what he meant.

For what it's worth, you don't have to go looking in Marx for this kind of analysis. Classical liberalism would also admit this role for the state -- just with a positive spin.
Are you still having to work?
This is a good question. I work for a US company and travel down to good old Santa Clara county now and again (in non-pandemic times). I have a TN but it is a massive pain to re-apply when it expires. Is there some other way? I'm only down there for a few days at a time, maybe three or four times a year.
Second this, don't tell them - it will make life a pain in the butt.
Why VCs say they can't save all the startup jobs by themselves
Maybe these companies shouldn't have been having those $5 lattes or avocado toasts.
There is no end-game in the present approach that results in most at-risk people not getting Covid-19. That’s the problem.

At best, they’ll get it but just at a rate where they die at an acceptable rate.

By “taking one for the team”, instead, we young, healthy majority can achieve herd immunity quickly — actually helping ensure the elderly are protected.

Cowardice and ignorance is actually preventing us all from protecting our loved ones.

Do the math — healthy/young people don’t generally die or require advanced care. If .1% of 100m (us volunteers) do it in 3 weeks, that is an investment of 100,000 of us — to protect 200m at-risk from future infection and death at 1-10% mortality rates.
AUR is not an official repo, and zoom is not in Arch Linux repositories either.
No, clothing stores already had a difficult time recently. Now most clothing store just won't ever open again. What will they sale next fall. The spring clothes they just bought now?

I guess the same is true for most other shops too.
I'm not convinced that a good argument of ethics and empathy could be made without emotions. The whole point of this entire thread is about having empathy for the situation of the workers, which Amazon as a company does not seem to have. If you think you can have an emotion-free Logic And Reason argument involving empathy, I would love to hear it!
LLNL partners with AMD to create El Capitan, world’s fastest supercomputer
I agree, interface is arcane but once it clicks... And that may be a problem - world divided by those who grasped that Object.__proto__ === Function.prototype and other. I've heard similar stories in XSLT land.

What if interface matters? Just recently I've discovered how to clear some confusion:

Object
Object.proto === null

object = new Object
object.proto === Object
object.toString === Object.toString

fun = new Function
fun.proto === Function

It's almost io (just don't touch 'constructor')

Object = Object.prototype
Function = Function.prototype

syntax new = function (ctx) {
let ident = ctx.next().value
return #`new ${ident}.constructor`
}

// bonus point - make it more like io
Reflect.defineProperty(Object, 'proto',
Reflect.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(Object, '__proto__'))

And io is great!
FYI -- I tried this in a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 LXC container and it failed spectacularly.

There's a weird interaction between the NOFILE security limit (`ulimit -n`), Java 8, and Linux-based containers (noted on both LXC and Docker). If NOFILE is too high, Java 8 will paradoxically run out of memory as it tries to allocate some huge number of file descriptors. That took a while to figure out, since generally when you get an error about exhaustion of file descriptors, you expect the opposite!

So just set a lower security limit, right? It doesn't seem to work, I'm assuming because something in the Jitsi install process decides it needs to set them really high for the install session. I haven't debugged what component specifically is doing this yet. This results in the install scripts crashing when the installer tries to initialize the Java CA store.

In theory one could wait for that crash, reset the file limit, and then resume the install process. This works to a certain point, but every time I tried it, the crash in the CA store initialization would leave the dpkg database in a badly broken state that `apt-get --fix-broken install`, `aptitude`, and some manual dpkg futzing wasn't able to fix in the course of the 3-ish hours I spent working on it (complains on libc6-linux-dev package install that /usr/include/linux/something-something.dpkg-new doesn't exist; that folder structure isn't present on disk).

Technically Jitsi is set up by this point because the crash occurs as part of the certbot bootstrap, but I was working on getting Janus to work anyway and just tried out jitsi-meet because they had an autoinstaller that would set up Prosody, JVB, and all that good stuff anyway, so it wasn't really worth plugging through the rest of the way or dealing with the broken half-installed Jitsi, especially since there are many warnings about how you must configure the SSL bits properly in the install documentation.

But it'd be great if someone wanted to fix all that and make my life easier. :)
Should've started with "Hello Neo"
This isn’t quite true, because you’re taxed on nominal, not real gains. If I own a share of a company worth $100, and the USD drops in value by 50%, but my perfect inflation hedge of a stock (which they’re generally not) shoots up to $200. I’m not richer in any real sense, and the I still have to pay ~30% tax on the increase in value in CA when I sell it.

Better than holding dollars in that scenario, though.
Is "Support" traditionally categorized under research & development? Possibly enterprise support or solutions engineers?
> Do any of these companies?

I'd argue yes, to a certain extent. The government has ordered suspension of businesses for the good of public safety and welfare. Yes, they deserve some sort of compensation for that, I would suggest.

If you're going to tell me I cannot open my business to pay my employees under threat of arrest, then it would be fair to provide some compensation during the time I am ordered to not work so I can pay my staff and keep my existing obligations paid (or forbearance, etc)

This depression is not the result of a lack of demand, but a government-ordered stoppage of work.

That said, there are secondary and tertiary effects on businesses and the economy here beyond wages and paying rents that will be detrimental to share value and equity values (or ability to pay debts used for other purposes like share buybacks). Equity holders should not be bailed out. As an equity holder you're an owner. You're the last to be paid.
Can confirm Amazon is actively hiring rn, and not just for AWS.
Sure. I mean, it's not a particularly substantive comment but at least it gets the flamebait below whatever parts-per-million level should be the maximum here. I wouldn't have posted a moderation reply if you'd posted that instead.
Planes crash from time to time but they bring back their costs in 5-6 flights, so your money making printer is only limited by the number of available passengers, not by plane reliability.
There's a reason airlines don't put a freshly minted, cheap pilot in command of a 747.
A small town doesn't really count as a "part" of a country.

It's also probably just a statistical outlier. Even if the overall IFR is 0.5% you will see some areas with rates higher or lower than that from chance or their demographics.
You are supposed to use another person's credit card after telling them that you have a system which can beat the casino