skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> their devoted following does seem to be more cultish

I don't know about that. I seem to see a lot of irrational Apple hate, but not that much irrational Apple love.

I think they are far from perfect in many, many ways. But so much criticism of them appears overblown, short-sighted, irrelevant to me, or just plain wrong.

I look at it like this: all things considered, balancing various concerns, what's the best option for me for my given needs? Following that philosophy I've ended up with a lot of Apple gear. Am I a fanboy because a better alternative doesn't exist?
This is pretty hardcore
A lot of adderal. Or a lucky brain.
I absolutely agree, but we’re currently SOL.
do you mean the landing page or also the bravo studio featured on the video? how long did it take? because to create such editors is like a good deal of work and planning.
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Encouraging companies to lie by just writing it off when they're caught is an under-appreciated problem.

If I'm honest and I'm working on a video conferencing platform, a potential customer asks "Do you have End-to-end encryption?". I say honestly "No". The customer goes to Zoom because they lied and said they do. Any outcome where Zoom keeps even _some_ of the resulting customers and money rewards deceit and ensures you'll get worse products in future because a worse product was given a leg up by lying. That's where we are today.

Silence detection (and a bunch of related problems) should be solved by using Constant Bitrate (CBR) encoding. The analysis linked says SILK was used, which was conceived as primarily a Variable (VBR) encoding but it doesn't go into enough depth to be sure whether VBR is in play here, though it's hard to give Zoom benefit of the doubt.

On the video side you can play sensor noise off against video codec optimisations. If you're sure the bottom 1-2 bits on a video conference camera feed is noise, the people writing the optimised live video encoder probably agree and aren't sending those bits anyway (you can synthesise noise perfectly well without sending it), so it's a wash.

And also though I agree it's not where you'd start do not rule out attackers controlling the plaintext - the "virtual pub" I attended a few hours ago with friends had a third party video playing, and sometimes people share their slide decks by video in corporate or government environments. It's definitely more practical to sneak deliberately watermarked video into someone's Zoom conference than to, as we worried about for disk encryption, get them to stash megabytes or gigabytes of carefully watermarked files on a drive.
At first, the site attracted about sixteen hundred daily visitors, and Graham moderated and maintained it himself. Today, around five million people read Hacker News each month, and it’s grown more difficult to moderate. The technical discussions remain varied and can be insightful. But social, cultural, and political conversations, which, despite the guidelines, have proliferated, tend to devolve. A recent comment thread about a Times article, “YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views,” yielded a response likening journalism and propaganda; a muddled juxtaposition of pornography and Holocaust denial; a vague side conversation about the average I.Q. of Hacker News commenters; and confused analogies between white supremacists and Black Lives Matter activists. In April, when a story about Katie Bouman, an M.I.T. researcher who helped develop a technology that captured the first photo of a black hole, rose to the front page, users combed through her code on GitHub in an effort to undermine the weight of her contributions.

The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative—often masks a deeper recklessness. Ill-advised citations proliferate; thought experiments abound; humane arguments are dismissed as emotional or irrational. Logic, applied narrowly, is used to justify broad moral positions. The most admired arguments are made with data, but the origins, veracity, and malleability of those data tend to be ancillary concerns. The message-board intellectualism that might once have impressed V.C. observers like Graham has developed into an intellectual style all its own. Hacker News readers who visit the site to learn how engineers and entrepreneurs talk, and what they talk about, can find themselves immersed in conversations that resemble the output of duelling Markov bots trained on libertarian economics blogs, “The Tim Ferriss Show,” and the work of Yuval Noah Harari.

Not sure whether to agree or disagree.
> The point is that any pattern in the plaintxt data shows up in encrypted data if you use AES-ECB.

No, that's false. ECB reveals repeating plaintext blocks. "F0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF" contains a repeating block-length sequence, but would encrypt to three distinct blocks under ECB, because the sequence is not aligned to a block boundary.
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And yet, the way we try to control it for the former is by denying it to the latter.
"You want doctors and researchers to be paid more than football players? Just find a way to make them more lucrative than ads."

It's a rather reductive and defeatist view. There's nothing more harmful than looking at a specific state of affairs and going "eh, that's just the way the world works", as if our current economic system was an immutable law of nature.
...so you know better Greek than me, which is my native language; fascinating!
It may not be formal English, but it's idiomic language that a native speaker would use.

> Where have expresses a state rather than an event it is replaceable by the idiom have got.

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, 2.5.6(c).
Are there mods or something similar for OpenTTD that makes passengers to have a specific destination rather than just going (and paying for) wherever the first vehicle takes them?

In TF that makes e.g. two-way feeder lines and lines with multiple stops work reasonably, whereas I seem to remember those didn't quite work in Transport Tycoon. It wouldn't, for example, make sense to have an interim stop at a smaller town between two large ones because all of the passengers now somehow decide the small town is where they were going to, pay only for that, and now you'd only have a handful of passengers from the small town on the entire train.

It's been a long time since I played OpenTTD, though, so things may have changed. I think that alone is a game changer for me in TF.

What I miss most in TF is any kind of competition apart from private vehicles, and having any economic modeling outside of your own operation with fixed prices and basic town growth (which does work reasonably well). In that sense it feels very much like a sandbox built for you to play in rather than a dynamic world.

edit: clarification
> How did that saying about "brightest minds working on ads" go?

The sentiment is a bit older than ads. It goes:

" I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,

who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,

who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,

who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,"

Howl by Allen Ginsberg:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
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I always assumed that the encryption used on zip files was relatively trivial and could be broken given the right software and hardware.

Well, it looks like it's a lot harder than I thought. You still need the right software and hardware but you also need the right person to do it.

Most of what I read was above my understanding but it was good reading anyhow. Good job on the recovery and good job writing about it.
Serious question: do you think The Simpsons hurt the monorail industry?
And intestines.

Video the other day from a doctor said they were wearing PPE full time now because they were seeing patients with no complaints except GI issues and they saw lung fluid in the X-rays and tested them.
Oh ok. I'll think about that. Slightly off topic but I just made a BASIC environment designed for kids learning to code. The theory is BASIC is still one of the best way languages to start with. Let me know if you try it:

- https://repl.it/languages/basic

- docs: https://docs.repl.it/misc/basic
> At best, they’ll get it but just at a rate where they die at an acceptable rate.

They’ll save lives by ensuring medical staff can attend to people who would otherwise die of problems that are wholly treatable with modern medicine.

> herd immunity

Let’s do the math. Based on what I have read, it would take infecting 70 percent of the population to reach herd immunity with this virus based on the R0 value of roughly 3. If we let that happen, 0.35-0.7 percent of the population will die. In the U.S., that’s 11,445,000 people in the best case. 10 percent of all infections need to be hospitalized. That’s 32.7 million people requiring medical care at an unpredictable rate. It sounds like you’re suggesting 3 weeks, so let’s roll with that. Here’s the problem: young or old, we can’t handle that. The number of hospital beds is nowhere near close. How do you feel about those numbers?
It got me with SoftIce. Although I never thought to print them out; I needed to watch all the registers change as I was doing similar work or reverse engineering encryption schemes.
You open a business. You sell something or offer a service. Day one is "let people know that I exist". Pretty much every form this take is advertising. No business live without making its customers aware of it.

It's not immoral in specializing on how to advertise. It's immoral to overstep some boundaries when doing it.

Disclosure: I worked in a company whose primary revenue was selling tools to create ads.
You're absolutely correct, but leave it to "the market" and it will drill through your very self if it finds a dime at the bottom.
The original snake oil, from the Chinese water snake, (Enhydris chinensis), worked.

Ingedients being hard to come by, and the market uninformed but spend-happy, hucksters appeared and the "medicine show‘ emerged. Patent medicines were also amongst the first widely advertised products in mass media beginning in the mid-19th century.

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-snake-oil-got-...

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/?q=10.1007%2Fs12686-014-0200-1

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377/a-h...

http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/omega3-fatty...
An informative popup beats running a deleted app any day of the week.
> So you do acknowledge that, contrary to your initial claim, 0x262d was in fact arguing for central planning?

No, because that wasn't my original claim. My position was that we explore how he understands the concept of "democratically planned economy" rather than jumping to Soviet conclusions. It's really all in the details.
I think you may want to look closer at Shannon’s source coding theorem; The Shannon entropy of the output of a compression algorithm will be higher than the entropy of the source as identifiable patterns are eliminated. Otherwise the theorem would trivially contradict itself.
You can do both though. Replace the valve with a burst disc now, just so testing can continue. Investigate the valve in parallel with testing, and place it back in whenever you think you've solved it, if you still need it.
From a process design/management view I'm not sure you're right. In fact I think you're probably wrong, but there is definitely room for disagreement.

To oversimplify things massively, "how careful do we want to be to avoid testing failures" is a parameter that SpaceX management gets to control. At the extreme careful end everything costs billions of dollars because you're paralyzed analyzing things and double/triple/quadruple/quintuple checking things. At the not at all careful end of things you keep building "complete rockets", pointing them at mars without any testing, and blowing them up. Obviously neither is rational.

They've settled on some parameters that are basically "don't worry that much about test failures, but keep the failures really cheap". They seem to be doing pretty well by doing that. They're experimenting with manufacturing techniques, hiring and training a workforce, building facilities. The prototypes that they are building keep failing, but that looks to be a relatively minor cost considering that the current primary goal is (according to them) to build out the manufacturing processes and make the design easy to manufacture.

Being slightly more careful would undoubtedly reduce the numbers of prototype failures, but would it actually be worth the cost of slowing other things down? Remember that the main cost of this program to SpaceX is engineering salaries, the faster it goes the cheaper it is.

So of course this test didn't go as planned, of course it would be better if it had worked, but would it have really been worth it to management to reduce the probability of this test failing? Like I said, maybe they aren't being careful enough, but I don't think we have any real evidence for that right now and I personally doubt it.
The backstory to REAMDE is that an MMORPG turns out to also be a really good platform for teleconferencing. Gradually more and more business moves into this MMORPG until the company releases a "business version" and a significant proportion of the world economy is run through what is essentially a professional version of WoW.
On ARM Cortex M4 devices like the STM32 there is a simple timer called SysTick used for exactly this type of purpose! You only need to set up a clock divider and you start it up- now you have a regular interrupt at whatever frequency you need!
interesting that the visible deformation started at 01:56am and the test continued until full failure 10 minutes later

https://youtu.be/kkqgkccWKYI?t=130

While i've happened to be wrong anytime i've questioned Musk's decisions/approach, looking at that and the previous pressure test failure and how the body crumples, i wonder whether the way the Starship body is built isn't faulty by design - like all this steel plates horizontally oriented.

Of course, fast and cheap is the only way to get to build hundreds of Starship, the Liberty ship of our time, yet the current structural design of the body seems to require re-work.
Great story. I just wish the title was in BTC rather than USD.
What I’m saying is that I don’t get the impression they do the latter for a variety of reasons. I.e., they solve the engineering problem and move forward. However, I think NASA may move forward with the research part
So here are some suggestions:

First of all, you can close the studio. I am not sure what is the legal structure of the company and if there are any personal guarantees, but this is not a regular situation. I.e. if you do not have customers, how do you suppose to pay your rent.

If not:

1. Try to offer 1-1 remote sessions. You might get more than 5$.

2. Go behind your regular customers. For example, try to go after companies that are operational and would like to offer Yoga to their overwork staff - e.g. warehouse employees, Hospitals etc. They might be able to charge your lessons on some sort of relief fund.

3. Ask companies that move remotely if they can introduce remote Yoga as part of their remote schedule. I.e. as a way to keep the team engaged. Companies are usually more willing to pay than consumers.
Discovery is a problem that can be solved in a million other methods. If (hypothetically, somehow) ads were outlawed from existence tomorrow, a thriving industry of independent reviewers would instantly pop up to serve the need of product discovery.

Painting the advertising industry as "humble startup putting up a sign in the downtown square" is also disingenuous. Most advertisements you see are done by big corporations. What's the excuse of Coca-Cola or McDonalds to plaster the streets with psychologically-crafted pictures of their unhealthy products, then?
Abebooks is for second-hand and antiquarian - I think that's a completely different market and model.
It’s not true that having independent stores doesn’t value add anything.

They add protection against monopoly which is dangerous, especially when talking books, to allow in a free society.

They don’t add anything in the narrow context we are usually meaning when we say such.

There’s always another abstraction that says otherwise. And in the case of society, I’d prefer a robust, unmonopolized trade.

But most people don’t think in abstractions, opting for adherence to obvious social norms.
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While SQL will not necessarily give you the optimal solution, a btree index on a geohash will still give you O(log(n)) lookups on spatial data, which will be good enough for most use cases, and pretty much every database engine in existence can create an index on a string, which is all you need for that solution.
500 employees versus 700 R&D employees.

If that 700 count is including support staff, then it becomes slightly more believable, but even then, I'd expect Zoom to be at that 700-1500 number in terms of total employees, not just R&D.
Lovely how Twitter's blog post does nothing to explain is not Firefox fault.
Counterpoint: Mumble is by far the most reliable audio conferencing application I've used. Yes, the UX is quite old-fashioned and sometimes confusing. But once you've got everyone set up with it, audio transmission works flawlessly, and at the end of the day that's more than I can say about many of the alternatives.
As I've heard that joke, it's the engineer who suggests measuring displacement and the physicist who wants to assume the cow is a sphere. The joke is that physicist's models oversimplify reality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Proper thing would be for the department of health send the Co-Op board a kindly letter telling them to shove off.
TV antenna is another option if you don't want to pay for land line internet
You can, but it is expensive. SpaceX definitely does some research, but they are also definitely not in it for researches sake. If it isn't necessary to get to mars, and it isn't going to make them money to figure out why, they're probably just going to drop it.
I was laid off at my little startup a couple weeks ago, 6 people were affected.

I'm a 3D Artist with some software engineering cred, so I work pretty well with engineers in small teams that still need the asset pipeline figured out. Portfolio: https://penny-art.com/

LinkedIn still likes to send recruiters my way telling me about awesome C++ opportunities developer game dev keywords. Please no
You could skip the daily tests and stick to normal food preparation hygiene. If food is packaged in standard foil take away containers, it just needs to be heated well enough for long enough to kill the virus (70 deg C, not sure of time). Or cook the food in the container. No salad sorry.
This seems to be a nice step forward I hope they can move forward with it fast.

What really blew me away was that I was able to read and understand the article given that it was written in Japanese and translated to English using google translate. WoW!
I was not laid off, but my contract ended 3/30. The company I worked under offered me permanent employment around 3/15. I told my recruiter during an off site lunch meeting that I was pretty much unhappy with the work, people, and location. I also foolishly added that I will take the permanent role, but asked if they could find me another one instead as I continue looking.

It quickly occurred to me that wasn't the wisest thing to tell a person whose job it is to find a long standing candidate. So I asked if my complaints were between us, she said of course.

Later that day, my other recruiter calls me saying he has to tell the company I was contracted at that I will not continue past my term. His justification how it would look bad on there part.

So now I'm without any job, still looking, but without luck.
I've seen M4 used to implement instruction decoding logic (for the POWER instruction set) in a design and to describe a bus interconnect in system verilog. Still not sure if it was a good or bad idea...
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waifu2x is optimized for anime.

Because of its anime upscaling success, it gained a lot of awareness and is now used in more non-photorealistic images in general, with a very decent popularity.
To be more clear, I meant "it can't only be development and QA". Meaning, there has to be something else included in that number that is not traditional R&D.

Also, to be clear: the statement is meant from the perspective of, how do they have that many employees (what are they all doing); not "why" do they have that many (which, while seemingly very large, I am not in a position to judge), nor meant to be a slander against outsourcing R&D work to China (though, to be crystalline clear, I inherently trust Zoom less because of this, just like I trust companies who base or outsource R&D to Australia less because of Australia's laws on these matters).
https://superuser.com/questions/592238/ does not seem to agree with that statement.
If you'd rather not enrich Amazon with your used book purchases, I recommend checking out Alibris. It's a marketplace just like Abebooks, and I've found that many of the same big name sellers are on both platforms.
The fact that I hope you are trolling, or that nobody depends on you or listens to you is not an insult.

>If what you said about setting remote workspace for your company is true, it is likely you have actually saved a life. See, it is not that hard to commend a person you are arguing with.

We've been doing it for more than a month, and your comment confirms you are trolling. Now I only hope you truly do not think what you said is true for your own sake, and hope that no person actually depends on you for their sake.

All the best to you, fellow human.
I’m a healthy millennial. Getting Covid-19 was so much worse than I expected
Ha, say that to my previous PM...
But they just buy exactly the same books, from exactly the same publishers, as every other bookshop in the world. Where are they adding any kind of protection against anything?

My local bookshop sells the same as I could get in a chain bookshop. The books aren't any different! What's the point?

And anyway you don't need bookshops to disseminate free thought, if that's what you mean. You can do that with a website.

(Doesn't apply to specialist bookshops.)
I've read this comment a couple times and am not clear whether or where you see the potential for useful leaks through repeated aligned plaintext blocks to occur, either in VBR AAC or in H264 video. I am spitballing and would welcome specific feedback on this if you have it; if you're speculating, can you force your speculation to the form of a test case we can go implement? We don't have to use Zoom; a reasonable model of the codecs Zoom uses would suffice for discussion's sake.
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> If you’ve got the time... We’ve got the beer. Miller beer.

https://youtu.be/k_HzThfudIk
To hear this from somebody who works for Microsoft of all companies. It's too good to be real.
That's what tool.poetry.scripts does.