skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly I don't want to play vulnerability Olympics. Zoom does lots of things wrong, it should fix all of them, and its users are right to complain at each of them, I don't understand any value from trying to pick some of them as "less bad" based on tenuous claims about what you think might or might not be possible in other domains like video encoding.

> In that context 'I-frames might be both identical and magically align' seems even more contrived than the already more-famous-than-informative penguin.

Did you take a look at an actual H.264 video stream of something boring?

I downloaded a random example of an H.264 video of the generic movie lead-in you've seen a million times where giant numerals appear in descending sequence. The sequence repeats itself several times, allowing us to compare I-frames each time.

Let me quote from the first time a giant numeral two is displayed - briefly in hexadecimal:

> fc fe 7f 3f 9f cf e7 f3 f9 fc fe 7f 3f 9f cf e7

That's not encrypted, but on the other hand I also don't understand what it means because I am not an H.264 decoder. So an ECB encoded block would be just as meaningful to me.

Of course, we'd only get the same exact ECB encoded block if the input was the same... a few seconds later another I-frame of the same giant numeral two and:

> fc fe 7f 3f 9f cf e7 f3 f9 fc fe 7f 3f 9f cf e7

Ah. Well, maybe it's just a fluke? A few seconds later the same number is featured in the I-frame again and...

> fc fe 7f 3f 9f cf e7 f3 f9 fc fe 7f 3f 9f cf e7

Maybe I got real stupid in my old age but I think what's going on here is exactly what I already told you to expect. Given the same input the H.264 I-frame encoded is identical or at least so very similar as to be full of the same 16-byte sequences. Actually it's mostly 9-byte sequences, it's just that it needs so very, very many of them to encode an I-frame that statistically producing a recurring 16-byte sequence was almost inevitable.

Let me be clear here: I don't understand H.264 well enough to align this naturally frame aligned, I just took the raw data and pretended it was already 128-bit aligned because that logically cannot be worse than what you'd get if you knew what you were doing. I would be astonished if somebody who actually knows what they're doing can't get much better results from this.
Why would you want to interrupt your code flow?
Not true. It is really difficult to go outside and not touch any surface that might have been touched by somebody else. Opening doors, operating lift, sitting on a bench, all those things might get you infected. If you are infected you might, unknowingly, infect all those surfaces and transfer the virus to many other people.

More importantly, restrictions (at least here in Poland) are aimed at people who are careless and who need to be forced to stay at home. There is huge portion of population that thinks the entire thing is a hoax or that it does not really concern them because they are relatively healthy. Their selfishness lies in that they don't care they will take part in spreading the disease to people who, due to huge number of sick people, will have very little chance of getting help.

It seems only when the streets are clear it is possible to catch and confine those careless people.

Just read up on how people in Italy or Spain are dying, slowly suffocating, you might change your attitude.
It is great to see a new cpu architecture to come to market. It is very interesting to see, that they pick up the VLIW architecture again. For true progress, we need very different aproaches to compete. As they are using the TSMC 7nm process, the processor will be produced on a cutting edge process. So it won't be hold back by running on an inferior process. Many good design have been killed in the past, because they were produced on a process that couldn't compete with the market leaders. I wondern, how ell the Ithanium could perform, if it were ported to 7nm. Many designs, which didn't work 10 to 20 years ago, could perform vastly better on a current process.
Instapaper for links, textfile for todo lists
> Violating a TOS isn’t illegal and I don’t have to import your requirements in a society ruled by law

What do you think it is that empowers the owners of this web site to do as they please with it?

You are a guest here, learn to be a better one.
Did your investors give some justification for the 2 year time span? For example, did they account for the possibility that many business won't open until September, or a second wave of infection that will hit late fall, followed by say, recession in full swing all of 2021.
What always bugged me about zombie movies is that no one seems to figure out a way to take advantage of it beyond total anarchy.

I would expect enterprising individuals to see zombies as a potential tool. Like maybe figure out what makes them tick (they never seem to possess intelligent thought) and leverage them for a labour force or army. What are they fuelled by? Can they be taught to perform complex tasks through reward / punishment?

Seems like the next logical distopian step to take, and brings up all sorts of complicated mechanics, economics, and morality questions.
>>Another thing that's almost a decade old is your objection. The term "startup" has come to have a broad meaning. The meaning of words changes over time.

They use the word "startup" when it serves their interests. Yet, we don't call 10 year olds babies. Too bad
And you’re probably not looking for a large exit. You are trying that unheard of concept of spending less than you make. What you are doing is running a “lifestyle business”.

That’s not a negative despite what the tech bro’s think. I hate the idea of success for a company seems to be “we got another round of funding while losing money”.
That's what App Store review wants you to think…
I'd say only 0.1% of startups have a VC attached.
As some one, who is back to no syntax highlighting at all, I would like the opposite. From distraction-free to papagei-mess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbQkyvbw18
I think you illustrate my point well: people are bought into the climate change talk, but when it comes to actions, they do what they really believe in.
I don't think anyone heralded it as revolutionary. It's an affordance to the reality that it's a different experience using devices in darkness than in brightness. Mobile screens make dark situations more prevalent.

As to UI customization, often that was an inconvenient cop out not a great enabler. "We don't want to figure this out so just change things yourself, but then you'll switch PCs or reinstall and you'll lose all of those customizations and you'll never do it again and you will forever leave everything vanilla".

Is it worth websites making a big deal about? No, not really... At most it should put a little badge when it detects the dark mode CSS allowing unwilling users to disable it, but it doesn't seem like something that gets dragged on as long as it has by a couple of sites.
>I seriously don't understand this seeming cultural hate for wooden houses.

Well, we do come from societies where having a house made of stone meant it wouldn't entirely burn in the next war.

>Look, you're emotionally attached to the kind of house construction you grew up in as a kid. I can get that.

This isn't some misplaced nostalgia for archaic traditions. It's how everybody lives on my fucking continent.

>But do you realize how freezing it gets in the northeast USA here? When it's -10°C or -20°C, I don't care how insulated your roof is, your walls matter a ton. Stone makes zero sense.

I honestly couldn't tell how right or wrong you are. On one hand the countries I know that reach those temperatures do like wooden houses, on the other hand they have an overabundance of timber. In any case it's entirely irrelevant to the weather in most of the US, where they still build like that.

>And even suppose you wanted a house made out of stone. It would just so much more expensive to build it's crazy. People don't have the money for it.

Our cheap default building material is concrete blocks. But stone is still an option.

>And that wooden houses aren't a "new cheap" thing -- I had friends in high school who lived in 150-year-old wooden houses. They're wonderful and charming, full of history.

I have a 700 year old house round the corner. I don't know of any wooden building in the area older than the late 1600s. It's just not made to last.

>Where does it come from?

France.

>Like, do you see news photos of destruction of trailer parks in hurricanes and blindly assume that's what happens to our houses (totally different thing) with a slight gust of wind? Because that's seriously the only thing I can guess here.

Well, everybody's seen those images of houses torn by tornadoes, or rotting from flooding, or burned to a crisp, or just crumbling after a few decades of neglect.

I'm looking into buying at the moment, and I've got my eyes on a few houses. All traditional houses made out of thick granite as we do here. The idea that someone would take on a debt that possibly spans decades over something that's not literally rock-solid is mind-boggling to me.

So, yeah, it might be entirely cultural. But that's still one thing on which I'll never give an inch.
Yup.

If you look in the source for R (in C), you will note that all of the data structure names end with Sexp.
SoftBank backs out of $3b WeWork tender offer
History strongly suggests that, in periods of disorder, even elites who did not resort to extreme violence and oppression will get murdered. ISIS didn't grant any leniency to nice elites who were well-loved by their local community.
That’s very kind! But, joking aside, I’m sure you can appreciate that this would be thought more than a little presumptuous had I actually titled it that way.
Where did you see his comment?
Why were there flagged or removed? Genuinely curious.
To that point, letting Gadaffi go in Libya (they had UN Security Council veto power over resolution 2016) was Russia's great strategical blunder. Libya was a friendly Mediterranean base. Because of that, they're never going to give up Syria.
No one is saying try nothing. That is a bad faith argument. He is also incredibly poor at making good use those experts at the NIH, FDA, CDC, etc and and even poorer communicator of what those experts have to say.
What impact has Coronavirus had on your business?
FWIW, literally has been used to mean figurative emphasis for over 200 years... I used to correct my kids too, but then realized that all my ideas about common grammar mistakes are wrong. ‘Myriad of’ isn’t incorrect, the word myriad began as a noun, just like dyad or triad. ‘I am good’ is a perfectly fine way to respond to ‘how are you?’ There’s nothing wrong with verbing nouns, etc., etc.. It seems like it has become fashionable to write blogs posts complaining about other people’s grammar mistakes. (Though, maybe articles whinging about bad grammar is a past-time as old as dirt...) I’ve stopped believing any grammar complaints because there’s a lot of misinformation. Plus, the cool thing about language is that it changes. Something being used incorrectly by the majority of a population makes it de-facto correct. Anyway, you gotta sit back and enjoy the word fads that kids go through. They do grow out of weird word habits that seem annoying all by themselves. They just say certain words a lot because all their friends are saying them too, so there’s no way us parents scolding them for it will convince them it’s uncool; it’ll just make them think their parents are old... which we are. ;)
I love how ever-enigmatic Bob releases this now even though it was "an unreleased song we recorded a while back".
No, it definitely manifests in other countries, but because it's cultural it looks different. Lots of places have an ugly relationship with alcohol, violence, and football, especially at the same time.
They Don’t Think Our Lives Matter as Much as Theirs
How many companies are running with no VC funding that fit the profile of the parent poster?

“By our very nature, we need months of runway just to keep running. We're designed to weather this kind of storm because "zero revenue" is the default state.”
> Another way to view the situation: you are a policeman stopping an ambulance not respecting the driving code and driving too fast, and then learn there is a dying patient in the back, what do you do?

Tell the ambulance driver to turn on the siren and party lights and have a nice day.

Like, there are already exemptions for ambulances driving "recklessly" as long as they're indicating (via siren and lights) that they're doing so in an emergency situation.

On that note, though, if the ambulance is driving too recklessly it might do more harm than good to the patient. It wouldn't necessarily be the police officer's place to make that determination, but it could certainly be a contributing factor for reprimanding the ambulance driver should the patient end up more injuries coming out of the ambulance than one did getting in.

Overall, a pretty poor analogy IMO, even if I do (to an extent) agree with your point.
I don't know. I think it's important to stay informed about the evolution of the pandemic, and local news are also extremely useful for staying prepared and anticipating certain actions that you'll need to take.

It might be better to consume all news in small daily doses rather than blocking out potentially critical information.
It is comical we are getting excited about a bunch of CSS files and other assets.

As others have pointed out: Desktop apps never had this problem and decent operating systems gave you much more freedom to adjust the color style to your liking.

Now we have half-assed solutions running in a hypertext display engine. Amazing! ;)
I recently found Checkvist for note taking. The progressive web app is really fast to load. The best part is extensive keyboard shortcuts for everything. Prior to finding Checkvist, I used text files for years.
What would need to exist to make such a proof specification utility less boring? I know many engineers who never thought they'd use unit tests until I was able to demonstrate immediate workflow benefit that made their job far easier than before. If you have experience in higher math, what would need to exist to make such specification useful?
I work for a well funded + product + paying customers + whatever su. Since inception of covid-19 the vast majority of customers withheld pretty much everything (some violated signed contracts). Some are MIA and impossible to communicate with.

It's a global turmoil and it's too soon to make assumptions about how great of a shape we're in.

Are we better off than baristas? Likely.
I think some may have lacked the correct nuances in their advice, or led people to think they need to buy N95 respirators at a time when doctors & first responders need them.
The GP is not complaining that our skills are valued, it's complaining that those companies have an awful low productivity.

You know, people filling low productivity jobs means that our skills aren't valued enough.
But for a whole summer I didn't pay for a ride share app.. thanks VCs!
Oh no, we absolutely should allow for people to change. Few things in the world are Pareto-optimal and we should not restrict change to Pareto-optimal things alone.

But the comment I responded to said this:

> We could cut the energy consumption of bitcoin to zero and the quality of life of everyone would not change at all.

Now I'm not one to normally be pedantic, but if we actually treat this non-literally we're faced with an optimization problem: how much is it worth reducing the quality of life of these people to ensure that energy isn't "wasted"?

So either you take the statement as a rhetorical flourish, in which case it is an inadequate response that merely relies on emotive appeals. Or you take the statement as literal, in which case it is obviously true. I guessed at a path but perhaps I should have articulated both sides. As it turns out I guessed wrong and you can see from his response that it was just an optimization problem inadequately specified.
I have experienced alternatives a good part of my life. The words I'd use to describe American suburbs are: quiet, green, peaceful. I get that many people are scared to be alone, but that's entirely in their heads.
That is a very interesting topic. I have not yet found the perfect solution.

Currently I am using a mix of
Pocket, Notion, start.me, and sharing instantly bookmarks between my different devices.

I use Notion for serious notetaking, almost project management stuff that I want to keep track of in a structured manner.

I have started to use start.me as my new homepage on every devices. What I really like about it is the ability to add quickly any bookmarks in it, I still access it from all my devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptop or desktop computer.

My ultimate goal would be to have everything in a single tool, but this seems really complicated today. Either the tool doesn’t have the functionality, is not fast enough or cross platform enough.

I have always favored to minimize the amount of different tools to use for that.

I am still very surprised that there is no standard tool to annotate web sites easily. It should be something much more natural that we should all be able to do, directly in the browser.

Everyone is talking about the JavaScript package fatigue, but we should start to talk about the application fatigue. There are so much different applications available, it’s really hard to make choices. And stick to them on the long run.

Looking forward reading your inputs!
Wow I wish our executive branch actually did take orders from Russia, per the fantasy we all enjoyed for three years. They're certainly taking the situation more seriously than we are. After several states held disastrous primary elections over the last two weeks, Wisconsin is set to hold another one this week!
I do not agree that Apple can maintain the same high quality App Store while not excluding alternatives. Alternative App Store will invite developers to put in less effort to reach the same audience. I do not want this.
Web Design Mistakes of 1999
In another security blow, thousands of private Zoom videos can be found online
I think what you can do is diversify and start thinking about business investments that would be good regardless of continued high growth or recession.

So continuing to invest in improved infra might be a good area to put your cash/resources since that will pay off really well in high growth and probably still have savings in a slower period.
I find topic forest to be by far the best approach I've ever tried. Inspired by: https://twitter.com/valentin_pd/status/1107781980102356993
Quarantine Reading: “The Machine Stops”
Protein folding is part of it. The other is finding which parts are antigenic to the immune cells. Epitope mapping is a common method to screen small bits of the proteins to see if any are hits for immune cells to recognize and kill. There are algorithms that can take the RNA/DNA, predict proteins, and then guess a percentage of those that may be important. But you still need to synthesize those in mass quantities and start testing each. Once you have candidates you then test them in mouse models (typically) to see if they actually provide an immune response. If interested check out the iedb. https://www.iedb.org/
Make no mistake, Google isn't any better these days. We've got a pretty large app and didn't just get the app revoked but our whole freaking account suspended over minor wording issues in the meta descriptions. Note we're not exactly small with six-digit MAUs. Google doesn't care about your business either if you're not Snapchat.

With more critical services and partnerships depending on Google, we're currently choosing our battles, even though I'd love to take this out in public.

That doesn't take away that Apple still takes the crown. Over the years, we've been revoked for doing some basic app behavior, then for not doing it anymore and lastly for doing it again (sorry that I can't go into specifics).

We're not doing anything remotely shady, just basic item comparison for consumers.

If you're relying on any of the app stores for your business these days, you're screwed. Both major ecosystems are unreliable, inconsistent dictatorships by now.

It's really time to unite as app developers and take out those big anti-trust guns.
Indeed, and it will be very hard getting anywhere near as good as Google's without owning Android which nobody else could possibly do.

I still think location data collection for the public good should be run by someone who is not Google / Facebook / some other company that doesn't already track everything about you. I'd be happy to send my real-time location to a company like Mozilla or some mapping company (just in the tiny netherlands I know of AND, Geodan, OsmAnd... I'd be fine if any of them organize this).

We also have some open data via the government, based on detection loops in the road, but if I remember correctly it's only (or mainly) on highways.
Amidst the current Coronavirus crisis, my team and I are developing a simple website where business owners and CEOs share what impact Coronavirus is having on their organization. So far we've secured responses from 72 business and nonprofit leaders. Once we have a few more we will go live with a website, and share these stories with the community at large.

Our goal is to create a resource for how small and medium size business and nonprofit leaders are adapting their organization's as a result of Coronavirus. If you have any questions or thoughts on how we can make this most valuable, please let me know.
There's also a footnote at the bottom mentioning that it's satire.
I don't think it will be effective. Are you interested in laying a bet with some time-frame? You don't have to be, but I find that it clarifies my priors appropriately.
ublock origin filter:

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a:has-text(Epidemic)

a:has-text(Pandemic)

a:has-text(Virus)

a:has-text(Death)

a:has-text(ICU)

a:has-text(Social Distancing)

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I'm seriously thinking I should develop a plug-in that blocks news articles about the Kardashians.
Huh? The App Store only features apps that are... on the App Store. How can you look at that and know how many were rejected or killed by Apple? This is one anecdote of one chat app, that doesn’t mean it was the only one Apple rejected.

This is textbook survivorship bias.
Pooling free-tier accounts is usually against ToS.
The panic strikes the middle class more than any other group, because their status is the most easily lost. Unlike the rich, their power goes away with their jobs.

Also note, that many (though not all) of the "aristos" executed in the French Revolution were people lower down on the hierarchy. These were the people more easily visible and accessible to the mob.

The panic strikes the middle group the most, because the danger is the most real for them!
You're thinking of prefers-color-scheme, which already exists and is adopted by Stack Overflow.
The only information you absolutely need to hear is "am I under a stay at home order or not". Other than that you can probably read no news until the election when you should figure out if you think Trump did a good job handling COVID-19 (lol).
Lots of countries have.

I was on one of the last flights to transit through Taiwan. Here in the UK, the government have been talking about a program to get brits back from Australia because many of the places you have to stop and refuel are closed even to transiting passengers.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-travel-re...

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/australia/return-to...
Nah. They would have said "after a long battle with......"
British 5G towers are being set on fire amid coronavirus conspiracy theories
There might be something wrong with an economic model which is predicated on infinite growth.
Amazing, in the same paragraph, acquiescence of power to a foreign state and a plea to end democracy.