skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think a big submarine fleet really helps you if you can’t get them out of port.

Have a country next door with a bunch of subs you can’t detect is a threat. Remember these “puny conventional” submarines are the ones that ran circles around an entire US carrier taskforce, the crown jewels of the US navy. I doubt Russia has anything significantly better.
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying

-Bob Dylan

The music Dylan was making in the 60s is just as relevant today as ever before. “Murder Most Foul” hit me in the gut. Truly an epic.
Democracy and Democratic governments are two different things. The USA is a democracy. China, North Korea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are Democratic governments.
BotGrabber: An Anomaly-Based Botnet Detection System
The term "lifestyle business" really annoys me. It's Silicon Valley propaganda. There are better ways to build companies than taking hundreds of millions or billions in funding. Pre-crisis startup funding was largely decadence enabled by cheap money.

By contrast early generation SV companies took relatively small amounts of funding if at all. Intel for example took the equivalent of $18.4M US in 2019 dollars prior to IPO. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Origins
The first question people ask is "how is this different than native Slack integrations with Zendesk, Intercom, etc?". The answer is that we've increased the functionality in these integrations significantly, and made all of them 2-way!

For example, if you use shared channels with your customers, you can create a Zendesk ticket from Slack, and then reply directly from a ticket in Zendesk and we find the right channel and thread to reply to.
Hope this goes better than the when there were unintended consequences from the UK and the US overthrowing the government of Iran. Seems like every time outsiders decide to topple some regime, something worse pops up in its place. That might be hard to imagine with how terrible North Korea currently is, but there are ways for it to be even worse.
Well we are certainly screwed as a country if we can't manage to wipe our asses with a too-large roll of toilet paper.
Do you have any idea why that is? Length of travel? Cost of travel? I'm a Pole living abroad and every year I try to go to visit my family for Easter, it seems like a pretty normal thing to do.
Will this remove just the word, or the entire paragraph, or what?
I use a directory structered with a wiki Dir, log Dir, a few others, in which markdown formatted notes are saved, as well as any other kind of file I want to save. You can use many tools to browse a filetree of markdown files, I use QOwnNotes on the desktop and Markor on Android. The Dir is synced, I use Resilio but many tools would do the job. This way I have a privately 'hosted' 'system' which is quite flexible in term of software and longevity; so many tools exist and are bound to exist to interoperate with this I do not worry about lockin or things like that. Been using this setup in various forms for nearly a decade, and I think at least a decade more.
I don't think that follows.

What's hurting e.g. Airbnb is not that they are a marketing middleman between people offering a service and people in need of a service. It's that the need for that underlying service has greatly diminished--if people don't need the underlying service anymore then they don't need a marketing middleman for that service either.

What you need to make your point are examples where the underlying service still does fine in bad times, but the marketing middleman for that service do not.
I don’t think that’s the part sambull had a problem with
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.

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.
How's Christopher Ahn's extradition trial going? Haven't seen any updates since the bail.
Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs to SARS-coronavirus-2
Solar powered waterfall controlled by a GPIO port
I am not (Portugal). And I feel for you (and my friends and even myself, everyone is suffering now).

What I meant was, a lifestyle sw business, while low cost to run, means either someone having savings or a small family/friends angel investment/loan. That is why I mentioned some folks take funding because a lifestyle business is beyond their reach as they are working 40+ hours just to break even.
This is also very advantageous in diffs; diff-ing a Markdown file with many 1000+ character lines is rather hard.
I agree - it has a nice high contrast and I didn't really see any significant flaws.
That presumes that paying attention to the news is the same thing as becoming informed
God I miss old school pro wrestling. Hilarious.
Fre: AC development status update 02/2020
Zombies also seem to just keep moving without any energy input. Figure out how to keep them moving where you want them and you have a generator that runs as long as the zombie is solid enough to move it. If you're dealing with Walking Dead rules where everyone turns after death, and it's a renewing resource.
Get a handle on Chrome Extensions in your enterprise BSidesSF 2020 [video]
You can just use <br>
You don't have to understand H.264. All you have to do is take the histogram of consecutive 16 byte blocks from the stream. It's like a 5 minute coding project. Then we don't have to wonder if there are aligned 16 byte block collisions; we can actually look at them and get a sense of where they are and how frequent they are relative to the size of the data. Can you do that? Or, failing that, can you provide a `curl` command anyone else could use to download the data you're looking at, so we can do it for you?

I can H.264 a series of images with solid-colored blocks and not see repeats. But who knows if my codec test harness is representative? I very much doubt it is. I'm certain that there are cases where there are not just collisions, but useful collisions. Let's understand what they are.

This isn't "vulnerability Olympics". It's simply about understanding what we are discussing.
So exactly how should Apple make it easy to find your app over the other 5 million apps? It’s the app developers responsibility to gain an audience and market themselves. It’s that way on any platform or the “open web”.
Created these awhile back. They worked pretty well and you can add sand for more weight. https://youtu.be/PQKsyqQPRpc
Perhaps it is the american accent they are taught, americans would say keht.
I always thought it was strange football was fussball in german, yet they'd call in soccer in english.
Diesel-electric subs are an underappreciated type. Nuclear is fine for indefinite remote launch stations, but anything tactical and espionage related, you gonna want a sub that's much quieter and can be turned of completely. Hard to find I English sources, but have a look at Dutch diesel-electric subs if you're interested. Played a neat role during the cold war, a role nuclear subs couldn't fulfill.
nearly all of the current wall of corona news on every news site is designed to foment anxiety (entirely different from the "fake news" naysayers) and garner future clicks, rather than provide critical information.

the public is already doing what they need to do (physical distancing, washing hands, self-quarantining if necessary). medical professionals and scientists (and their suppliers) need time and support to provide care, create/perform tests, and develop new treatments and protocols.

beyond that, we need to get our houses in order and then just relax as much as we can and wait until we get substantial evidence to do something different. all this corona hysteria is entirely counter-productive.
I was expecting this to be about vigorous dancing at nightlife establishments and I wanted to know what 19th century nightclubs were like.
You're really taking an overly broad and negative reading here. The commenter you replied to obviously referred to the current U.S. administration when wishing for them to take orders from Russia. The joke being that the alleged conspiracy would have a favorable outcome compared to the bumbling response we observe. The comment doesn't suggest (at least to me) that this should be a general policy.

Similarly, calling conventions disastrous during the current pandemic is well in line of discourse about limiting the spread. Interpreting this as "a plea to end democracy" overinterprets things much. Is a democracy really a democracy if it is so fragile it could cease to exist when a few conventions cannot be held?

Please show a bit of good will when reading others' comments.
Only the federal government has the ability to borrow money. States have to balance their budgets every year, and whoops, half their tax money has now vanished, because so many can't work. Delegating responsibility to state governments and simultaneously refusing to provide the needed resources is a recipe for failure. Allowing unlimited profiteering on essential supplies and forcing states to bid against each other, while national stockpiles are withheld to be used for political purposes, means it isn't going to get better.

So we need to stay at home until we're able to test on a much larger scale.
There is no possible way to ignore what is happening right now. If you want a Cov-19 blocker, you know all you need to know already.
How seeing a lot of news about an event that I can't do anything is good? It just gets me depressing! Watch the news is the worst thing at the moment! I'm encouraging everyone that I love to stay away from this. Fear/depression is way worst than this virus.
makeELF – ELF reader-writer library for Python3
This means this Show HN link won’t show when using the plugin? Clever.
Glasshouse is great. I've enjoyed every Stross novel I've read, and Glasshouse was the first one, after stumbling across a newspaper review when it was released.

Both the Laundry Files & Merchant Princes / Empire games series are also great fun.

You can get a feel for Stross' Laundry Files series from:

"A Colder War" http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm (not Laundry Files, but in the ballpark)

"Equoid" https://www.tor.com/2013/09/24/equoid/

For the longest time I didn't try reading the Merchant Princes series because it _appeared_ to be too much of a fantasy series for my tastes -- boy was I mistaken. It's less "Narnia" and more "what do you reckon would actually happen if a paranoid US administration discovered Narnia" with healthy doses of feuding and economics.
I meant $200 after taxes per month. I can see how it can be ambiguous.
> I'm saying that donning PPE is hard, and that members of the public can't do it. They usually miss out several hand washing steps, or they don items in the wrong order, or they don't have a safe place to doff items.

And the solution here is to gain experience. I don't "adjust my mask" because I've been using it for household projects for the past few years. My first grocery run with a mask was a month ago. I definitely got to points where I messed up steps or did not have a good plan, but I learned. The best time to start is now.

> Most people would have to open a few doors to get to the taps. Now all those door handles, and the taps, are contaminated, so you need to clean them too.

So then, the same exact situation they're in if they go to the grocery store without a mask? People obviously need to wash their door handles as well.

> The entire front face of that filter is to be regarded as contaminated

The 7503 is the face piece, with my point being that I can grab that part without touching the filters. I have the 2297 filters, which are large round cloth discs - exposed liabilities. The 7093 filters would be better as the filter element is encased in plastic, but alas that's not what I already had.

And yes, it has an exhalation valve which is sub-optimal. I'll try remedying this next time I take the whole thing apart to deep clean it.

> WHO, CDC, PHE, etc have all been pretty clear that masks don't provide any benefit to members of the public

They have not backed up this position with data showing that individual mask wearing is actively harmful, and neither have you. Furthermore, they do recommend that healthcare professionals wear masks, which is inconsistent - if masks are effective against virus particles in a hospital, they can be effective against virus particles in a grocery store.

A basic analysis of the physical system is that all contamination ending up on mask filters would have otherwise been breathed in. So even if all of the filtered virus ends up on someone's hands and is not washed off, that is still better than it being in their airways!

If mask wearing is not actively harmful, then why discourage it at all? The meat of your argument seems to boil down to "you're likely to do it wrong" which is neither scientific nor productive.
I suppose that this only works with a-href right?
The iPhone may not be a PlayStation 4, but it's definitely comparable to the Nintendo Switch: powerful, handheld, the vast majority of apps are games, and you can hook it up to a TV!

The Apple TV 4K does 4K (unlike the original PS4), and the iPad Pro runs Fortnite at 120 FPS while the PS4 is stuck at 60 FPS.
The "faceless horde" angle is still in line with the "other uprising" allegory. Day of the Dead's predecessor, and the origin of the modern zombie in pop culture, had fairly overt racial undertones, and its sequel, in its concern with barrier-breaching ghouls, made plain the nationalistic undercurrents by setting the action in a military bunker.

There's really no getting around the influence of real-world race and class attitudes in shaping zombie fiction.
Thank you for sharing that! It's amazing that this tradition exists in Poland. Do Poles come to see family for New Year / Christmas?

Oh, and by the way: Russia has state holidays from Jan 1st till Jan 10th (+/-, every year is slightly different), which makes it a lot easier to meet everyone.

Easter does not have any state recognition in Russia, so everyone would be quite busy with their regular errands, I guess.
Don’t wanna be pedantic but a small tech-based business isn’t really a startup.
Not a mathematician, but I've kept up with this story as a non-mathematician.

> For instance, imagine the proof is made of 50 lemmas. One could check the main theorem derives from the 50 lemmas. And checking each individual lemma could be left to other mathematicians.

To my understanding, some mathematicians have gone ever further and checked the work themselves. Peter Scholze (a 32-year-old who won the Fields medal a couple of years ago and seems to be in the sweet spot of expertise and stamina to really audit this thing) has identified a specific result ("Corollary 3.12") that he says does not follow from the results leading up to it [1]. This is pretty weird because "Corollary" is usually reserved for things that are immediate consequences of previous results.

Based on the featured article, Scholze's position hasn't changed. There is a specific objection and the two sides just...disagree.

For those interested, you can look at the papers yourself if you want to. Here's the one containing the controversial result [2]. Theorem 3.11 is on p153, and the statement alone is 5 pages long. The proof is 3 lines and asserts that it's obvious from definitions and previous statements. Corollary 3.12 is on p173.

As an outsider, I am amazed at Scholze's ability to work through all of this and identify a specific criticism.

[1] https://inference-review.com/article/a-crisis-of-identificat...

[2] http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20...
Yes, the former. I haven't seen xarray before, it seems interesting (still reading up on it). The ecosystem around Pandas is amazingly enormous :)
Just in case it wasn't clear from discussion elsewhere on this post, Notify didn't send out the text message mentioned in the news. That message was sent directly by the networks at request of the government.
Ahem well, random story time, I also used VNC about 10+ years ago. I was visiting a friend, and somehow we ended up wondering how many open VNC servers were still out on the Internet. Fast forward some hours, we had put together a scanner (Perl) that connected to default VNC port and saved the bitmap to disk... and let it loose.

That was amusing; ran it for weeks. There were a few desktops and such, but the majority was camera monitoring systems from shops, kiosks, office buildings, streets and what not, some manufacturer clearly didn't do their due diligence... Found a whole bunch of industrial equipment HMI systems, although we could never figure out what it was, something with hot pipes... Some stuff looked like astronomy, some like fishing, a lot we just had no clue.

I wonder what it would look like if repeated today... ?
An excellent and entertaining read! Highly recommended.
How to Keep Open Source Software Maintained
Great, now every visit from private mode shows huge "dark mode" banner. How about just using prefers-color-scheme media query?
How much can you quote from a crawled document? Can you republish the entire crawl? What can you do under "fair use" of copyrighted material and what can't you do? Can you articulate a solid defense of your publication that it truly contains only pure factual information? Will BigCo dislike having its name associated with the study but can you protect yourself by limiting your publication to "nominative use" of its trademarks? What is the practical risk of someone raising a stink if the legality of your usage is ambiguous? Who actually holds copyright on the crawled documents?

You have a lot of rights and you can do a lot. Understanding those rights and where they end lets you do more, and with confidence.
You never tried to sell your software in physical stores did you or in digital stores run by the carriers? In both cases they took close to 70%.
There can definitely be information overload. But ignoring everything is not good either.
> It seems like Gmail et al. could just add a popup warning folks before sending anything to a .gov email.

If I'm not mistaken, Gmail _also_ keeps a record of your emails too, does it not?
Strongman type workouts still use these today (typically in steel), along with maces. You can buy them from the sort of suppliers that sell to crossfit gyms and the like, e.g., https://www.onnit.com/onnit-steel-clubs/
Of course the fitness industry has already rediscovered these clubs and sells stylish items under the 'functional fitness' category. But the more 'functional' a workout gets, the more one could wish there was real, physical work to be done, the kind of work that reveals muscular deficiencies despite regular gym workouts (often hand strength and endurance when working overhead) and gives a different sense of accomplishment and satisfaction: shelves built, home improved, practical skills acquired.
No, in the US there's only one party that is explicitly anti-government, anti-expert, expecting government to fail. The other party has its own problems (its progressive and centrist factions are are war with each other, for example), but they are different problems.
Here's an ELF writing library in Python -- for all of the aspiring compiler writers on Linux out there...
This is the same Russian Navy that, less than a year ago, managed to sink a floating drydock while refitting their sole aircraft carrier, damaging the latter and keeping it out of commission for longer.

Like the rest of the Soviet military assets, it suffered heavily in the collapse of the USSR, but there hasn't been the revitalization effort in Putin's administration that there has been in the Army and Air Force.
TongueBoard: An Oral Interface for Subtle Input
Nice additional feature could be to display times, when there's probability to meet least number of shoppers.
I think the point is that they claim they deserve their 30% because they promote you, but if they aren't actually doing that, why do they deserve their 30%?

If you have to market the whole thing on your own and find your own audience, what value are they providing? Hosting the infrastructure? Fine, let me pay a per download price or a monthly hosting fee. Or better yet, let me host it on my own infrastructure.

Verifying the security of the app? The customers should be paying for that, not the developers.

That's the issue here. They want you to pay a ransom but they don't actually provide any value for that ransom.
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Let's start with two months. It seems quite possible that we'll have a better idea what's going on by June. A number of important events that affect my community have been postponed until at least then. In June, we can ask the public health experts whether we can start ramping back up with big public events, including elections.

I wish all the democracy superfans would show some consistency and demand all-paper-ballot elections, like most democratic polities in history and in the present. The closed-source electronic voting box is certainly a bigger threat to democracy than several months of primary delay. When other nations have exit poll discrepancies of over 4%, the UN calls it an indicator of probable vote fraud. Our primaries regularly feature such discrepancies. [0]

[0] https://www.nationofchange.org/2020/03/13/is-the-dnc-cheatin...
> It might be better to consume all news in small daily doses rather than blocking out potentially critical information.

I'd rather read the one news app on my phone - which basically covers everything of what's interesting about the pandemic - than trying to consume all news but ending up reading the same thing on every social platform. This add-on could be a solution to this.
The issue is that this behavior doesn't come out of some inborn bloodthirst, but rather a scenario akin to,

"We're taking you're stuff."

"I'll kill you if you try."

"Well then we must defend ourselves."

Inevitably, stuff is appropriated and the mob, in its losses, learns to pull the trigger first.

"Society" is this but both sides knowing when to stop before the shooting begins.
Founders aren't dumb. They need to survive through the war of attrition, and they will find ways to extend that runway. It's naive to believe it will be business as usual just because you're used to "zero revenue".

If future rounds aren't coming (guess what, in this economy, they aren't), you extend runway by cutting expenses. Anyone with a career older than ten years knows how this will go.
genius. telling my partner right now.
Yeah, we go home for Christmas too. So per year I'll usually go for Christmas and for Easter. Maybe if the year is really good we'll try to visit at the end of summer too.
If there's one thing I've learned from the dotcom crash and the 2008 collapse, it's this: when the crap hits the fan, cash is king. Start-ups without profitable business models are extremely vulnerable. All of the pitches about exponential growth and glorious future profits carry little weight when investor psychology turns negative. So if you have a large pile of investor capital and you have investors who can't / won't claw their money back, you may be OK. But don't kid yourself that you are on an easier path.
How are they suppose to “promote” 5 million+ apps? Apple never claimed promotion they claimed access. Do physical retail stores actively promote your SKU over the thousands of other products?
With ignoring case:

a:has-text(/corona/i)

a:has-text(/covid/i)

a:has-text(/epidemic/i)

a:has-text(/pandemic/i)

a:has-text(/virus/i)

a:has-text(/death/i)

a:has-text(/ICU/i)

a:has-text(/social distancing/i)

One-liner:

a:has-text(/corona|covid|epidemic|pandemic|virus|death|social distancing|ICU/i)

Source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...