skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is impressive; I could not possibly work like that though :<

1. Never mind posturing, it's the posture - I get back and neck pain just thinking of working from a couch or floor :(

2. I like my multiple 27" monitors. Going back to just a single 14" feels like a huge productivity hit.

3. Same thing with proper keyboard + mouse, vs just a touchpad or even the trackpoint.

So I'll agree that there's a lot of posturing and professional front in this and many professions; but even without that, I've always far far preferred my home office to either proper office, or working from living areas.

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The other aspects are more age dependent (though I believe so is the posture / back pain;). It helps to distinguish "working area" and "non-working area", triply so once you have family. There's a million things that I do better at when I'm "in the zone" - ingested the background, focused on the problem at hand. Distractions reset that counter - I love my kid, I love my wife, but there are aspects of my work that don't benefit from their presence :-). This is probably part of why my personal most productive times tended to be late at night when the world has settled down and distractions are at a minimum...
Zoom is more like focus on growth by actively undermining security first, and do who knows what later.
Is video really that important? Sure it has benefit of being a bit more cozy, but in reality phone is sufficient to discuss work. Screenshare is much more important, especially for knowledge workers.
With automata theory it’s useful to be pedantic. What people ordinarily mean by “regex” are in different classes of automata from regular expressions as equivalent to finite state machines. For example Perl capture groups, look ahead, and backtracking are beyond what a finite state machine or its equivalent regular expression is capable of. Though for me the simplicity of the FSM is a big part its intellectual appeal.
Q&A after winning game 4:

> What were you thinking when you made that play [move 78]?

> Lee Sedol: Move 78 was the only move I could see. There was no other placement. It was the only option for me, so I put it there.
Or this-

https://github.com/pugjs/pug/blob/master/README.md#syntax
> Use Ed25519 keys.

> ...

> You can use Yubikey and pretty much every other solution out there with with OpenSSH now.

Unfortunately, you can't use Ed25519 keys unless you have the latest/newest model(s) of Yubikey and that Yubikey came with at least a specific firmware version (5.2.3, IIRC). Even if that weren't so, there's still loads of popular / widely-used software that isn't even close to supporting Ed25519 (yet) but has supported RSA for years and years (and will continue to for the foreseeable future).

I'd like to be able to "upgrade" to an Ed25519 key but I can't come up with any real reason to expand my collection of Yubikeys any further (I think I'm up to nine, at last count, and the three newest ones haven't even been opened!). I don't plan on purchasing another Yubikey until four or five of the ones I already have decide to call it quits, so I won't be using an Ed25519 key anytime in the next couple of years, at least.

Even if I could start using an Ed25519 key with my Yubikeys today, I'd likely still have to keep an RSA key around for the "legacy" stuff, in which case I might as well just save myself the trouble and stick with RSA for a while longer.

A private RSA (2048+) key on a Yubikey is still much "better", IMO, than a private Ed25519 key sitting on one's hard drive.

In an ideal world we could all just switch everything over to Ed25519 at about the same time and then retire RSA shortly afterwards. It's gonna be a long time before everyone has ditched RSA keys and moved to Ed25519, though -- RSA isn't going anywhere anytime soon!
Now, let’s run Swift on the original Macintosh.
Also, he's written an incredible series of groundbreaking papers throughout his career, going back to 2005. His papers tend to hold up very well. At this point, I carefully read any paper with his name on it, and I believe he very much deserves the honor.
Pretty definitive statement there. Source?
It would be interesting to upstream the LLVM-related work. And I do wonder how much work would it take to support other PPC32-based platforms - not just Apple and BeOS but AmigaOne, GameCube/Wii, *NIX and WinNT 3.51/4.0 systems etc.
> Then there’s Zoombombing, where trolls take advantage of open or unprotected meetings and poor default settings to take over screen-sharing and broadcast porn or other explicit material. The FBI this week warned users to adjust their settings to avoid trolls hijacking video calls.

I haven't really been following what is going on with Zoom. I have been vaguely aware of quite a few security issues.

However today I was linked youtube live stream from a friend on discord of some guy trolling random school classes while by pretending to be some sort of African Warlord. While his act was quite initially amusing and tbh harmless, it certainly didn't leave a positive impression of the software in my mind.
> First of all, as an aside, thank you for all the work you do on Python!

Welcome!

> is Don still there?

Yep, working on the data science features of the extension.

> on Talk Python I remember specifically Michael and some others talking about the massive influx of money into Python and its ecosystem in the last year and half or so.

As I said there have been donations for PyPI and pip just got its big donation. The CZI donation was also much bigger than pip and covered a lot of the science ecosystem.

> Has the PSF ever considered having an actual business? Like say, consulting and/or having developers work on features that businesses pay to have implemented?

There isn't a need for the PSF to have a business subsidiary to accomplish that as people can donate money for such things if they truly wanted to. It's also really hard to manage due to tax laws in the US around non-profits and such. Plus there would be start-up capital costs, etc. just like any other business. I just don't think the risk of trying to get it set up would lead to any benefit when people have always had the option to donate directly to see if something could be done.

If people want to help out financially they can go to https://donate.pypi.org for packaging donations and https://www.python.org/psf/donations/python-dev/ for the language and CPython. And if someone wanted to fund a specific thing I'm sure the PSF is happy to discuss such an idea to see how feasible it would be.
It was one of the fastest-growing SAAS companies before coronavirus hit despite all the free competition.

The reason? "It just works."

It's clear their singular focus on making it "just work" for even the least tech-savvy users has led them to prioritise user experience over security/privacy. I imagine a rebalancing is coming.
Not defending zoom here -- they done fucked up -- but there is a huge disconnect between the marketing folks and the technical folks. It's possible that E2E Encryption was something they planned on implementing but haven't, and the marketing department either didn't get the memo or didn't understand and still kept the wording.
> It would be fantastic for the GNU project's visibility if it expanded its focus on software that would potentially be more widely used directly by humans.

Agreed, but...

> Where's the GNU project's alternative to Zoom?

https://jami.net/ (formerly GNU Ring), I think

> Why is Savannah so far behind GitLab?

I'm inclined to agree with this, moreso as I hadn't even realized until now that it was even a thing outside being used for official GNU repos (much like how Canonical's Bazaar is technically open source but 100% only ever intended to run Canonical's ... canonical... instance).

> Where are the GNU apps for mobile?

While the sibling comment is probably correct that GNU isn't fond of supporting nonFree platforms, ex. IceCat is on F-Droid.
Please help get this working on Catalina
Janus gateway + gstreamer is one way to handle this.
Accident. One of them has an Elon rant. I'll leave that one.
But laptop keyboards suck. D:

And no multiple monitors?!

How do you track the logic of an async call that sends shit across five different files in this n-tier architecture webapp and see the app update in real time and see what your coworkers are saying???

Also,

>The old society isn't going to last much longer,

I seriously hope you're right. I'm cynical to how sweeping or durable the changes that corona catalyzed will be, but I can hope.
>Someone like Cory Doctorow would argue that this barrier to unseating established, content-heavy networks would go away if competitors were able to freely and legally build their own interops with TikTok's services.

Do you have a link to a specific article where he said that? I'm struggling to understand how that is true.

1. For content networks (YouTube, Netflix, TikTok), video bandwidth is the highest cost and it isn't cheap. Why would anyone effectively pay their competitors for the privilege of hosting their content? That is the number one reason why we don't see competitors to YouTube.

2. >UX, privacy policies, client features, and advertising -- not by holding your friends hostage from you

TikTok does compete - they pay for content. They learned the lesson Twitter refused to acknowledge with Vine, the facebook has been dragging its feet trying to adopt, that was invented by YouTube and abused by Netflix. You need to pay for content to bring video creators to your platform. Now, again, if I'm TikTok, why would I pay for creators for content to be shown on a competitors platform. Worse still why would I pay for content that I can no longer accurately measure the reach of, and deal with a 10x worse fraud problem?

Simply put, I see no reason why TikTok should be forced to socialize their platform so that third parties can leech of their content and video infrastructure for free. If competitors want to compete they should compete on talent and pay creators, everything else is secondary.
(The TechCrunch article also misinterprets parts of the blog post.)
> look at the irrationality around toilet paper

I think it is perfectly rational to buy a bit more than you need if you think “irrational” people are buying more than they need. Low cost, low risk, so why wouldn’t you? Expecting everybody to act rationally is highly irrational IMHO.

It’s probably a both defect in game theory?
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You sound really angry and as my mom says, maybe take a chill pill. Not everything needs to elevate our blood pressure.
Real life systems don't have to be physical. You can do a lot by playing around with digital PID controllers, graphing the sensor value over time and seeing how the graph changes as a response to changes in the gains. The benefit of this approach is that anyone with some programming skills can do it right away without any hardware.
Ah, you're right. I do use the dock screen and the laptop screen, but hadn't noticed that everything moves to the dock screen even if it was previously on the laptop screen when docked.
Okay, I sincerely did not mean to start a flamewar, I was trying to explain to the GP why Venezuela fell.

Now that I know talking about socialism, and I assume other economic and political ideologies, is against the rules I will report similar occurrences i.e. when people criticize capitalism when it doesn't relate to the topic.

I apologize for any breakage of the rules, I did read them, but I misunderstood.
In my experience Google's Hangout Meetings have been at least as good or better quality and the interface is far superior in my opinion. For example it works in the browser without any plugins (even in Firefox.)
> Wish they hadn’t pushed for independence.

Why? They are their own people/nation? They deserve independence.

> As an American state they would have prospered so much more.

There was a racial requirement for statehood ( majority white ). It was one of the sad reasons for the extermination of the native americans. If the philippines were to become a US state, it would probably mean that most filipinos would have been killed off or pushed out of the philippines. Do you really think the filipinos would have prospered in that environment? Not to mention, they are catholics and the US historically didn't treat catholics too well.

You might want to read up on the history of the US and the US history in the philippines/pacific. It isn't pretty.

You do realize that their first attempt at independence was crushed by the US right? And for 60 years, philippines was a poor colony of the US?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_Wa...
Absolutely. A lot of real work involves face to face talking, not looking at a shared screen or document.
There's a rough list at https://wiki.python.org/psf/Fundable%20Packaging%20Improveme.... There's no official roadmap as getting a group of volunteers to agree to a list of priorities would be near impossible. :)

If there's a specific pain point your employer would like to see fixed and is willing to donate money to help resolve that pain point then please go to https://donate.pypi.org/.
I'm currently in Georgia Techs OMSCS program and taking Sebastian Thrun's AI for Robotics class on Udacity (free to access). I thought the Lesson on PID controller was really solid. Here's the first lecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8w0prceask&feature=emb_logo
We ditched BlueJeans for zoom at work and it’s so much better. With BlueJeans the video stutters more, audio quality is worse and the video doesn’t work about 1/3 of the time until I reboot my machine. On top of that BlueJeans drains my battery like crazy. Zoom just works so much better for me.
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> The Linux kernel, on the other hand, doesn't exactly have a simple drop-in replacement

Why do you think the kernel is harder to replace than coreutils and libc? There have been working replacements (ex. Debian/kFreeBSD), and in many systems replacing libc/coreutils is effectively impossible (having once tried this, I can tell you that swapping coreutils with busybox on Debian results in a sort of working system, but completely breaks package management, IIRC).
The real question is really "why isn't most of the spectrum like this?" - people sharing it rather than it being sold off to private holders to be owned
Sadly, OBS is busted for interfacing with Google Meet on MacOS. :( Found this out the hard way Monday.
You should still be able to click on individual tags to filter the postings btw.
Being the Linux geek, I use MS Teams. I even use it with its Linux client, and works astonishingly well.

My only 2 grievances with it are:

1. Teams steals focus to make the next message on a group, rather than in the threat ALL THE TIME. Ive been there for a dozen comments because Teams stole cursor focus.

2. Its easy to make an invite to a one-shot room, rather than use an existing room. Doing so loses all history and provenance and discussion. And there's no "merge this room with the real place" when that happens.

But all in all, Ive been on 130+ person calls with no issue. Works very well, aside those issues above.
Dream Theater fans will note that this is Ottaviano, not John Petrucci.

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Every video that mentions Covid, corona, virus, etc. seems to automatically get tagged by TikTok and a "get facts on covid-19" button appears on the bottom of those tiktoks. I would also assume they take down covid misinformation if/when it's reported enough but I can't attest to that.
Zoom and Slack are both FedRamp authorized for government use. Zoom is even authorized Moderate, while Slack is still being audited for that rating.

https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/#/product/zoom-for-governmen...
https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/#/product/slack
I feel very conflicted on Zoom. It mostly just works and on every platform, even Linux. My kids use it to do their music lessons now. It really is very good at what it does in a time when such solutions are needed. Also they responded to the mobile facebook sdk issue and the macos issue quickly.

But I agree the way they suggest it is end to end encrypted is misleading. I don't think it really can be end to end to get the performance and features. People just need to see each other at the moment. You can do anything sensitive with more secure communication. But it clearly doesn't belong in any place discussing technology with military applications.

I still think it is solid for my kids to keep up with their lessons or for a weekly meeting about some web development. There are genuine criticisms of Zoom at the moment that need to be taken seriously but there is likely also some negative media being generated from their competition that are missing out.
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Not to mention it wasn't uninstalled when you removed Zoom, so that they could sneakily re-install it if you ever clicked on a Zoom invite link.

Fortunately OS X released an update to make this impossible for Zoom and anyone else.
>how is it that the West became the colonizers in the first place

The Industrial Revolution? Colonization has existed hand-in-hand with empires, the West has been colonized by Rome, Britain, France, in a massive tug-o-war. The Industrial Revolution took that fight global. There's a clear "egg" here.
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I don't think the average user cares so much about security and privacy as hacker news readers.
I thought it would hit people how serious it was when sports stopped, movies stopped releasing, kids couldnt go to schools and people started scalping toilet paper.
Ask HN: For parents, what are your productivity tips for managing work and kids?
My partner and I are both very fortunate to still have jobs and the ability to work from home.

But with a newborn, it feels like our choice is between being less productive or being burned out. Infrequent naps and needing attention all day means one of us has to divert attention away from work during business hours.

What tips do you have for managing kids and staying productive without getting burned out?
This is one of my favorite PID blog posts. Improving the beginners pid:

http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2011/04/improving-the-beginn...
I’m not a religious person but being hysterical about wanting to point fingers at believers because “they are obviously wrong” is missing the point.

They may not be able to prove something mystical, as you said, exists but you certainly can’t prove there’s nothing.
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The main myth we discussed over coffee and biscuits back in the compsci staffroom was .. expensive as all hell on the computers we have now. (a good handwaving often used to say "one day, in the future, somebody will make it work")
PHP has a spec?
Well, it's my own server, and the code is open source, so... pretty trivial to verify.
I like it, seems a little better than most job sites that claim to filter on remote work. How long did you work on this before launching?
I'm sure that we can find spelling or grammar mistakes in your past comments or that you have made spelling mistakes before. This is Dr. Zayner's blog post and not some treatment protocol.

If you want to judge his more serious work, you could take a look at his DIY peptide vaccine guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xk5S0DwdXy8bVY30PJA07Z_u...
> How about we tell people the truth

That's exactly what is happening.

People just don't want to listen to medical experts and instead trust random people on social media.
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>and the code is open source, so... pretty trivial to verify.

* laughs in Heartbleed
Your other comment describing this as a hit piece is dead. So this is second attempt to discredit those making a solid argument with evidence. Again you take zero issue with all the points raised and just try to add noise and muddy things.

So, why? Anything you'd like to disclose? dang ?
AFAIK LLVM only picks up backends that are production-maintained.
In a research environment I encountered it about 3 years ago, and in a clinical one this year. Neither place were cutting edge with it, but the broader point is as you suggest - compressed sense/sensing (different vendor names, same thing) is pretty new.
The site has artifacts every now and then when they push new data.

E.g., there are sometimes blobs in the middle of the ocean south/west of africa (I assume 0'w 0'n or null island) where unclassified results are stashed ("Unassigned, New Jersey, US")

Overall, the site is pretty stable considering the hug of death it must be seeing for weeks. It tickles me that German media routinely refers to JHU instead of the Robert-Koch Institute for mainstream news even when just reporting on German case numbers and deaths.
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This is another form of poisoning the well. Please do not do this.
I was confused.
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Python also doesn't support yaml in the standard library, interestingly.
With the exception of the involvement of a webcam, you can't do screenshare without being able to do video. Even if we assume video is irrelevant and screenshare is everything, you wind up in the same technological position.

Videoconferencing is used for a lot of things that don't involve reviewing a document or pair-programming. Many people find video quite helpful for such situations.
You don't get zoom's government platform by default, you have to ask for it and I'll bet it has different pricing. I suspect you also lose some features, like recording (at least at the server). I haven't checked Zoom but other FedRamp products I've seen are 3x the price of the standard offering.
What do they use all of these subdomains for? While it’s interesting that they have so many I’m not sure I’m understanding their purpose beyond the obvious customer subdomains.
The current concern is having enough ventilators to match the peak next week, so even if it's true that these machines can't be reused (and I kinda want to see a source on that) it seems pretty helpful.