skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Regulations, food safety certifications and a commercial permitted kitchen. One will also have to be inspected and pay a sales tax because it is a value added product and not just food.
>So exactly how should Apple make it easy to find your app over the other 5 million apps

I mean at least make App Store Search works would be a great place to start 11 years after App Store was introduced?

Part of me just want Apple to give me a dump of all the Apps Information to shove it inside Elastic Search and see if I get better results by default than the current App Store searching. That is how bad it is. ( To add insult to injury they decided to add top placement bids to App Store )
I'll repeat my point:

By this article's definition of "made with non-invertible parts", _all_ functions are "made with non-invertible parts". As such, the description is fully meaningless.

Hence my reaction of "who cares?". In order for the idea "this function is made with non-invertible parts" to be interesting, it has to distinguish that function from some other function. Any other function.

> The Feistel construction also reduces making a cipher down to (more or less, putting aside key scheduling and number of rounds etc) to producing one extremely good non-invertible function.

This doesn't seem right either. Suppose we use the ultimate non-invertible function: f(a,b) = 0, an algebraic kernel. In that case, the cipher we get will be awful -- for one thing, using an even number of rounds will make the ciphertext equal to the plaintext. In order for the cipher to work well, the output of the Feistel function must be cryptographically unpredictable. It doesn't need to be non-invertible at all -- if we use, say, SHA-512 as the Feistel function, it is invertible in the same sense in which f(x) = 0 is non-invertible: each input maps to a unique output. (Likely; not absolutely guaranteed.) It is non-invertible in a more colloquial sense: given f(R,K), we don't know how to produce R and K, even though the solution is probably unique.[1] Saying we want the Feistel function to be non-invertible is confusing two different ideas of non-invertibility. (Also, since the goal in decrypting is just to produce f(R,K), the colloquial non-invertibility of SHA-512 looks like something of a red herring: what really counts is that, given f and R, we don't know how to produce f(R,K). This is why f(R,K) = 0 fails so badly.)

[1] The solution is probably unique because this is a block cipher operating on small bit vectors.
Whenever everyone can come out and play, I highly recommend a visit to Bletchley Park (conveniently located in Bletchley: https://bletchleypark.org.uk/), and, adjacent to it, The National Museum of Computing (https://www.tnmoc.org/).
Why are Spaniards buying more beer and chocolate under the coronavirus lockdown?
From zoom requirements for webinar with video feed: (https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-R...) 50-150kbps (down)

That's 4.5Mbps of stable upload required from the presenter. This requires at least ASL2+ and not everyone will be able to reach it. So it's relatively common, but can't really be expected.
What Is a Data Frame? (In Python, R, and SQL)

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/11/30.html

(this is my article, but it will also show up if you Google the question :) )
>If people really are trying to kill them, I don't think "panic" is an accurate term and I can't blame them

This is akin to saying "well if some wifes cheat, being a paranoid, jealous husband is perfectly reasonable". It's not that bad things never happen to elites, it's a cognitive disorder because the paranoia is structural, regardless of what actually happens.

It's a disorder because the panic is a function of their social status and their position in society that they know is to a degree unearned (in particular in countries like South Africa or wheverever else the elite is a hereditary class), so in a sense they anticipate the resentment that is rightfully coming their way.

It's like, if you're a habitual liar and thief you also tend to think everyone else is as opportunistic as you are, and sometimes you're right, but that's not why you believe it in the first place.
oh interesting http://www.about-robots.com/curiosity-rover-nuclear-battery....
> Maybe I didn't know that a global pandemic was going to shut down the economy.

Then you are a fool.

The tech economy crashes on 5-7 year cycles. See: Dot bomb. 2008 Financial Crash. Covid-19 in 2020. I can go backwards in time, too. 3D graphics card startup crash. Microprocessor startup crash. AI winter. etc.

Too much money flows into the sector and then eventually the VC funds want it back. Roughly on 5-7 year timescales. Funny how that aligns with crashes, no?

This time VC's changed tack--they won't put money into anything which produces a product so they can simply keep the shell game going. Presumably that's why this crash is a little late.

If you aren't ready for this kind of cycling, you shouldn't be in a startup.
Or they, like many non-technical organizations, have no idea how to hire programmers. Could be worth a shot; even at regular companies they often over-state resume requirements.
That may be the role of Quebec federally, but "historic anglophones" are definitely being pushed out in Quebec proper. More and more places it's becoming illegal for the government to speak French - no more English power bills are legal, for instance, and no more English pay slips. "Hi" was outlawed three years ago in shops open to the public; now legally, it must be Bonjour. So, to say that they have equal status in Quebec or that there are not tensions isn't entirely accurate.
Delivery Apps Offer Restaurants a Lifeline–At a Cost
Funny about the SEO emails. Same here. I did this with Textpattern... It's up to something like 3000 links now? Anyway I also get people pointing out dead links of _their own_ because they changed domains or whatever...but really, 99% of those are links in which I've lost interest anyway. If I have the time and interest to fix a single link or even a batch, I'm pretty lucky. The entries are descriptive so they're pretty easy to search up anyway.

I still update that DB but most commonly keep links in text files now, either journal files or files for specific topics. Then I use grep or silver searcher or Catfish to look them up. I'm considering exporting my DB for this purpose as well.

I find that I do go back more often to: Music I liked, blogs or sites that were well-designed, Project Gutenberg books I liked, and Wikipedia articles I enjoyed.

The cool thing about links kept in a blog with categories assigned is just as you said--you can start microblogs really easily and this was always a strength of Textpattern: Lightweight software that supported multiple blogs out of the box, just go create a new "section" and you're off and running. TXP tags are also kind of fun. Anyway... I'm sure there are tons of ways to do this now. I also remember making multiple RSS feeds for DB categories for use in third party sites.
It's normally "separate the wheat from the chaff". But "from the shaft" seems particularly appropriate, given that you were talking about scams...
That was a small evo-psych study (38 people) and it wasn’t a study of the flu but rather the vaccine so there are other possibilities. It’s certainly possible but I’d avoid giving it much weight without more data.
Italy has a lot of Chinese-staffed sweatshops. All it would take is one infectee to start their new job in December or January to start the steamroller going.
I know the first one covers the Enigma, haven't heard of the second one before.

It looks like the second one is the young adult adaptation of the first one.
In many (most?) developed countries, citizens are automatically getting information on changes to the lockdown rules by SMS. So, there really is no need to read the news to hear about further restrictions. As other have mentioned, it only foments anxiety.
Kids! How on earth would a Brit end up in the DDR? OK we did:

My dad was a British soldier (so was mum but that's another story). We were posted to exotic places like "Reindahln" (MG) and Paderborn and Soltau etc. We went on a holiday to West Berlin in around 1980ish. We were allowed through Check Point Charlie to see the DDR for a short while. Funnily enough exactly the same arrangement as getting into Northern Cyprus. ie the Turkish bit.

Anyway, we saw the Brandenburg Gate from both sides, when it was mined all around but rather nicely flood lit. I have to say the east side looked a bit shag back then.

Our German friends always used to look forwards to reunification but the cost when it came used to cause a few remarks cough. For me a unified Germany is a good and beneficial thing, regardless of cost. I saw first hand what life was like in E Berlin in the early 80s.
And moral is subjective. There is no one "right" course of action.
And my point is that many people want to avoid to "buy substitutes or go without", regardless of us thinking it would be a good idea, and some will avoid it by visiting more stores if they can't find out beforehand where to go, so helping people avoiding it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Studying foreign languages with inbox zero
Yes. However it can also be pitched as there's no big upside and the salary is so-so but it's a "lifestyle business" even though the hours and other time-off are nothing to write home about.
Open-cobol works, but be aware that it translates your source to C and then compiles that. If that doesn't matter to you, great!

There's also tiny-cobol[0], but the project is dead and it only targets x86-32.

[0] http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/
interesting and had me thinking on a tangent if banks are more balanced today than 40 years ago and my gut feeling is that they are less balanced today than 40 years ago. Though can't nail exactly why I feel that is the case.
The reason I compare it to construction is that at some point, pursing lifting to a high degrees involves putting in the amount of repetitions that amounts to a job with high statistical injury rate. If you follow bodybuilding and powerlifting closely, the amount of people who wash out due to injury is staggeringly high, to the point where an injury free career is anomalous and often credited to great genetics (tendon strength) than smart training. In fact the majority of the injuries happens on routine warm up reps, and because these people are enthusiasts and treat lifting almost like a job, they don't manage healing properly and will often continue training while injured leading to long term detriment. The particularly bone headed people will lift until they break their body and washout, but even smart lifters (who plan stress and fatigue sensibly) will eventually get injured past a certain level. This is like working in construction, people accrue damage over time, small injuries compound or big injuries take them out. The amount of work required in these occupation/hobbies are not calibrated for "health".

[1] https://www.strongerbyscience.com/powerlifting-injuries-resu...
>The overall number of people injured may surprise you. Of the 160 people who finished the study (either sustained an injury or made it through the whole year uninjured), almost ¾ of them sustained an injury. That seems to conflict with the finding that injury rates in powerlifting are only ~3-5 per 1000 hours of training. Assuming someone trains for five hours per week, that would mean you’d expect a lifter to get injured about once every four years, on average (or, stated another way, you’d expect about ¼ of lifters to get injured per year). However, keep in mind that we used a pretty broad definition of “injury” , compared to the more conservative definition used in other research. In another study on powerlifters using a pretty liberal definition of “injury,” 70% were injured at the single point in time when data was collected, so I’d say the overall injury rate seen in our study is to be expected. Taken collectively, the data suggest that powerlifters sustain minor injuries pretty frequently, but more serious injuries are pretty rare; comparable to triathlon training, but less common than long distance running or most team sports.
> leading to months of developers rebuilding every query, despite having no schema changes.

But doing so is not free. You may be on a completely different scale than they were.
> We couldn't use InStock unfortunately since it was already taken

Understandable; one solution would be to adopt the App Store name as the new "real name" and put it on your website, etc.

> Thanks for the feedback on this as well, as it helps us prioritize the things that really matter to people. :)

Sure thing! Best of luck.
First, I'm sorry about your troubles.

But it's not this way everywhere: there are countries (I'm thinking of Scandinavian) where inequality is perhaps not so bad, and there are countries where governments are making major and genuine efforts to support businesses and people who are at risk of (or who have) lost their jobs due to Covid.

There's bad leadership and bad behaviour in many places, but not everywhere all at the same time.
> Instead of hiring three mediocre or less than mediocre engineers at $60k, why not hire an amazing $150k - $180k engineer?

In many cases, it's literally not legal for them to do so.

For example, at the Federal level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Schedule_(US_civil_ser...

(These restrictions don't tend to apply to hiring one via a contractor at $250-500k/year, though. Sigh.)
While I believe this will work for NYC, I'm not sure how it'll work for Pumpkintown TN
Interesting, quoting from the article..

3M said it “has no evidence to suggest 3M products have been seized. 3M has no record of any order of respirators from China for the Berlin police. We cannot speculate where this report originated.”
“Better” in that you still exist.

A friend’s medical practice will implode April 30... their business is down 90% and they won’t be able to
pay rent or the employees. They are only staying open in hope for some sort of aid or debt jubilee. The partners will lose pretty much everything.

People with cash aren’t going to keep plowing money into startups, they are going to buy depressed assets. Every leveraged real estate company will be broke in 90 days or less.
It’s sort of every country for themselves right now.
When I get stuck, sometimes I ask a co-worker. See, I don't just need a name that communicates to me; I need a name that communicates to them.

By the way, this implies that, if there are group conventions, use them.
Source? It sounds like 3M had no record of that happening, and one of the German officials is backtracking on the claim: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/03/white-hou...
1. Ahh..now I see what you mean. How do you think food becomes ‘cheap’? Fresh fruit is more expensive than a bottle of soda. Organic food is more expensive than conventionally grown. Local food is more expensive than imported food.

Why do you think that is? Perhaps ‘cheap’ doesn’t equal good?

Less land, more food. Less people in Ag. How do you think one can magically end up with cheap quality food? Explain to me?

2. I am not moralizing. I am telling you what is happening in my industry. I am a farmer. I know why food is cheap and am under no illusions about why food is cheap.

3. I am not wishing starvation et al upon people, but that would be the moralizing label you gave me that I refuse to accept.

People are willing to pay more for a smart phone or a new pair of sneakers. They won’t starve to death because they paid for food what it is worth.

Cheap food is for poor people. When people who can afford to pay a little more refuse to do so, society and said poor people labouring in the fields end to subsidising those who leech off those who create value in the form of healthy food.

You get what you pay for...no such thing as quality for cheap rates.

On the other hand, this has convinced me to take a moralizing stance. Why do people who won’t pay for quality food from hard labour deserve good food? Perhaps they do indeed deserve what they pay for..
Should we also get a “Flu pass 2020”, seeing as the common flu can also be quite deadly?

And if the virus mutate into a new variant what then, another pass?

For those with chronic diseases and the very old, the next 6-12 months will be very difficult and staying at home while practicing distancing will be a good start.
The data seems to support that the rest of the population should be able to go about their ways without any pass.
I saw those articles. Quite a few talked about how Zoom was weirdly insistent that they had end to end encryption (which they do not), and they added some disturbing privacy violating features to the desktop client which they're oddly pushy about, also their privacy statement wasn't exactly reassuring. All red flags, but strictly speaking they don't really impact the security much (they might do god knows what to the metadata, but to my knowledge, that's the same with most alternatives).

The one truly sensitive issue is the zoombombing, and I haven't been able to figure out whether that's truly a security bug or if zoom is just the biggest attack surface and has some terrible default settings.
It probably isn't, but one could hope.

Edit: If I'm honest I'm not even sure how meet.jit.si can function at it's current scale. Especially because I've found no way to send them money.
Why Zoom Meetings Can Exhaust Us
Google meet used with gsuite will by default prevent anyone from outside the company domain to join the meeting (unless explicitly invited) for example. I've joined some webinars where the password was per-user, (so you can kick/ban that one user) but can't remember the service.

But yes, that was my point - shared passwords don't prevent conference-bombing on any service.
FDA-approved Drug Ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
While China supports the existence of North Korea, it would be a stretch to say that they control it. The CCP leadership has been exasperated by many decisions taken by the North Korean leadership, but they simply believe overlooking North Korea's erratic actions is better than allowing it to pass into South Korea or the USA’s influence.
Off-topic: I am in love with the term in silico - first time seeing it anywhere
This is a horrible name for a SW product.
Alfred copy/paste history on OSX.

It’s great as it can store anything. URLs, short texts, long texts, images, random files, and is super searchable.
How did the turn order effect the game? I know with risk and reinforcement cards it had a huge impact, more so if you use increasing over fixed.
You can definitely walk further than your city block! Here in Montreal, I walk a mile to work daily. In summer, I could bike, but there's no reason to.

Another thing is in mixed-use developments, you might not have to go too far. My block is entirely condos, but the next block has a pharmacy and a grocery store, and the block the other way has a grocery store, a few fast food places, and across the street is a rather nice sushi place and a bar. Instead of going to the things, you just live where the things are.
It was a bit of a letdown at the end. I was expecting more to it than just, well he's in prison how. Very anti-climatic.
Is that a normative or descriptive statement?
To me, variable.method(argument) looks a lot like "subject verb object".
Not everything is black or white...

What you said now is not what you said before. You literally claimed it was just the bag, lol:

> I'm no expert, but I am sure the only pulp used in a N95 respirator is the box they put the 10 or 20 masks in. They can easily replace that with a bag.

And I repeat:

> “It’s been tweaked over the years to come up with the right formula that allows it to go into the medical supplies,” Sampson said

Not every company is going to put their "secret sauce" online.

Just send an email to 3M to ask the question instead of trying to guess it.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/novec-us/support/contact-us/

Google can't solve everything. As an alternative, you could ask it on StackExchange.

Then Google can pick it up for you and you can have your nice link :p

And also, you are looking for "surgical masks N95 K10S" in Google. I googled the root question and that is: where is K10S used in Polypropylene , but you don't seem to grasp/accept it.

I already explained why it would be better to look that up...
Just apply. There is no penalty for applying. If you want work, they definitely will at least talk to you.
> The real skill was not in the cover-up (which left a ton of breadcrumbs) but in browbeating the American public into accepting and ignoring it.

The people most likely to have done this have probably left FAR larger trails of other malfeasance and we choose not go after them anyway.

Look at the gigantic trail of stuff surrounding Trump.

Why have we not purged the ENTIRE New York FBI field office as being compromised?

At this point, the JFK assassination is a nice distraction to make sure the people who might dig up inconvenient modern, relevant malfeasance are left digging somewhere else.
Blocklists supported by the browser would be a good idea, but what makes Firefox with uBlock Origin more powerful than Safari with a blocklist (and no uBlock Origin anymore) is that you can’t remove annoyances easily or block certain elements quickly. One could argue that this feature is not used by many average users, but Firefox hasn’t been the browser of the average user for a long time. So it’s all the more important that it doesn’t ignore its evangelists and power users.

There is a place for browser native blocklists. There is still a worthy and much needed place for uBlock Origin in that world. An API where an extension could tell the browser to remember what elements to block (not just URLs) could help. But this is probably better implemented by absorbing, into the browser, (some or most of) the work that uBlock Origin has done.
I always name things according to what I'm doing.

$dbname might be for the name in the database.
$dbpass for password.
$dbipddr logging of ip address.
$dbdark might be a setting for light or dark theme.

In the databasae, it's just named as Name, Pass, IPAddr, DarkTheme or whatever. I've very rarely ever had to change names. But before I even start a project, I outline not only what the project is going to do, but how the database will look and function as well.
Please stop using HN for political or ideological or nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think I realised what strikes me as untrue about the 'elite panic' idea - that 'pulling together in emergencies' Stross referred to is typical to temporary emergencies. I don't think the Elite's fear is anywhere near as irrational as he paints it.

There's one unsettling fact I keep thinking about in regards to this topic - before everything went to hell, Rwanda and Afghanistan both had higher literacy rates than was typical for their respective regions. I think Stross's very middle class values are out of touch with the reality of the human condition in a way that both the very rich and the poor aren't.

I say this as a fan of the Laundry files, I think he might be having trouble imagining realistic near-future settings because realistic depictions of the near future don't have a middle class, and that is not something Stross can quite envision.