skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for clarifying.
I think your parent's point was that if you vote for a party because of perceived small government ideals, you would watch those ideals vanish when the party as a whole wants to impose certain ideals on the smaller governments.

Ultimately if you delegate power and decision making enough, a few people with the consolidated power call the shots no matter how many smaller governments/powers exist. OP cited Regan as an example of that
Just where do you think the trillions needed for Universal Basic Income will cone from if there is no functioning economy with tax-payers?
FaceTime can do group chats since 2018.
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>It's long overdue to bring copyright law into the 21st century with one small tweak: legalize noncommercial copyright infringement.

This seems to work fine in Japan, and it's not even technically legal. Comic and game publishers tolerate (often pornographic) infringing works created with their properties as long as they're non-commercial, because they raise awareness for the licensed version.

In the US, we can't even have that because license-holders are legally required to aggressively defend against all forms of infringement, however harmless, which leads us to situations like Disney suing a daycare for painting Mickey Mouse on a mural.
Please someone correct me, but my understanding is that Jitsi meet has a very different architecture compared to Zoom.

Jitsi Meet uses a "SFU" which means the A/V stream of each participant is sent to all the others. That basically does not scale in terms of network bandwidth.

Zoom seems to use a central server that kind of "mix" streams and send them to all participants. Or something hybrid.

Jitsi could be able to connect to an "MCU" like OpenMCU for this kind of architecture, but I have no clue if it is easy or not to deploy.

I am working in a full-remote company with ~15 people. Jitsi is ok for meetings with 2-4 people. With more people, it just does not work reliably. Zoom does.
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I strongly disagree "Physics concepts explained" has no need to add anything about experiments. The focus of the site is learning concepts.

Criticizing focused educational site for not being comprehensive enough is not valid.
Nice writeup. Explains what happened. Shows immediate action. Apologies. 5/5.
Would it?

The groups that have trouble turning out - because they're poor, working two jobs, got no car, got poor public transport because they live in the bad side of town, they speak a minority language - those are the same groups that are likely to find digital stuff inaccessible.
What are some natural chloroquine alternatives?
strong disagree on most? video games being a passive form of consumption.
Basically what the TraceTogether app in Singapore has already been doing in the past 2 weeks. Not rocket science, but a simple and clever approach still.

I don't know why Singapore GovTech hasn't yet released the source even after they said they intend to do so...
> That's no longer true and hasn't been for years.

That's weird. For me, I still need to log into every single Slack workspace separately.

Most of them redirect to app.slack.com, however they have no visibility into each other. So it's several browser tabs kept open and left running in the background on those days.
If you're going to downvote save_ferris, at least have the decency to give a rebuttal?
I think it's for tooling like profilers, not directly for performance. But you could use that tool to improve performance in your code, so maybe that's what they mean.
Congratulations David Silver! I am currently learning Reinforcement Learning, as a coincidence I am watching David Silver's Introduction to Reinforcement Learning[0]. He explains it very clearly. I would recommend it for those who want to start to learn RL. Thank you David! Excellent!

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZDM-OYHWgPe...
Maaaan, the /wordpress/ in the URL really knocks home how slapdash this whole operation is.

And this wasn't anything but an acknowledgement that they're not qualified to produce the software they're distributing. They still don't even know what they don't know.
Most certainly not. What is it?
as you say it _may_ not be the case. So, as long as no one knows for sure...
How is a stupid Java app with clueless consultants going to help against covid? Or is it Thiel selling yet more snake oil?
A year ago they architected their system to not uninstall when you asked it to uninstall, and instead it left a running daemon that would re-install as soon as it saw a relevant URL.

This isn't a scaling, usage, or whoops issue. This was intentional.
Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners
Hi,

I recently published my ebook on GNU awk one-liners [1]. It starts from the basics of awk syntax and then discusses one-liner examples. There's a chapter on regular expressions as well. The github repo has the details on how to get the PDF version, all the example files and code snippets used in the book, sample chapters as well the markdown source used to generate the PDF.

I made all my ebooks [2] free last month amidst the pandemic fears. These include GNU grep & ripgrep, GNU sed and three books on regular expressions (Python, Ruby, JavaScript).

I'd appreciate your feedback and hope the books are useful. Happy learning :)

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk

[2] https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/
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Please don’t let this company anywhere near the healthcare system.
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And how did you manage the switch from the trackpad?
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I saw a video clip of a test like that, though it didn't contain any results. What makes you think that the developers didn't test it?
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Shameless plug, but I created a simple Flutter app which does the exact same at - https://github.com/anmolsahoo25/covid19-dtrack-app

Works on Android, maybe useful for someone else, since they are not open-sourcing the app.
But there's only so much you can do to hide an influx of dead bodies; whatever the explanations are, people would notice at least this.
Also probably tailored to US law?

Here in Germany you're usually not allowed to do any paid work without notifying your current employer, or at all.

Also not even sure how it would work for currently-not-employed people, you can't just write a bill for 2 days of work without a company.

And this is just additional to any tax problems.

That said, I think I like the idea a lot more than sitting through interviews. But it's simply not feasible (here) unless you're a freelancer already and just do this as a short paid gig before starting there. (Because then you should be prepared for such a gig, anyway).
Your example was working with the federal government not opposing it.

Your answer was purely about saving their members jobs, not them going off an engaging politically.

Your union had the support of CEOs and Owners.

I have to ask: do you really, honestly, believe that unions are politically powerful at the federal level and interested in subjects that don't directly affect their members? Really? Despite the dwindling memberships, widespread At Will employment being passed, record gaps between worker and CEO pay? Really?
Hockney's always a crap shoot, but when he nails it he nails it. Some of these are really nice.
perhaps even too small distance bc it might not connect two persons sitting on opposite sides of a bus/airplane/... while they could still transmit the virus between them (less likely, but still)
Unauthorized subscription to Google Cloud using my credit card 15k$
I would like to report an unauthorized subscription to Google Cloud as a result of which I was charged for 15k $ based on invoice. I send mail to google-cloud-compliance@google.com and now I am waiting for response. I have not slept well this night so nervous about this I ask google to cancel this subscription and cancel the charges as soon as possible.
I had a credit card (with a max debit of 500$ = 2,000PLN) connected with the Google Account
On March 7, 2020, an unauthorized person broke into my google account and using my credit card bought a paid subscription (access) to Google Cloud Platform, he created some additional payed activities (listed on the invoice)
I have not received any notification about the start of the subscription, card payment or access information at the address. The scammer has marked all messages from this platform as spam. That's why I didn't see the notifications and I wasn't aware of the whole process

On March 30, I received an email from Google saying that Google suspends the possibility of making payments for products and services using this account. As I didn't make any weird purchases with this card on Google portals, I ignored this message

On April 1, I received an invoice for March for 15k $ = 65,131.19 PLN(attachment invoice)
Today, on April 1, I restricted my credit card at the bank, I also reported unauthorized subscriptions to Google. Unfortunately, this can only be done by electronic means and not by phone. Thus, I have no confirmation that someone will take care of this matter. I am afraid of issuing another incorrect invoice.
I also can't disconnect a credit card from a google account. This is blocked by Google.

To prevent further unauthorized movements, I also changed the password to the google account to which the credit card was attached and reserved the card itself in the bank.
I already opened to claim for this unauthorized payment.
Please help
Rust management system is first class because the language has been designed from scratch 10 years ago.

Python has been around since 1991. It came out before installing dependencies from internet was a thing. It had support for Windows XP, Atari, Solaris. You gotta be able to pip install stuff that are written in C (numpy) or in Fortran (scipy). It had been implemented in the JVM, .net, and Python itself using pypy.

All those years, what we knew about or needed from packaging system changed, and the tooling followed. We had easy_install, then setuptools, then distutils, then distutils2, the pip + setuptools again. We had virtualenv, then venv.

You cannot break from the past easily, especially on such a popular language, with half of it's user not even being devs.
US weekly jobless claims total 6.6M, vs. 3.1M expected
Yes, webrtc when done in p2p/mesh, is end-to-end encrypted, even when using TURN servers in between (these are relay servers when direct p2p is not possible).

Unfortunately mesh doesn't work out well when it's a conference call (many callers), so MCUs, SFUs, etc come to play.
Well I don't understand how situations like toilet use, where many aerosols are created, could be safely recorded. (Don't forget that the virus is in the stool.)

Also note that this air is often piped somewhere else, hence you would need an airflow analysis.
Hey, a friendly note to job seekers! There are few automated aggregation sites available to curate the jobs posted in the "Who is hiring?" thread but I want to take the aggregation one step further and wanted to provide the good quality jobs by handpicking them. I’m going to search, screen, verify and tag all the jobs posted in the other Who is hiring? thread. So it can save you time, energy, and frustration – and hopefully, help you find a job faster during this tough time!

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- Contains all the remote jobs posted in this Who is hiring right now? Thread

- Each remote job is hand-curated

- Use filters based on skill categories and country restrictions.

- Only 100% remote jobs

Any feedback welcome here in comments
I don’t endorse the tonality of the comment, it’s rambling and sort of bitter (I’ve been guilty of worse on “the Internet”).

With that said it’s at least possible that the commenter is alluding to a trend in physics research that is so concerning to practicing physicists and mathematicians that books called things like “The Trouble with Physics” and “Not Even Wrong” are being written and published.

I’m little better than a layman as concerns physics, but I’ve been around the block with organizational dysfunction amongst a group of super smart people, and I don’t find it at all implausible that String Theory is the “Docker-First” of physics funding.
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I would love to use this instead of zoom. Any news about firefox support?
Do you really think they're not "qualified" to produce video conferencing software? Does that seem like a reasonable statement? I am genuinely curious if you think a public company with millions of users and fairly reliable quality is not "qualified" to deliver its own product.
Lighting systems - most usually illuminated props of various varieties for ceremonies of big events; things broadly like the Olympics. It's fun but generally NDA'd to hell, unfortunately.
"Cracking AES" and recovering meaningful information from a VBR stream are very, very different things.
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No it's not... 99.9% of the time, installing dependencies is a breeze. Packaging is where the issue lies, but pulling those dependencies down is painless. You run one command and everything works. Unlike say npm/node/yarn where 50% of the time after coming back to work on a project your node_modules is broken and you have to either reinstall npm or node or node + npm.
True.

Half-OT, but couldn't this be solved somehow by relaying?
That's cute number...

For the record forecasts ranged from 500 thousand to 6.5 milion..
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Thank you for the insightful reply!
At that point I am wondering what the point of the project is... If you end up implementing a GC and all the other bells and whistles then it is possible that the end result is not much faster than just running a conventional Javascript VM. However, without a GC you are better off just writing C++ code.
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I forget to mention that I check my mail adress at https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and unfortunetley I was identified as a pwned.
Copenhagen : 602,481
Stockholm : 974,073

Still no comparable, but whatever, it seems you got your own opinion.
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The problem is that the GDPR is a joke, it's almost like they passed the law under duress but aren't actually interested in enforcing it (maybe because whoever is in charge is actually benefiting from the current situation?)
This is an extreme straw man. Please don't do this.
Building on my analysis from last week:
1. This week's 6.6M jobless claims represents ~4% of the estimated ~160-165M US Workforce.

2. This is incremental to the 3.3M jobless claims filed week ending 3/21, totaling ~10M total jobless claims in the past 2 weeks

3. The US unemployment rate was ~3.5% as of EOM February, so cumulatively that means we've hit ~10% unemployment as of EOW 3/28 and that number is likely low (not accounting for gig workers) and almost certainly worsening this week.

[1] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Yea, countries like those in Scandinavia, where they have such a low quality of life...
Building on my analysis from last week:

1. This week's 6.6M new jobless claims represents ~4% of the estimated ~160-165M US Workforce.

2. This is incremental to the 3.3M new jobless claims filed week ending 3/21, totaling ~10M total jobless claims in the past 2 weeks.

3. The US unemployment rate was ~3.5% as of EOM February [1], so cumulatively that means we've hit ~10% unemployment as of EOW 3/28 (~10M incremental jobless claims = ~6%). That number is likely low and continuing to increase, as new jobless claims do not account for gig workers and many state unemployment sites have been inundated by these claims resulting in site crashes and people unable to file claims. In addition, layoffs have almost certainly continued between 3/28 and today.

4. The consensus estimate for this week's jobless claims was ~3.76M jobless claims, and the 6.6M actual claims blow the consensus estimate out of the water. That said, some analysts such as Goldman Sachs had estimated ~5.5M joblesss claims. Goldman Sachs estimates that unemployment will peak at ~15%. [2]

[1] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/31/coronavirus-update-goldman-s...
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Assuming you use stuff like this, that would be a good question to ask yourself. IMHO it probably helps a little bit keeping some people out but I have few illusions that the likes of the NSA, Russian, Chineses, North Korean, and other intelligence agencies don't know of dozens ways to listen in if they choose to with varying levels of easiness/convenience. As I like to point out, assuming it's only your friendly local security agencies listening in would be a misguided assumption.

In any case, I use zoom, google meets, slack, skype, facebook messenger, whatsapp, probably a few more things regularly both privately and for work. I'd prefer using Signal more but the people that reach out to call me and the people that use Signal are basically a Venn diagram consisting of two separate circles. I've never actually done a call via Signal. I'm assuming it actually has this feature, but I'm not even sure it does ;-)
Expected 3M. This new figure is about 10x financial crisis high.
Unions must be political because workers rights, healthcare, and pay are already political issues and business is already political. Anything which is a major fight with other powers is political, and if your issues are on the table for the nation to fight over, then it's political.
> PEPP-PT is purely funded by donations. It is a non-profit organization and completely transparent. Our strict guidelines preclude any influence from donors.

> As the formal organization is not yet established, we cannot yet provide links for making a donation or for downloading the guidelines for a donation. Please sign up below if you would like to be informed when you can support us.

a. They aren't even incorporated. b. Donations aren't public grants for which one has to apply.

The members listed on the page do include public entities such as universities and publicly funded research groups. However, membership to a non-profit organization doesn't necessarily imply that the non-profit needs to comply to policy rules that govern the funding of individual members.

Of course, if the majority of those members are public entities, adhering to open policies would enhance the credibility of such organizations. Even so, open source and open access are easier said then done. For starters, a significant portion of research ends up behind the paywalls of incumbent academic publishers.

Furthermore, you have to ask yourself why such an initiative suddenly springs to life exactly at this time. It's not the first infectious disease that causes a pandemic. The main reason is that it created public awareness in the Western World overnight. No more, no less. And so, there's suddenly an opportunity to rally funding, justify ethical shortcuts and do large scale social and technological experiments that are usually left to the realm of "what if".

The fact that this thing exists now shakes a shiver down my spine, regardless of any well meant intentions.
The forecasted unemployment rate is weird: economists are not forecasting a major increase for April 03s release. Do you happen to know why?

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
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And (to return to the original post), how much do you have at compounding of 0% or -0.5%?
At my company we just switched to Jitsi Meet. Fulfills our needs, works with just a browser, and we can be assured that our data remains ours as we deployed it locally.
> Doctors don’t enforce shortages. No one is stopping new medical schools from being created, it’s just not a trivial thing to do.

USA could do like they do in tech and import already educated people. In tech we welcome that, in medicine that process requires the immigrant doctors to take additional years of study since medical doctors in USA have a post grad degree for no good reason.
Patches are being reviewed: https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/pull/1062

Included:
"Fix the order of the simulcast streams for Firefox."

Subscribe to this issue to keep track of things: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758

From the latest comments you can see that Firefox upstream is also improving things.
You're not going to port existing libraries with this. They will have to be written in a subset that is easy to compile.

GraalVM's native image has the same trade off.
Very good and measured blog post, I would add these two additional blunders:

RIVM kept saying that there are no asymptotic carriers, no transmission possible before symptoms show (German early patient stayed in a hotel in Netherlands, Germany quarantined his contacts before he went there. RIVM: since he hasn't coughed when he was here you're gonna be fine)

GGD - 12th march just after the first lockdownish measures: Ja go lekker on a holiday just go to the green regions. Sure, have lekker parties just not above 100 people
It's a fantastic open source solution. Can be self hosted.

It is to note that traffic does go through the server, hence need decent bandwidth. the server afaik does have the keys to decrypt traffic
And they want us to believe that it will be ok because of a $1200 check and state unemployment benefits....
"In an effort to maximize uptake and engagement for my VC masters, I deliberately added several hidden mechanisms to the software that violated security and privacy practices and laws, and then I lied about them. When I got caught, I denied, deflected, and finally blamed it all on innocent mistakes. This happened multiple times, establishing a pattern that left no doubt that my actions were premeditated. In order to right this ship and give our customers, employees, and shareholders confidence in the company's future, I hereby resign, effective immediately."

That's what he could have said.
Ask HN: A Primer on Security
Like many C.S. graduates, my education was theory heavy and practice light. I have spent much of the past few years rapidly building out missing areas of expertise to fulfill an increasingly wide pool of presumed knowledge. But one of the areas I have found difficult to get a handle on is security.

Would anyone here be willing to offer recommended reading? I regularly work with SSH, SSL/TLS, HTTPS, LDAP, AD, and OAuth with only cursory knowledge of any of them. I would be grateful for any guides that provide context for why these technologies exist and what best practices look like.

Thank you for any help you can provide.
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