skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose Activision sets a game in Los Angeles. A crucial mission involves a running battle down Hollywood Boulevard.

Should Graumann's Chinese Theater be entitled to money for the use of the appearance of their famous building?

To what extent should Google pay AM General, Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota, and so forth for the use of their vehicles' appearances in Streetview?

Finally: someone makes a Mail Simulator game, in which you take the role of being a first-class letter trying to get to a particular house on the other side of the continent. The role of postal vehicle is played by a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV

How much do they owe to Grumman, or to the USPS, or GM?
Because it tells governments it is possible to do. Years later we may start seeing devices with DNS servers hard-codded to this. And also because blocking like this is not very effective. You can't block every "harmful" website on the internet, plus there are various proxies. And what is "harmful" anyway, who decides? This also brings questions - are there already blocking something on 1.1.1.1 or will they propagate some blocks from 1.1.1.3 back to their main server? Any blocking is very wrong and may cause freedom reduction in the future.
Hey HN!
My name is Cody and I am the founder of Avoy (https://www.avoy.io/hn). Avoy is an invite-only travel inspiration app to discover the world’s best hidden holiday destinations.

Today, we have temporarily turned off the required invite code to open registration up to the HN Community. If you seeing this at a later date, but still want to give us a try, send me a note at cody@avoy.io and I would be more than happy to help get you a code to get set up.

Why build this?

Simply put to change the way we answer the question of "where should I go next?". There is a myriad of travel content, bloggers and apps, however, the fundamental structures provided to us by search and social media create homogeneity, travel group-think and dangerous overtourism. We want to build an exciting product that allows travelers to discover the hundreds of hidden gems that each country offers:

https://medium.com/avoy/how-avoy-plans-to-change-travel-in-a...

Our mission

We believe the most memorable travel experiences come when we allow ourselves to wander off the beaten path.

Our goal is to share the finest unspoiled destinations from around the world and help you discover somewhere unique.

https://www.avoy.io/mission

https://medium.com/avoy/in-defense-of-going-off-the-beaten-p...

A little about us

I have the incredible luck to be working with a great team of individuals & contributors from around the globe, all bonded around the mission that travel should be an exploratory, exciting way to learn about the vast world that surrounds us.

We are super passionate about building a product that people love and enjoy and can transform perspectives on this wonderful world we inhabit and are even more passionate about it now that we are in a time of global uncertainty. If anyone has feedback, comments or suggestions we would absolutely love to hear them.

Cody
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

The short version of that policy is: no, they’re allowed.
All of what you've said is applicable to classes as well, and even more so. This line of argumentation was used _against_ classes by Lieberman (if I remember clearly)
Notably, prepaid carriers will sell these locked for ~$200, those will move.
He had global impact on the software dev community with his insight and knowledge. He will be deeply missed all around the world. Rest in peace from Oslo, Norway.
Covid-19 Consumer Impact Tracker
"Accept our cookies" popups taller than the screen (and with scrolling disabled), such that you can't press OK, are getting increasingly more common.
Erdős took amphetamine in the second half of his life, and apparently it helped him a lot to stay productive. There is a story about it.

Erdős’s friends worried about his drug use, and in 1979 Graham bet Erdős $500 that he couldn’t stop taking amphetamines for a month. Erdős accepted, and went cold turkey for a complete month. Erdős’s comment at the end of the month was “You’ve showed me I’m not an addict. But I didn’t get any work done. I’d get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I’d have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You’ve set mathematics back a month.” He then immediately started taking amphetamines again.

His biography “The Man Who Loved Only Numbers” is a very good interesting book.
>The problem is that otherwise "Hey Siri" wouldn't work on (newer) Macs.

I've never heard anyone use Siri on their Mac. I'm surprised they still bother supporting it.
But allowing unsafe planes onto the market will.

Because this is not just about those people who are sick right now. It’s about the many, many more who will be sick in future: useless or harmful treatments released to market will negatively impact all of them too.

So let’s not lose perspective here. The FDA does not kill people. Diseases kill people. It’s the FDA’s role to reduce that toll over time. For there is no problem that cannot be made still worse through addition of greed and histrionics.

As per usual, follow the money to see who’s championing lowered standards. Short-termism works fantastically for quarterly bonuses, not so much for delivering decades-long improvements in the healthcare that will affect your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren too.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/federal-right-to-try-over-a...

--

Oh, and it really shouldn’t need repeating that the FDA already provides early access to still experimental treatments, but I guess it does:

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/expanded...

You might want to consider why those calling for the FDA’s neutering commonly fail to point that little factoid out. Since, you know, they’re wanting to help the patients n’all.

--

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=medicine+wagon

https://www.google.com/search?q=frances+kelsey
In my opinion yes, they should be.
Humanity's Origin Story Just Got More Complicated
Zoom boss apologises for security issues and promises fixes
Isn't Facebook messenger incumbered by ads?

I don't see that in WhatsApp, hangouts, signal, telegram...
Where I'm from we catch rabbits with snares.
I'm putting together books on startups as well. You can check em out here https://www.startuplit.com
> Diffing isn't really needed - usually you either replace a subtree completely or change a few attributes, which isn't hard to write code for.

Replacing the entire page on model change doesn't work for interactive forms and I don't want to micro-manage every attribute. My model drives the view automatically so diffing is necessary. The memory cost isn't that big if the diff algorithm is implemented efficiently.
Ask HN: Why there is no open source Shopify alternative?
There are few solutions but nothing like Shopify exists.

While we've wordpress which is very flexible and superior to most commercial blogging solutions
Well, somehow I missed this one when looking for a GUI library in https://areweguiyet.com some time ago, and I was very surprised just now when it compiled and ran at first try:

git clone https://github.com/hecrj/iced.git
cd iced/
cargo run --package tour

This ran the Tour example without any glitches, warnings, missing dependencies or any other annoyance. Don’t know yet whether this has what I need for my applications, but in any case it has left a very pleasant impression.
The Science Behind Autopsies
If you can reliably distinguish whether the distant practitioner is doing anything to you or not, you should be able to get yourself a million dollars [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_...
That’s painful. I have been shopping less but spending around the same amount of money. We’re only limited on bread, eggs, milk, meat and toilet paper.
I don't really see a problem here. It's not smearing, just PR strategizing. They think Smalls is going to hurt himself and his cause and they want to let him do that. (If he really did break 14-day isolation early it's going to work too.)
"home grown encryption scheme" seems to imply Zoom is rolling its own crypto, which is tremendously foolish.

That isn't exactly the case, per the same article. More Zoom is choosing a poor choice among other choices, of implementing AES:

"Furthermore, Zoom encrypts and decrypts with AES using an algorithm called Electronic Codebook (ECB) mode, “which is well-understood to be a bad idea, because this mode of encryption preserves patterns in the input,” according to the Citizen Lab researchers. In fact, ECB is considered the worst of AES’s available modes."

Bad idea but not "rolling own crypto bad"

edit: agree it's bad. this is pointing out inaccuracies in language from tech journalism reporting on security. This continues to be an issue per the miseducation it creates for the general public in infosec concepts, which is already an uphill battle of misconceptions. Since these articles, or AG Barr, are the discussions that actually hit the mainstream, it's an issue that needs to correct.ed Tech journalism, a profession focused on 'getting the facts,' are the direct conduit of this version of miseducation/failure of facts, and should be corrected. See: NY Times Baltimore Ransomware = NSA Tool (false), Bloomberg Supermicro (false, so far), etc.
Sizes compared: https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTc1MjkzMTg.MTg2MDcyNg*...
Yes, I believe it's still weaker, but could also be that my daughters diapers are just not as smelly anymore :)
Thank you for the 3-part breakdown, that helped me make more sense out of the rest of the thread materials having those definitions!

Yeah I think you are right on the strategy of doing an 'overview'/surveyish book and then diving deep
I always appreciate them telling me not to waste my time with them, that way.
Me neither, but I also wonder how many non-expert users actually know that it is available. There is the initial dialog about Siri when setting up a Mac. After that, it is not that prominent. Moreover, it's a bit embarrassing to use in an office environment anyway.

That reminds me: I knew some people who had been using Macs for years who did not really know that Spotlight existed, let alone that you could use Command + space to start a Spotlight search. They would launch applications through the Finder and put regularly-used applications in the Dock.
Flowdock did threads really well. It also did crashing several times a day really well too. Today, Twist https://twist.com seems to do everything right.
How to Install ESXi on Hyper-V
For a deeper dive I'll recommend this lecture series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGhmZX2NKiNldpyRUBBEz...
That’s fair enough but you have to accept you’re in the huge minority there. The average consumer does not want to have to flip a switch for every microphone on their devices when they want to use it. Not to mention the reliability implications of adding more moving parts and dust/water ingress points. There has to be a trade off between usability and security.
The roots of the plant Cryptolepis, also known as yellow-dye root, was found to be very effective against Lyme disease. So was the the Japanese Knotweed: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2020/02/21/ethnobotanical-medic...

Cryptolepis contains quinine and used by some tribes in West Africa to treat malaria.
Very effective tool in this crisis. I use it in the supermarkt mostly. The design is simple, just like the user interface, and that is fitting in regards to the function of the app.
Classes are less flexible so they're easier for programmers to reason about. That makes them better in any situation where you don't need that extra flexibility, which is most of them.
I did not realise this feature existed. Am pleasantly surprised.
What does borrow mean in the context of online?
Even Wikipedia is stating ECB is a very bad choice. How can someone really use it nowadays without fraudulent intentions?
Postgres can be combined with the PostGIS addon (which is free) to get a reasonable feature set on top of PG with GIS features.
I think the author is aware of that. I think it's more an easy way to 'udp-fy' existing tcp services and only update the client to use udp
Oooh. I might actually buy an iPhone from Apple this year instead of from the used stock of random phone companies. I think giffgaff is only down to third class condition SEs so this is good news! My hands are just too little for the new phones.

Google maps is fairly unusable on the SE because they've covered the actual map with so much junk you can't see where you are or where you're going, but everything else works fine for me. And there are other maps. That's honestly the only app I can think of that is properly broken. I'm probably the phone equivalent of the recalcitrant IE user but I'm sticking with the small size phone for as long as pos!
I learned the object model of Smalltalk at university and after that I couldn't take most class based OOP languages seriously anymore.

Everything felt like a hack.

Protoypical OOP was the only savior left, haha.
Oooh, looks like there's a lot more complex math in this area than I'd initially thought (although I imagine the math that is there is more of the stuff that is used in CS?).

Thank you for the link to that micromasters program, that looks like a great course to try first for SCM, I'll check out other courses that are marked as related on the MOOC page as well
I use it all the time. It's a great additional channel for commands in some workflows.
I just tried the demo - btw, best UX so far from all that I've tried.

It works fine on the same wifi network, but won't connect if one of the devices is using 4G network - is this because the TURN server is not setup? Is it easy to implement that?
Same here. London also. The reason I believe it was it was that everyone in a group event over 3 days had some kind of in parameter illness subsequently.

Usually in office style flus only a subset of people get it.
> Bad idea but not "rolling own crypto bad"

- misusing cryptographic primitives is one way of rolling one’s own crypto

- ECB really is that bad
What are users meant to do if they want to use their Mac's microphone while the laptop lid is closed?
Of the options I suggested, only NanoDroid requires root, the others work perfectly fine without it.

MicroG does provide a SafetyNet implementation but YMMV.

FWIW, all of my financial apps are perfectly happy running on my phone, even though SafetyNet mostly fails. They don't like root though.
I had a couple of pretty gnarly colds this last year, and so did lots of people. They have been going around.

I also have noticed my sense of smell come and go with lots of infections.
I have two laptops with SSDs running only Linux, and they both have mostly been powered on for two years or more (XFS and BTRFS). Both are still operating normally and smartctl shows minimal wear.

I would focus on mount options that limit writing (e.g., relatime/noatime) or putting ~/.cache on tmpfs.

In my experience ~/.cache gets the most frequent writing during normal desktop usage. A lot of applications ignore XDG standards and create their own snowflake folder directly in $HOME. You might want to watch for and replace those making a lot of writes with a symlink to where they belong. (This quickly became a frustrating battle that I lost).
5 Easy Barre Chord Tips
I agree. If I was running the marketing department i'd name this upcoming SE the "iPhone Classic"
There are two markets I see:

1) 4" phone users who have no viable option, even in Android-land.

2) Price sensitive users who want something to get them in to the eco-system.

Apples problem is conflating the latter with the former, they see iPhone SE sales booming and consider that it must be because they need a good entry level low cost phone, then the iPhone 8 and iPhone XR comes out to lackluster sales[0][1].

So they re-release the iPhone SE and sales boom again[2].

Apple, I don't care what it costs, I do not want a phone that is not operable with one hand. I'm a guy (with relatively petite hands) but I can't imagine how it is for girls. The idea that I have to stop what I'm doing to interact with my phone (putting coffee down or whatever) is stupid.

Technology is a tool it does not need to engulf my life, it should be able to be as discrete as needed.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2017/10/23/why-is-anyone...

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2019/01/09/apple-iph...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19479636
Maybe I've been sensitised by all the security flaws, privacy leaks and outright lies on Zoom's part, but I'm starting to really notice how much a lot of public figures are pushing Zoom.

Does anyone else find it really weird? Late-night TV hosts, I can understand - maybe they just get paid for it, or have Zoom shares. But for example UK government leaders repeatedly mentioning it by name, e.g. Matt Hancock saying that despite being unwell, Boris Johnson is still having "Zoom videoconferences", or saying Johnson addressed his "Zoom cabinet", just feels... weird.

Edited to add: thinking about it more, I remember "FaceTime" being used pretty similarly when it was new. So I guess all the bad news is just sensitising me.
what about the pixel 3/4/upcoming 4a?
Using ECB for this is terrible. It's likely that you could quite trivially recover low-fidelity video from the encrypted stream.
I'd been waiting for this!
> but the spirituality that comes with it. Very easily debunked by modern fact based science

How does modern science debunk spirituality? Have you got some conclusive proof from somewhere that consciousness is only an emergent property of matter? How about that all the mystical experiences reported throughout the millenia (some with remarkable similarity) were just cross-cultural illusions (that also crossed vast time periods)?

It was traditionally acknowledged that there were limitations to the scientific method, and that spirituality/consciousness lay beyond it. I'd be interested in some proof that all this stuff doesn't exist (just as I'm equally searching for personal experience that suggests the opposite).
Wait, are you saying this meme that you posted comes from the banks during the height of the Occupy movement? Or if not, how did their talking points / PR reach the undiscriminating masses and become this? I remember this meme, but always assumed it came from Apple-haters or unsophisticated Fox News types.
Edible insects set to be approved by EU in 'breakthrough moment'
America’s Complex Relationship with Guns
Wow that's great, the reviews from Kevin Kelly, David Allen, and Ali Safavi really sealed the deal, I'll read this thank you!
I think most households are on that plan anyway in order to get more than two streams.
So, the device comes with a slide switch, set to on. A user who cares can slide it off.
> I'd still love to see wiring diagrams or explanations how it actually works. Which kind of circuit do they use?

I'd like to see that too, but I don't think we will. I suspect it's a magnetic switch and I'm also curious which lines it cuts.

FWIW, you can still get some audio from an accelerometer if you can get it to report data with a high enough frequency.

Not sure what you mean about iPhones, their information does not mention the iPhone (and I would not expect it to).
I just didn't feel bad enough to go to a doctor. Back then fever was still considered one of the symptoms, and I didn't have any.
I should add that I live in Germany and our first major outbreak was in Heinsberg, not too far away from here, and my symptoms started about 4 days after being at the local kids carnival, the same kind of event that caused the outbreak in Heinsberg.
On the other hand, only my kids got sick roughly at the same time, but no one I know had similar symptoms...
If you are using Mac, I recommend https://paw.cloud/client . It is native (no Electron slowness) and worked pretty well for me.
- Use headphones that have a mic

- Use a webcam with an inbuilt mic (fairly common)

- Use an dedicated mic

Plenty of options here.
Reiki does not involve touch.
Ability to get things started.

Ability to get things finished.

Respected by juniors to do the above.

Trusted by superiors to do all the above.
Cost isn't an advantage for the company I work for because we licensed SQL server very cheap in big volume.
If devs can work easier and faster with SQL server, then we end up saving money because time is money.
Deep Molecular Programming
Hmmm a textbook more on the in-depth side, I'll try this after I read some of that more survey/overview stuff, thanks
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Get an external mic. It's a niche enough use case that they don't need to cater for it.
There are 7.06e57 combinations of playing cards. Odds are that every time someone shuffles a deck of cards it's a unique shuffling.
Crowdsourced lists of startup jobs as unemployment reaches new records
Biological Neural Networks as Service
It works like that if you're encrypting a bitmap, but a compressed video stream is already fairly randomised. The encryption is broken, but low-res video extraction seems unlikely.
Thank you for your advice, I appreciate it. I did examine everything that came to mind and the only thing at this point that may be happening is cloudflare -> origin connectivity for some users. I am using a keyword based monitoring since day one and so far no issues with reachability have been detected. This could be related to CF Geo firewall (disabled, but perhaps caching on CF side need to expire?). The only way I can verify CF<->Origin connectivity is by paying for CF a Pro account with Origin health check feature. If you have any ideas/suggestions how to troubleshoot this, I would be happy to hear them. Thanks!
> "energy lines" or "chi" or whatever utter bollocks proponents of acupuncture spout.

I do love an open mind. Here's a simple and fun way to perhaps convince yourself that this 'utter bollocks' has something to it. Learn tantric sex. Seriously. It's insightful when you realise you can use your mind to control your sexual energy and last far longer than when you don't 'move your chi along energy lines'.
It's quite literally as fast and exactly as many inputs as Android. They've copied each others strengths for so many years, that frankly I can't understand opinions like yours, as much as I'd like to
So, the next target for malware creators would be to attack the software that communicates a "lid closed" event to the T2 chip.
Coronavirus: I told the Prime Minister that it hurts to see
Can you give some examples? The only way I can think it's helpful is for hands free use, but that's more a scenario for a phone or tablet rather than a laptop.
Something starting to really itch here, and, no, it’s not a tick bite.

Is there a reliable scientific cite† for this PR piece’s statement that “antibiotics don't work for up to 20% of people with [Lyme disease]”?

Because the only “20%” I’m seeing commonly mentioned elsewhere describes the 10-20% of patients who develop post-infection sequelae. Which is NOT the same as “antibiotics don’t work”.

Or has Stanford PR just put its size thirteen in its mouth?

(†And I don’t mean the “Lyme-literate” quacks and other AltMed scammers.)
So what distributed database solution have you found for your project?
Most of Zoom's security problems seem like the kind of things a novice programmer who didn't know any better would do. Which may mean that they hire inexperienced programmers, or may mean that they wanted that as an excuse if they got caught. The former is probably more likely. After all, never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Maybe they had GPT-2 write their marketing copy, starting with "A secure video conferencing service" and just ran with whatever that produced.
> The US spends more on healthcare per capita than any other country ...

...because it's very inefficient
Is this so unusual though? I feel like when I get a flu or cold I often lose my sense of taste/smell and it's partly why I lose my appetite ?

I guess it's due to a blocked nose / inflamed mucous membranes, maybe that's what is different?
Book sales surge as readers seek escapism and education