skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, I was looking for something like this but didn't find it.

Also, reminds me that I need to submit a pull request for their iframe API, because I stumbled on some missing information in it. Luckily, was pretty easy to guess at the right values.
Thanks for sharing. It doesn't seem to work well in Safari on desktop or iOS. Seemed to connect but if you make the video larger than thumbnail or fullscreen it either doesn't show or only displays a small sliver.
Is that application built and sold by Oracle as well?
That's what NEWSEQUENTIALID() is for in MS SQL.
I don't know audio well enough to answer this, but you can play with it directly; it took about 7 minutes for me to throw a trivial Go program together to AAC-encode a WAV of half a minute of speech; the only repeated 16-byte blocks I got were a couple runs of zeroes.

The trick with ECB is that you're relying on 128-bit blocks of plaintext repeating with perfect alignment, and, to do anything useful with it, those repeats leaking useful information. In a bitmap image of a penguin, those repeats are easy: they're blocks of pixels of uniform color, and all ECB is doing is permuting their colors. That's less intuitively true of audio (where I'm not really seeing repeats at all, but, again, you should just play with it).
Police state here we come?

It is pretty amazing to watch how quick we are at giving the benevolent government a dystopian level of control.
Can a shared, system-wide Electron runtime be far behind?

MS had a similar technology over a decade before Electron existed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
iPad Pro has multiple mics on different sides of the device, so they'd need to have multiple of this.
Should be pretty easy with the basic iframe API. I spent more time trying to figure out a cheap way to host everything than I did building the functionality.
Yeah, there weren't many waterfalls in the skunk works.
But failed test aren't failures. That's why you have tests, so that you get failed tests and not dead astronauts.
I mean: go generate the test case that shows this. You don't even have to encrypt to prove it out; you can safely assume ECB will reveal any aligned 16-byte repeats, so all you need to do is take a histogram of all the consecutive 16-byte blocks in your encoded output.
I'm starting to consider any company whose revenue primarily comes from ads to be immoral. It's the business of hijacking people's minds. Part of this means stimulating the worst aspects of thinking: addiction, fear, pain, all that ads seek to satisfy.
Note: Bloomberg lowered number from 56,007 to 13,856 — see note at bottom “(Corrects characterization of 2018 and 2019 cremations data in story published March 27.)”

Original here: https://archive.md/g1BDx#selection-2503.0-2507.171
>> And you know what? This crisis is uncovering a lot of areas where less laissez faire and more government intervention would have been "concretely in the public interest."

> Please do tell.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...

> Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded as one of the medical system’s crucial vulnerabilities: a shortage of ventilators....

> Money was budgeted. A federal contract was signed. Work got underway.

> And then things suddenly veered off course. A multibillion-dollar maker of medical devices bought the small California company that had been hired to design the new machines. The project ultimately produced zero ventilators....

> The stalled efforts to create a new class of cheap, easy-to-use ventilators highlight the perils of outsourcing projects with critical public-health implications to private companies; their focus on maximizing profits is not always consistent with the government’s goal of preparing for a future crisis....

> Government officials and executives at rival ventilator companies said they suspected that Covidien had acquired Newport to prevent it from building a cheaper product that would undermine Covidien’s profits from its existing ventilator business....

> In 2014, with no ventilators having been delivered to the government, Covidien executives told officials at the biomedical research agency that they wanted to get out of the contract, according to three former federal officials. The executives complained that it was not sufficiently profitable for the company.

That's just something I read recently.

There's also the general fact that capitalists love efficiency and hate excess capacity, which means they tend to sacrifice resiliency. There's no profit today in maintaining capability to handle a disruption in a socially beneficial way, so they specialize for their hothouse environment. Heck, if some apologists for price-gouging had their way, such a firm could even profit handsomely from a crisis they failed to prepare for.
Nobody knows what long term effects of COVID-19 are. Those who recover still end up with reduced lung capacity. Plus this virus also attacks heart and liver, possibly leaving permanent damage to these organs.
Publix is also limiting cheese. They let me have two half-pound packages, but I wanted about ten packages because I have a dozen kids. The limit for milk was 2 gallons, but I wanted 6. I got 4 by putting them on the check-out counter in pairs, separated by lots of other stuff so that the extra milk would be hard to notice. I don't know about any limit on meat, but I was able to buy a pair of large whole turkeys. Bread was limited, but I didn't want much so that was OK.

Since then, my wife discovered that Gordon Food Service Store has a limit of 8 gallons. Today she got 8 gallons. That should last 3 to 5 days. I think she got 60 or 90 eggs, in the big flat packages that hold 30. She got a couple cubic feet of clam strips.
They have a good sized future launch manifest and they have like 60% of the market now. Maybe not hurting too badly.

https://www.spacex.com/missions
Yes people are dying all over. But you have to check the ratios.
If country A with 20mil population has 10 deaths, and country B with 1mil population has also 10 deaths, then country B is doing something far worse than country A because they got x20 deaths (per 1mil of population). Any leader who wanted to play 'mucho' has an accelerated infection rate in his country (Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro). And we are still in the beginning of damn thing.

So the joyous spirit of "we're good meeting and having lunch with friends" will fade away with the funerals of old and sick. And I am 100% sure that nobody wants their elders to pass before the latest possible. Swedes too love their parents, their elderly, their sick. It is plain irresponsible.

From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/catastrophe-sw...

> On the beach and surrounding parkland at Sibbarp there were picnics and barbecues this weekend; the adjoining skate park and playground were rammed. No one was wearing a mask.

I too enjoy a BBQ, trust me I do.. a nice steak, a nice burger, some grilled veggies.. but is this the best time to do this? Sweden is not an isolated country in the middle of the ocean where they got no travelers. Are they trying to win a race but helping the virus affect more?

I thought the purpose is to try (our) best to limit this exposure (flatten the curve and all that) so we can save anyone who can be save. Helping this speed up won't help them.
there are assumptions involved in mapping that to userbase size

I think these assumptions are the trickier/error-barriest ones. The other, more directly comparable stats suggest reddit is more than 100x bigger than HN. The comment and post numbers here

https://redditblog.com/2019/12/04/reddits-2019-year-in-revie...

make it look like something closer to 500x-ish, give or take.

eyeballing (the purest ancient datamining fu technique) this

https://subredditstats.com/

puts HN somewhere in the 15th-to-20th-ish top subreddit category by post and comment activity.
Zoom has apparently disabled their web interface. See this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774152
I was taught that the point of a proof was to convince other practitioners. This is why non-machine-readable proofs can get away with a lot of hand-waving if it obviously to "someone skilled in the art". By this notion, a proof is not a proof if only the author understands it.
if you turn on the network maintenence cost in the options it becomes quite a bit more difficult
And they didn't list a couple of the books I have read recently.
Oh yeah, I was phantom-hearing every single note of that jazz in my mind just now while reading these comments.
Global economy set for sharpest reversal since Great Depression
I'm not familiar with the book
Now incorrect: Bloomberg lowered number from 56,007 to 13,856 in their article — see note at bottom of https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/stacks-of... which says “(Corrects characterization of 2018 and 2019 cremations data in story published March 27.)”

Original pre-correction here: https://archive.md/g1BDx#selection-2503.0-2507.171
Still no webp. Safari is holding web back.
That's beyond absurd. So we get cheap, unnecessary items, while many don't have access to healthcare, are homeless, are literally starving, or all three and that somehow makes it impossible to say whether capitalism is good or bad? I'd say that fact alone makes US capitalism bad. Trading millions of lives for cheap TVs and other garbage. I really hope you were joking but knowing this forum, that's probably too much to hope.
Two words: sensor noise.

Even uncompressed video will be hard to see that "penguin image effect" in, because the pixels that make up each block will be constantly changing in a random way, and unlike that synthetically generated image, it's highly unlikely for a block to be the exact same as any other one in any given frame.
Does anyone have links to stories that are as good as this? I want to binge blog posts that teach and entertain at the same time.
I was on parental leave and my son was born on a beautiful day. The next day, I got an email announced that everybody in my technical team is marked as redundant.
I am speechless and through conversation, there is a sudden withdraw of investors to fund our company. Without this funding, it is impossible to keep the company going. From what I know, it sounds like a way to minimise the loss.

I was sad. We have a big plan to roll out a big feature in May. Now everything I worked on in last 6 months will be put on hold. Probably it never push to production.

My latest joy of becoming a father was ultimately skewed. Now I have to find a new job in Australia while taking care of a newborn. Things become harder this time when many companies impose a hiring freeze.

I still keep my faith that one day I will escape from this unemployment. One day.
What prevents Signal from MITMing their app?
There weren't many management layers either.
It's a numbers game. There is a certain probability that each virion can spur and infection, so the less you get the better. If virions had a 100% infection chance then sure, but it's much lower than that.
I think it's much less likely that it's all those people who are wrong than that you don't really understand how people work.
This wasn't a Starship failure. SN3 is the second stage of what will eventually become Starship. And this wasn't even the complete second stage. It didn't include the Raptor engines, it was just the pressure tank and hull that did a RUD.
I get the point about glass attenuation, but with regard to AR (anti-reflection?) coatings, are you referring to the surface through which light enters the prisms? If those surfaces are normal to the laser beam, would the reflected light not still be contained within the beam path, just as it is in the case of a Fabry-Perot resonator?
Looks like the Google job was relaxing enough to complete a PhD in Computer Science in 2015 at the same time.
Sure, but putting the chip to sleep is one instruction, and programming the timer interval is only about a dozen instructions. So you don't really need an OS in this context.
Not going to happen - there's just no way.
Here's why:

• even if they manage the first orbital flight this year, there's no guarantee they'll stick the landing as well (took quite a few tests for F-9)

• Mars missions require in-orbit refuelling, thus a tanker version of the fairing and a docking adaptor need tobe developed first

• given they manage to develop both the tanker fairing and the docking adaptor earlier next year, they'd still need to test the refuelling process

• provided they have a working Starship, a proven in-orbit refuelling capability and a reliable landing system for Mars (i.e. no carefully prepared landing pads and guided reentry), they'd still be missing any kind of payload to actually send to Mars (in-situ fuel production plant, habitat module, or anything else useful)

There's just so many firsts that they'd need to achieve that there's zero room for failure to get all that done within 24 months. And that's just not in any way realistic.
If that was the case no one would write code on a Surface, a laptop with an external keyboard, or even a desktop tower.
I wasn't there but I heard from the folks at Netflix who were there that they had a very similar experience getting Netflix to work on a pre-release iPad. Secret dark rooms, bulky cases so you couldn't tell the exact dimensions, cagey Apple reps with NDAs, very little time with the device, etc.
This may be the plutonic ideal of a Hacker News story. It's also sort of a Travis McGee story but the salvage consultant is a cryptographer.
Falcon 9 flies just fine, as does Dragon. They just won a contract to develop Dragon XL.

My question is "What is their net income and their current cash assets? What does their runway look like?"
We had a really similar idea!

https://town.siempre.io/

Leaned in way more on the 2d game aspect of it, and have video drop-off too, but the place it came from: "being able to have multiple conversations in the same shared space without hearing everyone at the same time" is the same.
OP did say ‘rates devs’ - guessing they mean contractors who are typically £550-600 per day which works out to around £130k p/a (before NI, taxes, etc).
Not only that, also seismic sounding and other uses, 115 peaceful nuclear explosion in total:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_N...
So you're saying the navy vessel was both justified and acting in an intelligent manner when it rammed the cruise ship?

My guess is you are really troller working for the Maduro regime.
Did someone really call their bookshop 'Bookshop'?

And I really don't get it - printed books are commodities. They're the same wherever you get them. Anyone except the author is a middleman. Independent bookshops can't value-add anything except in-person, and even then it's limited to creating a nice environment.

I love my local bookshop, and we're buying from them during the crisis to be delivered, but being honest with myself it's because of the toast they do rather than anything to do with books.

(Doesn't apply to second-hand booksellers.)
Because you do not want china great again. Human should. Not communist shipping virus out killing its own people.
I think you missed the point, which in this case would be "how does that js engine does it". If it does it the same way then it doesn't answer him at all.
In a non-destructive workflow, the image data is never modified. The image data checksum should never change. Rather, the edits are a kind of "edit list" stored in metadata, which can itself be optionally (separately) checksummed. If the metadata is corrupt, it can be discarded, effectively resetting the image back to its original pre-edit state. Yes, you'd lose the edits.

The location for metadata depends on the application. For DNG workflows, the metadata is a separate location in the DNG file, with separate metadata and data checksums. For other workflows, the metadata is in a sidecar (a per image file), or stored in a database managed by the application.
And a shared, system-wide Android runtime. This sounds like a great path towards continuity across the Surface product line from desktop to mobile, given the mobile Surface devices being powered by Android coming this year.
Of course.

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
There's a lot of very heavy stones that'd need to be moved to make that happen. For a good start, you'd need every single bank to just pause every single loan. And to pass that down the chain, every single landlord to stop charging rent. And between these two basically impossible feats, you've solved a grand total of one problem.

I think we'd need to nationalise every single essential good, and the entire supply chain behind it, and then just .. turn off capitalism for a few months. Just go full on communism for a fixed term. Have the weirdest Christmas party ever, and then just start 2021 like 2020 never happened.

I don't want to call it actually impossible. But I rate our chances of forming a single planetary republic - Star Trek style - in time to actually act against this infection, as more likely. And you can be as naive as you like, but I'm sure you can imagine how minuscule a number that is too.
> Right now Amazon, objectively a logistics company, has an equivalent of the ground hold on all non-essentials. I cannot get a frying pan delivered until April 24th.

Amazon is having a hold because demand for everything is up, because people are trying to avoid going outside to shop... And because their employees are concerned about their personal safety. No government agency has stepped in to shut down an Amazon warehouse. If you lift the shutdowns, you will actually increase their concerns about personal safety.

> If you keep repeating that people are going to die, people are going to believe you even though the number of people who are going to die that do not have comorbidity factors have a very low risk.

Those people have relatives who are at risk, or may not be interested in rolling the dice on ending up in the hospital. This virus has a much higher hospitalization rate than the flu. Are you ready to pay for all their medical bills? Has socialized medicine finally found its moment to arrive on the shores of the United States? Or, alternatively, are you personally ready to take a job lifting boxes in a warehouse for $15/hour with no medical benefits? One that you commute to in a subway car that's packed shoulder-to-shoulder with sick people?

The MTA is unable to operate the NYC subway, because they have so many sick employees. Do you think a Krelminesque order to stop broadcasting bad news on the telly is going to defy reality, and get the subway running at full capacity, again?

> We are at 10% of seasonal flu death numbers heading head first into a wall.

Italy has, over the span of 4 weeks, hit 300% of their regular seasonal flu deaths, and 50% of the hospitalizations, despite a lockdown but this apparently does not stop people on the internet from drawing false equivalences to the flu.

Do you have a better plan for dealing with a virus that sends more people to the hospital in 4 weeks, than the flu does in half a year? How many hospitalizations and deaths do you think they would have hit if cases continued to double every three days?
Nice read, interesting how you can have apps already be successful before you even release them.
People will sell their instruments if they'll depserately need money.
Working in easy or boring stuff for a lot of money is nice if you need it, but miserable if you're an intrinsically motivated person.
Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed
> The problem with TCP is that it was designed a long time ago.

I understand the intent here is to suggest that some of the design decisions made over the past five decades don't align with the author's use case, but the fact TCP was originally implemented in the 1970's (though with many subsequent changes) isn't the problem.

Undeniably TCP's got some problems / features that aren't ideal now, but it's also acquired lots of extensions and knobs to turn to make it perform better in different environments.

For example:

> Amongst other techniques, KCP retransmits packets more quickly, anticipates packet loss before retransmission timeouts, and backs off more slowly when packet loss is detected.

SCPS [1] was designed (~15 years ago) to address some of the challenges with TCP on non-ideal networks - including slower backoff & more aggressive ramp up after packet loss. (Satellite comms throughput typically ends up looking like a sawtooth, meaning you waste a lot of bandwidth by TCP being overly cautious.)

I'm not suggesting it's a candidate for improving multiplayer game performance, just a nod to the fact some of these 'new' problems have been considered before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Communications_Protocol_...
So how would stopping people from making web video chat apps but allowing them to make apps that integrate with the dialer and phone history help them sell more devices?

They want a robust third party ecosystem.
That's what "clean room reverse engineering" is for. If you document what the code does, then code written based only on those docs wouldn't need to be under the same license.
Reading the actual paper (the journal is Scientific Reports, which will publish anything: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-59600-4) does not inspire confidence. In vitro killing is definitely not the same as in vivo efficacy. Furthermore, the authors try to build a homology model of a putative target protein and then dock the antibiotic. However they provide no evidence to show their model is correct, and speaking as a biochemist, they use completely inappropriate techniques. Their structural analysis is meaningless. And this casts doubt on the competence of the authors.

(Also, the numerous grammar errors show that the paper wasn't edited or reviewed at all!)
Not sure. It certainly qualifies as being a jerk, but sadly that's not something the legal system can always handle.

Would love to see a little bit of public shaming on this one.
I've cloned drives with SuperDuper and had an uninstalled app launch from the clone. So, toss that anecdote on the pile.
Why would Twitter send a Content-Disposition header with their API responses?

content-disposition: attachment; filename=json.json
Yes, I think you've hit on the crux of it. Content streams, accessory apps to larger services, and games with micro-transactions all have one thing in common: they make way more money than you can typically hope to make off of a standalone, novel app that costs $1-$3.
Never going to happen. Look at other important jobs - doctors and nurses can have very low wages, while professional footballers earn millions. We all know which one is more important, but there's no way the medics will ever get paid comparably.
The issue is, I think, "you've got analysis" vs either "you've got an analysis" (singular) or "you've got analyses" (plural).

Still, pretty minor thing to nitpick about.
OP Please do report if congressional representative even picks up the phone. I imagine everyone is now knee deep in pandemic related issues.
Small businesses, mom and pop shops. Not large ones you're presumably railing against.
A small amount of discussion on the previous post from the Twitter Privacy team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22762467
Is clean-room reverse engineering even viable? That is, would anyone agree that an independent discovery of what bit does what is even possible, and this is not lifted from known drivers?
PGP Email Alias
The response from Mozilla:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/twitter-direct-message-cac...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774409