skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Open source software needs"

Open source software doesn't owe you anything and you can use the alternative if that doesn't satisfy you.

People want self hosted, free software with privacy BUT also all other features that big companies add to their software. I'm sorry but you have to make compromises. Most people decide to compromise their freedom and privacy.

If you really want the software to improve the best way is to contribute (or donate if that's an option), complaining things could be better on the other hand don't help much.
Reminds me of the Japanese brand (non-brand?) Muji: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muji
It sounds like the TURN server is effectively acting like an (open) proxy. Wouldn't that mean the operator still has to have the infrastructure to handle the connections + traffic?

I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that most of these RTC connections are happening over NAT and therefore usually go over TURN rather than by connecting directly. Even if that's not the case, why not try direct p2p connection first then fall back to routing through an application-specific proxy, which can have tighter controls on who connects to who and what payloads they send?
Stock buybacks are touted as a tax efficient means of providing returns to shareholders as capital gains. The other option being a dividend. If you don't think dividends are evil then you shouldn't have too much problem with buybacks.

The argument against buybacks are that they aren't very efficient -- CFOs tend to buy back when the stock price is high, and that it rewards people for not holding shares.
SoftBank just has to wait for WeWork to exhaust its cash reserves. It's clear SoftBank will take whatever steps are necessary for the deal to close and them light another $3B on fire.

From a paywall FT article [1] quoted in Matt Levin's piece ("WeWon't") on this:

> "Thousands of WeWork tenants have refused to pay rent or sought to terminate their leases over the past month, heaping pressure on the lossmaking group as its occupancy level and cash pile dwindles"

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/78dbfb03-f47d-41f3-9bf6-6696e5ef6...
Suppressing David Icke only makes this conspiracy stronger. Icke has close to zero credibility in the UK and well known to believe in lizard people and other such wacky theories.

If you stop people knowing he is also talking about this then the only people left to talk about it are the regular normal seeming folks. Channels like this https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsAwM1EqcYXKeIEufJqwWjw/vid... thousands of views per video, seems like any normal bloke you'd chat to down the pub.

So well done by silencing a known eccentric you just made the only voices in this conspiracy the normal everyday folks, if regular people searched this theory and Icke popped up they might have actually questioned it because they don't want to be associated with the lizard guy.
I thought part of capitalism was that businesses go out of business.
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If they were all unconditional, that would be fine. The problem is they are all computed jumps (see jonesforth for details).
Luckily they diversified their bailouts, and made $121B so far.

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
HN click bait. Actual title is: Stanford researchers devise treatment that relieved depression in 90% of participants in small study.
I'd been looking into OBS/obs-virtualcam until I discovered that macOS support wasn't there.

Not free, but I have successfully tested ManyCam, which I believe will work well for my streamlining the process of switching between screenshare and secondary camera sources for Zoom.
My favorite "fun" fact about The Jungle was that Sinclair originally meant the book to expose the working conditions of the meat packing plants, but instead everyone focused on the way the meat was processed and got up in arms about that instead. He apparently also had to tone down some of the book's more socialist leanings before being allowed to publish it.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
Ultra cherry picking? Did you even read the wiki article?

It was a study that lasted for months and involved the US Fed Gov plus 12 states. This isn't one talking head spouting their pet theories on their blog, then later turned out to be correct.
To read the spec: https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec/blob/master/spe...
Although probably not enabled by default.
Industrial Machine Switches
Tails 4.5 Is Out
This technique has also been used in the ogg-opus audio codec.
In ARN we Trust: understanding the building blocks of AWS
> seL4 is a game-changer

probably overstating the case.
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Altogether, accounting for both the TARP and the Fannie and Freddie bailout, $634B has gone out the door.

Money has been coming back in two ways: $390B of principal has been repaid, and the Treasury has collected revenue from its investments of $364B.

In total, the government has realized a $121B profit as of March 19, 2020.
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Banks have legally mandated reserve requirements. Is it time for companies in certain FRB (Frequently Requiring Bailouts) industries to also have some level of required cash reserves? What would be some arguments against, apart from ye olde “too much government regulation”?
Why not loans? Pandemic is not the fault of the airlines, just like small businesses around the world, most airlines just need a short term loan to resolve liquidity issues while the pandemic blows over. Loans are safer investments than buying stocks.
To debug an application running on linux one does not need to learn machine code or assembly. There are tools that make it all possible.

Higher level abstractions can work and need to start somewhere. It really depends what tools are developed.
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The fact that it's not true is largely irrelevant. When the media pursues a strategy of manipulating the masses rather than reporting the truth, the masses notice and stop believing what the media has to say. In the modern age, the media only has power to the extent that people believe what it's saying.
And if they had maintained proper cash reserves instead of spending it on stock repurchases.
We're a frozen meat brand posting ads inevitably made to misdirect people
Good to know!

Is this configurable on the client-side via configOverwrite.constraints when using the external API?
My knowledge is about 2 years old on this but I can try to explain: TURN/STUN are to facilitate users communicating behind NAT and firewalls. TURN routes all traffic through a central server and pushes it to clients which it has an established connection with, thus getting around NAT/Firewall. STUN is a bit more lightweight in that it really just helps users to negotiate a normal P2P connection and then they send messages directly to eachother.
A healthy dose of distrust towards experts is necessary, because they're wrong all the time.

What about the experts - including those at the CDC - that said COVID-19 was no worse than a flu? Are they no real experts, or are they just the wrong kind of expert?

https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-lesser-thr...

"Trust the experts" is nothing but an argument from authority. You're likely going to trust whatever expert confirms what you already believe.
That paper refers to interpreters in the traditional sense. However threaded code is not interpreted in the same way. After every instruction is a computed jump. There are benchmarks on this in the jonesforth code you can actually run and you will observe the exact problem there.
You could always limit it to companies that can show the money which would have been used if there was a limited decline in business. Separate the ones who did indeed behave responsible and were caught by this extraordinary event from those who bought back stock without thinking about tomorrow.
https://josh.works/archive

You probably _shouldn't_ read my blog.

It's small, has low traffic, and I am the primary beneficiary of my writing. That said, I've been writing regularly for eight years now, and it's an _awesome_ progress-tracking tool for me.

It's seen me through a few career changes (most recently into software development) and I use it all the time to share ideas with people. If I share an idea with people 3x, I'll write a blog post and share the link next time.

If you're new to software development, you should follow my blog.

If you're wanting to _get into_ software development, you should start here: https://josh.works/turing-backend-prep-01-intro

I've got a bunch of stuff coming soon about leveling up your skills as person who just got into your first ruby/rails development job, and feels like they're not learning things very quickly.

So, if that's your cup of tea, please follow!
Doug Turnbull, write a lot about search engines (Solr, Elasticsearch) and search relevance. Both technical and organizational issues around those things...

I like to write deep, long posts when I can. I hope to be relatively thoughtful when I approach search topics, and honesty have a hard time not getting into the nooks and crannies of every topic to get a holistic POV

http://o19s.com/doug
Good. This conspiracy theory idiocy about 5G is actively harmful to public infrastructure and it has to stop.

My only complaint is that Icke wasn't demonetized over this. He should be banned from the platform entirely. He's actively harmful to society.
And that, my friend, is exactly how this mental sickness is diagnosed as a sickness: because for the majority of human beings, life is worth in and for itself, despite its suffering, nonsense and stupidity.

A healthy person wants to live. Not wanting to is one of the ways of "being ill".

And I am not shouting you out of the room: at all. Being objective requires acknowledging that most people want to go on living despite the difficulties. The inability of understanding that outlook is exactly why depression is defined as a sickness.

And being depressed has nothing to do with "slaving it" and "sidelining the good things". It has to do with BEING INFINITELY TIRED and UNABLE to COPE with ANYTHING (even those "good things" feel bad, unworthy and unappealing when you are depressed).
As the saying goes: have you tried self-conducted sleep deprivation, exercise, improved diet, vitamin d, sun lamps, having sex, talk therapy, or any of the clinically evaluated pharmchems yet? Why not?
We changed the URL from http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=blob_plain;f=jone..., by the request of Forthjones himself, whose home server was being pummelled.
List of Company Name Etymologies
For posterity:

>Second, Delaware’s tax system gives businesses several ways to legally minimize their tax bills. Companies that are incorporated in Delaware but do business in other states don’t have to pay state corporate income tax to Delaware. Some groups accuse Delaware of being a tax haven because the “Delaware loophole” allows companies to declare certain types of revenue in Delaware rather than in the state where the business actually occurred. Delaware also doesn’t tax profits on royalty payments, trademarks, or copyrights.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76951/why-are-so-many-us...
https://artistdetective.wordpress.com

I write about Artificial Intelligence, Turing tests, language processing, and a bit of robotics, for a layperson audience.

You should read it if:

- you enjoy critical commentary on popular AI news and practices,

- want to know AI myths from reality, or

- want to see a participant's view on Turing tests.
https://medium.com/numbers-that-matter

I try to find important issues and simplify them to one good number. E.g., America's healthcare system costs us $4,000 more per person that other developed countries and we live 4 years shorter on average. (Okay, in that case, it was 2 numbers.)

Basically, I had a hard time pulling the important stuff out of politics. I started my own blog to help me ... and others too.
Usual compression standards are mostly adaptive, estimating statistical models of input from implicit prior distributions (e.g. the probability of A followed by B begins at p(A)p(B)), reasonable assumptions (e.g. scanlines in an image follow the same distribution), small and fixed tables and rules (e.g. the PNG filters): not only a low volume of data, but data that can only change as a major change of algorithm.

A neural network that models upscaling is, on the other hand, not only inconveniently big, but also completely explicit (inviting all sorts of tweaking and replacement) and adapted to a specific data set (further demanding specialized replacements for performance reasons).

Among the applications that are able to store and process the neural network, which is no small feat, I don't think many would be able to amortize the cost of a tailored neural network over a large, fixed set of very homogeneous images.

The imagenet64 model is over 21 MB: saving 21 MB over PNG size, at 4.29 vs 5.74 bpp (table 2a in the article), requires a set of more than 83 MB of perfectly imagenet64-like PNG images, which is a lot. Compressing with a custom upscaling model the image datasets used for neural network experiments, which are large and stable, is the most likely good application (with the side benefit of producing useful and interesting downscaled images for free in addition to compressing the originals).
Who could have predicted in August of 2001 that a terrorist cell would hijack airplanes and use them as missiles resulting in a massive decrease in the number of passengers?

You really don't have to look too far in the history of the airline industry to see examples of black swan events.

Independent of the COVID-19 pandemic, I can think of at least two other scenarios that would destabilize the revenues of airlines:

(1) A catastrophic airplane crash that disrupts air travel and/or changes consumer sentiment towards airline safety. Consider that US aviation is in an extended safety streak and most Americans cannot quickly recall a time other than 9/11 when an airplane crash resulted in death.

(2) A change in the price of oil that drastically alters ticket prices. This is not likely given the current climate and the mitigation that airlines now undertake vis-à-vis oil futures, but a plausible scenario nonetheless.

Given that me, a random guy that knows fuck-all about airlines, can come up with 2 scenarios where revenues are disrupted without any foresight, it begs the question whether the airlines are acutely aware of their "too big too fail" status.

It seems their preference to enrich executives and shareholders all while hedging against any catastrophic events with a government bailout should be on par with 2008-era financial misconduct.

Prediction: Airlines will receive a bailout and face little repercussions for their poor planning.
> In reality, consumers aren't (and can't) be educated enough to avoid products with these types of flaws. So, it's up to government to regulate

Why is the proposed answer to information problems always bans and fines? Is the government, or anyone else in the market, lacking in the capacity to instead provide people with better information?

If you want the government to do something, why not have them go out and evaluate the products that exist in the market? Then if they find vulnerabilities, they can report them to the manufacturers before they're discovered by attackers, and they can rate the vendors on their security practices and publish the information so that customers do have the information on which vendors make better products.

How is this not vastly superior to the thing where they destroy all small vendors with onerous regulations and then everything costs fifty times as much because the only vendors big enough to comply with the regulations are Oracle and IBM?
> It would only be accepting data that others willfully send its way.

Human knowledge and intent matters in legal matters. If a technology is accidentally misconfigured to send sensitive data to a third party, and that third party knows that the data they are receiving was not intended for them, then they are still responsible for not willfully misusing that data. That's clearly the case with corp.com.

> If this is illegal, then I can shut down any site by sending my private data to it.

No, if you knowingly choose to send your data somewhere, then you can't turn around and blame the people receiving your data. Again: human knowledge and intent matter for the law.

As an example, a charge of trespassing depends on permission (human knowledge and intent), not whether you leave your gate open (how a system is configured).
>(If a massively better one comes along, then you just make it a new file format.)

I guess you could have versioning of your file format, and some sort of organization that standardized it.
I have no idea what you’re getting at here. The parent pointed out, accurately, that for large effect sizes, N=30 is plenty.

I’m also fairly certain you don’t understand what a “random distribution” is yourself. That’s because there’s no such thing. There’s a normal distribution, binomial distribution, Poisson distribution etc, and they all involve randomness. But there’s no “random distribution”.

So maybe you shouldn’t be quite so quick to judge “novice statisticians”, and what those imaginary people you mention a total of five times may or may not “wrongly assume”, or “don’t know”, or “are limited in”, or “don’t check for”.
Journey to Carry on my Family’s 144 year Old Legacy
But once the corporate tax rate was brought back in line with the rest of the developed world, Apple brought the money back to fund buybacks and dividends. When you have more cash than available attention, that's the right thing to do: return it to shareholders.
Maybe you have a point but from my perspective you're overthinking it. Lots of developers use Docker Compose and will continue to do so because it's a great product. The news here is that there is now an open specification that others can contribute to.
This is a beautiful looking site but is decidedly designed for Japanese readers. I will leave cultural commentary aside. While the romanized names are large, they are incredibly awkward to read being rendered vertically with rotation. I would recommend rendering the romanji vertically without rotation or using a Western left-to-right rendering. While I have some rudimentary Japanese reading skills, lack of furigana above the kanji color names further limits the readability.
What can a 15 year old stripper in Kentucky tell you about China?
This is a great idea for a post! just wanted to let you know :)
also this is my blog about the many interesting aspects of sending an anonymous donation in today's society:

https://silentdonor.com/silent-donor-blog/
We can't outsource our critical thinking to private companies. People need to develop the ability to think critically for themselves and not rely on appeals to authority. This can't happen if people become lazy and simply trust whatever media is out there.

This also raises concerns for me around the question of freedom of speech and censorship. I fear we are centralizing too much power into a few private companies that effectively wield more power than the government and the people for whom it represents.

I'd rather have freedom of speech even if it means tons of misinformation out there.

If and when there is some information that is unpopular but critical for people to know, I don't want censorship to be the norm.
Ha, yeah, agree they should do just soda water with no taste!

But of course now it's for millennials and the play is on the "ok boomer" concept ;)
What does David Icke have to correct?
A relatively unconventional choice but the highest-rated visual novel of all time, Muv-Luv Alternative, is insane. It is without any exaggeration the only piece of actually "life-changing" media that I've consumed. I felt myself to be mentally much more mature and tougher afterwards, and able to face challenges head-on instead of procrastinating or shirking away. It really is something that shakes you from your soul and leaves an everlasting emotional impact, which is very different from the non-fiction books (which are also indispensable of course).

I would summarize core ideas as "To live is to suffer, but you have to carry on no matter what. This is what everybody does." and "an ode to humanity", but it really is so hard to put the experience into words. You have to feel it yourself.

Link on VNDB: https://vndb.org/v92 There are also various streamers who streamed the whole story on Twitch after its popularity blew up.
> No business is going to hoard 50 billion dollars in an emergency fund for a pandemic that cuts 90% of revenue, that's just absurd.

That just isn't right, for a number of reasons.

First, the 50 billion applies to the entire industry, so the "emergency fund" of an individual company is going to be much smaller. Imagining an airline holding 1 billion in a buffer, rather than using it for stock buybacks, isn't that far-stretched.

Second, 90% loss of revenue isn't the problem, it's how long this revenue stays down that is the problem. The FAA closing the skies for a week should not be a problem, a month is going to be a huge problem, and a quarter might already be fatal.

Third, preparing for such scenarios is commonplace in the financial industry, for example. (I have a sibling comment regarding that). Banks are now expected to be resilient enough to survive another another 2008-like crisis on their own, without taxpayer-funded bailouts. And these expectations are not merely high-level, there are entire hordes of specialists, both in banks and with regulators, that do nothing else other than model various scenarios.
I'm also self taught, some books I feel have been really helpful to me:

Elements of Computing Systems

Writing and Interpreter in Go

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=writing+an+interpreter+in+go&i=st...
It's because Americans mainly cook with volumes ("1 cup flour") and not masses ("100g flour"). Just look at any American recipe book - it will use volumes instead of weights.
Aren't Compose and Swarm/Stack very similar, but Stack has support for distribution between multiple nodes?

I know their actual configurations aren't equivalent, but they are similar (Stack supports config options for distribution, etc.).
Why We shouldn’t pump the brakes on phishing simulation
EAV = Entity-attribute-value model.

It's a courtesy to explain an acronym when it is first introduced.
Creating JavaScript Column and Bar Charts on Covid-19 Data
6a. Buy a company to get into a new line of business (Comcast/NBC, Yammer/LinkedIn/GitHub), a transformational divestment followed by rebirth (IBM, Nokia)

6b. Buy up and coming evolutionary competitors before your way is obsoleted by their way. (Red Hat, Instagram, WhatsApp, all the SD-WAN companies getting swallowed.)

6c. Buy competitor and dismantle it to consolidate and reduce competition.
Empathy at Scale
How’s the View from a Spinning Star?
If they are running Windows 10 they ought to be able to use Edge without installing anything.
>they didn’t really choose to hold cash.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but if companies are going to hold large amounts of cash, it would be fiscally irresponsible not to seek the best possible tax treatment for it within the law. If people think it's inappropriate for companies to hold cash overseas, those concerns should be addressed towards lawmakers.
Financialization requires the money to be used "productively" instead of sitting in reserves waiting. Everyone wants a higher stock price and/or dividends instead of long term stability. I recently came across a saying that summed it up well:

"MBAs think companies make money. Companies make shoes."

When you abstract the details away again and again and again, eventually you forget that the details exist and matter.
Good timing, people have lots of spare attention and the supply chains for salt, butter and corn can probably be expected to bear it.