skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it better to just shut down now? For his example business, a corporate catering business, the answer is probably yes. That industry is going nowhere for at least a year and may never come back. After the epidemic is over, many people will still be working from home. (Commercial real estate is going to be hammered. Watch them scream for bailouts.)

"The number one existential threat right now is running out of capital." No, the number one existential threat is running out of market. If you're a cruise line or a convention service, there's no market. Doesn't matter how much capital you have, it won't help. On the other hand, if you're selling work-from-home tools or face masks, you have plenty of orders and can get capital.
Paul's very good at what he does, but no one who knows him would say he's easy to work with.
12 months is fairly close to an eternity in software, though; that's a pretty big catch
Not only that but that statement itself was proven mathematically!
I think a perhaps more accurate way of stating the position is that "Netflix is not good enough at creating enough good content [to make up for 1) existing back catalogs and 2) parallel activity from strong competition]. I don't think anyone could definitively state that Netflix content is subpar when it's at its best, but I also don't think anyone would suggest they'd be willing to give up the big studios and rely exclusively on Netflix original content.
It's a student guide written for other undergrad anthropology students, so we should read it in that light and make affordances for imprecise language and a lack of generality.

In that light, what is it describing postmodernism for? Simply put, it's a [set of] frameworks through which to analyze the kinds of things anthropologists work with. This an important because many of the issues you're seeing are the direct result of trying to extrapolate beyond this academic heritage.

So from an academic anthropology standpoint:

1. Is definitely not flat earth silly. To give some context, prior to PM in the 70s, anthropologists were doing silly things like measuring the amount of food on the table every day and how many knives were in the cupboard. That's nice quantitative data, but it doesn't really tell you much about culture or human behavior. Thinking of language and text as fundamental aspects of culture and behavior is much better, though I personally have some quibbles with that focus.

2. Specific to anthropology and a bit of academic vogue here.

3. Remember that this is an academic framework for analyzing academic things. In anthropology, sometimes people all see the same physically impossible thing, or see different things despite observing bthe same physical events, etc. To deal with this, sometimes it's useful just to view things as if people are in different realities and observing different things. It's not a claim on the real underlying epistemology.

4. Virtually everything academic from the last 40-50 years has been influenced in some way by post modernism. Bit of a Seinfeld effect here.

5. They have a section later about methodologies of postmodernism. Yes, it's a bit ironic.

6. Same as 4, but you're right that it's not unique. Doesn't have to be.

7. This is specific to academia, which was (and largely still is) made up of very much Western derived institutions. Specifically, this is about things like "maybe the structure of our institutions leads us to certain types of research design and valuing certain types of information over others" and "maybe other ways of organizing academia / research / knowledge might also lead to useful results". It's not to suggest the only target for criticism should be Western institutions, merely that they're not the only way to do things and might be improved.

As for whether the ideas of PM are being miscommunicated, sure, I'm open to the idea. But there are also millions of people in academia who do get it. Since we all know academics can be remarkably stupid, it's not an intelligence gap. Maybe it's just something that doesn't make sense without practical experience in the kinds of problems it's designed to help?
Persistence effect has to exist in one way or another to get real-time self awareness; if it were not an input alternation, it would exist at the reasoning level.
https://www.haskell.org/arrows/syntax.html has entered the chat
Hehe, the only difference between what you and parent said, is that he is wiring it to their _next_ election campaign. Do it preferably in smaller sums so you can strong arm them multiple times before the next election.
Are You Addicted to the Internet?
Wow, epic idea!
Laughable. $9k for a tiny ass garden shed?
RT as a propaganda arm needs viewers to function as kerlin intended. RT was created to offer a kremlin approved perspective. RT would fail that purpose if its reach is limited. This is something we can all agree on, right? Russia want to draw certain audiences, that's a given right?

So how is the neighbouring comment wrong or worth ignoring? Even tho the profit motive may not be there, RT value proposition to the kremlin is the same as vice, buzzfeed, and huffpost except that instead of ads, they seek get the audience to the site to expose to them to the kremlim approved narrative.
"it seems reasonable to me to provide some sort of financial help to the airlines alive during this once-in-a-century event"

For how long? It's anyone's guess how long the pandemic will last. If we're lucky, there could be a vaccine ready in 18 months, but maybe we won't be so lucky.

And how much money should the airlines be given, as opposed to, say giving money to people who can't afford to pay their rent or feed themselves or their families?
Which airline was “borrowing money to finance share repurchasing”?
Most exits take about 7 years.

I've lived through many crises, and sooner than you think, they're in your rear view mirror.

Just keep plodding along and don't run out of cash.

If you think SARS-2 is anything special, it's really not (unless you're an airline.) It really is just the flu.
> the server having the hash of your phone number isn't adding too much data to them.

Wait how big is the hash of the phone number?

If it's enough bits (e.g., a full sha hash) then it's not that secure to hash at all. 10^10 or even 10^11 is just 10 or 100 billion. I can easily try all phone numbers until I find the one that matches the hash.

It maybe protects against attacks against lots of people, but it really doesn't protect an individual.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing makes it on to HN. That's inevitable when a forum has millions of users, anonymity is ok, and the topic is divisive. We do what we can to try to convince people to follow the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and we ban accounts that violate them repeatedly.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The do it once for the initial setup. But iirc, one can also get an automated call for the pin.
The WhatsApp data breaches disclosed data that is available to Telegram by design, right now.
Productivity use for VR is way more compelling to me than any game I’ve ever seen. Maybe that’s why it’s never taken off. We probably need to have an email client people want to use in VR and an IDE before we worry about gamers.
Bypassing modern XSS mitigations with code-reuse attacks
> many people that use Qt for free including companies but they won't pay with money or contributions

That is one of the things that free software allows, yeah.

> so if a work will happen except KDE there will be few contributors

Even if that's true, is KDE not enough?

> Qt includes a version of Webkit that is used in some application, so you need someone to keep on top of webkit security issues and backport the fixes.

I assumed that the QT end of that was a thin wrapper around upstream webkit; is it really that involved?
Notes on the Plan 9 3rd edition Kernel Source (2007) [pdf]
We've just finished our own updates to the draft, and are currently getting some feedback on it off-list before we publish the next version.
>if you're an atheist [...] you can't really avoid the conclusion that it must all be a side effect of processing or information somehow

Why? I'm an atheist-leaning agnostic, but I think that the hard problem of consciousness might well turn out to be impossible for scientific investigation to tackle.

I cannot think of any valid logic that would show that "there are no gods" implies "consciousness is a side effect of processing or information somehow".
DOJ urges FCC to revoke China Telecom's license
Thanks! The teacher makes or breaks the course, and that is exactly why I asked for personal recommendations.

As an aside, the world of genetics (and molecular biology in general) is beyond fascinating. I remember coming home after one the 5th or 6th lecture on Cell biology and thinking "wow, take your worst spaghetti code and imagine the pasta becomes sentient --- that is us".
I also agree that the images matter a lot. All the photographs of paintings are taken against the same coloured wall. I don’t see why that shouldn’t be the background of the website too. I think it would make it look like there’s more space between the paintings.

I think if I were choosing something I liked, I’d want to just look at the pictures first (a gallery I suppose) without much distraction. On my screen there’s a load of search controls taking up a third of my screen (but maybe other people have a better idea of what they’re looking for).

It’s probably also worthwhile trying to make the images work with the wide gamut displays that are starting to become more common (mainly on various apple products) as they will magically just look a bit better/more colourful.
The 1993 WTC bombers got caught when they tried to recoup the deposit on the rented van they blew up. OTOH, we tapped bin Laden's sat phone.
I disagree almost completely. You are right about propaganda not being a new concept. You are wrong thinking the delivery system not being a game changer here. Comparatively speaking, I would compare it to radio or TV entering the scene.

edit: I almost think it is like comparing invention of wheel to today's cars.
For anyone with an iPhone who has never given this app a try, I recommend it-- it's surprisingly powerful and fun to use
Unless you're referring to something else, the official [Alpine PostGIS docker image is 151MB](https://hub.docker.com/layers/postgis/postgis/9.5-2.5-alpine...), and you can find minimal images around 35MB.

These images contain geometry engine binaries like GEOS, which you will likely need if you want to perform operations other than `distance` at decent speeds.
Podcast: Macroservices, Microservices, and the Shiny Object Syndrome
When I joined Red Hat, I was pretty surprised to find such an "old school DEC" hardball player in charge of engineering. That's what Paul is, but he's not evil. He's effective, and at the most important level he does represent the values we associate with Red Hat (which he helped shape after all). I'd be far more worried if they'd brought in somebody from outside, or from another part of IBM.
You can open a business and yell at customers. Doesn't mean they will stick around or tell others how great your business is.

Good projects die because of bad leadership.
> Did you provide similar feedback when that was announced?

I did not, as I'm a lot more bored at this point in time and also have a lot of more free time.

But I do feel the same about both of the platforms movement towards "instant apps" that could have been equally solved by making web apps work better on respective platforms, instead of trying to solve the same problem again.
Package kiss-headers v2.0 released on PyPi, GitHub
You’ve moved the goalposts here though. You first argued how none of these small business owners brought forward evidence and therefore this isn’t a real scandal, and then you concede that this is a legitimate example but Yelp handled it correctly by firing the rep.

When hundreds of small business owners make accusations against one company like this, and people like Louis being tangible evidence forward, a full investigation of these practices is warranted, which hasn’t happened yet, to my knowledge.

This smells like a toxic sales culture that enables people to take advantage of small businesses as long as they don’t get caught. Many small business owners probably don’t have the energy or ability to do the research that Louis did, but his findings were pretty shocking.

How many more small business owners need to take time away from revenue generating activity to discover this kind of coordination before you’re satisfied that there’s a real issue here?
The most useful takeaway for me was: “In 2008, the average Series A company raised $4M on a $28.5M post. In 2009, it was considerably less with an average of $3.5M on a $14M post — half the valuation of the year before. And there were 30% fewer Series A rounds overall."

Battening down the hatches and cutting costs is common sense.

But, actually quantifying how much harder your next raise will be is helpful. Congrats to anyone who wasn't depending on it!
Ya it is a kind of clickbaity title but I didn’t regret reading it.
There are degrees to which tools are useful for committing crimes, and it's naive to pretend otherwise. Encryption is obviously an incredibly useful tool for committing a number of crimes, and I think it's better to argue that it's worth it than to act like there's no connection.
A very cool demo and I congratulate the author, but I am always a little sad for more data science type demos that try to answer the question (that is proving toxic) "given what I know about you, how can I find a community of people just like you?"

I would love to see a subreddit finder that answers questions like "what community would complement your interests?" or "what community needs to hear what you have to say?" or "what community would be made better by your presence?". Similarity is at best a proxy for it.

Those are harder but, I think, more useful.
> Doesn't this cause more problems in the long run propping up businesses that can't survive two months without a bailout, err loan?

Yes. This is why I anticipate the effects from this to be dramatic, horrendous, far-reaching, and long lasting.

This administration's stance on the economy is to do whatever it takes to ensure certain businesses don't go under. Up to and including straight up, permanent corporate welfare. This started with the collapse of the fossil fuel industry due to the glut of cheap natural gas, then continued when the trade war devastated our agricultural industry. I am certainly not surprised to see the government extend this policy to basically every business in the US.

The big problem is there seems to be no oversight or incentive for these business to keep going. Dairy farms are dumping milk down the drain and reducing herd sizes because there's no market for their products. Why would we just continue to pay them to produce nothing? You could get much better outcomes through the government buying up the end products and distributing for free to people in need. Remember "government cheese"? Bring back government cheese.

I completely expect this situation to spiral out of control and become an epic disaster. This is going to be a 10-trillion dollar suicide. We are paying companies to literally stop operating, and we are pissing off all of our long-term allies at the same time. Don't be surprised if these countries are shrewd negotiator when the US comes crawling to them for aid.

I bet we'll still be discussing this come the 2024 election...
Ask HN: What changes has your company made to save money?
Even a period of a few hours of being unplugged has been so relaxing, particularly if done in the evening before bed.
I really like the idea and your implementation. One request:
I wish I could search for art by artists who are women or underrepresented minorities.
You can multicast using WebRTC with this program https://github.com/pion/ion But, it still needs work. FWIW, I think it's promising.
Are algorithms and theory behind them not math themselves?
> I think its better to just admit that freedoms / tech will always be misused by criminal actors, and that's just a price we agree to pay for privacy, security, and liberty.

It's possible for both things to be true at the same time.

If Signal exists and is secure, will criminals use it? Sure they will, criminals are people and people want private communications.

But if you ban honest citizens from using Signal, will criminals stop using secure communications? No, they have an unusually strong incentive to use them and will seek out alternatives. The percentage of criminals who switch to insecure communications will be lower than the percentage of honest people who do.

Which increases the amount of crime, because the amount you're helping law enforcement catch criminals is smaller than the amount you're helping criminals exploit victims. This is also compounded by the fact that there are more honest people than criminals.

There is a theory of bureaucracy ("an institution will attempt to preserve the problem to which it is a solution") that says law enforcement agencies will ask for this even when they know full well that it will increase the overall amount of crime, because more crime is good for them since it means more law enforcement.
Sure, I'll bite.

"WHO Also Failed in the 2013 Ebola Outbreak" is factually inaccurate. The WHO successfully contained that outbreak, including a working vaccine for Ebola. Their definition of "failed" seems to be "one American got it in Dallas".

The Federalist article is trying to spin a yarn of "poor Trump was deceived by the CDC and the WHO" in an attempt to absolve him of any responsibility. It's not at all surprising from The Federalist, but it's sad to see folks fall for it.
Instant Apps on Android are opt-in (provided by a popup the first time you open an enabled link), so I can choose to use web apps if I prefer. I think the important open question is whether Apple will take a similar approach or if a Clips-enabled app will always take priority over a web one.
This can be a problem in Haskell, where you can find a library using some operator like +>>* that you haven't seen before, imported from one of its 30 odd globally addressed modules, which may just be re-exporting other modules.

Hoogle/google rarely help with such operators, so finding any documentation is often an exercise in frustration, scanning through library after library for one declaration.
I think it's true. Around 2010 is when CS got hot again.

A few years ago, we interviewed some new graduates. I couldn't believe how smart they were. They seemed a lot smarter than I was when I graduated. Heck, they seemed smarter than me right now. There are definitely a ton of highly qualified, recent grads these days.

I think the main thing we ( as in our generation of late 30's to 40's) have to worry about these days is ageism. We might become obsolete quick if businesses think the new, smart, cheaper kids can replace us aging ones.
This is very true and I’m much more appreciative of that fact now. Thanks - you stay safe as well!
Yep, mainly just posted here for exposure/validation before I spent more time reaching out to grants & organizations, etc.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning with Andrew Ng
I totally agree with you about the friends. I do not need to meet them often but it has to be in real life. I am not owl so I often wake up in 4am and go to sleep at 8 or 9 pm. It is really funny that when people start to connect to slack I have already worked 3 or 4 hours and I am ready for my "lunch" :-D
I can't help but acknowledge how accurate this comment is, this is a damn hard industry.

Here's all I'll add; you should really think about what problem you are solving and why. Is it true that artists don't sell art because buyers can't find it? Or is it rather that buyers are very specific about why, and from who, they buy art when they buy it?

One of the most important things successful artists do is market themselves well, even the "best" artist won't sell art without an audience and a brand, period. Perhaps instead of creating a marketplace you can create tools to help artists market themselves and build that audience, GL to you and the team.
Super random question: I got a Razer Ripsaw HD (gaming capture card) and I tried capturing video from my Sony Alpha 7ii to use as a webcam and I keep getting weird banding. Doesn't happen when I try to record video on-camera. Anyone know what's happening?

Also since gamers don't care about color accuracy, I have a feeling they didn't give two shits about preservation of color accuracy in the Razer Ripsaw HD. The settings for color space is suepr whack.
Because it adds no value to the mission of RT news (which is to spread influence) since it doesn't expose the targeted audience to the other articles on RT news with higher propaganda value (like coverage on syria).
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...

5 zero-click compromises. Thousands per week for a total of 2 years before discovery. The 5 chains being: 3 months, 6 months, 10 months, 6 months, 3 months each. At thousands per week, that is 12k, 24k, 40k, 24k, 12k new compromises per chain at a minimum, probably closer to 5x those numbers. Incidentally, at the bottom of the initial post they mention: "I shan't get into a discussion of whether these exploits cost $1 million, $2 million, or $20 million. I will instead suggest that all of those price tags seem low for the capability to target and monitor the private activities of entire populations in real time." which is consistent with my perspective. As a secondary point, I do not claim that Google does not have good offensive security techniques.

Looking at Project Aurora. The wikipedia page states that the attacks began mid-2009 and Google discovered them mid-December. So a potential 6 month window before detection. Google also declares that they lost intellectual property, though the nature of that is unclear, so could be anything from one random email to everything. Given that they already lost information, the attack could have already succeeded in its goal by the time of detection (6 months is a really long time to exfiltrate data, you could literally dump terabytes of data if you had a moderate unimpeded internet connection), "We figured out that we were robbed 6 months ago." is a failure in my book. There is also little information as to the difficulty of the attack. They say it was "sophisticated", "we have never seen this before", but that is what literally everybody says. If you have access to a specific breakdown on the techniques used that would be helpful.
Hah, you beat me to it.
> It seems to me that VR really is for games, but for working with text I think humans are better off with stationary screens.

Have you actually tried VR? The fact that you think there's wiggling makes me think you haven't. Yes, videos make it look that way but I can guarantee you that's not reflected in the actual experience. VR is notoriously bad to watch on video and doesn't capture the experience at all.
While the title isn't super accurate, I don't agree with the other comments dismissing the work done here. Maybe "Refactoring Github's Javascript SDK for maintainability" or something along those lines.
>Dumping treasuries leads to you having dollars, you've basically switched from interest-bearing (admittedly super low interest rate right now) to non-interest bearing (cash). You still need to put the money somewhere, hence asset bubble.

The balance sheet can be unwound simply by waiting for the bonds to expire, then the money goes poof out of existence the same way it poofed into existence.

What the fed has been doing though, is rolling the money into new bonds, keeping the total balance ~constant. If they didn't, it would leave a $4T hole in the bond market that would suddenly need to be filled.
Gavin Newsom Declares California a ‘Nation-State’