skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wuhan lab leak theory has as much credible endorsement as Fort Detrik - i.e. none. Both are replete with connect the dot sources conjured by Chinese /r/conspiracy equivalents, the latter complete with corresponding proof drawn from US media sources. And if you believe CIA's recent allegations evidence of virus in Wuhan dating back to November... then the timeline actually syncs up with the US military games theory. Both are credible depending on what one choose to belief. It's just that neither is believed by most experts, but they however endorsed through political posturing and perpetuated by "useful idiots".

laowhy86, bitter expats doing China-bad for clicks is well trodden career pivot. You can see clearly in his youtube timeline when he transitioned from prosaic China musings to anti-CPC bashing after he left the country. His authority or lack of absolutely has to do with the fact that he's a youtube travel blogger and not subject matter expert - again of which there are many - who has not endorsed such theories. I'm not appealing to a singular authority, but a community of China watchers where conspiracy theories are dismissed as conspiracy theories. Unless your conspiracy is that they all got bought off - including anti-China institutions - and are collectively incompetent. Or alternatively, a youtuber is endorsing conspiracy for clicks. Which is more likely? Which is the kind of thing a stupid person would entertain?

Re: Taiwan, they released the alleged emails that they had information on H2H on Dec31st. Never mind there's no way they would be able to verify such information since they only had their first imported case on Jan21st. There's Taiwanese interviews in early Jan where their own CDC deputy director stated it was impossible to verify H2H until new cases happen after Jan14th. Their Dec31st email turned out to be the exact correspondence provided by Wuhan medical officials to the WHO and other medical community prior - they are treating novel corona patients in isolation wards which is standard practice. AKA it was nothing. Also elevating Taiwan was part of a coordinated US propaganda push to undermine the WHO including that interview (by HK news no less) that attempts to discredit the WHO via ambush questions that's outside of the organization's let alone a scientist's purview. Identifying propaganda and manufactured consent is media literacy 101. Believing your countries propaganda over a competing narrative is understandable, but believing a youtuber over general consensus of experts is less so. That's Alex Jones territory.
I think the advice holds. Cryptographic primitives are vanishingly unlikely to be your core business, even if the things built on them are. Therefore, almost nobody should be building them.
I see, thanks a lot!
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I am fairly confident your option A is absolutely not an option.
Ask HN: What authentication tools are you using in 2020?
OpenID Connect? Oauth 2? I'm wondering what workflow, services and apps HN users are building authentication for apps and mobile in 2020...
No idea. One theory is that it could be the case that at some point memory corruption occurred inside the Inkscape. The save succeeded but the data that written was corrupt. Once the file was saved, the write buffer was cleared and this caused the crash.

>The conventional way to save files is to write a new file and only as the last step do a rename. This solves the crash corruption problem. Does Inkscape not do this?

I did a quick read through the Inkscape source code and it looks like Inkscape writes straight to the file but I could be wrong.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/xml/r...
> These events release a lot more radiation than coal plants.

Unless you have data that supports this statement, I'd state the opposite. It's easy to think nuclear accidents release a lot of radiation, but the actual accumulated dose from nuclear power (including accidents) for the average individual over time is very low. Coal, on the other hand, continuously spews out radioactive ash in large quantities.

Granted, other sources of radiation (radon, cosmic rays, medical x-rays, etc.) are a lot larger, but if comparing the two I'd guess coal is the larger culprit even when including nuclear accidents.
Ask HN: Stopwatch for Zoom Meetiings
I'm seeking a solution for an individual stopwatch/countdown feature during online Zoom meetings. I attend virtual Zoom meetings of 30-40 people where each speaker is allowed 3 minutes to share. Is there a stopwatch or countdown feature available for all members in a Zoom meeting to view alerting the speaker their time is up? Currently, one member is designated as the timekeeper and shares a "3 Minutes are up" jpeg to alert the current speaker to wrap up their share. Is there an extension or alternative available?
I'm super surprised to see this article not mention the phrase "opportunity cost".

That's what someone pays to save with something like Splunk. Pay cash to make SWEs more effective towards solving the problems that make up the business's value prop. Cash is much easier to get than the opportunity to grow the business with the people already there. That time never comes back.
Please don't be an asshole on HN, even if you don't feel nostalgic for space travel. It helps no one and just makes the thread worse. We've had to ask you this kind of thing before.
You've got some good points here, but in the future please express your good points thoughtfully.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Mintdata looks cool, what does the imperative layer that drives the declarative layer look like? It'd be nice if this was a platform where engineers could sell the imperative layers
Depends on the type of ad. Random preroll on a YouTube video? nah... Stealthy paid review / article? maybe...
> things that my intuition tells me will be around for a while and for which understanding is a major benefit to me. My intuition is guided by a mix of market share, speed of change in the target market, and robustness of the thing in question.

Don't forget about the Lindy effect! A thing that has been around a long time is likely to stay around, whereas something new is much more likely to fade sooner too.
That's not a vector display.
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I think it's a pipe dream. Non-experts making changes to a system an expert wrote will yield either: 1) very few little changes, such as changing the color of an item, etc. Or 2) disasters where it's better to throw away the changes and start over doing it "the right way".

Just look at automobiles: They are malleable indeed. We've all probably seen pics of modifications of all types, from the hillbilly type VM bug/truck combination to the amazing Cobra replica that few can tell from the real thing. In all cases, the craftsmanship level (and budget) of the person doing the modification directly affects the quality of the result. And how many cars are there whose modifications simply failed and the car never hit the road again?

The same in software. Give Annie in accounting the ability to modify the inventory system and you will have a disaster in your hands, especially if she does not know much about the architecture of the system and/or she's not a matter expert on inventory methods and procedures. In that case I'd much rather trust my company to a hard-to-change system than one where everyone can mess with and break it beyond repair.

I think the false premise here is that non-experts can build on the work done by experts. And I'm talking about both experts in programming who built the system in the first place (ie, add shitty architecture on top of good architecture), and experts in the domain the system is solving. If you get a smart your developer who is a solid coder to make changes to the aforemetioned inventory system, he will probably break the system (at least in the edge cases), albeit with beautiful, readable code.

I just don't see how it's possible unless the ability to expand the system is severely limited (ie, not a "malleable system").
Same thing was happening to me recently. I turned off Power Nap and it hasn’t happened since.
Our software always starts out as super-clean, easy to change, human-readable, etc.

Then requirements change 100s of times, on a deadline, and that it's no longer a pinnacle of those qualities.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

it has tests and tests per million as columns. Have no idea where the data comes from.
An obvious thing I’d barely noticed the full impact of. Thanks.
Thank you. Credit goes to @andygcook for the initial idea to handle photos over SMS. We also support email. I've thought about web uploads but hardly anyone has asked for it. Behind the scenes, we also support iCloud sharing albums, Google Photos albums, and Google Drive. I've been working on a WhatsApp integration which will be pretty neat; just a couple hurdles to overcome first.
Super important exception. Thanks for mentioning it!

Unless you've spent the last 10+ years working on encryption full time, please don't try it yourself.

I used to think I could write crypto. Then I learned more and realized it needs specialized knowledge I don't have the time to acquire. Then I spent some time trying to acquire it and figured I was OK to try again. Then I watched many other more experienced organizations crash and burn. My current position is that I know enough about crypto to know I never want anything to do with authoring it.
Not legally, though it sounds like if you put postage on it, it would be: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1725
The one Smithfield facility mentioned in that article represents 4-5% of US production. The governor has asked it to close for 14 days. That's not the only meat packing/food supply chain breakdown. Here's another article mentioning a major Tyson meat processing plant shutdown. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
There's tarsnap (tarsnap.com). It always pops up here on HN when talking about really secure encrypted backups. Not sure it solves your use case, but I figured I'd mention it since nobody else did.
Right on! Shoot me an email if you have any questions: alex@nanagram.co.
Possibly true, although the ad industry has survived a number of significant transitions (print/radio/tv/digital/placement), plus 2 primary incarnations (direct & branding). Over the same time, the industry has gotten much more sophistication in measuring return on ad spend. All while growing by leaps and bounds.

I certainly conceded it's possible that your statement is true. I'm skeptical of most marketers claims. However, I have to acknowledge the scope of the deception if indeed it is a house of cards.

That's a lot of smart people wasting a lot of money in a lot of different ways over a century of the biggest growth phase experienced by civilization.
This is a pretty short critique about apparent issues with Urbit, from a non-ideological viewpoint and detached from referencing the author- though a reply points out those technical criticisms may have been inspired by ideology!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13597419
Don't bother. People making statements like this have already made up there mind. You are not going to change his.
That does not address one of the main points of UBI: eliminating the welfare cliff

Like someone is on welfare and the welfare includes free health care insurance. Then they get a job, they do not get welfare anymore, but then they need to pay for insurance, so with the job they have less money than before.
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I didn't realize Anders Hejlsberg wrote the compiler in the original Turbo Pascal! Thank you for the correction.
One thing overlooked here (or not explicitly called out) is talent pool. My last boss didn't want to use anything that he couldn't plug into Dice Or Similar and get dozens of hits for.

If it's not part of your core business/core competency, and you're just reinventing the wheel so you don't have to pay a vendor, you have to weigh against the cost of the off-the-shelf solution NOT just the cost of developing it yourself, but developing it, maintaining it, documenting it, replacing your "irreplaceable engineer" when s/he quits, etc.
When I last worked in a consumer tech startup, our best ROI by far was paying tech youtubers or doing targeted ads to tech categories on youtube. Being in a startup I was vaguely aware of marketing efforts but I was never involved directly, so I can't say why or how that was discovered. All I know is my coworkers dealing with marketing said the roi and conversion rates specifically for youtube far outstripped traditional targeted tech ads through google or facebook. Of course this may have been because we weren't great at advertising, so your mileage may vary.
YouTube's algorithm adds another wrinkle to how many creators, especially smaller ones, are likely to be negatively impacted by the fact that much of our collective attention is on the coronavirus.

YT and other socials have essentially been creating a whitelist of who is "trusted" to speak about coronavirus, allowing them to capture audiences by promoting their content and opting to not display and essentially censor that of smaller, independent ("fake") voices.
JSYK It's a "join" button, separate from subscribing.
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j Kenji has been doing a great late night cooking series while he has been stuck at home.

https://www.youtube.com/user/kenjialt
The point is that instead of requiring end users to verify public keys, it's better UX to give them the ability if they want, but not require. I remember an email standard that sent public keys inside the emails, and the replies are encrypted with that public key.

Sure, MITM is possible, but it's easy to detect, at the same time the UX is easy to scale to billions of people.
> Does this imply some kind of built-in DRM or is it merely copyright and licensing? How would ownership and control be enforced?

I think this refers to the user being in control (as opposed to the developer) and having ownership of their computing environment.
Maybe in the northeast or west that's the case. I worked for a major grocery store chain for 7 years, and in a store of over 80 employees there were maybe 20 full timers, including management. When you're making 12 bucks an hour, going halfsies on a $600 a month medical plan with a $5000 deductible doesn't make any sense.
Complexity has to go somewhere.
Because systems are just piles of abstractions and conventions "easy to change" is very relative. A compromise will always be required. A simplification here means pushing complexity somewhere else.

What I think is a practical way to see it is to have a good match between your audience mental models and the system conventions.
Camgirls making less money might be the one true metric of how consumer behavior is changing
Docker starts work on improving file system performance on macOS
Please don't post unsubstantive comments and/or attacks to HN, regardless of how little someone knows or you feel they know. It only makes the thread even worse.

If you know more than others, share some of what you know so we can learn.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Alternatively, it's always an option not to post. Whatever you choose, please follow the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Totally expected. I was actually expecting that this pandemic would be a test to the current business model of the internet.

Business closed means no need to advertise, no ads means no need to turn on servers... But apparently it seems to be ok so far.
Haste 0.4.0: fast LSTM/GRU, layer normalized RNNs, and CPU support
After the pandemic,the office dress code must change
Over 1 million people died in road incidents worldwide

Every time you commute, you are playing Russian roulette
I kind of feel like if you somehow combined a succinct version of the origin story with the photo in the right format, it could become a popular poster or similar. That's a powerful story and it's a very special picture in a world with no shortage of good photos, so that's saying something. It that makes sense.

And I'm not really asking you to commercialize it per se. I'm more saying that the story adds something of value to an already breathtaking photo and it's the sort of thing people hunger for, especially now with a global crisis uppermost in the minds of most people.

I mean it could be a one page static website. It doesn't have to be a poster. But it seems like a worthy thing to package together and make more readily accessible to a world hungering for beauty and spirituality and sustainable practices so we don't go cutting our own throats, so the world continues to function so we can continue to live and breathe.
'write' is probably a better term for that
awesome story and epic photo, thanks!
I'm not sure that society can in fact adapt to such strict restrictions. People in Afghanistan didn't take the decade off from socializing, even though there was a significant risk of getting killed.
I think it is rather irresponsible to make up such a number.

With Chernobyl 1986 and Fukushima 2011, two ultimate MCA's happened in my past lifetime. Does your number include them? And, even if it is a small percentage: if it does happen, the costs involved are so much more than one would be ready to set aside (e.g., if you just measure the monetary effect, Fukushima costs $750 billion, and the US insurances would max. payout $13 billion)

I would be very happy if the world does experience the next 50 years without no more of these events. But I honestly consider that as quite unlikely. Especially from a mathematical perspective.
Or you can download the Electron app here

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron
Regard the process of fitting a statistical model as a function mapping input training data to output model parameters.

If the homomorphic encryption scheme allows for arbitrary functions to be computed, it could work for particular functions of statistical model fitting (perhaps appallingly slowly).

The output model will be encoded as cyphertext.

It would be possible to evaluate the fitted cyphertext model on new features to make predictions, also output as cyphertext.

> the library can evaluate a net-list of binary gates homomorphically at a rate of about 76 gates per second per core, without decrypting its input. It suffices to provide the sequence of gates, as well as ciphertexts of the input bits. And the library computes ciphertexts of the output bits.
Ask HN: How do you onboard new hires on codebase?
Looking for insights mostly on smaller companies (3-50)with internal software applications with a focus on onboarding new junior devs?

We have three applications, 2 web client and 1 backend. Initally, I am setting training now with a walk through our documentation at a high level but show them where to find more in-depth knowledge is located in docs, setup peprsonal environment, and do a simple task so that we can go through the whole process of developing, testing and deploying to production.
Thank you. When I initially launched on Reddit, lots of folks asked for an "adopt a grandparent" mode. I talked with some nursing homes last week and we're exploring the possibility now. I've always been hesitant to do this, primarily out of concern for abuse (e.g. elderly financial abuse) but a partnership with nursing homes plus background checks could be the answer.
US DOJ Issues Guidance to Protect Facilities from Unmanned Aircraft and UAS
Read the article. It's the author exactly telling what parts aren't deterministic for them yet. E.g. Bluetooth devices, Networkmanager configs added by hand, wireguard keys, ssh host IDs.
The power and effectiveness of digital targeting is often overblown for small businesses.

Many of my small business owner clients hear anecdotes where a business was able to use targeting to create a veritable "money machine". The problem is these scnerios are fleetingly rare, complete bullshit or only apply to a specific niche.

The anecdote often glazes over the thousands of wasted dollars spent trying to perfect the model and a hundred other details that factored into the success.

The good thing for most is that digital advertising is no less effective than traditional advertising. Even if there's little to no targeting, or no tracking in place it's not any worse than tv/radio/print.

I can count on one hand the number of clients in my 20 years of web work that have created a model where they dump money in the top, and are able to extract more out the bottom. In all cases it didn't last more than a couple years at most.

For any small business considering hiring an ad agency that claims to have mastered this model ask yourself this: Why aren't they doing it themselves?
A hydro power plant can't be used as a battery, it must be purposely built as a pumped storage plant. The cable in question allows Norway to sell hydro power to Germany (and if Germany has a surplus, they can sell electricity back). There's no storage solution in it, though.
Right! Edited. Thanks for posting the link for me. I didn't since I want to seem more like a person than an ad ;)
Seen a few of those, but then Masterclass superseded them. That and Wix, trying to get me to make a web page super easily...
Unfortunately I think plan9 only remains this way by keeping the people who use it small, being elitist and somewhat unwelcoming[0]. That's not to say I wouldn't also recommend spending a weekend messing around.

I was recently having a conversation about the unix philosophy on reddit[1]. As nix and software built for nix became more and more mainstream it becomes harder and harder to keep with the unix philosophy and the philosophy of this post.

[0]: http://fqa.9front.org/
[1]: https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw
Where would all these bears migrate from? Most bears aren't migratory creatures. Something would have to be driving them out of there homes elsewhere, if they are actually migrating.
Sure.

I just mention it because most people in the world have a job that make them less money than my friends web services.

And I'm assuming most startups, unless heavily founded, may have to think about this trade off as well.

The cost in infra can easily be a factor of ten.
Bezos owns the Washington Post.
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Data science?
We would have done it already, no? Perhaps only punitive measures work. Pollution and environmental damage cannot be quantified ...it is invisible and we assume that it is a function of time.

But it isn’t..it is because of consumption and population growth(which leads to more consumption)
The kind of situation you describe happens... sometimes. Most of the time when you run into this kind of behavior, though, it's not in a situation with real consequences. It's somewhere like HN. (Have I seen this here? Yes. Have I done it here? Let's just let that question pass, shall we?)

What do you do then? Call them on it, for the sake of the rest of the people in the discussion? Ignore it (don't feed the troll)? Call them on it once, then just walk away?

What do you do when you are the one doing it, and someone calls you on it? Do you double down, or do you realize that you were being a pedantic jerk, and stop? Maybe even apologize?

And how do you tell where the line is between "valid nuance" and "pedantic irrelevance"?

There's plenty of room for life skills here. They may not help you in every instance of this kind of behavior, but they can help in many of them.
I taught python to some 5th-6th graders. I forgot what it was like to be that age - they're really slow at typing, and roughly as fast as an adult at mousing.
Here is a calculator I built a while ago when I was freelancing. It won't be perfect but will give you a close idea of what an equivalent day rate should be for freelancer compared to a full time salary.

https://codegeek1001.github.io/salary2consultantcalc/
Trump’s New Auto Rollback Is an Economic Disaster
Common Crawl vs. Webhose