skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note how this problem of "sufficient complexity" is an asymmetric problem between code author and compiler. A rather simple transformation implemented by the author to make the code constant-time may require NP-hard effort for the compiler to undo.

(but then the compiler may still do other unrelated transformations that end up making the code non-constant time again)
A friend just moved to Switzerland, laid down a full fiber lan because that’s what they’re getting as broadband.

Salt offers 10Gb symmetrical for 50 CHF.
Stocks, Futures Fall Amid Virus Woes; Bonds Jump: Markets Wrap
Chrome does a lot of tracking. This seems obvious enough that I would reply by asking: do you have a source demonstrating that it does not track?

However there are many many many sources out there documenting Chrome's comprehensive tracking:

- Google's own ToS is probably too long to read, but it lists ways in which you consent to be tracked by the browser

- Google's proposals to the W3C for adding new ad-tracking tech to web standards go into detail on Chrome's own mechanisms for doing this tracking as a PoC example [0]

- Chrome isn't technically available on iOS; they are forced to use Safari's engine under the hood of iOS Chrome, which restricts in some ways the amount of tracking the browser can do. Despite this, the list of data tracked by iOS Chrome is listed on the AppStore download page and IT IS LONG.

Finally, you mention packet sniffing. In actual fact, direct packet sniffing has been made non-trivial by cert-pinning. This doesn't however prevent checking the frequency and destination of app phone-home requests, and yes, Chrome does it a lot. You can see this yourself if you use common user firewall tools such as LittleSnitch/LuLu/OpenSnitch/etc.

[0] https://github.com/WICG/floc#qualifying-users-for-whom-a-coh...
Peter Daszak was also signatory to this weird paper "in support of Chinese scientists".

> We sign this statement in solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China who continue to save lives and protect global health during the challenge of the COVID-19 outbreak. We are all in this together, with our Chinese counterparts in the forefront, against this new viral threat. The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins. We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. Scientists from multiple countries have published and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and they overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife, as have so many other emerging pathogens.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339367143_Statement...

Scary piece of propaganda, considering it was China who started rumours and misinformation, and tying the lab leak hypothesis to not supporting health professionals. All-in-all, a grave conflict of interest for a supposed objective investigation into the origins.
German internet infrastructure drives me crazy when I visit. I live in Sweden and broadband here is really good, both mobile and land-based ones, whenever I go to a major German city (München, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg) I suffer with 4G, I suffer with my friends' or offices' internet connection. It's not even the slowness that bothers me more, it's the spottiness: 4G signals dropping to 3G and depending on the area even to 2G (haven't seen this happen the last time I visited in 2019 but definitely saw it before).

Home broadband have issues that the operator can't solve quickly (once working from home at a friend's place we got the house apartment internet cut off for a couple of days), Telekom sucks, their customer support sucks, sending a technician can take a month or more sometimes.

It feels so damn backwards, even more for the largest economy in the EU, not investing in digitalisation (both infrastructure and public services) is gonna bite Germany's ass for the next decade. Can't believe most bureaucracy is still done through paper-based mail, or faxes.
> Physicists are a fun lot aren't they?

Atomic cross section is measured in barns. As in "you couldn't hit a barn door".
Yeah same here. Noticed it late last night UK time, multiple attempts at reinstalling webview made no difference. New update now fixed everything.

So the faulty version was up for a good few hours?
This would not affect my decicion to use SQLite, which is still my choice for quick database setups.
Not saying that they did it here, but the notion that atheism is synonymous with immorality would be absurd. It is usually quite the opposite, most orthodox religion leads to immorality due to the simple fact that it applies codes that might maybe have made sense centuries or millenia ago to modern day societies.
Biggest pet peeve of this place, editorializing.
His editor helped him by booking him into a motel and being there preventing him from procrastinating. He had to just sit in the front of keyboard or write.

No matter how talented or skillful, without the grit and willpower to get over the internal barriers nothing gets done.
> It is not a shortcoming of the product's design to not have parsed the CSS and intuited that Substack's designers wanted to cleverly make it not look like an input field.

How is it not a shortcoming? Any human looking at the page can immediately tell that this form field should not be autofilled.

Difficult problem to solve? Sure, doesn't make it any less of a shortcoming.
> Sorry to hurt your feelings, but it is not. The _compiler_ cannot know whether the code in a package might be used

I'm sorry to hurt your feelings, but compiler definitely can know whether some external module is used in the file it's compiling now.

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26553401
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They're different because of branding only.

Feature-wise they're 90% interchangeable.

Microsoft can slap a white theme on Discord and rename it to something stupid like "Agile Teams" and have a ready-made Slack alternative.
I do not mean to offend, but this is what schooling does to most humans - you commute to school, have clear distinction between home and school spaces, have clear distinction between school and neighborhood buddies (some overlap happens), various rituals...
Fontemon: A font-based (OTF) “clone” of Pokemon
I think the crime here is that this tortured sentence isn't even the headline but the byline, and The Grauniad seems to permit up to three lines of text, e.g.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/23/thomas-bernhar...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/22/kate-briggs-re...
It always should have been on the screen.
Is Discord better than Teams? I can't tell, I'm still waiting for it to finish swapping and processing my input. Okay, this might be a (slight) exaggeration, but I just don't think a chat app should run much slower than any IDE. What is that thing doing all the time?
The problem is not loss of booster, but loss of or damage to payload. In this regard, Falcon is comparable to other rockets.

Starship and the undeveloped Superheavy, not so much.
Much better. It's not perfect, but without mind-reading, I'm not sure what you would do to improve Slack's search. Teams, on the other hand... messages just seem to disappear entirely.
Star Guitar is from 2003 which was well in the era of "cheap computers are good enough now that we can manipulate each pixel" (after all, Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park were made in the early 90's, and music videos usually don't need "cinematic" image quality because they were broadcasted over TV).

If you look closely at the Star Guitar video, you can find "clipping artefacts" where the fragments are pieced together or fade in and out.
> The solution is in fixing your domestic politics

This logic is akin to forcibly beating someone with their own hand and asking "why do you beat yourself". When the best people leave then it's blindingly obvious they aren't available to fix domestic politics, isn't it?

And as eastern europe does not have colonial past, there isn't large pool of brains that know local language and can be drained from third world to replace people who left.

I think it's in interest of whole EU that best people stay in their countries. Instead of just sending money via cohesion funds, it should think about creating local opportunities for them.
More in depth, but plain English summary from the researchers here:

https://theconversation.com/amp/evidence-of-brand-new-physic...
I live in central Berlin, and it is is downright embarrassing, internet access in Germany is terrible. 10 years ago I had 1Gbps fiber in Sweden.

For reference I have 400/20 Cable, for 44Eur/m. No caps. Provider Pyur. Overall medium terrible experience.
> In the early days of Go this was a serious trap for programmers who didn’t read the instructions and relied in some way on maps being iterated in a certain order. To help spot these issues early on rather than in production, Go developers made map iterations random-ish

I didn’t know this about go specifically (as I generally expect maps to be unordered). But it is pretty funny because the Python folks did the opposite: they ensured order stability on the dict because people started relying on it.
Also an interesting thing - the WIV used to put all their virus sequences in a publically available database. Around autumn 2019 they took it down they said because people were trying to hack it. I think it's still confidential even to the WHO. I mean if they were worried about hackers they could just publish a copy of the data.
remember folks, irc is still, and always was free.
Do chat apps lock in users for long?

My online circle has been on Discord for a couple of years, but they've migrated from IRC to Campfire to Hangouts (or whatever it was at the time) to Slack to Discord with maybe a few stops in between. Maybe Discord is finally perfect and we'll never move again ... but moving a community from one chat venue to another has been pretty easy so far.
> Won't decreasing the price, increase the demand and thus increase the workforce required ?

This assumes there is a need for additional launches and that lowering the cost will increase the demand. While, in this case, I think it's obvious lowering launch costs will increase demand, but, if you could remove an appendix for half the price I don't think there would be a huge uptick in demand for surgeries.
I was probably thinking of file sizes not being encrypted. Thanks for correcting me.
Truly loved Financial Statements. It's exactly what I was looking for. Do you have any other book recommendations? Be it 'tutorial-like' approach or other
I don't see how the BBC's statement can translate into P(hypothesis|data). To me it's P(data|H0).

Consider this simpler example: "Scientists always assumed their coin was fair. Well, they flipped it 10 times, and it came up heads every time. This is a 3-sigmal result. There's a 1 in 1024 chance of this measurement being a statistical coincidence."

The reader would take this "1 in 1024 chance of coincidence" to mean "if the coin was fair, they'd have a 1 in 1024 chance of seeing this event occur". That's P(data|fair) = P(10 heads|fair) = 1/1024.

I don't see how you read that and translate it into P(fair|10 heads).
Yes, there are lucky and amber frameworks. Hopefully, one of them will make crystal more popular/mainstream.
I mean, seriously. How many such labs, specialized in research of Coronavirii, are there in China? It certainly looks like a weird coincidence that the first know hotspot is actually close to such a lab.

But of course there are many reports about the virus circulating long before the Wuhan cluster was exposed. Maybe the lab was responsible for that cluster but not the actual first outbreak?
The bigger question is how much higher is the chance of the anomaly in the reused booster. If it's comparable or identical to new one, there's literally no problem for SpaceX, big one for everyone else.
For the record here is my source on modeling for the current wave: https://twitter.com/houterkabouter/status/137329186541660979...

@houterkabouter's models have been excellent since the beginning so this is definitely where I'd place the most weight. The situation in Belgium is different from Germany because the day-to-day measures have been different since October.
Yes, the fact that the author knows it’s a syntax error yet still made that bizarre comment about gofmt not enforcing the style indicates that he doesn’t realize gofmt is not for fixing syntax errors (in fact, it refuses to format anything when there’s a syntax error and simply errors out, so my guess is the author only used gofmt as a formatting action in an editor like VS Code, and assumed no code change on shift+option+f means gofmt doesn’t enforce it). And that’s exactly what gp’s complaining about — demonstrated lack of understanding of gofmt.
(I am not the author of this work, but you can play his excellent work here -- https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html#player -- as well download the .otf file at https://github.com/mmulet/font-game-engine/releases/download... )
NLP analysis of text data with AWS comprehend, Python and pandas
Which is a problem in the 1Password autofill mechanism. Unless you believe that it should be filling forms which are hidden from humans?
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It’s very common for BBC headlines to change 3-5 times after being posted. I don’t know whether they are A-B testing or just twitchy, but it’s annoying for sharing new articles
I am sorry. I shall reference Singular in the future whenever I discuss SAGE. Thank you for your fantastic work on Singular :)
A better analogy is a landlord having a camera recording their tenant, that for whatever reason the tenant agrees to.

A better analogy for the cafe is the eaves dropper works for the cafe.
> How can something you wear so light on your sleeve cause you such angst that it "grinds your gears."

They revised their perspective in light of new information.

That seems preferable to not revising their perspective ('wearing it heavy on their sleeve'?).
> With that said, if Microsoft does purchase Discord, it might not be as bad as some foretell.

Regardless of the strength or weakness of the product MS' emphasis will to harvest and aggregate data, and then profit from that.
We need to think more critically about long Covid
I was also very hyped at first when I saw this...
But it seems like there are only 14 distinct videos available which are loaded from youtube: https://www.thismusicvideodoesnotexist.com/assets/urls.json
FTR, OP here. I didn’t change the title. Perhaps HN will comment. In my experience their reasoning is typically solid.

When I posted, I believe it was “LHC machine finds tantalising hints of new physics”. I remember that seemed oddly redundant, like an “ATM machine”. Current title for the article is showing as “Machine finds tantalising hints of new physics”, but a search is also coming up “LHC machine challenges leading theory of physics”.
YouTube: A Message from the Skype CEO (Parody)
1password payment form filling works fine so rarely for me, I usually copy just number by hand. I wonder if that's somehow specific to Russia (field names are still in english, but it doesn't seem to help much)
> Looks pretty useless to anyone who did the Go tour and read Effective Go at least.

Honestly? Not everyone wants (or should have) to do that in order to touch some Go code (or code in any other language). I for one am quite happy that "cheat sheets" like this one exist - it might sound paradoxical but I'm not interested in actually learning every single language I've had to tinker with, as I have plenty of other things I'd rather be doing.
The whole aspect of facial recognition upon satellites will sure open up some messy legal cases in the future I feel.
While that title does downplay the whole thing a fair bit, I think that even that is wildly unacceptable.

The day my boss starts harassing me about how often I yawn is the day I leave for greener pastures. I've got better things to do than to worry about suppressing reflexes.
There was a discussion earlier about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550429

Besides it says that it is more likely that Discord will go public instead of selling. No deal is imminent.
Even new buildings in central Berlin are being built without Fiber, which is pretty hard comprehend.
There are known mechanisms to prevent leaks/exploits of this sort by sending some additional headers[0], on most of the modern browsers. Apart from that, the cookies should be strict for such a service. I logged in to my friends account to find neither implemented.

They better act quick about "ensuring it doesn't happen" or I will distrust them completely.

[0]: Content-Security-Policy (setting at least connect-src) and X-XSS-Protection to start with. More here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
The kernels themselves should be applied in linear space, and their properties are independent of the signals to which they are (assumed linearly) applied. If the practical examples I applied them to should have had gamma compression removed before being transformed, then that's an oversight in the code that could be easily corrected. The general results won't be affected.
Published in 2019.

Requires subscription, preprint is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03697
I got my job during the pandemic; it's my first actual tech-related job. So I've never seen my coworkers in person. But I can get my work done for the day within 3 to 4 hours, and my manager is happy with how much work I'm doing, and the pace at which it happens. That means that for the rest of the day around those 4 hours, I can do whatever I want.

I can't do that in the office. If I were to go into the office, I'd need to either (a) spend longer over the same tasks to stretch them to fill out the day because I'm constantly being observed, or (b) finish my work at the same rate and ask for more work. Both of those options are obviously not ideal from my perspective as someone who wants to expend the minimal amount of time to get work done.

Why would I want to wake up earlier, commute, set up at work, not eat what I want (or what I can at home) - just to sit at a computer, something I could do at home. At least at home I can 'finish early' (save for meetings). Going physically into the office is not in any way to my benefit. It's a lose/lose/lose/lose/... situation for me. I'm seriously considering getting another job that's almost entirely remote-only.
The Big T in Germany has strong ties in the government, both regional and central. They don't have to innovate when they can just block others via lobbying.

Ex Telekom worker here.
Keeping stuff in space has a maintenance cost - both station keeping which can be relatively cheap, and maintenance for any space trash collisions.

Most importantly, there is no commercial space station to move people and current starship test articles are not fitted for passenger transport nor low earth orbit rendezvous.

It's a long road from even a properly working Starship towards this goal.
I find it odd that there's no mention at all of the University of North Carolina in any of these articles and threads concerning the handling of deadly pathogens.

Before the BLS4 facility in Wuhan was established in 2017, there was a lot of SARS / Coronavirus research going on at UNC (alongside people from Wuhan's Institute of Virology).

This included 'gain of function' research which attempts to create the means to 'deliver' pathogens via aerosol.

I'm not saying UNC had anything to do with Wuhan itself, but I do notice many articles avoid mentioning that very similar work goes on in other parts of the World.

(I was also amazed that the distance from the Wuhan lab to the fish market is startlingly close).
Knowing that Adams struggled with procrastination has helped my own battles with it:

> I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” ~ Douglas Adams
I think it is a clickbait - you see new title on their main page and click only to realize that you've read that before.
I thought about something similar to Shamir's Secret Sharing, polynomial fitting over a finite field, but in this case, information theory is working against you.

With Shamir's Secret Sharing, you start out with your secret expressed as a finite field element, and pick N-1 polynomial coefficients uniformly randomly from your finite field, and give M different participants values of the polynomial evaluated at different points. Information theory shows that having at most N-1 points on the polynomial still leaks no information about F(0). It's as secure as a one-time pad, and in the degenerate case of N=2 over a Galois field, is in fact a XOR-based one-time-pad. The amount of entropy added at generation time is greater than the amount of entropy in the secret.

In this partial password case, you'd want the "shared secret" to be a single value, and construct a polynomial such that, say 4 field elements, would always be sufficient to recover the same "secret". You're running the algorithm the wrong way, and unless you're forcing a password on the person, those letters are actually low-entropy instead of maximal entropy field points as in Shamir Secret Sharing.

I really don't see a way to use polynomial interpolation in this way without leaking entropy. I thought about using something similar to Schnorr threshold signatures[0] to solve the information leakage, but then you end up storing one elliptic curve public key per password letter, and the private key for each public key is a single letter, so trivial to bruit-force.

[0] https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/852.pdf
Ha! Satellite are so 1950's
Sure, but you're right that what you're describing is because of the pandemic and only partially has to do with WFH.

I've WFH for a long time and I've missed the gym, mid-morning Jiu-Jitsu, and going to the local coffee shop to mix up the day. I think we should change the terminology from WFH to something like Freedom of Work. I think what people really like is the freedom to work how they want. Classic WFH is the closest to that today, but the 'home' part carries a specific meaning that isn't really true for many who WFH.

And again, I've found pandemic WFH to not really be represent of WFH pre-pandemic.
Not sure I entirely understand your question but I'll try to explain a bit anyway:
they're using a dataset of 9fb^-1. That means it includes 9 events for a crosssection of 1fb (femtobarn). Now the paper doesn't seem to include what crosssection their events have but if we assume something of the order of magnitude of 1pb then the dataset would contain around 9000 events of interest.

Now all that doesn't really matter as this is already factored into the standard deviation of their result. They have enough data to say it's a 3 sigma (being the standard deviation) deviation from the standard model. Now this "1 in 1000" really just means that the null hypothesis (the Standard Model) says there's a 0.1% chance for that result to happen. Of course it could also be that they forgot to factor in some uncertainty of their measurements and their sigma is actually much bigger. But it surely won't be the size of their dataset as this is quite obvious and easy to take into account.
Occam might say there's a bat coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, now where's the nearest source of bat coronaviruses?

I'm not sure that's terribly extraordinary and exotic.
I get 8-10ms latencies on most of the online games I play. FttH (well, FttB in my case) is pretty damn good.
200/5 runs $80/month here (upstate NY, USA), and I’m in a “good” broadband spot for my area.