skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh sweet memories. I was born in 1967, so I'm older than the author, but the memories are somehow the same. I started with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum clone, called HC85, and with Basic as first language. I discovered the Mosaic browser in 1994 at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and understood that the future of research, publication, collaboration will be very different than the past. I'm a mathematician. I installed my first Linux in 1995. All in all in my life I bought exactly 0 bits of proprietary programs.

I had for a very short time a FB account, which I deleted. I deleted my Twitter account about two years ago. I was hooked by Google+ and I had a popular collection about artificial life (now is public again). But I deleted my g+account before they closed it.

All my family has smartphones, but I can't stand the limitations. When the smartphones will be liberated I'll have one.

My overall impression is that, some details excepted, now that everybody has a computer in the pocket, people pass through the same learning process as we nerds did some years ago. Today is harder, because less freedom. On the other side, the new thing is that today everybody is online.
They were being fired for not knowing it so your contribution to society is legit.
Which can both suspend payments and tie up your money for {{ whatever_reason }} leaving the whole project dead.

I think BAT was a good call. One of the few real use cases so far for a cryptocurrency.
Couldn't he just show the police his exact bike route for that day? It would show him passing the house only momentarily. That's probably more than enough for them to eliminate his as a suspect, especially considering they have access to Google's metadata for cross-reference.
In addition to teaching, it's been used as the core of a couple proprietary OSes for small envs. I think at least one TEE monitor is a heavily modified xv6.
> I quite look up to the U.S. as to a champion of democratic culture

It really isn't. Look towards Scandinavian countries for that.
For sure, many sanctions are not international, they are unilateral (and illegal according to international trade laws) US sanctions.
Ask HN: Best Books for Novice Hackers?
Hey all

Been programming on and off for around a year. It’s getting somewhat enjoyable but find much of the literature I’ve came across is aimed towards beginners or towards professionals. Thus I kind of get stuck repeating concepts, doing tutorials or venturing into career knowledge for developers - which I don’t want to be.

Does anyone any cool book suggestions around ‘hacking’, E.g throwing together and building projects recreationally?
> nothing ever good comes from adds

That's a weird and provably false belief. I have found many goods and services that have vastly improved my life via ads.

I have a beautiful very large framed print of a schematic of the ship from The Life Aquatic in my office I admire several times a day I bought from a Facebook ad.

It is something I likely never would have searched for myself but something that has vastly improved my general mood. Any time I'm frustrated, I glance up at the details of the ship. It helps me find center.

My life is improved, through advertising.
Europe’s old money mingles with tech startups
> Bonds are a commited fixed return, which means the value of bond goes up if the going rate for new bonds goes down.

> Thus bonds can be much more profitable than stocks when the marketing is going down. The central bank will drop rates, and thus any holder of existing bonds gets to sell their old bonds for more, maybe much more.

> Of course this is not the big driver for bond demand. Rather bonds are demanded by money managers who are not allowed to take any risk. Think banks, and especially central banks.

> Said money managers want to never-ever lose so much as a dollar of principle. They are not paid to maximize total return, but rather to manage this pile of money in such a way to never let it shrink.

> You'll see this set of incentives all over the world if you know where to look: money which is not expected to be invested.

> Think of mega-corp's payroll. Every month they need to pay X large number of dollars by the end of the month. Missing payroll by 1% would be such an incredible disaster it would lead to lawsuits. So big-corp does the sensible thing, and keeps the money in a money-market fund. Said money-market fund in-turn holds various short-term bonds (1 year or less).

> Who borrows money for only 1 year or less? People who have a little bit of their own money with which to take risk and want to turn around and borrow longer term.

> Bit by bit money which needs to be 100% safe, gets lent its way up the value chain until you reach end users.

> My favorite example of this is how the large Japanese REITs finance themselves. These REITs will have a relationship with a single major bank. One might expect that since they have a special relationship said bank will provide all financing: but they do not. Instead the REIT borrows floating-rate loans from 10+ banks, including their special bank. Then the REIT turns around and offers these loans to the special relationship bank. Said special bank takes the 10+ float rate loans and provides the REIT a single (let same size) 30year fixed rate loan.

> In this way everyone gets what they want. The REIT gets to tell investors their loans are not due for refinance until 2050. All the banks get to lend out money at 0.5% interest, and the special bank gets to take the other bank's money and earn an extra 0.5% interest on top of it all in exchange for taking the interest rate risk.

> So if you are wondering why bonds are weird: it is because you are not the customer.

I believe your talking about a participation loan. These are very common in the US as well because some financials are capped at how much they can lend so they participate with other financials who maybe can't hedge the whole risk but may want a piece of it. The lead institution benefits because they don't need to lend a sizeable chunk of their cap and they get to build that relationship.
Msnbc Math: $500M / 327M Americans = $1M Per American
I'd rather have bonds with a small yield than the S&P (which fluctuated 3% almost every day this week) with a higher yield.
All true. Even without the concern of competing against big money, there's always the simple fact that you can just lose a bet.

Through a personal connection, I'm aware of a failed SAP implementation that cost a company their position on the DOW. You'd never consider that was a possibility as a teenager because SAP doesn't even exist in your universe yet.
Or make that "reviewable back-end with an option to host it with a trusted party". I also don't mind paying for a review if that improves the quality of the review (for when it is appropriate of course)
> So they jacked up the prices from high (few people can buy) to infinity (nobody can buy).

If nobody can buy, the sellers don't sell any (and lose potential profits), so they'll be forced to sell for more reasonable prices. See - no heavy-handed intervention needed, and market prices naturally stabilize to a fair price accounting for what is available and how much of everything else a person is willing to sacrifice in return for the product of interest.
Which is why you don't do it as the mask maker.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Are there any recommendations how one can limit the amount of information Google is collecting on them, preferably without completely giving up on Android and Google services (such as maps)? I'm already considered a hermit by friends for not having a Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn account, but to me it constantly feels like I haven't gone far enough. This shit is downright dystopian, and I'm outraged by the general lack of outrage.
I would imagine they will offer a similar protection to a surgical mask, which also cannot "filter" outgoing air as there is no seal; it's just a line-of sight protection, perhaps helped somewhat by absorbing moisture droplets. A piece of tissue paper inside the valve would probably have the same or better effect, if you could persuade people to do that purely for the benefit of others.
Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
Someone being rude about being told they are wrong, being told to stop being rude and then launching into a big tirade about fascism is pretty good advertisement for why CoCs are worth some consideration.
A shoplifting suspect who barricaded himself inside someone else's home during the pursuit and fired gunshots at the police.
The first and only digital FDA approved birth control method
I would also add: Immediate judgement by people online who read headlines and make up their minds. The media will never report on dropped charges as much as they do an arrest. Stigma will live on via Google search forever, because you know "Free speech" and all.
Has anyone tried running a bunch of Brave instances in containers or VMs to farm the ads? I wonder if you could automate the entire process. How can they tell if you're a human?
>In continental Europe, the "loser pays" principle seems to hold quite well

It apparently holds in every western democracy except for the United States of America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_(attorney%27s_fee...
Or Finland.
Pneumonia is the inflammation of the lung. You will find covid patients more reliably through lung CT than nucleotide tests of swabs.

People are confused about what "mild" means:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/health/coronavirus-china-...

What were mild, severe and critical? We think of “mild” as like a minor cold.

No. “Mild” was a positive test, fever, cough — maybe even pneumonia, but not needing oxygen. “Severe” was breathing rate up and oxygen saturation down, so needing oxygen or a ventilator. “Critical” was respiratory failure or multi-organ failure.

So saying 80 percent of all cases are mild doesn’t mean what we thought.

I’m Canadian. This is the Wayne Gretzky of viruses — people didn’t think it was big enough or fast enough to have the impact it does.
How much did the bond cost?
As Airbnb Ponders Timing of Listing, Stock Grants Impose Deadline
The slop is called backlash. On cnc machines they go to some effort to reduce it through fancy gear and lead screw design. You could just go old school and take it out by how you operate the machine. If you only ever measure while traveling in one direction, then the slop will be taken out and won't matter.
Because you downgrade identity that way. With phone numbers you know it has to be connected to physical device and most of the times a person.

With generic usernames you have nothing. This practically means you have to do some sort identity verification in meatspace beforehand.
This tells me there is not only something terribly wrong with the police, but with lawmaking in general.
I just saw a job description with a Software Engineer title and had this as the description:

"looking for an amazing Engineer who will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration and support of the software product; including specifying, provisioning and operating our cloud infrastructure"

It's a good company but I probably won't apply because I've no idea if I would be coding or provisioning cloud infrastructure.
America should stay at work, despite coronavirus, Larry Kudlow says
I backed the truck up in 2018 for Fidelity Treasury Bond Index Fund. Most of of my 401K is in it. It's up 31% in the last year. With almost no management fee. That's all.
Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Preliminary Investigative Findings [pdf]
So it would seem that the real problem is wealth inequality (again!) rather than "price gouging" as such. If everyone had the same purchasing power, there would be no ethical problem whatsoever with rising prices in the face of increased demand and limited supply - your willingness to pay would accurately reflect how much you needed the product.

Essentially creating a command economy for a particular good is missing the larger picture.
They didn't make their own money. It was raised in a token sale. Kinda like a stock IPO. How HARD is this to understand on this "tech" site?
Scandinavian here. Keep looking.
> In the case of price gouging, it disproportionately affects the poor.

I'm all for more solidarity, but this statement, at face value, is pure oppressive communism. Being wealthy should give you certain privileges, otherwise there's no point in even trying to be better / smarter / more skilled / more productive!

Obviously we can argue whether or not any specific intervention should, or should not, affect people differently based on wealth (e.g. I imagine many people would be quite angry if there were traffic lanes for wealthy people, though they seem to be OK with it at airports), but your comment isn't arguing why this specific instance should be equally distributed (health & wellbeing generally isn't, even in EU "socialized medicine" countries - and that's a good thing too, because then the rich can afford to fund new research, drugs & medical procedures).
Please reach out to your local health ministry or the equivalent. Maybe the WHO?
What surprises me is that somewhere there is a police department that can afford the time to investigate a $2,000 loss.
That's not the point. What if he stopped to have a drink of water like 10 minutes from there?

Innocent people who happened to be in the vicinity should not have to explain their every moment on some day months in the past because the police don't want to spend time doing more detailed investigations and interviewing potential eyewitnesses.
If society thinks blowing up a house is worth catching the perp then they at least oughta pay for the damn house.
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> I honestly don’t understand the particular level of fear around COVID-19 when compared to other flu outbreaks.

I don’t think it has anything to do with the mortality of this particular one. The problem here is that about 10% of the patients require ICU and potentially mechanical ventilation. This, togerther with the short in supply of desinfection and sanitizsrs, poses the risk that other ilnesses can’t be treated. People don’t die because of covid-19 infection. People die because of complications because the immune system is destabilised and usually curable deaseses become mortal because: there are no drugs, no protection, no staff, too many people require treatment at once.
The video does a better job of showing what they did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mG7tiv_Dto
In the Google Knowledge Graph to enhance google's search results with relevant information from multiple sources like wikipedia etc.

Google's Knowledg Graph seems to have given knowledge graphs their name in the first place.
Common Solar Products for Your Home
Most anything over 12500 lbs (about 5500 kg) max takeoff weight or powered by jet engines requires the pilots to have a rating specific to the type. This means anything used in commercial service larger than a medium-sized (~8+1 seat) King Air.

A pilot type rated in an A320 isn't necessarily going to have a current type rating in a Dash-8 or ERJ/CRJ. (This is both a regulatory and an actual safety hurdle.)

(And of course, many of the trans-Atlantic routes can't be covered by significantly smaller equipment, though I'd expect that those routes are not flying literally empty anyway.)
Surely this is a good thing about the future? Everyone is tracked and when a serious crime happens we can find out who was there. I agree it feels weird now and will need some controls worked out but seems inevitable and not that scary.
Bond rates are supposed to track the inflation rate so it's nice to see it functioning as intended
A major idea behind the software is that you can automatically tip websites or creators that you frequently consume.

These amounts are pretty small.

If PayPal or credit card were used (without prefunding things) you'd have most of that money eaten up by transaction costs.

As others have mentioned, this does seem to be a "real" use for crypto currency to achieve microtransactions.
But the droplets the virus uses to spread are bigger than 5-10 micrometers. You don’t need a N95 mask to stop that.
He knows that millions and millions of other people are old too doesn't he? And he thinks he's different because he doesn't consume the same pop-culture stuff that he thinks MOST people do.

Only 17.4 Million people watched Game of Thrones.
There are 209 Million adults in the United States.

That means 8% of adults watched this program in the United States.

How is that "most" by any standard anywhere?

EDIT: Correction, he doesn't even say "most" he says "everyone".
You don't have to be profitable to have product-market fit.

Ironically, if you do things well, and you have product-market fit then you won't be profitable! Why? Because you'll want to take on financing.

Suppose you discover a cure for a major disease and don't want to sell to a major drug co. Well, you'll probably have to take on significant financing. You'll be 'losing money' possibly for quite some time. Which is fine as long as it's backed by growth and the right underlying metrics.

Also, Twitter is profitable.
Greek police fire tear gas as migrants seek to enter from Turkey
The Misery of Bad Software
There's no people who follow the normal day rhythms if they can avoid it. Working has always been best at night; no circus no problem my HNihgers. You're just an indoctrinated soul. God bless you for having wasted your life methodically. Life protip never follow sheep ass rules but that's too late for your part I assume you're over fourteen ride on. Fucking moron.
“Big“ airlines buying up slots and not using them is a non-problem. Most airlines go bust over thirty years because the entire industry is so awful to be in. Flying busses don’t have that much better profit margin than the kind on the roads and the customers shop almost solely on price. That’s why Delta, Pan Am etc. are in and out of Chapter 11 or actual bankruptcy. You think companies in those kinds of financial straits won’t sell assets they’re not using, like slots?
Well, at least you beat inflation
One way to look at is, when did we last see prices like this?

If this is a good opportunity then it's only slightly better than October of last year when the prices were about the same. (Slightly better because in theory, you could have done something else with the money in the meantime.) It's not better than any time before that, when prices were lower.

Stocks are on sale, but it's hard to beat time in the market, which is still better for most timespans.
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Unpatchable Flaw Affects All Intel CPUs Released in Last 5 Years
Yes, starting with (from another article)

>The incident started when an Aurora police officer attempted to lead Seacat into an office at a Walmart, where he was suspected of shoplifting. But Seacat ran to a Lexus in the parking lot, jumped in and fled.

So they caused $670,000 of damage to protect Walmart from shoplifting. Not great ROI for the community.

All of that is beside the point, anyway. The point is that the government should be paying for that house.
Ok but even if you agree that the police did what they had to do in order to apprehend a suspect, shouldn't the department or local government be repairing damage they did to someone's house?
How inconvenient is it to turn off all location sharing at the OS level on a mobile device? I have just started testing moments ago and am not sure what I’m up for.
With ZFS you add VDEVs not drives. Pools are collections of VDEVs.

Buy 8 drives, have a RAIDZ2. Fill. Buy 8 more, add as another RAIDZ2 VDEV. Capacity is the sum of both, it's one pool.
Timeline of Active Directory changes with replication metadata
Rates and prices reflect confidence in the future - essentially faith in the system.
No, this isn't a crash, the main US indices are just back to where they were 6 months ago. That isn't a great buying opportunity, they weren't cheap 6 months ago either.
The opportunity is a generalized approach to solving these diseases which i think we are getting to finally. Thats the true promise of digital technology.

Thats how incentives gets aligned.
I know some men have this attitude but I still find it astounding.

Are you really so unable to determine appropriate behaviours that you think women are making extreme overreactions to normal “banter”? Or that the risk of a false/inflated accusation is so high that you think freezing out all women is a reasonable and rational approach?

Women finally begin talking publicly about the endemic sexism they face, which many men just don’t see, and your conclusion from that is that women can’t be trusted.

I mean, sure, some woman might maliciously make some accusation against you. That’s certainly possible. It’s also possible that a man makes a false bullying accusation. Or accuses you of sexual advances. There are malicious people everywhere and gender doesn’t really come into it.
How will country-based mitigation influence course of Covid-19 epidemic? [pdf]
I would consider dropping the bonds unless you are going with junk bonds. The yield on high-grade bonds is trash and not worth it. In fact, the only reason anyone buys that shit is: a) they are legally required to b) they don’t care about making money, just not losing it. Instead, I would consider adding metals (or just gold) as your 20% uncorrelated asset.

The way my portfolio currently looks as of today (it changes a lot) is 50% gold and 50% 3x levered S&P 500 etf. This effectively gives me 1.5x market exposure plus an uncorrelated asset that both boosts my returns and cuts my volatility. When I feel like this whole coronavirus thing is over I’ll probably increase the 3x market exposure.
Thousands of Netgear routers are at risk of getting hacked
Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning: A Survey and Interpretation (2017)
Because they're produced by biological processes (grow cells that produce the protein and purify it), you don't really have atom level control and replicability of the end product - there's a lot of variability. So, the exact process that it's produced with is regulated and tracked, and there will be IP over that process as well. You can see the impacts of that in how much harder biosimilars are to develop than generics
Somewhat related:

My father was a Navy pilot during the Cold War. He told me fuel budgets were based on the last period’s consumption. If their actual use was below what was considered their predicted amount, they would put planes on a schedule where they would take off fully loaded, fly to 30k (or whatever made sense) and dump all of their fuel into the atmosphere.

They would then land, empty, and repeat the process.

That was a shitload of avgas dropped into the atmosphere but hey, military bureaucracy...
Is this what you do?