skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your behaviour puts peoples lives at risk. Nothing ethical about it.
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The flu literally kills people which is part of why everyone is strongly encouraged to get a yearly flu shot: To create herd immunity and protect people who might die if they catch it.
If you like the idea of this library you'll probably like the book
"How to Measure Anything" by Douglas Hubbard
(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20933591-how-to-measure-...). It's all about how to get sensible confidence intervals for things that are often considered unmeasurable such as the value of IT security. The book mostly uses Excel to do this modelling, but it looks like riskquant would be an excellent alternative on that approach, that for the more technically minded practitioner.
This is impossible to contain. The purpose of the lockdown isn't to contain, it's just to spread out the infections over a larger period of time so that hospitals don't get overwhelmed. But there's likely not a plausible scenario at this point where we globally jump on this and only a few million or even tens of millions are infected. All we can do is slow it down.
I don't disagree. If you are in it for the long term, there's really nothing to worry about. The market eventually will bounce back. It always does.
You seem to forget that [ insert deeply ideological sloganeering / extremely arguable value judgment ].
Thanks for this. My jaw has dropped at such a ridiculous notion. This is straight up stealing. Kind of a low key asset forfeiture.
I'm not sure you can luck into or out of being a capable programmer.

Initial advantages sure, but you still have to be capable.
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They do not, nor do the security teams of the tech industry or the financial industry (the second-best security staffed industry vertical) or really any other industry, because DNSSEC is silly and doesn't do anything important.

I will concede that if you centralize all your stuff on Cloudflare, it's very easy to set up. That's why Cloudflare makes it so easy to set up. Cloudflare is one of a single-digit small number of exceptions to the rule that big tech companies don't use DNSSEC; they do, of course, because it's part of the product they sell.
I think that would be a wonderful idea. Show the flag (along with the lock icon) of the country of the CA. That would at least give a bit more transparency to the user of the certificate other than checking the details manually.
Plus Zenni has more "normal" styles of glasses that you don't need a beard and 6-inch-tall haircut to pull off.
For some reason I now like to think about what it would be like to be in Amazon's yolk...
Or go to IKEA and get a Sultan mattress for $250 any day or $110 when on sale. Oh and they ship, too.
whats the use case for something like this?
> If you need to retire in the next five years, you should already have started moving out of equities.

Exactly. People are selling off and further worsen the crash.
I don't have any warrants, so I'd rather just ID myself if asked than memorize a bunch of odd jurisdictions, figure out which one applies here, and whether the cop could find a way to just arrest me anyway for refusing to answer, whether or not it was against the law.
> "Meanwhile, I have a stack of 20 N95 respirators I bought for woodworking a year ago that I've been offering to friends and family. I've had no takers yet."

In absence of a sterilization method, they are going to last for only 20 days at most — since you can only use them once, for 8 hours max. I'd sell them for a premium actually to people thinking those 20 masks will save them.

Prevention methods need to be economically sustainable and practical. N95 masks are not only expensive and with an unreliable supply, but they are also pretty uncomfortable and most people don't wear them or dispose of them correctly.
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The backslash as path dates back at least as far as CP/M which didn't have directories and used a forward-slash instead of a minus for command flags. Then when directories were added, a forward-slash was obviously unavailable.

[edit] Apparently CP/M took it from VMS, which used period as a path separator.
You tried the same rhetorical sleight of hand in a different thread a week ago; what you're doing is claiming that any use of asymmetric cryptography is by definition a form of PKI, when what we're talking about --- top-down tree-structured global PKI --- is clearly different from what they're doing.

Your point about S/MIME and CMS kind of makes my overall point for me. Sure. A global PKI is super useful for making things like CMS happen.
It's amazing to think that Java started out as a language for small embedded devices. I guess it's coming full circle :)

Cool project, even if there are a lot of features missing atm. It's always nice to see alternatives to raw VHDL or Verilog for FPGA programming.
If the authors are reading, I think you mistakenly marked this as a paywalled article. I can't believe this was done deliberately from someone on the Netflix side.
>Programmers are equally productive[0] (or way more because of their big ecosystems) in languages that have a fast code-run cycle.

I would disagree with this. I feel much more productive in Lisp than, e.g. go or C or C++. In Smalltalk, the productivity was so great that I was dead tired after 8 hours, as it was all thinking and effectively zero compiling.
Savings

Financial prudence

A good stock of bare essentials

Ensure my car and house is well maintained (no costly surprises)

Make sure I am demonstrating and showing value in my place of work.
I know they have scales in the produce section, but I don't think I've ever actually used one. It's something I'll do occasionally if I'm buying from a bulk bin, but fruit or vegetables I just grab however many I think I"m going to need.
You'll do that the first 5 times, then start to feel OK with it, and not do it any more. I felt the same about ordering fruit & veg for home delivery. Nowadays I don't even think about it any more, except when people who don't get groceries delivered say they don't trust they won't get the wilted ones.
As a senior developer (40 years experience) I agree. Companies will very often get more value in the long run hiring talented and ambitious junior developers and training them in house. You grow people in the culture and with daily exposure to the business domain. Teams have more cohesion when they "grow up" together.

Back when I started this was normal. In the olden days of proprietary hardware and software we all started as juniors in a new job. Companies had to develop their team and skills in-house.

Now I see people who would likely succeed given the chance excluded by ridiculous interviews and delusions of hiring only the top 5%.
It's aggressively passive voice. You do that when you're trying to avoid responsibility. Or in other words: Responsibility was avoided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_voice

It also uses Trump's favorite template: It isn't, but if it is, it doesn't matter. That means it is, and it matters.
The other side of it is that none of these companies would have been remotely competitive in the first place had it not been for venture capital. All these industries (mattresses, taxis, fashion/eyeglasses) are monopolistic and anti-competitive in nature, and the current players have been entrenched for decades, some even longer. The only way to make inroads is by burning cash.

The growth might not always be sustainable, the business model might not always make sense, and that's fine. VCs are looking for 1 in 10 of them to be successful.
This isn't new. Video from 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkMwfp8_dcs
I still don't understand. You're repeating the assertion that if she took the money that means she didn't care, but she went out of her way to talk to the press. She spoke to the press anonymously which means she would not be able to benefit from the press coverage in any way - 100% downside for her.

You can argue specifically that she shouldn't have taken the money (I'll agree to disagree on that one) but the basic assertion here makes no sense. The desire for anonymity makes it clear that the violation of the agreement was not some sort of self-serving attempt to have it both ways.
As someone from neither the US nor China, I'd prefer CAs from both (and more) coming to a consensus. "All but X declared this site fine" sounds a lot more convincing to me. Sure, down the line the owner of the site will still be a single breaking point for that site. But I really don't like having to trust additional individual organizations.
+1, think you have it just right.

Apple is looking for new product lines. The Apple Watch is amazing both in design and manufacture, and also in how very useful it is.

I tend to use my iPad Pro for just about everything but writing code and it can plug into my large USB-C interfaced monitor. Get XCode on it and a data plan with phone service, and it could be a single device to do everything if it is very small and lightweight and can run everything.

Apple has a lot of talent and a ton of money, and I expect them to surprise us, in a good way.
Back in 2010 I worked on a user-library and preprocessor that did the same thing [1]. Had exactly the same restrictions. Classes are supported if they act as dumb structs.

Recursion is now supported in CUDA via dynamic parallelism (or faking the stack) but it is not performant at all.

The ideal language for GPU programming is closer to Julia or a MATLAB-like language where arrays and matrices are first-class.

[1] https://github.com/AEminium/AeminiumGPU
It's color, but also size, and in the case of Van Gogh, depth. You can't see the thickness of the paint in a picture.
All it ever needed was two additional levels of abstraction 20 years later to ever fulfill that promise, so obvious and purpose built!
The biggest myth about WD-40 is that it is a lubricant, which is not what it is for. You are much better off lubricating with teflon or silicone based products, 3-in-1 oil, or straight mineral oil. I use WD-40 mostly on my boat for corrosion protection of moving parts.
GKE is much better than other options.

You can get some real cheap VMs if you get IBM sales involved. They'll work with your CapEx needs via their cloud, essentially you buy instead of rent.

The article is on point, there's a reason why they aren't making the cloud leaders list.
and if you don't have a credit card, well you can simply go fuck yourself peasant.
damn, that's some "obvious" moves right there
I got a warning when I logged into Interactive Investor (UK) this morning and its still there now.

"Please be aware that due to exceptional market volatility, there may be situations in which it is difficult to obtain a price for your trade."

Will be interesting to see what effect the Budget statement on Wednesday
Well, how much will they pay you for it?

Seriously. If they pay something good for it, then that gives a decent incentive for forward-thinking people to do some stockpiling for situations like this. If they don't, and if they go as far as trying to punish "price gouging", then there is no such incentive beyond stockpiling for personal use or for sale on the black market.
Couldn’t agree more!

> I really don't want your app spawning off god knows how many processes doing god knows what with unfettered access to my filesystem and network.

Look no further than apps like Zoom if you think this isn’t rampant. There are lots more examples of course!
Well today I had to manually download all pictures from my listings to sync them with Booking.com and other providers like zonaprop.com And it's pretty tedious to right click to download 32 images (for a single listing) and then find a way to convert webp to jpg.
I know a Lambda student that’s now on what they call labs. Not sure how to explain it but students are in teams & meetings with project managers, designers, other teams, etc. It kind of resemble working in a big organization. They are actually working in a real project with a real investor. I’m no expert, but think that the exposure to real interactions in an environment like that could help in the job search.
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This makes no mention of the severity of the vulnerabilities. More vulnerabilities does not mean less secure.

These are also the detected vulnerabilities, but what of the actual number of vulnerabilities? You could argue Linux has more vulnerabilities simply because there is more people looking for them.
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I wish there were detailed scenarios of how they were using it.
They don't have to do that.
Bigger companies do that to avoid lawsuits, and to ensure that they are fair, but small companies can and do take HR risks. It is perfectly legal to fire a pregnant employee for any reason except that she is pregnant.
What behavior is that? Writing a tool that people can use to download information published on websites? Does the creator of `wget` or `curl` put people's lives at risk too? Chrome?

I think perhaps you may have misattributed the responsibility for the side effects of publishing data globally.
I forked your colab. There was abit of code it couldn't run. `Gxxx_matrix.csv` not found.
I’ve been interviewing and encountered my first company using that and was my first exposure to it.

Very fascinating project!
I don't think I have heard "Curiosity withers under repetition" before. Is that something observed on HN over time or is it something that has been studied?

Either way I can see it working successfully on HN in comparison to other sites I visit that are just the same thing over and over.
After my last startup failed 5 years ago, I planned to buy my first house somewhere in 2021, hoping that by then some crisis would happen to lower house prices and to give me some time to pile up a bit less than 400k$. I don't want to spend more than that on a house even if I had more money, I don't like mortgages and I had no idea in which country I wanted to live, so renting was a convenient option.
I had to decide whether to put it in indexes or to save cash in tax free saving accounts.
I went with the saving accounts so I'm sitting on cash.

I often half regretted not going with indexes but having 5 years of time before settling down wasn't enough time to risk it.

If I lose my job I'll start eating into my savings and get a smaller house / delay the stable house plan.
The good side of being laid off, would be spending more time with my sons.
There is cause for optimism in the numbers out of South Korea and China. Even assuming China has lied about their numbers (population ratios with Italy and South Korea vs China make that plainly clear, they lied to a large degree on the numbers), if China has managed to bring it under control through their extreme quarantine measures, then we can prevent it from killing tens of millions. South Korea seems to have considerably slowed it there. Japan has done a good job of limiting its spread.

China has 1.4 billion people, and they've had ~3,000 deaths (let's assume it's several times higher in reality). But we'll see tens of millions dead globally? No we will not. If you killed every person that has been infected in China, and extrapolated that event globally, we would not see tens of millions dead. So that premise is absurd, to an extreme.

I consider this to be a very serious situation, however, it's not very serious as a great mass mortality threat (unless it mutates and becomes far more deadly and we prove unable to slow it down or vaccinate against it). It's a serious threat for massive disruption to our daily lives, including severely harming the global economy. It's a serious threat to swamping our healthcare systems due to ICU demands and diverting our resources to managing the ongoing crisis (instead of routine, normal productive work).

Assuming this isn't going to burn out come Spring & Summer, the next step is to rush to vaccine, at any cost. That will end this thing globally. Maybe we'll need to vaccinate against it annually, maybe it won't come back after this year, who knows of course.

Tens of millions will not die. Tens of thousands might die in the plausible worst case scenario, before we get a vaccine ready. We can rush to vaccine at greater patient risk and financial cost, as necessary.
If everything she said was true, it probably wasn't a breach of contract. I was threatened to be sued for the same violation when I left a negative Glassdoor review at a previous employer. I ended up taking it down because I didn't have the time or money to go to court, but after some more research, I found out that what I did wasn't against the agreement. Legally, disparagement is statements that are false, so as long as she wasn't lying, she should be in the clear. She'd probably have to be able to prove that what she said was true though. The confidentiality part isn't as clear cut though; in my case, nothing was marked as company confidential, and the plans were even written on ground-level whiteboards next to the windows, but the company still tried to claim the information was all confidential and violated the agreement.
Maybe it's just me, but the regulatory oversight around these automated features seems insufficient. I'm trying to imagine equivalents from older passive safety technology like seatbelts that don't always work, airbags that pop out prematurely, or cruise control that accelerates without warning. Doesn't seem like those would pass muster "back in the day"? (Not to mention Uber autonomous vehicle flat out killing a pedestrian with no criminal culpability.)

Maybe it's a case of severity -- automated lane guidance isn't viewed as a serious problem when it fails? But who makes that decision?

I don't drive much anymore but when I do it's in a Zipcar with relatively recent Subarus that have this lane guidance technology. I always turn it off as it invariably makes mistakes within a few hours of usage and seems more dangerous on than deactivated.
Is it though? You really don’t know Israel very well. It’s a shtetl and it’s all transactional. Not only it’s not necessary, the implications are substantial. The original plan of the ministry of health was to only impose this on high risk countries, few European and the USA. But then Pense called and pressured them to make it all countries, so the USA would not stick out and look bad.

Source (in Hebrew): https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/health/LIVE-1.8638214#7010128...
Hitting one circuit breaker, while certainly exceptional, today's market was not quite as bad as Black Monday (1987) -22.6% and Black Tuesday (1929) −11.73%. Today was -7.79%.

All percentages are the DJIA, since it's hard to find reliable S&P numbers going back to 1929 -- the S&P 500 was introduced in 1957.
Alas, we failed. Our theory was that what people liked best was recommendations from their first- and second-degree network (followed by a few other kinds of information). This worked really well if you had a relatively dense social network in the app. E.g., you could ask your exact question and get back replies from your friends and their friends. Inevitably a few friends and FoaFs would have useful approaches for something as common as mattresses. So toward the end of our seed money we were working hard on network infill and it was looking good. Then Facebook drastically changed the sharing rules, tanking our growth numbers just as we were looking to raise money. RIP and c'est la guerre.

The site I like best these days for purchase decision support is Wirecutter. Here's their mattress guide, which seems sensible to me: https://thewirecutter.com/guides/buying-a-mattress/
It was not that long ago that the "experts" were saying the Boom-Bust Cycle had ended. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/bridgewat...

Buffett, Dalio and others have been preparing for this time for a while.

This is when money is made or lost. If you have the ability and the stomach for it.
I'm not suggesting you buy today, I personally don't believe the worst is behind us. But an opportunity is coming.
Let us assume for the sake of argument, up to the manufacturer's suggested retail price. They're asking because they believe people will probably unnecessarily die if they don't get more right away.
Yup, it's not about the effectiveness of the masks, it's simply because the US doesn't have enough stockpile and capacity to produce them. All east Asian countries recommend citizens to wear masks.
You're talking about global PKI. But the "public" in PKI doesn't imply global any more than the public in public-key cryptography does.

What PKI does usually imply is some sort of top-down tree of trust and mechanisms and policy for managing and verifying that tree. But the roots of that tree of trust don't have to be global, and with the exception of Web PKI aren't.

You're creating the straw man. You keep saying that new protocols don't need PKI. Well, if we accept your criteria for what PKI means, and considering that the only example that meets your criteria, past, present, or future, is Web PKI, then what exactly is the point of your argument?

If you have a beef against PKIX, CMS, X.509, ASN.1 etc--i.e. the mechanisms--then just say so. There's a ton of reasonable criticism to be made there. But those things are not equivalent to "PKI". There are plenty of PKI systems out there that make use of alternative mechanisms, though mostly proprietary and hidden as interoperability usually demands making use of pre-existing standards. But, to reiterate, using those standards to build a PKI system absolutely does not require relying on the same global roots of trusts. Nothing in those standards even identifies such a root or the shape of the tree at all.
Could alternatively make use of `with`
If I am not mistaken, aparapi included some templates where those low-level aspects were hidden.

The runtime can be added via a jar file, but lambda-based operations must be converted to OpenCL/Cuda/PTX/LLVM or other low-level GPGPU language.

Aparapi did the latter using runtime byte code instrumentation. TornadoVM also does the same thing as a JDK compiler plugin. AeminiumGPU did the same using a transpiler [0] before the actual Java compilation step.

[0] https://github.com/AEminium/AeminiumGPUCompiler
The problem is that nothing says markets will go up forever. Take japan's nikkei index. Dropped in the early 90s and is still down 50% 30 years later.

Choose the "all" to see the entire chart.

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/stock-market

It isn't a law of nature that the S&P or Dow has to regain its losses in X number of years. S&P can drop and stay down for decades which can absolutely affect retirees.
The range varies a lot depending on the quality of the treatment. The early initial estimates were based on data from Wuhan, where hospitals were overwhelmed early. The later, lower numbers were from areas where all new cases had hospital beds and ICUs available if they needed them.

Problem is, given the current numbers, the projected total number of people who will require hospitalization, and of those that will require ICU, significantly exceed availability. So if it spreads too fast, and all these people get sick at the same time, we won't have enough beds to go around - and that will cause the mortality rate to spike again.
That makes sense for Sequoia, but not necessarily for the limited partners.

Shouldn't this come out of Seqoia's, rather than the investor's pockets?