skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of why I quit PC gaming and took the plunge to Linux. It seems like every PC game recently requires a social login with its own launcher and a dedicated DRM rootkit. And the privacy policies for all of this stuff are very "permissive." After a certain point you realize you aren't in control of your own computer.

At least with consoles you _know_ going in that the manufacturer has every executable on lockdown. But I couldn't stomach _not knowing_ if some poorly coded DRM or RGB control service was opening up my private files to remote code execution[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/gsuberland/status/1175570500292108289
> It's unfortunate that they did not include [...]

I'm so looking forward to a language type system expressive enough to do a pushout lattice of <types,operators,laws> theories. So semiring, and everything else, can simply and uniquely exist. Instead of the pervasive "It's unfortunate that they did not include"... so very much. Instantly instantiatable platonic forms, instead of years of proposals, endless discussions, and standardization committee meetings. Dancing math, instead of slathering api glue.
Some good coding puzzles to help pass the time while staying in this week
You've heard of the 10x engineer. What about the 10x towel?
A million iops from spinning rust?

200 iops per drive from 2.5" 15KRPM is good going....

Edit:iops auto spellings
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Me too. It reminds me of the small ARG MGMT did around their song 'Little Dark Age', where they made various retro renditions and allowed them to surface on the internet, implying theirs was a cover of an older, forgotten song.
> I think Germany is handling this crisis really well

The fact that it already came to a crisis is a problem. Why was border crossing travel still allowed for so long? Why did Germany still let people go to their vacations? Germany was one of the last countries to recognize Ischgl as a risk area while German tourists being the biggest group there. Had all of this happened, the cost for German society would have been much smaller than the current situation. We wouldn't need a curfew because the virus wouldn't have been here.

In fact, the entire EU failed for not issuing travel bans e.g. to China quickly enough, and not quarantining those who still are allowed to travel.
I wouldn't expect this to work: the problem with covid isn't that the patient's muscles are unable to handle the breathing but that the usable lung capacity is too low, right?

But these are definitely worth looking into at least a little, since they're so much easier to make than a modern ICU ventilator.
So that’s CA and NY both with shelter in place. Strange that WA hasn’t implemented it yet.
Many small businesses already had to file by March 16. And even if they filed for "extensions", payments of all taxes was due then.

Secretary Mnuchin wasn't telling the truth when he said "All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and make payments without interest or penalties."

I had to take a risk to visit CPA and prepare taxes by the March 16th deadline, and so did nearly every other small business in America.

(California has a payment deadline of December 31st for businesses!)
I'm having a bit of trouble building stuff to learn in my free time (undergrad w/ cancelled classes due to COVID-19). I find it very difficult to come up with an idea that I'm excited about enough to actually keep me motivated. And I would love to contribute to OSS but the codebases seem so dense and inaccessible, especially to a non-veteran.

Any advice?
You're right. My mistake. I intermixed the two as delayed income tax payment also applied to filing, which didn't, until today.
> Are they updating the order minute to minute?

Yes. That was 2 days ago. It's a fluid, uncertain situation.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm948
The side effects of exponential growth. It changes minds quickly.
Your introductory rate is discounted because you recognize the risk the client was taking with their time by hiring you with scant evidence you could do the job and do it well.

Your new rate reflects a reduction in their risk since they know you can do the job.
Personality plays key role in whether devs can contribute to open-source
Is this suitable if I want to stream events (e.g. click event data), around 1k events/per sec, to a Redshift database, and see it happen realtime? Redshift should receive the data within 5-20 minutes.

Will rudderstack work for this usecase? Or will it require something in between.
It's got to be killing him to even appear to be following de Blasio's advice. Those two probably hate each other more than they hate the virus.
States have pretty broad police powers especially in times of crisis. It wouldn't surprise me to see the 10th Amendment apply to the state action of enforcing massive quarantines.
I mean having stuff shipped to your house just shifts the exposure from you to workers. Is Amazon essential? Amazon suspended some non-essential shipments (to them not customers) but they could get by with even fewer employees should they decide to only ship essential goods.

While of course I don't think GameStop really needs to be open. - I am more curious if people's attitudes will change in 2-4 weeks of self isolating. I think there's a certain excitement/anxiety to this at first especially among those where self isolating means working from home to semi-vaction. Eventually, I think a lot of people's commitment to self isolating/distancing will waver.
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From what I understand about TCP BBR from reading about it the past few minutes, it would compute a new link speed as a result of impacts from WRED and then use that for the connection baseline speed.

TCP BBR would still rely on RED/WRED to compute the connection rate estimate initially, then it would attempt to send below that rate to avoid packet loss. If packet loss is detected it would recompute the estimated connection rate.

I found this page [0] useful, especially the graphs.

[0] https://blog.apnic.net/2017/05/09/bbr-new-kid-tcp-block/
You're mostly right, with one (or two) exception: > Matrices and linear algebra. This isn't abstract algebra. It's used in abstract algebra, but that's true for linear algebra in almost any branch of mathematics. Also, depending on what exactly they implemented for Univariate polynomials, this part may also be numerical.
MD here. There is an inhalation and exhalation tube for each patient; the exhalation tubes would be in continuity using the described configuration. However, at least for part of the transmission route, viral particles would have to move against flow. So there is likely some cross-contamination.

All that being said in the situation where this is deployed I think it would be a risk most providers would take.
I'll leave the web searching up to you, but fundamentally crypto companies make money the same way banks do:

- Transaction fees when you transfer funds in or out of your wallet. (or they buy and sell at different prices which amounts to the same thing in the end)

- Float on deposited funds

- A few make money on other transactions or on mining.

The different currencies operate differently so the ways to make money as an exchange vary, but transaction fees are usually the big way.
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Maybe, let's see how it works out. I have no skin in this game. Numbers will talk in the next weeks and months, in the meantime all I can say is that I'm glad I'm not in the US right now.
You would need to use a captive portal for the input of the 2FA and then allow network access.
Thanks for the look! The YouTube video is linked in the description, but here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXk1O6biJSE

Would love your thoughts. (and yes, eventually I will write all of this up, but there's a lot to get out, and I've been focused on building)
It's not really that cash backed Steve's power play to gain control of the company. They are interrelated.
Do they have a definition of what constitutes non-essential?
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On an interesting corollary, knowing what dangerously little I know about the MTA and its unions, are drivers griping about disease exposure? The NY subway is fairly labour-intensive as mass transit systems go...
It was run out of Stanford until 2019 according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home
I built QuarantAid.me to help connect those in need with volunteers during quarantine / self-isolation. Those in need during quarantine can post a request for help, which is then visible to volunteers who can choose which requests they're able to assist with.
You might like the Die Cast Racing channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPxqKmqjP6c

So fun, and the commentary is so good.
Usually defined by each company for each position.
Yes, this is a very standard use case. A single node RudderStack (m4.xlarge) should be able to process more than 1K/sec. And Redshift should receive the data in 30 mins (configurable parameter).

Please give it a shot. Email me soumyadeb@rudderlabs.com if you run into any issues.
Well science goes frutstratingly slowly, especially in these fields. According to wikipedia the project has helped in 118 papers.

The idea of the single scientist singlehandedly solving everything is mostly a myth. Most of the time, people rely on hundreds of previous papers before making their own contribution. Taken together, all the minimal steps make a significant leap.

Folding@home can very well be part of this effort.
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And top e-sports drivers will likely have far more hours behind the virtual wheel than the real drivers have in reality and virtual combined.

I used to do online ww2 combat flight sim as a hobby and one day I realized that all those virtual aces had not only the skill advantage of virtual death trial and error, most had also been flying virtual ww2 planes for longer than than the entire duration of the original war (in years, not in stick-hours).
Seems to be little appreciation on the internet for the fact that even in this situation, a big chunk of the population still has to go to work otherwise everything will collapse.
This isn't right--almost all with beds in the ICU right now are mechanically ventilated; >50% will survive.
Also the drivers are backed by huge teams. This is the part of the sport that makes it so much fun. The physical aspect of the pit stops & the strategy and the pains that causes.
I feel like we should just do this nation wide.
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Yeah, I still disagree with that. I'm sure the Cold War era with a split Germany and high tensions world wide would certainly qualify, unless she's lumping that in with "ww2" (which is fair from the anti-Nazi German perspective).
"This guidance does not change the April 15 filing deadline." This is also solely related to federal income tax payment not the filing.
I claim that even in the math of machine learning, many of the symbols presented do not mechanically translate as such. Other commenters have discussed differing notational conventions, but even to assume that x_i is indexing some real numbers is memory is often too much.

I’m not saying there isn’t any value showing somebody how an elementary summation corresponds to a for-loop. I am saying it’s a lot more than that, though.
Wouldn't this fall under 'martial law'?

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

"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

I guess the legal argument comes down to a lack of a comma between 'invasion' and 'the public safety'. Or whether a virus constitutes 'invasion'.
To be clear, the governor unequivocally said this is not a shelter in place. It is merely language telling employers that they are to not have workers physically present.

The governor also said there will not be any civil penalties for individuals that do not stay at home.
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We use helm charts to deploy Rudder. Repo here
https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudderstack-helm

We have 3 separate pods - one for the RUdder core BE, one for the transformation (javascript which map events from Rudder format to destination format as well as user defined transformations) and one running Postgres.
This seems to be a reaction to people not doing it on their own sufficiently enough, like what happened in Italy. Perhaps Washingtonians are taking the recommendations more seriously, so they don't require an official mandate. That decision can't be a light one, and I don't envy those that have to make it.
Yes, the order has a specific list.

EDIT: Here is the order.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-2026-continuing-temporar...

> Any essential business or entity providing essential services or functions shall not be subject to the in-person restrictions. This includes essential health care operations including research and laboratory services; essential infrastructure including utilities, telecommunication, airports and transportation infrastructure; essential manufacturing, including food processing and pharmaceuticals; essential retail including grocery stores and pharmacies; essential services including trash collection, mail, and shipping services; news media; banks and related financial institutions; providers of basic necessities to economically disadvantaged populations; construction; vendors of essential services necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation and essential operations of residences or other essential businesses; vendors that provide essential services or products, including logistics and technology support, child care and services needed to ensure the continuing operation of government agencies and provide for the health, safety and welfare of the public;
Not sure some of these precepts are possible:

> A.2 Everything should be CQRS.

Some things require strong consistency, even at the UI level. Eventual consistency is probably the right default though. Unfortunately, we still don't have good abstractions at the language level to manage this.

> A.4 A subscriber shouldn't affect a publisher.

Literally impossible. Either a subscriber is polling the publisher, or the subscriber registers with the publisher to receive updates. Either way, the subscriber is inducing state transitions in the publisher. What other possible meaning can be assigned to "affect" in order to make this precept valid?

> D.1 Academia has many genuinely smart and interesting ideas, but always remember that pursuing them whole-heartedly will never result in a useful product.

Yeah, not at all sure that's correct. Lots of academic research is funded by commercial interests. In fact, currently one of the biggest corporations in the world at this time (Google) started as academic research.

> D.2 Those people (academics) wasted a lot of time finding the right answer, but now that they've done it, you must exploit it.

Spent a lot of time. "Wasted" implies there was a better way.

> D.5 Practice tells you that things are good or bad; theory tells you why. Never use theory to design a good system from scratch; only practice can tell whether the system is good.

I don't think this is coherent. If theory tells you why a system is bad, then that immediately entails what a good system should look like.

What I think typically happens, is that a system designed by theory is so good at solving the problems it was designed for, that it's then applied to similar-but-not-quite-the-same-problems, and thus it becomes inadequate again.
No, its unlikely to help produce an effective treatment, at least not in a useful timeframe.

If you're considering spending a dollar or two a day on electricity to contribute to the F@H project, consider donating that amount instead. Charity Navigator has a good list of well regarded charities that are working on covid-19 response: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...
Then let us chroot into a Darwin container, which supports the GNU coreutils and most every programming language anyway (well, presuming they were recompiled for ARM64, but that's very little work for the maintainers of those projects). If I need to test against a Linux system, I can just SSH, but this would be a bare minimum for working on stuff without bringing the laptop.
I think the growth is a result of a focused effort to ramp up testing. Meanwhile if we are to have any confidence in the numbers (we probably shouldn't), according to the John's Hopkins counts, New York state currently has a surprisingly low CFR.

38 deaths / 5715 cases = 0.7% CFR
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It might be better for the state to close the subway and pay for Lyft for all essential workers. Creates jobs for the drivers, gets essential workers where they need to be, closes the major infection channel. The drivers would be required to wear surgical masks and wash the back seat of the car before each passenger.
Earlier this year, Caltech made the decision to eliminate the SAT subject tests: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-eliminate-require...
The Supreme Court (and other courts) have held mandatory quarantines to be legal, including of entire areas and not just persons known to be infected.

It would logically follow that if the quarantine is legal, penalties for violating it are also legal.

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Most of those cases are quite old, but they're still the ruling precedent on the topic as far as my (limited) knowledge goes.

For one that went to the Supreme Court in 1902 and continues to be cited:

Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur v. Louisiana Board of Health

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Francaise_de_Navigat...
Challenge? I tought that was the golden age of the "everything for 199.99 DM" stores...
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I see many comments criticizing the post for only implementing simple mathematics. This is true.

However, the approach of understanding math through code is still very helpful, I think. Personally, implementing things that are fuzzy mathematically provides immense clarity once I write them down.

For example, a simple monty hall simulator[1]. Or implementing matrix multiplication multiple ways to understand why each is equivalent[2], and why multiplying A(BC) can sometimes be faster than (AB)C[3].

I am not sure why this helps me. It may be because I was "raised" as a coder, and so that is how my brain works. But I also think that implementing something in code is very close to constructivist mathematics, in spirit. You cannot prove anything if you cannot construct (/implement) it.

[1] https://github.com/mitchellgordon95/implementing-paradoxes/b...
[2] https://github.com/mitchellgordon95/implementing-paradoxes/b...
[3] https://github.com/mitchellgordon95/implementing-paradoxes/b...
I've heard that nascar drivers can lose up to 8 pounds in sweat over the course of a race. The constant forces on your body for that long have to take a physical toll on your body.
At the moment, most tests are certainly being done in less than BSL4, there aren't that many of them.

https://www.liquisearch.com/biosafety_level/list_of_bsl-4_fa...
I'm honestly very conflicted now that you mention this. Yesterday some friends hit me up to donate to a gofundme page to support getting masks for a hospital a friend works at. It's a state university hospital with hundreds of millions in endowment in a red state.

It's easy to become jaded and cynical, but I'm beginning to believe this is the wake up call a lot of people need and anything less than an unmitigated disaster will be converted into a win to all these science denying, public health de-funding radicals running some governments.

It's probably the stress, anxiety and anger at the impotence caused by all this, but I can't help but feel a desire to lash out those people who have made things worse.
My understanding is that it is expected that we may have to reimplement varying levels of social distancing multiple times, in waves to keep hospital load manageable.

But as the population slowly gains immunity, the rate of spread will start to drop off drastically due to herd immunity.
I watched the press conference and he said that they'd have a list later this afternoon. Food delivery is essential. One of the reporters asked if IT support (actually Best Buy's "Geek Squad") was essential, and he said he didn't know.

My impression is that "essential" is very liberal right now.
Is the Panic Worse Than the Virus?
Most of this is to obscure their admission criteria. Harvard has come under fire for actively discriminating against Asian applicants. By removing a standard test, these colleges can actively discriminate whilst making it more difficult to prove admissions bias from a numerical and arguably more objective standard.
and you can still earn crypto from folding: https://curecoin.net/
That's the old announcement (doesn't cover today's filing extension).
I am calling on everyone reading this, to turn in the direction of Yellowstone (rhumb and great-circle bearings both acceptable), and channel your chi into the mantra "NOT NOW"

ed: although, yes, the danger of eruption is not heightened now.
Man, I can tell you the amount of ignorance still prevalent out there. Not in some bushwhack undeveloped middle of nowhere, but in the biggest cities in Switzerland. So many people just don't give a nanofraction of a fuck. If you ignore those, things will get worse, much much much worse than they should.

Just a look at China now, and then on Italy. Seriously, what.the.fuck
Don't blame you ... it's super confusing
Our Kubernetes helm charts are open sourced here. It should be straight forward to install it on your current k8s cluster.

https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudderstack-helm
Responded cheekily with this link in a reply chain but wanted to bubble it up... you can earn a form of cryptocurrency from folding work units: https://curecoin.net/
> That 67MB file can reportedly replace the 370MB, DRM-protected executable in the main game folder with minimal effort and no practical effect on playability.

What other things is that 370MB executable doing that it needs to be over 5½ times as large as the game itself? Sending every keystroke home? Searching the hard drive for crimethink? Running a Bitcoin miner?
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USA is huge, and the virus is hitting different areas with different intensities. Its spread is heavily impacted by population density and rates of random social encounters. A Nationwide lockdown might make sense if the goal was to snuff the infection out, but as of now the goal is to lower the peak of the curve. If you lock down too early, you extend the infection to a length of time that makes the lockdown impossible.
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