skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-federal-govt-fem...

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/04/coronavirus-colorado-p...

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/08/colorado-coronavirus-v...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/27/trump-ventil...

There is a concrete example of the Federal government seizing PPE, Ventilators ordered by the states. Then only giving them 20% of what they ordered.

Its basically legal theft.
Open sourced advanced machine learning exp platform/tracker/executor/debugger
I'm sorry, how is emacs easy to use (as per manifesto)?
CA has a pretty big rainy-day fund. It'll be exhausted eventually, but I'm not sure it will be this year. The most recent sources I've found suggest the state has around $20bn in reserves, which probably is enough to buffer us through a bad year unless tax incomes completely drop to 0.
Alloydocs
I think it should be “start wiggling” as that makes more sense.
This hedge fund is selling financial insurance basically. You spend money with them and get a huge payout if things collapse. This is an option to buy low vs buy low.
A young, growing company is going to throw whatever at the wall and see what sticks. That's just how to learn what works and what doesn't.

I wouldn't extrapolate that experience to large companies that have weathered dozens of downturns. I'm not saying that large companies all have a clue what they are doing vis-a-vis marketing, but there are a few giants who understand their only asset is their brand. Think companies like P&G or Nestle. Largely, the biggests differentiating factor between toothpastes or frozen pizzas is brand awareness and distribution deals. These are the companies that know exactly how much more money they will make if they change the color red to yellow on a box for a product sold in Georgia.
The last time we had secession, we had civil war.
That's better than nothing, but my response to your post was to try it on my phone and then mutter to myself "okay, I guess"

I don't think most iPhone users browse HN to glean hints about the meaning of such opaque affordances, I had no idea that was what was happening when I turned off WiFi. I just figured it was actually off.
Zephyr: Hiding Metadata in a Messaging System
The Interstate Compact Clause is not handled by the President, but Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact

When Trump threaten to "shutdown" travel between the North East States, people had to tell him that he did not have the authority to do that.
So you're mandating that a house must not just be sold, but that it must be sold at or below property-appraised tax value?

That is sure to go down well.
This comment is correct. Here's a Freakonomics Radio investigation into Ticketmaster: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-sc...
Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?
I remember in my teens I used to love programming. After 20 years of a career, I don't enjoy it anymore.

Have you rediscovered the joy of programming? Any advice?
in the current moment, the "confederacy of southern states" is the federal government. I do not expect to see them different from a federal response due to their loyalty to trump.
The Changelog 390: Visualizing the spread of Coronavirus
> which indirectly will cause more deaths through decimated budgets of social and health programs.

Do you have any actual data for this?
You can’t fix people, only incentives.
I understand that some people look suspiciously at the 15GHz mark, specially considering this was run in a 4.5GHz processor. What I understand is that this benchmarks are comparing how long it would've taken on a stock 1Mhz 6502, and calculate the "clock speed" obtained as a ratio. So if I'm getting my result 10,000 times faster than a standard 6502, it means I'm at 10GHz.

I also understand that this is possible because the emulator is running on a superscalar processor. Not sure if multicore has anything to do here (the post specifically mentions the high performance of the single-core case for the processor used). Still, considering that processors back in the 6502 era had just one execution port, and superscalars this day have a lot (I think 8? I really lost track of what's usual these days), then the figure makes sense all right, and without involving any kind of multithreading.

Kudos to the authors of the emulator for having a super-optimized system that can effectively and efficiently emulate its target!
But why do we need to deliver paper letters?

As ezrast says below, the real goal is a "reliable communications network", which I agree with wholeheartedly. In the 18th century, that was spelled "Post Offices and Post Roads". They couldn't have anticipated email. Must we interpret the Constitution's requirement so literally?

Maybe "post offices and post roads" could mean "internet service". We're seeing public school taught over the internet today, due to COVID-19, so I think it's fair to call the internet an essential service. That's how I receive 99% of my communications. Does even rural Montana really find it more valuable to send pieces of paper than internet packets?

Let's stop printing 100 million advertisements every day just to drive them across the country and throw them away somewhere else. Instead, let's use the office to provide internet access to everyone. I think that would be exactly in line with the spirit of the Constitution.
Wiggling a pin - ie: toggling it. Basically means "activity on the pins"

https://www.cypress.com/blog/technical/more-pdl-examples-wig...
you also need to own more than 25 registered motor vehicles and a five million dollar surety bond.

The OL 311 application form and 13 CCR § 227.04(c) say you have to provide one of insurance, self-insurance, or a surety bond. The requirement to have 25 vehicles applies only to self-insurance, as for any other self-insurer.
His insistence on calling it the "chinese virus" was a very intentional move to frame it as the work of a foreign power, even if he never explicitly said it was made in a chinese laboratory. Plenty of conspiracy theorists did though (some of them on national TV).
Why not use use a dynamic dns service? My router updates my VPN's dns entry automatically at cloudflare when it gets a new up. Everything works like magic just like the previous poster's setup, except without a static home ip.
this, like its predecessor, is a really interesting positive feedback loop. as more ads are purchased...

- the creator benefits from more people buying adds by getting money

- the advertisers benefit by the site's notoriety getting bigger and getting more visits as a result.

so i would think the rate of ad sales would look like some kind of exponential curve, so long as the price remains constant and the thing doesn't die off. does anyone know of any data on the original and how the sales worked? then again, it could just fill up all at once more or less, if it got everyone's attention. its kind of like a pyramid scheme that turns in to regular advertising if it succeeds.
I think Ticketmaster owns a lot of the venues, and the ones they don't, probably have onerous contractual terms.
Slack: It refuses to accept that it is a webapp, so even though firefox fully supports the relevant audio/video api:s I need to open another browser or fiddle around with XWayland (electron/chrome does not support wayland) just to be able to use it.

Microsoft Teams: Same as above, but with multiple login prompts each time.

Jira/Confluence: I swear every click/hover requires a network roundtrip to the server because that's the only way it can be so sluggish. Also, 30s loading times.

Webpack/Babel/Parcel/WhateverJS: Either kill me or kill IE so I can stop using these tools to get even a moderately modern stack.
Generally speaking, I think blockchain is not a good answer for most things, but this is leading me to consider whether it might be an excellent tool for ticket economics.

Consider: Each ticket is already nearly a contract; making them into smart contracts seems very straightforward. Tickets do not have the "oracle" / "reality capture" problem many block chain applications have - tickets are essentially pure information to start with. Initial ticket sales combined with an aftermarket very closely resemble ICOs and subsequent coin trading.

AFAICT the big stumbling block is the ticket-coin-to-USD conversion; maybe a perfect fit for stable coins? Ah - the other big stumbling block is the UX around ticket redemption; making sure it's convenient, reliable and not exploitable. Hmm.

The _interesting_ part IMO is how this could work with spending money from ticket sales prior to the show; you have proof that you'll make X revenue and could borrow against it, at some rate that already includes risk factors. If you have to cancel your show, refunds are "automatic" as per whatever the smart contract specified, and the risk (borne by the lender) is (is the word?) actualized?
The 1$ humblebundle offers are a joy these days, the latest gem I got is WRC7, short runs & jumpy enough for a bit of fun.
This is a very broad question, since compilation is a very broad field. You should get a broad overview of the whole area through one of the standard compiler textbooks. I think the only one I have read cover to cover was the Dragon Book. It was one of the older editions that are no longer up to date; I'm sure the newer ones are fine. I'm also hearing very good things about Appel's "Modern Compiler Implementation". There are others as well. Read one, and follow the literature references for whatever areas interest you most.

If there is one "cross-cutting concern" in compilers, it's the importance of program representations. The correct representation will allow you to do things that you wouldn't be able to do otherwise, or only at much higher cost. So some more concrete things to look into are SSA form and the Sea of Nodes representation (for the latter, Click: "Global Code Motion/Global Value Numbering", https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse501/04wi/papers...). Some general graph algorithm stuff (depth-first search, cycle detection, dominance) is useful.

One surprisingly commonplace, simple, and very useful thing to know is the Union-Find data structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure). I've used it in various settings in compilation. Once I was doing something in GCC and needed a union-find implementation; poking around, I found three or four of them. None were reusable, so I added one more at the place where I needed it :-(

As for journals/articles, much of the seminal compiler work appeared in the proceedings of PLDI, but that doesn't mean that it makes sense to methodically go through 30-odd years of historical papers. ACM Computing Surveys (https://dl.acm.org/journal/csur) can be quite good, if they are not too old. If you are looking at a specific area and see a reference to a survey paper on that area, definitely follow it. But all this doesn't mean that you should only focus on certain conferences or journals. If you want to dig PhD-level deep, it's very much about following references in general.

Good luck! Let me know if you have further questions.
Republicans might claim to support state's rights, but they certainly aren't principled consistent supporters of it.

Just take a drug legalization. Many Republicans have been vehemently opposed to it. Take a look at the Supreme Court decision Gonzalez v. Raich, where Steve Scalia no less, wrote that the feds could interfere with your growing some plants inside your own home for your own personal use.

Remember that the "states rights" movement started as a response to federal action to end segregation. In my personal opinion, Republicans are just for whatever will push their agenda forward, without regard to the moral or ethical depravity involved in doing so.

Democrats, in contrast, are a bit more principled (in my opinion), especially when it comes to protecting the human rights, civil rights, voting rights, and other rights of the non-dominant groups in this country.
No, the logic doesn't make sense. When you're in a liquidity crunch, you should be cutting short term costs.
This looks great, but unfortunately CloudFlare has 1ms ping for me but NextDNS has 50ms. I'm not quite sure how it can reply in 1ms, but that's what I'm getting.
What about this inspired you to compare it to the civil war? Seems hyperbolic given states cooperate in similar ways all the time. It makes sense for bordering states to be on the same page here, especially given the erratic behavior exhibited by federal officials who will remain nameless.
Yes, that is the end goal. It's the timeline over which everyone gets it that matters.
This doesn't seem more ergonomic to me, and also it is not the same solution (OP also inserted a dash in the filename)
Hah. Yes true. I guess I mean the goal of the implementation is to net a million dollars by _____.
At the current rate of infection that plan will require many years of quarantine. We need more people exposed, not fewer.
>a group of united states.

Pardon, English being my 2nd language, would it be a confederation or a union?
The pins don't physically wiggle. "pins wiggling" is a common metaphor for "the voltage level on a pin is changing".

As a signal driver is toggled at increasing frequencies ('cranking up the clock'), the signal amplitude (voltage difference between the 'high' and 'low' period) starts to drop. At a high enough frequency, the signal will be indistinguishable from noise and 'stops wiggling'.
Looks like a cool alternative to https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images
A French 64-year-old ejected himself from a fighter jet in midair
In my area (Vancouver Island, just north of this "pact") we are seeing something very odd. People are going out. Families are having BBQs in local parks. Restaurants aren't letting people dine in, but the grocery stores are operating essentially normally. I'm near the water and am seeing kayaks and boats out like any normal weekend. Vacation properties are in use. RV parks have customers. I see groups of old people chatting on the street like normal.

I think we are on a tipping point. Government directive or no, people are coming out of isolation. I don't think the local authorities have much choice at this point. Either they make some clear changes and/or issue timetables, or they risk loosing any control. These are Canadians, a people with national healthcare and a general respect for government authority. When this attitude hits America, a country that prides itself on individualism, things may move from lockdown to "what lockdown?" in a matter of days.
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It’s still a WIP, and obviously this covid stuff has been hard for us, but my company sellout.io is trying to build a fair alternative that ultimately gives artists the ability to sell tickets directly to fans. Ticketmaster’s rein will end soon.
Btw, this is an interesting article! Thanks for the link.

http://komanoff.net/nuclear_power/Light_Water_Review_March_1...
Considering how terrible almost everyone seems to be at measuring things generally, or at setting up the conditions for meaningful measurement, or getting buy-in for more effective measurements because they come at some cost and “what Jim’s been doing seems fine” (it absolutely is not) I’m skeptical that advertising folks are somehow much better at this than everyone else, and if they’re not a lot better then they’re still fairly bad.
A new hire is an opportunity to fix root causes of confusion causing the need of onboarding. I let new hires kick the tires of the codebase and ask me questions about code I was too familiar with. Most of these questions would have gone unasked had I explained it to them before, but the questions exposed ambiguities or things that could be done better. This lead to issues and fixes to remove ambiguities, either in code, comments, documentation, or refactoring.

Here are some notes containing tips on how to "get to know a codebase"[0] from the new hire perspective.

One thing that has helped was having modular code that was documented, and most behavior changeable by configuration, and functionality that could be added by adding a plugin without really changing the code. That made the time to first contribution extremely short. The configuration files contained comments and examples, the code was documented, there were tests, and exception messages told you exactly what has happened, how to troubleshoot, and what you can do, profiling code, simulator like code, etc. Most questions new hires asked were about the behavior of a dependency of the project using the actor model, or about hardware and protocols.

In order to get that, one of the things I used to do was write the documentation for how I wanted to use the code, then write the code to match the documentation, then ask a _non programmer_ to follow the documentation. As long as the non programmer succeeded writing code with the library, I knew programmers could. I would confirm, though.

How much of the behavior can be controlled by configuration files? It helped to have as much behavior dictated by a configuration file.

What is the quantum to develop a functionality. Similar functionalities can be abstracted and have a sort of "cookie-cutter" way to add them as plugins discovered and loaded by the application.

A new hire can then get to know the application by developing plugins, for which the complexity and scope is limited, and then expand the domain to bigger parts of the application.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100
The last time states tried to secede it was to preserve their "right" to enslave people.
" Advertising is the least productive thing we do as a species"

LOL.
Concrete examples.

Early in office, Trump got rid of the department created by Obama to respond to pandemics.

Early in this epidemic, we bungled getting testing out. Got it out in broken form. Had to get it out again. All the while we turned down an effective test advocated by the WHO.
And when testing existed, had rules that tested so little that they missed the existence of community spread until it was well established.

Blocked private labs from developing and conducting tests. (Community spread was demonstrated by one who broke the federal rules. The reaction of the Trump administration was to come down on them for having conducted unauthorized tests.)

Well after it was clear that this was a pandemic that was not under control, Trump was spinning a narrative of this being no big deal.

Failed to declare a federal emergency and social distancing restrictions at a national level. Which caused a patchwork of inconsistent responses at the state level. California was in lockdown while COVID-19 was happily spreading among tourists on crowded Florida beaches.

I could go on. But right now the USA has 1/4 of all deaths worldwide from COVID-19. We are stilly dying faster, and didn't get there by accident.
I have some personal experience on this subject.

When I was growing up, my country got engulfed into a pretty rough war. We went through air raids, bombings, artillery strikes, and a bunch of people died. I'm sure all the adults were freaking out and just spent all the day thinking how best to survive. My city wasn't hit that hard, but we still had some rough moments.

However, during the was I was young enough to not understand the seriousness of the situation. I liked Rambo movies, and for me running to a shelter, while the air raid sirens were blasting, was just an incredibly exciting experience. I had absolutely zero fear, and didn't truly understand why were my parents freaking out.

Kids are stupid.
I found these with google:

- http://impact-information.com/impactinfo/readability02.pdf (about prose but mentions bullet points with space)

- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320407173_A_COMPARI...

- https://alistapart.com/article/whitespace/

- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2985...

- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8091188

- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ASE.2019.00047

A quicker method however: Do you find regular expressions more readable than string methods? If so, you're highly unique. If not, you already agree.
Wow, I had not realized that one could compute Cartesian products using a shell.
My claim on this issue was mainly due to the current administration's relatively pro-state stance in this regard (COVID). I am not insisting that the GOP is universally pro-state. You are right that they are not when it comes to marijuana legalization and some other things (and shame on them for it).
South Korea set to ship coronavirus testing kits to U.S.
Works really well on mobile. Loads fast and navigation is easy. Good job!
If any states try to secede in order to keep people as slaves, I would support another civil way to prevent it.
Strategies for Navigating Changes Within the Hardest Hit Industries
Honest question: what's the difference between storing dependencies in the executable (statically) and storing them in the Docker image?
Exactly. When I was a junior I had plenty of side projects that I rotated through. Then that got old, I developed deep passions for other non-computer things, have a family, enjoy knowing people, and what do you know? Not many side projects that involve programming. I haven't updated my blog in 15 years. I'd rather go fishing with my kid, rock climbing with my bud, or banging together a garden with my wife.
Euphemism for when you don't see output pins transition state on a measuring instrument, e.g. oscope.
Also, times have changed a lot since then. This should be the Billion Dollar Progressive Responsive Adaptive Single-Page Web App.
Reminds me of the Web Displays Mod for Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpqOv7SxkHA .

Complete with keyboard and mouse. Why ever leave the game?
I'm not quite sure. We only have nukes in hundreds of kilotons, which might not be enough to crack steel and concrete and burn all combustibles at once. If there's no firestorm, the nuclear fallout might not make it to the stratosphere and the jet stream because it gets dammed in by the mountains and precipitates out.

Not to mention, hatred is irrational anyways. At this stage, we're talking about an organization that will reduce its own negotiating lever on the world stage in order to subjugate innocent civilians, which we've already seen take place at various points in Syria and the Soviet Union. I would expect political commissars taking over the nuclear command authority to turn the keys, not USAF or USN personnel.
Thoughts on Language Propaganda?
Loved it! It would be cool if it had a list of public rooms.
You've not read the article either. Author was using adguard dns for a year before switching out
The original million dollar home page was just as much of a “scam” until the publicity made it worthwhile marketing. I would reserve judgment.
> No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

It seems to me that it states “with another State”, as in a capital S State or a member State of the United States. Then explicitly calls out as another option, “or with a foreign power”.

Furthermore, the title of Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution is “Powers Prohibited of States”.
Why would they use two different meanings of "State" (capitalized, no less) in the same sentence?
Debate clubs barely exist in the UK. We still treat discussions as competitions here.
Baker (and Hogan, for that matter) are very popular Republican governors in pretty deep blue states. They haven't been big on kissing Trump's ass, both before and during this crisis.
Let’s apply the “do you need blockchain” test: do we need zero trust distributed consensus? No? Then no.
It's also part of the reason you can't buy liquor at a grocery store in Oregon. If we really need more pointless jobs, I'd rather the state just hire some people to dig holes and fill them back up. At least everybody else wouldn't be inconvenienced that way.