skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One trick is to spread the computation out over time, if you don't need to do it all at at once every frame. Since the enemies don't move that fast, a bit of delay might be good enough, depending on what you're tracking.

SimCity has several layers like pollution, land value, etc, which slowly diffuse over time. But it only does that computation every so often, not every frame. It has a 16 phase simulation clock, and it scans the cells of the map in eight stripes over eight steps, then scans different layers like taxes, traffic and rate of growth decay, power, pollution and land value, police coverage and crime, population density, fire coverage and disasters, and the RCI valves. (That made it possible to run on a C64!)

Chaim Gingold's SimCity Reverse Diagrams show how the different phases of "Simulate()" perform different kinds of analysis over time, and how the different map layers interact with each other.

https://lively-web.org/users/Dan/uploads/SimCityReverseDiagr...

>SimCity reverse diagrams, by Chaim Gingold (2016).

>These reverse diagrams map and translate the rules of a complex simulation
program into a form that is more easily digested, embedded, disseminated, and
and discussed (Latour 1986).

>If we merge the reverse diagram with an interactive approach—e.g. Bret Victor’s Nile Visualization (Victor 2013), such diagrams could be used generatively, to describe programs, and interactively, to allow rich introspection and manipulation of software.

>Latour, Bruno (1986). “Visualization and cognition”. In: Knowledge and Society 6 (1986), pp. 1– 40.

>Librande, Stone (2010). “One-Page Designs”. Game Developers Conference. 2010.

>Victor, Bret (2013). “Media for Thinking the Unthinkable”. MIT Media Lab, Apr. 4, 2013.
You could always make aliases. For example, ls would be 'wsl ls' to run the ls command from Linux instead of searching down the Windows exec path for it.

Also, I noticed at least my version of powershell actually has a built in 'ls'. It isn't quite the same as 'wsl ls' but it does show results more appropriate for Windows file systems.
In lieu of evidence that the “wet market” story is true, the accidental lab release is pretty compelling. Interesting to see how people react to it though - as though the idea is outlandish that a laboratory working with pathogens from actual bats could mishandle things. Is there even any evidence people ate bats at the wet market?
installers for windows:

- Chocolatey (package manager)

- Ninite (auto-installs 80% of the programs I and the family might need on a fresh windows install)
You were not wrong, though. Life produces more entropy around it (it consumes energy) to lower its own entropy. Organisms are islands of lower entropy.

Paraphrased from what a physicist doing "systems biology" (more or less: biology from first principles) said to me. I have also had a few lectures about thermodynamics.
This is an interesting article, and one that is important for people who run a SMB in California to take note of.

> The court then noted that even if allowing plaintiffs to sue prior to signing up could lead to abusive litigation, that issue should be left to the legislature.

This was my concern, as well. I hope that the opening this allows for later lawsuits will be handled by the larger corporations who have deep pockets and can afford to fight these battles. My fear is that this would create a bunch of drive-by-lawsuits aimed at small businesses in the hopes that they will just settle (much the same as patent trolls).

I would love to hear from any lawyers on the board who have thoughts on this case.
The verge can go ahead and write next years article about this, because at this rate, these will probably remain on the back burner.
Here’s more about the service they use, Surface Air Lift (or Lifted), SAL: https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/service/dispatch/sal_en.ht... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Air_Lifted

I don’t know the details for Japan, but almost every country‘s post has been affected: https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/internat...
If you have bash you could use the /dev/tcp feature to download files: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-using-bashs-built-...

The trick would be finding a download that is still served over http.
I was so angry listening to all those delusional council members who thought that suddenly their town could be silicon valley. Nothing wrong with thinking big, but to reasonably believe that you could start many multi billion dollar tech companies just with one plant is just loony.

It left me at the end of the episode thinking, foxconn came in like a fox and conned everyone involved.
Yes, hardware must be right first time. Proving that is difficult, so logic equivalence, formal proof, code coverage are all standard. What's optional in many software QA flows would be absolutely required in HW flows. Proof of functionality is paramount
Teaching machines to behave: Reinforcement Learning
Scalability concepts: read-after-write consistency
Move Over, SpaceX: A New Rocket Maker Is in Town
A serialiser is just a program/library that takes a data structure and emits YAML. GP criticises GGP for putting the value no manually into the file and thus causing a bug instead of letting a piece of specialised software deal with the correct form (here: quoted string).
Ironically in censorsed domains, the absence of information is a very clear indicator of truth. It happens everywhere - there are many true things you are not allowed to post on the internet.

You know the old saying, "Just because you read it on the internet, doesn't mean it's true"?
Consider the inverse:
Just because you haven't read it on the internet, doesn't mean it's not true.
Why is that?

My "IBM is evil" bias leads me to guess they wanted to make their own standard that people started using. Then charge ridiculous license fees.
That is not really comparable. If someone murdered all of the GPU driver writers working or retired, we'd have new drivers in maybe 1 year? 2? 5?

On the other hand, if someone were to murder all of the currently working or retired processor designers, we'd probably have new i7s in a few decades.
Is this going to affect similar practices for all payment processors? I feel almost any payment processor refuses to deal with "vice" business (porn, gambling) due to high risk of fraud. This will be very interesting if they are no longer allowed to do that.
yes! for a customer with many hundred stores in eastern europe. each office has a pc linux server running ogon which is serving their x11 based ERP software via RDP to up to 20 rdp clients (mobile handhelds and stationary thin clients)
Well, one can easily dig into the sequences database, to find some useful clues:

-A lot of chinese papers have been published through the years on the topic, during multiples waves of sample collection over all the chinese mainland. Showing there was/is a notable interest about this pathogen issue.

-One can also easily spot which research center were/are the most active on the topic and its related research teams. Wuhan research center is not excluded from the list as some others main big labs.

-Each entry sequence in the database is dated with a location, publishing team and associated paper. It is useful for following the pathogen evolution building phylogeny trees.

-Aligning a lot of sequences clearly show that this strain is separated from the rest of the others mains strain. The only related sequences are the one released by the chinese team.

-The closest related sequences are 2013 year dated and other from 2015/2017/2019, which per se does not provide a lot of information about the real pathogen evolution.

-The different gain of function that this pathogen got compared to its predecessors is quite remarkable and hard to overlook.

-The overall AT/GC sequence content have also evolved from its predecessors showing rich AT content that is generally related to higher host habit and expression.

So yeah, knowing china is not smiley kind shaped, one can still question the research and lab habit as one would do for any other country.
A theory based on excessive and unregulated animal sampling could have exacerbated the real cross-transmission issue is as valid as the one about pathogen leaking from the lab or simply by natural evolution.

Anyway one can clearly take a moment to question the overall package, along the safety lab practices deployed around the world when dealing with potential pathogens.
Org-mode: just can't go back for my profession (product management. Need to jot down fast, than sort loads and keep track of todos)
I haven't used it personally yet, but I want to try out Saasify [1] for my next project.

> Saasify handles all of the SaaS boilerplate, including user accounts, subscription billing, developer docs, and a polished marketing site.

[1] https://saasify.sh/
Pope Francis: it might be time to consider a 'universal basic wage'
I agree that the needed work (and hardest work) is access to quality pre-university education.

That being said, I find it bizarre that we fret over whether minority applicants are given an unfair boost, while at the same time allowing legacy admissions and athletic preferance admissions to continue. Both of these boost applicants who otherwise would not make it through. We don't fret too much when a spot is taken by a wealthy legacy admit or obscure sport admit, yet we have multiple lawsuits and court cases if the spot is taken by a racial minority.

John Hopkins University ended legacy admissions and I applaud them.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/why-we-end...
Automobile, not train.
To require a transaction would mean you can discriminate based on anything and everything. Exclude black people from entering your store? no problem because they haven't bought anything.

That's so obviously wrong and exactly what civil rights legislation was created to address, that I feel like the lower courts made a big mistake and this should have never reached the SC. There's nothing surprising in the CA SC ruling.. I'm surprised Harvard Law Review decided to write an article on it.
I've been with fastmail for about a year now. My wife wants to leave Gmail and have been thinking about Fastmail as well, but the price per user puts us down... waiting for Hey and see what their price plan will be
Or you could just let it run it's course, like every other flu in human history.

98% of infected people recover at home.
> For instance, if everyone stores several years worth of food and water at home, then even the most catastrophic events are much less likely to kill the vast majority of people in the world.

I see a lot of resistance to your suggestion based upon the supposed economic feasibility.

However, one angle I haven't seen discussed is: if vast swaths of the labor force did become functionally independent for up to 5 years for example, it would dramatically alter the extant leverage in the job market. Instead of a centralized union negotiating mechanism, a de-centralized negotiation mechanism runs. Wage earners decide on a case-by-case basis whether or not to accept a job offer, secure in that they can last for up to 5 years of nothing before they are in a "must-get-job" state. At scale, it might become a de-centralized lightweight form of UBI, unionizing, and general strike.

This doesn't even have to be prepper-style decentralization. If enough people work towards FIRE at the same time, then it functionally accomplishes exerting the same market pressures, except on an even longer timescale.
I don't understand the point of the article, they are just saying that the building is empty and they are lying about it right ? But why should anyone cares ?
Covid-19 isn't flu.

It's a different type of virus, and it has different effects.

> 98% of infected people recover at home.

Do you have a reliable source?
I think that focusing on these at first will just make beginner speaker freeze and never make speeches in the first place. Especially when it requires you to chamge life long mannerisms.

They are sort of stuff speaker should focus on once the nerves and content and structure were handled and speaker seek to step up on next level.
Hardware design flows are complex and do have bugs, but not in the way it sounds. In general HDL synthesis produces a design that matches what the user wrote, so a logic bug in a synthesis engine is rare. The bugs exist in the 'other stuff', like trying to convince the tool to be efficient about how it created the design, or smart about how it's trying to close timing. Getting a working though the tools design is easy, getting an optimal design is hard. HDLs themselves have issues, but there is a wealth of quality checking tools built around them that mitigate them, and indeed mitigate/flag poor coding from inexperienced designers (to a degree). What's interesting is FPGA tools, as much as they are derieded, are much better than their Asic counterparts in terms of functionality and user friendliness.
Anti-Globalization/Nationalism will re-emerge. Countries such as Japan are subsidizing moving factories out of China and back to their own country.

Remote Delivery is the new paradigm. Instacart and Doordash delivery services to your door is the new normal. If you can afford it, why take a chance going to the grocery store only to get infected?

Political division and tribalism will accelerate. As more people are being cocooned in their homes and reading/listening only to their partisan news channel of choice, identity politics will become even more vicious.
would it still be a positive if the president-cum-dictator used this tool or some descendant of it to track & trace political opponents across the country before jailing/murdering them?
I've learned a ton working at scale, and I wanted to share some of that knowledge with others.

To be honest, this is the type of knowledge I actually had to unlearn when I decided to try my hand at early-stage startups. Unfortunately, this is also the type of knowledge that's helpful to go from a startup to a big tech company, where you get the chance to learn this in the first place! Hopefully my writing can help bootstrap that knowledge for others.
This is good reporting. I think it's pretty obvious the sole (ok, maybe not sole, but certainly 90%+ purpose) of these "innovation centers" was political show, on both Foxconn's and the US politicians' side.
Combined with the researcher at the lab that was disappeared this is pretty convincing.
I remember a scientific paper on HN a few months ago by Chinese authors saying Covid came from that lab and that it came from bats that had infected workers there, or that was the assumption. That is my memory of the article. I cannot find that paper anymore. Does anyone remember this?
The the American leadership constantly calling it by the region name you can understand why an authoritarian regime would want to control discussion of the origins by experts. The risk is of their research being weaponized by said demagogues.
If I've read you correctly, you've dismissed a generally well regarded literary writer as an author of a "timewaster article".

You may be correct, but considering the author's long career and standing, you should consider the possibility that the issue here is your personal taste rather than the merits of the writer.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Auster
I agree with you on the risk.

This seems to have tremendous implications for any digital business. I'm reading into this a bit, but it seems that part of Square's case rested on the fact that White didn't actually want to do business with him. He may have just heard about the Shierkatz case from his friends' firm and then saw an opening for a class action.

If that's the case, just the passing intention to do business - real or not - becomes grounds? Yikes. I feel like I agree with the decision to have business be open to all consumers, but I didn't see much in the way of proof-of-intent on the plaintiff's behalf.
There's a very good Russian film called The Twelve Chairs- an adaptation of a book with the same title.There,the main character, a professional con artist,ends up in a small town, in a middle of nowhere. In a matter of days,he convinces the entire town that because of chess games some of the residents often play,they could turn the town into the world capital of chess.They will host international tournaments, conferences,and etc.The Soviet government will build a rail link directly to Moscow and it will ultimately become a super city in no time. The film is 50 years old,but looks like the today's world hasn't changed that much...
> My fear is that this would create a bunch of drive-by-lawsuits aimed at small businesses in the hopes that they will just settle (much the same as patent trolls).

This is exactly the problem that the Supreme Court has been trying to prevent by generally allowing arbitration clauses to be binding. The cost, delay and uncertainty of going to court creates its own punitive effect and thereby creates an imbalance.
> What about the thousands of people that work in nursing homes?

I wouldn't necessarily oppose stricter measures for people who do this sort of work. easy for me to say when I don't work in a nursing home, of course. in principle, it would be comparable to the privacy you give up when you have to get a security clearance for your job.

> The reason contact tracing has modest privacy implications is that the location history of most people isn't sensitive information (or exists already, with little additional harm incurred by giving it to public health workers). It's fine if you disagree with me on that point, but that's my argument, it isn't super serious if Bill over at the county health department sees that you encountered a sick individual at Wendy's, which is going to be the majority of the data.

I can certainly understand that my position looks a lot like closing the barn doors after the horses have already run five miles down the road. google has the gall to actually send me an email each month showing all the places it has tracked me going. even if I delete my facebook account, it can still recognize my face in pictures other people take.

I'm not happy about any of this, but at least now, the government has to put on some charade of formality to access this information. giving it the power to directly collect this data in plain view is another step in the wrong direction. it adds more stuff to the pile of things we need to undo to get where I personally want to be.

I don't think your argument is unreasonable, just that we're approaching this from different perspectives. you're thinking about "how many people can we bring with us to the other side?", while I'm thinking more about "what do we want the other side to look like?".
Wow, that is even better. Thanks!
Just after reading your post found this article...
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/03/you-can-play-these-gam...

Happy Easter!
Same thing happening now with Hydroxychloroquine.

Lots of interesting articles on how it might help. Media decides it’s a political football. No more articles
> It actually does, the link I provided shows the average square footage went up 50% from 1600 sqft to 2400. This accounts perfectly for the difference you cited (4.2x is 50% larger than 2.8x).

The article at https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/ talks about the sizes of "new homes" that have increased in this way since 1979. But the median price increases seem to take into account all home sales. If most homes sold are not "new", then the comparison is invalid. For example, if 80% of homes sold in this period were not new, then "total square feet sold" only increased by 20% of 50%, i.e., 5%. Indeed it is an easily observable fact that the prices of old houses and apartments go along with general price rises in an area. Without the old house's size changing.

> Not sure if you heard there was a mortgage crisis with tons of defaults ravaging neighborhoods.

I did hear. And this showed that at least 20% of a home's sale price is not determined by its value as measured in units of surface area. Rather, it's a vulture economics seller's market in which prices are determined by what people are able to pay for a necessary good, not by what is a fair price for that good.
> However, it is unclear whether a class containing members bound by arbitration agreements can be certified. At the same time, the broad conception of statutory standing under the Unruh Act would be much less effective as a deterrent if class certification were denied based on the inclusion of class members who have signed arbitration agreements. While the White court declined to address the class certification issue, similar classes containing members bound by arbitration agreements have been certified in California federal district court cases against Uber and Toyota.

This is very interesting to me. This case seems to (or at least might, once it’s fully litigated) further open the door to class action led by a plaintiff who is not bound under an arbitration agreement, but with the class still representing members who are bound under arbitration agreements.
well... in modern parlance perhaps.

but the word has a specific and precise definition despite peoples' ignorance of it.
Lots of bats at some of those markets if this video is true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7fyjaFOwQ
For the same reason it's worth writing articles about how taxpayers subsidizing sports stadiums is (almost?) never worth the ROI from a strictly financial standpoint: because people keeping fall for it, so it's useful to be able to have a body of evidence for the next time in hopes they won't fall for it again.
Spider Webs: Creepy or Cool? – Math Projects
BlockBlock 1.0.0 beta – rewritten and open source
> Fun fact: YAML is a superset of JSON. That is, any JSON is also valid YAML.

That's false. https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::XS#JSON-and-YAML
The Cone Game
There are a few other asymmetries, such as the time asymmetry implied by CP violation in things like kaon decay.
There's a game called "tabletop simulator" that might be what you are looking for?

And of course more traditional PC games. Minecraft can be quite fun as a group.
Indexing and version migrations happen in the background already, and progress is shown on the home page. You can pause indexing via the system tray menu, and there's an advanced system setting to prevent sync runs from starting at launch. Please email me if you have any other issues or feedback!
I don't buy the escaped/released from a lab theories espoused here and on Facebook and the like. Apparently the mutations within the SARS-COV-2 found in humans compared to the bat virus are purely random and hence the thing is not or very unlikely genetically engineered. My source is a recent New Scientist article. So the bloody thing is simply a virus that affects all people, everywhere, without fear or favour. Simply ...

Pretty much all stats I've seen relating to this thing are painfully awful. Here in the UK (in England), care home deaths are not reported in the main death stat etc etc ad nauseam. Scotland reports in its own way as does NI (or not bother) compared to England and Wales. We have minimal testing anyway so who knows what is actually going on?

Anyway, one thing I am absolutely certain of is that whilst the stats in Europe and the US, CA etc are a bit wonky at best they are at least a decent attempt to have a go at reporting the situation.

I think that the CN and other results that are so way off the curve that other nations and territories are reporting are complete fiction and dangerous fiction at that.
A few years ago Silicon Valley Bank wouldn't open an account for an entity with blockchain in the name, no matter what it actually did.

I can use this ruling, doesn't matter how skittish their compliance officer is nor the lack of clarity from their federal regulators. Should be a good time and accelerant!
Yes, there's a youtube documentary that talks about 2 animal labs in Wuhan, one specializing in bats.