skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a lease ending in June and really trying to figure out if there's any waiting I should be doing or just get another one in June. I feel like I'm a few months too early.

Maybe I'll have to wade back into actually owning a vehicle if the prices absolutely tank.
Not surprised really...the car market, both new and used, must be taking a huge beating. Job security and loans plus "oh gee, do I want to be in a random person's car"

Home sales is probably worse though. No live-in sellers want buyers wandering around, and both sellers/buyers are almost 100% "wait it out".

Curious if there's a loophole here for the greedy.
Although foreign influence campaigns have used tactics like these there is no evidence to suggest any foreign influence in this case. The article suggests the bad actors were identified to actual persons in the US. So, in this case, no Russian puppets here.

I don't keep up with the RNA or many other special interests movements. The NRA, as far as I know, are a prominent gun rights lobbyist with extremely deep pockets. There is a lot of conjecture about the NRA, and that could just be that they are highly controversial, but there is nothing I know of suggesting the NRA is influenced by foreign agents, but then I also don't keep up with this.
Thankfully, "men without pants" shows me exclusively men wearing pants, underpants that is, as I'm in the UK.

Searching "pants" only shows me "trousers", that's a big fail for Google IMO, I'm accessing google.co.uk.
Rexx scripting was great! And it definitely felt like they were catering the OS to a powerful group of power users.

To clarify my statement above about its code being a hot mess: my understanding was always that OS/2 achieved reliability through sheer force of will rather than it being built in a way that was architected to be intrinsically safe. Sort of how US nuclear subs have achieved an impressive safety record mainly due to extraordinary fastidiousness with respect to process and procedure.
What I don't understand is what is the point blaming other forces/countries for exploiting something that is so easily exploitable. If you have a wide-open security holes in your system they will be exploited by everyone who can potentially benefit from this.

Other than Russia/China/<Villain of the week> there are many other actors who have incentives to meddle in the society, e.g.

- The US government

- Large Businesses

Example from the article:

"Reopenmississippi.com was registered on April 16 to In Pursuit of LLC, an Arlington, Va.-based conservative group with a number of former employees who currently work at the White House or in cabinet agencies (link: https://projects.propublica.org/trump-town/organizations/in-...). A 2016 story from USA Today says In Pursuit Of LLC is a for-profit communications agency launched by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch."

- T-shirt sellers?

"A number of other sites — such as reopennc.com — seem to exist merely to sell t-shirts, decals and yard signs with such slogans as “Know Your Rights,” “Live Free or Die,” and “Facts not Fear.” WHOIS records show the same Florida resident who registered this North Carolina site also registered one for New York — reopenny.com — just a few minutes later."

At this point it is so easy to anonymously set up these websites and protest groups that a bored high-school student can do it.

Instead of putting blame on this or that country, efforts should be focused on creating some kind of a online reputation system so that any content posted would contain a signature that ties it to the author. If the signature is missing then you know the source is likely untrustworthy.
Pros: no need for censorship. anyone can still post anything online.
Cons: users need to be educated about this feature. It has to be supported by major browsers as a first-party component.

Otherwise we see more ridiculous initiatives like this from GitLab where they ban hiring engineers from Russia on certain positions: "WIP: Support Engineer Job family country-of-residence block" (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555).

EDIT: fixed typos
KVM and Proxmox also run very well on that platform, if you're more used to those stacks (and the management tools are free).
Imagine if it was the day of the Super Bowl, and you wanted to go out to a sports bar that was going to be airing the Super Bowl. So you go out and find a bar that says they're throwing a Super Bowl party, and go in and settle in, and when it comes time for kickoff you realize that the bar is actually airing the Super Bowl from 10 years ago. Like, it would have been fine if they had called the party a 'Super Bowl from 10 years ago' party, and for some reason there's this part of the bar that seems to be all on board with rewatching the same Super Bowl from 10 years ago every year and frankly seems confused why the rest of the bar is confused and angry about it (I mean it's still the Super Bowl right?).
That’s the problem. They are not massively parallel. In fact, don’t use more than two cores efficiently. Therefore the i9 will perform better than Xeon due to higher clock speed with lower cores.

Also, this software uses Intel MPI libraries. A new i7 runs it 30% faster than a new Ryzen 7 with same clock speed. So Intel is tweaking their compiler for their processors.
Works for me? Requires JavaScript.
>>Yes. I, a member of the public, along with many others fully support stay-at-home orders, etc. Democracy doesn't mean every citizen gets to do whatever dumb thing they get it in their head to do because "freedom."

so do you support 100% of every measure, every state government has taken, or is that just a board support over closing the entire economy and putting millions out of work?

Do believe there are any limits on government in a time or crisis, or more to the topic at hand do you believe in any limits on democracy or just pure 50.1% can tell the 49.9% what to do?

I will admit I am not a strong supporter of pure democracy, I do prefer Constitutional Republics with strong protections for the minority from the excesses of the majority, the minority being the individual.

History has shown the majority can not be trusted to rule over others any more than dictators can

>Democracy doesn't mean every citizen gets to do whatever dumb thing they get it in their head to do because "freedom."

In a free society you can as that "dumb thing" is not directly, and provably a danger to others, and there is some libertarian arguments for for some of the stay at home orders. However many of them have gone well beyond public protection and are a clear power grab and should be unconstitutional and are a clear violation of natural human rights

But the prevailing opinion by the "majority" in this democracy is that your rights end when the crisis begins, meaning you have no rights at all, because in times of crisis is when you need your rights more than ever, right scan not and should not be "suspended" because of crisis, if they can they are not rights at all but privileges

Of-course a democracy does not have to be a free society, most people associate democracy with freedom though
The Palace was (and still has some servers) a 2D chat program. It was sold in retail stores and used a client-server paradigm similar to IRC. It allowed users to copy and paste their own images as avatars, and had a robust enough scripting language (based on Forth) that let you write a script for basically anything in the game. Even the channels were described in the scripting language.
Same principle drives the amplification of inequality in society. People and companies try to protect their incomes so they lobby or game the system, competing against each other to gain the upper hand. As a consequence they directly harm the common good, which would be a thriving economy. It's a gradual process of accumulation of inflexibility which can become its own downfall.
Peer Review of “Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara, CA”
we've already reached the point where some hospital systems are stressed.

Only NYC has gotten anywhere near their capacity, and even there (as far as I know) nobody has been denied care due to insufficient resources. Many hospitals in other areas are mostly empty and even cutting shifts, e.g. https://www.insidesources.com/unexpected-consequence-of-covi...
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This is a great tribute. I've come across the majority of them in my (extremely amateur) mathematical explorations, where four names in particular pop up again and again, in all kinds of places - Euler, Gauss, Conway and Thurston.
And forcing Facebook to publish points of view they disagree with doesn't harm the Bill of Rights?
Sounds like self-serving, "ends justify the means" bullshit to me.
There was talk of a vehicle loan bubble in months previous. I wonder how that impacts the feasibility of these financial arms of car companies's bottom line?

Is this another bailout target?
we definitely need to do what we can. Having a hard time finding ways to contribute bc I feel like there's not much I can do to partner my FE skills w/ good data sources. Seems like you need to be either well-known enough or have other forms of leverage to connect w/ reliable data/institutions AND probs have some kind of oversight
Is there a simple guide to understanding the str/unicode changes from python 2 to 3? I've made mistakes with strings that ruined every single piece of code I've upgraded from 2 to 3 unless I just littered the code with defensive six() calls ... and even then some things still broke.
The OP wants people to stop spreading misinformation.
Of course not. Facebook is a corporation; people are what have rights.
Also not on fb. It sounds plausible to me as well.

But even in the best case scenario social media is not a robust system and will amplify controversy.

In addition there is money to be made by fanning the flames. I mean it pretty genius, people get angry they go on fb to rant about it.

Zuckerberg will be a name remembered like Carnegie, but not for making anything. Just for owning feelings and controversy. Second best to owning the color blue.
One of the best things about YC is being there at the silicon valley.
Otherwise, it would lose one of the most important benefits it offers!
Yes, exclusive search is a huge problem.

You have to know to search for "solid colored shirt", but when you can't think of this variation of search, or maybe there isn't one, exclusion is your only option, and it's broken.
I agree. Regardless of your opinions, overreactions by authorities can breed extremists. The typical profile of a “freedom fighter” is somebody who first sees their future group being treated “unfairly,” eg by watching a peaceful protest broken up violently. That’s sort of when the indoctrination begins.
Many large Python 2 projects come from age when it was not exactly practical to have ~100 external dependencies and thus do not have that. It was the time when one really though about whether having external dependency for this particular shiny thing is worth the deployment hassle involved.
Which is pretty much a given with integrated graphics. The Vega series iGPUs are worlds faster than Intel's, even going back to the 3000 series laptops.
thanks for the feedback. several people have told me this is "standard practice" ;)
They knew within a week or two that the lockdowns had no effect. We converged right to the same level as Sweden. That they kept pushing it is insane.
So Facebook is an organization of what, robots?

Are you OK with similar rights being stripped from your hometown newspaper on the grounds that they are a "corporation", despite the explicit specification of the press as a protected entity in the First Amendment?
Where is US counter-intel in this? Isn't this what the FBI is supposed to be handling and partially designed for? It seems crazy that possible foreign entities are causing chaos at home and we seem unable (unwilling?) to stop it.
My karate sensei has a terrible habit of showing how not to do things more than he shows how to do them, drives me crazy.
Did you even read the links I posted?
Not to mention people that can't relocate. I, for one, cannot relocate on account of proximity to my step children (whom I've not seen for months due to quarantine). I'd be perfectly happy to work remotely from a site in Montana, given I had decent internet. But, because of my step children, I can't for at least another 7 years. Until all of my step kids are in college, at least, I'm stuck being in the Chicago area (otherwise, my wife would divorce me if she couldn't see her kids).
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I think there's a fair amount of people who think that status quo is untenable. That, and a sense of overwhelming inertia is all it takes.
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I meant people being tested nowadays, not cumulative numbers.

Today: Kings 548/1835 = 29.9% and Queens 786/2428 = 32.4%
LA is far less dense, fewer travel by public transport, and the weather is much warmer.

The people are probably healthier too.
See my other reply. Ryzen is 30% slower due to Intel compiler optimizations, and I need higher clock speed rather than cores. The new i9 with 5.1 GHz boost should work best.
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If it wasn't AdWords, it'd be something else. People build websites because they want their content to be seen. That means competing for search result ranking.
Mostly just because of all the oxygen this debate seems to suck up, and the lack of reasonableness around it. It also bothers me because some of this nonsense seemed to contribute to Guido stepping down as BDFL, which I think was a Bad Thing.

Let me be clear: If people want to use Python 2 they can go nuts. They can even pretend it's a completely new language if they want to. If there's enough of them I'm sure it can be done. Just stop asking the community to support it, or the rest of us to care.
> I am under instructions to talk about this stuff, openly and honestly, and to see that people aren’t as judgmental as the wounded child within believes.

In my experience, you should prepare to be disappointed. Judgementalism is how people survive in a world that rewards niarcissism; they judge others to be inferior to give themselves the strength to go on. It's an arms race.

Intellectually, I understand that people are mostly crap. Emotionally, I keep making the mistake of trusting people's supposed good intentions when I feel like I've gotten to know them, and finding out that, once again, they're judgemental assholes who will fabricate tales to tell themselves so they can absolve themselves of meaningful guilt.

There are good people, non-judgemental people, caring people, who can sympathize with you and who deserve your trust (assuming you're a well-meaning person, as I suspect from what I've read here). From your description of some aspects of your life, it seems you've found one or two, and I'm happy to hear it.

Mostly, people want to tell you fairy tales about the good in the world. Most of it is pretty mediocre; even middling is a stretch. It's not distributed evenly, though, and it's worth holding out hope. I was lucky enough to meet one of those rare lights in my early teens, and we're still in touch. I was lucky enough to meet several others along the way, and I charish their influences on my life. I'm lucky enough to live my life with one now, and for quite a few years up to this point. They make it all worthwhile.
Also features that we should be able to take for granted but are broken or missing in current systems, such as spatial file managers.

In OS/2 and classic Mac OS, folders you opened would remember their window position and other properties (including custom background image in OS/2) so that you could find things in a very human way by remembering e.g. "the small blue window in upper left".

Windows 95 copied this in a slightly broken way – you could open the same folder in multiple windows at the same time and give them conflicting properties, which breaks the model. Windows 98 (and the IE 4 upgrade to Windows 95) merged the whole thing with the web browser which broke it even more.

Mac OS X also had a half-broken implementation of this, since the file manager tried to combine the Mac OS Finder with the NeXTSTEP file manager which was completely different. John Siracusa has written extensively on this topic: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/
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Only for personal usage, businesses may still need to show licenses and with telemetry, it’s easier for Microsoft to find such usages. That said, with the switch to Linux servers, Windows is probably a declining business for Microsoft while Azure and Office are growing, hence “Microsoft 365” subscriptions.

I believe for non-production usage, Microsoft is okay with unlicensed or trial Virtual Machines and such. The idea being that if developers are testing their software in Windows, that’s better than the alternative (not testing their software in Windows).

Similarly, if willing to beta test versions of software, you can get Visual Studio for “Insiders” and test the Enterprise edition for free with a non-production license for as long as newer beta versions are made available. (Note: IANAL, this ain’t legal advice, read the terms and conditions on any Microsoft VMs or software installations)
This is not astroturfing. I saw the protest in Austin this weekend. 22 million people have been laid off in the last 4 weeks. I've seen the footage of tens of thousands lining up at food banks across the country. This is just getting started.
I hope this inspires a 'Fuck you Angular' post. There's enough frustration in the land of the WebDevs.
If a stranger wants to run anything on their system, alone, never touching anything else and never coming into contact, whatever. But I very much look forward to a world where "Python" == "Python 3" precisely because it keeps impacting me. If I use a package that continues to use python2, I have to keep a python2 installation on my system (complete with some set of modules). Meanwhile, I can use the very latest, 100% maintained GCC or Clang to compile any C standard version, so I don't think that's a good comparison.
I infer you do understand that addiction is a proximate cause of homelessness, not rising house prices. So I've made my point.
How do we know the higher per year mortality rate from poverty will exceed the lower death rate from reduced pollution, reduced car accidents, etc? It's not clear how these balance.

There are also industries growing, and industries that will be created. And some of the industries that may be permanently eliminated may be a net positive -- cruise lines are a complete blight.

I don't know what the net-net will look like, but it's important to push back on the assumption that economic downfall will be all negative in terms of lives lost.
My understanding is it's (R0 - 1)/R0

So if R0 is 4 then 3/4 of the population is required to be immune before herd immunity kicks in.
We are already drowning in misinformation. We have no clue how deadly this disease is, and yet we are using what appears to be [gross?] overestimations to drive public policy to the tune of trillions of dollars printed with a flick of a pen.

Produce and spread good information instead.
can you post a video / screenshots of the demo?
In addition to the negative the positive is rewarded.

Positive status symbols are rewarded. Ex. pictures of a 5k, or the top of a hike or volunteering.
All that feel good stuff has the same effect. You are curating your image for the audience and eventually you become that image.

It really encourages clique mentality one way or another and shoves people into echo chambers.
I wonder how the Wave Glider deals with fouling of the umbilical from seaweed and fishing gear?
Active vs. recovered is a metric related to the people who are tested and confirmed. It cannot be changed by testing fewer people, only by rapidly ramping the number of tests up or down.
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Dude, no offence to you, but your buddy sounds like a sociopathic asshole, and I say sociopathic because they surely have to know that their trolling is contributing to society-wide changes having really negative effects, yet they choose to do it anyway.

Being "just one of a multitude" cheering on and enabling the grifters, sociopaths and wannabe tyrants - whatever the motivation - doesn't lessen their culpability.
It would be nice if it was more widespread than we think. Presumably that would mean we would be closer to the end of the tunnel?
Don’t know. I just read that 10 series is 64 GB max. I do know that Ryzen supports ECC and > 64 GB. Intel must want you to buy Xeon, when that is a poor choice for my application. I need clock speed, not massive cores.
True, till you land a job where the worst possible combination is already cherry picked for your dismay.
Out, about, and willing to speak to a stranger, which I think is the biggest bias. Pretty much everyone I know goes on the occasional walk, but we all stay the fuck away from other people.
There's some news about that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/russian-media-...
Windows server at least will randomly reboot until you get a license, let me tell you how fun that is to figure out.
Just speculating here but I hung out with some NYC folks last month in SoCal and they practically all smoked. It was very strange, I rarely encounter smokers living in California.
In fact, the general take is that Americans have been pretty good at following distancing rules with or without hard rules but some were slow to do so (and most government was in retrospect slow to strongly recommend doing so) but, to a first approximation, few will do so over an extended period.

So no.
This is the problem though, all those companies are advertising fantastical results. They aren't saying "Hey! We spent billions of dollars so our algorithm could be as racist as your uncle Steve!". Oh and by the way, Steve is now right - because all the crimes he ever finds out about are by black people, because that's what Google has decided he wants to see. So it's no longer him seeking out ways of justifying his latent racist tendencies, no, he's outsourced that to Google.
yes, that's because you're reading it the way the author wants you to. There are other ways to read the same set of facts.
I remember when this kind of thing used to be called "job security" by developers, the useless complexity meant more work and more jobs. Now it's apparently become so messed up (in part as an effort to lock developers into one platform) that it's made development work hell. Perhaps developers are somewhat complicit for not objecting sooner?
The article does say people get lazy or performance hungry but the theme of that section is people making mistakes.

The part about Unicode is about how much Python 2 code accidentally only handled ASCII. Python 2 requires handling other encodings as bytes anyway.
Everyone is getting fired.
The Federal Government is granted these powers through federal statute, the Commerce Clause within the Constitution, and executive order of POTUS.

Also:

> In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are “police power” functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society.

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/specificlawsregulations.html

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
The best time to pick up a used truck/boat was to pay attention to the local plants where workers were going on strike (not even counting layoffs in times like these). I saw this extensively in the Pacific Northwest (Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, Western Montana). Any time any of the big plants or mines striked was a good time to be buying used.