skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I would do. Would never trust floating point numbers with something as important as currency.
But also far more likely to go to zero.
In those cases you are talking to the audience, not to the trolls. It doesn't matter what the trolls meant; it matters what you say.
We can adapt the Gresham’s Law for Software Development:

Project [A] is built within "x" months with lot of tech debt, crunch time and stressed out employees

Project [B] is built within "x+y" months with sane architecture and healthy working hours

If management doesn't understand the benefits of good architecture and employee well being, [A] will become the baseline against which all future projects get measured.

The software system gets messier and messier => resulting in more bugs => resulting in working weekends and late nights => employees make poor decisions because of mental fatigue => resulting in more bugs => ...
> USA has many problems, but its Constitution is not one of them.

I, and many others consider our country to be experiencing a constitutional crisis, so I politely refute your assertion.
> Is it though?

Yes. It’s widely accepted as best practice by mainstream scientists.

> Why declare publicly at all then?

So people know what you were testing and so you can’t fudge it to a test more convenient for your career, politics, or bank balance.
The article gives examples of the President's tweets supporting the movement, and Fox News routinely airs positive coverage of the rallies.

This WaPo article gives many more examples of ties between Facebook organizing groups and national organizations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/19/pro-gun...

The protestor opinions is clearly in the minority. That said, protestors aren't being bussed in. People are choosing to show up to these rallies. The movement is authentic, it will get people killed, and that's why it needs to be grappled with. Dismissing it as inauthentic will get even more people killed.
New York is at 1.3 percent positive with new cases flatlining. That fits very squarely with what you'd expect to see based on the surveys. Healthy people aren't dying by any significant number based on New York's own published data. The only other one I've seen is MA that has 97.5% deaths with comorbidity. This is a huge overreaction.
How is it a failure?

It was an immense amount of work for a fairly small payoff.
I don’t think you read his post.

You are endangering others‘ lives each time you drive.
And yet you’re not inline at the DMV surrendering your license, why?

Seasonal sickness also isn’t new.
My coworker gave me the flu and I gave it to my grandmother. Who’s at fault there?
I've always just given static local IPs to everything in my router settings - usually it lets you map MAC addresses to desired IPs.

Then you pass traffic on certain ports to certain IPs if you want to be able to access anything from outside.
In my experience though the "featured comment" is always from someone against the page owner. E.g. a rabbid Fox News conspiracy theory quoting poster commenting on an NPR story.
If you owned an oil ship, what stops you from getting paid $25 a barrel to fill your ship up with oil, sailing to international waters, dumping it all in the sea, then go right back to port and do it again and again getting paid $25 a barrel each time?
Show HN: Auto-updating RPM repository for Zoom
There seems to be lots of confusion on how this could have happened. Long story short — it may be because of the USO ETF:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2020/04/20/the-us-oi...
A theory of Zoom fatigue
Government Employees Insurance Company
No way. China did an even more intense lockdown. If anything, the data from China indicated we should have done more, sooner. And that’s assuming you can even trust the data from China. Which you can’t.
I’m pretty new to Go, and I recently tried to get delve working with VS Code and it was a pretty rough experience (VS Code in general wasn’t as polished for Go as I’d hoped). Using Delve via the command line was even harder for me to figure out.

My experience debugging in dynamic languages has just been so much easier. Just add a single line anywhere and boom - a repl exactly where you want it. I don’t mind IntelliJ for Java either (a big difference being that it has a free community edition).

I know Go is different than dynamic languages, but I wish the UX of debugging was simpler, or that there’s a free IDE that makes it easy. I’ve also heard you can “replay” easily with Delve, which sounds amazing if it was easy to figure out!
VMs work ok, but much I am much happier with Linux containers. NUCs get bogged down pretty easily and go from quiet purring kittens, to screeching and whining when they get under load. A dozen containers, with different distorts and versions runs nicely.
I think you should consider reading this book

http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/mahasit1.pdf

and/or listen to these talks

https://www.amaravati.org/series/the-collected-teachings-of-...

or anything from within this realm.

Personally I believe there is cure and way out of suffering only in meditation. But don't believe me - try it out.
Marxists call this "accelerationism"

No they don't; most Marxists (of whom I am not one) dislike the term and have little truck with accelerationist philosophy, such as it is - best summarized here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationis...

You may be thinking of Marx's phrase about 'sharpening the contradictions' between capital and labor to hasten what Marx believed to be an inevitable conflict between them, but accelerationism is rooted in an idea of amoral Darwinian fitness whereas Marx's anxiety was that industrialists would capture the productive capacity of society and extract economic rents from it much as feudal lords had captured agricultural land and done likewise.
I'm triggered by all the spider emoji. Because spiders are not hexapods.
Except when every ICU bed is taken and there are no ventilators available, the mortality rate is probably in the 3-5% rate.
Oh, come on. It's plausible that most Americans know it's a private company, but most people do not know it was started by a guy named Fred. (or do you mean a guy named Fed?)
I can tell you "from the field" that there are plenty of real people who really do feel the lockdowns are being overdone and doing more harm than good, yes, even accounting for the possibility of an increased infection rate. The damage being done by the lockdown is a big number, and quite concrete; the damage that would have been done if we didn't lock down is a widely variable number under any honest analysis and the minimum of that range quite likely extends below the concrete costs of the lockdown, even as the maximum dwarfs it. It's not a situation amenable to quite as easy a choice as many here seem to be implying. And those costs are bourne unevenly, which doesn't make the debate any easier. For those of who, like me, are nearly unaffected (so far), it's pretty easy to argue that the costs of the lockdown don't really matter.

It doesn't have to be one or the other, of course. It would be far from the first time that a true grassroots movement was taken over by some non-grassroots group for their own purposes.

I will point out that one of the reasons this may seem to be exploding suddenly though is that everybody is being exposed to the same conditions at the same time. Under those circumstances it should actually be expected that large social changes occur in relative lockstep at a pace that wouldn't have been possible during "normal" times. Mere speed of motion is not really a reason to be suspicious that the entire thing is being manufactured.

And note I am specifically speaking about that argument and no other. There is plenty of evidence that the sites in question are too organized to be a simultaneous grass-roots effort springing up in multiple states at once at this speed with this similarity. That is also so unsurprising as to be something you should expect in advance. I'm just suggesting that it's not a good idea to therefore conclude there isn't a significant group of people who really do feel this way; marginalizing that group of real people will if any tend to empower these fake organizations by making them the only place those people feel like they can get any respect.
She was a PR rep who spewed vile racist hatred.

And she got her job back anyway.

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16911074/justine-sacco-iac-mat...
If you yell “bomb” on a plane, your milage may vary.
I think if I were an outsider I would’ve probably gotten pretty shy just after discovering an internal SSRF at a big corp. However, that also probably explains why I am not a security researcher.
The origins of the outbreak remain a mystery
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The WSJ's opinion page is mindbogglingly bad. Their pro-Trump stance borders on worship, and almost every article is dedicated to either promoting Trump or defending one of his positions (in this case, lifting lockdowns).

The comment section is even worse. Breitbart-esque.
you described exactly my childhood experience.. definitely a wonderful memory to cherish
> As a true grassroots movement we are comprised of farmers, doctors, mechanics, teachers, hunters, military personnel, and retirees. These are the people that we report to—not a boss 1,000 miles away who doesn’t understand Minnesota and what Minnesotans want.

That quote is a sample of what the entire page is like: Minnesota, by Minnesota, for Minnesota. It’s very clear that they’re trying to signal they are something other than what they really are. The article goes into detail on who actually owns the site.
Also could be your brain saying "Ok I have enough input data, now let me do some backend processing subconsciously while you do more mundane stuff" and then 3 hours later what has to be done makes way more sense. I find sometimes that constantly nagging myself to keep working/stay on task is self-defeating in this way. I like to do "cron" stuff in the morning while my brain gets fully online like, walk, work out, any scheduled task that is basically no brainer and needs to be done. Once I get all that out of the way then I focus on projects and other activities that require more deliberate and profound thought. I think someone else commented in this thread that "setting the cadence" for the day like this is important to be productive but I try not to be so grind-y in the afternoons because I know my brain is chugging away on its own. YMMV
Did you google all of them?
This is really exciting! I just finished building a slack app and the JSON-centric UI leaves a lot to be desired.
I agree that they are two separate concepts. But if a community ensures that homeless people are vaccinated and not a risk to those privately insured and also wants all children vaccinated, no matter who their parents are, that is a form of healthcare. Public health requires an investment in healthcare.

Healthcare is never free. Some cultures invest in it. Some don't.
> Bolinas, a wealthy beach town

This is privately funded.
A complete reopen, no - crowded stadiums and amusement parks probably shouldn't happen. Things would never have been normal right now, and there's no silver bullet to make them normal again.

I can't speak for the original commenter, but I think the evidence increasingly suggests that we would benefit from allowing people to visit small groups of friends and run non-essential businesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronav...

"The city has added more than 3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus but had never tested positive."

I suppose the New York Times is propoganda? I know Donald Trump would agree with that statement...
Outline.com is intellectual theft of someone else's IP and their right to monetise it. Would we accept this in any other domain than content?
Matk Cuban says he’s not ruled out a run... Maybe they should have a party.
Government censorship!

No, I'm kidding. But I think something akin to mass surveillance will be needed (hopefully not in a way like China). The fundamental principle is that a bigger (more popular, more powerful, etc.) entity needs more scrutiny. The common strategy to do this is constant monitoring and quick response. So we would build a mechanism that keeps watching the popularity of all the information sources all the time, and allocate public eyeballs accordingly. And all the findings (including the surveillance system itself) must be published. I don't know how to do it exactly, but I can kinda imagine a world that implements such a system.

And you know what's the catch? I think we should probably lose our privacy by a large margin. Now the question is, are we ready to sacrifice some of our rights to fight a bigger enemy like this?
When you go out to the streets, you're not putting just yourself in danger. You're transmitting a virus that can kill lots of innocent people, including health care workers, essential workers, senior citizens, etc.
The ultimate NUC for a vSphere lab is the "hades canyon" NUC8i7HVK. I have three of them in a vSAN cluster.

* dual NVME drives for all NVME vSAN

* dual nics work out of the box for ESXi

* dual thunderbolt 3 ports to enable 10GbE via TB3 adaptor or PCIe expansion

* Linux friendly AMD GPU that has no problems being passed through to a nix or win vm

* low profile and easily stackable for a rack shelf

* Supports 2x32GB SODIMMs

* Power efficient

* Low noise

Love these things!
The piece you are quoting doesn't. I've said a bit more than that, though - in particular, about the origin of the quote. Others on this thread have also said more on the topic. If you want to see it, it's all there in this thread.

If you don't want to see it, then there's not much point talking to you. And in fact, whether you're honestly looking or not, I'm done with this conversation. You can take the last word if you want.
...not sure what that has to do with it?

Why does telling me who funded it say anything about how come everyone was willing to be tested?
> I live a mile north of New Hampshire's southern border. We have no income tax

I'm pretty sure you still have federal income tax, which is the bulk of income tax.
A long time ago when I lived in Pakistan, the local franchise holder for Federal Express processed and handled visa applications to United States. The final interview if needed was still conducted by Consulate employees but everything else was Federal Express. I want to be clear that nobody wa strying to imply that Fedex was a government agency but it acted almost like USPS does for US passports.
Covid-19 Alternate Prevalance Estimates
How do you tell the difference between someone with a 99 IQ and a 100 IQ?

(I don't know the punchline)
Gotcha. I feel like I remember some numpy or scipy way of creating complex ufunc ops and applying them simultaneously, but maybe I'm misremembering or thinking np.vectorize was fast?
Right. What's weird is Anandtech themselves don't seem to have the common benchmarks in their 'Bench' tab - e.g. to compare Cinebench R20, the 4900HS isn't even shown: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2580

But comparing the numbers, 5070 for the 9900KS vs. 4394 for the 4900HS, it looks quite good.
"That's because many people in Sweden live alone." - got a link to a credible study confirming this? It sounds rather like a fantasy to me.
6 cores and 64GB max memory? It’s hardly enough to run anything.
> No bugs fixed

At this point, I've helped port multiple code-bases in multiple companies. Porting to Python 3 actually can and does fix some bugs, as it generally forces the code to start handling text semi-correctly, instead of just hoping the bytes go through and it all works out.

> Your downstream customers receive very little benefit for this effort,

They do, actually. Again, while I was porting those same code-bases, I'm working with a team of engineers who (and along with myself) are also still adding code to meet other incoming requirements. And in my experience, there was a fair bit of "Boy, it'd be nice if X were easier in Python!" where X is something that is easy in Python … 3. The question would have often gone unanswered had we not had devs experienced with Python 3 on the team.

Porting to 3 gets you all the additions that have come to Python that haven't been backported. A better standard library, syntax that better supports you, etc., translate to better productivity for devs as they are now equipped with better tools. This is only going to get worse as libraries drop support for 2.

(And while many things have been backported into third-party libraries, not all of them have, and in particular, syntax changes. And the existing backports are actually quite useful during the process of porting: I can change the code to conditionally depend on the backport library in 2, and use the real deal in 3.)
Tech Tools Used by Digital Nomads and the Rise of Remote Work Culture
An emerging fault system along the Nevada border
Never had this problem with Scala...
It's enough to run a lot of stuff.
You can assign them static IPs in DHCP, then run your own DNS server that returns local IPs for those hosts.

Or bridge those VMs on your macbook so it's a flat network, then use Avahi for mDNS so they all have .locals.
We all gain more insight by discussing the study’s or analysis’s flaws, and improving future studies.

I learned nothing of interest scientifically from the discussion of Bogan. Attack the substance, not the author.
Totally. The general problem is indeed difficult to solve, but I've seen lots of great work in this area.
I read the article but it's coming from a very different viewpoint than mine. And because of the format of the article it wasn't clear whether all the domains traced to Dorr Brothers or if only some of them did. It keeps going after that connection after all.

One thing I'm curious about, if Dorr brothers are ripping off Republicans - why are Republicans not upset? Why are Democrats upset on their behalf?
I did a web search for "Échiré". First result was an Amazon product page at $25, second result was a gourmet food store at $8 for the same thing.

both results were for 250g (half pound) of demi sel
> herd immunity overshoot

I saw that too when mucking with simple models. The percent infected overshoots (R0 - 1)/R0. So that is a threshold for herd immunity not the ultimate infection ratio. They're only equivalent under steady state conditions.

Also saw an study released by the CDC that estimated that the initial r0 in Wuhan was 5.8. Explains what happened in Northern Italy and New York. The epidemic achieved break out while most infected were still mildly ill or asymptomatic.
I didn't want to reply to the PyPy comment and be negative, but I haven't really gotten speedup from the few times I've tried PyPy. In fact I've generally gotten slowdowns. Definitely not 10x improvements. I'm not sure what the reason might be though, because the rest of the world seems to think differently.
Yeah, that's quite a shocker truth be told. I bought a little "netbook" last year for my mom and I was surprised the Intel Goldmont+ [0] it has inside could pull 11 hours of netflix.

Now having a beast like those Ryzens pull a similar feat? Sign me up! I'm looking forward to getting one of these!

[0] Goldmont(+) is an architecture where Intel pulled a few tricks from Skylake, put them in the blender with an Atom and got a surprisingly good, yet power efficient design... For late 2018 that is. Seems AMD topped them there too, and without having to go for a less powerful design.
There should be a meme:
75 year old baby boomer: I remember when gas was less than a dollar a gallon
45 year old son: me too!
15 year old grandson: me three!!
Love this! The slack api is bizarre
> Don’t get it, can one group of people not represent the same interest in two different states?

No, one group of people cannot represent a grassroots, self-organized group in two different states. Once so represented, it is no longer grassroots.

If I have lunch with a bunch of coworkers and convince them that Ruby would be way better than Python and we should switch, and then three different teams in three different offices start advocating for it, and I wrote the team's wiki page on why they should switch, there may well be genuine interest in switching - but there is not grassroots interest. They can absolutely say "We were convinced by 'geofft and we agree with this page 'geofft wrote." They cannot legitimately say "We came to this conclusion on our own."
Who's to say counter-intelligence isn't already all over it?

There's only so much they can do besides monitor, analyze, and attribute it, though. They publicly announce things when there's a lot of aggregated evidence collected over time, and high potential impact, like some of the past official announcements about the election interference.

Releasing a statement for every instance of confirmed or suspected disinformation/propaganda just isn't practical and also may just play right into the hands of the intelligence agency they're trying to counter.

It's possible the actors may, on some level, actually want their plausibly deniable actions to be recognized in some cases. It creates yet another wedge in American politics, just like all of the other stuff Russian intelligence has done in recent years. They or others may be trying to construct a double bind: one sort of victory if they remain undetected or at least unexposed; another sort of victory if they do get exposed.

Not to mention the primary practical purpose of keeping it secret so they can continue to monitor further activity. If they blow the lid on it, they'll change tactics and be harder to trace in the future. That's why spy rings are often tracked over years before being busted, like the case involving Anna Chapman. You can't effectively counter intelligence if you immediately announce that the intelligence has been countered. In infosec terms, it's like burning a zero-day.

Also, there isn't any solid evidence this is Russian state-sponsored activity. Certainly a real possibility, but also could just be a random dude trying to make a buck and/or have fun. Either way, there's surely a ton of stuff going on behind the scenes which we're not aware of and may never be aware of. Surely some intelligence or law enforcement people have seen this very thread, or at least the Krebs article.

Finally, there could already be some covert countering occurring, like when Cyber Command targeted Russia's IRA troll farm in 2018 and temporarily disabled their internet access.
I don't think that "non-robust" is the right way to look at it. Nor do I think that Facebook, Google, etc. have a large number of employees devoted to evil or that third party bad actors are fully responsible. I think what has happened is that the infrastructure is now based on algorithms that reward trolling and disinformation beyond the ability of anyone to stop. It's kind of like a gray goo scenario of the mental space of internet users that we're too anesthetized to really fight.
Ran some basic figures for 6 months:

Barrels 2000000

lease cost / day $350,000.00

Barrel cost -$37

Take delivery profit $74,000,000.00

After 180 days storage $63,000,000.00

Sell/barrel $20

Net $51,000,000.00
When China launched their Coronavirus bioweapon against the world, it was with the intent to destabilize everyone so that China could grab more power. They are a murderous communist regime, so it probably seemed like a good idea at the time. We must punish them for their crime against humanity and make them pay for what they have taken from us!
> This is also indicated at the bottom of the web page in clear text

What is the "this" in this sentence? Looking at the pages that still resolve I don't see anything that implies they are not independent state-based organizations, but it looks like some of them no longer resolve so maybe you saw something I didn't.
3 comments in 5 years, interesting to choose this hill to die on.