skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've definitely seen it argued that SimCity-alikes (and The Sims) are not games. Whether nor not this is true is IMHO beyond the scope of HN comments.

Suppose it's a game: Cities Skylines is open-ended and has no formal win condition, but you can certainly lose. Your city can go bankrupt, etc.

You're playing against the simulator algorithms. If you succeed then you've beaten those algorithms.
GoRails has a cool video showcasing how you can use it: https://gorails.com/episodes/stimulus-reflex-basics?autoplay...
Define "great". A lot of people don't give a fuck about blings aside from cushy job. So far blings are what make up for the sad reality of city living. But if cushy jobs are not restricted to few areas anymore... Why bother.
Indeed, for example I-NEDSS lacks an onset date for nearly two of five confirmed cases in Kane co:

$ head -1 kane-2020-04-19-2020-04-19-17:31:23-CDT.csv
Age Range,Age,Case Count,City,Death,Reported Date,Sex,State,Symptom Onset
$ awk -F, '!$9 { t++ } END { n = NR - 1; printf("%s %s %.1f%%\n", t, n, t * 100 / n) }' kane-2020-04-19-2020-04-19-17:31:23-CDT.csv
233 607 38.4%

https://www.kanehealth.com/
Not briefly, it’s still negative and hit -$40.
I am little surprised with this result. When I worked on similar products we constantly look at our query stream, sorted the high volume queries and manually intervened to present better results to our users.

I will not be surprised millions of dollars are being lost because of this substandard query result per year.
If Cyberpunk 2077 runs on linux, I'll remove windows today itself..
SCOTUS to Review Its First Ever CFAA Case
> while someone on this thread is being called a white supremacist for defending the phrase "It's okay to be white".

They're throwing around terms like "white genocide", and saying that they wouldn't judge people who wear 1488 (just so we're clear, the 88 part means heil hitler). They're either a white supremacist, or a troll just pretending to be one.

You're not making a good case for the lack of specificity.

Going to your OK sign, obviously ok signs are fine in the general sense, but if someone is on a rant about how immigrants are ruining the country, then throws up an ok sign, it's explicitly a white supremacist calling card. It's all about context.
The company represents people too; those people just happen to be shareholders, and not employees. There is also a spectrum of companies, from mom-and-pop corporations and sole proprietorships and worker-owner co-operatives through member-owned co-operatives, all the way to publicly-traded corporations.
Castle is a fortified structure, it's not required to have a separate perimeter wall, though it is common.

Some castles rely entirely on their own walls
I was thinking that the article overall felt bit out of touch with what Excel does these days, then I checked the date on the date on the linked original IEEE article and its from 1990, 30 years ago. No wonder it is bit difficult to place in modern context. "A while back" indeed.
> If I'm struck by a car with stage 4 cancer, the car accident killed me, regardless of my outlook.

this is not obviously true. the analogy is good, but you didn't go into enough detail.

if someone with terminal cancer is hit by a car, makes it to a hospital, and dies some weeks later, why did they die? both things likely played a role; how do you report this statistic?

i stopped worrying about the virus and started worrying about the economy and its politics weeks ago.
Sounds like my toy-project:

https://github.com/skx/rss2email

Which is a "port" of the very old/established python project with the same name:

https://github.com/wking/rss2email

If you have a server somewhere, you use cron and configure a list of feeds. Each time a new entry appears you get it sent as an email.

See also this recent post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899469
I'm going to try and translate the simplest concept that tempsy is saying.

The sellers were looking to sell for most of last week, however there fewer buyers as the contract approached its end, and those who were willing to buy wanted a lower price:

Volume of transactions on Friday was 344k, Thursday was 111m, Wednesday was 147m. In the past 30 days, the low was 686k (ex Friday), and the high was 459m. Traders slowed their buying so the market became one sided.
What happens when someone asks you about one of those items? You consult your memory reserves, and you find that those are proper names of specific entities. So your brain returns those entities. Now there very well be a high school band called "Shirts without Stripes", you most likely would call up plain shirts or shirts with non-striped patterns. No reason that a search engine wouldn't follow the same rules (i.e., Google must have millions of entries for Doctors without Borders and Men without Hats).
Does it strike anyone else as a bit weird to focus on R? It's obviously useful to know whether R is less than or greater than unity (subcritical or supercritical). But when R is greater than 1, then the growth rate over time seems more fundamental.
if someone dies in a traffic death while having stage four cancer then this would indeed not change year on year mortality (assuming the person dies of cancer).

This is an awful example though because the victim profile of car deaths is generally middle aged adults, who would not have died otherwise. If your average car driver was a stage four cancer patient traffic safety would indeed be less of an issue relatively speaking.

The risk profile of covid patients skews so heavily towards old age and existing preconditions that it is actually not trivial at all. It's immensely important to look at death rates in the context of general mortality, not a vacuum.

It may very well be the case that covid 'crams' the deaths of people who would have died anyway into a short timeframe and there'll be singificantly lower flu mortality and so on later this year.
Its based on my personal beliefs. I don't have much to back it up one way or another (maybe occam's razor at most). Metaphysical claims usually come down to i believe what i believe because i believe it, and i am no exception.

The main reason i included it was because psybin's comment which i was responding to was very dismissive of "spirituality", and i think there is still valid things to talk about related to spiritual "journeys" regardless of if you think there is some metaphysical force you are connecting to, or if you believe its simply a drug-induced altered state.
I think your third point is mostly strong. I see most companies going to partial remote but staying in their current locations. For growth to 2nd/3rd tier cities to dominate we’d need to see stronger job growth there than in major metros, or for near universal remote work. Also with this huge recession most people will be more hesitant to move without a secured job. I think your assertion is correct.
Scripting and generic IPC hooks are one of the coolest things computers can do, and they're more and more limited as time goes on. Just this morning I tried writing a Dark Mode menu bar app for OSX (I'm aware of NightOwl) and it's literally 5 lines of code, but I can't get it running because of sandbox headaches. Looked up all the combinations of solutions but couldn't figure it out after 30 minutes. All sorts of automation and inter-app use-cases are basically dead. All in the name of greater security, except that it can still be done with a good security model. It's possible, it's just that that's not anybody's use-case for computers anymore, except for power users who know how to use Linux, so it's been downgraded to "unsupported". (And Linux is just generally not compatible with rMBP hardware afaik.) Reading what you said about OS/2 sounds like it was a lot closer to this ideal.
I'm guessing you don't live in urban California, where most grocery stores installed L2 chargers 5 years ago? They were intended for short-range EV charging, and most EVs aren't short range enough to find them useful. I rarely see anyone charging at the ones in Palo Alto. Some Tesla Superchargers are near grocery stores, that's a pretty nice combination. I do have one friend who hasn't bothered to install a home charger because she can use the supercharger next to her favorite grocery store.
...or at least provide a better constant? Due to WFH, free time, and general discontent I'm sure site traffic for any location is up. How does the increase in suburb searches compare to the (likely) increase in urban searches?
Interestingly I revisited the repo for news3k and it seems to be inactive with 300+issues, 70+ open PR's, last commit 12 months ago...
Corruption is like the air we breathe -- it's everywhere, and we've all gotten so used to it that we don't even notice it anymore. You don't think state and local tax rates (in City A and City B) are also driven by corporate money?

My point isn't that Politician X took a bribe for Corporation Y and that's why taxes are low. I'm saying that laws have been designed in a way that favors those who currently have the most political power. It's so engrained that it's difficult to imagine a system without it. Now, that's not to say that this can't change over time and different groups can't acquire more political power through organizing or otherwise, but in my view the state of things currently is that corporate money dominates politics.
I think accepting would've worked. Implying that some demographic is bad makes the movement lose support, the only people who benefit from it are people trying to gain status within the movement. (Edit: that answers my question above.)
Did you hear back yet?
One of my favorites, which I didn't think to look for for years, is 'Ctrl + Shift + Enter'. This completes your statement for you. Very convenient and lots of wasted punctuation characters skipped.
Giving up because of a possibility of something going wrong is just asinine. By that logic you might aswell just waste away right now because we'll all perish in the heat-death of the universe.

You get a chance and you take it. All things bring you towards success one step at a time, as unsatisfying as it might feel.
Ok folks - I'll never ever use some kind of "joke" here again. Do you really want to discuss that being a software developer requires at least a glimpse of being "smart"? I wanted to use it in a way to express "humbleness", that's why the stress should be on "somehow".

I need a break, seriously.
Imagine if it actually started beating out other yeasts until we starting having difficulty baking bread that doesn't make people hallucinate.

I'm not saying this is likely to happen, but just imagine...
> software developer, which translates to being somehow smart

It really doesn't. Not even a little bit. The only thing it says is that someone acquired a somewhat difficult skill.

I've met many engineers who were were great at writing software but completely clueless otherwise.

Skill and Intelligence are very different things in my view.
Why did the doctor even speak to FBI,DHS agents in first place ? Did they have a warrant ?

Day by day it is getting harder to understand who are the good guys these days.
Most companies are not going to go fully distributed. Partial remote? Sure. Maybe a few full remote roles set aside for superstars? Sure. But mass distributed remote? Highly unlikely. This experiment hasn’t gone that well.
> "Because Seattle's a pretty great city to live in?"

I feel like thats a minority opinion. The weather is terrible, the food is terrible, service at restaurants (or pretty much service in general) is terrible. A huge portion of the city shuts down at night. Where NYC is a city that doesn't sleep, Seattle sleeps. There are drug needles in the streets, and I routinely see homeless people defecating on sidewalks. I even saw a bus stop turned into a homeless person's 'house'.

The only thing I see that Seattle has going for it is low taxes.
If the problem is that it didn't know where to apply the without, then why does it show me results from only a single entity? I would prefer so see an interleaved set of results containing all ambiguous entities.
A simple browser-based hexapod robot simulator built from first principles
Might be stored as an int in cents (or whatever the tick size is).
Your search for "skiing Norway" mostly returns results for skiing in the French Alps, because those pages have much higher visit rates.

Google is a dumbass nowadays, and regularly ignores half your search terms to present you with absolutely irrelevant results, that have gotten lots of visits in the past.
> but you don't know where it belongs

Yes, the English grammatical rules make it unambiguous where it belongs. This is solvable.
How long ago was this?

For a smaller place (900sqft for a 2 or 3 bedroom) they're asking $3200 in logan square.

Right arround the corner (western/armitage) they're asking $1800 for a studio.
Yeah, the double-wammy of 9/11/01 and the post-tech-bubble recession drove people out of NYC for a while. Vacancies went up and re prices went down. But it didn't last forever, obviously. It is hard to say if this will be different--we're going to be living with this for some time at some level, and it's still hard to say how much for how long.
>If I want to write clearly and without ambiguity, I rewrite sentences that have these problems. Why wouldn't I do the same for search queries?

Ok, so imagine one online retailer follows your advice and expect the users to write clear and unambiguous queries, while another retailer puts extra effort into attribution.

Which one will make more money?
I've never been to Cushing Oklahoma. I feel like it should be possible to build a big tank in a week or two. Why isn't available storage space skyrocketing?
> They basically show that public desire over a given law has almost no impact on the probability of that issue being passed, and inversely public dissent on a given law has almost not impact on the probability of that law failing to pass.

I read the abstract, and that doesn't seem to contradict what I said, which was "...democracy, ...give[s] a bigger seat at the decision-making table to stakeholders outside of privileged leadership classes." I didn't say it'd always give the people the biggest seat, just a bigger one than they'd have otherwise. Furthermore, even if that study is correct, it would have a big blind-spot, since I can't imagine that it covers policy that "economic elites and organized groups representing business interests" would want but was never pursued by the government because it would be so contrary to public desire (and thus would never show up in any empirical data set). It's quite plausible that elite/business interests dominate certain areas of policy most of the time (probably the smaller and more technical types), but are overridden occasionally but in a big way by the public when it comes to certain large policy changes.

>> it sounds like you're claiming that citizens of democracies have no more political voice than those of authoritarian countries like the PRC or North Korea, which is obviously false.

> Is it obviously false? The current situation shows that democratic governments are more than capable of exerting Authoritarian control over society, sure you will argue that it is a "good reason" right now due to pandemic, but the fact this control is even possible shows where the power is, and how little freedom people really have.

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."

> I did jump to an assumption based on past experiences here on HN and the context around your comments.

Don't do that, please.
That increases complexity drastically for what's basically a third and a sixth of the reward, if even that. I don't think it makes that much sense.
> Use a charging network; there are plenty (and there's far more investment in expanding them than hydrogen). Many malls and grocery stores have chargers in their parking lots reserved for EVs; you can charge while you shop.

This really kills the convenience argument though. If you must recharge using public stations, it is much less convenient that hydrogen stations that can do it in 5 minutes.

> Saved you the Google search: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#In_practice

The study was conducted back in 2007, a time where fuel cell cars basically didn’t exist yet. I suppose this does qualify as “existing,” but it is not real world and is clearly wrong as of today.

Fuel cell cars today are at 60% regardless. This is also hard to dispute, since a 35% efficient fuel cell car cannot approach 68MPGe. So it is an outdated study at best.

> Sure, as an alternative at grid scale (which is what the link you posted references). But BEVs are more efficient, and simpler, for consumer cars. We already have an electrical grid. Even just transporting the hydrogen from the generator to the theoretical thousands of refueling stations would be inefficient and wasteful.

It costs very little to pipeline hydrogen around. This is not a problem if we have plenty of cheap hydrogen to go around.

> Less than 15% of America's energy comes from renewable sources.

It is much higher in states that invested in renewable energy. California is at 30% for instance. It’s even higher in some countries in Europe. What we’re finding is that power swings from >80% to less than 20% on a regular basis. This problem is addressed here: https://www.governing.com/next/Americas-Largest-Municipal-Ut...
Something to remember for whoever thinks the government needs more power in time of crisis.
The full and proper qualification, as concerns money, is given in the first 'graph of the essay:

"Whenever coins containing precious metals have been used along with base metal coins of the same denomination, both legally accepted as tender, the bad coins have driven the good coins out of circulation."

(Emphasis added.)

The key is that within a given monetary system, "bad" and "good" coin have the same social or statutory (whichever effectively governs) exchange value.

This is not the case in a black-market exchange where U.S. dollars displace local currency, just as it was not the case in the early post-revolutionary United States where commodity currencies (often pelts or grain), or foreign denominations (Spanish "pieces. of eight" reals or English pounds) displaced the much-derided "continental dollar".

The black-market currency does not face the same nominal exchange rate as the inferior currency, but instead has an independent (and almost always far more stable) exchange value. So long as the black-market currency is generally exchangeable for goods and services generally required, and the official currency can be readily obtained for transactions in which. it is mandated -- say, payment of national taxes, you'll see a preference for the black-market currency.

This balance point may be further shifted by mandates that, say, retail, payroll, and banking transactions be in the official currency. In most regions with a substantial black-market role, institutional trust and regulatory and statutory compliance are low enough, and often the true underlying dysfunction, that their role, and hence effective monetary compliance capacity, are effectvely nil.

For what it's worth, I've been exploring Gresham's Law and related dynamics for some time:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=gresham%27s+la...
In the end you only need to implement UI layer when the business logic is separated out. Not that the business logic on the different platforms can't be tricky but I think most time is spend on the native UI implementation. That's how I would go about it.

I am glad it's not Elektron. I am also using TablePlus and enjoying it a lot!
I feel like Proton is Valve's bid to free themselves of their dependency on Windows, so I like to think #1 will change in time as the publishers come around to the idea that Windows is slowly but surely losing its position as the only viable gaming platform.
I mean it's a quality rant.

To be clear, I think the original post by Andreessen and this response are both silly in their own ways.

I just find the public discourse around this very entertaining.
BUT THEY HAD MILK!
Where there's smoke there's fire.

* Bad SQLite queries can cause code execution

* Zoom is using concatenation to build queries

* Zoom uses SQLite to store message history and other remotely-controllable data

I've seen enough. I don't need to see the entire chain - which in this case would be that the message history queries specifically are built in an unsafe way - to know that Zoom is software that I absolutely should not trust, and that I do not want to have installed on any of my endpoints if I want the other data on them to remain secure.

Unfortunately, I do not have a choice. I am working with two telehealth providers who use Zoom. So the next best thing is to be as angry as possible about it. The hiring of Alex Stamos is a good move but we need to keep the pressure on.

Put another way, I work for an EU-based fintech. We have similar guidelines (plus a strict log rotation policy, partially due to GDPR but also for many other reasons), but i'm pretty sure our head of security would shit bricks if he found out that our logging framework had an RCE.
Where is Israel on the map?
We have a 40-hour work week because of labor unions. Saying that "it was under capitalism that we got a 40-hour week" is like saying it was under Christian leadership that we got same-sex marriage. Both statements are true but misleading.
What benefit does this have over a cheaply USB webcam and OBS with the obs-virtualcam plugin?
One is just data, plots, functions, methods, links to a peer reviewed paper, and cautions where dragons may lie in its results. It makes no policy suggestions.

The other is an email from a person not disclosing a real name making dubious claims of which even the first is not fact checked. Further the site makes policy suggestions routinely.

One of those is much more likely to be arguing in bad faith.
I can't drink crude without dying
I sure hope "something else". I'd really like to think it's fixed precision.
To be doubly pedantic, it probably is an int in many places, to avoid rounding errors.
Civ 6 has a native port to Linux. Why do you need Windows?
Apparently this is compatible with the 2018 iPad Pro as well, which is slightly surprising since this accessory alone could have induced some folks to upgrade.

Most people wouldn't dump a 2-year old iPad Pro; OTOH, this is the Pro line, so many of the consumers are very wealthy and/or signaling.
Why wasn't the oils producers reducing their production fast enough to prevent the price from crashing. This to me looks like a lag and inelasticity in how the oil producers are responding to demand.
"somehow" is the important part here. I meant to be humble, but obviously a lot of people are sleeping not that well at the moment.
Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)
The earliest proponent of systematic trading switched to manual trading
@stefanwlb

I'm not sure if you know but you have been shadow banned.

> Does nvidia work through GPU pass through as I know hackintosh didn’t support my 1660gti gpu when I tried it a few months ago.

It most likely does not.
This is true, but isn't really that relevant to the parent's point about statistical methods. Statistical methods (and "deep learning" is such a method) could certainly take the order of words in a sentence into account, for example.
Apparently just printing the money for UBI isn't an obviously bad idea?
have you considered some kind of presubmission check for this? even just to inform users without actually screening, and then auto appending previous discussions if submitted?
This was at least originally about a strange oils price war between Saudi and Russia.

It just happened to coincide with the pandemic. Though I'd guess by now the pandemic adds fuel to the non-fire.
No, they have the "where's my keys?"-rummaging-thru-purse. :-)