skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IRR has data issues. RIRs put some control around this (tying prefix to org), but plenty of trash in the other IRRs (people claiming they own /12s they don't, etc). Also the chain of people using as-sets to mark who their customers are is busted. People are being way too broad by putting peers in their set for networks that aren't their transit customers - and prefixes get permitted.

The BCP38 war is lost. Credit to those who try to do better but it's the hosting shops who are the biggest offenders. Most broadband and cloud providers do this proper. I chase down tcp syn reflection attacks and they always come from the same types of hosters.
Costco Is Thriving During the Pandemic. Its Employees Have Paid the Price
Stimulus check deposited into account of dead woman
If you combine them you get 5ish K hours of speech for English, which is still fairly small compared to what most big players have access to.
Could you explain what you mean by higher priority to me vs others? Currently each meeting has an urgency defined by the organizer (ASAP, this week, etc) and automatic rescheduling will happen based on that. We don't currently support priorities per meeting attendee
Has anything fundamentally changed (in the long-term) about the short-term rental market? It's clear Airbnb would likely have a substantial drop in revenue, but they only have to make it through the crisis.

What will this mean for the short-term rental properties themselves? There could be a new supply of housing on the market, as much of it was speculatively picked up. It's true that you can earn more operating a unit as a short-term rental, however in aggregate only so many can do that before demand dries up or price competition undercuts the increased profitably when compared to a long term tenant.
It's impossible to believe. Currently, Santa Clara's crude CFR is 3.7%.

NYC has similar demographics (and as bad nursing home hits?) -- 0.14% of the population has died from covid. That puts an upper bound of 26x (and that's if the entire population was infected)
Re: 2 - Legally no. Like a search engine’s index it is not a derivative work but a “transformative” one and therefore not subject to copyright restrictions.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fema-paid-bankrupt-company-n...

No corruption here...
My fiancee is an ER doctor and her hospital is now getting considerably more N95s than they were a few weeks ago. It looks like the supply chain is finally ramping up.
It's not so much population per se as the urban/rural divide. Baltimore is a city (arguably a megalopolis of Baltimore + Washington DC + Northern Virginia and nearby areas of Maryland). Wyoming, OTOH, is the 10th largest state geographically, the least populous, and literally has more cows than people [0, 1]. If I had to guess, I would say there probably hasn't been a significant number of cows in Baltimore in over 200 years.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/3/11504568/states-most-cows
> all dinosaur DNA has been destroyed for millions of years

.. Except for the DNA that has survived and been passed down to living species today.
>> DNA has a half life of ~500 years.

Could you describe half life here? So suppose the strands are now small snippets. If you find enough, couldnt you overlap common parts and eventually re-construct the full length?
There are some good posts[1], but I still couldn't find anything like "About" page.

[1] https://philosopher.life/#Evil%20Code
If you are resenting Apple for making larger phones and not having a long enough security update support period, wait until you find out what everyone else makes!
Keynes wrote a lot of things about economics, not just about government spending. Keynes also wrote about a possible 15 hour work week.

From
http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

“... What can we reasonably expect the level of our economic life to be a hundred years hence? What are the economic possibilities for our grandchildren?

...

All this means in the long run that mankind is solving its economic problem. I would predict that the standard of life in progressive countries one hundred years hence will be between four and eight times as high as it is to-day. There would be nothing surprising in this even in the light of our present knowledge. It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of afar greater progress still.

...

For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!

...

Of course there will still be many people with intense, unsatisfied purposiveness who will blindly pursue wealth-unless they can find some plausible substitute. But the rest of us will no longer be under any obligation to applaud and encourage them.
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didn't Vox got like $200 million from NBCUniversal? why not ask for another round of funding?
Seems like they have enough cash to ride this out. But yes very possible that they'll need to scale back dramatically and change their business model entirely. I'm guessing even after restrictions are lifted, people will be hesitant to travel and stay at airbnbs, and also many hosts will be nervous staying on the platform.
cathouse (plural cathouses)(US, slang) A brothel.

Just sayin’
Off-Policy Estimation for Infinite Horizon Reinforcement Learning
To add to this - it's not just legacy/Android devices. Since Apple dropped support for OpenGL in favor of metal, cross platform OpenGL compute shaders are now impossible since iOS will never get OpenGL ES 3.1. This has caused headaches for me as I wrote a cross platform game and am now pinned to GLES 3.0 forever.
Wave (Waveapps) Payroll Resists Two Years of Public Customer Requests for 2FA
There was a Japan-only Game Boy Light that was the form factor of the Game Boy Pocket but with an electroluminescent display. I have one, and to this day it's one of my favorite handhelds. It males grayscale games are absolutely gorgeous in the dark.

Surprisingly, it has a very decent battery life - 20 hours without the backlight, 12 with.
"broken down components" reads like loose nucleic acids to me, rather than actual DNA fragments
A lot of interesting info on how modern JavaScript VMs work!
UI looks great and the entire product looks really well done. As a fellow student in a ton of zoom classes I’ll be sure to recommend to others!
Caching at Reddit (2017)
Bringing back mammoths based only on DNA seems to me to be akin to bringing back a New Yorker based only on DNA, thousands of years after NYC no longer exists. Even with perfect DNA, I think we underestimate the role that social structure and ecological momentum play in even the simplest of creatures. I think humans are the rule and not the exception when it comes to learning after birth.

And that's not even getting into the complex interaction between a mother and her unborn child, including cytoplasm, mitochondrial RNA, etc. It's not like an organism springs whole cloth from DNA alone.
The context is interesting:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317812260499456

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317824394653697

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248317820800086016

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248318363538837504

The same company that considerably increased the damage the virus did in their country is now in financial difficulty as a result. They mocked people for avoiding handshakes, repeatedly told people that masks were ineffective and dismissed the virus as just a flu.

It's also interesting their political opponents, including the president adopted their original positions a few weeks later.

It's mind-boggling that analysis of the severity of a virus became so highly politicized. I don't think the same could have happened in the US a generation ago.
That's the same conclusion I came upon, also interesting case for someone to build it :).
This got me thinking, do you actually know of an entirely ethically made computer? I'd be interested in checking such a thing out if it exists.

Interesting concept when you consider how deep the supply chain is for all the raw materials. The provenance on lithium and silicon would be critical I'd think.
Separate from whether it works or not, I will not install it unsandboxed on any endpoints, nor use it deliberately.

Their security architecture is ???, and their excuse for its use of servers in PRC to move encryption secrets makes no sense, and honestly gives me the impression that at some level, somebody working on Zoom made that decision with the conscious intention to make secrets available to the PLA.
The short term affects the market. Apparently Airbnb spent a lot of money on an Olympics marketing partnership, that's down the toilet. They've taken out 2 separate 1 billion dollar loans, one at 12%, another at 8%, in the last month(?). With their budgets strapped, they'll have less money and wherewithal to fight the legal battles they need to win to stay operational in many major urban markets around the world. The situation is absolutely dire, and their survival through the crisis is not a sure prospect in the slightest.
"Majority of people wanting something does not mean it can pass at all."

Depends. It does not matter for example, if the majority wants to have nice weather, no.
But if the majority would insists on mandatory privacy, for example, then yes, it would pass.
But they do not. Most give up privacy voluntarily for all their "free" apps and services.
It's a general principle of information theory that, "to make inferences, you have to make assumptions".
I have two companies.

Both have existing checking + lending relationship with BoA.

Company #1 is 5 years old, Company #2 is 6 months old.

4/3: Both companies applied

4/6: Both companies submitted all required docs

4/8: Received a call about Company #2 - claimed we could only use 2019 payroll to determine size of loan. Incorrect - new co's can use Jan/Feb. Told the rep this. Was told I would received a callback.

4/9: Received a promissory note for Company #1, signed and submitted.

4/10-4/15: Received numerous automated calls + emails asking me to do things I already had done.

4/16: Received a request to update business info for Company #1. Did so. Rep said I should expect deposit of funds in 1-5 days.

Still nothing on Company #2. I am tentative that the $$$ is allocated already as we have been assigned an SBA loan number.

BoA did some things right (opened up first), some things arguably right (as someone who has a previous relationship, I appreciate getting prioritized), and some things terribly (having people take time to give reminders on actions that have already been taken, having no one available to answer questions or provide support, etc.)
And in 8: "A moment when we mentally rope something off forever, resolving not to try it again."
It's entirely possible state/local regulators will use the covid-19 moment to really clamp down on AirBnB. Thus erecting severe obstacles to its operations that endure long after Covid-19 has subsided. I'm not sure what kind of term Silver Lake laid down on AirBnB, it's possible that if/when Silver Lake does convert its debt to equity, it may wipe out most of the existing shareholders.
I live in a vacation destination (that's also the commercial center of my state) and it's been interesting to watch the short term rentals start to pop up on craigslist (the state has banned short term rentals during the shutdown). There are a lot more than I thought there would be. The language evades that they are otherwise airbnbs, they are generally are offering limited terms (30-60 days) and they all have professional quality photos in the listing. Also, why do people decorate rentals with so much white? Isn't that a stain liability?
Yeah, the 2 billion dollars in loans will be enough to ride it out. I doubt whether they'll ever recover in the long term from this, though.
Is your argument that since you don't want to do this job you don't think other people should be able to either? It certainly isn't unethical. Amazon offered people money to do this job and people agreed to take those jobs.
Two Children Take on Google over Biometric Data
Florida's beaches are one step ahead of this.
"Grandfathered" - any time a preexisting status means newer rules don't apply.

Another example, a licensed occupation, requirements made stricter, those already licensed don't need to meet the new requirements.

The sinister origins of the phrase are now almost completely forgotten.
The day before applications were to open, I called the guy at a local community bank (we bank with Wells Fargo which at the time just had a web page saying "don't even think about it"). This guy was very helpful which was handy because at the time the official communications were vague and internally inconsistent. Anyway I came away with the distinct impression that it had already been decided who was to receive these loans.
I feel like the source of the virus has become too politicized in most reporting and I'd really like someone with expertise to weigh in on what the unknowns truly are. The Newsweek source is a professor who says "it is not supported at all by available data" but there is obviously no data or evidence of any theory. You could easily say "Claim that Covid-19 came from Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market completely unfounded".

To be clear, if I had to bet I would lean towards betting it came from a random bat/human interaction, but from either perspective seems like a problem of probability and guesswork.
Nesting Platonic Solids
What about mammoths or passenger pigeons, then?
AirBNB announces their performance on a regular basis [1][2], especially since they were planning on going public 2020/2021, but Im talking about when they finish their quarter internally and asses how they stand as a company. We will start seeing a lot of layoffs from bigger companies when quarterly results come in. The first wave of layoffs were service industry, front line, immediately impacted by a stoppage of cash flow, there will be a cascading effect on the economy for a long time.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/17/airbnbs-quarterly-loss-repor...

[2]https://skift.com/2020/03/12/airbnb-loses-276-million-and-6-...
Probably the stuff people sell on Shopify
Sounds duly familiar to what I read about Wuhan back in late January and February. Only donations work. Had massive trouble distributing things. Fortunately at least you don't have to deal with another distraction named "government redirected your donation shipment to Red Cross (ran by government in China) and they sat on their stockpile doing nothing or malicious".
I'm not sure how they come back from this.

People will return to travel, and some may prefer apartment-style accommodations over a crowded hotel.

There is also a lot of investment in the ecosystem on the part of landlords; some will fail but others will want to return to the airbnb model. In some cases have no choice -- a ski or beach condo isn't going to easily find long-term tenants.
Crude, but effective.

I wouldn't be too concerned about cleaning it up afterwards - 90% can be dug out quite rapidly, the rest calls for half a dozen skaters with brooms or an industrial size vacuum cleaner. (Think: a trailer with a beefy diesel engine on it to power the suction pumps - I watched one clean out a drydock once. Never thought I'd find cleaning up a mess so fascinating.)
We don’t have to work that hard for a comfortable life, and the gaudy material life the west has is not owed by laws of science or man. It’s taken as we can see by the bailout machinations

We don’t need grocery stores full of customized flavored drinks.

Fill them with raw ingredients and let people distract themselves inventing customization at home

Same with clothing stores. But we let a minority buy their way in, making us do the real creative work to prop them up

We extended government into our lives by creating corps and HR and letting the Corp owners then collude on the HR rules to our detriment in a society that claims to loath big government

And this community tacitly agrees with it by founding companies!

Americans go on about big government interference but that’s exactly what you defend by creating a market for one size fits all rules to filter into our lives at scale

Local communities can police themselves. We don’t need to curve our agency to what will get us a job

We need to get away from traditional values like “if I’m going to buy in, I expect a return on investment.”

Ok but many of us out here never invited you to play. Yet their demands of being rich are protected by all?

How’s that any different than them saying they shouldn’t have to spend money if they don’t want to?
This is why an independent and trustworthy Inspector General overseeing and reporting back to Congress and the public is needed. Where did this money go and who got it? Were some people favored or tipped off on how to get through the process?
My bank called me and asked if I knew about the PPP and wanted to apply. My bank never calls me for anything. I was actually skeptical it was my bank at all, but some verification afterwards checked out that it was legit (but was still weird). I said "No, I'm doing OK". He said "that's good - have a nice day". No idea why they were doing PPP outreach - I'd have figured it would all be earmarked or gone in a couple of days anyway - there's no need to try to 'drum up' business.
Very nice read. But I’m a bit confused with the following:

> Because these companies probably use AI-powered account-aware filters, you should not put anything identifiable in the test email. For example, if your name is "John Smith", do not put "John" nor "Smith" in the message, and do not send it from an addres like john.smith@example.com.

Why is this so? Is this only for the first email?
> And, as a request, perhaps you could glance at the 'principle of charity' and choose some other term than 'vacuous' to describe an argument that your response clearly did not give sufficient thought to.

Vacous is also a technical term[1]. The proposition

If A then B

is said to be vacously true if A does not hold.
At first I thought it's about loans for dialup internet which uses PPP.
My take on this is that Mathematics is such a vast area of investigation - much larger than Nature itself - that there is in fact a mix of both. In that regard it is close to Engineering, where in an attempt to design something on might stumble upon things or perform some types of research and discovery, and vice versa.
Good story here

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/shoppers-buying-online-ecom...

Food, workout items, entertainment. A lot of categories are through the roof!
The recent Fed announcements mostly served to reopen the high yield primary market and the investment grade markets were wide open well before that; especially for a strong issuer like BRK.
Can you tell if there is actually 37 tons of sand there? 37 tons seems like... well.. a ton of sand for lack of a better phrase. In the video it seems like there was only few inches over a moderately sized park. It doesn't seem like its really 37 tons. Maybe though it just doesn't show the whole park, or I'm just bad at estimating.
His definition of free will is quite limited. He only suggests that free will is limited to a "free" choice between options within one's power.

Conway said that there either is determinism or free will. If the future can be perfectly preordained (Gisin) due to infinite possibilities, then there is no free will. But if there are finite options, I think that there is "free will" for particles and people to choose between those options.

https://youtu.be/tmx2tpcdKZY?t=1074

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
As I mentioned elsewhere: This is why an independent and trustworthy Inspector General overseeing and reporting back to Congress and the public is needed. Where did this money go and who got it? Were some people favored or tipped off on how to get through the process?
You probably shouldn't share your old senior photos on Facebook
Because retooling is expensive and time consuming. And there is no guarantee how long this level of demand will sustain. And no guarantees on cheap chinese goods flooding the market and taking all your customers in a few months.
The freight costs makes sense and that's a great counterpoint. Thanks!

That said, the government has the ability to cap mask costs per unit and then only charge for shipping or, you know, bring a bunch of C5s and do the freight themselves to get the cargo hours. Or charter planes to help with airline bailouts or...

Instead of hammering the hospitals we have all sorts of options to help here. The fact that the only thing that occurred was HARMFUL to the process says a lot. It must feel pretty weird to be told "you're on your own" and then also have that same crew confiscate your mask shipments. That's what the mafia would do. Would be a shame if something happened to your PPE...
I don't doubt that the market for travel and accommodations will return. What I doubt is whether Airbnb can weather the crisis without meeting financial ruin, and whether they can continue to fight the legal battles around the world they need to win to survive.
vSAN is software Raid. Having an HBA or a controller in pass-through is a requirement.
Would it have been better for the IRS to validate the direct deposits to be more accurate, or was this best to get payments to people as quickly as possible?

Some potential issue I see if you don't do some exception analysis with direct deposits:

* filed jointly in 2018/2019 and spouse is deceased
* couple is divorced? join in 2018, single file in 2019?
* dependents no longer dependent (deceased, filing individually, etc)
* direct deposit went to wrong account (wrong account number, tax preparer's bank account, etc)
* bank account closed
Other than searchability and "the audience", does the space really need a platform, per say? The value to the host is that there's lots of users, and the value to the users are that there's lots of hosts. To me this layer should be a lot thinner.
I don't really understand why the existence of a "factory" means it can produce arbitrary product in any meaningful fashion in a short period of time.
My company Gilded[1] can help small businesses or individual contractors get paid with cryptocurrency (stable coins), Stripe (local fiat currencies) integration, or wire transfers.

Setting up a Coinbase account and getting paid with Gilded would be fairly easy. Also, USDC (stablecoin) can be exchanged 1:1 on Coinbase and can be quickly exchange for fiat in your bank account.

Happy to help or discuss specific scenarios.

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I'm sure you're right that there were some that predicted the war would take longer, and I'm no WWI scholar.

I had difficulty hunting down exactly who thought it would be over quickly, although from what I remember from watching/reading about the war (for example I know it was talked about in at least one video of The Great War Youtube series), there were military and political leaders (non-German) that did seem to think they could end the war quickly.
It means half of the dna is destroyed every 500 years. After 65,000,000 years, you have 1/(2^130,000)th of the original DNA left, which is to say, none at all.
> It may well be that this applies in individual cases.

Well from a machine learning perspective it will probably be in all cases where enough, qualitative data is available and not a lot of contextual knowledge is necessary that cannot be represented in the data. My guess is that this will be the case in a vast majority of cases and it's just a matter of time - but I'm definitely biased as an ML researcher :).