skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing, I've never played Bloodbowl but heard about it a few times now, will have to look into this!

(I honestly don't know enough about soccer to know how much positional variation or asymmetric skills matter. I assume they do but probably to a lesser extent than football, which I also know way more about, hence going on a bit of a tangent when trying to make the idea concrete.)
Emulating Mac's Dvorak-QWERTY-⌘ on Windows
This was entertaining, but I didn't find it particularly edifying. I enjoyed "Bird by Bird" more.
That is incorrect. The virus particles are mostly identical. The reason the dose matters is because each individual particle doesn't have a 100% chance of infecting an individual. That is partly due to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system
I get that as chief executive, the president is ultimately responsible for everything, but is this literally where we're dumping the blame?

The President failed to make sure the task force member who recommended the vendor had done his diligence and the state government was just 100% blindly trusting of the very same White House they claim to hate at every step of the way, therefore it's Trump's fault?

What ever happened to trust but verify?

I just don't understand why type of micro-manager would be needed for this to not be his fault then. It wouldn't be a human at that point, you'd need some sort of AI that manages the smallest of minutia of every aspect of government.
Why is Grothendieck a tragedy ? his departure to reclusion ?
Solar One: the first crewed interstellar spaceship
Neat!

Watching the games, it looks like the effectiveness of dribbling is unrealistically high. Most scoring plays consist of dribbling around 1 player, then dribbling straight at that back line and hoping to win the take-on.
Sshuttle solves a different problem. It uses SSH as a transport so it could not bypass a firewall that blocks outgoing SSH.
Elon Musk calls US shelter-in-place orders fascist, un-American
Many Kindles have a web browser, using that wouldn't be too hard. Webkit if I remember correctly.

Though if you aren't a total stranger to C++, a 15x cheaper (4$) e-ink display that is just 50% the size, that can be controlled over SPI, would be nearly just as much effort but much less maintenance. IMHO at least.
Editorial: Newsom must end cover-up of Covid-19 nursing home deaths
There was a lot of skepticism with this from the students at first. They didn't take it seriously. But after the first semester, the students took a liking to "no bullshit, no excuses" and thrived on it. His classes swelled with students.

If you're in business, and write business letters misspelling "business", you aren't going to be taken seriously (though you likely won't realize why the rejections are happening). If you graduate from a business school and can't spell "business" then the school's reputation suffers, too.

In college, you're an adult. The requirement that "business" be spelled correctly is made quite clear. No excuses, no bullshit.
The library argument makes much more sense if you've been around the block in web UI. There are many precursor and concurrent web frameworks that do much more than just the UI: They control data management, dependency injection, etc. For some, the UI is nearly an after thought of the model layer. So maybe its not completely accurate but contextually it rang very true to someone like myself, who had used 4-5 other frameworks before using React, and was absolutely one way it stood out to me.
This was amazing to read. Reading stories of reverse engineering and cracking long-dead programs are interesting enough, but then being able to buy the domain and re-implement the authentication servers from just what the client expects?!

I'm staggered at the skills needed to do that.
2.2% more stock is a huge amount of stock when you're already talking about the company's biggest individual shareholder.

That aside, a HNWI would never liquidate stock to exercise options or to pay taxes, since each action triggers a realization event and an associated tax liability. They would take out loans secured by the stock, since that doesn't result in a huge tax bill. So in the real world, Musk would use the $591 million cash he already has in the bank (having previously taken out loans against his Tesla shares) and use that to exercise his options. He would then use some of the remaining few billion in his bank account (again, from the loans secured by his Tesla shares) to pay any state and federal taxes owed. The only time HNWIs deliberately trigger taxable events is when they have losses or credits to absorb the resultant tax liability.
A $35m daily party habit would cause problems to Elon's wealth, among other things.
I have your post saved and have gone through it many times, thanks for writing it - big fan!

As a student who is looking to get started with trading and enjoys the mathematical/analysis part of it, do you have advice of where to begin? I find very few resources in this area and its very hard to get on this career path - my experience is on the ML side if things and I want to transition into trading. Any advice will be really helpful - thanks!
It sounds like NY didn't do their job.

NY pays millions of dollars to these companies and none of them deliver any ventilators because NY didn't do any due diligence.

This one guy gets called out because a NY state official claims he came at the "direct recommendation of the White House." This makes no sense, but Buzzfeed rolls with it, and it's likely CYA for the state official to pass the blame onto the federal government.
> If you live in a house of five and each person buys their own groceries and cooks their own dinner, it does not matter how you scrimp and save. It is still cheaper on the whole to buy raw ingredients for dinner and make it for five people. The cost goes down dramatically>

This makes sense, but what about one level up? I live in an apartment building, and in our building each family buys their own groceries and cooks their own dinner. It does not matter how much you scrimp and save, it is still cheaper on the whole for the building to buy raw ingredients and make dinner for all families. The cost goes down dramatically.

This also makes sense, but what about one level up? If each building buys groceries and cooks dinner for all of their homes, it does not matter how much they scrimp and save. It is still cheaper on the whole for the entire city buy raw ingredients for dinner and make it for all of the buildings and their families. The cost goes down dramatically.

This also makes sense, but what about one level up? If each city buys groceries and cooks dinner for all of their buildings and homes, it does not matter how much they scrimp and save. It is still cheaper on the whole for the entire State to buy raw ingredients for dinner and make it for all of the cities, their buildings and their families. The cost goes down dramatically.

This also makes sense, but what about one level up? If each State buys groceries and cooks dinner for all of their buildings and homes, it does not matter how much they scrimp and save. It is still cheaper on the whole for the entire Union to buy raw ingredients for dinner and make it for all of the States, cities, their buildings and their families. The cost goes down dramatically.

This also makes sense, but what about one level up? If each Union/country buys groceries and cooks dinner for all of their buildings and homes, it does not matter how much they scrimp and save. It is still cheaper on the whole for the entire world to buy raw ingredients for dinner and make it for all of the nations, States, cities, their buildings and their families. The cost goes down dramatically.

We both agree that at some point, this stopped making sense. The question is: is an ideologically divided Union of 330 million people across 50 states with their own Constitutions and governments equivalent to a “house of five”?
I'm very interested to see if they're going to have some sort of x86 compatibility baked in, or if they decided that engineers, as a market segment, are a rounding error that they're comfortable writing off.
The solution is to use a harmless strain that has gene deletion(s). These sort of mutations are very unlikely to back mutate as the information has been lost from the viral genome.

The harmless strain doesn’t have to spread naturally better than the dangerous strains and it is likely any harmless strain would not spread better. We can artificially spread the harmless strain around so even if it is less contagious than the dangerous strain we tip the ecological balance in favour of harmless strain. This is really how an attenuated vaccine like the Sabin polio vaccine works from an ecological perspective.

The risk of the virus mutating is there right now. It is much less likely that a harmless strain becomes very dangerous than a dangerous strain become very dangerous. This would be a bigger jump in evolutionary space.

Ultimately as the immediate downvoting of my OP suggests this idea doesn’t appear popular. This doesn’t mean that it is not a scientifically valid approach that could work.
Scientists speculate that while this change slows down reproduction and decreases virulence it also makes it harder for the immune system to track down virus infected cells, so it basically slows down the infection. In the long run zoonotic viruses tend to become less deadly. But I wouldn't expect this sort of mutation to be selected for when the number of cases is increasing exponentially.
This is nice and all but is it possible to make a few kilobytes single-file static HTML instead of 2.7MB https://webwormhole.io/util.wasm ?

I want to host it on my router.
vim buffers and splits. And a paper notepad and pen.
The White House included Amazon on a list of “notorious” piracy sites
> Monday’s rally put Tesla’s market capitalization at $145 billion. Importantly for Musk, its stock market value reached a six-month average of $96 billion. Hitting a six-month average of $100 billion would trigger the vesting of the first of 12 tranches of options granted to the billionaire to buy Tesla stock as part of his two-year-old pay package.

> Each tranche gives Musk the option to buy 1.69 million Tesla shares at $350.02 each. Taking Monday’s Tesla closing stock price of $798.75 as an example, Musk could sell those shares for a profit of $758 million.

So it's $750m profit in each of the 12 tranches (assuming $TLSA holds)! That's nearly $9B in profit.
Thank you for this explanation! I love that the internet makes it possible for complete strangers to illuminate me like this - wonderful
If I got $69 million I could figure out a way to get the same amount of ventilators and still have some profit left over, guaranteed. Let’s talk.
>>I don't see any slippery slope or danger of totalitarian take over.

then you do not have a proper understanding or respect for history if you fail to recognize the dangers of this precedent.
I absolutely encourage exploring and experimenting, but I wouldn't call the current state (even now) of driving those displays easy. I had a few such displays (and have a decent amount of experience with electronics and reverse engineering), but they differ in subtle ways, and since no comprehensive spec sheets are available you end up futzing around a lot to get it to work. I used that essentialscrap link as well as spritesmods (both excellent resources) and any other little tidbits I could find but it still took lots of iteration until I could even get anything displayed! Not to mention from a technical perspective, driving the displays takes 5 different voltages, 4 of which are fairly atypical.

Still, they're really cool to mess around with, and cheap on eBay :)
Pandemic Science Out of Control
Like most people I'm 1) not a specialist at all and 2) still have an opinion.

One thing I'm looking at is the excess mortality in a country like Sweden, which had an outbreak (in the top 25 countries by cases) but has not done any lockdown.

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

It's flat.
So... Trump suggesting sunlight as a treatment for COVID-19 may not have been so crazy?

edit: that was a joke, not a very good one I guess.
> What has Elon himself actually done that looks like good management?

Plenty. I'm a huge critic of Elon's tweeting on Covid-19 (see elsewhere in this thread) but to argue that Elon is not a good manager of the companies he runs is completely in conflict with reality (the reality of his successfully founding and running two massively successful companies).
Interesting; I have never heard the word "decephalized" before --- in what literature in this used?
I'll never forget the basic message from my first day of motorcycle training: you can argue about who was right from your hospital bed, or you can take responsibility for your own safety at all times/under all circumstances.
Unless you say inherited a giant amount from your family, which can cover a lifetime amount of idiocy. Hmm.
While it is harder to actually do something, node helped me understand how web development "really" works. I started with Rails - I could put a simple app together, but I had no idea how it worked. It wasn't until I worked with node, where I had to do my own routing, controllers, models, database connections, etc, until I finally could understand what was happening under the hood in Rails.
I don't feel that makes a difference to what I just wrote. But I can do some very rough arithmetic along those lines to see what the decline would have to be.

The GDP figure just reported is -4.8%. Based on what I recall, the inflection point was about halfway through March. Friday the 13th is when the state government in NY finally said anyone who can, work from home. That's 0.5/3 months or ~17% of the quarter I'd assign to "shutdown".

0.83 * 1 + .17 * x = .952

...I don't trust myself to do high school algebra, so I asked Wolfram Alpha and it said x = 72%. Ok, so the reported figure of nearly -5% probably equates to a little over a quarter of the economy missing.

I don't think I need to concede my point about a 100% stoppage not happening.
Those books look like they'd all fit on $300 worth of shelving from IKEA.

The library probably cost $800k to remodel.
As an investor in Tesla, it's easy to agree. As an investor in Enron, prior, I'm not sure.
Daycare only lasts a few years, do you think raising stops at age 5 or believe that most children are raised by school once they turned school-age?
Learning Rust and WebAssembly
You're not wrong, but neither is the OP. Sometimes big companies simply buy out startups so they can maintain market dominance - whether they be direct competitors or new emerging markets.

You see this with Facebook buying Oculus in 2014, Microsoft buying Skype in 2008, Google buying Waze in 2013, Apple buying Shazam etc.

Also this is not privy to the tech industry. Large companies of all sorts of industries use the growth by acquisition strategy.
Because the WHO and FDA never got anything wrong...?
It's the latter. It's possible for a submission to get so many flags that it also gets killed, but the software doesn't do that once there are lots of comments.
That sounds great. It should be an easy test.
No, it's an extremely big deal as they're the ones tasked with teaching kids how to do it. Blind leading the blind, and so they just memorize whatever new algorithm there is with no explanation from the teacher as to why it works, because the teacher themselves don't know! It makes it a real pain in the ass when they get to high school and try to work with variables, as they have no clue how numbers work.
Save your sarcasm for your followers. Imagine being memed into believing forcing people to stay home is better than letting people choose.
Lets use this as an opportunity to count how many countries actually managed to deliver on making brand new emergency ventilators during the emergency?

I counted only three: Turkey — Baykar Biyovent, Pakistan — Kamra PakVent 1, India — Marutu Suzuki emergency ventilator. That's very few.

Even if NYC government didn't dish those money to him, it would still be unrealistic to expect anybody being able to deliver on that in any capacity, other than existing manufacturers.

How they didn't know that?

Similarly, the story with PCR tests. Those were available at least a month prior to emergency in NYC, yet USG spent sweet time dishing out random grants and contracts, despite the solution already being on the table.
Probably a similar level of harm as drinking energy drinks.
If you don't have any post-recovery immunity, then how do you ever recover to begin with?
> (As an Oxford mathematician, Martin Gould, has explained, Ramsey theory tells us, for instance, that among any six users of Facebook there will always be either a trio of mutual friends or a trio in which none are friends.)

What is the sensible/true version of this? Clearly it’s not correct as stated. You could have three pairs of two mutuals. You could have five mutuals and a singlet. Or six mutuals. Is it more a statement about probabilities?
Depends on the province. In Quebec, for example, the flu vaccine is (currently) only free for at-risk individuals (https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/vaccin...). Ontario, however, has a universal program.
I was part of the locked-to-your-university cohort. I disliked it right from the start - I am not a naturally social person and I found college to be inundated with socialization, facebook was yet another thing to make me feel weird, and I thought it was creepy because I was in all these pictures I didn't post, out there for anyone to see - but yeah lots of my friends loved it. But I did know other weird people who didn't. Just for round numbers, let's say 1% of us actively disliked it and 99% loved it. What I think has happened as I've watched it since then is that that love/hate ratio has stayed relatively stable, but it has grown so much that there are a lot of people on the hate side now, in absolute terms, so it's more noticeable. But I don't think the fundamental calculation is all that different.
At the risk of digressing, might I ask if the dough to be minted is good in Quant/ HFT / Algorithmic trading?
We're not seeing much in the way of mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 structural proteins. And for other coroanviruses where we've developed vaccines, for dogs and pigs, we haven't had the same sort of problems with having to produce new vaccines that we do with the fast mutating flue.

Now, resistance does fade and to keep your dog protected you need to give it a booster shot every year or two and it might very well be the same with humans and SARS-2. But at least we wouldn't have to play the game of guessing which strain would be dominant in an upcoming season.
Didn't Tesla deliver new emergency ventilators?
Three pairs of two mutuals: take one from each pair, that's a trio with no friendships. Five mutuals: take any three and there's a trio of mutuals.
"Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples."
— La Rochefoucauld
This is part of a larger pattern of fairly weak attempts to confuse a reverse engineer that made it frustrating to figure out what all the opcodes did, and there were many duplicate opcodes that were just implemented in different ways.

Since the code presented in the article didn't look like handwritten Asm (and if it was, it would've probably been even more insanely obfuscated and greatly confused IDA's decompilation), I wonder if compilers of the time were far worse at optimisation, or if the author deliberately disabled it so that the code would be more bloated and harder to understand as well as containing the source obfuscations; seems like "Here's addition implemented by multiplying the result with some number and its reciprocal" would be something that's replaced-on-sight by an optimiser doing constant propagation.

Also, I was not surprised to discover that this program appears to be both [1] of German origin, and [2] shareware. When I was in the cracking scene long ago, "German shareware" was widely known for the insane strength of its protection.
Apple and Google release Covid-19 exposure notification API for app developers
Powell's method (actually methods, with different solvers depending on details such as whether you have constraints) is very old and implemented practically everywhere.
City driving: some drivers have the unpleasant habit of approaching an intersection from a secondary road with no visible slowing down, slamming the brakes at the very last moment. If I happen to glimpse such a vehicle, I hit the brakes myself. Right-of-way won't pay for damage costs.
IMO the issue is pensions are worked out by elected officials who will be long out off office when the bill is due. This encourages dishonest accounting wrt needed present day finding levels.

One fix would be to require that all future obligations be funded up front. Make the pension as generous as you like, but deposit the cash now. If you invest the money and do well, the state can just keep that, but don't assume positive returns.
> I can think of several family members who might think "um why?" but not have any idea of the security implications.

This is definitely the case. When presented with a dialog that prevents progression, many, many users will click whatever makes it "go away."

However, when I see something like this, I get the heebie-jeebies. Apple's done a great job at locking down stuff, and when I have to provide accessibility or some other weirdness I know what I'm doing.

I think if a successful exploit of this started spreading, Apple might add some exception for TextEdit. But in lieu of that, I can only imagine the amount of substantial, unprompted security problems are quite extensive.
> I just hate these blogs saying this virus is akin to the the flu

Author here. That's a mischaracterization of what I said. But yes it is true that overall mortality is similar to the flu. I settled on COVID-19 being 3x as deadly, but that figure is up to debate.

The important thing to understand is the varying risk profiles. The flu kills the very young and very old, whereas COVID-19 primarily kills the very old.

> Does the flu leave bodies in trucks, apartments, and bagged on the streets?

Yes, pandemic flu absolutely does.

> Does the flu kill dozens of workers in meat processing plants every year

Yup. Pandemic flu absolutely would.

> Does the flu take more than ten years of life from the average person it kills?

Could you clarify this point? I don't quite understand what you're saying. The flu takes away more wellbeing-years per death because it kills infants and young children whereas COVID-19 almost never does.
You may not be bored, but you can certainly get tired of being stuck in a rut, which is more like ennui.
Have some fun at the same time:
1) get a vpn account (proton, other)
2) hack your worst enemy's wifi with your favourite tools
3) while outside your enemy's home, boot a linux live distro
4) change your computer's name to your enemy's name
5) connect to the enemy's wifi
6) try to visit all the sites banned by your country
7) insult your country's leader in a public forum using your enemy's name
8) test the speed of the suspected rate-limited site
9) set-up your vpn account settings
10) using your vpn, re-test the rate-limited site
11) subtracting a fair percentage slow down because of the vpn, gauge if there's a significant difference between the two tests
12) turn off computer, go home, enjoy tasty beverage
13) grab some popcorn, go watch your enemy's house from a reasonable distance
14) post video on youtube of your enemy getting busted, using your favourite heading

If that's all too much fun for you, then skip most of it and only do #s 8 to 11 from your own network or favourite hot-spot.
If you’re versed enough in the differences between ipv6 and ipv4 doing the delta from this post shouldn’t be too hard.