skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither title, comments here nor Github repo indicated to an outsider like me what this is or what field it's even from. The abstract of the linked paper helps though:

"Given a stream of graph edges from a dynamic graph, how can we assign anomaly scores to edges in an online manner, for the purpose of detecting unusual behavior, using constant time and memory? Existing approaches aim to detect individually surprising edges. In this work, we propose MIDAS, which focuses on detecting microcluster anomalies, or suddenly arriving groups of suspiciously similar edges, such as lockstep behavior, including denial of service attacks in network traffic data. MIDAS has the following properties: (a) it detects microcluster anomalies while providing theoretical guarantees about its false positive probability; (b) it is online, thus processing each edge in constant time and constant memory, and also processes the data 162−644 times faster than state-of-the-art approaches; (c) it provides 42%-48% higher accuracy (in terms of AUC) than state-of-the-art approaches."
Someone on Twitter described the stock market as a graph of rich people feelings and, facetious as that is, I wonder if there's truth to it. A market driven partly by emotion could mean a stock hysteresis where the market's long-term reaction lags behind the economic reality like you describe. The recent headline "16 million people just got laid off but U.S. stocks had their best week in 45 years" is the most mind-shatteringly insane headline I've ever seen.
Typescript offers almost no runtime behavior. With a few exceptions, everything is stripped out, and it only offers to transpile modern JS features to older browsers. CoffeeScript was all about an alternate syntax for runtime behavior.

JS isn't going to get compile time anything. There was an attempt at adding "strong mode" by one of the google / chrome teams iirc and that went nowhere.
This was a few years ago right when Walmart Labs was taking off so their attitude probably changed some.
Large scale government lockdowns may have started in late March. By the beginning of March, corporations, local governments, and people were starting their own lockdowns. I had a 3 day business trip in early March. I wasn't sure if it was going to be cancelled because of the virus. Both flights weren't even half full. Security lines were either almost or entirely non-existent. In Philly, traffic was significantly less and far fewer people in restaurants than previous visits. Before I got home, local schools were already starting close. From my point of view, everything started at the end of February or very beginning of March.
I don't agree with the premise, but if you're going to make me choose I'd pick economic growth over biodiversity every day, and it's not even hard.
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Detecting Intrusions, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. It can also be used to detect fake profiles in Social Networks like Twitter, Facebook, Amazon reviews, and Financial Frauds. Basically any suspicious similar group of edges in time-evolving/dynamic graphs.
Also, though many developers don't even realize it, writing code is storytelling for human code readers.
Lyft is in a much more worse position than Uber. Since Uber is in more locations than Lyft and Uber has Uber Eats and other services, I don't know how Lyft can justify its value.

One thing that's common is that they're both unprofitable and have both been racing to burn cash for years and unfortunately they are now making difficult cuts to save themselves. But the true picture will be revealed on May 6th in their Q1 earnings call.

EDIT: Q1 Earnings call on May 6th, not Q2.
>My question is how much, if any, social unrest this will lead to.

The only social unrest that has happened so far have been the protests about wanting to lift or ease restrictions on states, and they were widely panned as a bunch of nutjobs. I doubt there will be any "unrest" beyond the protests.
I cannot agree more: I worked at a company where we went from a monolith deployed on IaaS with a couple handful of engineers to Docker containers deployed on ECS with over 200 engineers. The main reason we did it was because Docker+ECS was cheaper than a bunch of EC2 instances and you can't effectively use 200+ engineers with a single monolith.

After 2 years we had over 450 microservices while keeping our AWS bill flat or slightly decreasing.
"Bernie Sanders was, as far as I can see, our last shot at reversing the trend from within the current system"

If anything, Bernie Sanders was our first, worst shot at structural economic change. In fact, every candidate on stage during those Democratic debates was running far, far to the economic left of Barack Obama, John Kerry, Al Gore or either Clinton. With some historical perspective, you might see that the tides have turned in favor of the types of changes you are calling for, not against as so many people seem to pretend.
I have no sympathy for people who entered a risky business and failed and then complain that it's not fair. I'm sure they weren't accounting and paying taxes (and commercial mortgage rates) like a real apartment rental business would be.
Yeah I remember being told that quasi-Newton methods can get close to the final answer in just one step in my undergraduate statistics class.

But what works for traditional statistics (like matrix inversion) tends to have the wrong big-O for big data. Would be nice though if there were a website somewhere that summarized the state of the ML-applicable optimization field with links to papers in order of increasing complexity. Instead there are like a billion websites rehashing basic SGD that seem to dominate search results.

Although I guess most of the easy to use methods like Adam are already baked into all the frameworks.
Man, that 50% of the population that's able to buy things without paying sales tax is really fortunate. How do I sign up for that benefit?
I believe it is widely known that the disease disproportionately affects older people.

Are you saying you wish we had worldwide stats for the demographic breakdown of the deaths? (If someone does that, could I also request a breakdown that shows the size of the demographic -- for example, in the charts the parent poster shared, I assume that there just aren't many 90+ year olds alive (as a percentage of the population), and so there aren't many deaths -- but a ratio would make it way easier to tell.)
They had scooters for a while, no clue if they shut that down in recent months. Haven't been itching to scoot lately...

I wonder if a giant will scoop up one of these companies after they are beaten to the point of death?
> To normalize for an unambiguous comparison of deaths between states at the midpoint of an epidemic, we counted deaths per million population for a fixed 21-day period, measured from when the death rate first hit 1 per million—e.g.,‒three deaths in Iowa or 19 in New York state. A state’s “days to shutdown” was the time after a state crossed the 1 per million threshold until it ordered businesses shut down.

Can someone better at stats walk through this? Doing a simple test like this and then claiming lockdowns don't work does not seem genuine.
>IANAL, but pretty sure that’s not how it works. Articles incorporated against the State prevent the State from passing laws that violate the Article.

IANAL either, but here are examples of legal decisions and opinions by the various courts including the Supreme Court which appear to disagree with you[0-2], as well as some articles [3-4] which provide a basis for a legal argument that states have the right to restrict the movements of citizens in the name of public safety, including the imposition of quarantine measures, and that these powers are not a violation of the constitution. What is not constitutional is a national quarantine enacted by Congress.

>The Attorney General specifically has told the DOJ to be on the lookout for over-reach by the States in these lockdown orders.

Indeed, here's an article on that[5] with the following quoted from a memo by AG Barr himself:

"If a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate
exercise of authority to stop the spread of COVID-19 into an overbearing
infringement of constitutional and statutory protections, the Department
of Justice may have an obligation to address that overreach
in federal court."

So even from the AG's own pen, we have the admission that states do have appropriate authority in this case, although that authority is limited and can be abused. This is a different and more nuanced argument than the one apparently made by GP, that the first amendment prevents states from having any such authority at all. If that were the case, the AG wouldn't be telling the DOJ to be on the lookout for something that already exists in plain sight.

[0]https://casetext.com/case/best-v-st-vincents-hospital

[1]https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=538811625763396...

[2]https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/441/418/

[3]https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/yes-all-coronavirus-c...

[4]https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/04/19/protes...

[5]https://nypost.com/2020/04/28/barr-tells-prosecutors-to-look...
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Well, in 2009 my Dad's also had the same experience with the dealer who wanted to give him $5k more than he paid for his year old Silverado - I think it was due to the overall market undergoing massive inflation (not reported as "core inflation") due to QE and other stimulus efforts.

I doubt the same would happen now with an economy halted.
The author has already made it clear they consider "memory allocation by unaligned offset into temporary char[] cast into a struct pointer" to be a valid strategy, so frankly I'm not very interested in their opinions on whether it's production ready.

I've seen it on HN before, whenever this project gets mentioned. People who don't know much about C confuse it for a really cool thing you can do with C, as if it's just another legit library that you can pick up and use. It's a lot of undefined behavior. People have enough problems writing safe C as it is, and on top of this complaint about alignment and misuse of temporaries, this thing makes the problem worse in other ways too, removing the few safeguards that exist by treating everything as void* for instance.
Also, if Javascript got its own type system somehow (not gonna happen anytime soon), you could expect Typescript to compile to it.

And you could transition off of Typescript just as gradually as you could transition on to it.
And of course, they probably got all sorts of tax credits and breaks intended for "first time home buyers" and not R-E investors.
Think of all the open source libs. Generally speaking, anyone can contribute to any part of the project.

That's not to say that some people are better than others at certain parts of the codebase, but you don't want people fighting to keep old cruft in because it's on their job title (figuratively speaking).

You can organize around customers, use-cases, platforms, concerns or other things. Some might naturally map 1-1 to software components, but the software component should not be the "reason d'aitre" for a team, rather the customer experience or something else which can transcend multiple interations of the software.
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I used Zim (https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Notebooks.html) for a while and found it useful.
I think it takes a trivial number of actual human beings to do that. Everything has been automated.

The minimum-wage folks are in service industries, and have been for decades. There are only 13M Americans left in factory jobs total.
"Because that's how everyone else does it," or "other people will think you're weird if you're different," don't seem like very good reasons to mandate a society-wide rule on how to raise a child. Not to mention those arguments would have precluded the development of classroom schooling itself in the first place.
Sure, but without the bottom 50% the top 20% would not be able to make nearly as much money as they do.

Progressive taxation is aware of the exploitive nature of capitalism. Just because people are being exploited doesn't mean they don't contribute, much to the contrary.
We are using a hosted version of onetimesecret for internal usage.

We mainly used it on Slack. We made a slash command (/secret) to easily share passwords on Slack.

So the only thing you need to do is write /secret YourPassword.

After that, you need to be authenticated via Google SSO as we added a proxy. Yes, we know, the password goes through Slack.
Maybe Wooey[0] fits your needs?

https://github.com/wooey/Wooey
This is such horrid advice. She will have to declare bankruptcy to discharge the auto loan and 18k debt may not be sufficient to guarantee she can. Worse, that 18k will now have fees added to it for the repossession and late payments. The chance of getting the car back through auction are near nil for many reasons, from that auctions do not necessarily take place in the same locale to it can be months before the car gets to that point as the paper work has to work through the system, a system sufficiently hampered by the CV19

Now we don't know the full extent of the original poster's loan issues but the best bet is to try to arrange payment changes with the lien holder. Never ever advise anyone to walk away, that is the worst thing you can ever do.
This is anecdotal and it might come across as bitter and tonedeaf as someone who is not in a STEM job and cant see the bigger picture very well. Im a diesel engine tech who repairs those big trucks carrying food and shit tickets to grocery stores. the fact that ANY market is completely detached from whats actually happening to Americans is frustrating

This is something I see from coverage of "lock-down protesters." There's a concentration of imagery, so bad associations can be made, pandering to those with left-leaning viewpoints. The underlying message is, "see, we don't have to pay any attention to the ravings of these crazy deplorables."

Such patterns were also at play in the media coverage of minorities in the 1900's and early 20th century. They're just being used by a different set of people with different directional vectors.

What you have to remember, is that a lot of people have been given this "deal:"

How about you have a period of unplanned, involuntary unemployment with little prospect of finding alternative employment in your areas of expertise? Okay, thanks, bye!
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I promised to share some news, so here it is. You can now try out for free. I'm pretty excited about this. The team worked hard to make sure you can spin up a deployment on Anthos with just a few clicks and explore it yourself. Details here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/anthos/explore-anthos-w...
Lyft is up 5% today, but the market (S&P 500) is generally up 2.94%.
You can try Passion - https://github.com/heureka/passIon
passion.heu.cz/

Encrypted on client-side, the only thing server receives is the pass. You can check the request.
It’s a Good Time to Cut Dividends
An epair [0] is a pair of virtual ethernet interfaces which are connected together and have network addresses: ethernet frames that go in one interface come out of the other.

A tap interface can be used by software to make ethernet traffic appear on an interface, i.e. software can write to a tap interface to simulate ethernet traffic being received on that interface, and an application can receive ethernet traffic from it. From the manpage [1]: "A write(2) call passes an Ethernet frame in to be "received" on the pseudo-interface. Each write() call supplies exactly one frame; the frame length is taken from the amount of data provided to write()."

[0]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=epair&sektion=4&ma...
[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tap&sektion=4&manp...
You say this like it’s a good thing? This is reflective of an economic system that isn’t functioning well. All this points to is the fact that income is highly concentrated in the hands of a few, and that opportunity is very limited and unequally distributed. I’m sure that went right over your head when you proudly decided to trumpet that nugget of information. Alas, I’m sure I’m just shouting into a void of ignorance though.
What seneca said below is about what I think/experience too. Pop culture is just that = Pop Culture. It comes like a bubble and pops and is no more...I focus my children on the things that are lasting. By the way, I never played Mario or whatever other game that was. I know my peers did but we didn't have the money for such games.
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Will check this out, thanks! Was looking exactly for a Slack integration of Firefox Send, but never found anything.

Is it possible to use our own hosted Firefox send? Thanks!
There is also Uber Freight business that was ground rapidly recently
I'm a big fan of CC in general. And I can sort of get behind No Derivatives even though it goes against the "remix" idea that was some of the impetus for CC in the first place. (I actually learned the other week that even the FSF uses ND for media.)

However, Non-Commercial is really bad. Yes, it encourages people to put their work into the commons with the knowledge that no one can legally profit off it. But it's essentially a feel-good license that lets people get warm and fuzzies for putting works into the commons even if, in practice, almost no one can use it.

It's telling that CC spent literally years trying to define what NC meant and as far as I know never got to any sort of official definition.
This is great OP. I shared with my SO who also struggles with anger. I thought a lot of this mirrored things she has expressed and she could relate.

A very different cause for sure but it’s been a long road for her to become aware of the anger and ultimately how interested she is in finding a more effective shield. I think she doesn’t trust deep down there is anything more effective, even at the high emotional cost.
But not economic on any known horizon. For some reason fuel cells have repelled good economy (in dollars) for 15 years now.
I recommend first Keybase[1] if you can convince others to make an account and install on their systems. If you cannot (a common problem in business I've discovered) then PrivateBin[2] is my next preference. Their .info site explains the project and the .net site is a working example you can try[3].

If "Simply" is very important, go with PrivateBin. Keybase is not hard but it's a bit involved to create an account and manage your keys on multiple devices and such.

If you are at work I recommend setting up your own instance of it. I threw together a simple single-node instance of it that runs in a container (Docker) with systemd supervising. It uses nginx as a proxy and has built-in support for Let's Encrypt (because you are using TLS right?). I open sourced the scripts: https://github.com/FreedomBen/privatebin-setup

If anybody is wanting to setup their own PrivateBin using those scripts and my images, let me know and I will document it better. I just haven't put in the time because until this moment I didn't know if it would actually be useful to anybody.

[1]: https://keybase.io

[2]: https://privatebin.info/

[3]: https://privatebin.net/
> asking people to stay home.

Unfortunately, most governors made it a crime to not stay home.
Maybe not stop it, but make it a really big pain. They'll need you to sign off on court filings, etc. If you're obstinate, you can certainly encourage them to "deal with this house later".
I'm guessing this had largely to do with the recession?

People weren't buying new cars and so the supply for used cars dropped (I remember dealers calling me begging me to sell my Ford Edge) but the demand increased exponentially because it made more sense to buy a used car, then to get a new one.

This is turn increased the price to many models and in some cases, a lot. Hybrids and electrics shot through the roof because people were trying to save money on gas. More reliable models from Honda, Toyota and Subaru also went way up in value.
ah so if you don't actually know what you're doing it could mislead you
All humans tend to overestimate the importance of themselves, what they do, and what they see.

So it is encouraging that technical people display some human traits :)
And all that because of a virus that has a fatality rate about between .2 and .5% which mainly targets people who are already on the verge of death to begin with.

We need to begin opening our country back up and implementing more targeted lockdowns and isolations for the most vulnerable.

Not only will this bring us to herd immunity faster, we will have a huge pool of recovered people available to donate plasma antibodies to those suffering from the virus.

Taking the recent deluge of antibody test data that's been released in the last few weeks from around the world indicating infection rates are far higher than official numbers indicate and the growing threat of economic misery for tens of millions, this is the best way forward.
Both uber and lyft are flying today. Most people see cutting jobs as a bad thing, market probably sees it as a cost savings and great business decision.
Zenity is a classic example.
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I used to be a game developer, which involves working with lots of people across different domains. I've seen no evidence that programmer art is any better than artist code. Given the choice between working with a programmer-turned-artist or an artist-turned-coder, I would almost always prefer the latter because they tend to be more aware of their deficiencies and able to accept help from others.

The kind of black-and-white thinking that programmers are understandably prone to often leads to them denying the existence of their own blind spots.
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That reminds me of the "lp0 on fire" messages which some Unix/Linux systems can generate:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
Yeah, this is a hard no from me.

It also provides me with little confidence that the data itself is particularly useful, since the terms basically prevent anyone from publicly doing any kind of cross-validation. Scientific peer review didn't appear as some sort of bureaucratic oversight, it appeared because people value information that other experts have reviewed and said "Yeah, that checks out." By even trying to prevent people from doing that, I think the value of this data set is drastically reduced.
Shameless plug: checkout Gooey. Works on Win/OSX/Linux

While it won't bootstrap your GUI straight from powershell, it can give you a pleasant GUI that calls your powershell stuff with just a few lines of Python (no actual GUI code required!) ^_^

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
Is there not massive irony in publishing "very valuable" something that is then restricted to any practical use? seems to echo the bizarre and tortuous legal world these funds, and their people, live in...
I’m taking about reading specifically but I disagree with your conclusions.
Yeah I never talked to that manager again. They wouldn't return my calls or emails.
I agree with everything in that link, but it's not a case for socialism. That's because Canada isn't particularly socialist, despite what both right-wing and left-wing Americans claim.

Canada was not founded by religious extremists and evangelical Christianity has no hold here. That's probably the biggest difference and it accounts for a lot, I'd say.
I recall a talk about someone registering domains similar to google.com and due to occasional bit flips people landing to these domains.
Looks to me like it is basically a sitemap to their website with some additional info sprinkled in.

I'm not really involved much in VC so I don't know how useful and reliable that information is or how hard would be to come by otherwise?