skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the summary. This is a question that had piqued my curiosity. Based on past bubbles, I cynically assumed it was mostly delusion ("market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent").

Paul Krugman provided his own answer a few days ago in a Twitter thread:

Two lessons here. First, the Fed saved the world economy from total disaster (again). Second, the stock rebound is not a sign that everything will soon be OK. It's not telling us that the economy is great, but rather that investment opportunities other than stocks are lousy.

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1256208478282158085

This echoes @magicsmoke's explanation at the top of this thread and helped change my mind a bit. Like you, I still expect a bloodbath eventually.

Among this article's explanation, #1-3 sound like folly to me. And I'm guessing 4 & 5 can only go so far when 1/3 of the economy is out of order. It feels like a massive (long and slow) hurricane has just made landfall and there's still too much rain and wind to see how much damage has actually been done yet. But investors seem to want to pretend when the storm clears, the economy will somehow still be standing there unscathed and everyone will be able to just head back to work.
Finding new physics will require removing a lot of dust on the politics of that field, and a vast re-evaluation of why and how people get funded. How important the is science versus everything else in the matter.

It's not going to happen overnight, but it's good that people are opening their eyes. Let's reevaluate in 2040 and see if we've moved the needle in fundamental physics even just a little compared to what was achieved in the first half of the 20th century.
That's a good thought, but 'defamation' is right in the centre of free speech conversations.

It's a good example you bring up because it's as old as time and there doesn't seem to be a universal way to think about it just yet.
Ah, no problem!

It seems like the tax logic is different in the edit sheet from when it is saved on the page. The below test case will produce you a 0.01 penny tax pre-save, and a 0.00 penny tax post-save. If you click between them the value changes:

Line item 1: £10, tax @ 0.04%

Line item 2: £10, tax @ 0.04%

Result pre-save (correct) is 1p

Result post-save (incorrect) is 0p
The spike protein is the main target of leading vaccines around the world, and if it changes too much those vaccines may no longer work.
Minor nitpick: Costco does not sell cheap meat. They don’t sell cheap anything, really. They sell high quality products in bulk, which makes them less expensive than buying comparable quality products at other retailers. But there is a whole class of low quality products that you simply will not find at Costco.
My son is also working on his PPL and has been flying 172s in XPlane 11 for the last year or so.

At Oshkosh he jumped into a $250,000 Frasca simulator and did a complete flight with no assistance /and/ the sales guy turning off various parts of the avionics. He’s 15.

TLDR don’t wait around for Microsoft.
> String theories...are currently unverifiable using experiments

Makes me appreciate that relativity and quantum mechanics are verifiable experimentally.
>I’m especially excited to see CNAME inspection. I was tired of trying to figure out what domains like “xuenl4v1szy8g.cloudfront.net” were doing.

Is there a good explainer for CNAME inspection? I'm not finding anything good with my Google Fu.
Magic Racket author here. On one hand, it’s difficult to see such a big time investment into DrRacket and not think about what could have been if so many man-hours went into the language server instead...

But on the other hand, many things from DrRacket can be reused as modules in the language server, so the work that goes into it is not “lost” for the ones that don’t use it directly.

Also, what’s the biggest feature you miss from Magic Racket (and the language server by extension)? As far as I’m aware, the language server project doesn’t have a fixed set of goals and it grows rather organically. Maybe they would make use of this kind of feedback.
If you run Windows, it blocks a lot of stuff that isn't browser related. That's why ublock does not get it down to 0 percent.
I remember at the University of Chicago there was a researcher studying "breakfast physics" - what governs the peak angle of granular piles (like salt piles or grain or sandpiles), what happens at the singularity when a drizzle of honey goes from a hyperboloid of one sheet to a hyperboloid of two sheets. I think he also measured the effect of vacuum on fluid splatters.

These are all quotidian problems in I guess "condensed matter" physics which are 0) largely unsexy and ignored 1) still largely unsolved, 2) liable to watershed huge, life- and money- saving innovations, while exotic HEP and Low Temp Condensed, are still what most physics students study their way into.
Eat the rich
Original Battlefront games have been sold for years on Steam without working multiplayer. Only recently did they get fixed.
Especially when the NSA still has a lot of trust building to do.
The site appears to be down, here's a recent archive of it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200510060156/http://uk.diplom....
Must confess I had gotten as far as possible from UI development in Android by the time recycler views came around (or at least I became aware of them), but this sounds very familiar. I think we were talking about hundreds of milliseconds to setup the view, full of nested constructors calling each other, calling their inherited super class constrictor, calling a few factories too for good measure.

It was liberating to reverse all that obfuscation and abstraction, and get all the logic into one single file, as a series of functions implementing the Android-expected API, without having to call out to a black box of stutters and constructors!
Actually, it gives you insights to how some people think/act in the market. Sometimes you can inverse their advice and make money.
There are a lot of issues with both cfn and tf. As always,it comes down use-case.

In my opinion, tf is terrible choice unless you're going to be using it for more than AWS
Is there an advantage in sending all of your DNS queries to a for-profit company vs. setting up your own Pi-hole?

Their privacy policy seems legit[0] but why trust them at all when Pi-hole is an option?

[0] https://nextdns.io/privacy
Can you give an example of something you understand better about her behavior?
> it's pretty fucked up that so many people just write off people because they hold radical political views.

It's extremely reasonable actually.
Exposed Big Oil and the slippery slope
Isn’t data this granular illegal, at least in the US? Obviously trying to make the data anonymous does nothing if you can still see the same user over time - I’ve only ever seen this data with users put into groups, and data points fuzzed.
Yeah, I wouldn't ask too many questions on wallstreetbets, but it can be useful to read.
There isn't any open source license that prevents me from not liking it either.
Pac-Man was terrible mess.

Interestingly it was the best selling Atari 2600 game of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL2p2ANFlQ4
“Alexa, shut pihole”

Thanks for the tip, I don’t have any home assistants but this would be the first integration I’d set up
Bet to worst:
Russia, Turkey, England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary.
More generically: fluid simulations. Fire, smoke, water etc
We should take turns. US, China, Japan, Russia, India, EU, even North Korea. Did I leave anyone out who has launch capability? How about those nations who dont have launch capability- They can buy a seat on SpaceX, BlueOrigin, or Virgin Space (or whatever that guy's company is called). And I'm sure there are a few private companies I've forgotten. I bet those astronauts who make it through training, make the journey, and survive the rigors of life on the moon will have a lot of camraderie, respect for each other and human decency. Why? Because evil is not tolerated in an environment where your actions can lead to the loss of your nation's citizens and its investment as well. When you have skin in a game where everyone is watching, you play fair. or else.
Solaris was huge, in the US at least, in the 90s.

I learned Unix and C on a SparcStation, and to this day I prefer workstations to other computers.

Even if Apple is the only one still making them...
What an inclusive attitude. Reminds me of that whole gamer-gate phenomenon.
Yeah, people always say "Why should I pay more in taxes? It's not fair, they should be flat and the same for everybody!" and I'm always like "Do you have just as much to lose in a French Revolution scenario? You should be happy to pay more if it leads to more social stability."
Can you define what this bifurcation in ETFs look like? I can’t grasp how this situation will crumble the ETF market- aren’t ETFs in theory safer than stocks?
The perfect nap is 36 minutes long
>> a stock market crash would blow up a lot of retirement planning

The low interest rates we've experienced over the last decade, which have only gotten lower as of late, have actually blown up retirement plans.

Used to be, $500,000 saved at 8% meant you could retire off the $40k interest + social security. It also meant that growing a savings account into $500,000 was not out of reach, even on a modest income. This was the plan many people in the 60's, 70's, 80's worked towards.

Now, getting to $500k in savings is much more difficult as compound interest is so much lower. And if you happened to get there, you'd earn a whopping $5000, maybe less, in interest per year.
I took part in the beta and checked out my city. It is unbelievable impressive.

My City is not that big and its in germany. But still, i was able to fly over my flat \o/.

And we have sandbanks and a river, autobahn, bridges etc. and it looks still great! There have been cars driving as well :)
The New York Times Front Page with Art Sunday May 10, 2020
Is this really what you think passes for an argument? Honestly I would be more concerned if you agreed with me on anything.
But how applicable is the experience of Wuhan, Italy, NYC, etc to most of the US?

People who live in areas with low population density don't think they need to shut down just because areas with high population density are vulnerable to this outbreak.

If you want to convince them, you'll have to show them examples where communities like their own have been hit hard by the virus.
Ah, don't even know how I missed that. Should be fixed now. I appreciate the heads up.
Maybe not motion sickness, but I’ve yet to wear a VR set I can enjoy for more than 10-15 minutes at a time. I think some people just adapt to stereoscopic illusion better than others- I struggle during 3D movies too.
Yes, there's definitely more going on than just reflectance. That's why most virtual materials appears too glossy to me. From what I understand, ray/path tracing will enable better materials modeling as well, given enough processing power. But I'm not a graphics person, so would be happy to be corrected.
Reduce choices. Podcasts over streaming. Long weird ambient music albums over jumping around on a music service. Movies over tv shows. That sort of stuff thing.
Prorated isn’t the correct term here. It’s retroactively paid.

And that assertion is false. The $600 per week is only until July 31.
NATS.io and Kafka seem very different, the former not being able to do at least once guarantees, no?
> If Wikipedia were started today, it’d be React. Maybe?

No, I'm building a hard fork of wikipedia and I'm using Go to render the pages on the server side and a vanilla JS for a user friendly the rich text editor.

I don't know why not more people use WebComponents as a light weight alternative to React/Vue/Angular. It was natural choice in my case because it grew out of the desire to keep the tech stack small. For now I haven't find a reason to regret it, two way databinding is nice to have, but when the js is reloaded with every page, the global state is easier to reason about and less of a problem.
max laziness and convenience ;)
FWIW much of my class went on to Boeing, SpaceX, GE (wind turbines, not appliances), Shell, NASA, ...
That was written in 2015.

It is no longer the case https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/750864036/u-s-recycling-indus...
Despite the title, it was mostly an article about location data being (no surprise) identifying information.
Canary Mail: email app with PGP Encryption
Years ago, before there were better ways to do it in the Web browser, I implemented animated flight/mission review from aircraft flight data recorders, using the Google Earth Plugin, a bunch of JS and HTML&CSS, and some custom 3D assets.

Today, for a desktop tool, the scenery and platform would look much better with MS Flight Simulator (though that's not the point of review), and presumably it would also render weather (which could be useful).

When practical, I'd prefer to work from an open dataset and engine, so I'd lean towards using FlightGear, even if it isn't as slick in some ways.
Arch Linux because of simplicity
I am well aware that NYC is not the centre of the world. I'm European myself, so much for your assumptions.

The reason why I used NYC was because we have reasonably good data from the recent antibody tests which found about 20% population infection. Based on those numbers, the population of NYC and the dead we end up with an IFR of 0.8%-1.5% depending if we use confirmed deaths, suspected deaths or excess deaths (note the actual value would be higher because of the lag between infection and death).

Now for some non US numbers just have a look at the Euromono data https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
You can see the excess death spike which is considerably (for some countries by a lot) larger than the flu epidemic from 2017. So in most countries in Europe it has been significantly more deadly than the flu.

And considering your comment on overflowing hospital, tell me when was the last time they were flying many flu patients per day from Paris hospitals to relief hospitals by helicopter. I know people living close to one and they had almost constant flight noise.

Didier Raoult definitely warrants some background reading
You can use one lambda to handle multiple API gateway requests. Route to ANY. Then have a bridge that connects to your favorite language router. We do this all the time with NestJS. The down side is you burn some cash when someone calls a 404 resource since your NestJS has to say that it’s missing and that requires at least 100ms of lambda time. You could probably get around this by generating a route maker off the NestJS controller files.
If you have a clone of the Linux kernel source tree, you just have to look at the history of the include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h file. From a quick look here: everything up to IORING_OP_POLL_REMOVE came with Linux 5.1; IORING_OP_SYNC_FILE_RANGE was added in Linux 5.2; IORING_OP_SENDMSG and IORING_OP_RECVMSG came with Linux 5.3; IORING_OP_TIMEOUT with Linux 5.4; everything up to IORING_OP_CONNECT is in Linux 5.5; everything up to IORING_OP_EPOLL_CTL is in Linux 5.6; and the last three are going to be in Linux 5.7.
Yeah, I'm usually a backend person, but I have an app I want to build, because everything else that does it sucks. But the learn how to make Android UI stuff I need to do is all deathly slow, or says 'make a webview and do it there' if you want it to be fast, which is peobably true, but depressing.

I just want to fetch some data, and put it in something vaguely tabular. I can prefetch the data, so I have it when the app needs to draw, but I can't make drawing fast, which is super demotivating.

On the other hand, now I understand why even with 4GB of ram, Android is sluggish, and it's not worth using a 2GB phone anymore.
I do this too. After throwing around a bunch of other ideas, I realized that a Pi is cheap enough and the one-shot cost is nice. If it dies, I just update the MAC address for its DHCP reservation to the new pi, spend 10 minutes setting up a new instance, and that's that. It just ends up working.
Wikipedia has been taking some strides in this direction. For example, on the "mobile" site, if you follow a link from an expanded page section and then go back, the section is no longer expanded, and you lose your place. (Then it re-expands, but you're in a completely different place on the page now.)

This type of stuff is one of the reasons why I choose to support older browsers like Netscape, IE, and Lynx. I think that a website which would have been usable 25 years ago has a much better chance of being usable by some random person using an old device I've never heard of and a browser I've never tested with.
I have never used this but how does it block ads on https pages? Or am I misunderstanding pi-hole?
Stock gives you a legal claim to a portion of the assets of a company, which as you point out, manifests itself quite clearly during a liquidation event like a dividend payment or an acquisition by some other entity. But tt shouldn't bother you that plans for such a liquidation event might not be clear when you buy the stock. What matters to you (and future investors that might buy your shares from you) is that if such an event happens, you have to be compensated as a result. That's why your shares retain value.

To take a more specific example, Google has ~$100B of cash on hand, and it does not pay any dividends. Let's just assume that Google is nothing more than a box containing $100B, and you own a portion of that box amounting to $1000. Even though you can't reach your hand in and take out that $1000, it's yours. In the event it gets released from the box, you're the only one that can get at it because of your ownership. And because everyone else realizes that, there's a pretty clear value to that ownership that they would rationally pay you for.

Of course, Google is much more than just a box of money, it is a box of many things, some very intangible (but still valuable). This extra value makes it worth far more than $100B. But it's still a box, and if the value gets released from the box, you're the one who gets it. So who wouldn't pay (at the correct price) for that?
Sorry no, I've only done this for Android yet.
That power is very, very dangerous and has been abused in the past. It doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be used.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization
I don't think it's wise to project guaranteed 13-15% stock market returns, or suggest it's better than paying off debt. It may have been the case last few years of the cycle, but may well not be the case for the next 5 years.
Site-saturation mutagenesis in the active site followed by introduction of disulphide bridges.
I think the article is spot-on.

So far only .03% of the population of Sweden has died from Covid-19. (3.2k/10.2M). Pretty negligible. Does that really justify the consequences of shutting down the world economy?

Most of those people were going to be dying soon anyway. Like my grandma, she was 93.

I think we are experiencing the modern equivalent of China's disastrous "Great Leap Forward". But instead of being caused by terrified bureaucrats listening to a tyrant, this time it's from terrified politicians listening to the bleeding-heart media. The same folks that are always whining about something have now brought about the "Great Leap Backward".

One could say the world is now suffering under the tyranny of the media. Or rather, suffering the tyranny of the meek.
No it also looks at income across generations within quartiles, e.g. "But [incomes of] 93% of the children in the poorest households — those in the bottom 20% — surpassed their parents...Julia Isaacs’s study for the Pew Charitable Trusts looking at the late 1960’s up to 2002 finds that children raised in the poorest families made the largest gains as adults relative to children born into richer families."
> I know that if I sell as the market is going down, I may well encourage other people to sell. The market may plunge and all of my stock will be worthless. If I buy at a crucial time - when the market has paused in the process of dropping, I may well influence the market to go up instead.

That is simply not how the market works. Trying to buy when the market has "paused" is not going to trick the other market participants into thinking that the market has bottomed out and the crash is over and that everyone should start buying again. Volatility in a bear market is normal, and the stock market going up for a couple days in the middle of a crash is not going to convince anyone but the most gullible retail traders that the crash is definitively over.

> but if it is true that 10% of the population controls 86% of the stock

10% of the population is 30 million people.
This reminded me of this book I loved as a kid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings
This is awesome! I have a site made with Jekyll and it took a good amount of massaging to make it look somewhat presentable. I wish there was a way to integrate with Jekyll.
It's technically possible to write an entire iOS app in straight C, although it's not advised: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10289890/how-to-write-io...
Very interesting read! Thank you.

What is the point of all this? Why go through the trouble to obfuscate a mundane http request/response versus spending that effort ensuring the api is properly secured, and data model architected in an optimal way?
The Covid-19 crisis has already left too many children hungry in America
Pi-hole on Apple Watch - just ran up a quick proof of concept. Would there be any use/interest in this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/gathus/pihole_on_ap...
What does this mean for PET already in landfills?

Can we trawl through our landfills for old PET and bring it back to (perpetual) life with this process?
RSI(28) started peaking on the daily chart.

Weekly and monthly charts are showing room to move either way. Stochastic RSI is at mid range on weekly, moving upwards, and has yet to cross over. Same for monthly, except it's moving downwards.

Daily was pretty oversold, but longer term looks to be brighter.
I can only recommend it. It is still in beta though.
SwiftUI is also cross platform: the generated UI is different on mac than iphone. With SwiftUI you are programming more with semantics than before
Can you explain what this is?

I read the homepage.
Wow, this article is really interesting, but one thing I noticed is that the translation is generated and perfect! In fact if the header weren't there I'd have thought it was written by a native english speaker.
A full explanation is too complicated for a single post. But here's two good starters.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-why-gove...

Now that we've addressed your off topic question. Could you please try to explain how hard work and a sense of opportunity is not available to the common person?
>is granular location data illegal

Generally speaking, there are no laws against merely possessing data, unless the data itself was the result of a crime.

Maybe you mean selling the data? That's nuanced. It seems to be illegal for phone-companies to sell your real-time cellphone location... but historical data? App developers instead of phone companies? The devil is probably in the details in terms of what constitutes a crime and what is just shady business. See [1] where AT&T sells your location data but insists it's not technically illegal (but claims they stopped selling it anyway).

Many companies try to anonymise this data anyway because it's good business to not piss off your customers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629553/att-t-mobile-spr...
^^ this

though they do also have some additional security protections for typosquatting, safebrowsing, homoglyphs, threat-intelligence which is also nice. All of which could be done on a pihole though not out of the box when I last used it ~2 years ago.
It’s really unfair but you come across as a Ned Flanders type here.

I mean for kicks and giggles. You know you mean shits and giggles, they know you mean shits and giggles, the phrase makes no sense with kicks.

Seems pointdiddlyointless.