skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the Japan Olympics were cancelled in 2020 I read that there was actually some kind of "Olympics cancellation insurace" policy that paid out over it, potentially hundreds of millions. I'll see if I can find it

See here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-insurance/insure...

The IOC had 800 Million insurance and overall was 2-3 Billion. It would be really interesting to understand how to price an 800 Million Olymoic insurace policy
TLDR: Ethereum relies on users “approving” contracts to spend their tokens by “blind signing” transactions

This, combined with a compromised website, allowed the hack to occur

On Radix, “approving” and “blind signing” do not exist - this kind of hack could not occur on Radix
And yet, the Nintendo Switch is basically a combination of the 3DS and Wii U and it's been doing gangbusters.

Sometimes Nintendo products don't strike a chord. It happens to any company with history in video gaming, including Sony and Microsoft.
What's wrong with referring to it by the Japanese title? I often look for the Japanese title specifically when looking for manga or anime.
I was thinking of taking up walking again, despite getting stopped by police more than I would really like.

But I considered getting some kind of MP3 player and have gone down the bizarre rabbit hole of trying to find out if those even exist now, do they use .m3u playlists, and so forth. I haven't had as much time to listen to my music and I am not a user of streaming services (I want to listen to what I want to listen to, rather than some kind of firehose of what someone else decides via algorithm), so this would be a nice time to do it.
Depending on setup they may have some risks management behind their back, which effectively does stop losses for them.
>But if you can find negatively correlated securities (or lowly correlated), then that is certainly helpful.

Is it more likely to find negatively correlated securities across industries, like the SPDR ETFs, rather than individual stocks?
It reminds me: a decade ago, I had the idea of porting Baldur's Gate 2 to the web: http://lumakey.net/labs/battleground/demo1/

I initially played with EMSCRIPTEN as well, starting from GemRB, an open-source reimplementation of the engine. But that was boring, as I wasn't really getting any sense of how things were working under the hood.

So I started reverse-engineering the various file formats (a website called IESDP had most things figured out already) and converting them to PNG, JSON and other web formats. At that point I only knew PHP which made it a pain to work with binary data. Then, I started rebuilding the game from scratch: pathfinding, streaming huge maps using small tiles, animations...

10 years later, there's still that one single room and single character that were implemented, but it was still fun times.
...or just steal it so that even if it can be traced, it's not your problem.
That's not necessarily true, there are positively reinforcing relationships and negative ones too. So, some strategies, everyone does them and the result becomes less predictable, others, everyone does them and the result becomes more predictable. A common modern example of a positive reinforcement is people pumping meme stocks. There are strategies that the more people know about it the stronger it becomes.
To me a reactive data source would be something like Asana, Trello, Teamwork or on an ecommerce site it could be the cart widget. Basically any type of data that needs to react without requiring a page reload or any data source that needs to sync with another users inputs in real time.
Yea - generally two-tiered employment systems do that. The reason companies hire skilled labour is because the skill more than makes up for the cost. Modern America is in love with the idea that replaceable contractors are every bit as effective as full time employees. Once upon the time this was more than correct when contractors tended to be (mostly) highly skilled folks that would swoop in for critical problem solving, however, it being seen as a lucrative field and then a way to dodge taxes and benefits has watered it down significantly.

Contractors aren't, by definition, any better or worse than full time employees. But when the going gets rough and the gruel is thin the good contractors will all immediately jump ship because, well, they're contractors - that will reinforce the concentration of lower skilled employees at your company and hurt overall morale.

Lastly, treating your coworkers like dirt will get them to give you the bare minimum to avoid being laid off and, if they're contractors anyways, that might not be any real threat - they can move back into the video game job market with the biggest most legendary game studio ever on their resume.
Somewhat related, Tachiyomi really is a great Android app for manga, it makes it very easy to read on the go.
Airbnb first quarter 2022 financial results
If all you need is a couple of basic forms and some basic interaction, you can do it all with vanilla JS but let's not kid ourselves. This will not allow you to build very rich apps without implementing a significant chunk of the frameworks you dislike so much. In fact, I would even say that if this is not a core part of your product, you are simply wasting time and resources. There is a huge amount of man-hours poured into making these frameworks work correctly under any condition.
At this point, is anybody surprised that high end real estate is a crook's game? Whether it is London, Dubai, or anywhere else, the chronically dishonest gravitate towards effortless capital gains driven by financialisation and rent seeking. It is a pity so much cash is tied up in this stuff instead of being put to use in the real economy, or simply redistributed to those who need it.

What a rotten world.
Yeah, being mostly unable/unwilling to navigate the spectrum between the commercial censorship overly westernized crap and the fan translation "All according to Keikaku (TL Note: Keikaku means plan)" crap and who has what licenses and how to get quality pirate copies when needed (yet support artists somehow), I have just about given up and determined to just have a JP region kindle, buy on Amazon JP and read everything in the original Japanese.
On sprites, the Fanwor project has some which are lookalike to the ones of the Zelda for the NES.

https://git.tuxfamily.org/fanwor/fanwor.git
Author here (thanks for posting!) - I went much deeper on that in the 2nd part, which was released some hours ago (https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-14-ethical-linux-privacy...), not sure if before or after this first bit was shared here)
Maybe they are referring to the “COVID-19 Exposure Notifications” setting.

Im using a Pixel too, and you can see the toggle if you go to Settings, then select Google.

Mine is toggled off, and I don’t really know he details of how it works, but it seems like you need to download some official COVID reporting app to enable it.
It's this. Think Cognizant, Accenture, CyberCoders, etc. They aren't making $200+ an hour as contractors, they're being paid like $40 an hour without any benefits and are treated like garbage.
> Proof of work rewards those who own fast CPUs (or are using stolen CPU time).

Most technology rewards people who own fast CPUs or are using stolen CPU time, so this statement doesn't mean much.

What actually matters is "does this significantly negatively impact those with slower processors" (no) and "is it still effective at punishing attackers" (yes).

Impact: I'll set my Hashcash challenge so that it takes about 8 seconds on a 10-year-old middle-of-the-line Intel processor. There, login time is about doubled for people running that extremely old hardware, and that's the worst case - and this is entirely acceptable given that most people do not log in to their accounts very often - they do so once and then stay logged in for weeks or months.

Effectiveness: Even for attackers using stolen CPU time - Hashcash is still effective. If you have malware on a low-power device, that device is going to be far slower at login attempts. If you have a user-facing device, they're much more likely to notice their computer being slow, and do something that might lead to discovery. If you've stolen compute on some cloud, then the IT folks are more likely to notice, and so on.

Rate limiting is good, but is complementary to proof-of-work - if you have a large pool of IPs/devices to log in from, for instance, rate limiting isn't very effective.
Changing the Origins of Our Economy
In this vein, one of my favorite financial vehicles is a catastrophe bond[0]. They are essentially short term debt instruments that pay a coupon normally, but in the event of a specified disaster, forgive the principal (thus removing the liability from the bond issuer's balance sheet).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_bond
At least until the state you're in outlaws running from the law you want to run from. This is not hypothetical.
I know Schafer wasn't involved in EMI and so had no direct interest in doing it but with the huge underlying similarities in the engine it would have been nice to get an EMI remaster side-by-side the Grim Fandango remaster with similar controls improvements.

One of these days maybe SCUMMVM will finally get around to gifting us the right controls for EMI to make it truly fun to experience.
If I had to complain about something, the three things that I wish were different about are:

1. the red background behind the hardware switches on the "disconnected" side of the webcam and microphone (yes, it has a separate hardware switch for the microphone) is not particularly bright and can be difficult to see in dim light.

2. the rubber pads under the laptop aren't as frictiony as I would like, meaning that if you've got it on a tilted surface it may or may not stay put, depending on the angle.

3. the monitor hinges don't have as much friction as I would like, though I wonder if that's just mine. At some point I'll just buy a set of replacement hinges and see if that fixes the problem for me.

Those are the only things I can think of to whine about.
You'll need another one. If you only have that one, you'll have to pay some taxes in the US, regardless of where you live.
I was thinking about this quite a bit replaying ocarina of time. It's now very apparent to me that a lot of the world is giant sheets of 2d textures, with some scattered doors as 3d objects, like castletown. Then I started to notice some things that were... surprisingly good? My favorite: Link had IK foot placement! His feet would land on individual steps as you went up stairs.
> Isn't the solution unions, akin to the heavily unionized movie / TV business?

So that might help, but some of NOA's current problem seems to be some mental baggage from their management about growing headcount after the struggles of the 3DS/Wii U era.

A normal company would have done layoffs. Nintendo doesn't do that, even without unions. But management who survived that era turned it into a culture of not taking on the seemingly existential risk of increasing permanent headcount in case there would be a future income crisis.

I'm not sure if unions would be more likely to help relieve that mental baggage, or help to force management to finally decide to work through it and figure out a way to manage for a stable workforce rather than this perm/temp duopoly that they have going on now.
I second this and can't recommend Keynes and his writing highly enough.

I would also add that if you can get hold of Volume 12 of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes it goes through his time as an investor and all related correspondence in great detail. Fascinating from a historical and practical perspective.
That was literally how I first approached this problem of getting Zelda Classic quests to work in the browser. I had initially failed to port it with Emscripten, so I reverse engineered the quest binary format and started painstakingly recreating the engine in JavaScript [1].

I got pretty far but there would have been years and years of tweaks to get it just right, so I gave up.

[1] https://hoten.cc/quest-maker/play/
Agree 100%, would have taken resolve to push through the criticism and pull that off but it feels like he became too influenced by the criticism then ended up shipping milquetoast rubbish.

Imagine how fun it would have been watching Ep1 and getting annoyed by Jar Jar once you know he ends up super evil.
I didn't have a problem following them [AFAICT, there's nothing particularly complicated about the subject], to me the content structure lacks hierarchy that others naturally apply; rather like unintentionally burying the lede. Their point seemed like it was 'left as an exercise for the reader' -- fine if they intended that style is prose.

I didn't blame the GP; friends who have conversed with me in that manner (only 2) have had diagnoses of Asperger's [which is why I chose that term over ASD].

FWIW there were several interesting things in the comment, and I'm glad they made it.
My ad for web components: btw I used to use react
Yes, exactly this, thank you. It is actually quite good, shame that their main node seems to be out of capacity.
I was talking about spoken sentences. Yes, I design sentences for use in important conversations, and I have no idea if that is weird or not. :)

But yes, great point on body language. My saying 9 calmly through gritted teeth was received differently from my gesticulated comment on waves of pain..
Actual study link:

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abk0639
The topic of the post was email. Even expanding to every other product, which ones are you forced to use? Just pick another one.

Calling this feudalism is a bit much.
What difference does it make whether their reasons are the same as mine or different from them?
This two-tier system is literally how the U.S. federal government works as well in a great deal of functions.
Lloyds of London are quite open and proud of being willing to insure anything - they've insured singer's voices, model's legs, all manner of things.
Unfortunately, what Google embeds into Android software is significantly more adverse than just "shellac".

A standard Android phone sends your IMEI and SIM card info to Google servers on boot up before you even have a chance to login.
For the record, I have written a reloading library for Python called jurigged[0] that works on normal Python code and can indeed replace foo() when it's being called in a loop. There is also a way to do debug-and-fix-up, but only if you specify restart points in advance, unfortunately.

It is probably still a good deal more limited to what can be done with CL, there are no miracles here, just saying the gap may not be that big.

[0] https://github.com/breuleux/jurigged
Hard to believe that rolling minced meat into a spheric shape and frying them has only been invented once.
California wants 100% renewable power. It just hit that milestone – briefly
> No escaping. If you want to put \u001F or \u001E in your data – tough you
> can’t. Use a different format.

> It would be reasonably compact, efficient to parse and easy to manually edit
> (Notepad++ shows the unit separator as a ‘US’ symbol).

Is it me or it won't be human readable because of the lack of new lines?
A JSON array doesn't allow easily appending a row. JSONLines is a bit better.
> They are consistently 10+ years behind the times in terms of multiplayer and online.

Nintendo has never and probably will never try and seriously compete in the multiplayer arena - they've got some casual multiplayer stuff but they're not trying to out compete Call of Duty, Halo or Starcraft.

I do agree that they do milk those main properties for all their worth, but they're pretty careful about releasing bombs - Mario Odyssey was a pretty notable and dramatic fail for them but, again, the fact that their games suck to you doesn't matter. I'm a big fan of EU4 and as such Nintendo doesn't want my business - they cater to young and casual audiences building easy to access for the family games rather than historical simulators or Dark Souls.
That's exactly the word they're not looking for. They don't want to admit that they made poor life choices and paid for them. Once you hit the age of majority you're a functioning adult and you don't get to make excuses anymore. If you make a bad deal then you make a bad deal. The trick is to realize that "bad deals" can be transmuted into good deals with a little spiritual alchemy. In my case I traded roughly a year at Amazon and some Bohemian-style living to make a pile of cash that I'm now pouring into my own business. That option is not for everyone, of course, so in other cases that alchemy simply means trading your time at $SHITCOMPANY for a better job somewhere else. After all: If you have the name of a FAANG on your resume that opens up a lot of doors, right?

TL;DR People really need an education in career development, and clearly they're not getting it.
A satirical blog post is bullying now?
Interesting -- not targeting defense contractors or governments..

> In this blog post, we introduce UNC3524, a newly discovered suspected espionage threat actor that, to date, heavily targets the emails of employees that focus on corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, and large corporate transactions. On the surface, their targeting of individuals involved in corporate transactions suggests a financial motivation; however, their ability to remain undetected for an order of magnitude longer than the average dwell time of 21 days in 2021, as reported in M-Trends 2022, suggests an espionage mandate.

Is there enough money in high finance to support the development of sophisticated tools to rig trading markets?
Had the Kubernetes team not rewritten it from Java into Go, it would had surely been a different outcome, specially taken into account the Mesos ecosystem originally.
Yes, but those threats already exist regardless and stopping the sale of carrier data won't stop them.

Ideally you'd want to stop both, but if I had to choose I'd prefer that only the government has access rather than the highest bidder (which can be the government if they so desire, so in the end you're back at square one anyway).
For one thing, "liable" applies to both civil and criminal law, so equating it to "criminally prosecuted" is definitely wrong.
The best sport event insurance ever:

> 2020: Wimbledon to receive $141 million in pandemic insurance payout

> For each of the past 17 years, the All-England Lawn Tennis Club has paid for an insurance policy to guard against losses if Wimbledon should have to be canceled in the event of a worldwide pandemic. That preparation will finally pay off this year.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2020/04/09/wimbl...
This is a straw-man. The problem is not that Google is designing their services to cater to the average tech-illiterate user, it's that they're preventing the tech-literate users from opting out of phone recovery and/or using something more sane, like what's been listed above.

That's clearly malice. Like, there's no good reason that Google would require you to hand over a phone number.
It's not a password, it is a secondary, single-use recovery second factor.

Carrying that around in a wallet doesn't make you any more vulnerable to physical attackers than carrying your Yubikey on a keyring, and it's much more secure against remote attacks than SMS-2FA (where you can fall victim to SIM swapping, number porting attacks etc).
I feel like someone deep into reinsurance could probably write a pretty good book or two.
Author here. Works for me (Ubuntu 22.04), although I hear a high-pitched interference when using low-impedance IEMs.
This is the most interesting thing related to databases I've seen in years.
I see [link redacted].
Well, you need some sort of underlying platform to run primitives on. Wasm just isn't enough, and isn't meant to be.

But yes, Wasm is not just for the browser, you can run it in Node. Or a custom runtime: https://wasmer.io/
It is a great pity that so many of those havens are shielded by western countries too. The UK has the crown dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, various Caribbean holdings), the US has various vassal states (as I understand it), France is the same, then there are the microstates like Monaco. None of it could exist without the tacit consent of large countries that have legal or diplomatic sway over these jurisdictions.
I think lisp is still used in various nooks and crannies of NASA. As a small example, I was the payload software engineer for the LCROSS mission (a robotic mission in 2009 that demonstrated there was water ice near the moon's south pole). The software that ran on the payload computer was in C, but there was a very simple, ad hoc scripting language provided by the company that provided that payload computer. Because this language was very simple, I wrote a higher-level DSL and a simulator of the computer in common lisp and then wrote all of the instrument command sequences in that DSL. Lisp's simple, flexible syntax and macros made it easy to express patterns of commanding and timing for this. What the commands did is described in the last (topmost) blog entry here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/lcrossfdblog/ . These days, I'm working on the VIPER rover, and the commanding approach for it is very manual, as Ron described. VIPER will be a moon rover, so the turn-a-round time for commanding is much shorter than it would be for a MARS rover, and teleoperation from Earth is a very reasonable and lower-risk solution than autonomy. Still, some of the systems used in self-driving vehicles today to evaluate the environment around the vehicle will be used by VIPER, but to provide advice and situational awareness for the drivers. No lisp involved.
In my experience freelancing, you tend to be treated as a business owning peer than a "citizen" employee.

That's different than the types of contractors that work for body shops like Accenture. Those "contractors" are not treated like business owners or employees, but a lower tier of replaceable cheap and servile labor resources. They also get paid much, much less than your typical contractor. Think like $30 to $40 an hour, obviously with zero benefits, and they aren't afforded the freedoms most freelancing devs enjoy, like the abilities to choose when, where and how their work gets done.
And Mural. Would love to see good free software alternatives of these collaborative tools though.
Here is how I solved the same problem a couple of weeks ago. If you still have an active session in a browser, you can add a recovery e-mail address to you account security settings. After that I was able to add a Yubikey as a second factor without adding a phone number. This should also work if you want to use TOTP as a 2F instead of a Yubikey.
From TFA:

>> XML and Javascript are tree structures and not suitable for efficiently storing tabular data (plus other issues).
The usual cargo cult against automatically memory management systems.
Yeah, unsurprisingly, I'm too dumb to join mensa, but I can't help but feel bemused about the seemingly strong need that some people have here to dismiss the organization and test for whatever reason they find. There are lots of worse interests than ones cognitive ability, and I can't help but think it might be somewhat related to some bitter feeling one might get from being average.

I've taken some similar IQ test before, and my score is about the same each time, and I wonder about the effect of previous experience on the result..

Also, I'm scared to think, knowing myself how dim I am, that the vast majority of people are supposedly even dimmer.
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One of the things that swings the price a fair bit in the UK is your job title which has always intrigued me as a signal. I could understand if it's someone using their car for deliveries or as a race car, but I'm unsure why a "counsellor" could be paying double the premiums of a "Web developer" on standard insurance.
They're taking advantage of the still sizeable population of people who enjoy offline, single-player games. Because they still do that quite well.
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