skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had some luck with Mypy, but it’s still very bolted-on. Even getting the type checker to find dependencies installed on your system is nontrivial. But this sort of tedium is just par for the course with Python.
I'm surprised various mobile tech breadcrumbs aren't being used to track / cross track the random ppl who getting C19.

I'm not suggesting I'm in favor of it; only that I'm surprised it's not happening. Yet?
Melbourne professor quits after government pressure about reporting data breach
I enjoy the story. It's a chance to reconnect with past times when those same things happened to me or someone on my team.
As someone whose been on low dose ketamine for over a year, I don't think this is a relevant concern. Or that the enthusiasm is unwarranted.

The intoxication involved is slightly more than a couple of beers. It's not habit forming, apart from being profoundly effective.
This is an extreme overreaction for a disease which is only fatal to the elderly:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/feg5st/average_age_...
Interesting post. "All models are wrong, some models are useful" - Box. This one seems useful and is simple to explain.

It started me thinking about the distribution of customers who convert, viewed as a function of ad spend. I am not sure there is any reason this distribution need have a particularly simple shape, or even be continuous. E.g. maybe some customers can be addressed and convert at a modest ad spend, while if you double the ad spend you don't get any more conversions, then if you double ad spend again maybe suddenly you're out bidding a competitor and the number of conversions shoots up, perhaps giving you a better overall net profit than if you stopped earlier with a modest budget.

This might mean that the curve we're trying to maximise (net profit) has more than one local maxima, or might not even be continuous.

There's probably also an explore/exploit tradeoff here as well: how much of the total budget should you spend sampling to try out different ad spends across the whole range of plausible values (from 0 up to the long term value of a conversion, I guess) to get enough data to start optimising.
Sure, that's why we get the usual advice:

- wash your hands with soap as often as possible

- do not touch your mouth, nose, or eyes when outside

- always disable macros in word and excel
Agree, let’s establish the basics. Here is the definition of monopoly:

the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service

Dress it in as much nuance and confident language as suits you, it doesn’t change the reality that there is ample evidence Wal-Mart is not a monopoly.
Who pays? Well, as it’s not free, the users pay for it. And you can buy it in the Apple/Google App Store, or if you really wish, with Bitcoin in the Threema Store.

Regarding the privacy concerns: the end to end encryption can be validated by yourself if you wish. Meta data is reduced to a minimum, see their FAQ.
China did it correctly, by announcing the quarantine an hour before it went into effect.
Unbelievable. Does Italian government have right to lock down a whole area? Will this happen in the US?
If you really want to shut me down and make me look like an absolute fool, you could list off the ten other women programmers who routinely hit the front page of HN that silly, pathetic little ole me completely missed.

I'm not getting into this argument about how it's not sexism because (bs example pretending men and women get treated exactly alike when everyone knows that's absolutely not true).
Which skit?
Seems reasonable to implement cancelations of movies, public gatherings, weddings, funerals etc. The best we can do is slow it down until there is a vaccine.
Any good reads on that at hand?
What is the basis for that assertion? The "high-level VM with green threads" approach has been tried for a long time - most prominently, Java - and it just doesn't seem to stick.

For Python especially, it is problematic because it is a glue language more often than not, and VM-specific green threads are not good for cross-language interop. When you have promises and async/await around them, at ABI level it can all be mapped to a simple callback, which any language that has C FFI can handle. When you have green threads, every language in the picture has to be aware of them - and god forbid you have two different VMs with different notions of green threads interacting.
> You literally can't start an airline from scratch.

Gonna need a citation on this one. I would guess the actual reason airlines are hard to start from scratch is the massive capital required, but would be interested in having this guess proven incorrect.

Porter Airlines in Canada (which presumably has a very similar regulatory regime) was started from scratch about 20 years ago.
Having different standards for different speakers is exactly what you're doing.

Criticizing how a message is delivered is standard HN criticism. Especially the sort of "everyone is smart except for me" tone of TFA. I myself criticize commenters here for that as it's something I can't stand, either.

Why would you think it's something we only see leveled at women here? And, according to what? And, yes, you're then infantilizing women when OP does receive that criticism. I think your heart is in the right place, but you're doing exactly what you think you're condemning.
But they (AirBnB) cancelled our reservation, so there was no way for us to write a review.
It's 16 million now.
icu are already full in that region. When all icus are full, it gets fatal for a lot more people.
This is why Italy is acting that way
Only fatal for the elderly seems a bit over-simplistic. The link you provided doesn’t indicate how many cases the younger population has. Also, why is it an overreaction? Elderly people should be protected too.
But what is the situation that got them to their drugged out life? I'd suggest you're seeing the end point of a lot of systems failures along the way.

Like one possible scenario - kids have some mental health issues in their teens, but because their parents aren't at home because they're working 2 jobs to live and medical treatment is unaffordable they dont get treatment. So they self medicate, and they drop out of school, then they live on the streets, then they're so drugged out they dont know any other life and they say they're happy living on the streets, because they really dont know any better.

Children who aren't raised become animals - e.g. the children raised by wolves of English history fame. Then of course these children grow up and have children of their own, which are just totally animal. I'd suggest you're seeing the end results of 50 years of systems failures. recovery from this is expensive.
"Flattening the curve"[1] has a huge impact on mortality rates, just because people may not personally need hospitalization doesn't mean it won't save lives by reducing the strain on the healthcare systems.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESizCK7UYAAxIBa?format=jpg&name=...
It sounds like if I offer Facebook google as an option I also have to allow Apple sign in right? We're not talking about requiring a social login, just offering one.
> Tech is IMPROVING our lives.

Yes. But not without also creating significant dangers, frictions, and negatives.

Either way, it is safe to say Tech is a magnifier. It all depends on whose hands it's in and how they're using it.
OMG LIFE IS SOO HARD WITH KIDS I JUST WANT TO USE THIS AS AN EMOTIONAL APPEAL BECAUSE OF MY LIFE CHOICES

Can we not do this shit here? HN delete or we are fb mommy group tier shite
At this point new cases in China are declining. They may have misstepped seriously at first but their heavy handed response seems to be working out now.
Well, maybe it's meant to be a little gift to the railway system :)
Yeah, same with Apple Card. Need to have a iPhone as they can’t make a website to view your statements and pay like 99.99% of credit cards have. So if you want to maintain that account and switch to another platform like Android that could be tricky. Or if you lose your iPhone however I think calling support might work but not sure how they’d handle payments without your iPhone.

Also if you sign with iPhone, and want to switch phones I’d hope the developer would have a way to set a username or email and password on your account or link another account. So you could have Facebook and Apple linked to the same account, unlink, etc.
hentAI: Detecting and Removing Censors with Deep Learning and Image Segmentation
Of course they have.
The issue is the high percentage of patients that require intensive care, with up to 5% needing respiratory support. This can very easily overwhelm local health systems, and cause a knock-on effect to health support to the rest of the community. The best defence governments have right now is to try and slowdown the progression of the disease, and quarantining entire regions has already been shown in China to be an effective way of doing that.
What you're saying with this post and the one below is that criticizing a woman (even in a situation where women are underrepresented) is sexist. This is obviously not true and if you believe the criticism is unwarranted then you should make your own criticism based on those points.
How many younger people in Italy are in intensive care? More than somebody, THAT I can tell you.

What happens when there're not enough places in intensive care units - something that is ALREADY HAPPENING in Lombardy?

We don't know yet what is happening. We don't know mortality. Several EU countries have no data or release no data about intensive care units.

But, for once, Italy is reacting quickly, even though it's got some issues (e.g. the leak to the press before the law passes). Don't play this down. WHO and others are calling for preparedness. We're taking the necessary steps. Is the world doing the same?
that's a terrible and harmful idea.

law makers and politicians would be well advised to give the public as much notice as possible and prepare them and educate them about what to expect mentally.

The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
That is a fascinating line of reasoning. I wonder if there is some way to leverage historical data (for other brands, maybe?) to figure out potential local optima.

I original thought this was a nice "set it and forget it" marketing scheme, but your comment makes me think otherwise.
Honeywell claims to have built the most powerful quantum computer in the world
> Seriously? Does anyone want to live that way

"Want" is not the right word, but a lot of folks who have lost housing security are in the situation that was most appealing out of a limited set of options. There are programs that will help people (though they often fall off quite harshly so their efficacy is pretty poor [1]), but they often insist on stringent behavior restrictions. This might seem like a small price to pay, but I think it's easier to understand if you understand the life that's just on the other side of being unhoused.

Often, if you're currently unhoused, getting housed is going to massively increase the amount of money you need each month (you can't get anything now, ofc, but you're insolvent so people can't get much from you). Likely your only option for work (due to both stigma and the fact that having low social capital makes you more likely to lose housing) is to do relatively boring low-paid work for many hours a week (often more than 40). Doing that will get you a room and food and not a ton else - the working poor have hard lives in the US (and other places ofc). For lots of people who don't have stable housing, this doesn't feel like a trade off they want to make.

Now, all of this gets even harder when you add in common histories of people who have lost housings (multiple diagnoses, chronic conditions, hectic personal lives). There is a large (and growing) population of people who don't have stable housing as such, but have strong enough social safety nets to stay off the streets. Those people aren't often seen as "homeless" largely because their personal medical situation is less severe.

So maybe this all seems like people protesting too much. Lots of people view the loss of housing to be a moral failing on the part of the person who "lost" it (an agentic claim I'm skeptical of). If that's how you feel, I'd ask you to consider how many more hours a week you would work to make your life twice as comfortable (food is 'better,' clothes are 'better,' but you have less time to do anything but work). I think that the choices that unhoused folks make to remain unhoused are similar to choices that upper-middle class folks make all the time. The upper classes are just viewed as having the agency to make those choices.

[1] Even the cato institute thinks so! https://www.cato.org/blog/new-study-finds-more-evidence-pove...
Of course, it is the government, it is all its right to manager border, let alone within its border.
Because no matter how much you trust Apple's good intentions now you also have to trust them in perpetuity. When you relinquish your own power and agency to a third party it can be very hard to get it back. Maybe you trust Apple and Tim Cook today but do you trust their next CEO and the next?

It's the same reason I don't let Google keep any of my browsing and location history even though I might benefit from that as a user today. I don't trust what they might want to do with that data later.

If you think any billion dollar company is acting in any interests but its own you're being naive.
In what way? SIWA isn't a product and the features it "competes" with (Google and Facebook OIDC) aren't really products either, and Apple is only requiring that SIWA be available alongside them as an option.
Traditionally, conference proceedings are given out at the conference itself.

Looking at the conference in question (ASIACCS'20), the camera-ready deadline for a paper is March 15. Most authors probably have that camera-ready version at this point.
Sounds like you saying that the wrong thing has indeed been built in a project where you where doing the building, but you are in a great position to blame someone else for any bad products that resulted since they asked for the wrong thing or where vague.

Personally I’d say that I don’t care who’s fault it is if the product ends out bad, no one wins anything from playing the blame game, either you fix the process or you repeat the mistakes. This is why I want fast release cycles validating assumptions with end-users. Of cause there’s going to be problems in specs, don’t sit back and claim that you never had any bugs in your code ever! But the question is how do you push forwards knowing for sure that some assumptions are wrong, and that some are unneeded. Well it’s not a huge surprise, you test! Release feature incrementally with minimal work put in. Then you iterate on that. Your reviews are unit-tests for stakeholders and releases are integration tests into end-users.

Doing a big waterfall product only to then stand back from a huge tire fire saying “yea, but the root problem was that the users asked for the wrong thing in the requirements”. That’s just not me.
Ok, libuv docs seem just fine. Nevermind :)
We'd love everything to check every box (portable between hardware, federated, no lock-in, privacy respecting, etc) but I don't think that's possible.

In reality, this "sign in with apple" feature doesn't push Apple's ecosystem any farther than Apple Maps does. You can use sign in with apple via their web SDK on both desktop browsers and Android, and I wouldn't doubt putting "sign in with apple" in an Android app itself is trivial.
Education is a thorny issue in the US because we tend towards two tracks in a manner that makes poor people and people of color suspicious that it's propaganda and designed to intentionally keep some people oppressed.

I doubt it's a system consciously designed to keep a class of uneducated God fearing slaves. I think "Never assume malice where stupidity while suffice to explain it" applies.

A lot of crappy stuff genuinely is rooted in people being oblivious and unable to really see it. It's part of why stuff is so intractable: The people orchestrating it frequently feel innocent and wrongly accused.
> Sounds nasty. The classic python answer is to try rewriting the innermost loops in cython/c/cppyy etc or try using numba/pypy

Yep, we’re doing this. The problem is that we’re still calling back and forth between C and Python very frequently and rewriting that next layer in C or similar is prohibitively unmaintainable.

> The problem with this "best ... for the job" phrasing is that there's an objectively, indisputably right answer, where I've experienced atrocious choices being inflicted upon a team under that guise, resulting in a component that nobody wants to maintain because it's foreign to everyone.

Fine, then let’s at least not use the wrong tools for the job, in this case, Python and language’s that impose similar tradeoffs.
Right, we're talking about protecting people from "Facebook-only" logins. This is a terrible practice on the part of developers, in which the only authentication the application supports is Facebook authentication. I've seen online courses require this on the theory that "we don't want to waste time learning how to do authentication".

Having the rule "if you can log in with Facebook, you can also log in with Apple" is in fact a protection against Facebook-only login.
# of confirmed cases in Italy on 20th of February: 3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_I...
Good. There was some app I downloaded last year which only had facebook or google sign on. You couldn't register with an email. I ended up deleting the app.
Stolen cars are almost a sale. So good news. Supporting the industry by lowriding security.
I find this behavior from parents very condescending - "You don't have children therefore your argument is invalid". Parenting isn't that hard - I have 2 kids (8 and 5 years age) and we're just doing fine. Just like 7 billion other people on this planet whose parents went through the same. Of all the hard things I've done in my 42 years of life, raising kids doesn't rank in the top 10.
Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6199
> Viruses [...]have circadian rhythms like all living things.

> circadian adj. of, relating to, or showing rhythmic behaviour with a period of 24 hours; especially of a biological process

No, they don't.

And the rest of the paragraph is equally goofy.
In the days of yore, I might've attempted to shoe-horn Tcl in such a situation. Decent event-loop for distributing tasks and (like Lua, but unlike Python/Ruby) more eager to escape to C for performance-sensitive tasks.
Before you sign up for a service online check tosdr.com to see what you’re signing up.

It’s crowd sourced site that shows what’s inside the terms of service.
I really like Rachel's blog and I think I understand the point she's making here. However I think she sees it from the point of view of very large scale services. In many cases you can have a solution ready more quickly with less developer time if you use these technologies, and at smaller scale this more than pays for the additional hardware you need to cope with the inefficiency. In such cases writing services in python is pragmatic and sensible.
"JSON-over-HTTP for RPC is lazy, inefficient in machine time and engineering effort, and trivially obsolete in a world where Protocol Buffers/gRPC or Thrift and their ilk are so mature."

Laziness is a virtue in our profession :) huge "citation required" on it being more efficient in engineering effort and most importantly it's ubiquitous and interoperable with any language without having to rely on grpc or thrift implementation and tools for that language/platform.

Re machine time efficiency - to the extent I understood what she was actually complaining about simply none of those issues are attributable to json-over-http being used.
Anyone can create an Apple ID with or without Apple hardware.
The layout for this page is so interesting and useful! Each section divided into little bookmarks, with each bookmark having its own bar denoting how much content is held in it. Never seen anything like it before, and it works great for this format.
New Studies Shed Light on Impact and Vulnerability to Covid-19
That has the potential to cut both ways. If Amazon decides that S3 is their loss leader, then they would absolutely bury boutique players who only cover a few functional areas.

If instead they decide it's the cash cow, then it wouldn't be a stretch to predict that they price it a bit above the competition. The customer has the impression that they can amortize the cost across the other value-adds in the ecosystem. Whether the customer is right or not barely matters to Amazon from a purely financial aspect. All that matters is that they believe it to be true.

There's also the short-term versus the long term strategy. Short term they could do either and I wouldn't be surprised. Long term, I think I would expect the latter.
is a quarantine effective if you give rich people enough time to skip town beforehand?
It would be much harder to do this in the US because of the First Amendment enshrined right to assembly.

I mean, the CDC can try, but there will be an immediate stay on the rule by some court or another, and the Supreme Court is EXTREMELY unlikely to lift that stay, unless we're in an absolute apocalyptic crisis.

* upon further research, the main support for freedom of travel is under the Privileges and Immunities Clause
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unit..., but doesn't really matter, it's precedent either way.
Ok, but in that case a good HN comment should share some of what you know so that fair-minded readers can learn. "You're wrong" doesn't teach us anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Modelling the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy
From what they tell us.
If I offer email signup, with Facebook as an option, that is not Facebook only. If this new rule applied only to apps/sites where social logins are the only option it would be a bit less fishy.
Seems like a good course of action..?
“It’s just the flu bro!”
Is your comment based on experience? It seems wrong.

All the search results (Findlaw, Avvo lawyer answers, etc) seem to be saying that you have to qualify financially, you have to submit your income and assets of your household under penalty of perjury (signed statement, not oath) and you may also be asked to get quotes from lawyers to compare against your means. I think the most you could say is that courts are so overloaded you might get away with perjury.

A few sample links:

https://www.expertlaw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61781

https://www.newsherald.com/news/20180304/in-court-majority-s...

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-i-be-denied-a-public-...

http://gapubdef.org/index.php/faqs
Multi-Runtime Microservices Architecture
I think the compliance with official rules is somewhat lower in Italy than it is in China.
For some reason, I feel that minimizing "fears, frustration, boredom" (as your paper says) is less important than minimizing infections and deaths.
"The intoxication involved is slightly more than a couple of beers. It's not habit forming, apart from being profoundly effective.
"

Some people get addicted to alcohol, some to opioids, some to chocolate so it wouldn't be surprising if Ketamine filled spot for some people. This shouldn't stop us from using it though.
You mean hiding the numbers..?

If not, it's just hard to believe.