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Advertising fraud is already illegal. The situations where case law dictates what is illegal are varied and nuanced. As a side note, there are many categories of claims that fall in neither "provably true" nor "provably untrue", and enforcing upon these claims is tricky.

You can google for "advertising fraud precedent" "advertising fraud case law" and "advertising fraud case studies" for more information.
It doesn't matter if it was a Delphi interpreter. Having an unsandboxed interpreter running unsigned code was a stupid move. That some C++ developer thought it wise to do this is perhaps part of the issue.

V8 on the server has a very nice eventloop that's very easy to leverage for high performance while avoiding horrifying overflow issues and fits well for a large majority of web request/response patterns while still offering significant developer speed.
Corona doesn't stop. Many of us will get infected and many of us [in a relative sense] will be fine after fighting the virus. The thing we need to focus on is making sure the contagion happens at a speed so it doesn't overload our hospitals. German counselor Merkel said that probably 70% will get infected, so we should focus on having too many people infected at the same time.
The Script Encoding Initiative [0] is a UC Berkeley project to add Unicode support for uncommon and historical scripts. They have a list of remaining scripts which is encouragingly short [1], and most of the scripts on that list have proposals in progress so in theory they should be adopted soon

[0]: https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/index.html
[1]: https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/scripts-not-encoded.htm...
You can get a note which has the reason for your travel. If it checks out you are free to travel IIRC.

Reasons to travel might be ex. work
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credit is so cheap nowadays. i'm sure their creditors were happy for the business
Good point!

I can add that the name Norwegian is associated with the Airline company here in the nordics.
So using just Norwegian in the headline is unfortunate.
I took a quick glance at their website and it says:

"No non-religious head coverings"

Which makes me think that they record a video of you while you're taking it, which is kind of eerie.

That being said, it won't stop anyone who has a USB webcam you can just unplug, unless the software requires you to have a webcam plugged in and pointed in the right direction.
For at least a hundred years (as long as symbolic logic has existed, however long that really is) it has been widely known that you can iterate through every single theorem without any special creativity or thinking. The problem with that strategy is that you will spend most of your time on theorems like (not not X => X), (not not not not X => X), (not not not not not not X => X) and so on. What mathematicians actually do is use their human intuition and aesthetic sense to pilot the mechanical formalism towards goals that are worth achieving.
They discussed the trademark issue a bit in their filing-

https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-Un...

The CC logo and icons as a matter of trademark law are governed by CC’s trademark policy, which specifies conditions of their use “in a manner reasonable to the medium and context.”
According to Unicode criteria for encoding symbols, a trademark weakens, but does not disqualify, the case for encoding. As such, we would like to address this point directly, in addition to emphasizing the criteria that strengthens the case for encoding. So as to be sure there exists no misunderstanding, CC is seeking inclusion of the CC logo and icons in the Unicode standard notwithstanding that CC asserts trademark rights in its logo and icons.

The aims of Unicode and the CC trademark policy are not antagonistic to one another.
It is perfectly consonant with the purposes for Unicode to allow trademarked logos and icons into its standard without jeopardizing trademark rights of the requesting organization. Especially where, as here, there is a clear and public trademark policy by the submitting organization in place that clarifies when and how the logo and icons may be used, and such marks are ubiquitous.

Though the CC logo and icons are trademarked, they are a widely-used functional marking tool that indicates permissive use as an alternative to the well-known © symbol, followed by the icons that represent those terms.

As such, they were accepted and celebrated by MoMA into its permanent collection,6 alongside universal icons such as the @ symbol and the International Symbol for Recycling—both of which are encoded in the Unicode standard. Encoding the CC logo and icons in UCS would more easily enable creators to mark their works as consistent with CC’s trademark reasonable to the medium and context, in this case within text-based editors.
How are people dealing with publication policies around cancelled conferences? Are conferences still going to have proceedings where the papers are published, or does the work need to be re-submitted elsewhere? If the work is not considered published, will people really want to share their work like this?
California is bigger and richer than most countries - why would they need direction?

Of course it'd be good if the CDC released some general guidance, and was doing better on providing stats, etc. But the States really need to handle things.
If I could simply decide to live anywhere, and have some guarantee that my job opportunities and salary would remain the same as if I were in the Bay Area? So many choices!

If I limited myself to the US, any state with zero state income tax, cheap land/housing, and mild winters would work. I lived in Florida for over a decade and would go back in a heartbeat if the job situation matched the Bay Area. A big suburban house near Las Vegas would be fine. Texas doesn’t seem bad either—lots of land!
Nah, that was Chromodo.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=70...
Sure, but scamming the gullible is still both criminal and immoral. And similarly intentional dangerous misrepresentation of facts like this should be criminal (and maybe already is, I do not know American law that well) even if you would have to be an idiot to actually believe it.
This is one of the very few reason for which you can move and assist relatives out of your town.
Ask HN: Do we have the cloud infrastructure to handle a mass quarantine?
The cloud is built on the premise that loads are significantly uncorrelated but in an emergency, all correlations go to one. Everyone is going to be clamoring for the same finite set of cloud resources and we're going to hit hard limits very quickly as the ability for the overall cloud to scale up in capacity is very limited.

In your job, are you taking any steps right now to disaster plan for if you face significant restrictions on availability of cloud resources and simultaneously huge increases in demand?

Do we have any lessons from China on how they handled their quarantine from an internet infrastructure perspective so we can share best practices and make sure we're ready?
> But couldn't we have a standard where literally anything anyone says to a customer must be true, or was not false to the knowledge of the person saying it?

This would be hard to prove beyond existing rules, and what would you do about opinionated statements?
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It seems to me that there’s also a wave effect at play. For instance, China’s largest source of new infections is now imported cases. China can’t exactly drop its guard until the virus is on the decline across the world. The same will apply to other countries who are hit early. This might be with us for a while.
Well, that’s not a “true” /health endpoint, then. A service’s /health endpoint should run through its regular non-trivial code paths and depend for its success on all of the dependent services normal requests to that service depend on. (Probably you’ll need to write it yourself, rather than using one supplied by your application framework.)

For example, if you have a CRUD app fronting a database, your CRUD app’s /health endpoint should attempt to make a simple database query. If you have an ETL daemon that pulls from a third-party API and pushes to a message queue, it should probe both the readiness of the API and the message-queue before reporting its own readiness to work. (Of course, it is exactly in the case where the service has its own circuit-breaking logic with back-up paths “around” these dependencies, that it gets to say it’s healthy when its dependencies aren’t.)

A test of the /health endpoint is, after all, what determines if a service is considered viable for routing by load-balancers; and, vice-versa, if the service is considered to be “stuck” and in need of a restart by platform auto-scaling logic. As such, your /health endpoints really should be configured in a way where they generate false positives—reporting being unhealthy when they’re really healthy—rather than false negatives.

If you’ve got a pool of instances, better to have them paranoid of their own readiness in a way where your system will be constantly draining traffic from + restarting them, than to have them lackadaisical about their readiness in a way where they’re receiving traffic they can’t handle.
> But you need to provide daycare at least for some children.

Here's a problem: what's the difference between state-provided daycare and school, from an infectious disease standpoint?

Both are a bunch of kids in one building, attended to by adults. Both will require busing kids to said building, with buses driven by adults.

Might as well just leave the schools open.

I don't have a solution, just pointing out that daycare == school for this situation, so closing schools but providing daycare in it's stead won't make a difference.
That's great to hear, thanks.
Unless you want to roll the traditional telecom industry under the "web" or "cloud" label, you have to add "telecom" to the list as well.

Containers have been gaining ground in telecoms since at least 2015 (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/analysis/telecom-opens-u...). Network function virtualization solutions rely increasingly on containers.
Is there anything I, as a sysadmin-by-experience, can do to help out?

I don't have any relevant skills for radio or SDR stuff, but I'd love to mess around with it for a couple of hours a week.
On the flipside, now you need to validate your input in one more way if you don't want to accidentally be connecting to somewhere on the internet.

EDIT: for instance, it looks like on a suitably configured environment, passing in `s3://` and `gs://` URLs works fine too...
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I've not heard any health officials suggest that age is a factor in South Korea's response to the virus. They're only about 3 years younger than Italians [1] -- but have 4x as many hospital beds per capita [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_ag...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...
This seems like it requires point-to-point communication; and with accurate MIMO configuration my intuition for the endpoints is that it's like they are communicating with laser-like narrow beams but in RF. But AFAIK multihop communication is still stuck at sqrt(n) scaling, i.e. not viable.

This is all pretty theoretical though, for a small number of nodes like up to 100 it should work pretty well like in the OP application.
Dit is ready!

About 4 months ago, we posted just a website to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263839

Now we're launching the MVP and hope you'll join us in trying to make data much better!

For a primer on what this is all really about, I wrote quite a bit on this exact topic: https://github.com/isaiahshiner/dit-cli/blob/master/docs/wha...
A very small disappointment when moving to Denmark was the reduced sild selection compared to Sweden, which I had visited a lot before I moved.

I expected to see 10 types in every supermarket, as in Sweden¹. Instead, it's curry (!), dill, plain, and (if I'm very lucky) my favourite, mustard.

I've been known to stock up on the more extravagant flavours in Malmø. Skärgårds (skerry? archipelago?) and ramslök (ramson) are the best.

¹ https://www.abba.se/produkter/sill/ — 17 types!
Agreed! Also just a fun topic.
For someone with autism (raises hand) body language might not be well conveyed anyway, or gets misinterpreted.

I'm looking forward to AR/VR taking over more cake of the need for physical needs.
Unfortunately I think there is no technical fix to the fact that our "representative" democracy exists really only to oppress, not represent, the people.
It's worked elsewhere so there is good reason to hope that it will work in Italy as well. It sucks that we have to wait five days to find out though. What I wouldn't give for a crystal ball right now.
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85?! Ridiculous! We need one universal place covering everyone!

Has anyone experience with showing their work on one of the places (e.g. via a Show HN?). Is there actually a noticable effect, e.g. on sales or sustained level of awareness, e.g. by people recommending your work after having it seen there?

Or is it rather like a flash in the pan - receiving increased attention on the short term but no lasting advantage?
> Right now there are only 1,000 known Covid-19 cases in the US

With the emphasis on known. More likely it's 10X or 20X that right now because there's been very little testing in the US.
After reading your comment, I did consider to implement that in my codebase and then I remembered that I have so few servers that it would not matter. Even if my company has to scale up to 99% of the market.
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>>this lockdown is not so bad,

I am glad it isn't--for you. Other people's mileage might vary
Iceland the country has sued Iceland the British supermarket several times over various trademark and naming issues.
It's not a comprehensive weighing of alternatives, instead it's a deep dive into Svelte's pros and cons as they relate to my experience and our project.

Elm is awesome! There's nothing quite like it that I know of in its design space to bring user-friendly functional programming to the web. Similar to Svelte, its design holistically packages up the web's languages. Compared to PureScript, it's focused on a small and beginner-friendly feature set, trading general power to optimize for the webapp use cases. Elm has also been influential to a lot of toolmakers!
When the German chancellor is declaring 60% of the population will become infected, you start to get a sense of the scale.

If you look at just first world nations[0], you're talking a total population of 1.04 billion people. 60% of that is 630 million people. 3% of that 60% is 18 million people that could die just in the first world nations.

And that's rounding everything down.

0: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/first-world-coun...
The problem has gotten exponentially harder. AV used to be "look for this set of hashes" now it's "dynamically detect this behavior, and oh by the way everything is obfuscated script code not a binary".
My point is that there is no supply-scarcity limit on university teaching positions. But you are correct that each university has a monopoly on their own brand, so they can restrict supply and raise prices up to the monopolistic competition limit (as the other universities are close substitutes). For the select few universities whose degrees are a Veblen good, the more they charge for their degrees and faculty positions (not just in tuition, but in time, application qualifications, and influence), the more they return in upper-class prestige (not just faculty pay and graduate earnings). You can't project that you only take the top 0.1%, if you admit 0.2% of all high-school graduates.

That prestige problem is especially dire with medical colleges in the US. The patient community (aka everybody) desires more numerous, cheaper, and better-distributed physicians, but the physician community desires higher-paying positions that are more costly to fill, with a remuneration premium for working in less desirable territories. So only some hospitals are teaching hospitals, and their residency programs have limited slots. (I think the Army/VA system could possibly break that cartel, by ordering qualified recruits that sign up for a longer term of service to become physicians, and routing their medical training outside of the civilian system. It would certainly drop ER visit prices when those stabilization specialists and trauma surgeons get their 20 and start to "retire" out to civilian jobs.)

If universities are going to order students and faculty to leave campus, they are removing a huge piece of their competitive advantage over universities that already have mature distance-learning programs, but with lower tuition. If MIT takes its campus off the table, the thing they have left is their brand name. That's enough to sustain them, specifically, but there aren't many other universities that could get away with it. The one just up Massachusetts Avenue, maybe, and a handful of others. And they still have to pay for grounds and facilities upkeep, even if they aren't using them as much.

Any other distance learning program could probably hire 1 remote adjunct for every 10-15 remote students and outdo "two sections of lecture hall plus office hours" tenured professors that have a 1:300 ratio. They can use some of the savings for cheap test proctors at distributed--and possibly also shared--evaluation sites. If every surplus Ph.D. can get a part-time remote teaching-support gig for 20 hours a week at $25/hour, they can still keep working the jobs they already have, that don't require their advanced degrees, because their graduate universities did not restrict Ph.D. output to just what the industry could bear.

A degree from MIT might open more interview doors, but there is less difference in switching between schools like Rose-Hulman and Georgia Tech. If campus location is no longer a factor, any student could study at any school. Schools that want to survive under such competition would have to bring down costs, fast.
The DS19 was the early, 1.9 liter engined version of the DS. There are also 2.1 and 2.3 liter versions, the 2.3 with fuel injection is the most sought after one.

The ID19 is the cheap version of the same car, it was sold with a manual gearbox, 'regular' brakes and a cheaper interior.

I would not use the 'green system' because the pumps, regulators, hydro computer and membrane based 'balls' are all way past their end of life. If you're going to upgrade the car you might as well take that bit along. And if the chassis you use as a base has the red system on it you're going to be spending a lot of money anyway. I'd rather use a 'supported' set of parts for something as important as staying off the ground and the S-class system works well and would easily manage a car with the weight of the DS, even when powered electrically. It would use a small fraction of the pump capacity that the DS requires.

I've restored two DS's in the 80's, lots of fun to work on and to drive.
"If BMW made an electric 3 class sedan with > 350 miles of range for a reasonable price, I think that would be hugely successful. Instead they made the i3."

This.

"I know this is very subjective, but why not make a car that looks more like their already successful models?"

Carmakers: We don't want your electric car. We want your car, electric.

I don't want to buy your iMobile or your eCar. I want a Volvo v90, but electric. I want a BMW 7-series, but electric. I don't want your Tron-mobile.
I can see it. If you are healthy and you know that for most people the virus is mild and the mortality rate is roughly on par with the flu (they previously had it higher but the latest numbers look to be more like the flu at 0.1%, mostly all elderly or already ill), and you know the ships are likely to have less people on them, and you can likely get a deal, and they'll probably treat you like gold if you go...yeah I can see it.

Hell, just writing that out actually makes me think twice about calling and booking something. But I have young children and my wife would be unnecessarily worried the whole time and she doesn't even like cruises.
Storing the user's preference should be fine.
There are some very basic elements of this case that this article (and most others) miss, which makes me wonder if they'd read the relevant court documents at all. That Oracle is "trying to copyright APIs" is a popular (and biased) framing of the case, but this is not at all what they're actually saying. As I understand the filings, they're saying that if there is some already-copyrighted work and you copy substantial portions of it, those portions aren't exempt from copyright if they're "declaration code" (although the copying, as always, could potentially be fair use). In other words, it's not a new kind of copyright, but about exemption from established copyright. So regardless of whether SQL is an API, unless anyone copied substantial portions of copyrighted code from IBM, this case -- as it actually is, not as it's presented by some media outlets -- is irrelevant.

It is hard to find any popular blog post that faithfully represents the sides' claims, so it's best to read what they actually are in one of these locations:

* https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do...

* https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/google-llc-v-ora...
This (premium VED supplement) has just been abolished for pure EVs in today's budget.

The new rules apply from April 1st, 2020.
>Italian here, north-west. Media are really exaggerating with the situation with daily life and routine, we are allowed to take a walk and go to bars or restaurants if there is one meter of distance between people.

That seems ... like it would be really hard to do consistently adhere to and enforce, especially when it goes against social conventions and the places fill up to capacity.
You can look up the address in his VCS commits, e.g.:

https://github.com/danluu/fs-errors/commit/053b591b123cbc790...
It typically takes me 2-3 hours for a well written ~1500 word post. These posts get 3k / mth organic views and many subscribers to my email list, so I know they perform well.

Spending an order of magnitude more time on each post seems ridiculous to me.
differential equations at this level (ie odes that have tabulated solutions or are a transformation away from such an ode) are definitely a set of rules that you memorize. differential equations as an active area of research is much more abstract, dealing with things like existence/uniqueness of solutions (when picard-lindelof doesn't apply), or stability when a solution is known to exist but cannot be analytically written down (and so integration has to be performed). hell one of the clay problems is about a solution to a pde.

so no it's not this straightforward except in basically toy examples.
On mobile it doesn't wrap, and renders in a very narrow frame that must be scrolled sideways, which is a faff especially in portrait mode.
One good resource from scientists with a "measured" opinion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQdMHv026R0&t=637s
> (and then blocks access etc)

Not so much. I'm required to run AV software on production Linux systems. All it does is write opinions to a log.

Insofar as the only reason we run it is checkbox-compliance, I'm fine with it being useless - certainly not asking for some kernel module or something that could actually block access. But I do find it funny.