skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not trying to be argumentative and someone who is a lawyer can correct me here but generally speaking a company like ibm is only going to seek licensing from a party where the commercial impact is sufficient to merit the use of their resources to secure a licensing deal. Even in the case of Airbnb, it’s clear in the article ibm is suing only after attempting to exhaust other remedies. Again, I don’t think it’s necessarily bullet proof legal policy to advise companies to fly under the radar but de facto I don’t think ibm is spending a lot of time chasing companies who can’t afford a legal defense.
> You’re going to sign up for Okta or Google Cloud Identity, tie as many of your applications (first- and third-party) into it, and force 2FA.

Are these really the only options? I'm not terribly comfortable with an external entity owning my SSO--ESPECIALLY Google.
Best practices while developing a React Native App
Good, because it's a bad plan that won't work.
One of my personal projects was substantial enough (a dozen files or so) to encounter most of its main features, I've just never worked on a team with it, or shipped it in a product, and I know some but not all of the go-to libraries that everyone uses
"They have a million tests out now. They're going to have, over the next few days, they're going to have 4 million tests out. And frankly, the testing has been going very smooth." Trump, today

"The idea of anybody getting it easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that. Do I think we should be? Yes. But we're not. That is a failing. It is a failing. Let's admit it." Dr. Anthony Fauci, today

The president of the United States cannot be trusted.
Serious question, have you ever used AirBnB's customer service? It's so spare as to be nonexistent. They make Google look high-touch. The host is providing 95% of the service. AirBnB is only there if the host won't answer messages or there is some colossal problem with the listing. I've had several dozen stays and only invoved AirBnB service on maybe 5 of them. AirBnB should be making money hand over fist since essentially they're providing a pricey listing service.
True. Like I said, it ain't like I was going around asking people if they're from Wuhan, lol

That said, you'd be surprised what draws tourists from mainland China; Las Vegas and Reno (for example) both get plenty of Chinese tourists looking specifically to gamble, and I'd imagine the ship's onboard casino to have a similar appeal. Plus, there were plenty of other tourists from long distances, too, both from within the US (East Coast) and from Europe and Australia (from what I gathered from the people whom I did talk to). So evidently there were at least some non-Chinese tourists flying thousands of miles for it; seems reasonable that some mainland Chinese tourists might, too.
You say "rigorous tests" OP said "vigorously tests". Very different meaning. The test in both countries is essentially the same, and thus the same rigor (in terms of sensitivity and specificity). The vigor by which the testing was performed (in terms of #people tested as a % of total pop) is WAY WAY higher in S. Korea.
> Their writings hardly treat cars as one viable option as the majority of their writing is specifically against cars. How often do they criticize bicycles? Yet cars are criticized every chance they get.

Maybe this is the case because cars have far more negative externalities than other forms of transit.

Like, can you even think of a legitimate thesis for an article about the negative externalities of a bike friendly community?

> When have they ever proposed improving anything relating to cars?

I find this ironic because many things they promote, such as improving transit and bike infrastructure, will actually make driving easier and more pleasant because there will be fewer cars in the road to create traffic
More fool you for trying to save money in an unregulated sector.
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I wonder if and how long-term smokers are skewing the stats.
> However, I would argue that such a super-Turing machine is logically impossible.

I mean we are discussing it so it's certainly logically possible.

> In principle continuous values cannot be physically manifested with certainty or arbitrary precision regardless of what world we are in.

Why would they need to be physically manifestable? Again how can you make assertions about what parts of physicality are maintained by the machine that is computing physicality? How can you make assertions about the world containing our own?

> Positing such a super-Turing machine is like saying "I have a square circle in my pocket".

Except it isn't. It's more like "I launched my square circle beyond the observable universe". If it was in my pocket I could take it out and show it to you.

Positing a "super-Turing" machine is pointless because it isn't testable. But it is possible. I feel like that distinction is important which is why I commented. Which is much how I feel about super-determinism in general, sure it's possible, but how do we test it? It's pointless because whether not it exists doesn't change anything. The issue of the discrete values is an interesting facet of that, one that might lead to something testable, like those "is the universe a hologram" experiments. Establishing what would be required of such a system is useful, but it doesn't dismiss it out of hand.

I guess my issue is that your arguments don't fully embrace the theory so they are bit like trying to disprove the existence of a different god using the holy book of your own god. There are valid reasons to disagree with superdeterminism, but arguing from the lens of physicality misses the issue at hand.
I don't remember hearing anything about the US military being involved in the recent Ebola outbreak, so is this an existing program or a proposal?
You do understand that everything would have been fine if we simply pretended this virus didn’t exist, right? A few extremely old people would have died slightly sooner. That’s it.
A company that makes all its money on a regulatory loophole didn't care? I'm surprised!
The surgeon general just gave a press conference in Baton Rouge with the governor of Louisiana saying we should only test people (or prioritize testing of) people with symptoms. This when we know asymptomatic people can be contagious for days.

The Port of New Orleans is testing embarking cruise ship passengers but not disembarking (!) ones. This when we have community spread in the parish already and have gone from 1 to 6 to 11 cases this week alone.
People coming from overseas have to go through mandatory quanrantine in India. Air travel is restricted. A ship with Chinese travelers was halted near coastline as per WHO guidelines recently.
There's a very good ~20min documentary of the Y2K bug which exactly discusses your question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm5OiB3CPxg (by LGR)
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The kind of superdeterministic theories proposed by t'Hooft are falsifiable. From [0] "If engineers ever succeed in making such quantum computers, it seems to me that the CAT is falsified; no classical theory can explain quantum mechanics." By "such quantum computers" he means computers that can run Shor's algorithm. "...but factoring a number with millions of digits into its prime factors will not be possible – unless fundamentally improved classical algorithms turn out to exist."

As for the author of the article I've never seen a clear proposal but it appears the idea is to do repeated measurements that display quantum effects while reducing noise as much as possible and check if there are deviations from quantum theory.

EDIT: found a more concrete proposal http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2013/10/testing-conspiracy-...

[0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548
The article was an interesting glimpse into the private history of an author I only knew through his books, but I'm befuddled by the point the writer is making:

"O’Brian’s deception would matter less had he not written naval novels [...]"

Are readers of books about old warships really such a sensitive bunch? I don't get it. An author did something bad in 1943 or 1955 or whatever — it doesn't take anything away from the experience today.
South Korea used to be at about the same development index as Italy maybe...20 years ago? Today it's tied with Israel (as of 2018) and above Spain, France, and Italy.

The PPP is also about 10% higher than Italy and has about half the unemployment rate.

Most importantly it has one of the most advanced healthcare systems in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...
There's definitely been a marketing push, I believe kx systems is aggressively trying to diversify outside of finance. They recently scored a contract for a Canadian electric company for storing electric usage data for 5 million customers. In a data science meetup I went to, they presented and I thought it'd be about machine learning. It was just a generic presentation on kdb.
I agree. Compatibilism either defines "free will" to be something I don't consider to be free will, or defines "determinism" into something I don't consider to be determinism (or both).
Last few times I have gone on there, the prices have not been cheap like they used to be. There's always a $50-100 charge for cleaning, and some other bullshit fees in there too. Of course those fees don't show up when you're searching the listings.
As a host I've always hated Airbnb,a guest overstayed and they didn't allow me to charge the guest extra even though the guest admitted to overstaying in the chat with me. Can't say I feel much pity for them, they've always had the grow at all costs mentality and have been pretty ruthless about it.
Why so hostile? The community is not who is using this guy’s Airbnb units.
Why can't you be both? The "high level" features rust offers to make it feel like a modern language are just abstractions, nothing that makes it directly inferior to C. Allowing for modern constructs without sacrificing performance is a good thing.
They advertise Linux support in many places, but I don't see a download link anywhere.

I have found this though, which lets me fetch the photos via iClouds (I guess I prefer that to google, and I can script it rather than do it via the web).

https://github.com/ndbroadbent/icloud_photos_downloader
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The future of work requires a return to apprenticeships
> Basically waiving a lot of your normal American rights.

"waiving your rights" is a very weird concept, particularly in the "land of the free".
I'd cynically like to say political lobbying (and be right, they spend a LOT) but much would be support, development and hosting.

BTW Airbnb charge both the guest and the host, they make a commission from both parties.
True, but I'm not sure how I feel about buying puts on stocks I own in bulk. If I'm making that kind of directional bet, wouldn't I also be better off shifting from SPY to AGG?
War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse." What is business? Lemonade.

Love this. just wanted to punch up the end.
I really agree with you here. Superdeterminism is much weirder and harder to accept than non-locality. Of course, with enough non-locality you'll end up with something just as awkward as superdeterminism. I'm trying learn more about decoherence as an alternative to wave-function collapse.

I'm listening to the Into to QM course from mit's open courseware [0] and I have to say that QM represents a complete break with the classical past, not because of a scientist's ambition or a quirk of history, but because the experimental evidence demands it. The evidence results in a few postulates, and QM is really the only theory that satisfies the postulates, in the sense that any theory that satisfies those postulates will look like Schroedinger's eq. The story is not over at all, we're still very much at the beginning of understanding it.

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-s...
I will have to watch. I didn't realize this was all a thing
Yeah. They're not a "home-sharing company" so much as a distributed hotel.
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I'm a super host and can be talking to a real person usually within 5 minutes. I'm in Australia, it might be a time zone thing.
Paying off two dwellings at little effort is a nice "side hustle". No wonder nobody in the west is working! Meanwhile the Fed pumps more money to protect banks from rentiers blowing up, while taxes go unpaid and hospitals are underfunded.
Yes I notice. You're not alone. I see it too.
Right next China is a weak argument. There is an impossibly terrain dividing India and China called Himalayas. Other means of transport are restricted from the very beginning.
That long? I remember the launch parties...
Hire remotely.
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That it is. Viewing the current legal system, in the US, through the lens of idealism does a huge disservice to reality.

The legal system has and will treat a single mother who works full time but just can't make the agreed upon payments differently than a felon that can't get a job that pays enough to cover costs of living and their fines; especially if the felon is in the same jurisdiction and has seen the same judge before. I've seen it several times in person, have been told about it by people that it's happened to, in several states.
I remember walking around my home city on the morning of 1/1/2000 and like a half of public digital clocks in the streets were showing invalid dates or just errors, including the one specially put there for the NY celebration count-down and pompously named "The Millennial clock".
The positions I usually hire for are very specialised indeed, but I guess it's also comes down to cultural differences. In Norway you would usually specify at which level you know human and computer languages and it would be considered quite rude to put something on the CV that you only have a basic knowledge of. It gives off a feeling of "padding the CV" to appear better than it really is.

If someone writes that they know a (human) language without further specification I'd expect them to be able to speak and write it in a professional setting.
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That is precisely the problem.
Eh, we AirBnB'd a place for our anniversary when our kid was 4 months old. It was his first night away from home, so we were a little nervous, particularly since he was a pretty noisy baby and had yet to sleep through the night. We only went an hour away so we could bail and come home if it was a disaster.

He ended up having a blast. The hosts had two pre-school age kids, and he was fascinated watching them ride their bikes around the courtyard. He was quiet enough that the hosts didn't even notice him, and he slept through the night for the first time.

Kids are pretty resilient, and if you never stretch into the unknown, you never find out what you can do. We've taken him on another (international this time) AirBnB trip, when he was 16 months, and he had a blast again. Though he did give us a minor heart attack when he woke up from his nap, evaded the baby monitor we'd set up, climbed off the bed, walked across the basement, and ascended a full flight of stairs by himself, only making his presence known by scratching at the kitchen/stair door.
From now on, a serious pandemic will never be some weird future scenario ever again. It will be a politicized issue.

We are seeing a real pandemic - something that has been the stuff of Hollywood movies for most in our generation. Maybe it's comparable in some aspects to the only other WHO-official pandemic: HIV/AIDS.

But this has an order of magnitude more impact on the entire planet and societies as we know them.

The stock markets look like load test graphs I see in Grafana every day. Steady ramp up and then after 90 minutes boom its over back to 0.
Khangaikhuu
So are they paying for the data from the US and other countries? Or relying on free data online?
It's not strictly theoretical, though it is, like all laws, imperfectly implemented, and particularly problematic because those to whom it is not properly applied also naturally lack the means to mount an effective legal challenge without outside aid, making it less likely that abusess will be corrected by higher courts than would be the case otherwise.

But that's not a “the law allows imprisoning you for inability to pay a fine” problem but a “the legal rights of the poor are ineffectively protected in our system” problem, which is a different and much broader problem.

> I'm in Missouri, so if you want more details about this you can see anything about Ferguson.

As I recall, practices of this kind were prominent in the catalog of violations of federal Constitutional and statutory rights compiled in the DoJ investigations around Ferguson that descended after the Michael Brown incident and associated protests, sure.
If the entire NBA got suspended over one sick employee, could the same please happen to the TSA over two?
Video conference hand signs to improve team communication
We use ground rules to improve team communications. Video conferencing is becoming much more important this week for many workers, so we're sharing our list of helpful hand signs for video conferencing.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ground_rules

Hand signs can be helpful for video conferencing, for large meetings, for loud environments, and for people who are hard of hearing.

Vote yes: thumb up.

Vote no: thumb down.

Vote maybe: thumb sideways.

I understand: make the "OK" sign.

I don't understand: raise your open hand to your chest, palm facing front, and move it side to side.

Clarification ASAP: make the letter "C" sign. This means everyone pause as soon as possible, so the facilitator can do clarification.

Ask to speak in turn: raise your open hand. This means everyone will let the person speak when it's their turn.

Please be louder: raise your open hand to your ear, palm facing front, so the moderator and/or speaker notices. This can indicate "please turn on your microphone".

Please be quieter: make the "shhh" sign with your pointer finger at your lips. This can indicate "please turn off your microphone".

Please stop/freeze/wait: hold up your closed fist, fingers facing front.

Time check: point at your wrist. This means please be aware that there's a time limit coming up.

Time out: make the time out sign. This means conversation stops, and the facilitator takes over.

... These ground rules and hand signs work well for us in practice, and may be helpful to you. Your mileage may vary. Constructive feedback welcome. PMs are welcome - my contact info is in my HN link.
> there is no real-time dependency on online systems for use of physical currency

You are underestimating degree of our reliance on banking. Stores, restaurants and repair shops don't have enormous vaults with cash — they store money in bank accounts. If banks make cash transactions infeasible, businesses will suck it up. If your local coffee shop stops accepting cash, you will have to find another one, possibly located in different district (or even different country...). Many countries enforce mandatory use of bank accounts for business — companies are literally not allowed to operate in pure cash. When banks conspire to make cash undesirable (via high cash collector fees, shunning low-denomination bills etc.), local entrepreneurs begin go "cashless", a trend already seen in many places.

Never mind that, ­— even if your local legislators force shops to accept bills, who cares about them? Brick and mortar stores are deteriorating all around the world. A lot of things already can't be bought offline, unless you take an international flight each time you want to purchase. When your local electrical parts shop closes down, will you open your own? Or just order parts online and pay with VISA like everyone already does?

In not-so-distant future you will be able to spend your cash on bread and not much else. Until the backer becomes unable to spend his.
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LDS Church suspends all meetings worldwide
It's less true as more and more lazy landlords try to get on the bus.
That's funny, that sounds like exactly the kind of lie I used to tell myself when I was addicted. Nicotine is a powerful force for rationalization of your addiction to it.
Did you look at the if let syntax?

if let Bar::Qux(x) = foo { ... )
Driver tech like Tesla's Autopilot needs real regulation, says IIHS
I spent the night in the processing center in the basement of a small regional bank helping run tests and look out for anomalies. It was the culmination of years of work and a lot of money to make sure that it was a non-event.
H.Pylori
My understanding was that many-worlds could be tested experimentally if we were able to set up large objects in superpositions, and I thought that there is no reason to expect that it isn’t physically possible to do so (we just don’t know how at the moment).
I get the need to interact, but you can mostly do that via the internet as well. The most difficult part is discussing projects that require significant effort to describe the design or problem because you can't get instant feedback from body language, etc.
This explains it better: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a31405691...
This will be major as a home assistant integration. Right now the nest camera component is broken due to the recent Nest=>Google migration. This has broken streaming nest cam footage for everyone that migrated. I'm actually surprised a 3rd party has actually gotten support for nest cam stream API before home-assistant itself.

Anyways, when it comes to security cams in the consumer space you have

Low: Wyze, Yi, other Chinese Mfgs
Mid: Ring
High: Nest

But I think the major money is in the prosumer space: The custom Dahua (Lorex/Flir) or anything with an NVR. Massive false positive rate, bad detection algos, shitty software. Have you seen Lorex's Rapid Recap feature? Definitely cool but too expensive. Also Dahua NVR's have had security concerns too

Rapid Recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWnQ9arSJg
CCTV Hacked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ea9fllnME

Smart local secure powerful NVR replacements is what business + prosumer home owners are looking for, good thing is that most IP cameras are running on a handfull of standards, instead of a seperate API for each brand.

How did you get access to the NEST API streams?
It's honestly mindblowing that hacker news has reached the point where a comment asking for primary sources and evidence is downvoted.
> this is a very mild virus

Media and government keep making this claim, yet where are the recovery numbers of people? It drags on for weeks and weeks with no end in sight, correct? And current case fatality rate in Italy is 8%, was 7% this morning, was 6% yesterday - because they do not have hospital resources for the number of serious cases they have.

Serious, critical, and dead outcomes are said to be over 20% of case. This being described as "very low, a very small number" by certain people. That is not a low number at all.
Geopolitics has seen massive impact since then. For example, the rise of ISIS is a direct descendant of the Iraq war which is a direct consequence of corrupt and criminal decision making by the Bush/Cheney admin in response to 9/11.

Debatable if the Arab Spring would have occurred without it, as the Middle East might have been much more stable.
and ironically, to have a decent democracy you get even more privileges when you sign up on the political side.

makes you wonder if the side that can do less damage (enlisted serviceman) require the more draconian agreement after all.
yeah, this is crazy... starting to get out of hand