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I stayed 1 stay in Croatia, 2 in Bosnia & Herzegovina (1 Sarajevo) - they were all great (1 was epic). Was a few years ago though...
Coronavirus could financially cripple many Americans
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The US industrial revolution started from ignoring British patents.

Much as I admire the engineering prowess of the Wrights, their attempts to extract value via patents crippled the US aviation industry for a decade, ceding aviation dominance to Europe who ignored those patents.

Similarly, Hollywood grew out of people evading Edison's patents on motion pictures.

The notion that patents encourage innovation and progress doesn't seem to have much historical supporting evidence.
Thanks, I hadn't yet made it through the full thread for context.
As they say in DC, never let a good crisis go to waste
Well the market pointed to that, with the majority of liquidation today being on leveraged longs. So it’s more likely the market is corrupt and the exchanges just spent their vast wealth pushing the price down to make a killing off leverage… pair that with panic and today makes sense even though it originally seemed most people believed what you did.

Turns out humans are selfish and emotional, who would have thought?
>Another possibility is that Italy doesn't have a handle on who is or isn't infected so what they report are the obvious infections, who tend to be older.

This is very likely the case, as can be seen in the positive test outcome rates.

16.7% in Italy vs. 3.6% in South Korea

Italy has run around 60k tests.

South Korea are testing around 15k people/day and have tested 234k people in total. They've even setup drive-through testing centers where anyone can drive through, get tested, and get results via SMS in under a day.

The result of this is likely a much larger number of asymptomatic or mild cases in the South Korean numbers, which based on the China data, tend to be a lot younger.

https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=&bid=0030

https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19/blob/master/schede-riepi...
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I should be clear: I don't personally support what the DOJ is doing to Assange. I even think the Espionage Act likely has Constitutional defects as applied to his case; it's just never been tested. And I think the Espionage Act should be repealed at the earliest possible moment. That being said, I think we're stuck with it, and our Constitution likely doesn't prevent it from being a law, albeit a bad one.

On the other hand, I have serious misgivings about the false statement laws, at least as they cover unintentional false statements (i.e. those without _mens rea_). I don't think our Constitution was meant to punish people criminal for actions that they aren't even aware of. Unfortunately, there is long precedent establishing that "strict liability" is permissible even in criminal law. It seems like a gross violation of due process to me, but unless and until something changes, we're stuck with it.

I think you've also hit on a much bigger problem I have with the justice system: this fairly absurd idea that law enforcement can do nearly whatever it wants, whenever it wants in order to seek its own ends. If I were to propose criminal justice reforms, I would focus first almost exclusively on police procedure. Forget about bail reform or sentencing guidelines: don't allow cops to lie to people while performing an investigation; strictly prohibit cops from making any innuendo that someone waiving his or her rights is somehow "looking guilty" or some such nonsense; and get rid of the plea bargaining system.

Essentially the only thing anyone should ever say to law enforcement in the US is, "I refuse to any questioning without my attorney present." Anything else you say to them can and will be used against you, and cannot be used for your defense, since it is hearsay. It's not too hard to see that the distribution of people who know how to respond to pressure from the cops to talk is heavily skewed toward the less privileged segment of the population. When you add in things like plea bargaining, which has resulted in even many innocent people pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit, I don't think anyone can call it justice.

It's late so I'm rambling, but I think there are serious problems with the justice system. I just don't think Chelsea Manning is a particularly great poster child for them.
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Can of course also be a mobile app, etc.
South Korea also has 4x as many hospital beds per 1000 people as Italy does.

They still suffered a shortage of hospital beds in the hard-hit area around Daegu, so much so that some people died while waiting.

Italy and other countries with fewer hospital beds will have to resort to what China did: build makeshift hospitals, fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...
I'll preface this by saying that AirBnb lies about its prices/night, and that really suck.

Having said that, I really really don't understand the other criticisms against AirBnb here. I travel a lot, for leisure and work, and I constantly stay at AirBnbs and have been for years.

Here is how it compares with hotels for me:

* I usually can't remember any hotel room I've stayed at (unless it's the marina bay sands), whereas I remember every single AirBnB I've stayed at.

* When I stay in an airbnb for tourism, I feel like I lived a bit in the city, never get that feeling with a hotel.

* Pick up never has lines, and is often pretty straight forward (they have more and more of these locks for self-checkin)

* The location is always better for the price, I've heard people saying otherwise, but I've travelled all over the world with AirBnB and always found a better place for cheaper. The bay area was pretty hard, but I switched to a room at someone's place (instead of the whole place) and I ended up staying in insanely nice places. (I definitely recommend trying this, it's always much nicer and I seldom run into the people living there.)

* AirBnBs have a kitchen

* I overall find hotels to be dirty. There's something about them that I really don't like. Unless the hotel costs a LOT of money (again, Marina bay sands <3) there's often that gross feeling. Especially in Vegas... Maybe I just think of all the people who've done stuff in the hotel room, as opposed to an AirBnB which feels like someone really lived there and respected the place.

So yeah, I don't buy the AirBnB has failed thing, because I'm a heavy user.

I might be wrong, but I hope not because AirBnB going bankrupt would be a real bummer IMO.
Agreed about the evil of DRM and treacherous computing, but do not conflate the shift in trust to a remote party with the attestation mechanism itself, which can be neutral. The idea behind attestation is that hardware signs a quote regarding that which is running on the device, one that is cryptographically verifiable. Verifiable for what purpose is a separate question.
Spent that night in the NOC, for absolutely nothing. The only thing that broke was our guestbook, which came from Matt's Script Archive and thought the year was 19100 on New Year's Day.
The Gillian Anderson (Scully) replacement looks particularly good. The Youtube video only has Willem Dafoe in the title and I didn't even realize the woman was injected until I read the top Youtube comment. IMO it's the real star of the deepfake.

Maybe because she doesn't have a fluorescent light above her nor is the camera constantly zoomed in on her face, so probably nicer scenario for the deepfake. Or maybe because they have all of X-Files to train the brain?
> Following your reasoning are we not allowed to use radians (an SI unit) in equations either?

Not for dimensional analysis.
>Curious, if supply is lower and the demand lowers more, then what does it mean. A depression??

Seems like break even?

Its kind of like how a person who normally works out everyday and is very active might reduce their caloric intake if they break their leg. From 4000 calories a day to maybe 2000 very suddenly might sound like a problem if he wasn't just gonna be sitting at home all day for a while.

But obviously its more complicated than that, and the system we are talking about is not even close to organic, and in a more equivalent scenario the guy with the broken leg sitting at home is also no longer able to harvest his crop for the season to provide the food a local village depends upon, so...
It turns out I mentioned the story here on HN in 2014 [1], which is probably where that person saw it. As with the present thread, I didn't remember the name of the story and got the time frame wrong. Also as in the present thread people quickly found the name and where/when it was originally published.

And in that thread, someone also linked to the "everybody kills Hitler" story that I linked to (although they linked to it at its original site, which is still up, instead of linking to a republication link I did).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261790
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It's not an either/or. Juul did market to teenagers. Juul did cause an enormous rebound in the amount of teenage nicotine use, which had fallen close to zero. For you it's a harm reduction tool and that's great, but it's not why Juul is so wildly successful.
When we do, it's largely for the negative purposes of extending blame to all within a group, not obfuscate or diffuse blame, as is the case here.
If you want to contribute, fix bugs found by syzbot [0], there's an endless backlog there.

It's the fastest way to get your hands dirty, familiar with a variety of subsystems, and land meaningful, appreciated patches upstream.

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Hi @mooneater. At the moment, the library is focused on graphs that fit in memory. Managing out-of-core data brings a whole extra layer of caching, data transfer and data management complexity; we prefer to focus on extending and increasing the algorithms we support. We think this is the appropriate trade-off because many problems involve relatively small graphs, and, even for larger ones, it’s getting easier and cheaper to rent machines with hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of RAM. That said, we do have experimental support for running GraphSAGE against a graph stored in Neo4j, and we’re working towards better support for Neo4j in general, e.g. https://github.com/stellargraph/stellargraph/issues/1034.
I think for these people the detail just doesn't matter to them. They see near random behavior which is currently impossible to model and they shrug their shoulders and call it a magic, ad-hoc random variable.

And to a degree, they have a point: Does it really matter if we can predict the exact time and location of an alpha particle as is exits a black hole as hawking radiation? What good does modeling this phenomenon accurately give us?
Posts like this tend to get flagged quickly on HN.

Meanwhile, you can freely conspiracy theorize all you like about the machinations of the CIA, NSA, etc., regardless of how little evidence you have. It's the same on other social media websites. Zero Hedge got deplatformed from Twitter for talking about this.

The CCP is exerting a frightening chilling effect on public discourse, even in America.
Can you explain that? Just having the grandparents near the kids? I'd think that happens anyway... no one is suggesting people avoid their own family members, are they?
this abjectly fails to deal with heteroscedasticity
is it possible that light is bent only a few mm around the event horizon of the singularity?

I mean, not sure if it requires this, but if they can create gravitational singularities maybe they have some way to like shield gravity, "beamshape" or contain it to small area.
well, until they figure out how to set a local DNS server.
When you see his face in profile near the end, it's clearly not Willem Dafoe's head shape. And in the middle his ear lobes were jumbled. But other than that it's pretty creepy! But that's probably because of the scene they chose :D
What are some of the fastest and easiest tools for creating something like this myself ?
Unethical and dangerous company. Hopefully the entire industry goes down.
Why shouldn't I be excited?

I'm not saying I'm happy this is all happening, but I can be interested in seeing how all this works and see the positives, can't I?

Should I tell my kindergartner to be all grim and sad, or tell her that this is an adventure?
This is exactly my feeling too. There are still cases where I prefer hotels (business travel), but they just don't compare to Airbnb for vacations. Especially so if you have a group of people instead of 1 or 2.
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It's not just the number of cases that differ due to different testing regimes. Another difference is that Italy did some post-mortem testing to identify cases that were wrongly reported as flu etc. but were covid19. I assume they were included in the number of dead. I don't know if they did the same in South Korea. Numbers sometimes are difficult to compare.
I always see this view about hotels being cheaper but this has never been the case for me. I use Airbnbs all the time because they are cheaper (though I do like hotels better in a lot of cases). For example I am planning a road trip through CA, NV, UT, AZ and not once has a hotel room been cheaper than an Airbnb.

Also the case in Australia where I live, the hotels are super expensive, easily > 150 a night for pretty low level.
Confirmed cases. We've also tested an order of magnitude less people per capita than Denmark
It is extremely frightening, and it's important that we continue to fight for freedom of expression on all platforms.

Unfortunately so many have an innate bias against the US that any criticism of it is considered fair game regardless of how conspiratorial or absurd.
That's a failure of urban planning, not Airbnb.
Fun story related to this:

During the Y2K panic Sun Microsystems (IIRC) announced that they would pay a bounty of ~$1,000 per Y2K bug that anyone found in their software. As you noted, there was very little automated testing at the time so these problems were really hard to discover.

James Whittaker (a college professor at the time) worked with his students to create a program that would parse Sun's binaries and discover many types of Y2K bugs. They wrote the code, hit run, and waited.

And waited. And waited.

One week later the code printed out it's findings: It found tens of thousands of bugs.

James Whittaker went to Sun Microsystems with his lawyer. They saw the results and then brought in their own lawyers.
Eventually there was some settlement.

One of James' students bought a car with his share.
It got popularized a couple years ago to distinguish the few companies that had Kubernetes products added value beyond installation.
Cool, glad we can try to artificial support the boomers 401ks, meanwhile the SMBs won't see a dollar of that and live month to month
The massive shortage of tests doesn't help either.

There's plenty of blame, but I'd assign most of it to US politics.
> CrowdStrike is also not the only source of that intelligence.

Who else examined the servers? The US Government stated in court that it relied exclusively on their analysis and never examined the servers at issue. One might think this was normally something they should be doing, but it's getting more common (e.g. with Bezos' phone, where the private company failed to decrypt the supposed malware, despite there being open source tools for WhatsApp decryption).

Given that they failed to identify the Ukranian P.A.S. malware or a bunch of Tor exit nodes, it's legitimate to question how definitively they were able to pin this on a specific APT.

> It doesn’t matter what Assange said, the only thing he could possibly know is who gave it to him.

A fair point, but one you should make to the US Government and the media who promulgated the myth that he would somehow get a pardon for saying exactly what he's repeatedly said in public for years now when the real story was that someone hoped to convince Trump of that and never actually got to talk to him.

Also, we do have some evidence against. The exfiltration happened at almost exactly the speed of a USB drive. That doesn't seem likely to be coincidental, or likely to randomly happen for internet exfiltration of data.
How flogging the "growth mindset" concept can sell more books and earn the author more commissions.
Direct link to the study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
You can start from wikipedia[1] and especially checkout references part.

Unfortunately as you go deep it's really hard to find articles in layman's language. I think it's because articles in layman's language are more targeting the average reader.

I hope someone can comment with a good article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019
> K is full of arbitrary restrictions

The restrictions, lack of lexical scoping, and weird error messages are indeed frustrating, especially when starting out.

> And let's talk about performance. K is inherently single threaded. If you have a powerful 96-core machine, it's of no use to you because your K code will be using only a single core. I've seen numpy easily beating K when numpy uses MKL library with automatic parallelization.

I'm not sure where you got that from, but it's not true. You can use peach to quite great affect. For example, to do a matrix multiply that'll utilize all slave threads (which you can set at runtime):

mmu[;x] peach y

For more info, check out https://code.kx.com/q/basics/peach/. And while the parallelization isn't automatic, it's pretty damn easy to just s/each/peach/g (you should profile first, though, of course). Moreover, you can just run multiple interpreters and communicate through IPC. It works really well and is pretty easy to do. Give me some numerical python code and I guarantee k/q can do it at least as fast. If your pipeline is something like do some number crunching and save a bunch of rows to MySQL, kdb+/q is always going to be faster, hands down. The performance benefits of having the db and language in one process cannot be underestimated.

> There is a reason K/KDB is not very popular outside of a certain domain. It's not because it's proprietary and it costs a fortune. It's just bad.

I strongly disagree. If it was up to me, I would throw out all the crap numerical Python code I write everyday and switch to kdb+/q. kdb+ is a pleasure to work with and the query language is so much better than SQL it's not even funny.

The only real problem with kdb+/q is that there's not many libraries for it, in particular, neural net and ML libs would be on my wishlist. Though, I'm sure if you're a paying customer First Derivative will whip up some super high quality shit for you.

Also, you're argument doesn't really make sense: if k just sucks, why is it used at all? Because quants and their managers are stupid?
Reminds me of the show Chernobyl
We have them, the CDC will just refuse requests to use them.
Though I clearly am biased in favor of the former interpretation since it is IMO the most persuasive, her actions fail both. Any advocacy on her own behalf in front of the court (with the exception of genuinely extreme treatment like torture) would constitute legitimizing the proceedings. Under the latter interpretation, her only response would be to remain completely silent and refuse to cooperate at all. If we wanted evidence that she was trying to refuse the legitimacy of the court, we could see if she, for example, refused physically to move when summoned before a court, refused to say anything when addressed by the judge or any other officer of the court or refuse to file court proceedings. She might even refuse to eat or take some other drastic action. Instead, we see court pleadings, which all but imply that she respects the legitimacy of the court, just not its decision toward her.
It was also really difficult to detect bugs since no good testing paradigms had been established yet.

This created an exploitable opportunity for the few who knew how to write automated tests.

During the Y2K panic Sun Microsystems (IIRC) announced that they would pay a bounty of ~$1,000 per Y2K bug that anyone found in their software (due to the lack of automated tests, they didn't even know how to find their Y2K bugs)

James Whittaker (a college professor at the time) worked with his students to create a program that would parse Sun's binaries and discover many types of Y2K bugs. They wrote the code, hit run, and waited.

And waited. And waited.

One week later the code printed out it's findings: It found tens of thousands of bugs.

James Whittaker went to Sun Microsystems with his lawyer. They saw the results and then brought in their own lawyers. Eventually there was some settlement.

One of James' students bought a car with his share.
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> Some more detail: during bankruptcy, anyone that had business with the company can either file an adversary proceeding (essentially a lawsuit within bankruptcy court), and/or can do depositions/discovery (2004 examinations). They can also buys assets of the defunct company as well as legal claims to go after the company officers. Then after bankruptcy they can try to use whatever information, assets and claims they acquired, to sue the company officials personally.

What on Earth could make someone so angry to go through the hassle of doing this?
Trump won't have to worry about reëlection so we can handle this crisis like a responsible developed nation.
Maybe you shouldn't transfer every confirmed case into hospital since most cases will do just well ... unless they don't. (Not questioning the danger of this virus.)
The families where the parents can work from home are not the concern. The families that are of concern are the ones where parents can not work from home: in service jobs and hospitality, for instance. These are the people with the most to lose (bad job security and low pay) and have the least flexibility in their work schedules already. And this is going to inordinately affect them compared to other groups. As far as I’m aware this is still one of the largest (if not the largest) employment sectors in the economy, so it applies to a lot of families.
Is 80 proof vodka not the same as hand sanitizer?
The distinction you describe is not meaningful, but the key feature that separates classes from other forms of code organization/polymorphism, like typeclasses as in Haskell/Rust, is not that. It is inheritance.
I chose my words carefully. People who commit civil disobedience and accept their punishments make me stop and ponder. I may not agree with their positions, but I do take them seriously. I feel the same way about people who self-immolate. Hard to have a more credible commitment to some sort of cause than almost certainly killing yourself in an extremely visible way. There's very little I would set myself on fire for, so I have serious respect for those who do it, and it makes me stop and consider what I believe.
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> I'd be very interested in hearing and explanation and understanding why superdeterminism cannot be tested

What experiment could you run in a superdetermined universe that would distinguish it from a non-superdetermined universe? Vice versa? There's nothing.