skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "unwinding" was Fed stopping QE, which is slightly different - they were buying bonds on the market (not as emergency liquidity) to prop up asset prices (buy bonds -> reduce interest rate -> investors seek other sources of returns -> buy stocks -> stock prices go up... same with real estate). Bonds mature (literally disappear), so if you want to keep propping up asset prices, you must keep buying new bonds as the ones you own mature. The Fed was doing that for a while, then tried to slowly stop, ween the market off the cheap money (because if the patient is supposed to be healthy, s/he should be able to survive and thrive without drugs). Trump threw a tantrum (I guess he knew/suspected that Fed was the only/main thing propping up asset prices, without Fed the market would crash/stop increasing, which isn't good for elections because politicians always get the blame), the markets weren't happy either (basically NIMBY - you're invested so you want to keep the value of your assets as high as possible).
Looking back, was there any opportunity you missed to shut off the powered-on phone?
Depending on the ruling, this is a distinction without a difference.
Agreed, the list is endless.
Public buses compete with taxis and public news competes with MSM
I'm not sure what comparison you're making sorry.

But I think that if GitLab is able to pay somebody in the US one wage for work, and they hire somebody equally qualified in Australia that will be producing the same work, they should be paid the same. Well, it's up to GitLab to decide what they're paid, they shouldn't be forced to pay them the same, but I wouldn't work for a company that didn't.

I'm also surprised GitLab are away to get away with it with all the fuss made recently about discrimination. Is this a form of geographical discrimination in terms of unequal pay?
This. Stocks can still generate dividends. The only way you
're making money from Bitcoin investments is if some other sucker buys it off you for more than you spent.
It was real, and there was very little fallout b/c tens of thousands of IT staff worked for years leading up to 2000 to fix the bugs.

The Indian IT outsourcing industry was effectively created by the Y2K bug. Those companies did a large amount of the bug fixing.
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Classic "the [solution] that exists isn't good enough, therefore we can't use it at all!"

A pandemic is not the time to be picky - if anything, a high false positive rate helps. Would you rather 10 people quarantined, of whom only 2 are sick, or all 10 released into the wild because no test kit (of any sort) was available?
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> All code is "functional" and yet creative and copyrighted.

People used to say that about logos too, but Sega v. Accolade put a stop to a particular misuse of copyright in a way that I believe is similar to what Oracle is trying to achieve here.

As for whether the copy was meant to be "compatible" we both know that's a huge can of worms, it was meant to make source usable with minimal porting effort (i.e. on the level of the old "write once, run everywhere" Sun once touted Java via) rather than meet the particular Java compatibility test scheme that existed.

Also, there are always going to be compatibility bugs between versions, but I don't see that as having any bearing on this being a fair use and neither did either jury who found fair use...

> This case is not about copyrighting the concept of an interface, but of the copyright of about 11KLOC

The bulk of which is merely an interface.

> I am saying that the statement that this case is about "copyrighting APIs" in general is biased, because the case here is peculiar and extreme.

It is peculiar, but I strongly feel that it would go in the wrong direction. I believe the original ruling in Alsup's court was correct, if somewhat novel.

> In Java, declaring code specifies complex class resolution, loading and initialization algorithms.

That's not what I'm asking to prove and that, again, is just a matter of finding the right code and putting the right values in place (i.e. an interface).

Java doesn't give a damn what's implemented in the JAR file's classes, it just knows that it was asked to find the code there with a specific class name and pass it specific values that were named. The actual bytecode is nothing alike, so the "copying" is just to let compilers find the right code to link up, trying to make good on Sun's old write once, run everywhere promise.

So it's just an interface to find the right code and feed it values.
Not what I said. Those most vulnerable should stay at home. No reason for the rest of us too of we are very low risk.
Hi, a patch has ben released CVE-2020-0796.
Amazing how all this money can be summoned out of nowhere when it’s rich people who are in trouble. But paid sick days for restaurant workers? No way. I’ve been in a position where I was working at McDonald’s and literally running to the back of the restaurant to vomit in a trash can and they still didn’t let me go home, even without pay. Have fun eating out for the next couple months.
Objects whose methods are closures are particularly interesting. They hold state, but it can be immutable state.
Show them this thread so they know to find another job, because you're obviously not going to treat this person well as a direct report.

You're here saying they're being negative, but you're not saying whether they're right or not, and if it's appropriate. They're going to have a bad time on your team unless you change your ways.
> Viruses might be a different branch on the RNA-replicator tree. Probably when the first replicators started some found - again via brute-forced mutations - that there are some replicators that they can take advantage of to replicate themselves.

One of the dominant theories for how eukaryotic organisms evolved (and by extension multicellular life) is by incorporating viruses and other prokaryotes internally and there's evidence a variety of viruses permanently entered the gene pool of several animals that were theoretically naturally selected for. It's less a branch and more a mobius rat's nest.
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Is the promise that a growth mindset will allow you to succeed? Or, instead, to improve? Is that what's meant by "succeed"?
Andromeda running on a PET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElLt7Dm8F9M

Seems kind of silly today, but I remember being absolutely enchanted by it as a kid.
If you know their motives, would you please be kind enough to share them with us? As an outsider it is kind of hard to see through superficial news posts.
Can someone do an ELI5 on this?

Questions:

Is this the same as printing money?

Long or medium term, could this lead to inflation?

Where is this money injected into? “The economy” is too vague. Who specifically gets it or gets access to it? Why them and not others?

Ridiculous question but wondering what the rules are based on: Can a DAO get some of it?

Could the money (or liquidity) instead be targeted differently, either say as a one-shot stimulus given to individual taxpayers or as a short-term sample of UBI? or alternatively toward some beneficial area such as the sustainable energy sector?

Are insiders and old boys networks pocketing a windfall here?

Are they going to sabotage my long awaited opportunity to buy low?

Need a refresher on basic macroeconomics I guess.
It sounds like you're focused on maximizing output. I'm more interested in maximizing outcome.

As to high vs extremely high, I'm not sure arguing over relative terms is useful. But just so it's clear what I mean:

If I'm working in a team room with colleagues, my average latency between request and response is, say 15 seconds. But in globally distributed remote work situations, a much longer lag is not uncommon. E.g., when I was working with European colleagues, it was typical to get a response the next working day. That's about 5000 times longer, which seems pretty extreme to me.
What are these motives especially the commoner, not the rich? Even the Christian I found years to understand ... and use final court and abortion as an excuse. What are motives ?
So do it again.

Honestly though, I think the impeachment just pointed out the Ukraine stuff about as much as it pointed out Trump's phone call shenanigans, it wasn't good for them politically to keep at it, his approval rating was going up and he was raising tons of money during it. It was backfiring politically for them, the majority of the public wasn't interested (especially after the Russia thing coming up empty, you can only cry wolf so many times) and it brought their own misdealing to light so they didn't push it as they would if they really cared.
Really? I thought the whole idea of free "free" was that people do mess with the Authority to keep it in check.
Seeing the cellphone footage of Hubei/Wuhan hospitals from weeks ago didn't make me fear mob panic; it made me fear a total paralysis of the health system.

It's tempting to imagine the same situation with Americans instead of Chinese would more resemble a Walmart riot on Black Friday.

But I think when it's a bunch of genuinely sick people filling the hospitals, they're a more docile and incapacitated bunch.

Those still healthy but panicky aren't going to be interested in being in close proximity to large numbers of strangers which is kind of a requirement for a mob to form.

I expect quiet streets, like a zombie apocalypse film, with people minimally venturing out for supplies.
No, you actually can. The authors of this article discuss the issue more in their longer paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06462

The idea is that superdeterminstic theories are deterministic, while quantum mechanical measurements are random, so you should be able to set up an experiment where QM predicts you would just get random results, but actually you get the same result each time.
Anecdotes aren't useful.

She's not elderly or immune compromised, so for her it was probably like the flu. Some people in good health only get cold like symptoms, or none at all.

The problem is that not only is it deadlier than most flus among vulnerable people, but a higher percentage need medical care than with the flu.

That last part is the real danger. If it really gets bad as in Italy it swamps the healthcare system. Then mortality goes up because people can't get needed care. Mortality also goes up for unrelated health issues due to lack of available medical care.

Having a heart attack? Try getting care if the hospital is clogged with COVID-19 cases. Even worse if you don't die waiting you might catch this thing at the hospital, and if you are weakened from a heart attack it's now quite deadly.

In short: for the young and healthy this is a "meta" systems risk more than a direct risk.
They aren’t testing most people with symptoms. No way will they start testing random people without.
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More details / sources on the outsourced fixing?
"We've got bupkis".
What happened to 3? This virus
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The post I was replying to argued:

> Can you imagine going in from of a judge and saying "my client attempted suicide in prison, that means it's unlawful to hold her." The precedent would allow basically any prisoner who attempts suicide to be released.

In order to support that point, I provided a concrete example. Jeffrey Epstein attempted to commit suicide in prison, but Jeffrey Epstein was also the exact type of person who shouldn't be freed from incarceration.
It’s still in early stages, but I would keep an eye on Mythic, Syntiant, and Mentium Tech.
Supposed by whom? Mad people, I suppose, but besides them.
Frankly I find this a little bit nauseating. If a plague wipes out an integer percentage of humanity then Earth will be less polluted,... yay?

What those satellite pictures are showing may be marginally cleaner air. But it’s also millions of people out of work and an economy stalled and not producing for its populous.

That roughly equates to people lives significant worse, not better.
The primary organizing unit of the united states is the Business, not the family nor the individual.
Remote Collaboration and the Future of Work
Black American here. We know their motives. Still ain't pretty.
I hate touch pads.
Because code is math, and patenting math is nonsensical. Should Maxwell have been able to patent his equations? The question is ill-formed.
You do realize she was jailed and charged under Obama right?

This was the President that was supposed to shine a light on corruption and protect whistleblowers when they first campaigned.

The joke here is you think there's that much of a difference. One acts bad and does bad things, the other acts good and does bad things. The only difference is the media loved the last one and hates the new one.
There are really a couple of issues in this topic. First, was there a potential problem due to dates? Second, was the massive scare campaign justified?

The answer to the first question is yes. There was a potential problem. However the companies and government departments that were affected had started planning in the early 90s, and they prepared during the decade. Many took the opportunity to embark on huge system upgrades. It was just one of many issues CIOs dealt with.

The answer to the second question is no. The huge disaster scares were not justified. Banks, airlines, insurance companies and government departments had already fixed their systems, just like they fix other problems.

What happened was that consulting companies, outsourcers and law firms suddenly realized there was a huge new market that they could scare into being. They started running campaigns aimed at getting work from mid size businesses.

The campaign took off because it was an easy issue for the media and politicians to understand. It also played into the popular meme that programmers were stupid. The kicker was the threat that directors who failed to prepare could be sued if anything went wrong. Directors fell into line and commissioned a lot of needless work.

In summary, there was the professional work carried out by big banks, airlines etc, generally between 1990 and 1997, and the panic-driven, sometimes pointless work by smaller firms in 1998 and 1999.
Apparently they knocked for several minutes before letting themselves in. I had gone to sleep only a couple hours before due to a late night, and as a double whammy I took some melatonin so I was completely out of it.

Obviously I would never obstruct justice but in theory had I heard them knocking, there would have been plenty of time to do so.

Ironically half the "evidence" they recovered from the phone actually would have helped my case if it had gone to trial because it showed no criminal intent and no attempt to hide from law enforcement. In short, if they never gained access to that phone on their own it may have been in my interests to provide the passwords for that specific device but who knows.
I wait until they re-discover Soviet SF from 1960s.
It's clearly to draw contrast against cyberpunk and to rebel against mainstream cynicism. It doesn't have to be negative to be punk.
Determinism simply means the nature of things is deterministic, that's all. In other words, that is: given all initial conditions you can determine the exact resulting conditions.

Bell coined the term "Superdeterminism" to describe to others of theories that evade his own theorem - theories which are absolutely and completely deterministic. Theories that are only partially deterministic - don't hold up to his theorem. Hence he coined this term to highlight the difference (to those that fail to understand), which again is absolutely/completely vs partially deterministic theories.

As so there's no real difference here. If you understand determinism, then you know that a "partially" deterministic theory is not actually deterministic...
Guess be can only pay the fees and the other more general. Paying criminal fees is a bit no no.
Can we stop comparing business to war?
In war, you destroy the enemy, and pay in blood and gold. It's a matter of life and death, and the strategic objectives are black and white.

Business is not really like this. First, if everyone doesn't go home, you're going to have a major problem with OSHA. Next, there is rarely a singularity of purpose around a strategy and viable, co-operative alternatives are possible. Next, crushing all your competition would lead to an un-beneficial monopoly, so it's not really a worthwhile fight. Finally, war, and specifically combat are high stress and traumatic experiences that are not sustainable for more than a few months at a time. Humans can act in this way, and maybe the CEO is in this pure fight/ flight/freeze/posture mode, but it's not great to lead a major company there.

That said, there is a lot we can learn from the military, but this "business as war" analogy is pretty absurd. Does it mean the workers are mercenaries? If a worker leaves the company, are they a traitor? Maybe I'm reading too far into it, but let's leave war to the military!
It's down almost 50% just in the last 24 hours.

Currently at $4300 and still falling.
Distributions Were for Linux, Not for Kubernetes
On a technical level, whether something can reproduce by itself or not is defined by whether they use their own chemical machinery to produce the offspring, such as when a cell divides itself or organisms produce their own gametes.

To be pedantic, all you need is at most two (or three, maybe?) of the right gender to reproduce in a vacuum (metaphorically) to make it a living organism. A virus can't reproduce with another virus that way because it can't do anything on its own other than float around waiting for a host, no matter how many strains you mix it with. The host does the actual reproducing for the virus.
Indeed, my experience so far is ideas getting watered down to incoherence is the rule, not the exception. For Agile, definitely [1], but for all sorts of other stuff. Object orientation. Lean Startup. Startups period (e.g., WeWork). Dunning Kruger. And a depressingly large number of other things.

The consolation prize is that anybody willing to dig in can often find a lot of value that other people overlooked. But what always gets me is that it becomes almost impossible to talk about that deeper value, because people already think they know it. Agile being a prime example here.

[1] My Agile postmortem is here: http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
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It's clear countries that previously suffered from SARs and Swine Flu reacted to COVID-19 more effectively.

South Korea's outbreak only even got that big because one person was a super spreader.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/31-south-korea-sudden...
Thanks for doing it, I played with your code, and it was inspiring.
What are the big advancements between the major K versions?
OK. So they're planning an invasion of the past?
Is there a site that comments on general news, has an educated audience and debunks spurious or dubious claims? I’d like to read my news through such portal.

GN or WN (General, World) vs HN
FullStory is - we have a shared core codebase in Rust, and then some OS-specific code for Android and iOS.

We're using a custom Rust toolchain so that we can support bitcode on iOS, but if you don't need that feature, then stable Rust works fine.
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It's not that we don't. It's that we can't. Most public sector jobs have a ratchet on cost to employ. i.e. cost only goes up over time. For instance, you cannot employ a janitor for BART even though you need one. Why? The rules say you have to keep him and pay him a guaranteed payout pension etc. etc. To be clear, I'm not against that or anything. Just stating how things are.

It is optimal under these conditions to minimize employment from the state and where possible spread it across regions.

Also, you can't really create a new job for lots of people because when you get a sufficient size they become a powerful economic lobbying force with strong allies and good rhetoric. After all "should our X be paid only Y while NFL/NBA/mayors etc. get paid Z?" is pretty convincing to lots of people.

So when you create jobs you need to put them in places where there are opposing forces. If you just created construction jobs, you'd be paying them $150k each all the time, and you'd always have to expand it. The rhetoric works very well here "should the people responsible for the safety of our bridges only be paid Z?". Now, if you create jobs that people don't want people working on, you get natural limiters. No one wants a massive TSA. People will complain if there is over-sizing of the TSA and they see lots of people standing around.

This isn't necessarily conscious. Just the result of the constraints and people acting locally optimally. i.e. no one needs to say "let's choose TSA jobs over bridge maintenance jobs". All you need is someone in the room to say "I can't give you that budget for the bridge maintenance because then I have to give that other guy the budget for the tunnel maintenance and I don't think I can get approval for everyone because jurisdiction Y doesn't have any bridges or tunnels" while the TSA is pretty uniformly spread and so it applies to nearly everyone evenly.
> A small village/town; away from the urban craziness;

Considering the fact that we both were downvoted, that's not the answer they want to hear on this forum. In a way, it was to be expected, since the majority usually praise density each time an urbanisation thread comes up and consider metropolitan concentration equals progress.
Not 100% sure, but my limited understanding is that they have everything, but don't do anything with it at the moment. However, when they need it, it'll just be there which is much better than needing to build something and get all that data.
The PID controller explanation left out a critical concept: The controller first generates an error signal, i.e. the deviation of the input (angle in the example) from the desired input, known as the setpoint. The error is fed to the P, I, and D sections.
> i havent heard of anyone commuting to work via paramotor

Well, now you have:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/paramotor-daredevil...

Article proves your point though. 10 miles in 30 minutes, required licensing, flight clearances, only works in very light wind, and requires total concentration the whole time. And then he carries the equipment once he lands in what must be a very heavy "briefcase."

Seems fun once or twice, but it swaps out the inconvenience of traffic with a ton of other inconveniences.
I mean, sure, there's no tool so advanced that a jerk can't grab it and beat people with it. I think the solution isn't to block new tools. It's to block jerks.
You mean from black market THC oil which has nothing to do with nicotine vaping?
Alameda county schools are not going to close schools because it would contribute to the crisis.

https://fusd-ca.schoolloop.com/pf4/cms2/news_themed_display?... [..] "As we have shared since this crisis began, we are working with public health professionals who are the experts in protecting the community during viral outbreaks. They have consistently recommended against closing schools in part because that could actually contribute to the crisis."[..]
The other way to look at it is, are there TSA officers who don't have coronavirus by now?
No - they said freight would continue unobstructed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction) alone makes no cyberpunk. It lacks the transnational corporations with their own paramilitary/police/security, their indebted slaves, the mobsters/mafiosi/yakuza interfacing between them and the slums for the unwashed masses, and the punks cybering back frome the slums for some breadcrumbs, upgräydz. Think Bladerunner. Allmighty Tyrell. Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film) , or even this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_(TV_series)
Black American Trump supporter here. Care to share what you think my motives are?