skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point, I'm too afraid of using airbnb and having to check for cameras. At least in a hotel, the rooms are barren and easy to take a look around. Plus if one person finds a camera, the whole hotel's name is tainted.
Direct link to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJB5W2beVZ0
I suppose you are against any sort of rental property then, right?
Same, but with the cold. The cold affects me severely, I remember the last time I had the flu over a decade ago, I really don't want to experience that again heh.

Living in a big city you're just exposed to more people, you're just more likely to catch something
another financial Coup ..The tax payer pays for cheap almost free loans for the Richest of the rich. Laughable. They are ruining the system. It will ultimately collapse. CoronoaVirus and its effect on the Western system, is just a coming tiny taste of what will happen when they ruin it totally.
Sorry, I used the shortened version of the term without considering how it sounded. Oral antibiotics.
I used to think the exact same things, but after using kdb+/q for AoC2019, I felt like I had a revelation. When you get rid of all abstraction, your code size is reduced so dramatically that abstraction is no longer needed. My solutions were maybe 10-100x shorter than everyone else's (except some guy's k code I found) and to this day, I can still mostly remember them, character for character (much like how an equation is easier to remember than a traditional line of code).

Being able to fit all of your code in your head at once is a truly magical feeling.
It only drives up rents if the dipshits in charge refuse to build housing in response to demand.
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I don't disagree that it will have an economic impact and cause a lot of pain in the short term, but this is also very likely to stimulate some positives economically as well as environmentally.

Some parents are now going to be working at home, side by side with their kids attending school at home. While this may not be ideal all the time, it's not a terrible thing to make all of this work. We're all going to be set up for telecommuting and online education going forward. If nothing else, it's less fossil fuels being burned.

Just like WW2 got us out of a depression and started us on a huge economic upswing -- and yes, at an immense cost -- this might have a similar effect, albeit on a smaller scale. I would not be surprised if 6 months from now, with the virus gone and a whole lot of disruption behind us, we'll find it stimulated the economy more than it hurt it.
Not if there aren’t 15k test kits, it’s not.
I thought about building a non profit org for freelancers.

All costs are shared equally among all people getting jobs.

Companies can post projects for free.
Here's a likely related paper from 2007:

https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899

In this study, a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-based pseudovirus system was employed to address these issues. Our results indicated that the SL-CoV S protein is unable to use ACE2 proteins of different species for cell entry and that SARS-CoV S protein also failed to bind the ACE2 molecule of the horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus pearsonii. However, when the RBD of SL-CoV S was replaced with that from the SARS-CoV S, the hybrid S protein was able to use the huACE2 for cell entry, implying that the SL-CoV S proteins are structurally and functionally very similar to the SARS-CoV S. These results suggest that although the SL-CoVs discovered in bats so far are unlikely to infect humans using ACE2 as a receptor, it remains to be seen whether they are able to use other surface molecules of certain human cell types to gain entry. It is also conceivable that these viruses may become infectious to humans if they undergo N-terminal sequence variation, for example, through recombination with other CoVs, which in turn might lead to a productive interaction with ACE2 or other surface proteins on human cells.

Look at the authors:

Zhengli Shi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Zhengli

She is a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Shi and her colleague Cui Jie found that the SARS virus originated in bats.
> Mergers are always risky. CEO can do all the analysis possible but can't know for sure if combined company will do better or worse than individual parts. That part of the job is called "taking calculated risks".

True, but growth-by-acquisition is a lot "easier" than organic (R&D-driven) growth, particularly when money is cheap.

A CEO looking for a quick win - usually quarterly, sometimes annually - will almost always default to an acquisition. It won't be clear for at least 2-3 years whether or not it was worthwhile.

I think a CEO who spurns acquisitions in favour of organic R&D will always, almost by definition, be putting the company's interests ahead of his/her own.
When AWS continues to run a service looong after it stops being actively developed (looking at you, SimpleDB), they get praised. When Google does the same thing, it's paradoxically more proof that Google deprecates things!
Upwork is not very friendly to the freelancers. The talent is also questionable on the other side. Using classic bait and switch techniques to get projects.

It is like the "get slim" industry. It is evergreen but the value both sides derive is questionable.
Is someone who accepts to automated username likely to be contributing anything of value? Human or bot, block and move on seems the best strategy.
HN sometimes has good political discussions - not as often as one would hope, but more often than (I suspect) just about anywhere else.

The rest of the time, yes, the political discussion turns into a steaming garbage pile, and deng has to kill it.
You're completely right; I accidentally dropped the word "higher-kinded" in front of polymorphism.

Go's interfaces provide structural typing, which offers polymorphism over values. Typeclasses in comparison, offer polymorphism over types themselves. The distinction is subtle, but it drastically limits the sorts of abstractions that you can write with Go. In Go's defence, this is a limitation that even functional languages like F# and Elm face too. This sort of polymorphism is what makes ideas like monads and functors so powerful in a language like Haskell, and what causes those same ideas to lose some of their lustre in a less expressive language.

Unfortunately it's really difficult to find good articles on higher-kinded types, since anything written about them already assumes a ton of knowledge about the subject. This StackOverflow thread has some good insight though: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21170493/when-are-higher...

It's entirely likely that in the real world these sorts of limitations don't actually matter, but my general frustration with Go stems from the fact that it's so close to being so much better than it is, and it saddens me that we as an industry chose to be so excited by something that's a tiny step forward, when there exist so many other options that are entire leaps and bounds forward.
The level of salt in this comment is off the charts. Yes, somebody is able to get a mortgage and make money off their investment. Just because you are unable to do so doesn’t have anything to do with that.
'Fine dining is not what Seattle needs now': Canlis closes, opens to-go option
At least in The Netherlands there are still plenty of masks to be found. You won't find the surgical masks anymore but masks for construction work is still plenty available.

I think most europeans look down on wearing masks as something stupid, most europeans also think hand sanitizer is stupid. (This just applies to my dutch family and friends over there, I am currently in Thailand and always wearing a mask and hand sanitizer)
About 80% of South Korean cases were less than 60 years old, with a peak in the 20s [1]. It is widely rumored that Shincheonji prefers to recruit young people who are easier to exploit.

[1] https://coronaboard.kr/#age-card
Spain is not hot at all this time of year.
> If you conclude that factor is "they're stupid" or "they're evil", then you haven't found it.

You seem to be dismissing those explanations simply because you don't like them and you reject the idea that it could be true of so many people. But you aren't actually providing any evidence against these explanations. Simply exaggerating them to the point that you think they can be dismissed as unreal doesn't work. There's a mountain of evidence that large numbers of people can and will passively tolerate evil policies and continue to vote for their proponents on the basis of issues they care more about. There's plenty of evidence that large numbers of people can and will vote for candidates who are making empty promises to them. There's plenty of evidence that large numbers of people can and will reject sound information about reality when it conflicts with dearly held beliefs.

Nobody (except perhaps you) is trying to say that Trump's success boils down entirely to those two factors that can be described as "evil" and "stupid" when taken to the extreme. But it's quite reasonable to conclude that those are indeed very important factors to his success and support.
Probably because the people wanting to loan the money don't think the people wanting to borrow the money are going to be able to pay it back, so they're charging larger interest rates to compensate them for the risk. That's really all the interest rate is.
They say it “reduces” the spread. There may be other factors which affect the situation in Spain. Also it’s not that hot now in most places there ;p
Toronto is starved for affordable rentals in no small part because of the number of owners who are using their properties as short-term rentals.

I've lived in my building for a decade and the police have only been called twice. In both instances it was because of an Airbnb party gone wrong.
The funny and sad thing about that is in most of those cases Clinton had better plans to help those people than Trump did.

Take coal mining towns. Here was Clinton's plan for helping them [1]. Trump's plan was to cut environmental regulations and somehow coal towns would become great again.

[1] http://static.politico.com/b8/90/cbbc9c59413089d87e8d6340f13...
AirBnB didn't fail from my point of view. I travel exclusively with AirBnBs, even for work. Whenever we travel with friends, we use AirBnB as well. It pretty much completely replaced hotels for me.

I have to say though that I hate that they lie about the price/night.
I’ve been making K-12 plans for three weeks. You shouldn’t be excited. It’s one thing for people to prepare and plan and develop a curriculum that is suited for online learning. It is another to be told at a moment’s notice to shut down schools and turn to online learning.

And the internet is going to be fine, although individual sites with a sudden increase in traffic (Zoom, Skype, Office 365, etc) might have issues.
but they can only predict from their own timeline, which isn't the same timeline they meet you on. I think rather than predictions, the coolest things time travelers could bring world be technology, or artefacts.
The number of active known and reported cases appears to be dropping. There are three assumptions in that sentence.
The bitcoin halvening is ahead of schedule.
I love K/q, but there's some trade-offs (probably for speed) that I find extremely aggravating. The biggest sin of all is the lack of lexical scoping. If k/q had lexical scoping and macros, it would probably be my ideal programming language.

Regardless, the philosophy behind the language is so different, and so incredible, I had the most fun I've had in a long time programming when I learned it. kdb+/q is a work of art and probably the best engineered piece of software I've ever come across.
Both. As much as possible. You'd like as many of the answers to questions about "how do you manage access to this application, know who has access to it, and ensure that people who shouldn't have access to it don't" be "screenshots and logs from your SSO system".
Syd Mead did amazing work on Blade Runner but the crowded urban city-scapes, multicultural and filled with ads were inspired by Mobius' Long Tomorrow.
Isn't that sad, I bet I could name any Male leader of any country and it would be just as easy to google and find allegations.

Trump was on a hot mic, it's not a "he said she said" in his case, it just a "he said". Don't get me wrong I think Trump did exactly what he promised to do, I was just pointing out the differences between the US and Canada. ;)

BTW there has been a few US Mayors that got caught smoking crack in the past too! Which is also very sad.
I saw that the large majority today was lost on longs, with shorts being much less active.
Do you believe it’s likely that the crash was intentional with the large exchanges pushing the price down on various exchanges to make money off the leveraged longs? Obviously panic plays into this as well.

I’m not one to get involved in any type of trading personally, as I don’t trust myself, so this is outside of my space. Please excuse and correct me if I misused any terminology or don’t understand stuff. Some of my family is heavily invested in crypto, so I like to know what is going on.

Anyway, does my assessment sound accurate to you? I would love to see you expand on this.
It does if the virus has already been circulating widely. Which is why it's important to take steps like this early on. Provided other states or districts react differently, the estimation of efficacy will be very interesting to see after the fact.
Holding cash by itself means losing value due to inflation. If you don't want to suffer the cost of the Fed's seigniorage tax you have to keep the funds you're not speculating with in bonds.

Stocks and bonds both moving down could be indicative that some major players took on leverage using their stock holdings, and now that stock prices are plummeting they have to come up with the cash for their interest payments and are selling even bonds to do so. Best case scenario they all make their interest payments and take their loss on the chin. Worst case scenario some major player goes bankrupt and everyone has a collective freakout trying to figure out how this might push them over the edge as well.
Indian Stock Market Circuit Open, Halted for 45mins
What difference is there between information stored as proteins in a chains or as bytes on hard drive / neuron configuration in your brain.

We just got used to the DNA=life, but is this a valid assumption?

Some exotic lifeforms could encode their self-defining information on silicium magnetic polarisation, electron spin or whatever. And you would call them life if they were standing and moving in an animal-like way.
DeveOps Contributes to the growth of Businesses: Reasons you need to know
I'm curious why you think revenue matters more than profits.

Take two hypothetical companies, say ebay` and amazon`. They both provide a marketplace, but slightly differently. ebay` allows manufacturers to list directly on their market for a fee. Amazon` buys from manufacturers and sells on their market for a markup equivalent to ebay's fee. Are these two companies substantially different? I don't think so but the revenue frame of reference says they are,
Intel cannot manage your machine remotely with AMT. Your IT department can. See Black Hat talk on ME for details.

https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Hasarfaty-Behi...
Side note, thanks for putting the TLDR first. I most often see it’s last which just totally defeats the purpose IMO
Have you tried programming in it? I would call K a general purpose language that can do pretty much anything. I can only speak personally, but learning k and q were a transformative experience that have changed how I think in a fundamental way (in a similar way that lisp and haskell did when I learned them in the past).
Yes, ecto is basically a monad too (it's based on linq), but at the edges it will violate functional purity.

Linq is functional, but functional-impure.
Awesome! I can't wait to dig through this, I've been wanting to contribute to the linux kernel for over 2 years but no one on the linux mailing lists seemed interested in helping a newbie (so much for kernel newbies). Thanks for putting this together.
China has said, (if they can be believed), that children 15 and under show a surprising immunological resilience to the virus, while also being one of the primary vectors for spreading the virus. (Or maybe because of their resilience, they are very good at spreading it? I don't know?)

In any case, that information seems to have been confirmed by the experience of Western authorities. So I'm inclined to believe it.

The idea here is probably to slow down the spread among kids now, which would slow down the spread to less vulnerable adult populations down the road. The drawback is that if some children are carrying the virus now, there is a short term danger to vulnerable adult populations.

I'm betting they've already wargamed all that out and the numbers right now favor accepting the short term danger?
I'm genuinely curious what evidence there is for this?
Site note - VRBO is owned by Expedia through its acquisition of HomeAway. Just last year Expedia consolidated it's homeaway/vrbo products into just VRBo and noticed the experience got significantly better (Booked twice though them for large groups in the last 6 months)
Airbnb is pretty great for the community, you usually get people who go out and spend in the city, instead of staying at home every night to cook.
Fair enough. So not true that an editing process watered down that particular blog post. I still maintain that that blog post is too wishy-washy, and others agree[1].

I've read other posts on Lyft's blog that are awesome. I did not intend to say that Lyft's blog is bad in general.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21409066
> For Trump, the House chose not to do that, because (I believe) it would slow them down, and that wasn't acceptable to them.

The full House has to authorize a committee to to conduct an impeachment investigation and to vest it with the proper authority before the subpoenas become enforceable. The Democrats never did this because in that case, the Republicans in the House would have been able to send out their own subpoenas.

See also:

https://youtu.be/Z-9EOHyCZ4A

https://www.scribd.com/document/443783939/OLC-Opinion-Judici...
I'm not a proficient Rust programmer yet, but the thing I've been finding is that previous programming experience often suggest solutions that require lifetimes. These solutions are often inappropriate. I think as one becomes more fluent in Rust oriented solutions, it will become more obvious that there is a better way to approach the problem. It's not so much that the use of a lifetime is indicative of poor code. It's more that due to lack of experience in the Rust way of doing it, you are more likely to reach for lifetime solutions that are inappropriate. Trying to avoid them at all cost as a novice seems like a good way of finding out where you absolutely need them (and, in my experience, there are definitely many such places). It sounds like a good exercise.
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> Airbnb needs to make some real changes or they will lose further trust among customers.

On the other hand I only stay at Airbnbs when I travel, and have been for as long as I can remember, and I've never had these issues.

My biggest issue is that they lie about the prices per night.
Its the original audio performances, and I think this shows how important the actors are. Test deep fakes only on image and I think they fall down a lot.
Ask HN: Covid-19 panic – what am I missing?
Major news outlets are still asserting a mortality rate of 3-4%. This figure is obtained by dividing number of deaths by number of infected.

Weeks ago the WTO pointed out what any first year medical student knows - a true accounting of mortality is dependent upon an accurate denominator.

And that denominator was expected to be much larger than appreciated - as early as January there were reports from Wuhan that many people had mild symptoms, and by February it was clear many were also without any symptoms.

We finally have some substantial data from South Korea. 20k tests are being done daily, picking up many asymptomatic or mild cases. They report a death rate of 0.7% [1]

The CDC estimates that regular flu has resulted in 9 million to 45 million illnesses, 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 – 61,000 deaths every year in the US alone since 2010. [2]

There are many measures being taken by companies and countries that seem very extreme. There is no toilet paper at the store. The breathless media is milking this for everything it's worth. Why are the lives this is claiming worth shutting down the world, instead of all the other, far more preventable deaths that occur on a daily basis.

This is nuts. What am I missing?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51836898
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

Postscript: I'm hoping however this wakes everyone to the real danger of much more lethal engineered pandemics and force some preparedness.
>In South Korea one of the early patients infected more than a thousand other people

Really? That's horrifying. Any links about that?
> Using classic bait and switch techniques to get projects.

Can you elaborate what you are referring to?
> When you read a recap of what happened it all sounds vaguely normal and presidential.

Said no one about Trump, ever.
There were tools available, but it was increasing the risk (in a risk-averse atmosphere) to trust them to catch all cases. Try explaining to your superiors why you were given the task of fixing the issue and instead of completely fixing it you saved some money. Probably unacceptable.

Also, much of the remediation could not be automated anyway (for example you may not be able to assume the century is '19' for a given date field which can be in the future. You may need to do a comparison to a cutoff date, or you may only have to enlarge the field knowing that the value is supplied from elsewhere which will itself get fixed), so it fell back to people looking at the code, understanding it just enough, making the required changes, and planning/executing the testing.
I believe a more likely theory for the crash was the large exchanges pushing the price down on various exchanges to make money off the leveraged longs and then pair that with panic and you see this price plummet.
Which makes it interesting, then, that one of the people they're attempting to compel as a witness would rather die than agree with that.
Using a Maybe type sounds a bit better, but not really that different than how Go does it in practice. The key decision is whether to throw errors or return them. Go's approach and the Maybe type are both variations on returning them.

The problem with returning them is it's tedious and you end up with error checking boilerplate everywhere.

The problem with throwing them is they're easy to ignore, and also you never know whether or not a function is capable of throwing an error, or what types of errors it can throw.

In conclusion, error handling sucks no matter how you do it :-/
It is pretentious because it asserts that PG's chosen method of creatig (startups) is not only better than any other equally creative, beneficial endeavors, like science, math, medicine, engineering, art, philosophy, teaching, ..., but is in fact the only path of innovation and making new things.
Patient 31 - https://www.todayonline.com/world/explainer-what-behind-sudd...
Was employed by a large bank in their web division. We fixed many Y2K bugs that would have been triggered. Was on duty New Year's eve and there were a few Y2K bugs that surfaced but nothing show stopping. My anecdotal opinion is that the panic to fix these bugs likely prevented some larger cascading effect/catastrophe. Remember, this was 1999 when testing/QA practices were not always de rigueur. For some shops, Y2K mitigation might have the first time their code base was subjected to any sort of automated tests :-))