skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dylan also supports it and it can be done in Python with a library [1]. I don't know if you'd count it but it's also straight forward in Haskell [2] at the type class level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch#Python

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26303353/can-multiple-di...
It begs the question of how healthy is the economy if a one time external, expiring event can take it down.
But don't worry! Joe Biden has guaranteed he'd veto such an act even if it got through the house and senate.
I suspect that by this time next year Bitcoin will be seen as a safe haven. The events that are about to play out are exactly what Bitcoin was designed for.
Exactly. The fed controls monetary policy and acts independently. The US Executive + Legislative branch control fiscal policy, which would be where they could spend on virus programs.

The fed is independent precisely so it can act fast in times like these. It's a limited scope but it's something, whereas the extremely partisan congress + Trump likely won't move as fast if at all.
I tend to agree philosophically, but is there data to support this? I'd like to upgrade to informed agreement.
Science Mysteries Waiting to Be Solved
Why is there a liquidity crisis?
This!

Bus factor and too many single points of failure.
How many lost wallets are out there with a few hundred or thousands of coins from before Bitcoin hit $100?
Totally. Bitcoin is not a medium of exchange (cash). It’s not useful for payments. Bitcoin is currently a bet that digital scarcity will bring back the concept of saving (SoV) so that people don’t have to invest in equities just to protect their purchasing power. Only the people making this bet will be affected if Bitcoin fails. The monetary system will keep moving forward unaffected. If Bitcoin succeeds, eventually the price will slow down and it can be used for cash. That will have to occur many decades down the road, if it ever occurs.

As for backups, the Bitcoin ledger is likely the most durable dataset that has ever existed. Backups are made daily at every layer across the world and there is no central point of failure in the network.

Shutting down the Bitcoin network would take a world war, and even then the network would survive through backups and the will of network participants to bring it back.
I've had some short positions (different companies) to offset my own RSU market risk since I started my job a year ago.

Until the last few weeks I avoided looking. Now I'll avoid checking my company's stock for a while and look at the shorts instead if I want to waste time patting myself on the back.
yah, it seems the overall tide for starting businesses is toward urbanization, and a more minor effect is clustering around transit. they also say migration is more toward commuter rail stations, which seems to indicate workers are still spread out into the suburbs.
"Flying Car" drives me crazy. The requirements of flight and road travel are enormously exclusive.

I'm super excited about the new possibilities personal, local flight enabled by all the developing tech like batteries, multi-rotors, controllers, peer-to-peer and ADS-B. That type of craft will go a long way to diminishing the needs for roads and parking lots.
I wouldn't be surprised if they remove it in the next rust edition
At least one of us is in a bubble. Whenever it comes up in conversation among general groups, at east half the people are adamant it was all a waste of time and money, and driven my frauds trying to make easy money.

Of the remainder, perhaps half don't really have an opinion.

The remaining 25% vaguely accept that it was a real problem, but are not at all aware of the real extent.

Anecdata, to be sure, but you might want to spread your net more widely when asking people what they think.
That’s just a cynical response meant to devalue the OP. When people see a few patent #’s on a resume from a kid coming out of college, of course it’s a positive.
> MS is also not responsible for the OS it has already sold to customers, that OS is not their property or concern outside of patches

My start-menu search just starting alerting me to all the "rewards points" I'm getting for using it, so this seems wrong to me
The context was the OP I was replying to.

But the information that IBM and Oracle are still competitors in many markets is explicitly what I was unsure about. Thanks for reminding me about the Red Hat acquisition, I completely forgot about that already.
> even in a crisis

A crisis can just destroy regulated banking.
What they should do is put as much of `std` on crates.io as possible (only a tiny bit is rustc-specific). Then in conjunction with https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-cargo-std-aware uses can opt-in to to a `std-2.x`.
Agreed, this looks like a classic example of "correlation != causation".

It seems like this argument taken to it's final conclusion would be that startups gravitate towards cities with better transit than those that don't, which isn't the case given the Austin and San Jose examples.
Some of us only entered the markets now (puts) because they hedged that they know more about epidemology than investors did.

I don't think I can beat wall street except when wall street doesn't know how to respond.
This might capture how some people envisioned it: https://youtu.be/WhF7dQl4Ico /s
When you hear the Fed, it is referring to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is independent of the federal government. Essentially, it's the entity that can print money. When it does, it doesn't just give the money away, but it injects the cash by purchasing assets and making loans. It also does the reverse by selling assets. So this money doesn't come out of the Federal budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve#Tools
I recommend you read Taleb. Much of his work focuses on the differences between domains following normal distribution vs power law, and the folly of mistaking one for the other.
This means that if we wanted to communicate reliably with up and coming extraterrestrial lifeforms, we would need to maintain older forms of communication, and that extraterrestrial civilizations that are ahead of us, that want to be talked to would do the same. In my opinion it is worth exploring how religion came into existence, given that many of them share the common theme of regularly attempting to communicate with some extraterrestrial entity or entities with some level of certainty.
You're absolutely right. We have been mostly focused on the technology side and have been trying to move fast and learn from our users. I agree we need to invest more in providing more details especially on our website. Appreciate your feedback.

Re your point about user data, we are not planning on monetizing on users data--we currently only store 10-second clips corresponding to the alerts for each users events of interest (not even every detected motion) when they happen so the users can view later.
The Fed does not set the budget, and is independent of the three branches of government, that's true, but...

> The Federal Reserve System is an independent government institution that has private aspects. The System is not a private organization and does not operate for the purpose of making a profit.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_the_Federal_Reser...
In Canadian politics "opposition leader" implies leader of the "official opposition", which has a meaning significantly different than simply not the party in control of parliament.
Parsing args in Java is okay, I guess, but it doesn't meet people's expectations for knocking out a quick script to get something done. When it comes to writing a script to parse some arguments, send requests to a few endpoints, process the responses, maybe send more requests, it's a lot faster to write something in Python from scratch using Click and Requests than it is to write it in Java even taking advantage of the model and client classes that we have for all of our services. Scripting in Scala using Ammonite would be the best of both worlds, but our Java code requires a ton of stuff to be set up and initialized before it can work.

And that's another big issue with Java. If you start out writing plain Java, people feel like they're missing out on all the "help" they'd get from a framework, and pretty soon you can't figure out how to make your code run at all except inside the framework. So you have to either write your scripts using the framework's CLI helper, which is probably some enormous abstract class that has its own argument parser you have to integrate with, or you start reverse engineering the framework's CLI helper to figure out which parts you need and end up running out of time and falling back to Python and swearing to figure it out someday. That's my experience, anyway.
is there a place to check which airports and which airlines have implemented this? I traveled over the holidays and didn't even notice the face scanning.
From the logistics industry, this problem is definitely harder than it sounds. Scheduling is one thing but scheduling accurately is difficult. I spent two years of my life working on developing a system to consume various inputs and predict when a load would be delivered. This was anywhere from cross country OTR loads to in-town deliveries. The main problem I ran into was the business wasn't willing to limit the inputs to the system and threw everything plus the kitchen sink into the algorithms. This, IMO, unnecessarily complicated the problem. I would give anything to try this system over again.
If You’re Not Sweating in This Town There’s Something Wrong
The study appears to be about businesses that are not startups in the sense that that term is used here. We've edited the headline.
>Through our supplemental analysis, we have identified 13,512 additional accounts, for a total of 50,258 automated accounts that we identified as Russian-linked and Tweeting election-related content during the election period, representing approximately two one-hundredths of a percent (0.016%) of the total accounts on Twitter at the time.

The comparison of "50,258 automated accounts that we identified as Russian-linked and Tweeting election-related content" to "the total accounts on Twitter at the time" makes no sense at all. It seems intended to mislead.

It would be more informative to know how many total accounts tweeted about the election, or how many politically active twitter accounts that bot army reached.

And in general, the election was decided by ~80,000 people [1]. To think that ~50,000 bots spamming Twitter with non-stop propaganda had no impact on that is extremely naive (especially when you consider that Twitter was just one piece in the overall interference).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/do...
Or maybe... (to strain the metaphor a bit) the clock has been working the whole time, but you didn't care because you didn't need to know the time?

I mean... the topic at hand in this subthread is the executive branch's ability to coordinate a single message, to tell the truth, and to ensure that public policy matches official pronouncements. And this has been a serious problem for the Trump administration since inauguration. The president will say things that are wrong, he'll mistate positions of others, he'll promise things that aren't borne out by policy, he'll contradict existing white house messaging, and the rest of the executive branch is constantly running around writing up explainers for how all of this is supposed to fit together.

And the media reported on that. But to you, maybe it just seemed like the president was speaking extemporaneously and that the media coverage was being excessively "nitpicky". What other people would call "lies" or "mistruths" seemed to you like just mistakes or irrelevancies. So to you, the media wasn't being fair.

Well, now the world is falling apart and the president's words matter. And the lies seem more like lies to most people. That's not because the media is treating them any different.
> Testing shows that there is less virus particles in air after it has been humidified. Stuff like droplets, dust and micro-particles fall down faster.

Seems feasible but can you provide a citation? Thanks!
Team Productivity Doesn’t Have to Suffer When You Go Remote
GDP has been barely above CPI while asset prices have skyrocketed. Incomes have not skyrocketed. If asset prices skyrocket yet income does not, that money has to come from somewhere. It comes from debt.
This is informative. What is a good way to keep track of 1) parents filed by IBM, 2) lawsuits and parties involved IBM? Is there a service you like that provide weekly or monthly updates?
priceless service, I assume, because there is no pricing.
> Under a curve grading, they all get A's.

I think you misunderstand what curve grading is.

> none of your undergrad classes are life or death scenarios.

Except that bridges fall down and kill people when designed by incompetents. You bet your life every day on the competence of engineers.

Employers are NOT interested in curve ranking. They're interested in a degree as a mark of meeting a standard. Caltech's policy is that their graduates meet a standard of quality. A curve is not a standard. Someone who gets sympathetic good grades because of a bad teacher is not of interest.

If you don't accept that, there are plenty of other schools to attend.

But I suspect that if you think about it, you expect a standard of quality in everything you buy - goods and services. You're not interested in a flexible curve.
It’s a statement of fact.

My town prohibits leases under a week but that hasn’t stopped AirBnb from accepting listings there.
I was in this boat for 8 years or so before starting a company and hiring a second developer. I lucked out and got a highly research driven one to learn from, and I gotta say I've learned a ton in 2 years. Even if it's harder in some ways than being solo, I think it's been worth it to have that pressure to improve code and processes. I was kind of coasting before if I'm honest, even though I felt like I was really good at my job.
A Level-Headed Look at Covid-19
> "Let's step back and define nice. A nice person is one who tries to get you to like them"

That's not my definition of nice, so I realized there was no point in reading the rest of the text (if the clickbaity title wasn't enough of a hint already)
The Rust channels on Matrix and oftc irc are really helpful as well :)

For drills, I recommend exercism.io in practice mode (mentor/student ratio is pretty bad). After working on your own solution for a while, then checking how the others solved it... priceless. Somebody almost always figured out an objectively better solution.
>The money is “Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States”.

I'm pretty sure its treasury bonds that are "Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States". Dollars are backed essentially by what you can buy with them.
I think the word you're looking for is speculation
HN Discussion of author's blog post from last week, "Not being an asshole will make you more money": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22504897
One thought would be, if there was no duty implied in the specific enumeration of this power and it's implied goal, then why wouldn't it just be part of the necessary and proper clause?
And conversely: If you're not nice I'll never do business with you.

But I do take his point: If someone is active attempting to manipulate you using 'pretend' friendship, then that is a flag. Not red, yellow perhaps.
The markets don’t seem to impressed with his response, either. We’re about a day away from every penny of SPY growth since the day he took office being erased.
These are short-term loans, not a gift.
If the government banned it, it'd probably have something like the Striessand effect. People doing it just because.
thank you John Titor.
Polyymorphic implementations are nice - Eg, the State pattern, or using interfaces to abstract out a server during development. Command pattern. Things you have a lot of. It’s not the entire app though, just subsets of it
He keeps saying "you" in the video, like we all have room in our garage for a 2 seat flying car and a personal airfield.

Yawn.

I was more excited about the Faraday electric commuter bike I saw at a bike rack today:
https://www.faradaybikes.com/product/cortland/

Practical, fun, reasonably priced, and viable now for a whole heck of a lot more people than flying cars!
National Review is garbage. That article states, "Any assumption that the practice of underreporting is confined to less-developed nations is incorrect. In fact, a number of published peer-reviewed studies show that underreporting of early neonatal deaths has varied between 10 percent and 30 percent in highly developed Western European and Asian countries." Yet the article doesn't include references to these "published peer-reviewed studies". Garbage.
Ask HN: Crude oil price-linked ETF?
Are there options available to retail investor to go long on crude oil price? Ideally, a liquid "oil price index" ETF that would go up or down in sync with the price of crude.

A simple google search shows several funds with such goals (e.g., on https://etfdb.com/themes/long-crude-oil-etfs/ ), but with different performance over the same time period (both daily and YTD), which looks suspicious.
We are, I think, not disagreeing at all. May sound crazy, but bear with me a second here. I know that the initial phase of any epidemic is exponential. Key are these three small words, initial growth phase. Because they make all the difference, as every epidemic will ultimately peak.

These three words are simply to often drowned out in discussions about COVID-19. That's we you see extrapolations of this growth against, for example, the population of Italy. And this is dangerous. And I don't think we disagree here, I never disputed the exponential nature of the early phase.

We just shouldn't make the mistake in assuming everybody catches these three little words, especially not online.

The most critical question everybody is trying to answer right now is, when the peak will be. And whether this peak will to high for our medical infrastructure. With all the measures being taken, the conclusion seems to be the point will be too high. Hence the counter measures. So we should all do what we can to flatten the curve as much as possible. I never said anything else, and honestly, I don't see where are disagreeing here.
Launch HN: Insanely accurate facial recognition API available for free testing
> All those services, and a bunch of other services for small businesses are possible because of Wechat.

Ughh, no thanks buddy. I'd rather not have any of this propaganda garbage. WeChat basically contributed to a global pandemic because it's prime instrument of Chinese censorship[1].

[1] https://medium.com/pcmag-access/china-has-been-censoring-cor...
I agree it is an active area and other people are working on the problem, but can you be more specific about the capabilities that you have seen in other products?
If we're being honest, probably just the marketing.
People on the Coronavirus Frontlines
>But if there were ever a time for us not to be partisan and tribal, it's now.

You say that like both parties are trying to deny testing and are refusing to provide the social safety net for workers to stay home when they're sick. This is very much not a "both sides" discussion. This is: the GOP needs to stop trying to pretend like nothing is wrong and actually DO SOMETHING to prevent this from becoming an even bigger disaster.

Ahh, the old cowardly downvote without comment because you don't like the reality of the situation that there is one party that's very much to blame.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/487258-senate-republican...
Beyond Lipreading: Visual Speech Recognition Looks You in the Eye
We do the same for all groups of people, not just companies. And the conventions aren't much different in other languages.
As usual, big money talks and gets special treatment. Obviously, Newsom is not really that concerned about California's residents health if he called out those exemptions.
See my comment above. I don't think we really disagree.
"Framers" is more correct. Not all the Founding Fathers participated in authoring the constitution.

Secondly, an explicit reason implies a condition: Is current patent law actually fit for the stated purpose?

Lastly, another comment here refers to the language of "amendments," presumably the Bill of Rights. The Copyright Clause is a clause, not an amendment, and not part of the BoR.
The article is about "most" viruses, and according to him, "most" viruses don't have a lipid layer, so I think it's a fair criticism, unless what he said is factually incorrect.
The thinking might be to avoid people watching games in sports bars and similarly crowded places.
GO is simple decomposition of OOP, class was split into structure (with composition) and interface(with multiple inheritance without implicit definition what interfaces can can coop with structure). Go only restricted that you cannot define virtual methods.
Folks. Companies listed on the stock market hire average folks who need the money to provide for their spouses and kids. Companies that provide staples to you like food and gas and transportation and medical supplies.

These are the companies you are actively shorting. Think about that. This isn’t the same as 2008.
We (as an industry) just don't know how to put some programs onto the GPU yet.
The wastefulness of large bureaucracies has been a running joke for decades now, whether fair or not. That being said, I don't think you're going to find that Hacker News is a good forum for espousing your fiscal conservatism--especially when its couched in some particularly divisive contemporary tropes (e.g., "swamp"). Perhaps you're looking for https://reddit.com/politics ?
This story is heartbreaking and has continued for so many years. Their campaigns against whistleblowers, combined with soft core or psychological torture, are a stain on the USAs reputation
existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22557701
Took me a while to understand they were scraping email addresses and not actual emails.
Looks about as sturdy as a dodge neon with wings imho...

Why the hard angles on the tail wing attachment? Seems like it's just begging to get ripped off in turbulence.
Transit usage has been declining for years in all of the cities listed in this article, except Austin.

https://nationaltransitdatabase.org/massachusetts/massachuse...

https://nationaltransitdatabase.org/pennsylvania/southeaster...

https://nationaltransitdatabase.org/california/santa-clara-v...

https://nationaltransitdatabase.org/ohio/the-greater-clevela...

https://nationaltransitdatabase.org/texas/capital-metropolit...
And now, the entire Australian GP has been canceled.

This does not bode well for the Bahrain GP on March 22, either.
This is another misconception:

>Bitcoin let’s you store $1T USD of dollars in your head, transport it anywhere in the world, and there’s not a single thing anyone else can do about it.

It's amazing how easy gray matter cryptography can be broken using a cheap $5 wrench.
I have a couple of quick takes on this:

* Remember kubeflow - the open-source ML platform? Well, on GCP, it doesn't look so open-source anymore.

* It looks like TensorFlow Extended has been subsumed (killed off?) by this new managed platform. No Beam support - to be replaced by tf.data service?
https://github.com/aaudiber/community/blob/rfc-data-service/...
The rise and challenges of SigFig, the robo-adviser fintech – Business I
I think you can put more weight on "nice" being just nice if you are going to be working in a partnership with that person for a long time, and they have a reputation of working in longer term relationships. But if you are signing up for a short duration, by all means be skeptical.
Most important papers on Human Pose Estimation
They all have loved ones that are older or have respiratory conditions I'm sure.
Maybe usually, but iirc in his case he specifically said "major" events and recourse to normal after that.