skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t using parametric polymorphism to get static dispatch reliant on monomorphization? That’s at least the common case in Rust.
> They’re overwhelmed because the media is deliberately creating mass hysteria

Are we discussing opinions or facts here? I guess you're not aware of what's happening in Italy. Health services are overflowing with the ones requiring serious care. Not the ones testing out their sniffles.

https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-italy-doctor...

This conversation very quickly went from HN quality to Reddit-like, which made me look up your profile - it looks like you're new here, I'd suggest you to read a few HN quidelines :)
Oh, I do want to add one bit of minor feedback for the author: one of the things I like about the io-ts interface is that fields/codecs are values unless they require a parameter (e.g. `t.string` vs `z.string()`). It's a little bit easier for me to read. It's also not clear to me at a glance whether calling `z.string()` is creating a new instance of something and whether that affects the behavior of a given schema.
Hackers are jumping on the Covid-19 pandemic to spread malware
Facts alone don't help you if you can't afford to play long enough. These things are rarely clear cut, and anyone with deeper pockets than you can use that to their advantage quite easily. In a way it's best to get into an IP disagreement with someone having roughly the same resources as you, as you can both see the path that only makes lawyers happy and agree to avoid it.
How about Eric Weinstein? He asks great questions on The Portal.
What do you mean by experiencing sequentially?
MassCode: A free and open source code snippets manager for developers
Official word from Disneyland: https://twitter.com/DisneylandToday/status/12382041026492661...
Her lawyer (https://twitter.com/chasestrangio) retweeted a link to https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/chelsea-manning-needs-...
An Emerging Coronavirus Concern: Eviction
A story, since in retrospect I think it's worth telling.

Some years ago I was at the SF Clojure meetup. Arthur Whitney's daughter worked at the sponsoring company, and he agreed to come tell us about K.

In retrospect, I don't think we gave him the welcome he deserved. No one was rude or anything, but it seemed there was a disconnect: Arthur was keen to show off how fast K (and Kdb) was, over zillions and zillions of rows.

But the thing that the Clojurists were all searching for (that got them into Clojure in the first place) was expressivity. Is Clojure fast? I don't know, generally the problems I face come down to avoiding balls of mud rather than performance bottlenecks. And I think that was true of most there.

So Arthur got something of an underwhelming reception. I remember someone asking "Does K have the ability to self-modify, a la Lisp macros?" When Arthur said no, you could see most people in the room just sort of mentally shrug and move on.

And this was too bad. Because recently I've been playing around with J (another APL descendant) and been very impressed by some expressivity/readability benefits. Some small things that have very big effects on the codebase you actually end up with.

The first thing is the avoidance of abstraction. To use a Twitterism:

Broke: Just write your code and don't divide it into functions, creating one long main method

Woke: Divide your code up, naming parts that get reused

Bespoke: If your code is made up of really really short things, it ends up being shorter than the names you would use, so you can just write the thing rather than your name for it. An analogy would be: there is no human-comprehensible way to communicate the idea of "picosecond" in less time than an actual picosecond.

The other thing I didn't expect was the benefit of multiple dispatch being baked into e v e r y t h i n g. In Clojure I might write (map + a b) to add each index together; in J I could just write a+b.

This is neat stuff! Best practices for keeping complexity down in APL's tend to be the opposite of what they are in other languages. Aaron Hsu gave a talk about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A

It's too bad! Arthur came to tell us about speed---there's a reason it's used on giant datasets in finance, where performance translates directly into cash---but I wish we'd had the presence of mind to ask more about experience of writing K.

So, Arthur, if you're reading this: Sorry everyone seemed kinda bored in SF a few years ago when you kindly came to present. We missed out!
In 2015 I was detained at Heathrow by immigration for not willing to unlock my phone. I sat there for hours being told that somebody would be free to attend to me "shortly". 6 hours later I was told that it was a routine check. I was there for 14 hours, and missed my business appointments in London running a security workshop. They returned my phone after a few hours but I was still kept there waiting for somebody to attend to no avail. I called my lawyer after several threats that this will have legal consequences for them and was initially denied that request. When I got through to my lawyer I was advised to keep still until they charge me. After they let me go I threw the phone in the next bin I could find. I wish I had the brains and guts to take it home and RE this thing because I'm sure they bugged it. But I was too terrified at the time.

A close friend of mine is a cop in Ireland. I love him to bits but hate him for his bragging about how he loves to use his pepper spray after having his 5th Guinness.

Another brother of mine is actually a cop. He thinks that other cops are all corrupt. And he suffers a lot due to institutional racsim in the force and lack of promotion unless you agree to be a racist.

I grew up spending lot of time time riding a cop car with an old guy who really liked my gran and was with the criminal police. We walked our dogs together. I was 8 he was in his 50ies. One of the things I still remember vividly is when he exited the car to show me the power he had over people by stopping and questioning them and he also bragged about all the "dirty crooks" that he took shortcuts with to arrest them because he was the good guy and they were the bad ones.

My brother dated a girl who's ex was a cop with the criminal police in Bavaria. he (the cop) abused her and raped her over several years. He also loved to brag about what he would do to her and how he would fuck up her life if she ever left him. Covering his and his friends asses over speeding or parking tickets were the least of his crimes.

Seriously cops are just people. Fuck people. Fuck power. Fuck cops. If you think for 1 second that a cop has your interest in mind think again.
The slightly tangential question I had was, OK, a potential active lifespan of 2-3 hours in aerosol form, but in a normal environment, how long is it likely to remain in aerosol form before settling on a surface, and in what environments is it likely to remain airborne for 2-3 hours?
Makes sense. New guideline is 250 persons in a public gathering. Lines for certain rides easily exceed that number.
Digits of Pi (Python to Clojure)
this assumes that fighting with competitors for the same market is undoubtedly the way to go rather than seaching for new opportunities.
I’ve used them four times and only had one good AirBNB experience. Hotels are so competitive in price in the markets I’ve visited that I never bother anymore.
Ask HN: Is it financial suicide for me to start a business during this pandemic?
I need advice. I have a 10K emergency fund and nothing to my name besides that. I live with my parents, both of which recently got laid off and are using their emergency fund to pay for bills such as food and rent. I've been wanting to make a biz for myself (web dev and programming for other biz small and big; I'll know how to market and sell my services with the books I've read). I'd be the only employee in my company and my total costs would be roughly $600~ to start the business. Been wanting to start it since Jan but some things came up that impacted my life. Now with this pandemic of an illness, I'm scared and also feel I shouldn't take any money from my emergency fund. Am I insane for wanting to do this? Should I take the plunge and do it before this illness gets worse or should I completely forget it and save my money? The pandemic has me worried but supporting my family so their emergency doesn't run out also has me worried
https://miro.com works well for our remote teams
That's sort of the point of an LLC, though, so you can't really fault it. True, if it's a one-person shop the friction to fold it up isn't very high but you should factor that into your deal analysis.
Being confined in an unhealthy space is a very bad place to be right now. This would be a great time to release nonviolent offenders.
Outperforming Google Cloud AutoML Vision with TensorFlow
Yup, common in the US, either that or "I technically could walk there, but it looks painfully unpleasant and possibly even dangerous to do so".

Now that we live in Munich, my wife and I joke about how we used to drive from one strip mall's parking lot to go to the parking lot for the other strip mall across the street. Except, when we visit the US we still do this, because in those situations, walking across the 'road' (more like a small freeway) is incredibly awkward.
Like I said, I have trouble buying that as the reason, because a very similar Ruby release right around the same time did not cause the same problem. The major change in both cases was that strings now force you to consider encoding rather than just treating everything as a blob of probably-ascii-but-whatever-who-cares bytes. Writing code that was both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9-compatible wasn't easy, and there wasn't something like six to help you do it. The Ruby community generally responded by just supporting Ruby 1.9 going forward, and there was no major schism.
I hope not. Superdeterminism is fate.
I am baffled that no matter how many times Assange (and a fair number of NY State Fed LEOs) say "It wasn't the Russians", that the "system" nor the "media" nor the "people" seem to be able to take him at face value: It wasn't the Russians. (Even CrowdStrike seems to be backing away from those claims in this last week)
Yeah GUIs seem to end up fitting reasonably well. They tend to be fairly modelled as specialisations. The problem with games is that it feels like they should but aren’t.
Thanks, and +1 for good faith effort.

I know about the reader mode, and will use it if necessary. But this will loose me all pictures, gif/js animations, and whatnot. I prefer to just have readable websites. I know and accept that some people don't care, even if a more readable site wouldn't hurt their enjoyment the least. Still I prefer sites that work appropriately when I zoom, and that abstain from such visual hostilities.
The part of Italy hit also has air quality, per aqi searches, that is comparable to the region in China that was hit hard.

Have people looked that it is not age, but baseline damage to your lungs that is the main factor in serious cases? Older people will have more exposure to local air pollution, just from having lived longer. That existing damage can be what contributes to complications, right?
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/chelsea-manning-needs-...
It's kinda surreal to see this happen. A lot of startups which were around the lifestyle sector also the most fragile are possibly going to have a heavy impact.
Not quite the same topic, but even popes have been telling that Bible should not be taken literally at least for the past 23 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_and_the_Catholic_C...
Innovation in Tech Travel
I do not understand your statement. Superdeterminism does not imply QM is wrong. You can not dismiss superdeterminism with the pretext that it would render everything pointless as our paths are predetermined. Basically you are arguing that you choose not to consider superdeterminism because you have free will. What sounds more absurd? I suggest you read the original paper for a better reply to your argument.
Neural Network Assisted Visual Analysis of Yeast Cell Polarization Simulation (2019)
In vitro, not in vivo.
In QM, configurations may be "close together" in a way that defies intuition. An example is spatially separated, entangled particles.

So why can't configurations be "far apart" in a way that defies intuition? We model measuring at 45.01° as a perturbation of 45°, but perhaps these are very distant configurations.
It definitely interferes with the bodies healing process as well. Not a doctor so unsure of exactly how. Back when I was smoking I needed to have knee surgery and the doctor advised against nicotine in any form for that reason.
I'd imagine there's a sizable group of people who think Airbnb is only worth it if the price (and maybe location) is significantly better than a hotel, and that seems to be less true as the company matures.
Yeah. Last I seen some places said no more than 1,000 like in San Francisco. So figured in reaction to that. Don't think Florida is issuing stuff like that yet but probably monitoring things.

Edit: oh just seen the 250 ban is for the entire state of California. Just not county by county thing anymore. Looks like Universal Studios Hollywood too.
Japan simply isn't testing enough patients, so I would wait a few weeks before judging how well they did.

That said, inconceivably they don't have many serious cases. (If the virus was really spreading exponentially, we'd certainly see a lot more patients, tests or no tests.) So they must be doing something right. It's just hard to tell if they could keep it this way.
At the Living Computer Museum in Seattle they have an IBM S/360 that prints out we’re in year 19120.
In my opinion: the latter.
From a brief stint in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism), Superdeterminism looks like it better satisfies Ockhams' Razor than the standard QM interpretation. All we have to give up is free will, and why should science try to defend that?
That's not true. If a patent doesn't say what it's about in a fairly prescribed way, it is easily defeated.
That doesn’t make sense. Courts are independent (in theory) whereas HR is directly paid by and depending on the company.
With a law degree going to cost you near on $150,000 in student debt, you start to think of limited options and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage has many forms.
> What do you think they should have done and when?

Not kneejerk-censor anyone "spreading rumors" about it, for one.
Contributed $10.
As far as I can tell from the media, Italy has not run out of intensive care units yet. See e.g. this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italy-coronaviru...
It also makes the reasonable point that the Assange grand jury had been dismissed, but IIRC (and it's only been two or three hours) the court's statement was clear that incarceration to compel was not necessary. (Probably motivated more by the grand jury's conclusion than the suicide), but if you'd like to tell all of us what you think they said, that would be super!
Edit: If you're saying that the "reported" death rate "appears" lower based on reported statistics, then yes testing more people can make it seem like the actual death rate is lower. Otherwise:

> 67 deaths out of nearly 8,000 cases

> 1,016 deaths and identified more than 15,000

> Surely the testing is a huge factor.

No, you can not be sure at all, especially since it is well-known that hospitals have limited capacity to treat pneumonia (ventilators and doctors trained to use them). Get sick when hospital has no capacity to treat you, and you're more likely to die. Death rate will increase very rapidly when rates of infection pass a certain point.

Testing is important, yes, but the real important part is slowing the transmission rate to a manageable level.

> If you could quickly and accurately test everyone in the country today we would know how to isolate and the whole thing would be over very soon.

Only if you can do it more-or-less completely. Otherwise, you're actually prolonging the problem. The reason we want to slow the transmission of the virus is to keep life-threatening cases at a reasonably low rate.
That's more of a reflex than a thought, the latter usually involving at least traces of creativity.
PRNGs need a seed, and that choice is superdetermined.
SOC2 doesn't really "require" much of anything. The question we're answering is: "which security engineering projects can you undertake that will make a SOC2 audit go more smoothly". Because SSO directly addresses a lot of access control control points, and generates a lot of evidence for those control points, and because it's generally a very good practice to have anyways, it'd be the first bit of security engineering we'd recommend to ratchet up your maturity.

What I can tell you is that the IRLs I've seen, both from big 4 auditors and from SOC2 boutiques, have dozens of questions that are directly answered by a sane SSO configuration.

We've watched clients clear SOC2 audits without any coherent SSO. It's clearly doable.

This is all made more tricky by the fact that different SOC2 auditors have different requirements. They're in one sense or another all negotiable, in that you can always switch auditors if they're unreasonable, and we've definitely collected several horror stories about aborted SOC2 processes that were resumed with a different vendor. And, to layer more complexity on that, different bigCo customers will have opinions about who did your SOC2. It's all a mess.
Agreed, my experiences have also been very mediocre. the peace of mind of using hotels is becoming more and more evident.
> I'm wondering if jail is a safer or less safer place

It is so much less safe that a global pandemic isn't nearly enough to tip the balance, even if prisoners were 100% immune.
Do think WeWork would get hit as well
there is an unsubstantiated , unsourced twitter and facebook thread circulating.

the language and abbreviations here look legit, but it doesnt say anything gamechanging in any way except that most deaths were not asphyxiation due to lung failure but were due to heart failure, this is to be expected as hypoxia [low oxygen level] is straining to the heart, and the heart is one of the secondary trophic targets[a place the virus goes to replicate] of the virus.

in summary this says nothing new or unexpected, or particularily conspiratorial.
That's a good question, no doubt. A related one I had was (and maybe I missed this), but what's the "dose" of virus one needs to get infected? In the discussion of decay / half life of the virus on surfaces and in the air, I wondered about this. It's one thing if the virus can hang around for three hours and infect you at any time, and another thing if it's in the air for three hours but decays at ____ rate and can only infect for 1 hour.
Manning was never a whistleblower hence the espionage charges.
Sometimes freedom and safety are at odds with each other. I will always side with freedom, and take my odds against a pandemic.

But of course this is an academic exercise pretending that prisons, or especially jails which have a higher rate of people coming and going, are impermeable to an infectious disease. The truth is that once it's in there, it's in there, and only the (further) inhumane act of locking the inmates up in their individual cells 24/7 (so no social time, no visits to the library, etc) will stop it.
'Market cap' is not the best choice of metrics here, it's really a measure of investor surpluses, ignore the rest of the equation.

Wallmart, Exxon, Amazon retail revenues completely dwarf the 'tech sector' - it's just that their margins are more narrow, in most cases, surpluses to consumers are vast.

Honestly 'profit to investors' should be one of the last metrics most of us care about. Most individuals should be far more concerned about surpluses they receive through lower prices or higher wages, as they'll nary get any real material lift via investment income.

In this way, it's kind of odd how 'market cap' is so widely used and perceived as some kind of great measure. It's good for investors, and unless you're an investor, it's bad for you. Every dollar that goes into the pocket of Amazon's investors should be a dollar in your pocket in the form of lower prices or better products/services.

Have a look at the biggest companies by revenue [1]

The only 'tech' companies on there are Apple and Amazon.

Amazon makes the hardware, and most of Amazon's revenue is retail goods.

There are not mostly software companies on that list.

Actually, a lot of HNer discussions tend to veer into this magical surplus world as well, I'd encourage anyone to have a look at 'big revenue companies' because it gives a much clearer picture of how the world works outside our bubble.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...
I wonder if this is just seasonality for their business. A lot of people travel in Nov/Dec, but mostly it's to see family, so they often already have a place to stay when they get where they're going.

I suspect summer is their big quarter. I wouldn't be surprised if they made their fiscal year start in March so that they can get that strong quarter at the beginning of the year, like how Apple starts their in September so they get Christmas at the beginning of the fiscal year instead of the end.
Does that $600 make a large difference in your budget?

Realistically, a one man operation shouldn't be too affected by this pandemic, depending on the market you are going for. Obviously industries such as hospitality are getting hit a lot harder than others.

Outside of you personally getting sick and causing it to halt development, I don't think it should be much of a concern.
> "Maybe I don’t understand this system..."

sounds like you understand the system pretty well. the US is grounded in a limited federal government and the right to vigorously oppose it (short of, say, revolt) without persecution (see: bill of rights).

holding manning in jail for so long was persecutory and unjust.
PRNG by definition is not random.

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

"A pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), also known as a deterministic random bit generator (DRBG)..."
It also changes how people react and what they do.

Right now I see so many people carrying on their life as usual, because they think there aren't many infected people around them. That impression is a consequence of the lack of testing. It's likely that there are quite a few people around them who are sick and spreading this disease, and if more people realized that they'd act differently.

Resources and isolation measures are also directed to places where there are a lot of known infections, but if those infections are undetected very little gets done about them.

The relative lack of testing is a nightmare in the making.
> [...] deep collectivist cultural roots and large demographics that still remember living under centralized authoritarian rule. In the case of Singapore and China, still are.

From Singapore's Wikipedia page:

> Freedom House ranks Singapore as "partly free" in its Freedom in the World report,[137] and The Economist Intelligence Unit ranks Singapore as a "flawed democracy", the second best rank of four, in its "Democracy Index" [1]

Singapore is a flawed democracy, just like Hong Kong. Its unfair to mention it in the same breath as China which, according to the mentioned index, is Authoritarian.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
By your very logic, does that mean the second enumerated power "2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States;" means that we are also obligated to be in debt? Would it be unconstitutional to pay down the debt of the nation?

Additionally, even if Congress had an obligation to grant intellectual property rights, couldn't they simply grant patents for a term of 24 hours? or 15 seconds?

From what I've read (c.f. Clinton v. City of New York 1998), Congress can decline to use a power, but it cannot grant that power to another branch of government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

SK has 12 hospital beds per 1,000 people vs 3 in Italy.