skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and every time Argentina seems to be coming out of the tough times, the government comes up with a new hairbrained scheme to trash the whole thing.

But I have to say, I absolutely love the vibe in your country. One of my favorite places.
Not sarcasm: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/24/donald-trum...
VRBO worked just fine before Airbnb was a thing.
That's been me too. Obviously they don't want us Mexicans in the US, so why would I go?

I'm hoping to get a Canadian passport soon (although with what's happening in the world, who knows), and I think for immigration and travel purposes, Canadians are treated almost the same as US citizens (no fingerprinting). I might visit the US again under those terms.
and perhaps residual previous-exposure widely-disseminated immunity to the class of viruses?
For what it's worth, the transcript is now live. Direct link:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/814881355
I find it a bit naive to take small children along with you into unknown situations like that. I question your judgement after repeating the mistake. I think Airbnb floats on questionable judgement and people are starting to catch on.
> The once great IBM is becoming a patent troll :(

IBM has always been a huge patent troll.

"OK," [IBM] said, [to Sun in the 1980s] "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"

After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list.

— Patently Absurd, Forbes, 2002: https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html
Is this really required?

Markets were really inflated before the virus crisis now they are overreacting, let the markets settle before announcing any stimulus.

I think this is premature and frankly too much of an interference from the Fed
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Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). If you want to stay up-to-date with events in the Raku world, check out the Rakudo Weekly News: https://rakudoweekly.blog
In Windows, you’ll typically always have symbols available regardless of the compilation mode since PE executables (always?) store their debug info and symbols in an external debug symbols database file (.pdb) rather than in the binary itself. (This is now possible with ELF/DWARF too, I believe).
It isn't about a popularity context. It only takes 1 harmful idiot (see the story behind Patient 31, linked elsewhere in this thread).
While I definitely agree on the trans front, it's also hard for infamous people to find employment, and sometimes impossible for felons. Mixing all of those builds seemingly insurmountable hurdles.

Son of Sam laws, and their derivatives, can also prevent her from monetizing her story easily, if at all.

You can absolutely be jailed for not paying court ordered fines; that's often how the legal system in the US works for the poor and marginalized. It's a nasty cycle. Punishment fines also can't be discharged in bankruptcy, afaik.
That’s for doing it in code, without a debugger attached.
I said I "knew C++" just yesterday and got a stern reply saying that I couldn't possibly know the language without writing production code for at least 10 years. And that's even though I've been very careful to never put C++ as something that I am more than "proficient" at. I doubt there is a single person alive who knows the entire C++ specification; I doubt there is even a compiler that fully implements the standard.
>> The resulting economic impact therefore can’t be that big.

The impact on the spread of the virus can't be that big either. My point though is that big flashy moves like banning all flights appear to do very little compared to more mundane tactics. At least based on the info in the press conference I'm referring to the data doesn't support flight bans, banning large gatherings etc.
I built something like this a few months ago but struggled to explain to almost everyone except die hard TypeScript fans what the big deal was.

I explained it was all about the type inference from the schema so I could make guarantees across runtime boundaries.

This is what I came up with, though this library looks like it may be more comprehensive than what I wrote. Struggled to come up with a good name to represent exactly what it did...

https://www.npmjs.com/package/type-safe-validator

The ability of the TypeScript compiler to allow this stuff continues to make it one of my favourite languages to work with, despite it still being JavaScript underneath.
It's not a matter of computability though, it's a matter of exact precision not being physically possible in a continuum.
Which test? What kind of distribution did that test have? What kind of distribution capacity did that test have? What kind of false positive rate?
There's nothing 'punk' about it. We just stopped being creative with naming subgenres.

It's more appropriate to call it "Solarhope"
I saw the writing on the wall in January. We didn't need tests, all we had to do was look at the urgency & scale of China's response and the R0 of the virus. It is literally exponential growth, and even a few people spreading the virus with a 2 week delay in symptoms all but guarantees the majority of the world is going to get it. There is no doubt about what we're dealing with, hasn't been any for 2 months.

We needed information 2 months ago, we needed early action like quarantines, travel bans a month ago. Testing is the response to an old problem at this point.

Large democratic, decentralized institutions are uniquely bad at the kind of fast response needed here and the government continues to act 1 months behind, so I have little faith that much will change. Most of the world will get it, but medical systems are mobilizing and hopefully most people will make it out ok.
Well they didn't exactly say how many months away, now did they?
This is the my first time reading about Superdeterminism and the author hits on my of my amature/novice intuitions on issues like the measurement problem, hidden variables, and Bell's theorem (call me weird but these are topics I enjoy reading, studying, and thinking about--technically and philosophically).

I'd be very interested in hearing and explanation and understanding why superdeterminism cannot be tested (it's not clearly obvious to me how that's the case) because if that is the case, it would explain why it was largely unpursued/undeveloped (similar to what someone else in this thread posted--if it's true, it supposeldy offers little useful insight beyond better explaining issues in quantum mechanics by replacing one blackbox of uncertainty with another).

Based on the author's description, much of the issue is that the theory has had little attention and as such, is largely undeveloped (and therefore, isn't going to be developed enough for experimental testing).
Except it obviously doesn’t take one to know one. Are we having an actual conversation or just lobbing empty rhetoric
Try not to be in constant contact with people, and try to preserve the resources you have in case wherever you are gets quarantined
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You might be right that good code needs names. But since in a terse language like J or K it may take longer to think up a good name than to write the code, it's handy that one doesn't have to have names for everything when prototyping.
The New Fifth Ocean (2019)
I mean do you understand what it is that she "leaked"? Her intentions were obviously good, she was blowing the whistle on the government committing war crimes, at her own expense, no benefit. She may have not gone through proper channels, but you can't even really expect to be protected by those systems anyway. A "leak" is generally done for some kind of personal benefit or simply to cause harm and has no noble intention. the information leaked did not put anyone in danger but did expose crimes committed by the military. She should never have been jailed in the first place, free her.
I know many people who are aware of that and don't mind. To them addiction not a bad thing in itself, only if the object of addiction is harmful.
> It’s so sad that one of the most courageous soldiers in the history of the US military [...]

This is a ridiculous statement on many levels.
Researchers at Oak Ridge Tap into Supercomputing to Help Combat Coronavirus
File for Bankruptcy, so what . . .
This surely cannot be correct.

If it is, there might be some hope in all this. If a large amount of this 100k can have the virus with minimal symptoms, that could mean we're overestimating the CFR.
Ok, particle states are correlated in a way we've missed. Fine. Every set of particles has fewer degrees of freedom than we assumed. We can check experimentally: the heat capacity of your set of particles is proportional to the number of degrees of freedom.

It would be nice to see something about this point in the essay.
Not sure I actually understand why K is pushed here almost daily. Is it just the esoterics? Alright, APL and K are expressive for array computation. Do many people here deal with array computation? K is also supposedly fast—not once have I seen an explanation of what makes it fast and why those techniques aren't looted for open-source languages.

I'm told that the interpreter is so small that it fits in the cache. Yeah, so how much time does a non-K program normally spend loading the code? How does this free K from loading and writing data?

Is K in fact a thin layer on top of assembler (specifically SIMD and other extensions), for number crunching in the vein of shaders/CUDA?
I went on holiday over actual Y2K, flew to Australia and spent the Big Night on the beach, completely incommunicado. It focused the whole team, we had to be OK for it, because if we weren't we were fucked ;)

We did multiple dry runs, setting server times to 31/12/99 23:55 and waiting 5 mins to see if anything died. Mostly it was OK, most of our systems were OK, but a few were dodgy and needed some changes.

The Big Night rolled around and we were OK. The planning had worked, and nothing fell over. I got the email on Jan 1st - all good.
At least the US seems to have waited for the markets to signal, not epidemiology.
I sure hope she leaves the country after this. This will keep happening for the rest of her life. You really don't want to run afoul of the security apparatus.
IMHO, it would have been to repurpose the existing format for Unicode (specifically UTF-8) text and have a special notation for binary/ascii text.

It’s interpreted code, ffs. It’s not like you have pre-compiled binaries you need to stay ABI compatible with (like Microsoft did when they introduced TCHAR and co).
A silver lining: this is the perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to attend RC but can’t pack up and move to NYC for three months.
Put the Brazilian INPE in this list too, it's sad that some people created an imaginary world in their heads where innovation comes only from private companies...

When we're talking about physical sciences most of the work is done by universities and research centers, a lot of them funded by public money.
Fair enough. s/avoid fines/minimize financial impact/
There's a very interesting article/podcast episode about how the weather data is freely shared between countries: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/

It only makes this news sound even worse. Weather information only exists because the source data is freely shared, thinking anyone can lock down this information is obscene.
Not sure which version of the article you're seeing (or why you're seeing a different one than us). The one that's live on our end says the following:

Disney announced March 12 it would close both of its California parks temporarily due to the outbreak. This the fourth time in history that Disneyland in Anaheim, California fully suspended operations (previously shut due to 9/11 attacks, morning after JFK's assassination, and after the Northridge earthquake). The park is scheduled to remain closed until the end of the month.

Disney said in a statement, “While there have been no reported cases of COVID-19 at Disneyland Resort, after carefully reviewing the guidelines of the Governor of California’s executive order and in the best interest of our guests and employees, we are proceeding with the closure of Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure, beginning the morning of March 14 through the end of the month. The Hotels of Disneyland Resort will remain open until Monday, March 16 to give guests the ability to make necessary travel arrangements; Downtown Disney will remain open. We will monitor the ongoing situation and follow the advice and guidance of federal and state officials and health agencies. Disney will continue to pay cast members during this time.”
I've seen discussions of the faulty reagent (which happens, it's a production rollout under lots of stress and pressure). I've also seen through Foreign Policy Garrett's assertion that the Chinese-manufactured tests were rendering "up to" a 50% false negative rate, sometimes requiring 8 tests to render a valid result [1].

What I've yet to see is substantiation of claims online that because of what Garrett reported upon, the CDC chose to create its own PCR test instead of relying upon the Chinese version. If anyone can help me substantiate that, then that would be most welcome as it would explain a fair chunk of the CDC delays.

For awhile, I dropped into the rabbit hole of contemplating building my own PCR thermocycler and buying my own RT-qPCR supermix to try to run my own tests, then I acknowledged I didn't know what the hell I was thinking.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/15/coronavirus-xi-jinping-...
Second runtypes! It's really Yup but Typescript-first, which is exactly what a lot of people need, per OP's article. The great thing is that there's no need to standardize these libraries - it's trivial, for instance, to build a quick utility wrapper around https://react-hook-form.com/api/#validationResolver that hooks into your runtime-compiletime schema library of choice!
I friend of mine had her host cancel a couple of days before her several-day Christmas trip. Of course everything else was crazy expensive by then so she ended up missing Christmas. Airbnb refunded her $16.
That's fair. But I don't just say that because it strikes me as annoying. That sentiment of "a real Python programmer" speaks to a mentality of in-group superiority, which could mean pettiness when it comes to decision-making, and possibly even toxic, hubris-driven interpersonal dynamics.

It could be anywhere from a mildly less effective team to a highly toxic work environment. That could matter in a real way.
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It's common practice to hold even low level offenders for a year or more to extract a confession. NYC has been particularly infamous for this.
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but not compared to other developed countries (except England):

[1] [2]
Germany 3.7 24.6
France 3.3 9.3
England 2.7 3.3
USA 2.4 20
Canada 2.4 13.5
Japan 2.2 4 to 5

1. Ratio of physicians to patients (per 1,000 population)

2. Number of ICU beds (per 100,000 population)
> Azure offers a large number of configuration options that can be tricky to get right

That's basically the summary of Azure.
I think all that complexity ends up hurting more than it helps, not just on the end user side, but in terms of lower reliability from the provider side.
They can't see the trees from the wood.

The mind consists of different parts. Imagine the act of choosing to eat a strawberry ice cream or a chocolate ice cream. You happen to like chocolate and dislike strawberries. If you could analyze the path electrons follow inside your brain, you could trace, even predict that you will choose chocolate ice cream.

Does it mean that you aren't free? I don't think so.

You might say that you aren't free to like chocolate and dislike strawberries. I'm not convinced either. There were foods I disliked (actually most of them) that I chose to get used to, and finally came to appreciate. So I can make myself freer.

For minor dayly things I may indulge in neurotic behaviours. But I can make most decisions rationally and usually do that when they're important enough for my life. As I grow older I have more control so I'm actually more predictable. Does it means that I'm less free now?
Superdeterminism doesnt obviate the multiverse, just Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics. There are still three other levels of multiverse according to Max Tegmark. See: https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/multiverse.pdf
Slack shares plummet 20% after its growth forecast fails to excite investors
The German legal system to a large degree has the extent and actual interpretation of the written laws determined by case law. I don't know if this is a landmark case, but if it is (which I would assume) then this is very much outlawing this practice.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Types and Tests
We paradoxically could have free will and still live in a purely deterministic universe. Even if it is deterministic, we could never do the math to determine the exact state of everything. Our inability to model the universe (without a universe sized computer) means for all intents and purposes we do have free will. Even if the arrow of time runs backwards and our perception is forward, I'm still going to pick what I eat for dinner tonight.
6,966 Contributions it says . . .

Only 5,834 more until our goal of 12,800
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> Scumbag judges should be thrown off for this.

> Completely bullshit. They held her in prison for a year with no charges and now they want her to pay a quarter million in fines? Fuck off.

It's not bullshit. Manning was basically obstructing justice by disobeying a court order. If sanctions like this didn't exist, people wouldn't have any incentive follow court orders at all, and the court system would become ineffective and break down.

Also, I'm not sure if the concept of "charges" is even relevant here. Aren't those leveled by a prosecutor? In contempt cases the judge is directly punishing noncompliance with court proceedings.
Fed to pump $1.5T to fight 'highly unusual disruptions' on Wall Street
I have not read anything that indicates a cross-immunity between the Wuhan 2019 SARS and Guangdong 2002 SARS.
Yup I'm utterly fed up with AirBnb and won't consider using them again.
Please don't do that on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. It only makes this place worse and sets a toxic precedent for others.
That everything is relative. That gdb absolutely is advanced and complicated dark magic if you’ve learned to code/debug on and been spoiled by an easy to use IDE.
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The USA: home of the “free” where you can rot in jail because you’re poor.
The WHO predicted that 150 million people would be killed by avian flu [1]. Nothing happened. They predicted 750,000 people would die in the UK, it was more like 200. For swine flu it was minimum possible deaths of 11k but up to 70k. It was more like 400. They got upset when people wouldn't use their case fatality rates which turned out very wrong.
Over half a million people died of flu related deaths last year. Don't recall reading a single news article about it

1, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/emergency....

2, https://jech.bmj.com/content/62/6/555.abstract
Did they adjust based on this HN post?
We are wanting to get the My Climate Journey Slack account (550+ people) upgraded as well...
If someone writes a skill on a CV I expect it to be true. Before talking to prospective employees I ask them to submit code that they have worked on in private or professionally and once a guy sent me code from a tutorial that was easily googleable. He didn't get the job!

Lying on the CV is not proper and it's much better to write that you are a quick learner. I've hired people with little relevant experience but with a good brain.

It's like writing that you are fluent in a (human) language when you can barely scrape by with a greeting and goodbye.
ARM is a joke on raw computing. Also, RISC-V will crush down ARM on servers once it begins to grow a little.
In those situations I almost always go to the "tyler technologies" site and see if they're hiring development people. They never are.
I’m sure I’ve seen websites in the last year or two from the 90s that still do this
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-elliott/twitter-el...

>The board will also create a temporary committee to evaluate Twitter’s leadership structure and CEO succession plan that will share the results publicly before the end of the year.
Ah I see I misread your comment.

You're right, Cujo also shouldn't have validated. In a previous version of the post `neutered` was nullable and `age` was optional, but I decided to save the discussion of nullables/optional until later so I changed it. Good catch!!
"Fair" or not, if there's only one business i.e. a monopoly, then it ought to be socialized. Is it "fair" to profiteer because you're the only provider of something people need?

(This is a very old question - note the vitriol reserved for millers of flour in the Canterbury Tales.)
> It's generally hard for trans people to find employment, period -- and I doubt she has meaningful job skills given her extended imprisonment.

She's a celebrity speaker with a large upper-middle-class fan base, so as long as their interest doesn't go somewhere else she’ll probably do okay.

Of course, if her opponents don't do their part to keep her in the news, the attention will wane.

> Also, I don't think it's legal to jail someone over unpaid debt

It's not. Though it's quite possible she could now be charged with criminal contempt and imprisoned for that.

She could also be jailed for refusing to pay her existing debt (but not for inability to pay.) But note that isn't always an easy line to draw, and a lot of time the latter is dressed up as the former, though with sufficient litigation (which someone has to fund) to challenge it, higher courts may reverse it.
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Ask HN: Who are the Feynmans, Sagans and Attenboroughs of our time?
Looks like we've got a badass on our hands!

Seriously though, looking at your linkedin profile, you have been out of school for less than 2 years. There's a lot more to learn about other people.
Forget quantum, 10 years from now all ML accelerators will be analog (mixed signal, to be precise).
Yes! Have you seen this recent one?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/tiot-san0226...

I hope someone builds Von Neumann's harmonic injection computer
Love that use case :) re your point about latency, that is one of the main reasons we are doing all the inference on the cloud. Almost all deep learning models (at least CV models) need GPU to run with low latency. That's true that if you have set up an automated response from another device, it may still work if the internet is down but for alerting the user, you would still need internet connection even with a central hub...
I tried to argue against superdeterminism the last time this came up and got a pile of downvotes because people mixed it up with determinism. And I see this is happening all over again in the comments below.

I'm not even going to try this time, I'm just going to say to everybody reading this: superdeterminism is not at all the same thing as determinism. It is a far stronger assumption with far far more unintuitive consequences for our understanding of nature. If you're reading this and just thinking "superdeterminism is okay because there's no free will", then you've been suckered by this article into believing a massive oversimplification.