skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IBM is a patent troll. They'll come in and threaten to sue on a patent, and then indicate they have a zillion patents, that they'll 'find some infringement' and then exhort. They have a cadre of lawyers incented to do this.

It's fair that people can defend their IP, but it goes too far in many cases.
It doesn't change the actual odds, it changes the perceived / measured odds.

Imagine 100 people contract the virus, 10 develop serious symptoms, and one dies.

In country A, with widespread testing, 40 of the 100 are identified. The visible statistics are 40 cases, one death, death rate of 2.5%.

In country B, with poor testing, only the 10 with serious symptoms are identified. The visible statistics are 10 cases, one death, death rate of 10%.

Again, this is about the reported statistics, not the underlying truth of the disease.
> management has got addicted to permanent panic

This is a classic red flag. One of the few easily visible from the trenches, too.
The last page states she will owe $256,000 in fines and the motion to dismiss them was denied. Really?
As the order states, the Grand Jury is no more and, as a result, her testimony is no longer needed.
Why weren't other materials tested? Brick, concrete, woods?
Same with me and BYU. We had potential for the best tournament run since Jimmer Fredette, and we’ll likely end the year #1 in men’s volleyball with no championship to play for. (Our last title win was in 2003.)

Will teams that finish #1 in various polls claim national titles?

Of course none of it matters that much in the long run but it is a big bummer for the athletes and fans!
Why?

I'm not familiar with the facts of the case.

And, I further realize that facts are almost completely immaterial to motivated reasoning about the case, but...

... assuming that you (or someone) is a straight-shooter, why is this "fantastic news"?
New York Times reported they are closing Disneyland https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/business/disneyland-coron...

Not sure if they will also be closing the Orlando parks yet. Maybe it's worser in California or just due to government mandates.
"the court finds Ms. Manning's appearance before the Grand Jury is no longer needed, in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose."
I ignorantly wonder (and wander beyond my territory) if zinc has a role here, considering chloroquine's apparent ability to allow it to become intracellular and work thusly against the virus, which it seems to do with co-administration.

For an intelligent, less befuddled perspective, see medcram lecture 34 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M
Datalog and variants of it come up a bunch in program analysis and software security. For example, GitHub/Microsoft acquired a company, Semmle [1], that has an object-oriented query language that compiles down into Datalog, and can be used to query source code in interesting ways. Souffle [2] comes up in static analysis as well, and is used in systems such as Doop [3]. A kind of predecessor to Doop is bddbddb [4].

Souufle has been used in Ddisasm [5] for disassembling binaries. XSB Prolog has been used in OOAnalyzer [6] for inferring class hierarchies and virtual tables in binaries as well.

I myself spend some time working on datalog compilation for program analysis and decompilation :-)

[1] https://semmle.com

[2] https://souffle-lang.github.io/index.html

[3] https://bitbucket.org/yanniss/doop/src/master

[4] https://suif.stanford.edu/bddbddb

[5] https://github.com/GrammaTech/ddisasm

[6] https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid...
There's a difference between what they mean and whether they're telling the truth. If Trump says something that you could interpret uncharitably as "I eat babies every night" or charitably as "I eat caviar every night," then it's best to interpret it charitably. But then you call him on his bullshit that no he doesn't eat caviar every night.

Charitable interpretation, cynical trust.
Seems like the type of thing that could be done with C++, expression templates and asm. Maybe even an expression JIT.
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.
TLDR; the Assange grand jury was dismissed today so Manning is ordered released but she still owes the coeercive fines which amount to $256,000.
If anyone knows of a (legit) way to donate or make a payment towards her $256,000 in fines, please do share the details.
Maybe not the right place to ask, but does anyone have an opinion on GRW/Spontaneous Collapse Theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardi%E2%80%93Rimini%E2%80%...

It seems so sensible compared to other theories but I don't hear much about it.
They've already announced there will be no fans at the next two scheduled races. There are still hundreds to thousands of people that work directly for Nascar and all the racing teams, and they haven't mentioned anything about cutting those numbers down as far as I've seen.
I absolutely consider the rest of the best to be B2B. Some of them are also used by consumers (in the same way that many products are both B2B and B2C), but all of those products have business use cases. Whether it was "widely used anyways" is a different argument and a bit of a shift in the goalposts.
Don't forget the "viable on surfaces up to days" part.

Someone coughs on a doorknob, hours later, you touch the doorknob, virus goes on your hand, you touch your face, you get infected.

Even if you don't touch your face, your dirty hands spread the virus everywhere, including on food and to other people.

And even if touch isn't the main vector, it is better than nothing. Remember that the goal is to make the rate of transmissions less than 1, so if washing hands help us go down from 1.1 to 0.9, even if isn't that much of a difference, it is all we need to beat the virus.
Academic degrees. Athletes in their 5th or 6th year (redshirt and whiteshirt) can continue their education in graduate school, and many do.
The fatality rate, and the rate at which people need intensive care, is 20-40 times that of the flu. If the fatality rate is 3%, and it affects half the US, that's 5 million dead from the disease alone. If it affects half the world, that's 100 million dead. Some estimates peg it as high as 4.8%.

In addition to all of the people it's going to kill, it will also decimate the world's intensive care resources. Many people who would otherwise die will live because they got a bed in intensive care. Conditions which complete for these ICU beds will see their fatality rate sky rocket.

It is incontrovertibly in the "serious" bucket.
No it doesn't. But what you ultimately want to know is the real number of infections. Testing is the best way to estimate that number. If you test just a few people you might e.g. miss a large portion that is either asymptomatic or is categorized as having a flu or cold. In this latter case, of course, the calculated lethality is higher than in the former - i.e. if you test lots and lots of people.
I had Covid-19 and here is my story
Mostly, over time, you get the team you deserve ;)
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Because she is being released from incarceration!?
I see. That is actually a great point and we have heard that concern from others as well. The cameras we are offering now come with local storage. We have been thinking of adding some capabilities when camera is offline but since we do the inference on the cloud, the smart alert and video indexing features (our main value props) would not work offline.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Different things! Composer (based on Apache Airflow, which we contribute to) is a general purpose workflow system. Cloud AI Platform Pipelines is really focused on ML pipelines, specifically, like Kubeflow (the related OSS project that we contribute to) is meant to be.

Instead, I would argue that Kubeflow has lots of overlap with Airflow. But I don't think either will be cancelled :).
> Forgot to mention AWS is actually lots of hardware, land cost for DC, etc. i.e Not Software.

Cool, yeah, so you're saying if I go buy a bunch of servers and land I too can compete with AWS? It doesn't matter what software it runs?

The hardware and datacenter stuff is commodity. Table-stakes. Everyone has to have it. That's why they don't even manufacture the servers themselves. Software is where the value add is. This goes for any cloud provider, BTW.
If superdeterminism is true your PRNG isn't random.
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Germany is counting deaths differently. If you have heart issues and you die due to a heart attack you're not counted as a COVID death. In Italy you are as long as you test positive.
*hydrophobic
You have to be on iOS 12.4 or later I believe.
At last some good news today.
That is a big factor. And: available nursing staff. Beds aren't enough. You need the right people to operate a large number of patients at the same time.
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Her attorneys recently said 'half million' in fines...so I'm confuzzled.
Datalog also comes up in cluster management / provisioning. For example: Differential Datalog [1].

[1] https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog
You need to educate yourself.
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But that would mean math is not math, which seems a rather hard pill to swallow.
Not in the US, not really a big problem across Europe.

But you are right. So right. Because I would do the same if I were in that position. And again the weakest people and families are hit worst. Maybe it serves as a wake-up call why universal health care is important. It enables so many things, not just robust disease response.

Edit: Fixed the first sentence.
I'm wondering if jail is a safer or less safer place in light of the current pandemic.

Let's face it, if you got your freedom after so many years only to be handed a facemask on your way out and told - you will need this. Has to suck at some level.
Or an FPGA or an ASIC, but this is obviously.in the context of CPUs.
If you ignore the medical technicalities which seem primarily intended for other doctors, the tl;dr is that social distancing ASAP is vital, and being young and healthy isn't a guarantee that you won't get very sick or die. Don't panic, but take it seriously.
Can Manning avoid the fines by declaring bankruptcy?
This is great. I recently built a fairly large amount of functionality around io-ts, adding support for mixed required/optional fields, eliminating the need to deal with `Either` monads, and a whole lot of other stuff that's mostly just relevant to my company's usage. I think if this had been available at the time I was looking for an underlying library, it would have been a no brainer to choose this one.

Worth noting, another option is Runtypes[1], which also looks great. I can't remember off the top of my head why I ultimately picked io-ts over Runtypes, but it's another one for folks to consider (and I'd be curious what the Zod author thinks of it).

https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes
This does not sound that absurd to me, just wildly different. It would require evidence to believe, of course.
No mention of runtypes which looks pretty similar? https://github.com/pelotom/runtypes
Does anybody have opinions on outdoor activities in small groups? Supposing we've come to the point where we're otherwise staying at home where possible. It could get psychologically daunting, especially for those of us who live alone. (Video conferencing could help as well). I thought some outdoor games with people in real life, maybe 10-15 people, staying a meter away from each other, etc. Is that small risk, miniscule risk, significant risk?
From what I've heard, the Sincheonji church had a long tradition of sending followers to other churches, hiding their identity, so that they make a lot of friends there, start small clubs and bible studies, and eventually convert them into their own church. (I even heard there were cases when they converted a pastor, winning over a church wholesale, though that might be a bit embellished.)

The problem was so bad that, even before the current epidemic, other "regular" churches had a sign saying "No member of Sincheonji is allowed in our church." So, yeah, not exactly your garden variety Christian church.

When you think about it, this behavior would make Sincheonji a perfect vector for spreading the virus. And that's what happened. Yikes.
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Children use to be born with a high chance of killing their moms during birth. Then half of them wouldn't make it to 18. Then could probably expect to live and work as a farmer under the control of someone else at the threat of violence for their whole life. Famine, disease, and many other unimaginable problems plagued their lives.

Things are literally the best they've ever been. They could get much worse but any reasonable prediction still puts us ahead of the expected life of someone in the 19th century.

If you don't want to have children, that's your choice. You don't have to justify it by putting your morality on other people.
And lets not forget that Rust's borrow checker is implemented with Datalog [1].

[1] https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/04/27/an-...
That's not at all what the court order says.
In fact, when I just tried this on my iPhone XR (iOS 13.3.1) it started making an emergency call.
I broadly agree. More so than any other other language, you cannot produce a good C (or C++) programmer by try-it-and-see alone. It's vital to have a grasp of the way the language is defined.

Point of disagreement: no amount of C expertise makes a hand-written C codebase safe. Vulnerabilities and undefined behaviour are often found even in code written by top-flight C programmers.
How will they affect the next corona virus or other pandemic though? They'll be able to see "COVID-19 was a joke, this one will be too".
It's entirely appropriate to tell the chef he's about to cut off his thumb.

You're not an expert and you're spouting xenophobic bullshit. Take the L.
Do you think Zion Williamson would still be as legendary as he is now without last year's tournament? He was well-known going into it but I feel like his performance and the attention he got during it helped a lot.
Show HN: Virtual Book Club but for Podcasts
Let's not have political flamebait here please. That leads away from intellectually curious conversation, which is what we want on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’ve said it before but the idea of secret courts trying to coerce people into doing things seems extremely backwards and regressive. Maybe I don’t understand this system but it doesn’t seem to be about getting justice. If there is testimony already given as well it seems doubly wrong, inconsistent and hateful.
"..more than a half million dollars in fines..."

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814974205/chelsea-manning-rec...

edit: downvoted why? It's an article from today, 1:44pm...
Out of interest, how did the connection from the telcos to RIM work? Was it leased lines?

I'm presuming it's this direct integration that allowed BlackBerry to push a message straight out to a device, no firewalls in the way?
Laws are laws, your insinuation of general corruption isn't really fair, the onus would be on you to prove that.

Both Uber and AirBnB knowingly break the law as part of their business model.

Zoning doesn't allow the kind of business that AirBnB has, they just don't care.

One could very well argue that maybe the laws need reform (as I do) but that's another story; the inherent ethos of YC et. al. is to err on the side of breaking the rules.
My friends and I love podcasts and are WFH - so we're doing virtual book clubs but for podcasts!

We're experimenting with formats but right now are doing theme based podcasts - i.e. one person chooses a theme (ex. "COVID-19") and selects 1-3 podcasts, everyone listens to them, and then we do a virtual discussion over pure audio-Zoom. We also have slack channels for those that just want to discuss it asynchronously.

Would love to get some people from HN on board as well :) Feel free to comment themes/ideas/podcasts you think are interesting and would want to discuss.
There are startups in this space, but there are also people who value the friction (and not all for selfish reasons).
That client wouldn’t happen to be a small private college in WNY, would it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning

tl;dr she was a whistleblower facing the wrath of the people she outed
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Batching by definition consolidates the throughput to fewer transactions. That's what I mean with that (unprecise) example.
Ask HN: Private physician for treatment of COVID-19 in Bay Area? [RFS]
Hi, HN.

I am inquiring on behalf of a wealthy investor in my network. They are interested in the possibility of a private physician to intubate and treat them in the comfort of their Bay Area home should they become infected with COVID and experience pneumonia or other devastating effects. They are afraid that hospitals would be overwhelmed and worsen their condition.

Are there any startups or credible services that would agree to be retained? Obviously, out-of-network, but in this realistically terribly plutocratic society of ours, good healthcare is something that money can buy – if you know where to look.

So I'm looking before it's too late.
Most of those 80K voters weren't active Twitter users so your analysis is invalid.
Manning was being squeezed to get at Assange, who most people on HN agree is himself only being squeezed for geopolitical reasons. Nobody is happy to see the justice system abused for geopolitical goals, so any step away from "jail all of the dissenters and all of their supporters" is good to see.
Coming from Munich, I was deeply disappointed by Dublin's buses. Munich's buses are actually fairly reliable, Dublin's bus timetables don't even qualify as suggestions. Often buses just wouldn't show up, period. We'd have to give up and find some other entirely different bus line going in the same general direction.
We already know how bad it can get. It's be tested and proven under lab-like conditions.

If you want to panic and spread irrational noise, go ahead. There's no point arguing with people that don't want to discuss the science side of things.
And if everyone gets it now the health system collapses, 15% of the infected die and anyone who needs a hospital for any life-saving reason also dies.
Has nothing to do with killing B2B products. But I share your frustration and distrust in them for those two changes.

With the Google Maps API price change they demonstrated that they are very capable & willing of abusing their market position with shocking price hikes and with the GKE structural price change that they are no longer interested in the trust & business from small & medium size companies and unless you are enterprise size you can expect unpleasant price changes going forward.
It's important to note that mindset theory has recently come under question:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761989758...

For a twitter summary of the above paper, see here:
https://twitter.com/BrookeMacnamara/status/12247169045745459...
The punched card, for a long time, _was_ the storage.
I start my first real programming job tomorrow, and the stock market crashes today.

I think I am going to have to keep looking.
There are literally zero GCP products in that list. (Despite the unfortunate naming, both Cloud Print and Messaging predate GCP and have nothing to do with it.)
I think she was being compelled to testify here in the Assange case, no?
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I've been through the process before and just went through it again, and the first thing listed (Single Sign-On) is not required at all. I'm not even sure it's mentioned directly in the AICPA criteria.

I'm also not sure what SSO really buys you, except for just moving the criteria target to another SOC-2 report. ;)

Also, MDM is not really critical at all, as long as you have a solid/documented way of managing accounts on web and mobile apps.

I do like the rest of the article except for the list itself, however. SOC-2 is all about documentation and processes. Justifying your security choices is less important than carefully and fully documenting them, and the processes that you have in place.
Companies can pay from their CEO's paychecks. Are you telling me Walmart and McDonald's are hurting? What's the net worth of their founders' families again?
My guess is that there are a lot of unreported cases in Italy while in Korea authorities seem to ran more vigorously tests. So the latter might have much more accurate numbers than the former.
One thing I admire about my most successful coworkers is their lack of fear when diving headfirst into something new. "Hey, we've got this problem, can you take a look?"

And they say sure.

They will research, then code, then hit a roadblock and pick a new direction, and repeat. They assume they can get past whatever roadblocks they have, and they're always correct.

Other people will research until they think they've got a plan to get around every bit of friction they'll encounter. The longer you take to get started, the longer achieving a workable solution will take.
"How much people use public transit is meaningless when judging how useful that transit is" is certainly a hot take if I've ever seen one.

If you can think of a better single metric, by all means, let loose. I know this one's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than "miles of light rail" or anything else I've come up with before.

Something like the Paris mayor's 15-minute city -- a metric that encapsulated how reachable basic errand points are by public transit in a limited amount of time -- could be better, but would probably be fairly challenging to calculate. I'm quite confident that SF would still do pretty well using that metric, though, at least by US standards.
I'm not sure how the media should report on deaths over 80, or even over 90.

It's not that old people aren't worthy of protection, but when you're 85 in the US you have a 10% chance of dying in the next year for any and all reasons.

So saying this disease kills 15% (for example) of 80+ year olds without context sounds horrific, but contextualized in the actual risks of just being very old to begin with, sounds much less scary.

If Italy, for example, were to report on the number of fatal infections in people younger than the natural life expectancy, the fatality rate would drop in half.
In the end it’s peacetime leaders who build a country for the long term and make it better. War leaders are getting too much respect.
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That is most definitely not what the court order says.

She was dismissed because the Grand Jury had concluded today, and therefore her testimony was no longer required.

The suicide attempt wasn't even part of the discussion.
Yeah that's the one I was talking about. It gives some labels about stuff in the image and it works well. But Google Lens is on a different level -- you can send it a picture of a breed or a snake and it will return species and subspecies. Can't find anything like that in the GCP offering.
Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app
Courts have as much to do with justice as HR departments. Both exist only to protect the higher-ups. It's not about protecting people; it's about protecting power and those who wield it.
Uhhhh, yeah. I was curious about why this is a "good thing". I think I got a response that tries to respond to that more specifically up-thread. Thank you.