skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AirBnB failed. I don't even check it out anymore when I travel because a hotel typically costs about the same due to the fees charged by the hosts. I would choose a hotel over AirBnB until the price difference is 15-20% lower in favor of AirBnB because there are too many unknowns with AirBnB and the novelty has worn off entirely. Plus since so many listings are owned by some company or person renting out multiple locations, whats the difference any more?
Very pdp11ish, even looks like it supports "mov -(pc), -(pc)"

(if you ignore the register windows and the lack of byte instructions - word addressing harks back to a previous age)
Yes, but I think a poor prognosis doesn’t always mean death, and “often” has a different meaning depending on how bad the outcome is.

While relatively few people will die, the experience can still be terrible even for young, healthy people. It can leave you with long-term organ damage. Full recovery, by which I mean feeling like yourself again, can take quite a long time. I’d call that a poor prognosis, and if 20% of cases are serious, I’d say that qualifies as often.
Please don't conflate case fatality rate with actual fatality rate. South Korea has almost certainly just had more time and "medical bandwidth" to find more of the minor and asymptomatic infections that make up potentially 80%+ of the total, and turn them into cases by diagnosing them.
I’ve had generally good experiences from Airbnb hosts but given that they don’t support guests when things do go wrong I’m reluctant to use them again.
No billionaire is going to pay more than $400 to instantly wire money either, though, as to your point, they play by different rules. Even HSBC offers free wires in the US.

Also, it's $250M now due to the 50% drop in the last half hour, so in a way, they paid $250M for that transfer.
How does time travel work with the Earth spinning, the Earth orbiting the Sun and Solar System orbiting around the center of the Milky Way? By the time you finish reading this comment you've moved thousands of miles with respect to the galactic center. Or am I missing something?
We're not actually doing that of course, all training is canceled.
Information gap, many of these countries can read Chinese.
I've been working on it at UCSB
People are using bitcoin to pay for cash, and vice versa. Besides drugs, that's its primary purpose.
> Trouble is, it appears that it's actually mostly real people with otherwise perfectly normal accounts and verifiable identies

Just hypothetical: how do they come up with ground truth when studying this kind of thing? Seems difficult unless you witness the person interacting in the real world.
Can't we all just agree that Maybe/Optional types are actually a great idea that generalizes all of this at minimal cost?
that won't work. It still just delays it. Everyone needs to just admit they -will- catch coronavirus with almost 100% certainty this year as it is quite virulent and likes to stick around for a few days on surfaces and a few weeks in humans. By limiting very large gatherings and observing handwashing/some isolation the best we can do is stretch it out over time so that the medical system isn't overly taxed.
And yet we lost 50% in the last half hour.
Old Y2K project manager here. We had a multiyear project, found issues, fixed, and deployed fixes. Both hardware and software issues. I faced off against internal business, external clients, internal audit, internal compliance, and external regulators. We had IIRC nine potential failure dates including 2000-Feb-29. My ultimate project documentation required twenty 5 inch binders and a hand cart to deliver the package to our local CEO for sign off. Pretty sure he didn't read anything and simply just signed the cover page. We rocked the project, I passed all aggressive audits and earned myself a nice bonus that year for having a successful Y2k rollover.

Then came 2000-Feb-29 and it happened, I had a risk management system hosted out of the UK that just didn't work. Had to file the system failure through to internal global management and domestic regulators.

I was thrilled. First because that system owner had refused to conduct global integrated testing so I could blame the SO. Had the request, negotiation, and finally the outright refusal in writing. The failed system was relatively trivial domestically. Risk wasn't calculated one day on a global platform that and that risk didn't hit my local books. Ha ha sucks to be you. Most importantly, I was thrilled because I could point to the failure and say "see, that is what would have happened x100 if we hadn't nailed the project." It was a great example for all the assholes who bitched about the amount of money we spent.
I'd like more detail on the advantages of AWS AssumeRole, and what attacks it is designed to protect against. It must be more than CloudTrail logs, because normal API usage gets logged to CloudTrail.

One thing I'd like to highlight is that SOC2 is about having controls (of your choosing), and documenting and proving you are following those controls. I think it is important to pick controls you actually want to follow, and that those controls aren't so specific that you get fenced in to a bad process.

I've worked at a few companies that have gone through SOC2, one of them (Dropbox) did it very well. I think the average engineer didn't need to know about SOC2, or what all the controls were, because the controls were well thought out, and automation took care of the proof. At another company every engineer was constantly saying "you have to do that because of SOC2", because the controls intruded on the way engineers worked.

"SOC2 requires that two people approve every PR". Hmm, no the accountants that created SOC2 don't know what PRs are. "Only members of the team called 'QA' are allowed to transition Jira tickets from state A to state B, SOC2 requires it". No, I'm pretty user SOC2 doesn't specify issue tracker workflows. "You need to name your git branched XYZ-abc-foo-bar, because of SOC2". You're telling me that accountants are specifying source control conventions?
Most hospitals don't have all that much slack in bed capacity; especially at the tail end of flu season most of those beds are already filled. The hospitals may be extrapolating the growth rate of the disease and realizing how soon they will have problems. Or given the nature of the outbreak it could be that even within Lombardy there are areas with much higher concentrations of cases, like there are more cases, inc. per capita, in Wuhan than other cities in Hubei.

What's not plausible is ICU beds being taken up by people who don't have the disease (maybe miild-to-moderate flus or bad colds) and are just panicking. Emergency room lines, sure. Test shortages, absolutely. But hospitals will not put someone who's just scared and doesn't even need to be admitted at all into the ICU.
I hope you'll give me the opportunity to try to convince you otherwise.

I understand the context of this is that io-ts puts an onerous emphasis on FP concepts and data structures. But FP principles, when applied in an effective and usable way, are quite good. The make it easier to reason about and maintain code.

One such principle is that a "function" with no parameters is a good sign that it will cause some kind of side effect. I sort of hinted at this when I questioned the design, when I said that it wasn't clear to me whether calling these functions was producing new instances and whether those new instances affect behavior.

I would also argue that leaving room to parameterize primitive types is leaving room to make a drastically more complicated API in the future. A `string` with "options" suddenly becomes its own sub-API.

While io-ts is more complicated, once learnt its API is more predictable. A `Type` is a value. An `interface` (or similar) type is a `Record<string, Type>`. Always. `Type`s can be augmented/composed/etc (and you may provide a function that accepts one or more `Type`s as parameters to accomplish that), but they always resolve to a value. The value can be reused without concern about side effects.
But no pardon
Yep looks like that's what happened: https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1238310742748811264?s=20
Yeah, maybe for five years.
> Krita is not an image manipulation tool, it's a digital painting application aimed at artists

There’s a big intersection between the two groups
It is. Never had him as a prof while studying math at UofC, but would see him shuffling about the dept now and then. Always gave off a warm energy.
Yes, the extension supports C, C++, and C#! Sourcegraph supports over 30 languages out of the box using our basic code intelligence (search based heuristics and ctags).

Check out the recent release notes: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/sourcegraph-3.13#basic-co...
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Maybe you "cannot" be, but people "are".
There was a Dr from John's Hopkins on CNBC tonight who said he estimated there are 250k-500k infected people in the US right now.
What a great marketing strategy - publishing interesting, valuable research in an adjacent area - thereby gaining genuine, valuable attention from exactly the type of person who'd also be interested in their product, whilst also establishing a kind of thought leadership in the "cloud performance" category. I'm not even being cynical - great work.
Not really, read any news stories about it. Sure they were tough on people they quarantined, but people moved around.
no vaccine will be approved at the earliest 6 months from now. By then the worst will be over. Most vaccines take 1+ years
time to take the waifu-pill.
As someone who has been personally sued after my company went bankrupt, I can tell you that it is not as simple as you paint it. Although I wish it was.

Some more detail: during bankruptcy, anyone that had business with the company can either file an adversary proceeding (essentially a lawsuit within bankruptcy court), and/or can do depositions/discovery (2004 examinations). They can also buys assets of the defunct company as well as legal claims to go after the company officers. Then after bankruptcy they can try to use whatever information, assets and claims they acquired, to sue the company officials personally.
If the US trajectory for COVID-19 is anything like Italy's, we are 6 days away from going from 1k cases to 15k cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...
Flatten the Curve – How to Control an Artificial Life Pandemic
This is so narrow minded looking just at mortality rate. doctors in Italy are flooding in cases, and do but admit people older than 60. All those cases are young people. who knows if they will live, and what kind of damage will remain after this is over.
Coronavirus: Ten Reasons You Don't Need to Panic
How do they know the infection rate unless they are randomly sampling and I haven't read of any country doing anything close to that other than Korea, and it wasn't all the random.
I personally have several contracts through upwork.com
But I am a high end windows developer with OpenCV experience, Tensorflow, Keras etc etc with also a long history (25+Years) of development.
I keep getting asked for 1 - 2 month projects, where the fixed price is a few hundred dollars mostly from offshore companies. So IMO upwork is not a sweet spot unless the company is international or USA
I thank you for the other sites especially toptal
> Hospitals in Asia generally demand payment before checkout, so I wouldn't want to find myself a semi-conscious plague patient with no cash left.

America would like a word with you. One of the biggest real risks to spread in America is that 30 million Americans have no health insurance, and can't afford a day off work.

> What do I mean by demand? They post a guard outside your door until somebody pays the bill in full. God help you if you say you can't pay, especially if there's a lineup of new patients. You actually could get a bag over your head.

Hey... just like America!
Pretty much the US just introduced the security measures other countries had had for years before.
This virus may change that. Until this point unemployment was quite low and the stock and housing markets were doing well. Nearly everything takes a backseat to the economy for American voters, despite what they say.
I spent a week in an Airbnb near Dubrovnik, Croatia and it seemed like a normal, if slightly touristy European city in pretty much every way. And the Airbnb was really nice, too.

Not sure where you're getting this stuff about "doesn't exactly scream 'rule of law'".
He does quite a bit better at rallies. I believe some of these press conferences catch him at times when he is more tired, and the subject matter is also different (less rehearsed, less stump speech-y) and dryer than his rallies so his charisma level seems a bit lower
I guess same way no one has used a nuke or even a dirty bomb yet, even though the latter would be technically feasible for even a small group.
Make that six weeks.
Seems to be happening everywhere. They just announced an hour ago that they are closing schools in my daughter's school district (Burlingame California), and switching to online learning. That was quick...I am honestly a bit excited to see how online kindergarten works.

I'm also wondering if the internet infrastructure will handle this well, with so many people working and going school remotely, with a really fast ramp up.
They have a free limit maybe
Part of the problem is that pretty much everybody in East Asia already owned at least one mask.

In Europe pretty much nobody owned a mask prior to COVID-19. And masks have been sold out for weeks. If masks were easily available you'd see people wearing them I'm sure.
I also stayed with a family of five, so I'm familiar with what family housing in Tokyo looks like.

Small, yes. But comfortable, and nothing like what the top of this thread describes.
They didn’t have immunity agreements where they agreed to testify in exchange?
Lunarpunk is like a dark mode version of Solarpunk. It’s all about human societies settling and thriving in remote places, usually on alien moons with their home planets looming just over the horizon.
Right but then you need to use errors.as to match against it, rather than being able to do pattern matching. And there is no inheritance, no ability to generalize errors into a group.
Wrong. The short explanation is the chart at this link:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES5U9YUXkAA1e7H?format=jpg&name=...
Techies Tried to ‘Hack’ the Coronavirus. Here’s How That Went
Copper and brass may well be much more effective than the article suggests, plenty of info on the web, start with the Copper Development Association.
Forget how they're going to learn remotely, who is going to watch and feed those kids? A very significant portion of US lower and middle income families depend on the public school system do those exact things while the parents work. They quite simply do not have a parent who can stay home with the kids unless they want to lose source of income.

The severity of the impact on the livelihood of these people and the residual impact to the economy cannot be overstated.
This sounds great, but I don't know anything about SSRN. Can someone shed light on the credibility here?
Monad tutorial for Python developers (2013)
> I respect people who commit civil disobedience, especially in reaction to injustice like the Espionage Act. It's a credible signal that someone finds some particular law wrong. But this is not that scenario.

You’re just saying that you support civil disobedience when you support it. Of course. But of course people can and do commit civil disobedience to protest things you don’t support.
What AirBnB has over hotels is locations inside neighborhoods. Take Montreal for example, the hotels are clustered downtown, which is fine if that's what you're looking for. But by staying in an AirBnB you get a local experience, in a local neighborhood. It's like this all over the world.
Everything in Tokyo is tiny. My dad, my wife and I stayed at a reasonably nice hotel there ($250/night) and the situation was basically how you're describing your Airbnb -- bedroom that's completely taken up by the beds, and a bathroom you can barely turn around in.

Kyoto, Hiroshima, etc. are a different story. But Tokyo is pretty much the most cramped place I've ever visited, both indoors and out.
> Another bonus point: standardize everyone on Chrome.

:(
I think you still get symbols for libstd without that. I can see why that would lead to confusion - stripping a plain --release build still saves a few MB.
So, how can you be certain the specific month has been removed?
Not quite. VRBO was (and I guess mostly still is) focused on vacation rentals in traditional vacation destinations (beaches, ski resorts, etc.), and even before that there were of course local property-manager managed rentals for decades.

AirBnB was originally about shared rentals in urban destinations. Of course they both grew to overlap in a lot of areas, but AirBnB had a huge advantage in that their business model was much better suited (renters paid a fee for each booking, while VRBO had owners pay a subscription fee) to a Google AdWords dominated world.
The numbers for 20-29 are probably not comparable. South Korea has been testing a lot of people per day. Italy, like many other countries, is overwhelmed, so there are probably many healthy-feeling infected 20-somethings who haven't been tested and aren't counted.
same as arxiv
This is exactly what’s terrible about Airbnb. A listing in a residential neighborhood creates negative externalities on that community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(novel)
Ask HN: Want to learn the epidemiology/virology behind COVID19. Where do I look?
I would appreciate insightful articles that go in depth but explain concepts in a layman's language. Thanks!
Takeaways:

- Recognizing the Crisis early

- Border Control

- Containment

- Reassure and Educate the Public, While Fighting Misinformation
AirBnB didn't fail. It has some work to do with managing fees, but overall, it provides a great service for people wanting a better or different experience than traditional hotels AND it's provide hosts with additional income at the same time. I much rather give my money to people needing extra savings than big business hotel chains.

I always look at Airbnb first when traveling because I value options like a kitchen where I can cook my own meals, a washer and dryer where I can wash my clothes, and a sofa to relax on.
Permanent lung damage? Link please?
Italy has about 12.5 ICU beds per 100,000 people. ICU beds are not the same as hospital beds.

https://www.statista.com/chart/21105/number-of-critical-care...
I used guru.com for a bit a few years ago. Seems like the same thing.
> If Scientology enters the mainstream, perhaps children will be called Xenu completely normally.

I thought scientologists wanted to keep Xenu under wraps?

(Never mind that the cat was let out of the bag long ago :-)
Sure but the comment I responded to wasn't about geopolitics but daily life changes.
Using Rust daily since ~2016 here. I'm assuming that by "writing code that needs lifetime semantics" you mean "writing code that needs explicit lifetimes", since all code in Rust has some lifetime semantics going on. If I've misunderstood then please clarify.

Lifetimes are one tool in the toolbox, and using them is absolutely not an anti-pattern. Being able to define and use explicit lifetimes is a really powerful tool that allows you to safely share data in ways that can be tricky and error-prone to do in some other languages.

For example, a deserialiser could be passed a reference to a buffer (&'a [u8]) and return a struct where some fields are &'a str which are just bytes borrowed from that buffer. You could then perhaps trim() them - returning another &'a str which just points to a smaller slice of that same buffer, and pass them off to other parts of your program - potentially even pass them to an async function that you await on, which could run in another thread - and the explicit lifetimes mean your code will fail to compile if the buffer can be dropped before the string is.
Not exactly from 1960s, but: The Mystery of the Third Planet 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TAmISW76Rk
Time to scale up and horizontal.
Croatia is a moderately corrupt mafia state. My personal view on this was formed when a Croatian coast guard officer demanded a bribe from me. But also https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...
The localization claims in this article seem very exciting. Could someone with a background in quantum computing provide some context for whether this is something likely to be important in the future?
Sure, but what about when it gets cold again? It may come back even worse
Jim Al-Khalili

Richard Curtis

Maybe Cox, he is a little prone to dogma.
It's not like Groupon. EBITDA is a totally normal metric to get a sense of how the core business is doing, and positive EBITDA in tech is a good leading indicator of profitability.

EBITDA is basically "how profitable would the business be if they had no debt and their existing assets never lost value?". For companies with factories, airplanes, etc. the physical plant deterioration matters a lot. For biotech companies with patents that expire after 20 years, asset value loss matters a lot too. But tech companies have neither physical capital nor TTL'ed intellectual property, so EBITDA is a good approximation.

What happened here is that the whole travel industry is falling apart, not accounting gimmicks.
How does this work? Like any government can just print their way to prosperity?

I mean you just magically put $15T into circulation?

Won't this lead to inflation?
An Org Survival Guide to the Covid-19 Global Pandemic – Pt 1
>who is going to watch and feed those kids?

Let's be honest, that duty will likely fall on an extended family member. The worst part? That extended family member will likely be a member of a covid-19 vulnerable population. More precisely, grandma.
The world could really do with some harmony injection.
that is not correct. germany does not use the common law system where case law is binding, but the civil law system where each case is taken on its own merrits against the law as it is written. past cases are only used as advice to help interpret a new case, but judges have the freedom to not follow that advice.
Of those in that group what % had a pre-existing condition? That is, is it age or age + illness? My sense is it's the latter.
IIRC they have to IPO because a lot of employees have expiring RSUs. Either they IPO, or they find a way to buy out those employees' RSUs.
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This isn’t for Michigan, but here’s how Washington is trying to address child care and meals given the impossible situation: https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/communicati...

> Are childcare options being provided during closures?

> Closing schools has a major impact on our ability to staff hospitals, health care facilities, and other fire and medical departments. Superintendents have been asked to provide childcare, at no cost, to families who are in the medical field or who are first responders.

> What if I don’t work in those fields?

> If families don’t work in the healthcare or first responder fields but are expected to continue to attend work during the closure, they should reach out to their school district. Districts can make additional decisions that are needed for their communities.
I've found the big advantage to be for longer stays. You can get almost half off which, while more expensive than rent, is considerably less than a hotel stay and allows me to live somewhere with a kitchen etc. rather than in a hotel.