skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you joking? When I quit I had a month of full on panic attacks over the tiniest things, and I only vaped for 5 years.

I don't understand the motive for downplaying the addictive potential of nicotine unless you're excusing your own habits to yourself. It's posts like yours that led me to think vaping "wasn't that bad" when I first got hooked. I feel like I got my life back when I finally quit and I never would've been able to do it at all without the endless support and patience of my wife.
You think Walmart and MacDonalds are the only companies out there? Those are the ones that are going to survive regardless. What about the 32.5 million other businesses in the US?
Is it really not obvious? 80% of the assets being sold belong to people who either A. are at risk of dying from this virus and B. don’t expect to live through it.

They’re not interested in bonds, they’re interested in surviving. This isn’t your typical “cash crunch” stress, this is real world survival.
El psy congroo!
ZTE Open ran Firefox OS, not webOS. Though my point was that a much older an MUCH weaker ARM-based phone that didn't try to pretend the web is a platform but instead used native code managed to both outperform and be a much more usable device.
Just a microwave saves significant money as I only need to order one restaurant meal a day and can easily split it in two. I need to be very picky about what I can eat so if I found something I'd much rather not waste half of it.

So many hotel rooms don't feature microwaves. Sure, full kitchens are a fire hazard but a microwave?? Maybe because some has room service and want to push that instead? Or maybe they had room service it ceased but the lack of microwaves stayed like bugs in legacy codebases.
The authors don't argue that there's not enough experiments, though. They argue it's wrong type of experiments that are conducted.

To quote Dr. Hossenfelder directly:
"In standard quantum mechanics the measurement outcomes will be non-correlated. In a superdeterministric hidden variables theory, they'll be correlated - provided you can make a case that the hidden variables don't change in between the measurements." [1]

That last sentence is the catch here: in case the experiment fails to show any correlation, it can always be argued that the hidden variables changed for whatever reason. If the calculated theoretical boundaries (e.g. temperature & measurement time) are insufficient, there's still no way of telling systematic errors from falsifying the initial hypothesis. It's little details like this that theorists can hide behind while still shouting "Foul!" from the peanut gallery.

Since experiments cost time, money, and pin down talent, research facilities need to be picky about what they test. "Because I like it." [2] is not the most compelling argument when trying to make your case ;)

I wonder whether crowd-funding would work in this case...

[1] https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2013/10/testing-conspiracy...

[2] https://www.fetzer-franklin-fund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014...
The ICU beds are also taken by all the other sick people. Only a minority is actually free. And people don’t end up in the ICU because they panic:
I spoke to several Italian hospital doctors and they are overwhelmed by the troves of patients who can’t breathe.
Superdeterminism appears to aspire to come up with a classical model that would explain quantum correlation. If successful it would render a quantum computer to be fancy, highly parallel, very expensive but still a classical one. A non-classical superdeterministic model would just substitute one mystery for another (sneaked in non-locality or something).
We need a paypal link and a github pages site, not necessarily a kickstarter. She's a high profile enough case to not need a dedicated platform.
Source? Right now air in Wuhan [0] seems to be significantly worse than Milan [1]. Both cities are under some level of quarantine, but it has been stricter and going on for much longer in Wuhan. Chinese sources say that the air in Wuhan is much better than it was before the quarantine. We can assume that the difference between the two cities would be even larger during normal activity.

Edit: Milan is much closer to Seoul [2] than to Wuhan.

[0]: https://www.airvisual.com/china/hubei/wuhan

[1]: https://www.airvisual.com/italy/lombardy/milano

[2]: https://www.airvisual.com/south-korea/seoul
Coronavirus fraud: UK victims lose 800k pounds in scams
> 12% CFR is overstating it

If we overload our hospitals then CFR will go towards the number of cases that require hospitalization. Which is around 20%. Italy is currently far over hospital capacity and has a CFR today of 8% and rising.
Interviewer: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Graham: That the axiomatic approach John McCarthy used when defining Lisp is the optimal way to design general-purpose programming languages.

Interviewer (silently): Oh my god what did I get myself into? Next question, quick!
If your freedom is predicated on someone else deciding when you can enjoy it, you never had it to begin with. The "nothing to hide means transgressions don't count" people have no business being citizens.
"Companies" in my comment refers to the 32.5 million businesses in the US since the proposal is that employers pay sick leave. I'm not sure why you're referring to health insurance companies. Yes they have employees that may need sick leave, but they are not the only ones.
Why are you mad about buildings being used at over 85% occupancy on average?
I don't know about you, but i always see my ZTE Open as hardware that was horribly abused. I do not see it as weak or anything, the hardware was more than capable since - as i mentioned - much weaker hardware could do much more. It is the software that was garbage.
Bitcoin Crashes to Below $5000
Can someone translate this from tactical to English?
And here all along I thought that she was already out.

Bad for me for being out of touch.

Awful for the Justice system for this clusterfuck!
Do you remember ebola? I don't.
Smart people who work in C++ already know this and aren't going to get on your case about it. It's a very diverse language in terms of common practices. There are many different accepted styles and many "time capsules" where particular language features were more or less fashionable in a time period, right up to the present. People can be opinionated about these things but shouldn't be judgemental.

OTOH it might be a good idea to understand a couple of the sub-cultures and their big ideas, and know that there are tradeoffs involved, with an open mind towards every set of practices.
There is no form of transportation that cannot be materially improved by the addition of some form of catapult or ballistic delivery -- including catapults themselves.

Nets are important.
Expo – universal native apps with React that run on Android, iOS, and the web
One example, the python2 libraries for google app engine were abandoned, and google forced you to rewrite to totally different libraries for python 3.

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/migr...

“Starting with the Python 3 runtime, the App Engine standard environment no longer includes bundled App Engine services such as Memcache and Task Queues. Instead, Google Cloud provides standalone products that are equivalent to most of the bundled services in the Python 2 runtime. For the bundled services that are not available as separate products in Google Cloud, such as image processing, search, and messaging, you can use third-party providers or other workarounds as suggested in this migration guide.

Removing the bundled App Engine services enables the Python 3 runtime to support a fully idiomatic Python development experience. In the Python 3 runtime, you write a standard Python app that is fully portable and can run in any standard Python environment, including App Engine.”
Because residential buildings were built to be homes, not effort free income streams for rentiers.
From an intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy
That depends on how much your time skews my time away from the originals being those people.
>Downside of that is of course increased cost, as equipping everyone with one of those isn't that cheap

I bought a Huion drawing tablet (H610) which was relatively cheap and works well enough for most cases. No screen on the tablet itself, but you quickly get used to drawing while looking at the screen (there is a sort of halo surrounding where the pointer should be, so you're not using it blind). I can see it working quite nicely for whiteboarding.
If testing were a huge factor, we'd expect to see a disaster in Japan, which is doing _very_ little testing. Instead, it seems to be doing even better than South Korea.

I think the masks are more likely to be having an impact.
That does seem interesting! After skimming that paper, I think I'm going to need to sit down with it in order to really parse through things, though. Some of the operator combinations seem to be things I haven't worked with jointly before. I'd definitely be interested to see the results of using the action as the cost function, though!
Also selection. You can get AirBnBs in a number of regions where hotels are just not available or may be fully booked up.
Of all time travel stories I know, the one with the most consistent and logical view on time travel isn't Steins;Gate, but Murai Nikki (Future Diary).

IMHO, Steins;Gate hasn't clarified what time travel really represents. When one travels from one world line to another, does the previous world line still exist? Is time travel a travel between parallel universes, a complete rewrite of history in the _same_ world, or something else?

In the first Steins;Gate anime, it seems that time travel means a rewrite of history (i.e. the conventional type of time travel in science fictions), but in Steins;Gate 0, time travel seems more like jumping between parallel universes.
"[Since January company] have produced 40,000 coronavirus diagnostic kits, enough for about 4 million individual tests."

"the kits, which sell for about €160 ($180) apiece."

Two USD for one test is cheaper than I expected. There's also a photo of a test kit in the article.
Sure, but the problem I have with Dweck's response is that it seems to be muddying the water rather than adding precision. In particular, she says:

> Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.

I have no problem with this concept per se; as far as it goes, it seems eminently more realistic than most descriptions I've seen of mindset theory (which seem to treat it like what therapists sometimes call a "core belief"). But if mindset is significantly contingent on immediate circumstances, what are we saying when we say that someone "has" a fixed or growth mindset? Are the instruments used in the studies capturing any of this variation? If not, what needs to be done to ensure that studies are properly taking this into account?
At my work people are ridiculing the serious response and extreme measure by countries.

They boasted about buying now cheap tickets to fly on vacation instead of "suffering through" home office as ordered by our company.

These are educated people. Doesn't seem to save them from ignorance though, as they are on the "just a flu" train.
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/executive+pri...

"The right of the president of the United States to withhold information from Congress or the courts."

The article you mentioned cites executive privilege multiple times, and describes how it is unclear what the boundaries are. Simply saying "The House issued a subpoena and therefore the executive branch must comply" is just as invalid as "The executive branch can ignore all subpoenas".
When I was interviewing devs, I rarely asked anyone to whiteboard. Instead, I came in with around a dozen small C++ apps. Id tell the candidate that unless told otherwise, the code compiles and links with default compiler settings (g++).

Id ask them to tell me the output (all of them would print some result). The examples were pretty small, most less than 20 lines, but each exposed understanding of the language. One they told me their output, always had them explain their reasoning and justification.

One of my favorites was:

if (~false == true)
cout << "true";
else
cout << "false";

This little gem exposes understanding of a few operators, as well a bit of the type system and automatic type conversions. I have had some that didnt even know the bitwise inverse operator.

I may have been a bit of a dock as an interviewer, but my goal was to get the candidate to say "I dont know". Wanted to make sure they wouldnt lie and try and bullshit. When I got the "I don't know", the followup was key: how,if, they would go about finding a solution. Being a dev isnt about knowing/memorizing everything, but effectively using research skills.

For the examples I provided that didnt compile, I always provided the error message(s), and then asked them to correct the program so it would compile.

Edit: formatting
This article says there are currently 4 P3 teams: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/da...
There are also cultural differences, Italians like to hang out in groups, outside, personal space is much smaller, people hug and kiss and touch all the time. Also they're not really the most disciplined nation, lots of them simply ignored the safety rules, continued to go out, there were even some cases where infected people run away from quarantine.

And additionally the spread of virus is not uniform as it depends on social circles, so it's very hard to compare the situations using just general population stats. In South Korea one of the early patients infected more than a thousand other people, while some patients infected no one else or only a few. It's totally random event, and a few patients like that can create a huge differences in the spread of the disease. In Italy they've had the bad luck that early on virus got into hospitals and retirement homes, so the most sensitive population was massively affected.
I used those sites and looked at daily historical. I grant that China was strictly worse. But Milan is strictly worse than everywhere else getting hit.

Edit: and the air being better after the quarantine would support my hypothesis. It wasn't that that helped, but the better air. (Which is still very bad)
I think progress in physics is going to be on hold for a while. This kind of fundamental scientific inquiry does not proceed in a linear fashion, and there was incredible progress in the last century. Physicists seem to realise this on some level - in the last 5 years I have noticed physicists turning up in other fields, particularly origin of life and consciousness studies.
I did not hear anything that it is not possible for a human to spread it while not being affected by it.

At least for influenza that's partially the case and going around the globe.
>By your logic, we should not imprison recidivist criminals, as prison is clearly not enough to deter them from further crimes.

Criminals are in prison as judgment for being convicted of their crimes. Manning is in prison to be coerced to comply with the grand jury, not as punishment for any action. This is they key difference you are missing. This isn't "my logic," this is the current law of the US, see "Grumbles motion."
Moreso, flying submarines. Or even driving submarines. Winner will always be the flying tunnel-boring machine, though.
They are 2 for 2 already:

>The teams have proven they can meet this ambitious timeline in previous trials using the influenza and Zika viruses.
That is the real answer. Toilet seat bidets are available for like $25 from amazon.
Well, Oberon had language-level OOP-- records with methods --which is what my teacher was talking about as just a way to arrange the same data and functions, but the OS also had runtime dynamic message dispatch OOP built on top of but not intrinsically requiring the language-level OOP. I suspect you could implement that in Pascal and make all of Hewitt's Actors model with it.

> BTW, I finally responded to your comment from the other day; sorry about the delay!

Cheers! I'll go check that out :-)
Dear god, reviving the ghosts of IT departments past!!!

Yes, updating JDEdwards AS/400 systems and many a PC was a big project, but i dont recall doing it at that time as being super difficult... frack ist so long ago i cant really recall many of the details other than reporting daily on the number of systems updated.

Also, fuck you google - this was when you were nascent a i converted the entire company to your “minimalist” front page vs yahoo, and a few years later you wasted 3 months of my time interviewing to tell me to expect an offer letter tomorrow and called to then reacind the offer (as i didnt have a degree) and then continuing to contact me for FIVE FUCKING YEARS for the same job that you wouldnt hire me for.

/off-my-chest
It ought to, this is an iOS 11 feature which is what the iPhone 8 shipped with.

I don’t see any option for it in the passcode settings either.

On my iPhone SE it takes me to a screen with power off, medical ID, and emergency SOS sliders. To get back to the home screen after that I need to enter my passcode.

https://www.imore.com/how-quickly-disable-touch-id-when-you-...
I remember when some of the earlier botnets I was exposed to used IRC networks and private/hidden channels to provide command/control interfaces to the bots/zombies/clients. In a lot of cases, the control mechanism had no redundancy (set to one specific network and/or server and channel).

People passed around lots of executables during those days (naively trusting sources/friends) which usually had additional side-loading mechanisms for the bot (sometimes from an HTTP request, sometimes FTP).

Used to grab these modified executables for plugins/game extensions/etc, sandbox them, and identify the control IRC networks, channels, passwords and have the networks shutdown the channels which essentially killed the botnet from further use.

I imagine most the clients are far more resilient and sophisticated these days. I think the largest botnet I identified and 'shut down' (obviously with help from IRC network admins) had around a million clients on separate networks.

Most of these were pushed on smaller relatively unknown/unpopular IRC networks where the admins somehow didn't notice tens of thousands of clients sitting idle on their network.

It was always a bit enjoyable to pop in one of the private password protected control channels and start a conversation, catching someone completely off guard who didn't expect anyone to find their little control interface. I imagine most these were built off a known library which wasn't too sophisticated. Most people were humorously surprised.
I've been reading about Synology, but I can't figure out the encryption.

Does the encryption key also live in the NAS as well? Is it like, sitting there?
I've probably watched it over ten times, and sections of it far more. And I still don't quite understand the storyline.

In particular, what's up with that hangar full of troops and equipment at the "end"?
>No, in fact it matters very much when the question is what the writers of the Constitution meant and intended.

The writers of the Constitution were not unanimous in their beliefs - the Constitution was a compromise of principles, not a statement of absolute consensus. You're simply declaring the authors whose opinions you agree with to be correct.

James Madison himself opposed versions of the tenth Amendment limiting the Federal government to only the expressly enumerated powers, quoting from Wikipedia here: "James Madison opposed the amendments, stating that "it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia."[0]

>It's the federal government that cannot do so -- or at least cannot under the obvious and intended reading of the constitution.

Yes, the Federal government can do so through Congress. The only powers the Federal government is forbidden from exercising are those not enumerated in the Constitution and any others forbidden by the states. Nowhere in the Constitution are the states prohibited from granting powers to the Federal government - which you yourself conceded earlier. Indeed, it would contradict the Tenth Amendment and other parts of the Constitution[1] to claim that states don't have that authority.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_powers
Running afoul of the "security" apparatus is exactly what we need to do a lot more of if all of this technological innovation is to mean anything.
Won't the effect of quarantine have a 5-14 day delay, as in we must wait out one cycle of incubation period before we see a decline in new numbers?
Unless they use the data for targeted advertising (e.g. rub your eyes and get LensCrafters ads).
To me YC seems to be good at funding the proverbial selling of shovels. SaaS and developer tools are some of their wider investment categories.
I worked for a place that simulated what would have happened with an older device. It would have been pretty catastrophic... easily losses in the billions.

Remember that big old systems were the low hanging fruit in 1970. The business logic was COBOL and assembler, without things like functions. The system may have hundreds of duplicate routines for things like subtracting dates.
As a long time programmer, q is the only language I can hack at, look up 10 minutes later and 2 hours have gone.

Frustrating. Obtuse. Overall: fun.
Covid19 in Log Scale by Country
So retirement? What happens when you need care?

Do you wanna / have to work forever?
Treatment for cytokine storm syndrome (killing many Covid-19 patients)
>>> Web Application Firewalls: Most SOC2’d firms don’t use them, and most WAFs don’t work at all.

Most startups are on Cloudflare and Cloudflare does WAF out of the box.
You can't.

Not just the way it's arbitrarily hard from an engineering perspective to design an experiment to disprove string theory. It is theoretically impossible, the way it's impossible to distinguish between Copenhagen and many worlds.
Tinder Microservices
OK that headline has so much clickbait Imma gonna not even look
Look, I'm asking for an actual memo here, I'm not interested in playing whatever game you seem to want to play.

Can you help me find this thing please?
Fair enough. Hope you do get a chance to check out the Matrix channel! (#rust:mozilla.org)
I agree. Eric Schmidt was the real war time CEO. But let's not forget that he worked for failed war time CEO's against the same enemy (Novell and Sun when they fought with Microsoft).
> When you use classes in this way, I call it type oriented programming (TOP).

Watch out, you might make topmind mad! https://wiki.c2.com/?TopMind
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes 1.0
I can imagine that the one thing people will remember is stocking up on supplies.

Expect even emptier shelves way earlier when the next epidemic comes.
Isn't it more accurate to say that isolated entanglement is not stable?

Basically any interaction with some other particle causes that particle to become entangled as well, and so you very easily get "avalanches" of entanglement that spread at the speed of light.

As soon as the avalanches reaches "the observer", the observer themselves become entangled with the originally entangled particle, which means that from their perspective it looks as though they no longer are. This is similar to conditional probabilities.
When i worked at intel in the mid-late 90s - i recall talking to an analyst one night in SC-5 on the balcony - and they were having problems rebuilding the financial system’s fields to be long enough strings for the amounts of money intel had...

Did banks go through some of the same growing pains