skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a litigator I do not think that is true. Facts, more than anything, dictate outcomes, generally. Though I will say that patent cases are prohibitively expensive. Though, contrary to what I would think many here assume, leaves the inventor with the short end of the stick as opposed to large IP-owning organizations like Google (that simultaneously advocate for lesser patent-rights).
Beyond that, has anyone else noticed how executive types LOVE to quote movies like the god father, wolf of wall street, and similar types of media, as if they themselves are the protagonist and/or "hero" of the story? Its a "Rah-rah" strongman ideal chalk full of projection and other bullshit mechanisms.

To quote M.A.S.H. " War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse." What is business? Cupcakes.
How is this possible to justify when literally the state is supposed to be in a state of emergency and everyone is to avoid congregating in groups?

Kids are literal Petri dishes and excellent vectors for virii.

Public schools are doing parenting jobs instead of education. If their job is to provide ‘food, security and resources’ what’s the point if that means kids would become carries of illness?

It always ends up with money. Public schools were always about money money and. Ore money. It’s a money pit where it’s never enough. And now we know why. It’s not for education, but for the care and feeding of public school coffers.

[.. ] “After careful consideration and hours of consultation” and despite calls from parents to shut down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the 132 schools serving 56,000 students in the district will remain open, said San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Vincent Matthews.

Even though the city has declared a public health emergency, schools are an essential service, providing meals, security and resources to children and families, Matthews said.

“Keeping schools open outweighs the benefits of citywide closure,” he said. “Plans could change as the situation unfolds.”

On Tuesday, the San Francisco Archdiocese announced it would close all of its 90 schools through March 25 after a Riordan High School student tested positive for the coronavirus.[..]

[..] San Francisco school officials shut down Lowell High School for several days after the parent of a student tested positive for COVID-19. The school reopened today, but it’s unclear whether districts like San Francisco will be able to recoup state funding for the days a school is closed, if the closure was considered a precaution rather than the result of a declared epidemic. In Lowell’s case, that would be a loss of nearly $200,000 each day the school was closed.[..]
To someone who can understand abstract concepts like "the future," the behavior of world leaders can seem terrifyingly callous, irresponsible, incompetent and maybe even malicious. However when the nasty package shows up on their doorsteps, they can function normally, at least if they're part of a functioning society.
If you actually listen to the hearing today you will realize that this is a systemic issue with the US healthcare system not something any politician can do much about.

The US is not built that way the CDC can't just fix it. That's the power and weakness of our system compared to other countries.

Here the leaders of CDC explains the problem in a nutshell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxC9Q99il1Q
Anybody who doesn't want their data copied will be shedding tears. Including anybody with private files.

You are more than welcome to decline to use DRM if you don't like it. Just don't expect people to give you copies of data they don't want shared by you.
Also:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/486559-trump-fak...

https://theweek.com/speedreads/901405/seattle-lab-uncovered-...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/anthony-fauci-donald...

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/487014-trump-officials-cu...

Yes, the administration bears a huge amount of responsibility for sandbagging and obstructing the initial response, mis-informing the public, ignoring their own subject experts, etc.

Fresh Air did a great long-form report today summarizing the ways the administration has obstructed and worsened the crisis. No transcript yet but it's worth a listen.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814881355/white-house-knew-co...

(<3 Terry Gross, she's a wonderful interviewer who is fantastic at asking insightful and probing questions while being incredibly kind and gentle. Probably the single most informative show on the air, for whatever topic she covers.)
Evidence indicates potential for fecal-oral transmission of Covid-19
The players are still in danger if they play.
Yes, judging by their 2% transit mode share, I'm guessing Phoenix's transit is pretty average for the sunbelt, which is to say absolutely awful, and near-useless for most trips.

Another example of "don't just look at what's on paper": Dallas has more light rail laid down than any city in the country, at 93 miles. Which gives it a massive transit mode share of...2%. Wow. Think about how badly everything must be designed to have so much light rail that hardly anyone actually uses.

For Dallas' case, you can go to Google Maps, turn on satellite mode, and inspect some train stations, and it's pretty obvious what the problem is. The land use is horribly unconducive to walking + transit. E.g. go out a bit from the city center and you'll find stations with exclusively single-family home neighborhoods right beside, meaning almost no one can walk to/from that station to get around.

Such a waste. It's not like the government has to really build anything itself to fix that issue: only a change of rules is necessary to allow denser development in the area adjacent to the station. But America's culture around zoning is so fucked up that this is usually impossible, even after a city has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into infrastructure, we still insist on crippling it.
Correlation is not causation? A better guess would be that businesses are choosing places where the next generation of employees wants to live and work... happens to be cities on the coasts that also have public transit systems.
It's amazing! My wife doesn't like anime. But for some reason she really liked steins gate.
To be honest, I don't think it will be too bad. Just speculating here, but events like this only really hurt when they occur asymmetrically (think 9/11 or housing crisis)

Everyone is going to be rocked by this at basically the same time.
Thanks, the user-research-first part was definitely enlightening and important to do. Our first many iterations were very wrong.

As for large scale datasets - we do cache those sample tables and we only grab the first 10 rows. Also, BigQuery actually has a great API for fetching a set of sample data that we utilize heavily. They made it because of exactly the potential concerns you outlined around columnar stores.
It's a sun that has set.
Agreed, not sure how well this has aged for a variety of reasons. If you really follow these things during "war times" most SaaS companies will attrit their core competent staff and be left with no army. Not a winning move.
Since I first saw the Soli demo video some years ago, I have been waiting to buy a small physical hackable version of the product.

Adding it to a phone seems like an unintelligent move -- maybe they should release a smart watch (if they know how)?

Guess I will have to wait at least a few years more.
COVID kills old people, so the people in power (the ones competent to protect their own interests) have taken notice.
Deep Listening
Pornhub's Premium Content Is Free All Month to Italians Stuck in Lockdown
This is still rumours as far as I have seen, no official anouncement from the governing body (FIA) as of yet. It is also very early in the morning in Australia (where F1 is for the race this weekend), however, and an anouncement may come out soon. Free practice will start at 9:00pm EST today, so maybe something will happen before then.

McClaren F1 have withdrawn from the GP if it should procede [0], on their own accord.

[0] https://www.racefans.net/2020/03/12/mclaren-pulls-out-of-aus...
I also think this article has the wrong take; Eric Schmidt was always training wheels for Larry to learn how to run a multi-billion dollar company. I don't think he trusted himself and he honestly seems like a pretty risk-averse guy. Realistically he hasn't been a "Wartime CEO" at all; Google has made a lot of money by making a lot of safe choices. But there are lots of safe choices to be made when you've built a moat as big as they have.
“Only the people making this bet will be affected if Bitcoin fails”

Which means that it’s just a gamble of some insiders.
Not a blog or a Twitter, but Jon Gjengset channel on YouTube has awesome live (or records of) coding videos on Rust.
The topics are not for beginners, but even thought I'm starting on Rust as well, I've found his videos an excellent resource.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JonGjengset
Here's the original article I was recalling: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6427/eaav0566/tab...
Which government? I suspect a lot depends on what jurisdiction you're in.

Do you have a family doctor? Do you trust him/her? Can they do the testing for you?
The fundamental problem is always weight, which is why making a vehicle that encloses the rider like a car can only be efficient if it's sufficiently large to amortize the costs. I think the solution is flying motorcycles, which already exist in the form of paramotors and gyrocopters. Then the problem is that you're so light that stability and safety in wind is a problem. Despite their availability, i havent heard of anyone commuting to work via paramotor.
I just assume physicists are weirdos like that, they want reality to do easy and nice things, not math :)

As you see it clicks for many people, and doesn't mean much for others. Back then it was a very welcome click.

After all, it should be possible to find antiderivatives and solve ODEs without doing the dance with substitutions and change of variables, but still, we find it many magnitudes easier than just looking at it and divining the correct solution.
Why do people keep telling the lie that the FED "does not print money"? As you say, these "loans" are the FED printing $1.5t, no other way to look at it.
> personal development requires outside feedback

Is it true? If I read book or blog, I improve my skills. Sure, feedback helps but I don't think that it's a hard requirement.
Poor timing for the publication of this report, to be honest. People have finite emotional capacity for dealing with stress/threats. Most people right now, with the coronavirus going, probably don't have the energy to spend on caring about this, so instead they'll just detach from it (I know that's what I find myself doing). Waiting a month or two would've likely meant a stronger impact.
Transportation makes up 10% of the carbon impact of food at most if I remember correctly. The choice of what one eats is a lot more important. Here are articles you might be interested in?

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
Some companies (e.g. Netflix) seem to operate as if there's always a war going on.
Its probably good for a lot of companies to adopt a wartime mentality every once in a while.
As you can see, there is huge structural
demographic difference between infected
people in Italy and in Germany.

I can not see that from the graphs on your page. Can you express it in a numeric way?
"Peacetime CEO does not raise her voice. Wartime CEO rarely speaks in a normal tone."

"Peacetime CEO strives for broad based buy in. Wartime CEO neither indulges consensus-building nor tolerates disagreements."

Oh good just what we need. More permission to be a jerk at work to try and communicate urgency. This is one of those things where a smart accomplished person says a thing and we're supposed to listen but even in 9 years this behavior is outmoded. If we framed all of this up as ruthless prioritization and clear understanding of urgency, then that tells you what you need to know. Figure out what works for you in a way that doesn't violate your teams' principles and values.
The WHO actually had tests that worked. CDC refused those and chose to independently redevelop their own. Then those didn't work, they still kept trying, while also blocking states from using their own tests that also worked.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-...

The states with "local outbreaks" (NY, CA, WA) are the ones that told the CDC to get bent and did it anyway. It's everywhere, the states with low case numbers just aren't testing for it.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/901405/seattle-lab-uncovered-...
It starts as a riot. If we can keep our composure, it will turn into a revolution.

EDIT:
To explain my point a little better, a revolution starts with tearing something down. Tearing down town centers is not very productive but tearing down institutional racism is. The second half of the tear down is the important part. Is it replaced by something better?
Don't visit the US. I've not been since they started fingerprinting us Untermensch
It would be nice if UberEats stock was seperate from the main ridesharing service. I'd guess that food delivery will skyrocket through "self-isolation", but obviously ridesharing is will plummet.

Can you buy ubereats specific derivatives?
The dream of the flying car isn't being able to drive and store a plane, its being able to leave your garage and land at work or get groceries. This means that vertical take off and landing, easy safe controls, and accessible pricing. There are huge challenges in each of those areas to overcome. This solution solves none of those.

Its still a really cool iteration of single engine planes. Easier/cheaper to store, uses gas, drive after landing. Just not at all a flying car in soul.
I agree, but I'm interested to see will we see the fall during our generation or the next one will experience it. Bringing children to this world seems selfish.
We’ve Been Looking for Carmen Sandiego How Long?
As I understand, they stepped in to bridge the bid/ask spread and act as a temporary market maker to solve a liquidity crunch. Can someone more knowledgeable tell me why the bid ask spread is so wide to begin with?
Remember that any improvement in our emissions will temporarily make the situation worse because of the Aerosol Masking effect.
We're still only demonstrating ability to react to a sudden media-worthy crisis that is putting people (including decision makers) at a very minor risk of death in the very short term.

For climate change, we need to demonstrate the ability to proactively avoid a creeping catastrophe that will occur in the medium-long term, where the harm may not happen to current decision makers, but will instead happen to other people who don't get a vote in the decision today, and isn't media worthy since nothing is really changing ("outlook remains bleak").
Among other problems, there was never a time when you could combine python 2 and 3 in the same program. That wasn't a deprecation; it was simply a break.
TBQH, I don't give a fuck what a bunch of men who all died 175+ years ago think. I don't need a constitution that works in 1785 or 1840; I need one for today.
Haha! Point taken. But, contextually, he was weird looking for that particular convention. Hair was kind of unkempt, beard a bit scraggly. Not homeless-looking or anything, but a bit more frazzled than the typical going-to-a-goth-convention person.
I enjoyed the anime more, but I also watched it first, and I think that tarnished my experience. If I were going back I'd definitely do it in the reverse order.
I believe you mean gambling, not speculation.
Many big businesses are also citing the existence of public transit as a reason for relocating to a new city. Of course there are usually tens or hundreds of million in subsidies and gifts when they relocate so it's hard to know if transit is truly important or a bit of obfuscation for their real motives.
Juul Co-Founder James Monsees Is Stepping Down
Even though they have a rabies epidemic, there is literally no where on the island where you can get the rabies vaccine. So if you get bitten by a monkey (which like 1/3rd of people who visit Bali do) then you need to get helicoptered off the island. This just strikes me as being beyond dumb.
+ he tries to save his system failure with market timed put options.

Luckily he was right 1 week ago. But it was luck only.
> Consider that you did suggest it was their own fault

No I didn’t. My original post was for anyone seeking help with substance abuse - that AA is a good option for atheists who are friendly to religion and a bad option for those who are hostile.

If I had wanted to put the parent into the hostile to religion group then I would have said so.

Edit: I also never said anything about being hostile to religious people which is the way the parent decided to interpret it so they could take a swing at me.
Yes I'm sure a 1T transaction in bitcoins won't trigger any suspicion by anyone and will not cause people to try and track the authors of the transaction.

I'm also sure trying to cash that out is going to be as easy as taking money out of an ATM

Unless you "cash out" in USDT (tether) or something similarly fake
Well that would have been a little over a decade after I saw him, if it was the same guy. Of course, that would be according to _my_ personal timeline. Perhaps from his point of view it happened earlier...
I wouldn't say that sticking with savings accounts is an invalid strategy. If you have enough money, many strategies are viable.

If you are struggling to stay within a "safe" withdrawal rate of 2-3%, you may find that equities are your only chance of getting the returns that you need.
_And_ he uses JavaScript to the extent that he can teach people JavaScript (as per his HN profile). Clearly, he is used to dealing with danger.
Wrong!

It's...fifth, actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_hig...

> 1. New York City, New York – 56.5%

> 2. Jersey City, New Jersey – 47.6%

> 3. Washington, D.C. – 37.4%

> 4. Boston, Massachusetts – 33.7%

> 5. San Francisco, California – 33.1%

As I noted in another comment, SF's numbers are pumped up a bit by its unusually small population size relative to its metro population size. But yeah it's still one of the top cities in the country for public transit, sad as it is.
Thanks, I had skimmed the article but missed the location.
When in doubt it's almost always cognitive biases at play.

I think a more reasonable assessment would indicate that people who are well resourced (either through financial, social, or skill capital) are more likely to feel invigorated and therefore will build on the resources they already have by taking advantage of the chaos.
Dylan Thomas once wrote this appropriate poem:

---

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

---

(EDIT: HN formatting doesn't like poems)
That would put an interesting twist on Matthew 27:25, "All the people answered, 'His blood [i.e., responsibility for his death] be on us and on our children [i.e., descendants]!'"
>> And the 20-year-old systems are slowly dissapearing
There's still COBOL code out there running core business systems that's older than I am, and I'm closer to 60 than I am to 50.
Let's hope it stays like this. I'm dreading summer already as the last one had temperatures reaching 40°C here in Europe.
Also forgot, possessing a gun "while white" is also a recipe for getting shot in the US by police. You'll find that the NRA doesn't care about those cases either.
The first object oriented programming language I learned (LambdaMOO) didn't have classes. It's entirely conceivable to do nice clean object oriented code using a system which has only prototypes. In fact it encourages one to think about the important parts: encapsulation and delegation without becoming obsessed with classification.
Several people say the have met some. But it's like, it isn't true until it happens to you personally.
Longer than the time it will take for the anti Google HN bubble to burst.
Jap. But not only local entertainment. Netflix et al too
The difference is that Precheck is a voluntary, opt-in program - you give up personal information in exchange for expedient security check. Big difference from doing it for everybody indiscriminately.
> I still assume it is possible and likely that something like cryptocurrency will eventually become incredibly valuable

Probably, but whatever it is, it won't be Bitcoin and some magic software updates won't make your Bitcoins turn into whatever cryptocurrency-ish thing wins.

The other thing to remember is that cash doesn't appreciate in value. (In the US, we typically have 4% inflation every year.) If a cryptocurrency is going to work for day-to-day commerce, its value needs to be rather steady. (Either low inflation or low deflation.) This means you can't just stick a bunch of cryptocurrency in your wallet and expect it to make you rich overnight.

(Note: We don't have a lot of experience with deflation as "normal" in modern economies, so if crypocurrency comes with low deflation, like we have low inflation, we'll all have to adjust our expectations with money.)
The IPCC working group 1 summary talks about the physical effects, that's a pretty good primary source if you want a lot of detail and tons of references to trace down.
Active Management Technology (AMT) is built on top of Intel ME. ME lets a trusted party control the computer without letting every peer control the computer.
People have been ignoring it for decades now, and it's not going to change due to another UN report regardless of timing. Everyone wants the upper middle class US lifestyle, and the future will have to pay for it.
Do you ask publishers to put javascript on their site?