skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone provide an example of a country or a company that was not at all prepared for Y2K (there must be one somewhere?), and suffered disastrous consequences? That would seem to be the best way to answer the original question, but I haven't seen any such example provided.
I see the difference between determinism and superdeterminism but it's unclear to me why, if you accept the former, why you might not accept the latter.

I think it's worth thinking through and delineating superdeterminism to its utmost limits even if I wouldn't necessarily say I find it compelling.

I do wonder why the authors are so quick to reject nonreductionism though, as nonreductionism seems fairly reasonable to me. Maybe I have a different idea of nonreductionism, but it seems to me that rejecting nonreductionism is akin to accepting Laplace's demon which as far as I understand has been disproved. Basically, at some point the information in a system supercedes that of any system that might represent it faithfully, in part because of measurement effects -- there's a lot of parallels with QM issues.
I agree, I’m glad Rust is addressing it, one the most annoying things about D is the lack of stack traces and is the reason I stopped using it and switched to Go entirely, I wrote a blog post[0] about D vs Go and their approaches to stack traces, at least Rust acknowledges the problem.

[0] https://bithavoc.io/blog/2020/01/01/go-binary-size-descision...
Literally printing money and pushing up inflation would effectively claw back these dollars, yeah? So long as you send rebates to everyone else.
This is why the country is doomed because it's happening now at every workplace, school, store and club.

Everyone is breathing the same moist air when studies are showing it can survive for up to three hours in the air AND that you can catch it more than once since for some reason the body doesn't fully make immunity.

And people feel absolutely no responsibility to isolate themselves, everyone coughing and sneezing at any store I try to go to. They are just going to do whatever they want to do.

Imagine the world by the end of this year. Possible literal decimation.
Maybe when there are no flights they won't be needed anyway.
The Chaos Coming for the U.S. Election
Can confirm, despite the recent updates, the gestures are gimmicky and sometimes activate when not needed e.g song skips to the next one when reaching to pick up the phone.

The only truly useful thing is waking up the phone on detecting motion nearby, which could probably be done with a much simpler sensor.
Is that the machine John Titor was after??
So this has already been tested in humans: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

"Antibody level predicted to protect against chikungunya infection achieved within hours; projected to be maintained for at least 16 weeks at the middle and high doses"
Short term rentals to tourists isn't occupancy, it's occupation. Sorry for the hyperbole I just thought that was good wordplay.

These rentals drive up rents for the people in the community and remove housing stock from the market, making it more expensive and less likely for people to purchase their home and build equity. Rent is non recoverable unlike a mortgage, even if you ultimately take a loss.

Flooding the housing market with units for sale at a bargain would be great for common people trying to build wealth.
Go handles it shitty, like the past five decades of computer science and PL design never happened. For imperative languages, exceptions are perfectly fine as a way to encode failure as part of the domain of operations. If you're in functional fantasy land, the correct approach is to use a Maybe monad or, better yet, an Either monad. But Go supports neither of these and that's one of many reasons why it sucks for modern development. In TypeScript you can do better and, for the sake of others who have to maintain your code, you should do better.
Researcher builds AI rapper to spit sick rhymes – with mixed results
Republicans haven't been about fiscal conservation in a while.

It's also a mistake to just look at who controls the White House to figure out which party is in control when the economy does well economically. Both the executive and legislative branches matter and for the legislative, you need to control both houses. Even if one party controls the excutive and both houses of congress, it's hard to attribute the success of the economy to the current controlling party. Somethings the economy might be doing better because of current policies and sometimes it might be doing better because of policies enacted by the previous administration and congress, but the effects were latent.

In general, you can't take a macro look to determine which party is better for business. Instead you've got to look at things on a policy by policy basis and look at the first and second order economic impacts of specific policies.

Also, while Republicans haven't been very fiscally conservative in many years, most of the "huge bills being run up" are only sometimes from new spending. Most of the time, running up the bills is just from tax cuts. The democrats pass spending bills with accompanying taxes and the republicans are unable to undo both the spending and the taxes at the same time, so they negotiate for at least cutting taxes to help the economy, but the spending gets left in place.

The truth is that both parties are generally drunken spenders, but that one party has no issue taking more money from productive Americans to pay for their drunken spending.

FWIW, I'm neither a republican nor a democrat. Both parties are awful, but at least the Republicans try to let people keep money they've earned and rarely try to raise new taxes.
Eh, I'm a bit of a centrist with respect to AirBnb. It should be taxed, but there are advantages. This guy bought right when AirBnb was first starting and long before any of the displacement concerns that started ravaging cities. It's fair to complain about the impact that AirBnb can have, but it's also a bit rich to call these mom and pop owners leachers.
Manning has not been charged with contempt of court to my knowledge, so while there may be a legal way to imprison her the current imprisonment is illegal.
I do see these “automated reviews” left all the time in properties I’m looking to stay at. In this part of the world it’s quite common for that sort of accident to happen.
Agreed, but unless you can self-isolate, it's not going to last very long.

If you got tested weekly, the costs would soon mount up.....
What even is superdeterminism? Determined determinism? What?
I’ve heard claims like this before. Do you have a source?
Sure, you are free, but that you is precisely those electrons in "your" brain, nothing more and nothing less. So all there really is is electrons flowing in predictable ways, predictably choosing chocolate or strawberry.

Where is the "you" in that equation?
Walmartians?

Walmart has had a pretty savvy tech presence in SV for decades...
Today I had someone reply to a comment of mine saying that I'm a bot and to report me.

Am I not in on a joke? Or am I doing something bot like? Or do people use this to exploit mindless masses to abuse the reporting system?
growth mindset is the scientific justification to the self-help market. there is a modicum of usefulness behind it, but it negligently divides the world into red-pillers and blue-pillers.

when the fantasy ends (e.g. finding out it doesn’t work), the pain is overwhelming. there are better methods that do not require voodoo believery, but they just don’t sound as good (or hopeful or scientific).
Anecdotally, my younger sister spent last year as a foreign exchange student in Modena (northern Italy). She explained that she's not surprised at all about the impressively quick spread there as nearly everyone she knew and interacted with greeted each other with two kisses on the cheek! I can't imagine how difficult it must be to contain a virus with such deep ingrained cultural norms.
They said this before they decided to get addicted.
No. It. Won't.

Only philosophy will.
There are no economic losses too high as long as loss of life is less.
Is there any coherent fixed theory of superdeterminism at all? Something with a system of equations that are nailed down and that one could build solid thought experiments on top of?

The article mentions it but kind of downplays the fact that the prevailing theory of QM has a very clear mathematical formalism without any wiggle room, while superdeterminism doesn't have this.

That seems like a far better explanation for why QM has won, and makes me wonder whether superdeterminism wouldn't just be the next string theory.
Does disinfecting surfaces prevent the spread of coronavirus?
Hmm, I must be misunderstanding the implementation somehow. Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to dig a bit deeper to understand this work here.
My guess is the problem is more that there are too many such systems in use. So unifying the process to make a paper and web change requires updating a thousand different solutions.
I believe this is Richard Guy of "Winning ways for your mathematical plays". It's definitely worth browsing if you're interested in game theory or recreational math.
But at the time search wasn't really Microsoft's wheelhouse. That became immediately apparent to everyone who then immediately made the deliberate switch to Google. Essentially giftwrapping public trust in Microsoft and handing it to Google. Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot was the best thing for Google at that time.

Microsoft was prioritizing an unscalable revenue stream: advertising. Google was expanding the search market, and later came back for the advertising and browser markets once it had resources. Up until about the Google plus days Google never engaged in an endeavor with serious competition.
Cryptography Pioneer Ronald Rivest Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way
Italy has not yet reached the limit for ICU beds, whatever it is. People dying here is still within capacity, for now.
Fighting the Virus, Just Another Ordinary Day in Beijing
What is the difference between you picking what to eat and a computer 'picking' what 2 + 3 is? What you pick to eat is determined by your taste, mood, available food, a bunch of subconscious processes in your brain that you're not aware of and many other factors. If we ran a simulation of the same deterministic universe you would pick the same thing every time. Just because you don't know exactly why you did something or you aren't able to fully rationalise your choice, doesn't mean you have free will.
Genuine question here.
Any data on the typical duration of these loans? How long typically the Fed holds collateral?

I remember 2 years ago the market throwing a tantrum because of the fed unwinding it balance sheet. Doesn’t that mean that typical loans are never repaid and the Fed just let the bonds mature?
> studies are showing it can survive for up to three hours in the air

What studies are these? All the info I have seen talks about transmission requiring close contact with an infected person or directly breathing in droplets from their cough or sneeze.

> you can catch it more than once since for some reason the body doesn't fully make immunity

Where are you getting this from?
>>> I could probably train someone in a day to narrow a pool of applicants down to 50%, but I wouldn’t hope for more than that.

So that (and the 3% thing) interests me - I have always found myself on the wrong side of someone else's line - aorry Paul you cant take that exam / goto that university / get that job / build that software - and it riles me.

I wonder how often simply being told no, makes someone do it anyway and how you spot that in a day.
Didn't their founders not want an IPO at all?
It's actually much more than that, it's failing 99 times to get that one break; rinse and repeat 1,000 times to build something meaningful in 1~10 years.

Failure is the mother of all learning.

The more you fail, the more experienced you are (it's almost an equivalence relationship that grows in time with effort, attempts), the more you become likely to 'succeed' at that thing. I don't know of any other way.
I also understand that they control what amounts to a substantial private police force. Which is exactly what government must do, not Microsoft
Very entertaining! Seeing the position of the buildings, I was certain the video was going to end terribly.
Do I really need to list all of the cases of police corruption and brutality?
The daily historical on that website goes back to February 12th. Wuhan has been in lockdown since January 23.
> In the worst hit region in Italy (Lombardy) confirmed covid 19 cases represent enough cases to take up less than 10% of their hospital beds.

Do you have a source for this comment? This WaPo story from 6 hours ago says differently:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italy-coronaviru...

> Giulio Gallera, Lombardy’s health chief, said Thursday that the region would reach its capacity in “five, six or seven days,” even if it tried to add more beds in hospital “cellars.” In an interview with Italy’s La7 channel, Gallera described the possibility of adding 500 intensive-care beds at Milan’s expo center, the kind of rapidly assembled zone that China created in the hard-hit Wuhan area.
Home for the brave, lately
If one prominent evolutionary theory of reason's likely functional role (ie. it developed for justification & persuasion, not primarily decision making) is correct, then your judgement of 20thC philosophy's significance could be something of a tautology.

My impression (from undergrad & postgrad philosophy) was not far off - much philosophy is grounded in sincere attempts to clarify issues of importance, but it's largely doomed to failure (as are scientific attempts to take over canonical 'philosophical' problems - just witness neuroscience's often hilarious tilts at consciousness). That's too long an argument to justify here, but suffice it to say philosophy is truly excellent at revealing our limitations. Which strikes me as no bad thing for a species (and indeed era) whose primary motif could reasonably be considered to be the Dunning–Kruger effect.
My understanding is the Manning was refusing to testify to the Wikileaks/Assange grand jury - so this was basically being held for contempt of court.
I hastily read the headline as "TRS-80," and as such was a little disappointed not to find an article about an unusually specific artifact of personal computer repair history, a la the famous Mac Cracker.

Still, it looks like a cool device! I might have to try one.
I'm in Japan right now. I don't have any insight into government response, but there could be cultural factors that could have reduced the spread of the virus. In general, the Japanese avoid physical contact. They bow when they greet each other, money is exchanged on a tray rather than by hand, they typically don't hug, etc. Plus many people wear face masks. Occasionally when I bought something from a store, they would throw in a free face mask for me as well. And many businesses and restaurants put hand sanitizer at their enterance.
And they should build wealth by saving their surplus value, which means adding value. If they buy land at a reasonable price they avoid paying tax to bankers via interest.

Create wealth instead of appropriating it and everyone benefits!
Whenever I ask different ex-Pebblers about what killed the company, their perspective is always relative to their area of concern.
Even if she went back on it (which I think she never will), people would still obsess over the idea. The ‘growth mindset’ has an agency on its own, a proper meme in the psyche of modern populus.

Something similar would be the Marshmallow Experiment, which is still to this day completely misinterpreted. People just need bases for what they want to believe; the loads of new psychological theories have the same function as modern fake news does.
Yeah walmart is a really beautifully ugly beast of a company. On all levels, not hust tech...

Ill have to look into kevin turner though, i dont know who that is....

Anything you’d care to share/point at?
There's also this explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sf9fChyRoc
I think there is another factor as well: have a look at train stations during rush hour on East Asia currently vs. Europe. 1) the density is significantly higher but 2) nearly everyone is wearing surgical masks now. I think that mask wearing is an effective measure to slow down the spread, acting at the sender side rather than the receiver (which Western people tend to focus on). You can see a similarly lower exponential spread in other Asian nations compared to Europe and I think that masks plus a lesser degree of body contact can explain this largely.
I remember hitting a Y2K bug before 2008. We were working on a huge release, updating all of our external dependencies to the last version and moving from 32 to 64 bit. A 3rd party commercial lib we were using at the time would parse/format %y as a 2 digit year. There was a macro definition, that when defined would handle a 4-digit year, but it was off by default.

We caught it early in development, but it was still a pain in the ass rebuilding all of the projects that depended on it.
You should try signing up on Nextdoor. This isn't a hard problem, nor would anyone be forced to verify themselves if they don't want to.
> It annoys the TSA.

No, it doesn't. It annoys all the other travelers whom you are inconveniencing by slowing down the screening process. The TSA people who screen you are just going to follow their standard procedures in response to whatever you do; it's all the same to them.
Coronavirus vs. Constitution? When liberties meet a pandemic
I get chat these things evolve, and change over time.

My fascination is that we've very equivalent things (eg: WhatsApp and Telegram aren't that far apart), duplicated even in the same generation.

I did use ICQ, MSN, IRC then WhatsApp, but they didn't belong to the same periods.
I'm now on my phone, but the site I used went back longer. I'll compare when I can.

And again, China was worse. Italy is just worse than all places I checked that had a lot of cases, but not as many severe cases.
This is the skill I most actively attempt to cultivate and haven't managed to. John Carmack is the person who most embodies this ethos. It's always "How can I accomplish this?" rather than "Can this be accomplished?"
Speaking in the most general sense possible, having your armed forces firmly under control is traditionally a core part of staying in power; it's also very generally true that no person making the rules is going to actively hinder their own ability to keep doing so.

That's why it's super important to keep them aware that the little people are watching and taking notes; that's literally the only trump card we all have.
That seems to follow from determinism... if the universe is deterministic then everything must align exactly in such a way that if you simulated the universe it would be identical every time.
Not GP and not signing that content, but it does seem like there are two strains of it; if true, you can get it twice.
>Epidemiologists say it is not possible to compare the numbers directly. But some say the dramatically different outcomes point to an important insight:

Don't compare these numbers....but if we do it anyway...
I looked at all of the replies, but none of them mentioned the basic difference between a court proceeding (with lots of legal precedent) and a congressional impeachment (where they decide upon the rules they'll use, and are not bound by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure). (I'm trying very hard to keep this comment non-partisan. I think I did it.)
Huh, interesting. I'd never though there might be places were SMS are free.

Data was always way cheaper in Argentina, which is why WhatsApp quickly killed SMS, to the point where it's never really used anymore.
I suspect that it won’t be too long until the Fed starts to buy stock the same way the BoJ has been buying stock for nearly 30 years.
TypeScript is equipped for having and handling option (maybe) types (`T | null`) or result (either) types (`T | Error`), why not handle errors in a proper way ? A way the compiler ensures you handle all cases in every cases ?

If you do it the go way, I assume every fallible functions returns something like `[T, Error]` ? With no guarantees the error is actually checked.
They did exist, but they're far more discoverable with airbnb et al.
Well, let’s get past and anecdotes to data. There are clear statistics that police target minorities and the “War on Drugs” became about “treating a disease” as soon as it started hitting “rural America”.

So given the choice between giving the police more power and less power, I would much rather they have less power.
What would the alternative methods be?
There's a Russian spoof of "Terminator" which has Arnold going back to kill Judas. With the iconic lever-action shotgun (not consistent, I know). But Christ keeps bringing him back to life, to satisfy his father's will.
Beautify code in your Next.js blog
You seem to be fixated on some woo-woo, self-help meaning of "success". I just mean whether you complete the thing you're trying to do or not.
existential types allow you to make it dynamic. see https://wiki.haskell.org/Existential_type, there's a section comparing it to OOP-style dynamic dispatch

simple example copied from the linked article:

data Obj = forall a. (Show a) => Obj a

xs :: [Obj]
xs = [Obj 1, Obj "foo", Obj 'c']

doShow :: [Obj] -> String
doShow [] = ""
doShow ((Obj x):xs) = show x ++ doShow xs

we can have a "heterogenous" list of `Obj`s, like a java `ArrayList<IPrintable>`. each `Obj` is basically a pointer to the actual value of some type T and a pointer to T's Show dictionary (vtable). Which is afaik analogous to how OOP languages do it
The TSA was never really needed for anything other than security theater and creating bullshit jobs for politicians.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/1/8701741/tsa-screenings-hom...
Every "problem" that the post brings up is a consequence of incorrectly using good programming practices. Solution? Not use the good programming practices at all if we can't get it right.

Seriously, just hire a good senior software engineer
Is the repo private? I get a 404
I believe re point #1, it's this study:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

Abstract:
"32 HCoV-19 (SARS-2) has caused >88,000 reported illnesses with a current case-fatality ratio of ~2%. Here, we investigate the stability of viable HCoV-19 on surfaces and in aerosols in comparison with SARS-CoV-1. Overall, stability is very similar between HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1. We found that viable virus could be detected in aerosols up to 3 hours post aerosolization, up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to 2-3 days on plastic and stainless steel. HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 exhibited similar half-lives in aerosols, with median estimates around 2.7 hours. Both viruses show relatively long viability on stainless steel and polypropylene compared to copper or cardboard: the median half-life estimate for HCoV-19 is around 13 hours on steel and around 16 hours on polypropylene. Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days."

It's not peer reviewed yet so reader beware
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GPU prices goes down...

As China is shut down and can't make mew GPUs.

Linus Tech Tips has a good video what the shutdown affects: it suppliers of suppliers are slowed down due to quarantine, then they're in trouble too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPoPwrQwm_g
The concrete thing I can't find anywhere is the actual, on-paper set of rules this people set up, ideally grafted to some kind of explanation on why this ruleset made any sense in context.
Google has added nextstrain.org to its 'no review' OSS contribution list
Meanwhile the government has its eyes and ears covered and is refusing to test people, just to keep the official numbers down.