skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently in an AirBnB which saved me from spending a fortune on a hotel or trying to do the impossible - rent a place for one month in Zürich.

Both the app and website UX are horrid though.

In the long run I prefer this over hotels. Not only the price is better, but you also usually have access to amenities like a kitchen or washing machine.
I had an experience where an Airbnb host canceled on me at the last minute because they "forgot" they had double-booked the apartment on a competing service. I was unable to leave a bad review because I had not stayed in the apartment. I contacted Airbnb and they confirmed that this is their policy. They claimed an automated message would appear on the listing indicating the host's cancellation -- but it never did.
IANAL. My understanding is that "Punishment fines" aren't dischargable in a Chapter 7, but a chapter 13 could be used to help make it easier to pay them down over time. "Reimbursement fines," which are fines where the government is trying to recoup its costs, are dischargable.

Now, Manning was held in civil contempt and not criminal contempt, which MIGHT make a difference, but I'm guessing not for chapter 7? But, again, not a lawyer.
Ask HN: Less strict than r/Covid-19 but still reasonable Subreddit?
I think I have possibly discovered the main reason why the COVID-19 in Italy is so devastating but I am lacking scientific background to discuss this idea (I have just a master in CS) and the idea is so recent that I have not had much time to refine it fully.

Still, if the hypothesis is correct then it can help Spain, that has similar social structure as Italy, to save possibly thousands of lives.

The main concept behind the idea is comparison between mortality in Italy and Germany and conclusion that the cause of the high mortality in Italy is members of extended family living together - younger generation has mild or no symptoms that is then infecting older generation under the same roof resulting in high mortality.

I have created GitHub Pages based website to explain the idea in more detail http://www.savespain.eu/ The main reason for choosing GitHub is allowing transparency and collaboration.

I am looking for an channel where I could discuss this idea.

I completely understand that it sounds like a speculation from a crazy amateur but there is too little time and there are so many lives at stake, I really think it deserves some spotlight.
Just follow the link... it says:

> What will funds go toward specifically?

> We will need legal funds for Chelsea’s legal fees, and legal costs such as court transcripts and travel, and commissary.
My take from the article is that one needs sufficient confidence and persistence to set a goal, a plan to achieve it, and the self-discipline to do the work to achieve it. Self directed learners have a better possibility to do this, especially if they have mentors to help them to get over the hard spots. Of course, one wants to "pay forward" this type of help.
Totally agree. I was just countering the parent comment that said "occam's razor points this way" with "nah it points the other way." I don't intend to say we necessarily should follow it in either direction.
I don't see how anything about this is sinister, how the email masking and SSO requirement are related in any way, or why the solution involves signing up for your company's service.

It could hardly be called anticompetitive for Apple to require SSO in apps that already provide third party SSO. This has been discussed on HN recently. App developers who use their own client authentication and no third party SSO are unaffected.
Yes but to GP's point what are their costs? Marketing and a website? The last place I went to book for 3 days had almost $90 in 'service fees'. ???
Let me clarify. In this particular case there has been plenty of arguing already and no progress in more than 50 years. So I'm suggesting it is time to start experimenting more.
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I'm actually planning on declaring war against pattern matching in EcmaScript, which is stage 1 right now. I can't believe how popular it can be. To me it looks like a huge antipattern, a complete different way of writing conditionals from ifs, built in a way that can lead to completely unreadable code (for complex matching) and very inconsistent behaviour. And just like switch-case, become something to avoid outside of byte-sized or plain literal matching.

Not to mention how much each language differs in how the syntax and behavior is implemented, making it harder for beginners everywhere to ramp up.

Like the smart-match clusterf* in Perl, pattern matching is just too darn clever for its own good.
It came under question several years ago, too. As far as I can tell, Carol Dweck's response was basically to no-true-Scotsman any failures as being based on "false growth mindset" [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/12/how-pr...
You may want to reconsider relying on /r/COVID19 as a source of information. There's been a lot of criticism on how they are applying censorship, and no transparency around it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f2jiyz/uclo_jun...
Norway has very good air quality and still relatively hard hit.
And yet breathing around fog machines is uncomfortable and can cause real problems if you have asthma. Safe is a loaded term here.
Pun-tastic :-\
A goal was you can treat it Exactly like an "Interface". I agree it looks totally nonsensical but I think of it as a text replacement.
if a device that is taken from me by whoever without my consent would automatically lead me to assume that it has been compromised. whether that's the case or not is beside the point. if you're only worried about surveillance-capitalism maybe it isn't in part of your threat model. for me it is. there are plenty of people in LE who overstep simply because they can.

> Do you really think there are authorities planting evidence on phones?

I don't think so I know it. please read the HackingTeam leaks and other OSINT sources. you'll find plenty of attempts in them making every effort to do so. You don't need a tinfoil hat, just travel to an area that is hostile to your passport.
What a great question! Because it's implemented as a const/codegen feature I'm not sure what it would mean to support it for proc macros. Probably gnarly design/RFC work?
Slack Drops on Forecast Miss, but CEO Sees Coronavirus Boost
This is, of course, the whole point of consumer protection.

The trend of all these "regulation arbitrage" startups seems to be to show consumers why the regulation existed in the first place.
That is pretty interesting but non-trivial. We'll have to think about it. Thanks for the suggestion. I should mention our business model is not based on monetizing users data.
I'm interested to know more about your personal project. Feel free to shoot me an email if you are interested in having offline discussions and bouncing ideas off each other: rafiee at visualone dot tech
If you look at the ratio of test/positive people, and assuming that lower the ratio more wide spread testing is, Japan isn't doing bad. I don't remember exact numbers but when I looked at the numbers recently it was something like 3.5% for South Korea, 17% for Italy and 5% for Japan.
Since you're one of the authors: TPC_RR is a typo.
And to avoid contact between players.
Covid-19 dynamics with SIR model
Utilities. Agriculture/food production (a subset of the sector often called "Consumer Staples").

However, that information isn't very useful now. The difference is already priced in.
Many managers don't actually know how to handle WFH well. To help with the transition we decided to give away our eBook on the subject (which is usually paid). You can download the ePub/PDF here: https://knowyourteam.com/m/managing_remote_teams

Maybe share it internally and see if they change the policy. Getting a new job now might be tricky.
> yet to be proven that is safer than C/C++ with various tools.

What "various tools"? Buffer overruns were old-hat decades ago. Impossible in Pascal in 1970, impossible in ALGOL-60 years before that. If the C/C++ tools to protect against buffer overruns in 2020 are worse than the technology of sixty years ago, how much longer do you suggest we wait?

> Because one issue

This isn't the first buffer overrun issue. This isn't the first buffer overrun issue in 2020. PHP has had a buffer overflow which could leak data or crash. IBM DB2 has had a buffer overflow which could allow an attacker to gain privileges. macOS and all iPad/WatchOS and iTunes for Windows have had buffer overruns leading to arbitrary code execution. Samsung Galaxy S10 has. QEMU has. pppd has. SQUID has. CA Nimsoft has arbitrary code execution buffer overflow. PHP Multibyte string handling has. Emerson OpenEnterprise SCADA, libmysofa, OpenJPG, mRuby, libMing, Cisco Unified Contact Center, Honor smartphones, QEMU iSCSI handling, Intel Graphics Drivers, Adobe Reader arbitrary code execution (Again!)

just look https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=buffer

and that's only the CVE disclosed ones.

> If you think that's possible why no-one is actually doing it?

It's cheaper and more profitable not to bother.
> "How do you rate your C++ knowledge on a scale of 1..10?" and pretty much invariably get a "8 or 9!"

I'd guess that not even the members of the standard committee really know 90% of C++.
What's interesting is, many South Koreans still believe the South Korean government is to blame. Perhaps no people are satisifed by their government?

Usual counterarguments are like these:

1. The government should have prevented the entry of foreign nationals who recently visited China. It could buy us some time to develop treatment to the disease. To this day, no such ban has been imposed.

2. It should have prohibited masks from being exported in January. Many masks are suspected to be exported to China, which is believed to have contributed the scarceness of masks. Thankfully, the exportation is banned now.

3. The government shifts a little too much responsibility to the cult. In addition, some people blames Daegu, where the cult made thousands of people infected, for not handling the situation properly, to prevent the central government from being blamed.

But after seeing the reactions of other countries, I'm starting to believe South Korea's actions were actually pretty good, at least relatively. What do you think?
Maybe it is quick decision making, but the list of decisions is questionable. This one the most:

> events with more than 100 people forbidden.

Which still allows rapid infections of relatively large groups of people.

In Italy you can't even walk outside without a valid reason (buying groceries, medical emergency, solo exercising).
>I know it really fucked him up to out her

Did it really? Lamo was a person who’d go out of his way to seek out kids to snitch on just to amuse himself.
She leaked after she followed the correct whistleblowing channels.

Whistleblowing only works if the people significantly higher up aren't supportive or complicit with the illegal actions.
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Behold: the dumbest stack-less postfix notation evaluator written purely to abuse that new pattern matching!

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=beta&mode=debug&edition=...
That's true of the stock market and every other market. For stocks, a bunch of market makers of major financial firms set the "market" for these stocks. The same for forex, commodities, you name it.
You basically do AM of the laser, and then otherwise normal baseband radar processing. You don't need much bandwidth, but more bandwidth needs less SNR, as you can do superresolution if you have sufficient SNR.

There is no need for an FPGA, but you will rather quickly throw FFT correlation processing at it.

This would not use any delay lines. You'd just need to lock the sampling of your ADC to the signal generation, because 2ns jitter are 30cm/1ft jitter in distance.
As a German I noticed that you said global retailer. Only Walmart is (was) truly global imo and left Germany.
How about giving the users full control over them and let them delete them individually and also all of the past alerts at once after they view them?
Wait, I can't find Love Actually and Say Anything in the post. Are you talking about a draft?
I came across more recent statements from Crowdstrike, but failed to save them, and must dig them up again. Will attempt to do so (I've noticed that Google has gotten more efficient at letting me fail to find previously discovered materials, but I hope to be able to be back with my references)

Re: Assange - yes - he is quite circumspect.
Money was definitely not the least of the problems in Puerto Rico when the grid went down.
Zion Williamson was already regarded as the consensus #1 pick prior to the NCAA tournament. Yes, I think Zion Williamson would still be as legendary as he is now without last year's tournament. If the extra rest would have led to him not getting injured in the NBA preseason, he may even be considered more legendary.
>> Hardware IDs will be forged

>Seems like a victory for privacy. Who wants to be tracked via hardware IDs?

Those are probably not the hardware ids you're thinking about. They're the hardware ids used in trusted computing (eg. remote attestation, TPM sealing), not the ones used for fingerprinting.

>People actually rely on proprietary hardware encryption? They should have learned the lesson when built-in SSD encryption turned out to be worthless.

This is a very naive take on what's at stake. With disk encryption, there's the risk of an evil maid attack (where the attacker replaces the bootloader with a malicious one and intercepts your key next time it boots). One way of preventing this is by using trusted computing to ensure that the encryption keys are only released when the system is at a known good state (ie. bootloader hasn't been tampered with). This applies to both proprietary solutions (bitlocker) and free ones (tpm-luks).
FWIW, runtypes is now part of my standard utility kit (along with utility-types[0]) for every TypeScript project I start. I don't leave home without it, and (AFAIK) it checks off every box mentioned as a problem by the author of the article.

At my employer, I just whacked it straight into our new API codebase on day one and people took to it immediately. It's great, great stuff.

[0]: https://github.com/piotrwitek/utility-types
> why keep engaging with them?

So you can survive getting second-guesses by random internet people.
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Indeed. You must've missed the memo. I know I did. The Internet is a safe space for serious business now. It's no longer just the fun world of lol cats, memes, and pr0n. We have serious things now. Like Facebook. And Snapchat.
Do you have the numbers handy?

And note, I mean hit hard with high severity cases. Not just cases. My hypothesis is that it is already everywhere. Most of this exponential growth is just how fast we can deploy testing.
I remember the Prediction API was deprecated.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200112103521/https://cloud.goo...

It used to be here https://cloud.google.com/prediction/ which now redirects to what I assume is its replacement.
1) Please don't read too much into that. I meant it as an umbrella term. When I say "it wasn't", I'm sort of un-smearing all of them, as an umbrella. I have no problem with Russians (I actually like them - fun people - except in winter). I have problems with American disinformation.

2) Agreed. That was not a point of contention.
They have over 200+K members now, but they are secretive in that they don't identify themselves as such when they recruit other church members.

Or worse, even after the outbreak, some didn't reveal their affiliation with the cult. In one instance, a dude leading Daegu city's outbreak management team, didn't reveal his affiliation with the cult until after test came positive and coworker were also infected. They also refused to give names of their cult members, even as most of new Wuhan virus cases were linked to the cult and the gov't actively sought their members for quarantine.
Land of the free, home of the brave.
Bonafide needs, to the detriment of superfluous wants.
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but what about the risks of over-selling this disease? Look at Italy for example. I've read self-reports from healthcare workers claiming 200% hospital capacity. I can only image the needless death resulting from such panic.

Mind you that isn't covid 19 putting them over-capacity. 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. So it seems incredibly unlikely anything but panic is to blame for such absurdly high over capacity.
We've received a ton of questions on how to manage teams remotely this week as well. We decided to make our eBook on "Managing Remote Teams" free, to help ease the transition for teams moving to WFH.

This 60+ pages book is the result of months of research and interviews with successful remote companies (it’s usually a part of our paid product). We collected tips on pretty much everything, from onboarding to communication best-practices, to tools you should consider.

https://knowyourteam.com/m/managing_remote_teams
Ask HN: My company is forcing remote work. How to be effective?
I work for a fairly old-school company.

Coronavirus plan came down from on high today and mandated that anyone who does not need to be in the office to get their work done start working from home.

My group (about 10 people) is very much a "meet in person" team so this will be new to us.

We currently manage work through weekly planning meetings, daily check ins, a kanban board, and github. Lots of 1-1 and group meetings to talk through problems, review code, etc.

For communication tools, we have skype chat, conference call lines, and email.

What are the best practices we should get into to make this effective?
Come to italy - it is.
Princeton Creates Virtual Community Building After Moving Classes Online
AirBnB has been my de-facto landlord for about half of the last 18 months, all over the world. I've had two sub-par experiences (both in London fwiw) and one really-actually-bad one that nearly turned into a fistfight with the "host", who was illegally renting the place and furious that I, quite reasonably imho, contacted the condo desk to be let into the space.

AirBnB gave me a refund and a 10% off coupon for that last one. Overall I've been happy with it; must just be luck.

Nice to have my own apartment again though. The nomad life is fun, I just wanted a home after awhile.
I’ll nominate Professor Brian Greene as another. He puts space, time, and systems thinking into perspective.
You will not feel this way when you're 80
TripIt web displaying travel details of other users
What the "survivorship bias" dismissal of things like this always neglects is that something can be a necessary, but not sufficient condition for success.

Ok, some people who dive in and try things don't succeed. But do any people who don't dive in and try things succeed?

Yeah, if you try you might still fail. Most intelligent people realize this is a possibility. If you don't try you will definitely fail though.
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When you start 3+ years before the known threshold date, you're giving yourself the best chances at success. I remember flashing BIOSes for weeks in the computer labs at my university.
taped to the boom box playing Peter Gabriel you hold aloft outside their offices

That's Say Anything. It's a movie from the previous century. The scene from Love Actually you can actually recognize from gifs and recent SNL parodies.
> Why would you forgive student loans? That way you reward incompetence

It's the opposite: it's a step toward removing the moral hazard that allowed predatory loans to be offered to students in the first place. The logical end-point is to get back to free or affordable tuition.

> Instead, you should give each young person $300k

Admirable suggestion, but how does that _not_ create perverse incentives to e.g. blow it all speculating on Hearthstone cards?
I don't think I'd endorse this strategy. I've seen a few resumes mention Rust just because it's popular without actually knowing much about the language. If I see something on your resume I expect you to know it.
That's a really hard thing to say this early. For all we know many 80+ people are asymptomatic and most older people aren't negatively affected at all by covid 19. It seems really dangerous to conflate actual mortality rate with mortality rate among the confirmed cases. Those numbers will be drastically different with diseases that have many asymptomatic carriers.
> people literally spent tens of billions of dollars in effort to fix it

The sceptic inside me is curious as to how much they actually accomplished in their effort to fix it. I mean, yes, they spent billions to get millions of lines of code read, but how many fixes have been made and what would be the cost (when compared to those billions of dollars spent) if they weren't fixed at all.
I'm not sure about denormalize full-time jobs, but normalizing WFH is a good thing. It does require different practices though.

Our company has a ton of training material on managing remote teams, and due to high demand because of the virus, we decided to make our eBook on "Managing Remote Teams" free. Maybe we can help ease the transition for teams moving to WFH.

The 60+ pages book is the result of months of research and interviews with successful remote companies (it’s usually a part of our paid product). We collected tips on pretty much everything, from onboarding to communication best-practices, to tools you should consider.

https://knowyourteam.com/m/managing_remote_teams
> That’s tough because often I’ve had coworkers who give their thumbs up or thumbs down based on “he had it on his resume and I asked him basic question X and he had no idea, terrible”.

I do that sometimes, if it's truly fundamental to the language/technology. For example, if someone lists C and clearly doesn't understand memory allocation/ownership well enough to append to a dynamically-allocated array, I'll say no hire. Likewise if someone lists SQL but can't do a join. Maybe if they were fantastic in some other way I'd let it slide but so far that's never happened...

Just don't put things on your resume if you don't know anything about them. It's not that hard. I get emphasizing something because you want to work with it more, but you should have worked with it _some_ first.
I had uniformly excellent AirBnB experiences in Tokyo, five out of five.

As a solo traveler. Nowhere I stayed was remotely suitable for a family of four.
This is the norm for Microsoft... it's the exception when governments lend their help.