skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>so my statement still holds.

No, it doesn't because not every form of belief is equally justified. If you believe your currency has value because the Aztec god of fertility has bestowed value upon it then you'll have a problem when you figure it that not everyone agrees.

The American government and the American economy underpinning the dollar however represent vital goods and services as well as security provided and have an army to back it up so the chance that it magically loses all its value is just about nil.

A mistaken assumption, common among crypto folks for very obvious reasons is that just because a system is the result of social consensus, all such systems are of equal status and equally risky. This is not so.
Boeing to FAA: We think following this regulation is pointless and we're hoping you won't enforce it.

FAA: You guys haven't learned anything, have you?

Boeing: Oh, all right, if you insist.
Oracle Dual Table: What Is Dual Table in Oracle
serious question: all of the reporting around the FBI and its intentions focuses on iPhones. There is not much reporting about android phones, though. Is this because they are generally not as airtight in design as iphones are? Is it because iPhones are more likely to be up-to-date in terms of patches and security updates, and hence android is easier to crack? Is it because Samsung, Google, etc, have been more willing to play ball, so the FBI has not had to wage a public battle?

the article mentions it but not much detail:

> Android devices, on the other hand, end up having large variations in the security of devices from different manufacturers, which may have their own vulnerabilities or may have difficulty distributing security and Android operating system updates to phones quickly.
30-40% of Americans maybe.
Not a lawyer but I'd imagine depends on the way they wrote the license. Like with software if someone open sourced something and then wanted to make it closed source, if they own the copyright 100% and you didn't violate the license you could keep using the current version but their new private changes you wouldn't get.

So I'd imagine something similar unless the license expires after X time but that doesn't make sense in open source as haven't seen that other than in commercial closed source programs, and even then some programs still work but you won't get updates unless you pay to upgrade or a yearly maintenance fee.

However you might want to document these things, heard once some copyright troll put images out under a free license and then changed their mind so went after websites using it.
So the lifeform is the disease? I think assigning "lifeform" status to an illness is not really helpful.

Viruses are just replicators. Grey/Green/Brown/Bio goo. They are just dumb machines made by brute-forcing (fuzzing) more complex machines' immune systems.

Viruses might be a different branch on the RNA-replicator tree. Probably when the first replicators started some found - again via brute-forced mutations - that there are some replicators that they can take advantage of to replicate themselves.

And it just seems that closing this security hole is neigh impossible as long as we don't start to seriously tinker with that low level of "life" (eg. cellular machinery, transport, nucleus, messenger and transcription security).
You're absolutely right. We have been finalizing the details. we will add to the website asap. If you have additional specific concerns/thoughts, I would definitely like to know what they are.
I wonder why you decided to contrast programming and programming languages with mathematics. Your second sentence makes perfect sense if you replace programming with math.
> But it’s better than no ownership framework.

That hardly follows. "IP" has very different properties than land, and "no ownership framework" is hardly the only alternative under consideration.

Even to the extent that land ownership and idea ownership can be analogized, using the former to justify the later is a poor argument on account of the enormous known systematic problems with the former. In particular, there's a reason why economists borrowed the term "rent" to mean "benefit received for non-produced input."

> The thing to do now is understand it.

That doesn't justify anything either. Did organized crime just take over your neighborhood? Understanding their priorities will help you deal with the problem, but it doesn't make them good and it doesn't make them worth protecting.
This is 2008 research from a lab in Wuhan. They created a virus by combining SARS-CoV with HIV, targeting the human ACE2 molecule as receptor. These features match those of our current pandemic.
> I do believe I owe it to those in my community to do my best to ensure we have a safe, healthy, and thriving community

This is a collectivist morality that not everyone shares. I would argue that American culture is fairly anti-collectivist (at least as I've observed today)

I, however, agree with the general sentiment that others' welfare may be in the individual best interest so maybe that's the avenue to persuade individualist.
People have been saying for a while the stock market was ripe for a downturn. It had been in one of the longest periods of consistent gains ever. Lots of things were overvalued and with the double hit of a pandemic which is certainly already having economic effects and an oil war within OPEC, one tends to think that companies are going to start making significantly less money (compound with aging population not being replaced with young people). Jumping off a burning ship isn't necessarily irrational.
Alphabet's internet balloons remain grounded in Kenya
I was a programmer for a large school district in the bay area from 1996 to 1999. What a great way to cut my teeth professionally!

Yeah, it was a big deal. Pretty much all dev work was done by me and one other guy. How much dev work could a school district have back then? Oh, lots. Every school, and in some cases individual educators, would send in requests for various reports, and each one required configuring a mainframe job, running it, and doing some kind of thing with the output (conversion to a "modern" format on a 3.5" disk or printing it or something). Every payroll cycle required a lot of manual labor, every report card cycle, there were daily student attendance jobs, and this particular district had a rather advanced, for the time, centrally-managed network across the entire district with Solaris DNS.

So on top of all this regular workload, we had to go over pretty much every single line of COBOL in that mainframe, visually, and search for Y2K-related bugs. There were many. The Solaris box needed to be patched too, and the first patches that came out weren't great and I didn't know what I was doing yet either.

So we started on this in earnest in Summer of 1997, while everyone was out of school. We ran a lot of test jobs, which involved halting all regular work, monkeying around with the mainframe's date, and then running a payroll job to see what blew up. By late 1999, my mentor there was pulling multiple all-nighters. He had a family of his own too and it really impacted his health.

There were mountains of greenbar printouts in our little office, all code, with bright red pen marks. Such was life when working on a mainframe at the time. The school district also brought out of retirement the guy who had written much of the key operating system components for our mainframe. I believe he came on as a consultant at rates that would be pretty nice even by today's standards.

In the end, school restarted after winter vacation and most things ran okay. A few jobs blew up where we had missed something here or there, but everyone by then had got sort of accustomed to the chaos and it just needed a phone call to say, "it broke, we're working on it, call you tomorrow".

Rough estimate, there was probably over a thousand hours' worth of labor to fix it all. Had that not been done, virtually nothing in that school district would have worked correctly by the beginning of 2000. (Some things started failing a month or two in advance, depending on the date arithmetic they needed to do.)

And these weren't just "year 100" printer errors; a lot of things simply barfed in some fancy way or another, or produced nonsense output, or -- in the most fun cases -- produced a lot of really incorrect data that was then handed off to other jobs, which then produced a lot of even more incorrect data, and then saved it all to the database.
Just a bunch of useful tools and ideas our team has picked up along the way while being remote only for the past few years.
No that's too late. You want to buy low and sell high, not the other way around!
This would be an indirect death sentence to many. Involuntary confinement is extremely stressful and has been known to lead to irrational acts like suicide. Why do you think they take your belt and shoelaces when you get incarcerated?
A different APL in Forth: http://www.cosy.com/CoSy/
Yes, but pretty much all asset classes are getting hammered except gold.
Past performance is no guarantee of future success. Using the worst case scenario so far as meaning "worst possible scenario" is a fallacy (consider that the past "worst case" was already surprising to people back then because it was worse than the "past's past").

Not to imply we should panic over a low probability event, just pointing out that we should be careful about Kurtosis.
This looks like it's basically just an installer for Kubeflow -- this is not "managed" at all.

And where did you get that TFX has been replaced by this? You can run Kubeflow pipelines (including those created by TFX) on this.
What do you mean? Passive investing has been a sound strategy throughout every other financial crisis we've weathered. There's no reason to believe it won't keep working now.

Just hold the course, and keep investing.
Doesn't look like the market is very impressed; still down 8-9%.
I'm glad to hear that. I didn't have the best flight and was really happy to be home.. so it definitely stuck with me when that happened.
Also.. is it possible that mine was a different thing? The agent just held up a random webcam, it wasn't on a "legit" scanner.
Smartwatches are far more practical if you need more than time / date / stopwatch / timer. Some smartwatches can go several days on a charge depending on how much you use the GPS tracking or apps.
http://wondermark.com/1k62/ seems apropos.
US Military Scientists Hope to Have Coronavirus Therapeutic by Summer
They did start working on it 4 months ago. The CDC has been on the case since then. Mind you, China was not cooperating with us and wouldn't allow our experts into the country while it was getting bad there. They are ramping up rapidly and we'll see that over the next few days.
You're darn tootin' it was real. It was only through the dedicated, focused efforts of thousands of unsung IT heroes that we averted catastrophe.

Just because it didn't happen doesn't mean it couldn't have.

Even in the late 80's I had to argue with some colleagues that we really shouldn't be using two-digit dates anymore.

I worked with 80-column punched cards in the 70's, every column was precious, you had to use two-digit years. When we converted to disc, storage was still small and expensive, and we had to stay with two-digit years.

See: http://www.kyber.ca/rants/year2000.htm
Needs 4 wheels to be considered a car. Nice trike though.
To use your own words, people who are "decent in actions and general respectfulness" would be a better phrasing.

The way you define I would only consider nice those who are genuinely kind to me. If it's not genuine, they are not nice, just pretending to be nice. So, by (my) definition, I would trust nice people in business.
Perhaps somewhat true, but I was around SV in the '90s and the same phony startup culture was alive and well back then, perhaps even more than today.
I really enjoyed Steins;gate zero just saying
Well the problem with that is many people use the cameras for security also. So if a bad actor comes and takes the camera with them/breaks it, there would be no way for the users to get access to the footage after the fact to know what happened.
I’d love to connect with you. I’ve been developing a discrete time control systems model of the central dogma as a signal processor of environmental EM radiation (eg heat).
Oops! My bad!
DNS, Whois, and SSL/TLS substitution protection
> so this explains why 20 seconds

Where? I've read the thread three times now and I still have missed the part about 20 seconds. Why not 10 or 30?
As they are specifically talking about new programmers, using gdb in your example effectively communicates and confirms their point.
>Every American's life savings is in the stock market

First, you are exaggerating. Secondly, why is this a good thing? Maybe the whole damn world should re-evaluate this.

99% of people are not "investing", they are throwing money in something that should magically keep going up over time because everyone wants it to magically go up over time.
> They are providing short-term loans

They're also buying assets, e.g. Treasuries. This is about increasing liquidity, not printing money.
Adjusting acpi_video brightness increments on FreeBSD
Makes sense. Good thought
> Why would I follow someone with only 73 followers in the first place?

Because not all your friends are rich famous celebrities? (Or maybe they are, I don't know you, I'm just spitballing here..)
Classless society (or programming) is like cell-less biology.
Clustered Deployment
The capitalization treatment in the title of the post (not just here in HN) is like nails on a chalkboard.
> I just place no value on others being nice to me. I care much more about do they treat me with respect and decency? Are they honest?

Anyone who's been in The South for an appreciable length of time won't need to hear this, but it's totally possible to be "nice" while also being a jerk.

Respect and honesty go a long way towards productive conversations.
There are 'sufficient' soaps, 'dilute' soaps, and 'specific' soaps.

Most soaps are some concentration of SDS/SLS - with various additives to make it smell good, be nicer on your skin, but are otherwise the same, or very similar from an active ingredient perspective.

There are concentrated and dilute versions of those soaps.

Then there are soaps (like fancy laundry detergents) that are supplemented with various enzymes to specifically target certain kinds of contaminants commonly found in clothes.
>how can we find 1.5t in the budget

Central bank ≠ treasury.
I don't think anyone is being partisan and tribal for the hell of it. Before last night, Trump's concern re: coronavirus was myopically focused on the economy. Now we're shutting the borders, as if we don't have upwards of a thousand cases here already. And as a sibling comment notes, it seems like Senate Republicans are poised to veto the coronavirus bill that's passed the House.

It's not "partisan and tribal" to criticize this administration and the GOP for their failure to respond.
If they were doing a good job here, it would be one thing. But they're not, and for that we need to hold them accountable.
Our end-to-end latency is about 3-4 seconds now but we know we can bring that down to less than 2 seconds in the near future and maybe even less than 1 second in longer term.
Seeing a lot of companies doing these for b2b applications. Are you fully focused on b2c?
it's not a stimulus it's loans to prevent a liquidity crisis and the credit markets from freezing up. It was the credit markets in 2008 that nearly killed the world economy. They dwarf the stock market.
Well, as long as everyone else in the community also believes in the Aztec God, the money will hold value.

That there are different confidence levels in our beliefs doesn't refute my point that it's fundamentally about collective beliefs.

I do agree that the chance that the dollar loses all it's value is about nil.
He's a dude. It's ridiculous that any sane voice here is [dead]ed
interesting point of view
Physically, what constitutes the infection?
You can have an encapsulated object that is immutable and is not a bag of static functions anymore than any object is a bag of static functions. Look at Scala's interfaces for immutable collections.

* they are encapsulated. You don't know how the data is stored internally.

* There is message passing involved (at the JVM level). The methods are virtual and you don't know exactly which method is being called. There can also be multiple implementations using different data structures.

* Late binding is again as defined by the JVM (interface table method lookup)

In contrast, a static function is no different than a global variable. When you call it, you know exactly (sans JVM linking) which function you are calling.
>There is no world in which buying options in a volatile single stock is a very safe bet

I agree. I didn't pick up that CMG was Chipotle (that's what comes up when I search CMG). Do you think if the underlying was something diversified, this would be a safe strategy?

> this is gambling, not hedging.

My understanding of it is that in times of high volatility, options go up. If OP expects ^VIX to go up in the future, which I think is very safe to assume at this point, then won't the value of a diversified option go up?

Again, maybe I'm confused... I don't really trade anything, so I don't have skin in the game. I just talk about the markets a lot with my friend who is into Quant Finance.
Worried? Chaos is the new cocaine.
> our cats wear bells

My experience is that bells don't work. Partly because cats, in my experience, wait or stalk patiently and then move very fast so any noise from the bell is too late to act as a warning.

I once saw our last cat (Norwegian long haired tabby forest cat) catch a bat just by waiting for it to fly over him at which point he just put up a paw and snatched it out of the air.

Also he could actually run without his bell making a noise, and that was a bell that I could hardly move an inch in my hand without it tinkling.
> I also need to know the major events occurring in the world.

I'm curious what line of work you're in which requires you to know all that.
I found a complete version, http://mural.uv.es/aquingar/e-text012.htm (Ctrl+F for "The hands of Swenson"), but it isn't the story described by the OP.
Will the coronavirus trigger a corporate debt crisis?
Show HN: I am creating a campaign to mitigate COVID-19 crisis in Spain
I have been thinking a lot why there is such a huge difference between mortality in Germany and Italy and I may have figured it out.

This understanding could be possibly applied in Spain to avoid or at least mitigate similar level crisis that is currently taking place in Italy.

I created a GitHub Pages based website http://www.savespain.eu/ for the campaign. My main motivation for this choice is to promote transparency and collaboration. The GitHub page is located here https://github.com/savespain-covid19/Save-Spain

The main takeaway is that the main difference is most likely in the family structure - many Italians live together with their extended family while Germans do not (or they have by some other means that I am not aware of kept their elderly not infected by the corona virus).

If you think that this thinking is plausible then please support this campaign by either contributing or by sharing. It is especially important to reach Spanish people. I do not know any unfortunately at the moment yet.

The time is running out fast. There are only few days left to act. Lets push this together and save Spain!
If you operate in a country you fall victim to its patent laws, regardless of where you incorporate.
This grand jury is attempting to get her to testify on something she has already given sworn testimony on, hoping that she will make some contradiction in her previous statement they can use to prosecute Assange. Even if you agree with the original concept of a grand jury, this usage is appalling.
> The country is pretty much shut down.

No, it isn't yet. I'm in the office right now, with thousands of my colleagues.

> And you aren't going to be able to test ~60 _million_ people who will ultimately be infected with this

Maybe not, but you don't want to discourage people from getting tested now. Getting a positive test is an important cue to take extra stringent isolation measures.

Aggressive testing helps reduce the need for stringent, general measures like lockdowns:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-respon...
No, no, no. It was not a deprecation cycle. It was a complete stop using this because it's full of unclear semantics, here's the new thing cycle.

Py3 should have simply started to warn when you used "bla" without u"..." or b"...", and so on. To clear up the bad code. Then later ... maybe 10 years later, make "..." equivalent to u"...". Maybe.
I think what gdubs was trying to get across is that sure, there are problems, people to blame, etc. but now is not the time. We have to get our act together and handle the situation. We can't have petty fighting betweeen parties.

Now is the time to unite and act. We can fight, argue and point fingers once this is all behind us.
Kena.ai launches best-in-class AI based piano to sheet music transcription
See also:

- firefox and chrome

- ios and android

- mysql and postgres
I don't think you fully understand the subject. This money did not 'bail out wall street', it made sure the bottom did not drop out of the market which would affect pensions and savings plans of very large numbers of people. The thing to worry about is that it did not work.
Have you ever visited the east coast? Here's Boston's metro system for example.

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/maps/2019-04-08-rap...
There is no clear-cut distinction between the symptoms of the two - it's more an "if you hear hooves, think horse not zebra" thing. The New York Times article in the grandparent post literally points to the fact that Tom Hanks could get tested for coronavirus based on symtoms that were just like a cold as proof it's much easier to get tested in Australia than the US.

Except that if you read the ABC article, Australia only tests people who both have symptoms consistent with the disease AND either have travelled to an affected country or had contact with a confirmed case. Also, the US press has managed to convince a large (or at least vocal) chunk of the American public that if they can't get a Covid-19 test based on their cold-like symptoms it's somehow proof their healthcare system is falling behind the rest of the world in testing as part of a Trump cover-up, and it's leaking to the rest of the English speaking world. It's all over social media.
It's the closest to printing money as the real world gets. "Hey here's an insane amount of money at 0% interest rate so you could literally invest in ANYTHING and make free money. Go ham."

Lets remember what causes slowdowns in productivity, panics, the great depression, the recession etc: people being slammed with too high interest rates for what's feasible for them to repay when times are tough. If the fed offered low interest rates directly it would be a different world. Remember also, the world is an auction house, so when people get these kinds of perks and you don't, your money doesnt go as far.
These features are useful approximately what, once a century?

The cost of infrastructure for cars far, far outweighs the cost of a few weeks of no-one working, and the pollution has caused many more deaths than Coronavirus will.
Right. I'm not saying inheritance should never be used; just that it can be a distraction for learning what OOP is really about. If I were to teach OOP in Java to new students, I might start out just focusing on interfaces.
Yeah, sure, if they know about it at all. Also consider your threat model: are you worried your family will kidnap you to get access to your accounts? If you think they would, maybe you need a different plan. I mean otherwise, if they've got you kidnapped anyway, they could just beat the password out of you.