skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe in free will because it doesn't make sense when you understand determinism. You cannot be free when every thought & action is the outcome of the past forces exerted upon you.

My understanding of superdeterminism doesn't necessarily rule out the multiverse theory. Maybe my idea of the multiverse theory isn't traditional but I think the universe can very well identically repeat and or repeat but be somewhat different by how forces can be occurring at different intervals than the past cycle of the universe.

edit: people downvote on this site because they don't like thinking of not having free will lol.
not sure if i missed it but did patient 31 recover?
On ne saurait faire d’omelette sans casser des œufs.
Japan's problem is a bit different -- it's estimated that there are 30+K old folks dying unnoticed in solitude every year (Kodokushi) in Japan, even without the Wuhan virus. As cynical as it may sound, that may be why Japan doesn't even bother testing their citizens for the virus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/japan-lonely-d...
> have to live with the fact that their money is lost on the "right" chain

It's not that simple. Transactions can, and will be, replayed on both chains. There would however be many opportunities for attacks such as double spends for a short window of time.

> The two forks could exist for a long time after the split simultaneously,

That's not realistic. As soon as there is some communications between the chains, the system will reconcile. It's sort of the whole reason why this proof-of-work thing exists. Without the need to reconcile chain splits it would be sufficient with some sort of voting of proof-of-stake scheme.
You’re more likely to succeed when you actively try to succeed.

But it’s okay to procrastinate too. Let the future better version of you solve the problem.

The trick is finding balance.
Note: the story/headline also mentions Comcast (couldn't fit it in the character limit) cutting introductory service fees. However, it does not (yet) note that Chicago's mayor just announced Comcast will also be giving free internet and free high speed internet to low income households nationwide:

https://twitter.com/paschutz/status/1238227635328745472

> Lightfoot: Effective Monday, Comcast will double internet speeds to low income households nationally. Also, 60 free days of internet for low income households. Lightfoot says the move came after requests from her office.
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute provides free, worldwide weather forecast information via an API [1].

Perhaps some public-minded German-speaking developer could create a free no-ad app using this data, to provide WetterOnline with some competition.

[1] api.met.no
I don't mind non-violent civil disobedience like Airbnb promotes, no matter the issue I think it's a great reaction to bad laws and poor infrastructure planning.
It's explicitly one of the language's non-goals[1].

> Add or rely on run-time type information in programs, or emit different code based on the results of the type system. Instead, encourage programming patterns that do not require run-time metadata.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
It's generally hard for trans people to find employment, period -- and I doubt she has meaningful job skills given her extended imprisonment. That said, trans people rally around our own so she shouldn't have trouble surviving; but whether or not that life is existentially fulfilling is another question...

Also, I don't think it's legal to jail someone over unpaid debt (though many states will certainly try). They can do all sorts of things like garnish your wages, but federal courts don't throw people in jail for being poor.
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Per https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... the number of deaths is very strongly correlated with how many are 70+.

Median and average don't matter. Density of senior citizens does.
Yes absolutely. We took what we felt was the bare essential idea of DDD (bounded contexts) and ran with it. The fewer patterns the better. Allows you to work with fewer constraints, assuming you are responsible with the added power.

Bounded contexts are IMO the most powerful abstraction out there for accurately constructing a very complex business system. They directly get at the root of the problem, which is aligning the implementation with the same grain as the business. They also permit complete isolation of various business units which might have unique perspectives into what would otherwise be shared (and increasingly-convoluted) models. In our latest implementations, models are never shared between contexts. There might be a few models defined in the outer domain scope for things we believe apply universally to the application. Any cross-context communication is achieved via simple mappers.
Simplifying the borrow checker is a slightly different question than simplifying "the language" (meaning the syntax and/or behavior of the syntax), because the latter can break backwards-compatibility (which is why it likely won't happen).

But the borrow checker is an interesting case because simplifying its rules in such a way that they're more tolerant (without sacrificing safety) might reduce cognitive overhead while still being fully backwards-compatible.
As far as I can tell, most if not all quantum computing efforts are analog devices at their core. This museum (justly) sees analog computing as a bygone era, but I think we're entering a new heyday.
If you can share, how usable is your approach boilerplate/types wise? Would love to go all into Rust but the AppKit/etc. bindings get clunky very easily.
Disagree completely. Using saved cash is ridiculous when interest rates are very low. These companies are making smart decisions.
Ask HN: How to prepare for a potential pandemic-related recession?
Pretty much what the title says. Any important factors to keep in mind compared to "normal" recessions?
Ruby did have a decent transition path for strings too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22038660
New cases in SK are on a downward trend for around 10 days now. They achieved a reproduction value that is quite a bit below for at least the last 3 weeks.
Italian antitrust watchdog probes Amazon, eBay over price spikes in virus crisis
The Evolution of Windows Search
Are You a Firefighter or a Building Inspector?
I'm sorry but there are bad teachers / courses everywhere, that does not reflect on the technology (though C++ has it really bad for some reason). When I was in school learning how to debug was one of the first classes we had.

If they were teaching you rust be sure that they wouldn't have told you about cargo either.
>or be purchased by users

Didn't the users already purchase the app with their tax dollars?

I hope they embed helpful PSAs as adds.
It's been a problem for Etsy for 10 years. Rather than keep trying to stamp it out, they instead tried to find a way to roll those people into their platform.
Ya I think finding the right balance between privacy related risks and cost/convenience/features is a an important aspect of this space.
By authentication you mean some kind of HMAC? I guess that's fair. Still I figured that corrupting 1 bit in the encrypted output would corrupt the entire block & thus be very difficult to exploit.
My point is that dismissing "doomsayers" just because we've averted actual doom thus far is specious.
I will stay in airbnb if someone else manages everything, otherwise I'm only in hotels now. I hate having to coordinate key pickups, I've shown up at listed places that weren't supposed to be listed by some middleman company.

When I travel, the place I stay needs as few liabilities as possible, and airbnb cannot provide that.

I still use the for the experience listings sometimes, but never for lodging.
The flip side is weather forecasting is a rapidly evolving field. R&D into techniques for more accurate forecasts is very expensive, and governments aren't great at that kind of innovation.

If all weather forecast apps were paid for, apps would have revenue to perfect their models, and true competition would exist between them, both in terms of price, but also quality of results.
Business jet operators see demand surge
Agreed.

A more accurate headline would be "More businesses are started in cities that have good public transit".

But even then they are implying a causation which is a huge stretch.
That's why I was drawn to Python, and I still haven't found a good reason to switch to Go in my use cases.
Huh, not sure how I missed this.

I don't love the class-based declarations: it's a bit verbose and doesn't allow you to use things like the spread operator to "mix in" fields into objects. There's also some redundancy required for basic types:

@IsString
firstName: string;

For my purposes, I also needed support for recursive types, unions, and intersections, which I don't believe are supported.

But their validation built-ins go way beyond Zod (IsEmail, Min, Max, Contains, native Date support, etc). Thanks for sharing.
This is a new post that updates the previous post with cloud vendor responses.
4chan has investigated that and discovered that John Titor is actually Donald Trump who choose the alias after his uncle John Trump - an MIT professor - who obtained the blueprints of the time machine from Nikola Tesla: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/214/676/8aa...
I'm saying that just because mobile device is the majority of devices does not mean that we have to care about them. Rule of the majority is never a good rule.
Yeah ! That's was the point I was trying to make. It was a breath of fresh air when I switched from Rust 2015 to Rust 2018, without obvious change in the language from my point of view.
This is easily falsified by imagining that the computational nature of physics itself is stronger than a Turing machine. There would be no issue with certainty in a continuum if you were actively computing with the continuum itself as data
Muni sucks, and it simply seems to be a matter of miss-management. Timed stops? What are those?

On the other hand BART is fairly effective, and once you're in the city a bicycle will get you from one end to the other in forty-five minutes.
Sorry to be a pain but even a few rules (even resetting some things) would make it much easier to read on mobile!
This makes perfect sense to me if I think how things are in Romania (and I suspect it's the same in Germany too).

The Romanian state entity sells access to their weather data. So any 3rd party would, indeed, be at a severe disadvantage with a free app.

Last I checked they wouldn't even confirm if at least the severe warning notices were available to the public without a license.

So, the thing that's missing here is: where were WetterOnline getting the data from? They clearly were paying for it. I suspect they were getting it from none other than the German Weather Service.

The solution would be, of course, for this dataset to be free. But German Weather Service preferred the courts to find another solution...
They are basically forbidden. Trump wants to put the owner of AccuWeather in charge of NOAA.
A Guide to Managing Remote Teams
I don't agree that bank loans add any value to our modern fiat-based economy. It's possible that loans may have added economic value when money was based on a limited resource such as gold, but that economy was an entirely different beast from what we have today. Fiat is not simply a switch that one can flick off and on without anticipating negative flow-on effects; and yet that's exactly how governments have treated it when they abolished the gold standard whilst continuing to support an archaic system of debt and credit. Since the fiat system was introduced, house prices have skyrocketed (relative to average salaries) and corporations have gained monopoly positions in the market whilst using lobyists to take control of our governments. Our fiat-based, debt-oriented system has some obvious drawbacks.

Both the government and the Fed are to blame; one for designing the whole scheme and the other for implementing it. I'm upset about the idea that the Fed can inject money into the economy based on obscure criteria. From the perspective of an average citizen, who is legally obliged to accept Fed money in exchange for their labor, whatever set of criteria the Fed chooses is going to be inherently inadequate; the mere lack of transparency behind the Fed's operation is by itself sufficient to discredit the validity of the entire operation.

Money backed by gold was good money precisely and fundamentally because everyone understood what gold was and where it came from. Now, essentially nobody knows what fiat money is or where it comes from and yet everyone is legally obliged to accept it.
This looks interesting too, but the syntax fells really weird to me.
I find these two posts from Italy more readable:
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ff8hns/testimony_...
https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753...

IANAD but there are some nuggets to pull out:
1) They're seeing young (20's) patients w/o prior medical conditions show up
2) China used CT extensively to diagnose Covid-19 patients. This doc is pointing out its harder to that w/o contaminating everything
3) many are dying of cardiac arrest rather than inability to ventilate/oxygenate
4) lots of patients get sent to the ICU, seem to do better on "flolan" then die of cardiac arrest
5) seem to suggest that patients do well on Remdesivir (experimental anti-viral) but its hard to get a hold of
I wonder if old versions of the app will still work. Assuming the endpoints are not going to change. Also it seems that I can't find the app due to my search region. Can someone provide a link to the app?
It's a shame lamo didn't make it to see this. I know it really fucked him up to out her. That would be such a nightmare situation to be in.
If I remember right, Iran was recently forced to release a lot of prisoners because of COVID-19 outbreaks in their jails. (The inmates are expected to return to jail when conditions are safe to re-open the jails.)
Can you help me understand the difference between leaker and whistleblower?
The patents involved in the case are United States Patent Nos. 7,072,849 (the ‘849 patent), 6,778,193 (the ‘193 patent), 7,631,346 (the ‘346 patent), and 6,966,038 (the ‘038 patent). The ‘849 patent was used in IBM’s development of Prodigy, a precursor to the World Wide Web, and involved taking advantage of the computing power of a user’s PC to increase response speed. The ‘193 patent involved a method to improve search results based on user context. The ‘346 patent involved improvements to single-sign-on technology for first-time users. The ‘038 patent improved navigation by using bookmarks.

These sound so generic and ubiquitous to how the internet works. The once great IBM is becoming a patent troll :(
You can also use the webpage and mobile app "yr.no" for free global forecasting.
I think the difference is the guaranteed budgets vs. commercial budget that needs to be proven (to a bank for a loan) or earned.

But then again, I also think this verdict is stupid and makes no sense, next we're going to have to ban free access to current laws because a law book maker firm wants to make some money.
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JavaScript: The First 20 Years
Haha! Timed that well didn’t we...
That report doesn't say what you describe, and neither do any others I could find.

What it does describe are lung effects, first in the form of "tracheal deviation," which to my layperson's eye appears to be a side to side pushing of the esophagus based on different lung volumes, air in the chest, or some other treatable disorders, i.e. fixable and not permanent damage.[1]

There is also the decrease in elastin in the aveoli, which are the little balloons that comprise most of your lung function. They have a goo lining them which includes something called elastin, which helps it be a balloon (emphysema is [partially] alveoli losing this elasticity). Nicotine helps decrease its, uh, "presence," but by itself my sense is that it's possibly reversible, definitely stoppable, and at any rate very common from a variety of causes.[2] Most of the scholarship about this problem is focused on it (elastin deficiencies) being common in premature babies and early lung development.

There are also "other respiratory disorders," which from the several links and studies I just read, are thinly defined if at all[3]

Negative coronary effects appear to be exacerbation of existing problems, particularly something called "myocardial ischemia," which seems to be what doctors call "the heart doesn't get enough blood when your arteries are already clogged." I figure this is a result of well-known vasoconstricting properties, which, y'know, a lot of substances have (some even unregulated).[4] A side effect of this is that if you do have a blockage, the increased pressure from the vasoconstriction can help dislodge it, the result likely being a heart attack. This is a problem with fried foods, too.

Last but not least: https://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?Re...

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3929318/

3. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/16/7885401...

4. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/myocardial-is...
It's obviously torture. If you've ever spent one night in a holding cell/mental health hospital situation you know it's absolutely 100% inhumane. It's only nazis who've never been in that situation who think like "oh well we have to do something with people like that you know". We have to help them, not lock them in a fucking box. It's a heinous crime committed every single day by the state and complicit officials. Should be abolished today.
Satisfying Occam's Razor is not a necessity, it's more a rule of thumb.

Based on Occam's Razor alone, modern DNN based models are complete garbage because of the amount of complexity involved in their models, yet they still hold useful predictive power.

Sometimes we have to throw out these general rules of thumbs and test the waters outside when we hit walls we can't seem to get around.

Interest and pursuit in the philosophy of science is something too largely brushed aside that, IMHO, needs an adrenaline shot these days. Unfortunately, few want to pursue that work because it doesn't pay the bills.
Were any of them paid B2B products that required any effort by the "client" to migrate? Because if its not paid, its not really a B2B product.
This is a project that I have been working on kind of infrequently and I thought that I should let people see it and add to it and help it grow. Sorry if this seems just dumb, I never posted here before.
Just as a life tip (regardless of language): Without a line number you would get an offset, which you can use gdb or addr2line to go back to line numbers if you have the unstripped binary or debug symbols available (or the source, but that’s not necessarily deterministic).
During the coding exercise portion of an interview I let them choose any language they like. The exercise is exceptionally simple and doesn't push the boundaries of their language knowledge at all.

If somebody can't do the exercise in their language of choice I have doubts about their competency in general. That seems different than asking arbitrary questions about specific language constructs.
There's also a significant group of people who thinks AirBnb works very well at the 2x-4x hotel price for a much nicer space. Hotels simply don't have enough of those rooms or if those rooms do exist they are considered to be <some ridiculously named set of> suites that are billed at ridiculous daily rate.

Edit - Examples pulled from the notes from 2019:

Paris - AirBNB $650 a night, 3rd story walk-up ~1900 sq feet apartment with a balcony. Hotel price for something similar? $12,442.00/night. Hotel for a basic room ( ~300sq feet) ? $220/night.

Barcelona - 2nd floor apartment in El Born. ~1500 sq feet. $590/night. 1500 sq feet room in a hotel? There were two in the entire city. Price? ~8k/night. Basic room in a hotel? $180/night. King room in a hotel ( ~370 sq feet! Amazing! ) $440.

I can go on and on.

At below hotel prices AirBnb competes with cockroach infested motels.
I think I came around to that way of thinking after reading about multi-part viruses: https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/newly-discovered-...
The authors of the article offer a possible test for a class of super deterministic theories.
AT&T and Comcast improve internet access in response to Covid-19
Ask HN: What are legit business VPN solutions for 2020 and beyond?
I own a small business and work 100% remotely from various places around the world. My business is growing and I am desperately looking for a VPN solution that is reasonably priced and provides my team with a dedicated public IP address. The goal is to provide this IP address to our customers for whitelisting so that we can access their internal network to support them.

I have signed up for half a dozen services in the last 48 hours and the apps either don't work, they don't offer an actual dedicated IP address that is team wide, or they are extremely slow.

I am tempted to take the weekend and figure out Wireguard for multiple users on a single server but then I have to worry about server security.

Searching online only shows me pages and pages of garbage content all linking back to the same personal VPN providers that we all know are subpar.

I have a team of 10 and the only providers I have found that look half decent require 25+ users and annual billing which I can't afford right now.

Does a service exist that provides a VPN to businesses at a reasonable cost with decent speed and functionality?
My introduction to cyberpunk came through Mondo 2000 and some other zines that I can't quite remember.

But yeah - the absence of Gibson is pretty conspicuous.
The macOS Sparkle updater project is looking for a new maintainer
What do you mean by 'abstraction' here?

By the definitions I'm familiar with, functions would be abstractions of program segments, and variables would be abstractions of program data.

With that understanding, the closest you could get to writing a program without creating abstractions would be to write in assembly—but even if you opt to use as little abstraction as possible, you may just get further from your original recommendation to "Create the literal thing you want to create":

I can see a couple ways of interpreting that statement.

1) Imagine what you want to create already existed: what it would literally be is a block of machine code, so when you write your program you should make it as close to that hypothetical literal existence as possible.

2) What you want to create doesn't exist materially, so its only literal existence is a set of high-level domain-specific concepts (i.e. its existence is a spec), in which case the most literal way to represent it would be through a set of matching high-level concepts defined through a programming language, i.e. a set of matching abstractions.

Under the second interpretation at least, it requires heavy use of abstraction in order to implement the spec as literally as possible.
It does vary. I locked in an AirBnB for a May conference before I had access to a room block--and before the current virus craziness started--because standard room rates were insane. But I was able to cancel things a couple weeks back when the conference was canceled.

That said, I've never actually stayed in a room booked through AirBnB (although I've stayed at B&Bs which also list there).
The gun camera footage, maybe, but the state dept. cables were not blowing any whistle.
> I remember my first day on the job when I asked my boss what our Y2K policy was. He shrugged and said "If it breaks, we'll fix it when we get back from New Year's".

I'm a little surprised. TDT is in a critical business too (transportation).