skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I don’t see mentioned here is the out of control compensation Airbnb has had for engineers. As an engineer I love to see companies pay more, but Airbnb has been beating Facebook offers when they really don’t need to. Companies like this are not rocket science. I get that the website is just the top of the iceberg, but all those massive stock grants and base salaries are going to haunt them.
Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treating Covid-19
Militarized gene therapy.
That’s strange because Bangkok hotels are in general very affordable, and the comfort of a 3 star hotel should match most Airbnb’s. On the other hand, I’ve never done an Airbnb in Thailand before.
Honestly - yes he loves Lisp but it doesn't matter in anyway.
When correlation (or lack of it) can be causation
Your screenshot says "$492 total" which includes the cleaning and service fees. The service and cleaning fees are set by the host, and can be $0.

Then it adds the California taxes on the checkout page. That is what hotels do too.
I like this question. It broke my mental model of time travel because I like to think of time as tied to space, maybe. If you want to rewind a thread of time, you can't really stay in the same place and poof, like Christopher Reeve laying in bed. Because the old hotel isn't in that place anymore, at some physical-historical-galactic-geography level.

Maybe it's not meant to work that way though; maybe you can uncouple time and meditate, and your other-conscious travels but in some other way than normal physical travel with forward time, or something like that.
New released Anti-theft Applications to protect your Smartphones from thieves
So that's kinda weird now, because iPhones under APFS do File-Based encryption (each file gets it's own key) but the Full Disk is encrypted while Androids are now using Full Disk Encryption.
LoRaWAN® distance world record broken. 766 km (476 miles) using 25mW transmission power. After almost 2 years, the world record of 702 km (436 miles) has been broken.Aug 14, 2019

25mW, imagine what you could do with 1/2 a watt.
Based on what I'm reading online, it really seems like the CDC should be doing random testing to get a much better picture of what infection rates and distribution actually looks like.

Given I have no expertise on the matter, I'm eager to hear why this is a good or bad idea.
I am eagerly awaiting more studies into this subject. Something doesn't feel right about the relative lack of local transmission in e.g. Vietnam (temperatures over 30C at least in the south right now) compared to e.g. Italy (temperatures, what, 15C or lower in the north right now?).

Cambodia's extremely low case count can easily be explained away by them not testing anyone, but Vietnam appears to be quite proactive with tracing and testing, yet still has a relatively low count and minimal transmission.
> They are testing hundreds of thousands of people for infections and tracking potential carriers like detectives, using cell phone and satellite technology.

No but thanks. I do not want to allow a spy-state that might stay after the virus is sunset.

Italy doesn't track people, as EU court ruled.
It happened to all of us. But be glad you are not there now.

None of those people contacting you, or phone screening, were Google employees. They were, or worked for, contractors. It didn't matter to them or to Google whether anybody they contacted was hired.
Chloroquine phosphate, an old drug for treatment of malaria, is shown to have apparent efficacy and acceptable safety against COVID-19 associated pneumonia in multicenter clinical trials conducted in China. The drug is recommended to be included in the next version of the Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pneumonia Caused by COVID-19 issued by the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China for treatment of COVID-19 infection in larger populations in the future.
> and the blinds automatically open to a floor-to-ceiling view of the city

for me it was the harbor with a bunch of boats! Indeed memorable.
Consider a function that takes two references and returns a reference. Which of the two input reference lifetimes does the lifetime of the returned reference live in? Trick question, the function returns a static lifetime reference to a constant.

Is this an anti-pattern? There are many situations where this would be the most efficient implementation. The compiler can frequently elide lifetimes, it only needs them when it's ambiguous. Sometimes you need to pass two references and return a reference.
'I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.'
Ebola never got to America.
If they did that, then hopefully they learnt a thing or two about networking :)

But I do wonder if bandwidth limiting certain types of applications would be more effective, like reverse qos. There was a post a week or so ago on HN about adding delay to websites that sucks away productivity.

edit: I went and did that on my home router (a ubnt ER-X) and was pleasantly surprised by how granular its DPI and QoS categorizes applications (by protocols, by domain, IM, social network, P2P). It even allows you to make your own categories of apps that are (ab)used often, and rate limit access to them on a range of local IP. I'm hoping that this would be more subtle than an outright block, and the not so instant gratification lead to voluntary reduction of mindless consumption.
It was indeed agonising at the start, but they had a very clear answer by the end.

The CDC makes reagents that are required. But the full test requires taking swabs, going to a lab, going through various steps. It's not self contained like a pregnancy test.

So the CDC spokesperson was uncertain because the CDC is providing the reagents but the labs are literally just coming online.

I am referring to this video. The exchange I am thinking about is roughly 40 minutes in but I couldn't find it quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO-_aV-v7IA
The Linux Foundation recently released a free course as well titled "A Beginner's Guide to Linux Kernel Development" - haven't taken it yet, but another resource for the community:

https://training.linuxfoundation.org/resources/free-courses/...
Yeah, HKT is a godsend. It surprises me that Scala, one of the few languages that actually supports it, doesn't really use monads and all that good stuff in the base language. Like the fact that Scala uses duck-typing for the 'for' construct (it just looks for map, flatMap, filter) has always seemed odd.
I think of superdeterminism not as a theory but as a barometer - the Bell's Theorem world we live in is baffling enough that people are willing to consider superdeterminism as an explanation.
It makes the art _far_ more generic and a fair number of the internal monologue lines that make the main character more interesting have been cut. There are some explanatory lines (for things that originally aren't visually portrayed) cut that I don't think come across as well in the animation.

It's not _bad_, but I don't see any reason to go with it over the original.
Manning for President!
As someone who has frequently used this site, thank you. It's a great resource.
It sounds like you do a great job communicating regularly in your typical in-person environment.

I previously worked at an "old-school" company where everyone on the team would work remote 2-3 times a week. We'd also collaborate closely.

One thing that we naturally did was pair off on projects, so on a given week (or month), two people on the team were working on closely related things. On days when we'd work remote, it was easy to switch to talking to your partner on video chat / slack /email. I found that coordinating with just one other person for most of the meetings is easier and more dynamic than trying to bring in everyone.
Would you dare try that with dark skin and/or a Latin American accent?
Yeah, it does, but using monads to fold over errors is a lot nicer than what you have to do with Go.
Ah, looks like they added august last year, hadn't noticed that!

It is still hidden, and not the fair price (which they could calculate).

> That is what hotels do too

Hotels who do this are scammy IMO. I've only seen this in the US.
I just think it's extremely irresponsible to downplay the addictive power of nicotine and it's a theme I see recur frequently on this forum. I have a caffeine addiction as well, and have broken and restarted it multiple times in my life. It simply doesn't compare. If I don't get coffee (I'm a 3-4 cup/day coffee drinker), I'll be cranky but I'll live.

When I vaped, my brain was on fire inside of an hour and a half. I couldn't get through a movie. I'd wake up in the middle of the night to vape. That has never happened to me with caffeine. There is no comparison. And I was vaping 3mg/ml liquid for the longest time. I can't imagine what the hit from a Juul or any nicotine salt vape is like in comparison.

Everyone is different. But trying to find out if you're a person who can use nicotine without becoming hopelessly addicted is like lighting firecrackers in your hand to see if you're the kind of person who won't lose their fingers when it blows up. It's stupid and it's comments like the one I originally replied to, downplaying the potential for addiction, that helped me talk myself into it in the first place. After I'd had a few hits.

I just hate seeing that in a place like this, with an ostensibly educated userbase.

Frankly there's also abundant scientific research to back up just how hideously addictive nicotine is. I shouldn't have to supply all my anecdotes but hearing this community discuss how it really isn't so bad makes me so anxious that someone might actually believe it and start to use.

I hope if someone is reading this and thinking about starting to vape that it makes them think again. Don't. It's awful.
AI is yet to revolutionize sleep, but it is happening soon
Hydroxychloroquine
Why on earth would they do this? What sort of application does this have or serve?

If it's a bioweapon, why was it published?

Is there any concrete genetic or documented evidence to show COVID-19 is engineered? This is a big claim and has severe ramifications for China, if true.
It sounds like you have only ever worked alone or with incompetent teams. I strongly recommend at least trying to work in a team of smart people with more experience than you. It can be an enlightening experience.

There's a chance you will learn

- how to handle criticism professionally;

- that you actually write more buggy code than you think;

- that there are a lot of critiques that are not subjective that you simply currently cannot imagine (because if you could, you wouldn't get it wrong in the first place, right?); and

- there are some subjective opinions which you didn't know about but agree with once you do.
I look forward longingly to the day when RFC #2593 comes to pass.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2593
Story I heard from someone who was at Walmart recently was that the surest way to get in trouble was to finish in a week what they had planned to take three months.
> A Hollywood live-action adaption of the game Steins;Gate is in the works.

> Anime News Network reports the big reveal came during the live concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the series. During the Science ADV Live S;G 1010th Anniversary, a teaser video was played revealing a live-action recreation of the game is being made by Hollywood for television.

https://uk.ign.com/articles/steinsgate-live-action-show-adap...
And a garden! For those who haven't been, it's the sort of garden where you'll see nighttime pictures as Chromebox backgrounds.
That does not follow. Court pleadings only imply she recognises the power over the court over her.
An additional factor in why the death rate is so high in >75 year olds is that most deaths happen when ICUs are overwhelmed, and older ages get triaged into not getting a ventilator. There is a much higher rate for them naturally, but this amplifies the disparity even more.
Vans releases sensory-inclusive shoes designed for people with autism
> Speaking to Euronews on the condition of anonymity

This should imply heavy fines. Creating panic while covered by anonymity is very easy and it brings no value to society. If officials later on try to bring real numbers nobody listens.
Many of us in the cryptocurrency community always knew this wasn't true. Unfortunately it's a misconception that was long and frequently advertised as recently as last week.
All of the crypto fans and hardcore fanatics kept saying it: "Bitcoin is digital gold don't you know? It's what's going to shoot to the moon as all that terrible icky fiat collapses in a major crisis! You just wait and see"..

Well here we are. certified 100% organic Unfolding Global Pandemic and the cute bonus of teetering on the brink of a global recession. And what does Bitcoin do with all the rest of its cousins?...... It simply shits the bed.

This was your shining moment crypto, and so far you've turned out even worse than the stock market.
There are plenty of places that are hotter all year round, or have a larger temperature+humidity difference between seasons. Or was your comment only intended to address large US cities?
Beta site up:
https://covid19schoolclosures.com/

Feedback welcome
There are many classical physics experiments you could do where you understand all the physics and formulas to excruciating detail and you control every variable but you still can't get the same results everytime. Things like throwing dice, as mentioned in the article, or the chaos generated by flowing fluids. Given that any superdeterministic mechanisms would be even even more complex and weird and unknown it seems impossible to disprove. Any failed experiment could be excused by saying that there are more unknown uncontroled variables.
I was curious so I looked up your comments.

> There is no such thing as a controlled experiment

> The superdeterministic explanation is: "well, there's nothing to explain. You were simply determined to lose by the initial conditions of the universe. It couldn't have gone any other way."

This eventually led me to a quote from Anton Zeilinger about his dislike for it.

> I suggest, it would make no sense at all to ask nature questions in an experiment, since then nature could determine what our questions are, and that could guide our questions such that we arrive at a false picture of nature.

My question is, does it matter if we are seeing a false picture as long as the result of experiments within it are consistent and lead to new discoveries that themselves are actionable? If everything we experience is in this “false picture” is it really false or simply a different set of rules based on underlying circumstances.

I think the whole point being made by the authors here is that QM is dead-ending and that superdeterminism could give us more answers, not less. Why not see if it leads somewhere?
Covid-19 puts the future of drone delivery to the test(The National)
These people just see the odds and think "oh it probably won't get me" without any regard to anyone else.

It's the hallmark of being a conservative.
Unfortunately vr isn't readily accessible to everyone. Out of all my virtual interactions vr has been the most human.
>I was referring to your dismissal of Marx's thought on the basis of reading a post-Marxist work, Empire twice and not making any sense of it

You are referring to gwern's "dismissal of Marx's thought" in your reply to everybodyknows?

I'm confused.
These languages come up here every now and then; they look very interesting, but it also seems like they must be very heavily optimized to be as fast as they are.

So, sorry if this is a dumb question, but does K run on architectures other than x86/64?

I checked https://kx.com/ but I couldn't find a definite answer. They mention IoT a lot, which makes me think it might run on embedded devices too?
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Isn't a significant part of why we're fucked the gutting of ... everything, by this administration?

e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/us-coronavirus...
In many parts of China, it will be 30C hotter and 50%p more humid in the summer than it is now. The combination might reduce R to virtually nothing.

In Japan, this could mean that it was the right decision to schedule the Olympics in the middle of summer after all.
Wow. Quite an eerie find. Where did you come across it?
The problem is that one person might think an exception is acceptable for OpenFile, whereas another thinks it's not. It's this ambiguity that makes for all sorts of conflicting ideas and recommendations.

Fun Fact: the Windows API uses HRESULT to return success/failure of a particular call. The COM API uses the same. VB6 was the first platform by Microsoft to implement exceptions throughout the code (that I'm aware of)... and beneath it, it used COM. So that means that VB6 generated an exception whenever a COM status code returned E_FAIL or similar, and didn't if it was classed as SUCCESS (eg S_OK, S_FALSE, etc).

The original .NET implementors clearly used the VB6 model when developing the codebase (it was nearly a one-to-one match from VB6 to VB.NET) and very easy to port over.

That said, when I read the article, "Exceptions are the primary means of reporting errors in Frameworks" vs "Do not use exceptions for the normal flow of control, if possible" I see this never ending problem appear. Most things we do in our programs use Frameworks, which throw exceptions, which may or may not actually be exceptional for the case of the calling function. Nevertheless, it must be handled.

However, back in the C++ Win API and COM world, you could easily use: `HRESULT hr= SomeFunc(); if (FAILED(hr)) return hr;` to bubble up a failure code, or if you handled it in other ways, you can safely ignore the return code and continue on. In the .NET world exceptions must always be handled otherwise they ripple all the way up and end up as a crashed application. Of course, some think this is a good design principle to have it so: Others are not so convinced.

And so, the debate continues.
Feel free to email me at $my_username@$my_username.com. I'd be happy to help you get started.
Even if you are working from home, a toddler is going to require continuous supervision from at least one adult. But thankfully Washington state hasn’t closed the daycares down (yet).
Depends on who "we" are, from POV of browser vendors and makers of web graphics apps, there's certainly a compromise needed in adding features for niche users that contribute to the combinatorial explosion of tested configurations. Consider that even WebGL 2 currently is struggling to have a viable level of browser support.

WebGL mostly serves people with Intel/mobile GPUs, so will probably WebGPU if it is to survive, even though it aims to do better on the high end GPUs as well.
It saddens me moderately that cynicism is often the default; people sometimes think I'm being (rudely) sarcastic when I'm just being straightforwardly nice.

I feel like cynicism/pessimism gets weird praise, too. The anthropologist Wade Davis considers it an indulgence and I wholeheartedly agree.

/tangent
Ada is also great at separating the various aspects of OOP into separate language concepts, instead of going "everything is done with classes!!" as many popular languages do, leading to a lot of confusion in this thread.
Compare that to just Bay Area alone or one Alibaba and then tell me about large scale...
Don't forget "To declare War" -- seems pretty unreasonable to read that as an intention to prohibit peace.
No, the Fed Did Not Just Give Stock Traders $1.5T
It was on my school back in 1990 on a tiny Portuguese town, with Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal as introductory languages.
> The “punk” in Solarpunk is about rebellion, counterculture, post-capitalism, decolonialism and enthusiasm. It is about going in a different direction than the mainstream, which is increasingly going in a scary direction.

Judging from the behavior of the current brigade of people taking part -at least in theory- of many of those movements, I would say the opposite, that is the scary part. A new-inquisition in which your sins are going against the current orthodoxy of social justice and similar movements. Now, that is the kind of book I would read, also to be honest many works have been produced in that vein, like Harrison Bergeron, form 1961!

It is also ironic, that most of the people exposing this movement, are esentially white WEIRD , a tiny sliver of the world population to whom also belong most of the dominant class.
Any suggestions for MDM for Linux laptops? Most device management solutions I have seen are for either Windows or Mac, but is there one that is accepted by auditors and is not utter garbage UX wise for the user on Linux, where the user is most likely going to want and have full admin access to their own laptop? (I.e. since the user in question is a developer, I feel a strong aversion to not trusting them to do system administration on their own laptop.)
What doesn't feel right?

The abstract states that high temperature and high humidity reduce transmission rates relative to colder climates, which corresponds with the high transmission rates during the northern hemisphere winter and early spring.

And yes, lack of testing has resulted in some eyebrow raising numbers.

Up in Da Nang now, both locals and foreigners are aware and taking it seriously -- scary times.
Ouch, I fear that this may unfortunately turn out to be the case
I was mostly comparing against 4 star hotels in the same locations, relatively central and close to transit. They were typically around the ~$80 range. Add in taxes etc and you're looking at ~$100 per night. Airbnbs in luxury condos with some discounts (early bird, longer stay) you can get for ~$40 per night. So not quite 1/3 I guess.

EDIT: Luxury condos in Bangkok I find to be very nice. Last one I stayed at had gym, roof top infinity pool, movie theatre, library etc. And it was a few minutes to the MRT.
You seem to think that for some reason, ICU beds go unused except in a situation like this? ICU capacity is probably built to meet some fraction of demand in normal circumstances. Those beds weren't all unused before this outbreak started.

737 ICU beds available isn't the same as the total number of ICU beds. Normal health problems that need hospital treatment (strokes, heart attacks, car accidents, etc.) are still happening during this outbreak (well, car accidents are probably reduced now with Italy's lockdown protocols).
Azure Virtual Network NAT now generally available
The study uses relative humidity, which is affected by the dew point. While straight humidity is often consistent at least in the US, relative humidity fluctuates wildly. Relative humidity is what gives the muginess feel. Most of the US except the Rockies and most of the West Coast have way higher relative humidity in the summer months. NYC can get especially bad (or good in this case). In the South, that increase has already started.

Admittedly, it's not a huge affect, but taking your NYC example, the temperature alone will decrease the R0 by at least .5. I'll take that.
Bitcoin – The Day After Tomorrow
I use classes a lot in typescript, but not for OOP. Just glorified objects with a constructor and getters.
That is sounds more appropriate for either terminating the program or resumable exceptions like division by zero. In languages with a try-catch construct (specially C++), the complexity of implementing exceptions has to do with stack unwinding. This is where you don't want to restart in an outer context, but want to guarantee cleanup for the call frames you are abandoning.