skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people who have ever talked to me in a professional setting would probably describe me as "nice".
> I don't give two flying fucks if people like me. I'm not trying to be friendly or amicable.

This is exactly the point of my comments above and take on this post. People say you’re ‘nice’, but maybe you don’t see ‘nice’ as equating to wanting other people to like you—to be friends. And so you reject the label.

However, if you accept the nice distinction the OP is trying to make, then you would have to conclude people’s description of you as ‘nice’ May not be their intention. Especially if your interactions with them have no being ‘friends’ content.

That’s interesting to me. I like conversations of language.

For example—I find people who comment ‘I thought you meant X’, and I ask myself if they really ‘thought’ about my intended meaning. I question if people are simply reacting to the connotation of the words as they received the message.

In this context I would question, when some says ‘I thought...X’, if they ‘thought’ about X, or if they simply ‘imagined’ the intended meaning.

And what does it matter? As much as anything anyone says can be said to have true intention and originate from symmetrical information, someone who just spouts off the first thing that comes to their mind could be considered ‘careless’ or full of $h#t. However, taking a step back and asking if someone is just reacting, jumping to conclusions or imagining the state of affairs, gives you a chance to ask for clarification. And if it’s not forthcoming, then maybe people are just talking $#it
Interesting point, but the Spanish-American War was only 20 years before that. Attitudes in the US toward Spain were probably much different then than they are now.
I thought that - but then I watched today's press conference with the chief scientific adviser and chief medical adviser. They made some very good cases for not locking stuff down just yet.

Primarily you need to consider the behaviour of people. This is going to go on for a while no matter what we do and if we lockdown people now, by the time we hit the peak they will be ready to give up and go outside again. We need to save the drastic measures for the peak in order to spread the damage out and make sure they are effective. I was previously critical of the government but honestly I think it makes a lot of sense.

We need to consider the effectiveness of measures. Banning all flights into the US from Europe may sound like a grand plan but in reality it's not going to make a big dent and the economic damage is going to be huge. But it sounds good and in the current climate where we're being led by panic that's the plan people will like.
> Despite their availability, i havent heard of anyone commuting to work via paramotor.

I suspect that has more to do with the FAA taking less than kindly to flying ultralights over "congested areas" (I don't know if powered parasails / hang gliders are subject to the same restriction). If I could fly to work I would in a heartbeat.
This self-assessment ignorance phenomenon is well documented under the name Dunning-Kruger effect [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
Not according to the article:

"The world's biggest home-sharing company reported a loss of $276.4 million excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, compared with a loss of $143.7 million a year earlier"

The loss increased by almost 100% versus the same time last year--and that's before COVID-19. This really makes me wonder how their planned IPO this year will perform.
So it had nothing to do with that specific watch or its rechargable battery then - clearly none of those people repair any waterproof watches.
I imagine it's going to be hard for her to find employment, and if she doesn't pay those fines she'll eventually end up in custody with even more fines.
You typically need more than just 1 virus in your system to get infected. Your immune system will do a good job of taking care of the 1.

The study just says they were able to detect live viruses after that amount of time, not that they would definitely infect you. It's likely that the odds of infection are very low before that 3 hour mark.

Unless I'm misreading the study.
No, it doesn't give money to people, these injections allow people(large companies) to save money, which is like giving money to people. Without the Fed providing liquidity, the market can and will, but the market has it's own ideas about the rate to perform overnight lending.

The market and the Fed have been disagreeing with that rate for what over two years now?
> completely untrue.

That would explain why the government never loses in court ever, ever, right?
At this point I'm rooting for them to go bankrupt and fail, because they continue illegally operating in my city. It is illegal to lease entire units in NYC for <30 day spans, yet AirBnb does absolutely nothing to stop these listings and indeed refuses to cooperate with the city government in shutting them down.
I think your rant is posted on the wrong article.
> The German Weather Service (DWD) will no longer be allowed to provide general weather forecasts in a free mobile phone app. … [DWD] will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and … a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.

The government service is forced to put ads in its free app. WTF?
The fog from fog machines has cooled down by the time you inhale it. How much does a concertgoer inhale vs. a vaper over a given span of time? Is there a risk of the heated product causing damage to the lungs that fog at ambient temperature does not? Can the ingredients, when combined and heated, chemically react to form hazardous compounds?
That's why I chose the 1600s, alluding to a particular time period in history where gold happened to be the world standard. The Roman denarius was made out of silver; in the early middle ages most transactions were done using denarii that remained in circulation. The original English pound stirling was also silver (and weighed a pound, hence the name). Later in the middle ages the Byzantine gold solidus would become a major currency. In 1284 Venice issued the gold ducat and Britain simultaneously introduced the gold florin, which would usher in the gold standard that lasted until 1933 (though much everyday money in both the U.S. and Britain continued to be silver). The 1600s were sort of the heydey of gold as a currency, as large amounts coming from the conquest of the Americas began to circulate in Europe.

Elsewhere in the thread a lot of people say that gold has real tangible value. Sort of. It's tangible in that you can hold it in your hand and have physical possession of it. But "value" is always in the eye of the beholder - currencies are valuable if other people think they are valuable. With today's world, there's no guarantee that'd be gold - it could be silver, or cowrie shells, or bullets, or cigarettes, or Juul pods, or USB sticks, or n95 masks.
Marketing will solve this aspect of the challenge. Poverty is a relative state, not an absolute one: We want more because our betters have more. The negative associated personal outcomes of poverty are not a corrollary of insufficient carbon emission.

Therefore, market to the people climate-friendly lifestyles. Show celebrities doing their part. Make it easy to pick the right option by default with purchases. Encourage more local events and travel. It has been demonstrated that people respond to good storytelling and I don't think that is going to change.
Given that the 45 quote came directly from the article in question, this strikes me as a tad unreasonable in this case. At the very least, the 45 reference could quite reasonably lead to interrogation of the article author's superficial concept of 'success' (regardless of one's politics).
The moon does not exist in the exact same sense that free will does not exist. The moon is a concept that only exists in living minds. From an ultimate perspective there is no moon and there is no free will. This is a straightforward consequence of physicalism.
"He used a for loop instead of a list comprehension. he clearly isn't actually a Python programmer" -- actual debrief comments :|
You can generate JSON Schema from TS with this library: https://github.com/YousefED/typescript-json-schema

It's certainly conceivable to build an equivalent for Zod but you'll eventually want to validate types that aren't expressible in TS (i.e. Integer).
I am researching a backend programming language for a future project. I am debating if I should choose rust fearing for the difficulty of hiring.
I have a friend who got into hosting AirBnbs pretty early. Bought a 4 unit place in a rough part of Toronto that was still pretty close to downtown and lived in one of the units while he AirBnbed out the other three. Occasionally he'd go on a trip and AirBnb out his own unit.

It was enough money for him to cover his mortgage and not have to work if he watched his spending. He's bleeding money now and it started about two months ago. This virus is going to hammer leveraged AirBnb hosts for a while and I think we'll start to see a wave of AirBnb bankruptcies.
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I’m perfectly fine with a >=50% loss in the market if it gets us to consider national paid sick leave and Medicare for all seriously.

We need to seriously reconsider the incentives of those who even if tested positive for Coronavirus would still not be able to miss work.

This is coming from someone whose nominal 401k portfolio is going down a Tesla per day. Why am I not upset?? — the infrastructure is still there; iMessage still works, AWS still works, there are still oil rigs in operation, it is just the amount of money we are willing to pay for securities has changed.
Live Data and Map of Covid-19
Don't do it.
Things are going to get worst, before they get better.
Your potential customers are seeing their current customers canceling orders, canceling projects, etc.
As you said both your parents were recently laid off... And under this climate it's going to be at least 6 months before they find a new job.

Being an adult means having the capability to delay what we desire... In order to fulfill our responsibilities.
i don’t usually post on political topics but... i’m not so sure about pence... [0]

if we are lucky, hopefully he’s learned from that but i’m not holding my breath

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pences-pray-it-plan-combat-ind...
The WHO already had the test.
There _is_ a slightly looser coupling than an HR department, but the judges are still appointed and confirmed by politicians with pretty clear material interests. It's not so much a case of being "paid to rule the right way" as being chosen _because_ of an inclination to rule the right way
GCP has been around for a fraction of the time of Google as a company. It is perfectly valid to have at least some concern here as Google as a company has a long track record of shutting down products. Conversely, it is tenuous at best to use the argument that since GCP has never shutdown a product that they won’t given how many of their products were launched very recently.
You might be conflating college athletes with high school and middle school athletes.

By the time you reaches college, you typically:

1. have enough data to see how quickly you're improving;

2. are exposed to a much wider pool of talent than you were previously. Chances are there are many people at your level of athletics that are far better than you; and

3. are exposed to a much more difficult environment than high school and middle school. Combined with 1 and 2, many athletes lose the desire to work that hard for so long.

For athletes that aren't in the upper tier of college athletics, reality has set in even earlier.
Same here - over time the positive surprises at Airbnb stays are becoming rarer.
The problem is that there's no standard definition of "complexity," and so not only is it really hard to answer your question, it's also really hard to compare one language's complexity to another.

I personally subscribe to the "waterbed theory of complexity", that is, I believe that the world is complex, and often, attempts to remove complexity cause it to pop up somewhere else. Rust's goals have an inherent level of complexity to them, and so require a certain degree of complexity to accomplish. There is an argument that if we had dropped one or two of those goals, we could have made a language that is much simpler, but I'm also not sure Rust would be as popular if we did.

One thing we strive for with Rust is that features are reasonably orthogonal and work well together, without weird corner cases. We also try to only add more features when the cost is actually justified. We have said "no" to a lot of things. We have also tried and rejected a lot of things.

You also may enjoy this blog post of mine: https://words.steveklabnik.com/the-language-strangeness-budg...

(I should also note that I'm not actually on the lang team, so this is more of a statement about what I observe and my own opinion rather than policy, strictly speaking.)
I agree with all these points. I should have also brought some positive examples as you did to present my case more balanced (which there are plenty).

> But we can't have this conversation to find the balance, until we admit that we are on a scale.

exactly!!
I hope it's not the Groupon story repeating, where they went from funky-accounting to GAAP and all numbers had to be re-reported, obviously not in the company's favor.
A large number of South Korea infections are even younger due to how it spread.

Another possibility is that Italy doesn't have a handle on who is or isn't infected so what they report are the obvious infections, who tend to be older.
It's very easy to cross-compile and use Rust as a library, leaving the Swift portion for display/views only. We are looking at doing this for our next app (OS X, but would work just as fine for iOS).
Whoops! Should be `dogsList.parse(...)`.

Also fixed the other typo :)

Thanks!!
A one-take journey through Russia’s iconic Hermitage museum
> People are about to die because our president is a fool, and the fact that he's still in charge is the fault of all of us who voted or didn't vote over the past half century.

This point of view is sobering. I am tired of people thinking that replacing a politician with another would solve every problem.
TFX is just a SDK (with a few libraries - like data validation, model analysis, statistics). So, i don't know about saying it wins? The battle of ML pipeline ecosystems is the engine - not so much the API. It had been Beam vs Spark. Now, Google are changing tack and saying it is TensorFlow on Kubernetes with distributed processing vs Spark-based ML pipelines (that may use PyTorch/Tf for training).
Exactly. This. It's a Big Deal because of the media frenzy, not because of the inherent lethality or virality of the disease. We've seen similar pandemics before, without this media frenzy.

The WHO is making science-based responses, which are then perceived as "inadequate" by a public stoked into a frenzy by the media. The media are not motivated by public good, but by profit. The more scared you are, the more times you hit refresh.

We should definitely give WHO top billing on search results, because these are the people we've entrusted to do exactly the right thing in response to this situation. Giving top billing to profit-driven media companies is utterly irresponsible.

Or if we've got this wrong, then sack the WHO and appoint a half-dozen billionaires to their role. Same same.
* chock-full of projection
The core problem with strings in Python 2 was implicit coercion: you could mix `b''` and `u''` strings pretty freely as long as they only contained ASCII and they would be silently converted as required. Once you leave the ASCII range you start to see data-dependent bugs.

To gracefully deprecate this behavior, you could start by generating a warning each time an implicit coercion is done. Next, make implicit coercion raise an exception, but provide a way to suppress it. Finally, remove the ability to suppress the exception.

As the GP suggests, you'd do well to similarly deprecate unprefixed strings.

This would all be pretty confusing to explain if you were renaming the string types at the same time, as Python 3 did. I think that's an indication that you shouldn't rename the types. You could deprecate `str` and just use the names `bytes` and `unicode`, which go nicely with the `b''` and `u''` mnemonics anyway.

Python 3 also changed the type of string used for Python identifiers. You'd need a strategy there as well.

It might be convenient to have some type-checking `dict` variants in the stdlib, but I think it's a separate issue from addressing the coercion issue.
Actually I think populations tend to use the softest money that they have any confidence will be worth something tomorrow - that's Gresham's Law, "Bad money drives out good". And that's sorta happening with Bitcoin as well. It's use as a currency is declining, and people hoard it for price appreciation.

But you're right that Bitcoin cannot be undiscovered. It wouldn't surprise me if the dominant currency would be some other cryptocurrency with built-in inflation (maybe ETH, maybe XLM) that remained outside of the ability of some single entity to cause runaway inflation.
Ask HN: RSS Feeds for Coronavirus and Similar
I use RSS as my news source and I am curious if you have any local, state, or federal RSS feeds that have quality information, whether that's public closures, travel restrictions, or similar news. I live in PA but am often in CA.

Similarly, if there are quality international sources that would be useful, please share.

I unfortunately don't have any to share, which is why I'm asking.
You could just pick the first option that looks good enough and be done with it so you avoid having to understand them all.
They're not really the same thing, IMO. Sure, Go is pitched as a systems language, but when Google themselves are rewriting OS components written in Go with Rust, you know something is up. Go seems like Python++... a more reliable and performant high level language. The GC nature makes it inappropriate, IMO, for low-level systems work. Sure, write apps in it. Fine. But I can't see writing drivers in Go.
That’s preposterous! I presume that the German people have already paid for the German Weather Service, and their app, with their taxes. In general it seems suspect to have companies make money off of repackaging data created with public funds...

Glad the US isn’t the only place with the privatize everything problem? (Please allow me to be hyperbolic.)
Independent in operation, but not able to perform their own hiring. The temptation to appoint sycophantic justices who have espoused opinions in line with the dominant party is high.
> Italy is the second "oldest" country in the world after Japan [..]

By median age Germany is actually older than Italy, though. Not sure how age really correlates here.
What else do you think people don't know? I'd love to hear from someone knowledgeable.
A little weird that you didn't mention Go, which seems to fall exactly in the category of "a simple, modern, well-designed C"
I hope we will see more sci-fi take the route of super-determinism as opposed to multiverse theory.

The latter is a nice plot device, but its wide spread use in pop culture has overblown its likelihood of being correct.

Maybe in a thousand years from now, people will begin their analogies with: 'Long ago, people used to believe the universe split up infinity many times at an infinite scale'

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I believe the idea that we have to give up free will or that fate exists is unhelpful at best.

If super-determinism is correct, then there is nothing to give up.
But more practically, if complexity theory is correct in that some things are inherently complex, there is a case to be made that the universe with its variables 'locking' into place from moment to moment is far beyond predetermined from the perspective of anything in it.

i.e. you need a universe to simulate a universe.
Testing may reduce the number of cases, how does it reduce the severity of cases? This is an illness with no treatment, only symptoms are treated.

Germany apparently has 10 people in serious condition. Availability of resources obviously isn’t a factor...
I think free will is fundamentally a bad term/model, independent of the truth value of what everyone means by that label. That said, I think you might be somewhat conflating free will and consciousness; it's perfectly cogent, for instance, that a provably deterministic robot might have subjective experience; and that after executing each pre-determined binary instruction, would be programmed to have a feeling of "I chose that instruction".

I do think those who have a bias for materialism are overly eager to discard fuzzier subjectivities like free will, consciousness, even religious experiences and mystical states. There is obviously a sense in which Harry Potter is not real; but there is also a sense in which Harry Potter is more real than an arbitrary rock or tree, because as an ephemeral memeplex, that being altered planetary culture and created billions of dollars of economic activity. Just because a phenomenon lacks affordances for empirical measurement does mean it is necessarily absent from reality altogether.

For an opposing view to naive materialism which is still firmly nested in rationalist thinking, see Donald Hoffman's "The Case Against Reality": https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...
I think that you'll actually attract all the right people.
For me cyberpunk is defined not simply by its aesthetic, but by its exploration of the thesis "anything that can be done to a rat can also be done to a human
being". A cyberpunk novel is a (usually cautionary, of course) tale of what happens when you strip away outmoded humanistic notions of dignity and agency and replace them with something weird.

In relation to this I'd like to mention Strugatsky brothers' book Predatory Things of Our Times (translated into English as The Final Circle of Paradise, wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Circle_of_Paradise). It is their lesser known work, but IMO it is first-grade cyberpunk. The rat-human stuff is there all right, but also a very believable near-future setting with a post-capitalist society that is outwardly prosperous but rotting inside. The remarkable thing is that this book feels very modern but it was published in 1965 in the Soviet Union.
Airbnb is a shitty company. Last october we traveled to Seoul and couldn't find the location of the apartment we booked. Even the local taxi driver couldn't find it after circling the area for ~30 minutes. We called the host during the entire 30 minutes and didn't get through to them.

After about 1 hour of time, we decided to call it quits and go book a hotel because it was 10pm at night and our kids needed to sleep. We were just hoping for a refund with Airbnb. What's their policy? "it's up to the host to decide if they want to give a refund". What did the host say? "i have great reviews and i haven't heard of anyone not being able to find the place." What about the fact that you didn't answer your calls? WTF

Similar situation when we booked a place in Tokyo. We asked the host whether it would be okay since we have two young children who are known to be playful/wild/loud. He assured it was okay and assured us the place was big enough to handle all four of us. We arrive in tokyo and and the place is tiny. The bathroom is literally a 3x3 box with a shower right on top of the toilet. The entire room is taken up by 2 beds with no place to move around, let alone space for luggage and two kids. On top of that, the host's apartment is in a building where the walls are paper thin and the neighbors are super sensitive to noise. We did the hosts' neighbors a favor and went and got a hotel room. Refund from airbnb? Maybe a partial refund? NOPE.

Seriously, I'm never booking anything on airbnb again.