skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Secret politically motivated court systems.

Using a method which has been called incompatible with basic human rights (by the EU), has been labeled as torture (by the UN), and compared to the governmental processes of countries like North Korea, China, and Iran (by various reporters).

Also notably the immunity they granted her would not have protected her from various other legal troubles. The law in question (which then implies use of coercive incarceration) is a violation of the 5th amendment protections of self incrimination.

I don't really care if those break down.
How was Clinton testifying also him refusing to testify? Your claims differ from history.
Yes, you can. A simple google search would show you this. Criminal punishment debt is not the same as credit based debt. It's all about the jurisdiction, and your previous presence in the court; particularly with the same judges.

Yes, they don't have to jail you, but they absolutely can and do.
I'd be surprised if 57% of Japanese men washed their hands properly, judging by what I see when I'm in a mens room in Japan.

I'm inclined to go with the other comment nearby that says not to trust any figures coming out of Japan as a better explanation for the disparity.
I don't know much about The Guardian's financials but Wikipedia is only paying for hosting costs and some administrative staff which is easier than a newspaper where you've got to pay staff to write your content rather than having it written for free.
We don't have enough ventilators and I.C.U. beds if there's a surge of new cases
good. Airbnb is a horrible co
> In the end I got dinged for not using the Java Arrays library for copying an array (used a manual for loop)...

This doesn't sound like a smart interviewer. They are testing your knowledge of the library ahead of understanding what's going on. I'm pretty sure I've interviewed some people who could pull out Array.Copy for the interview but couldn't tell you that it does pretty much the same as the for loop, and that is much more alarming.
This is a token gesture. Free testing is not enough. Free treatment should be a minimum. Does anyone think that the improvements to unemployment can pay for a few weeks in the icu? That would bankrupt anyone without decent insurance or a high enough out of pocket maximum. And if not bankrupt, really hurt them. Especially while on unemployment / disability. This clearly shows neither party really gives a fuck about people. One pretends a little more than the other. This won't pass the Senate.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170411172941/https://www.darpa... exists, so we can go back at least to 2017 above.
This is a fantastic episode. It was engaging throughout. I cannot recommend it enough.
There are open source implementations of Kx, e.g.

https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona

I do not know how good/performant they are.
Congress was explicitly told they could not do this by the DOJ, but news weren't clear on the legal reasoning, relaying instead the handwavy explanation by Barr on the popelike infallibility of the president's office.

I'm really curious about the actual legal reasoning behind this, it's got to be a fascinating read.
Maybe this person is just against nitpicking..?
Instead of simply waiting till the pandemic is over you would rather buy a cheap ticket and risk it being canceled or you locked down somewhere or spreading the disease. People like you are who made it worse. Selfish, naive, ignorant. People are dying because selfish cheap trip ideas like yours. :/ If you would die because of this I wouldn't care but you may be a risk for others. To safe little bit of money. Unbeliebable.
Herbal Treatment for Coronavirus Infections [pdf]
The guy is 6'6" and 280 lbs and can fly. There are only one of him in this world. The only other players like him in my lifetime are Shaq, Yao and Lebron. Just unique physical phenoms. He was going #1 regardless of his performance in the tournament. Heck, Yao and Lebron didn't even play college basketball and went #1.
I understand that if we posit a super-Turing machine in which arbitrary positions on a continuum can be maximally expressed as finite values what I am saying does not logically follow.

However, I would argue that such a super-Turing machine is logically impossible. In principle continuous values cannot be physically manifested with certainty or arbitrary precision regardless of what world we are in.

Positing such a super-Turing machine is like saying "I have a square circle in my pocket".
This is a long list of principles from many sources. I have bookmarked for later, when I have more time.
Then you've used a worse randomness source.
Another story about this, sounds remarkable: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/da...
Would have been happening if that was true
I have Cystic Fibrosis (principally a respiratory condition; I'm certainly in the at-risk population)

I had an appointment with my clinic. My conversation regarding COVID19 gave me the following takeaways:

1. The testing story is improving - my clinic has access to commercial tests, whereas just a few days ago they had to go through the local municipality and wait several days for testing and confirmation via the CDC.

2. They won't hospitalize everyone. Many will be able to do either oral or home IVs and recover fine via home quarantine, reserving hospital beds for the worst cases.
Especially at 80yrs old.
The math behind Leap Years
March 15 Pokemon Go Community day cancelled due to Covid-19
No. I remember 9/11, and this feels worse. The world won’t be the same for a decade. Are you too young to remember when you could just walk straight onto a plane without being searched? Those days never came back.
Ask HN: What are the best recipe startups?
I am interested in avoiding things that are huge stories about someone's passion for cooking and I'd like to get right to directions on cooking specific meals.

I'm also interested in learning some new techniques. Overall, I just find google to be a terrible source of recipes, DuckDuckGo.com is slightly better, but I'm hoping to find a really, really good source.
So in your mind, Medicare for all only covers covid 19? Because that's what I'm talking about. Covering treatment for the once in a hundred years pandemic. Clearly, even that's too much for our shitty, decaying American society. In the meantime every other developed nation has a proper healthcare system while we can barely test for this due to our incompetence and shit leaders.
MS Confirms Takedown ‘Most Prolific’ Hacker Network: Millions of Users Affected
I'm not sure what 'stands' means in this context. It may or may not be a true statement (I don't care because I'm radically uninterested in the dubious concept of 'success'), but in any case it's not a response to the comment you're replying to.
You make two attempts to sell your service in the article, while your entire premise is it’s “sinister” because Apple demands they be included as an sso option if there are other options. I think you don’t understand what sinister means. And you’re casting doubt on Apple, indicating they may do something nefarious, simply because they are offering this. Yeah, this article is a sales pitch full of baseless accusations.

I’m not defending Apple, I’m highlighting your fear-mongering to sell your service. If you have anything other than baseless accusations, please share.
Many fundraising platforms explicitly forbid raising funds to pay criminal fines.
Just to confirm, it can count when it’s a new person but if they enter again it will know it’s the same person and not count them again as new ?
> If you don't care about performance

Or parallelism, or compiled binaries.
And there are proto cyberpunk going back to "Fury" (Kuttner and Moore) in the 40's C l Moore is the author reference in the blind assassin BTW

SRD ( Samuel Delany ) and other new wave authors are certainly Cyberpunk influences.
Crypto crashing at a time like this is actually tell me its true colors
China government spokesman says U.S. army might have brought virus to China
Smoking related disease kills thousands daily. Bacon does not. So no, not less harmful.
Coronavirus: Google creates fund for contractor sick pay
Not to delve too deeply into this, but I believe you're factually incorrect about the hospital capacity of Italy versus the United States. What matters in the number of critical care beds because they have the equipment available such as a ventilator. A study from 2012 has Italy at 12.5 beds per 100k people, which puts them at the high end of middle for Europe. For example, Germany has 29.2 per 100k according to that study, which is more than double. The United States has 34.9 per 100k people in 2009 [2] and I believe that number has continued to go up. Also, to be clear, a better number is probably number of critical care beds per 100k of people over 65 due to how more likely they are to be affected. I don't know the current number for Italy, but the United States according to the link above is at 189.4.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229013572_The_varia...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351597/
The work is mostly mine but I've had collaborators for some of the research over the years.

I accidentally invented it many years ago when I discovered an unorthodox but elegant solution to an algorithm problem which had stymied researchers for decades (and which I needed to solve for a specific application). Some months later, a research group I was working with were convinced that the unusual algorithm construction might be applicable to an unrelated algorithm problem they had been working on. Six weeks later I had solved their problem too by extending the concepts developed for my original algorithm.

By that point I realized that while those two very different algorithms were cool, the half-baked computer science I had developed to construct them was even cooler. I spent the next decade fleshing out, generalizing, and extending the scope of the computer science while figuring out how to efficiently express that theory in practical software (which is not trivial). While I wrote quite a few papers on this computer science many years ago when it was new, the distribution was required to be non-public. I sporadically teach bits of it but writing up hundreds of pages of old research in my spare time is a lot less fun than working on my backlog of interesting computer science projects.
These might provide some insight.

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
An Update to the 1619 Project
I've noticed that in large Java hierarchies, where I spend a lot of my time, people often use interfaces where they really should be using modules. Like, there's this vague concept of a "service" and methods of this service are bound together via an interface. Which ends up coupling all kinds of weird dependencies in the class definition.

My guess is that this is a similar case in Typescript that the author is describing.

So, this approach is, instead of having IFooService with two methods, IFooService.doOneThing and IFooService.doAnotherThing you just have a package "fooservice" with functional interfaces DoOneThing and DoAnotherThing. This seems to still play nice with most of the tooling, and often, keeps the code simpler and makes it easier to refactor. DoOneThingImpl and DoAnotherThingImpl can easily share code, but that aspect shouldn't matter at all to the caller.

Another way of thinking about it: don't worry too much about a perfect interface for layering your business logic initially. Start with just some functions, then as you spot patterns you may recognize there's a state pattern that does things better. I don't think this is really specific to Typescript.
Passenger licks fingers, rubs them on train pole in Belgium
I believe it has to do with the paperwork you sign when you enlist. Basically waiving a lot of your normal American rights.
That is correct with the caveat that their face must be visible/detected. At the moment, we count the number of unique persons using facial recognition.
The reasoning is that the DOJ under Barr (and the administration in general) has no interest in cooperating with Congress or fulfilling their constitutional/legal obligations.

If the Congress really wants it can enforce its own subpoenas by putting anyone who refuses to testify in their own jail, without asking the DOJ for help. This is a power that hasn’t been used since 1934, and the current Congress has opted to work through the courts / make appeals to the electorate instead of applying it.
Japan for whatever reason has a pretty low testing rate. It's impossible to know if that is a confounding factor or not at this point. Their infection count/death count and test count are remarkably similar to the USA.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/co...
Yes, but what does that have to do with "Just walk out"?

Grocery stores across the country could do (or may be already doing) all the creepy things you're describing without implementing "Just walk out", with the security cameras they already universally have installed. Or, they could implement "Just walk out" without doing any of those creepy things.

They're irrelevant to each other.

I don't see why you have a problem with "Just walk out", it seems to me like your problem is with the prevalence of security cameras. That's a valid criticism of, say, Ring, because it's pushing to increase the prevalence of home security cameras, but "Just walk out" isn't going to increase the prevalence of retail store security cameras, they're already ubiquitous.
Anecdotally, I've seen luxury/boutique hotels respond to the kitchen/separate rooms appeal by offering those features at competitive prices.

On the other end some hotel brands are pioneering smaller "pod" units to be more competitive with shared rooms/tiny apartments.

I'd generally assume that the economics of maintaining a 10-100 unit hotel are universally better than managing 3 single-family homes if you can maintain "feature-parity".
It's all the kimchi.
Chinese foreign ministry pushes coronavirus that US Army brought the epidemic
Fair enough, but I still believe that imprisonment absent a conviction or pretrial flight risk should not be allowed. I hope that in the future, we will see these sorts of situations like we see debtor's prisons today.

Another abhorrent example which shows where this leads: journalists can be unilaterally detained for not giving up their sources.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/politics/reporter-jailed-...
The marginal cost of verification could be zero. All Twitter has to do is to get together with Facebook, Google et al and agree to support a number of approved independent identity systems such as Yoti [1]. That uses a combination of government documents (eg passports) and biometrics.

Basically, users would be able to sign up for a sort of "digital passport" ID that would, in the long term, be accepted by governments and most websites. Enough people might find it convenient enough to sign up.

Twitter already allows you to block all users who have not registered a phone number and not uploaded a photo or whatever. I used these settings. They actually do remove a lot of bots and bad players. Again, in the long term, Twitter would give people the option to see only verified accounts.

I really wouldn't care if it meant I only saw tweets from a relatively small number of verified accounts. It might be more like Twitter in its first half dozen years, when it was much more engaging and fun than it is today.

[1]
https://www.yoti.com/

Yoti also works offline. For example, you can use it to prove that you are over 18 without giving away your name or other irrelevant information.
I would never argue smaller isn't better. But the code I work on every day tends to have much larger classes than that.
Children can't really make that choice. And before anybody responds with "won't you please think of the children," this is about the children. If vaping is anything like tobacco, the primary marketing target is children, because for the most part virtually nobody starts smoking as an adult.
One option is the government can subsidize tests, so that $10,000 becomes $5,000. It's in their best interests to do so.

I also doubt 300M will need testing - by that stage, if everyone is infected, what's the point of testing? It'll probably only be done for the first million at best.

I suppose hospitals are going to want to claim as many tests as possible for the $$$ but at some point the insurers would realize this is ridiculous and stop approving them.
I use Python's comprehensions a lot (list, tuple/generator, set and dict). I would not ding someone for not using them. They're a tool, but not always the right tool.

Also, complex comprehensions can get out of hand and explicit loops become more legible.

I got dinged at a trading shop using C# for using Linq instead of hand-writing the loops. I wasnt given any constraints, just solve X problems. I also wasnt being paid for the test, so I solved the problems in the most expedient manner for me. I didnt get the job. So it goes...

Edit: I would ding someone claiming to be an experienced Python dev that cant identify/understand a comprehension. I've 16 years of experience with Python, so I know a fair amount (though the Python documentation is eternally open in my browser). I'm also the only person on my team with any real Python experience. We're building out extensive infrastructure in Python, so Ive been doing a lot of patient mentoring.
Not even German and I'll chip in for this as long as the app ends up open source.
what metadata specifically are you trying to get from the streams?
> Ditto with the the other Java EE API’s GP mentioned, their interfaces are available on Maven Central

Not all of them; AFAIK, there's no Maven Central artifact for what used to be in the CORBA packages.
The distribution of the experiment results, say correlation in a Bell test, should not matter (significantly) on the choice of seed. But the single electron being sent through the experiment still needs to "know" what the outcome of my PRNG is in order to "know" if it should be spin up or spin down this time.

But the measurement setting (PRNG outcome) can be arbitrarily removed from the seed value (by combining PRNGs in various ways). So that doesn't sound very convincing to me.
I remember 9/11, saw the second plane hit with my own eyes. Other than airports and flying being more inconvenient nothing fundamental really changed as I saw it. People still traveled, people still flew and so on. Now you just budget an extra hour before a flight.
> This doesn't sound like a smart interviewer.

I was slightly upset/angry at first but after thinking about it I came to the same conclusion and ended up being happy that I didn't get to pursue the opportunity any further.
Ultra-dense database engines are typically used for data models created from measuring entities or places in the physical world, sometimes in real-time. This includes telemetry and sensors from mobile phones, automobiles, satellites, features extracted from video, network packets, the web, etc and sometimes all of the above. These are the largest data models that I know of; most medium-sized non-tech companies I work with have 10-100 PB data models now. The size doubles quickly even if you regularly truncate old data. The extremely high storage density saves both hardware and software engineering costs by massively reducing the required cluster size.

This has become a great emerging market for new database tech, tremendous amounts of money are being spent on these data models and traditional data infrastructures are very poor for this. The size and velocity of the data implies that you need a single database instance that can run ingestion workloads concurrent with analysis workloads.

The research on caching algorithms for ultra-dense storage is new, it is literally just starting to be worked into production designs, so I wouldn't expect references. Most advanced database research is done outside academia, so a significant fraction is published long after implementation or not formally published at all. Publication is not the objective per se and there is little time or incentive to do that work. Database research has a discovery problem, I hear about most interesting new research via informal community channels and much of that never shows up in literature.
Just fyi, this is not an article about being a CEO during an actual war, to anyone in the audience scrolling through the comments trying to figure that out. It's just about being a CEO when the competition is far behind, versus being a CEO when the competition is very close.
The post negligently omits reference to Octavia E Butler for prior art

Her works are the best place to start
I agree its about self-confidence, also desire to achieve a goal. Confidence and desire, the rest follows naturally.
Meet the Ohio family that invented Purell
JAMA article about Taiwan - they made changes after SARS to have a faster response and what they did worked to contain the spread even though there is a large flow of people to/from China.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689
I guess it's something in the air! Given the popularity of the other libraries, it's surprising that there's isn't an optimal one.

And yeah, unless you've gone down the rabbit hole of type safety obsession, it's hard to understand the necessity of this. I like that you specifically call out REST API validation in your docs...the difficultly of type safe API implementation was what drove me to build zod.

I'm using Zod plus a hand-rolled codegen tool to implement an end-to-end type safe RPC API that validates all data at runtime AND generates a statically typed Typescript SDK for use on the client.

PS If people like the sound of that I might publish that too. Let me know if it sounds interesting.
> He's bleeding money now

Maybe he should work instead of leeching off his community.
How long can the virus survive in a container of kimchi? I truly would like to know.
Does your happiness track GDP?
Sir Isaac Newton did his best work while working from home during a pandemic
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game)
From this point forward: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/us/p... the DOJ has allowed the WH to refuse to comply with a bunch of subpoenas, and there's no amount of partisan rhetoric that can hide that fact.
It's simply not up for debate, sorry.

That said, I don't know what are they standing on to be able to do that without any court just sending them all to jail.
If that’s truly the case, privacy and freedom kind of need to step up their game. I feel like parts of asia are handling this much more responsibly than the US and Europe.
Yes, of course. Just as the government cannot put a lien on your bank account for saying you are going to buy Manning a sandwich or pay her rent.

The sibling link to her legal defense fund is presumably structured this way - the money goes directly to her attorney who holds it in trust specifically for her legal defense. She never has any control over it, and so she cannot be compelled to use it to pay the fine.
I don't get this at all.

All the evidence points to it being the Russians, Putin himself said it might have been "patriotically minded" Russians, all US intel agencies say it was the Russians, all non-US agencies say it was the Russians.

And you claim to be baffled as to why people say it was the Russians?

Maybe it wasn't, but it's not exactly baffling why people say it is. There are no real counter theories at all - the only counter claims sort of say "Deep State" but nothing else.