skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying Google isn't evil, but I don't buy this particular piece of conspiracy theory. Every major browser including Google Chrome is starting to phase out third-party cookies, which prevents exactly that kind of tracking.
The way it is stated "No other automaker has achieved that kind of volume when it comes to producing long-range electric passenger cars." gives them some wiggle room in their claim. Still, it is a very impressive feat for an automobile startup.
>Outside of drives and fans, the virtually all of the power used in your system is exclusively 12v; either from the 12v pins on your ATX24 or P4 or EPS12 connectors, or via the PCI-E connectors; very little non-drive or non-fan power is supplied via 3.3 or 5v rails.

I'm curious which fans don't use 12v - all the fans I know of in a typical computer operate on 12v except perhaps GPU fans. Occasionally I'll run a fan on 5v if I need it to be quieter and I don't have any PWM headers available, but that's about it.
and the lack of paid sick leave
I don't think we're likely to agree here, but I'll lay it out anyway.

The top-level comment tried to describe the moral high ground as directly dependent on strict adherence to the letter of the contract. This is the key issue that I object to in this thread.

An action being legal does not necessarily imply that the action is also moral, and vice versa. Context matters. Intent matters.

Is it moral for a company to ask an outgoing employee to sign a non-disparagement agreement in exchange for severance? Maybe. Did the company misbehave when trying to fire that employee? Is the lawyer or HR person offering the contract aware of what happened? Is somebody that's part of this chain of events knowingly trying to use this exchange to sweep a scandal under the rug? Is the company trying to use the personal or financial circumstances of the employee as leverage to get her to agree to something she normally would not agree to (i.e. "pseudo-duress")?

If any of these things are true, I don't think it's moral for the company to ask for this exchange. Her decision to accept or reject the terms of the contract does not change this, especially if the company tried to use their position of power to influence her decision.

Now, is she acting morally in trying to break the terms of the contract? I don't think it depends on whether or not she's pregnant, but I do think it depends on whether or not the company acted morally in offering her the contract in the first place.

The moral math here is super simple. It's just karma. "If you act immorally towards other people, they might feel morally justified in trying to screw you over. Maybe they're right... maybe you had it coming."

Lots of people subscribe to this idea.
> What country has a working completely private healthcare system?

Switzerland [1]. And the Netherlands has a mostly-private system [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherland...
The latest is that ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are both needed to infect humans. There are already two compounds identified to block these pathways, one of which is already a medication used in Japan. Both are very safe with huge LD50's.
How does amazons tech add defense? You still need human personnel to do anything about theft. People shoplifting don't care if the door is beeping while they walk out and disappear.
Most people don't think of 2% annual growth as exponential.
Even the factory they have now is not very well automated and it shows in the price and their ability to deliver cars at volume. Maybe they will improve that over time, but that's like saying maybe RedHat will make a desktop OS that displaces Windows and OSX, it's possible if they do the hard part - which they haven't been able to do so far. The hardest part about being a car company is building the cars.
I first encountered the Knapsack problem at a job interview. Intuitively I tried to solve it using what I later found out to be the greedy approximation algorithm [1], which proved unsuccessful to solve it for the interview's sample input.

Since I had not much time left I switched to an inefficient brute force approach, basically a test of all possible combinations, which wasn't well received by the interviewer back then since he was expecting a recursive dynamic solution [2].

When I started a blog last year I decided to revisit this problem while writing about complexity classes of problems, and tried to demonstrate how to translate a solver to the Knapsack problem for solving another NP-complete problem, the partition problem [3] ;)

It's indeed a very interesting and fun problem to tackle!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem#Greedy_approx...

[2] https://github.com/TCGV/Knapsack/blob/master/Tcgv.Combinator...

[3] https://thomasvilhena.com/2019/08/complexity-classes-of-prob...
Malware?
"The proposal is a biologic that blocks 2019-nCoV entry using a soluble version of the viral receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), fused to an immunoglobulin Fc domain (ACE2-Fc), providing a neutralizing antibody with maximal breath to avoid any viral escape, while also helping to recruit the immune system to build lasting immunity. The ACE2-Fc therapy would also supplement decreased ACE2 levels in the lungs during infection, thereby directly treating acute respiratory distress pathophysiology as a third mechanism of action."
One of our older neighbors are inviting everyone on the nextdoor app to go to their house for movie night to prove that this is just a flu. The entire thread is people making fun of covid19 and how they are angry their retirement accounts are getting hit.

I wish I was making this up.
> Increasing temperatures increase steam pressure until a rupture occurs, and the water boils away.

Generally, no. Chernobyl is the biggest example of this happening, but it only happened because the reactor itself was basically exploding anyway.

Steam pressure doesn't build up gradually, generally. Relief valves -even just burst points- are just too simple and robust. The much more common issue is that hot reactor fuel causes water to break down and release hydrogen which accumulates at the top of the reactor and eventually explodes, and then the water boils off.
private health insurance in the US is (even under Obamacare) expensive, and the deductibles are high if you're on those cheap plans.

Under an Obamacare cheapest possible insurance option you're not going to be bankrupted by (for example) a heart attack, but you'll still be paying the bill for a long time. That ignores hospitals like SF general that charge you directly (and are out of network) so you can still be trivially bankrupted.
https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
Who is "us" ? Hackernews are being read from around the world. I'm for example from South Africa.
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The Scope of Business Analytics
"In Just Walk Out-enabled stores, shoppers enter the store using a credit card."
This is pretty cool, just signed up.

Does this take a lot of time? Or do you have a specific note taking process for podcasts?
Yes. Both Italy and the US are below average. South Korea and Japan, currently taking extremely drastic measures like mass-closing schools, have around 5x as many beds as either.

I'm in the US, but if you think that makes me think the US is prepared, you have it backwards. I'd guess that if we're not in worse shape than Italy in two weeks, we'll be very lucky.
To be clear, I don't believe the following (Hanlon's razor, etc), but it would make a good dystopian/thriller:

As some point one might consider if governments see COVID-19 as an opportunity to "cull the herd". Japan and Italy have the two largest aging populations of any countries. The US has a large number of citizens with COVID-19 comorbidities.

I'm not sure if the long term savings on entitlements and health care costs would outweigh the short term economic damage, though.
We use to have that mentality in South Africa a few years ago where our medical minister "Doctor Beetroot" told patients HIV is not that bad and they should just shower and eat garlic and beetroot !

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/dr-beetroot-di...
They ran a corrupt, unlikable technocrat against him, one who called Americans deplorable; Romney lost for a similar reason, when he called Americans lazy.

The large majority are economic left and socially conservative. Amusingly, that's how Trump RAN during his campaign, but has since fallen in line with the Republican establishment. The democrats give slight relief via left-ish economics, but never go too far, and the right talks a lot about social conservative values, but ultimately concedes to the left, while gutting us economically. It's a great system if you're socially and economically libertarian, since it overrides the majority without looking like its going against the will of the people. Trump ran on policies that seemed closest to the actual will of the people, and won. Surprise.
Nobody Knows II [pdf]
Better than who for example? Better than Iran? I'd certainly hope so. Other than Iran, I'd say it's too early to tell.
Mount cloud storage (S3, Backblaze) using SMB/NFS directly to your file system
Firefox is like that really ugly flower that blooms once every hundred years, they leapfrog the competition briefly and then eventually degrade back to being crap for regular users. I'm aware of the technical politics around what causes this but that only really matters for people who choose browsers based on cyber politics. Quantum was good for six months, now we're back to the same situation where almost everyone outside the tech bubble is using Chrome.

You'd think that maybe this would cause them to exercise some strategy, like rushing to conquer mobile since Chrome's mobile ui is trash, but nope. Hell, Brave of all things is doing better at mobile than Firefox.
You won't have to pay for cashiers but you will have to still pay for people stocking, security when people inevitably try and beat this system, customer service for when old people without cellphones get confused, etc. Maybe you shave off one minimum wage worker off your payroll, for the cost of however much amazon licenses this tech to you.
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The end goal is to automate it, but right now doing a hand curation process. Doesn't take too much time and my friends get value out of it anyways. We also then discuss it among ourselves and I like the seeding of discussion.

I take a LOT of podcast notes, it's just how I go about learning things. Just on apple notes I jot down what is interesting during a podcast. It's helpful to sometimes to go back and review / remember the podcasts that are good enough to re-listen too.
I read compulsory health insurance.
Isn't it already the norm that there are security cameras in retail stores to catch shoplifters? This doesn't really change that.
> I think if I had to make a guess, Tesla will be in the same chapter in the history of cars as DeLorian and Duesenberg.

I don't actually know what chapter that would be. Delorean was around for 3 years, and made ~9000 cars. Duesenberg (of which I had never heard) made race cars, somewhere under 1000... There really isn't a good comparison to be made with Tesla.
I'm feeling the same. I just started becoming concerned on Friday, and trying to keep up on accurate news. Do you, or anyone else in the US know how to help raise public awareness for prevention, preparedness for the worse, or lessening the impact on healthcare systems and communities? I feel like this needs its own thread, or platform for collaboration. I'm worried that without wider availability of testing, we're already fucked and that quarantine = police state.
JavaScript based exploits show how well it works.
The official avif github [1] references Kagami/avif.js [2]. It's intended as a server-side component to be installed, and uses service workers to on-the-fly repack AVIF images as AV1 videos. The code is licensed CC0, and is easy to read, so you can tweak it to your needs.

If the browser can't natively decode AV1 videos, it calls dav1d.js [3] to decode, which is a webassembly port of dav1d [4].

[1] https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-avif/wiki [2] https://github.com/Kagami/avif.js [3] https://github.com/Kagami/dav1d.js [4] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d
Not sure what that means. Sounds like some still might need to pay for it. That's an unacceptable approach for a standard proposed by AOM which stresses the royalty free focus (in contrast with MPEG), which was exactly my point above.
Unlikely: they mix 39 variations serially, testing and rejecting each one. The 40th works.

Likely: they mix up a bunch of batches of various proportions and test them. Either the one labelled 40 is the best, or (my bet) there were 40 variations and they thought it was good marketing.
I love the idea but how do you navigate copyrights on these podcasts? Do you get permission to use their clips?
Well, I distinctly remember what happened the last time - investor capital dried up really quickly, which significantly lowered early stage financing and made deal terms quite a bit worse. Additionally, startups had a lot harder time actually making revenue since both b2b and b2c spending lowered significantly.

That said, this time it's really hard to say because we still have historically low interest rates and not a whole lot of places for people with money to invest it at higher returns, so that's sure to have an impact.
Whoever invented lithium batteries created the electric car sector (In fact he won a Nobel prize for it, https://news.uchicago.edu/story/john-b-goodenough-shares-nob...). Everything else has existed since the 1800s (although it has been refined over time). There were even attempts at electric cars in the 1800s. In fact, almost 40% of all cars in 1900 were electric! If they had lithium batteries in 1890 we would have been driving electric cars for the last 130 years.

GM had a great electric car in the mid 90s that couldn't compete due to lead acid batteries being heavy and having poor energy density (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1). Put Lithium batteries in an EV1 and people still wouldn't have wanted it because oil prices were low, but it beat the Model S to market by nearly 20 years and again given a better battery technology like lithium would probably have led to a majority of cars being electric today.
None of that addresses my points. Electric cars haven't escaped being toys for rich people, if they had you wouldn't be seeing Europe and California talking about the need to protect electric cars via legislation. On the other front, increasingly efficient ICE engine designs have done far more to reduce emissions in the present.
If you feel like developing for the Vectrex there is a full set of tools and information developed by Malban.

http://vide.malban.de/what-is-vide
> These politicians are representative of their voters, as democracy should be.

Isn't it that they make decisions on behalf of the voters and should take the best professional advice on their behalf?
Out of curiosity, have you tried messenger.com to answer the pings?
How to get out of “the endless circle” of self-study programming?
I found this effective to handle fragmentation by accepting only meetings before lunch, doing only post lunch also works . Either mornings or afternoons are fully free to do focused work
The FDA should re-evaluate their opinion on sodium cyclamate. The ban is highly dubious as the study that lead to its ban was funded by the sugar lobby and 130 other countries have deemed it safe for human consumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_cyclamate
and what might that reason be?
Likely because having the respect of the rest of the world or electing Hillary Clinton in 2016 would have made very little difference in the face of (a) a pandemic virus, and (b) the major structural problems in the US economy that the article points to.
Do you know of any one site that provides a comprehensive list of all the studies/drugs regarding covid-19 ?
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That's why I said "diagnosed" because people die of pneumonia from time to time, and this can sometimes be a result of having the flu, but the pneumonia is apparent, but not necessarily that they previously had the flu.
You are mixing up C++ support, which naturally like with other languages did not support 100% of ISO C++, and the reboot of NVidia's hardware design to match ISO C++11 memory semantics.

Which is easily proven when reading the documentation for the first set of CUDA releases.

As for the rebooted hardware design,

https://youtu.be/86seb-iZCnI

https://cppcast.com/olivier-giroux/
Yes. Recordings of video, not analysis of your movement and tracking people with their name,social information,history facial recognition and gait analysis.

Is there a difference between a security guard watching you and a person walking around writing down every move you make, every facial expression,posture,gesture,mood,interaction and instantly applying sophisticated correlation in conjunction with thousands of historical data points about you? Come on! There is a difference between a firecracker and thermonuclear bomb.
Yeah, they are saying now that there's a 5 day incubation period for COVID19.

Without widespread testing, we are going to have no idea how bad this is and how seriously fast we need to lock down facilities, particularly nursing homes, and this particular nursing home has shown that in a lot of places, the disease is going to strike and kill FAST.
I like this a lot. I often find myself too "behind" on the podcasts that I like to listen to and often don't have the time to sit through and listen to all of them.

I'm down to try it out. Maybe you and I like similar things
The aberration I see when I wear glasses are most obvious when looking at something like colored LED lighting - I can actually cleanly separate the red and blue components of a purple light into two separate images, for instance. More blended colors will just get the usual fringe.

That, along with the other severe distortion brought on by a -10 diopter, is why I mainly wear contacts now.
Geez, what part of the country if you don't mind me asking? Arrogance, ignorance, and disinformation is literally going to kill us. Thanks for sharing that.
I picked Duesenberg because in their day they had about the same market share that Tesla has today.
Every country is endowed with enough natural renewable resources to service their own needs.
I miss sales sooo much. I really wish there were more technical roles that involved sales.

Nice work @louisswiss... been following on twitter and appreciate what you're doing... keep going!
Firefox mobile can't even render pages reliably. That matter more than the UI.
True. Very good point.

There’s no issue there for me. Maybe it’s slightly vanity related but I’d like my voice to sound good.

Maybe I was listening to too many podcasts with interviews, but there’s a huge difference if someone uses a good mic with a rich sound, or a crappy one with a thin sound.

I just feel like a richer sound will be much more pleasant for the other end and will project my real voice more accurately.
Looking at the MSDS, I believe the "water displacement" chemical used is naptha, but they don't go into detail about the oil used, but it's long rumored to be kerosene... Take that as you will.
The thread is difficult to find and dense. It's not helped by the OSI deleting the supposedly incriminating email, which is nice because we don't get potentially emotionally scarred by having to read it, and also it makes it impossible to transparently judge who the real bully was.

Installing rules contrary to:

- 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

- 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

were at discussion. Along with codes-of-conduct. At one point involving a so-called "Persona-non-Grata Preamble". Good Heavens! That would get me up in arms too. And yes, there were people supporting the position that it was fine to study a "Persona non-Grata Preamble"...

Now we all know ESR is a complete right-wing libertarian wackadoo right? And he doesn't ever mince words. So one can totally read the headline and just imagine what a profanity-ridden racist, sexist, response. It would probably have offended Linus Torvalds and made him cry, right?

Actually, most of the comments from ESR and the other OSI contributors were fairly measured. Finally found what appears to have got him hauled up to the secret kangaroo court here: http://techrights.org/2020/02/29/getting-banned-osi/

Make your own judgement. It's not nice. It is abrasive. My opinion, however, is that I think ESR is 100% right in his characterization of SJWs and the situation. It always seems over the top until you really see them in action. IMHO.

Good luck with your OSI thingy, Ehmke (and your like-minded pals). Meanwhile there's a lot of us who won't say a lot publicly, but will keep on doing good things and judging others by how good they are at doing work. When you argue against meritocracy, I know better than to argue publically. But I'll never ever agree.
Don't know why you are being down voted. This is hard scientific and economic reality, not a paradox.
I'm not sure what the GP's comment has to do with one's nationality. Both are facts, regardless of whether or not the United States is worse on one of those metrics.
This will make motherboards more expensive and fragile. Desktop chipsets from Intel can only support two generations of processors. While a good PSU can have ten years of warranty.
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In Switzerland, health insurance may be private, but is mandatory and there is a large catalog that even the cheapest insurance must cover.

On the other hand, the state (each canton) pours large amounts of money into hospitals and research. There are laws and regulations at various levels (edit: eg how many doctors may open a new cabinet), and in these days we are reminded that doctors can be mandated to work when a crisis requires it.

Calling this a "completely private healthcare system" is a bit misleading.
I used something like this deployed to Coop stores in Denmark. It's a nightmare to use and the random check pissed me off enough so I deleted the app and decided never to use it again.

Try shopping with a little kid and using one hand on your phone and being randomly checked when there are 20 people waiting before you. This is not working in the current version of the technology.
The simplified answer: the US is a late-stage civilization in gradual decline since either post-WW2 or about 1960.

The "frog" has been "boiling" slowly for a long time and is almost cooked.

See also:

- America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges

- Chalmers Johnson's Decline of Empires: Signs of Decay https://youtu.be/Q2CCs-x9q9U

- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon

- The Rise and Fall of the Great Empires by Taylor
We already pull people aside for an embarrassing and invasive search if they look brown enough in our airports. A buzzer when I leave the bathroom is the least of my worries.
It's actually good to see Elon be more humble and realistic about some goals. In this case, I personally think getting humans to Mars is entirely doable in less than 20 years, and the SpaceX goal of a colony by 2050 is plausible, but probably optimistic. The biggest roadblock is the same it's always been - there's just not much of an economic reason to get humans to Mars, so it's a constant uphill battle.
I think german courts would declare the contract unconscionable and she also wouldnt have been fired that easily.
How does this technology deal with theft?