skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many states have laws that protect employees from being subjected to polygraph (e.g. CA LC 432.2 ).

It would be good to get these new technologies comprehensively covered by laws like this before they're commercially viable (and thus have spending to oppose laws against them).

In particular, I think it is really important to establish that fMRI/MEG gathered evidence be barred by fifth amendment protections against self-incrimination, and that their use for employment get treated like polygraph.

Beyond the obvious problems with mind reading working, the complexity of these systems means that there is a considerable amount of non-transparency in their operation. We have enough trouble making firmware for breathalyzers that won't lead to wrongful convictions.
E3 2020 has been canceled
I don't think it's productive to argue that non-dynamic languages are superior across the board. Everybody knows they're faster. For many people, they're still the right decision.

I think (or at least assumed) that the post's discussion is more interesting than that. A sibling comment seemed to be zeroing in on the crux of the issue. "Python is an order of magnitude slower but it's web server is two orders of magnitude slower" is a meaningful and fruitful thing to talk about.
MIT has an exception for homeless students.
Yeah? Name a product to come out of FB or Google in the past 5 years that has been a major financial success - and acquisitions (like IG, Oculus) don't count. Name anything that has fundamentally changed about those companies in that time.
Note that the government didn't "bail out" Ford either:

The Ford Motor Company didn't need the funds since it had already cut costs. But it asked to be included so it wouldn't suffer by competing with companies who already had government subsidies. (from your link).

I can't find anything about the $10B that won't be repaid. Do you have further details?
Can you use MURS for this? Or potentially GMRS if the operators are licensed?
Coming to the conclusion there will be no refunds based on the article not saying anything about refunds is jumping to conclusions how?
I think you're right, and that economic damage is something I think too many people are worried about. I've seen a lot of business magazines more worried about the dow-jones than the number of people who could die.
Good feedback. I've already brought it up with my team. So far, most of them appear to be fine with it, whereas two people seem very upset about it. I'm still trying to figure out how to handle them, but it really does have to happen. Frustrating for sure, but will definitely be as sensitive as I possibly can.
Tesla charges $7,000 for full self-driving vaporware, and has already recognized a huge portion of it, even though they haven't delivered practically any of the value of it (they claimed your car would appreciate by over $100,000 when it entered the robotaxi fleet this year). More than Toyota's whole margin, they spent a lot on it but recently cut R&D significantly even though they aren't close. Maybe with the latest fundraising round they will increase R&D again and deliver before the cars that were bundled with it are falling apart.
Effectiveness of Reducing Population Movement in Managing Coronavirus Outbreak
Tremendous respect for MIT but I am dismayed that one of the world's leading institutions just told students to ship out with what appears to be little regard for the difficulties. Arranging for transportation, alternate housing, storage, etc runs into real costs which many don't be able to bear on top of tuition, board, and other fees that schools routinely charge.

MIT's research enterprise does not seem to be affected, however...
A lot of newer hatchbacks seem to have a sharp taper to the roof and it really reduces the amount of space gained vs the sedan form factor.

The Honda Fit and a few others are the exception but I assume the reason is that the SUV form factor has gobbled up most of the market for “hatchback with a lot of space for cargo”. E.g. Toyota discontinued the Prius V and is instead offering an electric RAV4.
In addition to hiring new engineers, another challenge companies have is to get existing hires who have more context for the company's problems either get better or get more current with newer technologies.
Plenty of $ positive launches happen that way.
It’s also the case that the US health system disincentivizes preventative care, which may stress our health system even relative to the capacity of beds (more may be used for true emergencies than might be the case for other countries). This will be the first non-localized shock in quite a while and only time will tell how bad it gets here.
That's a good point. Also, my understanding is that antiviral medications might be an option in a "few" months.
Intel checks permissions after performing a memory access (which allows the side effects of that access to be visible) but AMD checks before.

Also AMD doesn't have SGX so they can't have SGX vulnerabilities.
Any option to install it onto a VM or a separate drive for dual boot? Windows 10 VMs are active for a few weeks (or edu discounts are often pretty steep). If it was in a VM you otherwise use you can snapshot and revert back after taking the test (I guess you could do this with a normal backup, too). That's usually my go-to for stuff like this (but for me it's often Linux/macOS).
And assuming they're refunding them... They can live basically anywhere for as cheap as a dorm room in MIT or Harvard. Sure, major inconvenience. People aren't gonna be homeless and die.
> At first I thought "oh great, this looks very nice but why does it exist when Next.js, Gatsby, etc. are already a thing?"

I honestly will never understand why people say things like this. As though there's no room for progress. As though there aren't alternatives that may or may not be better. Imagine if the folks building React thought "ya know, we got Angular, so why are we doing this?"... Or any of the many, many other similar scenarios. It's how we make progress.
I think I didn't communicate that part well. I don't get status emails because the people who should be sending the emails are holding meetings instead :) These are "should have been emails" meetings. For example, you don't need to spend 30 minutes in a room when there's a status update. You could send an email instead and I could read it at my leisure. That's 30 minutes I don't need to spend in a meeting. If I have 6 of those a week, that's 3 hours of my week back.

TL;DR people should send status update emails instead of holding meetings whenever possible
Pretty sure the ban on microwaves was an electrical fire risk, not them being predatory about students eating at the dining hall. Can you imagine if even every other room had an appliance pulling 1000W whenever the hell a student felt like warming up some soup?
Opening line from their announcement blog post:

>It is safe to say that our industry has decided that containers are now the chosen way to package and scale applications.

Curious how the HN community feels about that statement. Not so much about the truth of the statement but about the fact that containers are becoming the de facto method of packaging applications.
I have 14 direct reports and am responsible for 25 people in total.
Maybe they could finally offer graduate-level classes online like what Stanford does with SCPD or Georgia Tech with OMS CS... So far one had to be in Boston physically.
> both the candidates are well into their seventies

Tulsi Gabbard hasn't dropped out yet, and is only 38.

...it would certainly be an interesting development if they had to go with her by default.
I considered this since I used it at my last company and it really was awesome. It was already set up when I got there.
So I contacted them for a quote to deploy at my current job and holy smokes are they expensive!!!
We ended up going with bitwarden: API, CLI tools, and password sharing. We've been happy.
Imagine paying $50,000+ a year for education that provides no labs, no campus experience, and no personal interaction with other students and professors.... Now imagine that 50k a year landlord telling you to pack your shit and get out in 2 weeks.
It's not silly at all. Replacing a lot of sprintf calls with Grisu and later Ryu made a huge difference in the production fleet at my last job. It wasn't by any means "the bottleneck" but it was costing real money. Most of the calls were in peripheral functions like debug logs, status page outputs, and whatnot.

That said, I've never seen strtod showing up in my profiles, but I bet if I was profiling web browsers then I would see it.
Honestly it's the wrong problem. Having passionate, eager, focused, organized, willing workers is essentially the only job of management.

If that's not happening, switch out the managers.
What? How have they "lost" $20B? They may currently be carrying that much debt, but plenty of other auto manufacturers are carrying significantly more debt than that (e.g. $155B for Ford). Debts that you invest into growing a business faster aren't lost money. Tesla makes money on every car sold. It made sense for them to take out debt to enable that scaling.

And what does this have to do with whether their products are good for the environment anyway? Whether it makes sense to take on debt to establish a new business seems completely orthogonal.
FB and Instagram overuse linked to loneliness, contributing to global epidemic
All depends how you measure productivity as well. I write more code when I work from home, but lines of code don't necessarily correlate with "useful productivity", since it's entirely possible to work on an epic project that solves no useful problems, or the project fails for other reasons.
No overlap per se, but we are looking at how to integrate Firecracker as a potential target for "container" launches: https://github.com/orgs/bottlerocket-os/projects/1#card-3386...
".. parties who seek to limit the promise of free software" that's an interesting phrase as Free Software has always also been about limiting freedom. After all a license is something that puts certain restrictions on the usage of a piece of software. This is not much different to accusing the GPL of "limiting the promise of free software". Or the AGPL for that matter, which is probably what the OSI proponents are thinking anyway.
We had a kitchen and hundreds of people. Dorms are not designed for students to regularly cook, and even if they were, a shared kitchen seems even less sanitary than a meal hall
The Strange World of Library Music (2014)
HN is collectively schizophrenic on this topic. On the one hand, the comments say that nobody really needs anything fancier than JSON. On the other hand, other comments say that if JSON parsing shows up in your profiles, you should switch off JSON!
It's almost like MIT is acting in the best interests of their own public relations image, as opposed to the community at large.
Right, that's what I said. Young urbanites often don't need cars. Families and people living outside dense urban areas usually do.
My understanding is that the opposite is happening in Italy: the severe cases have been found, but it takes time for the mild cases to (and the non fatal ones) to be marked as recovered.
All of that applies to dorms too, maybe even worse because the close quarters are for much longer periods of the day. You've got multiple people living in the same room in dorms, and sharing all the common areas. That's a great vector for spreading disease. The dorms are closing for exactly the same reason as the cafeterias are, not because the cafeterias are closing first and now students have nothing to eat.
This is one of the few downsides of remote work. It's not very effective to do walks over Zoom.
I used to love small cars till I had kids. Strollers are large and rear facing car seats don’t work if front seat people are tall.
is it just me? or is this website really bland by 2020 standards? That could be a good thing but I kind of expected more for a major product from Amazon
For Google, the Pixel phones?
That is, to a large degree, a distinction without a difference. Large US research universities are more similar than different in most aspects including status as legal entity and (perhaps more important in practice) in how society sees them.
Walmart's New Fulfillment Service Compares to Amazon's FBA
I wanted to see how long a full 80-character title would be and used your comment as a test. Lo and behold... exactly 80.
Capacitors generally release all of their energy all at once if you short them, which is very bad.

Gasoline is flammable, but it needs the right fuel air mixture to actually explode. Car fires are relatively common, but as far as I know car explosions are not.
Links to on-the-ground sources in Italy would be very welcome.
Well, Italy is not how things have to be further out. Health system can system prepare before hand (they aren't, it seems but still).

Also, if the entire population of Northern Italy was infected and mortality rate was .5%, you would be seeing 13K deaths (which isn't impossible given the situation but far from 6-700 deaths so far).

Which is to say, you're right that infection on a large scale is far more problematic than infection on a small scale but I don't think infection on a large necessarily contradicts the Diamond Princess results. A lot of people can die and it is social catastrophe even with percent of the entire population.
I've been in Europe since early December. There are a ton of cars here, and very few of them are flashy. Small, practical cars everywhere. Very popular models: Citrooen C3, Skoda Fabia, VW Polo, Renault Cool, Opel/Vauxhall Corsa, Honda Jazz, Seat Ibiza, Ford Fiesta, etc. In the USA we have companies like Ford saying they are going to stop making cars for the USA market. It wouldn't surprise me to here a European company say they'd only make a small range of practical cars. One big reason is a lot of the roads are too darn small for anything big & their isn't as much money sloshing around here. Smaller is how they roll (pun intended) here.
Although there are general principles, there's no accurate theory for what looks good. But I think you could train a ML model on data, such as from https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes.
I submit that Typescript is largely overrated, adds unnecessary complexity and fails to catch a large number of issues at compile time that it should in fact catch.
Media fatigue/cynicism. In the past 10 years, we've had apocalyptic scenarios about anti-vax, Trump, Brexit, IS, trade war, property crisis, recession, climate change, US government shutdowns. Before that, there was cigarettes, obesity, food industry, big pharma, nuclear war, 9/11. We've also had Zika, SARS, MERS, Ebola.

I have no idea how scary this is because the media cries wolf all the time. Everyone cries wolf but life still goes on. So when something actually bad does happen, everyone's been desensitized to it. It's even worse today now that newsjacking is a thing.
Totally agree. Massachusetts has some of the best healthcare in the country if you specifically benefit from some of the research going on at Mass General or another research hospital. But even then, just going to Mass Gen for a respiratory infection won't really let you benefit from the concentration of expertise. You just need 02, possibly a tube, and attention from non-sick healthcare workers.
> It's pretty nice to see that Reich is literally hammering home that HBD as HBD proponents see it isn't real yet you think it furthers your argument.

I have no idea what HBD is, but you keep repeating it, and ascribing a "proponent" label to me. Can I ask you to explain my position to me, so that I know better what I'm guilty of?

> 1. That there are population (not race, these are not the same thing and only ever overlap by happenstance) differences in some critical traits for survival is old news. These traits are few and far between and have been the subject of extremely strong selective pressure.

These things are simply not true, and Reich is pretty clear about it in his book. There are tons of papers about that too. You can keep repeating it, and Saini can keep repeating it, but it won't make it any more true. The papers won't just disappear. Common conception of race matches the ancestry extremely well. There are average differences found in many traits, many of which didn't see "extremely strong selective pressure". Reich brings up evidence for selection for taller height in northern Europeans in his book: what was "extremely strong selective pressure" there? Or, for that matter, what was the extremely strong selective pressure to select for short height in various Pygmy populations?

The above is bunch of falsehoods, and anyone who has any familiarity with recent (and not so recent) results in genetics and heritability is perfectly aware of that.

> 2. That you lump up artificial selection for a single purpose and natural selection

You're welcome to explain where I "lump" them, and what it actually means, because this is simply a contentless attack that's designed to deflect the attention from the core of the argument.

> (which Darwin specifically coined as opposed to the artificial selection we do on animals) shows you have a very limited understanding of how, well, evolutionary genomics works.

You can, and in fact, you do. Price equation simply doesn't care about what causes the generation-to-generation selection, for example. Again, this is a contentless attack on my imputed knowledge of the field.

> You keep thrashing Saini but you haven't addressed the fact that her books have received inputs and feedback from many prominent people in the field.

Of course I addressed that. For example, she received input from Reich, who trashes her argument. I also mentioned that some people in the field are also twisting science to further their political causes, and this has been true at least since Lewontin and Gould, and probably much earlier.

> I asusme you're not a specialist so surely your first reflex should be to assume the people she's thanked in the foreword know what they're doing as their daily job.

I don't trust Saini to accurately relay what she was told, because what she is saying is clearly against the understanding in the field, and as Reich's points out, many people in the field are in the business of obfuscating science themselves.
Italy suspends mortgage payments amid corona lockdown
Cool. I'll take a look at the book. I was specifically interested in Python design patterns. I still remember the talk from Alex Martinelli at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vJJlVBVTFg, and I just saw there is an updated version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeuChRCByZc
Buying a used Tesla might not be a great choice, because they've locked it down so you're forced to use their repair shops instead of 3rd party. That's going to increase your cash outlay in a way you weren't expecting.
Breitbart's coverage does not appear severely biased, in this case:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/02/21/report-trump-backs...

(I suppose just saying "Trump backs.." can be a signal indicating what the Trump supporting readers ought to think. OTOH, the same language on CNN has a similar effect in the opposite direction.)
Maybe standards would be good too for degradation. Might make the batteries more expensive as they would be a guarantee of sorts.

So say silver tier - 70% max range after 7 years. gold tier - 80% max range after 7 years, etc.
Would you have paid 50k+ a year for an online education without the interaction you get from being part of the MIT campus a facilities and faculty?
> Note that the government didn't "bail out" Ford either:

OK sure. The government gave a private company taxpayer money that didn't need it so it's profits wouldn't suffer.

> I can't find anything about the $10B that won't be repaid. Do you have further details?

Last sentance in the first paragraph of my link says "In the end, taxpayers lost $10.2 billion." (with a footnote to [0])

[0] https://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/TAR...
I sincerely am not trolling, or being snarky in saying this, but that has to be the most privelaged, 1st world problem, entitled statement I've ever read.
The Logistics of the US Census [video]
I'm in Canada — and so is Raymond Hill, who is your friend. But in this case you're missing nothing; all the substance is in the title.
Hmm, I never get any notifications on news.ycombinator.com on desktop or safari on iOS. Am I reading HN wrong way? :-)
Is this intended to become AWS's version of GCP's Container-Optimized OS?

https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os
PostmarketOS Project Direction 2020
Unrelated but I'm really not a fan of how managers like to dehumanize when they speak about what are really their colleagues -> You 'have' a team of 'resources'.

Calling them 'reports' is also bad but a least it doesn't sound like something is going to be used up
Are you saying that suggesting employees to work from home is a sensational, over-the-top move by the tech companies?

There's so many things wrong with what you just said. It's not just the "sniffles". Even if someone young and healthy gets it, they will survive but there's a chance they'll spread to someone who's at a much higher risk.

This is the stage to NOT give up and just let it spread all over. Being overly cautious is still much better than what could happen if this spills over to an uncontrollable level (which I fear is already the case in some areas).
I don't think the assertion is that it's spreading through vents, just that spending time in a very air conditioned room mimics some of attributes of winter that make the spread of respiratory viruses more likely (dry air, dry nasal passages)
do you have evidence showing redis performance vs tarantool and lmdb? I'd be interested to see that.
For application code the ecosystem around containers is pretty handy.

For load balancers, databases, and other stateful stuff I still run the binaries on VMs.
Is there a site out there that collects the absolute fastest ways of doing common low-level operations like this? For something as common as converting strings of digits to IEEE 754 floats/doubles, you would think we would already have the absolute fastest sequence of assembly instructions to do this. It's disconcerting thinking that the functions in the standard c/c++ library may not even be close to optimal.

Very cool btw
> Can you imagine if even every other room had an appliance pulling 1000W whenever the hell a student felt like warming up some soup?

Imagine apartment buildings existing
Contact them and see if it really is as bad as you think :)

You can also go self-hosted while you are in customer acquisition mode?

If the cost of a software license is scary, then I can assure you labor costs are much worse. You can rewrite now or rewrite later, but hiring devs is a ways away :)
How does this compare to something like nix or Fedora Silverblue?
This looks like a good opportunity to make the existing ones a bit better :-)
That's a very odd link. It's mostly the same but has many transcription errors. Maybe to ward off automated takedown notices or something?
Here is the same thread in a vastly more readable format:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1139536401094053889.html

Maybe this should be the type of link used for submissions to HN.
lol its the flu
The ID.3 looks like a hot hatchback. What's the problem?
The battery pack kind of has to be an integral part of the structure of modern passenger EVs. So I doubt we will see a standard form factor anytime soon.

Leasing is probably a better approach for customers concerned over battery life.