skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you just use JSON with gzip and never think about this problem ever again. Choosing msgpack vs JSON is a micro optimization at this point. There are significantly better alternatives if you want to save CPU cycles.
Have you seen the Ioniq / Kona duo? They look quite traditional with a little flat-grille twist.
Meal plans are typically pre-paid at the beginning of the semester. So that money is already gone, and I would expect that eating out for every meal -- even at below $13/meal -- would be out of reach for a lot of students.
There's a multitude of good reasons to close the dorms. People are sharing bedrooms, common areas, bathrooms and kitchens with far more people than they would be in the average private domicile. The network effect of communal living, combined with the generally more lax sanitary/hygenic standards of a younger population, makes any dorm highly at risk for becoming a hotspot, of any infectious disease (and indeed it's quite common for colds, flus and even more serious diseases to cause epidemics in college dormitories).
While this is true, it is obvious how the other names he listed would benefit from such tracking. It is not clear to me why Apple would do this, as it runs opposite of their product marketing, and their business model does not obviously benefit from tracking the way the others do.
> By forcing people to go home, rather than shelter in place, everyone has increased contact with others and public infrastructure where the virus could be.

What situation are you referring to that would result in increased contact? This particular movement of students to a different location, often home? Or the long-term housing situation of the students throughout the rest of the semester?
Keep in mind that the government bailed Tesla out too. Tesla took a hefty government loan before the model S roll-out. (It has been repaid now). So we might have had exactly zero Tesla like electric powered car companies today.
Getting kicked out of their dorms is exactly the kind of stupidity I expect of the USA. "But they are at risk of being sued if they don't do this" It brings a smile to my face that the elite is getting caught up in the dysfunction this time. Because until they do, nothing changes.
This is so cool... I spent six months doing research on a routing layer for mesh Android devices (using Bluetooth and Wifi). This would probably make a lot of what I originally tried out a lot easier.

Edit: The issue was making a jump from a local cluster to another cluster far away as local messaging was easy but the further out, the harder it became to maintain connectivity since the amount of devices entering and leaving a mesh became a factor. We actually thought of using amateur radio (to basically allow you to extend the range using them for transfer)
This is storytelling on the part of the automakers, so let me propose 2:

1) Porsche’s got 120 years of work since their first electric car [0]

2) I remember pulling the leg of some Tesla fans a long while ago (maybe when the first roadster came out) about how the “no radiator, front trunk, smooth underbody” sounded a lot like the air-cooled VWs we’ve all been enjoying since the 1930s.

The manufacturers will find a way...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche
In the US, if you catch the virus while at a mandatory work event, would that qualify you for workman's compensation during your recovery?
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Can anything be bought at Fry's these days? I had heard they are in a serious decline?
Depends on where you are, but in the Netherlands it'd be bicycle within the city, and trains between cities.

For me it's only the camping holidays in summer that I really need a car for, and renting one for that costs close to what owning an old car costs, so I still have one. But I'm constantly considering getting rid of it.
Then Dawkins is wrong and his examples don’t prove what he claims.

Just because you can breed fragile animals for narrow purposes does not mean you can breed a better human.
All lost in the upheaval is that you can't "just take" a course in a classroom and make it online - especially not on a two-three days notice.

Online courses are surprisingly difficult to get right.

Here is what I predict this ad-hoc online teaching will be like: professors will take their slides and put them on a webpage. There you have an online course.
Don't know about the logic analyzers, but I played tetris on an HP scope in a lab on campus years ago.
Meanwhile South Korea can test everybody. The failure of the response is stunning.
This is something I come back to repeatedly when attempting to evaluate claims about certain technologies (e.g. programming languages) being extravagantly effective: people's sentiments about how great some technology is often seems out of proportion to what their gains were through using it.

Of course that's difficult to evaluate. But if their gains were in proportion, I think you'd see these crazy spikes like what you're saying about these researchers becoming gazillionaires. And it just doesn't seem to happen.

Which is not to say there's no difference—but 1) the improvements seem to be by smaller factors than what engineers believe 2) they don't seem to generalize as much as is often claimed: afaict, a significant aspect of the gains has to do with reducing impedance mismatch between problem domain and language (but advocates will typically adopt a stance that the language is just intrinsically superior).

I would be very interested to hear counter-examples if people have them (I know the PG/Viaweb/Lisp story).
Intolerance of intolerance is not a valid charge of intolerance.

Every freaking pathetic wannabe klan leader tries that one and thinks they outwitted everyone when they do. Great club you just joined there.
Tesla's 10-K shows an accumulated shareholder deficit of $6B. That's over and above money spent to buy factories which are still operating. That's $6k a car at 1M cars sold. Add to that the $7500 rebate the US was providing until recently. That's $13.5k, on average, they lost per car they sold through the end of 2019.

Saying nothing about Tesla cars versus other companies, that's a huge financial advantage against other car companies. This is particularly true given that most of those car sales happened post-Q1-2018, when Tesla had already established a strong brand.

I'm not sure any established player could, at that point, compete with a company that gets to lose $13.5k per car they sell. That would be like if Nissan started building base-model Sentras and selling them for $4500. Yes, they would sell a lot of them.

As markets normalize and Tesla has to compete on a level playing field, my guess is their product is viewed more and more as what it is: a luxury car. Nothing wrong with that, but it's hard to see them owning more than a few percent of the market, especially considering established companies have gone all in on electric at this point.

And, nothing can justify a price-sales multiplier of 20 for the company. Nothing.
Moving away from cars sounds nice, but we have billions of km of roads and millions of houses already built to support a car-centric economy. It's not going to be a quick fix; you can't just "git co" new transportation and housing layouts. I wouldn't expect this to become a serious problem for Tesla for a couple decades, although the car market will start to cool off. But EVs are already more suitable for city driving thanks to regenerative braking, simpler transmissions and reduced air pollution.
Here is me typing something like "cat /etc/*release", sorry for low quality: https://github.com/andrey-utkin/wearable-computer/blob/maste...

I'd say it's OK.
It's not even remotely on par with typing speed on laptop-size keyboard, but I'd say it provides a reasonable trade-off. And it has enough keys to use desktop software without much pain one way or another.
This argument has been applied to many rights in the Constitution, and the courts have consistently held that any right that can be cast aside just because the government asserts an "emergency", regardless of type, is effectively a right that does not exist. The job of the courts is not to minimize risk to the population but to preserve their rights, and they mostly do that.

As a practical matter, this is on the right side of history. There are myriad examples of governments stripping basic rights from the population in the name of public safety or some other contrived (or real) emergency. It virtually always ends poorly for the population because governments consistently abuse this latitude when expedient for whoever is in power.

Would you have the courts remove all rights from anyone the government deems a "terrorist"? Or give Trump the power to suspend elections because pandemic/reasons? It is exactly the same argument. Giving people strong rights carries risks but also powerful benefits.
REES is one solution to reproducibility of the computational environment.

> BinderHub ( https://mybinder.org/ ) creates docker containers from {git repos, Zenodo, FigShare,} and launches them in free cloud instances also running JupyterLab by building containers with repo2docker (with REES (Reproducible Execution Environment Specification)). This means that all I have to do is add an environment.yml to my git repo in order to get Binder support so that people can just click on the badge in the README to launch JupyterLab with all of the dependencies installed.

> REES supports a number of dependency specifications: requirements.txt, Pipfile.lock, environment.yml, aptSources, postBuild. With an environment.yml, I can install the necessary CPython/PyPy version and everything else.

REES:
https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/specification.h...

REES configuration files: https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config_files.ht...

Storing a container built with repo2docker in a container registry is one way to increase the likelihood that it'll be possible to run the same analysis pipeline with the same data and get the same results years later.

...

Pachyderm ( https://pachyderm.io/platform/ ) does Data Versioning, Data Pipelines (with commands that each run in a container), and Data Lineage (~ "data provenance"). What other platforms are there for versioning data and recording data provenance?

...

Recording manual procedures is an area where we've somewhat departed from the "write in a lab notebook with a pen" practice. CoCalc records all (collaborative) inputs to the notebook with a timeslider for review.

In practice, people use notebooks for displaying generated charts, manual exploratory analyses (which does introduce bias), for demonstrating APIs, and for teaching.

Is JupyterLab an ideal IDE? Nope, not by a longshot. nbdev makes it easier to write a function in a notebook, sync it to a module, edit it with a more complete data-science IDE (like RStudio, VSCode, Spyder, etc), and then copy it back into the notebook. https://github.com/fastai/nbdev
IMO, Tesla needs to branch into 80% complete coachbuilder models and in a roundabout way, have a dealership in any town (or country) and shakeup the industry a little more for sh!TS and giggles.

Once their production hits its stride and has a surplus of models, they can bring oldworld craftsmanship to a modern canvas.

With the limited model lineup, who wouldn`t want a bespoke Tesla personalized just for them.

I would still pick the 7-speed dogleg manual in the Vantage S, but a personalized Tesla would be a close second.
And that’s to say nothing of what they’re doing to drive down battery costs through economies of scale and basically creating the energy storage mass market. $100kWh is revolutionary. Every home in sunbelt America can have decent backup or go off grid with solar for mere thousands of dollars. I still think few people grasp the paradigm shift that’s on the horizon.

The bottleneck is no longer fuel costs and delivery. It’s technology cost and it’s declining rapidly. Look at Enphase’s IQ8X grid forming micros. The future is coming fast.
Maybe, if you can prove that you caught it at that event.
It troubles me that Chesterton charges the man who would tear down the fence with a duty: "Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

I see the charm of Chesterton's favourite rhetorical judo. But we have learned many hard lessons about the cost of losing the documentation. We should charge the man with the duty of looking up the purpose of the fence in the archive, and finding the date that the purpose ceased to hold.

We should go further and invent the conservatism of the archive. When we contemplate changing the rules of society, the archive needs to contain more than just the justification of the new rules, analogous to the purpose of the fence. The defeated opposition must also have their place in the records.

Write down your rules. Write down why you have chosen them. Write down what your critics say will go wrong. Write down what your critics say we should do instead. Keep it all safe in the archive for 100 years.

When things don't go according to plan, dig through the archive. Did you stick to your rules? Really? In a way that is faithful to the reasons why they were supposed to work? What about the critics? Did things go wrong in the way that they predicted, or in some other way?

If the critics predicted the exact way that things would go wrong, they win. Dig out their suggestions and give them a try. If the critics predicted different screw-ups than actually happened, cry. Nobody knows anything. But at least you have an archive. What it was like. What people thought. How it actually turned out. That is a basis for working out what to do next.
>does a difference in volume not become a difference in kind?

Why should it? They built the firehose, they can build the valves. It's not reasonable to argue, "whoopsy, too hard to do now!" when moderation has been around for DECADES and which therefore they consciously decided not to implement anywhere along the line. Even if Zuckerberg was already in over his head by that point, Thiel knew about this stuff. So did Parker. FB pays smart people who know about this stuff, too, they're just presumably prevented from implementing it.

This really is "a steering wheel that doesn't fly off while you're driving" situation, but FB refuses to secure steering wheels until they can figure out a way to do it without humans.

It's their problem if blacklists don't work. Why can't (can't) they use whitelists if that's the sure-fire solution? They can, they just don't want to. Look how many teeth had to be pulled just to get attribution on ads that were proven to be problematic.
I was curious about "capacity" and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

I'm not sure how to interpret that table. The range of beds/person is amazing to me. Does that mean that some countries have more demand for beds or that some countries have shorter hospital stays (one bed serves more people per unit time) or that some countries have too few beds with people being turned away. Probably all of the above.

So that table just caused me to ask more questions rather than answering any.
How does Tesla lose money on the rebate?
Also, I know it's not always possible, but if your application is spending so much time parsing strings into numbers that this could make a difference, seriously consider whether the source of those strings could be changed to not emit strings, because unless it's something like user input, chances are they may already be doubles which can be used as-is.
that's incredible! first catchy names and websites, next compelling trailers. if the trend continues security researchers will start inking movie deals!
I suspect they mean SQRL:

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
Sufficiency depends on use case.

I typically use WD40 on things that don't require any lubrication under normal operation. There are plenty of metal-on-metal mechanisms designed to work without any lubrication. For those purposes, it exceeds their lubrication requirement of zero.

If you have a use-case that typically requires a dedicated lubricant under normal operating conditions (i.e. a chain drive), then this likely exceeds the lubricating capabilities of WD40.
Stanford moves all Spring quarter classes online until further notice
If nobody wants to download apps, that's kind of an admission that walled garden is fundamentally flawed. Walled gardens surely benefit their owners, but for the rest of us? I'm unsure.
This will be exceedingly unpopular here but a good tip for the depressed is to go to a rural or downtrodden part of Mexico, or a country in Africa, or India, etc.
"Invert, always invert" - Jacobi.
This is great, but, to complement this, does anyone know a better alternative to TCP? I've recently needed to make two processes communicate over the network and, while MessagePack handles the serialization, I found myself needing something higher level than TCP but lower than HTTP.

An annoyance of TCP was that I never knew whether I read all the data. I either read less and leave data unread, or I read more and end up blocking for a long time (or implement timeouts and get the worst of both worlds).

What's a good alternative? Maybe 0mq? All I need is to send some MsgPack bytes to another client over the wire, hopefully without having to guess whether there's more to read in the socket or not.
Not exactly what you're asking I think, but in Solaris-derived OSs the snapshots are exposed by default as previous versions in windows.

You can also use SAMBA to expose the snapshots as previous versions in windows.

SAMBA general documentation:
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_shadow...

Randomly found ZFS specific: https://blog.chaospixel.com/linux/2017/09/zfs-auto-snapshots...
Doctor in the heart of Italy's outbreak shares what life is like in the hospital
Biden, Sanders to Debate Without Live Audience Amid Virus Fears
It's a bit of gool-aid drinking. You'll be fine :)

The only moment I remember of that week was them handing me my badge on the first or second day.
That was the inspiration behind Zyklon B. Kill them quickly, without pain, efficiently. Then there's no moral quandry?? I don't agree.

Wiping out lives is inherently wrong. Lives/Souls shouldn't just be used like an ass-wipe.

This topic reeks of Cloud Atlas fabricants or the "grasshopper" bars from Snowpiercer.
Show me one that's worth thousands of human lives.
I think you're conflating implementation details of your JSON decoder with the JSON spec. There is no requirement that JSON numbers are parsed into IEEE floats or doubles. Many JSON parsers support decoding numbers into other decimal data types.

https://www.json.org
Viewing that archive by date #1 and searching again, I cannot locate a message plausibly within range of the timestamp #2 of the supposed "Quoted" content.

#1 https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists...

#2 ""On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:09 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:""

Before potentially defaming anyone I would very much like a reference to the actual words they said, and would hope everyone else similarly judges based on confirmed content.
New Life for Google Glass?
Silly benchmarks on completely untuned server code
Why should they be above the law?
Not always true. I have around $450/month taken out my paycheck for healthcare for my wife and I in the US.
The thing about second-order thinking is that once you recognize it, you start seeing the lack of it everywhere. And, congratulations, you're now struck by the urge to fix it somehow.

This sucks, by the way. You'd probably be happier and have more friends if you didn't notice. Once the screaming stops, somebody has to tip the pee out of the shoe. And that's you now, peeman.
That depends. The thing that seems to be worrying public health professionals is the potential for a second, larger resurgence in the autumn. If that hits at the same time as an even moderately bad flu season, things will get really ugly.
Fiat Chrysler and GM used to build compliance cars. Fiat's CEO was famous for saying not to buy theirs [1] because they lost money on it, but were required to build them to meet emissions mandates so they could sell their polluting combustion cars (fun fact: Fiat has to pay Tesla $2 billion now to continue selling non-EVs in Europe, they are effectively funding Gigafactory 4 in Berlin [2]). These companies have enormous existing manufacturing capacity, and capital market resources. If they didn't have spineless management, or short term shareholders, they could've been the ones to capture the gains from the transition to electrified transportation. Instead, Tesla came along, doing the hard work for a decade performing R&D, building their own manufacturing capacity (GF1, 2, 3, and now 4) and Supercharger network, and most importantly, a desirable and sexy brand. TLDR Tesla spends crazy money on capex but everyone funding Tesla is onboard with it, legacy automakers cannot do so.

Polluting and emissions have a very real cost (climate change, particulate pollution). I am astounded when someone complains that this cost must be paid for, and that it was in some way wrong or economic fraud for Tesla to take advantage of intelligent public policy (ZEV credits, tax credits, etc).

Disclaimer (bigger one in profile): I am a TSLA shareholder, and willing to wait until the heat death of the universe for any return on capital. My investment is in fixing climate change.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/chrsyelr-ceo-evs/fiat-chrysl... (“I hope you don’t buy it because every time I sell one it costs me $14,000,” he said to the audience at the Brookings Institution about the 500e. “I’m honest enough to tell you that.” -- Sergio Marchionne)

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-09/fiat-will... (Fiat Will Effectively Fund Tesla’s German Factory, Baird Says)
Can people please stop posting paywall’d links? It’s annoying to only being able to read the headline. If this is just a thing because I’m in Canada then that’s different.
I love Patrick's insight here:

> Stepping back a bit, problems feel a bit less important to me as time goes on. The world is awash in problems. Problems you care about are just so much more rewarding to work on, and they pull better work out of you. Problems experienced by people you care about quintuply so, because if you start a SaaS business you'll spend much more time talking to customers and getting in their head than you will be on e.g. modeling their workflow in Ruby or optimizing your AWS spend.

> So I'd suggest most people asking this question instead ask "How do I find a user population that buys software that I would enjoy having in my life five days a week for 5~10 years?" My answer for that, after a lot of soulsearching, is "I enjoy helping software people a lot more than I enjoy helping undifferentiated professionals. Maybe I should just do that. Maybe no maybe." Your answer may vary.
Lies, damn lies, and...

What I meant with "beyond the scope of the point" is that the discussion of the pros and cons of such system (of casual workers / interim) i a tangent I'm not going on about.

In this context it'd be proper to include an amount/percentage of people who have such a job versus those who have a normal job (with permanent contract). I'm also interested in differentiation between different states, but then again there might also be differences in say Germany's provinces.

On another note, the USA is not unique among developed economies in this context; South Korea is also a developed economy.
Most classes already post lecture videos, slides, review materials, and problem sets online. Yes, the quality of education will be degraded, but not severely so.

Lab classes are a different matter entirely.
I think parent meant SQRL: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm