skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok here is a moral question then.

You and I have a disagreement privately lets say over a potted plant. In the end we decide to part ways and I say here you can have the potted plant lets just never have this come out again I never want to hear about this argument again. You shake my hand and agree that's fair, take your potted plant head home and immediately call all of our mutual friends and begin to say all kinds of horrible things about me.

Who was the immoral one there? I'd argue the one who broke the final agreement

The entire point of a settlement / severance / etc is the two parties saying you know what we are done of this fight - here is what makes you feel happy to walk away from it ($$) and here is what makes us feel happy (to not have to hear about it anymore).
MIT is a private university, not public.
I don't think they're suggesting that citizens panic but that authorities take more drastic steps (as you indicate you think they should have).
That didn't leave the controversy behind at all, most of the controversy is far past their valuation. Tesla is only interesting as a car company to people who are willing to lower their expectations below those placed on the actual car companies.

They market themselves as environmentally friendly while representing a comedically small percent of global emissions reduction. And within the auto industry itself the increasing efficiency of ICE vehicles has reduced emissions by far more than Tesla and their electric car hype.

At the same time, they advocate infrastructure expansions to accomodate their vehicle's needs while handwaving away the emissions and environmental consequences this process would create. And every time this is mentioned people just blubber some line about the long term while covering their ears to the tide of environmentalists saying that we need change /now/.

They might conquer Europe through legislation but the only reason that's practical is because European countries are tiny so the range issue is less relevant to them. Tesla hasn't actually cleared their hurdles, they've surrendered to them.

Meanwhile, they drum up this idea that Tesla's can be more than toys for rich people even though no one blue collar who isn't already a hard fan chooses a Tesla. In fact, speaking of legislation, they're so uncompetitive that Europe has to ban ICE engines for them to gain ground.

Even you framed this as Tesla competing against luxury brands, key word being luxury. This world where they've paved the way for cheap mainstream electric vehicles is a fantasy. They've paved the way for novelty in the luxury market and since doing so have shown little aptitude beyond their ability to wield that accomplishment as a shield to deflect criticisms.
We've got a small team. Still, we're preparing for the worst while keeping out heads. Everyone's able to work from home. We've done proof of concept shared desktops. We already rely on gmail for mail and chat so that's sorted. Might be a bit trickier for higher up doing client meetings, but that's above my paygrade.
I hope that at least you recognize how utterly different it is from Oklahoma bombing, which was a terrorist act, pure and simple. Note, for example, that McVeigh got death penalty, and Nichols got life in prison, while Weaver was acquitted from all charges other than failure to appear for a warrant that he was not served properly, and got over 3 million dollars of compensation from the government.
I always thought of it in the sense of a Taylor expansion.

First-order thinking suggests that every system reacts linearly according to whatever the dominant factor is (the way you would basically expect). For example, increase prices and your sales will decrease.

Second order thinking suggests including the next-more-complicated effect in your model; effects that are negligible for small perturbations have to be taken into account. Increase prices and your product gets perceived as more exclusive and higher quality, and despite the valid decrease that the first-order effect predicts, sales go up.
How can you add new trusted device? Isn't it just sending SMS OTP again?
Tesla is the only company that has a Gigafactory producing batteries, and starting to build more.

A few others finally get it, and are starting to invest billions just like Tesla's Panasonic arrangement. However, Tesla will soon be moving to their next iteration, producing far more batteries faster, cheaper, and in much less space.
>> Audi and Jaguar could have made a lot more cars but can't get enough batteries.

This is exactly what Elon said was going to happen years ago: Car manufacturers do not have the capacity to build batteries in sufficient quantity and quality and will not for many years.
Correct, perhaps that is arguable, especially given the grey area this is all taking place in. I was speaking to the reality that if you're a popular YouTuber, and your content gets striked in this way, all revenues from that video go to them instead of you. This is especially terrible for music related content creators, fair use essentially does not exist for them.
So you're advocating giving up on containment? If you do it renders the efforts of everyone else in the world also useless.
It's interesting that Google only recommends it but doesn't make it mandatory. I also wonder how many of those people that do want to work remote end up going to coffee shops and/or order food from postmates where the delivery guy is all around town and the employee still ends up getting contaminated with the virus and spreading it in their household.
At my college all the dorms had a kitchen for residents to use in the basement... is this not normal?
We use Roboform for our ~30 person company with remote workers. It is simple to use, and comes at a great price point, although their app and browser extension can use some improvements.
We'll see, but I think this "lack of confidence" is much more an artifact of crappy reporting than crappy reactions by public health organizations. The test kit snafu seems like an unforced error though. It is going to be close, but it seems like test kit ramp up that is going on now will satisfy our needs. Fingers crossed.
They don’t. It’s that they get to charge less for their cars than would a competitor.
Well... The counter is that I have trouble being productive when my city is slowly being shut down and I'm scared of a pandemic lol.
Your model is what sustained the personal computer industry (as standalone apps) for 30+ years before subs and webapps became so prevalent over the past decade. You might benefit from paying a bizdev type person for a couple hours (or enough for a plan) to figure out how to get some recurrence out of those apps. People absolutely paid for new versions of Eudora, for instance.
> How will Tesla, who did 4 models in ten years, compete with the sheer breadth of this market? Looking at what’s parked in the street, people choose lots of different types of cars, there’s no one-fits-all.

Imagine this argument:

"How will Apple, who only has one phone model, compete with the sheer breadth of this market? Looking at what’s in people's hands, people choose lots of different types of phones, there’s no one-fits-all."

Yet here we are. Having so many car models is frankly exhausting.

One of my silly little hobbies is trying to spec out cars online I dream of buying and everything becomes a chore after the first 10 seconds. Options that I don't want to think about being nickel-and-dimed for, features that should come standard but require an upgrade 'package' I dont want etc.

Until they change how they think about cars, Tesla will keep beating them in the market in the price ranges Tesla competes in. And shit will hit the fan if Tesla ever figures out a way to make a much cheaper car for the mass market
They should test her. She might have it. They have the testing capacity. Your opinion on this is incorrect. If Netherlands continues with this policy they are following in the horrific missteps of the US in restricting testing.

Some homebody with symptoms that don't match? Put them at the bottom of the queue for testing if there is limited testing capacity. In the meantime, grow testing capacity as fast as you can which is 100% of political issue and not a scientific or economic one, and make as many n95 masks as possible domestically.

> "she's being treated as she should be"

That is a completely unmerited claim and one which causes harm.
the video on their web page shows an external antenna, looks like a dipole.
It's a great point. I'm not bothered by it only because I'm not using react professionally right now and don't use that pattern. Thanks for bringing that important point up.
Fixing FDIV was simple. Fixing Spectre creates some very painful performance tradeoffs.
I am surprised that browsing experience looks mostly the same as it did in the beginning of web browsing. Browsers are almost operating systems, yet they look like, well.. content readers. Nowadays I tend to work on several "projects" or tasks in paralel and for each project I open multiple tabs. I am opening multiple windows but it's easy to get lost in what each of these windows belongs to, difficult to switch between them, browser windows all look the same. Containers are not exactly good for this as they have their own cookies/local storage (different use case). It seems to me that browsers are not evolving in the actual end user usability that much. Also, more generally, why can't we have electron built-in in the browser, integrated with OS (so windows would look like a native app with it's own icon, title, etc)? Why does there need to be a separate Electron "browser" for every webapp instead of reusing already running browser with extra, per-app elevated API access? Why are browsers using vague version numbering instead of semver as it used to be? I don't know if FF 74 is the massive upgrade from 73 or if it is similar to the change from 72 to 73 or 71 to 72. And will it still take 2 seconds to get visual feedback after clicking the button in that fancy marerial SPA on my cutting-edge desktop machine?
I don't know I'd measure it, but if someone can provide a good measure, I'd be willing to bet against wfh increasing productivity.

I have a feeling a lot of value is created during casual lunch conversations.
As a citizen, you can remove yourself from travel and gatherings. The scaling of an outbreak is non-linear, so the choices of individuals have an outsized effect.

My wife and I have both led by example in both choosing to work from home early on and arguing strenuously that our employers should make WFH company/University policy (which has now happened).

Be leading by example and staying home, you make everyone else safer. If the effective R_0 can be brought below 1, the outbreak will burn out. We must show our care for those who cannot fight this virus by staying home, connecting electronically, and practicing good hygiene.
It's essentially using a sub-tick size price improvement (but paid to the broker to cover trading fees) to jump the queue at the market.

It arguably undermines the existence of price ticks. I think you know this but for the lurkers, the purpose of price ticks is to make the market first-come-first-serve. Without them people can raise the bid by 0.0000000001 to get first in line, making the market last-come-first serve.

But as far as shadiness goes, it's a very light shade of gray.
You're right, I misspoke. I should have said "Uber-valuable".
MIT has an international student body. It might even mean that by telling students to go home, you're telling some students to go to CDC Level 3 country.

If there is no outbreak at MIT, having the on-campus students remain on-campus might be preferable to forcing thousands to make their way through airports, buses, and other public infrastructure.
FAANG employees who's jobs benefit from face-time will probably not see a productivity boost tho. But let's see where this experiments takes society
They're not above the laws that apply to them.
An interesting thought experiment but I would suspect that there needs to be some additional fact pattern there before you could show liability: knowledge that some employees had recently travelled to hot spots or were symptomatic, the meeting was in violation of official public health directives, etc.
I feel more productive in the office, but I would guess that I'd be more productive at home than in the hospital.

I will be really happy when this is all over and I can just go into the office and not think about it.
Doesn't matter. Universities generally are governed by specific laws.
Just to clarify ... it is the start of the article that I’m criticizing. Once it gets going it makes some decent points.
No results in the page for "refund." They're not refunding students prorated dorm, credit, etc. fees? I hope there are lawsuits coming on part of the students.
I don't know why but I constantly hear about things that never caught on and will never catch on in the future. Ok lets say I am hyped for ASN.1 as a schema for JSON. How do I integrate it into my bog standard Java application? Suddenly we are running into a huge problem.

>ASN.1 is a mature standard. As I already mentioned, it has been around since the 1980’s. Though stable, it is not stagnant; the most recent revision occurred in 2008.

It might be old but it is not widely used. To me it doesn't matter if something was created yesterday or 20 years ago as long as I can use it and using ASN.1 is significantly harder than necessary.

>ASN.1 has tool support. There are both commercial and open source tools that will generate code from your ASN.1 specification.

Ok, so where is it and why is it so difficult to find?

Even if we assume that we should just build it today then all the above claims suddenly become worthless. If someone builds ASN.1 tooling in 2020 then it is just as immature as e.g. GraphQL tooling that was built 2020. If there is renewed interest in ASN.1 then it might gain new features that will cause it to become less mature/stable again.

Having "mature" software is useless if it doesn't meet user demands.
Also more physicians per capita. US is around 25 per 10k, most Western European countries are around 35, some up to 50.
Everything I have read is that young people are at the lowest risk, if at all, of even getting COVID-19. Why not leave them in place and let the professors (over a certain age) teach remotely?

Hate to think about how anyone with a lab is going to finish - there's not much remote in that.
Great hack, but in a broader sense this is silly. If parsing/pretty-printing floats from/to ASCII strings is a bottleneck you should be using hexfloats, as supported in the latest C/C++ standards and elsewhere. As a bonus, they will reliably evaluate to the same floating point number, eliminating an extra source of ambiguity and possible overhead.
It's great CBOR is accepted in wider area, but I am personally curious why WebAuthn choose CBOR instead of JSON. WebAuthn is a web browser feature, and why W3C would introduce a new data exchange format in their specs? Maybe WebAuthn needed a binary data type?
As they have already told you, shaders being in binary or text form is orthogonal to making a tool like ShaderToy.

However, binary form is way more compact for transmission, storage and performance. Almost nobody will use the text form except developers.
Sounds like an opportunity to keep a pair of tactical flats in a desk drawer.

"opportunity" here sounds kind of crappy because of the boss/employee power dynamic and the man/woman thing to boot, but if she's not offended by the implication that she should bend to meet the demands of her boss, it could be seen as a plain savvy thing to do.

edit: just noticed I assumed the boss was a dude, maybe that's not the case, but the boss/employee power dynamic is the main bit
Looks like they are ripping off the bandaid, anything else would take more time. Evidently, MIT seems to think they don't have any left.
Note that there are limits to how large a mesh network can scale, it's likely to start running into problems with several hundred users. You can scale larger by limiting data to short text messages, but you'll probably never be able to handle more than 10,000 users, unless you can find a way to create high bandwidth backbone links between clusters of users. There has been a lot of research on this in the wireless sensor network research community and in the WiFi mesh network research community also. A concert going crowd could easily cause a mesh network to become un-useably slow if everyone was trying to use it at the same time.
High risk individuals are everyone over sixty, plus anyone younger who has risk factors, such an autoimmune disorder. That’s a huge portion of the population that cannot entirely self-quarantine.
I'm the opposite, I find Teslas to be (externally) ugly. In general I find any large sedan to be ugly. I don't get the sedan form factor, it seems to waste a lot of space. I've always owned hatchbacks because I like the way they look and they seem much more practical to me how I can bend the seats and carry a ton of stuff in the back (which I take advantage of at least once a month).
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> As a counterpoint, I’d like to state that being able to raise efficiency when you need it could be a huge selling point. On slow days, I don’t want to raise my efficiency that much , I take my time and review more thorougly.

I don't think you're really talking about "efficiency" here. On slow days, you may want to spend more time to do a more thorough job, but you still wouldn't want to be less efficient.

Simple automation example: renaming files into a new format. If there was a tool that could rename a large number of files for you quickly, you would use it on slow days and busy days. There is nothing to be gained to doing it manually.

I think you're referring to tools that speed you up but sacrifice quality. That isn't a pure efficiency tool, it's tool that allows you to adjust balance your time and quality of work.
Massachusetts was one of the first states to attempt universal health care coverage. They also have some genuinely fantastic research hospitals. The best in the nation? Not sure and maybe not. But "some of the best", yeah, that's quite reasonable. And good enough? I'd say ... no.
> That's... not really breeding in the scientific sense.

...because? He comes from an intentional breeding program on the part of the Chinese government. What more do you want? There's a big difference between "what are we doing?" and "how much are we doing it?".
Legibility is a bell curve. The author could have stopped earlier, sure, but at the cost of reaching a smaller fraction of the audience.

Words are cheap. No trees were harmed. No need to be stingy.
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You're still allowed to go to the grocery store in China. It's one of the very few places you can still go. Same in Italy. Obviously starvation is a much surer death than coronavirus, hence governments are not literally starving people to death by disallowing them from even obtaining food.
How is getting perturbed going to help?
I think that the shocking thing will be how little is really going on in there.
If Baidu, Tencent, Cloudflare etc are "low hanging fruit" then Netflix is an even lower hanging fruit. It's just a streaming service. Even Twitch has a wider audience than them. Which is the reason I was confused why you brought those two up specifically, instead of the bigger players who are way more ubiquitous.

Invidition is just a wrapper. Doesn't solve the larger problem which is what's happening on the server. Last time I tried it YouTube was completely broken because Google changed a tiny little thing.
Not necessarily. Remember, the dot com boom happened before Linux was even a serious contender as a server OS; back then Sun Microsystems was king. Google was founded in '98 and the expense of Sun hardware might have slowed Google's profitability slightly but not enough to matter.

We might be talking about the Google-Sun duopoly today instead of the Wintel duopoly today had Linux not existed.
Yes, so intolerance of someone like ESR seems valid under that view.
Just checked Huncwot out - looks like a great project, thanks!

And congrats to mojombo and team! You probably already use something Tom wrote without realizing it.
You should self reflect about how incredibly bitter you sound.

Tesla is a new successful electric car company that is helping with CO2 emission reduction. Nothing in your rant challenges this.
Except that's not how public policy works. It's not like Tesla just happened to luck into these policies. They actively lobbied for them. There's a significant amount of "greenwashing" involved there. I think it's instructive to realize that both of Musk's companies have, as critical elements of their success, government policies which favored them at just the right time.

I have nothing against Tesla as a luxury car brand. I do get tired of fanboys suggesting they'll take over the entire industry. Normal people can't afford a $60k Model 3 (and that's what they actually cost). Other companies will do fine in the electric space. I'm quite happy with my used Nissan Leaf. Price? $8500. Let's see Tesla beat that.
I'm expecting to see MIT refund some portion of the semester's food cost now that the dining halls will be shut down.
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This is pure crony capitalism.
Dictionaries are references to look up words before opening mouths.
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I worked as a fronted dev, so I know this problem very well. Server rendered pages, I don't mean Sapper. But the ol' rails erb, or flask jinja templates type of rendering.
Being able to develop with the browser has nothing to do with WebGPU being binary or text.

It seems you speak with "we", as if you were part of the committee? If that is a yes: how can we become part of that committee to amend this mistake? Who has voting rights?
Surprised to see it not written in TypeScript since TS helps immensely with large projects

https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood
you want 1kbps?
The 7.5k is available for anyone selling electric cars in the US, well except Tesla themselves at this point so right now they are actually fighting an uphill battle and still winning.
> They market themselves as environmentally friendly while representing a comedically small percent of global emissions reduction. And within the auto industry itself the increasing efficiency of ICE vehicles has reduced emissions by far more than Tesla and their electric car hype.

The emissions reductions attained by manufacturers have been done while fighting tooth and nail against them; also, it's good that they're reducing emissions, but you just eliminate them completely by driving a Tesla.
Is Redwood _not_ limited to browsers?
Yes, TC has become such a metastasizing cancer of adtech that I will never intentionally click through.

And if I accidentally click without checking the domain first, uBlock won't even let me see the page because it's advertising.com.

I'd vote to block TC until they reform their ad practices.
I know on HN we're supposed to be constructive and promote dialogue and all that, but this is just such an obviously biased avalanche of nonsense that I can't help myself:

Found the TSLA short.
This is what makes svelte so incredibly powerful and worthy of consideration.

Not having a run time on the client is huge. But, the developer experience is exactly the same as you get from React and Vue.

You can trust this guy here, he knows what he is talking about.
It's not uncommon, but it's also calibrated to the negligible number of residents who want to use the kitchen. If everyone in the dorms suddenly had to eat out of that kitchen, there'd be a several-day waiting list to use it.

Which means it's not a viable fallback.
Oh yes for sure! I did not mean to suggest WFH is a bad idea under these circumstances.

I'm only trying to argue against a common sentiment here on HN, that working from home is more productive.

My personal beliefs are that a single WFH day a week in most instances might be net-positive for the company.