skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you consider them both the same kind of "investments" I propose you invest in me in the same way the government did with Ford. i.e. give me money, and I won't ever give it back.

At the same you I'll invest in you in the same way the government did with Tesla. i.e I give you money, and you pay it back 10 years early with interest.

I wholeheartedly accept this deal. Do you? Why not?
+1. Seems Firefox (or Pocket) is always suggesting articles from those 3 places to me in the new tab, and I'm happy for that.
> Give mandatory breaks to all renters in for profit apartments.

> No breaks for people holding [...] rental [...] properties.

Some of those rental properties might no longer be rental properties if their owners are insolvent, particularly in the case of 1 or 2 family homes. Banks do not want tenants.
In graph terms, Positional encodings are useful for adding sequential/temporal properties to each node in the graph. Indeed, there are works on position-aware GNNs.
I have a chlorine-based swimming pool. Should I live on my swimming pool?

(Yes, I'm being sarcastic from the amount of paranoid questions being asked here).
> humans prefer non ugly people over ugly people

Nightclubs that have physical appearance standards have a business model designed around one end of the beauty preference spectrum. By itself, that's not bad; if you want to have a club for only right-handed people, that's fine.

But it's unethical to then pretend that the club is for everyone, when it's really not. That's more like selling someone a car with a top speed of 120mph, but artificially limiting the speed for poorer people, and not telling them. Just because nightclubs walk a fine ethical line doesn't make other companies that also walk that line a great idea.
This is the core of the issue, doing hard work which allows you to permanently purchase the hard work of others in a way which grows and compounds.

I'm fine with it in certain contexts, moreso when the investment involves risk and uncertainty.

But being able to buy and collect rent (in various ways) from the basics of life (and scaling that rent up to market rates, or the highest anyone will pay without leaving) ... causes me, and society, problems.
Pretty sure that you could find them on libgen for ages.
Indeed, the two papers came out within months of each other iirc. The GAT paper discusses Transformers in the context of stabilizing the learning of attention mechanisms.

Of course, this connection may be trivial to most people, but I hadn't seen a post on this before. So I decided to write one for myself as I studied these architectures.
A Note to Our Community: Levi Strauss and Co
To shoot rays in scene you create acceleration structure (internal to driver/GPU hardware). Input to this structure are vertex & index buffers & model transform matrix. Geometry is specified as triangles or AABB. You can update this structure later by providing new transform matrix. There are different flags that control performance/memory usage - fast tracing or updates vs less memory usage.

See following links:

* https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions...

* https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-extensions...
Volta Labs (YC W19) Is Hiring a Senior Electrical Engineer
Volta Labs builds automation for the genomics sequencing industry on a programmable chip (a microprocessor for biology). Genomics based applications are growing faster than Moore's law and we're building the tools to support and enable that scaling. Volta is propelling further adoption of sequencing technologies by building an end-to-end automation system on a programmable integrated circuit. The integrated circuit can move, mix, heat and inspect tiny water droplets containing biological samples with electricity.

We are an early stage company spun off from the MIT Media Lab and founded with genomics expert George Church. We were incubated at the MIT Engine and we just came out of Y Combinator.

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I wonder if quinine, a very similar drug, would have similar results. We already have industrial infrastructure in place to mass produce and disseminate quinine (tonic water) but would have to increase the amount in each bottle. Pure, unadulterated speculation though.
An appropriately sized war chest is one that lets you live through the next recession.

The reason people are angry is because individual citizens are left to figure it out on their own when a downturn happens, but corporation's are allowed to be flagrantly irresponsible and then still get massive subsidies or bailouts when in trouble.

For everyone here coming up with excuses about how this is a good thing to bailout these companies, please answer me this.

Why do the leaders of companies in a recession always end up with more money from bonuses funded by the government bailouts, while individuals have to tighten their belts?

The average person doesn't believe your arguments when it boils down to "heads I win, tails you lose" everytime we have economic turmoil as a result of greedy actions by corporations
Okay, I'm not a doctor, so maybe you're right. It just doesn't seem plausible. Though, that doesn't mean much.
Because it's not a good look. They want to use a clean app, but they don't want to see the cleaning being done.

This is what people want. I mean, if they wanted to see ugly people or whatever, then TikTok would show them it. It's not any different than Tinder filtering out the duds.
I can readily believe this is helpful. It's related to quinine. I've used quinine for years to deal effectively with exposure to viral infections.

I have a compromised immune system and get sick very easily. I do a lot of weird stuff.

/Anecdata
We didn’t build, now that rent is insane no one will be able to pay it. What happens next? Will all the service workers end up homeless rather than a decent fraction?
I live close to that plant. I hope they don't just keep spreading that virus and negate the effort we are doing by the "shelter in place". I'm a dialysis patient myself and have no idea what this virus will do to me. I'll probably be cannon fodder if the health system is overloaded.
Yes, people often speak and vote without knowing what they're talking about.
You raise another important point - which companies are nationalized will be a political games from the start. The gov't will basically decided which companies live and which ones die, and I have no doubt personal relationships between government and executives will help that process.
Curved Spaces Flight Simulator
It might be better to lay them all off right now, and let them collect covid unemployment benefits. Maybe give them a bonus on the way out the door if the math doesn’t work out well enough for them.

That way, you’ll have the cash reserve left over to reliably reopen (and rehire them) after the crisis.
At this point I don’t think anyone should be recommending this device over the PinePhone.
The Model 3 starts at $35k.[1]

That makes it cheaper[2] than a Honda Civic ($36.3), Volvo S50 ($36), and a BMW 2-series ($35.3).

Are they luxury cars?

[1] Please don't say you can't actually buy one for that, it has been proven many, many times that you can, you just have to call Tesla.

[2] https://www.motortrend.com/price/30-40k/
Eating exotic mammals would be less bad if the mammals and their meat were actually subject to the same health regulations as less-exotic mammals. That is: the problem ain't the animals themselves, but rather that they're being sold in a black or grey market instead of through more legitimate channels.

This is a pretty common theme with black markets in general, on that note. See also: black market drugs being "cut" with harmful substances, black market sex labor being a vector for human trafficking and STDs, black market medical procedures being more susceptible to adverse outcomes, etc.

There are other good reasons to not eat exotic mammals, of course (i.e. if doing so puts species at risk of extinction), but the sanitation issue seems solvable.
This is the smartest article on COVID I've read so far.
Maybe I should rephrase. It's not like they'll lose money, but they'll make much less than one would expect for such an important product!
If by “suspend” you mean cancel the debt due in the quarantine months than I definitely agree: in both moral and economic terms it would be best for the rent-seekers to take as much of the hit as possible.

But if it’s just a pause in collection, and you still owe that money, then it’s the same old margin problem: very few restaurants make enough money to repay that loan no matter who it comes from.
It will do just the same as any other flu.
Not all books, only some.

I remember one of their books [1], it was available for free PDF download for a few months. I downloaded the PDF, then later wanted to read it again and discovered I'd somehow misplaced the PDF. And now it isn't available for free download any more. I was hoping it might be included in this, but it isn't.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/atheism-and-agnostic...
Is there any evidence SoftBank actually believed them? Belief was not required for SoftBank's business model to work (take it IPO before everyone figures out which end is up). They almost got away with it too.
Well, you want to have an exclusive clientele. If you get people who live in the ghetto going there, it's not exclusive. It just causes a poor vibe.

I mean, some nightclubs have immigrants, but nobody goes there because there are too many immigrants.

It's sort of the same thing here with TikTok: on one hand we say that it's bad to ethnically discriminate in nightclubs, on the other hand we don't go to the 'urban' nightclubs, and take it as a good signal when we read the immigrant patrons online complaining about ethnic discrimination.
Probably not. It's available there but it's not like everyone is on the stuff.
> market will bottom out when everyone's pessimism peaks

Do you think we are at the peak of pessimism?
Intrinsic/relational may not be the best way of getting at it after all. It would likely regress into an equally involved question on defining "system".

So let me try another approach. We need to distinguish between information and the "semantic content" of information. Here are the definitions I have in mind:

- Data: an arbitrary string

- Information: a numeric property of some data: INFO(d)

- Mutual information: a numeric property of two pieces of data: MI(d1, d2)

- Semantic content: the particular "effect on a system"[0] that results when the system internalizes the data: SC(s, d) ('s' denotes the system.)

My understanding is that you're claiming MI == SC.

There are certain ways we could fiddle with my usage of 'system' above so that it can just be 'data,' too (e.g. representing the system as a string, as with Turing Machines that operate on string reps of Turing Machines). In which case we can at least say that MI and CS both have domains like (data X data), so there is some similarity there.

But, even just the fact that MI is going to evaluate to a single numeric quantity, while SC evaluates to an "effect on a system" (i.e. following a state transition), implies that they're referring to different things.

I think it's also clear that it would be possible for MI(d1, d2) to evaluate to the same number as MI(d3, d4), even though SC(d1, d2) !== SC(d3, d4), since all the informational relations could be equivalent (between (d1, d2) and (d3, d4)), and yet the particular state transitions followed could differ.

[0] We can make this more precise. For instance, in the language of automata theory it would be something like following a particular state transition.

Edit: I should clarify one implicit thing here: this hinges on an assumption that my definition of "semantic content" would be a satisfactory match to common usage of the phrase for most people. Happy to hear an alternate that also captures common usage, and I can expand on my choice of def.
> So the regulatory costs must be financed.

Absolutely. Why does the "financing" in this case have to go through a hospital's purchasing department? The obvious reason for why they charge such incredible amounts per unit is because they can. If there was any amount of competition or marketplace for it, it would be cheaper. There clearly isn't.

Explain to me how this way of doing things is not holding the public hostage.
A cow is homeomorphic to a torus due to the digestive system.
The Official Chinese Government Guide to Diagnose and Treat Novel Coronavirus
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We've already had a few tesla related posts on this exact topic the past few hours alone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606140

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607357
MD5 WASM
I think we should bail then out but with just one unitranche facility that they can draw upon to pay wages and debt, but we accrue interest in the form of equity. The more they borrow, the more equity we end up owning effectively wiping out existing equity holders and most likely bond holders. We can then sell shares once it is operating smoothly again. It might make management think harder before they award bonuses or spend lavishly.
WeWork's advantage over other similar coworking places in large part came from their ability to burn investor cash to provide you with a premium experience.

I don't want WeWork to die, it would be better for it to figure out how to run in a sustainable manner. But once that happens, you may well find it's no longer differentiated from its many competitors.
A real crank would try to use professional-sounding language, only someone completely secure in their field would call sometime a "bearded armchair." ;)
Due to the increase need for individuals and groups to work from home we are making our pro plan free. Stay safe.
>(Apple, Starbucks, KfC, GM, Tesla, all the fashion brands whose names I don't know).

Apart from Apple and Tesla, all the others are Co Partnership before they could enter. Tesla wasn't even allowed in for a long time, Apple also have their restrictions especially with sourcing parts.

>China has massively reduced tariffs since the early 1990s.

I wonder how that was calculated. Try importing anything into China and see if it is anywhere near a single digit. There is a reason why huge amount of products are still smuggle through grey channel into China via a few places.

>Many countries intervene in the foreign exchange markets.

Try doing business inside China with US / Foreign government support. I doubt you can move much money out of china without getting lots of trouble.
Note: My Dad wrote this library, use the npm package here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/md5-wasm
I think the question you raise has the potential to be interesting really interesting, but not really the direction you took it.

My $.02: If the only thing that made you a better candidate than your competition in East Asia is that your company mandated working within an office, then you probably don't have a valuable skillset in the first place, right? There's some really smart people in those parts of the world, but the average candidate they're gonna get is just not gonna be even in the same ballpark. Now that being said, we all know that management is not perfectly rational (or for many of us, is almost pathologically irrational), so that doesn't mean a myopic suit might not erroneously decide that they might as well hire cheap labor overseas. Still though, it's really not something I spend any time worrying about.

What I do find interesting, and you alluded to this a bit, is the set of companies who do not allow work-from-home (or, allow work-from-home but do not allow truly remote employees - this seems to be so common these days), may collectively realize "wait a second, we all worked from home during this massive global pandemic and things didn't grind to a screeching halt, maybe remote work isn't something to be afraid of". That would be a really interesting development.
>(Yes, I'm being sarcastic from the amount of paranoid questions being asked here).

to what purpose? to deride the cautious, or the panicked?

What's paranoid at this stage? There's a virus that spreads rapidly killing people around the world.

Do you have some guidelines for us un-informed to easily sift through the paranoia like you can?

(now THAT is sarcasm)
Those were about Tesla's decision. This is the government saying that Tesla's decision was unlawful, which is a different subject.
False:

35 USC 271: Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/271
Kobo is kinda open in a way too, some nice stuff from the homebrew community for it.
>Not sure what I'll do when I have to make another trip in a couple weeks if we're still in quarantine.

Maybe we can develop good ideas? What about these ideas:

* Vitamin/mineral pills

* fruit juice / pureed fruit/vegetables (for secondary plant substances)

* Visiting the grocery store when few customers are there

* Apply cream to your hands. I always wash my hands often. They can become dry and tiny wounds occur. If lemon juice hurts your hands then it's bad. Germs can get into the tiny wounds.

* Additionally, wear plastic gloves.
sprinkled with some goodies from the level 4 biological research facility nearby
"the Government can be tackle it if situation arises. Until then we are still in Stage 2 of the pandemic. We don't need to worry about expanding capacity at least for now."

I found this reference¹ on that doctor's AMA:
"Asked about why India is not testing more, top ICMR official comes up with odd response: more tests may throw up more positive cases, which we may not be able to.. manage?"

This got me curious enough to include monitoring of India's situation in my group of interests. Only the time will tell how it will turn out.

¹ https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/fk649f/hi_im_dr_rosh...
I’ve been happy with it. They have spam filtering which mostly works.
I don’t understand why this is not mandated now everywhere. Yes I know supplies are limited but factories could start making these quickly if govt mandated them.
Covid-19 Tracker: Days since a certain number of deaths or confirmed cases
I see more blow-molded parts than injection-molded parts, but there sure are a lot of injection-molded parts. And the cup I'm drinking from is made by metal-spinning, filled with a drink poured out of a deep-drawn can with a stamped top. As for 3-D printed parts, I only see them occasionally in commercial products, but remember that low-cost 3-D printing is only about ten years old — a lot of product designs, and even more product designers, date from more than ten years ago. And even ten years ago 3-D printing prices were a lot higher than today, and there was no such thing as a US$1000 SLA machine, for example, or PETG filament, or PLA filled with wood or brass.

So I think we're going to see a big move toward 3-D printed parts in the next decade or so as designers wake up to the new possibilities afforded by these processes. A few years ago the crossover where injection molding was cheaper might have been 100 parts, then 1000, and now it's 10000 — and that's when you can make the part at all by injection molding, with the extra weight, imprecision, and geometrical restrictions it adds. Maybe in another few years the crossover point will move to 100,000; but I fully expect to see designers trained in the 1980s and 1990s continuing to use injection molding even where 3-D printing would be a lot cheaper.

What do you think about the questions I asked, about why some injection dies take multiple back-and-forth cycles over several months to get to the production rev instead of the one week you cited, and how that can be avoided?
Magazines are not communication platforms their 'users' expect to use in anything remotely the same way.

A better comparison might be bottle-service bars where looks or money buys your way in. Which I personally don't mind - if that's your thing, I guess, go for it. Not every place has to be somewhere I want to go, and they're pretty up-front that you need to meet whatever standards or pay crazy money.

Tik Tok, from observed behavior, is weaselly about it.

Combine with the fact that it is obviously part of the Silk Road strategy and likely an intelligence tool, and I'm going to continue to treat is as the radioactive garbage it is.
I didn’t say it was a good deal. Unfortunately, the government gets hosed all they time by poorly formed contracts. The government also plans on a certain percentage of these investments not to work out. I’m no more happy about it than you, but the original comment was merely a correction that Ford was not part of the TARP bailout.

With that being said, the link by the other poster says Ford will repay by 2022
..are we finally going to admit the Chinese government is evil?
In system design, there are tradeoffs. You can't automagically get everything you want. For example, regarding the block size, you can increase the block size to scale transactions or you can do L2 off-chain. Each comes with its own pros and cons. Big blocks are easier to implement and simpler to set up, but they'll require future hard forks. Off-chain scaling is more flexible but they are a lot more complicated. Big block retains decentralization feature. Off-chain scaling will require some centralization in layer 2 to bring the cost down. Both are fine scaling strategies. But the discussion becomes highly political. One side needs to win.

And there's DeFi, decentralized finance. It's more like centralized finance dressed up in tech jargon. When you add more layers on top of the main chains, the complexity of the systems increase. To bring down the costs, you'll have to create centralized layer 2 systems.