skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like people will look at COVID-19's remote working situation as a failure and "proof that remote working doesn't work".

The holes in that argument are incredibly obvious to anyone here I think, but I really feel like the powers that be, and the people who like the office status-quo will take any argument and parrot it to ensure that nothing changes.

I know that's a pessimistic outlook but based on how people tend to be regarding open-office landscapes I think it's a realistic situation.

I'm one of the supremely fortunate people to be both childless and having a personal office at home, for me remote work is without a doubt more productive, however that's personal productivity vs team productivity. I have no idea what my colleagues are working on. Communication is one of the hardest problems that people are trying to solve and poorly managed companies use "collaboration" (IE; disrupting people or overhearing things) as a venue to avoid tackling the real communication issue.

The other thing is the majority of people at home are not set up like me, they have little humans that are distracting and curious nature. Or no dedicated space to actually focus.

Two anecdotes: My girlfriend is working from home using the kitchen table and one of my external monitors with her Mac, the ergonomics are horrible and her job is to play video games all day.. those video games are restricted IP so they can't be copied (or even if they could, they wouldn't run) on her mac.. so she plays video games over RDP+VPN which is obviously less productive than being at work with her high powered machine.

The other is my Mother. Who literally has no dining table or desk in the whole house, she works from the couch- I have no idea how productive she is but it certainly can't be as much as the office.
Uber says Levandowski on his own for $180M to Google
From what this article says, it looks like the Sheriff is going to get absolutely vaporized in court. Putting the sheriffs faulty logic aside, it’s just a poor strategic move to not just apologize...
Yup, precisely this. Obviously this is super hard/impossible to calculate, but everybody should be paying in a certain fraction of what they are getting out of the system.

ex. The entrepreneur that gets access to the road system, educated workforce, police/legal system protection... if they didn't have that then they couldn't profit from their widget. So pay something significant back to the system, or you can't participate in the system.
Obviously this is super hard/impossible to calculate, but everybody should be paying in a certain fraction of what they are getting out of the system.

ex. The entrepreneur that gets access to the road system, educated workforce, police/legal system protection... if they didn't have that then they couldn't profit from their widget. So pay something significant back to the system, or you can't participate in the system.
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Taxes are a redistribution mechanism.
It is true that governmental accounting standards are different from private sector ones. I believe the GASB promulgates the former; the FASB the latter.

So everybody uses "GAAP" but it's not the same standards nor "whatever assumptions they want". If they used anything else, it would still be "GAAP", too.
Wait, where do you live that doesn't require licensing for cats? Licensing and registration is an important intervention for control of rabies and animal overpopulation, as well as facilitating the return of lost pets. Everywhere I've lived in the US, both cats and dogs have to be licensed. Owners have to provide proof of rabies vaccination, and registration costs more for animals that haven't been spayed or neutered.
Depending on when they were released, you can use "Sidecar" which lets you use them as external wireless displays for MacOS https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380
If stuxnet [1] is a possibility, then yes, these attacks are a thing in the real world. They may be rare, but I think nation states are very interested in research like this for precisely the reason that this could happen to them.

[1] Stuxnet had compromised airgapped computers
See: FASB, GASB
Strongtowns has had the same shtick for years now, predicting that the cities are are going to collapse under cost of maintaining infrastructure. For years though, the numbers just refuse to add up in Strongtowns favor.

If cost of maintaining roads and utilities in typical American suburban pattern is so high that cities can’t afford it, where are all the cities that went bankrupt because of it? Strongtowns argues that early on, it’s covered by the developers, but after its useful life, it must be replaced by municipality. Ignoring the whole issue of the original residents actually covering the cost instead of the developer (clearly, the developer didn’t just donate the roads and sewers, it’s all priced in), how long do we actually have to wait for chicken to come home to roost? I live in a suburban development in Seattle, packed row to row with the single family houses with yards and garages that Strongtowns says is a bane to long term finances. The median age of the house is probably something like 50 years, with a good amount over 100 years old — it’s a relatively old neighborhood. When will the road costs will finally kill our budget?

If you look at the city budgets, there is no mystery: road maintenance is simply a very small part of municipality budget. It simply doesn’t cost as much as Strongtowns keeps implying. The infrastructure maintenance budget is dwarfed by everything else.

Just look at the numbers: http://www.seattle.gov/city-budget/2020-proposed-budget#/sdo... Road maintenance is what, $150M-200M counting generously and adding some overhead? Even if you apportion all of that to suburbia, compared to total budget of over $6B, it’s not going to make a serious dent.

That the road costs are low in suburbia can even be seen with a simple back of the napkin calculation: assuming cost to repave a mile of suburban road to be $1M, house frontage of 100 feet, and useful life of road at 30 years, you’re looking at $20 000 per house over 30 years, or less than $700 per house per year. Sure, that’s not nothing, but how much do you already pay in property taxes?

In short, while I think many suggestions of Strongtowns are good in their own right, and would indeed improve many places in America, the infrastructure costs story simply doesn’t add up.
My cat doesn't care about wild life at all. She spends a lot of time in the garden and birds even have learned that they can walk near her without any issues.
When I said "infinite leverage", what I meant was that there is no upper limit to the amount of leverage (debt, or credit) that any one entity can have. There's also no limit on the total amount globally. The US government, for example, can print infinite money and create infinite debt.
2012 in fact. I thought it was much more recent, myself.
> Futhark doesn't call CUB (it also targets OpenCL),

If the builtin scan doesn't call CUB, how fast is a prefix sum in Futhark compared to Cuda using CUB ?

> For example, you can 'map' a Futhark 'scan' over a two-dimensional array and it will just work pretty well,

What does "pretty well" mean? 95% of peak device throughput ? 60% ?

When a compute device costs 8.000$, an efficiency of 90% means I'm throwing 800$ out of the window.
This is not only a hit piece (for Musk-haters) but it's wrong on at least this count:

"what he actually sent was five-year-old BiPAP sleep apnea machines that can’t be used to treat coronavirus victims in the ICU."

Both CPAP and BiPAP are being adopted by some doctors who've found them useful over ventilators.
The second one is trivially wrong as well. The allegation is that 50% of Sweden has had it and recovered but this would require antibody tests to prove. On which date is it proposed that Sweden passed that halfway mark and had sufficient time to recover?

March 31st deaths from Covid-19 in Sweden: 180

April 17th deaths from Covid-19 in Sweden: 1400

It has been > 7x deaths just within April.
Just curious, what's your reasoning for thinking C wouldn't be a good fit? I'd think either would be fine choices given their ubiquity. (Not a C or Java programmer, just like to learn!)
In the Year 2525
Ask HN: Requesting a Few Hackers to Volunteer
I think I found a quick and easy solution to distribute food to needy individuals during this covid pandemic.

I need a few hackers to volunteer their time to help me code and throw something up online.

I will provide funding for servers.

Skills desired: Geocoding/image manipulation/twilio api/etc

This is purely a nonprofit social project. If you are able, please contact me at p2pfoodproject at google's email service.

I will post an update to HN community once we have an MVP up and going.
My guess is it's more about liability - if a dog is involved in an incident, you can prove who the owner is and potentially hold them liable (depending on the circumstances, of course).
Cats and birds attract crazy people as advocates and enablers and the negative behaviors they engage in are more invisible.

Feral dogs fight more and are scary to people. Feral cats just kill everything in sight and attract pity.
I am following Cameron Kyle-Sidell on twitter (one of the doctors in the video). He has a possible theory on what it's going on.

https://twitter.com/cameronks/status/1251233871137574913
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/corona...

I think everyone would like better data but one point I can follow is that scared people are bad consumers. I can’t find the exact story but I recall some research on Denver vs Philadelphia where the hard lockdown came out ahead later and the psychology of dealing with the disease contributed to this.
Never heard that word before :) I'll google!
I like SequelPro. The UI much simpler, powerful, but it's inactivated, nobody working on it to update for new macOS :(
When most people say "walkable," what they generally really mean is walkable + good transit + tons of places they'd actually want to walk to like parks, bars, restaurants, and shops.
Yeah, I've seen those. Do you have any idea why they did that? I had twenty or thirty on a recent board and they took so much extra work to double check because they didn't follow convention. I probably read that pinout in disbelief for an hour before I called them to check.

I think that's why people number them the counterclockwise way, if they didn't they'd get furious engineers calling them and yelling (I didn't yell, I was just very confused) that they aren't following the standard. There are so many ways to make a mistake in a circuit board already, once someone decided on a numbering scheme momentum probably just kept it going to be honest. Why would you change it when there is no functional difference and it makes mistakes less likely?
I like this. I once heard an anecdote from an AWS solution architect that they’re launching products so fast, they have real problems keeping up with it and keeping their staff trained.

The situation for us, however, is even worse: we’re expected to keep up to date with all these products, ideally across all cloud platforms. I find it simply impossible to keep up, and I appreciate this.
Band in China Banned in China
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The distribution of wealth creates a distribution of incentives that behave dynamically. "fixing it at a single point in time" does more than you're saying.

Also, there are a number of asymptotic features of "total factor productivity" that are not favorable. The more oil you burn, the more expensive it is to burn oil.
> the industry grew up and people started to take things more seriously.

Really?

Goofy codenames for projects (Bionic Beaver, etc),
the sign of a 'serious' project is having a cartoon mascot,
'open source' people relying on closed/proprietary things
like slack, macOS, etc. instead of open/libre alternatives,
1 page github READMEs and API docs as 'documentation' but
having a youtube channel full of 'howto' videos instead

there is probably an equal amount of goofyness/immaturity and
seriousness then as now - it just manifests differently
I think this is largely possible, and accuracy to a human is very different than MSE accuracy used in a traditional lossy compression algorithm.

To a human, for example, the exact pattern of every strand of hair isn't important at all -- all that matters is that the hairstyle and hair color stays the same.

The algorithm can also not worry about encoding and re-constructing skin blemishes because humans would possibly actually enjoy not having to put on makeup for a video call.
A main premise of the Fear the Sky trilogy as well but solved a different way. Machines representing various political factions from the home planet are uploaded with AI that mimics them emotionally and politically for all intents and purposes. I really enjoyed this book.
Nice glossary!, I miss some terms such as regularization, sequence embedding, optimization methods (ADAM, SADAM ...), transfer learning, one-shot learning, weight initialization, test time augmentation... but in general it covers few a lot of terms. I would collaborate anytime soon!
It seems that a 24/7 set of federal judges with smartphones on them for quickly processing warrant applications is a better fix to “warrants are slow” than giving cops the power to simply skip them when they feel like it.

As it stands now, the majority of federal search warrants contain easily falsified perjury, and yet they are still approved by judges almost without exception and the feds that wrote them suffer no consequences whatsoever.

I’m not sure why they have an issue with the current system, outside of blatant abuse.
We interviewed the inventor of PowerPoint for our blog, and he gave a fascinating inside story of how he almost sold to Apple before eventually sealing a deal with Microsoft:

https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-m...

We also recently interviewed the creator of Microsoft Word who talked about working with Bill Gates in the 1980s:

https://blog.zamzar.com/2020/03/20/an-interview-with-richard...

For books I’d massively recommend:

- The Cuckoo’s Egg, a first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[1]

- Founders at Work, for early Silicon Valley startup stories[2]

- The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson, for similarly wacky late ‘90s/early 2000’s startup stories[3]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119751.The_Nudist_on_the...
You can also have less infrastructure. Even the tiniest town could work fine on gravel roads with well and septic systems. The problem is usually when small towns try to build city-grade roads... which is pretty much what all of them do.
I'm using it on daily basis but it's not a smooth experience. I'm not sure if it's just me that very time I switch to a new database in dbeaver and start running a different query ... more often than not it's just stuck there for more than half min and eventually told me it's not connected to the new database yet so I had to refresh the connection. For all the SQL tools I've used, dbeaver takes the the longest to realize it's actually not connected to a db. It's not fun.
> If it were just walkable, you could pick a smaller city or downtown area and live there

No you couldn't, because most American downtowns completely close down outside of 9-5 M-F.
Feel free to collaborate adding these new terms or improving the already present!
Increasing legacy taxes (a lot) would help to make the world fairer in the long run.
The compiler would know that the alignment is smaller than the type itself, which would disable the optimization mentioned in the post.
There are only maybe... 3 or 4 elements of HDD designs worth talking about.

* CMR/PMR drives -- Classic hard drive you've been buying for the last 30 years. Not much to say about it.

* SMR Drives -- "Shingled" has very poor write performance, but adds 20% more capacity at lower costs. For "write once, read many" workloads, like archival or backups. This is because "Shingled" drives write data on top of the old data, so that your data is physically overlapping at the microscopic level. Any write must read the old data, rewrite the old data, and then finally write the new data you're planning to store.

* 5400 RPM vs 7200 RPM -- Higher RPM drives are obsolete, because SSDs are faster. 7200 RPM is kind of standard, but 5400 exists for those who want less noise, less electricity usage, and are willing to put up with the lower performance.

That's pretty much it. "NAS" drives tend to have anti-vibration sensors and other such things, but those sensors don't really cost much and I don't really see why it deserves its own category.

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There only needs to be maybe, 3 kinds of hard drives made today. 7200 PMR drives, 5400 PMR drives, and finally 5400 SMR drives.
That could be inadvertently teaching the wild life they can approach any cat which will have the expected result.
I really like this format. It's an interesting mid-point between a tweet and a blog, but optimized for "evergreen" content as opposed to content where the date is key.
A lot of them just are on the local network. Like Jetbrains software will throw a license error if both are on the same internal network, but will be fine if they are on separate networks.
Speaking of Disney and architecture and parabolic shapes, apparently when the Disney concert hall was first built, the curved shapes of the building acted as parabolic reflectors which focused on nearby apartment buildings. They had to sand the panels to reduce the reflectivity because they were heating the apartments to as much as 140°F.
> Yes, because total factor productivity[0] always grows.

Is that true? Has that been true for Zimbabwe née Rhodesia?

What about Britain following the fall of the Roman Empire?
The most 'always' things I know, are axioms we've agreed upon, such as 1 + 1 = 2 in arithmetic. They are only 'always' so because we've agreed on it, for now.

What incredible discovery enables you to make 'always' claims about the world we're living in?
You can get a gist of that by looking at what they do for each sponsor: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors (e.g. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/S... )

Another place to look is their tor-project mailing list where in each meeting they list things to do/things done: (e.g. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2020-Apri... ) https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/
There's not data about the impact of either policy choice.

For example, bar and restaurant traffic would probably be down quite a lot regardless of lockdowns.

For reopening, a potential downside of doing it too early is that the spread rapidly spirals out of control again, with greater death and real panic ensuing.
What’s the endgame? Cities default on their Muni bonds? Then what? Giving up pension obligations?

What should we be looking at for precedent? Detroit? Rural Japan?
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> think that the best possible plan is for everyone to get infected

That's like asking why does everyone think the best plan is for the sun to rise tomorrow morning.

It's not a "plan", it is fact. Everyone (to some level of precision) will be either have anti-bodies from infection or have been vaccinated (or the unrealistic enough to ignore; remain in isolation their entire life).

We don't have a choice in that. We can try to alter the parameters (rate, timing, etc.) of that. But, that is the limit of our control.
Riot's Fog of War for Valorant does exactly what you describe.

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-...
No city goes bankrupt because of road maintenance. They just choose not to do it. There are plenty of towns and cities across the USA that have just been left to decay.
The Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist
Why "no", you're agreeing with the conclusion
It's interesting to note that the Bitcoin ecosystem depends on BGP being secure
Sure, but you can objectively tell if something is unfair. Defining fairness is more difficult.
I really enjoyed the Idea Factory, by Jon Gertner:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factor...

It was exciting and inspiring and fun. It covered a ton of different inventions that came out of Bell Labs from its inception through the 1960's. It had some fun factoids like how they selected the wood for the telephone poles. Just an awesome book.

Another is Dealers of Lightning, by Michael Hiltzik:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1101290.Dealers_of_Light...

Exciting and inspiring like the first, but with a different feel. It's about Xerox PARC and all of their work and the people there.
Ohhh I misunderstood; I thought they were stealing data by simply observing the blinking LED, not that they had infiltrated the computer and were controlling the LED.
No worries, I appreciate it.
Reading through theses makes me wish I started this 5 years ago.

Guess I better start today!
Has anyone tried dry cleaning the masks? Its a pretty tough solvent and viruses are made partially of fatty acids.
Also, look at rural communities...

They manage to maintain a mile or more of roads to most isolated houses.
Theoretically yes, practically no. So what?
I don't know, why no one mentioned remote work as a solution, at least for businesses who can afford it. I clearly know from my friends in HR industry, positions which never assumed remote options, now opened and filled without significant problems for business and new employee. Businesses are working in (almost) normal mode, apocalypse is postponed. So why pour money in expensive offices, require from you employees to rent apartments near your work, which cost like lux-class, or repeatedly spend hours of their lifes that accumulate in months in public transport or traffic jams?

When business people talk about remote job in the team, it's usually outsourcing to India. Why not to let your employees present at the office, say, 1 time a week, to deal with the customer or attend weekly meeting for those who miss socialization.
Made me think of this paulg tweet/quote:

"Cities that we think of as marvels from the past that we could not match were built by people much poorer than us."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1199278650652286977
"Supports a whole set of relational databases"

Includes MongoDB in the list.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stay-home-back-to-work-a-dog-an...
Where do you think drivers for your hardware come from? You know, the ones that already silently update through Windows Update?
This is a stunning difference. In the US we had no excess mortality in March, in fact total deaths from all causes were down year over year.

Cases didn’t peak in NY until April so we may see some increase after this month.

I realize the U.K. locked down later than many countries, but there must be other factors driving mortality as there are other countries that did not lock down and aren’t being ravaged quite the same.

What is it? Level of care in the NHS? Higher prevalence of secondary conditions like diabetes? Hygiene? Crowding?