skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any other Autism Spectrum or ADHD people who feel less fatigued by video meetings compared to IRL?

The things I like:
- having the range of activity during a meeting constrained to one area in front of me so I don't have to look around the room to make sure I'm not missing something / get overstimulated by too much stuff happening.
- Boxes with borders lighting up when someone is making noise / talking so I know where to look.
- Names always associated with faces
- text chat area for sharing links and non-disruptive ways to request clarification
- No longer get lost in the hallway trying to find rooms with weird names
- Don't have to kick people out of rooms when they stay too long
- can foot tap and fidget hands off screen without people noticing
So what does this company actually do?
RE: AI/ML, we've accelerated R&D, and it's not even stuff that's super direct to customers (though makes it to customers eventually). Absolutely business as usual for a growing startup.
I think what makes this inherently harder with notebooks is that everything is integrated. It's not like you can decide to upgrade the keyboard or screen if you don't like the one it comes with. As a result, you're constrained by the whims of the manufacturer.

Here's hoping somebody builds a laptop with one of these CPUs that has good battery life, is quiet under light load, has upgradeable memory/storage and comes with a good 16:10 screen.
How do you reconcile this argument with the hospitals being full and morgues overrun? Do you think that happens every flu season?
I'm confused at the article. What part of the 6th amendment ("In all criminal prosecutions...") distinguishes "non-serious" crimes from "serious crimes"?

Also, does anyone know where hung juries fit into this? You would think that you're not-guilty until you're proven guilty, so what is this weird 3rd-state of "not guilty and also not not-guilty" based on in the 6th amendment?
The sub-prime loans were likely priced correctly and with the expectation of a recession during the 84-month loan term.

The problem is leases. They are really attractive products for institutions because they get prime-rate buyers to pay sub-prime interest rates on an expensive vehicle. Dealers love them because it's easy to hide BS fees and overcharge people who are shopping on monthly payments.

However, it's so easy for a lender to lose their ass on leases. The lenders promise to buy back the car at some fixed price in the future. And finding the right price for a residual is a delicate balancing act, if it's too low then the monthly payments are high and there's likely some missed sales, and if it's too high then the lender has to pay above market value for the car.

Last year, the F Series truck sold nearly 900,000 units. Ford doesn't report their lease/purchase breakdown, but I expect it to be at least 50% of sales. Meaning, for every $1,000 their lease residuals fall, they are losing at least $450,000,000 per model year. And that's just looking at their trucks.

Not only that, Ford earned that sales money when times were good, then used the profits to pay out dividends and buy back stock. But now, their lending arm has to pay for this mistake when times are bad.

Granted, the F Series and other trucks are an outlier. A good selling car (or crossover) moves like 300k a year. But still, I have to imagine that even Rav4s and the like have a lease %.

This will be a bloodbath.

Edit: for reference, Ford's EBITDA were hovering in the low $10 billion range for the past five years.
Would you mind elaborating on what the improvements are? I've just been through this a couple of days ago and found it quite messy.
Fall in China's consumer spending is a bad sign for US consumer economy.
Apparently Michael Murphy registered a bunch of domains to try to block people doing this BS, not to support it, and isn't related to the other registrations.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/reopen-liberate...
I think the biggest hook for Factorio is that it's an _actual_ visual programming language. So much of what we do day to day ignores this (dominant!) mode of perception. It's extremely refreshing to be able to simply look at a system to reason about it.

(as an aside, I think this is also why the Zachtronics games are so effective)
> What a disaster the start-up economy has turned out to be.

It's not going anywhere for very long, if the Fed's rates remain so low and money remains so cheap. Thinking otherwise is nothing more than revenge fantasy style wishful thinking (people lusting for a comeuppance scenario because it makes them feel good).

In two years funding will be back in normal swing. In three to four years people will be back to speculating about the sustainability of bubble funding again and getting angry about the so called start-up economy.

The giant pile of capital sitting on the sidelines desperate for a return, is still there and will continue to probe for opportunities. It's not going anywhere short of the US collapsing rapidly near-term (which isn't going to happen). What you're going to witness is an immense surge in funding activity about two years out, as an economic recovery gets underway.

The only thing that would drain that sideline money, is a true financial collapse, taking down all banks, all short-term treasuries, and the stock market seeing a total wipeout (a minimum of ~%50-65% further down from here). None of that is going to happen. To accomplish that you'd have to hit the Federal Reserve with a nuclear bomb (they're all over the economy now, directly funding it, good luck fighting that) or keep the US economy locked down for years.

Check out the Bloomberg billionaire list. You'll notice something interesting.

Jeff Bezos, +$28 billion in 2020, $144 billion net worth.

Bill Gates, $104 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg, $68 billion.

Steve Ballmer, $63 billion.

Larry Page & Sergey Brin, ~$60 billion.

Larry Ellison $60 billion.

etc

The hyper rich (and the giant corporations in tech) aren't going to drown. The giant tech companies will emerge stronger, and will continue to deploy large sums of money into venture activity and acquisitions. The assets of the hyper rich will continue to be directly propped up by the Fed. It's the very wealthy that fund venture capitalists, providing much of the institutional money that feeds the VC firms. It isn't going anywhere and it will go right back to work, with a short break during this economic disaster. The sole reason there is a break at all, is they're pausing until the dust clears (wait & see, then pounce), they could largely afford to keep funding at close to the same old levels, the money is still there to do it. VC firms get better deals for their institutional investors by waiting until the unicorn blood is saturating the street, this presents an opportunity for them to squeeze the start-up ecosystem and reset valuations lower. Their investment dollars go a lot further if they wait a bit for the lower quality unicorn bodies to pile up.
Even if you don't play, I highly recommend following the Factorio Friday blog posts. The development team is very transparent about what they are working on and will often dive into interesting problems and solutions, including failed attempts. They are both technical and approachable.
You have to give the game some time. If it's good (like Factorio is) it might just pull you in. You also need to be in the right mood for that particular game. Sometimes you have to try a game many times until get pulled in.
Super Mario Maker 2 adds World Maker mode for building entire games
do these sorts of vessels not come up for sale very often? Not sure what's so notable about this particular listing.
this is text from maual:

> Deprecated since version 3.3, will be removed in version 3.8: The behaviour of this function depends on the platform: use perf_counter() or process_time() instead, depending on your requirements, to have a well defined behaviour.

I would be wary of any crypto library that continued to work with a warning for 8 years and no one bothered to fix it. Most likely no one was maintaining it.
Agreed. After reading the title, I immediately thought of the Doherty Threshold [1]. It states that if the system can respond to user actions and give the user feedback within 400ms, it increases users’ attention and productivity.

That constant delay, plus the worse ones when the connection loses strength, put a constant toll on "zoom" conversations.

I think that is the main factor but many of the items they brought up in the article also add to it but my guess is if there were no delay or drop in quality, it would be very manageable.

[1] https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold
Looks like limited impact in most states.

> The decision was widely expected and will have limited impact nationwide, as the only two states that have allowed split jury convictions in recent years are Louisiana and Oregon. Those two states could now face more than a thousand requests for retrials, according to documents they submitted to the justices.
If 50% of NYC has had the virus, they won't have herd immunity yet -- of these studies are correct, then the virus is horrendously infectious -- making 90%+ of population required for immunity.
It's $20. For a game you will spend 100's of hours on.
I’ll jump in. I was considering joining the Army, ready to fight our enemies, and 100% for helping recover in any way we could. But I was also annoyed by security “Theater” and the “See, what did we tell you!” attitude towards racial profiling as though it would have helped prevent anything.
C++20 Spaceship Operator
The problem isn't that Python 2 is bad. Python 2 is a fantastic language. The problem is that the maintainers of Python decided to break backwards compatibility and force library developers to support what are essentially two different programming languages.
My problem is I can't multitask during a zoom at all. I'm so anxious that someone will ask me a question so I'm tuned in the entire time while everyone else is pretty obviously off working on the side. I also find that I stare at myself fidgeting. It's nowhere near as bad as in person where I just want to not talk at all, though.

Also if everyone is on different timezones please don't make us turn on webcams. I'm getting a lot of 7-8am meetings lately now that my team is mostly East of me. I'm just waking up. I was in meetings from 8am this morning. I showered at 2pm when I finally got a 30 minute break.
I wrote an example of this in How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps:

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
aka lying
Yes, Wells Fargo didn't even open proper application until the same day the SBA said they were out of money. Here's hoping I'll be part of another class action against them.
Isn't that just part of the game? Most businesses fail. Many are just attempts to validate an idea/product. Sometimes it works; sometimes it don't. Trial and error is good.
How do people find confidence to risk their life (and their kids' happiness) for a cause, when most people around don't care about that cause and seem to be happy with the status quo?
Especially considering the test used here was also, Premier Biotech's. Their manual [1] states, that other coronavirus strains can lead to false positives in the test:

>Positive results may be due to past or present infection with non-SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strains, such as coronavirus HKU1, NL63, OC43, or 229E

[1]https://imgcdn.mckesson.com/CumulusWeb/Click_and_learn/Premi...
I would claim that playing Factorio constitutes as doing engineering for fun
Certain game types basically are puzzles that are similar to the kinds of puzzles one would encounter during engineering things.

Factorio is one of them, but other puzzle games such as topological ones (Spacechem, Opus Magnum, Infinifactory, Molek-syntez), programming (Shenzhen IO, TIS-500, Human Resource Machine, Silicon Zeroes) or logic ones (Baba is you) kind of scratch similar itches.

As for doing engineering for fun, some of us are stuck doing rather boring tasks at the office, and the idea of having a game that one can just put away seems less daunting than having a code/hardware project that could potentially sit uncompleted. Designing robots definitely is fun, although it requires a fair bit of working space and tools.
Psychedelics maybe a useful instrument with which to prod at our psyches, though not what I was implying, by any means.

> useful frontier

I think it's useful if one is to gain deeper self-awareness and emotional discipline by exploring one's perception.

Remove mental obfuscations and negative emotions, let go of all perceived realities of samsara and you may approach self-enlightenment.
I was on a partially-remote team for years, with bi-weekly team conference calls - webcam was possible but we all never used it, not even the manager. Screenshare was used for presentations. But audio was enough. Why is everyone defaulting to video calls for things? It adds so much "noise" and cognitive load on things.
We should never discount the idea that a hostile state-level power could be involved in our politics. And we pay a huge number of people in government to be paranoid about that.

That said, I doubt these protests have much effect. It's kind of like people standing on corners waving signs, or the pro-antifa vs anti-antifa stick-fests. Amusing or mildly appalling and worth a click-bait article, but does anyone really care?

If there's any real effect, I suspect it'll be just to mark that there are people suffering, people who have lost their livelihoods, can't make their rent, and just want to go back to their okay-but-not-great jobs so they can live their lives.
Lots of normal things about human interaction are broken in Zoom meetings.

* You can't have a normal conversation with that much delay. Every time you talk you're probably interrupting someone, and that starts to wear on you.

* You can't have any side chats with your neighbors before and after the meeting, making everyone seem less like a person.

* You can't tell who's looking at you, so you always feel like you have to remain presentable and vigilant.

* There's no sense of space. You can't look over at person if whomever is talking just teleports to the center of the screen. Or if the layout is fixed, sound isn't coming from anywhere in particular, so you need to search around for who's talking. And everyone on screen is looking a random direction.
It’s literally the “Both Sides” fallacious argument. Cherry pick a tiny handful of tweets from one side and compare it with the constant torrent of communication in multiple media forms over months... and claim that shows both sides are equally bad.
As jfim mentioned, this game will probably never go on sale but the list price is definitely worth it.
The current oil crisis and the lack of storage makes storage space really expensive.
The equipment and furniture are either auctioned or liquidated.

If there's a corporation or formal payroll involved, then it's important to wind those down carefully for various legal reasons. So either the remaining assets or owners will have to pay for the paperwork wind down.

Typically with a small company of 50-60 employees, the office manager and 1-2 accountants wll stay on for a few months to wrap all that up.

I was the last eng. employee to leave Novafora/Transmeta, and attended the auction and bought some of the computer equipment.

The most expensive hardware items were the almost new espresso machine, the 3 Ghz scope and the bed of nails tester.

Intel bought most of the IP for a little more than peanuts.
Facebook took down these event pages at the request of US state officials.

Google also removes pages from their index at the request of law enforcement or by court order. There’s nothing wild about that.
There's no compelling reason we couldn't have IP audio links (with an easy calling interface) that have no such compression artifacts. I would actually call it more of a noise gate issue perhaps trying to save bandwidth by maximizing the compressibility of quiet parts as if they're total silence, signal off. That kills the intimacy IMO.

We've had it for so long now with digital cell phone calls, even HD calling, certainly Zoom et al (some are particularly aggressive on the noise gate when others are speaking over you).
So electrolysis has a thermodynamic efficiency currently at best at 80%. Fuel cells are 40-60% for the regeneration of the electricity.

I've heard that pumping water for gravitational potential energy is 90% end-to-end though.

I don't see a thermodynamic efficiency metric, so that's not encouraging.
Michael Murphy “Old Hippie” Doxxed After Being Accused of Astroturfing
No it doesn’t. Yours is 1.92L without power, 2.24L with that 120W power brick.

And the difference against 3.9L is about as much as a GPU takes, so you’re just saying an ITX build with no GPU is weaker but smaller by what you just removed. A tautology.
$30* US
Thanks for the additional info. Since most of the talent is around sales and marketing, maybe one area of opportunity would be to develop some creative ideas for how to get businesses that are currently shut down back in action. For example (just speculating here), there could be quite a few small businesses that don't have much of an online presence but could adapt with help from even modestly tech-savvy folks who can find appropriate channels for them.

In any case, good luck and I look forward to hearing what comes out of this!
President Xi has dramatically changed the communist party's composition. His excuse for purging members is curtailing corruption, including bribery.
The price was raised a while back to $30.[1]

[1]: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/016-price-change

(I purchased it for myself at the $20 price, but I've also purchased it as a gift at the $30 price. I have definitely gotten my money's worth.)
I'm pretty sure the Russian trail in this article is a red herring.

I looked up "Валентина Сынах" Skype user and, as expected, their full phone number is +7904xxxxxxx (see full number in the article), with Russian prefix +7. Note, WHOIS records have US number +1904xxxxxxx. Not sure why the author only searched for the last 10 digits.

+7 904 code is a very busy area code in Russia shared by several major carriers, covering the majority of Russian regions, so the probability of someone having any particular 7 digits in that area is pretty high. For example there's someone else registered in Skype with number +7904xxxxxx4, just one digit apart. I haven't been able to find an English source, but you can look at the list of carriers and regions in Russian in [1].

Also, US area code +1 904 matches the address in WHOIS records (both Jacksonville, FL), so at least it doesn't look like someone just changed the first digit and used their own Russian number.

[1] https://www.kody.su/mobile/904
> Or are you endorsing fraud as a legitimate political strategy?

It isn't already? Pretty sure that's what campaign "promises" are.
Do you realize how much money international students inject into the US education and just general US economy as well?
You can bet some not so seaworthy tankers are being put to use again...
https://www.shrwood.com/Assignments-Liquidations/Assignment-...
That's a pretty cool idea. The cave works as a sort of library.
This game made me empathize less and less with environmentalists. Forests are an impediment to a transport network. Wildlife are pests. Renewable energy has extremely low ROI.
Engineering as a job often requires a lot of grinding to get an outcome, even the “easy” engineering (?) disciplines like embedded software work in my experience.

Your “engineering for fun” is perhaps not what most engineers do day to day. And certainly our jobs and workplaces generally are not explicitly designed to be enjoyable with satisfying outcomes.
The multidimensional spreadsheet has been around for a long time. The first product I worked on was one, that competed with others like Lotus Improv, CA-Compete, and one for the Mac that I believe was named FreeBase. That Computer Associates and Lotus were selling them tells you something right away. I believe it was IRI that sold Javelin, a spreadsheet with some time-series capabilities. There are/were many others too. OLAP planning product (of which I’ve worked on multiple) tend to provide a very spreadsheet-ish outlook on their UI and modeling capabilities, coupled with real data management.
Which means that somebody is hoping some naive investor will pay them to take a junker off their hands.
Historical precedent rather then accident I would say.

There is a quote in the court's opinion that using historical precedent "promotes the evenhanded, predictable, and consistent development of legal principles, fosters reliance on judicial decisions, and contributes to the actual and perceived integrity of the judicial process".

I agree with you, beyond a reasonable doubt should mean all jurors agree.
How the way people code “Hello World” varies depending on their age and job
That preprint [1] is a great example of how far ahead of the skis you can get with motivated reasoning, bad math, and no peer review.

They recruited people over Facebook at a time that California's COVID tests were backlogged (with ads not presented in the paper, with links to signup that could, anecdotally, be shared out); in that situation, avoiding selection bias towards people that were sick with something previously and want to know about potential immunity would be rather tough. (Per WTO protocol, they asked about symptoms in their sample but poof for some reason that data isn't in the paper).

They got a 1.5% positive rate in their sample with 50 individuals testing positive. They then immediately applied demographic weighing to move that raw number to around 3%. Only then did they contemplate the false positive rate, taking the data of the manufacturer and 30 samples as a point estimate to figure out a 95% CI of positives around that 3%.

That's a no-no for correctly propagating uncertainty. The statistically legitimate way to do that would've been to generate the 95% confidence interval for belief about the test's false positive rate and carry that forward in the demographic reweighing. That basic math would've avoided the frankly laughable result that a randomly selected person in Santa Clara county could have a 5% chance of having had COVID-19 while in the same county people seeing a doctor and getting tests through their doctor are only around 10% positive for COVID-19 [2].

Another critique: [3]

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...
[2] https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#te...
[3] https://medium.com/@balajis/peer-review-of-covid-19-antibody...
Xi Jinping has another big problem. Perfect timing.
This thing was never on pace to kill millions. Maybe if it was actually as deadly as SARS and that was a valid concern, but it's proven to be nowhere near as deadly as SARS.
I thought this WAS already the law - whatever happened to "beyond a reasonable doubt?"
He did get close to rags in the middle there
Creative use of Dash!