skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My work machine, which is a 15" MPB, has such poor thermal performance that I'd never consider buying one with my own money. My personal machine is an Air, which only gets hot when I'm actually doing something taxing. I can live with that.

Generally I am a big fan of Apple products, but I don't know how they have the gall to ship these things with such hideously disruptive heat issues. Hopefully the new 16" model is the start of a swing back toward sanity.
Would have cursed out a bunch of people and fired them, probably
These systems are amazing. The rules are different everywhere, people game the systems, and the leadership is in on the game.

My anecdata is from a different police force elsewhere in the country. There, your pension is based on the average of your last 2 years of service. When you reach retirement age, it is orchestrated for you to get a promotion and as much overtime (at time and a half) as you're able to work. So people double or triple their last years' salary and then retire making more than they legitimately made before the scheme. Millions and millions of dollars are stolen from the people just through this one law enforcement pension program.
We use the same and it's been fantastic.
The private insurers are the massive wealth extraction vehicle the grandparent comment is talking about. It’s wealth extraction because they are a protected/reg-captured class of “private business”.

I’d throw in that when you separate the entity paying for a service and the entity receiving it, prices are bound to get out of whack. Do that for decades and the entire system is in for a downward spiral.
Bayesian updates should be taught in schools, at least at the most coarse-grained level. Not to let people calculate anything; almost nobody is going to need that in life anyway. But so that some authority (which a school is) tells people they're allowed and supposed to update their beliefs on evidence. That evidence drags belief more in one direction than the other. That 0 and 1 are not probabilities in real life. That being certain of something is a rare thing, that they should embrace being more or less sure. That this is not someone's random worldview, but there is a proper (and rather fundamental) mathematical formalism behind it, it's just impossible to apply it fully in real life, so we have to approximate it.
…when people are able to get treatment.
Porsche unveils CarPlay-compatible radios for its classic cars
They (almost certainly) want Instagram to be entirely a "social platform," not something to just passively consume as an outsider.
Amazon ships in 1-2 days, while at least from Europe Alibaba/AliExpress seem to be in the 14-60 days timeframe, and I imagine returns would be more hassle.
"As I’ve argued for years, we should prefer the problems of a system where elected majorities can fulfill the promises that got them elected to one where elected majorities cannot deliver on the promises that the American people voted for."

Does that include building the wall, privatizing social security, eliminating the income tax, or implementing school choice? When you live in a country where one side just wants to undo the policies of the other, there's a deeper problem.

Naval Ravikant said on Joe Rogan 1309, and I'm paraphrasing, if you want to build a good system, give it to your enemy for 10 years.

We can't build because the idea of "we" needs to be reevaluated.
One problem is that states-as-laboratories are not closed-loop systems. We have free trade and freedom of movement across state borders.

If state A starts using its own tax revenue to house the homeless population, nothing stops states B through Z from then deciding to bus their homeless populations to state A. The other states then don’t have to pay for homeless services, and suddenly state A has a far larger homeless population to house (while its tax revenue hasn’t increased at all).
I take this approach on all operating systems now; I think I learned it from my dad when upgrading windows 95 to 98. A fresh install has less variability. Sure it takes a little more time to reinstall, but it’s an up front investment in not having complex research tasks later when things are weird.
VMs feel a bit heavy, even if they are fast. If i want to wrap multiple parts of a program I could end up spawning a dozen VMs...
Very relevant to another article on HN today, "Why we can't build":

"The institutions through which Americans build have become biased against action rather than toward it. They’ve become, in political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s term, “vetocracies,” in which too many actors have veto rights over what gets built. That’s true in the federal government. It’s true in state and local governments. It’s even true in the private sector."
My wife’s HP laptop has a spring loaded full sized jack that pops out. It adds no thickness and the laptop cost $300, there’s no ethernet jack on the Mac not because they can’t but they don’t want one.
Nobody contests that.

The negative outlook instead seems to be that since 2010, Facebook (the product, not the engineering team) has delivered little value to society.

And at this point, seems to have ossified into a form that lacks the agility and will to make major shifts.

Their current emphasis on purchasing other companies for their product pipelines, to drive business to their advertising, seems more akin to pharma majors or IBM than anything in the startup world.
This sounded wrong to me so I googled and according to the first source I found, the layoff and discharge rate is 1.3% in the private sector, and 0.4% across federal, state, and local government.

The data come from Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://freebeacon.com/issues/workers-private-sector-3-times...
Dude, you're busted!

https://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/02/10/deli.dude.arrest/
I remember it often on the nightly news as well.
The WHO denied human-to-human transmission even after Taiwan told them about it, and they dug their heels on calling the outbreak a pandemic for weeks.

I think it depends how youtube draws the line. If they’re removing stuff like “use colloidial silver” or “no need to wash your hands” then sure. But the WHO is not gospel.
Very surprising result. I wouldn’t have bet that this is what would have happened.

But anyone working on language perf should take note even though it’s just one result from one team and one application. Of course they probably used C++ in a not great way and probably use Go in a better way. But maybe that is caused by something in Go that encourages good behavior or at least encourages the kind of behavior that Go optimizes for.

So, even if this result doesn’t mean that C++ devs should switch to Go to get more speed, it’s a result that is worth pondering at least a bit, particularly if you like thinking about what it is that makes languages fast or slow.
There’s two CEOs below him. Andy Jassy for AWS and Jeff Wilkie for Amazon Retail.
> Then Amazon shouldn’t mix being a first party marketplace with being a third party marketplace.

If this bothers people, they should stop using Amazon. Problem solved.
Hospitals and their staff aren't the specific group that the system is designed to transfer wealth into. The health insurance industry is. https://naic.org/documents/topic_insurance_industry_snapshot...
Controversy seems to be a euphemism for "wrong" political views though. I'd be more sympathetic if they had a blanket "only creative professionals" policy.
Hospitals aren't the entire healthcare sector. There's pharmacies, the entire biotech industry, pharmaceuticals, scanner manufacturers, the entire health insurance industry etc.

If doctors are so generous, why do they lobby congress to keep the number of residency slots artificially constrained?
Or there's a systematic inflation of the cost of delivering healthcare?
I'm not sure why you'd expect me to respond to (let alone defend) an argument that nobody is making. Clearly things will not continue exactly as they have been for two years. If the same protective needs exist 2 years from now, the courts will have adapted. The churches, for whatever it's worth to you, already have.

Regarding the courts: Ken White is a good source for what's actually happening.
I worked for a small health products reseller around 2008 that had stores on Amazon, Yahoo (when that was a thing) and other marketplaces. It was well-known that any exclusive distribution deals between the health products reseller and manufacturers had a very short life: if the product was profitable Amazon would go around the reseller, negotiate a better deal, and sell it themselves.

Fast forward to today, and companies that are direct competitors with Amazon (like Netflix) are completely committed to AWS. Amazon is watching, learning, and evolving from every piece of data they can get their hands on. What better way to learn about your business model than to watch them being tested and deployed on their infrastructure?

I'm not specifically pro or anti Amazon...but I find it surprising the C-suite of most organizations seems content to think of AWS as a separate business un-related to the business that is actively trying to corner the market they are competing in.
> I object to the logo because it looks like it's drawn by a five-year-old

And why should that affect your decision to use or not use Raku? Isn't that ageism in its purest form? :-)
Exactly. But it was already not showing you the weather before you said anything. The query stymies shallow parses NLP assistants do, but isn't one you would actually give in real life.
Bert-as-a-service: Mapping a sentence to a fixed-length vector using BERT
Are you using KVM, and are you using GPU passthrough?

Those two things together are what's able to provide close-to-native performance.
Things to consider before starting a blogging career
Indeed. Samsung phones (I have the S7) have an "Ultra power saving mode" which enables a bunch of power saving features including throttling, reducing display resolution / brightness. But the thing that makes the biggest difference is disabling background data.

I once got 4 days of usage at a festival in this mode. And I was using it to keep in touch with people and as a camera (I probably took ~150 photos). The trick was to use it as little as possible, and keep in airplane mode unless I was specifically expecting a message (I would periodically take it out of airplane mode to check for messages).
At various points in interviews and articles he used Diamond Princess, South Korea, Germany, Iceland as strong evidence of miniscule fatality rates, in every single case selectively ignoring that deaths lag symptoms which was already well known at the time. All of them had their death rates double or more after he used them, and it was easily predictable based on recent exponential growth and death lag.

In his stat article he was saying it is conceivable if we didn't know about it we wouldn't have been able to even detect it in the death numbers after it ran its course (he has since walked that back).

Even the other day after his serology preprint he was saying it doesn't seem to have a higher chance of killing you than seasonal flu for each person infected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPqmLoZA4s&t=1h9m50s

And he claims the WHO said 3.4% of people who get infected would die:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPqmLoZA4s&t=12m54s

But they actually said that was the case fatality rate at the time.
Their actual quote was:

> Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died
You're off by a factor of 100. Austin's GDP is ~$150 billion.
Karma Will Layoff Most Workers and Some Recent Prototypes Have Been Fake
Even with worst-case scenario of bias, this is still extremely good news. My worry was always with super spreaders who refuse to isolate but the data is suggesting that those spreaders will still soon achieve herd immunity among themselves. As long as the rest of the society behaves we will still hit zero cases relatively quickly.

(which wasn't always clear to me before since I initially predicted that this will take years to work out)
> Having the source code available allows pentesters and auditors to use compiler-based instrumentation for fuzzing, which is more efficient than binary fuzzing.

I will concede that is pretty valid point. My argument is basically that there is the false sense of open source code being "more secure" because of an assumption that "the community" is checking it thoroughly. Most people will just grab it off of github and run it, without giving it a second thought at all. Generally speaking you don't get high quality full code audits for free, pentesters and auditors generally like to get paid and aren't out there testing github code-bases out of the goodness of their heart.
So you're saying people shouldn't listen to the music you've composed until 10 years after you release it. Good idea, I was going to ask for your soundcloud link, but now I'm thinking I won't bother until 10 years from now when you've proven that you're good enough to grace these ears!
Dell released an app[1] that allows for this, which supports both Android and iPhone. While in theory it's intended for use on Dells, there are workarounds[2] to get past that check and install it on any Windows computer.

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-mobile-connect/ab/dell-...

[2] https://hothardware.com/news/dell-mobile-connect-installatio...
Public Health Agency of Sweden: SEIR Model of Stockholm
The number of deaths may be off but that is likely to be dwarfed by the much higher number of total cases that haven't been confirmed. Between this study, the LA study, and the Santa Clara study there could be 10-80x as many cases. That is more significant that the death count being off by a couple percent when it comes to determining the fatality rate.
But that is what the thread was talking about, right?

Would be nice to see studies. My intuition is that it is weak. But my intuition doesn't count for much here.
Paige adds $5M from Goldman Sachs to double down on AI-based cancer therapies
It's not about "developer convenience". It's about "developers are expensive".

I can build an application in electron 4-10x faster (at least) versus building the same application in C. If I'm costing a company $100-200 per hour, would they rather pay me for 4 months (500 hours and $50,000-100,000) or would they rather pay me for 1-2 years (2-4k hours) at a cost of $200,000 - $800,000?

What about when we multiply that by a team of 5-10 people? Don't forget that time to market is often incredibly important. Tell them 2 years and 8 million or 4 months at 1 million and what will they say?
Buy Amazon. It’s seeing Black Friday traffic everyday and AWS can’t be feeling better then ever during this period
All organizations are political organizations. However, with regards to COVID, I consider WHO's advice to be mainly aimed at preventing COVID and trust them more than the USG on these issues.
Perhaps a worthwhile goal for the Federal government would be to ensure a _positive right_ to be able to move freely within Member States.

A basic income is an underrated way of providing for this.
This is simply a continuation of the trend of making Instagram work like Facebook's main product. Of course there's no reasonable justification for it that favors consumers.
(I'm talking about Google Docs.)
Neither does the US. Taiwan is only recognised by IIRC 12 natinos, mostly small island states. This has become another weird internet talking point as international recognition pretty much unanmiously switched to the PRC in the 1970s.
True. C# and Java constantly beat Swift on speed.
> So if they make the wrong decisions and spread misinformation or fail to censor misinformation, can I sue them?

IANAL but unless someone is knowingly spreading false information as true (i.e. fraud), the answer is no. They probably don't even carry the burden of having to reasonably vet information first.

> Why do they get the power but none of the responsibility?

Because it is your privilege to use YouTube, not your right.
DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode
The presupposes that it was possible to exist as an aristocrat in that society and not be structurally abusive, which is not at all obvious.
A handful of peabrained astroturf protestors does not equal "civil unrest and riots". Also nobody is arguing for "lockdown until we have a vaccine", that is a strawman. The strategy has always been to buy time for testing capacity to get high enough to support less restrictive mitigation efforts. Along the way we will likely pick up additional things like antibody testing to identify the immunized and treatment options that work (clinical trials still in progress).
The death rate of those requiring ventilation in NYC is closer to 88% https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184
I'm using VMware, I'm not sure if that uses KVM. It should have GPU passthrough though, yes.
The AMA has actually been asking to increase the number of residency slots:

https://www.ama-assn.org/education/gme-funding/ama-seeks-mor...
> A favourite trick in the UK is for scammers to stay on the line when you hang up, and play simulated noises for a dial tone and connection, then pretend to be your bank when you call the number on your card.

Sure, but that only works for landlines. Is this still a common thing in the UK?
I think an analogy is trying to get a complicated IAM permissions setup just right, where you have some resource policies with NotPrincipal, some usage policies with NotResource/NotAction, etc. It becomes really hard to think about and you often rely on assumptions about the shape/structure of IAM principals.

Or, you can slap a Service Control Policy on the whole account and then boom, nobody can do Whichever Bad Thing that you're worried about Today.

The former approach requires me to reload the entire graph of dependencies and assumptions into my head whenever I want to make a change or ask my mental model of it a question. The latter approach allows nearly-reflexive answers.
> If Amazon had great customer service, there wouldn't be a large volume of people complaining.

Volume of complainers is an absolute number. Customer service can only reduce the proportion of complainers. If you have 50 complainers on 100 customers, bad customer service. If you have 50 complainers on 1,000,000 customers, good customer service.

You can conclude nearly nothing based on the absolute number of complainers in isolation.
>It's worth noting that Geekbench is a pure microbenchmark. The iPhone will not sustain performance as long as the others. The point is that Apple could solve this when moving to bigger devices.

Is that inherent to the architecture or is this a self-imposed limitation by Apple since it has to sip power and run without any active cooling?

Also, the A-series chips seem to fall down in comparison against the Intel Macs on multi-core performance which seems like it would matter for anyone who needs a desktop.
Aren't icons already typically SVG?
I was defending Facebook for removing anti-quarantine events. There's a difference between mere opinions versus actions that directly risk the public health of non-participants and I think Facebook is nailing it.

However, Google has gotten it wrong:

1. As others have said, WHO has not earned this trust to date and is also a political organization, not one that is independent.

2. There were other options available, such as demonetization. Stopping people from profiting over putting out information that could hurt people seems more legit to me. They also could have used disclaimers, like the article mentions Facebook is doing for similar content.

3. Another option available to them? Limit the promotion of these videos through recommendations. I get why Google wouldn't want to actively be promoting videos that give terrible misinformation, so they can decide not to promote while still allowing the video to be posted. This is their normal policy for content that is considered "harmful misinformation." (Which was strengthened last year.) Why not use existing policy?

Edit: One example Google could give of precedent is that they removed videos of people encouraging and participating in the Tide Pod Challenge: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/17/16902990/youtube-tide-pod...

However, I'd actually be fine with them removing video of people drinking bleach to combat coronavirus. And maybe even just encouraging others to do so. But taking vitamin C? (An actual example in the article.)
My point is coronavirus will still be here in six months or two years.

So if we agree that less restrictive measures will be in place in the future, I would ask why such measures aren't also sufficient today?

I would argue that, given that this lockdown must end before we eliminate the virus, we should begin adapting and testing less restrictive measures as quickly as possible.
> Core i7 8086k

TIL of this commemorative naming. Sole comment I could find on HN 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17409849
"all the places in the article where they might be implying..." seems kinda over the top.

I think a better thing to do would be to refactor the disclaimer and put it at the top/start of the article.
> Being summer, the virus will not be that contagious.

I think that is still scientifically debatable, good overview: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2239380-will-the-spread...

Certainly it is still transmissible in hot countries.
Indeed. Republicans have spent decades openly talking about eroding the federal government to the point where they could "drown it in a bathtub". The situation we find ourselves in now is the end result.
I believe, at least in New York, people are being counted as covid-19 deaths if they were in contact with someone who was diagnosed. They can count as a covid-19 death without ever being tested for it.
> Can anyone elaborate why exactly allowing demonstrably harmful and malicious lies [...]

"Contradicting WHO" is not the same as "demonstrably harmful and malicious lies"
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957573.
> AMZ is just Ali Baba for people who can't wait for the ship.

So it's Ali Baba for... approximately every American?
The thing is most people don’t use Macs or even personal computers for that matter anymore. It’s never been about a massive appeal product, it’s about meeting people’s needs. I think Apple remembers the good old days when they got rid of the CD ROM and everyone went from doubting it to patting them on the back and saying what a good job they did calling the trend.

Even in 2020, a professional computer is not really professional IMO if it does not have an ethernet jack. Even my wife’s $300 cheapo HP laptop has a drop-down ethernet jack, it adds no thickness. There is no technical or form limiting reason not to have an ethernet jack.
>Seattle's mass transportation system has no impact on Miami's

This is only true if you look at it in the absolute shallowest way. Seattle's increased output due to its subway system helps the entire country.

95% (to pull a number out of my rear end) of the use of interstates in a city are for private vehicles belonging to city residents. I-5 in Seattle doesn't "help" Miami either.
That only demonstrated that poor usage of the language can make C++ slow.
Even with door to door knocking, you're going to introduce a bias -- toward people who are around to answer the door, which would tend to undersample essential workers.
> driven by demand for profits from shareholders

All corporations are driven by demand for profits from shareholders. If you're looking at outsized prices in the health care sector, look elsewhere for the reason.

Here's a helpful article about it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...
> One problem is that states-as-laboratories are not closed-loop systems. We have free trade and freedom of movement across state borders.

Both of these are true in Switzerland, as well as the European Union, and yet they are both body politics that are fully capable of effective decentralization.