skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I was younger, I would bullshit on software interviews with great success. I say "bullshit" because I would talk with a high degree of "confidence" about topics and technologies that I had barely read about or had experience with.

"Scaling a service to millions of requests per second? Sure, you will need X, Y, and Z."

Now, on the other side of the table, I am quick to spot the bullshit.

Also, I realize how criminal those interviews were back then. I was answering architect level questions asked by a senior engineer when applying for a junior level position.
The hardware should be solid as of the CE release (Braveheart was essentially the Beta release), it's the software that's a work-in-progress since there really hasn't been a widely used (open) Linux handset until now.

It sounds like the most important issues (i.e. battery life/suspend, camera support etc.) is getting resolved fairly quickly while sanding down the rough edges on the UI will probably take time. So it's usable, just not rock solid or feature complete from a software standpoint.
Huh?

Most people ignore the speed limit, per their individual judgment. Does limits aren't magical safe driving speeds for all vehicles and weather conditions.
Elon Musk is incredibly stupid, and for the good of Tesla the board should kick him out.

Tesla and Alameda County agreed to a plan to re-open on May 18th.

Elon Musk should have stuck with that plan. Now he has increased the odds of his employees catching a deadly virus, getting the factory shutdown for longer, all while putting the company at increased legal risk.
That ranking's not terribly informative. A lot of the countries heading it up are smaller ones since most countries are drawing from the same global pool of testing consumables, meaning that there's not much relationship between the difficulty of carrying out a particular number of tests and the size of the country, it's total tests done which doesn't tell you much about current testing rate, and large developed Western countries are close enough in testing rates that an actual ranking based on them probably wouldn't be very stable anyway.
Isn't this the same use case as YouTube provides for on mobile devices? And YouTube is 'free'.

Or just spend that short amount of time on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Also 'free'.

Quite the difficult road for a product to demand people to spend their time on their platform instead, in addition to charging a subscription fee for it.
Yeah, I understand that they are mirror images of one another and their rotation ends up being complimentary

But if someone is at a very introductory level and doesn't know anything about rotational symmetry, the point that the terminal ends are rotating opposite directions may be confusing.

The transparency of the render models might lead to someone hearing that point about opposing rotations, stare at those rotating terminal ends, and then have something like the rotating mask illusion (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sKa0eaKsdA0) cause them to see that the terminal ends are visually rotating in opposite directions, rather than it being just in relative terms. I was able to do this on purpose with the faster-rotating negative terminal, and its rotation is genuinely kind of ambiguous at the scale I watched the video.

These aren't criticisms of the method, just a couple of points about the video that might pose some conflict with someone who is at a very introductory level.

I do like the idea generally. It's always fun to see new analogies for stuff.
> A Tesla factory is a much safer place to be than a Home Depot or a Costco.

It's not based on safety, it's based on need. People need a way to buy food, so stores like Costco that sell food are still open, even though it puts people at risk.

By contrast, we do not need to be producing new cars right now, so putting people at risk in order to build them is unnecessary.
No, I don't have access to Tesla's cost information. Im sure this is costing them 10s to 100s of millions in lost revenue and plenty paying for stuff that is down but still costs money to maintain.

It's not clear to me how to balance those costs against the decisions made by public health officials who are experts. I'm certainly not a "even one death is unacceptable" believer, nor do I think we should unnecessarily expose large numbers of people to risk (especially in the case of highly infectious diseases).

Assuming Tesla made wise decisions, I'm sure only a small number of people more would provably get sick due to exposure at the factory. But it's not Elon's sole decision.
regarding your last paragraph, I believe it’s not up to the BBC to get performing rights to each artist, they would pay a fixed fee to PRS and others. Registered or recorded airplay and performance gets attributed to artists and they (or the holders of their publishing) get their performance royalties. Whatever is left over is then divided out amongst the lower ranking artists in the form of a flat fee. If you’re an artist you can use an agent like PPL [1] to collect on your behalf. The above mess is why if your friends are recording a song , you should get performance credits for playing the triangle; could be worth £50 a year...

https://www.ppluk.com/
There are people in entertainment who were in gangs. Nelson Mandela was also a terrorist who got a second chance. This deeply gets into philosophy and I don't really have a good answer.
I don't think the US government is functioning properly right now, but what about the global lockdown, affecting almost every industry and endorsed by most scientists, leads you to believe that nothing has been proven?
B. but..but Tesla is not merely a car maker, it is a TECH company!
So we DO negotiate with terrorists when it's economic...
yes, but reliable facial recognition alone has huge social implications, never mind all the other potential applications for cognitive automation.
Look at those code names corona!!! This is clearly the source of the virus
Ask HN: What are the best accept cookie logic you've seen so far
This site made really think about each option and how "Accept All" means those two un-checked will be checked for me. But the save button will just give me the current state of the 1 checked, 2 unchecked. https://www.codecentric.de/
Agreed. But a reminder that if tesla leaves it follows a long list of very large companies that have left California in the past few years, Bechtel, Toyota US, Chevron, Carls Jr, Jamba Juice, Numira Bio, Nestle US, Jacobs Engineering etc..
Please don't make the whole internet basically cloudflare. they've banned my VPN endpoint (Hetzner server) and as a result a huge chunk of websites already don't work for me despite me having done nothing wrong. I've heard reports of Tor users being restricted as well.
I'm Elon musk fan too

>what about "duty of care" to his staff?

Its not like Elon harm his staff by opening,

>Also what other laws can he (or anyone else) choose to violate?

In general, every law can be violated, broken, bend. It boil down to the pros vs the cons for you.
LedgerX Omni provides US-regulated Bitcoin options trading. Pretty sure I saw some action in high strikes so go forth and trade.
Instead of using ad-hominem and calling other people ignorant, how about you make your own case?
>electron is simply an excitation of the electric field in QM

I am not a physicist but I think here is your mistake.
The electron is an excitation of the Electron Field. It's matter aka fermions.
The electric field are bosons.
Those are two orthogonal things. You can have one without the other (although the fields are coupled).
I did meet a Taiwanese woman who I thought was a teenager but was actually in her 30s. It could be because I am not asian myself and have difficulty recognising distinctive features of asians, but she said that her friends in Taiwan told her the same all the time.
I completely moved away from spark into snowflake due to this reason. It's failure modes seem to become far more predictable and you learn to become significantly more productive with it even though it's all pure SQL
Perforative shrugging would be shutting down production for a week, just to show the impact, but restarting before any damage was done.

Elon is, by the book, refusing to shrug.
That is not actually the definition of fascism. Fascism isn't "when the government does stuff". One of the defining features of fascism is state-capital cooperation (and indeed corruption).
My comment is an analogy to the lockdown: That we've locked down the populace because a few persons are a danger to some.
I think it's less a matter of opinion and more a question of expectations around the device you're building.

To illustrate, let's say we build the embedded device your way. Six months later, we get a support request from a customer that needs to get the device onto the captive portal at a hotel. The portal is a javascript monstrosity full of CORS failures.

What is your immediate response?

a) Oh, shit, I didn't think of that. I can probably come up with a workaround, but I'll need at least a month, and it'll end up being a huge hack that involves tethering with a phone or laptop (but not via WiFi, since the radio we're using can't do AP and STA modes simultaneously), and the UI will be such a disaster that the customer is immediately going to want to find a better product.

or

b) This is an industrial CNC controller... WTF are you doing on a hotel WiFi network?

If your answer is (a), then your approach is almost certainly the wrong one. If your answer is (b), your approach might be reasonable, but there are still other factors to consider.

It's possible to know everything there is to know about network programming but still not want to debug or re-implement 30 years worth of accumulated cruft around firewalls, MTU sizes, MS-CHAPv2 bugs, malformed packet crashes, anything IPv6, etc. And that's just the table stakes... leaky abstractions mean that sooner or later, everything connected to the internet is going to need to do something higher up the stack that's just barely out of reach for your microcontroller, even one that's beefy enough to run Windows 95. What are you going to do when there's some new web standard where the only implementation is in the Chrome source code as of three months ago?

You'll be able to make it work, but it'll take thousands of person-hours to make it work well. Or you can just "run back to Linux."

Separately, if you're running a company that builds embedded devices, do you want to pay your engineers to fix network stack bugs that were solved in 1999, or do you want to pay them to develop your company's value-add? Weirdflex all you like, it's still (usually) a terrible business decision. I don't think pennypinching on the BOM is a valid justification when things like [1] exist.

[1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/MT7688AN-BIT3-1-Module-p-4011.ht...
We could also look into whether holocaust survivors share a genetic, pyschological, etc predisposition which allows them to live longer than native born israelis. Certainly there must be a will to live/survive but also a genetic/biological aspect which helped them survive starvation, disease, deprivation and thrive afterwards.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-holocaust-survi...
Crazy, I had the exact same symptoms during last week of Feb / first week of Mar.

I was so wiped out that I was taking naps in a conference room at lunch. A friend of mine caught me and was surprised because normally I work through lunch, let alone sleep.

No cough, no fever but just this terribly uncomfortable feeling of congestion in my throat and upper chest. Best thing I can compare it to is postal nasal drip like you said.
> Because often, code compiled with -O3 is slower than code compiled with -O2. Because "more optimizations" do not necessarily mean "faster code" like you seem tobe suggesting.

Indeed, due to patterns of resource use and availability (e.g. the memory wall[0]), compiler optimisations can only solve 1-10% of performance problems a piece of code might have. To paraphrase Mike Acton: The vast majority of your code consists of things the compiler can't reason about.[1]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory#Memory_...

[1]: [Mike Acton, "How to Write Code the Compiler Can Actually Optimize", GDC2015.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=x61H6qEtK08&t...)
Civil disobedience typically involved still getting punished as a matter of protest to change public opinion. If Elon Musk is doing this as civil disobedience, he is using the resources of Tesla and the forced compliance of his workers in order to make a political statement. I don't really see that as better.

Instead, it seems that Musk is doing this just because he thinks he can get away with it, or because he is simply angry with the elected officials of his county. In such a situation, Tesla and Elon Musk should rightfully be punished for their actions.
I appreciate where you are coming from. (1/2)mv^2 very rapidly becomes unforgiving to the frail human frame due to that annoying square!

Many people might look at 60 -> 70 mph and conclude something like a 16% increase in "danger". However, if we set m = 1 then 60 mph gives 1800 thingies and 70 mph gives us 2450 thingies or 36% "extra danger". I live in metric (with a sprinkle of extra units to taste land) hence: "thingies". I set m = 1 which should avoid problems.

Something as simple as speed is not as intuitive as someone might think. We look at the variable (speed) and it is obviously linear and so we think the implications of increasing it must similarly be linear. But it isn't. The energy in a speeding car is proportional to the square of the velocity of the car. This is a horribly simplistic model but the fundamentals are there.

Now virus propagation ... R is the rate of infection. If R < 1 then infections drop over time. If R > 1 then infections rise exponentially. I gather that R = 3 is the norm for SARS-COV-2 without controls. You can play with a spreadsheet for a simple model to scare yourself.

When the term exponential heaves into view then we should quite rightly shit ourselves and do as we are told. We are far away from worrying about 16:36 which is the result of a one off event but an exponential "thing" over time grows rather fast.
I know that I must be missing a great joke here, so can somebody be so kind to translate this post for me?
> The Stanford mathematician Jonathan Luk describes Moschidis’ work as “amazing. … What he’s discovered is a rather general instability mechanism” — one that could apply to other settings, unrelated to AdS, in which matter or energy is cooped up within a physical system that has no escape hatches.

So the I'm not particularly interested in the specific result, but the "rather general instability mechanism" is potentially game changing.

Does any know how general this mechanism is? Could it apply to Navier-Stokes?
His employees have families here, kids in schools, hobbies. He can leave, so can his ball, his employees likely will just get themselves some shiny new netflix/twitter/facebook/google badges and move on
You're right. There are open source replacements for most AWS services, but that's like saying Wine under Linux is the same as Windows. For the most part, it works well enough to run most application but there are some that just don't work. PostgreSQL vs CockroachDB. Both speak PostgreSQL, but once you start using any advanced functionality you're going to run into issues.

If you're building on AWS S3 heavily, you're going to encounter features that might not be there in the "open source" version, things that behave differently, or just don't work as well. So while it's a nice thought to have, it's the same logic behind internet competition in the US for some areas. You can pick Comcast cable or DSL/WISP. They're the same, right?

Nothing prevents a developer from not adopting a technology, but we both know there are usually business decisions driving it. If you're already using S3 or DynamoDB heavily, you're already trapped. It's a cult. You're free to leave any time, but why not stay here with all your friends? If you leave you would have to spend millions in bandwidth moving your terabytes of data, hundreds of developer hours to update code, and knowledge building around new products.

You can always replace something with something else. But sometimes it's just not practical.
There's definitely a great evil to laws which are either selectively or rarely enforced. Eventually they turn cancerous and are abused.

For example, look at the Logan Act and its justification for spying on politicians.
Integrating Spinnaker with Armory (YC W17) ServiceNow
> It is pretty bad for privacy as the whole idea is that the entire transaction history is public and permanent.

Yeah, I get that there aren't a lot of options besides Bitcoin for unbanked transactions, but there are a lot of potential ramifications around the radical publicity inherent in blockchain-based currency.

If whoever held the coins 3 transactions ago ends up getting in big-time hot water, should I expect the feds to try to confiscate them? I would at least be under additional scrutiny in order to determine what association I had with the illegal enterprise, being so close in the chain. Bitcoin tumblers and mixers only do so much to prevent this, especially as people have started discriminating against "tumbled" btc.
That's what I'm thinking.

If they wanted to use Cloudflare, I'm pretty sure they'd jump at the opportunity.
10-4: How to Reopen the Economy by Exploiting the Coronavirus’s Weak Spot
California at the state, county and city levels routinely flouts federal laws that they vehemently oppose. I think many of those decisions make sense and act as a catalyst for change. I also think Tesla's stance makes sense and is a catalyst for change.
Reminds me by contrast of reports of ancient Persia...

> They hold it unlawful to talk of anything which it is unlawful to do. The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie; the next worst, to owe a debt: because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies. (Herodotus I.139)

> From five years of age to twenty-four they are trained to use the bow, to throw the javelin, to ride horseback, and to speak the truth; (Strabo 15:3.18)

Perhaps connected to a Zoroastrianism light/truth/good at war with dark/lies/evil.
So when are we going to get an Outlook calendar widget for Android that shows the whole month?
Read the answers in the link I gave -- they give seemingly solid answers (I am no expert).
It seems like the parent is supporting the ability for the Tesla Alameda factory to operate, and is not questioning the ability of the government to shut it down.
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2019/11/exploring-apache-nifi-1...
Probably one of the most influential companies ever IMO. Tesla needs another decade to totally revolutionize sustainable transportation.
Honest question, why do public officials get to have another week to and more time to review when everybody else has to abide?

They're publicly elected officials, get their salaries paid by taxes, and should deliver, same as anyone else. In the private sector "a little more time to review" can get you fired, why is it any different for the public sector?

A job is a job, get it done on time.
Do you have a good source for differences in overall deaths between this year and last year?
I only support civil disobedience for "human rights issues". That is the only thing really merits the term.

Things appearing as civil disobedience for money issue are virtually always terrible - as soon as "radicalism" or "iconoclastism" becomes a business, it's worst business.

Prohibition was a terrible policy but the people that fueled the defiance of prohibition were mobsters, scum that had a terrible and arguably on-going terrible effect on the country.

Even 1960s drug proponents became awful at the point they became drug dealers.
It's not the right format for sitting at home. It's short 8 minute episodes that come out once a day. It would be perfect for commuting on public transit but nobody is doing that at the moment so they have a problem.

It's a shame because I think they have some surprisingly good content (When the Streetlights go on was surprisingly dark and complex, The Most Dangerous Game was gripping if not predictable). However, it feels strictly less efficient than TikTok because they're never going to have UGC. Most of the content is your standard schlock that directly competes with quick, inane UGC you'd see on TikTok. Who do you think will be able to more sustainably and profitably operate: a company that relies on expensive and complex physical production for their content, or one that gets it for free in essentially limitless quantities with a vast dataset to exquisitely target each user's preferences.

It's not a perfect comparison because TikTok is ad supported and Quibi is a subscription service, but maybe that's the problem: they're not competing with Netflix, they're actually competing with TikTok and Instagram and maybe their product and business model should align with them instead.
You can hate or love Elon, it has no effect on the law. What he’s doing is lawful. Executive orders that deprive natural rights are unconstitutional and thus illegal.

The entire concept of natural rights like the Bill of Rights means they pre-existed the government and society. You can only deprive a person of these rights through some lawful process. Society is still functioning; we’re not in martial law. Yes people should willingly comply but you can’t force them to.
Autotracked Redux for Ember Octane / GlimmerJs Applications
Spotify's account page is completely broken in Firefox
What other mainstream websites only work in Google Chrome?
For that to work you need to get the spread down to workable numbers again, which hasn't happened with the current lock down. It's in the limbo of too harsh to actually use the medical resources but too light to set it on a quickly lowering path with a workable timescale.

If 5-10% has it you can essentially just assume everyone has been in contact within 1 or 2 steps with someone who has it, no need for fancy privacy invading tracing.

Testing is good to catch people early, but if the capacity isn't here 2 months after the Italian outbreak, when will it be?
Well your employer sucks then. It certainly doesn't take my banks days to receive a Swift transfer.
The name 'Youngstown' has some built-in branding too!
I have revoked my donations until they close their pirate library. Sorry but let's call a spade a spade. They admit:

> multiple readers can access a digital book simultaneously

with the only caveat being it is borrowed for two weeks but let's face it, most value of a book comes from its first reading -- and what stops you from "borrowing" it again, anyways.

It's been a gigantic disappointment for me to see them do this and not back but try to placate the authors with weasel words and an opt out.
put him in jail and forget about it?
Not exactly a dinner party movie, but Sleuth (1972 and also the 2007 remake) is a good one.
Or maybe people just geniuinely disagree.
Thanks.

The post isn't really intended to be comprehensive or something. I'm just trying to stumble my forward on developing this parenting blog that has been languishing.

"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." I'm sure this sucks, but I need to see how people react to it and what not to improve on that and work out how best to communicate about parenting topics.
I got wrecked by a cold in February, too -- late February. Got it from my friend. Neither of us ever get sick, and we both got wanged pretty hard. Same basic symptoms. Could have been the flu, could have been COVID. I'm gonna grab a test as soon as I can.

[edit] Make that tomorrow at 1245p. Turns out "as soon as I can" is pretty soon!