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Thanks for a high quality response.

My questions are sparked very much by having departed the field and being able to look back more objectively (I think) than someone who's advocating from the position of needing the funding. I'm very familiar with the granting and budgeting process in astro.

So I actually have the goal of trying to help astronomers really think about how to justify their existence to the taxpayers who support them. Because most arguments are so "soft" that they could justify any $ amount of spending on astronomy, telescopes, students, postdocs, professors. And you can be pretty sure that anyone working in the field feels that the money is worth it -- and how can someone object? Or as in other replies, people will ask, why are you against fundamental science or some BS like that.

If you don't have any hard metrics to point to that some level is needed, what defense do you have against being cut, or on the other hand letting budgets run wild by the people who benefit from the employment?

One really famous professor in the field told me his belief was that "the current goal of astronomy research is to employ astronomers". How do we refute that?

On #1, how do we get a signal from the astronomy community that a certain research finding is of value? (and all the cost that went into it?) Everything is "worth it" from the typical point of view of astronomers. Even the 10th paper of the single halo white dwarf star luminosity function is "worth it"? Really? Or did it only justify the spending on that space telescope with UV capabilities because the money was already spent? I know it's unpleasant to crap on someone's research topic, but is it all worth it?

On #2, how many astronomers, telescope support astronomers, staff scientists, Northrup Grumman engineers, data archive specialists, etc etc etc are really needed? I guess it goes back to whether the science being done is worth it. But the people in those positions will find endless ways to justify their need to exist.

I suppose astronomy does have one big benefit -- you can quantify the popular appeal of it by how many people watch shows about astronomy, swipe right on astronomy Instagram posts, etc. But whether we need another multi-billion $ telescope to keep that going?

I frequently have my doubts, having left.
It's political.

Car makers are the biggest employers in states essential to the GOP's electoral chances so they were deemed essential by the current administration.
Remember when the government told people NOT to wear masks. I proudly and strongly went against the government then.
What information does he have that elected officials around the world do not?

Maybe he’s motivated by profit/success, I doubt he cares that much about the environment.
You forgot the pop-up modal asking you to subscribe. Then you close that to get subjected to the bottom-floating one while you scroll.
Today I'm reminded: An amount of HN-goers larger than one may imagine both have an unusually large hate-boner towards Elon Musk (what, jealousy or something...?) and, also, somehow not surprisingly, have just about no idea of how U.S. law works/is written.

Maybe we should start suggesting a little less leetcode to get a job somewhere that tries to push every bound of the law they seem to think should already be shittier, and a little more time reading over civics, like a dutiful citizen arguably should.
I wouldn't disagree with that. I'm enjoying it all the same.
I think it's easier to understand when you take it to the extremes: Assume nobody has the thing you're testing for. You test 100k people at 99.9% specificity, which means you get 1k positives just because of the rate. Since nobody hass the thing you're testing for, they're all false.

When the thing you're testing for is very rare, it's just as rare that the people who tested positive will actually have it.
I agree that it's probably what they think. My opinion is that flagging is unecessary in that case since people can already downvote and hide distracting comments.

Thanks for your answers.
The point is, you can buy some right now but you don't know if you will be able to buy at the same price next year in May.
To point out the obvious, if you aim to job hunt only within the "100% remote"-compatible employers:

(1) You used to have a much larger share of the talent in your smaller pool.

(2) You will now be the same sized fish in a much larger pond (potentially the whole world). Expect your salary offers to drop and your job search to last much longer unless you are a unique talent.
Newsom's stay-home order wasn't worth a $54B deficit
> Assuming you are in the US, your prior on having been infected in early February is well below 0.1%

I think we won't know that for a while, yeah? That's part of what we could learn from these tests.
Most? I did not study Picasso in Russia, but he is famous enough to be known there.
They can, but it requires additional work on the part of the developers, which in my experience is almost never done. Also, that's kind of what the SPA acronym stands for, no?
You’re incorrect. Figures were doubling in the first few weeks because testing was ramping up. More testing = more infected. And this may be a shock to you but the virus didn’t come to NY or the state in March or Feb. It’s been around since December if not earlier. Govt officials believed those projections and prepped the Javits center and brought in that Navy hospital. Cuomo begged for ventilators that he already had and forced elderly back into their assisted care homes.

What’s happening here has nothing to do with health or safety.
> He spreads conspiracy theories about hospitals overcounting cases for profit

It's not conspiracy, it's misaligned incentives. It _is_ happening. No matter how you die in a hospital, if you test positive for COVID-19, you are often marked as a COVID-related death, which affects how much aid that hospital gets. Given that hospitals are struggling financially as they are being avoided by everyone else, there is a strong incentive to do this.
> going to work in a potentially risky workplace for hours at a time

This part has yet to be proven though. If they're asked to do something unsafe then I think they should have the full weight of the government (OSHA) protecting their rights to a safe workplace and full strength of the legal community to do justice if TSLA fails to uphold their end of the bargain (kinda like asbestos lawsuits)
Quibi's content isn't really comparable to traditional TV serials, especially the bingeable experience as cultivated by Netflix. It's for people to catch an episode on daily subway/car commutes. Similarly, podcast listening has reportedly gone down during quarantine: https://wwd.com/business-news/media/coronavirus-media-trends...
That's definitely the one you want as it has some hardware fixes based on learning from the Braveheart version. It's just vanilla PinePhone hardware with the UBPorts logo on the enclosure and should be shipping later this month.
It's worth remembering there's an engineering-approach to undoing aging damage, and a foundation[0] dedicated to advancing this approach.

[0]: https://www.sens.org/
Disclosure: I work for Amazon on cloud infrastructure

They're still in the works! Stay tuned, and thank you for your patience.
There are over a million jobs in Alameda County and what Tesla is doing here stands a high likelihood of causing an outbreak that detains the other 99% of us for longer than need have been, so that he can meet his looming performance targets and get paid $800 million.
Driving is only down about a third from pre-pandemic levels.

But more broadly, we can't centrally plan which things people do or don't need over the long term. It just isn't an effective economic strategy.
>* the age of the factory workers, and the flu-like levels of CFR for young to medium aged workers

Factory worker catches Coronavirus, shows no symptoms, passes it to their family, their elderly parent dies. Given that these factories employ thousands of people, it's actually not improbably that someone directly related to a Tesla employee dies of coronavirus after this re-opening. Whether it's due to the factory re-opening we'll never know, but I'm sure some lawyers can make a damn good stab at finding out.
I also feel a lot of the ‘missing out on the great party in 3,000 years’ effect. I want to see what happens when we travel the stars, for example. But I won’t be around to miss out, so potentially I should feel nothing more than what I feel for not being around to see the dinosaurs.

I like your second analogy and I agree with it. Imagine yourself as a micro thread. You’ve terminated, now there’s room for another micro thread.

But it’s hard not to fetishize our own consciousness I am of course, the center of my own universe.

But if we can keep the same processes longer without degradation and upgrade the hardware to support more of them, then maybe we should?
I'm really surprised they don't use more CDN for this. Anyone know the reason why it isn't served by something like cloudflare?
don't forget his tweet about children being "essentially immune"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240758710646878208
Practice can change tomorrow.
ICE manufacturers have roughly the same rules globally.

Every new car, tesla or otherwise is killing the environment. Some more than others but the impact of creating new vehicles far exceeds that of alternative forms of transport.
It’s not a false dichotomy — it’s pointing out a differing standard in conduct based on race, which is racism.

It’s also pointing out that the fundamental choice in what’s acceptable or not is dumb: someone who made a mistake while young and genuinely has tried to build a better life should be welcomed into society, while criminals who continue to promote a criminal and violent lifestyle should not be.

It’s also mocking that people who talk about “social justice” are often deeply racist and unforgiving people — which perhaps could be fairly criticized for tone, but is again not a false dichotomy.
Exactly. And if they’re using a strong password already than you haven’t gained anything.

The dictionary attack on the client created hash and the attack on the server hash of the plaintext take the same effort.
What do you think people will do if they lose their source of income and healthcare? TSLA isnt going to buy them groceries or medical insurance if bankrupt.

In many places food banks are already strained.

You're trivializing what happens when an economy en masse is unable to produce goods.
"Typically" might be correct. Our nation's Covid-19 unemployment response is not typical.

All of my employees have been given the option to work, or be furloughed. Their decision. Two have chosen to stay home for their own personal reasons. They are on state unemployement and also collecting that weekly check from the fed. It's up to the fed when they stop doing that, but these people know we will work with them if/when that goes away.

Don't give Elon the benefit of the doubt for most things, but I think he's right on.
And I got downvoted to -4 for suggesting it, lol. I’m in exactly the same boat, diagnosed and treated at 34 too. Glad medication is working for you, as much as it does. It’s not perfect.
My original point is that market value cannot be driven entirely by cost of production. This is born out by items that are sold well above production cost, and things that cannot be sold because their high production cost is above what the market will bare. The implication being that saying “bitcoin is worth $X because we spent $X to mine it” is a nonsense statement.

What’s interesting is that you reinforced my point at the very end. Baseball cards are a fantastic example of a product that’s sold in a way that’s completely disassociated from the cost of production.
> Perhaps Tesla can reopen safely - if Amazon can run warehouses why shouldn’t they be able to manufacture cars?

I think it more has to do with the necessity of the service versus the risk undertaken. I don't think anyone is suggesting that a grocery store worker is at less risk than a Tesla factory worker - the suggestion is that perhaps people need the grocery store more than they need a new Model 3.
Ask HN: What one app can I use to manage all the IoT devices in my home?
I have a Ring doorbell, Ring alarm, smart blinds from Tilt, Nest thermostat, Alexa, August lock and etc.

All of them use separate apps and don't work with each other. Not all of them have integration with Alexa either and I find Alexa app super difficult to use.

Is there any app I can use to manage all of these devices? And write my own integrations when needed?
The audit for March 2020 is here: https://www.centre.io/pdfs/attestation/grant-thornton_circle...
The price quoted on exchanges may or may not be influenced by Tether. However, the Bitcoin protocol itself and the monetary properties this protocol possesses are unaffected by the presence of Tether.

In other words: yes, we all understand the issues with Tether. I’m still hodling. You do you.
What species? What is their range? Do they migrate?
I agree with all of your points, really. Tesla very well may be able to provide a relatively safe environment.

> This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach.

The problem is here, I think.

Let's say I never drink poison. I have no data supporting that poison does any harm at all, therefor my policy of not drinking poison is not evidence-driven.

If lock-in is successful it may very well look like it was unnecessary.
We are speculating here now. I though this discussion was about the status quo; not what we imagine soon to be.

Even if the bandwidth bottleneck gets solved in the future ... scenes from movie sets usually are big enough so transformations are stored as double precision matrices to avoid objects starting to jitter when they are far away from the origin.

Have you checked double precision GFLOPs on you favorite GPUs lately? And then compared those and their prices to some Ryzen 3970X CPU specs and their prices?
> Road workers or bridge builders are not listed at all.

If you scroll past the 1:1 comparisons and hit expand all, there's a much bigger list of occupations, many of which would fall under the "people building infrastructure" umbrella.

Looking at those jobs it seems like it leans a bit right, but overall is fairly balanced.
He's right...

The employees are still be culpable for their own actions since economic forces do not constitute "duress."

However, it is extremely unlikely that local prosecutors would pursue charges against the employees. Rather, if they were to pursue this case, the prosecutors would likely just grant them immunity to testify against the boss that forced them to break the law or lose their jobs.
There are absolutely extreme, polar responses, reactions, and beliefs about COVID. The truth is somewhere in between.
C5a instances are coming, and I think that you'll still be pleased with the price/performance of M6g instances for a wide variety of applications. But if your app works better on AMD, or on Intel, we want to give you a broad selection so you can achieve the best result given your specific needs. Cloud makes it easy to switch.
The focusing of wealth and power and mob insanity on ordinary people like this is one of the most frightening things about today's society, and it would sure feel like catharsis if a billionaire instigator or two or three got their comeuppance. I dunno, maybe that's what we're all being goaded towards demanding?
> Then what do you suggest?

Waiting until we execute a successful testing and tracing program. Even the federal government guidelines for reopening are clear on what the alternate suggestion is, despite what the figurehead of that government seems to want his followers to think.
That paper does not say what you claim it does, it is not showing that GPUs are computing at lower resolution, nor that CUDA is failing to adhere to the IEEE 754 standard.

In at least two cases, it says the opposite of what you just claimed:

FMA on the GPU was a way to achieve higher float precision than you could with CPU math, in 2011 when the paper was written. That is changing now with CPU adoption of fma, but that doesn't change the claims of the paper.

The GPU's strict adherence to IEEE 754 is mentioned multiple times.

"The same inputs will give the same results for individual IEEE 754 operations to a given precision on the
CPU and GPU. As we have explained, there are many
reasons why the same sequence of operations may not be
performed on the CPU and GPU. The GPU has fused
multiply-add while the CPU does not. Parallelizing algorithms may rearrange operations, yielding different
numeric results. The CPU may be computing results in
a precision higher than expected. Finally, many common mathematical functions are not required by the
IEEE 754 standard to be correctly rounded so should
not be expected to yield identical results between implementations."
How does KiCAD compare to Eagle? I find it being built in to Fusion 360 now (since Autodesk bought it) pretty compelling, but I haven't actually used any schematic/PCB CAD software since that I don't think.
From my interaction on Twitter there was full on mobs of people calling Elon typical names plus saying he’s forcing the workers to work and since he’s anti union Tesla should be shut down.

We’re dealing with peak information warfare here. Mobs of people echoing what their media sources project.
A state thing surely.
Or maybe it succeeded in spite of the name, color, and small controllers and would've been even more successful if the Americans got their way. I guess we'll never know.
Title should say Casualties instead of Causalities.
Securing an Asp.net Core Razor Pages App with OAuth
I would assume that this increases legal liability in a pretty severe way. It’s still unclear what kind of liability employers might face if employees get sick on the job, but surely opening open in direct defiance to a county order makes the situation much, much worse.
There was the papilio duo too which had the Spartan 6 LX9 FPGA with an ATmega32U4 on the bottom. Not sure if they are for sale anymore though. I backed the kickstarter (and work with a company which made some of the wings for them) but I never really got into using them. I still have mine around and plan on using it for some project in the future though.

http://papilio.cc/index.php?n=Papilio.PapilioDUOHardwareGuid...

edit: yep...still for sale http://store.gadgetfactory.net/fpga/
To expand on that, I don't disagree that it could be happening in some cases. But I think it is very misleading to use it as a way to say that COVID is not as bad as we say. It is clear by the increase in deaths year-over-year that the death counts we are getting are roughly in line with what is being reported. Maybe "conspiracy theory" is a bit strong, but I absolutely think it is an invalid reason for downplaying the virus given that we can clearly see many more people are dying than last year in the same time period.
Good work continuing to make Hackernews a complete elohtihs.
Mailing Lists.

Everyone here seems to be conflating good written communication with documentation, but good written communication has happened via a mailing list for decades. Mailing lists provide the many to many interface of a meeting or IRC but unlike those they happen asynchronously, handle many topics, many users and are searchable. Async especially is the key because it allows responses to be informed and well thought out.

This is a proven model in our industry especially, for decades it's been the primary communication medium for large international OSS projects built by teams of people that never met face to face. Imagine where linux would be if Linus was spending his time waking up at 3AM for a face to face with the team in New Zealand and updating wiki articles.
> Carmakers are also defined as a COVID19 critical industry, and every other carmaker manufacturing in the United States is either open, or capable of open today. This puts Tesla at a serious disadvantage.

False. Most of car factories are still closed in USA. Source - https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/follow-latest-assembl...
Super excited to see this; applied
The world is definitely a more interesting place with Elon Musk in it!
They are called OSHA-approved state plans. They have to be at least as strict as federal OSHA to be approved. See the OSHA state plan FAQ[1] for more info.

Honestly the OSHA enforcement I've seen has been a joke.
One summer when I worked a landscaping job, my employer was fined $5,000 because I was caught using a weed-eater while wearing shorts. (It was hot out and I didn't care if I got an occasional pebble flung at my shins.) My coworkers had similar stories.

1. https://www.osha.gov/stateplans/faqs
Given your estimate of the "morality of the common man" why would credit card fraud be an extremely small percentage of credit card activity?
I need to stay abreast with the zeitgeist of international libertarian sociopaths who are the main threat to the future of humanity. HN has an abundance of them, so it's faster to just come here.
I have been using this add-on in Chrome and thinks it's nice: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/huula-web-clipper/...
You mean they weren't coordinating?
The question isn't whether they're possible, it's whether the antibody tests are reliable that far from the actual incidence of C19.
The problem with predicting Tether's imminent demise is, as the cliché goes, that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Like most cryptocurrency constructs, Tether is ridiculously shady, but that doesn't mean it's easy to predict when it will go out of business.
Everyone is already being released from jail due to covid so arresting would be nothing but symbolic for 5 minutes.
Robotics Today – A Series of Technical Talks
Elon is just another entitled rich person. He got his wealth from mommy and daddy when they exploited workers during apartheid in South Africa. Now he wants to exploit workers in the middle of a pandemic just a few days after having a baby. The dude has no empathy for his workers or child and just wants money.
What I don't get is why some people believe the government is the one that decide what is the appropriate individual response to the pandemic. It's paradoxical to believe the government knows better than its voters.
In combination with other linting rules to catch reckless conditionals and multiline returns, it is absolutely safe to enforce no semicolons. And the visual noise is, at least to my eyes, a significant impact.
It's basically like gold with extra features, such as being cheaper and faster to move than physical gold and also it requires much less physical security (which is expensive). You can't encrypt a bar of gold.

The value of gold, bitcoin, land, etc is simply there is a stable amount of it. The price may jump wildly due to speculation but it's more likely to go up than down over the long term just because the amount of fiat in circulation is constantly increasing.
Elon Musk hopes to connect a device to a human brain within the next year
Hospitals are not the arbiters of what gets marked as a COVID-related death. The local health agencies make that determination using information provided by the hospitals for each fatality.

Thus for example, if you test postive for COVID19, but die from massive blood loss from the car accident that brought you to the hospital in the first place, you are recorded as dying from blood loss, not COVID19. If you have stage 4 cancer and a few weeks to live, and also have COVID19, and you die in a few weeks, you are recorded as dying from cancer, not COVID19.
Or lack of sleep, parental panic, etc
It could be philosophical
This is the Index referred to by Seanan McGuire's delightful fantasy serials, Indexing and Indexing: Reflections.

http://seananmcguire.com/indexing.php
How does my example not apply to the lockdown?