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The financial benefit seems pretty clear, conditional on self-driving tech working. The capital cost of the hardware would be amortized. Let’s say a driver costs $10/hour. If the self-driving car is active for 16 hours a day it saves you $58k a year in driver wages. Then over more years that number multiplies. It seems totally realistic for self driving tech to cost five figures per vehicle. With mass production the cost of hardware would go down like it always does. I also think it makes a lot of less driver-time-inefficient routes more viable, like driving someone from the city deep into the suburbs with little chance of a return fare. This grows the addressable market.

There are also ethical, legal, and P.R. disadvantages to exploiting human drivers that seem to be getting more significant over time. Personally I’m not super optimistic about the near-term technical viability of self driving cars but it does seem to make Uber’s prospects look better to investors given some possible paths the future might take.
Obs studio. I record myself while coding anything. I pretend to be a bigshot coding streaming sensation (even if its just for me). Its fun as well as very helpful in so many ways.

1. It helps me stay focus on the task at hand. One recording for each task
2. It lets me practice how to articulate stuffs. Its like blogging but ephemeral (because i wont upload this)
3. It helps me get motivated. Cant let my "thousands" of viewers down
4. It lets me review my blunders so i know how to watch out for them in the future
5. Its fun. I can let off some steam because i can curse all i want, my audience is 18+ and fine with some "sentence enhancers". I am Filipino but i record in English so i get that extra bonus practice.
The chart I posted is bunk, and I apologize. Took me a while, but here's real data:

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-a...

In New York, total deaths from heart-related diseases is up, not down since covid.

I do see some weirdness in other states, but not New York.
Yes viruses are not alive and speaking strictly there are no clades or specieses. But I stopped beeing to strict with terminology like this on HN. Most people are not from this field and don't have broad prior knowledge and so it would just complicate and confuse unnecessarily.
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I don't know why you think we came out so far different from expectations - New York hospitals were overwhelmed, they hadn't shut down in time to prevent a large wave of cases - other locales that have gotten lucky or shut down have avoided feeling that wave so far... Changing course doesn't seem advisable as growth rates haven't subsided into the negative except in small locales.
And if people hoard it and it's out of stock, you can just go outside!
It actually used to be really fast - obviously they are dealing with massive growth performance pains.
If you are not building for the first time experience I do not understand why you would have a problem with initial load of a web app taking seconds. It's like an install just way faster. No one uses facebook only once and so shouldn't care. Android apps are so shit the "slow" webapps are still miles ahead. I do not understand why android google drive app takes 5 seconds to load
After I upgraded to Jekyll 4, stopped using the GitHub pages gem (deploying to Netlify instead), it's been WAY faster for me personally!
Wait what? There's an official Microsoft-sanctioned version of Wine?

Is this obtainable standalone in any form?
Thanks for correcting me, and to magicalist. I apologize. This was difficult to find, but here's the breakdown for causes of death each week:

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-a...

In New York, total deaths from heart-related diseases is up, not down, since covid.

I do see some weirdness in other states, but not New York.
Okay, so you might hold an absolutist position on the acceptable number of deaths, that the acceptable number of deaths is exactly 0.

Assuming that is the case, do you really believe that people don't have the moral right to entertain any amount of deaths for "economic activity"?

If so, this is the least enforceable violation of your version of "human rights", possibly in the history of humanity.
I did not mean to say that unnecessary deaths were the result of capitalism and only capitalism. I only used the "C" word to highlight that those interested in restarting the economy are those who will benefit the most from it. And, those people are not the vulnerable people on the ground making the sacrifices. Under socialism, the people who would benefit and the people making sacrifices would be identical, and that's the fundamental difference there. Sorry to have been unclear.

Regarding 5.25M deaths, I showed my work upthread on that. It's 1.5% of 328.2 million (approximate current US population). This is what the likely result would be if we just "resumed normal activity" and waited for herd immunity, which may or may not come.

> you absolutely cannot argue that people lack the moral right to believe that 1 death for the sake of the economy is acceptable.

Why not? No one has the moral authority to choose to end my life besides me.
Use mind maps. Its quick (much quicker than a wiki) and makes it really easy to reorganise a mess. Freemind/freeplane is good.
My recollection from last time I looked at this was that the point of choosing the 6502 is that it was produced in such quantity that there's still plenty of old stock available. Meaning that trust could be reinforced by having the Americans and Russians go together to a second hand shop, where they buy a vintage machine off the shelf.

To cheat the system would then require you to not only manufacturing a fake machine, but also place it in the shop, and convince your foreign counterpart to buy and trust that particular machine. If they insist on buying several machines from random stores around the country, then it becomes increasingly unlikely that you're going to be able to get away with cheating.
Close Hacker News. Close Reddit. Close Twitter. Close Facebook.
A double-blind study for respiratory infections (before covid-19):

https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
6. Option 4, but just relax about the outcome.

At ardour.org, we offer 3 tiers of subscriptions ($1, $4 and $10 per month) named to target different economic conditions. We also offer a single fixed payment with a suggested but editable cost based on OECD data about the cost of dining out.

We're not trying to maximise revenue, which is perhaps an important difference between us and, oh, Facebook :)
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Fwiw the word you’re looking for is synonym. Homonyms have the same pronunciation but different meanings.
Is it just me or does their icon look like the Death Star?

BTW, their course offering looks very good: https://edu.auroville.org/courses

- Construction & application of Ferrocement

- Production of & construction using CSEB

- Arches, Vaults & Domes - Masonry

I kind of would have expected Yoga and spiritual things, but it appears they are genuinely interested in the technical skills required for hands-on self-sufficiency.
Yeah the fallacy here is the fallacy of grey.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac...

There is also an argument to be made that society spends a lot of resources[1] to keep automobile carnage low as it is. It would stand to reason that society response to something even dangerous would be proportionate.

[1] We have extensive and complicated vehicles laws. We have traffic cops performing surveillance 24/7. We ban dangerous drivers. We require cars have crash protection. We design roads to be as safe as possible. Goes on and on.
You're saying all the right things :) thanks for the awesome level of detail, too! You guys seem like a really cool company. I'll definitely be making good use of this product in the future; thanks for making it and sharing it!
> Atoms exist on extremely tiny scales, just 1 ångström across...

I may be misinterpreting, but it sounds like he's saying all atoms are 1 ångström in diameter.
Did they actually announce that they were going to do autonomous robo-taxis? I always thought their R&D in self-driving was mostly defensive, and that it was random other people assuming they were going to be autonomous. It just seems their core product has always been their marketplace of drivers. Any investments in autonomous tech would have been behind Google anyways.
This is an industry that couldn't anticipate the year 2000 coming to happen.
isn't uber still priced as if they had grown to be a profitable business across all of their growth businesses? I have a hard time understanding the valuation of Uber given any negative indications on any of their businesses.
Yeah, where this gets really interesting is in the integration with the project's build system, CI, and test environments.

I'm envisioning a project with a full automated build and test suite with an on-demand staging environment for each change (the k8s docs project does this, at least it did the last time I chucked a typo PR over the wall).

With proper integration to the editor you could have an extremely slick dev environment instantly available for any casual passerby. Once implemented, this would greatly simplify maintainers' lives as well!
You should edit the title to start with "Ask HN:".

I don't use either of them professionally at the moment. In the past I created a KDE/Qt application that used SQLite for local (workstation) storage. I have written much code for Ruby but I was running a Redmine server with a custom theme and a couple plugins that I wrote. To this day, that server is the only one that I've had compromised ... it takes a lot more understanding of Ruby and Rails version compatibility than I have to keep a system secure.
I did a startup with a co-founder in 1998, before cloud was a thing. We hosted at above.net first, then he.net following above.net's bankruptcy. Both were very good and we never had colo-related problems with either, though he.net was significantly cheaper.

We started with 2 white-box PC's as servers, 2 mirrored RAID1 drives in each. We added a 3rd PC we built ourselves: total nightmare. The motherboard had a bug where, when using both IDE channels, it overwrote the wrong drive. We nearly lost our entire business. Putting both drives on the same IDE channel fixed it, but that's dangerous for RAID1.

A few years in, we needed an upgrade and bought 5 identical SuperMicro 2U servers with hardware RAID1 for around $10K. Those things were beasts: rock solid, fast, and gave us plenty of capacity. We split our services across machines with DNS and the 5 machines were in a local LAN to talk to each other for access to the database server. The machines' serial ports were wired together in a daisy-chain so we could get direct console access to any machine that failed, and we had watchdog cards installed on each so that if one ever locked up, it automagically rebooted itself. When I left in 2005, we were handling 100's of request/s, every page dynamically generated from a search engine or database.

Of course it took effort to set all this up. But the nice thing is, you control and understand _everything_. Some big company doesn't just do things to you, you have no idea what is happening, and they're not talking. And if things do go south, you can very quickly figure out why, because you built it.

The biggest mistake we made was in the first few years, where we used those crappy white-box PCs. Sure, we saved a couple thousand dollars, but we had the money and it was a terrible trade. Night and day difference between those and real servers.
> Why not?

Because it is practically unenforceable, and almost nobody considers 1 death for "economic activity" to be unacceptable, so by extension means that everyone holds an immoral world view, and everyone is violating your supposed natural human law...in which case, of what use is that law?

If everyone is evil, then nobody is evil.
"I don't want to be hurt" was an option that was swept off the table the moment we went into this disaster with a dysfunctional federal government.

Our choices since then have been "economic hardship and misery" or "economic hardship and misery with a spicy side dish of death and suffering". Covid19 has been the leading cause of death in America for a month now [1]. Some time tomorrow, it will have killed a confirmed 80,000 Americans [2] and America has consistently had 1/3rd of the world's critically-ill cases for weeks [ibid]. There is no way we are going to get out of this with less than 100,000 dead.

Amazingly, the same country that had endless investigations into the deaths of two people in Benghazi and went to war over the deaths of 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001 -- subsequently spending $6.4 trillion in war operations [3] -- is finding 100,000 dead to be "pretty good", and the economic cost of mitigating further death to be just a little bit too expensive.

As usual, some of this is explained by political misinformation campaigns that too many people are falling for [4][5][6][7], but still, the same talking points get repeated into forums like this one, even though most Americans would prefer economic pain over a higher death toll for now [8][9][10].

I'm just gobsmacked that the disinformation is taking root so easily, because arguing that can really trivially be reduced to, "I don't think enough people are dying to justify the measures meant to prevent people from dying."

Hopefully states like California that are following more conservative, evidence-based approaches to relaxing restrictions, will relieve some of the tension.

[1]: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/492053-coronavirus-now-lea...

[2]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[3]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/us-spent-6point4-trillion-on...

[4]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-conservat...

[5]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/19/pro-gun...

[6]: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/19/21225195/stay-at-home-protests...

[7]: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/0...

[8]: https://www.newsweek.com/americans-coronavirus-restrictions-...

[9]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/us/politics/coronavirus-r...

[10]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-americans-think-it...
"According to Twitter, they have instead found that numerous accounts belong to government entities, nongovernmental organizations, and journalists. The review was ongoing, the company said, noting that it planned to follow up with the GEC on its findings."

How do they know who actually posts to these Twitter accounts? If I was trying to create a disinformation campaign, it wouldn't be difficult to use IP addresses scattered across different countries and IP banks.

The Chinese government has almost unlimited resources. It wouldn't take much to buy IP banks, phones for verification, and pay people to post.
Previous Vitamin-D/COVID discussion with many informative comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023703
"examine this discrepancy" vs. "it's fake news" - for some the latter just makes more sense.

Active disinformation campaigns work.

Saying SK is open while we're not leads to "let's open America" for that mindset.
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Is that for attendees to all conferences, or are we special here?
For what it's worth, I've been curating research on over-the-counter interventions for Covid-19 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19stack

The research on vitamin D has been discussed extensively there over the last couple months.

This article (and the linked citations) misses a bunch of the most important theorized mechanisms of action, most notably that vitamin D plays a role in regulating blood clotting and having adequate levels may prevent the kind of sudden deaths from stoke we've been seeing in people who seemed to have gotten over the disease with otherwise mild symptoms.
You don't know how big the dog is. ;)

In all seriousness, what would it matter if I shared that space with 1 or 2 additional people?
That's a pretty easy remedy though, no? Just make a basic State Issued ID free of charge.
Remap the Caps lock button to escape.
I'm honestly not sure how to say it. What we do about the pandemic determines whether people live or die.

I'm not at all trying to intimidate the person - I'm just reminding that the stakes here are pretty high and any direction we go (continued lockdown, gradual opening, sudden opening) has an effect on how many people will ultimately die.

Not even to say that human life is that sacred - almost any society if they're honest clearly don't act according to that principle. The parent poster said that government is overreacting to the problem and that he's not met anyone who's scared, and then said fear over early reopening causing a 2nd wave is hyperbolic.

This is a lot of people that are already dead - I'm making a rhetorical argument that its absolutely not hyperbolic to consider the possibility that the cases and deaths could ramp upwards sharply.
I have to say, I would much rather have a quantum chemist leading the US now than someone who managed to bankrupt a casino.
If we can agree that switching costs are low for users, and that the cost of building an autonomous vehicle fleet is very large, then the advantage goes to Google who has both a huge distribution machine (owning Google Maps) and massive amounts of free cash flow to deploy.

They could purchase 100k vehicles in a blink of an eye, outfit them with AI, deploy in NYC Chicago Atlanta Austin LA and bam users will convert. They don't need to cover the globe, just the absolute most lucrative cities (which Uber relies on to subsidize smaller cities).

Additionally, I am not convinced the transition from largest taxi service to AV will be smooth sailing from a personnel perspective. Not having to manage the politics of a deeply embedded global supply chain is one of Tesla's advantages relative to big auto. At some point, drivers may say F* this in dealing with Uber which Google avoids from the get go.
Off the top of my head: IRC, Matrix, SILC, Mattermost, Zulip, Rocket.Chat, XMPP
Ditto. My solution so far has been to simply ignore the problem of modelling interesting objects--the only objects are components of the environment made of simple geometric shapes, and the game challenges are all related to navigation. I've been fiddling off-and-on with procedurally generating some 4D creatures for a sequel game (e.g., by using a genetic algorithm to evolve 4D shapes that can walk), but that's a long way off.
Goalposts can be moved - in fact, hasn't that happened before? Next claim will be 150k, then 300k. It will never be enough to actually do anything until/unless Prince Prospero or his castle gets sick.
I don't know Rust, but i think with this library i could have a chance to learn Rust by writing a production graphql server.
for how much time? you see lab result and real life results are different. Love it or hate it currently there is only one company that can deal with millions of users per seconds and that's Google. No one else does it, not Amazon, not Facebook including their whatsapp (a small math from my above calculation says the number goes from ~5k to ~50k if you say whatsapp has 4 billion daily users, which I doubt it has), not Microsoft.

Each time football Cup is active Twitter goes down. Same for plenty of big names when they launch a hyped service (Blizzard for example is another one). Scaling up from lab to real life dealing 24/7 with those millions/second is an entire different beast.
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Rather anti-climactic

> look, you're not just empty space
> just kidding! yeah you are
Something that helps me is drawing/writing my own summary of what I just read or what a process is. For example: OAuth2 can be pretty confusing at first, but reading about the flow and drawing your own diagram helps me a lot to learn, as opposed to just reading. It also makes a nice reference for later, tailored to what I need most.
What first came to mind for me is running. It’s very difficult for me to sit still for long periods of time, and so I end up switching tasks often. If I do a good run, I can stay still and focused for longer.

I believe longer contiguous periods of time developing are very helpful.
It's really concerning that theres essentially a giant liability, Elon's personal debt, that doesnt show up on the balance sheet. As the article discusses, a margin call would be devastating, and hopefully any irresponsible decisions in his personal lifestyle choices don't spill over to put Tesla or SpaceX at risk. Especially considering how powerful a force they've been in driving consumer changes in vehicles and in developing the commercial space market.
New York hospitals weren't happy by any means, but their peak load was an order of magnitude less than what local leaders said they were preparing for.
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It doesn't take hoarding, although that doesn't help. There are precious few products that can stay on the shelves when everyone decides they need some at once.

At northern latitudes, there isn't an available amount of sunlight, such that dark-skinned people can synthesize a healthy amount of vitamin D. Indeed, this is probably why light skin is selected for at those latitudes.

As a silver lining, I hope this crisis will provoke awareness of that fact. In most parts of the US, people with dark skin should definitely be taking supplemental Vitamin D. Really everyone should, unless they're a light-skinned sun-worshipper living in the Sun Belt.
> Voter fraud has never been seen in any meaningful level in the US

It's also a very difficult thing to track if there's almost no verification happening at the ballot box.

It often gets tossed around that there's this very low level of fraud right now. The truth is we just don't actually know and have no meaningful way of finding out.
I want to take notes everyday, but I keep getting bogged down by how to organize those notes so I can "look back" efficiently. Essentially, I want to avoid taking so much notes that I'm reluctant to search for something because I haven't organized it well. Do you think the ISO date name method is working well for you?
The markdown editor listed on that page, Left, is really rather good: https://100r.co/site/left.html
Not really. Companies can have dedicated office spaces that have a limited number of offices/cubicles dedicated to specific employees. Dedicate area to reserved and unreserved conference rooms/enclaves. And have desk or other space for drop-in employees. Also cafeterias, etc. Where I work, there's already a lot of space reserved for other than dedicated offices/desks.

Companies can absolutely have their own spaces that aren't primarily oriented around the idea of everyone having their own dedicated desk.
Vitamin D is under studied because it cannot be patented (my doctor told me).
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That's where org-mode (or some similar outlining or mind-mapping) comes in. It reduces your search from N to logN.

In general I find that logN is faster than solving the problem from first principles again (N!).
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barring a change in interest rates, established companies with the ability to borrow should have effectively limitless capital to deploy. We're arguably at a unique point in history with respect to small businesses ability to add leverage to throw around megacap capex e.g. WeWork

Unless TSLA or Waymo decided that they didn't want to deal with a taxi network there shouldn't be any reason they couldn't form an independent company to absorb the loan risk ( with a PE partner potentially ).
This is a important step, assuming if the US Postal Service doesn't get gutted before it happens.

A major RNC donor is poised to become the next Postmaster General of the USPS and it's part of the current administration's plan to surely gut/privatize the USPS and suppress mail-in votes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-fundra...