skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked that he would play everything ranging from electronic stuff, drum & bass etc through to industrial and metal. He was truly open minded about music.
Back in the 90's his Radio 1 show was followed by Mary Ann Hobbs' The Breezeblock. Another source of great sessions from the electronic music world. She is now on BBC 6 Music, which is probably where Peel would be if he were still with us.
> Cash is anonymous. Bitcoin is not.

There's a non zero chance that your criminal extortion scheme won't end up with bill serial numbers tracked by federal authorities. Hence that's probably why 97% of ransomware uses BTC.
larger than jcrew.com?
Drunk driving is not contagious.

In addition, drunk driving is a relatively controlled problem. That is, a relatively small percentage of the population do it and law enforcement is able to police it with a reasonable degree of success. On the other hand, it we had an epidemic of drunk driving where say 20% of the people on the road were driving drunk then it very well may make sense for the government to barricade the roads until they got things under control.
I’m sorry to hear this. I will make an additional donation on your behalf. I can appreciate how authors feel, but they must also realize copyright laws are asymmetrical (tilted heavily towards copyright owners) and in these times, many have no access to their local public library. They are essentially robbed of access to the book materials their tax dollars (which pays an author) have paid for during this time.

It’s been a gigantic disappointment to see authors respond negatively to this effort (considering this once-in-a-century event), and I will never buy a book again from one of these authors.
And ahead of the UK, France, and South Korea

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-cumulative-tota...
Secrets, Surveillance and Snowden
Gotcha, thanks! Will keep the 1 year rule in mind
If I was a Tesla employee I'd strike for quadruple pay and benefits. If Musk is willing to go to prison to get his factory up and running surly he'd be willing to give his employees pretty hefty raises.
For someone not involved in the web stack, reading through that page tells me nothing. Can someone tell me what use cases this is meant to solve?
The problem with talking about per capita testing numbers is that having a bigger population means you need a proportionally larger number of tests to administer to reach the same numbers as smaller countries. The will to test and the money to do so aren’t any issue. The problem is that we can’t just snap our fingers and make tens of millions of tests appear out of thin air. I think this point gets lost on a lot of people when they look at the corona scoreboard (likewise, people fixate on the large number of deaths in the US and ignore that we’re doing better than several European nations on a deaths per million basis).
If your life and wellbeing are dependent on your job, he might as well be threatening them.
Actually, there's this annoying little document that backs Elon's actions: The U.S. Constitution. Plus, the Justice Department is likely to weigh in on any flagrant civil rights violations.
The wayback machine has been essential through COVID as many government just publish the numbers and data "of the day" and the only way to compare to the day before is to look at IA.
It doesn't need to be the malicious.

Let's assume the mutation happens when the person is in their 20s, which would be ideal. If this occurred any time in history up to the 1800s, would you not still be likely to die of disease, cancer, or other injury? Life expectancy hasn't increased because we are better at slowing aging, it has increased because we are better at not dying of the things that kill us.

If the mutation happened invitro, did the child survive birth? If it did survive but never grew, it wouldn't reproduce, and may have been abandoned if it were too much of a burden.

There are many scenarios where this mutation could have occurred but was never passed on.
I got out of the habit of course words during the 15 years or so when my kids were growing up.

Family agreed as of high school that we could all use rude language.

And I have discovered I don't want to anymore.

I am 50+ years old now, and I get far more satisfaction out of calling someone a "poopy-head". When necessary.

Not sure why. Haven't compared notes with other adults. Did not expect this.
In my experience, most people drive roughly 5 miles per hour over the speed limit. That suggests to me that the speed limit does in fact have a mitigating effect.
It sounds like you think our system of government is a democracy. It's not, it's a republic. Voters do not make our governance decisions, they vest the power to make those decisions in leaders that they elect.

So no, that is not paradoxical, it is a feature of our system of government, and a very important one in my view.
It seems like they were banking on people being attracted to higher quality content than your traditional Youtube/TikTok/Instagram stuff, but it's not clear to me that people are actually buying into that strategy. Google tried something similar with Youtube Red (taking popular content creators and giving them professional production and then charging for access) but I'm not sure how that initiative has panned out.
Rich people will be fine. Economic downturns primarily hurt the poor and middle classes.

"The economy" isn't some abstract thing that produces random stock market numbers. It's everyone's livelihood.
Quite right. The day when you can engage Heston Blumenthal to do your super conductivity experiment, is the day you have won!

(HB is an experimental chef who uses quite a lot of liquid N. Liquid He is probably not indicated for food prep)
> The most expensive step in ray marching is to find the distance which you will get for free after one rasterization pass via the z-buffer.

Not true, you can't make that claim. The most expensive step depends entirely on what you render. The material can easily be more expensive than the SDF.

> With the z-buffer already present every effect used in this demo can be applied in the same way to purely rasterized graphics with even less cost.

You're completely forgetting that shadows are a thing.

> RTX is completely pointless.

I interpret that to mean that either 1- you're mad at Nvidia for various reasons not particularly related to RTX, or 2- you don't know what RTX actually does.
Should we ask China why they maintained and continue to maintain animal markets with a history of producing viruses that kill many people? What they fail to contain or timely warn about their creation? Maybe someone should indeed ask China.
Bitcoin isn’t a security, so it’s hard to say what it even means for something to be “priced in”. Everyone who buys or sells Bitcoin has a unique value thesis and the current market price is the net result of those competing theses. But at the end of the day, the value truly is whatever people think it is, unlike a security which has fundamentals i.e. cash flows that give it some firm ground to stand on.
I actually hope the ‘interim Health Officer’ attempts to physically close or shutdown the factory, because that would set off a spectacular legal challenge that the county would most definitely lose. I think they'll drop the case before it has a chance to set back the powers of their unilateral decisions.

(The parent comment is flagged. Truly amazing times we live in where simply reminding people of their rights is reason to censor.)
> because IMO Home Depot should 100% be closed

Not sure I agree with that. Covid or not, toilets will continue to break down, trees will continue falling on roofs, boilers, thermostats, ACs, stoves and fridges will continue to die. How's someone going to shelter in place if their shelter isn't habitable? Now, more than ever, people need their homes to be in good repair.
Well done! They look gorgeous ...
Which right gives you the ability to operate your business during a pandemic? I think there is a reasonable case to be made that you have a constitutional right to gather in groups and leave your home even under shelter in place, but I haven't heard anyone suggest that this would apply to businesses. I don't know that much about it though.
I don't think he is really that stupid. I am balancing between two opinions now:

- He has gone really, actually crazy

- He knows that Tesla is on the edge of bancruptcy and is intentionally trying to get kicked out of Tesla before it happens, while keeping the image of being a hero and avoiding the financial responsibility

I would be sure it is 2, except to a non-lawyer like me it seems he is doing things that actually can put him in jail now. So I don't know.
Appreciate you sharing the perspective of someone who was part of that field. I think to some extent anything that isn't a for-profit endeavor is subject to some measure of "feed the beast". Kinda like how bureaucracy has a tendency to expand in order to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

While I'm sure there's plenty of waste, I think that's just a fact of life. A positive way to think of it is that the 10th paper on white dwarf luminosity is just ensuring that previous work is reproducible :)

Even if someone takes the absolute most jaded view that it's all just a big federal jobs program, I think you could make the argument that it beats throwing more billions at the military industrial complex (of course there's plenty of synergies, like these 2 mirrors)
Agreed that the barrier to entry for mobile app dev is high enough to the point of excluding vast swathes of developers from building tools for themselves.

Ive been an iOS dev for 5 years and I'm now looking to move into web dev for a few reasons;

* making any mobile app is by default harder and more frustrating than making a web based equivalent.

* You can’t easily ‘remix’ an app, Inspect Element style learning is impossible.

* Native doesn’t really give you much in perf over web anymore (navigation and state refresh is still bad on web - but you can work to make it passable).

* SwiftUI is a huge step in the wrong direction. Its a poor mix between React and standard HTML, without the benefits of a styling markup.

* I am a rookie web dev, but a senior iOS dev and I find making web apps easier than a similar native app. After 5 years. Now sure this could say something about me - but I don’t think so as there is so much evidence based on the current state of adoption for the corresponding technologies. I have skin in the game when it comes to native and I have no doubts when I say it’s easier to make products with web tech.

* Xcode is tragically poor to then point where it is a consideration for me to stop working in the ecosystem, it is simply appallingly bad.

This is a bit of a rant, sorry about that, but I feel like there is a general mood in the spaces I dwell in the native has lost its appeal. Year to year the SDK updates become less relevant (you could argue last years SwiftUI is the biggest change in years but its not ready yet, it doesn’t make the ecosystem any nicer to work in given how long it takes to get from farm to fork with a mobile app, and anecdotally 100% of the devs I’ve talked to that have made an app in it have given up on it for their next idea for the time being)
There is no law being broken here, it's local county orders with (currently debated) legal authority by a single official.
At the bandwidth levels they are using they would need to use Cloudflare Enterprise, and in my experience that is way more expensive than other CDN providers.

Also, since archive.org has so much content, the caching ratio is going to be very bad and kill CDN efficiency while still requiring lots of direct bandwidth.
Cheap direct bandwidth in their case looks best(which is what they seem to be doing).
We don't yet know why (or even if) more people died in New York than on the west coast, per capita. We certainly cannot yet attribute it to a different strain.
So Vercel is like Netlify but with their own web site development framework (NextJS), and Netlify is like Vercel but with their own CMS (Netlify CMS), and together they have raised about $120MM.
BCHS: The BSD, C, httpd, SQLite stack for the web
Maybe we think his actions deserve hate? "Pedo guy" for example? "Cases will go to zero, reopen America"?
Awesome work! I love this concept, but I'm a writer who's interested in collaborative generative writing. Do you know of any efforts to create something similar for writing, such as poetry or micro-fiction? If not, I'm curious if you could point me in the right direction for putting something like that together.
Tesla has a very rich history of destroying the lives of whistleblowers and injured workers

The Musk apologists in particular are very keen to never talk about this, since based on documents produced under oath, Musk himself is extremely vengeful and personally oversees the retaliation.

E.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

There is more of this coming down the pipe in a few weeks, but it's not like the Tesla fans will care. I mean you can basically google "Tesla whistleblower" or "Tesla injury" and get hundreds of results of awful stories that probably don't even happen in sweatshops, but clearly if you're "saving the planet", destroying a few lives is excusable.

Like I've said before, Tesla is to EV what blood diamonds are to jewelry.
Musk's legal argument is just that: that Alameda County has no authority to override California state rules.
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"I didn't care"

That seems like the point. People learn what risks to take from experience; the employer has more experience than new/young employees, so you force them to care. I "didn't care" initially about breathing drywall dust, but later I changed my mind.
> On large enough scale, this is generally the more probable direction, and that's about it. Its truly random by nature.

If it's truly random it wouldn't be directional, yeah?
Looking over a list of Peel sessions:

http://www.thepeelsessions.co.uk/bands.html

I am struck by (a) what a range of extraordinary stuff there was and (b) just how many times he had his favourites on! I don't think i have ever heard of Loudon Wainright III outside the context of John Peel. I don't think i'd ever heard of The Fall outside of John Peel, and that's despite the fact that i was a regular listener to Mark and Lard!
> Perhaps Tesla can reopen safely - if Amazon can run warehouses why shouldn’t they be able to manufacture cars?

Who says Amazon can run warehouses safely?

"There are COVID-19 cases in at least 129 Amazon fulfillment centers, according to an internal tally maintained by warehouse workers in a private Facebook group. Other estimates put the number closer to 150 warehouses." [0]

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-engineers-react-colleag...
Rosa Parks, the woman who was falsely arrested while committing no crime?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
I think another example is banning alcohol sales because it causes DUI.

drinking is an optional/recreational activity unlike driving.
You said, "the kind of raytracing that is possible with hardware-acceleration inside a GPU is severely restricted in comparison to a general-purpose CPU raytracer like Blender's Cycles." This is manifestly incorrect.
This treasure trove contains gems like, "medical interventions based solely on observational data should be carefully scrutinised, and the parachute is no exception." and "The parachute industry has earned billions of dollars for vast multinational corporations whose profits depend on belief in the efficacy of their product."
There are many businesses open and millions of people all around the state going to work, shopping, eating, and generally interacting outside. This lock-in effectively ended weeks ago.
The county officials making these arbitrary rules and extensions are unelected, so they don't necessarily represent those living in the county either.
You're absolutely right with an API/ABI with the size and complexity of Win32 there is a risk to have compatibility challenges. Just like WSL v1 and gVisor, as re-implementations of Linux syscalls and subsystems.

To me, well designed web services are more intrinsically decoupled compared to general purpose operating system runtimes or SQL implementations.

As for when and why a group of people decide to exit various relationships, I've personally observed that sometimes cost and practicality is not evaluated completely by decision makers [1], despite various clear economic benefits of remaining.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
You're wasting your own money if you buy a CPU based on fp64 flops and then start using any of the renderers you've cited so far.
Right, but if you steal the client-hash you have the user's password for this service. If you steal their plaintext password you have their password for every service.

This measure is to limit the blast radius of a compromised password given that people reuse passwords.
>disagreement between the county and Tesla about what the law is

and that's perfectly fine, however, those disagreements happen in a court. I don't think disagreeing with a county order gives you the right to simply ignore it. If Tesla thinks this is wrong they can sue, which they did, and that should be it.
That took a dark turn there at the end.
Another aspect is they are actually using bandwidth to max and have a cap on usage spending. No CDN I know of allows capping bandwidth usage.

The way they use bandwidth means the most efficent GB/dollar cost although at the cost of poor performance.
>Jimi Cauty, who subsequently left 'the orb' to be one half of The KLF. Hence the Peel session of The Orb and the original pressing of the aforementioned track were the only truly awesome stuff they released.

The Orb can certainly be a bit weird at times but there are some absolute gems lurking in the back catalogue and at least Alex Paterson is still releasing music, what has Cauty done recently?
I remember when 2004 was the year of the Linux desktop.
lol. my wife works there, that's not how Tesla works. 100% everyone that refuses to go to work now will get fired, they'll just make a list and do it later for optics. Tesla (Elon) emphatically doesn't give a shit about their employees.
I only sleep about 4 hours a night on average (though I wish I slept more), but if you looked at my posts and comments they would fall within a 4-5 hour window (most posts happen when I check HN between 7-9am).
How much can Musk's claims of safety precautions be trusted given the factory's record of both safety violations and suppressing information about safety violations?

"Inside Tesla’s Model 3 Factory, Where Safety Violations Keep Rising"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...

"Tesla says its factory is safer. But it left injuries off the books"
https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is...
Exactly, this is a fundamental fallacy of index investing—you can’t “buy the market” and any ETF that claims otherwise is a cleverly crafted leaky abstraction. The problem with leaky abstractions is that you usually have no idea that they leak until everything collapses...
Elon is a man that put a car from a company he built into space from a Space Company he built with rockets that land on their own.

I don't think balance sheets and sensibility might be the main point here, Elon can and will conquer that hill he's willing to die on.
Then shouldn't this apply equally to all other businesses?
I also find it amusing that sofware developers do not recognize any more how we are on the same side in this fight. Imagine if we were still selling boxed software and they decided that in light of COVID-19 they just hand it out with a two week limit. It's an imperfect comparison but the current situation is not a reason to just discard the law. It might not be the best law, the place to fight that is in Congress and not on the back of authors most of whom are not in the best financial state to say the least.
Be specific. What court case against public health officials could somebody today bring to court, successfully appeal all the way to the SC, and win? My guess is that the SC is going to look at our laws, the Constitution, and conclude that in the case of serious medical situations, the government has the right to limit the movement and speech of individuals and corporations, while still allowing for democratic processes to elect new officials who might enact more stringent or lenient laws within the constitutional framework.
Isn't this inevitable and obvious? Lockdowns were meant to take the strain off of the health system—not to magically make COVID-19 disappear.
The information he has offered (it is no worse than the flu, the the number of cases will drop to 0 by end of April) have been so egregiously wrong, it is only reasonable to question the rest of his judgment.
Of course, that's what "raise" means. Grandmothers also raise their grandchildren -- google "grandmother effect" or "grandmother hypothesis".

I'm more talking about people who want to raise life expectancy from 100 to 200, not go from 70 to 100 (not sure where the original article fell on this).

70 to 100 is clearly possible and we've already gotten a long way there in the 20th century (antibiotics, etc.) The "problem" now seems to be that not everyone actually cares if they live that long... i.e. there are plenty of people who don't want to live to 100, and might not even if they maintained the health of a 60 or 70 year old.
It's a reference to Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged. It's sort of a libertarian bible. The Atlas in that book title refers to people like Elon Musk (industrialists, capitalists etc.) who want to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders (like the Greek Titan Atlas), but can't because of terrible government policies. So they "shrug" it off. OP is suggesting that Musk is doing the same thing, but performatively, in other words he's pretending to be super concerned with "getting back to work" but really he cares about making profits
You think Musk cares about his employees? For starters he's talking about the factory. 99% of people working there aren't even Tesla employees, they're hired out contractors. He can fire them all with almost no financial consequences and activate his online troll army to attack anyone that dares say bad things about him. Maybe he throws in some crazy tweets so the media is distracted and doesn't report on it - sort of how the media has been mum to point out the huge bonus this CEO just earned in the middle of a great recession because "OMG Musk named his baby what?" and "OMG MUSK LISTED TWO HOUSES".

As for the handful of Tesla employees that can't move, he can just leave them there in an office. Tesla's turnover is comically high, so within two years there would probably be no employees left and the office can be closed.
Checking out what Alan Kay has to say about it might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY

The way i see it OOP is about encapsulating/bundling data and the code that processes that data into one "object", that is isolated from other objects. The objects could only "communicate" with other objects by sending "messages" (data/events/something).

Personally i don't like OOP, and think that focusing on data and how it's processed is a better way forward (CSP and such). It's.. a complicated matter.
But you can invest in the S&P like that (through index funds), because the S&P tracks the performance of a rolling selection of stocks, not the backdated performance of a future selection of stocks that is unknown in the present.
Could it be people switched from podcast to youtube of the same channel?
You can sell when a component leaves an index and buy when a component joins the index and–guess what–that portfolio also goes up.

https://contrarianoutlook.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SPY...