skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I was eyeballin' off a log-log plot, which is admittedly much less precise than your link. Even on that plot though R dips before we even officially shut down (Texas' cases were probably mostly imported from LA and elsewhere, and cut down by travel ending before we had an order in place)

I'm also concerned that the law currently is at variance with the reality that the parks are full here in Austin. Instead of rushing to be open, I wish the government would tailor it's message to people who need it, and come up with 'clean' food/resource pathways for people who are vulnerable to this virus rather than trying to keep kids out of the water.
> "But now, it appears that there is ancient carbon embedded in the moon's surface, suggesting some changes may have to be made to the theory of the moon's birth."

frustrating they didn't go on to explain what those changes might be.
They are swapping equity. Uber exchanges its ownership of jump against shares of lime. It's a common operation and uber has done it many times. It's not directly tied to losses, because the value of the transaction is based on the operational performance of both businesses. It's not shady.
So it seems that they do handle the Visa situation for you (it appears that you enter India on an Entry Visa; which I understand you don't have the right to stay in India just the right of passage). There are still two other things: Taxes and Healthcare. Are you supposed to be paying taxes on your activities (if you are doing Online/Offshore work since there are no private companies in Auroville). How is healthcare handled since it can get very expensive for old people.
Spreads have negative prices often enough
Or better, use 3 4K screens :-) My record of the number of source files being opened concurrently was 10 when I was trying to understand a particularly nasty spaghetti code base.
> a metaphor is something you use instead of the common term for something

i don't think the "instead" part is strictly necessary, and the chair example is a good showcase for that. animals stand on four legs, and by analogy, we call certain chair parts "legs" too; it's clearly metaphorical in nature, it just also happens to be the "official" term

in general i think "metaphorical" is more usefully defined as sth like "re-using your knowledge of thing X to talk about thing Y, by analogy". and you might use a cool metaphor for rhetorical or poetic effect, but they're just a common element of language – see several mentions of Lakoff in other comments for examples.
Not to be trite, but who's paying the debt collectors to call?

Morality aside, it seems like a proposition with a poor chance of success to be hounding people for money right now.
> California DMV has your signature on file when you get a driver's license.

They make you sign on a small digital screen that barely registers your pen movements. The one on my license looks like a 3 year old drew some scribbles on it. It definitely doesn't resemble my pen-and-paper signature and I can't be alone in that.

> I think people do that, not software.

How can they get through 15-30 million ballots in anything resembling a timely manner? This entire thing sounds made up it's so absurd.
Does literature have a purpose anymore?
The curve has flattened i Sweden too, despite the lack of strong lock down. Countries are different and so on, still I think it is way to early to conclude that there is a causative effect between lock downs and reduced virus spread. My own theory is that improved hand hygiene is what stopped the spread but we'll see what the future data says.
I'm not sure you're considering how fickle riders are. I work in a (what used to be) high travel group of tech. Most all of my peers and I are heavy rideshare users. Honestly, we don't care who the app owner is, but want the rides to be consistent and reliable. None of my peers is tied to Lyft or Uber, even with promotions and "status" gimmicks. If a ride can show up 3 minutes faster on Lyft - I'm taking that over Uber. To say the consumers are in Uber's pocket is ill informed. If you're taking hundreds or thousands of rides a year and aren't paying for any of those rides - the ride share company has little to no bearing on your choice. It's not like flying an airline where there's significant advantages to reap.
> Again, I am claiming that even if you can justify .01% of the population dying in car accidents on the basis of "economic activity," then the same argument does not work for 150-450x as many deaths.

And I'm arguing that '150-450x as many deaths' is an arbitrary limit. If you can justify 0.01% of the population dying in car accidents on the basis of "economic activity", can you justify 0.02%? 0.1%? 0.3%? 0.5%? 0.9%? 1%? 2%?

Where did it stop being justifiable by the same argument? My argument is that there is no objective line, it is strictly subjective. THAT is the moral framework.
This thread has two or three very vocal, antagonistic and ignorant actors using lazy rhetorical tactics to agitate, deflect and confuse what is a very straightforward topic: mail in voter fraud doesn’t exist and aggressive attempts to say it does are a part of a large, discriminatory and frankly old set of tactics of voter intimidation. These posters offer no evidence of the fraud they are FUDing up because there is none.
Again, I have not stated that I accept 35,000 deaths per year so capitalism can continue on its merry way. I again invite you to quote where I have said so, if you don't believe me. I have simply stated that the difference in scale means that an argument that justifies 35,000 deaths cannot justify 5,250,000+ deaths.
Okay. Looking forward to seeing it open sourced if you choose to do so.

I don't see much difficulty difference in mediawiki or Dokuwiki wiki markup compared to markdown, so if the users are not able to do that markup, I don't see why they would be able to do markdown edits either, but that's just me.
AMD’s supply issues have improved significantly since Apple is moving from 7nm to 5nm this year. AMD is now TSMC’s top 7nm customer.

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1258393158766886913
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1258393160784330754
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> Yikes. How are they determining if a resident moved away from CA? What about if they're dead? What about if they're voting for another relative, friend, or neighbor that isn't paying attention?

I think it's strange you seem to believe the people responsible for implementing this did not think of the few complications you were able to rattle off the top of your head.

As it happens, they send the ballot to your California address, and mail-in ballots are not forwarded by the postal service.

The Secretary of State updates the voter rolls annually, and removes people who have died.

People voting must sign the ballot and mail it. The fact that they voted is recorded, and they can check on the status. If someone voted for a dead person, that would be a crime punishable by five years in prison. It might happen, but would you file a single false ballot in a state of 40 million people under the threat of a five year prison sentence?
If they are simply masking out low values weights after doing full training, they’ve basically recreated what I worked on for my graduate thesis. In contrast to this work, what we worked on starts from iteration 0, and constantly adapts the lottery mask.

You can reset weights back to their initial value, or set them back to their initial value tied to a decay term. This will zero initial values slowly to get computational sparsity if needed.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06949
https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/...
One can say that one test is all living things are thermodynamic machines. They take energy and transform it to do work.

Virus fail that test.

Consider that a jet airliner passes more of the is it alive tests than a virus does.
> but had (IMO) improved incrementally with the move to multiple larger venues

I feel like it is getting worse, and can't wait for Caesars. With the multiple venues and hallway congestion most the people in my company were able to get to 2-3 talks a day max.

Counterfeit DEF CON badges (and a sanctioned competition for them) have really added to capacity issues since about 2016. I know of one vendor that sold over 1,500 last year.
Holy moly! Yes, that's exactly when I was working there. Glad to know there's some confirmation for that one!
Or, if you don't have room for a whiteboard, there are neon-colored dry erase markers that are designed for use on windows.
I don't think so--it doesn't look like the rattling of the sphere is caused by flow around the sphere itself, but rather by the rate of the displacement/return to equilibrium of the sphere over the opening of the quartz tube. I'm assuming (and I could be wrong) that the vibration patterns between plasma-on/off varies pretty significantly, so that rattling, as opposed to occasionally shifts only happens when the plasma flow is actually happening and that the force is significant enough to be consistently displacing the sphere rather than the long-period pressure cycling you'd otherwise see. I don't think that turbulence in the classical sense would play much into it.

Not sure if this is helpful, but based on the video I'd guess that rattling only occurs in the plasma regime (as opposed to the normal, standard temp airflow), at which point I'm don't think the physical basis of the Reynold's number holds. Plasmas, especially under an external magnetic field, are only quasi-stable and so their bulk behaviours don't necessarily track with those of classical fluids.
This. I'm having some difficulty remembering details of systems I worked on and bugs/approaches I took at places I no longer work at. Going forward I'm going to document details about everything I do, a personal post mortem of sorts.
The news media isn't funded to do that sort of journalism anymore.

It was always a loss-making enterprise, even with centralized distribution.

24 hour news cycles and internet competition isn't a good recipe for in-depth, long-pursuit journalism.
> I have simply stated that the difference in scale means that an argument that justifies 35,000 deaths cannot justify 5,250,000+ deaths.

at some point the number of deaths is high enough that you decide that "the scale is different and this can no longer be justified". I'm simply stating that this limit is arbitrary, and debatable.
> Pundits advocating for reopening are deliberately conflating those things, as if the ROI on having a movie theater, or a hairdresser open is the same as allowing a tumor removal brain surgery to proceed.

How does brain surgery get paid for? Let’s even assume a single payer system for a minute. Where do the tax revenues come from?
I think "1 friend" puts you ahead of more streamers than you'd think, if they're actually watching. They can at least give you feedback about what is and isn't entertaining
Given that Lyft doesn't have a food delivery business to rely on, this is pretty hard on them.

Lyft doesn't have the huge ownership stakes in ride sharing services other countries that have to be adjusted at inopportune times. Probably best to compare income and cash flow statement for both companies and to take a look at capital structure.
So I flew on Delta from National Airport to Atlanta and it was one of the best flights I've ever had. There was no one in the middle seat, everything was very clean, the airport was mostly empty and quiet, no children, and my drink, snack, and complementary Purell wipe was given to me in a plastic bag. It was surreal to be sure, I'd never been treated so well on an airplane.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see Auroville on the front page of HN. This brings back memories from 2 decades ago. Cheers!
I think this is often undervalued. It's not necessarily the typing speed, but the far larger slowdown caused by distractions like error correction, using the mouse, getting irritated and taking a break etc. Meauring words per minute in typing static text doesn't really show that up.

Also, it's something that's hard to appreciate the value of until you experience just how big a different it can make.

Strong typing skills also form a good foundation for learning Vim and other editor/stystem wide shortcuts, which can make the whole experience of interfacing with the computer an order of magnitude more efficient and enjoyable.

Fewer distractions means more uninterrupted thinkning time and better code.
They're robocalls. Robots don't need to be paid.
Didn't they just buy another scooter company days ago?
In the same vein, become a faster typer. I've been using this and I can definitely see the difference:

https://www.keybr.com/
Video game development tends to be trickier for working from home though. Assets tend to be very large (double digits gigabytes), so having fast connectivity is expected in many situations, and slower home connections are rather painful for that.

Many jobs don't require nearly as much bandwidth though, and can be done from home.
There's a two part podcast on futureofcoding.org with the creator of Orca, Devine Lu Linvega:

https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044

https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045
What do you think would be better?
Yeesh, gwern. Usually I enjoy your comments, but this one seems a bit unfair. Of course if you want to know the long-term future of robotics, you should look to sci-fi authors and research prototypes. But if you want to know the short-term future (<10 years), you should listen to people with actual experience building actual products, even if you don't see those products as impressive from a research perspective.

I think the article provides an illustrative example of the different factors and complications that make it so difficult to go from a research prototype to an actual consumer product (a process which seems to take about 20 years on average). As usual, the lackadaisical improvement of battery technology is one of the central bottlenecks.

Of course, if your main interest is industrial robotics, where DRL approaches are more likely to become mainstream in the near-term, insights related to consumer products might not be as relevant. But note that industrial improvements, while important, will be mostly invisible to consumers except in terms of prices, unemployment and increased customization options for products.

Even then, the article can provide some perspective. Our processes (whether assembly lines or household vacuuming) are already highly optimized for a particular way of doing things, and researchers in particular tend to underestimate the amount of effort it takes to change systems to accommodate a slightly different method. So any new system not only has to be competitive with the existing one in just about every parameter, it has to justify the often huge costs of small alterations to the process. Thus, even in industry, getting to mainstream adoption of RL will likely take quite a while.
I'm in 429th place…wait, that's an error code.
I only write scripts so that I'm sure that certain repetitive tasks are done correctly - this is, for me, the value proposition of automation.
Not sure why I'm being downvoted, in what way is Facebook's performance not atrocious?
The other stranger did not consent to being situation where the rando was shirtless, though.

Them being shirtless without telling the other person in advance, is harm that theyd be causing in the first place.
Your "slippery slope" justification literally does not work. I could use that same argument to say that anything that justifies one death justifies 90% of the population being killed. No sane individual believes that there's an argument for executing billions of people.

And, what if I believe even one death for the sake of economic activity is too many? What of your argument, then?
seriously? you have to ask the question? let me guess.... you don't belong to a marginal group whose lives have been made far more tenuous by the current administration than one that knows how to make government work for more people than the rich
Wow, that's a great service your company provides!
Revisiting the Business Card Raytracer
Does this mean that highlighting doesn't work properly when you're offline?
It's nowhere near that bad. Sure do safe comms but people arent popping 0days against other people. 0days are much too valuable.
There is something between 10ms and 10s, especially when it's after the initial load. The point of contention is not the website vs webapp debate, it's more that a webapp doesn't have to be that bloated.

The whole point of SPA initially was better use experience, notably through faster response time and loading.
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Intel should have placed that fab here in Sweden. What this accusation is saying is the norm here.
You mean WeWork, don't you?
Underrated comment :)
FYI, if you don't want to wait for results (because we're slammed right now via HN) here are a few examples:

www.wordfence.com: https://www.fastorslow.com/app/profile/f5fcf22f-8daf-5567-b3...

cybersecurity.miami.edu: https://www.fastorslow.com/app/profile/5ad00348-8c5d-566c-8a...

apple.com: https://www.fastorslow.com/app/profile/a8f2f34f-b695-5ce9-b6...

facebook.com: https://www.fastorslow.com/app/profile/afffcc61-4eb9-5e6c-88...

Thanks!! I run Wordfence which does quite well. Profitable and the team is around 35 really great folks with a focus on solid engineering. So we fund it ourselves. For a going concern like us the costs are very modest and we can afford to run it indefinitely without charging.

In fact just the bit of brand awareness we get for our main product, Wordfence probably more than justifies the costs.

We actually created this as an internal tool because there wasn't anything that would give you a clear indication of site performance from DNS lookup to connect to TTFB to page render from around the world. Our own market is global and even a 1% drop in conversion really costs. After building it we realized that it's very little incremental effort to make it available for all.

As I mentioned we're about to migrate into AWS where we run much of our other infrastructure. The financial model and eng design we came up with keeps our costs surprisingly low. We can handle huge traffic spikes and it roughly doubled the cost, even with the spikes. So I'm confident we can run this for the long haul as a free product.

A few things I can commit to: Firstly, it's extremely unlikely that you'll see ads on FastOrSlow other than our own company name. That's never been our model and I can't stand when a great site or service gets smothered in ads.

In addition, our company has been around since 2006 and we've been made acquisition offers many many times by large companies that you know well. We've consistently turned them down and will continue to do so because we are profitable, love our independence and I think we all know what happens to many great products after acquisition. I'm telling you this because I want you to know that this won't be changing hands to a company that will try to monetize it in obnoxious ways.

No plans to offer a paid service right now. Our next release is for internal use and will allow us to do performance surveys across large numbers of sites and present statistically significant insights as research to the online community.

Happy to answer any other questions. Thanks for your interest!
I look at these pictures and can’t fathom how anyone could have the patience to place all those tiny “keys” when I can barely finish reading an article without getting bored and skipping to the next thing. How can I learn patience?
Just use Cloudflare for your name severs. Then you can have a script that runs every 5 minutes on a cron to update your dns A records via the Cloudflare API
you could try something with mturk, I'm sure.
I'm of the opposite persuasion. At least with English, there are many ways to express connotations or degrees with word selection. Should emoji be considered along the lines of ebonics? Languages adjust with usage. New technology and knowledge arrives while somethings fade. To me, the cute little characters are a form of laziness.
It's way too early to see if it's working or not. It could very well be the better approach compared to the total lockdown unemployment mental health disaster that other countries are doing. We don't know this yet but while we find out I look forward to take daily walks in the spring sun and excersizing extra care when confronted with other people.
> Automation will eat everything, it's just a matter of time

Yes and no, people are predicting that for 70 years, if not more. It seems that once you automated all the easy things it gets exponentially harder and more expensive to pursue automation.

> does not come across as a massive problem

Sounds like Musk telling you "self driving cars will be there in 6 months" every 6 months since 2013. Nothing is as easy as you think it is, even more so if you have 0 experience in the domain.

And then you have to solve all the societal issues. If everything truly gets automated at some point, who will benefit from it? how do you remunerate all the people who used to have low skill jobs? &c.

"Automation, which is both the most advanced sector of modern industry and the epitome of
its practice, obliges the commodity system to resolve the following contradiction: The technological developments that objectively tend to eliminate work must at the same time preserve labor as a commodity, because labor is the only creator of commodities. The only way to prevent automation (or any other less extreme method of increasing labor productivity) from reducing
society’s total necessary labor time is to create new jobs. To this end the reserve army of the
unemployed is enlisted into the tertiary or “service” sector, reinforcing the troops responsible for distributing and glorifying the latest commodities; and in this it is serving a real need, in the
sense that increasingly extensive campaigns are necessary to convince people to buy increasingly unnecessary commodities."

- Guy Debord, 1967
Should have mentioned, but it's probably obvious, that we also don't need funding. So won't be raising VC with the pressures that come with that. Nothing against folks who do, but that's our situation.
IRC, presumably.
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I must have commented in those moments between Julia editing the post and you editing your comment. Thanks for clarifying!
A lot of people burn zero days for cred.
Most of the time. But that applies to code that I wrote in last 15 years, especially in Sciter, its core was written around 2005.

I believe there is a moment of maturity in any developer's career. And it is related to critical mass of experience - when for pretty much any new task you know upfront how it should be done , at least architecturally. And in different variants: ideal, realistic or just to show something.
Art on Today’s Newspaper Front Page, NY Times and John Singer Sargent Paintings
Careful when visiting that website. Causes 100% CPU load for me and could not close the tab. Something is wrong with it.
How many people are in that 800 square feet though? If it's not shared with anyone else but the dog, it's a pretty large space.
That’s only true if you pretend that service workers don’t exist.
This will happen just like “unlimited vacation” policies pressure actual vacation taken downwards. It doesn’t have to be an explicit management pressure either, simply the game theoretic implications put WFH people at a disadvantage as a function of people who don’t WFH increase. I believe this is how we will get the second and further waves as decision makers turn this into a Newton-Rhapson iteration to discover the sweet spot of the “office openness vs infection” function.
http://archive.md/0ncZV
Nice job Mark! The site looks super clean. It's nice to see a post like this explaining what's happening behind the scenes.

Remindme! in a week ;)
I've had some issues like "There is a more recent report available for this URL. Would you like to view it?" but then when I try to, it says "No reports found".
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