skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
evolution only "cares" about you to the point where you bear children and raise them

Humans are highly social beings that naturally live in large kin groups. Knowledge and culture form a huge part of our survival strategy. Who among us have the most knowledge and experience to pass on? Elders.

Take a look at the role of elders in traditional hunter/gatherer cultures. Huge importance. Is it not implausible that natural selection would favour increased life expectancy so that elders can maintain and transmit the group's body of knowledge?
This might be the best analysis that I've seen of the present situation and really puts the May 18th date into context. I had wondered how that was bandied about and why it seemed to come from someone else than the shutdown order.

It sounds pretty clear that it was far less firm than the articles implied and this situation is every bit as messy and murky as has been implied by all implied parties.
Which features of Rosa Park's successful fight for civil rights do you feel map on to a misguided attempt by the billionaire scion of a pre-apartheid South African mining family to send his employees back to work during a global pandemic?
One of the defining characteristics of fascism is collaboration of state and capital in order to strengthen the state, enlisting the population and ordering them to sacrifice even their life in order to protect the strength of the nation (its economy, or its military; both are but a face of the same coin).

The state putting the safety of their workers before its own strength, misguided as one may think it is, is one of the furthest things from fascism.
> A Tesla factory is a much safer place to be than a Home Depot or a Costco, and many other businesses open in California today. We aren't talking about sporting events here: we're talking about some of the lowest risk and unavoidable interactions.

Indeed, according to [0], as of mid-April (can’t find anything more recent), 30 grocery workers have died. This number is coming from a union representing 900K members. I don’t know how many grocery workers there are in the US, but obviously it’s at least 900K. To have only 30 die from that pool of workers in what could be argued as one of the most high risk jobs (coming into contact with huge numbers of people every single day) should probably say a lot about how much risk there is for the average Tesla assembly line worker. But as you said, evidence, or even common sense seems to go out the window here.

0: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/04/14/coronavirus-...
Caveat from the discussion:

> It is unclear what the prevalence of antibody is in individuals with subclinical or asymptomatic infections and how this assay performs in an asymptomatic population.
Strange Fruit put out so much quality music
> it was doubling so fast it was hard to keep count of the cases and the hospital system came close to breaking under the stress?

In the majority of the country hospitals did not come any where close to breaking. Please don't spread fake news.
>The capitol of sweden is being hit as hard as NYC.

No actually in both cases it's a miniscule percentage of the overall population. People should be looking at percentages, because absolute values just cause lockdown hysteria.

>The resignation that shit's bad, so we should let it get worse is fatalistic and untenable.

It's not resignation, it's indignation at the over-reaction to this practically common virus.

>> And as if the world can go on shut down indefinitely.

>Indeed it can't, no one is proposing that.

So the whole exercise is pointless because the virus is going to do it's rounds anyway.
> these apps are only going to serve to freak people out with anxiety and no one will use them.

Not sure that it should necessarily be done by apps. But if you can find someone who has covid, identify their close contacts, and have them tested - then you can still catch a significant number of cases and put a dent in the disease's spread. These are things that mitigate the spread and have a substantial impact at the margin.

I'd spend some time reading what the pros, like Trevor Bedford, are suggesting as a path forward, rather than just the headlines about Apple's new contact tracing app. Also, worth noting that other countries have successfully suppressed the virus.
We don't barricade all roads just because some drunk drivers are a threat to others.
2 new cults have formed, covid doomers and the covid hoaxers . Very strange how same hyper partisan tendencies of far right and left are present in this new cult dynamic .
>EDIT: the flagged comment said a single death === beatings

"Banged up" can also mean put in jail (at least in British English)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banged_up#Adjective
For those interested, here's the dashboard from the Vermont Department of Health.

https://vcgi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/6...
> will move Firestore behind a REST API

How do you do that? Do you spin up your own server?
If you're the author, you should make clear who your audience is. "Demystifying Science" and "How to Visualize Electricity" imply a general high school audience... this sounds like it's specifically "How to Visualize Electricity for Quantum Physicists." Perhaps start off by stating some quantum formulas or misconceptions that aren't well served by the hydrostatic analogy but your analogy helps explain better. If I don't understand that framing, I'll know right away "ok, this is for a grad-level understanding, not high school."

Not saying this is bad work, it's just very niche work where people outside the niche won't really understand the point or appreciate it. Know your audience, and present appropriately. It fell flat to me because I was expecting it to be something that apparently it is not.
>This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach. That is something I cannot support.

conversely, Tesla defying the order and bypassing the courts is defying the rule of law which I have trouble supporting.
A few things, Sarah Cody has been wretched in both her handling with the crisis as well as transparency on where cases are coming from. For almost two months us stuck in the south bay area have had no idea where cases are located, it was all tied to santa clara county, which in the bay area is gigantic(the county has ~2 million people and is 1328 sq. miles) County officials refused to say where cases were based in cities, which created absolute panic in the south bay in the late Feb/March time frame[1]. This somewhat blew up in their face when a outbreak occurred at valley medical in San Jose with unsuspecting staff getting infected with covid-19 [2]

When the lockdown happened which btw was only 4 days earlier than NYC's lockdown (late on March 16 vs. NYC's March 20th) everyone tries to capture how well prepared the bay area was but it was a total joke, there were no tests available, local stores were almost all closed and the ones that were open were sold out of all PPE(hand sanitizer masks etc). Store staff mostly did not have masks or were not asked to wear masks. Finally we were given out case numbers by cities but once again if you live in San Jose which is huge you have no idea where the cluster of cases are(should I walk my dog in this area of the city? etc) by zip code would have been preferable.

When the lockdown ends who will know? We have only vague ideas when things are opening up despite dropping covid-19 cases in the area[3] and measures we can see like workers taking down the tents for patients(never used) in the local hospital parking lots. I feel really had for people who have a physical job to go to as who can say when this ends.

Lastly its extremely frustrating that given months have passed testing is still non-existent, after a tele-chat with my health provider he says the tests he received were terrible (this was a 2 weeks ago) and he threw them all away. Also the county or cities have no large scale antibody testing in smaller cities to ascertain the true death rate of this virus given that it presents asymptomatic in a sizable % of patients.

[1] https://beta.trimread.com/articles/14684

[2] https://beta.trimread.com/articles/14687

[3] https://beta.trimread.com/articles/14689
California OSHA is a very different beast from federal OSHA. My wife works in environmental safety (factories are an environment) and she refers to it as "Strict AF".

Federal OSHA is basically the bare minimum as to what can be implemented. Most states layer on additional regulations as they see fit. California's Department of Labor, "Cal/OSHA", has the most stringent standards beyond federal OSHA's standards.
The "put the genie back in the bottle" train left the station in February/March. Now this is just outrage at the sake of outrage, starting to feel almost like a religion.
I don't think it was meant to be a comparison between the two, I think it was meant to be a counterexample to the notion that we should always follow the law.
Bullshit is different than lying, but that doesn't mean anyone is arguing that it's moral. The fact that the listener might be led to believe something false is just one negative aspect of bullshit.
Aztec Kings Had Rules for Plagues, Including 'Do Not Be a Fool'
Tesla's whole legal case revolves around the argument that the county is not respecting the law. This isn't really about respecting the law it is about a disagreement between the county and Tesla about what the law is.
Don't know if they would actually qualify as bootlegs, but some of the most coveted tapes being traded in my highschool days were Peel session recordings. This was in the heart of BFE Texas in the 90s. I still don't know where these tapes came from, but these were my saving as everything else was country <shuddersDownSpine>
Trump throws mild fit at coronavirus briefing
For those like me who didn't understand the relevance, back in 2009, Satoshi (the creator of Bitcoin) put the following message in the very first block:

> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

Back then it was a response to the 2008/9 financial crisis, which is what makes this new message relevant.
No. Musk was saying this on March 16th:

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/fkbw1c/elon_musk...

At that time, here's CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/app-news-section/quickly-catc...

Vox:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/16/21182247/t...
So logical. I can’t believe this is being downvoted.
OSHA standards are basically a federal minimum, states are able to go above and beyond.
wow I almost took a job here! Never thought id hear about the company all these years later
The cellular network always has to know your approximate location, or else it can't get your data to you. But that doesn't use GPS.

Offhand (and I'm very far from an expert) the only situation I can think of that spoofing GPS might have legal ramifications is when using E911. In general, it's probably better to spoof a "I don't see enough satellites to get a fix, sorry" status than to spoof a "I'm definitely in Sheboygan" status.
... and to underline the diversity of the genres Peel championed: he was both one of the main early radio promoters of punk, but just a few earliers had championed Tangerine Dream's Phaedra as one of his favorite albums of the year.

I think that if you wanted to try and come up with a simple way to describe what connected all the music that Peel championed over his long career, it would have to be something like "new energy". He didn't seem as interested in what a band actually sounded like as where their energy came from and what level it was on.
Huh? No what? What are you referring to? Is this a reply to a different sub-thread?

> Trying to put that onto a 11 GB RAM GPU will swap like hell and be excruciatingly slow

The comment you replied to didn't mention memory, but what renderer are you currently using that will swap while using the GPU?

What are you referring to when you say "that", in "Trying to put that onto a 11 GB RAM GPU"?

Does the RAM limit of your GPU mean that mine will go slower too?
I actually agree with some of what Elon is saying around COVID - it is probably reasonable for the Tesla factory to open up partially this week, and shelter in place has gone on for too long without any proper justification in many areas. But his reasoning and actions surrounding this are completely insane. He spreads conspiracy theories about hospitals overcounting cases for profit, says that COVID is just like the flu, predicted no cases by the end of April, and then does this and opens up without approval, violating the law.

His fans seem to think he is some kind of genius, but based on what he has said about COVID he doesn't really seem that smart, or at least not well informed at all. Just by looking at the deaths year over year, it is clear that if anything, COVID cases are undercounted. And his claims that the shutdown of his factory are illegal are blatantly false. I don't know if he just doesn't know what he is talking about, or if he does and is just saying all this stuff for his personal gain. I suspect the former, but idk. This seems like a somewhat common pattern, where very successful and seemingly intelligent people have a few very obviously incorrect beliefs (ex. Steve Jobs and his fruit diet). Maybe they assume that success in one area implies knowledge in unrelated areas (I know I am guilty of this myself sometimes).
> This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach. That is something I cannot support.

The lockdown is literally the opposite. Show me the numbers that prove that COVID-19 is going away. Seems much more likely we'll see another spike soon due to opening early _against all evidence_.
> to enforce the lack of semicolons

Why would... you want that? You're trading minimal syntactic noise for possible ambiguity errors. You don't really gain anything.
I find the theoretical consideration more compelling than specific facts. If Tesla demonstrably is above the law, then incentives to do the right thing seem to be lacking. Whenever people get into an argument about whether someone or something is good or bad, my reaction is, what is the mechanism that would force them to be good? If the answer is absolutely nothing, then I'm going to bet that the people saying they are bad are correct (and of course if there are huge incentives, then the people saying they are good are likely correct). Either way, I don't think it makes sense to shrug and say they're probably as good or bad as everyone else.
Bitcoin is a monetary asset with no underlying fundamental value. Transaction volume is meaningless. The only thing that matters is what someone is willing to pay for it.
He explains it right there, only seconds later: after 600 ms, the ball is at the basket, and it is too late to do anything. He has less time than that, because he also has to move the backboard into place, and stop it, because if it were still moving, that would bounce the ball somewhere else.

It would be seriously cool to use the speed of motion of the backboard to get extra control and, e.g., need to move it less.

But that would take a hard real-time system, and be correspondingly more fun.
Almost correct. The "lab" was actually doing corona virus research, and funded by the US govt.

Corona is so contagious, that combined with Wuhan being an international airport that connects to Shanghai, the #8 international airport in the world, this was the perfect storm for a pandemic.
> Carmakers are also defined as a COVID19 critical industry

Can someone enlarge on this a bit? I can see how auto repair can be a critical need, but I don't see why auto manufacture is critical during this phase of the pandemic.
Words mean so many different things to different people, and for me the subject of Values is the study of what is valued.
For instance some people might value wealth, and not value love.
I personally value love over wealth. For me, having spent time in prayer and meditation, love is a person, who might indeed be called Love.
Valuing my relationship with Love, I wish to behave lovingly towards others. Selfishness is out.
The modern world says to its children that they must look after number one, meaning put themselves and their own comfort first. For me this is utterly wrong, because my happiness is in my relationships with other people. (There is only ONE; others are myself; the relationship I have with the world is ultimately the relationship I have with myself.
Therefore fine grained questioning of the structure of morality is needless, and any fool can understand how to become happy in their relationship with the world; with GOD; with themselves: Love is Happiness, Happiness is Beauty... Love is the work of care for others, and Happiness is the outcome of such work.
Love is what I value.
I guess my point is that I wouldn't necessarily expect there to be any clear trend to the set of all spectral lines. The Boltzmann fit looks fairly iffy to me as well -- it seems like they just picked an arbitrary distribution (which had a cute pseudo-explanation) that was unimodal with a log tail.

One possible explanation I thought of (which I'm surprised the paper doesn't consider) is whether this is just showing the distribution of wavelength ranges of spectrometers that researchers are using. I tried to find some examples online, but I guess you'd need to be involved in the field to know what exactly to search for.
I wonder how many people freaking out about Elon’s actions and still driving ICE cars don’t ponder that this whole pandemic episode, even if it goes on for years and kills millions of people, is just a tiny blip compared to what’s coming from global climate change. I mean further pandemics are just one of the problems climate change is going to bring. This is just a teaser.

Keeping this in mind helps set a perspective for why he sees this as a mission. If you still think he is being irresponsible, consider the data he shared, and the larger picture. Maybe... just maybe... he has more information than you do.
Did you really just "both sides" a global pandemic?
Except that worldwide, life expectancy has increased along with increases in caloric intake. Of course there can be other factors involved, but everywhere you had increases in caloric intake, you've had significant increases in life expectancy.
Read more about things. Don't be ignorant.

Everything is opt in. Employees can choose not to come. Also, factories all over US (Ford, GM) and California have already opened up. Just that Alameda county, which is not even close to being a hotspot, is proving to be difficult. Elon is pushing the county's hands here and he will likely win.
We can do A/c with the shells rotating back and forth. The micrometer gap is not a problem for the surface of the atom, which can extend indefinitely.

The electron is simply an excitation of the electric field in QM, so one does not come without the other.

Physics is the study of objects that exist, and so it's important to begin with objects in a visualization. Fields are a concepts that measure the location of something happening. That something is the surface of the atom.
Another angle to this too. Global warming is also a pressing problem. Every day tesla is closed we’re not taking ICE vehicles off the road.
The guy was a pedo - sorry no.
No matter what you do, you still have to deal with diffraction [1], which means the resolution is inversely proportional to the aperture. I think the Trump/Iran release was estimated to be pretty close to the diffraction limit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_resolution#Explanation
No need to arrest anyone, just take the factory.
Except for thousand-word exposés in mainstream newspapers and on cable news networks.

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/1...
- The haters have not changed their mind despite their hatred being addressed, they've moved on to other reasons.

- Bitcoin continues to improve.

On a serious note, that's a good summary, thank you!
Poorly worded but what I meant was that Tether's shadiness doesn't imply Bitcoin is bad. That, I believe stands on its own merits.
> the bottleneck is not enough people asking for tests.

the bottleneck is people not being able to access tests. you can't just "ask" for one and get one and if you think you can, you clearly haven't tried getting tested.
Wear a suit? That thing buys a lot of deference.

You have to be careful not to come across like "a suit" in the engineering circles, it's a tricky balance, but it's worth it.
All I can think of now is:

> drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

-- https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762
Stop being a lawyer and making assumptions.
Why not?

A lot of people aren’t putting many miles on their vehicles while all this is going on.

A lockdown that keeps Tesla closed is going to reduce demand for new cars for related reasons.
Even if you can't, our many layers of gov (local, state, fed) have issued stay-at-home guidelines for a reason. Violation of them just causes more cases, which extends the issuance. Now we're having to deal with a demand to return to open up, which will of course come with increases cases. The total numbers would be far lower with compliance to the original ordinances.

I see across the street from me many people in a park daily despite signs everywhere saying 'Closed due to COVID.' The selfishness is maddening.
Not having dedicated floating-point hardware seems like a totally reasonable trade-off, and is common even today for applications below a certain price point. They chose the MIPS R3051, even though the relatively low-cost R3500 was available then; the R3500, with an R3000 core plus integrated R3010 FPU, MMU and memory buffer co-processors, would have blown the budget for the console. At launch in 1994, the PS1 shipped with a fixed-point GPU (with GTE for 3d matrix math), and certainly held its own against the competition.

The PS1 platform prospered because it was cheap, and relatively welcoming for developers (lots of tooling, libraries, infrastructure), and it ended up selling over 100 million units.

It's very tough to argue too much with that kind of success.
Whatever happened to c5a instances (Rome)? They were announced before Graviton but still aren’t out.
How many images do I need to mark as interesting before it generates something? I did about 20 on iOS but nothing. Really interested in project though.
no, that's what all of this is about. conservatives don't like in principle that people are receiving unemployment for their pandemic-induced lost hours (employers - and in some states workers too - pay an unemployment tax on payroll to fund rainy days like these. that unemployment tax is largely subsidized by the federal government, as well)

ETA: the conservatives are absolutely wrong, and the only way out of this is more help for those affected.
Apologies to those who have seen this before:

"Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
It's because state energy policy classifies electric vehicles as part of the "dispersed energy" industry, along with solar panel installers and so forth.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/tesla-factory-employees-will...
The Defender of Differences
Chess Is the New King of the Pandemic
It protects others more against you for you to wear one than for them (e.g. in dry conditions a droplet can evaporate into one that is more of a hanging aerosol by the time it gets to their mask where it could have been stopped by yours).