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> Well, the UN definition of "Human Rights" includes the "right to work"[1]. So one could argue that this is, in fact, a Human Rights issue. Just because this guy is a billionaire does not mean that these rights do not apply to him

This nicely illustrates the folly of trying to reason about a situation from a pithy statement of some cherry-picked "right." Are we violating the "right to work"[1] of young children when we forbid them from quitting school getting a a factory job? Maybe, but it's pretty obvious that overriding factors are more important in that case. It's the same when we consider an employer who wants to "to work" employing his employees in conditions that some may consider unsafe.
I think it's pretty natural. The jurisdictions are set up so that similar geographic areas and populations are covered. In the US, this happens to be on the county level in larger states, and at the state level in smaller states. It can also be at the city or town level.

In the SF bay, SF itself is a city and county. The other counties have health authorities, but so does the city of Berkeley. All the health officers of the Bay Area counties are working together, so effectively creating a larger jurisdiction. But Los Angeles is 400 miles (600km) away and in a totally different situation, so it makes sense to do things locally in large states such as California. Different levels of jurisdiction allow for flexibility, so for example, the state may declare non-essential businesses closed, but the local health officer can define the list of essential businesses or activities--or issue exemptions.

It also allows some level of local control. Smaller less-populated counties in Northern California where the population is more against the quarantine rules, and where frankly there is less need for them, can have less enforcement, or change later if they find they need it.

For a different example, look at France, a highly centralized government. The central government makes all health decisions, but they they still divided the country into zones (Paris and the east were hardest hit by the virus). While all areas had restrictions, they were more strict in those regions, and now that they are starting to re-open, each department has a list of criteria. So each department will have different levels of openness, just like counties in the US.
Stencil uses JSX.
We have infrastructure at a number of cloud and bare metal providers, and I have my own personal applications running on several others for evaluation.

In the decade or so since I started moving applications to the cloud, I’ve found AWS one of the easiest to migrate away from—and that’s what keeps us there. We’re constantly streaming our data to other providers who won’t let us export easily (or make it even more expensive than AWS). If we need to fail over, we can—while we do use AWS APIs, it’s not that hard to switch our code over to use a different API; we’ve done it plenty of times before.

If what you’re describing were to actually happen, or if we suspected that it was about to happen, we’d be moving away from AWS with the flick of a switch. While I doubt most of their customers would be able to do that with so little difficulty, I’m sure a lot of people would think twice about throwing more money at an expensive cloud. We’re paying for the versatility without the need to manage bare metal ourselves; it’s worth the money only so long as that versatility and interoperability remains intact.
Washington (State) launched something similar on May 1st:

https://www.coronavirus.wa.gov/what-you-need-know/covid-19-r...
"Not quite true", here, meaning not false. Hardware sequencing differs in detail from mutexes, but has to solve many of the same problems, ultimately much the same way. If your atomic-swap fails, you have to loop and try again, which absolutely counts as a stall, particularly counting your branch misprediction. A mutex ever held much longer than that mispredicted loop would indicate poor design.

And, of course, a single-writer ring buffer is entirely different in character. Writes cannot stall, and readers can work wholly in parallel without contention of any kind. (Multi-writer ring buffer? Good one.) New Intel chips have an instruction for a reader to sleep waiting on a cache invalidation, allowing the other hyperthread to run unimpeded by its partner's spin loop.

Lapping is easy to detect with a generation counter if needed, but anyway it is better just to keep up. Detected, being lapped is generally a system failure anyway.
I suppose my instinct is to think just because you were right once or twice about BTC using this model doesn't mean you'll be right about it going forward. What intrinsically about this model should give me confidence in it?
You shop at your nearest grocer, or a nearby one, so the group mixing isn't that much. It's actually a fairly consistent group of people picking up eggs at the corner market. Tesla's autoworkers aren't paid enough to actually live in Fremont, so many of them are going to drive in from Stanislaus, Merced, and San Joaquin counties, creating exactly the kinds of long-distance links we don't want.
California has had worse outcomes than Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and South Korea:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/
Banks practicing FRBs have liquidity reserve limits, and are frequently audited, and have to be solvent (Value of all assets minus liabilities exceeds value of all deposits) in order to operate.

Tether is a fly-by-night con job that, to disburse USD redemptions, wires hundreds of millions of dollars to money launderers in the Carribean, who then go ahead and steal most of it.

And when law enforcement starts digging through their books, we discover that a third of Tether's 'reserves' consist of a "I'll pay you guys a few billion dollars, pinky swear", scrawled on a napkin.

It's not fractional reserve. It's straight-up fraud.
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How does the constitution let Elon do what he wants here? The Constitution gives the government the right to force you, at gunpoint, to pick up a gun and walk onto a battlefield where other people with guns are expected to shoot at you — see WWII. Given this, and given that we’re in a similar time of emergency, I don’t see how forcing people to not do things that exacerbate the spread of coronavirus is not a right granted the government by the Constitution.
The comparisons with Rosa Parks are a bit rich. By refusing to stand on the bus, Parks did not make millions of dollars or put other people's lives at risk.
> [0] The trick works because physicists are mainly interested in remembering right answers, so if your speculations are wrong they will remember only the experiment, and if your speculations are right they will remember both.

This made me smile!
So what about the famous subtype of bullshit which is obviously false but which is accepted for its entertainment value.
No gov't in the country would question those unemployment benefits though, these days. So it's safe for them to file and collect.
Do you need a CAN controller and a CAN transceiver or just a transceiver?
>most people drive roughly 5 miles per hour over the speed limit
>speed limit does in fact have a mitigating effect.

You got the causality dangerously backwards. That's not how policy works.

"The speed limit is commonly set at or below the 85th percentile operating speed (being the speed which no more than 15% of traffic exceeds),", as per [1].

Specifically, speed limits are not set by carefully measuring & modeling conditions on the road by direct application of science; there's no finely tuned measuring aparatus nor advanced math model. Instead we rely on drivers judgement aggregated over time, conditions, and locations. Granted, there are certain notable exceptions: bridges & tunnels where speed limit is also informed by structural constraints, and also fuel consumption reduction policy in cases like the 1973 speed limit.

And yes there are natural parallels to civil disobedience; in some cases limits got raised or lowered upon public pressure.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#Maximum_speed_limi...
Fuel efficiency of most cars drops precipitiously at higher speeds. You're generating more pollution by speeding, not less.
This is pretty interesting, I wonder if this meta could be reused for tutorials of any kind (and not only of food, a.k.a. recipes). A tutorial normally has some requisites, and then step by step guide of how to achieve it, and then the final result.
What we really need is a graph over time of each metric by area. Wish this was easily available by API.
> My personal opinion is that the externalities of our current approach (I'm speaking from a US-based perspective) far exceed the cost of COVID-19 itself.

How many lives would need to be saved to encourage the current lockdown, in your opinion?
People who oppose EARN-IT act did provide their reasons. I get it that you don’t believe their intentions. Do you have any plausible theories on this supposedly secret motives of Alameda county officials? You say it isn’t saving lives, so what do you think it is? What do they benefit from keeping a factory closed unnecessarily?
The interest in this story has always intrigued me.

What is it about this story that keeps people engaged? Are other engineers concerned they could be fired like Damore for saying the wrong thing?
Governor Newsom is in the process of lifting shelter in place. Manufacturing is one thing that should be opening up.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-04/californ...
Management?
A few more months isn't going to give us a vaccine so at worst that's just causing more economic damage, leaving hospitals empty and moving the pandemic two months into the future. At best you open back up with safety procedures, and limit the spread. But there's no reason you can't do that exact same thing today.

Also, I agree with Musk that an indefinite lockdown is unconstitutional. And if it's not, I want our laws changed so it is. It may be a good idea health-wise (or may not, see increased suicides) but that doesn't make it legal and letting an unelected official impose an indefinite lockdown is just bad policy. So if the local authority couldn't give a deadline, I'd tell them to piss off too.
What if there was a feature to load the pages without images? I use IA a lot but I rarely need the media stuff, at least initially. Speaking for myself I’d be happy to get the page without images and then click to optionally get the images. (Lazy lazy loading)
People here are missing why, exactly, the government wants to lock down the admittedly low-risk Tesla factory. It's about political sustainability.

Right now, the government has a simple story: essential businesses stay open, and everything else stays closed. It's quick to express and easily understandable.

But as soon as the government starts picking and choosing "nonessential" businesses to allow to open, every single nonessential business will be clamoring for an allowance and emboldened to present themselves as heroic frontline workers. You'll see every nail salon in the state market themselves as paragons of safety and virtue, professionally run, basically cleaner than the best medical facilities in the world. And if the government allows Tesla and refuses nail salons/meat packing facilities/hookah bars, you'll have a large constituency who'll be pushing duplicitous but superficially plausible arguments like "Newsom loves his BigTech buddies like Elon Musk but hates everyday regular businesses like Tyson."

The quarantine only has power so long as the public understands it and supports it, and the government has made the plausible assumption that picking and choosing nonessentials would undermine public understanding and enforcement of the quarantine more than the value that would come in allowing certain safe nonessential businesses to return to work.
>> I think it's also important to have a culture of reading, not just writing.

That's certainly part of the key at Amazon. Documents are written to be _read_ and _used_ in critical decision-making.

If you regularly don't read the documents distributed at the beginning of meetings and then ask questions that are clearly answered in those documents, you will be "profoundly unsuccessful" at Amazon.

(How's that for a euphemism?)
You are comparing to one of the largest bandwidth using services world-wide. Of course archive.org will lose out.

I should have added: 60 Gbit/s is a lot for a donation run service like archive.org. Not sure if there are donation run services on the internet with more traffic.
Chicken Mary's is the only place I've ever been offered fried chicken with a side of spaghetti. It's good, too.
Why would you think that? It seems like you’re assuming some limitation that isn’t inherent to the problem.
As something of a nit-pick, Ayn Rand did not self-identify as a libertarian, and most libertarians are not followers of hers, thus "Atlas Shrugged" is not really a 'libertarian bible'. Rand self-identified as an 'objectivist', but she and her followers are often identified as 'Randians', though the latter may be seen as pejorative.
Writing wants to be uncompensated?
I used to work with an IT person that Absolutely. Would. Not. Put. It. In. Writing.

It was infuriating. I'd send him an email, spelling out a need or a project, and he'd walk three stories of stairs to come into my office to make his commitments.

For me, I believe in being held accountable.

You may have noticed that I take a rather unusual tack with my HN ID. I have full access and traceability in it. I have my personal brand attached to it.

That encourages me to be very careful about what I post.

I would love it if we were all more careful about what we post and say.

I have no control over others, so I make sure that I abide by my own standards.
> what the "weird cold" that everyone had in February was.

Probably just a different coronavirus or flu. I was sick for weeks in October 2019 with a dry cough and body aches plus lethargy that sound superficially similar, but the fact that whatever it was didn't produce packed ICUs seems to strongly indicate that it was something else.

Lengthiest cold ever for me, though.
Their "phased approach" is a very long process that will likely extend into the period whereby everything reopens.

It is essentially the same as doing nothing.
No we didn't (collectively shit ourselves) and we did not really heed the lesson that SARS-COV-1 gave us. I really hope we don't see a leet SARS. It will probably have a really cool Tik Tok page though.

I take it that your term "externalities" (I haven't heard it before) is referring to the side effects eg economic of our attempts to deal with it.

The cost of COVID-19 to an individual seems to range from "meh" to death by lung destruction. There are some identified risk factors - being male, smokers (some "initial immunity" but worse outcomes), skin colour (this looks like correlation rather than causality but needs working through), being old (70+ is the current threshold), diabetes.

Until you know (test, test, test again) that you have actually had the disease then I suspect you will be always looking over your shoulder. Once you know you've had it and hopefully survived then you can plan forwards. There are many reports of additional snags post infection eg renal problems and lung damage, not to mention the mental trauma.

I'm speaking as a UK bod with a small company to worry about that still has a few months left in the bank. I'm alright Jack but I worry about my fellow people.
In terms of raw CPU performance, these look pretty good. For stuff like SPEC CPU, they're within spitting distance of the EPYC 7571 for single-core performance[1]. Multi-core is not as good though. Hopefully we can see them matched against the Rome EPYC instances soon.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
In this case, the country is preventing them from working under I presume the threat of arrest and/or fines. Surely is a good enough reason.
With the first I want to know why immediately with the later I will eventually ask for clarification. It is also an invitation for critical examination.

I do some accounting for who says what. How much they normally complaint? How often are they right? How do they deal with similar feedback?

There is this hilarious place few get to visit where everyone is complaining about everything all of the time while the mood is just wonderful. The work delivered is of exceptional quality.
> What makes it feel inhumane is when you're laid off with 3700 other employees in a three minute meeting.

At least they spared them one more long meeting where they yap on about how important people are, how this a hard choice, how the company will emerge stronger (like I care), this doesn't reflect upon you personally, etc. They weren't cowards hiding behind nice words while the "liberated" people from their jobs. That's more humane than most companies.

> It means you don't get to talk directly with your manager nor are you potentially given a chance to speak with your team.

This very often happens during in person layoffs already, "we're sorry to let you go, security has a box with all your crap at the door".
GPT-2 must be intelligent as fuck.
Procrustes was really one of the first slasher horror villains.
TIBCO is garbage. They had a halo for a long time from Rendezvous/EMS. But their money maker was this integration suite called BusinessWorks. It was this horrifyingly complex application that forced you into these ruts so that it could compile Java code. I kid you not, the developer environment for complex code was notepad.exe.

They spent a bunch of money on M&A and eventually had to go private and buy out the founder.
> single Netflix CDN node.

Looks like they max out at 100 Gbps, or as low as 40 Gbps, depending on appliance model and link aggregation configuration. No argument either way, just thought it was cool info.

https://openconnect.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600345383...
Slack phishing attacks using webhooks – AT&T Alien Labs
It's a big state. See how small the number is for Alameda County?

By the way, I'm definitely not arguing with your conclusion. What we have to learn from Taiwan and Korea is that with a robust test and trace, we can go back to work. We just don't have it yet.
Who cares? Being good at bullshitting is like being a good liar or good at dissimulation. The "good" is only analogical in meaning. Virtuous intelligent people, the wise, are habituated and developed in the direction of truth and away from lies, deceit and bullshit. They have a sensitivity to the truth and the value of truth. Bullshitting requires and in turn reinforces a kind of mental dullness and blindness. It leads to a kind of degeneration of the mental faculties. If you don't care about the truth—only the parochial effects of your petty machinations—then you are frustrating the intellect and its grasp of reality. You are reinforcing vices while weakening the capacity for discernment and the strengths and virtues needed for proper intellectual function and receptivity.

It's a bit like what happens when an intelligent coward is met with contrary evidence. He will turn away from the truth and go to great lengths to rationalize it away, and in doing so, he will blind himself to the truth. Making that a habit through repetition only deepens the vice and unravels the mind, making it increasingly difficult to dig yourself out.
Except for the permanent or long term lung, heart, liver, brain damage.
If you check out the archives of NaNoGenMo over at github you'll likely find what you're looking for:

https://nanogenmo.github.io/

Check out the yearly resources.
I think you've missed that the hiccup example is the code on the final line.
Would I say what? That it's a "speculative, high-volatility commodity with no use value traded in an unregulated market"? No. Gold has use value and is generally traded in regulated markets.

If something is volatile and great for speculation, it's a bad store of value. So I don't think Bitcoin qualifies as that either.
Nobody wants that. What people want is testing and tracing program like the ones other countries are having success with.

The "they want to keep us locked down forever" talking point is a manufactured distraction.
That would have been a great thing for the memo to say.

That's not what the memo said. Instead, the memo claimed women were on average more neurotic.
* the plane crashes because its not connected to the internet and the auto pilot cannot get a gps route via the google maps directions api
I agree with your rationale. Some manufacturing that is deemed essential is and was allowed to continue during the height of the pandemic so long as safety measures were taken (well outlined by Corning), PPE, physical avoidance, hygiene, air treatment, mindfulness, etc. If that protocol allowed some manufacturing to continue during lockdown I don’t see why it would now be insufficient while lifting some restrictions (or as your example Lowe’s and The Home Depot remaining open).
There is a state level order and a county level order the state level order says to open the county says stay closed. They can't do both. They consulted a lawyer, chose to follow the higher authority, and asked a court to confirm they are in the right. What they are doing is entirely reasonable.
Health and food supply are both parts of the economy, unless you trust the Feds to set up rationing.

Which is not to defend the managers who are pushing for things to open when they don't have front-line exposure.
Out of curiosity: why were you tested if you've been in strict isolation for two months?
These sound like my people. How does one join?
Inline images (even across all Wayback Machine usage) are likely a tiny factor, compared to the rich-media downloads (audio, video) dominating this usage.
> It turned out that they assumed the government was spying on everybody anyway.

I've assumed that since the 60s :)

Anyone remember "The President's Analyst"?
Hi Joel,

Given that nVidia has a pretty clear license saying that their model and all derivates may only be used non-commercially (https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2/blob/cec605e0834de5404d5...) and Artbreeder is clearly commercial (https://artbreeder.com/pricing) but is using StyleGAN (https://artbreeder.com/i?k=755521d9fe07456286a06f06), do you feel that Artbreeder is intentionally violating nVidia's license?

For what it's worth, I fully support your project and I nearly launched something similar myself. But many people choose not to do projects such as yours due to licensing considerations, and I'm wondering in general how to reconcile the moral dilemma. On one hand, nVidia almost certainly doesn't care. On the other hand, they did say very clearly "thou shalt not use this model, or any derivative thereof, commercially."

(It's tempting to believe the license only covers the code, not the model. But the same license appears in their download drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QHc-yF5C3DChRwSdZKcx...)
I think it more has to do with the necessity of the service versus the risk undertaken.
How do you know it is not evidence driven ? Do you have expertise in infectious disease ? Do you have any data to prove that Alameda county has the means to control spread, has requisite number of PPE supplies ? Do you know if the county has the adequate testing capacity or contact tracing ? All of county's indicators are documented here: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/

I would say it is highly evidence and data based and Musk is being a petulant child
They are, indeed, impressive. Keep in mind, though, that a Graviton "vCPU" is an actual core. They are making direct comparisons to an Intel "vCPU", which is basically 1/2 a core (hyperthreading). I suppose what actually matters is performance per dollar, but it still feels a bit misleading.
ok that makes sense. but in that case wouldn't be easier to write your own adapters for each data source?