skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think people are smarter and more accepting of the status quo than those who are making the most noise. As for those who are overburdened by the lockdown (i.e. lost jobs), its on the governments to provide the safety net until we have everything under control."

This is the problem with a website for desk jockeys commenting on orders that don't impact their livelihoods.

For any individual, there is a cost/benefit analysis for the lock downs.

The cost is a hell of a lot lower for you and me than it is for restaurant, construction, factory, etc workers who have lost their livelihoods. Let's not forget about the small business owners and independent contractors.

These folks are incurring a much higher cost, and as far as the government assisting them, how smooth do you think that is going?

Have you personally gone and applied for unemployment benefits, or an SBA loan to keep your business afloat?

The government safety net isn't ideal, or pleasant, to deal with. Mayor Garcetti hasn't done well with reforming the LA government, nor dozens of predecessors. The state government of California isn't fun to deal with either.

You probably don't have kids either, if you fit the typical demographic on HN.

A complete failure of empathy on the part of members of the professional/managerial class, who bear little costs of the lockdown towards those who pay the most.

This stay at home order doesn't seem to be informed by updated models and data on this illness. The disease is highly contagious, and deadly at an unacceptably high rate to certain high-risk categories of the population. Those people should change their behavior.

The "wait 2 weeks" thing is what I keep hearing people who are stuck in the "only lockdowns will work" mindset say about every place that has lifted or not implemented lockdowns. It's almost as if they are hoping for it.

Let's be clear: If Georgia and Texas are fine a week from now, that will be good news for the whole country. Even if this good news proves your previously held opinion wrong, it will still be good news. I sense that people on here are hoping for bad news instead, because then they would be right.

Your statement about people being "smarter". Let's be real here, what you mean by "smart" is people who share your beliefs about the best solution to this virus. As if anyone knows with certainty what the best path is. Nobody does. We are all trying our best with the latest data. Except for politicians, who are hell bent on proving that their initial, poorly informed decisions are indeed the way to go by doubling down on them.
TIL that "SC" is the caste formerly known as "untouchables". It does not seem unreasonable to institute some affirmative action for them.
I wouldn't buy a Tesla and I wouldn't drive one if it was given to me free. Despite the legal property of a car title, you can't really own a Tesla, they control the software "activation" and "license" that it won't operate without. And even if you don't use the Autopilot sensors, Tesla uses them to collect data for itself.

Waymo would have all the same problems, except I doubt Waymo is targeting cars people would buy at all. Google seems set on delivering a transportation service. It's questionable if they'll ever sell their system at all.
Absolutely. I have a 90 minute commute but I only have to do it one day out of five. For me, I couldn't be happier.
Those street spots are usually full anyway. Free parking fills up before the lots so that doesn't surprise me.
sleep takes 1/3 of our day, work takes 1/3 of our day. by your logic we have to fit all of our socializing plus everything else about our lives in that additional 1/3.
Gamers everywhere wish you wouldn't consider 30FPS "real time" :)
Great... Can't wait!

(And hopefully this provides a nice base for other BSD's to build off of too)
There is so much software written in Microsoft Access in my country that is basically irreplaceable. They have created interfaces to all the common industry software, vendors and devices and have all the common business processes built in.

Big chains probably have these things integrated in their ERP and CRM or use a custom software solution. But for smaller chains in their respective industries I don't see how you move these programs in the cloud right now without a complete rewrite.
The Intel NUC Compute Element[1] is somewhat like that. I have no reason, however, to think this will last beyond this generation of the NUC.

1: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits...
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The problem with it is that once it is installed - every new tab opens as a note. There is no way to only open a note when you want a note. And you can't set "open new tab" in the settings. The app completely takes over the browser.
I bet they'll totally be onboard for screening a movie that depicts a large corporations doing evil things.
Funny, I always assumed Civil War II would be started by Trump Supporters...
This app @Voice Aloud Reader is great for all kinds of docs. You can even long press paras in Chrome Android and in the long-press menu there'll be an option for Reading it Aloud.

epub,PDF etc. supported too, all details in app description.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionic...
You just reminded me about Reascripts.

Now I know what I'm spending the rest of my lockdown doing.
A few use cases come to mind:

- Microsoft often bundles discounts for their their desktop and server licenses (used for AD and such) with Azure credits. Managers are under pressure to use the free service to deliver value, so teams are told to spin up things in azure as they see fit. reject the credits and reject the discount for the stuff you do use.

- Office 365, Outlook, Xbox Live, Xbox Music and Video, the Microsoft website, MSN, Search, and Visual Studio Online all run in Azure either in whole or in part. If you think Microsoft doesnt dog-food their cloud to pump its numbers, you probably werent around when they bought out shared hosting providers "park website" clusters and converted them to IIS instances to inflate their Netcraft numbers against Apache.
Amusingly, that didn't stop Dutch prog-metal pioneer Arjen Lucassen from entitling his musical tribute to this painting "The Shooting Company of Captain Franz B. Cocq". You'd think "Night Watch" would be easier to fit into a rhyme....
That's the position of philosophy on the philosophical view of consciousness. The broad, intuitive notion of consciousness often does equate it with self-awareness, indeed in the conscious link you have:

"Today, with modern research into the brain it often includes any kind of experience, cognition, feeling or perception. It may be 'awareness', or 'awareness of awareness', or self-awareness." Etc.

I'm more of a fan of this view than the specifically philosophical view of consciousness. This latter sort axiomatizes, pares-down, an intuition that is, itself, so vague that axiomatized version winds up not having any definite qualities or characteristics, just "I know I experience it".
Investors could start getting angry if they feel that Google is blowing large amounts of cash on endeavors that continue to fail. By doing it this way they get a major stake in the potential success of their spin-offs, but they are able to continue delivering profits rather than sinking cash in one black-hole big idea after another. It's probably a matter of walking the line between short-term value of the already successful business versus long-term but riskier value of the potential moonshots.
Unsure why you are getting downvoted, I am seeing the same thing in the bay area, but this is hospitals being ghost towns, etc. I do see alot of people wearing masks but doing it wrong, people wearing them in their car by themselves, or out all alone and wearing them. My own Doctor has told me covid-19 cases have fallen off a cliff and the tents in hospital parking lots are being torn down unused.
> I think people get stuck in the mental construct of "office = socializing" therefore "no office = antisocial". But thats not the case. If you could eliminate the 1 hour of wasted time daily on small talk and office distractions, as well as the 1 hour daily on commuting, that leaves you two extra hours a day of your life to focus on whatever you chose.

There's practical reasons for that. Socialization centered at school transitions easily to socialization centered at work. Also, probably for the worse, many people have few connections to communities independent of work/school. Creating those connections can be difficult, and many of the modern solutions to this problem are aren't very good (e.g. various relationship-shopping apps like "online dating").
There are at least three reasons why USDC could become unstable:

1. Pegged value currencies are subject to Soros-breaking-the-Pound style attacks.

2. USDC is based on Ethereum, a first-generation cryptocurrency with numerous design flaws, at both the protocol and scripting language level. On top of that is an increasingly complex network of DeFi apps which can be exploited in sophisticated ways, as we saw with recent multi-part hack across several DeFi apps.

3. The US Dollar itself may be heading into a period of instability, given the massive US Govt debt and Federal Reserve operations.

You can stick your head in the sand and pretend stablecoins are stable, or you can acknowledge they’re more likely one more in a long history of financial folly.
This is getting dumb and to mixed in with politics; it's
a bad but not catastrophic illness and we have to have a bit of adjustment to further mitigate but these generic-stay-at-home orders are just dumb
I found an air purifier to be a good investment.
I agree that Spark on Kubernetes will have a hard time fixing the problem of shuffling. If they choose to use local disks for per-node shuffle service, a performance issue arises because disk-caching is container-local. If they choose to use NFS to store shuffle files, a different kind of performance issue arises because of not using local disks for storing intermediate files. All these issues will arise without properly implementing fault tolerance in Spark.

We are currently trying to fix the first problem in a different context (not Spark), where worker containers store intermediate shuffle files in local disks mounted as hostPath volumes. The performance penalty is about 50% compared with running everything natively. Besides occasionally some containers almost get stuck for a long time. I believe that the Spark community will encounter the same problem in the future if they choose to use local disks for storing intermediate files.
The person you replied to is talking about NOT being on lockdown for the past 8 days.
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One of Linux's many great failings: it constantly seeks to reinvent the wheel. Unfortunately modern Microsoft is also suffering from this terrible affliction.
Almost the same here. I do not really have problems with GUI on server besides you can configure Windows server run without one. But the pricing however is not very attractive for smaller fish.
What is this magical thing that is so obvious to you? Something may seem magical without being magical. To the person who survives a tornado while all his neighbors die, the sense they were chosen to live and have a special purpose can be compelling, but is false.

Materialism can't explain everything, but there is yet to be any proof that magic explains anything. Lacking that, assuming a physical basis as the explanation is prudent.
The Sefish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Lot of what I thought was question of morality and good vs evil turned out to be simply the question of rational strategies in given environment.
So, how well does this compare to graphviz? Seems a heck of a lot more verbose.
Resume wise, you’re in the same boat as everyone else
The eight days is in reference to Florida easing some lockdown restrictions. Most of the US has been under some sort of lockdown since mid to late March.
"Raising money" means people are buying in. So, I'd ask the opposite. Not why they need money, but who feels the desire to invest.
It's not clear if they are paying 6k or 50k USD to affected moderators. Either isn't enough for a lifelong disease imo.

Also, it's shitty that they are just paying American moderators. Shouldn't the verdict apply globally?
That is actually a pretty reasonable take in my opinion. And refreshing.

Having been on [edit: sports] teams before, it can be a toxic situation or it can be absolutely amazing and life-affirming. It might sound cold in the language, but it can be so rewarding, so bonding. It's definitely a better analogy than family. Family is family. You can define it as you like, but nothing equates.
Do adults need tetanus booster shots?
I mean something like tax incentives to companies that hire most of their employees in the US.
This might be short sighted of me, I dont have a ton of cloud experience but I imagine its as obvious as Linux scales orders of magnitude better than Windows, the projects that need massive scale go cloud. Conversely sql server can demand massive scaling, I wonder what percent of Win Server are for sql server workloads.
I went to University of Illinois at Chicago (not UIUC or UofC). If I worked with a professor for awhile (not in class more for research oriented things) sometimes it would be appropriate to address them by their first name but I never did.
What’s Jensen Been Cooking?
Thanks!

You might want to check out the Kendryte K210. I'm trying out these boards for development. They are designed with two (I think) 64-bit RISC-V cores with a hardware FPU. https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2019/09/12/get-started-with...

I've flashed mine a few times, but I'm still working to getting it to work. The documentation isn't very good, so I'm working to reverse engineer some aspects of it.

This is a low cost alternative. Of course, we could go with the SiFive Unleashed (64-bit) or the SiFive HiFive1, which uses a 32-bit RISC-V CPU in an Arduino form factor. https://www.sifive.com/boards

The SiFive Unleashed cost me a cool $1k, so I'm still scared to mess with it.
It's real world political game theory. The unspoken side benefit (whether intentional or not) here is to limit the government liability in case of health related lawsuits in the future related to opening too soon, which is great as a state taxpayer.

Hesitate to bring it up since its so contentious but this is actually probably a huge side benefit of the Alameda County go slow approach. For the interim county health advisor, there's no benefit for going out on a limb and providing the rubber stamp to allow a plant to open as they'd ultimately individually be scape-goated if things went wrong. All politicians above would be free to claim - "I wasn't consulted on such details". Now since the plant is open without full approvals, all legal liability is on the private company for any health issues that arise. In fact the state hasn't really officially said the plant could open and so is free from liability and now that the president has chimed in, the interim county health advisor is completely free from liability.

It's a great get out of jail free card, release from liability stance as the individual or company is against government orders.
People need to understand that salaries are set based on cost of labor, not cost of living. Companies will pay what it takes, but that value is preset by what employees are willing to accept in any given market.
This may be true, but is not materially relevant.

For people without underlying risk factors, the illness is generally quite minor. Those at risk should stay home, and avoid contact with the potentially infected. For those who share accommodations, mixed risk factor domestic populations, perhaps systemic help could aid in sorting that out.

I decided to post here only to demonstrate that people exist with other views. I'm satisfied that anyone reading this will understand that these views are not unheard of.
Absolutely agree - this is what Doug Lenat and the Cyc team have spent 30 years building - Doug had the foresight to realize that regardless of how "smart" an AI is, if it doesn't know about how things relate in the real world, it can't possibly act as smart as even a young child. "Common sense" is surprisingly difficult to encode, as it means understanding and internalizing a scary number of cause and effect relationships, as well as broad general knowledge about the world, people, language, etc.
I’d buy THAT for a dollar!
Honestly, they should just open up, pass some mask rules and other targeted measures, and then stay open come what may. A broad, untargeted shutdown was always both the bluntest and most expensive approach to this problem. Perhaps its sole merit is that it was really, really good at getting peoples' attention.

Unfortunately, LA is governed by people who do not understand what "the economy" actually means, and view it as a thing to disdain. They will not bear the costs of lost jobs, lost medical screenings, lost K-12 education, and lost social services (both now and pursuant to the city budget shortfalls).

> its on the governments to provide the safety net until we have everything under control.

There is no plan for "under control." We are still looking at a scenario where 50-70% of the population gets the virus. There is a possibility of a vaccine, yes — but no one credible suggests we ought to be planning for it in the next year.

Plan for a 2-year shutdown order, or plan to reopen soon. A three month shutdown, in the middle of that range, doesn't make any sense at all.
As time goes on Sweden's approach to the virus is looking better and better.
i think this is the busting of the SF Real Estate bubble. if you own SF Real Estate... well.. too late.
Looks visually pleasing, but I found their more complex diagrams harder to read compared with something more plain.
Interesting thanks for the heads up
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I think their anecdote is closer to the norm than yours tbh, at least in my experience with tech work.
I remember back in 2005-2007, using AHK to make data entry way more efficient, at a few different companies. It's also great for macros in video games.
In another post I point out that BSD has done a great job keeping things consistent, whereas linux is a bit of a freeforall trying new stuff.
Unfortunately a substantial number of people seem to suffer from a type of concurrency Stockholm syndrome. They prefer explicit and awkward concurrency constructs, perhaps because until Go, mainstream languages like JavaScript, C#, and Python implemented hacks largely because of implementation constraints, so it's all they know. They say thinks like, "I prefer knowing exactly when I might block". Yet you never hear them bemoan the fact that the OS hides process scheduling and VM paging; they don't complain that they can't hook into this at all, let alone be forced to do it 100% of the time for even the simplest code. They never ask that their language force them to be explicit about how and when a simple function call will setup a new stack frame. All of these things were, decades ago, the equivalent of fibers (or more generically asymmetric stackful coroutines). People were likewise skeptical about those things, but today these innovations--function calls, preemptive scheduling, virtual memory--are ubiquitous and invisible and the notion of doing away with them completely or even as default semantics, for all basic programming, would be inconceivable. What small cost they impose upfront by being the default (and often only) construct is vastly outweighed by their power; they're undeniably the correct way to model the vast majority of computing problems at the level with which they're concerned.

I agree, goroutines (or perhaps something a little more generic that doesn't conflate stack reification with scheduling) are absolutely the correct abstraction, and this will be proven in a few decades time. But until then we're stuck with people rationalizing the limitations of async constructs in their favorite languages; constructs primarily chosen because of quirky design constraints, principally C interop and C-based VM implementations that leak the semantics of the C ABI stack.
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Quantifying shareprice movements as a function of data leaks? That's brilliant!
Yeah, I didn't really understand the "physics" requirement as well. Sure if you're measuring the integrated information of the hardware architecture it'll be quite low, but why isn't the integrated information of the abstracted neural simulation software (which is presumably significantly higher) relevant?
I’ve seen Baudrillard compared to something like science fiction for philosophy. The style is intentionally cranked up to 11, in order to communicate a point that’s actually pretty subtle and hard to pin down: what happens when the map replaces the territory.

That’s not to say he’s necessarily a great writer... but there really is meat on the bone.
Is there a significant limitation in using Rust on the stable branch? Every interesting tutorial, book, or tool I find seems to use nightly. I know it shouldn't be a big deal but it "feels dirty" and perhaps I should just view nightly as any other language's "stable".
I taught intro web dev courses at a "highly rated" college in Canada in a program that was specifically for a post-grad, international audience. It was 99% people from India who finished 4 year university degrees in computer science and the like.

Out of a class of 35 students who were already in their 2nd, 3rd or 4th term of this program, no one knew to press F12 to see the console in a browser. This was a web development program. I basically had to teach these kids as if they just walked off the street. No matter which new batch of kids I had, it was like this. I asked them how they could know so little about anything development wise if they took 4 years of CS, like literally what did they do. They'd always just answer that they learned "Theory" and something about learning out of a book, not actually developing or anything.

I still didn't understand how 4 years of theory or book learning couldn't teach you the most basic programming concepts. I'm pretty sure the schools were just mills or scams or something, it was sad.

Most of the students had no real interest in actually learning how to code or doing any learning either, they seemed to believe that just by showing up they'd pass, get a degree and a good job, which was bizarre, especially in a university town and tech hot bed. The amount of cheating, copying, lying, begging, etc. didn't help. A few folks were genuine, but the program seems like it's just a legal loophole to get into the country where if they get at least a technical support job after 2 years of grad they can legally become citizens. This is the fastest growing and most profitable sector of this college.
> Apple could buy all DAW companies

There's also the question of how long would this work. This would stimulate windows DAW market; every software shop would want to sell the next mainstream windows DAW.
Sure, but 'remote' is the 'location', not home town.

You don't pay a non-London salary because the employee lives outside, or a Euro-denominated one because they commute from Paris.
This feels like quite the extension, especially given how other countries are extending lockdowns by several weeks at a time
The Health Officer of Los Angeles County just stated in an open meeting that they fully expect Shelter at Home to be extended another 3 months.

I imagine that there won't be a single date at which Bay Area counties let everyone out of sheltering at the same time. I think it will be phased based on multiple factors of essential-ness (where assembling cars may not be considered terribly "essential" by county health authorities).