skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really know this same Monday feeling. I’m ready for anything on Monday morning but often out of gas by Tuesday afternoon. I’m just now learning to be sensitive to this rhythm.

It doesn’t always work with my schedule or the demands of the job, but most weeks I am able to build in some buffers following long, focused work periods.

Example: Monday, I’ll start early, work long (often into the next morning), break only for meals or the bathroom, and accomplish much across multiple projects. Then, on Tuesday morning, I’ll sip my coffee slowly, exercise, read leisurely, and eventually take care of administrative tasks like processing email or writing up project updates. When Wednesday comes around, I’m ready to work long and deep again.

I work best when I can take advantage of my most energized days and give myself space to recover following those days.
It's almost like someone is trying to tank the economy so they can miraculously bring it back right before, oh, say, November 3, 2020.
Biscuitville. Why won't they expand?
It invalidates your point. The whole area is deeply interconnected. You try to nitpick half a sentence and take it out of context. You know nothing.
> Almost everyone lost out

Yeah, this just isnt true. Every dollar put into the market a year ago has increased in value (broadly speaking, individual investments obviously vary). Being "down from the peak" doesnt matter, what matters is where you are compared to cash (aka, not investing).
> When it became clear that wasn’t the case how are people supposed to react?

When did this become clear? The epidemic is still growing at superlinear speed AFAIK. Total cases are 4x since the last month.
I worked for a number of years in a custom software dev shop and one of my later responsibilities was to be the tech guy during the sales cycle. Essentially my job was to look and sound smart and help convince the potential customer that we're really good and the best choice for the job. I do think we were pretty good but as you can imagine most of my job was bullshitting.

I can't remember the numbers of times that I would quickly read up on a topic / language / technology the prospect was using the night / morning before the meeting, then during the meeting try to sound like an expert in the topic. I know exactly how convincing I was, but I was never called out enough during the meeting to out me.
Yes, Ambrosia was the company but I believe it got shutdown.

https://www.businessinsider.com/young-blood-transfusions-ope...
> "We are addressing this matter using the same phased approach we use for other businesses which have violated the order in the past, and we hope that Tesla will likewise comply without further enforcement measures."

Looks like yet again, Elon Musk will get special treatment. Small restaurants in Sutter and Yuba county were threatened with revocation of their liquor licenses for opening contrary to health regulations[1]. Yet Musk violates those regulations and the local officials express 'hope' that he will follow the rules?

Laws once again are for little people.

[1] https://la.eater.com/2020/5/7/21250785/california-restaurant...
It still takes one standard car's worth of space on the road and one standard car's worth of parking space. This is not a solution to anything.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23109997
Like a health force? It's like space force but for health.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna11...
You mean entrepreneurs, not software developers. I can't think of anything about software development makes it inherently commercial.
> ..exact intended function of Section 230.

Interesting, the deferral to the intent of the law's author - it kind of makes the whole argument about the second amendment seem silly. That would be a dangerous game to play in this case though, given the fact that 230 is a small part of the much larger product of the mid 90's moral panic - the Communications Decency Act. Courts have ruled pretty narrowly on the issue of editorializing and 230 protections, but in cases of defamation they've made it clear that so long as the edits don't alter the meaning - they're protected. At the same time, courts have made it clear that simply changing the context on another's work can be enough to constitute fair-use and effectively create a new work. Those aren't compatible ideas.

The purpose of these tags is to alter the underlying message, they even admit it - they wouldn't function as intended otherwise. I think the funniest example I've seen of this was a 1970s documentary about our imminent destruction by way of global cooling, narrated by Leonard Nimoy. Youtube's little wrong-thought tag helpfully informed me of our imminent destruction by way of global warming.
A lot of the opinion I've read suggests that so called super-spreaders are seeding the majority of flare-ups. In other words, there may be some individuals with very high R0 compared to the vast majority of others. My theory is that Covid-19 was circulating for some time here until the right people became infected, then it really started spreading rapidly.
I don't just like the social aspect, though that's real.

I also get more and better work done around people than home alone.
I have a little bit of BTC, so you and every other HN reader should dump your net worth into it ASAP.
> Not being a grammarian, how many words other than curse words be a noun, verb and adjective all at the same time.

Here’s just a few, there’s a bunch more:

- back

- best

- better

- bitter

- broadside

- clean

- clear

- close

- cod

- collect

- counter

- crisscross

- damn

- double

- down

- even

- express

- fair

- fast

- fine

- firm

- flush

- forward

- free

- full

- home

- jolly

- last

- light

- low

- o.k.

- okay

- out

- pat

- plain

- plumb

- plump

- pop

- prompt

- quiet

- right

- rough

- round

- second

- short

- solo

- square

- steady

- still

- tiptoe

- true

- upstage

- well

- wholesale

- worst

- wrong

- zigzag

As an added bonus, the words above aren’t just valid as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, they are also adverbs too.

Source: https://onweb3.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/663/
In New Zealand as a young teen you had to wait until midnight before pop radio was turned over to one of Peel-inspired DJs until five in the morning, playing all this plus Aussie and Kiwi music. Sometimes it was easier to leave a C-90 taping and see what you got the next day. The Fall, The Birthday Party, Hunters & Collectors, Cabaret Voltaire
Given the number of farms getting ready to kill their unsold livestock, the answer is no, you can't just keep them around. It costs money to keep livestock fed and healthy, and if they can't be sold then farmers lose money every day. Eventually the farmers need to prevent further losses by killing the animals.
The latest number from UFCW is 72.

This virus has a low mortality rate in people younger than 60. Most UFCW workers are significantly younger than 60, so you wouldn't expect a high number of deaths.

The protections in place are not to protect 20-40 year old grocery store workers who would get this virus and likely handle it fine; they're to prevent spread to vulnerable age groups and those with pre-existing conditions, and to prevent the healthcare system from being overwhelmed.
You're close but you're missing the entire point of the book. The industrialists DONT want to carry the weight of the world. Everyone else wants them to.

The entire point of the book is that the world pushes the weight on them and they shrug it off. You can't just force a group of people to save the world.

I'm not really sure why that's a controversial idea. If you keep being a jerk to someone they won't want to help you.
Everybody wants meatpacking plants to be open if it's possible to do so.

Some vegetarians would prefer they close.
That might be how he's justifying it, but looking from the outside and judging by his words and behavior it just seems like he really wants to get back to business and complete his vision / dreams.

I think he's probably considered some worker safety aspects of reopening production, and I also agree in reality with the precautions taken the risk is probably low. I also don't think worker safety is high on his list of priorities; more of a necessary thing that needs to be dealt with to get to his actual goal.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/chickens-depopulated-d...

It's not really doable from what I've been seeing. The animals grow to big and living conditions worsen
> the fact that it's a different syntax from your standard js objects encourages people to consider the VDOM objects as "not normal data", but they are.

Can someone help me understand what the author means by this? What are people doing where the author sees them as considering vdom objects as not normal data?
n-gate? more like nigger gate amirite?
Uber Lays Off 3,500 Employees on a 3 Minute Zoom Call [video]
> Someone, somewhere, is holding every dollar in existence. Someone has to hold it.

Yes, for very short periods of time, ideally. To the extent that remains true the effect of inflation is smoothed out. As at each stage in the transaction chain prices can adjust pricing to reflect inflation. Think of it like a continuously variable transmission. Yes, it has gears. But the effect is basically smoothed out if you do it quickly enough.

> Saying “don’t hold money” tells me everything I need to know about your understanding of economics.

It clearly doesn't.
Bullshitting is priming someone to agree with you even though they have reasonable doubts. When trump implies that a Chinese reporter may have ties to the Chinese government it’s not something that has any evidence behind it, but he’s basically making your subconscious engage with the idea (as even a low percentile chance could be true). Then, he applies the same to the pitch he’s making.
They are commonplace puzzles that serve to measure commonplace intelligence. What else were you thinking?
Which is just dripping with irony? serendipity?
And crappy cars you can brand new for barely more than half that - looking at you Mitsubishi.
There's also the Renault Twizy that is readily available and significantly cheaper (starting at 7000 Euro). Actually even the regular electric car by Seat (Mii) is much cheaper than the Electrameccanica.
China and Others Trying to Steal Covid-19 Research
While this might be correct, in the a lot of cases you'll also use a lot of plugins for both to enable the desired transpilations and checks...

I should have been more precise in my first comment though.
I think it's more "if they dont care they'll quit when it gets hard" thinking.
It’s also a more nuanced issue than that. A larger proportion of bike fatalities involve alcohol.
The speed limit analogy doesn't really reflect the magnitude of the conflict we're seeing here. Should the government be allowed to pick and choose businesses that are allowed to open as if they were eggs in a basket? The speed limit example applies to everyone equally, and a difference of 10mph in the speed limit isn't going to potentially bankrupt successful businesses.

Given the speed limit analogy, the corresponding action here would be to allow all businesses to operate in distanced-mode (6ft, thermo guns, etc.) equally. Any business that cannot function in this mode would be at a disadvantage, but it wouldn't be because someone on a small government panel disliked their eggs.

My 2 cents -- I agree with OP, California apparently tends to exercise their power a bit too often at the expense of their constituents. I can't imagine how a black-and-white veto on businesses could be considered as sensible policy... The government should be more incremental in their decisions, i.e. with slow business-agnostic openings.
It's a non-profit library and they don't publicly provide a way to download most of the copyrighted content, so rights holders aren't too concerned. I imagine most people, even copyright lawyers, personally support the free archiving of everything made in the current age as long as it doesn't detract from current business operations and the copyrights are respected for their duration.
Reopening the Coronavirus-Era Office: One-Person Elevators, No Cafeterias
This high prevalence is specific to a few regions though. I most states the registered total cases are still way less than 0.5%.
> 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.

That ship sailed a while ago.

Home Depot is open and packed to the gills (literally people lining up to get in the front door at my neighborhood Home Depot which is about 20 minutes from the Tesla factory). Most of the people shopping there aren't doing anything essential -- their home improvement projects and gardens can wait.

Similarly, marijuana dispensaries are still open in California. They aren't really essential: unlike in the case of alcohol, withdrawal from marijuana is not dangerous and smokers could go without it. Yet dispensaries are "essential".

On the other hand, car parades and just "going for a drive" are officially discouraged even though there is no chance of contact with strangers when you are inside your car.

At this point, to say that those businesses are essential, and yet a car factory is not, is plainly ridiculous.

What kind of rational decision-making process results in marijuana dispensaries being more essential than car factories?

The government can't get out of this by claiming it can't pick and choose, because it has already been picking and choosing for a while. It has given the green light to more questionable cases than the Tesla factory.
Thank you. That is the full report. This site is its summary and an FAQ.
In fact, they can't imagine a world that doesn't operate this way.
The myth of being 'bad' at maths
For most transactions, not being included in the next block is unacceptable.
How You Will Fail
So it's actually probably less efficient.
Twitter says it will label misleading coronavirus tweets – even if from Trump
(author of Dgraph here)

As staticassertion is mentioning, some of the violations that were found were only around tablet moves, which happen only in certain cluster sizes and quite infrequently. Of course, Jepsen triggers those moves left-right-and-center to evoke some of those failure conditions; but that's not how tablet moves are supposed to work in real world conditions. This is different from other edge cases like process crashes, or machine failures, network partitions, clock skews, etc., which can and do happen. In those cases, Jepsen didn't find any violations.

We were planning to look into those tablet move issues and get them fixed up (shouldn't be that hard), but honestly, the chances of our users encountering them is so low that we de-prioritized that work over some of the other launches that we are doing.

But, we'll fix those up in the next few months, once we have more bandwidth.
Reminds me of the “free” online games, where the free players provide the environment for the addicted “pro” players who pay a fortune for “extras” and upgrades.
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> 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.

This is a weird part of our culture where celebrities are constantly pushed by the twitter-sized attention span of our current day and age to put out oversimplified, exaggerated, and often totally wrong memes.
I plotted your comments/posts by GMT hour: https://imgur.com/a/9CNi2Ln
> Whats so hard to understand about laws applied uniformly?

The law was applied arbitrarily from the beginning of the lockdown. There was never uniformity, and the decisions about which businesses are essential was arbitrary rather evidence-based. In what rational world is a marijuana dispensary considered more essential than a car factory?
I think the conclusion I would draw from the Theranos debacle is "doing hundreds of complex tests from a drop of blood is impossible", not "doing any complex test from a drop of blood is impossible."
Wanted: Somewhere, Anywhere, to Store Lots of Cheap Oil
Hi

Did you get suggestions for this? We are in desperate need of AWS credits for a good cause that I can detail more.
You're right that intrinsic isn't really the right word, but the problem with pre-marginalist theories of value isn't that they're intrinsic per-se, it's that they're objective.

It's exactly that products do not have prices that is the problem. The apparent 'price' of a product is an epiphenomenon of a particular market, a side effect of the unequal subjective values of the participants (and it's trivial to observe that these clearing prices are determined at the margin, not on average, which makes aggregate LTV even wronger than the regular kind)

In a well-functioning market all products have clearing prices that are easily measured and compared to one another, but this is a mirage that requires constant arbitrage to maintain. The slightest change in unrelated market conditions turns dirt into ore or crude oil into toxic waste, with no objective change in the material itself, only changes in the subjective needs of the participants.
If I've understood correctly, the test used was something along the lines of: two non-chinese accounts send back-and-forth messages including benign content (maybe a picture of a pie) and less-benign content (maybe "I like Falun Gong almost as much as I like the CDC"). Then, chinese accounts would observe that the picture of the pie might be censored. I don't actually see an unambiguous description of what messages were sent, or how strong the effect is. Those questions don't really matter for addressing "are non-chinese accounts monitored?" (unless CL is outright lying, obviously yes), but they do matter for the fun question:

Can this be used to construct an attack on WeChat? Providing targeted misinformation for training, to suggest correlations where there really are none, thus triggering WeChat to have a higher false-positive rate when censoring messages?

I'm reminded of RMS's famous practice (and a script in emacs, IIRC): automatically append various keywords to the bottom of emails to screw with any US surveillance that might be getting too nosy.

EDIT: I'm a dope, and should have read the full report (here: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/#part-2---t...) before commenting.

As far as I can tell, an attack isn't possible. WeChat would ideally like to analyze each document or video sent for sensitive content, but it takes some time (on the order of 20 seconds, maybe), and so that analysis can't be performed before messages are supposed to be delivered. However, if WeChat has already seen the video, then it can make the judgement quickly, and perform real-time censorship. Thus, sending a sensitive video the first time won't be blocked, but all subsequent sends will be. CL's result seems to be that if the first video send is between non-chinese accounts, that's still enough to get it analyzed and blocked the second time.
I was not disagreeing with the premise that the impact of Covid-19 could be significant. I would disagree in plotting a novel virus’s rate of death would remain completely static from first appearance for a period of four years, but it could. I was more taking issue with calling the current state of the world regarding the pandemic they worst global catastrophe since WWII. I felt like parent was trivializing multiple significantly horrible events and then using it to make a point about how people are not acting in a manner they view as appropriate.
You think Bay Area is closer to herd immunity than NYC?
Not all criminals are masterminds like Satoshi... or should I say... Paul "Solotshi" Calder Le Roux. [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...
And yet California's economy is larger than the bottom half of US states combined and the fifth-largest economy in the world if it was a sovereign country.
I live close by the first purchaser of one of these. It's a wild little car, and it looks like an absolute pleasure to drive as a personal commuting device.
I had assumed that sufficient money and connections provide immunity from the law only in facade democracies and banana republics.

It appears that that sufficient money and connections provide immunity from the law in America too.
> 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.

That's not clear. To get infected you need to be exposed to a certain number of viruses. I don't think the number is known for sure for this one, but for similar viruses its something like 1000.

A sneeze or cough expels millions, which is why people who are sneezing or coughing are so good at spreading it. Someone who isn't sneezing or coughing but who has it expels much fewer, taking maybe an hour to expel by breathing enough to infect someone else. Talking would cut that down some, but still take a while.

An infected person shopping at Costco or Home Depot who is not coughing is very unlikely to infect other shoppers that they pass while shopping. It would only be in line to checkout where other people would be near them for longer times, but if the business is doing reasonable crowd control those times should not be long enough for anyone to get the 1000 viruses.

This is why churches and movie theaters are much more dangerous. There you are near the same people for an hour or two, so even staying 6ft apart you might get enough total viruses during your visit to become sick.

Is a Tesla factory more like a Costco or Home Depot, where everyone is moving about and most of your encounters with others only last a short time, or is it more like a movie theater or church, where you are fairly stationary as are those around you? If a work shift is 8 hours and people are mostly stationary, I'd not at all be surprised if you need them to be much farther apart than 6ft to make it safe.
As far as I know, they limit public access to basically any material with a complaint or request, but keep copies. They may do more, but that seems to be the default response.

Which seems smart enough: minimize litigation costs while not losing content permanently via court orders or dmcas or similar threats.

But it's frustrating for the wayback machine- where sites like Snopes and some newspapers have opted out of having their history published (after being accused of ghost edits to articles).

I don't know what the right answer is, but even if they didn't display the page, it would be nice to see the diffs (ala wikipedia), or at least show if and when changes to a page were made. Maybe that's beyond their mission scope, though.
> perfectly compatible with all of maxwell's equations and basic QED. This is an illustration not a new theory.

You may have misunderstood a few aspects of QED. It is true that the U(1) field of QED and gauge theory says that there are "little circulations" that explain all known electromagnetic phenomena, but this is at a completely different scale than electron orbits, and doesn't require atoms in general.
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ is a great visualization of just how wealthy one particular billionaire is.

We're all closer to being millionaires than Jeff Bezos.
> To me it has always seemed inherently clear that the way to approach life is to do something if you enjoy it.

I enjoy working on challenging engineering and software projects that fall into domains that interest me.

I do not enjoy having to hunt and pick through algebra concepts I was never good at in the first place so I can than spend more time on even more difficult mathematics before I can do much useful work on those aforementioned projects.
I've seen it in person many times; it's definitely smaller than the hatchbacks parked on the street near to it.

More like a goldwing motorcycle in size.
It's the mechanisms that we are after. Like most things, it's discovred in nature first, then we figure out how to make it.
The potential discounted future cash flows from it were good.