skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is utterly wrong. The dichotomy doesn't exist and is not anything "new" but the exact intended function of Section 230.
My favorite KH-11/Hubble story is that during the design of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA originally wanted a 3 meter mirror. However when they began to design and budget the satellite they were quietly told they should reconsider and use a 2.4 meter mirror, as this would be significantly cheaper since they would be able to leverage existed machinery capable of created mirrors of that size and precision. That infrastructure and manufacturing process had already been created a decade earlier for Keyhole.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
From experience, the main issues, aside from weather, with using a motorcycle as your sole means of transport are:

- You can't take an arbitrary person as passenger (they need gear and pillion experience)

- You can't take more than a backpack's worth of cargo (slightly expandable with panniers)

This can't take a passenger at all, and looks like it has the same cargo restrictions. It looks fun but I can't see it replacing a small car which solves both of these problems, so it needs to be cheap enough to be a 'fun' second vehicle.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1259912928695857152.html

Accidental death is ~50/100k/lifetime. So 0.9995^n = 1/2 is our accidental halflife. That's ~1400 lifetimes, or about 100k years. Someone please check.
I also just came across it and had the same issue. I haven't decided to whether to get invested in it enough yet to submit a github issue.
How much are you paying to keep this up? Is it expensive to run GPU instances like this?
I'm a little torn with this. On the one hand, it's messed up that Google forces these companies to basically hand over their data, as you put it, but on the other hand, if they don't push companies to do things like this, single-visit webpages like lyrics and recipes inevitably become ad-infested, SEO-driven trash.

Maybe if they used a carrot in addition to the stick, it'd feel less sleezy, but I'm not sure what exactly that would look like.
The fact that the US government isn't buying up the full testing capacity of the private sector... Jesus fucking christ
The case of the missing DNS packets
That raises the question of what their existing authority is. I guess a judge will quickly throw it out of court if their lawyers are full of it.
It seems far fetched that they would be open in a week. We literally just had guidance that phase 2 would be very slow in coming from Santa Clara and these folks all are coordinating.

I think out of a bit of necessity you'll see them softening more than they would want. ie, they are health folks - their only analysis is health (ie, economy is irrelevant / financial impact is not their mental model). Obviously we are safer from covid in total lockdown. Can the world continue like that until a vaccine is ready in 12 months? I'm not sure.
The list you provide is 20 pages of bullet points listing jobs that are supposedly essential. I actually have a hard time figuring out a job that wouldn't qualify as essential.

Also, at the top of the document:

> This list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered, a federal directive or standard. Additionally, this advisory list is not intended to be the exclusive list of critical infrastructure sectors, workers, and functions that should continue during the COVID-19 response across all jurisdictions. Individual jurisdictions should add or subtract essential workforce categories based on their own requirements and discretion.
An Explanation on Working Capital Turnover Ratio in a Business
If it was about them then the federal government would provide aide so that a proper response can be undertaken.

I disagree. The rich people who can avoid the poor are the biggest proponents of opening up business. In fact, I see this sentiment on hacker news more than anywhere else- because software engineers are rich and benefit from the working poor everywhere, they want the economy to reopen so their portfolio grows again.
Funny you mention SPICE to VST compilation... It was on my list for this (my) side project but I never got around to it: http://livespice.org/

edit: And a Tubescreamer is one of the examples!
>> rely on denying blame by blaming customer carelessness and making the client bear this loss

This very much depends on the type of customer.

Consumers pretty much can have their banking password tattooed to their forehead and suffer no repercussions.

If you're an online merchant, it will nearly always be your fault.
> without money, those workers are going to starve

The workers should be getting Pandemic UI through the end of July 2020, so no starving would happen, the factory can stay closed for another two months (if solely considering the workers’ pay)

Tesla won’t go bankrupt if they wait 1-2 weeks to restart operations. They’re sitting on a huge cash pile and have other factories that aren’t closed anyway.
Any idea why carmakers are defined as a critical industry? That strikes me as similar to defining something like cell phone manufacturers being defined critical.
> Speaking of which, I wonder how an emulated Android device (or even a real one) streaming video on my pinephone trough LTE would fare :)

Yeah, I keep meaning to glue together scrcpy+xvfb+x11vnc+guacamole when I get the time and motivation. Should be fun:)
That's a fraction of the AWS bills for many startups arguably doing absolutely nothing
> "We are aware of online discussions about Tether’s lack of publicly-available audits. Periodic audits of our bank balances have been performed by the Taiwan-based auditing firm TOPSUN CPAs & Co. The results of those audits were for the benefit of shareholders and were not in a form suitable for public consumption (to begin with, they were in Mandarin)"

Note that they never said the audit _agreed with_ the numbers listed on the website/exchanges.

Also note that the shareholders of Tether are Bitfinex, who, in addition to being an exchange is... Tether.
These views are those of an older homeowner that doesn't consider themselves a land owner, but as more of California becomes renters and are locked our of owning land by that cabal, the contradictions of these viewpoints will become increasingly untenable as their inherent unfairness continues to exploit people with less wealth.

For example:

> with the most recent passage of the rent control legislation in CA (benefiting developers).

This doesn't benefit or harm developers at all, it just limited the economic rents that wealthy people can extract from the less wealthy. Demonization of developers may be able to persist for a while, but landowners and homeowners are clearly the culprits of wealth inequality here and the developer blame game won't last much longer. For example, take a look at this recent NYT opinion article, which shows the sea-change of opinion about who is to blame for housing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/coronavirus-us-ci...

> If anything, upzoning always increases land prices as it allows more economic value to be extracted from it (think how big the cash flow would be from a 20 unit apartment building developed on a 10000 sq ft lot compared do a duplex even assuming that per-unit rent goes down).

That "always" is completely wrong, which is evidenced by basically everywhere else in the world that has enacted fairer zoning schemes and achieved far better housing results.

Upzoning only vastly increases land values where there has been massive downzoning, which creates massive market pressures in the few places that allow tiny amounts of upzoning. This combination of downzoning wealthy neighborhoods then doing targeted upzoning of lower income neighborhoods has resulted in massive destruction of the few places that were affordable. But policy makers are getting wise to the wealthy people saying NIMBY; future upzonings will increasingly require affordable housing in wealthy neighborhoods, or there will be massive city- or state-wide upzonings as in Oregon or Minneapolis.

The playbook of the wealthy white suburbs has been shown to be disastrous for society, and the next generation of planners, seeing an entire generation locked out of the chance at building homes, is increasingly rejecting the disastrous arguments you put forward. Society can not survive another 20 years of what has happened to housing, which is the disastrous effects of homeowners saying NIMBY to any newcomers. Exclusion of that sort is creating both economic inequality and massive societal disruption (except for the homevoters who directly benefit from this while slyly claiming that they don't care about property values, just about excluding any new people and preventing change.)
A guy walked onto an elevator with me yesterday. Freedom!!!

He wasn't just making a choice for himself, he was making a choice for me.
> If I was contracting with him, I'd be concerned about why his criminal history wasnt communicated sooner given how relevant it is to the nature of his business (especially with concerns about racial discrimination in the criminal justice system) and I'd be curious why I only found out about it through a news report.

Why is this concerning? Do you expect people to post their criminal histories on their LinkedIn? Even if said crimes occurred as a minor and the person has spent their whole adult lives as a law abiding person?

I don't find it curious at all as to why he didn't go around announcing his past criminal connections: because it would hamper his career prospects, and because he doesn't want people to portray the actions he took as a homeless teenager as reflecting his character as an adult. This whole thread demonstrates why not highlighting his past history was a wise decision.
For those in the SE US, I recommend trying Publix fried chicken, if you haven't already. I get a whole fried chicken for less than $10, and it's better than anything I've had in a restaurant. The trick is to call an hour ahead, and have them make it fresh for you. That's half a fried chicken, plus another half as fixin's!
Escaping the Whale: Things you probably shouldn’t do with Docker (Part 1)
>but they're treating us like they treat the drivers.

So it's fine to treat drivers bad?

Who enabled this treatment of drivers?

I prefer being fired/layed off through a text message, it will save me not having to make weird faces and hide emotions when dealing with the person who laid me off.
Databricks jobs clusters can do this on AWS at least. We use them for that.
In your example the falseness is not besides the point. Even if you wouldn't technically lie, using deceptive language as a tool to raise capital is extremely unethical. You might be able to dodge lawsuits by this kind of deception, but ethically you are the same as a liar.
Whole-program optimization at link time (cooperating with the Make jobserver protocol, preferably).
Added[1]! Thank you.

[1] https://github.com/gamburg/margin/commit/d9abf003f665627d392...
Beware of the 'El Camino' trap.

I had a beautiful '72 El Camino, but it had downsides. As a good friend once said, "It's not much of a car, but it's not much of a truck, either!"
It might be cool to just create a tap for now. Afaik a tap can be as minimal as a git repo with the .rb package definition file, which you will have to write at some point anyways.
I feel the exact same way about it. They shouldn't be ignoring local laws, companies don't stand above appointed and elected officials. They don't get to make the rules.
Phrenology and hysteria are not facts, and their interpretations are not facts either.

Some facts are not open to interpretation.
No, there could be more public demand for testing. Just to take an example, instead of armed protesters demanding reopening, they could be protesting for a better public health response.

Test capability is not being ramped up as quickly as possible. Other countries with less wealth than we have are still able to test more people per capita. The federal government has been hesitant to use powers and financial capabilities that it uniquely has in order to ramp up testing more quickly. A lot is being left on the table here. But it's not what we're talking about because the distraction campaign is working. It's really a bummer.

We don't need to test everyone, just the subset of people who may have been exposed. And we need a lot more tracing to find those likely exposures from known positive cases.

I don't understand why people act like there is some law of nature that is forcing this to be so much worse here than in some other places. There are countries who are not struggling as much as us, we could be more like them, we just aren't doing the work to get there.
I think that makes sense if you assume the manager were not let go. But in a layoff case, they usually chop the entire org, which is as huge as 100+ people.
Quibi CEO Meg Whitman calls launch ‘slightly below’ par
I will admit that in January I was sure CNN was selling a pandemic scare ( and at the time I basically dismissed it as an exotic flu ). But in February the writing was on the wall, which is why we were slowly stocking up on essentials.

There are few times to accept government restrictions, but I would say pandemic qualifies. Hell, I was almost ready to accept Trump's flimsy characterization of the pandemic as war with invisible enemy since I was half hoping he would impose stringent restrictions. But he chickened out. And now we have this wishy washy, no mans land, not quite quarantine re-opening.

To say that it is a cluster fuck is an understatement.
UTF-8 (Unicode) compose key sequences
You could try datalog with your own parser. Personally I feel like their is a need for a new industry standard language that lets you encode assertions with either a boolean or a probability.
>>The analogy fails because serfs couldn't vote for their king. We have a democracy here, albeit an imperfect one.

Ahh so we have traded serfdom to the king, for serfdom to the majority.. I thought the idea was for individual rights, and those rights were to be security from the mob mentality of the majority.

we have a Constitutional REPUBLIC for a reason..., and one of those reasons is to prohibit the government from doing some things even if the will of the majority demands it

>>It's almost certain that our early shelter in place orders (from our elected government) has saved hundreds of lives.

There are a many of reasons why CA may be doing better than NYC, down to the type of housing, type of public transport, the weather, and 100's of other factors unrelated to the lockdown. It is far far far from certain that the locked played the key role.it is very dangerous to just cede that fact to them with out debate or analysis of data

>>The reality is that, for many Americans, our boss exercises more power over our lives than our government.

only if you allow it. a Boss does not have the power to put you in a cage, or even kill you for disobeying, the most they can do it cause temporary economic harm, the fact that you discount that difference or even elevate the denial of a paycheck over that of the monopoly of violence is crazy to me.

No your boss does not have more power over your life than the government, No where near it.

>>The burden of proof is on the owner of the plant.

I believe they have done that, and the workers can choose to come back or not. We have have choices in life, unlike mandates by government which are backed by men with guns who will kill you if you defy them, Elon has no power to force anyone back into that factory, they can all choose to stay home.

Further to compare today's employment with the past of coal mines, and sweatshops either shows your ignorance of those times, or is purposefully disingenuous, Coal mines of those days for example paid their employees in Company Script, and they lived in company housing, there is no comparison to that and today's economic reality and doing so just makes you look foolish and/or ignorant
> Executive orders that deprive natural rights are unconstitutional and thus illegal.

This may be a reference to the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness [1] which may be protected by the 10th amendment to the US constitution [3] (reserving rights ... to the people) and the due process clauses [4] from the 5th and 14th amendments to the US constitution.

> Which right gives you the ability to operate your business during a pandemic?

Since "No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" [4], the proper questions may instead be: What law gives government the power to close down businesses during a pandemic and was due process followed in the passage and execution of that law?

Arguably, the shelter in place orders may or may not be constitutional. Practically speaking, telling people to stay home for a few weeks using the threat of the shelter in place orders most likely helped the medical community get a grip on the situation, regardless of the constitutionality of those orders, which may explain the lack of resistance in passing those orders. However, at what point is "the cure ... worse than the disease" [5], i.e., at what point will the overall net net net effect of maintaining the shelter in place orders be worse than rescinding those orders?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_... (citing to [2])

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_right...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_Process_Clause

[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_cure_is_worse_than_the_di...
The bitcoin algorithm periodically adjusts the difficulty of mining a valid block hash in order to keep it around 10 mins per block on average.

If, in the previous 2016 blocks, the average block took less than ten minutes to mine then the difficulty increases and vice-versa.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
Thanks. Seems like he himself tweeted this document. I'll start with this: https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_N...
Why are you arguing about SDFs? The demo you linked proves nothing about what either games do nor what RTX does, in the context of this thread it’s irrelevant whether z-buffers save you one iteration of ray marching.

Not needing a special shadow map or stencil volume or a big bag of tricky tricks for area lights is one of the reasons to use ray tracing & RTX.

The main point of RTX is faster ray tracing. You’re complaining about the screenshot marketing of specific games, not really demonstrating an understanding the tradeoffs of ray tracing. It’s fine if you don’t see any advantage to having ray tracing in Control or Battlefield, and/or don’t like the idea that some people see value in better visuals or easier development. That means you don’t like it. I see a point even if you don’t.
Bojangles is the truth. These days whenever I find myself back in Durham once a year, I always stop by CookOut for their tray and Bojangles for chicken and the biscuits and the gravy.

Legend has it they put crack in that chicken that's why it's so good.
> This was when Dr Fauci, WHO etc were all giving away wrong info. Why are you trusting them but not trusting Elon?

Elon said on March 19 that cases would go to zero. WHO had declared a public health emergency in January and in February was warning publicly that western governments weren’t taking it seriously. WHO declared it a pandemic on March 11, eight days before Elon’s tweet. Here is what they were saying Feb 28, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/who-raises-risk-assessment-o...

Regarding your other quotes

1. This was February 17. Yes, the mask advice was wrong although in line with western medical establishment thinking.

2. Fauci did not say cruises were totally fine. he said not to go if you were elderly or had a preexisting condition. Which is probably the majority of cruise line passengers. Two days before he had already said “When I say protect, I mean right now. Not wait until things get worse. Say no large crowds, no long trips. And above all, don't get on a cruise ship.” (Dr Fauci, March 8)

Elon has repeatedly shown himself to not understand the threat of the virus.
Thanks. I will try this
These are great little boards, and they already have support in the latest beta of CircuitPython! https://circuitpython.org
https://artbreeder.com/i?k=de694b3944a30732a426

Jean Luc, is that you?
That also means gay people are constantly selected against, yet we have them present for eons.
It also cooperates with leap seconds, by counting faithfully up to 61,000 on such a minute.

IIRC, month and year was a 4-bit and 12-bit bitfield just as you describe.
Don’t you mean sensitivity dropping off? The way it’s phrased sounds like someone is more likely to get a false positive as time passes after... no infection happened?
Don’t forget the spiders!
This is the computing I fell in love with back in the 80s/90s, when I could realistically understand most, if not all about a given computer (that applies mostly to 80s computers).

Nothing wrong with the stuff we do today, but I think some of the "magic" of fully mastering a computer and seeing all those raw commands executing at lightning speed (relatively speaking!) was lost.
grocery store fried chicken can be amazing. A local store in my old neighborhood ( SW Dallas ) would cook a fresh batch on Saturday afternoons. so good and very affordable.
NC resident here and when I saw fried chicken I thought Bojangles. It never gets old to me.

Smithfield Chicken and BBQ also has a lot of locations in the southeast and has very good fried chicken.
Off-topic, but I just wanted to mention that Ben's been one of my favorite 'teachers' in YouTube. He has some quality content on React and JS stuff. For those wanting to learn React (including some advanced stuff), check out his channel! And no he didn't pay me to post this here. Hey thanks Ben - I know a bit of React and have used it on a few projects thanks (also) to you.
Ooh - I will be in Minneapolis once this whole global shutdown thing is over, so I'll definitely head that way
damn, i didn’t even know the call ahead was an option - grew up in central Florida. On the left coast, Vons fried chicken is phenomenal imo
You also had the choice to get off the elevator when he got on.
I am not arguing in favor of further lockdown. I think we should partially relax the lockdown for everyone who is not “at risk,” but with proper mitigations:

1. Obligatory masks (freely provided by the government)

2. Social distancing and limitations on large or dense gatherings. Special policies should be rolled out for each sector (offices, restaurants, etc...)

3. Contact tracing apps

4. Greater testing (not necessarily population-wide, but a lot more than what is currently available)

5. Free delivery of essential goods for the at-risk population, and potentially subsidized delivery for non-essential goods

Because of the OP, I was mostly addressing mitigation #3.
>Cryptocurrency and meatspace money are now entirely separate for me. I earn all the cryptocurrency that I need anonymously online. And I don't risk manifesting it as meatspace cash. While that's not currently workable for most people, I don't see why it couldn't become so.

How do you buy things in real life?
I'll add that it's not just capabilities that matter, but also the open Internet gets more and more hostile over time. In the absence of proof otherwise, eventually someone is going to transmit something that makes your device misbehave.
inb4 this shit gets bloated to hell like apache httpd
It’s not the clearest phrasing, but I don’t see anything wrong with it. By selling the sandwiches Annie could buy raw materials to make more sandwiches. A portion of the supply order was allocated to feed the family, the rest became the next batch of sandwiches to sell.

If she had not been able to generate a sustainable income she would not have been able to keep her family fed.