skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Considering that, if I were in Elon's position, I'd prefer the state to be paying my employees salaries, and leave most of my factories closed. Keep the R&D department going so I have some awesome new products in a year's time when the economy starts recovering.

Back orders/deposits are clogging up the system, thus affecting the total supply chain of deliverable cars. Model Y was not as popular in deposits as 3 was, that might have changed since I looked at the data, but also 3's line at Fremont is optimized for Y's output. Also, that's the only factory that make S/X/Y chassis for now. so its a bottleneck issue, too.

Essentially, this comes down to opportunity costs; people have paid, in part, for a car which if they choose to can/will always be refunded if they don't want it before taking delivery. Tesla would then have to not only give them their deposit back, but also have to figure out what to do with the chassis--taking on a net loss, but also assume liability for its inventory.

If Elon is right, Y is supposed to be their most popular chassis yet, so it'd probably just go to the next customer with the same specs. But still, my best guess is that this comes down to opportunity costs and unrealized gains--they have procured all the materials for assembly and its creating a backlog in production/vin assignment along with costly storage fees.

Which after the pain-staking processes with Model 3 ramp up, and optimization it has to be near unavoidable to want to learn and iterate as fast as possible to streamline the process to meet Global demand. I still can't figure out why the Gigafactory at Sparks isn't being used as an adjunct of their manufacturing, instead of just cramming ever-more of their entire inventory into Fremont.

I agree with Elon's position that most don't take the importance and difficulty of Manufacturing and its Supply Chain/Logistics very seriously at best and totally for granted and way too lightly at worst, because in reality it's a myriad of ever-changing cogs and gears all working in what may seem to the outsider as an effortless machine. It's like plumbing, if you've done it right most don't/won't even notice it until something goes catastrophically wrong: and then they're up in arms about having to deal with not getting fed because someone like Amazon is taking 3.5 weeks to deliver goods when it used to be same day.
More like:

> What Google is asking of Podcast Addict would be comparable to Google asking Google to remove all references to the websites and social media posts that reference the coronavirus unless the reference comes from an official government entity or public health organization.
I don't follow. The article is about one state spying on the internal communications of another state, while they were at war.
I run OpenGL just fine in win32. Also have Vulkan based app (not my own) and runs just fine. Do not give a flying hoot whether it runs under UWP as I would not touch it with a wooden pole.
The ability to trigger with any desired phrase is easy, but not done for privacy reasons, to reduce the chance of it accidentally listening to irrelevant conversations.

The inability to change it from Hey google is done for marketing / usability reasons.
Why wouldn't it? Supposing that it doesn't presupposes that somewhere along the gradual chain of replacing a human brain with this paper processing system those properties are lost either gradually or abruptly.
Whatsapp's killer feature was reliability, 10 years ago. It simply had better message delivery.

Now most apps are pretty much equally good but the network effect already did its job.
> WhatsApp is a proprietary app and Facebook did plan to implement client-side agents that would extract info from content, or blacklist it.

This was debunked. Read Schneier’s correction: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backd...
Seems interesting, would like to try it out on a smart mirror, if I had one D:
To add to this point: The US government is not at all trusted in Germany (or most of the EU) at the moment. "America first", combined with numerous withdrawals from international bodies like the WHO and the climate agreements has given the impression that the old allies are no longer beneficial to the European cause.
I don't believe anybody's surveillance is good. This is the opposite of free and open society, and is a creeping tyranny. I discourage any such devotion in my peers - its all too easy to just submit to the overwhelming might of the wests' military industrial complex.

I guess the best thing to do is to continue to fight covert manipulation at all costs, using any means necessary beyond violence. This seems to not be so much of a zero-sum game as capitulation.
Assuming you are new to HN and not a new Account. Ruby is not popular on HN, in fact it is quite unpopular.

May be popular is not the correct word, I still remember when HN ( I didn't have an account then ) was basically an Erlang site. It was hype, and in the grand scheme of things it certainly wasn't "popular" in usage.
> Amazon just bailed on restaurant delivery in the U.S.

Yeah and Amazon just plugged £500m into Deliveroo in the UK. They are going for UK food delivery market and potentially Europe with that investment. Deliveroo is pretty amazing.

1. I can track my driver in real-time
2. Communicate with drivers via Whatsapp
3. Great range of resturants
4. Super convenient. Order comes usually within 30 minutes
Checkout https://github.com/kognise/water.css

I find water.css to be the prettiest of the classless bunch.
There's a Firefox extension [1] to automatically change the language for MSDN (Microsoft) and MDN (Mozilla). I've extracted this functionality into a userscript [2].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/english-conte...

[2] https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/blob/master/userscr...
> What never ceases to amaze me is how otherwise seemingly intelligent people blindly believe

Why does it amaze you? If you sustain your attention in one direction, you will lack it in another.

Germans have a beautiful expression: "fachidiot", that perfectly captures the underlying issue.
Regular Expression Search Algorithm [pdf]
It may be automated based on frequency of reports, but either way this is unlikely to be company policy. The people who make these decisions are relatively low-level employees following a company guidebook. The guidebook says it has to go? It has to go. The employee doesn't want to get fired.

I doubt it'll stick.
I ended up with two meth heads who sort of moved in and would not leave, they even tried to get me arrested for trespassing in my own home, supposedly on grounds of they were US citizens and I was not. Fortunately the cop that showed up spoke Italian and we sorted it out. It was weird. On the other hand, I have made three lifelong friends thanks to hospitality, so the balance is positive.
It could be entirely possible. But at least the user controls this and makes this choice - they choose to set their language preference to English (because of some other reason). If they want to view a Spanish website in Spanish, they can set their language to Spanish and re-request the site, and they should get the Spanish version. It's inconvenient, sure, but setting the site to show Spanish purely based on the IP address causes worse problems for people.

For example: I'm English, and live in Berlin. If I use a VPN to set my IP address to the UK, I get an English version of <site>. But if I then set my German address, <site> complains that I'm not on the German version of the site. If I change to the German version, then there's no option to set English. I have no control over this - there's no option available for "I speak English, but have a German address".
I'm curious. What percentage of female surfers did you sleep with?
Antidotes to chaos
Until the day the Professionals will use more mobile devices than desktop ones, the desktop native apps will simply rock.

Think to Photographers (Photoshop?), Designers (3DS Max, Blender), Gamers (Steam & co), Administrators (VirtualBox)
Let's build a platform business – Day 3
The trouble is, I see no way forward for citizens of the 5-eyes states to address this issue

The Dutch aren't part of 5-eyes.
Name and lede wise I prefer https://mblode.github.io/marx/
It sounds sarcastic and probably is. But, most enterprises that don't have open-source in their blood do what ever it takes to pleases investors and their revenue stream. It was aligned to their interest to stay close, and now there is more gain to support open source.

Microsoft is doing a lot of positive contributions, but I don't think they will ever become an open-source company. And we shouldn't expect every company to become open-source either. Any company that benefits from open-source should support, invest, and contribute to open-source.
> I tried that too, but it's slower than Lomuto.

That is very strange. I can not reproduce your results in C++, using your code.

On my machine (Threadripper 2950x, 64 bit Windows 10, GCC 10.1.0 from MSYS2 MinGW64) my algorithm performs best and your branchless version ends up slower than your branchy one:

$ g++ -std=c++17 -O3 -DNDEBUG -DLOMUTO lomuto.cpp && a 10000000
min_milliseconds=828.1250
median_milliseconds=890.6250

$ g++ -std=c++17 -O3 -DNDEBUG -DLOMUTO_BRANCHY lomuto.cpp && a 10000000
min_milliseconds=671.8750
median_milliseconds=671.8750

$ g++ -std=c++17 -O3 -DNDEBUG -DPDQSORT lomuto.cpp && a 10000000
min_milliseconds=343.7500
median_milliseconds=343.7500

On an Intel university machine (Xeon E5-2667 v2 @ 3.3GHz, 64 bit Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, GCC 5.4.0) I get:

$ g++ -std=c++17 -O3 -DNDEBUG -DLOMUTO lomuto.cpp && ./a.out 10000000
min_milliseconds=514.8051
median_milliseconds=536.1984

$ g++ -std=c++17 -O3 -DNDEBUG -DLOMUTO_BRANCHY lomuto.cpp && ./a.out 10000000
min_milliseconds=688.2471
median_milliseconds=698.9603

$ g++ -std=c++17 -O3 -DNDEBUG -DPDQSORT lomuto.cpp && ./a.out 10000000
min_milliseconds=340.1935
median_milliseconds=344.7432

Maybe AMD or Windows doesn't like your branchless code or perhaps GCC is generating inferior code for AMD/Windows, as at least on Intel/Linux your Lomuto branchless code can beat the branchy code. But pdqsort (which uses branchless Hoare partitioning) consistently beats both.

I didn't change the benchmark, I only added pdqsort to yours, my full changes are the simple inclusion of 1 header and 3 lines of code: https://github.com/orlp/lomuto/commit/29381176f49e3588f6882c...

In order for any interested readers to reproduce, simply clone https://github.com/orlp/lomuto and run the above commands.
Note that you can’t actually get rid of all knowledge of which blog posts of yours are popular, because you’ll find out in other ways: it’ll be on the front page of Hacker News or people will email you about it, or a friend will link it back to you. If you’re looking for privacy-preserving analytics, this is the ultimate in that. If you want nothing at all…yeah, there’s really no way to run away from the world after you publish something.
Well... type hinting does not seem to be very popular
I think identity is definitely related to consciousness but you can have no sense of identity and still be conscious.
In 2015 my local town erected a sculpture to commemorate the event. Maybe that's why the story is fresh in Irish memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_Spirits_(sculpture)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kindred-spirits-sculptur...
This is part of a broader problem.

Many "apps" from WhatsApp to Zoom are treated as public spaces by citizens. But, legally the app-space is closer to a private space. This creates a mismatch between reality and expectations. (Zuckerberg can delete his chat history and you could not until Europe passed legislation forcing Facebook to do so.)

I suffered the "Windows only" of gubernamental applications that excluded Linux users from using them. I see a new wave of iPhone/Android apps, WhatsApp/Twitter official accounts, etc. creating the same monopolistic synergy where the government decides what apps the citizens have to install and what Operating Systems to use. The abuse of monopolies is not fight against but government officials take sides and choose which monopolies to grow.

Finally, a point missed in the comments: WhatsApp is an American company. The misalignment between Europe and the USA has grown the recent years meanwhile the technological dependence of Europe towards the USA has increased. That will not end well. The USA is in a position to shutdown all the technological infrastructure of Europe (AWS, Google, Facebook, Azure, ...) and to openly spy its citizens. When the two blocks were in more friendly terms that was seen as acceptable, today that is creating an uneasy feeling.

As an European citizen I do not feel safe with such an American oversight of my private and job-related activities. And, this is the most important point, when citizens feel threatened they will react or over-react to the situation. The USA has not been a trustworthy partner for some time. And ,the rise of TikTok and other Chinese apps are bringing that fear to public attention.

The solution is trivially easy and has existed for long: open standards. Mail has been around as long as the Internet and proven its value, the same applies to the World Wide Web. The only reason for the rise of apps is that companies see them as a good way of lock-in customers, gather data and increase influence. All that reasons are bad for the economy, for the freedom of countries and individuals. Open standards should be pushed as a leveling field for competing companies, as a form to increase freedom of expressions and communication and to avoid single-points-of-faiulre that risk big parts of the economy.

I hope for a return to sanity and open standards. The alternative is heavy regulated monopolies, no government is going to allow this situation to go for long, like the telecommunications industry. And, that does not work so well.
It is easy to start/test with a basic raspberry pi and a old display
The PI only needs internet connection & chrome in kiosk mode.

After this "setup" you only need a two-way mirror :-D
There are some relatively famous projects that are sponsored by large companies, but then an extremely long tail of lesser known projects that don't have a corporate benefactor and are developed collaboratively by small dev shops, freelancers and volunteers.

I've been involved in the FOSS world for 15 years, and can't remember ever working with, or receiving patches from a large corporation.

I think large corps generally think they can dominate the landscape, and are therefore less likely to adopt the more collaborative approach inherent to FOSS.
I think the trick here is that Doordash isn't charging the customer $x + $y, but $x - $y. X minus Y. That is, they're subsidizing the delivery - in order to generate demand, and then come to the restaurant with the data to convince them to sign up for 1). This was actually mentioned at the bottom of the article.

So in this story, 'JumpCrisscross paid $x-$y = 5k for an order to a homeless shelter, but the real, restaurant price for that order $x=20k, which means DoorDash has just subsidized the transaction for $y=15k. The restaurant got an extra $20k of business that day, and 'JumpCrisscross bought $20k worth of food for a shelter at 1/4 the price.

And the best part, they could probably do it again :).

EDIT: Reading the article again, it seems to me Doordash is supposed to be charging the customer $x in the lead generation phase; so perhaps the -$y part is a scrapper error.
Is consciousness is not emergent from something - not "fully explainable in some mechanistic way" - what type of explanation for it would satisfy you? If you're not willing to brook the idea of breaking it into smaller components, then you've abdicated understanding it all - it's just an ineffable feature of the universe we'll have to live with, some shadow of the spirit world that has zero effect on any physics calculation. That seems weird to me, and lazy to boot.
Joel Spolsky is my hero. There are so many nails he’s been hitting on the head for decades.

Engineering (to me) is a craft; not just a vocation.

I also think that the software industry’s Ponce de Leon obsession might be part of the problem.

Younger folks tend to “dream big,” which I think may be a factor behind the ageism.

“They haven’t had some grizzled old fart tell them that it can’t be done!” is the argument that I’ve heard.

Tru dat, but one of the things that older folks have, is experience getting things done, often, highly optimized, polished, and of excellent quality. That tends to require a lot of tenacity and patience.

Shipping is boring.

Ever watch a building go up? A good prefab looks complete after three months, but doesn’t open for another nine months. It looks awesome and shiny, but is still behind a rent-a-fence. What gives?

That’s because all that interior work; the finish carpentry, the drywall, the painting, etc., take forever, and these are the parts of the building that see everyday use, so they need to be absolutely spot-on. The outside is mostly a pigeon toilet. It doesn’t need to be as complete; a solid frame and watertight is sufficient. They just needed it to keep the rain out, while the really skilled craftspeople got their jobs done.

I like to make stuff polished, tested and complete. I don’t like making pigeon toilets.
They are women who have chosen to stay at a male stranger's house. Do you think women are completely naïve about how the world works? I've known two women who couch surf and it was de rigueur to have sex with their hosts.
My one year experience as an indie hacker
> Part of your reward is that traffic cone will stay in people's minds for decades or maybe centuries longer than the products of most of us here.

> VLC is like a part of culture at this point.

Pretty much, as soon as he said he worked on VLC I saw the cone in my head, and then remembered how many times I installed into people's machines so they would stop having codec issues using default software.

Thanks for working a fuckton, OP!
The subtext is one state using another states spying activities in order to gain an advantage in its own war against a third state, and is presented in a way that seems designed to popularise the idea of surveillance economies exchanging with one another, without civilian oversight.

I don't think this is a good thing. We have seen that the USA has, essentially, co=opted the intelligence-gathering communities of the peer states in its coalition - and only seems to be 'acceptable' because its being done by 'our side'. But I think the state issue is such a large problem that such circumstances can only lead to further catastrophes in the future, when these extra-sovereign entities, not bounded by any local state laws, decide that they need to justify their continued existence by exerting that covert power in order to create conditions conducive to the prosperity of the secret apparatus, itself.

Are Australians okay with not being spied on by their own intelligence agencies, while being spied on by the CIA, which then shares that information with Australian spy agencies as an extra-sovereign economic exchange? Perhaps they are - but I hope this is not the case elsewhere in the 5-eyes world.

What it indicates to me is that we civilians will always have to work hard to get ahead of the military sovereign and lessen the dependencies they put in place to continually justify their existence - i.e. we need to make peace faster than they can make war. Would that we had another Lennon around to assist that process...
It's crazy that people use it and think of it as secret number.
I can sympathise. Elon is a d!ckhead.
So? That pressure is unconstitutional in the US and should be ignored completely and resisted utterly.
I think the implication is that there is always a block for government over-reach and waiting for a convenient excuse to execute it.

Just as the implication isn't that the PATRIOT act authors did 9/11, they certainly took the momentum of the aftermath of a tragedy to push their pre-existing agenda.
Japan has also relied on traditions like using a seal called a hanko to sign contracts. https://www.nippon.com/en/news/fnn2020042836711/

Covid is forcing many of these companies to transition to electronic signatures like Docusign.
I didn't say buggy, I said broken, sometimes on purpose.

In "Study finds 44% of U.S. unemployment applicants have been denied or are still waiting" it shows the systems don't work [1]. This is one article, study or example in many, many reports on this.

Direct payments, at least during the crisis and maybe auto UBI during recessions, would make it to everyone, not prevent people from weighing going back to work, not overload state budgets, reduce unemployment, and more. Some systems like Floridas were meant to not really work at all to minimize usage.

Basically anyone in a state with a bad unemployment state system suffered. Direct payments gets around all that by using identity and tax system information.

Direct payments to everyone also get past the whole idea of selective stimulus. Money to everyone gets to where it needs to be that no central planning could ever predict from food, gas, housing, insurance, health, etc [2].

Direct payments during recessions would make the floor higher and bring back purchasing power demand sooner, or keep it with some semblance of consistency in times like this.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/15/44percent-of-us-unemployment...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/15/coronavirus-stimulus-checks-...
Would you be fully confident to claim that the numbers in the other countries will not pick up by the end of the year? If in the fall, the virus returns spreading, would Norway, Denmark and Finland turn again to a strict lockdown?
Note that the total number of mortality across all causes have remained close-to-baseline: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
All the time, the hospitals have remained with spare capacity - while the earliest, initial models have suggested much larger impact to ICU.

I understand that the perception of the impact of the virus can be large, when seeing a new virus. But considering that those countries have extremely large average lifespan would tilt the numbers to make the perception of the statistics have larger impact than they are.
One app in my area (Glovo) still lets you do a free-form request: just write whatever you want delivered from any shop within a certain radius of your house. I never tried it, though.
https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1261805845735604224...

Nothing in the metadata. Pure evil.
> If that involves, for example, unwanted physical contact

Then hitting on someone could be considered murder, if that involves, for example, repeated chest stabbing
>...but either way this is unlikely to be company policy

Perhaps you haven't seen the article because it's behind an Apple News link. There's a screenshot of a message stating company policy as follows:

"Pursuant to Section 8.3 of the Developer Agreement and the Enforcement policy, apps referencing Covid-19, or related terms, in any form will only be approved for distribution on Google Play if they are published, commissioned or authorized by official government entities or public health organizations"
Which I assume is a first step towards user profiles. Their development team is small and every feature has to be implemented using state of the art crypto.
gated institutional narrative
This is a very commendable default approach. Let me suggest that there are also people who just happen to be that way naturally.

I for example seem to almost need this kind of rhythm. Yes it is spiky and sometimes a bit chaotic. But also very intrinsically motivated, which can sometimes lead to high impact solutions.

A good way to deal with this tradeoff is writing more text and less code. Text which is off-base is much more valuable than code that does do wrong things or things in a wrong way.

But I have to say that I work alone or in small teams, which requires less technical coordination.
The difference is that charge, spin etc have their own effects/manifestations, whereas consciousness does not cause anything.