skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How'd you come to the pricing model? To me only having 24 hours before losing data would probably preclude me from putting effort into trying it out. Have you thought at all about a freemium model?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/coron...

Given that the 1M prediction was with no intervention, and interventions happened all across the country (and are approaching the prediction outlined in that article), are you repeating this misinformation out of ignorance or malice?

Of course, denying that interventions played a big role in preventing this from getting even more out of control would be be table-stakes with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116782
>I know a number of people that have committed suicide during the lock downs.

Really? Because the increase in suicides is quite small (8% is the last statistic I saw) and suicides in general are quite rare (~13 per 100,000 people).
Do you know the reasoning why?

Not tying the linearity to the type seems quite a bit more confusing and error prone to me.

If a type can be used in different ways, I'd rather have two different types.
Crazy impressive. A little bit misleading though.
FWIW, for sorting in a template-like C package I use https://github.com/swenson/sort/ .
That's not what I meant by laws need to change. I mean that we use calendar dates for laws that are tied to seasonal attributes. As a simple example, dates are set in law as a beginning and end date for when you are allowed to use studded snow tires (eg 10/15 - 4/15). Now you would have to go back through all that legislation for every date in law to see if it would need to be subjected to a shifting scheme. Stuff like tax day might not need to change, but school years would need to adjust every year, because the main purpose of it set the way they are is for agriculture labor on family farms (although that is a shrinking concern).
Not the mini, but the base MacBook Air. I got this for my wife so it only has 8GB of RAM, but even so Xcode runs surprisingly well on it. I've had a few times where it's gotten really slow for a few seconds when I suspect it's swapping. Since it happened the first couple times I made an effort to keep only the basics open and it's been great.

Overall, it compares quite well to my 2016 Intel MacBook, it makes up for the memory issues by being generally snappier in most other places. I suspect a 16GB rig won't have these issues and would compare even better versus the i9.

I was considering getting a mini, but I'm going to content myself with using my wife's M1 Air until the next M series CPUs come out. I want to see what the next generation has to offer before pulling the trigger.
Thrift VPN
Sorry, just saw your comment now.

Multiple reasons, but here is why: https://chiefonboarding.com/blog/going-open-source

AGLPv3 permits anyone that makes changes to it to open source it. This makes sure that all code will stay open source and a company can't just run with it and perhaps resell it without making it open source too.
Not really - they change things much more rapidly, and communicate those changes, but don’t arbitrarily ‘break’ them.
> Nick Kristoff at the NYT predicted we might have more than 1m deaths by the end of the summer.

This would be a considerably better prediction than the idea that asymptomatic spread can't be serious factor; it'd be merely off by a factor of 6 whereas I'm honestly not sure how anyone with a high school biology education could dismiss the possibility that a viral infection might be contagious and asymptomatic.

And I don't know when Kristoff's prediction was made, but if it was before June, given a NYC-centric perspective it's a credible projection absent changes of behavior and treatment advances, both of which we got in modest degrees (probably around a factor of 6).

Plenty of wrong to go around? Sure. Some parties seem to be carrying more of the plenty.
I was a full-time Desktop Linux user for a decade. Jumped through many distros over time (Mandrake, Xandros, Ubuntu through Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu) until I bought a Macbook in 2011. Still ran Ubuntu on my desktop PC for a few years. I slowly just switched to Mac OS almost fully and I feel kinda bad that when I try to switch back to Linux, I just end up missing something from Mac that keeps me back.
https://reviewmeta.com/ is another site which does the same sort of thing.
Rare in the sense that death is rare, but it's in the top 10 causes of death; about 50K per year: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
I have always joked that if I ran for Office that making weekends 3 days long would be core to my platform.
I disagree, I think the hard part of the Turing test is passing well constructed interrogations that check for comprehension, deduction, improvisation, etc. For example you teach the subject a novel game, ask them to play it, then change the rules, or you describe a situation, describe changes and activities and interrogate them on subsequent states. Essentially check for problem solving, deduction, etc, things that require actual intelligence.

You can't proxy a test for intelligence to other attributes, like quirks or personality. You have to actually test for the attribute in question.
To be fair to her, she did not claim that hospitals in Florida specifically were at risk from being overwhelmed. Instead, she takes issue with Levitt telling the governor of Florida that COVID generally does not present a significant threat in terms of overwhelming hospitals, which is in fact verifiably false; COVID has overwhelmed hospitals all over the world multiple times. I write this from LA, where our hospitals are currently overwhelmed, and likely to get more so in the next three weeks as people return from holiday travel.
This does not follow. You are continuing to say I shouldn't believe that the racists think it is racist when the racists are saying that they see it as racist. If that is what they say they believe then that is factually what they believe.
Would just add MS Teams to that list, which at my company replaced Skype and Webex, and has a worse UI than Slack and whose custom, non-OS notification windows close but don't destruct on Mojave

Oh, and can't forget wiring all of Production to specifically target MS SQL Server dialect

That MS security blanket is cozy for somebody though
> After the tax benefits, it was less expensive

With the standard deduction being $12.4k/yr per person... are you really deducting more than $12.4k/yr in mortgage interest + property taxes?
You do, just go to https://github.com/home
This is how racists work though... Make people inadvertently stick up for them.
Edit: My understanding is WRONG, the RAM is separate but on the same package, not on the die.

The very nature of the chip package (RAM in the SOC) limits how much more RAM they can package. It increases the cost per chip because it significantly decreases the yield per wafer of the monolithic chip. I will be really curious if they can get much more RAM onto a M1 chip without charging astronomical prices (even by Apple standards).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgvVXGWJSiE Talks about this in detail of chiplet vs monolithic chips in the AMD context back in the Zen 2 days.
Interesting, I've never heard of CRTP and will need to read up on it.

I do "get it" that templates are not generics... there's just a lot of gotchas for someone assuming generics, err - templates are similar to other languages. Like the difficulty in nesting templates in templates...
During this pandemic, only those who attend a weekly religious service are reporting an increase in mental health. All others are understandably decreasing during this difficult time.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/327311/americans-mental-health-...
Yes I won't mention any details out of respect for privacy, but two former friends/co-workers, one person I was in the military with 15 years ago, as well as one family member.

It's obviously not only lock downs that have caused this, but they certainly added to it. My close friend had his marriage explode and turn horribly nasty. She took the kids and he ended up alone in a studio apartment for months, and then killed himself. His marriage was obviously not great before but they were making it work. Being stuck in the house together all the time was too much.

I'm guessing data on suicides due to lockdowns is as problematic as deaths due to covid because these are typically complex equations, but it would be interesting to see a study. In my small non-representative case study, suicides are up >200% from average. It's normally 1 every other year or so, except 2018 when there were 2 :'(
The “New correct map of the flat surface, stationary earth” (1920)
Why didn't it make sense to continue after the event ended? Most sports events happen on a recurring basis.

I wonder if this idea got legs if you would get in trouble with regulators of some kind..
I guess the impact is quite small since deadlocks (meetings, approvals, other peoples' code etc) you need to wait out is much of the work hours anyway.
I purchased the base model Mini M1 a few weeks ago. I'm using it for development of my macOS/iOS app.

So far I am enjoying it. My other machine is a 13" MacBook Pro from earlier this year (intel, the cheapest model) and the Mini is definitely snappier, even if it only has 8GB RAM.

The MBP would often stutter audio playback when I was doing anything CPU-intensive and listening to music at the same time. This would often require me to restart the coreaudiod process to get audio playing nicely again. (It's a really horrible OS bug.) But the M1 just chugs along. Xcode builds are much, much faster on this as well, making the write code/test and debug it feedback cycle tighter.

The only drawbacks I've seen so far are that homebrew isn't fully supported yet and Firefox will just get stuck if you leave it for a few hours, requiring you to restart it. Other than that, for my workflow, it's been working great.
The core logic theory behind linearity on the arrows is provably sound and more well understood theoretically, and it fits better with Haskell's existing semantics.

The rust way is probably more practically useful from a programmer's perspective, but it isn't as easily understood to be sound from a type theory perspective.
Important article for tech. Today, it's Apple who basically defines the experience of what it means to be part of the global upper middle class, and they are ripe for disruption. These "neobanks" are the thin edge of the wedge.
> Manufacturing requires capital. We’ve had some of the highest effective tax rates on capital in the world for a while, and the Trump tax cuts didn’t help that much.

IMHO, that's mistaking a boogeyman for a cause. The real cause here is any policy that allows important productive capability to be moved away in search of short/medium term profit increases. The idea that you'd replace those jobs with higher-paying fluff was just a little sugar to make the poison taste better.

Also, I can't remember exactly where I read it, but some well-known successful businessman candidly said that lower taxes actually make it less likely for him to invest profits back into his business.
> I wish Zwave/zigbee were more practical to use.

That is essentially what Thread is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)

It takes the Zigbee protocol, but adds encryption and makes devices IP-adressable. All of the major players are committed to supporting it, too!
Another example would be databases.. there's the theory, the tools and the applications.
Not surprised at all. Worked in this industry out of college and couldn’t get out fast enough. It’s such a surreal environment, you know the toxicity that exists at every level but most people seem to be gleefully ignorant. Pretty beaches, drink packages, tons of food, don’t rock the boat just enjoy the ride like everyone else...
Right, I forgot that this was an argument about responsibility. In the case of food I guess there's some shared responsibility. The customers of course have a lot of choice here, but the manufacturer still optimizes for tastiness (increasing consumption) without necessarily optimizing for healthiness. That could also be considered a design defect.

Perhaps for an owned autonomous vehicle the equivalent shared responsibility would be a user-selectable conservative ("comfort") vs. aggressive ("sporty") driving style. Or the option to drive yourself and only let the software intervene if it thinks what you're doing is unsafe.

So, back to the question

> We don't really see consumer-facing products that, even if used as directed, kill a fair number of people and we just go oops.

The only very nebulous other case that comes to mind are unsafe computer systems in general. When a hospital or critical infrastructure gets hacked then this is treated almost like an unavoidable natural disaster rather than the responsibility of the operator or manufacturer.
This is why I cut out all the political BS and just became a consultant a decade ago. Then you can cut hours and increase your hourly rate to accommodate. Funny enough companies are just fine with paying it.
I had too many issues with my last couple of Macs (various HW issues and screen issues) so I moved over to a high-end Dell laptop running Pop!_OS. Couldn't be happier. I may re-visit Apple one day, but I'm really liking my Pixel phone and Linux environment too much. I'm not a classic programmer, per se, as I do 90%+ of my work in scripting (Bash, Python) and maybe 5% other as the need arises.
It's a mistake to think the cases are evenly distributed in the population, and do not have clusters. Sorry for your losses, freedomben
You should see how Toyota got started. They aren't exactly ashamed of the fact that they reverse engineered a Chevrolet, its displayed quite proudly in their factory museum.
Lockdowns are bullshit. Despair consequences will be felt for decades.
Some level of fraud in a social welfare system is absolutely acceptable, if tightening controls to eliminate the fraud would mean that otherwise eligible people didn’t receive benefits they qualified for, or even if it meant that accessing those benefits became much more onerous. I don’t doubt that $36bn is too high, but this kind of analysis is almost never present in these articles and politically in this country the spectre of fraud is usually used as an anti-welfare cudgel
Jupylet: A Jupyter extension for Reinforcement Learning experiments
Yes, you can either limit how many request can be send concurrently or enforce a fixed or random delay in between consecutive requests.

Basically this a just a futures_timer::Delay [0] that is reset after each request, which is non blocking.

[0] https://docs.rs/futures-timer/3.0.2/futures_timer/
A brick tied to the gas pedal will also never be intoxicated. It takes more than inability for intoxication to make a system that can drive a car safely.
If companies rush this (as Tesla and Uber already has!) too much the backlash will likely set back self-driving unnecessarily.

I believe a more careful approach will get broader adoption and likely save more lives.
This is a really good point actually.

In my particular case, I loathe the company I work for; I get to work on and lead interesting projects and work with good teams and customers, yes - but the system behind it all is absolutely rotten to the core, laden with bureaucracy, brimming with ludicrously rigid rules, and filled with daily demands to comply with this or that, making life difficult for developers in particular, and never, ever valuing individuals. Yep, I'm a little bitter ;)

Truth is, aside from inertia, I stay with the same company for 2 reasons: I'm fully remote (or near enough), and have a 4-day week with 7.5h days.
I personally think it is callous and selfish to force healthy people not to work and stay inside.
> But you cannot go to a library without it.

Why is this? Did you arrange some kind of exclusivity deal with libraries in an area to manage borrowing so that people have to use it?
Lockdowns are not bullshit. They are effective, unless we did a half ass job.
The magnitudes of these errors are wildly different.

The U.S. actually had about 200,000 deaths at the end of the summer. A million was an overestimate, but this was on March 20. Kristof/Ferguson's error was 5x.

On the other hand, on the same day, Levitt said that he would be surprised if Israel had more than 10 COVID deaths total. Currently Israel has 3307 COVID deaths, an error of 330x.

He has made a whole series of wildly wrong predictions, all in the same direction.
Not super useful for you now that you have the new machine, but if your old MBP is the Mid-2014 15" model, it can drive up to two 4K displays at 60Hz, but only over DisplayPort. I have the same laptop and recently upgraded to a pair of 4K displays, and to get 60Hz I had to use mini-DP-to-DP cables rather than HDMI.
Skip the Amazon resellers and order direct from China on Alibaba. Their reputation system is less spammy than Amazon's.

One of my areas to watch: solid state relays.

Here we have yet another fake Fotek solid state relay on Amazon.[1] Note the "Made in China".

Here's the real thing.[2] Note the "Taiwan made" from the real Fotek. Costs a lot more.
That's because it will actually handle the rated current. The fakes are notorious for overheating and burning out. The real thing has overheat and surge protection, will shut off if it overheats, and can stand a big short term overload for motor starting or when a short is in the process of tripping the circuit breaker upstream.

Here's a similar solid state relay from China, from the actual manufacturer.

They actually provide a table which shows how much they
exaggerate the ratings. They're over-rated by 2X for
a resistive load, and 6x for an inductive load.
"For a motor with rated current of 15A and the motor
is inductive load, the formula is 15A x 6 = 90A, so
you should choose to buy 100A solid state relay".

For a little extra, you can have your own fake label. Minimum order 200 pcs.

Here's a fake Fotek.[4] What's amusing is that this is the actual manufacturer in China selling the fakes. They're in Guangdong, and they're selling under their own name, but with a fake label. No shame.

There are legit manufacturers in China selling solid state relays.[5] They put their own name on the product, show pictures of the inside their rather grubby factory, and have realistic numbers on their data sheets, along with pictures of UL certification documents. About 4x more expensive than the fakes. If you're in China and are building industrial equipment which needs these components, you need ones that won't fail and shut down a manufacturing line.

Here's a teardown of a fake. [6] The fakes are just solid state switches with power ratings way beyond what their components are good for. UL warning notice about fake Fotek solid state relays.[7] UL issued that notice six years ago, and they're still on Amazon and eBay.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/SSR-25-DC-AC-Solid-State-Relay/dp/B07...

[2] https://www.fotek.com.tw/en-gb/product-category/143

[3] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1PCS-SSR-10-DA-DC-Con...

[4] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-quality-SSR-25DA...

[5] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/SSR-S25DA-H-DC-TO-AC_...

[6] https://youtu.be/DxEhxjvifyY

[7] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ul-warns-of-solid-s...
Airplanes are a notoriously hard industry though. Particularly making the high-tech, fuel efficient ones that are the things airlines actually want, at a unit cost that is not very expensive.

Airbus A350 program cost was €11 billion. Boeing 787 Dreamliner was $32 billion. Bombardier threw in the towel this year and Embraer almost sold to Boeing. Russia has tried to build an airliner for export and failed. So has Japan. You can throw a lot of money at the problem and still never come out on top. And even for the big two times are tough; the 787 program needs 1300-2000 planes to sell to break even. Depending on how you do the accounting Airbus A380 never broke even.

Which leads to the other problem; product market fit. Airlines are notoriously fickle and it's hard to figure out market fit, particularly if a requesting airline changes its mind after reviewing their strategy or the aircraft's characteristics once in production. McDonnell Douglass had to merge with Boeing because the MD-11 was not performing as expected and then nobody wanted to buy it. Lockheed exited the civil aviation business because it nearly bankrupted them after they couldn't build a plane to the promised spec. Convair stopped making entire planes after the failure of their 880 and 990 because it turns out "slightly faster but smaller" wasn't a real market niche. Everyone got cold feet around Concorde and the various SSTs. And even Airbus almost folded; its first aircraft did not sell anything between December 1975 and May 1977.
Is This the End of the Mink Coat?
What are PFAS chemicals, and where are they found?
Are you a senior executive at Apple?
The (very reasonable) comment this reply was originally threaded with is now dead, so I’ll post it here:

Some level of fraud in a social welfare system is absolutely acceptable, if tightening controls to eliminate the fraud would mean that otherwise eligible people didn’t receive benefits they qualified for, or even if it meant that accessing those benefits became much more onerous. I don’t doubt that $36bn is too high, but this kind of analysis is almost never present in these articles and politically in this country the spectre of fraud is usually used as an anti-welfare cudgel
I know people frame it as 'be your own boss' but really it's just going from one boss to hundreds.
I launched mergecaravan.com to deal with a problem I've encountered at a few jobs in the past. Mostly, I built it initially to scratch my own itch, and to go back to doing more django dev.

Basically, you can add a label to a PR in github and it will then queue it up to be merged once all the required checks pass, and it keeps queued PRs "up-to-date".

It's made a little money, but not much.

Github recently rolled out a feature at Github Universe that has overlap, so I'm guessing it won't get much more traction.

A few lessons I learned:
- Especially when building on a platform, make sure you have the right niche. In this case, it probably has a wide enough audience that Github decided it was worth it to build as part of the platform.
- Like any engineer, I spent too long building and let scope creep delay me from launching.

All in all, it's pretty cheap (read: basically free) to run, but I probably committed somewhere over 120 hours on it.
It always seemed to me that FreeBSD in particular could have all the pieces needed to implement the container runtime interface (and thus be able to run containers) but no one ever bothered.

That's kind of a pity, because FreeBSD could be an ideal OS to run containers: a stable system with unified APIs, without 1.8e308 different distros, most of them subtly incompatible with each other.
Although as a non-expert, the methodology of the study seems sound to me, I find its conclusion depressing.

I know it wasn't their intent to attempt to provide solutions, but it bothers me having absolutely no idea how to even begin to solve this problem at scale, in a world where it's becoming easier and cheaper to influence such large amounts of people. Every single idea I've thought can either be defeated, exploited, or ignored, and I haven't seen a project or effort that seems strong enough to go to battle for.

Has anyone here seen something worth exploring?
I've worked a 14-day-on-14-off schedule for about 3 years now and what I've realized is that we adjust to it no matter what. I'm still productive even though they are 12 hour days. I don't think resistance to alternate work schedules is well founded unless it's in retail or in-person services for small teams.
So effectively you are arguing that since the US did bad things in the past, China should be allowed to imprison millions based on their religion alone?

How does this add up?
Only thing in my contract it says is that I have to ask to book two consecutive weeks off. I'll naturally be seeking clarification on the matter :D