skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will likely get downvoted, but it seems to be the most accurate explanation.

American culture is not able to understand the common good anymore. And it cannot understand the brutality of politics, nor the need to participate in it. This is the age of children of cages, forgotten in a week for the official opposition to complain about civility on Twitter. Meanwhile other Western countries burn tires and flip over cars for a thousand times less. In non Western countries, people stand up to bullets in order to complain about the government. But this country made mean people on Twitter the main issue in the election cycle, above Healthcare, War and Concentration camps.

The American public has grown soft, largely by design.
Meaningless attacks on people's physical appearance, race, and gender are not welcome on HN.

No one is forcing you to download video you don't want.
The role of the federal government is to be our insurer and to eat risk. Unlike state governments, there is no balanced budget requirement. Blaming Cuomo -- ie all 50 individual states, with not only currently varying populations, but populations and incomes and risks that vary over time -- for not independently staffing up and buying equipment to be prepared against all eventualities is silly.

Second, Trump diddled for 8-12 weeks to start manufacturing things. People are screaming because the Chinese government confirmed by Dec 31 that they had cases of the virus. That means the NSA had almost certainly been hearing about it for a couple weeks. Given the worlds' experience with SARS and MERS, that was the time to get serious.

What was possible with this warning? Taiwan, for example, used this time to create 32 new production lines [1] for masks.

Later, there were classified briefings that Republicans like Senator Burr were privately warning businesses about. While lying to the public and using the warning period not to get serious about dealing with the pandemic but to save money.

We had 8-12 weeks of warning, and Trump either took no serious action or deliberately delayed decisive action to start figuring out supply lines of respirators or ventilators. We had, to use your phrase, "MONTHS" -- actually a quarter of a year -- and Trump squandered them.

He invoked the Defense Production Act YESTERDAY for god's sake. The time to do that was when it became clear containment had failed. Ie sometime around mid-January.

ps -- we make plenty of stuff in the US. in reality, the US is the second largest manufacturer in the world after China. That's not to say that manufacturing isn't declining in the united states, but to pretend the enormous set of US manufacturers doesn't exist is not grounded in facts.

See also BLS 51-4111 -- 72k employed in the US in tool & die manufacturing.

[1] https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202003230016
Fascinating. First I’ve seen about the low blood pressure and gastric symptoms in old people...makes me wonder. An older friend of mine in the bay area was hospitalized in the last week of January, first week of February. His symptoms were extreme physical weakness, fever, low blood pressure. Enough so that he went to the ICU twice. A few weeks later he was better. Doctors ran all types of tests then, but didn’t know what it was, they told him it was likely a random viral infection. No lung issues that I know of, but that sure sounds like what this article mentions.
Don't forget there was a large contingent of Republicans that reluctantly voted for Trump simply because he was the Republican. They wouldn't have minded Trump's obstinance when the only victim was the other team, but his failing to address reality in the face of a shared crisis is a completely different beast. If they're not already aghast at the complete lack of leadership they hear and see every day, a death toll of hundreds of thousands will certainly make them consider competing narratives.
When it comes to information gathering, I have always assumed if it is technically possible to do, then some agency in the government is doing it. So even if people were able to shame all of Clearview's customers into not using them, that wouldn't stop this type of information gathering form going on.
I wonder if the airflow would risk spreading the virus.
From the FAQs, it looks like normally the Internet Archive uses DRM to limit the number of borrowed copies to the number of physical copies they have. Instead, they are now temporarily allowing more digital copies of the book to be borrowed than physical copies exist. There still will be DRM, requiring you to "re-borrow" the book every 14 days, but under the temporary system you will get the book again right away (instead of having to go to the back of a line, and waiting for other people to get their 14-day turns).

The collection is more than just textbooks; I saw at least one work of fiction. (Note that you might want such books for, say, an English class.)
If you need a ventilator, it's because your body cannot breathe without assistance. Many ventilators require intubation, which is an extremely invasive procedure. Ventilators don't boost chances, they are used to save you from dying, like a defibrillator and other forms of life support. Your assumption is essentially wrong.
> This has been my conviction for the past 10 years

I would suggest holding your convictions more loosely.
I’d love to see a successful copyright case along these lines.

I wonder if this can be combined with adding a “terms of service” to your FB profile.

Corporations have perverted contract law to the point where their terms of service are binding even if you never read them, or are even aware of them.

Turnabout is fair play, right?
What capabilities does it need?

GP's point was why do we need new designs when company X already has a proven design. Well I can't access that design; it isn't published. My factory has cleanrooms, CNC tools, presses, waterjet cutters, testing equipment, and more, and a lot of flexibility and is presently running well below capacity. But I can't even assess whether that tooling is sufficient to make that design.

The open source designs do at least solve this problem.
and I make a point of avoiding Electron apps

I do that personally too, but in a work environment that is unfortunately not always possible --- and also responsible for much of the RAM usage too.
This is an odd conclusion to draw. You're saying that people call the government incompetent, and now they're demonstrating incompetence, and you're convinced that the causality flows from the former to the latter?
Just thinking the same thing. Got A good laugh out of that!

However, it seriously looks like this could be pretty useful. I’m lazy, and the idea of just writing some semantic markup and have it look great out of the box is very appealing. Especially for a random toy project, where I want to put as little effort into the front end design as possible.
> there isn't a way for you to request anything other than specific images/links.

And you can't even do that unless you've already managed to remove the image from the internet:

https://clearview.ai/privacy/deindex:

> This tool will not remove URLs from Clearview which are currently active and public. If there is a public image or web page that you want excluded, then take it down yourself (or ask the webmaster or publisher to take it down). After it is down, submit the link here.
No, it does (a bit squashed, but it's perfectly readable). I didn't know there was as specific Unicode character for those.
Also love the link to "HTML GUide" pointing to https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_byfunc.asp
Studying ethics doesn't make you ethical, and the very idea that it might is pretty clearly something invented and peddled by people with very poor ethics.
No, long ago the world was a bunch of small groups of people that knew each other intimately. At the village and tribe level there was little or no anonymity. The offset was that there was also intimacy. The problem now is that we again have no anonymity, but there is none of the intimacy needed to offset the negative aspects of this (and we probably can't, I don't think intimacy scales the same way, but who knows).
What is this? Another one of your multi-player games?
this was obviously going to happen. how telegram could have imagined this going any other way is beyond me. i'm not even a lawyer and i could have told them this.
The most charitable interpretation of their point is any UI where you were going to use Javascript heavily anyways which is what Redux+Redux competes with.

To take your point to absurdity, you could also just say "nope, write a native client instead."
I was happily supporting Zig/you at $5/month, but things got tight. I will be back on board next month! Keep up the great work Andy!
Seems about right. Just found this:

> Throughout this bidet boom,
the United States resisted its appeal, and the reason might have been the power of first impressions. Americans were introduced to bidets on a broad scale during World War II, when troops were stationed in Europe. GIs visiting bordellos would often see bidets in the bathrooms, so they began to associate these basins with sex work. Given America’s puritanical past, it makes sense that, once back home, servicemen would feel squeamish presenting these fixtures to their homeland.

But even before the war, bidets were linked to sex and scandal. In the United States and Britain, when various forms of douching were thought of as a pregnancy preventive, bidets were considered a form of birth control. As Norman Haire, a birth-control pioneer, put it in 1936, “The presence of a bidet is regarded as almost a symbol of sin.” The present-day American sociologist Harvey Molotch agrees, concluding that the devices were tainted with France’s hedonism and sexuality. “Bidets have had such difficulty ... Even all the power of capitalism can’t break the taboo.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-b...
I’m generally amused that a top thread for an N95 sterilization post is a Unicode discussion.
RFID Implant Management Solutions for the Hospitals
Sounds like I got conned by my (poor) memory. I should have re-googled this before posting, thanks for the correction.
Nice idea, better approach than I've seen popping up everywhere and clearly meant to be an emergency only device. I'm sure everyone has made clear how complicated and dangerous proper ventilation care is. I don't have time to get involved at the moment even though I would love to (expecting a newborn any day now), but a few thoughts.

- Consider the failure-modes of the device. (If inspiration pressure set screw is not mechanically fixed and fails open, you will irrevocably damage the individuals lungs and likely kill them. Similarly, exhalation pressure drop could collapse alveoli and suffocate them). Could also put pressure relief/vacuum break valves on the device, but hard to do accurately and cheaply at small pressure ranges.

- Fail indication. Need indicators in the field to understand whether device is functioning as designed or not. Particularly with high PEEP settings, visual indications of respiration are pretty much non-existent and no way to tell if pressures are causing barotrauma.

- You may want to include guidelines for proper air supply intended for this device as well. Modern ventilation systems have fail-over and redundancy for all critical aspects (electricity, oxygen source, pressure regulation, etc) for respiration. This may be done at the device (taking feeds from multiple continuous supplies) or in the oxygen supply system (multiple compressors connected to a header system, high volume compressed oxygen tank etc).
That was one of my first reactions reading about this design as well, that WiFi is likely a liability in this case (not to mention espressif's security track record is not the best) despite the potential ease of provisioning. I would prefer either a microcontroller with ethernet or acting as a USB network device. Then it would still be as easy as plugging into the device with a laptop and navigating to a web page to configure the ventilator, although one couldn't easily do it from a smartphone or tablet.
Nowadays, it could be personally owned by each (so, not shared) and also the cleaning could be done with clear water and soap.
Couple of things:

- For products containing electronics: short of the electrical components themselves, there is a healthy amount of US electronics+mechanical manufacturing, but it's more geared for lower-volume higher-margin type stuff (think for energy / agriculture / etc.)

- IIRC having spoken to someone at Jabil a few years ago, vague recollection of being told that the US is the largest manufacturer of high volume plastic goods (as well as other products using automated processes). Not so much enclosures for consumer electronics, but rather stuff like shampoo bottles, and that sort of tooling is done here in the US.

- Just keep in mind that manufacturing has a broader scope than what it seems you're implying. Not all manufactured goods involve electronics or injection molding.
anyone know the effects of spraying sanitizers all over the mask after use?
I read through the post but I'm still a bit confused as to what parts of this is Zig and what parts are coming from other dependencies. What exactly is zig cc doing, and what does it rely on existing? Where are the savings coming from? Some people are mentioning that this is a clang frontend, so is the novelty here that zig cc 1. passes the the correct options to clang and 2. ships with recompilable support libraries (written in Zig, with a C ABI) to statically link these correctly (or, in the case of glibc, it seems to have some reduced fileset that it compiles into a stub libc to link against)? Where is the clang that the options are being passed to coming from? Is this a libclang or something that Zig ships with? Does this rely on the existence of a "dumb" cross compiler in the back at all?
The entire crypto industry is offshore now. Coinbase is a shadow of itself, doing 1/20 of Binance on a good day. All US players are buried under mountains of legal fees while the offshore players continue to gain market share. The only rational move if you have a physical entity is to 1) Ban US customers and 2) incorporate in Cayman, Seychelles, etc. Coinbase talks about “maybe launching futures at 10x leverage” but that takes them millions in legal fees and years of effort to allow this. Meanwhile Binance and FTX have 150x leverage and launching crypto-derivatives on oil, DOW, FTSE, forex, etc. etc. etc. It’s game over for Coinbase, Gemini, all US guys. I don’t blame the US given their heavy regulation focus on financial markets, it’s what regulators in the US do, but it’s simply untenable for crypto industry given it’s a global market and the only restrictions to access are illusions mandated by governments.

Telegram made a mistake by taking any US money whatsoever. If they avoided that they would have had much easier time.

Blockchain doesn’t care about borders, it’s just math. US is playing a losing game but it’s fine - the software doesn’t care.
http://xanadu.net

https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
Thanks for the link, that's very useful. I should have re-googled this stuff instead of commenting "from memory", sorry for spreading the FUD :/
That's true but its impacts could have been significantly reduced here if the US government hadn't covered it up either, or if Trump didn't dismiss it as a hoax.

Trump did the same damn thing as China. And they all did it for the same damn selfish reason. Money and power.

The west has deteriorated, that much is clear, and a big reason why clearly incapable populists, benefiting from information warfare, have taken many positions in western government.
My guess is the issue is compliance with the injection schedule. During my HEP A/B three part vaccine, the doctor fought me about starting the series from the first shot as "did not need it based on job and lifestyle", on the second shot my insurance declined paying for it because whatever reason they pulled out of their backside.

Compare to my aunt, she got the first shot but not the second and third because she does not see the point. No amount of urging by family has changed her mind.

If the 7 part shot was available now, I would get it and finish it. Not everybody would because humans be oddballs.
They tried autoclaves and it destroyed the masks.
If you set up the rules so that a self-reproducing machine can create an exponentially large number of copies, then indeed you can solve NP problems in polynomial time.

But you should realize that an exponentially large number of machines also requires an exponentially large amount of space to fit them, so at the very least it takes an exponentially long time at the speed of light for the winning machine to report its result back to you.
I never played one, knew a couple people who worked on them.

MOO software was one of the first handful of pieces of software I ever read the source for. Heard somewhere that a MOO (LambdaMOO?) had a Slab Allocator and I wanted to see how it worked.
most "landlords" are regular folks with a mortgage and would get wiped out just as easily as the tenants
> Bit of a rub that to request your messy, potentially erroneous, public profile, you have to give private, authenticated identification and contact information - basically the most valuable information they could want, dramatically increasing the value of your profile that you were so concerned about in the first place.

The concept of being opted-in by default and being forced to authenticate yourself to opt out is getting more and more ridiculous by the day.

These systems need to be opt-in, and that requirement needs to be enforced by some kind of powerful government agency with the power to arrest and jail non-compliant operators. Anything less feels like it would end up being a complete surrender to companies like Clearview AI.
Is it me or did anyone find the availability of photos to be less than I would have expected.

It is worrisome but a facebook could produce a lot more privacy related connections from private photos no one knows existed. I guess I was expecting that.. perhaps in the future facebook will offer this service.
You're right. A fair, unbiased media is key for western government as we know it.

There is so much misinformation everywhere, and it has been exacerbated by the internet.

It's not hard to see why many distrust the media these days. And that's extremely problematic.
In certain machines with very weak CPUs and/or many very powerful connections. For a workstation, assuming mild levels of competence, there's no issue.
Sorry but that is not true. The truth is that the majority of the economically active population is not at risk from dying. I get using outliers as a way to scare younger people into staying inside, it's for a good cause. But that's what they are, outliers. The average age of death in Italy is 80 years, most of the younger people in ICUs have severe pre existing conditions or were exposed to much higher virus loads (ie health workers). But you just won't get millions of death, that's a complete exaggeration going by the data we have right now.

Right now Sweden is isolating people who are vulnerable, which is absolutely necessary. But people who aren't are free to keep living their daily lives, because the risks for them aee extremely low. And if they end up needing help the hospitals won't be overcrowded by the more vulnerable. That's the way to do it since we now know how non lethal it is for people under 50-60.

Still, I'm not opposed to a short full lock down. The question is for how long? Let's say you're right. ok. But for how long can we stay inside? At what point will the virus not be a threat? Months? How could that ever be sustainable ? We need people who aren't at risk to work to keep people who are safe.

It's much easier to keep a small proportion of the population isolated while waiting for a virus and having everyone else working to sustain that isolation rather than just shut down everything and hope for things to just go away. Unless there's a clear timeline, this could get catastrophic.
I agree that a well-seasoned ventilator design would be much preferable. The question is, can we get that? I'm not involved in this effort (I found out about it through a forwarded email that's being passed around between physicists), but I suspect that nobody involved has the ability to speed up medical device manufacturer's production or supply chain. The point of "parts from Home Depot" is to bypass the likely specialized supply chain that may be difficult or impossible to scale up.
CoreJS: State of the project? Looks like dead. Any official fork?
decentralized, permissionless blockchains don't care about borders.

centralized businesses absolutely do. Thinking that they can skirt securities law by saying "blah blah blockchain" is comically stupid. even calling centralized services "blockchain" misses the entire point of it in the first place. centralized icos are not decentralized, not censorship resistant and are not permissionless. the only reason they are doing it on a blockchain instead of a database is either because they are trying to avoid securities regulations or they are trying to sell a buzzword to suckers.

if you are centralized "blockchain" does not protect you from regulators coming in and bankrupting your company.
How would you define the difference between neobanks and regular challenger banks.

Agree with this comment
"the data that we receive to learn about customers becomes worse and worse"
I'm not sure what you mean by "it's not Redux".

It's still 100% Redux. You create reducers, add them to a store, dispatch actions, and read that data in your components. None of that has changed. You're just writing less code to do it.

What RTK does is eliminate the "incidental complexity" that came along with the original Redux usage patterns: writing action types and action creators by hand, writing complex nested immutable update logic by hand, making a mistake in that immutable update logic and causing accidental mutations, etc [0].

I do understand the suggestion to "replace the Redux core with RTK", and I take it as a great compliment that people suggest that. However, it can't happen, because a lot of people are already using Redux with their own customizations and abstractions. Changing the Redux core to suddenly include a bunch of other dependencies would not be what they want.

The other aspect is that the Redux core was designed from the beginning to be unopinionated, while RTK is _deliberately_ opinionated. Not all Redux users want RTK's opinions. As it is, we've had folks who didn't like the fact that RTK _is_ opinionated and requires use of Immer in our `createReducer` and `createSlice` APIs.

We had a long discussion issue about whether it made sense to add things like this to the Redux core (which was actually part of what prompted us to create RTK in the first place) [1].

FWIW, we explicitly recommend RTK as the standard way to write Redux logic [2], and now that Redux Toolkit 1.3 is out with some new APIs [3], my next task is to create a new "Quick Start" tutorial page for the Redux core docs [4] that does actually teach Redux using RTK as the default syntax, ie, "this _is_ how you write Redux code", in the same way that the Apollo docs teach Apollo-Boost as the default way to use Apollo.

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/10/redux-starter-kit-...

[1] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/3321

[2] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-redux-toolk...

[3] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v1.3.0

[4] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/3674
I found compiling with Clozure CL instead of SBCL leads to way better memory allocation/usage.

It's worth getting it going, it's one of the greatest tools in migrating things into and out of pgsql I've ever used. If you have pgsql in your pipeline, get it working.

I used this and debezium to really make my ETL pipeline absolutely bulletproof.