skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And cars were not economically viable for the masses for most of their early development. It took decades of technological advancements to produce the distant ancestor of the modern mass-market auto-manufacturing machine.

As for drones and supersonic aircraft, we're going to need much better batteries for the former and far more efficient engines for the latter to them to be more viable than present alternatives. That's not a "what I know bias", it's in hard math and numbers.

It's like how most ships in popular sci-fi are these futuristic, oblong shapes with wondrous curves, when in fact a more realistic approach would be using rectangles for everything but a few niche applications. For anything that humans are going to walk around in/actively use rectangular structures are simply far more efficient. It was true 10,000 years ago, it'll be true 10,000 years from now assuming we're not living in Musk's simulation.
non-essential procedures and doctor's visits have also been cancelled, and some medicines are now rationed also. Both will have a negative impact on the health of some people.

I personally had a month long series of treatments scheduled that got cancelled, and now I have no idea when I'll be able to get that treatment. Better than dying from the virus, though.
I'm talking from pure logic point. Denying a job to a convict (as a rule) is based on the assumption that it's absolutely impossible for a convict to recover and start leading a normal life. It is based on a 0% probability of that happening. And that's quite clearly not the case.
Ugh, this all seems like so much Silicon Valley nonsense.

First of all, this exact article could have been written in the early 00s (indeed, many articles like this were written back then) about Second Life. I remember well all the Second Life hype, about how we would all be somehow living our lives in this game/non-game most of the time. The hype eventually died.

I'm not arguing against things like MMORPGs or FortNite or Minecraft in particular. These are great games that people get a lot of enjoyment from, and a lot of that enjoyment is from building stuff and showing it off to other people. I just bristle at this whole "metaverse" nonsense and the hyping it up beyond what it really is.
The projects of yours that catch eyes of employers, are they industry relevant? I've had attempts at simple things like lexers for interpreters, stack vms, but I always get the feeling that's too esoteric.
First, I dig your meditation on Forth and the Dao that won’t be named.

> what is your motive in asking this question?

To provoke OP into debugging me.
Glad I’m not allergic to bullshit because this comment would have me breaking out in hives.
Really? Maybe my local experience is an outlier but I've seen significantly more people cooking meals at home and exercising. The number of daily runners in my neighborhood has easily increased 10x. Are gluttony and sedentary lifestyles not the major contributors for type-2 diabetes and heart disease?
My own life is stressful enough, without the all seeing criticizing eye of a world audience.
Of course not. I'm a little confused as to how you might think that if the case. I use it daily, and I'm invested in its continued improvement. I ask because I'd like to know how projects best succeed in the kind of situation.
I don't think this comment deserves to be downvoted. It seems sensible. Sure, it's mostly sensitive to the phrasing, but careful phrasing matters in matters of finance and politics.
“The things we build in huge quantities, like computers and TVs, drop rapidly in price.”
That’s great for basically everyone except the people building them. In fact that’s probably the worst possible argument to convince someone to start building more of these things. I don’t know the answer but a lot of this essay was stating what would be best for the whole without really addressing the incentives/drives of the people who are supposed to be doing all this building.
>Markets would love to build nuclear power plants
Sadly, markets would love to build nuclear power plants without paying the external costs, but I pretty much doubt the markets would like to pay all the costs associated with nuclear production.

And BTW, I say this in full support for nuclear power, in fact, I think that carbon, gas and oil are so cheap because they markets avoid paying the external costs that nuclear might be the better alternative. But this is because the markets are not great on accounting for this costs that are passed to society as a whole.
0.5% of GDP isn’t nothing! Wow!
This post is almost better than the talk. I found the talk fascinating but this post gave me a clearer concrete understanding of the implications.
Exactly. Every company in the world could save money on electricity by shutting their data centers down too.
No, I mean if a printing service can print files other than PDF, such as prerasterized files for their printer instead, for example.
Interesting to think about what that $1/resident/day in savings could be spent on, though. A small supply of free masks so everyone can protect each other by wearing one when they go out? Discounted public transit rides to work?
No, no, there’s never going to be enough testing to test asymptomatic cases — Thats everybody.

And a test doesn’t tell you you aren’t going to be positive tomorrow. It just tells you you weren’t positive 48 hours ago!

Fauci explained all this live at the press conference. I wish people would listen. With AIDS it’s different. You can get tested, be negative, take no at-risk behaviors, and a year later that negative test is still relevant. With COVID by the time you have a negative test result back it’s no longer even relevant. Only positive tests are relevant.

The fact is that there’s no point in testing people to demonstrate that they are negative. And there will never be enough testing to test every asymptomatic person, and a significant proportion of spread is from asymptomatic carriers. Those three incontrovertible facts lead to some very basic and sobering conclusions.

So this fear of people being forced to show a negative test assumes we’ve somehow found our way into an anti-science twilight zone kabuki theater to begin with. Which frankly wouldn’t be far off from where we are already, but can we please at least acknowledge it’s based on fear and hysteria and not any kind of science?
> Watch at 1/3 speed or so to see it in real time...

The note in the top-right says its 2x.
Are you aware of zwift - pretty big in virtual biking world!

If someone can do something similar for weights - tracking reps, sets etc (even for real), that would be awesome. Metrics go a long way to keep you focused. Strava did wonders to me when I started to run.
I don't think it's malicious. I often find that as I think about and re-categorize things, meanings of words shift until I'm thinking and occasionally talking in my own private vocabulary. It's rude at best to let it out in the open, but primarily because it's lazy. Inventing new vocabulary is a lot of work, and also has its own fundamental difficulties.

People who divide the world into different categories are kind of screwed when it comes to communicating their ideas. IMO this is one of the thorniest problems in all of communication.
You have to version your apis or make everything backwards compatible. For data migrations if there's some big breaking change the you typically need some out of band sync process. There's no magic bullet once something is out in the wild. When you introduce a breaking change you have to either a, accept it will break people and that's their problem, b, figure out a way not to make it breaking, c, support old and new for a while, or d, drop the feature. It's just a cost that you have to factor in while planning, and frequently one of the more significant ones. We've chosen d many times.
Do you think that the other, more important part of the statement has held up? That "anthropogenic warming was much milder than has been estimated"?

You seem to accept NASA as a source, so here's this:

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-mo...
This reminded me of a proposal to add a leading 1 to our year[2020 -> 12020]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs

Cesare Emiliani proposed that the Construction of the Göbekli Tepe 12,000 years ago could represent a "start of civilization", creating a "holocene calendar".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Emiliani

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps
> 0.5% of GDP isn’t nothing! Wow!

Are you saying that you disagree that California losing 500% of its GDP seems impossible?
The reason for this is to avoid problems when the top result is always same one and others will then not be looked at much, so that if random mode is selected then you can have a better chance to look and see if it is good.
Will never happen, unless it’s authoritarian.

There is way to much cultural, and thus political, diversity in the world.

Not everyone wants the same thing out of their government.

Hell, even small countries are usually strongly divided on politics.
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A link to the paper would be appreciated if anyone has it.
I love the post, but it’s hard to ignore the cynic in me who thinks a large part of the problem lies in these VCs who have defined success to be achieving unicorn status. You know what’s never going to be a unicorn app? An app for tutoring kids. I would have loved to work on that. I tutored kids and I know first hand the impact of tutoring. But guess what, I’m only getting older and I need to make a living in an increasingly expensive world! Guess I better work in a startup with better prospects.
I was going from $1 per day per resident. And in retrospect, I was off re income. $100-$1000 per day is reasonable for a middle class worker, but not the average resident.

So OK, make that 10 to 100 times greater.
I believe the oldest writing comes from Sumerians, not Egypt.
Elegant sophistry with the end goal as always to convince governments to tear back regulations.
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> Guri says that malicious code planted on an air-gapped system can control the speed at which fans work. By moderating fan speed up and down, the attacker can control the frequency of the vibrations coming off the fan.

Ah, so it's a malicious program using fan vibrations to communicate data to an attacker via sound where the attacker doesn't have a network connection to the computer the malicious program is running on?

I thought it was going to be something to do with e.g. passively reading passwords/keys via the fan vibrations somehow when the system was running non-malicious code.
The scope that you seem to be expecting isn't possible right now. Anything that's attempting to account for every amount of money lost or saved will end up missing something. The title contains itself to the scope that it is accurate at.

Trusting the reader to intuitively know California is losing massive amounts of money from other things seems reasonable. Just because a title isn't written for the most uneducated reader does not mean it is misleading.
Setting up WhatsApp business is far easier. Cannot work out at all how to use this. Seems if you’re a big company dw Apple will come to you.
I don't think a fish can be allergic to water.
Not sure I agree with the notion that we can ignore political motivation. Obama left a pandemic response organization and the intelligence services knew how dangerous it was going to be.

Trump absolutely failed and is failing at leading us through this thing.

Innovation is great, but let’s not ignore bad leadership.

Andreseen is notoriously conservative and clearly whitewashing reality.
Has the number of runners increased more than the number of people going to gyms/sports leagues/swimming pools has dropped?
As a non-American, don't vote Joe Biden if you want sweeping changes. Shouldve considered the other Democrats candidates. Youll end up with same status quo
> It infuriates me that people who work on important projects like numpy or Tor which are very widely used have trouble paying the bills and keeping a roof over their head.

Donate money to projects you care about. Persuade your friends to donate.

> I don't make it because I don't work in the software industry and don't have access to large social or financial capital networks.

What’s the plan for getting the doers onboard? Pay them? Persuade them to work for free? Persuade the government to tax someone else to fund them?

Or are we just shouting about things we don’t like? Because let me tell you about low quality leather goods...
I'd rather suffer the possibility of being pwnt than have devices that come pwnt out of the box. Manufacturers could develop systems that removed themselves from the trust chain, but unfortunately more control is beneficial in their view.
Maybe you can expand the theme to include interesting things folks are doing at home (in addition to cooking). You could also pull in interesting posts automatically from the social sites like twitter and instagram. Looking forward to more updates!
Not looking good. :( I guess I thought a lot more people than that died from car crashes.
Shuffling 100 million points per second (probably much more if it wasn't both, disc IO and CPU->GPU transfer limited), and shuffling in general if you want to maintain high throughput. e.g.: https://bit.ly/2zcUzJq
The iPad one has a period CPU that, unfortunately, would not run any modern android build with any level of performance that would be considered usable.

It's ewaste, or at least, an interesting artifact in computer design history.
There are still a few residual gay rights issues, but over the past few years, LGBTQ+ rights has come to primarily refer to trans rights. One of the ACLU's major recent campaigns is that trans girls should be allowed to play on girls' sports teams, for example - that's seen as an important right nowadays, but it's not on the checklist because it was never relevant for gay people.
In case folks are interested in other "non-tech" TILs, I occasionally visit this blog to see what's been added recently - https://alearningaday.blog/ - by a Product Manager who currently works at LinkedIn.
Wow. So it is. I guess I skimmed over that and missed it on multiple rereadings. Dang.
Top-left
It's like a lot of little Ministry of Truths running about the place trying to massage reality.

You just described the entirety of the advertising, public relations and marketing industries. It's essentially commercialized brainwashing. Humans, as social animals, have been at it at least since recounting great stories of hunting as pre-sapien hominids and probably earlier as pre-hominids.
Not "where's the thorium reactors?" That probably won't work. But why don't we have rows of windmills from the Texas panhandle to the Canadian border (the real US wind belt), and EHV DC lines west to California, east to Chicago, and south to Houston. That could power the US west of the Mississippi. Totally do-able. Proven technology. Profitable.
But not everybody needs to drive. Some subset of commuters could work from home, and some larger subset could work from home on a partial schedule.
Phew. So much for the app store not deterministically notifying the server deployment infrastructure that the app has been published?
Craiglist was innovative when it started.
It sounds like they mean running X apps on the Linux host displayed in a Windows VM.
He could be referring to Trump’s disbanding of the pandemic protection team within CDC two years back
> This wasn't embedded provocateurs or out-of-control extremists.

I never said it was. And that completely misses the point on why it's important. (surprise: you don't have to defend Charlottesville to defend the ACLU)

You're basically providing anyone an easy tool to kill any protest before it gets off the ground.

Any protest where antifa plays a role would be DOA (and having attending my fair share that's at least ~50% of the major ones)... do you think all the human rights, union, indigenous, etc groups control which protests Antifa shows up at? Should they have to self-regulate their protests so no one shows up wearing all-black is allowed to participate?

Anyway you're free to stop supporting ACLU if you prefer a political-driven legal group. I'm sure they exist. ACLU lost 30,000 members after Spokane but was still a force to be reckoned with for decades. I'm just saddened to see this short-term thinking also infecting lawyer groups and famous rights-defending academic institutions. I'm not surprised to see it in the media, Reddit, and elsewhere where higher values aren't embedded in their purpose.

The courts should always be the last line of defence and at a minimum should be immune from politics. Without politically neutral legal defence groups the world will be far worse off than the benefits of stopping a few nazis from protesting.
If you are interested, Peter Thiel's 0 to 1 has more on this and with more depth. As he says, we are the "indefinite optimists", expecting the future to become better somehow, rather than "definite optimists" that expect to build the better future.
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All the same, the reason you have maps on your smartphone can be traced to GPS satellites and ultimately the space program itself, funded by the government.

Yeah yeah, SpaceX exists now, decades after all the very tough and very expensive initial work.
Reading the Wikipedia article, the lack of government transparency is crappy, but I don’t blame the tunnel company for asking the government what their plans were for the existing roads. You can’t build a traffic tunnel on the hope that people use it.

You’d need to figure out what’s happening with the rest of the roads, then make a call to build or not. If the plans for the other roads change, the value of your tunnel might go to zero.
Why does it matter - can't it be a private (nonprofit) school?
Not sure a kindness app is a one time purchase app. If I buy the app I probably want some kindness my way. I would expect feedback.. and be less likely to offer kindness.

If you made asking for kindness a paying feature but allowed replies from non-paying members. You have the same spam problem but at least it is limited to replies plus it provides a revenue stream. It creates another problem because people want to give and receive (not just give).

The free open model is the best. But it has other problems.

Anyone remember spiritweb.org from early the early 2000s? They had a feature where you would ask a question and a random person would get an email asking to answer a question (but the question was not given you had to psychically guess). Kind of a neat idea but in the end it falls apart because of spam and garbage questions. For a spammer being able to send kindness would be a great opportunity.
I wonder if they're just avoiding it as a tactical thing. Lawsuits aren't the quickest form of change, they might just not see any path to actually moving on those questions before they become moot. If they're planning for the long term, it might make more sense to see which forms of government overreach stick around too long.
I've played with the concurrency in Python, and it's simply not worth it. Much better to use Node.js or Go where the async story is not an afterthought.

Of course if you are stuck with Python it's better than nothing.
On this I definitely recommend checking out RxJS and it's stream operators like denounce: https://www.learnrxjs.io/learn-rxjs/operators/filtering/debo...
Totally agree. I looked it up out of curiosity... 1995. 25 years in tech is basically a lifetime ago. Has it changed much?
Call it what you want. The point is instead of inventing an entirely different template language, JSX adds a little bit of HTML/XML-like syntax to JavaScript. You use regular old JavaScript operators and functions for things like conditionals and loops.

You don't have to use JSX with React, but the vast majority of people do, because they aren't dogmatic about it not being "pure" JavaScript or whatever.
There are more surviving mainframe families than just IBM and Unisys:

- Groupe Bull still supports GCOS mainframes (descended from General Electric GECOS)

- NEC still supports ACOS mainframes (also descended from General Electric GECOS, but a different fork from Bull's) – only sold/used in Japan now, although in past decades NEC did attempt to sell them outside of Japan (not sure if anyone bought them though)

- Fujitsu still supports ICL VME mainframes (still used by some UK government agencies) and BS2000/OSD (still used in Germany mainly)

- I think some Fujitsu MSP and Hitachi VOS3 systems survive in Japan. (These are less than 100% compatible forks of IBM MVS.) They also used to exist in some other countries–e.g. here in Australia, although I doubt any are left here.
those numbers are not really comparable if you don't factor demographics like proportion of age groups in population, average life expectancy, how overloaded or capable is the health system, how are deaths counted and social habits like cogenerational living (IT/ES) vs most single person households at least in Europe (SE) or even how people socialize with greetings (FR, ES, IT), how common is social distancing

many of these would explain why SoKo, Japan and Sweden fare well without lockdown
Google’s UI has been cycling between bad and worse. That goes across the board - websites, Android, apps, everything.

I have never come across a Google product and thought “this is a well designed and clear to use program”. Except perhaps Google Search and Gmail of old - between circa 2005-2008.
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The data bandwidth for fan speed modulation has to be very slow when compared to more traditional data transfer methods I’d imagine?
The failure of Lidl in Norway due to vested interests is an argument for one world government.

Maybe if we had one government we’d finally be able to settle on one electrical plug, which side of the road to drive on etc. etc. Imagine if every country developed its own indigenous WiFi standard? How lovely, until you want to read your email.

Charm and uniqueness is great on a postcard, but not when you want to actually achieve anything IRL.
Interestingly, if the Chinese reported numbers turn out to be even a little accurate, then I'm changing my mind from natural to lab accident.

I'd love to see some reasonable estimates on how bad the outbreak in China really was. How exactly does a country with no warning of what is about to happen get away with case numbers that aren't in the 10s of millions?

Such a reponse isn't impossible - maybe they were on high alert after SARS - but given what is happening in Europe and the States there are a lot of questions about what exactly happened/is happening in China and what the timeline was. It is difficult to organise against an unexpected exponential process in the time they claim they did.
Yes, I can give you examples. On this page (which is probably the most popular reference on distance functions for raymarching):

https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfu...

If you scroll down to the section "Deformations and distortions", you'll notice that iq wishes so hard there were first class functions in GLSL that he pretends they exist in all the code examples (the deformation functions all take functions as parameters).

As for macros specifically filling in the role of first class functions, this is sometimes done by creating a macro that takes a function as parameter. So for example, iq's functions above could be turned into crazy macros.