skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do we not have these things? Medical equipment and financial conduits involve no rocket science whatsoever. At least therapies and vaccines are hard! Making masks and transferring money are not hard.

Maybe because investors think that every company will be a fintech company in the future? (https://a16z.com/2020/01/21/every-company-will-be-a-fintech-...).

> The problem is desire. We need to want these things.

> What’s the American dream? The opportunity to have a home of your own, and a family you can provide for.

The top tier in the U.S. is enjoying a rather good living. They have houses, cars, cheap imported stuff, groceries delivered, accountants and good health insurance. They will also travel to some place in Europe or Asia for a nice vacation to avoid the bad and expensive service in the U.S.

The bottom tier (which is getting larger) surely wants these things. But they are hopeless and both the top tier and the government has given up on them. On other countries (i.e.: Singapore) the government think about the larger population. So they build some public transportation. In the U.S., there is a strong police force, so these things are under control.
I think a New Deal style fund for infrastructure and human capital investment projects would be fantastic.

Some ideas...

Government will pay your former salary if you attend a Masters or PhD program and are succeeding there.

Delay recent bachelors grads entering the workforce by heavily subsidizing Masters degrees and PhDs in STEM. (Only others if we must, personally I think social sciences are currently acting as a destructive force in our society and are not behaving as academics but as ideological advocates.)

Massively increase STEM research and development funding.

Free technical and trade schools.

More ideas:

Subsidize universities putting their courses online for accredited degrees.

Subsidize private tutors for all subjects for K-12 kids, creating a large demand for private tutors. Require a bachelors degree that includes the subject to be tutored.

Provide funding to rebuild any manufacturing infrastructure that has been lost in the last 50 years, or just to build more. Especially designed in ways that manufacturing plants can operate safely for their workers in pandemic conditions.
> to me it's very telling that the US investigation looked at the 'wet-market' theory and the 'bio-engineer weapon' theory and completely ignored over the 'lab-accident' theory despite all the diplomatic cables discussion in the media, about concerns over lab safety and staff training

Source on this? All the mainstream press I’ve read on this in the past two days suggests that the US investigation is centered on the theory of accidental lab release.
Wow. This is really, really cool. Having this level transparency on who is spreading narratives or propaganda in what way is very interesting. In my few brief searches on some history-related pages you can see hoardes of edits from US military bases for instance.
I have it setup on my Thinkpad T580, seems to work fine enough. I do get the occasional visual corruption with it but it works well enough for me to run things like Luminar and other photo editing things that need hardware acceleration. It doesn't seem to work reliably with video encoding, which might just be a driver issue somewhere that I haven't found a solution for yet.
Cabal: Experimental P2P community chat platform
It's really incredible that at that point humans(or whatever homo species) could 1) invent novel techniques for tool making and 2) train others, who could train others, etc etc until the technique traveled flawless across the accessible world.

The weirdest part for me though is how flawless transmission of the techniques happened over a relatively short period of time, but (1) was so infrequent that each technique lasted for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. Yet not so infrequent that it never happened, or it only happened once.
I can confirm with a very little spelunking that the Mac app is a real native AppKit/Cocoa app. It appears to mostly be written in Swift, but also uses a fair amount of Objective-C. They've said publicly that the Windows version is written in C# and C/C++. Not sure what they did for Linux...
Sounds promising, but have we completely ruled out the possibility that the baseline treatment causes most of the deaths?
The Fight Against Covid-19: An Update from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
It really really bothers me that these folks are using a live city with real, non-volunteer test subjects of all ages (little kids and old folks use public streets) as a test bed for their massive car-shaped robots.

It's bad enough that people are driving cars all over the place, car collisions have killed more Americans than all the wars we've fought put together.

I'm one of those people who say, "Self-driving cars can't happen soon enough." But I don't think that justifies e.g. killing Elaine Herzberg.

Ask yourself this, why start with cars? Why not make a self-driving golf cart? Make it out of nerf (soft foam) and program it to never go so fast that it can't brake in time to prevent collision.

Testing these heavy, fast, buggy robots in crowds of people is extremely irresponsible.
Covid-19’s impact on Tor
Could not agree more with The Idea Factory, his talks are also great. I also came away feeling inspired, nostalgic and the book is very fun. They are some real characters.

There’s some good picks in the similar books I’ve been looking at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/16750267-the-idea-fac...

If you haven’t read Ben Franklins autobiography it’s also pretty fun and inspiring.
Is this true? I've never heard this before.
> Marcus Aurelius said 2000 years ago to "spare no expense on private tutors"

Taking parenting advice from people thousands of years ago is not the wisest idea. Let alone Roman child rearing advice. Let alone from an emperor. Let alone from Marcus Aurelius. His son, Commodus, was one of the worst emperors. I'm not saying that Aurelius was wrong, but his record on child rearing is clearly terrible considering the lives of his children.

Getting into working more or less for the benefit children is very individual. Each family is unique and changes over time. You raise your kids, yes, but they raise each other and themselves too. They are real people too.
"NAS" drives are typically set to not have a timeout mismatch for linux raid.

See here:

https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Timeout_Mismatch
Can someone send this to dropbox please? Their pricing plans make absolutely no sense. Maybe they can get some ideas
Eigen's Paradox
How did you find it?

Would you use Elm again?

Are there anythings you wish you knew before you started?
That's useful as an implementation detail, but even more important is the user experience of failing to debounce correctly. If I press a button (etc) twice within 100ms, that generally does not mean I want this to be seen as two presses. Rather, my finger slipped, maybe I have minor neurological problems, I'm drinking, the software itself glitched, whatever. For the user's sake, user interfaces should debounce themselves.

It's all rather striking to me, as the concept of debouncing was one of the first things I learned while reading microcontroller code as a child. (No, I'm not kidding--that was the only book on computers I could find growing up in BFE.)

That we still haven't generally solved this in 2020 is appalling.

(There are lots of variations. There was an article in Software: Practice and Experience in the 90s (?) lamenting the UI race in most X interfaces (and probably all other GUIs). Briefly, lots of interfaces can pop up a dialog or whatever while the user is pressing a button underneath. The dialog often gets the press, resulting in the software executing some action the user did not even see, much less intend.)
It is almost impossible to see a world where people wouldn't flock to a language due to pragmatic reasons. People didn't go to js because it was good, just because it was the only option. If you don't, your competitor would, and likely put you out of business. People didn't make so many Objective c apps because of it's capabilities, but because it was what you use to make iOS apps, and that's where the money was. There is no chance the programmatic web would have ever depended on programmer's preference for language.
Aren’t most decent Masters and PhD programs paid already?

My friends in PhD programs are paid a stipend. It’s not an industry level wage if that is what you were meaning, but they certainly don’t pay anything to be there.
Sweden is the only country that has a scientist in charge of covid response? All other countries have politicians in charge? I'm not sure that they're definitely wrong?
You are right but the guy you replied highlight a strong point, we want to write once very quickly just to archive something and chance of reading those is low. But we would need to write it. (He did it every night. I just archive it and recycle the storage in my NAS, but not as frequent as every night.). If I want archive reading in the very long term, should use tape or as you say WORM. But not for hard disk usage.

Low cost write quickly. That is the 5400 coming in but not this.

But the key is to tell us so we can choose. Not as scandal like to get such knowledge and still hiding.
It would help to have a leader who inspires, a leader who brings the opposing side along (knowing that we most of us want the same result, we just disagree on how to get there), a leader who couldn't give a damn about re-election, a leader with a vision of a positive future, and a leader who drives us to our better natures. We haven't had one of those in a while.
Here's an interesting interview with a senior epidemiologist partly responsible for Sweden's unconventional strategy:

https://youtu.be/bfN2JWifLCY

TL;DW: Preventing transmission in the long term is impossible and the actual fatality rate is likely on the order of 0.1%, so general lockdowns are pointless and being driven mostly by political considerations (something must be done and this is something). Just protect the elderly and weak.
Food stamps, medicare, TANF, and welfare improve the daily lives of millions. And this money is accountable to the person who spent it, to the person who voted to spend it, to who raised it.
That gets you the weaknesses of all of them modulo your selection criterion ... some of the time.
Amazing ! Dat is probably one of the most interesting technologies out there, it's good to see more people step in, especially if it's a growing company.

Does that mean that Cliqz will start indexing dat sites ? The way I see it, the biggest issue of decentralized anything is always discoverability. If Cliqz is interested in it, it could have a leverage in making dat more widespread.

Dat even helps you with the indexing, because it's the sites themselves that tell you when they are updated and when they are updated, it's like an indexer's dream come true. And seeing how dat operates, Cliqz could even be a peer in the swarm of the sites it indexes to give them more chance to be reached (at the cost of Cliqz having a view on who visits what, which seems contrary to your DNA if I understand correctly)
https://www.coachup.com/nation/articles/bank-shots-in-basket...
I read as a teenager this was always due to mutation. Do these viruses not change over time?
> There is a global average infection rate. Of course it's just an average, but is representative of the growth of global cases

Flattening the curve in NYC and Lombardy does not change the trajectory of Brazil and every other developing country. Even India’s fast response is less likely to work than a rich country’s shelter in place. As long as there is exponential spread out there it will keep showing up wherever you call home.
That would be true for the absolute lowest value labor. Only about 1% of the labor force earned the minimum wage in 2019. Maybe that would increase to 3-5% under this scenario, with higher real wage compensation covering more people.

The competition for labor - which exists at all times in some form - will continue to force businesses beyond the floor of the income tax credit line for the extreme majority of labor. A person that now earns the minimum $12/hr via the tax credit system, a business can offer them $12 + their own $3 cost ($15/hr total to the employee), and steal them away for relatively inexpensively versus the old minimum wage costs. The business might have been paying a $10/hr min wage in their state previously, for example; so paying $3/hr for that labor is still a net savings. You could gradually eliminate the tax credit as you step up the income scale (maybe every combined dollar above $12/hr the person earns, one dollar in the credit vanishes; so someone earning $20/hr total, that employee loses $8/hr of the credit, so $16/hr of that has to come from the business; or half that rate of vanishing; you get the general idea). It's entirely plausibly this would massively boost income levels for the bottom half of workers, as businesses would offer over the $12/hr line to lure the best lower skill workers (it would still be net cheaper to the business than the old system, which is why they'd do it). It would also make a lot of small businesses solidly profitable and encourage higher rates of business formation again (most mom & pop businesses operate at very thin margins; would have to implement some new fraud checking and minimum revenue requirements perhaps; have to avoid various fraudulent employment schemes). Also, the credit should apply to lower income waiters also, they can keep tips on top of that (if they yield enough combined income, it would be taxed; a person earning the minimum $12/hr pays zero income taxes, over that we'd have to decide where income taxes begin and how they climb).

We would continue to tax normal corporate income outside of manufacturing (and we could begin by just experimenting by dropping manufacturing taxation to half the normal rate, test the outcomes it generates). The increased personal income taxation pays for the new redistribution model. We would want to reform our personal income tax system further to optimize, maximize it (including treating all income equally for tax purposes).

We could entirely exclude high wage employees from the income tax credit system, so those employees are not subsidized in this (if your engineers are making $125,000 they don't need the $12/hr income tax credit underneath them).

We simultaneously could alter some welfare benefit programs that are no longer as necessary as a larger share of the population is working and earning higher wages (you rebalance the system in other words).
"Why Nation Fails" is a phenomenal book. I'm sorry, but I have a hard time to think of US institutions as reasonable examples of how the author portraits creative destruction and extractive institutions.

I understand there might be some broken things in your nation's systems. Still, the fact you're able to discuss them here or work towards changing them through legal methods, shows the US is far off on the right track of constitutional rule and pluralism.
I think you have identified a real problem. There needs to be a vehicle for long term investing in companies. In the UK at least the major vehicle for long-term, even multi-generational, investing is property because of the special protections it has. The richest family in Britain recently transferred £9bn to the next son, tax-free, in this way. It is low risk, and the costs of holding non- devoloped land is low. This leads to all kinds of undesirable effects like land-banking. I feel the cost of holding land needs to go up (land value tax?) to incentivise development. Inheritance tax shields (trusts) need removing. This should get all of this stale capital working and looking for a new home. This could be a longer term VC type fund, perhaps?
Covid-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, China
I wonder if we don’t see a lot of it because it was based on non-stone material that decomposed — Wood, cloth, maybe ropes...
Yes, the NAND flash "decline" (for lack of better words) is sad to see, and it's as you said --- the only marketing spec people seem to care about with storage is capacity.

TLC and QLC are misnomers, a TLC cell holds 3 bits but has eight levels and QLC likewise 4 bits with 16 levels. You get a multiplicative increase in capacity for an exponential decrease in reliability. The manufacturers have been very obfuscatory with the marketing, since they know the inconvenient truth.

Does anyone still make a reasonably large (>100GB) SSD with good old 100K SLC? I have a 64MB (true 2^26 bytes capacity!) flash drive with 100K SLC; 0 bad blocks when it was new, and still 0 bad blocks a decade and a half later despite plenty of abuse.
UserBenchmark gets banned from major subreddits
The monkey didn't create its tool by shaping an appropriate rock to suit the purpose.
What's the goal here? The American dream?
Well, you need to be able to afford a home and children.
People can't.

Why not? Because they aren't paid enough for the work they do. The money is being made, but it ends up at the top, and not even corporate tax is being paid with all the tax optimization routes.

So what do people do? They begin startups. Most of the time they're done by people who should even waste their time on it, because they haven't been trained to build and run a company. But guess what? It's the only way to "make it" and the "American dream".

Want to be taken care of properly? Pay RN more.

Want better education for people who can't afford? Pay teachers in community colleges more.

Want more R&D? Pay "smart" people more, instead of forcing them to try and do the startup.

Want affordable housing? Force big companies to have offices outside the big cities. Also, value housepricing at 20% of what they're worth not to destroy mortgages. Tax forgein owned housing. Tax owning houses beyond the first one.

Building is not the problem. Building is easy. You talk about robots... how is that gonna help "the american dream"? It's not.

The problem is financial and ownership disitrbution. Normal people stand no chance against tax routes, against their employers, against the government.
They are slaves to all of that.
Oh, I'm very sorry about that. I was checking the logs and I don't see anything. It is weird because yesterday a lot of people submitted their salaries without any problem. I'll continue checking to see if I find something. Sorry again.
It is generally beyond the scope of an article like this to provide a full case history.

If you want something like that there are professional journals that provide in depth legal reporting.
> Just protect the elderly and weak.

Given the catastrophic impact on nursing homes in the U.S. so far, that’s clearly something we’ve completely botched.
I think the difference here is that the URL in dat is not a guarantee of immutability - it is just a public key and the author of the dat is free to update the content at any time without changing the key (there is a change history though).

I am not an expert on this - just a casual passing interest so might have it wrong.

This explains more: https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/
Ah yes, the lack of success in our nation is purely the individual’s fault. Your fault, my fault. There are no structural issues, misallocations of capitals, disincentives. You should be working harder on bigger problems! Quit your job at Walmart, and start working on things that matter.

What the fuck Andreessen? Are you so out of touch with reality that you think if the working class just worked a little harder, a little smarter, then we’d have flying cars?
I don't see anything about the mind maps. Can you give a pointer to loomio.org or gitub which specifically speaks to that?
The UK has had a radio based soap opera since 1950
You're combining multiple problems: maintaining a package for redistribution, and using packages. For the second, the much more common case, 2/3 of the things on your list are irrelevant.
The fries are fairly mediocre, but their burgers are pretty fantastic, espesicslky if you’re a fan of animal style.
Tangential. but you want to avoid arcing on contacts as much as possible, because electric arcs are insanely hot and physically erode and destroy the contacts eventually (this is the normal mode of relay failure)
Historical context https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...
I think they try to stay pretty explicitly neutral about advocating a particular density, it's just that they want people to be realistic about how much a particular kind of development costs. Suburbs are perfectly fine -- but if they were taxed to a degree that reflects their actual infrastructure cost, it would be much more expensive to live in them. There's currently a bizarre pattern where poorer, older, higher-density urban neighborhoods end up subsidizing richer suburbs.

Likewise, it's fine if you want to live out on a farm well away from other people -- but the town shouldn't pay a million dollars to run a paved road and water supply out to your house, when a dirt road and a well is good enough.

The problem is that we all want something for nothing. We all want to live in low-density suburbs like you love, but since charging enough in taxes to pay for them would not be very politically popular, instead we've run up massive infrastructure liabilities, depending on unsustainable exponential growth for funding to fix the old infrastructure.

Would you still love the suburbs as much if your property taxes were 2x or 4x what they are now? If you would still want to live in a suburb, great, no problem. But many people would probably rather choose to move to a denser area and pay a more reasonable tax rate.
No, I'm projecting it would take millenia even if we start multiple hundreds of years in the future. We absolutely could not even start building a Dyson sphere today, the material constraints are far beyond anything we are capable of.

The reason why I'm saying it would take in the thousands of years, is because of this tautology: If we want to build a Dyson sphere, it means that we are still limited to the energy we can get from Earth. Given the issues that come with extracting a large percentage of the energy received by the Earth, even if we used fusion (due to thermodynamic constraints), the limit of energy used can be placed around 5-10% of the energy Earth receives from the Sun (And that would require extensive geo-engineering). With that sort of energy output, the energy alone required in order to move the material needed for a Dyson sphere from Earth orbit to Sun orbit would take literally millenia, and that's with a combined effort from all of Mankind, which politically completely impossible for the next centuries unless China or some other superpower was able to magically establish true utopic statless communism and win away the rest of the world to establish a world cooperation of sunshine and rainbows magically.

A Dyson sphere would weight around the mass of the Earth. The Hohmann transfer from Earth to Mercury (fly-bys cannot work due the sheer mass knocking out other planets from their orbits, this is actually the magnitude of energy we're talking about). If we could magically make the material necessary appear from Earth gradually, d/v from earth surface to LEO then from LEO to Mercury's orbit or thereabouts via a Hohmann transfer is of around 15 000 m/s. If you take the good old kinetic energy formula, 1/2mv^2, you find that this would require a staggering amount of energy that would take millenia to amass.
The reviews for this are clearly fake: https://imgur.com/gallery/3wesrkq [EDIT - bad imgur link]