skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“In the U.S., we don’t even have the ability to get federal bailout money to the people and businesses that need it”

It’s usually entertaining to hear techno-glibertarians from the valley emote about government. But after decades of “government is the problem” we now hear them complaining about the c19 response.

There is a very good reason that COBOL code hasn’t been changed since Reagan. Reagan Won. We are still living in his world. You guys won.

Stop blaming your gov’t for your wins. Once you’ve done that, we can talk about the path forward.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obesity_country_co...
If we didn't have unlimited travel across borders this epidemic would have never happened.

Absolutely nothing would need to be built to achieve this.
Oh hmm, thanks. I've seen that link, but I'm not interested in getting into the byte-level, I just want a high-level overview. A URL being a public key that you can update if you have the private key makes sense, thank you. Do you know how propagation/distribution happens? With IPFS, whoever accesses your content serves it for some time.
Pre crisis we had <4% unemployment, who is left to build?

The Govt. is required to steer the economic ship to make these things happen:

1) tie state taxes to per/capita testing infrastructure and ppe reserve

2) stress test public health institutes like financial institutes

3) use the military to war game these events
Great. After flogging for 10 years that software is eating the world and that hard sciences and physical world doesn't matter, a16z now is asking us to build? Color me surprised.
All the “reopen $statename” websites were registered on the same day
AFAIK banks can discriminate based on their internal judgements about who to approve and for how much.

Given that, it should come as no surprise to anyone in America that they prioritized funding for business customers deemed of greatest value to them.

Random question, but can a pre-revenue company qualify for this type of bailout?
Bittorrent is immutable, Dat is the mutable version of Bittorrent.

You create an archive, that is identified with a cryptographic pubkey. You add files in it, dat stores some metadata in it. You give the archive's id to a friend, who starts retrieving the metadata, and can then see there are files; he can download files as he pleases. Syncing can also be realtime, so he gets the new content as soon as you put it.

Only you, the holder of the cryptographic privkey, can add content to the archive. Crypto is used to sign all content, so there's no doubt it was legitimately written by you. Since the id doesn't move, it is possible for multiple peers to inter-connect and exchange data as needed in a swarm fashion, even if you're offline
Nuking Paris and moving the action to Singapore was one of the most blatant "hey asian markets, western culture was yesterday, we want to say hi on behalf of our TV shows" I've seen. HBO has done a bunch of those kinda scenes, Netflix is doing some as well.

> When the producers of HBO’s “Westworld” wanted to portray the American city of the future, they didn’t film in Seattle or Los Angeles or Austin — they went to Singapore. We should have gleaming skyscrapers and spectacular living environments in all our best cities at levels way beyond what we have now; where are they?

I've definitely noticed more and more of this in other shows. It's not at all a bad thing, just the opposite: it shows there's big money to be made over there.
Marc isn't interested in a solution that makes him have to live like a person who makes 400k a year. He needs a solution where he can still live on millions a year.
I think there's an underlying cognitive dissonance between parent/child node relationships in digital tree data structures, and parent/child human relationships in biological family tree structures.

People and animals typically have two parents, while nodes typically only have one parent!

Would a more humanistic collection API support both "mother" and "father" relations, instead of just a single "parent"? Or should they be even more inclusive, and support any combination or number of "mother" and "father" relations, and even user defined parental relations?

I'm joking, but maybe it would be a good addition to Brainfuck.
The whole comment thread is fascinating, and perhaps the best evidence that this entire movement was astroturfed. I thought it was interesting the ease at which this could be detected.
> Besides those two reasons, are there still reasons to prefer the PCI-passthrough approach?

The software approach generally has lousy performance due to the extra overhead of forwarding rendering commands between the guest and host. In addition, since this approach requires writing a completely new graphics driver for the guest, there tend to be limitations with rendering API compatibility, as well as bugs. With the hardware approach, the guest can use the GPU vendor’s normal driver.
> It’s because the usual, and entirely understandable reaction to talking about this is “oh you think you’re better than me” hostility.

Yes. You try to describe how you got hurt, and people think that you are just bragging. (How exactly are you supposed to describe the social consequences of your higher intelligence without ever mentioning the fact?)

Then they look at some dysfunctional mechanism you developed as a result of your pain, and they conclude that you are a bad person and therefore you actually deserved it.
Tony Hseih tried “to build”. With hundreds of millions of dollars, international renown, support of experts, and the ability to buy anything the project needed. It failed massively. We don’t have Most of these fancy things because either there isn’t demand, or the idea is good but it’s way more difficult to execute than we expect.

https://www.inc.com/leigh-buchanan/kingdom-of-happiness.html
Interesting: whoever edited that article miscorrected "cobble" to the likely more familiar but incorrect "cobblestone".

I've seen a huge increase in such errors over the past decade, both in terms and tense. I don't know how to explain it but it is discouraging. Sometimes the errors are quite confusing until you realize what happened; this one is quite minor.
Yes, I mean to make up for the opportunity cost of not working. Even if the PhD stipend is around $40-50k, that's nowhere near an industry salary that may be needed to support a family, mortgage, and so on.
How can the best case be slower? The drive spins at the same speed, with normal linear density, and it doesn't need to wait between tracks.
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True, in the case of "not enough surgical masks", it's not ambition (and I don't mean it in a financial sense either). It's a combination of ambition, imagination, foresight and desire.

If Bill Gates had manufactured or stockpiled basic medical items, someone would be complaining about why he didn't do it sooner, or accusing him of profiteering, or somesuch. It shouldn't be up to one person to be responsible for the foibles of the human race, even if they have outsized resources. They just become a scapegoat for our own lack of responsibility.
> But the harsh reality is that it all failed — no Western country, or state, or city was prepared

This is silly. There are clear differences in response. Here’s just one example:

21 Jan - The city department of public health activates its operations center to prepare for a potential outbreak.
28 Jan - The city activates its emergency operations center.
25 Feb - The city formally declares a state of emergency to prepare for an upcoming outbreak.
5 Mar - The city confirms its first case of COVID-19.
17 Mar - Shelter in place order implemented.

This was a great timeline. And it comes from the local jurisdiction so many here love to hate: San Francisco.

There are absolutely lessons we should be drawing from this pandemic. And one of them is that the political movements who want to drown government in a bathtub are putting your own lives and those of every vulnerable person you know because of that ideology. And those that want functional government aren’t.

I’m all for more radical solutions too. But if you aren’t going to learn the lessons of the present you’re in a shockingly bad place to tell anyone what’s right for the future.

Also, we need to tone down the white supremacy and learn some lessons from the Asian governments who did well here too. My search space for good ideas isn’t confined to “western governments” and neither should that confine anyone else’s.
And what do you think would happen if we decide to hike taxes on the uber wealthy once this is all over? The same thing they always do - go stash it in some tax haven, never to be seen again. For all intents and purposes, it has evaporated.
I’ll just summarize the entire reason we don’t have these things. People suck.
"Original source code" is an imprecise term for a project that has been under development for decades.

But your claim is verifiably false: https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-word-for-windows-...
With statistically valid random testing, even detecting clusters / communities (as opposed to individuals) and clearing same would be conducive to reopening the economy.

Unfortunately, the path to doing so "I'm going to force you to get tested, despite you having no symptoms" is political anathema.
> If the situation had not changed from that point in a way that would indicate masks should be used, why would they reevaluate the whole thing?

Changed from what? During previous coronavirus epidemics, the CDC did not recommend wearing masks, and during the earlier stages of the pandemic they did not either.

> why would they reevaluate the whole thing? No organization, no matter how capable or expert, has infinite time or resources to reevaluate every past policy every day

What... else would they be doing? The CDC's entire mission is to steward American public health. If they can't reevaluate in the face of a new threat, well, what good are they really?

> You seem to think they looked at it, found evidence that masks were effective

Yes, I do think the CDC is capable of performing a literature survey on masks. There have been several papers on masks, N95 or not, during previous epidemics. You can find several papers related to masks dating from the original SARS epidemic. Some of these papers were funded by the CDC themselves, so it makes absolute sense to look back at one's own publications.

> but then decided not to tell anyone due to the shortage.

I believe the CDC made a calculated decision based on an American population would hoard resources. In hindsight, some of this is occurring. Despite no actual shortages in production of toilet paper, flour, and yeast, there are shortages in supermarkets throughout the US, and I've heard anecdotes from friends' parents who decided to hoard masks, flour, and yest because they "were worried".

> But then, a few months later, while that mask shortage was still in effect they decided to reverse that decision. Which is completely irrational.

Guidance changes. Factors that go into updating your risk cost-benefit analysis (better understanding of transmission rates, political pressure, etc.) change over time, and an effective leader does not double down on previous decisions in the face of new information. There's nothing irrational about changing your position.
We have excellent data now, which has caused all numbers to be revised down week after week from a ridiculous 3.4 million dead to 70K by July (the Flu killed 80K in the 2018-2019 season). There is enough data for me to decide it is not worth giving up any privacy or civil liberties for while numbers are going down. If the numbers start to go the other way, then I will reconsider. We should adapt to information as we receive it.

Of course it will be tenuous and disingenuous for any political ad to make statements about the success or failure of containment strategies. I was only pointing out what we will be said, and what people will believe, not what was rational. Irrationality is not a roadblock in politics, lol.
I'm not Greg Kogan, of course, but...

It is indeed highly subjective to the user. So, part of the job of marketing is, segment your market, decide which one is most lucrative, target them with pricing that optimizes the outcome for that segment, and then adjust the product packaging to give yourself the most flexibility to attempt to repeat the process with the next segment of customers.

You learn the value your users get from your offerings by talking to them.

From 10+ years of watching this conversation recur on HN and talking to people running businesses, it seems like probably one of the most common mistakes business owners here make is trying to target an overly broad group of customers, and setting a very low ceiling on their prices to make sure everyone in that group can afford the product. That never seems to work well. On the other hand: setting a price for your product that only works for customers who can put it to extremely lucrative use? That's a strategy I've seen succeed a bunch.

It all depends on your product and your company; you can win big with fixed (maybe low) prices and a huge, undifferentiated customer base, if the stars align. They seem not to most of the time.
storage drive recycle after certain period and hence it is good for the first write but after that as those (and then as which support it) would need to assume low load environment. May be ok, just if we can tell we can test.
We know the tests are overfitting. That's not really a problem we can worry about too much; the tests can't be perfectly comprehensive and also finite. The problem is that we're using to use the model to tell us something about adversarial input.
Stan Veit opened one of the first microcomputer stores and saw many interesting things in the 1970s to early 1980s:

https://www.pc-history.org/
That's a great explanation, thank you. How does this handle versioning? If I add one file to a vast dataset, can people download just that file if they already have the previous version? IPFS hashes at the chunk level, so even if you append something to a large file, you can download just the new chunk and be up to date.
American citizen here.

I really think this is over the top. The US economy was doing very well prior to the outbreak, the US doesn't seem to be doing much worse than other countries. (Actually, the US seems to have a little better stats, judging by death-per-million.)

Why is Der Spiegel posting such a one-sided story? Are they hoping in some way to influence American politics? (Legitimate question.) If so, what is the reason?
> How do you guarantee that you're getting the latest content, though?

Only the original creator can update the content. You can never know you're at the latest version until you've connected to them and they've told you "this is the last I have"

> What concerns me here is that, from what I'm reading, it seems like any client on the local network could eavesdrop on mDNS requests to determine what content other clients are viewing. Worse, a client could announce itself with the discovery key for a well-known piece of content to be notified when any other client, anywhere, requests that content.

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the project, only following it because it's cool.

As far as I know, the only obfuscation is that keys are hashed so that you can't infer what content is being exchanged just by listening to the network. However when you want to watch a specific key, you can get on the swarm and see who's there.

Note that dat doesn't attempt to solve the same problems as Freenet does. They have different goals, and as such can't be compared on something that one explicitly focuses.
Which is to say that they're both potentially sort of right, but that the blog post is talking about tactics and not really addressing strategy.
OK, fair enough. If we have to build and do all those things, what is it that we should STOP doing, buying, investing in? There is only so much time, capital, skill, energy (both literal energy and human willpower). What can we sacrifice? Commuting to work in droves? MacMansions? Travel for pleasure? Sporting events, concerts, and mega payments to celebrities? Buying new car every 5 years? Luxury cars? Infrastructure hungry suburbia’s and exurbia’s? Who will take a stab at this question?
Citation needed that lock-prefixed instructions require alignment or must not span cache lines on x86. I don't see that in amy documentation.
Please don't post petty personal swipes. The site guidelines ask you to assume good faith. Maybe you don't owe "Marc" better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> They try to write your writes to a staging area first, and them move them later.

If a zone is empty, and you try to write sequentially to it, I would sure hope the firmware isn't so hopelessly dumb as to redirect that data to a staging area.

This does require that they don't disable TRIM support, I guess.

I'd really like to see some detailed analysis of how these drives perform.
Probably very little. Apple's SoCs are far ahead of what is in most Android phones.
There have been approximately zero posts about elm the email client in the last ten years and probably close to a thousand about the front end frame work. Further more, the elm email client last had a stable release 15 years ago. And also this same “joke” has been made in every thread about elm and it is beyond tired.
Put more simply:
Quit your job, learn to be an expert in a new field, raise capital, start a company, change the world. Simple.
>Why presume what I believe?

It was a question. You asked the question, and it can only be asked as a non-rhetorical question if it is predicated on ignorance and some a priori perspective.

>I live in the city

Are you talking about an "actual" city, or an urban sprawl?
I clicked the link on that page to "go see for myself" and got a 404..
It could give that money back to people and let them spend and invest it? More people free to quit working for someone else and to instead work on 'building' sounds like exactly what Marc is advocating. We have our smartest maths graduates trying to make automated trading algorithms skim an extra .0000001% off a trade, which you could argue is not helping humanity progress. Maybe with UBI they will quit that and work on something more long-term? For Marc's dream to come true it seems like reducing the concentration of wealth and power is the first step.
If you don’t mind me asking, what radio group are you involved with? I’m been working on some tangentially related projects and would love to be involved.

Apologies for the new HN account, lost my password for my main one somehow.
> The "melancholy" hit especially hard.

Romanticism of Lisp: how awesome it could have been if I were writing this on a modern Lisp machine.
Viaweb would have bought Yahoo.
Campaign finance reform, same day primaries nationwide, vigorously prosecute bribes and conflicts of interest, make corporate lobbying illegal, prevent industry careerists from holding office, prevent outgoing politicians from working in the industry for some cool off period

These things aren't hard they're just blocked by years of propaganda by incumbents.

Edit: forgot ranked choice voting
Institutions, companies and governments can't bother to edit from a VPN, or from a tethered cell phone?
Cheaper healthcare cannot be achieved because of the amount of regulation that is in the healthcare system.
"I expect this essay to be the target of criticism. "

With good reason: in the midst of a global crisis, Andreessen launches himself into the billionaire-splaining hall of fame by enumerating a litany of critical projects he thinks others ought be taking seriously, while notably refusing to commit any of his own wealth and influence toward these causes, nor interrogating how his investing record over the last 20 years squares with any of these apparently deeply held principles.

If you think that's cruel, cover up the name on the essay and read it again. It sounds like an op-ed published by an undergraduate in the campus newspaper — anodyne generalizations set against the straw man of "Western life".

Net difference made in the world: zero
Technically, they're just using the checkm8 exploit, not the checkra1n jailbreak.
If thye merely ask what's illegal about that?
>It was big news in my Midwestern city

What city?
"Sufficiently Powerful Optimization Of Any Known Target Destroys All Value"

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha...
The problem wasn’t foresight. Lots of governments engage in foresight activities and have highlighted the risk of pandemic for decades.
Not sure where you get your news from, but clearly you need to read more widely about what is actually happening on the ground in the US...
I was referring to ones with simply shaped body parts that don't articulate, but merely shift. They just scream "cheaply made".
The 3 native code bases are impressive. Early on it was very Mac centric, the Windows client used to lag way behind in features. The last time I checked, Windows had all the features I expected from the Mac version.

The new Linux client might be a good example of where the Windows client was a year/ year and a half ago. It works, but lacking a lot still. I’m confident they will continue to iterate and get it up to speed soon.

Big fan of Table Plus here. I like the ease of use and the clean UI. It’s everything you need, and nothing you don’t. Very smooth workflow.
When I last looked at dat some time ago I seem to recall that there was no way to revoke a dat or set a TTL-type field.

Can dat forget?

E.g. If I created a dat, that was it and the data in the dat was then potentially out there forever and ever and ever in the distributed network. There was no way to tell a client "this dat is only good for 90 seconds/minutes/hours/days/years/decades/etc - after that please drop/delete".

I know there is this desire in certain circles for Blockchain-stylee "everything is stored for ever and we can cryptographically prove every single byte all the way back to the dinosaurs!" sentiment, but I am not sure that really jives with a distributed data/Web publishing protocol (at least in my mind) - I want to be able to reliably "delete" something. If I know that anything I ever publish will be irrevocably around forever, it has a chilling effect on what I choose to do and publish with dat (plus maybe legal challenges? IANAL but e.g. GDPR? Right to be forgotten?)

E.g
would we actually gain anything if hypothetically Google supported dat and so then every single Google search result page ever generated was stored forever in a dat? Would future users benefit from storing decades of archived versions of Google search result pages for "Facebook" (because people search for "Facebook" then click the first result instead of just typing "facebook.com") or "weather" which then need to be endlessly duplicated around the network for the rest of eternity? Seems unlikely to be of any benefit to me - surely better to mark some of it as ephemeral and let the data naturally timeout and die?

Does anyone know if that has changed with dat and data can now die? Or have I just misunderstood?
Where would BASIC fall in this categories?
Maybe! I wonder how that would work with the internal dynamics of VCs. OpenAI is an interesting case study here. But they ran into the problem that working on transformative long-term projects is expensive and it is very hard to continue to fund it solely on what are essentially group charitable contributions. Maybe the right domain to address this problem is via the government - help shift incentives towards long-term investments in innovation in some way.

The only model I've seen work effectively so far is having on extremely rich person decide on a long-term goal and financially drive that work over a long-period of time - Musk with electric vehicles, Musk/Bezos with spaceflight, Gates with global health.
This is pretty good, now I can ditch my little script

#!/bin/sh
git pull upstream master
git push origin master
Timothy Leary was a pioneer in group psychotherapy, FWTW.