skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let’s spend the next ten years building a system that can produce a vaccine in three months.

The big problem is that we have to test it long term on a bunch of live human beings to make sure it doesn't deform babies or something. That is the major delay.

Build whatever system you want, but a perfect vaccine ready today would still be well over 3 months from deployment due to the need for safety checks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/coronavirus-va...
If you made this response in a web browser, he helped build that.

See also: https://a16z.com/portfolio/
Just today I was on Twitter reading a thread where they were dismissing Chomsky as a “neoliberal shill”. Couldn’t imagine how.

The things we need to build will probably require deep involvement of the government, or at least the exit of cronyism and political wave bending on the part of the government. And the vision of a 20, 50 and 100 year plan.

Not sure I see that in our immediate future, here in the US.
Technology Connections has a good video on switches sparking, or not, https://youtu.be/jrMiqEkSk48
Regardless of what C is or isn't "supposed" to be, it's not close to assembler. It's an abstract machine, and one that is fundamentally different than actual machines today.

It would do well for people to remember that before complaining to compiler authors. You're not at the bottom of the stack, you're just a few lowering passes closer than in other languages.
The Rise of Nintendo
For literally years, people bought WD Red drives, DESPITE being more expensive, because they had higher performance.

WD Blue drives had SMR / Shingles in them. WD Green drives were shoddy, low quality, and had issues with RAID Rebuilds. WD Red commanded a high price, but came with higher quality.

What's happened here, is that WD has begun to sell low-performance drives under their high-priced "Red" brand.
They don't have 35 engineers
"A high general intelligence implies mastery of life itself"

It increases the chance, but "implies" is too strong word here. High IQ doesn't magically overcome all obstacles.

How easily can you overcome isolation, that depends a lot on what opportunities you have. The same opportunities don't exist in every city, or every country. For a high-IQ kid it can make a lot of difference whether other high-IQ kids live in their neighborhood, or in their school.

For example, most of my teenage socialization was in a local math club. Well, it was a lucky coincidence that the math club existed in my city. (And another lucky coincidence that I knew about it.) Without it, I would have to settle for an option that would fit me much less. I know because I tried to find other places to socialize, and they just weren't as good for me.

Online communities can be great, but it's not the same as also having an offline community. Imagine a small forum you like. How much better would it be if those people lived next to you, so you could e.g. go for a trip together. Well, some of them probably happen to live next to people with similar interests, and some of them don't. Luck is an important component here. (Yeah, as an adult you could move to a different city. For a teenager this is less of an option.)
At the same time other countries like Belarus have done nothing and haven’t done worse than CA. Or consider Sweden has ~81% of the rate of COVID per capita as the UK and has ~65% of the death per capita as the UK but no lockdown.

Edit. I don’t mean to go against the prevailing opinions but it seems like something that merits more research. There’s a lot we don’t know about this virus.
> New York City has put out a desperate call for rain ponchos to be used as medical gowns.

Yeah, NY also put out a "desperate call" for "40000 ventilators" in spite of needing only 6000. So that's really not a good indicator of anything.

Not to disagree with the core premise of the article, of course. We must be able to manufacture all critical equipment and supplies on US soil, with significant surge capacity.

> In the U.S., we don’t even have the ability to get federal bailout money to the people and businesses that need it.

False. Our family of 3 received $2900 because my wife and I took 2018 off so to the IRS it looks as though we need help. From which I conclude that everyone who made below cutoff threshold (which is unusually high for this) got money directly into their checking account, even though most people haven't been laid off yet.

And small businesses so far got $350B, with more blocked by austere scholars of pork in Congress.

> We should have gleaming skyscrapers

The utter devastation high density living is causing in NY would suggest otherwise. We need to spread the fuck out.
I know who he is and that he can build. I just find it interesting how he stepped back from building and now does boards and venture capital. Those can still contribute to building, but it is hardly the same thing as leading the effort.

I checked the portfolio. I don't see many that address the big challenges he talks about.
FTA:

>And, unless you’re an old Grandpa, you probably don’t care about reading a paper copy.

Maybe I just have a strange peer group but I and most of my friends prefer hard copies. I pay for a paper subscription to The Economist, for example.

In my experience it's the boomers that are buying phone-based magazine or newspaper subscriptions. I can't think of a worse reading experience.
Huh, looks like Mister counter-terrorist has some thing here, this is fucking Ragnar Benson level, I bet the poster is somehow "related" to Timothy mc veigh or whoever all the white extremist are. Thank me later mr dang. Fucking cooks, fucking terrorist man. There are better triggers only the cooks which means non paratroopers non ptsd kings etc use mercury shit man. We all experts know what's what man. Ban this asshole. All mercury faggots are not meant for dang or the hn community
Trust me, having a canula is much more pleasant than intubation.
Solar and wind are great, but they don't provide continuous power. We need them, and nuclear.
I have family in their 70s with asthma in the south-east of France, near Italy. They were warned in the range of dates I mention here, at a time when their authorities encouraged them to go out and vote during a rampant, poorly acknowledged epidemic for which the healthcare system was unprepared. A culture where friends and strangers kiss on the cheek twice at every meeting.

You've got a point regarding the population in general, and the sentence you're pointing at is peripheral to my point. But I have caused a significant decrease of risk of a catastrophic outcome to some people dear to me.

They likely would have been okay. But "likely" doesn't cut it when the cost of defensive measures are low and the result of being unlucky is permanent loss of health or death.
Can you elaborate on the moving parts? Is it just too expensive to install/maintain the sensors, or do you mean the algorithm has to deal with multiple inputs/decisions?

I could envision a scenario where a city council of a less populated city with lax regulations could deploy robotaxis to their economic advantage. Do you think we'll get there soon?
You need VCs etc to fund building. Resource allocation is a huge problem in and of itself
Why would you want this? The iPhone 7 has a broken bootloader, which is what makes this possible in the first place. It's impossible to be sure of the integrity of the device when you can just get root over USB. It's likely to require tethering to boot every single time, so you have a functionally useless device.
Nope, "as good as a human" shouldn't be allowed on the road or on the market. Errors that are allowed for humans should never be allowed for a machine.
If you find (or build) anything like that, I'm sure HN would love it. Personally, I'm concerned about my favorite reference manager, Qiqqa, which was open sourced when retired by the company that made it. As far as I can tell, there is 1 (maybe 2) coders maintaining and improving the software and maybe a few people catching and reporting bugs. It seems like a razor's edge, but the most active contributor is doing a great job. It would be interesting to see different projects succeeding and where others stagnated or fell apart.
> sadism would definitely be a new development

I guess that might depend upon your regexps and how gnarly/undocumented they are :-)
The reason why it’s like this so so that people like Mr Andreesen can make more money. If he and his fellow billionaires would like to do something about that and change how our country works, great.

But let’s not do the “both sides”, “it needs to come from everywhere” stuff. Look at a chart of who’s been making off with all the money for the last, let’s say, decade. Let it come from there.
You know how some electric cars create fake engine noise at low speeds to avoid sneaking up on pedestrians?

I wish that was an option with SSDs. A little speaker included with the package that I could toggle on. All it does it make fake HDD sounds. Bonus if those sounds match the underlying logical distance and “shape” of the read/write activity.
Both require either pitiful naivete or admirable courage...wherever those go.
I think the jury is still out on that. It was also found in Antarctica: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00310...
The entire article is about top down resource allocation to build society. That can't be accomplished by any single person, organization or state.

Yours is a hopelessly cynical response that I hope you will reflect a little deeper on.
oh, yes! we should definitely continue taking technology as an end-in-itself rather than an extension of human dexterity!
These GUIs are great though I find no substitute for learning the CLIs. With a CLI one can work on remote systems and quickly automate one off tasks.
Of those companies which one make the physical things that he demands?
ban this fucker he's a fucker. Only amateurs use mercury whatever anyways. All us pros know to 1) fertilizer (32.0.0 mix or grade) 2) ethyl etc 3) nitrous/nitrox methane 4) profit on the c-4 level my fuckers 5) make sure to not add the nox too early, that's the last step that makes it volatile and dangerous. Step 1-3 is harmless. Ok dudes. Dang delete this fucker. Clearly sick
I don't want an extremely public record of my personal opinions or thoughts today, because I know they're going to change tomorrow.
That sounds like something to worry about the appropriate amount. Mostly by going to a doctor and getting a physical.
I wonder if one could make something driven purely by the diskactivity LED that's mildly convincing
You can’t just solve everything by “building”.

Build too much, and you end up with depleted resources, non-environmental solutions, and outdated artefacts.

Recycling is surely an option, but it should be the fallback, not the default.

While the current crisis could’ve been handled better, it is not at all badly handled. Nature is much stronger than us, and the fact that we are not totally screwed after over four months since the outbreak is impressive.

Over building hospitals for the next pandemic sounds inefficient to me.
It’s great to see this passion and sentiment. I wholeheartedly agree.

In my opinion, the deficiencies that the pandemic is unmasking in the american system need a political solution and change.

Looking for heroic activism isn’t going to fix the systemic issues.

The left starts out with a stronger bias toward the public sector in many of these areas. To which I say, prove the superior model!

Look to the European democracies. They have a lot of what is missing here. They are more socially oriented, the state taking care of it’s citizens.

Look to Germany’s healthcare system. It’s regulated, but works well for everyone.
> DNSSEC does nothing to protect queries on the wire on their way to resolving servers (it collapses down to a single bit in the header), unlike DoH, which does protect those queries.

Yes, and DoH does nothing to protect queries between resolving servers and authoritative servers, unlike DNSSEC, which does protect those queries. Together, you end up with end to end protection.
Governments need to lead on this. I am not sure how corporations can do this without just donating their infrastructure or profits (which would be a great thing to do!). But even then their profits pale in comparison with the money the governments have at hand to spend on these things.

An investor can only invest in building things for which there are demand, and for things that benefit society at large that demand usually comes from the government. Sometimes from philanthropists - but they are piss poor compared to the resources of an entity that can demand tax from every citizen.
The grouping is arbitrary made by some human or algorithm trying to make a pretty map.

As said in the article, the locations on the graph are based on the answers to the world values survey [0]. I have no idea about how exact they are or biases they might include but by that it seems you guys answer the same even though the playing field of society has changed.

Maybe we will see Ireland start trending towards the upper side if it is redone in another 10 years time?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Values_Survey
This nugget from 2012
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick...
How about a crisis only approval. During which time you don’t give it to babies, pregnant women, etc.

It would still be enormously valuable for first responders and elderly. You make sure they have all the information about the unknown risks and let them be consenting adults.

A terrible idea for normal times but maybe ok weighed against the cost of doing nothing in a crisis.
Is this using some SecureROM or iBoot exploit? If not, how do they bypass the secure boot chain?
I love that it’s called “Project Insantity”.
It gave me a smile.
I expect this essay to be the target of criticism. Here’s a modest proposal to my critics. Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own! What do you think we should build? There’s an excellent chance I’ll agree with you.

It's interesting that he manages to say completely uncontroversial things, yet do so in such a way that even he finds them controversial. Is there a word for this phenomenon?

Reworded in a way that doesn't generalize quite so intensely and that doesn't use such an ineffective tone, this 'essay' (I don't really think it counts as one; it's more what you'd expect to hear in a speech) might have actually had legs.
This is a really interesting take on the psychological motivations behind language choice. I don't know if they're 100% right, but just the concept that people choose languages based on psychological effects is worth watching the video over, even if you end up disagreeing.
If we have a rapid, flexible platform and a great enough need, those 3 months could be enough. But the solution isn't just with the vaccine platform. If, in 10 years, we get lab on a chip working and replace mice with chip based experiments that better reflect human physiology, and/or see a moores law type spike in quantum computation, and/or see breakthroughs in ai, and/or some other set of breakthroughs I cant even imagine right now, we can make the current model obsolete. So it's not just about the vaccine and the drug, but also the ecosystem to test and evaluate them, that needs technological breakthroughs to fuel it.
I see these Highlanders (I drive the same model) parked in their lots in FiDi almost every day. Glad to see what they’re up to.
It may be.

My personal take on it is that there are many millions of dollars left on the table because people don’t do basic things like the ideas in the article.

These ideas have been around since the 1980s... they are not new. That said, people still don’t implement them or implement them well.
How to tell if a drive is a shingled SMR drive...

it has TRIM support

https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/25185
Let's not build the Alien Dreadnought, though - we wasted two assembly lines chasing that dream and ended up having to put up a tent in a parking lot to meet 80% of production goals 3 years later, and we ended up _behind_ our peers in automation.

Measure twice, cut once, respect our forebears.
> Is the problem capitalism?

Yes!

Feel free to downvote me, but the truth is harsh.
Protobuf, cap n proto, and messagepack are a few I've seen before
How is that any different than the entire Python universe grinding to an immediate halt if there's an issue with pypi.python.org? (Hint: it's not.)

You can certainly debate the difference in uptime between specific services; I don't know either way, but if you told my that PyPi had higher uptime than GitHub, I'd believe you... but that's kinda missing the point. If you depend on an online service to host your release artifacts, if and when that service goes down, it's gonna hurt.

Meanwhile, Python's packaging wars continue to rage on. Go's is simple: a release is a tag in a VCS repository. I'm sure there are issues with that as well, but that should come as no surprise, considering there are issues with literally every packaging solution. At any rate, there's little moral difference between downloading a tarball (or a wheel, or... whatever), vs. pulling a tag from a git repo. It requires equal levels of trust to believe that no one has tampered with prior releases in both cases.

I'd like to also point out that I don't have a dog in this race. I've done a little Go here and there, but frankly I don't like the ergonomics of the language too much, so I stay away from it. I've done (and continue to do) a decent amount of Python. I like the language, but tend to prefer strongly-typed, functional languages, and languages with performant runtimes, so I tend to only use it for smaller projects.
You'll probably want to read the Mozilla Root Store Policy [0], if you haven't already.

Oh, and be prepared to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next few years while this process plays out and your CA certificate actually gets added to the root store in the various browsers.

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[0]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...
I'd love a version of this written in plain C or Python. This is so much better than the Kaleidoscope tutorial. Haskell is a bit hard to grok tho.
Unfortunately public transit is considered an epithet where I live because it brings crime from the city into my "idyllic crime free" suburb just 10 miles away from city center (no joke). I hate driving and have put my eggs into a self-driving (hopefully super low emissions) taxi service to come online.
Ask HN: How to Proceed with an Unscrupulous Recruiter?
TL;DR: Competing companies back-channelled my intent to interview at both (not that I was hiding it), and are now colluding to ensure I only interview with one of them before the other chooses to proceed, going to the extent of cancelling an already scheduled on-site interview.

I am attempting to find a job in silicon valley and have been actively interviewing. I accidentally told an external recruiter that introduced me to Company B that I was scheduled to interview with their competitor Company A. Within the 48 hours, Company A cancelled my scheduled virtual on-site with a rather weak excuse, but leaving the door open to a future conversation. Meanwhile, Company B and the external recruiter are pressing me for scheduling an on-site with them. Luckily for me, my calendar has been filling up without trying (the open slots caused by the cancelled interview were filled up within a couple of hours with new companies).

I did some back-channelling of my own and have discovered that Company A was indeed notified of my intent to interview at Company B, leading to the cancellation. I was initially excited at the prospect of working at either of the two companies; both seemed to have really smart people and a collaborative environment, but given what I know now has left me with a bitter taste. I'm not sure how to proceed.

- Should I pick one company over the other? If so, which one?

- Should I drop both? Don't really want that kind of bad energy at the work-place where I'd have trust issues with colleagues/leaders.

- Is there any legal recourse available? California Labor law clearly restricts companies from colluding to reduce competition for employees as it violates the employees' right to fair employment and I'd like to warn future applicants to be careful dealing with these companies, as well as the recruiter(s).

I've been pretty upset the last 24 hours and am not sure if I'm thinking straight. Needed a second opinion.
> I don't really care if a drive is 150MB/s or 200MB/s.

You do care about performance - you say so in the next paragraph. In this case, it is rewrite performance. This is quantifiable and can be disclosed on spec sheets and labeling. I'm not saying the recording method can't be disclosed too, but I think to most consumers, the metrics are more important than the technology.
Conceptually, this sounds very similar to Freenet; a DAT URL seems analogous to a Freenet SSK.

What I don't see is anything analogous to a USK -- there's no obvious way for an author to distribute an update to content they have published. It's also unclear how much (if any!) privacy this protocol provides to content publishers or requestors -- the use of discovery keys only provides protection for users requesting content which an eavesdropper has no knowledge of.
Wow, you are a craftsman. Excellent work!
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (From the Beaten Track) - Richard Feynman
I don’t think there is evidence of European governments being any more competent during this pandemic.
> Citrus (lemon, lime and kafir lime) - Any frost is damaging, can only grow in pots and bring in during winter. Grows slowly and doesn't produce much fruit

Lime and kafir lime are very tender. If lemons do not work, I would suggest you to choose hardy rootstocks (Poncirus can stand -40C for a short time) and try Yuzu instead. They are seedy, spiny (as lemons or limes), and less interesting as fruit but more hardy. Tangerine is also a relatively hardy citrus.

Olives and Pomegranates, forget about it. Will grow but bearing fruit is a different thing.

Stauntonia looks promising. Can you tell us more about your experience with it?

Have you tried Artic kiwi?

London figs will bear better in pots, probably
What's your metric for "on track to end the lockdown"?
It's called being defensive.
You're assuming we don't make any fundamental discoveries in various fields that allow for an exponential number of new technologies based on those discoveries.

This seems short-sighted, as we've been doing that for most of human history, and honestly I don't think we're very close to unveiling all the mysteries of the universe.

We could start building a Dyson sphere right now. It would just take a long, long, long time given our current understanding of physics and technology. Imagine all the things we might be able to achieve with our understanding of physics in 300 years. Imagine the thing we will discover that will have their own Dyson-sphere equivalents. i.e. things we discover that we know (hypothetically) how do do, they are just not quite in our grasp.
I'm not sure "pushing everyone into working full time" is an existing economic policy goal so much as what happens as a result of artificial scarcity.

If Alice and Bob want to buy the same house as Carol and Dave and nobody works full time but Alice and Bob currently have more money, Alice and Bob get the house. But Carol and Dave can get the house by each taking a full time job. Until Alice and Bob do the same thing, and then you're back to square one except that now everybody has to work full time.

The solution is obviously to build a second house so they can each have one instead of being locked into a bidding war that requires everybody to run faster just to stay where they were. Which is growth. Elimination of artificial scarcity enables growth. Artificial scarcity is a method of war/theft and its prevalence is the source of the trouble.