skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gandhi's “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” while a little more abstract is essentially the same thing.
More people have died from mining accidents than nuclear accidents.
"if new true friend not protected for explicit private union, break case and try using this"

All C++ keywords (and one operator). Dunno where that properly places C++ in the list.
By secondary infections, they are talking about pneumonia. Not a recurrence of symptoms.

In fact, the article points out that 61 of these cases did have symptoms. What exactly those symptoms were, I'd like to know. Also, I am wondering about the progression of the disease the second time around.
I did a little research on microcomputer history in China. There is very, very little information.

https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-quiet-history-of-c...
I'd be more optimistic if you had included a note that you know the history of CAcert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAcert.org) and have a plan on how to tackle the issues that prevented its roots from getting into the common trust stores.
This reminds me of one of my favourite scenes in cinema from the Mike Leigh film “Naked” where the main character rants about people being subcutaneously tattooed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0dezjDUKp4U&t=1m30s
You realize he’s one of the main players in your enjoyment of the internet as we see it today right?

Then you somehow proceed to say “well why is Michael Jordan talking about how X player isn’t performing!? He should be out there playing right now”... uh what?

So a player moves to becoming a coach or some support character after decades in the game and that’s your great comment?
Not having this has been my #1 Terminal frustration for years... and it's been there this whole time?!?!

This type of thing has actually happened to me several times in the past year or so, where I'd be frustrated an obviously good feature doesn't exist, I'd Google it to see if other people complain about the same thing... only to find it exists after all.

There needs to be a word for this...
> Therac-25

That wasn't AI - it was a concurrency error, wasn't it?

You shouldn't discard technology because sometimes it's wrong. It can be better overall.
Westworld spoiler

I’d have to watch again to be sure, but I think the scene in Westworld in Singapore is actually in Singapore because Paris was destroyed. There are scenes in futuristic sf also that show Fremont street among others.
> ... The things we build in huge quantities, like computers and TVs, drop rapidly in price. The things we don’t, like housing, schools, and hospitals, skyrocket in price. What’s the American dream? The opportunity to have a home of your own, and a family you can provide for. We need to break the rapidly escalating price curves for housing, education, and healthcare, to make sure that every American can realize the dream, and the only way to do that is to build.

What if building in itself isn't the answer to increasing affordability and ensuring supply of things that matter? What if incentives are the key?

Things the author says drop rapidly in price:

- computers

- TVs

Things the author says skyrocket in price:

- housing

- schools

- hospitals

The former group includes small-ticket items that are often bought with "cash." These are also items with an inherently low regulatory burden.

The latter group includes big-ticket items bought on credit, or paid for by someone else (health insurer). Often, there's a government backstop involved. And these industries have a very heavy regulatory burden.

What if the key to making necessities like housing and education more affordable was to get the federal government out of the business of guaranteeing loans and backstopping reckless investors?
Right, this is why I'm bullish on additive manufacturing (or 3d printing). It's incredibly flexible and you can retool your manufacturing to produce masks or whatever you need in record time. This technology is maturing rapidly and it's something I feel will thrive in the coming decades as on-shoring becomes more common.
> Is there a word for this phenomenon?

Taunting?

If you stand in a room full of people and say "the sky is blue", you'll get a weird look at most.

If you say instead "Most of you will think it's controversial and criticise me, but I think the sky is blue - you're free to voice your opinion though", you'll get lots of people commenting (as you did) that this is not controversial and the sky is indeed blue. You can get people to spread and talk about your idea this way.
Sure, govts. should tax the FAANGs of the world more, but having a "stake" in them means govt. interests suddenly align with corporate interests, meaning regulation for the public good gets sidelined. Net neutrality anyone?
Billionaires can literally direct huge amounts of capital top down. They can’t do everything but they can raise the money to do almost everything.
From a quick scan, this seems to suffer characteristic American manichaeanism. Either you're 'prepared' or you're not (just like your public services are either decrepit, or you're a communist). The US was not prepared. Therefore (as the US is The Standard), we (the world) were not.

Well, though no part of the world was Platonically Prepared, there were actually varying levels of preparation in different parts of the world. Again characteristically, the US was towards the bottom of the table because of years of corporate-capitalist white-anting of public provision (aka "preparation").

Everywhere can always do better. But the lessons on how to do so are very obviously not going to come from a fast declining US.
> No, no, no, please don't. Almost all appliances I use ignore an estimated 60% of my usual button presses because they're polling in intervals just long enough to not recognise anything, and I absolutely hate it.

That's just sloppy design. "Periodically" has meant "every 20 milliseconds" for projects I've shipped in the past. Anything shorter than 100 ms or so should be imperceptible.

Part of the problem you're likely seeing is due to the rise of capacitive touch "buttons", which are terrible in so many ways. But, alas, they are cheap and give a smooth front face, so designers and product managers love them....

(About the only time they're actually a good solution is when you need a completely sealed button.)
I was more of a Warner Brothers fan.
One problem, finding SPDT momentary switches is haaard, near nothing there that is small, and smt
Aren't the last 30 years sort of the problem though? How about we check the 30 years before that: medicare, social security, the tail end of the new deal, the rapid cleanup of acid emissions which were wrecking forests all up and down the east coast... Seems like, starting in the 80's, you would have looked at this and said hey, this government knows what it's doing, we should let it do more stuff.

Instead we basically did the opposite, starving federal programs everywhere possible (virtually every entitlement or program that existed in the 80's is smaller today on a per-person-PPP basis). And now we're seeing the results in a crisis that demands an agile and powerful government response.

So I'd sort of flip this around: what was it we did in the last 30 years that destroyed our confidence in our own government? Because it used to work.
That's true: DOH doesn't protect outbound communication from caches, until authority servers expose DOT or DOH endpoints for them to talk to --- which should happen, and is likely to happen long before DNSSEC. But DNS attacks almost always target endpoints (DNS attacks are rare, and heavily mitigated by the rest of the networking stack, which is why practically nobody deployed DNSSEC).
I can't believe we're still having this debate in April when it should have been settled in Feb. After Wuhan got hit, a bunch of countries repatriated their citizens and tested every single person.

From Reddit:

South Korea: 802 imported cases, 17 from China, 389 from Europe, 306 from Americas.
Taiwan: evacuated 975 from Wuhan so far, only 1 tested positive. 728 evacuated from Wuhan since March 10th, 0 positives.
Singapore: ~80% of 800 cases imported, 24 from China.
Ontario (Province of Canada): 968 imported cases, US 318, UK 101, Mexico 49, Spain 46, Germany 34... China 5. HK 1 - HK has 200x less population than China.

It was clear Wuhan was hit by something incredibly deadly that had only barely started inching its way through the population.

South Korea is one of the most comprehensively tested nations on the planet and their death rate right now is 2%.

People are still desperately clinging onto a narrative that this thing is way less deadly than it appears and twisting and distorting all sorts of stats to get them there but it just plain is vanishingly unlikely to be true.

This virus started with Westerners assuming that they were somehow exceptionally different from Asians and did not need to learn from their experience and it will end with Westerners assuming that they are exceptionally different from Asians and do not need to learn from their experiences.
That makes sense. The extra RAM is basically just an extra caching layer.

I was just curious, because even on my desktop I rarely fill 16gb of RAM for day to day use.
This why GP is saying pricing is one of the biggest levers for increasing revenue. If you're charging $20 for the service and focusing on tricks like these, then you'll not make as much compared to realizing that utilities are willing to pay much more and focusing sales efforts on them.
The work was picked up and completed.

Rust:

https://github.com/sunrise-choir/ssb-legacy-msg/blob/master/...

https://github.com/sunrise-choir/ssb-publish/blob/master/src...

https://sunrise.social/

Go:

https://github.com/cryptoscope/ssb/blob/master/message/legac...

https://github.com/cryptoscope/ssb/blob/master/message/legac...

https://planetary.social

Spec:

https://spec.scuttlebutt.nz/feed/messages.html#json-encoding

https://spec.scuttlebutt.nz/feed/datamodel.html#signing-enco...
Perhaps desire is the wrong word to use. I don't think he means desire in terms of willpower or motivation, but in terms of ambition. I do think the world has lost some of of its ambition over the last 50 years.
Who skipped animal studies? J&Js vaccine, one of the most promising ones, went through preclinical trials before human trials started[0]. So did novovax[1]. Even moderna, who was particularly light on animal testing, worked with the naiad to run a trial in lab mice[2]. The industry has been working on covid vaccines since january[0], there has been less time than usual, sure, but nothing to the best of my knowledge has gone into humans without preclinical work.

[0]https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-announces-a-lead-vaccine...

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/health/coronavirus-vaccin...

[2]https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/researchers-rush-to-star...
TIL 1) 32.0.0 grade fertilizer, 2) ethyl alc whatever 3) don't add the measuerd nox until you're gonna fuck things up 4) what a fucking experience
Let's build what we need to make remote work fully practical and available to many more people!
I’m talking in context of preparedness for a pandemic, rather than healthcare BAU.

This is the mood of the article which begins:

> Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it.

If you want to be prepared for a pandemic you need stuff built with orders from the government.

Of course startups can help with innovation and may create things that make it easier to be prepared such as a low cost ventilator, but government needs to take care of preparing whatever the tech happens to be.
> I can't help but wondering if the unlimited outside time under the guise of "exercise", but which people are clearly taking advantage of by going to hang out with friends in the park, has anything to do with it. Or perhaps it's the lack of masks in indoor areas like grocery stores that has prevented a bigger drop (in SF, only starting today has that finally changed).

Unlikely to both. Outdoor transmission is rare and I'd question if grocery store transmission (with heavy amounts of social distancing) is common given other countries historically being able to trace the majority of covid infection sources.

First off, as you allude to lockdowns are less effective than you think - we managed in norcal to drop from 1.43 to 0.98 (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20062943v...). Which is really good (uncontained to contained) in one sense, but shows you how slow containment is.

The containment difficulties lie in:

1. Household transmission still takes place after lockdown.

2. Huge variances within population sub-groups. R within folks with little human contact (WFH, etc.) was probably barely above 1 before the lockdown -- essential workers with heavy human contact already had the highest R and because they are still working (i.e. not really locked down), still have an R > 1 for quite some time.

3. Essential workers tend to live with other essential workers -- creating a multiple generation transmission chain (#1 and #2)

4. Group living outbreaks (symptoms of #3). e.g. in Santa Clara county, nursing homes are becoming a larger percentage of new cases over time. Something like 20% of new cases in the last 2 weeks. A single homeless shelter in SF is responsible for 20% of cases in the last 2 weeks.

5. At some point, you just are going to reach some level of herd immunity within the most susceptible groups -- in a sense the lockdown is more of a quarantining of a large percent of the population and letting everyone else get herd immunity.

CA definitely has high urgency in increasing testing - honestly, if you just hired a bunch of people to contact trace, you could probably go back to the March 15 pre-SIP world now.
Ideology, plain and simple.
Agreed. I have this on a pricing page out of laziness after adding a new option (it's still there, actually), where one option is strictly better than another, and all it leads to is e-mails asking what's special about the old option that makes it more expensive.
We don't build TV's and computers. Other countries do.

We do build hospitals/housing/schools. Maybe if we imported slave labor like say, Dubai, it'd be cheaper to build things.
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Nicholas is a British economist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_Stern_of...

A somewhat stronger formulation of the same idea is from David Friedman: "People do things for other people for three reasons: love, money, or force."
For example, getting a simple iOS app into the App Store means not only developing (or at least building) on Apple equipment but also jumping through Apple's hoops and paying Apple in multiple ways and still running the risk of being kicked out.

Writing a web app to do the same thing has exactly none of those downsides, and with relatively little effort it supports Android devices and users with larger screens on laptops or desktops running any major OS as well.
This is really cool, but the environment is also really simple and I think we're definetly at least 15+ years out before self driving cars can handle somewhat challenging situations as well as humans.

Just try to put one of this vehicles in a situation with varying road width, no markings, snow with no sticks to mark the edges so you really have to pay attention to where the road actually is. What would this do if you meet a car on such a road? Try to figure out who should go back, and maybe go back to the latest plase where its wide enough? Do random tests to check for grip every now and then? It also needs to know whether the road is salted, understand if the salt is working and so on and on and on...
When there is a cheaper and cleaner alternative to base load power generation
> The problem is desire. We need to want these things.

... and you can't really force that. americans seem unmotivated to want the same things. cynicism drives people to politicization and polarization of everything, including chemical compounds. On the one side, half the people believe that through politics they can force the other half to do their work for them. The other side realizes that and becomes increasingly cynical, hiding their money away from them. there is no sense of common purpose despite the proclamations. maybe the issue is trust

this essay is nice and arousing and all, and hard to disagree with it, but somehow i think people will forget about it
Here's one teeny tiny example. They made a smart investment, to the tune of billions of dollars, in computer science. And not just for the past 30 years, but continuously for the past 100 years.

That investment included a modest (6-7 figure, depending on how your count) investment in a project on digital libraries years before private capital caught on. The private investors were rewarded handsomely for their investment in that digital library, but we, the taxpayers, were not.
[random internet advice] Just interview and get on with life. As this shows, it's a small world and who you can call on the phone matters a lot. Good luck.
I think our (California) DMV has started replacing the most common workflows with internet options years ago and they are definitely improvements over the previous method (take time during business day to visit one of the few offices, wait in a long queue, deal with slow paper-based forms).

There are US initiatives (Code For America, US Digital Service, 18F, etc) which aim to make the government experience better for the user on an app-by-app basis, but I'm hoping to get a glimpse of what the entirety of government could be if there was a holistic approach to redesign the entire experience (from licensing+permitting to taxes to benefits to giving+incorporating feedback, etc).
Would you be less concerned if they had retired it without publishing the source code?
> Do you have any idea why they did that?

No, not the slightest clue. If you find an answer, I'm interested too...
You might be right, but your tone is quite unpleasant and I think you give people an easy out to ignore you.

> not a good indicator of anything

One was a projection of eventual scarcity (vents), the other is a response to current scarcity (ponchos).

If you believe that we should ignore this on "boy who cried wolf" grounds, we can go ahead and dismiss the rest of your comment, since you also got something badly wrong and are therefore "not a good indicator". (But of course you and we and the world don't REALLY dismiss people in the way you're suggesting!)

Cuomo, like all the folks in leadership roles at the moment, is looking at data and analyses from a variety of sources. The specific claim he made was that the apex could require 30,000-40,000 vents. It seems likely that some version of the bullwhip effect is in play here, but either way given that the US national stockpile is reportedly c.8000 ventilators, any reports which peg the need at 4x the maximum national availability ought to be treated with seriousness. Suspect you would do the same!

> False. Our family...

You are drawing a generalisation from one datapoint. CNET and others are reporting that cheques are weeks away from going out, and that direct deposits have started happening. The original post is sweeping, but I don't think many would disagree that to be 3 weeks into a lockdown before stimulus arrives is slow. It might be fast compared to the normal speed of government, but it's slow to those in need.

Folks like you have some really great insights both into the optics and realities of government, but like Trump, they are often ignored and maligned because of aggressive rhetoric.
The hope is that someday you don’t have to do those things. If Linus had that mentality Linux wouldn’t exist.
You might be right, I honestly don't know. But if this is the case, maybe first you need to reform the government (in what exact way? and how the reform should be done, politically?) and after first task is accomplished you can feed it with some trillions of dollars?

Otherwise, "tax the living hell out of capital" will just cause some more big BOOM sounds somewhere in middle east, and deplete private capital from making more investments at the same time.
I don’t mean to critize american healthcare, it’s one of the best in the world. Unfortunately not accessible for the part of society that is uninsured and undocumented.

Marc and his family have donated so much for emergency medicine, the last resort for the uninsured, which is awesome.

What makes me sad is to see how people can end up in an existential crisis, both for their health and financially, because the system is failing them.
No, on the newer iPhones press and hold simply brings up Siri. Gotta press and hold main button and either volume button simultaneously. If that doesn’t work you should be able to use the trick I describe above.
Firefox Preview (why don't they brand it with the awesome code name Fenix?) does.
Other commenters have already covered the political/financial difficulties of this, so I won't mention those.

However, the journey of CertSimple may be marginally relevant to what you're proposing.

They were a small CA focusing entirely on the easy issuance of Extended Validation certs.

Disregarding the fact that EV never actually had any proven value (except for some code signing use cases), they did have a nice little business.

As far as I know it was a one-person company at first, and they were able to piggyback off the infrastructure of an existing CA. I can't remember whether it was an intermediate cert or simply reselling.

I was going to link to them but they seem to have shut down or been absorbed into another company.
You realize he’s one of the main players in your enjoyment of the internet as we see it today right?

This is a drastic over-generalization, and a very controversial one at that. He played a big role in popularizing the Web, which many people believe to be the worst of available options at the time of creation. He also arguably started the trend of "Make the WWW browser do as much as possible."

I personally don't share most of these views, but let's not go overboard here.
In many cases, I am not sure his solutions address the real problem.

Housing is rising in price as more people pile into fewer cities. There is no housing crisis in Spartanburg, Louisville, Lethbridge or even Houston. You can build all the homes you want, but unless they are in Manhattan or San Franciso, a billion new homes won't make the condos there cheaper.

You can also build all the colleges you want, but the returns on that are starting to narrow. Hundreds of thousands of grads end up unemployed or underemployed. We could make college free, but that wouldn't create more jobs that require such a degree. Are a million extra college grads at a mass-production school really going to change anything? Employers don't accept Coursera courses as a substitute for a degree and I suspect such a school would be viewed like Coursera. It doesn't help that in America and to a lesser extent Canada, people zoom in on the school ranking and reputation. A lot of the value of the university to an individual has nothing to do with what is taught in classes there, but how competitive it was to get into.

I had a conversation with a dean of a university about offering online courses and the reason they said they would never do it seriously is because that would greatly devalue that people admitted to that school were top tier and thus were top tier on the way out.

Is what makes Harvard special that it is doing something uniquely right or that it has the unique ability to draw the best?
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