skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard to come up with a succinct reply to highlight how utterly absurd this argument is. From virtually any physics-based perspective, any kind of space travel or space-faring economy outside of very, very near Earth is unavoidably an net-negative venture[1]. Shipping energy from anywhere outside of Earth’s gravity well costs more energy, even at theoretical optimum efficiency, than it has any chance of gaining.

It’s not just that it’s difficult, from any meaningful angle it requires us to have completely misunderstood the relevant physics. If your argument relies on us discovering that all of known physics isn’t just off a bit or needing of refinement, but is completely misguided… well, that’s your prerogative I suppose.

Even if you hypothesize a space-colonizing human race, that does nothing for the people who are still stuck on Earth with Earth’s finite resources.

[1] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/stranded-resources/
You don't need to sell me on nuclear, I was a nuclear electrician's mate, I know it works, it's just not cost effective for the safe designs.
'sshfs' would do the trick, if I am understanding what you seem to be saying. (WinSCP, IIRC, if you're using Windows.)

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

Executable script that I use - (actual names replaced)

#!/bin/bash
# mount remote directory on local machine
#

RDIR=$1
MOUNTPOINT=my_local_mountpoint_folder
USER=username_on_remote_server
REMOTE_HOST=remote_servers_name

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
echo -e "\nMounting remote home directory. If other remote directory"
echo -e "desired, usage is $0 <absolute or relative directory-name>\n"
fi

#
sshfs ${USER}@${REMOTE_HOST}:$RDIR $MOUNTPOINT
It is far easier to work than DataGrip.

I used DataGrip after SequelPro stopped updating to support MySQL 8 and apparently it's feature rich but got annoyed how it's bloated and takes half a minute to launch.

I still prefer SequelPro for it's layout and UI but finally dropped it in favor of TablePlus as now it seems close enough to that usability.

Also of note is that the author is really responsive and friendly on GitHub who corrected some minor UI issues pretty quickly when I reported.
I'm so old I remember when TIL meant Threaded Interpreted Language.

:)
1 is not an object, but even if it was one, it would not be an object that overlaps with “* p”.

You are interpreting the C standard as if it were a philosophy text. It contains a rule that says that in very precise circumstances (for an assignment from one to the other) objects must not partially overlap, and you are claiming that it means that “two pointers to the same basic type cannot overlap in memory”. The clause does not say that, sorry. The clause applies to the objects that are on one side and the other of an assignment.

> I said the standard expressly allowed the optimization in the linked article.

I hope that the article makes it clear that the standard expressly allows the optimization. Specific, explicit rules, cited in the article, about pointer alignment, allow the optimization.

For this reason, I, “violently” as you say, disagree with the sentence “The complaint isn't about alignment at all, it's that the optimizer assumes that two pointers to the same basic type cannot overlap in memory”. This sentence gets it all wrong. It is about alignment; it is not about “pointers to basic types”, whatever that is, not being allowed to overlap in memory; they are allowed to overlap for large enough “basic types” because it is about alignment, not overlap:

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/ZAMkeH

You could argue that GCC 9.3 only missed the optimization in the example in this Compiler Explorer link for some other reason and that absence of optimization doesn't mean that p and q cannot overlap. This would be correct, this aspect is one of the difficulties in studying the rules that these compilers implement. However, what I am saying is that if you reported this missed optimization to GCC developers, they would tell you that GCC can't optimize the function f because p and q can overlap. There is no clause in the C standard that prevent them to (apart from strict aliasing rules, but I used the option to tell the compiler I didn't want it to take advantage of these ones).

(Please do not bother them with this, or if you do, at least leave me out of it; I have nothing better to do than to write this because it's the week-end but they have better things to do.)
You separate democratic procedure from capital. This is why the Citizens United ruling was such a disastrous decision for the US. However, capital doesn't necessarily mean election wins or regulatory influence, even now. Bernie Sanders raised immense amounts of money, more than Joe Biden did, but Sanders still was not able to win out in most states. There's more to politics than money, though money can definitely raise the volume of one's voice.
They are trying their best to diversify their donation sources.
Well, a lot of people in a room for at least 8 hours, and unless this is a one-day shelter probably iterated over quite a while. I don't think this suggests a story where you sit in a restaurant for 2 hours and then everyone's infected; there's only been one report of a case like that, and multiple contact tracing reports from other countries where a carrier only infected a few other people in their bus or restaurant.
It's an emphasis on their point to think in long periods of time. Remember that their (I believe) first big public splash was the 10,000 year clock project (http://longnow.org/clock). So in their representation of the year... they're really just playing the long game and avoiding the inevitable year 10,000 problem....

... I wonder if all those COBOL systems still running will have the developers then to deal with the problem....
Well, universality is not necessarily a useful end goal. Lyft is a successful company that doesn't operate even in Canada. A solution that works only in coastal California may well be sufficient.

Lots of things come to the Bay Area and Los Angeles before anywhere else. Partly that's because coastal California is an innovation hotbed. Partly because it's a single large rich market. Since one of these that succeeds entirely in the safe parts of California would be an incredible game-changer on its own (door-to-door small-group spikable public transit!), it's still amazingly exciting.

And while lots of Americans view many things as unchangeable, that's not the case in many other places. In China, if you were to talk to public planners about how autonomous vehicles will handle detours, they'll just say, "Oh, we'll use transmitters to tell you. We can sign the transmitters so you know they're trustworthy." Everything about the universe is mutable.

Yep, no ice road truckers will be autonomous in the next year, and that's okay.
You still don't understand that it's not financially feasible, for many reasons. I love nuclear, I fucking operated nuclear plants, but until we have passively safe designs that are tested and proven, it's not an option. You're totally correct on the facts, but no one is willing to fund it, that's the fact that killed nuclear.
The amount? Do all the other OECD states have a smaller "amount" of regulation on their healthcare systems?
Cymatics. It's sound interference drawing some peculiarly complex, but cool looking patterns. Edit: I've tried to find actual math behind those pictures and only found piles of pseudoscience. There's a CymaScope app that draws them, but they are super secretive about it. I suspect that it's just the interference pattern in a tibetian bowl or a cup of tea. It's almost suspicious that wikipedia has detailed scientific articles with hardcore math on dumb topics, but not only wikipedia, but the entire math community seems to carefully avoid this topic. Edit2: I think the math behind this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mode. In this case, the picture can likely be derived by numerically solving the diff equation of a sound wave with a boundary condition on a circle. Edit3: This lead me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrations_of_a_circular_membr... with Bessel equations and all the good stuff. Solving it (numerically) would supposedly create the cool picture of the 432 Hz note. Edit4: And I've returned to where I began: cymatics, cymaglyphs and that cymascope. It gives an impression of a lazy pseudoscience at first, because of the somewhat sloppy language they use, but after watching a John Stuart Reid's presentation (watch it, it's only 40 mins), I had to change my opinion. The indeed capture the interference patterns created by sound in a bowl of water and a picture of that rapidly moving pattern is called a "cymaglyphs". I'd say, visualizing sound and music is a solved problem and the solution is called cymaglyphs. Obviously, an app can't use a bowl of water to solve the diff equations, but it can do that numerically with a decent precision, and apply some smoothing techniques to deal with the rapid evolution of these cymaglyphs.
> By "bioerror", I mean something which has the same effect as a terror attack, but rises from inadvertance rather than evil intent. [1]

It's not clear that covid-19 isn't bioerror. There is a lot of information[2] pointing in that direction, so I wouldn't dismiss the theory outright the way the OP authors did. In any case it hasn't killed a million people.

1. http://longbets.org/9/

2. https://project-evidence.github.io
To protect there kids from short term problems they understand yes. But issue like climate change are both hard to understand and long term.

Having kids doesn't make you wiser.
> "This tool will not remove URLs from Clearview which are currently active and public. If there is a public image or web page that you want excluded, then take it down yourself (or ask the webmaster or publisher to take it down). After it is down, submit the link here."

Not much of an "opt-out".
Obviously, it's a constant reminder that they think in the tens of thousands of years.

Does it come across as kind of arrogant? Yes. Like the PhD who will go out of his way to correct you if you address him as Mr., not Dr.
Insurance companies are kind of a costco, they buy stuff in bulk , sell it retail, and manage to get a 5% margin.

My humble opinion: the health care system in the US is totally screwed up and nobody wants to recognize that (except those paying maybe, and I am not even sure of that because they are conned into thinking "that we have the greatest healthcare system in the world").

Everybody is trying to pull the blanket their way. It is obscenely too expensive with little results (worse results than Europe and 4x the price). This is pathetic and a total failure.

Go medicare at scale, and for everybody? But the government does not know how to control the costs on medicare either.

Then religious beliefs get in the way: if 75-85% of the cost of insurance is wasted in the last year of your life, you understand why they keep you artificially alive so everybody can milk the system: never ending MRI's, super expensive drugs, etc...Hospitals, doctors, medical devices providers, everybody feeds on the system, and blame the lame insurance companies/costco of the healthcare world.

This is sad because so many people do not have the means to pay for that, few have access to the type of healthcare engineers have access though work.
You can spend a years under full quarantine then. Just like Mary Mallon did.
SequelPro served me for years and I loved it but since it no longer is being actively maintained (I know about nightlies but it's buggy with constant crashes and such, so it doesn't count.) to support MySQL 8, I'm glad TablePlus mostly caught up on the usability to SequelPro for me to have a unified tool for all DB needs.
If you have time to waste, try to use whichever one will interview you as a counter offer when negotiating with some other company.

Otherwise, move on, but be polite. Don’t burn bridges.
> It's why we should be doing massively increased blood testing and test manufacturing to resolve that question.

Yes, literally everybody agrees with this.

> For the last few months it has been the single most important question and they're putting very few resources behind trying to answer it.

This is not true, every available resource is being deployed to expand testing capability. Again, literally everyone wants to.

> We can't test blood properly? Of course we could. They are choosing not to, is the actual context. It's a large mistake.

No one is choosing against testing today. The large mistake was 3 months ago when the federal government should have started activating all of this.

> How many infections have you already had? How widespread is it really? No answer, no attempt to answer at scale. At its best, it's immense incompetence in action by the authorities in charge of dealing with this mess.

Totally agree on the incompetence, but again, the critical moment passed months ago. Everyone is desperately trying to catch up now.
Perhaps you are remembering this incident (which involved Equation Editor, a component of Office): https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ap...
Thanks for the corrected link. Glad to see projects like this!
You seem to conflate antibody testing with viral rna testing. The former is somewhat difficult because you can't make the reagents necessary overnight, and the reagents are unique for the virus. Essentially, you have to clone the gene for an immunogenic portion of the virus (the spike protein most likely), express it in a recombinant host (which may require extensive optimization), purify it, and then validate that it properly detects blood of people who were confirmed positive for viral RNA and then recovered. That all takes time, and then you have to scale up manufacturing. In contrast, the the viral rna (RT_PCR) test takes about a day to design and the reagents are synthesized overnight and then you can run the test in the morning of the second day. Scaling that up to 1 million viral RNA tests a day should add at most a month, but our country already runs this number of tests a day if you count every academic, research, hospital, and CLIA lab, so the manufacturing capacity already exists.
Yes I heard about it, it will soon give it a try, are they talking about where to find user ?
Is the reason all of this makes more sense than just building tracks and trains just the fact that there’s an evolutionary path to get there with incremental releases along the way?

Because every time I hear this kind of thing I keep finding myself asking why/whether mass transit systems aren’t just the same end state?
Isn't that printing the time the prompt was printed (the time the previous command finished)?

This is printing the time you pressed Enter (the time the command started), which is harder and less common, since that's not when the prompt is printed.
> It is ridiculous that people in less economically advantaged areas are forced to grovel to those deemed rich for capital rather than ask their neighbors and friends for investments.

AFAIK the accredited investor requirements only apply to sales of securities to investors who don't have a prior relationship with you. They do not apply if, for example, you want to start a startup and you get ten relatives, friends, and neighbors who already know you to invest in it and give them each a proportionate number of shares of stock.
I have a jump host and it works by reading ~/.ssh/config and works fine.

You might want to report it on GitHub as they seemed quite responsive the last time I reported an issue.
I second stevenwliao's recommendation of Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock. It's a good intro. It might seem unsatisfying in that there is no single thing that makes one good, and he basically refers to it (appropriately) as good judgement. But it highlights a lot of basic areas.

Practice is also good. If you're not used to probabilistic thinking you'll need to develop that intuition and calibration.

Anything about how to think about things better is going to be useful. There's a Coursera course called Model Thinking that is might be useful. Just being curious about things in general and pushing yourself outside of your normal areas of competency/interest.

It might seem weird, but I find Twitter to be pretty essential these days. There are a lot of smart people freely sharing information and some don't mind answering questions.
The distillation of Marc’s thesis points echoes “We should have businesses coming out the wazoo!”, at least in my mind.

I think plenty of his points about pushing investment into broad market innovation are very true.

Simultaneously, this post made me think about how we got here. Many of the problems being experienced that are exasperated by the coronavirus are also being contributed to by private industry. I guess the notion of what the government should/should not provide or manufacture is up to personal belief... however, since “small-government” was pushed starting in the 1980s(?), there’s been a big change in the way many public services (and public service dependencies) are operated.

I like the idea of supporting home-grown innovation through startups and market disruption - however, seeing it from the other side, those are also the forces that brought upon harsh realities like experiencing PPE shortages because the manufacturing is outsourced to cheap labor overseas or millions of people relying on shit-tier digital services built by an amalgam of government contractors a decade ago and billed at a ridiculous rate.

I think there’s an opportunity to take the overall message and shift it inwards towards actually pushing government-enabled innovation and development projects. That at least seems more “by the people, for the people” than proliferating a system of voracious hunger to corner off a big pile of sweet government money.
Well, according to The Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill (Page 506 of the Second Edition), “When the switch is closed, the two contacts actually separate and reconnect, typically 10 to 100 times over a period of about 1 msec.” This just goes to show you how undefined this field is, because this book is regarded as the “Electronics Bible” by many engineers, but their value of 1 msec (which is the one I was told as a young engineer) is less than Jack’s average findings, let alone his maximum findings.

In the Third Edition, on page 802, Horowitz and Hill write "For physically large switches, the bounce can be as long as 50ms." That first quote is from a section on clocked debouncing, which can be made insensitive to contact bounce by digital means.

I like the data sheet for the automotive contact debouncing IC.[1] That's very cute. In dirty environments, you need a minimum current and voltage, maybe 10mA, 12V, to punch through dirt and water on the contacts. That IC does that, but it only turns on the power intermittently, so you don't drain the battery polling the dashboard switches.

I've hit that with the antique Teletype machines. They were intended to run with 120VDC on the keyboard contacts, and you need about 24V or so to get reliable punch-through.

[1] https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tic12400-q1.pdf
Thks, could not agree more. More Uber = more pollution and unbearable traffic.
Slap a 50% tax on Uber and use that money for free public transportation. In a recession maybe we'll see more people getting on an electric bus/subway. And our lungs will be feel better.
Name and shame these companies, they're obviously FAANG
From their about page:

> The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.
Are there specific building codes you disagree with?
Not only is that factually incorrect as the other user pointed out, but you may be surprised that more than half of the worlds population lives in this circle (https://i.imgur.com/CK6aONG.jpg), so the fact that a lot of diseases originate there isn't as surprising as you might think.

Not to mention that diseases can break out everywhere, making the response to a pandemic significantly more important than trying to shift blame for what is essentially a game of chance.
Public funds for research is a tiny fraction of the funds that the government spends. There are trillions wasted elsewhere that shows that overall it is terrible with spending money productively.
Not parsing it quickthrower2. I get two possible parses:

Bisons (Buffalo) bewilder (buffalo) Buffalo bisons (Buffalo bisons) confuse (buffalo) annoy (buffalo) and vexate (buffalo) other bisons (buffalo).

But that is not grammatical.

Neither is my second parse:

Bisons from Buffalo (Buffalo buffalo) Bisons from Buffalo (Buffalo buffalo) confuse (buffalo) and vexate (buffalo) other bisons (buffalo).

Am I missing it?

You can do this:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Which is like my first post except each alternative definition of buffalo (confuse, annoy, vexate) is included using the word buffalo in its stead.

But that's just gratuitous.
In Delaware on Route 1 if you follow this advice you are likely to get rear ended. They have traffic lights on a 50mph route that stay in yellow for a long time.

I often find myself slowing down to a stop then awkwardly realizing I’m stopped with multiple seconds of yellow remaining and drivers honking behind me.

Maybe my brakes (or reflexes) are just too good?
It’s only logical. There are typically 90 weekly roundtrip flights operating between SFO and China or Hong Kong. But somehow no one was infected for two months? Lol.

What I’m saying is that if the West acted like Taiwan there would be no lockdowns. They acted, they were prepared. Western world was caught with its pants down, including San Francisco.

https://sfist.com/2020/04/10/some-scientists-suggest-undetec...
We don't know yet. Most press articles are reporting experiments or are clutching at straws of hope.

Is it likely there is at least some protection? Yes. At the same time there is reason to be cautious - the virus has been observed attacking and successfully entering T-helper cells and that does carry the potential for some really ugly long effects.

Now of course the whole herd immunity thing had become a political matter and in the US that means science goes right out of the window in favour of left/right blinders
If you also write the starttime to a file you can read it and produce the elapsed time. Then one step further is to have a program read all your ongoing times alongside parsing the active processes, and give you running progress of your current shells.

Mine works but is hacky, it would be nice to have a more neatly packaged solution.
Thank you for the work you do! Zoning is the new redlining. This generation has to fight for the right to affordable housing and economic opportunity.
I imagine self driving cars won't be outside of cities for years and years.
Not sure why they're so quick to write off Long Bet #9. It's highly likely we'll reach 1,000,000 worldwide casualties from Covid-19 during a 6-month period before the end of year (defined in the bet's terms as "hospitalizations").

And if the hypothesis turns out to be true that it was an accidental release from one of Wuhan's 2 laboratories doing bat virus research, that's definitely a "bioerror" under the terms of the bet.

There's significant circumstantial evidence it could have been a lab accident(early Chinese reporting about the index case, 1 lab location a few blocks away from seafood market, bat species, earlier lab accident, etc), but nothing more at this point. But we may know more by the end of the year.

Edit: This is not the wild conspiracy theory about a bioengineered virus in a weapons lab. This is a hypothesis about accidental bat pee on a lab worker conducting routine research, or some similar accident (such accidental releases are confirmed to have happened twice with SARS-Cov-1 virus in a Beijing lab). Laboratory-acquired infections do happen, sometimes with deadly consequences. In my mind, it's the most feasible scenario at this point, given no one has provided proof that bats were even sold at the seafood market that was blamed. And we know that many officials were eager to cover this all up.