skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it quite interesting that people like Marc who once built end up not bothering to build again once they have the money, resources, contacts, and influence that would make building substantially easier.

They would rather wait for solutions to walk in the door and extract a large equity percentage.
The Jargon (published as The Hacker's Dictionary) is a great source: http://catb.org/jargon/html/
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> People don’t want one-world-gov

Speak for yourself. I would personally love this. We’re long overdue for a one world government.
> Of course the media won't cover this story widely, as it won't sell properly, there isn't enough sensationalism. It lowers panic (it would mean the Covid mortality rate is radically lower than previously feared, even versus common low estimates), rather than raising panic.

I think there is a common misunderstanding here, which is that the mortality rate of COVID-19 is an important factor in policymaking.

It’s not. The actual number of illnesses and deaths is what is important. That’s what maps onto healthcare capacity, which is the limiting factor.

And it is what people really care about. I might find it interesting that there are a large number of asymptomatic carriers, but what I really want to know is whether my friends and family are safe.
The time to act was in January. It’s good that they acted first but it was still too late.
Instagram founders launch Covid-19 spread tracker Rt.live
Am I the only one weirded out that the author didn't even consider writing/benchmarking the obvious byte-at-a-time version (in a loop, and/or unrolled) before resorting to a nonportable/incorrect 'optimized' version?

Versions of GCC old enough to drive are pretty good at generating fast code from byte operations and summing up bytes seems like the kind of transparently analyzable case where modern compilers really are sufficiently smart
Here is the original 10,000 year clock proposal, Danny Hillis with Wired Magazine:

https://www.wired.com/1995/12/the-millennium-clock/
Thank you! I'm really happy you tried it out
> The technology will exist that will allow for the “faxing” (teleportation- sending/receiving) of actual inanimate objects, such as text books, clothing, jewelry and the like.

This one has two possible outcomes. Faxing is cloning, not teleportation - so the parentheses are contradictory. We can definitely fax 3D inanimate objects (3D scanning, email and 3D printing).
Agreed. And by the bet's definition, 1M causalities is defined specifically as "requiring hospitalization", so we'll likely reach that easily in a 6 month period.
Imagine if a dictator rises to power, but this time s/he has power over the entire world.
Build more courts until they can deal with the volume, or fix so your laws so that less people need to go to court
I try not to beat myself over things like this but it's good to explore why I didn't make a decision and absorb any lessons.
Blaming the "regulatory state" for the lack of housing misses the point. Andreeson lives in Atherton, CA, population 7000--not exactly Big Government. Is he pushing the city council to upzone Atherton and allow higher density housing? It would be profitable!
No, voice recognition got markedly better in 2015-2016. Now, I regularly to tasks with vr, which was not really a thing in 1999.
Cool, hopefully that's the case. I'm not familiar enough with the case law to know. It's just a salient point of my high school education.
No, law is not code and it’s very important that it’s not code. Law is subject to interpretation, and that’s great. When bugs are discovered in law, they can be retroactively corrected.
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Some preconditions are needed:

Step 1: fund a national campaign to challenge Citizens United and put new test cases through the courts.

Step 2: restore the federal prohibition (dropped during Obama admin) against propaganda.

Step 3: implement a modern equivalent to Glass-Steagall banking regulation, so that taxpayer capital is not backstopping high-risk investments.

Without a shared model of reality, it is difficult to collaborate on the building of new realities. If unlimited ad/PR spending can be used to manipulate media, the voices and interests of individual humans struggle to be heard, leaving us with flawed models awaiting the next crisis where reality suddenly corrects rhetoric.

If the above is not feasible at the federal level, start with one state and use every available legal/policy/finance tool to (a) pursue similar goals, and (b) encourage migration of like-minded civic leaders and builders from other states.
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> You separate democratic procedure from capital

Uhm, that's very easy to say, but how is that even possible? Even here in Scandinavia, where money interests isn't as blatantly involved in politics as in the US, most of the media are aligned to corporate interests and vast amount of money are spend by corporations to fund and campaign for right-wing business parties and policies.

Why would Biden need money in competition with Sanders when he got the entire establishment on his side?
America has ~16M marketers & sales folks (roughly 10% of all jobs) compared to only ~2.7M engineers. Source: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/emp-by-detailed-occupation.ht....
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>> You see it in transportation. (...) Where are the high speed trains

> none of this stuff is economically or physically practical.

One of those things are not like the others.
Covid outbreak could be prevented. In 1995 DARPA already knew how to do it
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If everybody is going to university no one is going to build anything
The USSR only died for a moment in Belarus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State
I was pretty worried it was.
Personally, I feel like WeChat or other superapps are closer to a metaverse than Fortnight. You can build mini-apps, you can spend money, it's independent from the underlying hardware -- i.e., you can run them anywhere and they provide a deep social network. Throw in AR glasses and you can enter that metaverse whenever you want, as a sensory experience or simply to browse/use apps via the more traditional phone interface.
> I’m with Nicholas Stern when he says that capitalism is how we take care of people we don’t know

I'm sure that's what he tells himself as he walks by the homeless and unemployed and mentally ill.
I’d say Italians, Germans and Swedes have much more in common with each other than with the US. The way of life is slightly different, but the philosophy is the same.
We'll see how long that continues to be the case. Chevron deference is under fire from our whackjob supreme court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura....
Abolish congress completely. There is no use for it when laws are simple and never need to change.
Ultimately this is the most important problem of our time, and not only did he not take it seriously, he trivialized it and then got the wrong answer without bothering to understand what he was dismissing.

It's amazing how strong politics is in our brains; it can override all sorts of rationality.

Fisher was a great statistician, but among many other inexcusable mistakes, he tried desperately to prove that smoking did not cause cancer. He wrote all sorts of junk science down that road. I think we will think of Dyson in similar ways in the future, but I'm not sure if the concepts that Dyson invented will be as long lasting as Fisher's.
This comment... is really a reply to my top comment not the comment you replied to. Whether or not this is in scope has nothing to do with the discussion of whether or not the report could comment more intelligently without making it an opinion piece.

A large part of the the point in my top comment could be phrased as "the scope of this article is so small as to be entirely pointless".
Someone, a woman, I forget her name, a physicist has lately questioned the parsimonius assumption or more accurately the whole beauty assumption, meaning, roughly, the most beautiful or parsimonious theory is correct. Just a data point to this conversation, not an argument.

Re: Solomonoff, if you're chucking away unnecessaries, which is what I understand Solomonoff to be doing (I had to be reminded what his theory was truthfully) then that's all well and good, let's chuck. But you still are left with the problem of whether the axioms are true. That's a different thing entirely except to the extent we define true operationally, as having predictive power over the things we understand and know about in the way we understand them.

We moderns are all deeply enmeshed with Scientism which is an ism that says logic and reasoning and the scientific method etc. are the only valid tools for aquiring certain (indubitable) knowledge. What if it's just not true ? Then what ?
This is great observation and speculation on what could happen and where would it come from.

I've had multiple conversations with top-10 VC firm partners during our unsuccessful pitches where one of the sticking points is 'unfair-advantage'. 'How can you lock $user_group/$partners into this transaction/partnership?'

Peter Thiel: "Monopolies are a good thing for society... The opposite of perfect competition is monopoly. Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices."

What the world needs is perfect competition. VCs profess that they live in a capitalist system and work within its constraints, but just about all want to capture some part of it, preventing competition from coming in.

One way to limit competition? Get the government to do it for you. Regulatory Capture.

So, excuse me, if I don't buy this coming from a VC. And I won't buy it from any other VC as well. They are arguing for them to be in control of capture. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/10/coronavirus-outbreak-ra...

https://www.sciencealert.com/deadly-viruses-always-seem-to-s...
They are waitresses, janitors, and other low level people. They can't build.
oh ty anyway... let me know when you open It again. =)
This is one way you could do something similar in zsh: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17915260/102182
The need for social distancing isn't going to diminish until there's herd immunity, whether through exposure or vaccination. That's at least one and possibly several years out. We're going to need to settle on distancing measures we can actually sustain for those years. Masks in grocery stores are part of that. Wiping the live entertainment industry off the face of the earth is part of that (sadly). Cold turkey on every form of IRL socialization isn't.
If you set it up that way it will. If you are doing this intentionally then just don't set it up that way.
Using an account is not enough to bypass a blanket IP address range block on Wikipedia. You have to meet certain conditions and submit a formal request for an exemption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption#R... (And I should point out that using a commercial VPN — which is a form of anonymizing proxy — seems to disqualify you for an exemption; I’m not really sure if an exemption could be granted if you have to use a VPN, but it doesn’t seem to be the case, at least on paper.)

I’ve noticed the same when trying to edit from a commercial VPN service.
Same. Notice I said "the book" while mentioning the trilogy ;-)
I doubt Marc has anywhere near enough capital to get these things done (by himself). 2 trillion is on a completely different order of magnitude.

That said, maybe this post is a call for help and the billionaires will unite?
Andreesen is wrong. We need a New Medieval era.

We need to go backwards. Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan aren't developing any new ideas. They need to be shut down. Appoint a non-Trump leader as King. Funnel the engineers into military roles. Castes need to come back. Let there be priests to sedate the masses.

Then society will lead itself to salvation.
Thank you for your understanding. Will shoot an email instead of fighting back next time.
>factually incorrect

It's not. SARS is from China.

>not to mention that diseases can break out everywhere

>essentially a game of chance

It's 100% preventable. Just cut contact with wildlife that spreads these viruses.

I'm only correcting the fallacy of praising any goverment that fails to address the root causes of these problems.
When voters in South Carolina go to vote, did they listen to money, to their own hearts, or to "the establishment"? In any case, they did not listen to capital. And this is one way that politics is separated from capital.

There can never be perfect separation, all of society is connected to all of its parts in tricky ways, but part of maximizing that separation is to discover and acknowledge where capital has control of democracy and come up with ways to separate. No ideal is achievable, we can only strive to improve.
Seems like a good approach to me. Imagine if they waited and we were still stuck with taxis.
Yeah, if "faxing" is the analogy, then 3D scanning and printing along with the internet should win this one. It's an ambiguous definition. As you say, faxing isn't teleportation.
Yes, you’re absolutely right. Iphone spellcheck likes Duranduran. My department worshipped Juran when we were manufacturing things.
They'd have to completely undermine the world government to turn it into a dictatorship, and get the countries underneath it to go along. Is that much easier than getting power over the entire world the old-fashioned way?
Those belong to the Emperor... embalmed ones... those that tremble as if they were mad...
Referencing the selected element in Chrome with $0 certainly saves quite a few typing.
I have never seen anyone think GLSL needed first class functions. Can you give me an example of how you would use them instead of a macro? GPUs can't jump to a function pointer as far as I know and macros can't be passed to functions.
This is wonderful.

Details matter in fiction. It's a delicate balance to weave it in without obsessing over it to the detriment of other elements, but you need that texture to anchor the consumer's perspective in a place that seems real.

Lots of modern media fail miserably at this, e.g. many of the recent films by J.J. Abrams. I guess it's harder when the product is designed by a committee of people who don't really care in the same kind of way that Mr. Fleming clearly did.
Most of the companies we fund are trying to go disrupt someone else's "dominant market position".
I think that hacks are the name of the game when it comes to this sort of thing with Bash, so don't feel bad about that. My solution is very much a hack too.
Imagine if there's a revolution, but it's world population - 1 this time.
See also https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Matters-Rescuing-system-twent...
I love building things, especially new things. I've started to see over the years that while I've built many things, I've failed just as much to maintain them.

I think there may be a paradox underlying his point: while we need to build things, we also need to maintain things. If I have limited resources (e.g., time, money, land, materials, etc.), then if I choose to build something, I may be choosing to abandon (not maintain) something, or even to destroy that thing. I think this applies to businesses, apps, bridges, skyscrapers, and even relationships. If I start something new, it often replaces the old.

I believe we may struggle with this, because, while we crave new things, we get emotionally attached to old things. We get attached to the way we're able to see the SF Bay from our house and don't want anything blocking our view. We get attached to our expertise and comfort at coding in a specific language and don't want to learn yet another new language. We get attached to the way we've made cars day after day, year after year, and also to the juicy profits and lives that it has given us.

Also, I think a lot of business models rely more on the maintaining of things than they do the building of things (unless you consider maintaining some sort of (re)building, but I don't). Facebook built a platform and for the most part, while adding users, seems to maintain it and want to prevent others from taking their users. Someone who builds a nuclear power plant will probably spend a lot of money building it and therefore wants to "milk the asset" for as much as they can. Even the construction firm who builds the power plant probably has methods that they've practiced over the years, and wants to leverage the learning of those methods more so than learn new ones.

I still agree that we need to build new things, I just believe there are strong financial and emotional reasons for why we maintain old things.
Are bugs discovered and corrected faster today in law or in code?
Why would it be spread in certain areas and not others? Why would knowing who has antibodies hurt the economy when everyone is already secluded?
I'm gonna be too lazy to dig up sources for what I'm about to say. But I've read some speculation that the current coronavirus came from a bat that's part of the same region/bat cluster/cave that SARS did. But this was part of a much larger speculation that the current outbreak came out of the wuhan lab, when a researcher came into contact with bat urine/blood, died, and passed the infection onto an undertaker. there's a whole level of speculation there, and several people involved seem to have been disappeared. Old interns are nowhere to be found, there were job postings in oct/nov timeframe in the lab relevant to coronaviruses in bats, etc etc. /tinfoil_hat
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Neither do Californians, Alaskans, Alabamans, Montanans, or West Virginians.

But they all have more in common with each other than Europeans, and vice versa.
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The system is working great except there isn't enough censorship?
I think it's more nuanced than that. America in particular has incredibly high education costs and a mercantile payback system. This is coupled with companies making ludicrous demands on qualifications so people feel they need to have a degree. In turn, graduates are branded as failures if they don't land "college level jobs" because they're saddled with debt that needs paying off.

Lack of jobs seems like an equally important problem here. It's not like if you didn't have a degree you'd be in a better situation. The only difference is that because you have a huge loan, having a low paid job is now a problem. Maybe a better question is, can you survive on a low paid job if you didn't have student loan repayments?

This could be fixed with means-tested payback, like the UK system (also student loans don't affect your credit here). Or simply by making education free, like most of Europe.

There are large intangible benefits to college education. One of them is it strongly promotes mobility (getting out of your home town) and cultural/diversity tolerance. Overwhelmingly in the UK, college towns voted to remain for example. For many people going to university is their first time away from their parents, and it's a transition period between living at home and true independence.
Alright, so you're telling me that people of the US actually democratically doesn't want healthcare, paid vacation, parental leave, sick pay, etc etc. that's been available for decades in Europe? For me this is obvious evidence of out-sized corporate control of the political process.
In addition, the inventor of Powerpoint has written an entire book on its development including this anecdote in great detail called Sweating Bullets[0].

[0] https://amzn.to/2wPhmtU
I'm convinced based on reading through this article. Thank you for posting it.

Things I like especially about it: It is written very logically and admits clearly to being speculation based on what information exists. The information is referenced and considered in great detail.

It mentions the "HIV inserts" article posted on hacker news previously that many here ripped to shreds and has been discounted as nonsense. I've seen that one go the rounds on facebook and have had to explain to my own friends and family that it is nonsense.

Interestingly the information suggests that the virus could have come about spontaneously in the wild at some later point. The logic is mainly about the proximity to the labs doing detailed work on exactly the same sort of virus.

TLDR for those who don't feel like reading through the very long article: Labs in Wuhan were researching essentially the exact same virus type as what is going around the globe. Virus outbreak happens to be right at the same place ( within miles ) as where the outbreak started.
Happy accident, or on purpose?

If you can't even keep up with one vendor, then you'll have to choose one to pay attention to and give up on tracking the rest...
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Not just that.

NYC has seen the number of people dying at home increase from around 20 per day to 200 per day. The difference is likely a mix of COVID-19 cases, people not seeking treatment out of fear, and people just spending significantly more time at home. But, that kind of change makes accurate statistics even more difficult.
Some of the older suburbs in the southern Kansas City metro area strike me as examples. (I don't really know names)

I'm not sure you'll find a lot of maintenance on their budget- the problem is precisely that nothing is being maintained.
Critical theory is a communicable memetic mental disorder.
Agreed, this is probably the "new normal" in most places.
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Isn't Uber kind of the opposite kind of building the OP refers to?

Uber externalizes so many costs to its drivers. It relies on someone else's healthcare system to care for its drivers. Someone else to pay to maintain the cars.

So far the gig economy is maybe, half building something which has potential social benefit,half building something which clearly does not.

Now, if Uber was lobbying hard for universal healthcare, then that'd be a different story :). But IIRC they mainly avoid or flout the law altogether.

In summary I don't think Uber is a good example of a company that has tried to 'build' in a prosocial way.
>> even went up a couple of days ago

I speculate that everywhere in the US will see slight increases currently due to Easter weekend, regardless of shuts downs and mandated distancing. It didn't stop everyone from church going or visiting family.
I used to believe that self driving cars were a panacea for mobility. Then I moved to Boston, sold my car, bought a bike and realized that in dense urban cities, cars are the enemy, doesn’t matter if the are Electric and autonomous. They generally don’t fit in cities. Cities should be built for people not for single occupancy high speed, deadly cars.
CSRNGs are mentioned a few times in TFA, but cryptographic security doesn't appear to be among the design criteria for SHISHUA. There's no mention of linear or differential crpytanalisis, which is table stakes for a CSPRNG.
Doesnt climate change mean a higher probability of extreme events, and hence higher chances of severe winter storms/blizzard/snow?

I am out of my depth in terms of the topic we are discussing so I might be quite wrong.