skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boom's whole value proposition is that they can make it less noisy essentially just by shaping the aircraft right, aided by improved fluid dynamics modelling techniques etc. They reckon they can improve enough to make a difference - or, cynically, improve enough to give an America-first FAA an excuse to approve them.
Advice from Larry Brilliant(helped eradicate smallpox) to fight Covid 19
Yep. A lot of it is personal biology and a lot is also chance. You can be shot in the head and survive with not much cognitive impairment, or you could hit your head against something and be unable to speak or feed yourself for the reset of your life. We are very pliable but it's sad that we're also still so fragile, at the level of the "mind" / "soul". Hopefully there'll eventually be a day where consciousness can be hosted in a much more safe way, for both biological and total immortality.

I don't think it's exactly correct to say "a prion" can destroy it. One single prion I don't think would cause significant damage in most cases, if there could somehow be only a single one. The issue is that it's believed a prion will gradually cause nearby proteins to misfold and also become prions, and then it probably starts recurring exponentially like a pathogen infection, and your brain physically deteriorates and falls apart with no way to stop or reverse it. A very similar deterioration process appears to happen with other disorders like Alzheimer's and the form of dementia discussed in this article, though the root cause still isn't understood.
Great write up. What are you doing now instead?
It’s literally a library that’s main value proposition is that GraphQL loses a lot of benefit of web http infrastructure that rest provides and that with a few conventions you get many of the most widely cited values of GraphQL.
If a news outlet is struggling that means readership is down. If readership is down that implies they are not producing a product worthy of people’s time. Seems bad to me.
It was more than a complaint about downvotes. It was an observation on an unflattering characteristic of parts of the HN community.
The way I mistakenly initially parsed this comment gave rise to a potentially-dumb idea/question:

What would happen if you

- begin capturing video (unsure of fps) on a phone-quality sensor in a near-dark environment

- pulse the phone's flash LED(s) like you're taking a photo

- do super-resolution on the resulting video to extract a photo...

- ...while factoring in the decay in brightness/saturation in consecutive video frames produced by the flash pulse?

I vaguely recall reading somewhere that oversaturated photos have more signal in them and are easier to fix than undersaturated. Hmm.

IIRC super-resolution worked with 30fps source video for better quality; I wonder if 60fps or 120fps source video would produce better brightness decay data, or whether super-resolution could actually help extract more signal out of the decay sequence too.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if super-resolution fundamentally requires largely consistent brightness in order to work as well as it does. :/

Perhaps individual networks could be trained/tuned to specific slices/windows of the brightness gradient. I also wonder if it would be useful to factor the superresolution process into each of the brightness-specific stages or just to do it at the end.
Your #2 clashes with my own experience. Every time I took classes with the older kids or skipped grades, I actually did better socially. And it certainly wasn't due to me being socially advanced. Rather, I think it was because I became less of a target for monkeysphere competition.
> “The promise,” Lemm continued, “exercises control over the future by means of drawing the future ever further into the past. In so doing, the promise reverses the flow of time. Thus, instead of being born into an uncertain future, one is born into a secured past.”

Secured by chains of your ancestors' debt.
Using TV screens for computer output is an idea that should have died with the Commodore 64.
Here are some risks I'd like you to maybe prepare for:

A: 10% chance you lose 100$. Preparing costs 5$

B: 10% chance you lose 100$. Preparing costs 15$

C: 10% chance you lose 200$. Preparing costs 15$

D: 10% chance you lose 200$. Preparing costs 30$

E: 10% chance you win 100$. Ticket costs 20$

F: 10% chance you win 100$. Ticket costs 5$

You prepare for A & C. You buy tickets for F

Think of it like choosing when to fold in poker
Which part looks like a nightmare to you?

I wasn’t quiet sure what you mean by “when does yield return”?
The League of Nations failed because it was structurally somewhat broken, and the nations that championed its creation failed to use it to effectively wield power to prevent the next war (See Wilsons failure to get the treaty creating/joining the League ratified by the US Senate). The UN fixed the first part, and provided current trends continue, we continue to remember the lesson from the second part. While it is arguable that some sort of conflict was deigned to happen because of the inequities inherent to the Treat of Versailles, a worldwide war was not even the obvious conclusion from that.
When I was a kid I had these crash test dummies toys with a test car you ram into wall. That immediately sprung to my mind and I had a good laugh and a good reminisce. Thanks for that. Here’s a silly commercial for the car and toys. I honestly think they made me a more defensive driver years before I got behind the wheel.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMDPnf89Ef4
The best thing a parent could do is download a set of approved videos and use a local playlist.

The easiest thing to do is just allow them on youtube no filter.

The middle ground is the play app. Weird stuff sometimes get through but usually it's more someone dressed as a pretend princess. The good thing it's never really a murder scene or something equally as horrible (which could popup on youtube.com).

What would you do as a parent?

I would avoid youtube unless you setup the video until 7 or 11. After that it depends on the child.
Am I the only person having trouble reading this blog? That color scheme makes my eyes bleed.

It seems like it's a light gray background with a slightly (not much) darker gray text. The contrast and thin font weight is terrible.

And the pink is practically vibrating on the page.

At least the blue is okay.
Having been following BOOM for years this thought never occur to me. I thought BOOM was the sound coming out of the engine signalling ultra fast / super sonic speed.

What is annoying is that Now you have mentioned it I cant get that "crashing" thought out of head.
How do the strong views about justice and morality typically manifest themselves in a way that’s negative rather than positive?

I’m not challenging you on that by the way. I see this too and I think I have a pretty good idea what you mean but didn’t want to second guess what you meant, incorrectly.
I tire of this style but what I mean to say is I'm tired of almost all new art. Of photography, of music, of visual, architectural, of design in general. The over-abundance of art and design has dulled my tastes and I can't help but see the same things everywhere, over and over. Where I see quality, I can't help but see pretension, commercial intent, and fakery.
As another commenter said, this is just financial opportunity cost. You can consider it in reverse: imagine the inspirational/motivational opportunity cost incurred by working at a megacorp, when your soul could feel far less deadened by working on a project you have total control of.

Of course, if someone is working on a startup just to get rich, this won't be the case, but I think this isn't that common, or at least isn't in the majority of cases. You only get one chance to exist, and it's infinitesimally short and fleeting; why not spend it doing something that maximizes your enjoyment of it, rather than your financial reward, if it's at all possible to do so?
If you haven't seen it, check out http://www.starringthecomputer.com/
Some people even have muscle memory for different keyboard layouts at the same time!

I know I used to switch pretty seamlessly between US International and ABNT-2[0] but others use Dvorak, Colemak and what have you which is obviously orders of magnitude harder...

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_keyboard_layout
My laptop's startup time reduced by few seconds, since I tried the mitigation steps.

I hope Bruce looks into other issues too
The SQLite R*Tree Module
ByteDance is going from strength to strength
Whenever this comes up I wonder why no one mentions any associated symbiotic bacteria that might also be necessary for a dinosaur to live. Is it accepted that they could live without any additional microorganisms from the same time period?
My business bank (Wells Fargo) didn't even begin taking applications until the day before the money ran out.

My personal bank (Bank of America) flat-out refused to talk to me, since I'd never had a business credit or loan through them.

Quickbooks is apparently planning something, but of course have nothing ready yet.

PayPal never mentioned to me they were an option. I've logged into my business account with them daily since this all began. Not a peep. Not an email. Not a notification anywhere on the page. Nada.

I scoured the SBA page daily - hell, three times a day - checking up on my EIDL application and also looking for any update on them offering PPP. Never saw anything, despite many people asserting like you are that it was there all along and early.

It's like you're from a completely different reality.
Professions exist that effectively have negative knowledge about their field, in the sense that they do worse than smart generalists at making predictions.

Closest to home, I'd say Software Engineering mostly fits this description. 90% of people who call themselves that are terrible at actually making software.

Or, for example, most of the best fiction is not written by English Literature majors.

Perhaps epidemiology is like that. Based on what I've seen in the last few months, I'm not impressed.
How do you know it wasn't all contracted?

The best example I can think of is Ghidra from the NSA, which was formally classified. See https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master..., parts of it are not the work of the government and not public domain.
Covid-19: App-based contact tracing may help countries get out of lockdown
Okay this is very interesting, I love React but I'm also worried about the "complexity explosion" that is going on. As an example look at this "zombie children" article that has bitten me when trying to build a library:

https://kaihao.dev/posts/Stale-props-and-zombie-children-in-...

Curious about Crank.js, would this timer be valid as well (it works on codesandbox)? How does it stop/unmount?

const delay = t => new Promise(ok => setTimeout(ok, t));

async function* Timer() {
let seconds = 0;
while (true) {
await delay(1000);
seconds++;
yield <div>Seconds: {seconds}</div>;
}
}
Amazing, thanks for this
The boom in a sonic boom doesn’t come from the engines as such, but rather caused by the object travelling faster than the speed or sound (in air).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom
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It's unlikely. I don't think we know the exact progression enough to say for sure, but typically the specific immune response won't start that quickly. (It couldn't account for anything close to the study results in either case - there's no realistic way that there are 50x-85x cases that are about to become symptomatic soon.)
There is no evidence the program was successful because the administration gutted the IG and oversight. All we know is that a lot of tax payer money was given out with no accountability. I hope the Democrats don't give out another blank check with no accountability. The Trump admin ignored oversight in the first bill; why give this administration another blank check for graft and corruption?
It's not necessarily that it's negative, though it can be. It's just that it's usually socially unacceptable to take a strong moral stand and turn X thing into a hill to die on (especially if you are five, but not only if you are a child).

Most people cannot and will not live up to the strict moral standards of some five year old on their high horse. When the five year old screams "The emperor has no clothes and you're a liar!!!!" multiple times per day and will not stop when punished for it, it creates a lot of problems.

One of my sons was like that. I homeschooled and I can live up to his expectations for things like fairness and keeping my word. But when adults don't live up to those expectations and they have some tyrannical little would-be civil rights activist on their hands, it sometimes turns abusive because they need the kid to just shut up and give it a rest already and they run out of ideas for how to keep the kid from being a troublemaker. (Alternately, in school, they are constantly in detention or similar.)
It helps me to step outside my own context and view a familiar use case, problem, or solution with an unfamiliar perspective.
I could launch a DNS replacement project where users registered a domain name by coming to my house and handing me $1,000 in cash. It would be accurate for me to say that the “come visit me with cash” approach prevented botnet-based brute forcing, among other things. It would also be accurate for an observer to point out that my project has a crucial flaw for replacing DNS.

It’s clear you believe the usage of blockchain technology in Handshake is justified. But throughout this thread, whenever the question of ~“is your project backed by a cryptocurrency which is traded speculatively” has been posed, you’ve dodged answering it outright.
Whatever happened to the finding 10+ years ago, where scientists found jellified T-Rex bone marrow? It made a huge splash, and they claimed to be able to see structures in the blood, etc, but I haven't heard anything since, and I can't find any follow up research, or I don't know what to google for.

Has anyone seen any followups to this?
I tutor some exceptionally gifted students as a side gig (for scale: calculus at 10, publishing research papers and learning graduate-level general relativity at 14), and I can say that the lessons of papers like these have been taken to heed. Today, there are tons of resources for kids like these, and the explosion continues every year. Professors are taking them for research projects, summer camps are bringing them together, and free online courses are spoiling them with knowledge. We're at the point where full courses are regularly put on Youtube in every field, with better teaching quality than almost all "real" courses! The kids seem to be quite happy for it, and I'm looking forward to the results in a couple decades.

My magnet high school was a smaller example of this. It had a reputation around the area for producing great outcomes for students with rigorous coursework, so people fought like crazy to get in. But once we did, we found that we had almost zero homework and spent half of each school day just sitting around. The real magic was in what we got to do with all that free time!
At some point, I think it has to be accepted in the same way that we accept that REST APIs aren’t typed.
Sounds like the opposite of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
I tried to make a library as a workaround with async treatment in React which I also don't like, but besides it being a library (already a -1) it also didn't allow you to have Hooks inside these async components, which was a showstopper for me. But still a fun experiment! This is how it worked:

// Books.js
import React from 'react';
import pray from 'pray';

// Wrap the async component in pray:
export default pray(async () => {
const books = await fetch('/books').then(res => res.json());

return (
<ul>
{books.map(book => <li>{book.title}</li>)}
</ul>
)
});

Would love to see good support for Async in React without the complexity that Suspense seems like it's going to bring.
I must be the rare person here who finds that Gimp becomes better and nicer with each release.

Yes, I had to explicitly set the way I want the icons to look in settings. It wasn't hard, and one of the bundled sets worked for me.

Maybe it's because I'm a long-time user and I know my way around, and where in the settings to look.

One of the problems of shipping UIs is setting good defaults. Maybe Gimp does not do a great job here; I should try a Clea installation.
> Once she used this term, it became easier for parents to accept that their children were doing fine in “normal” class, which was quite good anyways because of the average aptitude of the students.

Your child could be doing work three grades ahead, learning things that would challenge them and help them grow intellectually. Instead we’ll keep them here with the normal children where at best they’ll learn to shut up and not bother the teacher.
In normal times, where there aren't critically urgent decisions to be made, that's the right approach. We don't have that luxury right now; we're continually charting the path forward, and if we don't have clean data then we'll need to chart it with unclean data.

And I think it's hard to argue that this study is worse than our existing case data, which is simply a daily aggregate of the number of new positive PCR tests labs report they've run. That's not even attempting to be a statistically valid estimate.
It also requires you to wait until the animation has finished. I regularly lose the first character or two of my password, because I start typing too soon, while it’s still animating away
That's really cool, but none of the listed projects seem to work (e.g. grep.geek, post.uu, be.libre, opennic.chan...). Am I missing something? Do I have to do something special to access these domains?
> You must expect anything pertaining to such activity to be removed swiftly

You actually should not because the US has plenty of legal protections that cover the employees right to organise as well as prohibiting companies from engaging in practises that make this impossible.
In the old days you had no choice but to use the widgets provided by the OS, unless you wanted to build everything from scratch, which was very hard. So everyone used the widgets provided by the OS and things were good. Those widgets were build by experienced hci experts, so it was hard to go wrong.

Now you have no choice but build all the widgets from scratch - a web browser doesn't provide any beyond a few form controls. So it is bad - every application must rebuild all the widgets from scratch, usually by designers with limited experience and skill.
The GP is talking about competitive parents whose kids aren't genuinely exceptionally gifted. The parents are just looking for bragging rights and/or another edge.
This has been bugging me for months. You see this style everywhere and I wondered if the illustration world was down to just one artist or if it just lost originality. At least for use in marketing and branding I think it’s embarrassing to just do what everyone else is doing. How do you ever stand out?
That definitely works for me - it's an option under the right-click menu.
What a horrible article most investors understand Chinese companies lie about their number all the time. The non Chinese example is WeWork which was completely rejected by the market and failed to go public?
> "First, a bunch of generic smart people on Twitter who got things exactly right... 'Bill Gates, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham, Greg Cochran, Robin Hanson, Sarah Constantin, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Nicholas Christakis....'"

What you fail to mention is that had the US Federal Government gotten this right, all those people would have been wrong.

Many people assumed that the CDC/NIH/etc. was going to react to this like Ebola and SARS. Now THAT was a mistaken assumption.
> Vulkan and WebGPU will not fall back

WebGL does automatically fall back to the CPU in Chrome, via SwiftShader[1]. WebGPU hasn't shipped yet but I think it's likely that a CPU backend with SwiftShader will be available eventually. And SwiftShader implements Vulkan now too, so while it's not automatic for Vulkan you can certainly have a fallback if you want it.

[1] https://github.com/google/swiftshader
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Apparently instructions are for the common plebes. :-P
> the industry must have assumed it was a minor use case.

You mean the same industry that was trying to make time-shifting (and VCRs in general) illegal?
Vulkan now has a capable CPU implementation as well, with SwiftShader: https://github.com/google/swiftshader
We definitely should see if we can develop math teaching which doesn't elicit that response, because it has to be learned. Humans aren't evolved to be good at arithmetic or symbolic thinking, but we're not evolved to be morbidly afraid of it, either.

Of course, any attempt to improve math education gets screamed at ("New Math! Common Core! Blah!") and the whole thing just becomes political.
And was rejected before the current crises.
Why do people care about free speech so much?

When things get really bad, smart people simply pack their bags and leave.

Politics is unpredictable and there's no time to waste arguing for free speech.

People have no idea why free speech is useful.

They just want free speech.
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During the quarantine I find myself, buying local (in Buenos Aires) from my regular local shops using whatsapp to send them lists of items. And I’m realizing that is a much simpler and pleasant experience that the “traditional” cart and catalogue online experience. Please share your own experience
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Nice. Didn't know. Which tools are better to work with this?
Interesting read.

Odd OT question: how did you end up including annotations in the bibliography? I found that super useful but it's incredibly uncommon in what I normally read.
That 12 story tank looks amazing.
Somehow there's always a lot less "incompetence" and "stupidity" when it comes to getting money out the door for huge companies.