skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using an example where an outcome (weight gain) is completely driven by an individual’s (in)action (consuming more energy than expending) is probably not the best argument for opposing a “try harder” approach to living.

Yes it’s never been easier to eat like shit and have hobbies that require no movement, but the opposite is also true.
This could also be an interesting data point for anyone who needs to pick a location for establishing a new business.

Lesser Rt number might mean safer operating environment and healthier employees.
I want to do all my talks sitting all relaxed in a chair.
Anecdotally, I've met a couple at the party held by a common buddy who were sales managers at IBM and brought them the news that their company has a public cloud which went GA 6 months ago.
> Why aren’t we building Elon Musk’s “alien dreadnoughts” — giant, gleaming, state of the art factories producing every conceivable kind of product, at the highest possible quality and lowest possible cost — all throughout our country?

Because we have few of the industrial titans which are required to spearhead that and round up (or possess) the necessary capital. This sort of outcome does not magically self-assemble, it starts with one person that takes action. You actually need hyper competent, hard charging, ambitious, skilled people of all sorts to go after the extreme challenges represented by such a huge re-industrialization. These people and their talents no longer exist in such high numbers among the population as they did prior to the gutting of the US industrial age. They are now rare and the capital that desires to fund them is equally rare.

If you want to produce them, you need to completely alter the incentive structures we arrange our economy around.

We should have 0% corporate tax rates for all domestic manufacturing concerns, to get started. Tax individual income at a higher rate.

Implement a robust system of income tax credits and abandon the minimum wage as it exists today. This is not my idea of course, Warren Buffett is probably its loudest supporter and he is absolutely right. Set the income tax credit system such that it guarantees a higher minimum wage of at least $12. By removing the strict front-facing minimum wage we have today (which blocks labor from the market), all businesses would immediately aggressively seek to hire anyone and everyone they can get their hands on. The workers would be guaranteed a minimum wage by the redistribution income tax credit system and there would be no labor-value blocker (aka the minimum wage) keeping businesses from hiring people.

If a state has a $12 minimum wage, and your labor is only worth $9, you're screwed. This solves that.

It's about absorbing max lower skill labor (where the unemployment problems tend to be over time) into the workforce. You make labor artificially cheaper, while simultaneously paying that labor a fair wage: we subsidize the outcome we want. They produce, they earn a good wage, they build savings and can start to become asset owners. They also start learning new skills (and later might start production of their own based on the accumulating of experience at making goods; an important catalyst in re-industrialization). The combination would unleash epic common-goods manufacturing output the likes of which the US hasn't seen in half a century.

It would make it economical to manufacture low-margin, lower value goods in the US again. It becomes a de facto subsidization for employment and manufacturing.

This would instantly change the US economy for the better.
Linus wasn't relying on a bootloader exploit in old hardware to write a kernel.
I hear you. I've turned off all the analytics I can with firebase, but if you don't trust Firebase/Google, I'm happy to recommend avoiding this app.

Checkout my privacy policy (and critique it too!) if that's useful: https://gentle.app/privacy
My point is that arguing that "try harder" is a solution to the American obesity problem is provably ridiculous, because we've been saying that for decades and it obviously hasn't worked.
DOH resolvers don't recurse via HTTPS, and there are few/no authoritative DOH authorities. DOH just exposes much larger, more dangerous targets for poisoning at this point.

Something like 30% of domains in .COM have DNSSEC, in part because of things like Cloudflare making it so dang easy. Yes, the top domains / services tend not to, and this is unfortunate. But we're well on our way.

And the possibility for poisoning worsens other attacks (it's still trivial in many cases to steal email with DNS cache poisoning... 25 years after I first played with the idea).

There's no reason not to deploy DNSSEC today. The DOH resolvers you're enamored with are almost all validating, so it's a way to get end to end validation right now.
Why would it matter if it was AI or not? 99.9% of the public won't care if an "AI" killed their mum in a car accident or if it was a badly written for loop somewhere. Literally irrelevant. If a computer makes an error people will want blood(as in - they will sue the company to absolute death, just because a human would make the same mistake or worse is irrelevant).
In this case it's entirely factor analysis of responses to a particular survey, the World Values Survey [1], which gets periodically administered across a number of countries. The survey data and factor analysis can be done in a fairly "objective" way, in the sense that you do have answers that vary between countries, and you can analyze trends there. Whether the factors pulled out of these particular sets of questions can accurately be labeled with fairly strong terms like "traditionalism" is maybe more controversial. You also have the general issues around self-response data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Values_Survey
I think of this as "non causal debouncing". You debounce before the event happens.
The testing availability and capacity there is also due to the many hospitals at the county level, each with their own medical testing lab.

The RKI (German CDC equivalent) developed and distributed a PCR test in mid January, so they were primed.
I don't know about California but the same kinda shit happened in France.
In 2007 our health minister had a bad time because she orderer massive amount of tests, masks, and hydro-alcoolic solutions. It was during SRAS, and at the time for 'nothing'.

All those item were needed 3 weeks ago, but the stock were never fully replenish since. Most of those things are perishable.

WTF.
Here's the extended paper version of the talk, with all those great mind map diagrams (which were made with Loomio, [I think, but not sure]):

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vulk-blog/ThePervertsGuid...

Loomio:

https://www.loomio.org/

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

>Loomio is decision-making software designed to assist groups with the collaborative decision-making process. It is a free software[3] web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up proposals.[4][5][6][7] As the discussions progress to initiating a proposal, the group receives feedback through an updatable pie chart.
> As a specialist for Turkey I would say that it is much more secular-rationalist than Germany.

Wow, that's surprising, can you expand on that?

I had a Turkish girlfriend for a few years, it felt like I was living in Turkey. (For example, we couldn't hold hands in the street–in Australia!–because Turkish people would see and her family would find out. Being married makes a female suddenly off-limits to male harrassment, but public affection with a boyfriend seems shameful and quite the opposite.) I learnt that e.g. changing your religion in Turkey can get you killed. Then the Islamists took over and it felt like things were getting medieval quickly. But I haven't heard news from there for 5+ years.
How do I extract the program from the Radiohead “Nude” tribute by James Houston?
It is remarkable how uniformly lethargic the entire political spectrum of the West has been with respect to this crisis until it was too late, while we're seemingly also universally unwilling to build housing or infrastructure across the West, while many Asian countries seem to actually be doing a much better job of all of these things. Instead we sit around and bicker about everything and wait.
How about "tax the living hell out of capital" on a spending-neutral basis? Pay off the debt. Stimulate local economies. Increase the EITC ceiling. Hell, write a simple UBI statute.

There are lots of easy (and easily verifiable) ways to spend government money on things people value. That you think there aren't is sort of the triumph of modern conservatism in a nutshell.
it is, I tried with haskell and gave up when I noticed I couldn't easily get json serialization to be in the same order as the javascript implementation and therefor couldn't verify nor sign messages with interoperability with the current clients.
Show HN: Personalized news feed parser and broadcast
(As much as I hate it) if the poor usability pre-5G was a decision justified by the delayed benefit by its capabilities/feature on 5G networks...I guess?

I'm not saying its not a terrible business decision, certainly.

Do you think this is going on?
FORTH is definitely a masochistic language by every definition.
Storing shit and maintaining it costs money.
That article doesn't explain anything about it. The previous Firefox runs (almost?) all extensions impressively well, with little required optimization.
Does anyone actually believe these long-winded articles that attempt to paint some sort of contentious, arms-length relationship between the CCP and their state-funded tech companies?

Obviously, the relationship is messy. But it's undoubtedly basic cronyism, and these companies succeed because they are the 'chosen ones' and their direct ties to government officials.
It should just be a setting for whether a drive does 0 retries, 1 retry, 5 seconds of retrying, or longer. Not entirely different models.
Current routers can't handle it, but ... it's not like routes changes that much that we're talking about an intolerable amount of RSA operations. We're really talking about fewer operations per day per router than some web frontends do in a second.
Remember, he's using the Lacanian / Zizekian definitions of terms, which are a lot different and more nuanced than their ordinary definitions, so you're probably the "good kind of sadist". ;) Lacan ironically classifies Marquis de Sade as a masochist!

From the extended paper:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vulk-blog/ThePervertsGuid...

Pervert, in the Lacanian definition, actually means a person who enjoys being a vessel of the rules. Zizek identifies the method of discourse that the psychoanalyst uses as the pervert’s discourse, because the analyst sits in the position of the object of desire for the hystericized subject. This means that the analysand [the person being analyzed] projects their ideals onto the analyst during a process of questioning known as transference. When we use analysis to determine why we use a programming language, we are operating in the analyst's discourse. It is important to have a basic understanding of Lacan’s terms (such as perversion) in order to understand the cultural critiques of Slavoj Zizek and other Lacanians.

“Thus, in psychoanalysis "perversion" is not a derogatory term, used to stigmatize people for engaging in sexual behaviors different from the "norm."”, Bruce Fink. A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Kindle Locations 2460-2461). Kindle Edition.

“The Other's desire or will is accepted by the masochist instead of the law, in place of the law, in the absence of the law. As
Lacan mentions, the Marquis de Sade (better known as a sadist, but in this instance manifesting decidedly masochistic tendencies)
pushes his mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil, to the point where she expresses her will that Sade be punished. It is her desire or will that has to serve Sade as a law. Not the law, but a law.”, Bruce Fink. A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Kindle Locations 2805-2808). Kindle Edition.
Except his essay is about people not doing those ideas...

His objection is that those ideas are not being worked on.
One reason one might want this is because of the hacker spirit. It seems more interesting and impressive to do what something was deliberately designed to not do.

Another reason is that Apple’s hardware tend to be very high quality. For example, on JavaScript benchmarks (which you may or may not consider to be a good proxy for general/single threaded performance), an iPhone7 performs comparably to the current latest Android phones. Also spare parts or replacements are easy to come by.

I’m quite unconvinced that the boot loader exploit demonstrates that the platform is so insecure that you shouldn’t use it. If you want to run a different operating system on a typical android device you would either not need to circumvent such security measures (which doesn’t mean that they exist or work) or you would use some exploit that didn’t get such wide press.
Weird, never had any of those issues. I've always had state near the top and used props to bring it down. Pure components (which is any function component) do not re-render unless their props change. I've built rather complex applications also in the logistics and financial forecasting verticals. We are talking many tables, charts, dashboards, etc...

In fact, I found the MobX approach with reactivity harder to control performance for because it's triggered by state changes. But when you trigger a lot of state updates it can be really hard to reason about performance because it's not obvious what components will update due to that change in state.
Ask HN: Alternative to Academia.edu
As someone who is not in academia but wants to contribute to research and publish the odd paper, I had high hopes for academia.edu. But because of the things I've read about its privacy practices, I haven't even logged into it in years. What is a good alternative?
Ask HN: Do you think we need to keep evolving programming languages?
Modern languages are pretty great but I think they've more or less converged on the right way to do things.

Maybe we should accept victory and move on to less explored areas.
U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal govt surveillance requests
I don't think he'd waste his reputation in that way intentionally, especially when pretty much every word he utters gets to the top of the charts on this site and goes semi-viral elsewhere.
They scrapped it in 2011

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-27/coronavi...

FWIW CA's tax system is pro-cyclical, because they do tax the richest 1%'s more, but the result is that 1%'s don't make any capital gains in recession years so state tax revenues get obliterated during recessions.
> why not write simpler laws and regulations and leave it to the courts

What incentives do lawmakers have to make laws simpler?
Example for Firefox: i click in address bar to copy link, it opens up and covers the bookmark i was planning to open.

"What? It pops up when you click on it, or when you hit Ctrl+ L. That seems perfectly expected, and is how URL bars have worked as long as I can remember."

Just tested on Chrome, and neither clicking or CTRL+L expands to cover bookmark bar.
I'm not trolling. I'm confused why this is so controversial since it's widely accepted folk wisdom (and confirmed by science). Learning gets harder as you age. Just bing it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/learn-language-scie...

It's nothing personal against anybody.
If Aaron Paul's character is in the scene, the setting is in Los Angeles.
> Where are the supersonic aircraft?

They are out of business as they are not economically optimal for the market. I see where you're going though.

> The problem is desire. We need to want these things. The problem is inertia. We need to want these things more than we want to prevent these things.

> And the problem is will. We need to build these things.

This is an accusation for lack of motivation. An accusation without any specific substantiation. Hindsight is not a fair substantiation for such accusation.

Motivation is the preference for getting into the most favourable thinkable outcome from the available starting conditions. The current situation was beyond most people's thinkable outcomes, so most of us were caught off guard.

> Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination.

Agree on this. Perhaps I'd say it's a failure of being informed on this possibility. But that's it.

> Why shouldn’t regulators and taxpayers demand that Harvard build?

Welcome to the USSR.

If Harvard isn't incentivised, demanding that they build will not make anybody better off.

> Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own! What do you think we should build?

I think Marc Andreessen should manually manufacture surgical masks in his bedroom 8 hours a day 7 days a week and supply Department of Health & Human Services free of charge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace
I like the sentiment. I like the impassioned tone and the call to action.

I'm sitting here thinking: where can I go to help run some machines, lathes, 3D printers, CNC, etc? How can I roll up my sleeve and help build what's needed in these times? How can I help move humanity forward through this pandemic and climate change?

In these times I often turn to the wisdom of Buckminster Fuller, who was more prescient about these times 50 years ago than most contemporary leaders:

> Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

In so much of what is discussed, here, on HackerNews, and elsewhere, people express their solutions. What does it take for us to build and mobilize to bring those solutions to fruition? Why are we spending so much time spinning our wheels, our time and attention elsewhere, distracting ourselves, and putting our heads in the sand when problems need to be solved? Are the barriers political, educational, financial, etc? What systemic changes can be made if the current system is not working?
It’s most likely dead virus causing a false positive:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/health/south-korea-coronaviru...
This is unlikely to be read given how late it is -- but one major flaw in your argument is the statement "people would invest their money elsewhere". It is very clear that the largest investors are not using "their money" but borrowed money. Ultra-cheap debt has enabled hedge funds and companies to leverage up and purchase far more stock than they could otherwise afford, massively driving up demand and pumping up equity prices to the high P/E ratios that you dismiss -- and low interest rates are the enabler.

Stock Buybacks By Corporations The Largest Share of U.S. Equity Demand

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2018/02/22/stock-...
> Wish Chicago's density would be legal

This really is the most ridiculous thing about America. The Loop and River North are really nice! And yet most of the country has decided that this should be simply forbidden from occurring anywhere else.
I just wanted to note that most of Westworld is shot in Downtown Los Angeles! I love that he mentions this though because futuristic worlds in the show have been amazing.
Net neutrality was killed without this policy and with no government stake in the tech industry. I don't follow.
I've started collecting these myself and I try to summarize them every month. I encourage everyone to do the same, it's a great way to build a reference of stuff you learn that you can and reviewing them monthly makes it stick.

https://theodorton.github.io/categories/til/
SL0T0X – A modular penetration testing interface
The article chalks it up to a lack of desire, but that seems completely wrong to me.

The sad truth is that building yet another addictive and attention-grabbing way to push ads into people's faces pays the bills. Doing the right thing does not, or at least not in America.

As a German, it took me a while to figure out how business in the US works, but basically everyone only treats things listed next to a monetary amount in the balance sheet as real. As a result, a concept like "for the good of society" does not exist for most CEOs.

There is plenty of well-educated and well-meaning young people happy to build a better future. They certainly had the desire to do that when they started working.

The real question is how to make it financially viable for them to do the building.
This is so cool. What did you use for the send button animation...Rive?
Are you claiming that most of the cost in building housing is in labour costs?

At least in places with housing shortages, like the Bay Area and NYC, it seems to me that the high costs comes from the government slowing down (or refusing to allow) new housing construction.

I think a similar problem is evident in healthcare, with certificate of need laws and AMA's restrictions on number of doctors.
This is terrible. It's basically not JSON anymore. It's some custom text protocol with similar value escaping...

If they wanted both the descriptions to be visible and the order to be preserved, they could use:

[ ["previous", "..."], ["author", "..."], ...
I don’t think capitalism is the straight up answer. If you are rousing people to create new startups so you can fund sure, but reality is the politics in the country should change. Politicians should be less self-serving and be able to think long term about the good of the people. Companies cannot create the infrastructure or planning needed for pandemics, that should come from the government. Sure companies can make the daily lives more resilient but the initiative should come from the government.
Getting an answer from a court (is X legal?) takes a long time: at least a few years and several hundred thousand dollars. Far too long to wait before building a business around X. Asking people to build the business first and then find out if it's legal isn't how a society of laws is supposed to work.

Fast courts would be a huge benefit to society.
Definitely feels like an inflection point. With all of the rush to return to “normal”, I’ve been thinking about a lot of the ways in which “normal” is pretty busted. And yes, many of us are fortunate to live in this point in history.

But a lot of people aren’t so fortunate, and I don’t know if those gaps have ever been quite so apparent for our generation.

Being really sick over the past month has definitely led to a lot of reflection. There’s a burning desire to make every day count in a way I’ve never felt before. Closest thing being the birth of my kids.

I’ve posted this before, but this essay reminds me of a great West Wing exchange with Chief of Staff Leo McGary:

Leo McGarry: My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped.

Josh Lyman: The personal computer...?

Leo McGarry: A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography? Where's my jet pack, my colonies on the Moon?
One problem with this idea is that the coronavirus just isn't that severe. If the mystery treatment has a 5% rate of severe complications, then the cure would be worse than the disease. Even 1% might be too much: consider that not everybody will contract the coronavirus, and the people most at risk from it (elderly or with comorbidities) are also likely to be at the highest risk of complications from some novel drug. A 5% risk of serious complications isn't unusually high: thalidomide was around 50% for pregnant women.

If the coronavirus death rate was comparable with the Spanish flu - around 10% instead of 1%, and severe in young healthy people - we'd be a lot more justified in rushing through untested treatments.