skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's partly because this is fantasy land stuff, it's provacative in that it spends the first paragraph wiping away any connection to reality, unwinds a lot of hope, then puts you in a position to be put down for being negative.

It's sort of a Jonathan Swift-style critique of American plutocracy in the early millennium. Very clever!
Books accompanying Marc’s essay - https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1251648508655923200?s=21
You mean "Project Insanity"
Thank you! I'm a bit wary of giving big hints to how the filters work, but I was inspired by:

- npm packages like redact-pii, bad-words (and numerous other "bad word" lists)

- askismet's open source spam code

- regex unicode categories

I also wrote a variety of checks for word counts, combinations of words, known "bad patterns", etc. You may not realize it, but the text input forms block a lot of potential inputs.

It's not perfect, but that's why I'm manually handling things that surface. Happy to answer any follow-ups.
There are no rules to life - you get to decide what you do with your own life. Assuming you make a comfortable living out of what you do, the Craigslist approach - they make a LOT of money but leave 90%+ of what is possible on the table - is a perfectly valid plan.

If you want to make more - and the reasons for that can vary from pure greed to absolute need - experimenting with pricing can have the best effect, as every extra dollar MRR compounds over time, and it is often easier to get 10% out of customers than 10% more customers. The patio11 "charge more" advice is an easy place to start, and if you grandfather in all old accounts, there is minimal risk in doing so.

But it is your business, so do what you think is best.
They already have lots of passively safe designs, but I don't need to tell you the difference between a real reactor and a designed reactor. With the economics of the power industry I doubt a lot of work will go into IFR commercialization.
The WhatsApp Privacy Problem
Again, there are many articles that argue either side of this. You can pick and choose quotes however you like.

That being said, you don't believe that a lab that studies novel coronaviruses could be studying a novel coronavirus? There is a history of pathogens escaping labs and there are many more wet markets in other cities in China than labs doing related research. As the simplest approximation just try applying bayes rule.

Additionally, the CCP is an authoritarian regime with a strong motive to cover things up. A refusal to even consider the possibility of a lab escape is willful ignorance.
It's great to have you around. I worked for CIA Blackwater etc in the old days, non nuclear though, but, I accept your fucking shit man. I know how this shit goes. Para etc yeah I'm legit dude. Fuck nuclear man. Especially now. Surf safely man. Watch out for the fucking napalm.
How are we defining SoC era? Maybe before SoC's were accessible in the consumer market but the first ARM based SoC, the ARM250, dates back to 1992. Plus I'm pretty sure there are SoC's based on other architectures older than that.
We already skipped the mice and went right to human trials.
Simple and Fast JSON Database
As soon as you require human intervention, you require a sober, licensed human to be in the vehicle at all times. You no longer have a robo-taxi. It can also be hard to predict weather in much of the US. And as soon as you place too many restrictions, you no longer have a reliable transportation option.

Imagine your public transit system only ran in good weather. How useful would it be?
1. Yes, you do need product market fit. While there can be some benefit in overall conversion rate, the larger improvement will usually be in people being willing to pay a higher price and/or selecting a more expensive plan. These up sells are basically free money.

2. In most cases, a 3% improvement from a pricing page that previously did not implement any of these ideas would be a very low rate of improvement.

3. If you think that this is marketing bull, then I am guessing you simply haven’t tried to run any experiments like this or read about folks who diligently did. All of these ideas are rock solid.
I broadly agree with him, but I do think his opinions on the 'right' are more due to media portrayals of right wingers rather than the actual opinions of those 'on the right'. He says.

> The right must fight hard against crony capitalism, regulatory capture, ossified oligopolies, risk-inducing offshoring, and investor-friendly buybacks in lieu of customer-friendly (and, over a longer period of time, even more investor-friendly) innovation.
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> It’s time for full-throated, unapologetic, uncompromised political support from the right for aggressive investment in new products, in new industries, in new factories, in new science, in big leaps forward.

Regulatory capture is something the right is adamantly against usually. I mean, most right-leaning politicians in America are into reducing regulation.

Offshoring is also something that hasn't been on the right for almost a decade.

Finally, the right typically often has absolute political support for aggressive VC investment. Our current right-leaning president has supported a ludicrously low interest rate to encourage private investment in technology as well as set up economic opportunity zones to encourage investment in underserved communities.
I think different people have different moral intuitions regarding that. Some might consider that trying to keep trade secrets is a zero-sum or maybe even a negative sum game, from the perspective of society.

Assuming you don't identify with Uber or Google, you might not assign any monetary value to this episode, and therefore there could be cognitive dissonance at the weight of "$180 million" and actions taken proportional to that.
He's saying build solutions, not just stuff, is he? So, you could build an environmentally sound solution to replace a polluting incumbent.
We should notice than a 25cm height Citrus is not necessarily a 25cm wide Citrus. Could extend for a few meters. In the end is the opposite to a cubicle. Creeping plants are space hogs.
Why not? Two full time developers is plenty if you don't have the overhead of management processes, and everyone has a unified vision. Sublime Text was a one-man show until relatively recently. It's a single cross-platform codebase, but he built the cross-platform abstraction layer himself! Presumably this has the underlying database logic in some kind of shared library.
Kenya, Malawi test subcutaneous labeling and vaccination in nanoparticles
Ask HN: What are some good personalizations technique websites uses?
Sorry I only just saw this response. The fingerprint reader worked with the latest firmware, installed automatically via fwupdmgr.

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.synaptics.prometheus.firm...
Pulling over in a snowstorm to the side of the highway can be pretty dangerous too. Once you're in that situation there aren't necessarily great alternatives.
Ask HN: Is your business anticipating the arrival of 5G? Why or why not?
Any discussion of 5G is likely relevant and appreciated. If it answers one of the following questions: even better.

I'm primarily interested in 5G's effects on business, less so on how it will be embraced by consumers.

[1st Order Impact]

Are you or your business anticipating the rollout of 5G?

Does your sector/industry already anticipate clear use-cases for 5G networks? If yes, do you expect 5G technologies to impact your process, or instead is 5G a component of your product itself?

Does 5G and its related technologies represent more of an iterative improvement of current systems and processes, or will it solve new problems that previously didn't have viable solutions?

[2nd+ Order Impact]

Does 5G have the potential to impact you or your business upon further maturity?

[If the above answer is "yes"] what is the blocker/missing technology that won't be there on rollout?

If those blockers were removed: does 5G and its related technologies represent more of an iterative improvement of current systems and processes, or does it solve new problems that previously didn't have viable solutions.

[Misc.]

Are you expecting to have to differentiate between 5G providers due to differing capabilities?

Do you think 5G is overhyped?

Do you think 5G is overhyped, but useful nonetheless?

What common processes (i.e. business activities shared by many different firms) will be most affected?
Certainly not all of them, but the German healthcare system has dealt extremely well. There is plenty of testing capacity, and plenty of ICU beds. Thanks to century old unified health insurance laws.

Edit: Otto von Bismarck actually instituted the health insurance system of Germany, certainly not a socialist!
> Nope, "as good as a human" shouldn't be allowed on the road or on the market. Errors that are allowed for humans should never be allowed for a machine.

I don't understand why you'd have that opinion. If it's no riskier and relieves people from having to drive then that seems like a net benefit to me.
It's a topic that's been fascinating me for a while. Sounds, speech and music "produce" images in some sense, so visualizing sound on a flat screen is a meaningful thing to do. That parallel with the Heisenberg principle is a deep observation, I think. A few random thoughts. Colors correspond to notes: a clear red is like a clear "do" note. Volume is like size of the shape. Repetitive patterns correspond to symmetry. And that observation that there's no such thing as a "moment" if sound, and it's always about the past few seconds of sound that make it look like a music. I think this corresponds to multiple image layers with exponential decay: a sound pattern of past would look like a faint decaying background image that eventually disappears. I wish I could study this topic full time, but in our society you either make money or work on interesting things: the heinsenberg principle gas influence even here.
This essay smacks of living in a right-wing, top 1%, American bubble. I know the writer is in America, but the claim is that this is a "western" issue.

No, it isn't.

> You see it in housing and the physical footprint of our cities.

Not in many cities in Europe. Take look at their urban development and housing policies.

> You see it in education. We have top-end universities, yes, but with the capacity to teach only a microscopic percentage of the 4 million new 18 year olds in the U.S. each year

Again, Europe. Not rocket science here guys.

> You see it in transportation.

Again, Europe, but also Japan. This isn't hard.

> Show that new models of public sector healthcare can be inexpensive and effective

Look at every other industrialized nation.

America seems to have a not-invented-here syndrome. There's a fundamental inability to look elsewhere and adopt foreign ideas with some humility.

And that syndrome is MUCH stronger on the right than the left side of the political spectrum.
https://imgur.com/51G6T1T
DBeaver is hands down the best client for any and all databases, plus it’s free.
Dont think that its a standart of some kind, but KDE does the same thing
> Why shouldn’t regulators and taxpayers demand that Harvard build?

Wait, wut? Last I checked, Harvard is a private institution.

Besides, Harvard produces its graduates because they can be picky on who they can admit. Why would we assume that Harvard can scale to provide a "Harvard education" to someone who didn't qualify to make it in today?
All of these ideas were discussed in a pricing seminar I had in the early 90s.

For anyone who has studied pricing the least bit, these ideas, even put all into one page, are not particularly novel.

The hard part, imho, is to get people to actually believe these ideas work. As replies on this thread show, there are doubters even though these ideas are just pricing fundamentals.
Ultra fast and reliable 3D printing for engineers - submit a file at praxismfg.com and we courier deliver a plastic copy in 0-2 days at a price you'll love.

We run on proprietary printers built in house with advanced features like support-less 5-axis FDM, multi-material/multi-resolution printing, and integrated QC.

The real goal is to combine manufacturing services with a machine tool OEM like Kern Microtechnik has done in precision milling. Combining those two businesses strongly differentiates your service, freeing you from the race-to-no-margins that's wrecking every other 3D printing hub right now, and subsidizes 100-1000x more in-house hardware "testing" than any regular OEM can afford to do, which lets you build great new machine tools at lightning speed.
If you were compiling for an architecture that doesn't allow unaligned access, then you'd expect unaligned accesses to fault. If you were compiling for an architecture which does, then you'd wouldn't. That's what sane undefined behaviour should be expected to do.
> I’m with Nicholas Stern when he says that capitalism is how we take care of people we don’t know — all of these fields are highly lucrative already and should be prime stomping grounds for capitalist investment, good both for the investor and the customers who are served.

I'm not familiar with Nicholas Stern, and will look him up, but does anyone here want to elaborate as if you were talking to a five-year-old?
> Regulatory capture is something the right is adamantly against usually. I mean, most right-leaning politicians in America are into reducing regulation.

Getting rid of regulation is the ultimate regulatory capture.
The stone ball tools in question are from the Qesem cave in Israel and dated to 400 to 200 thousand years before present. The 2 million in the headline must refer to other similar tools dated to earlier times but whose use couldn’t be determined. The cave was discovered in 2010 during roadwork.

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

The article describes how the researchers made replicas and used those to crush bones, which they did better than unshaped stones of similar size. The replicas also had marks after use similar to the original artifacts. I really like when scientists do this kind of validation.

This article taught me about ancient humans; I did not know we had such archaeological evidence from them. I had heard that anatomically modern humans have been around for 100 thousand years, so art in Lascaux caves from 17,000 years was made by people like us (just pre agriculture and civilization), but I had no idea about humans 200,000 years ago using tools.

For perspective, this cave was used (likely intermittently) by humans for 200,000 years, so 100 times the Christian Era or 40 times the span recorded history (oldest writing dating back to Egypt around 3rd millenium BC). But then it was unused, probably covered up and undiscovered for the same length of time until present.
> I expect this essay to be the target of criticism. Here’s a modest proposal to my critics. Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own! What do you think we should build? There’s an excellent chance I’ll agree with you.

What we need to build is the capacity to make investments in building backstops against low-prob, high-risk, collective risks.

For almost all of those risks, the problem isn't "what to build", it's that we know what to build and keep failing to build it (or we build it just to burn it down again whenever the next crisis hits). The problem is building sustainable capacity.

Here's my idea. Tax the living hell out of capital. Especially venture capital leveraging decades of gov't investment. Earmark the money for disaster prep.

One possible implementation: gov't gets 50% stake on every patent traceable to any federal grant and every company whose founders were funded through federal grants. I don't think that's insane. Y Combinator takes a 7% cut for 150K. The median NSF grant is substantially larger, and NSF grants are "tiny" compared to other grants, and most of that work happens in places where the funded employees can live comfortably on 25K/year. We would expect an even larger cut than 7% for substantially more investment (often millions) and all of that in low CoL areas. But Gov't gets 0%.

Governments DID see this coming, both federal and state. Governments DID build what was need to respond. California, at one time, was prepared for exactly this crisis. Same as France. The 2008 financial crisis wiped out state budgets, and then the fed govt suffered 6 years of gridlock and austerity driven by owners of capital. Government preparations for this substantial and real risk DID exist, but were liquidated so that the rest could fit in a bathtub to be drowned.

None of that would have had to happen if federal and state governments had a non-trivial stake in FAANG, or even just G.
We don't need continuous power. We need peaking power.
Indeed most handsets including the old iPhones and all pre iPhone pocketpc used SoCs of some sort. In fact the original iPhone had a part with stacked SDRAM. ARM and MIPS SoCs have been a staple of consumer devices for at least 20 years.
Harvard is a private institution that is widely funded by government-backed loans.

They are also a "non-profit" and so don't pay property taxes even though they have a ludicrously-sized endowment fund which certainly accrues a lot of "profit".
All of them started late but Germany seems to be on top of the situation. Singapore and Taiwan are much closer to them then the US.
Sure, GLSL is easy to learn, because it's basically a simplified C, which many people are already familiar with. It's intentionally bare-bones, verbose and old school, so that everyone can learn it and every vendor won't get bogged down writing compilers for it. In that sense, it achieves its purpose well enough.

But come on, it doesn't even have first-class functions. There are countless examples of unreadable macros and code duplication out there due to GLSL's extreme simplicity.
> For nearly 2 million years, ancient humans crafted stones into hand-size balls, but archaeologists were unsure why.

Wait, for nearly 2 million years ... humans? Starting and ending when? Do we have human remains from more than 2 million years ago? Turkana Boy is 1.5 million years old and close to modern physiology, once you get back to 2 million isn't it australopithicus and such?

> That changed when Assaf and her team came across a cache of 30 stone balls in Qesem Cave in Israel, where humans lived from about 400,000 to 200,000 years ago

I wonder if 2 million is a typo for 200 thousand?

> these stones "might have helped enhance human caloric intake and adaptation in the lower Paleolithic period," (2.7 million to 200,000 years ago), at Qesem Cave and possibly beyond, the researchers wrote in the study.

Whew, OK, so 2.7 million years ago is their starting point on this. That's interesting. Who was shaping stones that far back?

An interesting other site is the Cerutti Mastodon site in San Diego with 130kYBP mastodon bones possibly crushed with similar stones which were found at the site.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065
It's also hard to say just yet about how poorly the American system is failing.
> Tesseradecades, aftercataracts, and sweaterdresses are the longest words you can type using only your left hand.

Not quite, to type the first cap you will need right shift :)
...and something has certainly gone very wrong when you get downvoted for pointing out the truth! A lot of this idiotic complexity increase would be completely avoided if compiler authors would just exercise some common sense, but unfortunately it's not so common after all.
Does building bloated sites and apps count as "anticipating the arrival of 5G"?
You think people don't ordinarily need PPE or ventilators? Or any other thing that we used to make?
The entire laundry list can't be accomplished by one person. Can many of those things be done on a smaller level by a billionaire with his connections and skills? Absolutely.

Could he build just one state of the art dreadnaught factory to supply X for California? Yes.

Could he give a university a team of top-notch developers to create an on-demand bachelor's curriculum that could accommodate a million learners simultaneously? Yep. He could even go to Harvard and do that! They would take his call a heck of a lot faster than they would take mine.

I am not demanding that he do everything. Just that he start to lead the way.
> As soon as you require human intervention, you require a sober, licensed human to be in the vehicle at all times. You no longer have a robo-taxi.

You have a robo-taxi that works when it's not raining, which is still pretty good (assuming it can safely disengage/pull over if it thinks the weather is getting bad).

> Imagine your public transit system only ran in good weather. How useful would it be?

I and many other Americans live in places that don't have any public transit, so a few robocars that only worked during the day would be a huge improvement.
They were definitely SoCs.
PPE and ventilators are already supplied by private companies.
The parents point was that, by hiding disk type, they are intentionally device managed, not host aware (HA) nor host managed (HM), so do not fit the bill.
I’ve upvoted you.

Maybe this should be rephrased as ‘ubridled capitalism’.

Capitalism is working well, definitely better then communism.
I've used it and was non-plussed. I have it installed and find it too brittle to bother with.

Never in my life has Emacs segfaulted or indefinitely suspended. It was nary a day that VS would not do so.
I want nuclear power because I want humanity to be a space-faring civilization, and we can't do that with just solar panels and wind farms.

Why maintain the status quo with solar and wind when we can go far beyond it with nuclear?
true for most every college (private and public)
I share some of the sentiment, but only demand and necessity will drive “building”. An energized or optimistic citizenry surely helps, but to kick innovation into high gear we need a Cold War or something. A crisis where we can go outside at least - this virus really has deflated some of the American spirit it feels like. Sort of stuck in this limbo where everyone wants to rally and help but the touted best way to help is to stay inside. A lot of pent up energy in me at least; perhaps Marc is channeling a bit of his own.
Unraveling the rotten mess that is the US political system from its legalized bribery and rewarding crony capitalism is probably necessary to "build again". And tax the damn rich.
No. It won't serve my area. The only idea more preposterous than "5G causes Coronavirus" is that "5G will have benefits for consumers".
Yeah that's fucking assed out formatted. Fucking don't use code-mode my fucker. It looks like fucking cock.
Our New World – Bond Capital
That’s not an idea for building, that’s just an idea for the government getting more money. The government clearly doesn’t actually need the money when it cares to do something (based on the stimulus bill and the last decades of deficits).
I don't have an issue with the ideas. I agree with many of them.

I just find it a bit absurd that one of the top 1000 people capable of putting them into action is telling other people to go do it while he spends his time investing in them.

Capital is obviously helpful and crucial for building companies, but he is obviously satisfied waiting for solutions to walk in the door rather than chasing them himself.
There are a few reasons:
1. This would definitely break the CPython API, which is not an option for mainstream Python.
2. The Golang runtime isn't really well-understood as a backend for languages that aren't Golang, although I acknowledge that there's no reason in principle why you couldn't compile $LANGUAGE to Golang.
What do you mean by severity being 10/10? The issues we had in recent times were fairly mild. As long as they're not hidden and acted on quickly, we seem to cope well. Sure, people die, but it seems like severity 10 only because it all happens in one go. Take the deaths from air pollution, resources transport, mining, production, etc. involved in coal/gas/solar/wind, and put them in one day at the same rate as we had reactor failures - that would seem even more "not feasible".