skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of you make excellent points. My only comment is that it seems like the government (or at least the current administration, despite its multitude of shortcomings) wants to revitalize the American manufacturing industry. They are just failing in their approach (e.g. tariffs & trade wars). I believe with some guidance from the private sector or simply a good pitch, the feds could be quite receptive to the idea of funding programs aimed at building-up next gen manufacturing in the U.S. (particularly if project proposals can be expressed in # of manufacturing jobs that would be created).

As a side note, I haven't heard of "Elon Musk’s alien dreadnoughts — giant state of the art factories producing every conceivable kind of product, at the highest possible quality and lowest possible cost" but I share the enthusiasm for such gigafactories. Next gen factories should certainly bake-in flexibility. Machines that act more like 3D printers than injection mold-ers(?), and have the ability to switch from making, say, car parts to ventilators and N95 masks without a massive effort (or simply switch from making product A to product B depending on consumer demand trends).

Lastly, just a thought, I'm sure VCs have been pitched hundreds of times on specific 'market disrupting' products from wearable tech, to drones, to personal jetpacks. But I wonder how many times they have been pitched an idea for funding company that could make all of these things, and aims to significantly lower the barriers to rapid prototyping of physical goods. meh?
I’m not sure that’s true https://youtu.be/sN6Trgzf9kY
Look how beautiful and yet strict it is, and how other java folks suffer!

Sadistic hysteric it seems.
Introduction to relude: An alternative Haskell prelude
Time over analog TV signals was supported in EIA-608, the standard for sending closed captions and other data in one line of the vertical retrace interval. PBS stations used to send it. Few things used that data.

In the 1990s I encountered a hotel TV with that feature. It had a built-in clock with hands (not on screen), which was also the alarm clock for the room. No one had set it up, and I spent about ten minutes with the remote getting it to find a station with time info and set the clock. Then the "alarm set" function on the remote would work and I could set my wake-up time.
I'm using MQTT over websockets, so I had to use ports anyway. IMHO, it would be nice to have websockets integrated, but wiring a bunch of ports is no big deal.
Snide, half thought out response. I don't think there's any malice here, if there is, it's not intended.

No fortnight players picked up a piece of rebar to practice their sword fighting. Close analogs are fun. No hate there. I really want the 1:1 mapping from snow crash.

I suppose the metaverse means different things to different people. Me, I want the direct mapping.
You can trivially run your own local PyPI mirror or install packages directly from some other source (e.g. S3 bucket, LAN storage). Is there a way to do that for Go? If so, I've never seen it done.
The issue is one of lack of demand, not supply. Automating farms (and increasing supply) would make the problem worse. If anything needs to be automated or improved, it’s distribution. Much of the food supply that normally goes to restaurants and cafeterias has no place to go.
Donald Trump was not the only GOP candidate, and he was the candidate with the least internal party support.

>Trump used ideas of populism to persuade the average American throughout the election process.[139] In mid-September, the first two major candidates dropped out of the race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Republican_Party_presiden...
Note that it's still 122dB. That's quiet for a firearm, which is normally 140dB or more, but still louder than a car horn.

I think the proper way to read the quote is that you'll definitely hear the sound, but it won't necessarily be obvious that it has come from a firearm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welrod
https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dbl...
The question is: how many infections happened before the quarantine was established? In UK the quarantine was started way to late. That the UK has in common with Italy, Spain and France. But in all these countries, a massive infection rate has been drastically reduced by the quarantine.

In Sweden, there seem to have been only very few initial cases and the virus seems to be slow to spread there - it probably helps that Sweden is over 80% larger than the UK and has only 1/6 of the population. Also, at this time of the year it is much colder than the UK, less reason to be outside in big groups.

If you check the infection graphs, in the UK the quarantine finally seems to have an impact on the infection numbers, which stopped growing a while ago. Sweden still seems to have growing infection numbers.
Re 1: Hardest hit would be the most helpful place to study. And I look forward to continued updates. The Stanford study, while there's certainly questions, has numbers in line with the Gangelt study. [1]

Re 2: Because much of the audience here is American, and there's not a similar study of the US population.

Re 3: No, the COVID-19 mortality rate is not 5.3%. The case fatality rate is 5.3%. Those are not the same, for an obvious reason -- currently the overwhelming majority of tests are carried out on people who go to hospital because they're sick. It's adverse selection bias.

For instance, it'd be like trying to measure the fatality rate of skydiving by measuring the odds that someone who ends up in the hospital with a skydiving injury dies. You'd think it's 99% fatal, but of course, it's not.

All you know is the numerator, not the denominator.

[1] https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/04/17/santa-clara-county-...
What do we have to do, then?
You might be able to configure your OS to sum everything to one channel, instead of doing it program by program.
Working more is not a guarantee to becoming wealthier or living a better life.

And "learning a new skill" can take an interminable amount of time. Leisure time that we have less and less of as our commute get longer, due to housing costs, and as our jobs cut more and more jobs and put more and more work on individual workers.

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" We need to build the boots first.
Does not help in any real way. See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/nope-... for an example.
I don't think "put your money where your mouth is" is a good argument. A16z can be subject to prisoner's dilemma of our collective cultural decline and simultaneously have genuine desire to get out of this predicament we're all in.

He says it right there in the blog post-- the problem is desire. For example, someone is reliably making tons of money in China stamping cities into the ground and building thousands of miles of high speed rail. Why can't we? Doing these things is hard in a sense that we seem unable to get collective wherewithal to do it. It's not hard in a sense that a cure for cancer is.

They can't invest in things nobody will let them build. Who in their right mind would invest in high speed rail from SF to LA knowing ex ante they'll deal with twenty years of regulatory quagmire for the project to eventually be killed by a thousand bureaucrats?

(And I think the bureaucrats are the symptom, not the cause. If we wanted things built the bureaucrats would be out on the street in three months. The cause is cultural decline.)
Why does the users' data have to be stored in a form of a linked list (or "blockchain")? Couldn't every peer in the network just hold his own database full of messages and blobs and sign them with their private key when requested by an invited follower?

Edit: typo
Sorry, couldn't think of a good word. Rapid increase in supply to meet demand. Because the units are smaller they are more fluid. Because they are autonomous storage doesn't have to be centralized and they aren't subject to human scheduling constraints.
That doesn't matter much when there is no strong evidence that to have had COVID guarantees immunity[0] because being asymptomatic now doesn't mean they will be asymptomatic in the future, just South Korea has reported 116 people re-infected[0]

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/17/no-evidence-peop...

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/200413110301074.html
Well, I think anyone could have thought of the screen or speakers or, well the usb you achieved to plug to get data out of a computer. You have no network but I doubt you can consider airgapped a pc you just plugged a usb device into. Why not plug a mini wifi chip then ?
Granted. I wonder if communities who maintain certain pages become aware over time of accounts known or strongly suspected to be associated with interested institutions. Per Wikipedia policy anyone paid to make contributions must disclose the fact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations) but I'm not sure how vigilantly that's enforced. It would be interesting if Wikimedia released a transparency report about this, or even if organizations themselves did so (i.e. "here's a dump of all our social media activity last year").
This was likely just communicated poorly.

Publishing houses have editorial standards about what kind of evidence is sufficient to make a claim. This often includes reproducibility of the reporter's work, which is labor intensive. Editors are busy and important, so they delegate it to a dedicated role. Hence "fact checkers." They're research assistants, errand runners, not arbiters of truth.

Facebook has been pressured to own up to its role as a news source and implement the customary editorial standards. Under those standards, audacious claims require airtight sourcing. Speculation is not in the same universe as good enough to attribute responsibility for a worldwide disaster to a specific group of people. And so "the only thing behind this is speculation" rolls up to "false." The intensity of BSL4 containment protocols is just icing.
> We just accept it as a given that courts take too long, judges are too lazy to get their opinions out in a timely manner

Is it being lazy or rather having tons of work that needs to be done too?
nice work @k0stas
Especially then. It allows you to proportionally weight the price against what's available.

All of this is just effective communication.

In fact, considering that all we have available is the end result of the operation, I think the "effective communication" hypothesis is much stronger supported than the "tricking" hypothesis.
Reason Why You Need to Stop Abortion
Small town business districts aren't losing business to the Big City, they're losing it to Amazon and big box stores (and the latter avoid being within Big City limits, anyway).
Looks nice but for demonstration purposes a mixed output of all channels except vocals would help demonstrate better the output.
Elisp is a bit quirky, I don't think it makes sense to invest time in it unless you plan to become an Emacs power user.

That said Steve Yegge "Emergency Elisp" is a great intro.
You can do this easily with zsh’s standard features. I love having years of my command history! It's all combined across sessions and instantly searchable with the standard ^R.

These are most of the settings in ZSH I use to enable all that.

HISTSIZE=10000000
SAVEHIST=10000000

setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY # logs the start and elapsed time
setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY
setopt SHARE_HISTORY
setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS
setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS
setopt HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS

Apple now even recommends zsh shell over bash! =)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 (it's the 10.15 default)
This is the mindset we need in order to change.
I meant in following years, as those who likely would have succumbed to the flu in following years succumb to COVID now. For the current period, there's absolutely no way flu, car and so on deaths don't plunge.
This line of reasoning makes no sense at all. You are saying the Chinese response was too good/swift compared to the West and it proves a conspiracy.

First issue with that is the Chinese response (lockdown) was not really swift at all. In fact, it was done about 2 months after patient 0, when there were hundreds of confirmed cases and filled hospitals. The impending outbreak was clear to experts including at least one from Hong Kong. If anything it was a rather slow reaction.

The worse responses from parts of Europe and US can't prove anything aside from their own incompetence. Other Asian countries were able to contain it with less time, information, warning or help.

Also, everyone knows the Chinese reported numbers are wildly inaccurate. Part of that is due to factors such as lack of testing capabilities. Add to that the various cover-ups throughout the process, especially at the beginning of the outbreak.

Regardless, it's clear how the containment was able to work. It was by locking down the entire city (blocking roads and all public transit, much more strict than anything practiced anywhere else) when a few hundred cases were identified.

Above all, all of that provides zero evidence for any origin theory of the virus. The lab theory was present right from the beginning, which seems unlikely since these viruses don't typically spread without an intermediate host. At the very least, proponent of this theory should be able to provide evidence that bats or viral samples from bats were present in the lab before the outbreak. If I'm not mistaken, this lab isn't really top secret since some American scientist apparently worked there, so at least some paper trails should be recoverable.
Article: Plaintext passwords are sefe enough
Sorry you’re asking for a completely different concept. Asking for the infrastructure to change to adopt AV’s is a pipe dream. Never going to happen.

“ I want a machine that can take my mother to her doctors appointment now that the dementia has gotten to the point where she shouldn't take the bus on her own anymore.“

This meanwhile is already happening[1]. We’ve been testing on toy cars for 15 years. We’re not ready to remove the safety driver but we are ready for the road.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16874410/voyage-self-driv...
The high speed rail is nothing to do with bureaucrats (not sure what the term means anymore), but is delayed due the really difficult task of land acquisition, while maintaining property rights, and address thousands of lawsuits about communities objecting to various routes. It is easy to comment on the abstract, but I bet even Marc Andreseen won't be happy if a high speed rail runs in his backyard in Atherton
Have there been any studies on fertility?

We had to do IVF, but aren't there movies about an 'innocent' low-symptom virus that ends up leaving half the world or more unable to bear children?

That could be an issue if we want to continue to exist as a species. Good for the environment though!
> Also there is not enough evidence to believe COVID happens only once per person.

There's also no evidence it doesn't. What we do know is that the disease hasn't mutated significantly to date, and we see strong antibody response. [1] In time, we'll have a vaccine and it may require a number of booster shots, but what we know so far suggest reason for optimism, not pessimism.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-coronavirus-isnt-m...
Do you honestly believe that Windows update works like that? Windows 10 came out in 2015. And has had twice yearly updates since then.

Perhaps then I should compare Ubuntu 14.04 to Windows 10 today.

Really? What GPU? Free or non free driver? Wayland or Xorg? It ain't simple.

Why didn't I mention office suites? Because they're not really that demanding. Text editors aren't a high bar.

If the latest version of Office lags on your PC that's capable of running 4k60 video then there's something wrong with your PC.

But of course I use it on my work laptop. On my personal PC, Google docs does everything I need.
In the UK people are delaying seeking medical help for things like stroke or heart attack. At the moment we think these deaths are going to increase.
Or maybe we could call it the US Public Health Service: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_...
In Polish, robotnik means just a physical laborer, there's no negative connotation at all.
PublicHealthEngland/coronavirus-dashboard: Dashboard for tracking Coronavirus
Reading the comments on the site is eye-opening. A very common refrain of "That's nice, but obviously not something a real person could do." I am FAR below the technical knowledge of the average HN poster, but nothing there felt so complex that I couldn't sit down and figure it out if I made the effort. Learning everything I'd need to know about chickens to get to the point of needing that feels like a much bigger task than that.
On the surface, this seems to me to be a classic case of confusing Authentication (are you who you say you are) with Authorization (are you allowed to do the things you claim to be allowed to do).

Hint: identity != password
I can't build lego from source due to a failed dependency. The docs don't help either, they're plain wrong. To make matters worse, Go pulls the latest dev version so good luck trying to build a stable binary of some complex package. I've opened an issue which was promptly closed and I was told to "just download the binary dist, source builds are for devs". To add insult to injury, each project is built in its own usually broken way. Out if date software? Good luck. Sorry, but I've had overall better experiences installing random Python programs with pip or building D libs with dub. Pulling half of Github rarely qualifies as "package management". It only encourages a giant mess, which is precisely what software development has been lately. Go is probably worse than npm in this respect.
These are really great insights, thanks for taking the time to put this together.

Which tool do Hacker News users recommend for reading everything ever written by a Twitter user in chronological order?
It would be nice if Apple would port e.g. Linux or *BSD to that CPU. They probably never will. But it would be cool.
My vote goes to Clojure because it has been reworked from scratch to drop the inessential cruft. To my knowledge hasn't re-accummulated the cruft (yet :-) ).

It also has quite a lot of ideas that are useful outside Clojure, like its concepts around concurrency, state and immutability.
Honest question: what's interesting in a hugging game? Children are playing games partly because they're competitive, and fighting is a simple way of competing. How can you do this with hugs?
So what, why should I have to clean up the crap from someone else's cat?
It's adorable that Ian Fleming responds as if James Bond is a real person
What surprised me most is that he presented himself as the biographer of James Bond, as if he were real. I wasn't aware of that history.
Many right-wing people I talk to express the wish for less regulation all the time.
Nobody is denying that. The point is that the government is not lacking for funding but poorly spending the money it already has.

Imagine how much more we could have now if the space program budget was more than a fraction of a percent. That won't be fixed by just giving more money to the govt.
Sounds a lot similar to the Apple UX
Thanks, man! Appreciate it. :)
I had a Saab 900 turbo, I loved it! Now I can say I drove a Bond Car
Like Ada, Linda was also named after someone else whose last name was Lovelace!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)#...
The Karl G. Jansky Large Array
You misunderstand scientific consensus. One group has proposed the Pangolin connection. Several other groups believe that it was bats. Most are undecided. That's not consensus.

> iplomatic cables that aren't released in their entirety, etc. Speculation.

Seriously? You think the Washington Post is making this up? Lying about the cables? You think it's fake news?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...

I think we're done here. Personally, I'm interested in the truth here. That's it. I'm more driven by fear of another, worse pandemic than I am the fear of war. Whatever caused this, we need to address it as a global community, ASAP. In my personal estimation, the highest probability event is an accidental lab release. I don't "want" it to be true. In fact, I poo-pooed it like you until I sat down and looked at the various facts (eg, first cases weren't associated with Huanan market, initial Chinese media report mentioned lab connection, Wuhan CDC doing bat research 2 blocks from seafood market, and many more that you don't seem to want to hear about).

And to be clear, that may not be what happened. It could be a market connection, although I'm increasingly skeptical. Frankly, it could also be both (ie, a rogue employee sold bats to the market on the side, it's possible). But Occam's Razor is pretty clear here.

> I think people should be able to eat what they want as long as it isn't an endangered animal or one that presents broader risk e.g. virus spillover

That's all I want, even if it turns out to be the lab. These viruses can destroy us, if we're not careful. We have to take it seriously. Covid-19 is a warning. We have to take it seriously.

But I think we're done here. I want the truth, that's it. This is a big fucking deal, and it's important to know what happened so we can prevent it from happening again. I'm pretty shocked there are people in the West who don't share this sentiment, after everything we're going through.
Having a price crossed out to give the impression of a sale is just straight up lying. It's illegal here in Norway at least. The product must have been sold a certain number of times for the crossed out price in order for it to be legally presented as a "before" price.

https://www.forbrukertilsynet.no/lov-og-rett/veiledninger-og...
Hey, thanks for a really detailed answer. This will help me get started.
I especially liked the comment "Yeah, but how hot does it get?" right below a 24-hour time/temperature graph with 0.1C resolution. That chicken box is better-instrumented than your average hydrogen maser.
I guess different people have different definition for "significant circumstantial evidence". We have two hypotheses: 1. virus come from seafood market, 2. virus come from lab. Let's see the likelihood for each with each piece of data.

Data 1: Index case. There is no evidence that the "index case" is ever found. The earliest patient backtracked to Nov 2019 [1], but there is no report that patient is related to the lab / market.

Data 2: close lab location to seafood market. This alone does not favor one hypothesis to other, since distance is communicative. The virus can start from either location to the other.

Data 3: Bat species. Not sure what aspect of the bat species is related, but one thing to note is the virus sample found in bat is only 96% similar to the virus sample. At 30k genome and an mutation rate of 1bp per two weeks, these samples have at least 20 years worth of evolution time. Unlikely to relate to either lab / seafood market. Some researchers believe there might be intermediate hosts, but there doesn't seem to be evidence what that intermediate host might be.

Data 4. Earlier lab accident. I think the lab accident data is actually not favoring the lab hypothesis. If you think in a Bayesian way, earlier lab leaks are quickly identified and controlled. Given that this time it is not, your belief for lab leak should decrease a bit. Anyway, for the lab data what's important is the likelihood of (the lab, without genetic engineering, get a hold of this virus, and leaked) vs. (an intermediate host). Having worked in Biohazard level 2/3 labs, I think a leak from level 4 lab will be more unlikely compared to intermediate host, but we don't have any good estimate of the two likelihood yet.

So I think people can have strong beliefs about where the virus come from (since everyone's prior is different), but from the data the likelihood really doesn't strongly favor any of the two hypotheses.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coro...
Darwin is not *BSD?