skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems a bit too easy to challenge the left to show that the public sector can do amazing things ... when the public sector doesn't have the freedom of action we've given to the private sector, and the left isn't even in control of it right now. "Come on, let's fight, you with your hands tied, and see who's better." Cheap shot, Marc.

Point the second: of course a VC wants people to build. Of course a VC wants creative destruction and displacement of incumbents. But - as I see other people wondering as well - what's a VC going to do about it other than sit on the highest stock tranches and reap most of the rewards?
That Creatures of Thought blog [0] is great. I recommend starting at the beginning as the author gives a pretty strong history of the development of electronics and communications starting around the discovery of electricity to the modern day. I've been working my way through it for weeks and it's been consistently interesting. One of the key themes is how much technological development is intertwined, each person or team building on or coincidently paralleling others.

[0] https://technicshistory.com
[1] https://technicshistory.com/2016/11/13/about-techno-history/
Sometimes we draw a bad hand, and no amount of parenting can save some of the mentally disturbed, like Commodus -- you can't read Meditations, though, and say it's not full of startlingly relevant advice to modern life. From education to work ethic to reflective, thoughtful consideration of one's actions, to coping with trauma.

Also, that isn't Marcus Aurelius theory on parenting, he said he learned it from his grandfather, which eventually led to him being one of the Five Good Emperors, so how does that change our analysis?

Anyway, pretty much every single study ever done says the smaller the class, the more direct the instruction, the better the academic result, from 0AD til 2020AD, the way we're wired hasn't really changed.

It's not likely that receiving 1/30th of the attention of your teacher is going to be as valuable to you as 100% attention, or 50% attention, or 25% attention, vs 3% in a normal school.

If kids raising themselves and each other was reliable, we wouldn't have disadvantaged youth. Poverty means busy parents (2 jobs, etc), busy parents mean less time with the kids. It's going to be hard to convince anyone that more time with your kids is going to be anything but beneficial.
Hacked Logitech remote reveals a HTTP server, Firefox and Flash
Sweden has one of the highest per capita death rates from COVID-19 in the world, and one of the lowest testing rates in Europe.
One wishes there was a more direct call to action here. It reads like a general complaint about how things work and doesn’t really get the ball rolling.
You would because the device would have restarted.
Oh, so you think you can just turn off state run corruption? Good luck mate! :) Well, I mean, sure, you can always try to keep the door from revolving, I guess. It would be a start, but I doubt it will do much difference.
Did you read your own link?
>Four in 10 adults, if faced with an unexpected
expense of $400, would either not be able to cover
it or would cover it by selling something or bor-
rowing money.

So exactly like I said, 40% don't have liquid cash of over 400$ consistently on their bank accounts.

That means it's not bound to be an I come problem, but might be a symptom of the ease of debt/credit in modern times.
If you're into listening to podcasts, I highly recommend Sean Haas's Advent of Computing podcast, which bills itself as "the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing."

https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/
A software engineer is privileged. You're acting as if he or she was a fast-food worker. If you want to actually change things, you've got to use what privilege you have to advance things.
Looks great. This could be interesting feature for media monitoring companies.
For a project about privacy it seems appropriate though!
Right.

Which is similar to what I think will end this recession/depression: a vaccine.

Now I would ask which path would have us coming out of this current crisis stronger: 40% of GDP spent on a “New New Deal” or 10% GDP invested in attempt to keep the status quo?
I had the same thought, but I read though a few articles and I only saw it there. Maybe it's a "thing" for some of their submissions, but yeah it takes a lot of getting used to.

That said, they do that because it's _longnow_
GDP Manufacturing Bubble Map by Country
> 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.

That is roll-on-the-floor "tone deaf rich asshole out of touch with reality."

The right is anti-science as ever.

The notion to not trust science is part of the Republican party from top to bottom. Over the past few days the President has openly called for his followers to "rise up" and protest. Blatantly ignoring the science we have on the virus, Trump is telling his followers to gather in groups and protest.

It is naive to think the right will ever support anything remotely to due with science.

Dr Fauci needs body guards because of the right.

Republican governors will open their states early and willfully kill people because God told them do so. No science here.

People will die in Florida from the current choice to open beaches way earlier than needed.
K is a general-purpose vector-oriented programming language with a concise syntax. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language).

Special-K is a subset of the k6 dialect of this language, in part due to the constrants of GLSL, which retains its concise nature and which should be intelligible and convenient for those who already know K. For those who do not yet know K, it may still be a pleasant way to experiment with fragment shaders.
I am actually surprised people aren't more concerned about the long term effects of COVID-19.

We have seen patients who got through it but were left with persistent neurological effects i.e. loss of smell, heart damage, weakened immune systems etc.

If people are asymptotic but have reduced life expectancy then that is a really big problem. Especially if we are talking about just letting COVID-19 basically run wild through healthy people.
> Regulatory capture is indeed a major underlying cause of a lot of the issues

How is it even possible to isolate capitalism from regulatory capture? Capital accumulation inherently creates power and influence, so regulatory capture is surely just the perfectly logical second phase?
His thinking is that a) fatalities are on the order of 0.1% (might be 2-3x higher) and that b) 50% of the population of the UK, Sweden and (presumably) NYC is already infected.

I agree that this seems overly optimistic, but the high end of that range seems plausible in light of the figures we're seeing, no? That is, if we're at 0.1% fatalities at (say) 25% infected, then that would imply 0.2% at 50%.
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Sure, policy matters. It's important to have people in public leadership who understand it and can work on tuning it to avoid or eliminate unintended consequences.

But complaining about either regulation or bureaucracy at a general level is the policy equivalent of approaching software by making general complaints about how terrible existing code is: sure, some of it is probably sub-optimal and should be rewritten, but anyone who's worked in the field for a while knows that the sweep-it-away/ground-up-rewrite impulse is more often wrong than applying Chesterton's fence (make sure you understand why it's there), profiling, and examine potential alternatives against studied outcomes.

> Markets would love to build more housing.

Sure. And would love to chase the wealthiest end of demand and externalize costs of community displacement or ecological impact.

> Markets would love to build nuclear power plants

And would love to externalize the costs of risk and waste management.

Note that these are not arguments against building more housing or nuclear power. There are many metro areas that do need to build housing. Nuclear power has its merits as well as hazards.

They're arguments about specific incentives absent intentional oversight, supporting the general case that it is often irresponsible to believe or advocate that incentives tend towards optimal on their own, and that the primary problem is oversight itself.
"Tragedy of the commons" is still a thing! Who knew!
Craigslist is a sponsor, so not all tech companies think that way.
Pay attention. This is how you rant.
It depends on the context. If you're trying to fire your gun in a video game, sure, it should respect every button press (subject to hardware debouncing which is always required). If you're submitting an online payment, a delay of 10 seconds per order is still not enough. If you're posting in a forum, duplicates should be automatically pruned.

Trying to pin down the number of milliseconds without context is a great example of bikeshedding.
Alternatively, as we're seeing now, more and more people will ignore government orders until the election (at which point we'll see a huge change in tune from leaders), and go back to work. At some point, like in the past, people stop caring about diseases.
> These aren't hijackings

Well, there you have what differentiates your examples from what I said.
Nobody want's a new McDonald's destroying their old status quo in their country. People don't want one-world-gov. They want disparate nations, that have charm and local uniqueness. Except that goes directly towards harmonizing international (trade) laws. If you want a lesson, check out how Lidl did in Norway when they challenged local chain stores.
Road infrastructure is going to change, by necessity. It seems like self-driving technology is as good as it can be, given current circumstances. There's no way to get self-driving cars to airplane safety numbers without on/near road devices/reflectors/computer-readable signage/etc, edge compute, better pedestrian understanding of what the cars are seeing and are capable of reacting to, and probably much more. It's time to give it the infrastructural boost it needs to become an everyday reality. We need to put sensors in the road when they're re-paved, transmitters in signs with solar chargers when they're replaced, LIDAR reflectors on the road sides and in medians, start offering clothing/accessories with transmitters or reflectors that clearly identify people as pedestrians...
> 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.

This gets you most of the way there:

> With the Aeson library, the order of keys in objects is undefined due to objects being implemented as HashMaps. To allow user-specified key orders in the pretty-printed JSON, encodePretty' can be configured with a comparison function.

- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/aeson-pretty-0.8.7/docs/...

I'm not sure that messes with spacing or not though or you require specific space preserving requirements to interoperate with current clients.

Even if not you can probably look at the source of encodePretty' and work out how to not mess with spacing or keep it all on one line.

I've wanted a version of Aeson for a while that preserves order and all formatting for things like linters that are very unobtrusive. It seems your use case would have benefitted from that as well.
> It benefits from federal student loan programs.

If by "normal private institutions" you mean companies, sure, that's true. But normal private educational institutions absolutely benefit from this and other similar programs. The University of Phoenix, for instance, heavily recruits GI Bill-eligible students, and their right to do so was defended by Republican US senators.

> It receives federal research grants.

You can do this as a private company just fine. SBIR is a great example. I worked at a startup that got federal research grants less than a year after being formed.

> It is allowed to be a tax-exempt institution. And it is allowed to own a tax-exempt endowment.

These are common for normal non-profit institutions in America and are in no way specific to Harvard.
It's a good question.
Based purely on a guess, I'd say that human antibodies are constructed in such a way that other parts of the immune system do not destroy them - in other words our natural antibodies pass a "self or non-self" test.
I don't know whether that applies to the immunoglobulins.
But I think bat antibodies might make us very sick
This is just a wrapper around "an essay by venture capitalist and former Amazon executive Matthew Ball": https://www.matthewball.vc/all/themetaverse
For those of you that prefer the “old” reddit interface:

https://old.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/comment/fn...
"Long term thinking" is the whole point of this website, so it's a stylistic choice meant to make you think about the year 10000
Because a law is a machine to compact thousands of hours of ethical thought into an actionable doctrine. It's designed specifically to take the subjectivity and bias out of executing policy, which is introduced by a single (or small group of) human brain(s) working on a problem for a few weeks, at most. Courts are a last-ditch effort to jury-rig a conclusive plan of action to rectify whatever dilemma come before them; as with similar tasks, they're more expensive and time-consuming at-scale than just planning correctly at the outset.
From South India here. Round stone ball (like the one in the pic) is still a very common tool in the kitchens here. We use it to quickly grind spices like pepper or make paste of ginger or garlic.
The lack of a desire to build is very surprising to me, as an outsider at least. Disregarding politics and everything else, America was (and until now is) a builder's paradise. At least from a taxation and policy viewpoint. I mean, compare US to a place like India which, from a policy standpoint is very anti-builder. Yet, we have seen entrepreneurs springing into action and preparing low cost face shields, low cost masks and what not. Heck they are even making those contactless thermometers.

I am just thinking about this irony, a country of people who have a desire to build, has all the anti-builder policies. A country with the most builder friendly policies has no desire to build. Sigh..
It looks similar to stackish and BON (binary object notation)
https://github.com/bon-org/bon-doc/blob/master/README.asciid...

BON is compatible with json+ and erlang data type, in specific, it allows any data type for the map key. Json only allows string as map key.
Cobble is what a geologist would call a medium-sized water-rounded piece of rock if it was free or embedded naturally in a matrix (like glacial till or sediment). They’d only call it a cobblestone in the context of like, paving a street or driveway or something.

However, I don’t think that makes it wrong for people / other disciplines to call it a cobblestone.
In a nursing home I would've expected nurses to be transmitting COVID-19 between patients.

But merely having a lot of people in a room be enough for widespread transmission is a bit of a wake up call. I can't understand how given that you could ever open up bars, restaurants etc.
Many doctors have a substantial amount of debt from med school that they took on with the assumption of having a doctor's income.
> This is what you get when you build your whole system around the optimization of one variable -- profit -- and put essentially religious faith into the unproven idea that the Invisible Hand of the Market will make everything work.

But this isn't what the whole US system is built around. That's (at least part of) the problem. As others have pointed out elsewhere in this discussion, many of the things Andreessen says he thinks we need to build are thinks that the free market would like to build, but can't because of legal and regulatory barriers.

That said, it is true that free markets are a tool, not an end in themselves. Free markets can help you to provide goods and services as efficiently as possible, but they can't tell you which goods and services should be provided and which should not. So free markets on their own are not enough to have a good society.

(Btw, notice that I said "free markets" and not "capitalism". They're not the same thing, although they are often conflated. "Free markets" means all transactions are voluntary--people cannot be forced into buying or selling anything, or prevented from buying and selling anything; it's up to them to decide. But "capitalism" means that capital is taken to be central to the economy, and accumulating capital is taken to be a positive thing. Historically, having a free market has often been the best way to accumulate capital, but not always: our present regulatory system might well be an example of the opposite, a society in which the best way to accumulate capital is to outlaw your competition through regulation.)
The goal is awareness of the Y10K problem, and generally awareness of long term thinking and planning.
I saw a paper years back, which I now fuzzily recall as having people select which size stones felt good, felt right in their hand, and then comparing that with their biophysics parameters like arm length, with a hypothesis that people like the feel of stones which are optimally sized for them to throw. So among thoughts of "innovation", perhaps include "thinking with your hands", and even beaver-style slapping mud on trickling noises "just because". Mens et manus (MIT's "mind and hand" motto).
Apollo 13 in Realtime
This monitors Rt (r-effective) not R0(r-naught)
In addition, Manyverse is a social network built on SSB. Each user has a chain, and they sync and relay their friends chain.
A classic for me is Fire in the Valley. Really great history of computing up to 1999.
This is a long asked question, and the recent book Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty spends part of the book exploring the emergence of a new political coalition that fights this: the YIMBY groups and associated groups. They are very young and inexperienced, but their existence is making huge waves.

There was an affordable housing builder interviewed on the housing podcast Gimme Shelter recently singing the praises of this movement, because it is such a big change from the past.
a nice element of this game is that it can be played over time/doesn’t have to prevent other socialization at a party. If everyone understands how to play, you can set down/pick up the drawing at any time. Even if it’s an hour later, it is fun to see the results.
The best human at X
Yea, that's what I'm saying, there's no financially viable solutions, and someday if we can make one, or if we stop caring about the cost for some reason, then it'll happen. Right now, the problem is that the "safe" designs aren't tested well and they're generally not commercially viable due to cost.
> during normal times people and companies have strong economic/competitive incentives NOT TO INVEST in the kind of expensive, robust (i.e., inefficient/redundant) infrastructure that everyone agrees is necessary but on which the payback is highly uncertain, highly diffuse, or might not be recouped until after everyone today is dead.

And who is in the best position to overcome this barrier and invest in stuff like this anyway? Someone like Marc Andreessen, who as a lot of wealth he can invest in anything he wants, without having to answer to anyone else about financial returns. If he and everyone else in his position did what Bill Gates is doing with malaria, and just picked one of the problems he lists and threw money at it until it was fixed, how many of those problems could be fixed? So why he Andreessen writing an article complaining about these problems, instead of just going and fixing one of them?
This line of J.2 only refers to the already cited 6.5.16.1.

You keep quoting this clause as if it applied to any of the assignments in the program being discussed.

It doesn't.

That clause says that in an assignment of the form “lvalue1 = lvalue2;”, there must only be exact overlap or no overlap between lvalue1 and lvalue2. This does not apply to assignments of the form “lvalue = 1;” or “lvalue = 2;” which are the interesting assignments in the program being discussed.

Objects are not “basic types” for the original sentence that claimed that “basic types cannot overlap in memory”. Objects overlap in memory all the time.

> You repeatedly (in this thread, and on your blog) express that you don't really understand "strict" (ISO standard) aliasing rules, and that seems to be the case.

If you say so. I'm not the one who thinks that “* p” and “1” overlap.
> Most of these companies run closed-circuit tests (aka nerf-golf-carts) and 1000's of hours of simulation.

I don't think we're talking about the same thing.

I mean build a machine that, in the real world, can't hurt people.

Make it light.

Make it soft.

Program it to limit its speed such that it can always stop before colliding with whatever (whoever) might leap out in front of it.

If the top speed is five miles per hour, so be it.

The safety driver is wrong too. But she was there because Uber wanted to put car-shaped robots onto public streets.

Really the insane thing is that we mix car and pedestrian traffic at all in the first place. Oddly enough, it's the result of a deliberate campaign of propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFn7MiJz_s "Adam Ruins Everything - Why Jaywalking Is a Crime"

> Adam reveals the derogatory origins of jaywalking and explains how the auto industry made it illegal.
It’s inconsistent.

I live in rural Arkansas, and typical get about 50Mpbs via LTE in a hammock on the shore of the lake.
Please explain to me what influence Republicans have on Bill de Blasio that would have prevented a shutdown.
"50 times as many people have been infected with Covid as previously thought.

That is a stunningly incorrect analysis. The results suggest (and I use suggest deliberately, because there are a lot of sample bias/ data analysis issues here), that potentially (again, deliberate as this is a ceiling, not a floor) 50 times as many people have had COVID as confirmed cases. Well. Duh. We've known that asymptomatic carriers exist since before it even hit the U.S. Moreover, please note that this "50 times" number equals 5% of the population. We have 95% more to go before it burns out. There is plenty of reason to panic. If we opened up again and went back to our regular lives, we'd have about a million dead in two months.

Of course, everyone is desperate to figure out how far COVID has spread, but we just don't have enough testing capacity right now. Because the government has just fallen flat on its face. We can now begin to understand why. As Fauci said in the Friday press-conference, from the beginning they trusted private industry when they promised they would have millions of tests a day capacity within weeks. I have personally run over 5,000 samples of this kind of test (not covid specifically but viral RNA RT_PCR assays) in one day. It's no rocket science. It's trivial. The only reason we are STILL?! at this laughable number of 150k/day tests is because our country is currently run by the most incompetent administration in a century.