skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the motivation behind this is right. In my experience many in Silicon Valley don't understand the mechanics of long-term institutional change. In part, that's simply because — much like entrepreneurship — expertise comes from practical experience. Tacit, not-easily-transferrable knowledge dominates.

I find Ezra Klein's recent line here useful:

"[W]hatever the recommendations, the same thing is needed: A sustained and concerted movement that cares about institutional reform. But people get much more excited about building something, anything, than about reforming existing institutions. Meta-building isn’t a popular pastime, and the patient, focused work it requires is particularly frustrating, in my experience, to entrepreneurial personalities." [1]

I confess that I myself find it incredibly frustrating. See a government program that's incredibly difficult to deal with, friction-laden up and down, with reams of paperwork with legalese?

One can build a layer on top that eliminates most or all of the friction. But it will always be limited by the resource models that can sustain it. And many problems simply have no workable models other than state financing and operation (market failure, in other words).

Instead, doing the work to make that program much better institutionally involves long-term (frustrating) strategies like:

- Think tanks / white papers: influencing the epistemic landscape among policymakers

- Organizing: shifting the Overton Window to make the change you want to see broadly accepted

- Coalition-building: working with allies with overlapping agendas to get more muscle behind your own priorities

And even... waiting. You often have to wait — years! decades! — for a window to come where you can get a big thing done. People worked on big healthcare reform for 3 decades of effectively zero progress — and then in a year they passed Obamacare.

That work is long, hard, much more probabilistic than product work, and much less directly-controllable by a given person.

BUT there are playbooks to get it done. And I do wish technologists looked to those tools more to make the institutional changes we need to make it so the opportunities (individual and societal) of entrepreneurship were more widely accessible.

One concrete example: I've long thought that a basic source of friction in public services is because user experience isn't well-monitored, and therefore not well-considered in public policy decisions.

Technologists are great at measuring friction. It is a craft well-honed in an environment where conversion is a live-or-die metric. But translating that craft into institutional change requires something like a think tank, and/or an organized movement with an agenda.

I think we'll get there, but it will take some risk-takers who understand that long game and financial backers who aren't as well-versed in it, but who have the risk tolerance of SV and the savvy to see that playbook does work, and point it at a problem with significant leverage.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build...
Some people claim to use coffee to reduce seasonal allergy symptoms (i.e congestion) for similar reasons.
But further lockdown can also mean more deaths from low economic activity. How do you know which deaths are worse?
That science should be neutral? I would hope some would be seeking that path. The idea that science is evolving with every experiment/test we attempt. To freeze on a single point of view is belief (religion) instead of fact (science).

Hopefully that bridge isn't too far for most.
I've never heard of that... in what state?
What makes you think they're going to avoid pathological responses upon re-exposure with their clinical trials when they're basically rushing to get it out to everyone? The incentives are completely off-track of creating something that is actually safe.

Not to mention sometimes corona viruses cause the common cold. This thing very well could just continuously mutate like the common cold and evade effective vaccination and just cause more and more fatalities and lung pathologies for years to come across the world.
more like lose money on most but make up for it later. bots are just an unfortunate fact you have to amortize into your costs.

Let's say you see 75% bot traffic. You make $10 per actual user. If youre spending $2 per action with 4 actions, you burn $6(75%) on bots, $2(25%) on a real user($8 total), and get $10 - netting $2. So you're making money, but wasting more.

So, let's say you set your targeting to completely exclude the bots. Great, you spent $2 and made $10, netting $8. The problem though is you ruled out 90% of your traffic - you have false positives on whether its a bot so you exclude legit users(all of this targeting is fuzzy rule based). You can 10x the traffic with bots, making $20, but you cant 10x the perfect targeting, so youre stuck with $8.
No, was really strange, I was pretty experienced by then too. Was never the same after.
For what it’s worth, you can buy the DirecTV DECA adapters for like $20 on Amazon. They’re actually just MoCA adapters, but they run at a lower frequency than regular MoCA so they don’t interfere with the DirecTV signal. They work fine by themselves.

The only downside is that they’re 100 Mbit/s.

That said, they really do give you a rock solid 100 Mbit/s.

If you need more bandwidth, I think Verizon sells a MoCA 2.5 adapter for like $60 which should give you GigE.
>What you should see if you open your eyes and your mind is that anyone under 54 is many times more likely to die from something else other than COVID.

Table 2 is total deaths not the death rate. Pneumonia has killed more young people than corona because more people have gotten pneumonia than corona (so far).
But everything in that dependency array is from lexical scope, correct? Your hooks execute in the scope of that call to MyComponent().
I'm pretty eager to see where the ASTM case lands. I'm rooting for Public.Resource.Org, but given that the DC Circuit remanded on fair use (rather than copyrightability), the court will probably consider "amount and substantiality" of the work reproduced relative to the original.

Public.Resource.Org photocopied and distributed the complete standards, cover to cover, including ASTM's illustrations, logos, etc. But what aspect of the manuals are the actual law? The technical measurements? From what I understand, the Georgia annotations became law by reference in their entirety. I don't think it's obvious here and I worry the court will rule against them :/

Regardless, I love Public.Resource.Org's work and wish them the best.
While the knowledgeable and rich can afford to post on HN, discuss which stocks or investments are going up/down, the poor are stuck playing games avoiding illegal charges.

Still sounds like a rigged game.
Well they don't know, and neither does anyone else. So it's either throw out an arbitrary goal now, and run the risk of having to change it and people saying 'you keep moving the goal post', or not doing it and people saying 'there's no target or coherent policy'. There's no winning here.

Every couple of days there is a bitchfest on here about idiot managers demanding exact prognoses on software development projects, and then we all agree that because there are unknown unknowns, that's pretty much impossible. How is this any different, if not an order of magnitude more complicated still?

I think the main problem is people expecting government to know everything because - well, they're the government, probably? But they're just a bunch of people like you and me. The fact of the matter is that nobody knows that much. You can complain about that, but that doesn't change the fact that some things are just unknowable at the timeframes we're working on.
I can tell you that a “political” life is one that doesn’t lead to happiness.
Yup that means 100% that humans will be completely safe and develop no pathological response.
Sweden’s tolling average “peaked” two days ago. That’s not enough time to say anything definitive.
You can also select lines in the chunks of the file to stage individual lines.

Not super discoverable but pretty useful.
You have it backwards. The scooters are not, and have never been, a problem. The real problem is feces and needles. The real truth here is the SF gov is greedy, and rabidly anti-tech. I cannot wait until this whole place is gentrified and cleaned up.

Have you lived in SF? Because this comment reads like an outsider looking in.
I remember pun threads and intelligent discourse - prior to the ron paul days (post-digg).
The stated goals keep changing, if that were the goal they’d start opening things up.
It's not even close to two orders of magnitude, and usually significantly less than one order of magnitude. For chicken and fish the feed conversion ratio (FCR) can be less than 2. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio#Conversi... (FCR can be 1 or even <1, though the difference there presumably comes from water weight--input feed is dehydrated while outputs are measured by weight, which includes some amount of water. Whether FCR includes only dressed meat depends on the data source, but for chickens and fish it's mostly irrelevant because everything ends up being processed into food, and by weight the carcasses are mostly protein. If we're pessimistic about published FCR numbers I think we can ignore the water weight difference.)

Also, farmed animals aren't very picky about the look of their food. In some aspects industrial meat production permits us to make more efficient use of agricultural land in terms of providing calories and especially proteins for human consumption.

What's hidden in the FCR number is the energy required to process the feed stock to get those high FCRs. But a human consuming "whole foods" also needs more of that input for the same amount of useable calories. Flours and similarly processed foodstuffs require more energy than that required for the inputs to livestock. So in terms of energy use we're basically just looking at the fixed overhead of the animal conversion as captured by FCR, possibly offset by some efficiencies that would be absent in direct-to-human consumption.

TL;DR--modern industrial agriculture is crazy efficient. Beef isn't as horribly bad as we think (notwithstanding the methane problem), but consuming pork and, especially, chicken and farmed fish shouldn't be very guilt inducing, ceteris paribus.
That’s fucked up. It’s a lesson though for me that email and RSS are the only true ways to build an audience that’s actually yours.
You literally cannot know what is causing the auto-immune responses through current research methods. There are way too many factors and variables to weed through yet it's becoming more and more prevalent.
Over the same time period. So it's about as apples to apples as you can get at this point.

Also, you can calculate the death rate per million from the available chart data. This stuff really isn't that complicated...
Hooks solve a couple different problems:

- Giving function components the ability to have internal state and trigger side effects, giving them the same capabilities as class components have had

- Reusing logic across components

I talked about the progress from mixins to HOCs to render props to hooks in a talk at ReactBoston last year [0], which had an example of tracking mouse coordinates using all four approaches. In that sense, yes, they do replace the other techniques as a way to reuse logic.

You call them inside of your function components, like this:

function MyComponent() {
const [counter, setCounter] = useState(0);
const {x, y} = useMousePosition();

// rest of the rendering logic here
}

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/09/presentation-hooks...
> But nations do have the capacity to act rationally,

I wouldn't be so sure about that.
> The common cold viruses haven’t helped us deal with COVID-19

We don’t actually know that yet.
But you are aware of the fact that there were several global energy crises throughout the 1970s, right?

The handful of wars and revolutions that took place in the Middle East, in which the US certainly participated to some extent, caused global oil shortages.
Same story in the US. Back in the day there were multiple price engines that were super effective at finding the best price. I remember PriceGrabber and even Google Shopping being really useful.

I think the affiliate links destroyed them all, removing the incentive for them to offer the best price and instead only serve up the most profitable (to them) links.
Most sites were PHP though.
Do you understand the challenge you are taking upon yourself when you are trying to argue that climate change is not a severe concern? Might as well argue that the Earth is flat.

You might think that we are all just wrong. But here's the thing. The vast, vast majority of scientifically literate people in the world believe that climate change is an enormous risk to human prosperity. There might be some disagreement on exactly what the nature of the risk is. But everyone agrees it is a huge problem that must be confronted.

Because we are the overwhelming majority, you need to convince us using very articulate, compelling arguments and the highest-quality analysis. And you need to deal with the fact that most people will assume you are either ignorant or ideologically motivated to misinterpret the evidence -- because, to our eyes, that's exactly what people who compose comments like yours are (and it gets really old after a while).

By posting angsty messages that offer no value from a scientific standpoint, you are admitting defeat from the start.
I’ll never forget the sound of a CPU popping smoke at a local 2600 meeting, back in the day. That was one unhappy camper.
Here in Australia, for example, you can buy grey imports (i.e. not imported by Apple, Samsung etc) for much cheaper.

With some brands you only get a store warranty, but sometimes you might even get full manufacturer international warranty.
That's just how the cooki... er, cloud... crumbles
Yes. And many of my neighbors are as well.
Intel's first 7nm Xe graphics cards are in pre-alpha testing
All (US) states have partial unemployment
2600 is by far the only physical magazine I will purchase when I see it on a shelf.

I even requested that a local bookstore begin carrying it and they thankfully did.

I currently subscribe to the digital issue, but I’ll be subscribing to the physical issue now.

I know they say there are worthy causes - but I would happily outright donate money to keep 2600.

I think it may be beneficial if they published what their expected loses were, and perhaps had a donation counter. These are both effective ways to motivate people to give.
I liked the water in Toyama, but they had a PR campaign to brand it as “oishii mizu” so people would forget about the cadmium poisoning in the Showa years. The PR campaign worked on me. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itai-itai_disease
Computer Science Illustrated Engaging Visual Aids for Computer Science Education [pdf]
I agree with you - so much so that I don’t use source maps to debug stuff. It’s also the same reason I strongly dislike hooks (they aren’t really JS) while at the same time, they solve a problem I very rarely have (shared behavior without shared state).
I am having trouble understand what you are suggesting.

Technologists playing a more active role in government?

VCs in cabinet positions?
> Manually managing your dependency graph and memoizing in all the right places

I wouldn't say it's harder, but it's certainly not simple. There are a handful of mistakes that I see repeated, but if you get over those hurdles, you can significantly simplify your components 99% of the time. It was very easy to have huge componentDidMount and componentDidUpdate methods in class components, and with logic scatter shot across a big file without the ability to easily reuse bits of it.
"We're all in this together" is more of an aspirational phrase, meant to motivate the better-off to contribute. When it doesn't work, the people who aren't better off will of course be reminded every time they hear it that the system is failing them.
Is Nvidia’s Cloud Gaming Platform Already Dying?
I can create a business rationale. But wanna stay a while.
Thank you for putting into words precisely how I'm feeling about this situation. The goal was to flatten the curve, not protect every single person from getting exposed which is impossible and seems to be what those who are not suffering economic hardship from this (yet) are now asking for.
Is the info hidden from the other family members until you die? How does the site detect that you have died?
There are a lot of people who have built this app — but they're concierging! (aka... not an app)

The reason is that the work you're describing (which is effectively organizing) doesn't have the unit economics of tech automation.

All of this info can be created but it's pretty hard for a computer to generate it because of the specifics of every project, across every different city/municipality.

Layer on top of that the fact that the biggest bottleneck is the activation energy it requires for people to actually show up, and an app is just less effective.

But you know what turns out to work shockingly well? A social aspect to organizing. Have everyone show up to the meeting, and go grab a drink after together to bond and make it so that folks feel good and want to do it again, that they feel a part of it.
> what specifically leads to such bold conclusions (e.g. "owe an apology", "wasted time and effort", "statistical error", "screwed up", etc.)?

They used a test with a false positive rate of about 2%, and found a positive rate of about 2%. It is impossible to use this information to establish a lower bound on the number infected. However, by screwing up the computation of the confidence interval, they claimed a huge lower bound.
Water Memory by Noble Prize Laureate – Luc Montagnier – Discovering HIV
There are so many awful drugs still in use that have taken decades for people to rile up enough of a backlash for the FDA to do something about it. And even then they're bought out to do things like "blackbox warnings" instead of take drugs off the market. These warnings basically are 'we should take the drug off the market because it causes serious problems' but it never happens. Take fluoroquinolones for example. In use since the 70s. Studies since the 90s knew about serious toxic adverse effects. Took until just this last decade for their use to become limited, with an unknown number of people whose lives have been likely ruined or terminated by the drugs.
Will Happer should "know better" too, but as Sinclair said: "It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
Nicotine is also fairly benign, it's tobacco (especially smoking it) that's bad for you.

Chewing nicotine gum or using patches can give you the focus and clarity that smoking or vaping does without filling your lungs with shit.
Has there been any research on survival rates over time? If given the choice of getting COVID-19 today or two months from now I would much prefer the later infection because that’s two more months of doctors learning how best to treat the disease. Even delaying infection by a week seems like it would offer a better fighting chance. The medical community is learning as much as they can as quickly as they can and that benefits everyone who will eventually get sick.
Fairness at gunpoint is law in a nutshell. Maybe it should surprise us, that our species isn’t good by nature.
> it'd be surprising in any case to encounter dynamic scope in Javascript, a language which does not even support it.

Doesn't matter much, but just b.c. it's interesting: JavaScript actually does support limited dynamic scoping - `this` is scoped dynamically like in usual Lisps, and there's a with statement[0] that acts somewhat similar with `let` in Lisp.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
The justice still gets to decide what language and arguments make it into the final opinion. The clerks are their to take some of the load off their shoulders. The supreme court produces a lot of writing every year for nine people and they cam be very hairy technical issues, of course they have a staff to assist them in research and drafting.
First of all, these are the deaths for other causes since early February, while the covid deaths are heavily back-loaded over the past three weeks. Second, these are the deaths WITH a nationwide shelter-in-place, if we had not done that, the deaths would be much higher. Third, the death rate for your average 30-year-old in the average week is pretty darned low, so this will indeed add to it. Fourth, what do you propose to do to keep Americans over 60 from dying when they catch covid from their live-in family members, their caregivers, or the clerk at the bank?
I'm not saying health officials are wrong, but they're rightfully focused primarily on health implications. Politicians should be responsible for determining policy -- balancing economic, legal, and health considerations after listening to experts.
I can definitely taste the difference between slowly pouring over and not, but so far I have not been able to taste the pre-wet filter. I’d prefer not to gain the ability either because there’s only so much time in the morning.
People keep saying that, but I haven't heard of any clear examples of actual sick people who got it again, just positive tests that seem to be within the error bands for the tests.

Not a doctor, this is not a rhetorical question: Shouldn't we have those 2nd-time sick people by now? Shouldn't the null hypothesis be that immunity works like most other colds?

Masks weren't "proven to be effective" until well after any reasonably thoughtful person was wishing they had one.
The comments in this list seem from really smart people.

I used to follow Jepsen https://jepsen.io/ closely. Those tests are quite comprehensive. But I think even those are not sufficient to quantify the quality of Paxos/Raft.

Tools like TLA+ probably require a few months to learn and become proficient.
Is there anywhere I can read about the plans for io_uring integration?
Yeah videos of doctors and scietists who don't follow the official line are being censored on YouTube. This one is the latest, highly recommend watching to the end.
https://archive.org/details/full-press-conference-dr-dan-eri...
You've been paying a man to warn you if there are tigers on the main street. Every day for the last 10 years he's been telling you there are no tigers on the main street and you've taken the main street or he's told you there are tigers there and you've taken the side street. Today he said that there was a tiger on the main street but you took it anyway and didn't see the tiger. Has his trustworthiness collapsed or was he always scamming you?