skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no reason to play partisan politics here. If we want we can say Democrats were too busy trying to impeach Trump and calling Wuhan a “manufactured crisis” back when Trump ordered the borders closed Jan 30.

The simple fact is non-partisan non-evil, simply incompetent bureaucrats at the State and Federal levels all failed to adequately prepare (PPE stockpiles) and had actively harmful policies set in place years ago which impeded the response or even actively worsened it, and too many remained in denial once community spread became apparent.

Everything from a stranglehold on testing (FDA) to bungling the test kits (CDC) to flimsy border checks, poor initial contact tracing, to forcing COVID positive patients to nursing homes (Cuomo), to politicizing the quarantine to the point where they lose credibility (open letter from ‘healthcare professionals’ supporting protests).

There’s nothing deep state or evil about it. It’s just the typical failure I expect from my government, blue or red, every time. Sad but true.

To be fair, this was basically America’s first brush with a serious contagion in the modern era. Other countries that did better have had more practice.

Frankly, I don’t think a full fledged multi-trillion dollar response (50-state hard quarantine) was politically possible on January 20th. Trump was acquitted on Feb 5, and Senators skipping impeachment hearings to get informed on COVID were literally being threatened that they would be dragged into the Senate to sit and listen to Ukraine testimony.

From what I can tell, no one in either party was calling for measures stringent enough and early enough to have stopped the situation we have now. Senator Cotton was one who pushed particular hard to ground planes and is credited for that.

Of course at the time the perplexing WHO guidance was against travel bans. Yes, the US certainly isn’t alone in the world in its missteps.

And even if the lockdown had been harder and more consistent, there was still the flubbed testing, the flubbed medical response (ventilators), and the flubbed patient management.

CDC initial tactical teams wanted to treat COVID patients like Ebola carriers, spending what looked like $100k per person in full isolation wards — I guess they were thinking this was going to be 10 or 20 people coming into the country. Then we end up sending sick people into common areas of nursing homes. Then they told people not to wear masks for weeks... Just totally nonsensical top to bottom.
Why 24x24 and not 80x25 I wonder.
I looked into this once because I live near a reactor. There's a wide range of quality, but these restored classic ones have a good reputation for $250.

http://www.prepguard.com/prepguard-geiger-counter-radiation-...
>But IP law is very country specific

I think that's exactly what I state in explaining the myths, there are 13 occurrences of the word 'country/countries' in my reasoning, I have linked to WIPO and PCT source article where necessary. I don't see a place, where I state universal applicability of my reason; I would definitely correct if mentioned.

>Some of your myths/truths are dangerous and may cause companies to irrevocably lose IP rights that they probably should protect.

That could be dangerous, point me to a specific statement. Much of the criticism by the parent (Which I heartily welcome) comes from picking up a sentence at random but not the prior argument; so they're incomplete.
When western countries were hit by the first COVID-19 wave (Italy, France, New York, etc.), seeing how irresponsible people were, I nearly lost all hope to fight Global Warming. If supposedly educated people can't behave responsibly when facing imminent danger, how are they going to behave responsibly in face of a distant, somewhat more abstract threat?

It's not even so much that these countries were unprepared - can't say I was expecting a pandemic like that one to happen. So I certainly didn't push, directly or indirectly, my elected representatives to prepare for one. It's the ruthless behavior of people ignoring warnings, casually carrying on as usual until it was too late. Governments had to wave the proverbial stick (read: fines) to get people to act responsibly. At least in France and, I believe, Italy.

So I lost much hope: if we couldn't react in time for COVID-19, we won't react in time for Global Warming. But I like to think of myself as an optimist: maybe COVID-19 could be the warning we need to take Global Warming seriously.

And then here we are. Now COVID-19 is more or less a known quantity, we know better how it spreads, how avoid it, its complications, etc. Masks and ventilators are aplenty. We found some medicines that help. We are better armed to deal with it in hospitals.

So we should be better off? Nope, we are all the way at the bottom of the pit. UK. Sweden. Brazil. Texas. And then Facebook. Twitter. It's getting worse, and it's getting worse faster. We, humans, are doubling down on killing ourselves.

So I'll keep wearing a mask, and traveling mostly by train/subway. But I don't have much hope.
The paradox of tolerance is an iffy justification. It's an anecdotal testament of someone who survived the Holocaust, IIRC. Not to minimize the Holocaust or any part of it. That said, as far as I've seen, there's no established historical pattern that fascism is a function of societal tolerance of intolerant ideologies.
Strongly recommended watching, in my opinion: very clearly describes some quite complicated manipulations, the circumstances in which they work and how to move between those circumstances, to achieve what should be impossible.

If you're going to watch one commentated "tool-assisted" run, this is it.
Seems kind of obvious. If expenses were lessened some of these businesses might be viable at a lower rate of profit. The only question is: how many?
Setting Up the Supply Chain for Your Startup
And it should be up to people whether they are exposed to those things or not, which to a degree it is but obviously could be more so.
Bike shops near me are swamped. Good news.

Now if whomever took the seat off my bike could bring it back, that’d be great.
a-hole
It reminds me of back in the 68k Mac days you you could set your screen to 256 colors or thousands of colors or thousands of greys, where you had to choose a tradeoff of resolution and the greyscale mode was primarily for desktop publishing applications ah QuarkXPress and PageMaker..

From their website --

> 10-Bit Simultaneous Grayscale Display

> 10-bit (1,024 tones) simultaneous grayscale display extends grayscale fidelity to the boundaries of human visual perception abilities and helps radiologists discern the finest nuances within an image.
My problem is that Chomsky seems ardently committed to the "botanical" approach to natural language as the One True Way (TM).

By this, I mean the assumption that there is some universal logical structure to human language, and that our job is simply to come up with the labels for each constituent part and arrange them all correctly like a jigsaw puzzle. Once the puzzle is complete - boom! We've "solved" language.

That would have been a reasonable starting point back in the 60s, but I don't think it's advanced the field nearly as far as statistical methods.

Chomsky would retort that "advancing the field" is meaningless unless it allows us to "understand the field". But if natural language is a largely arbitrary collection of rules in constant flux, there would be very little of this "understanding" to be had. You could be bashing your head against the wall for centuries trying to induce structure into a bunch of symbols where none was ever to be had.

Now I do believe that purely statistical methods will hit a wall - the same way you could never teach a baby to communicate by throwing it a copy of Wikipedia and nothing else.

But if some parts of language are essentially arbitrary, then statistical methods are the best available tool to uncover that.
Looks like an (unusual) abbreviation for 'asshole'
Question: as a layman, knowing nothing about the quantitative nature of the evidence, neutrinos seem like the perfect candidates for dark matter, since we've already detected them and we know interact so poorly with anything. Why are they not the obvious candidate for dark matter? Is there any evidence against them?
as my edit said the problem was gcc was confined to using x87 as the compile args required x87 - the older version of the comment incorrectly thought it was the optimizer going wrong, rather than runtime.

If you are constrained to x87 your only option is multiple roundings which is bad. Ideally you'd just keep processing in the x87 stack as long as possible, but that would result in a different version of "incorrect" results.

Honestly if you're a compiler required to use x87 with non-80bit floating point I'm not sure how you can do the right thing :-/

I don't know what gcc has but llvm has a full software floating point implementation to handle cross compiling so it can match native arithmetic.
Wait a second. I am missing something. The definition of science is:

sci·ence
/ˈsīəns/
noun
the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

I might be bias (as I write such GPU rigs), but from I don't see how is not a scientific process trying different architecture configurations.

I like the Sturgeon's Law reference from this thread.
If you're making sense, I can't detect it :)
Ok, but that's two weeks off from this detection.
> I respect Patrick Collison

What connects pc to this, other than that he's a speaker?
> You can add native expand-and-collapse components to your site using the details and summary elements.

WHAT WHAT WHAT

This whole time it was THAT easy??? I've been using Bootstrap and javascript every time I needed that
I wonder if he considered that even under a domain/host/path format, an autocomplete could probably be designed to ignore the domain and search the host.

Eg, if you're searching for com/welcometothejungle/en/collections/behindthecode, just start typing "welcometothejungle" and autocomplete will find that substring and return the full URL.
Yeah I agree the legislation would help—but the legislators mostly don’t know much about tech I’m guessing. And the experts they call in I’d wager are from big companies with their own interests in mind.
So I have the pleasure of calling Paul a friend. One of the most interesting and insightful things he has said in a conversation about the creation of DNS to me was "if those above me had understood the importance of what we where doing it would have never happened and the project would never have been given to someone like me at my level at the time...". It is not clear he understood it at the time himself. He is a pretty nice guy. I (a networking geek that just took this cool stuff and built with it) cannot claim to have done anything special on this journey to arrive where we are today, but I have been privileged enough to know a few of the players and I can say everyone one of them while having their own arrogance, it is never misplaced and in general they just wanted to solve a problem and make stuff work better. I struggle to see that level of idealism in today's tech crowd.
I wrote video games for the VT100 connected to a PDP-11 in high school. Memories.
Believe it or not, I became a letter carrier (mailman). It’s not the most glamorous job or what I expected to do, but it’s the most enjoyable job overall I’ve had. I get to enjoy the outdoors and push myself physically while listening to podcasts.

If you have a good route, you can probably finish in 4 hours and get home by mid-afternoon and have time to actually enjoy life and hobbies.

If you really want, there’s plenty of opportunity for overtime. I don’t know if I’ll be a lifer, but at least there’s a pension building up while I decide what to explore next.
Hi jamesponddotco,

Thank you very much for taking a look! Although you have found information in your edit, I will reply so that other users viewing the thread have an easier time reading it.

1) The company is incorporated in Hong Kong. Although we are Australian, the privacy laws in Australia suck. We wanted to keep our customers safe, so that is what ultimately lead to the decision. You can find this information at https://www.oeck.com/faq/ and more specifically at https://www.oeck.com/faq/privacy_and_security/

2) The website is built on top of Xenforo ( https://xenforo.com ). Our navigation, .ovpn builder, alerts and other features rely on JS in order to function properly.

3) I answered this in the post above, but here is the copy/paste.

Open Source apps - Due to the way our VPN works, we found the best solution for us was to use the libvpn libraries. They can be found at http://libvpn.com/

These libraries, unfortunately, are not open source. However, they are very powerful and the code is of good quality. Due to this, we are unable to make our apps completely open source.

Again, open sourcing the apps, although it looks good, ultimately doesn't mean anything. Any malicious activity can be done in the back-end. The apps source code may show up fine, but the back-end of the service can do whatever the owners want.

That's not to say open sourcing them isn't a good thing, it is just that aside from the fact that we can't do so, ultimately it means little if the service provider wanted to screw its customers.

Thank you for the Impressum idea. We will add that soon. It is a good idea and easily implemented.

Regards,
Peter @ Oeck.
I wouldn't easily dismiss 3B1B, Lex or whatever resources you've mentioned here. Though you might find them to be entertainment but really people learn in various ways and these resources provide excellent views on the subject. And honestly with all the recent advancement in visual content and media, I would reconsider the sole dependence on hard literature to learn or even question the superiority of hard literature over newer formats.

Lastly, I agree that the title should be resource list.
The chip mem slowness only came in the later Amiga models with faster CPUs with 32 bit memory buses I think? Part of the constant trend of custom chipset falling behind, after the first machine. (With a few increasingly laggard refreshes)
Yes, the bullet cluster effectively disproves most theories like MOND and similar. This article doesn't mention the bullet cluster. The article is dead on arrival as far as I'm concerned.

Additionally, some galaxies have dramatically more or less dark matter than other galaxies. There's not a very good path forward for MOND-like theories with regards to explaining these galaxies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_diffuse_galaxy
Imo they're more likely to separate the part timers and full timers, which the benefits are given to the second one. If the benefits are mandatory to all, the part timers group may be abolished at all, and it won't be different with local taxi companies.
Possibly look into "mewing" i.e. orthotropics which deals with proper oral posture, breathing, and swallowing.

You could also try just putting your tongue on the roof of your mouth when your mouth is closed (which is what you should be doing anyways). Your tongue is actually what is supposed to help get your jaw to stay up with a suction hold against the roof of your mouth, and if you don't have your tongue in that position then you will have to use only your jaw muscles which can cause to much pressure.
Prepare for the U.S. and China to Decouple
These comments are all publicly viewable.
WebRTC is known complicated to set up and quite unstable. Many companies have made a business of configuring WebRTC.
Behold in terror and glory the lithium-ion discharge curve: https://siliconlightworks.com/image/data/Info_Pages/Li-ion%2...

This is great for the powered device, since it's nice and flat, but annoying for determining state of charge from terminal voltage, since it's awful and flat. I have not personally developed a state-of-charge indicator, but I would guess that one might use columb counting for the first half of the curve, then voltage monitoring for the second half, introducing odd discontinuities in the 80%-30% range. A truly clapped out battery will up and die before it got to the second half; a merely old battery will just be strange and inconsistent.

>If I turned the phone on again without charging it at all, the battery indicator would tell me that it did indeed have around the 60% charge I estimated.

Another delightful behavior of battery cells is "voltage sag". Battery voltage drops under load. The more current you draw, the bigger the drop. If you draw a big whack of current, then leave the battery alone, the voltage will drift back up: https://www.powerstream.com/x/Christopher-Suozzo-engine-cran... Additionally, the more you ask of a battery, the less capacity it will have https://www.cloudynights.com/uploads/monthly_09_2014/post-21... (1C is 1x the capacity rating of the battery. A 1C discharge of a 2 amp hour battery is 2 amps, 2C 4 amps, etc) and the shorter its lifespan will be https://www.batteryuniversity.com/_img/content/DST-cycles-we...

Combine these factors, we discover that while your phone was behaving very unintuitively, it might not have been lying. If you hit an old cell phone with a big enough draw, (prime95, bitcoin mining, opening a cnn.com story without adblock) the battery indicator could correctly say that only 4% of the battery is left. Shut it off, letting the battery recover a bit, then turn it back on, and ta dah, by the voltage curve with a light idle discharge, it's got 60% left.

Cell phone batteries generally last two or three years. Four years+ requires light discharges and not recharging it fully. Essentially, not using it at all.
P.S. I also have trademarks(wordmark/devicemark) for my products.
I grew my newsletter to 1600 subscribers – Here is what I learnt
TL;DR summary:

Harvard Business Review with four suggestions for U.S. companies:

1/Reduce Hong Kong presence

2/Relocate supply chains to politically safer countries

3/Reevaluate relationships with Chinese companies, universities

4/Factor in geopolitical investment risk.
1770 upgrades were extremely common for the BBC Micro. (They are, astonishingly, still made.) The B+ and the BBC Master came with a 1770 by default.
Looks interesting. What’s your pricing model?
My dentist warned against store-bought guards because they're not as adjusted to the wearer and could damage your jaw in the long-term.
I didn't use reddit much anymore, since it's mostly a cesspool of politics, but if I have to, this plugin is very useful:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
I got into learning Linux by building a remote booting network.
I was already doing that using Novell Netware and boot EPROMs or floppy disks, booting DOS over IPX.
I kept building remote booting networks, then I discovered https://ltsp.org/ which made it a lot easier. I could easily switch declaratively between configs, like rootfs on local disk or nfs.
I kinda miss those times...
they are obvious. The evidence against it is that there are not that many of them (or we would have detected more), and while we aren't sure how much they all weigh we're pretty sure it's orders of magnitude less than what would be required for dark matter.
TASS says the operators of those claim that they are fine https://tass.com/world/1172279
finally a specification for datagrams, unordered and unreliable ! This was one of the big struggles of bringing mmo to the browser.
DatagramTransport seems really promising as it provides encryption and congestion control which are the most complicated parts of any netcode. Good luck !
Reducing stress levels is key: yoga, exercise, omit caffeine, omit alcohol, eat well, spend time with family and friends, don't forget to breathe.
I think one thing that happened is a total break down between policy makers and institutional scientists. Institutional scientists simply will not speculate publicly. Normally they work with executive branches and political leaders to formulate a coherent policy. Non institutional scientists on the other hand were free to say what they believed was prudent.

In the west over the last 40 years there has been a complete breakdown in the ability of governments to formulate coherent policy followed by action.
Nicergoline may improve cognitive function of people with dementia
I don't necessarily agree with OP but the degree to which the private market, without any government intervention, was able to get masks into the hands of consumers across the country and world quickly was extremely impressive. I don't remember the exact timeline but there was a non-chain corner store down the street from me that was able to get masks within 3 or 4 weeks of the local shutdown. Of course it would have been much better if the federal government had started ordering masks in January and encouraging their use sooner but was still amazing to witness the invisible hand at work to an almost unseen degree.
Interesting idea, I recommend adding virtual arrow keys for mobile compatibility.
It's society's problem because society is better for the Internet existing. I don't think that's a seriously disputable point outside of basic contrarianism. For all its faults, society today is better than it was 40-50 years ago on almost every measurable axis. We've made faster progress on human rights in the past 40-50 years than we did in the first 150-160 years of our country's history. We know more about the wider world now than we ever did. More minority communities have mainstream voices now then ever did in the past.

We should, of course, try to improve the Internet; there's plenty wrong with it. We certainly don't want to stay where we are now. But we are a better world because we are more connected. Getting rid of the Internet because "other systems don't get a pass" would be cutting off our own nose to spite our face. As a society, we have a vested interest in a democratizing platform that allows ordinary people to publish information and coordinate on an unprecedented scale.

So if a set of standards don't allow the globalized democratizing communication platform to exist, then the standards are wrong.
Had potential, but it's extreme far left now. Just as bad IMO.
I never used to grid the teeth but in last 6 years due to work stress I put on weight, sleeping cycle got messed up and just last year in may my dentist told me that I grind my teeth. I tried the mouth guard for few months which seemed to work. But these things are expensive. 6 months back I was also diagnosed with sleep apnea so the sleep specialist suggested CPAP. Surprisingly with the CPAP machine I have completely stopped grinding my teeth. It makes me wonder that teeth grinding is highly correlated to breathing and quality of sleep.
Here in the UK we call these studio flats. Really good for living more minimalist but not so great if your partner moves in :(
Ah, the problem. I have started using my custom domain and a random username for each service, derived from the service's domain. Pretty easy way to not give away your email.
I'm of the firm belief at this point that we are a species with severe amnesia.

I find it significantly more plausible that cataclysmic events we no longer remember occured in our past and wiped away a rich history in which we may have feasibly been far more advanced technologically than we currently are.
Galaxies are drawn toward each other due to gravity, but when they meet ordinary matters "stop" because lumps of gas plow against each other, causing them to lose energy and stop.

Dark matter doesn't interact with anything else (or even itself) so they pass right through each other.
I would enjoy an explanation as to why the distribution of normal and dark matter in galaxies is roughly the same. My ignorant intuition tells me that since normal matter is subject to many more and different forces than dark matter, one of them should be much more densely-orbiting the galactic core than the other. But they aren't.
Just for the specific implementation. The reference implementation is the PHP version here:

https://github.com/paragonie/paseto

And has had a lot more attention.