skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cunningham’s Law! It is great and has many applications, when you’re trying to squeeze good information out of a system that doesn’t circulate it naturally.
Ana White did the whole series few years ago about building a little cabin somewhere in Alaska for their family. Lately she does more fine woodworking on her site and YT channel, but also super interesting stuff.
What an irresponsible thing to publish. Don't they realize it's an election year!?
Thanks, 17-year-old me feels validated.
I don't like that website. Do they really need fixed bars on the top and bottom asking me to subscribe? Not to mention article is littered with ads and a half screen nag as soon as you start scrolling.
That is not a property of the graphite, its a property of the atmosphere (CO₂, He) or lack thereof (H₂O, molten salts) around the graphite. The Chernobyl core started burning as soon as external atmosphere hit the graphite after an explosion.
http://aurelia.io/
If I see (in the photo/name) someone who has sexually assaulted me before, I'd like to be able to deny them from coming over to my house. Discrimination or not, people need to be allowed to deny people they would be uncomfortable with coming to their house. This is especially true for female hosts. My life > someone's hurt feelings that they don't get to Airbnb at my place
I’ve been waiting for a Metal Gear Solid adaptation for over 10 years. Only if David looked like snake, it would be perfect!
Check Bespoke in SF. Problem: no natural light, and depression sinks in after some time due to being forced through the zoo that is a busy mall every day (also somewhat of a food desert in that area). Not a bad idea though overall.
Wearing masks do not affect oxygen intake.

If what you say is true, all healthcare workers who are wearing masks 8-12hrs a day would be collapsing - and most of them are double-masking with cloth masks on top of N95 masks.
Trailer tires are only rated to 60mph. People are always pushing 70+ out of ignorance. Everyone is surprised to see brand new campers shed their "shitty Chinese tires" on the highway after a few miles. I'm not.

New travel trailers are always right at or near maximum load for the axles and tires. Fail to read and understand your tow rig and run over 60mph all day and you are rolling some heavily weighted dice.
> miniscule scale

Population

Germany: 83,166,711
Singapore: 5,703,600

> culture is mostly homogenous. [..] atmosphere of diversity.

"Germany is the second most popular immigration destination in the world. [..] Of the country's residents, 18.6 million people (22.5%) were of immigrant or partially immigrant descent in 2016"
I have a few friends that are trying to "solve this problem" -- ranging from ideas on better, more inclusive social networks, to vetting (news) sources and ideas, to self-governance, to curation-heavy communities.

I personally don't really think it's a "problem" -- people simply, on average, just don't care about other opinions (especially opposing ones). This happens on both sides of any debate. Why learn about, study, and discuss the moral implications of abortion and wade through its ethical morass when you can just share some provocative meme? Why actually read the W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington debates when you can just share some celebrity's shallow BLM Tweet? Hacker News is a rare gem[1]. Most people aren't educated, curious, and willing to accept when/if they're wrong. This is exacerbated by the re-emergence of yellow journalism in mainstream media (where accountability for misleading or even false headlines is nonexistent) because these days it's all about the clicks.

So we're left with Twitter and Facebook. And people, on average, like their echo chambers. They don't want to be challenged or poked or prodded. In 2020, Socrates would be banned from Twitter.

[1] Although, perhaps as a sign of the times, even this post is getting downvoted without any discussion.
Using liquid water as your moderator really constrains how hot you can go.
Ok, but do you not think that this kind of mental colonialist attitude is a bit problematic?

The world is not the US and does not share your culture, yet you're imposing it on us.
Why do you need to wear your mask while scootering?
I think the problem I have with this argument is that it assumes 'Angry Alice' is there to argue in good faith. Unfortunately I've learned that there are many, many 'Angry Alices' out there that exist solely to rile up people and they get validation out of misleading people or tricking reasonable people.

At the dinner party it's much harder to pull off this sort of trick because you're dealing with very real people face to face. Once you've caused large amounts of friction with people in reality, they're less likely to engage with you and will outright avoid you.

But when you're on the internet, you have an endless supply of people that you can troll. And often it's become harder and harder to separate the trolls from what people actually believe.
I believe, but haven't bothered to profile, that they're lighter. You can also pre-"render" the vector tiles and store them in eg S3. All styling is done in-browser, which means you can do neat things like swap out the styles client-side for dark mode without needing to reload map tiles.

The primary standard for vector tiles is Mapbox Vector Tiles (it's an open standard), which is really just a sqlite database following a particular schema.

My own personal experience developing against both png and vector tiles over the past few months is that vector tiles are better in just about every way for the kinds of things you use maps for in apps. I expect that some dataviz applications, though, would be better served by raster tiles, since you'd end up generating a raster overlay anyways.
Wow. I saw Star Wars first and read the Stainless Steel Rat second, and I always assumed that cover was a knock-off of a TIE fighter, and not the other way around!
The article points out that there’s a violation of Facebook’a policies.
No, the reason these articles keep popping up recently is that iOS added a visible notification that it was happening. Both android and iOS apps have done this for ages: https://www.howtogeek.com/680147/psa-all-apps-can-read-your-...
Even the CDC was against mask use by the general public at first, so while much of the naysaying is now political, there was also seemingly legitimate information being pushed by prominent organizations that encouraged people to ignore masks.

Also, there's no character limit here, you can write the entire phrase instead of using obscure acronyms.
The crux of this is that volume is not the same as mass.
Interesting, I have seen simple neural circuits using opamps but not octal drivers.
It’s a generic phrase used quite widely by folks as a reference to societal unrest or societal breakdown, usually in the context of “preparing for” or “being ready for” such an event. The attempt to twist it to fit a certain narrative based on how a ridiculously small minority of people act is obnoxious and paints a whole lot of good people in a bad light.
I think he hits the nail in the head. He's main observation is this:

"...digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare. You're stuck choosing between staying silent and entering the fray, with few options in between. If you have little reason to believe that other reasonable people will back you up, you're going to stick with the default: silence."

In this permanent work from home situation, I can relate...
What exactly are the challenges of voice encryption over say text encryption? Just the bandwidth of data, or establishing trust?
Nathan made a thread as a reply to this piece on him

https://twitter.com/NathanTankus/status/1278777095670370304
Love this. One of the most frustrating aspects of social media is the lack of feedback, or maybe more accurately the one-sidedness of the feedback. I personally assume that means no one cares about what I write, but maybe they just don't have the energy to tell me off. Either way, this hits the nail right on the head in my opinion
And don't forget the mandated CanCon that radio stations have to play.
I'm guessing over-admission, watered down standards and acquiescence to bad ideas, but I can't speak for the original poster.
You're mixing up the formats slightly: MVT is sqlite with a particular schema; OSM raw data is PBF with a particular schema.
I tuck my cloth mask under my sunglasses and this avoids any fogging. Also, don't ride a scooter with a mask on.
The digital "tut" is perhaps a inter-social-media protocol we could create.

Like a downvote, it indicates disapproval and starts trying to, as this article persuasively says, move social nuance online.

Twitter, Facebook et al could all have this alongside a like button, on a RESTful interface so it's agnostic about the client.

Many, many years ago I stumbled across a web page hosted on a white supremacist site but was third in google's ranking for Martin Luther King search term. It struck me then that what would be useful was not for me to link to that site (hence adding to its pagerank) but to link to that site with an href attribute that indicated something was wrong about the facts presented.

I think overall this is the same problem of short selling - and it's not clear how to fix it.
Mystery stories are easy to sell. The problem with history is that if you're intentionally shaping a narrative, you're perverting your own discipline.
> Android isn’t really Linux, in that the commodity open source kernel is wrapped by proprietary value added software maintained by an army of highly paid professionals.

Isn't that true for all popular distros?
Which is great... as long as you knew about that environment variable before you got into this situation in the first place. You're not exactly told about it during the install process or "first steps" guides for any distro I'm aware of.
Isn't that the average debt a medical school graduate has? Of course that includes all expenses, not just tuition.

The numbers are crazy, but the degree is worth millions, unless they change their mind and don't practice or something.
I agree, and unfortunately, that’s the problem. It’s just another effort to paint a group of perfectly decent people with reasonable beliefs into a corner.
I'd be scared for my life if I was him... hopefully he posted that stuff anonymously. I've seen some white people getting killed on video in a similar manner to George Floyd's killing, but even worst (i.e.: The police have the medic inject the victim with strong drugs right after he passes out from getting choked to death). This video is very troubling but if someone wants to see it I will post it (what is even more troubling is that no one lost their job).
Is this another edition of "falsehoods programmers believe about quinoa"?
agree with you / have similar feelings these recent days - but would not have 25 years ago in the same places with the same number of people - so I think we are finding it takes more than build a spaces and they will come and befriend and be merry.

Makes me remember how things were very different in malls around here back in the 90s.. not sure when it exactly changed.. but many things changed immensely - and mainly with the types of people that you would be surrounded with.

There was also a different vibe with affordability of nearly everything back then.. that had mass effects I'm sure..

Now I'm trying to decided just what time frame so many things changed where people were more rude all around (customers and employees) - and in order to get the kind of customer service these days you almost need to go to some super expensive places - and even then its not usually as genuine as it once was.

My point being that 'so many people there' I think it relative to the vibe of the people, and not necessarily just place X with Y number of humans density... for example going to a comic-(like)-con these days with 'so many people' there is a totally different vibe than being at average mall (around my part of the country/world) with same number of people in similar spaces.

/random thoughts
Cynical compared to what?

"Caveat Emptor" is old as dirt. "Trust but verify" is a bit newer, but similar. Stergeons Law still holds. Caution is the watchword for intelligent people against a tide of garbage that's become the internet.

> They have some interesting people on their board of advisors.

How could anyone know that? Know them? Expecting strangers to research a huge list of names is unreasonable.
In medicine, people are regularly paying even more than that. Med school tuition is in the $60–70k/year range for four years. A top undergrad institution is around $50–60k/year for four years. Since med school admissions are so competitive, many students actually get a master's degree before applying to med school, which is another ~$60k/year for 1–2 years. In total, you're looking at $400-500k or even more in select cases.

The numbers vary depending on if you're paying in-state tuition or getting other scholarships, but the numbers above are pretty typical outside of those caveats.
The author does mention that though, except they call a bad-faith arguer a "grifter" instead of a "troll."
Political agenda, or something even more sinister, like an opportunistic foreign adversary? It seems like a lot of the FUD around Covid-19 is deliberately being spread to maximize casualties.

The article points out that contrarians, often conservative, promoted mask wearing until the US government reversed its position and said that masks do work.

Suddenly, anti-lockdown protests, conspiracy theories and mask objecting started happening, and mask wearing became politically polarizing. It would be interesting to see where these people get their information from...one suspects that the answer will be skewed heavily toward social media.
"... even in nature far from other people"

Yes, some governments issued nonsense warnings like this. But don't let the dumb proclamations of a few politicians impact your overall opinion on mask usage. These days, most guidances seem to be largely fact-based, thank god.
Just asking for your reference on this statement:

"""In one group there have been a strong set of policies to fight the virus, and it includes face masks, and in this group the virus has been beaten back."""

Because you're making it sound much more conclusive than what I've been seeing.
FWIW, Devon is a woman:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200524035931/https://devonzueg...
Anything by Iam Stewart is a good read.
I absolutely do NOT want that. Then hosts will learn to conceal their racism (unless they wanted to be deplatformed, in which case why wouldn’t they deplatform themselves?) and I might accidentally book with them.
I just want to point out all the people who say "It's about protecting others, not yourself" or some variation are part of the problem! That can be said about the random diy cloth masks, but for everything else:

The science of masks hasn't changed...

N95 – Filters at least 95% of airborne particles. Not resistant to oil.

Surgical N95 – A NIOSH-approved N95 respirator that has also been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a surgical mask.

N99 – Filters at least 99% of airborne particles. Not resistant to oil.

N100 – Filters at least 99.97% of airborne particles. Not resistant to oil.

R95 – Filters at least 95% of airborne particles. Somewhat resistant to oil.

P95 – Filters at least 95% of airborne particles. Strongly resistant to oil.

P99 – Filters at least 99% of airborne particles. Strongly resistant to oil.

P100 – Filters at least 99.97% of airborne particles. Strongly resistant to oil.

I've been wearing a p100 respirator that makes a good seal to protect myself, and been changing out a small piece of cloth on the out-valve to protect others. Please, stop perpetuating the myth that masks don't protect you. Of note is that while many of the higher rated masks tend to be tested at .3 microns, this is often a buffer and real world they tend to filter about .1... and the virus is said to be .12+ micron.

So if you can, I would suggest getting your hands on n100 or p100, preferable use an oximeter to make sure you have the physical fitness needed to force the air through, but if you are doing very small timeframe adventures this becomes less of an issue. Something that makes a good seal is ideal. Guys, you should heavily consider shaving. There is a reason in the military NBC training they started requiring with only a few exceptions, shaves... and no, the military gas masks will not work for this application unless you get the specific filters for this application (if you do, they would be great since they integrate the eyepro), which have a much wider ranger to select from than the above I reference...

note: it is also very important to verify you haven't been sold a fake product

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part...
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It seems like too much work, and not sure if it is a good use of someone's time to keep answering and writing long facts to people, or random strangers.

It isn't realistic to expect everyone, or the majority of people, do this on the internet.
Did Airbnb confirm that they deleted account? They are using vague term “cancelled your account”. That is a fishy use of “cancel” word where “delete” should have been used. I don’t trust Airbnb.
This article has some interesting points, but overall it is click-bait.

The recommendation at the end is, “We don’t know how well cloth masks work, so distancing should come first, but masks are likely to work to some extent and not everyone can distance themselves.” But for most of the article it talks as if the whole matter is so uncertain no recommendation can be made.

Anyway, the whole idea that we should wait until the science is all settled before we make policy decisions is quite impractical. We are learning as we are fighting the epidemic, and so we have to make decisions before we have full evidence. Indeed, the only way we can learn if masks work to help stop the epidemic is to have some countries mandate them and compare the results with countries that don't. Epidemics are very different than individual diseases. You have to make decisions at the group level, and when it is a new disease you have to do so without really good understanding.

And we know that the countries that have pursued a whole set of rigorous policies that includes face masks have been successful, while countries that are lax, include face masks, have failed. So the smart thing to do is pursue the set of policies that includes face masks, and later on find analyse the data and find out exactly how important they are.
Just wear the fucking mask. Ever been hit by spittle in the face? When you’re talking you’re spraying your mouth juices all over the place. Masks undoubtedly help reduce that.
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In general you're usually better off actually listening to someone and seeing what they have to say in order to make an informed judgement about them before listening to a characterization of them by a 3rd party with their own agenda.
> Anecdotally, asking questions has become as "offensive" as making statements.

I think it always has been. :)

You are offering the other person a chance to convince you that they are right.

Maybe they even have a good argument! And you'd never hear it if you don't open yourself up to that possibility.

Just as importantly: you can't expect somebody else to be open to changing their mind, if you aren't open to changing yours.

I don't always succeed in this, and sometimes end up chasing rabbits -- did so elsewhere here, in fact. Other than getting in a bit of writing practice, it was wholly unproductive.

> People are so wrapped up in their echo chambers that _anything_ not in line with those "norms" is considered unacceptable.

True, but like Clausewitz said, war is politics continued by alternate means.

It's worth offending people and taking risks to avoid those alternate means.
Yes and no. Not all gas-cooled reactors can work completely through convection cooling without melting, some do need fans even to just remove decay heat.

Also, reactors containing graphite (as many pebble-bed reactors will) do need a oxygen-free atmosphere, otherwise the graphite will ignite. So only convection of the proper uncontaminated protective atmosphere will work.
I recently had an opportunity to check out a drive-in movie theatre, and was very excited at the idea until I remembered that the FM radio in our car was messed up (we never use it). I dug through the garage and found my old Walkman still in a pile of high school stuff. Cleaned it up, installed batteries, cycled the volume rheostat until it was cleaned up and the static stopped...and POOF perfect FM radio again! I brought headphones and had a great time.
They still do manufacture knowledge. This part was always by employees.
> It's not fair to expect people to do extensive rebuttals of every crank out there.

Yeah but this isn’t just any “crank” out there, in this case it happens to be someone who is more famous and well known for their ideas than the vast majority of academics. We are talking about stopping to engage the crazy homeless person on the street.

This also happens to be what the egyptologists say about Robert Schoch and John Anthony West With respect to the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis. They can literally take time to hold press events to personally attack the people And state there is no evidence for these crazy ideas but refuse to address the Actual water erosion hypothesis.
I followed essentially the same path (though I ended up working in 4GLs in the late 80s). I also have fond memories of my time working (playing!) in BASIC.

That said, I like the options we have today for writing software that needs to be maintained :)
"Political agenda, or something even more sinister..."

I think the simplest explanation is that the conservative right now views literally every issue as a them-versus-us issue, and as soon as it was clear that "they" thought we should wear masks, a very predictable conservative backlash occurred. I'm not sure if the president helped launch this particular battle in the "culture war" or was just a cheerleader as usual.
Well, directives are (relatively) easy to add, at least in the Common Lisp version that I read through. So adding a directive to display images or other things would be a straightforward addition to someone using the format.
Yea the main selling point of Allbirds is their sustainable approach to manufacturing shoes. I've never owned a pair, but from my friends that do have them, they often describe them as "like if your shoes were socks" - which I think is intentional. Maybe OP went in with the wrong expectations?
This happened with my family. It was especially bad because earning $150k total for a household near an expensive urban area leads to purchasing power basically the same as a family with $65k household income in suburbia or small towns. Without adjusting parents income for cost of living (factors the kids in question have no control over), it’s totally unfair.

This has a lot to do with “last place aversion” - the people making $150k near SF having to pay full price for their kid (who probably worked their ass off) to barely scrape into Stanford are (rightly or wrongly) going to be totally NIMBY / selfish in terms of voting and policy when it comes to the $65k families from far away whose kids can pay much less than half for Stanford, say.
Discord works great, lighter than slack.
Thank you for linking this. Arguments will be made that Nathan is politicizing his spotlight, but he's simply seizing the moment to cast light on a dark and apolitical truth most of us take for granted.

I hope HNers can take the time to read this with an open and introspective heart and mind. Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1278777095670370304.html
Brand purpose. The biggest lie the ad industry ever told?