skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
vaccines against COVID have already been developed. They already exist. Designing them took a couple of weeks. What takes time is testing them to make sure they are safe and effective. The cold causing coronaviruses would also have to be tested for safety and efficacy in an application of preventing COVID-19. That's what the bulk of "developing" a COVID vaccine means in our modern context - testing through clinical trials. The first RNA vaccine against COVID "existed" a week after SARS-COV-2 was sequenced, and vaccines that use parts of the virus itself "existed" basically immediately after SARS-COV-2 started existing. Using the cold virus is actually a harder problem scientifically since you're using a different strain of virus to protect against SARS-COV-2 epitopes - the mechanism and safety profile is harder to predict and evaluate.
Disruptive innovation -- innovations that render entire industries obsolete, challenge cultural norms on a fundamental level, etc. I have also been to plenty of European locales -- in France, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Norway -- and I have seen and met with plenty of people doing innovative work, but not much in the way of disruptive innovation.
What if years later you do succeed?
I would be interested in learning more about how it is that YC accepts a company like this into the program, which, by definition, excludes others.

I place 3D printed homes right up there with flying cars. It makes for great futuristic articles, sure, yet, outside of corner cases nobody wants or needs a 3D printed house or a flying car. One could make an argument that these are places where dollar bills go to die and will be so for twenty-five years or more.

I am puzzled because of notions such as product-market fit, traction, and “build something people want”.

Outside of that, anyone with experience in construction can rattle-off at least a dozen ways for which a 3D printed home could be undesirable.

Even better, anyone with experience dealing with construction regulatory bodies (Building and Permit, inspections, zoning, planning, fire) knows full-well how much of a surreal nightmare this can become.

As a simple example, LA County Building and Permit added six months and at least $50K to my solar energy project simply because it didn’t fit within checkboxes the people I was dealing with were used to. Trying to introduce materials not on the approved lists could take decades and millions of dollars. I learned more about this than I care to admit.

So. Yeah. Why?
Google will likely go under if they are broken up.

The prevailing theory is that their ad success is solely due to data sharing throughout their service offerings.
> You cannot control the entirety of macOS with just a keyboard.

Yes, you can. There's an option in System Preferences called "Full Keyboard Access" to enable this.

> They don’t even have an easily discoverable process for hunting through app menus with just the keyboard.

macOS does it better: you can search all the menus with ⌘?.

> This is why users with disabilities, like Stephen Hawking have historically used Windows and not Mac.

Users with disabilities use Macs, I don't know what you're talking about. Macs are generally miles ahead in accessibility. Stephen Hawking was extremely attached to the one synthesizer he used, to the point that a team of engineers went through the effort to port that exact 30-year-old voice: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Vall...
A protester tried to ID a police officer on Twitter. Now he faces a felony
It is not, and I don't see where you're seeing that it is. People marching around chanting "defund the police" isn't domestic terrorism.

Domestic terrorism looks a lot more like rolling troops in camo into a city in unmarked vans to abduct citizens off the street to a location unknown to them.
If you think this rule is silly because the lawyers ought to know that when an engineer says something that uses a term used colloquially that the lawyers will interpret legally, you aren't allowed to be pedantic when a non-programmer uses a programming term incorrectly either.

Like, you can't complain when someone says "growing exponentially" when they mean "growing really fast."

It's the same sort of problem, and it is unfortunate that the lawyers can do it. But It happens in every field, really.
One reports to the government censor, including the dates of children in other countries, in service of current human rights atrocities.

The other does not, and the atrocities (arguably incomparable) are in the past tense.

Iraq was terrible, but it is not the ongoing forced sterilisation and enslavement of Uighurs.
The other thing that bugs me when using apps that don't use Mac widgets is single line text fields. If your cursor is at or near the end of the line, pressing the up arrow moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. Same with the down arrow when the cursor is at or near the beginning of the line. Any Mac app that doesn't do that is not using native text fields.
The only way that'll happen is by suicides if we keep the shutdown going perpetually. It's time to reopen. https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/2020/7/27/lockdownlunacythree
"Progress disappoints in the short run, surprises in the long run." -- Jim Keller
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Amen. 12 years is not long in anyone's eyes except for SV.
It's a valid argument. No police, no protection. I wouldn't respond either.
A financial collapse on top of a demand shock wouldn't have helped. This is speculation but Wells Fargo and Deutsche Bank were probably at risk of collapsing, thereby tanking the market for CLOs and sparking a wave of corporate bankruptcies and bank failures. In order to prevent this and restore confidence, the fed went all out. There's always waste involved but I'm hesitant to call the whole thing a waste without knowing what the Fed knows.

Do agree on unemployment though. The overhead of administering the program is nonsensical. Florida purposefully designed its systems to deny as many claims as possible. The idea of designing government systems as terribly as possible so that people hate the government is holding us back in times of crisis.

UBI payments simplify the whole thing.
Also interested to hear the options.
I agree that distinctions are important.

> The Chinese government demanded that all businesses censor content, but...

To distinguish this further:

> The Chinese government demanded that all foreign businesses engage in a significant violation of basic human rights, but...

That distinction materially impacts the rest of the argument for me.

People usually reply here with the false equivalence that the US banning misleading advertisements or child pornography is somehow equivalent to Xi Jinping's campaign against what he calls "historical nihilism" (but the rest of the world calls "history"). I don't really understand how those are the same though.
As you stated, this is about national security, which should be of the utmost urgency and concern. So you think saving the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter is more important than saving the liberty of citizens and the lives of the overseas dissidents that are being endangered?
Housing prices will drop, rich individuals and companies flush with profits from the federally propped up stock market will swoop in and buy them at a discount. Stocks will drop as cash leaves it for housing, negatively affecting retirement accounts and lower net worth individuals. The new landlords will rent them out, housing prices will rise again.

The current system works perfectly for what it was designed to do.
The cycle repeats endlessly funneling money from the lower class upwards.
In an ideal world us companies wouldn't move all operations to China since the 90s thus giving China the power they wield now.
Corporation greed and uber-consumerism brought us here, not China. China's the symptom.
"CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF FACEBOOK, INC. ARTICLE III: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law."

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512...

Facebook is no different than any other Delaware corporation. Facebook exists to do anything and everything that will profit its shareholders. Everything else is just PR.
> Not sure how different this is from Windows.

You have answered your own question. It's home/end, Ctrl and Windows keys where in macOS it's always CMD+something.
This argument doesn't give a shit about the ones who do get sick.
Why is it that whenever the government does something, it takes me about ten minutes to come up with a better plan? I've considered that I could be wrong that my plan is actually better, or that I'm missing something (I surely am) but I don't find that compelling.

I'm starting to think that the outcome of our political systems in the West produces suboptimal compromises engineered by politicians who are quite frankly ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and really just not good specimens of the species. It's like the system is designed to be mediocre.

What's the alternative though?
Can't wait to read the n-gate summary for this post.
of course some population of people will have long term damage, any disease could do that.
If you expect a map with locations marked X, well good luck. This is just a long-standing rumor, as these things are obviously kept secret, but the fact that both west-germany and switzerland did this (we actually have hard evidence) to stop advancing soviet forces in the event of war makes this very credible.
This makes me really happy.

I've been watching REBOL/RED anticipation, and recently, frustration.

At first they looked amazing. Then it was clear they weren't being adapted. Now I'm just hoping other languages will be inspired by them.
Yeah, first comes assembly of parts. "Assembled in USA", frankly, USA brand has diminished so may we should do a bit of a friendly competition of branding between states. "Assembled in Texas" or "Assembled in California".

Once assembly lines are automated (even using Chinese parts), there is incentive to achieve local production of those parts.

There is nothing that China has, besides precious metals perhaps, that USA does not.

I would kill to buy an iPhone made 100% in USA. Or even in Germany or France or any EU nation.

As Elon said - "We've forgotten to build stuff. Someone's gotta do it. Might as well be us."
I see you're already getting downvoted?

It's funny because the same people who support James Damore are also anti unionizing which would give them a stronger voice....
Right, and it’s also a culture thing.

If you are operating in the Valley then you get startupy folks who really think in terms of “that’ll crush our competition”... Maybe that is an intrinsic sort of motivation, talking to yourself like that? But it’s not a great culture for the company as a whole because it creates an implicit assumption of a zero-sum game. Like strategically you want to instead be saying something like “they can have that space and we are going to differentiate ourselves by leading in this other space” then you foster a culture of creativity rather than competition. And that then infects the rest, like whether your employees are trying to squeak by on 4 hours of sleep—one culture says “fuck yes we gotta keep crushing it” and the other says “I need you to take a day off because I need you at your best and this is you running at 20%.”

Google is weird because the company internals seem to be structured for maximum recruitment; it is meant to be a developer’s paradise. Conventional companies are structured around their executives, it is a paradise for the leadership. Google culture is very focused on creating a paradise for the coders.

Not saying that it doesn't also limit Google’s liability, of course it does, so Legal probably also wants to limit discussion about beating the crap out of any other company in the market. But if you really think your employees are all artists, it is weird to hear artists get super-competitive.
> all apps are reviewed against the same set of guidelines

Which we know isn't true. Otherwise apps like Steam Link[1], PS4 Remote Play[2] or Google Stadia[3] wouldn't be on the store. It's hard to take Apple seriously when they pull shit like this. They only handle the app distribution, while all the heavy lifting is done by a third-party infrastructure. I know it's their walled garden, but at some point they'll have to admit they're going too far and they're crippling the market.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/app/steam-link/id1246969117

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/app/ps4-remote-play/id1436192460

[3]: https://apps.apple.com/app/google-stadia/id1471900213
In the 7 or 8 swing states that matter, you think the election is already decided in each of them? I would expect a bunch more defectors if the economy is still in ruin by then, and a bunch of 'moderates' who end up deciding based on how recent foreign policy turns out.

Remember, most people are single issue voters. The rest of everything he does, doesnt matter.
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I guess it was just that the way it was worded caught me off guard. It seems odd to commit to unilateral actions without consent, especially in the context of recent shootings/bombings/arson.
Interesting that you mention the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment started with the depopulation of Black Death, the Great Famine, and the subsequent 3 centuries of warfare (Hundred Years War, War of the Roses, Wars of Religion, etc). Europe lost roughly 60% of its population. As a result, the survivors could bargain for higher wages, which led to a power shift from the entrenched landed aristocracy to the newly emerging merchant and guild classes. (Cynically, once the lords could no longer use peasant labor to quell any challenges to their power, they lost that power to a more egalitarian middle class.) Additionally, the survivors were overwhelmingly former members of the aristocracy - the new merchant classes were largely made up of the younger sons of noble families who previously would've been shut out of an inheritance by primogeniture. They were often educated the same way as their older brothers, but lacked control over resources in the feudal system. As the feudal system collapsed, they spread the values of the nobility into the rest of society. We got egalitarian values because everybody's ancestor used to be a lord, and most of the peasants died off.

There are some pretty obvious parallels to the current situation. It's very common for pandemics to lead to the collapse of current political organization.
Most of the examples that spurred this movement are killings that are disproportionately either negligent or depraved heart at the very least (let's pretend we can't form an argument that any of them were purposeful murders that were not necessary to save the officer). Even given this benefit of the doubt, it is still reasonable for independent citizens of a free nation to fight tooth and nail against such an assault on a tenant of civilization: That the state never kills you in the streets, if they can at all help it. Further, I can't see from any angle how allowing these instances to continue is a necessary price for preventing widespread crime.

>I just get the distinct impression that many people have got no real idea about the threat that crime poses to the prosperity of a community

I can't disagree more strongly.

>... and the effort that is required to keep it in check

This I agree with. But this is a weak argument against people who live with a constant background, and sometimes foreground, fear for their lives from their own government.
This thought is the one I keep coming back to over and over again in 2020.
> Why "the entire western world"? As an European, why should we align with the US in this?

That's some real cut-your-own-nose-off-to-spite-your-face territory. This is not aligning with the US. This is defending against China's policies that directly harm you and happen to also harm the US. The statement was "treat China exactly the same way China treats [you]". If you want to defend against the US too while you're at it, go ahead, but recognize what you just argued against here.
It is mildly off-topic, but it is not intended to derail this conversation. Did anyone else notice that Buzzfeednews and Yahoo news gotten somewhat decent ( as in, Yahoo actually had an in-depth analysis that wasn't all talking points ).
A distinction without a difference. Party affiliation is a requirement before a business can even become large. Perhaps you can call them private in the nominal sense. It is reminiscent of the National Socialist's command economy.

Private individuals may own a company on paper, but the party will dictate what is done with it. Look at the case of Jack Ma.
Amy Kane and Helen Ramirez are characters in High Noon. As the whole movie is less two-dimensional than most westerns, their characters go beyond the typical blonde vs brunette.
the fundamental problem with Rebol was cultural,

the creator had an ancient/dinosaur mentality where he thought selling the language itself was the business proposition, hence the licensing and limits that ultimately killed the language
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Putting measures in place that made it difficult to get medical care seems like a bad idea. Where was this and what were the rules?
Perhaps you are right. A drug with 60 years of safe use in humans could be dangerous.
The real loser of this battle will be Apple, not China; they may just lose all their Chinese users in the US to Android in a couple months.

The US is and will always be a free speech country, and they cannot go to the extent of imposing a firewall like China does. The extent to which they can take action is to require WeChat and TikTok off the app stores of the US. Which would leave Android users the option to install the app directly from an APK file, bypassing the Google store (no rooting required) while Apple users basically have no recourse without jailbreaking.
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“Piss-poor reputation”, “did jack shit”?

This isn’t journalism. This is article written by an angry 14 year old, purely just for clicks.
It sounds like the issue is that fact-checkers are being overridden sometimes when they flag right-wing news sources. I think that if you asked a right-wing person, they would tell you that many of these fact-checker organizations have a distinct left-wing bias. Maybe they (the fact-checkers) aren’t infallible and get it wrong sometimes?
Molyneux most definitely is an extremist, some choice quotes from the SPLC:

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

It's got nothing to do with echo chambers. The response to his memo might have been a little overblown, but anyone who associates with someone like Molyneux makes quite clear where they stand.

>makes me wonder if that's the sort of people HN is attracting?

I'm not sure about HN, but there's a pretty large subculture of hyper-reactionary stuff in tech around Curtis Yarvin, Thiel, and so on that's been seeping into mainstream communities for ages.
Termial: ctrl + L also clears the screen
If you're a software developer, consider how the first 90% of any project is the easiest.
Exactly. If the author admits that those weren't actually lies, then the headline itself is a lie.
This seems relevant:
http://jonls.dk/redshift/
I'm surprised the porn industry isn't making a fuss about this.

Apple is basically saying the only way you can access porn is through safari.

No app that accesses porn is allowed on the AppStore.
Works for mental acuity too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042018
It doesn't matter what it means "to me". It matters what it means.

Abolish: verb - formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution).
Issue is there is not really an alternative. What can they use except dollars? The euro? The yuan? I doubt they are going to go back to the gold standard.
USA has embraced globalism and benefitting from it.

American middle-class wealth has moved to upper-class rather than to outsiders.

"The recent stability in the share of adults living in middle-income households marks a shift from a decades-long downward trend. From 1971 to 2011, the share of adults in the middle class fell by 10 percentage points. But that shift was not all down the economic ladder. Indeed, the increase in the share of adults who are upper income was greater than the increase in the share who are lower income over that period, a sign of economic progress overall."

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america...
Most don't; COVID-19 isn't "any disease." It's got both an R0 and a fatality (and, we've come to learn, long-term-injury) rate that are way too high to refrain from taking it seriously.
The golden age of Lisp is now.

You might not have been one of the lucky few people to have access to the institutional hardware running Lisp during the golden age of Lisp you're referring to.
Facebook seems to have a conservative bias. I've never used it myself though, so I can't completely say. I'm also not saying whether or not they should, but they seem to.

Zuckerburg regularly hangs out with conservative political figures, but not liberal or letist ones. [0]

They censor the left regularly [1]. Also, is there even any leftist publications in the FB news tab?

They let the right slide by on things regularly though. They don't censor racism. [2] And they apparently have a bias that allows right publications to break their rules.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-holding-priv...

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/04/24/facebook-whil...

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employ...
You cannot have a full conversation about the brain and criminal justice without mentioning Robert Sapolsky, whose research has been at the forefront of this field for decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11Neurolaw.t.htm...
I think you're thinking I'm in the "ZOMG ban dihydrogen monoxide, it's a chemical!" crowd, and I'm not sure why you think that. Also, yes, I'm pretty sure you'd have a hard time convincing people to let you spray hand sanitizer all over their neighborhood, these days, even if they're OK with rubbing it on their hands.
I am definitely in the "enough to be dangerous" category, but isn't it technically possible to write SQL queries the way you describe? IE, the only reasons to write them in SELECT .. FROM order are (1) tradition / what others expect, and (2) optimizations made by the dbs that assume the traditional order? But in terms of returning correct results, FROM .. SELECT should work fine, I think.
> When you search for something on our site, we take the results from other search engines and our own indexes,
what percentage was it the year before?
Let's talk about human rights
There is an actual genocide going on in Yemen , and it's perpetuated by a Saudi dictator . The same dictator who dismembered an American journalist in foreign embassy.

Now Americans are selling weapons to the dictator to continue the genocide because human rights are selctive
No thanks, while the US protects its digital economy from Chinese companies, it is also slapping tariffs (or is threatening) on European goods.

The US doesn’t have any friends any more because it acting like a shit to them all. Meanwhile every day it looks more like a dictatorship with no regard for its populace. Honestly it’s time the rest of the western world moved on. Relationship over.
Looks like a unix-ish take on PowerShell.

I love the idea behind PowerShell, but the verbosity turns me off.

PowerShell, of course, has the pipelines but also COM integration, which is a big deal for Windows (you can script "the desktop" via COM; for instance you could create a new instance of Microsoft Word and call objects inside Word to do something to a document.)

Unix has dbus and some similar things, but nothing quite so critical as COM is to Windows.
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