skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks very much for that link (and the links contained in it.)

I'm using 75% ethanol in a spray to "sterilize" (for SARS2 only, it's a fragile virus).

Even if the efficiency drops after spraying (which is not the same as soaking), I think it's still better than just a cloth or surgical mask.

The link to making high efficiency masks

https://groups.oist.jp/nnp/diy-face-mask

in the link you provided is quite interesting. The concept of HV electrostatic blowing of polyethylene is new to me - I wondered how N95 masks were made. I note that in the cotton candy machine experiments they reduced the voltage to 50V, lol.

I'm going to reserve judgement on the physics behind making electrostatically charged fibers and the question of how long they retain the charge. That's an interesting area to investigate! For example:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00022470.1974.10...

Ethanol and isopropyl alcohol don't dissolve polypropylene, so the efficiency loss must be due to some other effect.

If the small fibers in the N95 mask have charge embedded in manufacturing, i.e. they are electrets, perhaps the removal of surface charge by alcohol (or screening by adsorbed alcohol?) is only temporary, and if the masks were tested a couple of days later, perhaps their efficiency might have recovered?

https://search.proquest.com/docview/236317922

I would appreciate it if the Federal administration put some effort into upping production of N95 masks for everyone - I've used them for years as dust masks, and now they are not readily obtainable. I still have a small stash, which we reuse and spray down with Everclear 151 after use.
Yes, but Jeans are part of the collapse now and considered formal for creatives with Levi's down 62% and doing layoffs. I thought "formality" was bizarre as well, but apparently their target demo don't consider the older skinny-jeans, and the new high-waisted mom-jeans to be as comfortable as Lulus... who'd have thunk it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/28/jeans-sal...

I suspect that it's a long term trend to reduce cost and quality/durability to maintain sales volumes. Fast fashion was a part of this, but now that people aren't going out to be seen, it doesn't matter what you're wearing (if it looks good on zoom). I suspect this will trend back once we're going out more, but with LA/NY/SF/MIA mostly shut down it won't be this year. What is happening for the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, but home video?

Maybe leisure suits will come back?
> Surely, we have the tools and desire, don't we? I hope.

Military conflicts through out the world since suggest we do not.
That's only one dimension of redundancy. The other one is control/ownership. High cadence won't save you if they suffer a problem that shuts down their entire fleet for a year, or if through a hyperloop accident Gwynne Shotwell gets replaced by her counterpart from the mirror universe, and decides to stop servicing US government unless she gets to be the empress.

Point being - and tangentially, it's somewhat of a blind spot in tech industry - besides scaling, you also really need ownership/control redundancy. Legal single points of failure are still single points of failure.
Note that Truffle framework is also a framework for Ethereum smart contract development

https://www.trufflesuite.com/

The Python smart contract framework is called Brownie.
Isn’t swiss basically originally just French and Germans?
Jira. It's slow. It's not intuitive. It's cluttered and hard to find anything in. It's easy to lose in progress work in it.
The first two appear to still work, but the third does not.

The permutation searches are tricky because you don't know if a lack of results means the email does not exist, or just hasn't been posted anywhere indexed

Will update and credit
> They knew that there was a continuous risk of a pandemic and prepared for one happening eventually.

What else did they prepare for. Is this public knowledge?
This makes no sense, with Atlassian being involved I'd double down on that statement.

But it's actually very cool. Like sending a person to the moon it pushes science forward. It's not another dumb shove more solar panels on houses idea.

It allows Australia a lot of power over Singapore and the region which is good for them.

I guess the question is what's the side ways difference between NT and Singapore? It's a one and half hour time zone difference. How much peak/off peak/day time advantage do they get with the the different sun times.

Why this over Perth? (I'd guess it's a simple power lines in the ocean is cheaper)
IBM went to Gary Kildall at Digital Research first.

Microsoft was already a very successful microcomputer software company at the time.
TikTok Planning to Challenge the Trump Administration Ban
1) Whether you agree with the practice doesn't affect the terminology used. People remove APIs. Before doing that, they deprecate them for a period to advise people to move off of them.

2) If you were to always maintain backward compatibility, how is "depreciated" in any way an accurate term? If the old API continues to work indefinitely, its value stays the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoko_Takeuchi ?

Female artists aren't exactly unknown.
I've read somewhere that cost of SFP dropped quite a lot over the years. So it's not about the cost anymore. It's just inertia.
You'd think given the amount of time he's spent working on Coronavirus that he might see the distinction between treating the symptoms and treating the cause, so to speak.

I've yet to see anyone provide any kind of evidence that suggests censorship changes people's minds about conspiracies - if anything it seems to be doing exactly the opposite.
Ah, I never knew "related:" existed. Also, saashub.com could be used as an alternative to alternativeto.net :)
So first off, I think "WhatsApp" is being used in two ways here. 1) is WhatsApp the company or the central server and the other 2) is the app on someone's phone. When people say end to end they mean from the WhatsApp app on someone's phone to the other WhatsApp app on another person's phone with no way WhatsApp the company can read the message.

So what I'm saying is it's easy for the app on people's phone to filter or block sharing misinformation, because the app can see what the data is just like your eyes using the app can see what the data is. I'd also be fairly surprised if WhatsApp the app re-uploaded every single shared video, I'd say it's more likely they share a link or hash and encrypt that link in the message (but that is just a guess).

To your second point.
All methods of global speech are eventually used for evil. All methods of communication are eventually used for evil, all methods of food preparation are eventually used for evil. There are some flaws in that argument.
Necessity and justification are two different concepts. Few believe it was necessary - the United States' overwhelming industrial capacity was bound to prevail over Japan. The state of the two countries warmaking capacity was totally lopsided by 1945. Thus it was not necessary to achieve victory.

That is brought an end to the war with fewer casualties, both American and Japanese even moreso, is not a difficult claim to support. Japan planned to fight a defensive war against an amphibious invasion in order to negotiate more favorable surrender terms. The Japanese estimated that this would incur 20 million Japanese casualties, and this plan was approved. Even if we assume that Japan's war machine would collapse before this figure of lives lost was reached, it is almost certain that the death toll would be in the millions. Germany, without the advantage of being a mountainous island nation and having a lower population than Japan, fought on its own soil in 1945 to the effect of several million dead. Thus, it's almost certain that the atomic bombings resulted in an order of magnitude fewer Japanese lives lost than an conventional invasion.
This is just Gates venting out, dude is sooo frustrated. Imagine doing as much as he did and still getting horseshit accusations about putting chips into people's bodies or whatever new nonsense they will come up in 6 months.
Sure:

1. Cycling is only permitted on cycling paths.

2. Cycling may not exceed 5 MPH.

3. Required gear includes leather pants, a leather jacket, a helmet, a mouth guard, a crotch guard, boots, gloves, safety glasses, and a wearable air bag system.

4. Plates (a.k.a. "tags") with inspection stickers are required. Safety inspections will be quarterly.

5. Licenses will be required. Licensing implies consent for random drug testing.
This is human nature and behaviour. It has always existed.

When people can freely go out and socialize again sales of fashion items will roar back.
I have no problem with the death of those who would prefer my death.

The most memorable line from the movie Patton (I don't know if General Patton said this IRL):

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
In The begin of February there were still a lot of unknowns, plus I have never seen these claims. So... citation needed.
Where did he say government should read everyone's private messages? Governments can access my security box at the bank. That is different from governments rifling through it all the time.
Why the hell does everyone now see Gates as some kind of superhero?! He was, and still is, a notorious, power hungry, anti-competitive slime ball. He has all the money in the world, so the only thing left is power.

His foundation seeks to create "viable markets" for vaccines and the original name for his foundation was "The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population Control."

I don't trust anything that piece of garbage says. I swear he's gotten worse the older he gets and no one remembers all the anti-competitive shit he pulled to get where he is.

Poisoned chalice my ass. He should know. His entire fucking life and legacy is a poisoned chalice.
Maybe I'm older than you, but I remember being worried about those newfangled bulldozers making us ditchdiggers obsolete. :)

Or how about movies making stage actors (and set builders, etc) obsolete? I mean, when you only have to act it out once and millions can see your performance, as opposed to actors performing shows every night in small venues in towns all over the country, it puts a lot of people out of work. There are pretty few people today making a living as actors.

And of course photography put portrait painters out of work. And high quality cameras in cell phones probably put a lot of photographers out of work.

What might happen is that there will still be actors, but all they have to do is act, not be beautiful. They can use a model for the beautiful part. And then you can have talented people on computers merging it all together.

I do like the idea of bedroom production of movies, which can happen if you don't need actors. Previously, if you want to be a film director, you needed to be born into a rich family, and then after extremely expensive film school, you needed to get big money to finance your movies. So there's that.
That might make an interesting blog post
> "Japan at the moment was seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of face"

Not really; some in Japan were seeking a surrender and some, notably nearly all of the Japanese military, were quite definitively not. Had the internal coup intended to prevent the surrender succeeded (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident), Eisenhower's quote would have been entirely false instead of a half-truth.
Hopefully not something to fuel conspiracy theorists with more reasons to burn down mobile towers like what has been happening in the UK recently.
You get SEO crap very often though IME.
I love this line: "Ah, deadlines. So this is online, but still needs work. Hopefully before any viral attention."
Interesting, do you have a link or name for the paper?
> Good riddance.

Its just a manifestation of human need to be in a hierachy. Makes no sense to me to attack a particular symptom.

I can think of a lots examples more destructive than fashion

expensive cars

single family homes with 5 bedrooms and 4 toilets

yatches

driving/flying vacations

suburbs/ need for "space"

overeating meat

I think its a common kneejerk reaction against fashion in nerd circles because we never found it useful and something that played to our negatives. A complait that has very little to do with the environment, really.
I think Gates is right. What is the problem with the government controlling communication?
There are clear advantages, like handling illegal things.
What are the disadvantages, the nude photo of your ex-girlfriend being analyzed by a machine?
It's a little strange to me how often the ills of consumerism are conflated with fashion alone. This comment (although not only this comment) drastically undersells that fashion is an art form as much as painting, writing or cinema: a means of personal expression and cultural communication which exists in conversation with its own history and traditions. Beyond that, the staving off of existential dread you mention is just as present in the amount of networking gear I've been obsessively adding to my homelab during iso -- where is the contempt for that?
I don't know the applications, but it may well not be suitable (providing the command path, for instance). I feel the pain of this from working on an HPC resource manager and more generally wanting to track executions on the system for management purposes.

I didn't need them when using Irix, so I don't know if it would have addressed the actual issue, but that seems to have had better facilities, such as easily-usable robust process trees. Similarly Super-UX, it seemed.
He presumably isn't using WhatsApp, so he is leading by example.
Hi, and welcome to HN. Nice work on getting something done and "out there" ... I hope it does well.

Quick thought ... if you want people to contact you directly, about the book, or about anything else, you might want to put contact details in your profile. Again, not essential, but many people don't realise that this is an option.
What's wrong with 'population control' through easy access to birth control and lowering infant mortality? Do you think he was planning on mass killings before he realized he should be more subtle?

He's not a superhero, but it's definitely better to devote your capital to helping others rather than simply accruing more.
For Africa it's just "one more disease" that probably won't even show up much in mortality numbers because there's just so many other slow disasters at the same time.
It's probably better than the celebrity actor endorsements, or whatever "influencers" say.
>I am getting pretty tired of sweatpants but regular pants feel uncomfortable while working from home.

No pants? You're working from home after all...

Only half kidding, my morning work uniform now is my cotton dressing gown ('bath robe' in US English?)

I tend to get dressed around lunchtime.

Vive la difference :)
Ever spent three minutes opening useless links from Google's Search results, only to realize they dropped the keyword you searched? That seems quite common now, especially with programming keywords, which are often obscure.

Remember Google Code Search, and Google (Usenet) Groups? Back then, Google cared about this stuff. Now they seem only to want to show you furniture ads, or get you to use their Zoom knockoff, etc.

These days Google substitutes the heck out of searches. Perhaps it's better if you've logged in, but I'd rather hack my leg off with a rusty saw than voluntarily log in to an account just to search the web.
This must be a recent change? It's been driving me nuts lately. I have to resort to adding a lot of negated search terms to compensate but it's still sub optimal.
And Australia already has experience [1] of building that type of link.

And according to your link, Australia's Basslink is owned by the government of Singapore. So that helps explain why they aren't afraid to do this. They've done it before.
Maybe Google doesn’t index epub at all? I think I never saw one in search results.
That never happens...the powerful never expect to live in the conditions they advocate.
Can you identify what those 1.4km transceivers are? https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=1.4km+10g

Are they even remotely standard compatible?
As someone who had the 2009 H1N1 strain I wish the authors would have spoken more about whether that strain as well could have come from a lab accident or was just natural.

Has anyone heard anything to that end or was it just random probability that caused it?
There is no base to this being done. What they are doing is starting phase 2 and phase 3 trials on vaccines that haven’t survived phase 1, yet. Under normal circumstances this would be extremely uneconomical.
When all the combinations have been played out, the universe will halt.
A practical example of this is getting ads in banned ad categories (drugs, sex, etc.) around google or facebooks ad filters
Important to know that retsina is drunk almost exclusively with food. Mixed with meat, it’s actually delicious. In fact I think I’ve never seen anybody having just a glass of retsina on its own. But everyone has the cheap Malamatina in the fridge. Be more open minded - like olives, it’s acquired taste, but rewards the brave. It’s delicious ;-)
> ETYMOLOGY. The name "Clamp" comes from a misspelling of the word "clump", meaning: "A bunch of potatoes". This is referenced in Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders, where a teacher is observed saying: "The name 'Clamp' incorporates the words 'hinge,' as well as 'potato mountain,' within its definition."

That's just weird! (And foolish. And nonsensical...)
You really thing he's all altruism now? Remember how he got there. It wasn't on the backs of good things. He crushed all of his competition. I don't understand how people see him as some kind of hero now.

He wants more power. The Gates funded oral polio vaccine in India was a fucking disaster!
But I want to eat animals! They are delicious!

In all seriousness I find your sentiment amusing. The way you guys explain right past the existence of carnivores or the cruelty that nature is capable of without human interference is downright inspiring.... for me to throw another couple patties on the BBQ
What is supposed to be debunked? The main claim seems to be:

> RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment.

Which... is true-ish? That's a bit like saying water is harmful to the environment and humans. For sure it is, if it's rushing at you with incredible velocity and mass (power). Electromagnetic radiation could certainly harm a human - with enough power. Drinking a glass of water or sending a ~100mW 2.5ghz or ~50mW 5.0ghz signal at your body is harmless.

Maybe a better example is solar radiation or sound, which is much more similar to a 5ghz signal (re: invisible radiation). A bit of sunlight is probably good for you - intense, unfiltered, high-powered UV light could roast the whole earth.

A good study to dive into some of the effects of 5GHz/100mW radiation would be https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765906/

A good snippet:

> The three in vivo investigations addressed a variety of issues including acute effects on muscle contraction, skin-reflection properties (which are more of a dose-related than health-related issue), and skin cancer [19,54,57]. The rat skin cancer study (one to two weekly, short-term exposures at 94 GHz, 1 W/kg; DMBA-initiated animals) did not show any positive outcome [54]. Another study examined the muscle contraction of mice and described some responses [19]. Again, 94 GHz was used, but power density or SAR values were not reported.

So at incredibly high power (94GHz / 1W/kg - thousands of times more powerful than what we're talking about with 5g) there were no positive outcomes for a skin cancer test. It was possible to stimulate muscle contraction, which makes total sense: pump enough electricity through the air to contract a muscle. But mammal bodies are great at insulation (our skulls are amazing at protecting us from rouge radiation).

The same study is also mentioned in this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System and (https://www.wired.com/2009/08/pain-ray-first-commercial-sale...) which is about "pain guns" - systems that use radiation to inflict pain from a distance. It mentions a beam power of 30 kilowatts! That's 300,000x more powerful, and the weapon doesn't work if the person is wearing a thick sweater. It takes a _ton_ of power to interfere with organic objects.

Edit: I do want to say that I think more investigation should be done re: radiation pollution and it's impact on micro-biology, insects, birds, etc. Humans are really resilient, but it's not super clear that for example, some algae might not respond to low levels of radiation in interesting ways. My intuition says it's unlikely, as there is tons of low level radiation flying around in nature - 5g isn't some new, different kind of energy, but further study should be done, absolutely. I'd suspect light radiation is far more dangerous to bugs and bacteria than 5g though.
What does a patent practitioner do?

Do you enjoy it?
Hi, Colin! Thanks for your kind words and for your good vibes. (Thank you for spotting my mistaken reply, too)

I just followed your advice and updated my profile info.
Hope you have a great week!
All I want is the ability to search for symbols. Symbolhound.com is the only site I've heard that will support that, but it leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm as impressed as the others they mention at the level of technology, and the fact that it is still in use today. But even more so, I'm amazed that the video is so clear even while the camera is in motion.

PS: People of a certain age demographic might remember this awesome band that harks from that very same city. They would have rode the Flying Train many a time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_3TlrZLpQ0
Well, outside of the commute, where they are one of the only things you can do, podcasts compete with surfing the internet, Netflix, etc.

Your rubric isn't very useful. Else you would conclude that taking heroin or posting on HN all day must be the most valuable way to spend your time.

You don't account for the fact that we actively sabotage our true ambitions. Not many of us are on HN going "definitely glad I'm here wasting my time instead of working towards things that actually fulfill me." It's just constant procrastination.

Being unable to identify this procrastination usually stems from rationalization. "Hmm, if something was more important to me, I'd surely be doing it!" being a great example of that faulty bargaining.

By the same token, exercise isn't worthless just because most of us avoid it. And we are often slaves to what is easy to do.

What is easy to do doesn't always agree with what we want to do.
The business network effect is mostly beneficial to the companies, not to the employees. The employees are simply attracted because of the better employment opportunities.
Being The Economist I suppose it makes sense they left out the absolutely massive shift in the trending of Marxism[1](~+900%) in the last few months.

[1] - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F065...
I live in Madrid, which is a fairly clean city compared to other places I’ve lived. We have loads of roaches, especially in the summer. We also have absurd 4G and Wifi coverage. I can only connect to the 5ghz Wifi band at home because 2.4 is saturated by the neighbors. There are still roaches where I live...

Funny thing, in the house where I grew up, I saw the same phenomenon as GP. We had constant roach infestations in the kitchen, and after years of different chemical treatments, they were suddenly gone for good. Always attributed it to an effective chemical or a random biological process. Still see them in other places in the city nevertheless.

Why are we even entertaining this on Hacker News though? Show me the papers, GP’s anecdotes or mine are worthless.