skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is a complexity issue.

Yup, and lots of folks here are missing that point or don't appreciate it enough. While I've never dealt with N95 masks or anything medical, there's a few things that immediately pop into my mind.

1. What's the certification process to get "N95"? From the body armor world (I was in it for just a little while years ago, things may have changed in the last 5+ years), getting NIJ certified is not completely simple. It's a time consuming process to get and keep standards (testing and manufacturing) to keep a ballistic grade. 1-3 months for new testing when the labs aren't swamped with armor to test (first timers in the field get "extra" testing). Since a N95 mask is life safety, I assume there's a process of submitting to 3rd party labs for quality, gov inspection of your manufacturing process and the batch testing against with 3rd party labs. How long does it take and how much does it cost? Just because you're finally up and running 6 months later, doesn't mean you're done. It would suck to do all that, then have the current leaders just steam roll your little operation's ass to crippling debt and layoffs.

2. What are the material requirements and how's that supply chain looking? If "everyone" is making N95 masks, how hard is it to even get the qualified materials needed? It would suck to pay all the money for equipment, training, personnel and the lab testing fees, then find out you can't even get enough stock of the materials. Then just to enter a completely flooded field. Older players get first dibs from distributors due to prior relationships both in time and yearly purchase amounts.

That's the two things off the top of my head. I'm pretty sure there's more, bigger issues I'm ignorant of.

Now, do I believe that there should be an "strategic supply of smaller manufacturers" that are prepped pre-crisis to fulfill such needs? Absol-fucking-lutely. But that's to be setup pre-crisis. Not during. Covid is a wake up call on the manufacturing needs of the USA. Any argument that globalization will save the USA in crisis is now dead and out the window. This applies to every other country too. Covid showed that every country has to think their own country first before they can help others. Situations like these makes things way more complicated and difficult on an already complex, fragile system. Just In Time Inventory only works if everything is "good and stable". While I love LEAN and understand the economic advantage of JIT, you still have to plan for big fuck ups, whether you like it or not. Reality doesn't seem to care what we all like.

Covid so far has been a love-tap of problem. If this was worse than a 0.5% yearly infection rate and worse than a 2% death rate, there would have been some serious, long term problems that we don't even want to imagine.
The point is we couldn't trust anyone with that kind of a key; it's fundamentally unsafe.
I am trying to think what other role can use this excuse of factors out of my control and failure to move the top line metric (in fact moving the other direction) but yet rewarded with a 400% increase in pay
> To him, he's just another friend on the podcast.

I know. And to people critical of Rogan's editorial choices, he is a malicious liar who was given a massive platform with which to share his views in an uncritical setting.
A torrent would be easiest on their servers.
You think taking male hormones as a teenage girl is harmless - you know it can make them sterile right? How about a radical double mastectomy?

This has real, irreversible effects. Shame on the adults for pushing parents or forcing parents to accept this, and shame on you for dismissing my very valid concerns as FUD.
Please support Electronic Frontier Foundation if you want to help fighting this: https://eff.org.
This is an interesting perspective. I had the sense that people in the EU were not very positive about American businesses anymore, but you seem to be suggesting this is overblown.
I noticed a broken link in the article: under Sublime for how the team is making enough to "hire an extra developer," the anchor is pointing to the blog post itself. I didn't see anything on either the Sublime or Sublime HQ site about an opening. I'm guessing that the position has already been filled, but that's not definitive.

Aside from that, excellent post.
Nit: the domain should be simplesubmitter, not simplesubmiter. That's a miter as in saw :)
I don't know if the usage is high enough to make a dent, but Brave seems like a better alternative on mobile: all the quality of Chrome without the downsides.

To expand on the quality point: I used Firefox a long time past most of my laymen friends had switched to Chrome, despite it being painfully slower, and I spent years giving it trial periods on a regular basis. But the quality gap was just too reliable and persistent, with it always being slower, jankier, and less featureful (from a product perspective, I still can't believe how many years it took for them to get per-tab processes). When I've tried it recently on mobile, it's seemed quite a bit slower, and

Combined with a decline in confidence in their ability to be an effective organization that started with Eich's ouster and has only gotten worse over time, it's difficult for me to see why most users would choose mobile FF over Brave. The only advantage i can see is extensions, but it's my impression that most users don't much care to use them.
Yes great book. I highly recommend as well it if you want to learn more about memorization techniques or just for an entertaining read about the memorization community and history of memorization techniques.
There is a buried lede: the Atom chips have an on-chip ARM core.

"This is a dedicated ARM processor, specifically an Arm Cortex M7, that supports real-time functionality, network synchronization, time sensitive networking, and low compute requirement workloads without needing to fire up the bigger cores."

It's interesting to see Intel recognizing this need and this limitation in this way.
Sure, all the best for your endeavours. We need better managed language support for GPGPU.
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When I say American exceptionalism, I'm not talking about the attitude of "We're better than all other countries". I'm talking about the attitude of "We can accomplish whatever we set our minds to, no matter how hard the task". The same attitude was at play in the Apollo program, if we don't want to use a wartime analogy.

The problem is that while having a can't do rather than a can do attitude is "only" causing the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans right now, it is going to kill way more than that with our long-term ongoing failure to address climate change. That is where the costs of having a can't do attitude are going to be the most visible.
Well it's more like, if there's a file bundle, it can be served, but no new files will be generated by the server and sent. The code split files already exist on the server, they're not generated anew so yeah it's still static.
At least one researcher (Joseph Jordania) has a theory that articulated speech arose in East Asia and back migrated. He hypothesizes that speech disorders like stuttering are more common in European and African populations, the last to acquire articulated speech in his model and thus having less time to winnow out bad alleles.

A rather unlikely theory[1], if only because backwards gene flow was until recently anathema within the mainstream of human evolutionary genetics, but one that is readily testable. Unfortunately the jury is still out on the prevalence of stuttering in, e.g., China. Current studies suggest that stuttering is very rare in China. But the counterargument is that social stigma keeps stutterers hidden and nobody has looked hard enough to discover them. And to his credit Jordania agrees that the existing data, while favorable to his hypothesis, is underwhelming and that true prevalence remains an open question.

[1] I like his approach more generally, though. Jordania's broader theory for the emergence of human cooperative behavior is the only one I've ever encountered that works in a classical Darwinian genetic model. All the others are implicitly or explicitly dependent on group selection, which is facially contradictory to Darwinian genetics and otherwise has yet to be shown in nature. Group selection might still be a thing, but regardless of whether Jordania's model is literally true in the specifics, Jordania successfully shows that you can find a series of eminently plausible steps that remain perfectly consonant with the selfish gene model; you don't need recourse to an unproven and seemingly contradictory extension.
Adobe’s ‘Liquid Mode’ uses AI to automatically redesign PDFs for mobile devices
I'm torn on that, mostly because I worked at a shop where sometimes bugs weren't handled immediately because they were edge cases (but we had more serious ones in play).

There was more than one time where a ticket from before I even started provided a critical clue, or at least a "We knew this was a problem and you didn't let us fix it" defense when the execs asked what happened. (Execs typically were the ones who forced us to add features instead of fix bugs)
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Of course there are difficulties. Everything is difficult compared to just buying stuff from China. The entire point is that we used to tackle the difficulties and work hard to succeed, rather than simply give up and recite reasons why things cannot be done.
I fail to see how else than "primitive" you can call the Go type system: it is roughly what you would get from a language designed in the 70's, and a lot of advances have since been made.

Whether or not these advances make a difference (positive or negative) in production is different question, but I'd rather not use "how much is a language used", as an inherent quality metric for a programming language. Otherwise, I fear we might all end up doing old-school Java, Javascript, Visual Basic and ABAP.
Such a cataclysmic event isn't necessary. https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...

The bigger issue with this idea would be getting enough hydrogen to Venus to create oceans. That would require hitting Venus with comets or possibly extracting hydrogen from a gas giant which seems impractical.
Pyroelectric fusion may also be of interest to you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroelectric_fusion
What is your hypothesis on why the UK, Germany, France, Norway, Russia, China, etc. have all been relatively unable to dictate sufficient capacity into existence? Even if the US is uniquely sucking, why can't we just buy it from all these other countries which should hypothetically have been able to create production also?
Recently one of the biggest and most popular sites you could watch anime on (Kissanime) shut down, apparently because of changes in said law and requests from copyright owners.
What do people - whose Government is acting against their wishes, outside their control and who are without recourse by means of the judiciary - what do they usually do?

And no I'm not saying one needs to go all the way to revolution, but people have brought countries to a halt over less important matters. Look at the french! It was fucking gas prices(!) the last time they set things on fire.

I don't necessarily agree with the goals of all groups of people rioting and going on strikes recently, but nonetheless it's a healthy thing to have now and then. Reminds those in power who they are beholden to. Without a good scare now and then they might get ideas - and they will - just look at countries where it's been altogether too quiet in recent history:

"When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Lovecraftian game engines, who wouldve guessed
When I learned the memory palace technique I practiced it by memorizing decks of cards. My fastest memorize & recall time was about 10 minutes, which isn't very fast compared to a lot who use this technique. I also memorized the population of each country, which makes me seem more knowledgable than I am about geo-politics. It's a good brain exercise, and mental walks through these memory palaces are in my opinion a great use of my idle time when I'm stuck waiting in line or something. Much better than draining my life energy into internet novelty on my phone these days.
> the atmosphere of Venus is the only place outside of Earth where humans could walk outside with just a simple oxygen mask

Surely a bit of an exaggeration? The mostly carbon dioxide, 1 atm of pressure area is not bad, but it coincides with the thickest cloud coverage. The clouds which are composed of sulfuric acid.
> In rhinovirus, a virus causing the common cold, a similar pocket was exploited to develop potent small molecules that bound tightly to the pocket distorting the structure of the rhinovirus, stopping its infectivity. These small molecules were successfully used as anti-viral drugs in human trials, defeating rhinovirus in the clinic.

So why isn't there a cure for the common cold? If there still isn't a cure for the common cold, why should we expect this drug target to be different?

Surely whoever wrote this article should have anticipated these questions?

(Edited to be less flippant)
Very similar to backlink services right? You add your link to a bunch of link lists to improve your SEO... not quite organic, but it must be somewhat viable...
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That help article is just for Docs, and is also extremely limited. I suggest you take a look at the G Suite updates blog instead:

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/

You'll be fairly overwhelmed in reading it, I imagine.
I experimented heavily with nootropics right around the time Limitless came out. I shudder when I think of the amount of time and money I squandered. It is a fool's errand. It is virtually impossible to quantify efficacy absent any real scientific rigor and the potential to do more harm than good is great. The most important lesson I learned about mental well-being and cognition after all was that there are no shortcuts. Diet, exercise, mindfulness, and persistence in whatever you are trying to become better at are the only ways to actually improve. At best the rest is inert snake oil and at worst you are harming yourself.
Hopefully this works out.

We see a lot of "core member of great thing founds own thing" and you really want to see them succeed but having an organization succeed takes a a lot of people with lots of different skills. I'm not convinced that any given jumble of highly talented folks actually produce something if we somehow ran a but of iterations of "jumble of highly talented folks".

I've heard plenty of stories of such folks going their own way to be stopped by basic business type problems like project management, just managing people, maintaining focus, raising money and keeping investors happy, etc.
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I got my undergrad in Engineering Physics from CU-Boulder and talked with many professors about fusion research (plus keeping up with developments since then).

Putting aside all the controversy of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions, the official name for cold fusion) and assuming that the theory actually results in usable tech (for once), the first line of the NASA article hints at where a device's power density would be competitive:

> "A team of NASA researchers seeking a new energy source for deep-space exploration missions"

which tells me that a theoretical device would be a replacement for current RTGs [1]. Low but consistent power for niche applications.

But in general I wouldn't get your hopes up. The higher-energy types of fusion power are far more promising for world-wide civilization-powering clean energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
A space elevator that lifts chunks of atmosphere up till they freeze, and whips them towards Mars from the rotational velocity at the top?
I've started exploring GIS using QGIS and a PostGIS backend over the last few months. It's an absolutely fascinating topic and there is so much interesting geospatial data available to play with.

This article makes it clear that I've only scratched the surface of what you can do with it.
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Ok. But aren't KN95 masks and N95 effectively the same?

There doesn't seem to be any shortage of KN95 masks. There are dozens of boxes of them at my local Lowe's.

So, why is the nurse in this story wearing an N95 for weeks, instead of wearing the plentiful KN95 mask?

Am I missing something?
"Fiery but mostly peaceful protests"
I'd rather do that in a different solar system. Massive planetary collision like that is bound to have some unintended side effects.
Yep. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Actual exceptionalism ended coinciding with the end of WW2. It's America's slow and steady decline like Rome. 250 years / 10 generations is about all a civilization typically lasts. Apathy, corruption, incompetence, disorder, inequality, poverty, decay, tyrants, and ultimately: dissolution.

Here's an insightful prognostication by the late, great Chalmers Johnson around 2005: https://youtu.be/Q2CCs-x9q9U
Making rifles involves literal tons of highly specialized tool machines that are only used for making rifles. Just look at a barrel or action and try to figure out how these were machined accurately in the 1920s.
Even with big names backing those studios, it's pretty hard to release good games from scratch and to last.
Encryption is actually incredibly hard. This is why it took whatsapp and other apps centrally doing it, and coordinating it between devices, to make end-to-end encryption commonly used.
I would like to point something out. The largest SARS-CoV2 is 0.2 microns, while N95 mask material, not while wearing the mask, is rated to filter particles no smaller than 0.3 microns. The size range of SARS-CoV2 is 0.05-0.2 microns, well below 0.3 microns.

To put those sizes in perspective, the largest SARS-CoV2 virus will have 50% of its diameter in clearance while passing through an N95 mask; the smallest virus will have 5X it's diameter in clearance. To put in relatable terms, it's like expecting a pingpong ball not fitting in a coffee cup for the biggest virus and more like expecting a pingpong ball not fitting in a large soup bowl for the smallest form of the virus.
The difference in resources between the companies obviously factors into product quality as well. The four-way focus of speed, security, compatibility with an evolving web spec, and extensibility is demanding to say the least.
Not remotely, no. The entire purpose of AA is to try to bring normalization to a system that is heavily and unfairly biased. AA has an understanding of the network effect and peoples' bias built in. Lower caste people favoring lower caste associates is a feature, not a bug. You want them to hire more people like them to help bring the group up. This doesn't always work, of course, but that's not the point. You want to increase the probability that it will happen

No high achievers are truly worried about being in a system with AA with regards to their personal employment and advancement. They're going to succeed regardless. The high caste people who are waiting for their (or are waiting for their kids') handout simply because they had good grades as a child are the ones who are the complainers.

It's not perfect, but it's not resource intensive and it's vastly better than the alternative.
https://archive.is/Ij2zA
> I got the impression they were better suited for an ATM or a vending machine that Tweets or something

Gambling machines too. There's a market for used small Atom based motherboards previously employed in betting and slot machines. They're often industrial grade really good quality hardware with plenty of serial ports even where not needed, and if lucky enough to find one with enough SATA ports, they also make excellent NAS boards. Linux support is usually complete since they're mostly used with that operating system. I had no surprises using one of them with BSD based Nas4Free.
Why do you want an older prototype when there is something in production right now with much better specs and pricing? They have obviously iterated on the product and is now on version 3.

> They are sourcing pure black tiles from China, that anyone can buy.

Wait, there's someone else on the market selling solar roof tiles in the US with a 30 year warranty and rated to survive hits from 1.75" diameter hail and 166 mph winds? This is the first time I am hearing of it!

Surely if it is all just bought from an upstream supplier surely someone else can also make bank buying it in bulk and reselling it undercutting Tesla. I would be interested to see a link to this supplier/installer.

Thanks.
I would love for this to work as an energy source. The usual limitation seems to be that it's only a tiny minority of places in the lattice that have the right geometry to enable fusion, perhaps because because it's under strain from a nearby defect. When fusion events happen, it's likely to rearrange several nearby atoms. So you run out of the special lattice locations after a while.

You can, of course, melt and re-cast the metal and hope to have a new crop of active lattice points, and it becomes a question of how much energy in vs. energy out.
On the other hand, Oracle is mentioned twice, in case we didn't spot it the first time.
You can totally use macros to reimplement do notation in rust, and that's what many crates on crates.io already do.
Flutter for Windows Alpha
That's the right way to preserve past games.
Four Ex-eBay Employees to Admit Guilt in Cyberstalking Plot
If Hollywood taught me anything, it's that drilling into the stopped core and setting off nukes are the best way to get it started again.
Not the OP, but I tend to react this way, too. I get a mental picture of a 12 year old planning out their stepping-stone Senate campaign in exactly 23 years...

But (unless monomania happens to work for you) that's not it at all. It is just the idea that having some sort of goal helps provide some mental priors you bring to every-day decision making.

As an example, I have no issues to speak of with my body and eat pretty healthily by default. So I don't pay attention to what I eat, but I do try to not spend a ton of money on it, because I do have financial goals.

Goals don't need to be some complicated 5 Year Plan or whatever. For me, they just end up being something in the back of my mind, a North Star for small-scale decisions.
Yeah, think of it like Nettle. Except painful enough to cause horses to jump of cliffs.

Read the wikipedia article of them, its great. I love the part that recommends applying dilute hydrochloric acid to the exposed skin to dissolve the needles.
Intel putting an ARM core on their SoC is like Windows putting a Linux Kernel in their OS ... wait a second.
I think you can play monkey island on Android with ScummVM. And all the games that work with ScummVM.
Yes it's surprising given how many side-projects Mozilla have how few of them have been monetized given that you must assume they have a genuine interest in finding alternative funding.

I'm sure that a number of people would have been prepared to pay for Firefox Send. I know a lot of people who have trouble transferring files too large for email so it surprised me that putting a user interface around backblaze's object store api with Mozilla's brand on it could not be a profitable business.
Yes, that's why Pets.com is such a powerhouse.
A Brief History of Spaceplanes
Nothing about e-commerce requires e2e encryption.

Using non-perfect forward secrecy on TLS has done very little for making webshops safer.