skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, fair enough. I dunno if I'm 100% on this, but I'll argue it:

It's important to keep in mind the difference between clinical and basic lab research.

Basic lab research is done in a sort of a closed system. There's a small group of people (grad students, post-docs) working on a limited set of projects. They all have their individual lab notebooks that are property of the lab. Nobody has to disclose anything to anybody, except the IRB and whoever is handing out grant money. The head of the lab, well their entire career depends on what that...lab...does... There is no plan B, other than teaching at a liberal-arts school or community college.

Most clinical researchers aren't as against-the-ropes in terms of their career as PhDs, because they're doctors and they can just go do medicine. Wups, my clinical study didn't work out, guess I'll go be absolutely.........fine..........

Plus, it's harder to keep things secret in a hospital. There's a lot more variables, and it's not as closed a system as a lab.

So for the COVID stuff, you have both MDs/DOs and PhDs working alongside each other in multidisciplinary teams. Thus, information is not as readily concealable and so there's less paranoia because....well, what's the point?
Could you imagine a world where the trillion dollars corporate bailout went to those small restaurantes and others small businesses instead? Or maybe where businesses booming -thanks to the quarantine- such as Amazon where forced to pay taxes instead of using legal loopholes to avoid paying any? Maybe both changes at the same time? Oh but that sounds too much like socialism and we can't have that devil around do we?

It's a good time as any to remember this website where each pixel represents $1000 so you can get a good grip about how money is being hoarded by the ultra-rich: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
Correct it is about the process and a lot of post consumer plastic isn't in practice recycleable at all. Its the absolute best case number and in practice its more like 10% or 1.1 uses as a result as far as I can tell from the various articles on it this year.
It might depend. Around my office in Paris there were a bunch of takeout salad bars that seemed fairly popular. Each would serve the salad in a dingy plastic bowl.

At some point last year, one of the places started selling glass bowls and inciting people to reuse them. They were pretty nice too, I actually went and bought one for my own use.

Most of those places' customers are people working in the local offices. So it's doable for them to wash the bowls and bring them back for another salad another day. I know at least one of the other salad bars would put your salad in your own bowl, so you wouldn't even be stuck going to the same place over and over.

It didn't really catch on with most people.

Having your own bowl won't give you any kind of discount at all. So I expect that aside from some people who actually want to do something for the environment, pretty much no one bothers to wash the bowl and drag it back to the salad place "for no reason". I think this also contributes to people's impression that plastic really is cheap (they're giving it away for free !) and that it's not really a problem for them to solve.
This is somewhat true, but our labor force isn't going anywhere and can be reemployed. It's the capital that people worry about more, but we don't have to live by capital's whims if we choose not to.
The Molecular Biologist Who Exposed the Soviet Union
You're right. I've felt a little bitter about the messaging ever since March.

From the get-go, there were articles pointing out the numerical reality that it would take 10 years to reach herd immunity with a curve flattened to match ICU capacity. Those calculations were slightly too pessimistic due to a myopic focus on ventilators, and the therapeutics have evolved since then.

So we were flattening the curve to delay a mass spread until a vaccine? Doesn't add up. Masks are as effective as the candidate vaccines will be at 100% use. Not everyone will get vaccinated. Maybe we delay until masks+vaccine push R0<1. Also doesn't add up. The new infection numbers are steady NOW, R0 has averaged around unity for months.

Look, it's hard to summarize a strategy when there is no strategy. There's just been reaction.
Think about it, instead of shutting down the world economy and ruining hundreds of millions (perhaps billions) of people's lives, they could have put stronger regulations on cigarettes/nicotine (or make it outright illegal)

And you don't have to repeat yourself
Won't they sue you for hosting their books? Other then open source ones. Allowing user to upload their own epub/pdf would solve major issues. They could surf b-ok.cc and grab any book for free.
> relegate the lobbyists to the lobby – giving them no access to markup sessions and no access to committee votes

These are some hot takes, but somewhat surprisingly they check out. Will read more.
The parent I replied to was discussing the cons of electric vehicles vs ICE cars....so, very germane.

My comment was also referring to the drain on the battery due to resistive heating used to warm up the cabin...not range efficiency on the battery due to cold temperature.

My Googling shows that Tesla went away from resistive to heat pump in the model Y...so, I think my comment is germane to Tesla except model Y.
Legal question: How can we make Plastics into the next Big Tobacco or Big Opioid lawsuit? In other words, hold an industry responsible for the damage they knew they were causing? They knowingly traded our environment for their profits.

I admire what the U.S. government did in those other two cases. While they came late, at least there were consequences.

References:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma#Oxycontin-relate...
Its really an amazing bar... it birthed quite a few classic cocktails (of course open to debate). 100% a historic establishment.
Even if I think it misses the mark, I understand the impetus behind making this kind of description to be honest. Learning Japanese is a big adventure of looking back and realising you were told white lies by about 50 different sources, and that there are much more intuitive ways of looking at the language.

The problem is is that compared to other languages, which people often learn through practice, Japanese attracts a lot of students who want to study in isolation, using tools or through books. There is a lot of preachiness about how good you have to be or how you have to study, which I've not felt studying French or Chinese. People seem to care more about theorycrafting how to study Japanese than actually getting good at talking to people with it.
An interesting comparison is Melbourne vs the rest of Australia. Most of the country only shut down down briefly and then reopened, but Melbourne shut down for months and has still not reopened. Melbourne (and its state, Victoria) is doing way worse than the other states economically: https://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/6902039/victoria-dra....
And there are animal reservoirs. Even if we temporarily eradicated the virus from all humans we would just catch it from animals again and the pandemic would start all over.
Quite. Even extremely moderate measures like commercial lease subsidies for small businesses could have helped enormously, but governments at all levels just don't seem to particularly care.

There were a thousand possible ways to navigate this crisis well - Germany's wage-subsidizing Kurzarbeit system has frequently been cited. But all of them require some measure of political will and imagination, and that seems utterly lacking in America. I can't think of a single city or state which has even really tried to do more than the bare minimum.
Any aluminum containers resealable? That's a huge issue with a lot of products.
How does that tell us why the death rate per capita in the US is 2.5x that of Canada?
Where do you think the oil was in the first place?
> How on earth did we get to this low point?

By putting the bottom line first. Cheaper manufacturing = bigger profits = Good™. All else be damned.
> Still-functioning equipment in the Waldorf Astoria's audio room

Um, okay. That's an Ashley MX-508, a very modern professional analog mixer currently selling for $1800 new. This is like looking at a Tesla Model S and saying "still functioning historic car".
Reusing washed glass bottles for perishables like milk can be a public health risk. It's hard to get the cleaning process to the point where when the stars align for that 1 out of 100,000 bottles it still gets sterilized.
To note, in 2001 Portugal has decriminalized possession of small quantities of drugs, for first time offenders. Drug trafficking is still just as illegal as ever. There are no cannabis shops or pervasive cannabis advertisement, as opposed to US liberal states, for example CO or WA.

> But Portugal’s experience is often misunderstood. Although it decriminalized the use of all illicit drugs in small amounts in 2001, including heroin and cocaine, that’s different from making them legal. And it did not decriminalize drug trafficking, which would typically involve larger quantities.

> Portugal’s law removed incarceration, but people caught possessing or using illicit drugs may be penalized by regional panels made up of social workers, medical professionals and drug experts. The panels can refer people to drug treatment programs, hand out fines or impose community service.

> A lot of the benefits over the years from Portugal’s policy shift have come not from decriminalization per se, but in the expansion of substance-use disorder treatment. Such a move might bring the most tangible benefit to the United States.
How is it better than otter.ai. they do same thing. Does your zoom integration let you download my meetings audio for transcription. How long does it take to get meeting insights.
When networks realize they can't easily inspect it and shape it, we are going to end up in a world where anything UDP that isn't DNS will be blocked.

TLS 1.3 and ESNI are already seeing blocking because middleboxes don't understand it.
I agree you did not mention tech. That was my secondary observation regarding the overall issue.

Your original comment reads:
> African Americans are 13% of the US Population. Isn't it reasonable to aspire to have at least 13% of African American staff (proportionally adjusted per state/city populations)?

Your thought experiment does not apply here because it assumes the same percentage of every population desires the same career. That need not reflect what we see in the real world. What if 50% of one race and 10% of another desires a specific career, the outcomes will reflect those numbers.

Again, you are ignoring the statement regarding people's interests and who they consider role models and what they consider as rewarding. In a world of equal opportunities, humans are still the variables, they will choose what they like. If there is a systemic problem that prohibits a certain race from reaching their aspirations, that is abominable and should be cut out.
Hey really enjoyed your post! I was hoping you could expand a little on exactly what sort of things you write in the second file. Are you writing down every "on topic" thought that floats through your head, or are you mostly writing down thoughts after reacting to something prompted by the thing you're learning? The example you have seems to be more the latter, i.e. stuff like "Now let's fix this spaghetti in the render method".
Well, to make my point, we do often see (e.g.) a soccer cheering crowd war turning violent.

To be fair, even though my wording has allowed for the possibility, I have never seen or heard about an editor war turning violent. I did see more than once nerd arguments gathering enough heat that it granted a "jury".
As I already pointed out, only a small amount of people travel by air regularly. So I really doubt that would be a problem for election.

For other industries, it's a mixed bag. Some will be welcomed such as reduction in planned obsolescence, better public transportation, more greenery, less trash on roads, breathable air, etc.

Most people won't notice inefficient coal power plants getting replaced by other better options. They want electricity at cheap and they will get it.
Removal of Personally identifiable information (PII) from text data is the first obvious application that came to mind.
Why didn't the landlord offer this "2 years no rent" deal to the existing "favorite coffee places"?

I'm not sure replacing established successful businesses with new ones is a fair trade...
Isn't it more likely that "recycled" plastic being shipped to Asia will end up in the ocean than if you just pitch it in a landfill?

So tossing plastic in the recycle bin is plausibly an environmental net negative.
People are cleaning the plastic with hot water to put it into the recycling. The only difference being that the glass actually gets used again and isn't dangerous to the environment and us as it breaks down. Plastic has turned into an unmitigated man made nature disaster.
I like glass and far prefer it to plastic in every use case. That said, I don't look forward to a glass future unless it's unbreakable. Trashy people are trashy, and litter whatever they have. I remember vividly as a kid streets spotted with broken soda bottles, and an occasional beer bottle. I'd much prefer not to return to those times.
It will probably need to come from outside of Silicon Valley. The monoculture there is too hostile to any contrarian ideas.

I’d put money on the next Reddit being from somewhere like Texas.
Using current technology, we would most likely render the earth uninhabitable due to the carbon emissions required to get it there.

If we had fusion & a space elevator it might be survivable.

We can borrow the reasoning from: https://what-if.xkcd.com/7/

That thought exercise involves moving 455 megatons of human off-planet. Getting rid of all plastic waste would in some ways be harder than that. Because we'd need to move that mass every year.

Current plastic production is about 380 megatons per year.
That’s going back a ways...
Thank god for kahama harris saving us from all those poor black men selling a plant. I love that the replacement for the dumpster that is trump is another awful candidate.
I encourage you to reach out to your elected representatives and let them know you are opposed to things like banking regulations that require corporations to capture all employee communications.
Prosecute them for fraud. They gained financially through deception.
>It has the ability to rapidly overwhelm areas very quickly. What I’m saying is completely factual and in line with epidemiologists and expert medical body assessments of the disease, of which you are likely not one of and are certainly not in line with.

The data is not on your side: statistically lockdowns have little effect on reducing covid deaths (https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/social-distancing-more-imp...). If there was a significant risk that it would "overwhelm areas very quickly" without lockdowns, we'd have seen this in places like Sweden, South Dakota and Japan which didn't have lockdowns, but we didn't.
It disappears in the mid-teens. After that point, your brain becomes less plastic. When your brain is less plastic, learning nee things is difficult.
I think it would be like any financial product and you’d need to accept some risk that payments would fail due to default. Eventually, we can hope that transactions will be faster, most likely through some trusted payment processor and/or some kind of contract.
For context I'm European but I did live in the US (TX) for 5 years. I need to go get some sleep, but very briefly:

I would say that the focus on race is a real problem over there - there's discrimination, hate, taboo topics and excessive PC, affirmative action, it's a political talking point, you have to identify as one of a few races in all kinds of forms (which is ridiculous - is a Portuguese person white or hispanic? What if they are black or mixed?)... The list goes on.

Minorities are generally of a lower socioeconomic status than the majority. People of a lower socioeconomic status are less likely to get a proper education (particularly in the US where university is super expensive). People without an education don't get white collar jobs, and thus have more trouble moving up the societal ladder. Therefore, there's less role models. I think you see where I'm getting at - it's a vicious cycle and I think ensuring everyone has access to proper education should be one of your top priorities.

Real racism is also a problem there, of course. But I fear that quotas will not help with that and just compound the problem instead.

Maybe I'll blog about this stuff one day.
Are you saying, eg, a BMW M3 wouldn't last for 7.5 years? Sounds like you've drank some strong Tesla koolaid.
The “local diners” in the USA have been sourcing all their food from Sysco for years if not decades now. Sure, not being part of a franchise gives an aura of being independent, but even smaller eateries in the USA are still pretty much corporate.
Home > Settings > Safari > Experimental Features, for Safari on iOS 14.

Home > Settings > Developer, for anywhere in iOS 14 that uses the system HTTP library.

Note that you'll need a device with development mode enabled for the latter.

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10111 has more details near the end.
in short:

this is a strange wrapper over http using ecdsa as auth.
why not use ECIES along with it to totally achieve privacy from requester to server?

as i understand, the vapor nodes save requests and replies, so these can be replayed.

this means heavy data bloat, when i look at nowadays apis we all run, saving all requests and answers fully... come on
Twitter's early backer Tim Draper invests in India's Unocoin
I would bet that they at least have their SSD controller working with Micron NAND in the lab. But in the near term, they probably don't need to worry about having any price or availability issues with the Kioxia/SanDisk BiCS4 TLC parts.
Guess we have no choice but to send it into the sun now.
I think people's memories are a bit short regarding just how dire things were in NYC back in April. I think things are a bit more complicated than just blaming the governor for shutting down restaurants.

Every resident in or around New York heard ambulances 24/7. Everyone knew someone that got very sick (not that anyone could even prove that they had it since testing was extremely scarce). The virus was still very new and there were legitimate reasons to suspect the death rate was much higher than it thankfully ended being. I even remember hearing rumors from friends, family, and coworkers that the feds were going to enforce a "wuhan-style" quarantine in NYC. In terms of general fright, it reminded me a lot of 9/11.

It would've been political malfeasance for the mayor/governor to do nothing in these circumstances. In terms of infections, the city recovered relatively quickly and most of the lockdown was lifted by Summer (indoor dining obviously being one of the holdouts here that hurt restaurants a lot)

I think the worst "medium-term" effects are the loss of tourists and office workers. There's very few legal restrictions on offices reopening at this point, but very few have actually come back. The triple of lockdowns, vanishing tourists, and vanishing office workers is just too much for small businesses.
Odd he would pick specifically white guys. Whites (61% of US) are underrepresented at Twitter (42%) [1], Facebook (41%) [2], and in tech overall (~55%) [3]. Meanwhile Asians are greatly over-represented - why isn't he excluding them, instead?

[1] https://careers.twitter.com/en/tweep-life/diversity.html

[2] https://diversity.fb.com/read-report/

[3] https://hackernoon.com/white-employees-are-heavily-over-repr... (the "heavy over-representation" is, according to the 3rd chart, ~18%. I.e. there are 1.18x as many whites in leadership positions as you'd expect, but that's compared to their under-represented numbers in tech overall)
Schooling in an extremely significant factor. By the teenage, a child has undergone more than ten thousands hours of schooling (say, 6h * 250d * 8y), in the language of the country they grow up in. It's an extensive and, by an adult learning a second language, irreplaceable experience.

Children who have one parent from a foreign country, even if they communicate extensively with such parent, will have a considerably more developed native language.
Many could argue the same about the legitimacy of the Post.
It is generally bad for societal trust when those who have invested in the system are suddenly uprooted and have their investments destroyed. It is more likely that the next potential cafe owners are thinking, “Why risk opening a cafe if it might be irrationally shut down?”
Conversely, if laws have no meaning, what makes them think that the concept of free speech is protected by law? It's turtles all the way down.
Is Swift worth learning if you're not going to be doing Apple development?
I thought the border was and is still closed to drive across unless you are on essential business or are Canadian returning home?

Apparently you can fly though?
It's not particularly deadly to the vast majority of people.
Nice! Similar space to https://github.com/xixixao/jfl, might steal a couple (rotation is a good one)
Thanks for this explanation. I'd not heard of the debate before, but now that you describe it I find I've been a fan of input learning for a long time.

With that said I still find GP's complaint pretty weird, since TFA strikes me as being in the "beginning stuff that even advocates of input learning would teach out of a book" category.

I mean, if I was teaching somebody Japanese then I'd probably cover how particles work on the first day. Surely only a madman would expect someone to absorb that organically.
It’s an expression. Every independently-owned restaurant in America doesn’t get its food from Sysco.
I stand at the same point, and like others of my generation I'm considering switching job and moving to something completely different.

But if I'm being honest, I have to remind myself that the industry was not any better when I joined. Actually, I initially refused to work in that field for the same reasons that you list, except the epitome of dumb and user hostility at the time was Microsoft and Oracle. What made it possible for me to work in the industry was the raising tide of free software. Contributing to the success of it was interesting and fun and meaningful.

Now this tide have receded. Open source has merged with the industry, it incorporated its culture and helps greatly with the dumbing down and the over production of junk software.

I'm waiting for the next wave to come. I'm not sure where it will come from. My best guess at the moment as the most important, potentially disruptive technology, is functional OS distributions pioneered by NixOS and perfected by GuixSD, that has the potential of becoming the Debian of the future and revolution the way we assemble and distribute software and put an end to that unprincipled era of containers.

Rust is also an interesting piece of tech that has the potential to promote correctness and optimization in a field obsessed with simplicity.

So if one had to look for a job right now I would encourage either evangelization in one of those technologies maybe. That, or to work in a farm and enjoy computers on the side.
> The state of the US economy, and society, is so incredibly frightening to me because we seem to no longer have a collective, shared experience and goals.

When has this ever been true?
I can't find anything on your website or the app's website listing your qualifications. How are you qualified to advise people on how to fix their depression?

What medical studies and approval has your app been through?

If this article persuades even a single person to ditch their prescribed medication in favour of your app—after all who would want to end up in a straight-jacket—and that person then harms themselves, how are you going to deal with that?