skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the beginning of the pandemic, we thought we could trace and contain anybody with covid, thus ELIMINATING the virus. In this view, only healthcare workers need masks! If healthcare workers go without masks because every ordinary joe stocked up on masks and toilet paper, that means that healthcare workers get infected and become the spreaders, which is the opposite of "containing".

Healthcare workers aren't getting masks through the same supply chains as regular people; they are getting them through hospitals. If it truly was the case that hospitals were being outbid for supplies by private entities, that is a commerce regulatory problem arguably out of scope of the CDC. The government should have bitten the bullet and passed a law to forcibly route material to hospitals and / or eminent domained existing stockpiles for sale by companies or individuals and given them to hospitals. It is not the CDC's job to handle supply chain management in these contexts. If the CDC would like to get involved, it should be encouraging people to give masks to health care workers because they work and because health care workers should take priority. This preserves their credibility and shifts the responsibility to act onto the entities that should be bearing it: the president and congress.
Exactly. Surprised this is barely mentioned in the article.

During the siege of Baghdad, the Mongols destroyed the Grand Library of Baghdad which contained countless precious historical documents and books on subjects ranging from medicine to astronomy.[1]

To think these invaders are glorified today makes me sick. In my opinion, not only did only cause the decline of the Arabic world, but they also severely impacted the technological development of the world as a whole. Some of the works in the library were believed to be ancient manuscripts from Greek sources.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)#Destru...
I didn’t say “putting everything up for grabs for state control.”
> It would be sweet if you could get the carbon out of the atmosphere somehow.

Some parts of the atmosphere have much higher concentrations of CO2 than others, for example at the smokestack of a cement plant.

This is a convenient solution, but only one of the two gets to claim to be green. Either the cement plant gets credit for the carbon reduction or the airplane the credit for using a green fuel, but not both.
I can steal all your video data of 'you' and call someone else back, as you?

I could even get an accomplice to do it while I'm talking to you. They would have your today clothes on and you'd be tied up talking to me.

I'm dubious on the tech being as good as they say now. But it's getting exciting.
It is a more principled replacement for the get_context, set_context pair. And more powerful vecause it is run inside the to coroutine, so the coroutine that called swap is already suspended.

Things you can do from the closure:

- delete the 'from' coroutine

- return into the 'to' coroutine a different coroutine than 'from' (or even bo coroutine at all). This is useful to implement blocking primitives amd schedulers.

- throw an exception into the to coroutine (for example for exception forwarding or even just to force the target coroutine to exit)

And much more of course.

It is a very powerful primitive analogous to call-with-current-continuation.
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I recall reading somewhere, the reason the Arab world turned away from science was when a particular Caliph came to power and gave the order to destroy any material that wasn't mentioned in the Quran.
It's wonderful to hear they've decided to shut down their services.
Not sure why we should trust that this will actually happen since they knew it was going on and let it occur. In the end these fake bots drive engagement and therefore share price - they have no financial incentive to stop it, unless the number of people refusing to use the platform grows. Personally I won't use Facebook, using it feels like I am actively assisting with the destruction of democracy in the United States. I can't imagine that's a common feeling.
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the Amazon category is "microprocessor design"!
Is this linked exploit the same as the Fappening exploit?
I wonder if it counts that a lot of this pot is being stirred up by Chinese and Russian troll farms. Do you think that would be enough for a judge to rule in the FBI's favor for the abuses that they and other federal agencies are obviously up to in Seattle and other hot spots?
> Facebook said it had found 10 networks, some of which it had previously identified publicly.

I think this is the more important bit, I don't know how they prevent abuse by the same network again. These guys can just manufacture new identities.
I mean, in some sense you're right, but in another, the point is that it's not a regression.
Native American Tribe Gets Early Access to SpaceX's Starlink and Says It's Fast
A bit of a basic question but, if an individual working in the US on an H1B Visa decides to marry a US Citizen, how will it affect their job status? Will they have to quit their job, go back to their country of origin and return to the US on a Marriage/Fiance visa once that process is approved?
Great concept. With higher quality input, keyframe, point tracking, and ML model the output should improve significantly with similar bandwidth improvement. I think this could also smooth between dropped frames and offer higher bandwidth for the audio feed.

The issues are social. I would hope that the receiver is the one able to choose between original or AI stream, as I can understand some people being uncomfortable with the artifacts, gaze, expressions, and other edge cases. But when the quality is higher I could see a lot of people preferring this option as a default.
Most Mafias want an 80% cut, not a 30% cut...
https://twitter.com/TribeHoh/status/1313901793261187073
I don't trust Facebook or Twitter to distinguish disinformation from information. Why would anyone?
> As others said, some features could be split off into other crates.

I agree with this, but that's not what your original post says. Or at least, it’s not what I understood from reading it. :)

> The point is, Rust (and NPM)

and C, in many real-world cases, which is why the above post matters.
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Do you have any thoughts on how the October bulletin might affect folks on cap-exempt visas? (non-profits, academia etc)
They need users more than users need them.

That's how it makes sense.
How does the US compare when it comes to other countries when it comes to recruiting top tier foreign talent? Would love your opinion here on what we would need to do to improve
Twitter still doesn’t have a way to report misinformation. I’ve been seeing an almost 100% success rate in accounts s report having actions taken.
Nonsense, of course. Where I will agree is that I think there are vastly fewer researchers working on ground-breaking technology -- at least in Computer Science.

But that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
Again, that happened in Egypt, and the US were very much happy to support a coup that undone everything gained by the Egyption revolution.
Hi! My co-founder and I are thinking about incorporating a startup in the US. I'm American but my co-founder is Canadian. We've looked at options under NAFTA / TN visa and others, but that doesn't seem to apply to startup founders. We're also flexible on structure, and leaning on an LLC taxed as S-Corp to make it easy for us for filing. We are a research-based startup and are planning to apply for NSF SBIRs (so we need to be 51% US-owned) and not necessarily raise money at the start. Do you have any thoughts on our case? Or do we need to go the H1-B route for her as a co-founder?

Thank you in advance!
Ordered. Funnily enough I recently came across this GDC presentation by Sid and Bruce Shelley on the development of the original Civilization[0]. Highly recommended.

The influence of Empire as one of the inspirations of the game was obvious to anyone familiar with it. If you're interested there's an excellent updated implementation of Empire on the App Store[1]. I'd love to be able to get a version of Civ 2 on mobile. It's still by far my favourite iteration of Civ. Or Pirates!

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-auWfJTts

[1]https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mother-of-all-battles/id425160...
Watching the video, I'm not sure I interpret it to say the term technical refers only to code needing to be refactored because it was well written but based on incomplete knowledge. But I understand how someone could interpret the video differently.

In the video he tells how he used the term to explain to his boss why they wanted to spend time refactoring code. He justfies what they did as borrowing money to make an investment. They had to pay off the loan but he thinks this was a good investment.

The specific section where he talks about people getting something wrong related to the debt metaphor at 3:18, the section title "Agility". If you just watch this, it can seem like he is saying they are using the term wrong. But I think what he is saying is that they are getting the _justification_ for going into technical debt wrong, not that they are using the term technical debt wrong. After he calls it a metaphor, not a term.

In other words, I think it is OK to use the term technical debt to refer to "debt" no matter how it is incurred.

I understand people could interpret the video differently and I would be interested in hearing other interpretations.
PSA: mildly risky click if you follow the link to the CodedMails Unsplash Collection. Not sure which template needs the pantsless girl losing her Star Wars t-shirt. Maybe one of the Notifications templates?
I'm wondering: Assuming Oracle wins on copyrightability, how will it affect BSD-licensed software? The license text just says

> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: [...]

But reimplementing the API is neither using the source code nor distributing it, so would it be covered or not?
True.

Also, I coud imagine Rust's type-system raises the bar of dependencies that can be mangaged before everything breaks down. So a lib with 100 deps in NPM isn't the same as a lib with 100 deps in Cargo.
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Ask HN: Can't the GitHub switch from “master” to “main” be opt in?
Is it just me or it's weird as fuck?

There isn't even a way to opt-out, why do people jam shit like this onto their user's throats?

Yes it's politically correct but adding "git branch -M main" on every new repo the mankind creates is just a waste of goddamn bytes and kills a penguin every year for every extra cpu cycle it wastes.

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Edit:

Nevermind, turns out you can skip that "git branch -M main" step. I'm a fucking idiot I guess.
Ligatures that might not be supported by any known fonts, otherwise unprintable characters, etc etc etc.

This is for those situations where you’ve got a stream of Unicode coming in and there’s some sort of weird behavior you’re trying to figure out due to some glyph that’s not otherwise representable, ie, is that end-of-line a carriage-return, a new-line, is there a space afterwards, and did that program just include a null-character as record delimiter before the new-line??? That sort of thing.
When you say scaling and then mention 'silver and palladium' in the same text I can not take you seriously. No large industrial process to solve a global scaling problem can use even 1g of such metals.

There is a reason tons and tons of money in battery research is spent on removing every single metal that is even remotely expensive. Cobalt is being cut out. Gravity is on the getting cut soon. Once those are achieved the nickel will be replaced with sulfur. Once we have sulfur-silicon batteries the material cost of the battery will be incredibly low and will TWh factories the marginal production cost per battery will also be incredibly low.

Why should we spend lots of time and resources on a technology that has so many issues, when we already have a working much better solution, with much better prospect of being much better over time. In fact, in those technologies there is already a cost-curve happening right now that makes it cheaper every year and there is no reason why it should stop now.
To each their own, but I usually try to refactor when I hit too many nested loops or branched statements - it's usually a sign of missing some abstraction or trying to be too clever.
Thanks for sharing, just ordered my copy !
This is awesome! Aliens should be definitely looking into this
NASA's X-57 Maxwell is in interesting approach that uses multiple motors (7) on each wing

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/X57/why-so-many-motors.html#op...
That’s really funny to me. One of the criticisms I’ve read about Amazon is how they destroyed diapers dot com.

There could have been several other sites all worth billions of dollars without the need for a single one stop shop.
There’s 2 real world things that I think would need to happen in order for companies to go all-in:

1. Companies need success stories of that kind of ad-hoc innovation happening from within the company remotely. Otherwise someone will 100% kill it. Somewhat a function of how long until return to normalcy if that’s possible.

2. Another uncontrolled viral outbreak in the next decade changes the math on financial sustainability of the large campus and externally forces companies to go all-in.

From what I’ve seen I think companies hedge #2 happening by allowing remote in perpetuity, and it solves gnarly issues with “forcing” people back in. But at this point I don’t think #1 happens with this pandemic.
It's about the social tissue. [0]

Western world is built upon modern science and technique, but the people are users, not thinkers.

Very few people understand science, even in tech. You have to play with physics first hand to consider how far we are and are far behind most humans are.

[0] research is funded by companies producing comfort devices or hidden infrastructure to sell to ignorant people. You cannot sell a physical principle or an engineering tool. So the society spreads itself from people with knowledge fueling the lives of a large mass of less knowledgeable.
Think of that not as a claim, but as a competing definition of the word(s).
Toyota literally just launched a hydrogen personal vehicle.

https://www.toyota.com/mirai/fcv.html

So to call it dead is not quite accurate. They're taking the same route as Tesla and building their own distribution infrastructure in small dense markets to start.

Will it pan out in the long term? Hard to say, but its no longer just a theoretical future vehicle but a consumer ready product that can now be iterated on.
There were a lot of tools/frameworks to create software "without coding". I believe the problem is some people are understanding the complexity in a wrong way. Coding isn't complex (and today it is much more true than it used to be) because of some natural complexity of coding itself. Rather it is because it strives to express complex ideas. And whichever language (visual, textual) is used to express complex ideas it has to be at least as complex as those ideas themselves. I personally found that having a formal language is often easier to express complex ideas compared to any visual tool I have seen. One place where these tools can shine would be probably trivial apps. Maybe that's the point...
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing, I had no idea this was possible.
Sounds like an interesting exercise. Let's look at the ten largest American companies by market capitalization in 1960.

1. American Telephone & Telegraph is now called AT&T and was in the top 10 within the last decade.
2. General Motors has dropped off the top 100 for a while, but was the world's largest automaker within the last decade.
3. E.I. du Pont Nemours dropped off the top 100 in the last few years, but was the world's largest chemical company within the last decade before selling off Dow.
4. Standard Oil Co of NJ is essentially ExxonMobil and has been the #1 largest company within the last decade.
5. General Electric has been in the top 10 within the last decade.
6. IBM has been in the top 10 within the last decade.
7. Texas Company is now called Texaco and is part of Chevron, which has been in the top 10 within the last decade.
8. Union Carbide had one of the world's largest industrial disasters, and its later history is involved with duPont above as part of Dow.
9. Eastman Kodak ceased being relevant in the last 20 years.
10. Sears Roebuck & Company has collapsed, last being the largest retailer in the 1980s.

tl;dr: Of the top 10 in 1960, half have been in the top 10 within the last decade (including the former #1) and one has been #1 within the last decade.
Based on this article I've determined that I guess I don't really care all that much if the story I'm reading or watching is classist.
On the other side of this, SeaweedFS appears to be largely implemented in Go, an useless keyword to search on.

"Golang" works much better, but sometimes results in a pedantic correction "The language is Go not Golang", to which I can only reply that the project is hosted on golang.org. Weird a.k.a. unique names are useful.

CockroachDB: Cockroaches are hard to kill. The vendor wants to imply this is also the case for their platform.
The result is exactly the same.
Alternative to Amazon:

https://wordery.com/sid-meiers-memoir-sid-meier-978132400587...

Bought it the other day. Still waiting for Stripe Press to not be Amazon exclusive as well.
I'm biased as my team built it, but github.com/posthog/posthog is probably worth a look. We can provide basic GA functionality and a lot of more product analytics focussed functionality + feature flags.
It should be an option in my opinion, as cold start time could vary a lot by which image and runtime you are running, if is a Java app or a statically linked Rust program.
I have a bunch of very small and simple services, which I run on a single VPN. Moving to fly.io would mean to pay various time more. I tried that, and the service is nice indeed, but not for me I guess.
Here is my script:

https://github.com/nu8/cove/tree/master/rust-deps
Yes! E.g. AAA games render the entire 4k screen with the highest graphics, but only a small spot hits the part of retina that can perceive jagged edges or lighting details.
I came to this conclusion myself a few months ago, that getting the cheapest plan and hitting the max out of pocket every single year is the cheapest course of action if you buy your own insurance plan.

Kind of figured there was a catch though, maybe not!
I have DACA. What can and can't I do when starting a business in the U.S?

What's the best path to citizenship?
Have you heard of the reproducibility/replication crisis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

"A 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported that 70% of them had failed to reproduce at least one other scientist's experiment (50% had failed to reproduce one of their own experiments). In 2009, 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying studies at least once and 14% admitted to personally knowing someone who did. Misconducts were reported more frequently by medical researchers than others."

Its not a joke.

Also, there is the question of funding in science. The government, the military and private corporations basically provide all the funding.

Do you think they fund things that are not in their interests? That good food would be more effective than medicine? Stuff like that?

If they fund a study that produces data that is contrary to the general narrative, do you think that will be published?

Do you think they will fund those studies that are against their narrative?

I love science, and the scientific method. But, not the science we have. It really is akin to religion - both are means of governance of the masses by controlling what is acceptable to think about.
>They're not addicted

>I recognize that some people do get addicted

>the only thing they're addicted to if anything is convenience

Since you're a bit err.. "conflicted" on this subject, you might want to read some research.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=social+media+addiction&...
The Apache License you released Lightning under explicitly allows people to clone your framework if they adhere to the license and provides them patent protection if they do so.
Hi Peter! If YC accepts a company from a south asian country like India and the founders decide to relocate their company to the US, what does the visa/immigration process look like for them?
Electrolysis efficiency is a lot higher than that although of course the round-trip is much worse than batteries.

You can in fact use the existing gas distribution grid although not most of the transmission grid because of material compatibility issues.

The one area where I think hydrogen can be hard to beat in areas with the geology for it is as an inter-seasonal energy store in salt caverns. Diurnal storage is obviously a battery play but in a deeply decarbonised system (<10gCO2/MWh) you end up with needing something to provide energy during a few-week-long period of overcast and windless weather (that coincides with the coldest period of the year in NW Europe). For lower levels of decarbonisation, you can just keep your gas generation around and fire them up for a few weeks a year but once you go all the way close to net zero you either need:

CCS (unproven, not everywhere has the right geology)

Lots of nuclear... but although plants can technically operate in load following mode, the plan economics (low marginal
cost, high capital cost) don't support that.

Batteries at a scale and a cost that don't seem plausible even with the most aggressive LiOn learning rates

H2 storage in salt domes

Something else?

Part of the problem is that the high capital cost of H2 electrolysis and fuel cells doesn't really support a model where you only produce during the cheapest / windiest 1000 hours of the year and consume during the least windy / most expensive 1000. Really you want an electrolyser fuel combo that has today's so-so performance but low capex, that would be much more compatible with a plan to use it as bulk energy store.
Yeah, fair enough. I've filed an issue internally against the website copy. It should definitely tell you what it is above the fold.
Abdus Salam belonged to a school/sect of Islam that encourages open debate and promotes a scientific interpretation of the Quran.

"Salam was an Ahmadi Muslim, who saw his religion as a fundamental part of his scientific work.
...
In 1974, the Pakistan parliament made the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan that declared Ahmadi to be non-Muslim. In protest, Salam left Pakistan for London." [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam#Religion
This is a very curious article: it's viewpoint is obviously based on a certain political viewpoint, but the author doesn't even try to prove this viewpoint, instead assuming by default that the reader has exactly the same views.

Not every author wants to actively advocate your political agenda, and not every author agrees with it.