skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sensible approach when masks are in short supply is to direct more money to the mask manufacturers. It is overwhelmingly likely that they will use the money to produce more masks.

How are the mask manufacturers going to get more money if they can't charge an exorbitant markup? They need to buy new plant/ materials and hire new people. Is the plan that the mask manufacturers have to go deeply in to debt to create enough masks? That is the best I can think of without sharp price rises, and it is a terrible plan for encouraging people to produce more masks.
Wouldn't someone telling you where the next Austin is essentially ruin the next Austin?
For my context here, I went to a high school that was centered around progressive education principles and I never had to ask to go to the bathroom. There were no disciplinary policies like that. And in fact, everything was fine. We all still worked hard, paid attention, and got our diplomas. I think too many teachers assume students are all malicious gremlins trying as hard as they can to avoid school. Turns out, most adults will start to chafe too if you tell them they have to ask to go to the bathroom after the third time doing so in your presence, let alone if you make them ask every time. And some adults will even use bathroom breaks as an excuse to waste time.

So be it! That's life.
Animals are basically jumped-up fungi, so anything that plants figured out before fungi diverged might show up in the animal kingdom.

And some things are important enough that they've evolved several different times. At the bottom it's all chemistry and quantum mechanics. If you can make a chlorine or an iron atom do something interesting, nature will find a way to make that happen.
The only bright line rule in the provision is that an app should not facilitate the trade in controlled substances, and it doesn't.
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2021/

The actual list the article references... (and strangely, mostly plagiarizes?)
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A lot of interesting content. But I wanted to just point out this:

> in West Virginia, they mistakenly gave antibody treatments instead of vaccines

If you're vaccinating entire population, there will definitely be mistakes. Go ahead, mention that someone managed to notice them and notify the right people. Don't put them in the same sentence as someone spoiling vaccines on purpose. We can't afford people being afraid to report mistakes.
Pretty amazing. It's one thing to cobble together some 6-wheeled vehicle and then drive it around the block once, it's a completely different story to build that vehicle and depend on it with your life for 2000 miles where there's no one and nothing around.
Most people who end up in prisoners in the USA are reoffenders. The USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world and very high crime rates.

So when I talk about deterrence I'm mostly talking about reoffenders. I.e, the prisoners I talked to coming back. I think they're more likely to commit crimes after prison, not less!!

Do you think people would lie, in a heavily monitored prison, about wanting to never come back to prison because they'll "die in glory" in a gun fight against the cops next time so they can't be arrested? Or about becoming a drug kingpin? Sounds like you think I'm saying these people were claiming nice things about themselves, but really they're mostly claiming quite bad things if it makes me think they're going to be back and were strongly negatively influenced by peers in prison.

On the topic of regular people who prison serves as a deterrent for, I'd look at other countries where crime rates are lower without the same hideous institution. Clearly it's not just horrible prisons which prevent noncriminals from committing crime, since so many countries don't have that? I guess that's up for debate.
They are still going to get them faster than with a free market solution.

This is also a non-representative sample, there are many facilities that have fully vaccinated medical workers.
Very hard. Like, this is the holy grail of security/reverse engineering.
not for those who were wronged in the first place
>This negativity is a disappointing and growing trend among some grumpy old men in our field as that generation approach retirement. It disrespects people working today and I don't like it.

Your contributions thus far in this thread have been negative with no substantive rebuttal to any points made in the article.
Wow, amazing! How did or didn't covid change your journey?
I prefer to reject the process of turning a technical neutral term into some kind of bad word.

If a thing isn't bad, then it isn't, and if someone is ignorant and makes associations and assumptions that are wrong or unsupported, then I'd rather add my tiny influence against that rather than help it.

Or do you yourself do the same thing to your clients? What features of your clients do you use to prejudge them and make unfounded assumptions about them? Should your clients worry what clothes they wear in case you think it means they are gay, which maybe you associate with having Aids... Personally I woukd think things like that are none of my business but apparently you don't think like that.

Please don't smooth the way for the wrong things. I can't demand, obviously, that's why it's a request with the word please.

It seems to be a small thing but big things are made out of small things, and you and I can only do small things. All we have is the choice of which kinds of small things we do.
Solarwinds was quite trusted, and for good reasons if I may add.
If DC and Marvel are doing so well, why is DC continuing with massive layoffs? [1]

>>>2020 was also a year in which crowdfunding became even more important in the comics space.

How do you discuss crowdfunding without mentioning industry veterans such as Ethan Van Sciver pulling in $1M+ on Indiegogo? [2]

Does anyone know how to parse the comics sales data here? [3]

[1] https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/12/30/reports-suggest-gu...

[2]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ethan-van-sciver-s-cyberf...

[3]https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2020.html
This is a Rust library for reading and writing the LEB128 integer compression format. LEB128 is a representation of arbitrary-size integers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEB128

As I understand it, this library is optimized to avoid branching (which incur an overhead) and take advantage of SIMD instructions (which process data in parallel).
Yeah. RIP Intel
Actually one of the things the bad candidates had in common was a job history at defense contractors.
This is a pretty specific operational goal so why haven't we used our military?

WTF are we spending so much money on them for if not for combating something that's caused hundreds of thousands of deaths?
Well, am I the only one who can think of a better future where you can do/not do all those bad/good things and still live a long, healthy life?
I’m (only) half joking as I say this... if you’re particularly interested in robotics (be it the mechanical side, or the algorithmic side), try not to get too caught up with “deep RL”. It’s a minefield that generates a LOT of buzz for as yet dubious performance, and IMHO there’s much simpler low-hanging fruit to get started with.
Really not sure what you mean. A code example would be helpful.
A one page cheat sheet to the GNU Awk
Cool project! Minor note: It would be nice if ye said what language the dataset was for on the website :)
Most offenses in the USA are nonviolent drug offenses. Do you think those people should get long prison sentences?
People were going to hoard masks no matter what. Lying to them doesn't help, but it definitely reduces trust.
F-X2 (gen 4+ with stealth), not F-2 (gen 4) which was joint JP/US project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_X-2_Shinshin

F-X2 was primarily indigenous effort after US refused to export F22s. IIRC another factor was US was not forthcoming with tech/knowledge transfer on F2 project. F-X2 still had some US help, but stopped after demonstrator. Then rebooted into F-X / F-3 Godzilla recently, international project in draft stage. So to date, no tangible gen5 effort.
Agree. No one remembers that conservatives were also trying desperately to locate masks for purchase back in March.

The public is smarter than the technocrats give them credit for, and will bristle at attempts to influence their behavior through lying - or even just fibbing, as in this case.

Good luck gaining back their trust after a round or two of that. In that respect, they may resemble petulant children - but can you blame them?
Ideally, they could decree companies to prioritize shipments to hospitals and health workers and set-up a task force to route all purchase decisions through the govt. until mask shortage is solved.

> So the easiest solution was to do politics which is to deceive

I disagree. politics is not to deceive. Politics is to guide and educate. The longer we accept the rationale that politics is inherently an immoral game, the more our minds accept the status quo.

Those politicians who lied must be held accountable. Those who pushed for the truth but took actions to prioritize health workers should be rewarded.
If you're not already familiar with bicyclerollingresistance.com (I'm not affiliated, just appreciative), that has been a fantastic resource for understanding what tire, tube, and rim characteristics really mean. There's so much rumor and trend informed butt dynamometer expertise in bicycling and far too little tediously measuring some actual numbers. Even if a rolling drum isn't perfect, it at least correllates to some extent with real world use and is far more consistent than possible by testing on a bike with a human rider.

Anyway, there are a few test series on same make/model/year tires over a range of sizes, which back up your point and add more detail as well:

https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/specials/conti-gp40...

https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/specials/grand-prix...

https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/specials/schwalbe-m...
Who invests in prop (algo) trading startups?
myself and my partner started a stealth algorithmic trading startup about 2 years ago. our backgrounds are in signal processing and data science. we are both software engineers and self funded everything and built our own low latency infrastructure. after going through 100+ strategies, we are starting to produce consistent profits. to scale up we need seed funding. what are some angel investors or VCs we should talk to?
So...government architecture is hard to place? I feel like this is meant as a commentary on the culture of schools but the outside of the building has nothing to do with the inside and is just designed by the lowest bidder to look fairly generically “place”
And in a similar vein...

Douglas Prasher did a lot of the foundational work on GFP (2010 Nobel Prize) was driving a courtesy shuttle at a Toyota dealership in 2008 because he ran out of funding.

Barry Marshall and Robin Warren had a really tough time convincing people that H. pylori caused stomachs ulcers (but won the 2005 Nobel Prize).

Number theory was famously nothing more than an intellectual curiosity, but makes stuff like this website possible. Microbial opsins were also a weird intellectual backwater before becoming vital to neuroscience. Paul Lauterbur famously quipped that "you could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature."

We are really bad at predicting the future impact of projects and people, and it's important to recognize that as a counterweight to schemes that try to select for "excellence." Things that seem laughable at the time can also be the basis for future breakthroughs, so take stupid things like Rand Pauls' ranting about silly-sounding projects with a mountain of salt.
This was never expressed by the authorities, they should explain. It is a pretty iffy claim and with such a claim, you gotta have some data that invalidates decades of mask usage in hospitals.
I've seen and been in enough of these kinds of buildings to make them absolute bottom of my list of places to see inside or out.
Cheapest as well
I watch savagegeese for car reviews
> This is a pretty specific operational goal so why haven't we used our military?

As in "fly over to Pakistan and assassinate bin Laden" sort of goals. Stuff that burns unreasonable amounts of resources to do something very specific very quickly. If something takes months to execute the market will be faster.

"Get a vaccine to everyone who can afford it" is something that the market will be fastest at. It would be prudent to leave it alone to solve that problem. Government can go solve a different problem.
Yeah, wonder if that is the problem, it took me years to know how to stand up for myself. You have to be willing to walk away from a job at any moment, letting them know you're not happy (don't need to be a jerk about it, just show you don't need any job, no matter how good the company is). Because if you've got a manipulative lead and this person senses that you need or really want this job, this person will exploit you as far as they can.
Are superspreader a "personality type"? I thought it was some body property, like biological. Bigger nostrils or whatever (a joke but you get the point).
Could we just not do things like this. I'm sorry to be singling anyone out but there is a pattern here. People, the "well actually" rebuttals that you pull out of thin air in two minutes are not a useful or meaningful response to someone's reportage of their lives experience and do not facilitate the quality of discussion that brought you to HN in the first place, and if you do not understand that then consider that perhaps a life in which most problems are inherently tractable, if not an easy search result from Stack Overflow, does not actually leave you with a correct understanding of your ability to understand or solve complex problems in the world.
Hey, thanks so much for introducing me to the term "akrasia" because it works perfectly to describe a phenomena that happens to me as well. And my solution is similar, if admittedly much lower tech (I comment/uncomment lines of my etc/hosts file to switch modes).

But it was the rest of your post, describing the way in which you're environment has morphed with you over the years, and how you've been able to really dial in your computing experience...it's so striking! There are few people who can say the same. I certainly cannot. I have personally gone through perhaps 3 complete redos in my adult life. But it's disruptive and bad, and I have to admit I feel some envy that you've been able to maintain a single coherent thread of evolution for so long. You must move around incredibly smoothly - I'd be curious to see a video of a few cycles of a build-test-debug cycle with your setup. I would also be curious to know how your file-system is organized. That seems to be the most difficult problem of all!
I knew somebody who got national attention for making an energy drink named Cocaine. It did not last long on the market due to the name.
Just guessing, but probably pressure? PEX has much lower pressure ratings than metal. I plan to use PEX for a water purification system, but it will be sub 100 PSI. Most PEX-A are rated to 200 PSI at room temp and 120-150 PSI at 180 degrees F. They will rupture at 400 to 800 PSI of water depending on the brand. Metal pipes can handle thousands of PSI, required for pushing water through membranes.
For washing appliances there is Miele Professional. But entry was about 5000 to 6000EUR when I last looked. It may depend. From time to time I use them in washing saloons when I have larger batches of dirty (sports) clothing or blankets, bed linen(other "sports", don't ask).

Anyways, very easy to use, fast, and looking indestructible, while the washing drums look space age from the inside(materials wise, and the shape/structuring of it).
That's not what we are doing! Healthcare workers are in the initial allocation in most states. There's been all sorts of news featuring doctors and nurses getting shots.

Part of the reason is that it's easier to get healthcare workers near the freezers required to store the Pfizer vaccine, because many of those freezers are in hospitals.
It's probably in a location you didn't find because you weren't looking for it.
> The vaccine is ~95% effective. This means you're going to have a lot of people get infected still with the vaccine's antibodies present; any mutation that happens that causes escape from these antibodies will prolong disease and increase transmission, even if that mutation renders the virus a bit less fit in a non-vaccinated host.

Is that an accurate summation of those who caught it after receiving the vaccine?

Seems like if 5% of virus strains circulating aren't affected by the vaccine, we're fucked anyway. That 5% will become 100% of what's circulating in the next year and will be ubiquitous?

If it's something like "5% of people don't respond to the vaccine to build antibodies at all," on the other hand, it's much rosier...
You're absolutely spot on. We need to come up with better etiquettes for debates of difficult situations on the internet than this Twitter/FB nonsense and in a more formal forum. There should be rules of engagement with freedom to express disagreements backed by logic, reasoning and data.
Because most people have been taught to be bossed around by an authority? The lesson just needs to be reinforced over and over for years as a child in school and then later in the workplace.
China's Covid-19 ‘success’ is a mirage that continues to deceive the West
Surgical masks weren't in "not proven" territory at any point. Okay there might be some error bars left, but they are generally considered helpful. To the best of my knowledge no government has even attempted to deny this (which would be silly since half the airtime was people in surgical masks running around in Covid wards). These however were in limited supply.

The effectiveness of other masks was not so much "not proven" but to the extent that the lack of any standard allows you to say anything about them they just aren't anywhere near as good. In my mind their effectiveness in combating the pandemic is still well within 'not-proven' territory, but since this is somehow a partisan issue in the U.S. I'll limit myself to just saying that they shouldn't be considered a replacement for social distancing.
The problem here isn't sustained logistics. The problem here is dealing with an entirely novel transient: vaccines for a novel virus exist (or were approved) when they didn't before, and people need them now, and then they're done with it. The market works great once it has had time to deal with transients and do price discovery, but this particular problem is entirely about transients and price discovery.

Think back to the toilet paper shortage, or the mask shortage, or the hand sanitizer shortage, and how long it took the market to respond to those events. Maybe the market is the "second fastest' method we have, in relative terms. My point is it's still very slow, and if you're saying that days matter, the market is not the tool we want.

(That said, throwing the military at this problem seems fine to me, honestly. It is a special case of throwing the government at the problem; it's the branch of the government that specializes in logistics and quick decision-making in life-or-death scenarios, as you point out, and they are used to dealing with situations that arise exactly once in the history of the world.)
> Home schooling is not a suitable alternative IMO. Social contact with your peers is important too. having to forfeit that just to not be in a prison-like system seems like a bad deal.

This is why above-average students should just go to college after a year or two of high school. 16 year olds and 18 year olds are in fact peers (or can be without drawing arbitrary lines).

> I think in both cases we need to fix the system instead of putting the burden onto students to put up with it or work around it with the solutions that you describe.

The problem is that your suggestion is completely non-actionable for students.

It's also not particularly actionable for a parent trying to help their school-aged child today. Even if a parent does manage to change a huge entrenched institution -- highly unlikely! -- it'll be at least a decade after their own kid is out of the system.

So. Yes, I agree, you too should run for school board. But don't count on systemic change if you're trying to help someone currently in the system.
I run an agency and I mandate no cameras, even on client facing calls. It's always a distraction, just focus on screen sharing an agenda and the data.
I totally agree with you. But, just as an anecdote on the other side, I recently did some Blender tutorials, the famous donut scene by Andrew Price. When I was done I was happy I learned Blender better but I was also disappointed that making 3D hasn't changed much since 1995. In 1995 I learned PowerAnimator (predecessor to Maya) and in 1996 I learned 3DSMax. The techniques used to build the scenes are exactly the same, still super tedious. What changed is better renderers, sculpting (z-brush), but not much else.
There will be an optimum point, where the benefit of the wider tire is balanced out by the extra weight of the rim and extra air resistance. Maybe the rim and tire merge, with spokes or struts connecting directly to a wide rubber rim/tire.
The key logical disconnect here is

> All of these latter technologies are useful incremental improvements on top of the foundational technologies that came before.

As if that wasn’t the case before. We’ve always built on what came before. What on earth does the author think was so revolutionary about Java? The language was an evolution of the C family. The VM was an evolution of Strongtalk.

The negative person says ‘all done before.’ The reasonable person says ‘step forward’ as we’ve been doing ever since.

And what’s the implication? That people have become stupid or lazy or ignorant? This is an attack on the work and integrity of a generation of people.

There is a consistent claim at the moment from CS men of a certain age that we don’t appreciate their genius enough. They bang on about how under appreciated their ideas are at their invited talks and on Twitter. I don’t think I’m the only one in the community thinking this. I think quite a lot of people feel this.

It’s not negative to call out someone else’s negativity.
There is no possible way to target superspreaders, a lot of spreading happens in work or private situations we can’t know in advance who will spread it there. And the possible age groups are too large so we will see no effect immediately with the limited supply of vaccine. Starting with the eldest and those who are most likely to die from COVID should bring mortality down in the next 16 weeks. And afterwards we can work on reaching herd immunity.
Thanks for the clarification! I had no idea C-suite hiring was at all like this. Naively, I figured there would be clean breaks and legal 'firewalls' about such dual responsibilities and obvious conflicts of interest.

It really explains a lot about the C-level people and their lack of engagement with work (for my company at least!); they don't seem to be doing their full jobs as, well, they aren't. I really need to figure out how to get on this carousel.
The problem is not JR, it's the people who listen to him and take his every word as some sort of ultimate truth.

I don't blame him. Human nature is to wield power. The more power the person has, in whatever form it is, the more inventive ways he will come up with to use it for his goals, be they selfish or otherwise.

JR would shut his mouth if his audience chided him to being conspiratorial.

The society has lost the ability to think critically. And the focus on individuality has exacerbated the problem. I don't mind individuality in matters such as personal growth, morality, religion, etc, but there are some aspects of social life where collective expert decisions must hold higher weight than individual opinions, such as in public health, defense, etc.