skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all conjecture. If VCs get a sense that a male moonshot founder wants work life balance, for example, they are unlikely to invest. It's not about gender and discriminating on that kind of surface level. There are always exceptions of course, but it's not useful or reality based to extrapolate those into the rule.

Some more stats to think about, which seem to avoid these kind of conspiracies about bias or patriarchy: 93% of prison inmates are men. 70% of homeless are men. 97% of preschool and kindergarten teachers are women. 1.9% of carpenters are women.
The same paragraphs machine-translated to German and then back to English:

An ice sheet in the southwestern region of Greenland releases huge amounts
Quantities of mercury in nearby rivers. The discovery is worrying since
the poisonous metal can accumulate in marine animals, which are a key
Nutritional component for local indigenous communities.

Mercury is a naturally occurring metal found in some rocks. How
Glaciers slowly flow downhill, they grind the rock below,
possibly releasing mercury into their meltwater.

To find out if this happens in Greenland, Jon Hawkings at
Florida State University and his colleagues analyzed flowing meltwater
from the southwestern edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Hawkings and his team completed two expeditions to Greenland in 2015
and 2018 water samples from three meltwater rivers that
receive significant amounts of water from the Greenland ice sheet - up
up to 800 cubic meters per second. The samples were filtered to remove them
any sediment and protected from contamination. Then the researchers
analyzed the mercury concentration in each.

“[Mercury concentrations in this region] are at least ten times higher
than an average river, ”says Hawkings. That is, the meltwater is
as rich in mercury as some heavily polluted rivers - except here
if the mercury was not brought directly into the water
People. “Although this mercury is not introduced by humans, the ice is
The sheet metal melts much faster due to climate change, ”says
Hawkings.
It matters if it was caused due to gain of function research. These virologists purposely try to make viruses stronger so that they can research how to counteract or fight one if a stronger similar version of them appears from the wild. If this came from making a SARS virus more potent, we should ask the question if the gain of function research that these people do is actually worth the potential costs of that potent variant leaking out.

As well, that kind of research can be repaired with weaponization of viruses. So we need to ask if the research they were doing had a military angle to it at all.

The hard part with authoritarian governments is that they will cover up things even if they are not in the wrong. They don't make mistakes. So they may cover up things that don't actually need to be covered up.

It is very possible that this was just a person being infected with a sample they got from the field. But it seems the Chinese government Doesn't actually want to tell us the truth.
Now we will focus on life story. I'm not sure if that's more equitable or accessible.
Would you point out that a founder can "strategize and structure his thoughts very well" if it was a man writing?
I'd imagine that to be apart of the FSD beta program, you have to agree to share data. I'd imagine it's not a very useful beta program if Tesla can't collect data.
"Why Dropbox decided to drop AWS and build its own infrastructure and network"

tl;dr: to save money (and to fix issues and irritations with AWS)
Running in house, you need to know what you want, and you need to be pretty accurate in your estimate. And you need to pay today for what you're going to need in six months, a year, three years.

And if you're wrong about those estimates, the costs are real. Overinvested in hardware upfront and your project will never break even. Underinvest, and when the marketing campaign kicks in and you get flattened on cybermonday, there is no limit to how much revenue you might miss out on.

I'm willing to pay more money to reduce the downside of my being wrong. Cloud services offer so much flexibility that I don't even have to make guesses about some things beyond my information horizon.

On prem might be cheaper but it is far from an equivalent service.
Can the title be renamed to the correct title, which is currently "How I raised a $11M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech moonshot"
Yeah but that doesn't sound as cool!

Chia network is currently 12.04 EiB
The amazing part to me is that SPAs are so much harder to do right compared to old-school server-side rendered HTML. One could be forgiven if they think a "simple" SPA is a good starter project, but they'd be very wrong. Async programming (Javascript Promises and/or async/await) is difficult, error-prone, and should be avoided whenever possible. On top of this, understanding how data flows through these SPAs is no small task.

Compare this to server-side rendering where you run some DB queries, generate some HTML based on those results, and send it to the browser to be rendered.

There are some cases where you actually need a rich experience in the browser. In those cases, I would start by seeing if plain old Javascript would work.

In writing this, I definitely feel like a "get off my lawn" guy. But I've just seen too many junior and senior engineers (me included) fall flat on their face trying to use these SPA frameworks.
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I disagree with this characterization as incomplete. In the post-SUN era there were plenty of people who could build and administer a dozen forms of server OS+hardware, but a confluence of factors caused a greater tide to move greater numbers, in another way.

Some commerce did need to scale fast and easily, and AWS provided that with great strength. But I will add that the management and executive branch were constantly and relentlessly seeking to undermine the bargaining power, day-to-day operations authority, and pay of skilled engineers who could do that kind of setup. Not that it was easy or risk-free .. I did see some powerfully strained eyes and nerves on those individuals who built and ran those kind of servers at various times. But do not leave out the manipulative and gaming motives of executive management to dumb-down admin requirements, seize authority via legal means, and seek the lowest wages across borders while doing so ..
If a service A going down brings service B down, then microservices aren't divided right and/or too much data is being shared over the network rather than async transformed/copied. The only time this should matter is if there's a breaking change to the way services communicate which should be very well known, e.g. having to bump a protocol version number with downstream understanding before upstream.
This doesn't have anything to do with Google?
I've studied the causes of the Industrial Revolution a little(in undergrad classes) and one of the points that stuck with me is that early-modern machining had greatly improved. Roman-era lathes were of a different character[0] and their limitations in accuracy and power were a major dependency to the development of other machined parts. As well, the Romans had a pre-Newtonian physics and mathematics, limiting the percieved applications of their inventions. There really is a lot that 1000-2000 years of background development gives you.

The early moderns are also interesting because of the wage issue, which is not quite what it seems. It is known that wages were high following the Black Death, and this created room for mercantile economics powered by double-entry bookkeeping, rather than tributary ones, to take over the political economy. Everything in the modern period becomes a bit more of a business. However, the political class then moved to lower wages and adopted such as part of early merchantalist theory - keep them lean and hungry so they work hard.

This attitude encouraged the development of impressment, indentured servitude and chattel slavery: the easiest way to move a worker's wages off the books was to turn them into property. Thus by the mid 1600's, you already have a world where the populace has been disempowered and coerced into the project of colonial nation building(a means of putting more assets on the books - claim the rights), and the backlash to that powers an interest in developing liberalism in the 1700's, which coincides with the utilitarian ethics of Bentham and Smith. There's a lot of history that coincides with "and then this philosopher published a very relevant work".

The underlying political thing of early modern Europe, of course, was the disunification. The inventors and scholars in this period are always fleeing from a noble that they pissed off and finding refuge somewhere else. A unified Europe would have had more opportunities to surpress technologies, as occurred in China throughout its history.

None of that forms a complete hypothesis, and it doesn't even touch on the "why Britain specifically" question, but it gets it away from being a "Europe so great" anaysis.

[0] http://blog.mmi-direct.com/machining-history-lathe-the-mothe...
we ask similar questions in my EMS (Paramedic) job to patients to determine if they're alert & oriented. Most providers ask name, year, location, president or something similar and many patients are used to being asked routine questions. I like to see if they can answer stuff like "Name a large city in Florida."

Human captcha. :)
An example I heard of was including mostly scenes showing a child's crotch area and dubbing dirty (but legal) music over it.
> which simply cannot be done with ES6 modules because imports will be captured

I'm probably misunderstanding the problem here, but perhaps it's worth noting that ES6 module exports declared with let/var can be changed from within the module and the changes reflect to importing modules, even to named imports.

// a.mjs
export let counter = 0

setInterval(() => counter++, 1000)

// b.mjs
import { counter } from './a.mjs'

setInterval(() => console.log(counter), 1000)

Logs 1, 2, 3, etc...
At least Webpack also compiles ES modules in a way that keeps this functionality.
> It is a non-question to attempt to answer philosophical and religious questions through (experimental) science.

Yes, I agree.

> Furthermore, it's a fallacy to break up the world into "science" and "religion". Which religion are you talking about?

I'm not attempting to "break up the whole world". I'm simply taking science and comparing it with religion. Which religion? Well I can't go through every single one in a comment section like this. I'm attempting to use examples like Islam, Christianity, etc., etc. is that not clear enough? Are you saying you can't group religions based on the fact that they require faith?

> Islam has immutable and axiomatic principles

Alright... there you go. Can you doubt those principles? That is my main point!

> science is somehow the absolute truth, or even leads to it

I'm saying the exact opposite. I'm saying many religions like Islam and Christianity (sure I'm qualifying it now, but please consider I have to contrive my arguments for brevity) do claim to have the absolute truth in their immutable principles. Again, that is my point, science does not claim absolute truth!!
When done correctly, microservices can replace a gigantic single point of failure.

Unfortunately, what I sometimes see is that it's replaced by multiple interacting single points of failures - i.e., if any one of them fails the whole rube goldberg architecture fails, and there are so many different things that can fail! ...which is clearly worse than just having a monolith.
Aha, thanks. So when the author writes:

> So, Server-Side Rendering runs your JavaScript frontend code on the backend, creating a filled-out HTML page. The user loads the page, which now has pre-rendered content, and then the JavaScript loads and makes the page interactive.

Does this mean that one could make the page interactive with server side rendering, but it's not normally done? Or did I completely misunderstand this paragraph.
That was my observation as a DBA.

The most powerful tools we have are aggregated reports and data retention periods, the same since the 1970s.

Running 10 copies of the same report (but each one with slightly different bugs) across 34 PB of data for 10 different departments is absurd, yet here we are.

Specifically for Dropbox, they're not a retailer like Safeway with 10,000 products and 100's of locations to crunch product and shipping data for - Dropbox could use a single server for their entire digital products data warehouse.

(I operated a data warehouse myself (literally) at Yahoo - 10 servers generating canned web reports for 500 managers. I heard they replaced it with a 1,000 node Hadoop cluster later.)
The SLOs (senior lead officer) for various LA neighborhoods used to debunk a lot of the Citizen reports which got cross-posted to LA facebook groups. They stopped last year because it was just too much work, saying to just assume that anything you see on Citizen is fake unless you have external corroboration of the report from a non-Citizen source.
There is something very deep and strange going on in the p-adic L-function domain.

I feel like we're close to something very important that everyone is completely missing.
What’s the difference? I suppose it is possible that the Wuhan bat hunters found this virus occurring naturally and just, you know, kept it around without telling anyone...
from the author of Mithril ;)
Facebook already does this and people just claim it’s fake news being pushed by “the elite.”
As far as I can tell from the outside, there were actually multiple overlapping cover-ups within China by different organisations with different interests that resulted in doctors, nurses and medical researchers being silenced - starting with local-level coverups that tried to keep the national government from knowing there was a problem, and ending with multiple national-level coverups, including attempts to cover up the fact the local government had covered stuff up because that in itself was embarrassing to China as a country.
Every Product Manager: “I dunno, ever since they started saying React, everything takes 3x longer to ship and we have 2 teams on very challenging technical projects to enable performance that doesn’t suck”.
That would help explain how the virus got from the mine to Wuhan; it does not help explain how the virus mutated from a bat virus unable to infect humans to a virus that was extremely good at infecting humans with, so far, no intermediate stages identified.

Much of the problem with the zoonotic explanation is that no evidence of the process has been found. Was a third virus involved? We haven't identified it. Was a third host species involved? We haven't identified one. Were there any half-way variants that were slightly capable of infecting humans, and then mutated further to reach their final form? We haven't identified any. There was some initial speculation about the wet market, but that hasn't panned out. Pangolins were briefly considered as a possible intermediate host, but I think that's also been ruled out.

So if the lab collected the virus, flew it to Wuhan, stored it, and then accidentally leaked it in its original form, we still have no idea what happened next. It's a bat virus, so it infected a local Wuhan bat, and then what? And whatever the theory is, why have we been unable to find any evidence of it so far?

Assuming RaTG13 was indeed the source of COVID-19, the question of "how it got to Wuhan" is, I think, much less interesting than "how did it mutate into COVID-19" (and "why can't we find evidence of that process?"). And I think when people talk about "lab leak" versus "zoonotic", they're generally focused on the latter questions.
ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system
AI Modifies Actor Performances for Flawless Dubbing
How does any of these numbers change the fact that 97 percent or venture capital goes to men?
Yeah, the arm healed great, and whole situation (plus the subsequent "N Days Since a Limb Mangled" sign) contributed greatly to the manager's humility and respect for safety.
There's also systematic censorship and disinformation against prophylaxis and early treatment information, which could prevent millions of hospitalisations and deaths. [1]

e.g. YouTube recently censored the Ivermectin Global Summit, in which doctors and scientists showed the overwhelming scientific evidence for Ivermectin from around the world. [2]

1. https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea...

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/ivermectin/comments/nj9713/ivermect... (video with timestamps and my summary of the key points)
I believe patents reduce the likelihood of companies building things with compatible, interchangeable parts which makes them harder to repair and thus they are disposed of sooner. I also think it leads to less durable goods such that they come to need repair sooner. For my 3D printer for example compatible parts are available from a number of suppliers and it is easy to repair. Now look at power tools. Proprietary batteries and chargers that change year over year so customers always need to throw out old tools and buy new ones. I assume the battery connectors are patent protected though adapters from China are starting to hit the market anyway. Still grey markets are a bandaid over the real problems.
I can't find any price or sign up for a waitlist or anything.
You lost the wager unfortunately
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true, but also many problems can be solved by throwing more money at them
It can be surprisingly hard to find children's books that tell a story with a beginning, middle and end, and with writing that is engaging.

I distinctly remember one day Skyping with my mother telling her how hard it was to find good kids books and using "A Sick Day for Amos McGee" as an example of a good one. I recited a few lines to demonstrate the language, "Every day when his alarm clock clanged Amos swung his legs out of bed and swapped his pajamas for a fresh-pressed uniform"... my daughter, to my surprise (not yet old enough to talk at the time) rushed into the other room to fetch the book.
> Does stacked git help with this?

There's no magic in resolving merge conflicts, stgit helps only to some degree.

For example, stgit allows you to not fix all conflicts at once. You have a stack, and you may have first commit in a stack rebased, have a nice usable repo state, and return to rebasing of the second commit tomorrow.
The good(?) news here is that the ocean is a crazy good CO2 sink. If we were to stop all CO2 emissions, global CO2 levels would start to drop dramatically because the oceans would soak up the atmospheric CO2. This doesn’t work endlessly, but right now about half of the CO2 emissions end up in the oceans, and that system doesn’t just stop if we stop producing it.

That being said, it’ll definitely continue to wreak havoc with ocean acidification. But it’s important to know that it’s not necessary to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere to get rid of a huge chunk that has already been emitted.
I think your comment is solely calling out Americans' singular focus on cars as transit but I wanted to make a tangentially related point that Americans care deeply about accessibility. ADA has cemented accessibility into the core of public spaces. Driving is much easier to navigate in many ways than public transit for those with many mobility disabilities. And many American companies (many mentioned in this thread) strive to provide quality experiences to users with disabilities.

I remember being shocked the first time I went to Europe that if you were in a wheel chair you couldn't access 90% of building. Even new ones. Also good luck navigating their subways and train stations.
You want to know why they exist? Because of Google Core Web Vitals metrics!

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) can go to zero if you place proper skeletons.

I still prefer it to content jumping around when the API response is done.
it's 30%/10% of all cases, including weak/asymptomatic.
Which Asians are you talking about?

Vietnamese Americans that have much lower educational attainment rates than whites?

Or international students from China that in recent decades comprise primarily of multi-millionaire families? If you're genuinely concerned about effect sizes, China has a billion people. If you had any cultural awareness about international students from Asia, Chinese students who attend undergrad in America did not score well enough to get into an elite university in China.
The Phoenician colonies were in the Mediterranean, but the Phoenicians were blue-water sailors.

Much of the tin used to make the Bronze Age the Bronze Age came from Cornwall, and the Phoenicians had a monopoly on that trade.
Here is an article in German : https://www.sueddeutsche.de/geld/zahlung-per-sofortueberweis...
Indeed, a lab leak includes all of these possible priors of how the virus ended up in the lab in the first place.

But the only serious contender for the prior hypothesis is that the researchers produced a highly infectious chimeric coronavirus through gain-of-function/serial passage.
Wasn’t this all just to be contrarian to Trump? Trump says lab leak? Can’t be lab leak! Trump says travel ban? Travel bans are racist!

Now that Trumps out the lab leak is something to look into and everyone has done some level of travel ban without being labeled racist.
Really good advice in this article; I don't see a lot of good intel on biotech moonshots.
The US federal government is basically a giant case of regulatory capture so many people understandably confuse power and influence. However the distinction remains and it is of essential importance. None of the big tech companies have any real power, all they have is influence. In countries where they don’t have politicians under their influence they are helpless.
Kind of.

I actually started with quilt, and when I discovered stgit (many years ago), it was a huge relief.
I don't understand your logic. Are you saying if the lab leak theory is proved to be true, then the racists turn out to be more justified racists? The rightful racists? If the lab leak theory is proved to be false, then the racists turn out to be less justified racists? The wrongful racists?

How does criticizing the Chinese government has anything to do with racism? Because we can't give racists ideas to be racists, so we should restrict ourselves in criticizing the authoritarian (actually also racist) regime? Your logic is strangely twisted.
How is Ruby on Rails viewed in this context? With some of the new magic?
Based on the upcoming posts they are announcing, it looks like MDN Plus is Mozilla Hacks under a paywall