skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZtCq1aj2g

Another commenter already explained this, but these types of videos that are deliberately designed to obfuscate what actually happened are bullshit.

Yes, the media called it the "Wuhan coronavirus" early on before it was an actual pandemic because the virus primarily only existed in Wuhan at that point. Furthermore, the now well-known name of Covid-19 was not as prevalent then, and your average listener would understand "coronavirus" more than a new technical name at that point.

This is very different than, after the pandemic had already been widespread, specifically crossing out "Coronavirus" to call it "Chinese virus", as Trump did.

Look, there are plenty of things that the media at large deservedly gets criticized for, but trying to pretend calling it the Wuhan coronavirus early on in the pandemic is the same thing as specifically emphasizing it as "the Chinese virus" 6 months later is just lying.
> I wonder if there's a bit more nuanced way to make this argument, I'm amenable to it, but...it reads more as American culture war than a discussion

That's a fair critique, but I'm inclined to leave a more nuanced argument in someone else's hands. I'll just say I've long suspected massive media collusion and I found the media's almost overnight religious conversion on speech that identified the source of the virus to be jarring and suspiciously in sync.

There are dozens of egregious examples of the media adopting certain language or using certain terms in a sudden, widespread manner. A few examples you can find on Youtube include "power through", "beginning of the end", "walls closing in", etc.

I do think the media monoculture is partially to blame, but I don't that accounts for all of it.
Anytime I want to spend time in DC, I definitely just drive to Greenbelt, park, and take the metro to whatever part of the city I’m trying to go to. It’s a sanity-saver over trying to find parking.
The loop could be for redundancy. If you do maintenance on one segment, you can still reach everything by going the other way.
Agile was developed for consulting projects and in that context can be quite powerful. It also offers some insights that can be useful for efforts of a longer and more ambitious scale.

But the wholesale adoption of agile techniques and vocabulary has been a cargo-culting disaster, imho.
We may not be good at this, but the collective wisdom at most corporations states that a best predictor of what someone will do, is what they have done in the past. My point is that it is being used and inferences are drawn regardless.
> The principal function of most corporations is not to maximize shareholder value, but to maximize the standard of living and quality of work life of those who manage the corporation. Providing the shareholders with a return on their investments is a requirement, not an objective.

I love this quote. At first it sounds very critical, but thinking about it more it reveals something deeper: companies are a collection of people, if those people aren’t satisfied with the work they will move on and delivering value to investors will be that much harder. So maximize for worker happiness while delivering enough ROI to your investors, not the other way around.
I think it's fine to "learn" lots of languages, but you're going to be pretty bad at most of them. And I personally wouldn't be comfortable with building a system that will reach hundreds of thousands of LOC in the majority of the dozen or so languages I've "learned" over the years.

If you're really going to learn a language - as in, build idiomatic programs - its a constantly moving target and requires a lot of effort to maintain.

I think it's better to learn 2-3 languages, and have passing familiarity with others. People like to pretend that language choice solves all your problems, but usually you're talking in percentages: one language is a 80% fit for your problem, another is an 85% fit... there is never a 100% fit - are these differences worth working in a language you barely have any experience in?
it's especially a plague in medicine, though I'm reliably informed that a new movement within the medical establishment called integrative medicine may help to start treating human health as a system, not a collection of disparate parts.
Oh I hate this so much. Driving in any rural area like Dorset it’ll suggest lanes you’d struggle to fit 2 bicycles abreast. They offer a ‘no motorways’ option but I’d love a ‘minimum double track’ or whatever.
I’m kind of interested how one nation thinks it’s going to convince another sovereign nation to pay that kind of ‘reparations’.
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Between this and the discovery of producing Graphene without mining, the future of battery tech should be really interesting.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/05/13/ev-ran...
I would tend to agree. Cities breed lots of problems. Social, economic, environmental, every kind you can imagine. And it creates very very small communities outside those cities which comes with its own problems too (think small town sheriff's tyranny type stuff - yes there's racial profiling etc in big cities as well, didn't say it was a unique problem). Bigger numbers do have an advantage but there is definitely a number that is too large.

I would advocate for lots of intermediate size cities but that doesn't seem to be what anyone in power wants.

Also, are you advocating for Thanos like mercy here? ;)
It's a tangent on the example given, but the bigger question is: Does the origin of SARS-CoV-2 really matter at this point? I think it's moot and the lab speculation trope comes across as an agenda-driven conspiracy theory.

We can reduce our risks by having strict international conventions on pathogen labs and engineering, eliminating high-density meat agriculture, and reducing overuse of antibiotics/antimycotics/antivirals. Pragmatically, human pathogens should be treated with the same care as nuclear weapons as a matter of risk-management.
It's a sad situation not only for us, but for anyone interested in preserving marine life. These ships are destroying the ecosystems in that whole maritime area and all we can do is watch and ask them to stop. If we continue to be powerless to stop that (which sadly we are unless some country steps up and helps by financing the navy) all wildlife in the ocean will be permanently and irreversibly affected.

I sometimes hate humanity as a species. How can a living thing be purposefully so destructive towards it's own planet? The only one it has and will ever have (at least for now we haven't infested any other planet). This is one of the many things that makes me angry knowing there is nothing that will realistically be done to stop it. We will suffer the consequences and these people will then go and fuck up some other sea area until there is nothing left anywhere in the world.
Not really. An "Entity" in most modern ECS implementations is normally implemented as an integer, which is used as a handle to which multiple components refer to.

A "Component" is normally implemented as a struct, and a "System" as a standalone function. No encapsulation here.

Of course you would have to implement all of the above using classes and objects if your language doesn't have support for structs or standalone functions, but that's just an implementation detail. The concept itself is not a subset of OOP, and breaks many "rules" of OOP.
I don't think it is useless to say that. I don't think you should hold back from saying that.

I think we should recognize it and raise awareness to it as much as possible. I don't advocate for veganism, either. I advocate that fish and other food that is so hard to replenish be used and treated like a delicacy.

Today by luck we caught an octopus and by luck I was at the market when the ship came in with the catch. Instead of an octopus everyday for every meal. That is not going to sustain. Same for other foods.

But the downside of making octopus and other food a delicacy is that that is the reason why everybody wants it soo which creates the demand causing this.

I am thinking it out loud here.
Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams
Trying to get everybody to like you can override your ability to say what needs to be said and act when you need to act. Also, it is usually impossible to please everybody and by trying to do that you can easily turn everybody against you. Trying to get people to like you can easily impair your objectivity (as if there wasn't enough occasions for that), play favor game and get people to dislike you for playing the game.

Now, just because I don't like somebody or somebody doesn't like me does not we can't behave civil and discuss and try to resolve our differences. Or even agree to disagree but still keep cooperating on this and other matters.

It also doesn't mean I have to go out of my way to get people to dislike me. I am trying to be reasonable, fun, I smile and compliment and I try to find and expect good in everybody until I am proven wrong. It is just I try keep this separate from ability to think straight and cooperate with people.
Roundabouts are fantastic for the low to mid traffic density case. When you get into proper city traffic density it can start to become very problematic, particularly if you don't have a good solution for pedestrians or cyclists to bypass each roundabout crossing. Even with that roundabouts tend to get a bit chaotic once they reach the point of "is expected to have a constant stream of cars in it for the next 2 hours" which can get particularly troublesome if the traffic in each direction is unbalanced and you get people awkwardly changing up yielding rules to let the one person going east-west in or that person tries to floor it to make it in an iffy gap. Also if you're relying on them as the only means of left turn (via u-turn) the wait times can significantly increase on busy roundabouts.

That being said I absolutely love roundabouts in low/mid density areas. They finally converted the street I live on from 4 "pack cars into wait groups" stoplights and 1 "the highway just turned into an avenue and this is the first extended stoplight for that" into "never stop heaven" whether you want to just continue through or hop on the highway by putting a bunch of roundabouts and a dogbone underpass in and removing left turns for most of the avenue.

For proper city areas I'm almost certain better results would be achieved by using the space for any form of mass transit instead of more road. That and I shudder to think of roundabout traffic in a bumper to bumper scenario when one of the arteries out of the city gets blocked for 10 minutes (or months of construction).
If we go around demanding proof of every hypothesis before considering its implications, we will find that we have very little to think about. Not even mathematics and philosophy are conducted at this level of rigor.

The burden of proof is a double-edged sword: it can be used to rein in tendentiousness, but also to avoid discussing an issue.
The photos in the article are irrelevant to both subject of the title - city streets, and turning left away from controlled intersections: The intersections are large, arterial-scale, rather than typical surface streets in a city. Both have medians to prevent left turns away from the signalled intersections.

The first photo also provides an example of a left turn lane blocked by a t-bone crash of two drivers who appear to have not been turning at the time of their crash. That's one way to stop drivers from turning left, but perhaps not the best possible traffic control strategy.

Side note - Based on a quick search of the article's tagline, this article was simultaneously broadcast across many outlets on June 2nd, 2021 [0]. Someone had a motivation to get this distributed far and wide.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22sick+of+dangerous+city+traffic%...
One might accuse the author of playing a game of his own, where his writing is driven by a desire to get clicks rather than a desire to communicate factually...
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How does HN play into this at all?

The FBI served USA Today with a subpoena. USA Today's lawyers replied to the FBI, stating that the subpoena is "not authorized under federal regulations, and object to its service" [1]

[1] (page 15) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.231...
I'm not a semiconductor engineer, but it is my understanding that most CPUs today either use a PROM, which is programmed at the factory the correct version/variant for that part, or (a sometimes compacted?) variant of mask ROM which is produced automatically by some EDA tool(s) from the final production version of the ROM.

Mask ROM usually is just used as a big lookup table which replaces the combinatorial logic by just explicitly matching each input bitstring to the correct bitstring to control the ALU, etc. (along with some sort of state-machine for VLIW ISAs).

Moving to a ROM-style architecture makes development a little more straightforward because modifying instruction decoder only requires burning a different bitstring into a PROM rather than redesigning a combinatorial logic circuit and then manufacturing an entirely new chip.

A ROM-based architecture probably makes microcode updates easier to design into a CPU as well, because you can basically just overlay the microcode over the existing ROM and patch, at runtime, essentially any part of the instruction decode (or whatever else you've designed in the ROM) on an unmodified production IC.

I imagine that the combinatorial logic approach isn't really used anywhere today (for new designs) because of how "cheap" gates are considered to be in a digital IC design, but I could be entirely wrong about this (I'm not in the industry).
Im torn. This will draw the vaccine deniers out specifically.

On the one hand, this presents a ready, easy to discern "control group" to compare against similar cruise-ships full of vaccinated people.

On the one hand? Thats what these "customers" want - unfettered access. And we have a duty to investigate using such a control group.

On the other? This could easily be a superspreader event right here. We have a duty to avoid using humans in abusive, life-threatening experiments.
Thanks for sharing. Wow, that hook turn thing is weird! I can see how it works well once you get used to it, though.
I think this is a far better idea. This is the first time I'm hearing about this.
Ah, thanks for the nudge. Looks like I had run into https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/issues/6835, had to bump the patch version of a library to fix.
Isn't a wet market just one that sells meat and produce? Like my local Kroger's and Safeway? Or do you mean something else?
The Japanese seem to have a head start on this process. Article from 2016.

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/over-40-minerals-and-me...

Last year, researchers at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Rokkasho Fusion Institute revealed that they had developed a new way of extracting lithium from seawater. This involves dialysis. It employs a dialysis cell containing a membrane made from a superconducting material. Lithium is the only ion in the seawater that can pass through the membrane. It moves from the negative electrode side of the cell to the positive electrode side. They reported that the system displayed good energy efficiency and that it would be easy to scale it up. However, they also cautioned that the process is years away from being commercialized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ5NlkHy3NY
Also "LaTeX look and feel" doesn't mean anything to start from: Latex documents look vastly different depending on which template they use. A lot of conferences and journals allow for both Word and Latex files to be sent, and it's impossible to guess in the output which tool was used to author a given paper.
This is clearly a labour of love. Well done, congrats on releasing :)
While atomic big-bang releases have their benefits (and drawbacks), I don't think there's any way to avoid dealing with data backward compatibility in at least some way. Old versions of data always exist in your system (in databases, message queues, replay logs, caches, retry loops in external parties, even on the wire at the time of the release in some cases). While explicit and long term API versioning may not be needed in some release processes, a strategy for coping with old data becomes necessary past a certain scale. Migrating all extant data (not just your RDBMS) at the same time as the big-bang release is not practical.
Could you give an example of a different type?
If I'm a racist who states some true crime statistic as part of an argument or implication that is mostly just being made to belittle black people, express hatred for them, or claim that they should be treated differently, then I am using a factual statement as hate speech. You're oversimplifying. A fact being true is only a defense for exactly that fact. People often fall into this fallacy in defense of hateful or low quality rhetoric.
In my opinion, Argentina should announce that, after $DATE, they will seize such ships and auction them off. Any amount of enforcement afterward should be enough to significantly deter violation of their waters by these fleets.
I've done geometrical stuff with GNU Prolog's finite domain constraint solver, like finding arrangements of shapes given certain constraints. Documentation is a pain, but it wasn't hard at all to use in practice. And the programs were amazingly short! Virtually one-liners.

http://www.gprolog.org/manual/gprolog.html#sec300

Maybe you know, but Sage contains within itself hundreds of packages—numpy, scipy, matplotlib, PARI, Maxima, GAP etc etc—also many more are optional. Checking out everything in these lists you'd find a lot of other great stuff I'm sure:

https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/index_alph.h...

https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/
Yeah, the author says that for any of these problems "there should only be one reasonable rule." But I suspect that "reasonable" here really points to contingent facts about human psychology, i.e. some rules just strike us as more intuitive or appealing than others, but they aren't correct in any objective sense. That sort of gives the lie to the notion that what we're exercising here is "meta-rationality."
Thanks for sharing a link to the project! :)
The original submission link reminded me a lot of the general restclient/verb syntax.
I’ve seen a lot of things marked as made in Taiwan. Look at bike frames and you’ll quickly notice one made there.
> They really are not

Ok, but in the context of work conversations, though. I still think more of them can be recovered than our instincts first tell us.
That soap box is unfortunately "white supremacy". It's whites renaming an ethnic group against their own will. Pretty much the definition of white supremacy.

I understand you have good intentions. But being wrong negates that. Mao and Pol Pot had good intentions. They were just massively wrong about reality. Be careful about being correct.
If anyone is interested in this, they should look into Alfred Korzybski and general semantics. He invented the term "The map is not the territory", in case you want an idea of who he is.

IIRC, he at one point says in his book, "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics" something along the lines that the mistakes most people make are in categorization. Something along the lines of "Some things look the same but they are different, and some things look different but they are the same". It's a very interesting book and I loved how Non-Aristotelian logic was used in Null-A by A.E. van Vogt, which introduced it to me.
From the abstract:

> The resulting HTML document already contains prerendered math formulas, so browsers won't have the burden of math rendering via scripting.

It wants the math support of latex in an html document generated from the markdown source file.
What would the sea corals say about us taking their lithium away?

Do they even like lithium? Maybe we're doing them a favor.
I think you're right. There's only a few people with the curiosity, tenacity, and obsessive patience to keep up their idealism and enjoyment momentum to deliver consistent intellectual quality for its own sake. You basically have to be on the spectrum or very, very diligent. Most people just want more funding. (ProTip: Full-time grant writers are key.)
It’s a subtle distinction between labor and capital. And gets blurred by debt vs equity.

Who owns the company? The people who work there? The person who founded it? The people who the founders sold shares to? Or the people who lent it money?

Legally it’s the people who own shares. And if they miss their debt payments, it’s the lenders.

Companies can inform their shareholders “if you want to invest, here is how we operate differently.” Bezos and Buffet both do that in terms of defining focus and time horizons.

One may want to optimize for worker happiness first, but that’s not legal ownership. (Employee engagement is a predictor of shareholder return, but it’s hard to measure, and different from happiness)
Is there any new revelation in this article or has this information already been processed?
> Does the origin of SARS-CoV-2 really matter at this point?

I hear this question so often I'm beginning to get upset.

Yes, it absolutely 100% matters for the same reason it matters that we learn about anything. Why would we ever want to restrict our knowledge and be willfully ignorant? At this point I just assume the only reason is political. And when has that ever been a good thing for humanity or history?

For all we know China is purposefully manufacturing viruses as weapons (in fact there is already some evidence of this happening), and you think it doesn't matter?

Honestly none of the anti-China propaganda ever really seemed to do anything for me, but nothing has made me more leery of China than the wall of "we don't really need to know where covid came from" comments I see on the internet. I don't know or care if the person I am replying to is a shill, but I have never seen such a strong front defending ignorance before in my life.

JFC everything gets flagged now instead of anyone having a discussion. I'm directly responding to part of the comment which I believe to already be political, so I'm just trying to continue the conversation that OP started. Maybe if most comments suggesting we should explore this issue weren't so quickly flagged on HN it would make me more receptive to the idea this isn't an organized political front.
Animal species almost always grow to consume more unless they are destroyed by predators or exhaust their environment.
Thought I forgot my geography for a second.. Argentina is so far away from China. I guess they still pull in a profit though?
> Perhaps the biggest lingering issue waiting to be fixed is the Windows store. Microsoft has been working on a new app store for Windows in recent months, and rumors suggest it will be a significant departure from what exists today. Nadella has promised to “unlock greater economic opportunity for developers and creators” with Windows, and the Windows store seems like the obvious way to do that.

My greatest concern is that Microsoft will attempt to lockdown their OS the same way Apple and Android have.

That would explain why they would release a new operating system when 10 was supposed to be the last.
Ok, sounds like the Pi’s VideoCore VI is a lot less performant than I thought. I’d imagined it’d be closer to other mobile GPUs.
It would be interesting to see microsoft to create a meta operating system that would run virtualized instances of windows 10, xp etc. to run applications securely and in the way to easily backup/version. I would easily pay $200 for such an operating system with enterprise grade support. There's nothing on the market like it right now.

I hope microsoft can figure out how to successfully monetize the operating system market again. I don't like them putting all their eggs in the cloud marketplace.