skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COVID itself causes Guillian-Barré Syndrome. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009191

All vaccines have the occasional rare side effect; Guillian-Barré is one of the more well known ones, and people get it from the flu shot each year. It's also quite clear the COVID vaccines haven't killed 600k in the US like the disease has, though. As with any other health intervention, the cost/benefits have to be weighed; they have been continue to be with regards to the vaccines.
Don't confuse PE & VC the two a very different.

You can think of venture capital as privately financed stimulus package focused on a few sectors. So its actually necessary for the growth of an economy.

PE on the other hand is more of the rent seeking behavior (buying cash flows) that we should really worry about.
Same thing with trees. It definitely seems to struggle more with individual objects you'd expect to see in lots of photos. It's really good at locations, though.

(Some of that might also be what I hardcoded. Most notebooks give a lot more flexibility in the art you produced, I simplified things dramatically for accessibility purposes)
+1. the author's quote (and statements like it) seem to have this underlying unspoken assumption that VCs are the sole vehicle through which new ideas become businesses. that always bothers me. VCs are a small asset class that chases returns and are not the vehicle through which all global innovation should occur. if that's the reality today, then it's more of a policy problem. institutional LPs have fiduciary responsibility to returns, not a mandate to solve long term difficult problems in industries the VCs they are paying don't understand.
There are lots of googlers here on HN. Message all of them. Message them all the time. I am sure you'll get your issue resolved.

I know it would be rude to keep messaging them but in the end they represent Google and they are suppose to help you, at least morally.
A remaster with no old code (2017)
Oh! This is a helpful insight, thanks. Updating the blog post.
If you ’fall’ from geosync orbit, you fall in a circle and wind up where you started. Orbiting is falling.
This sounds like a great way to wipe a database accidentally (like GitLab). The worst thing you can do to help fix a problem is having people asleep at the wheel.
I won't lie, this is not my favorite aspect, but the only way to do it is have numbers be represented as a string (e.g. "10.128") and use a library to manipulate them. The number type unfortunately just does not work.
The anchor is past geosynchronous orbit so it’s applying a constant upwards force. The energy for horizontal motion comes from the rotation of the earth, much like how a rotating ice skater slows down when they spread their arms.

Station keeping may be used to dampen oscillations, but managing climbing rates works just as well.
My idea about why smart people are sometimes stupid: mis-prioritization. If you rank solutions in the wrong way, even though you have thought of all the solutions, your actions might appear very stupid.

The most recent cases of this are about the COVID vaccinations. When I hear people say why they are not getting vaccinated, almost always they've elevated something in priority/importance above something else which is more important.
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Just like shipping things doesn't work because of storms, right?
Good lord - people have scary parenting styles - "information weapons"???

A phone is a tool. You start slowly. Do you give a 3 year old a chainsaw or machine gun right away? No.

I grew up and learned to shoot. I started with a bb gun, then a 22lr rife etc. You start with stuff less dangerous.

A phone potentially exposes children to all sorts of crap.

It's not some horrible thing to start slowly with something a bit locked down (and yes, blocking porn is part of that), then it opens up as they get mature.

This conversation has really made me look at the HN community in a different way. I've worked with kids in lots of contexts and with parents etc - the HN feelings about apple's efforts in this area are going to be somewhat extreme outliers relative to population as a whole and particularly vis a vis parents.
> You can't host a dinner party and serve a vegan meal unless everybody is vegan.

You absolutely can. Trying to serve a meat-based meal and replace the meat with something might be hard. But making a meal that doesn't have meat or animal products in it in the first place is not hard.
I’ll throw in my two cents. I’ve worked in food service before and for me the worst part was not interacting with customers but rather the other 90% of boring monotony during down times. And having to do “busy work” to satisfy management’s desire to see us constantly working even if that “work” was cleaning already cleaned countertops rather than checking your phone. If it was between having to stand around at an empty cash register or dealing with even a quiet customer, I personally would take the human interaction. Then again, I do obviously recognize there are some people who are just awful customers who make you wanna scream.
I rented my apartment to a black couple on AirBnB for a month and it was a lot of "black content" suggested to me on YouTube after that. I think it is a problem of what "they" (Netflix, YouTube) suggest to you based on what they know about you. And I'd say they do this well. A problem big companies have and they have solved it. That makes it a double fail to target it "as a startup": Like working with no-sql outside of FAANG and 2. Trying to solve a solved problem.

But, hey, it is famous YC, so they might be successful anyway.
My guess would be: top of the space elevator needs to stay in orbit so it already needs to have appropriate "horizontal" part.
"I'm not sure trying to improvise a way through a novel kind of conflict counts as stupid so much as untrained. Maybe there was someone in WWI saying "This is obviously wrong and won't work - we should do this other thing instead.""

There were. Some of the ideas were good, and eventually took off, some were good-ish but needed more development (aircraft and tanks, for example), and some just didn't work. But to this disinterested observer, nothing really worked well enough.

But mostly, the war ended when the governments and economies of the nations fighting could no longer withstand the strain and started collapsing. (Russia is the most obvious example; Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were sketchy going in; Germany and France were the military superpowers but Germany finally fell apart with France about this far > < from large scale mutinies. Oh, and Britain finally paid off its WWI loans in like 2015.)
That sounds quite good too.
I like pragmatic approaches.
It won't work. We're facing another 2008 but writ large, and if that plays out in a similar way, we'll see people move in together so that not only will housing prices drop through the floor but rents as well.

A lot of this is to diversify out of equities which will soon crater ala 1929. The problem is that hundreds of empty track houses don't have value either. I think they know that; I think they feel they don't have much choice. Desperate times.
> We’ve had people survive covid when no vaccines existed.

The existence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke and similar "fell from plane without parachute" survivors doesn't mean jumping out of a plane without a parachute is the right call.

No one has ever asserted COVID has a 100% mortality rate.
JP Aerospace has an interesting concept where the entire balloon would get slowly accelerated to orbital velocity using electric/chemical hybrid propulsion: http://www.jpaerospace.com/atohandout.pdf

That could potentially be viable, as it'd save fuel over more traditional rockets by allowing for the use of high efficiency, low thrust engines which would otherwise be infeasible for an orbital rocket due to gravity losses.

Not sure though, I haven't done the math. It might be that the losses due to drag exceed what a more traditional rocket would lose to gravity.
uh, no?
How is this better than what Charles Schwab already offers? With their Investor's Checking account there is no overdraft fee as long as it is covered by another account(can be a brokerage account.) If I overdraft I can the $$ can be pulled from cash in the brokerage account or margin. The checking account is FDIC insured if I do decided to carry a cash balance. The brokerage is SIPC insured(which I am hoping your offering will be)
Perhaps we just need constant awareness. Smokey Bear's website also includes a small section regarding the Benefits of Fire: https://smokeybear.com/en/about-wildland-fire/benefits-of-fi...

The Longleaf Pine episode on Smarter Every Day was also educational: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJWG7raBlT8
>But high IQ people can have bad beliefs and poor models. Without self-correction and a reality-testing loop they're just as likely to believe wrong and dangerous things.

As likely, or even more likely. Experts on a subject can be those that get it wrong the most, especially (as you point out) in fields where there is no proper measurement apparatus to conduct reality checks (like psychology before neurosciences), because they are those that dig the most in possibly wrong directions.

Reminds me of a quote: "The eminently false mind is the one who never feels that he is going astray." (Joseph Joubert) (original: "L'esprit éminemment faux est celui qui ne sent jamais qu'il s'égare.")
It's definitely not trivial, there is a lot of jargon, and a lot of regulation. We don't have any silver bullets, but we found Y combinator (the startup program) to be hugely helpful to connect us with other startup folks who have gone through similar problems.
Any data to support this? This seems incredible.
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>no transportation of any kind

How do you figure this. Cars did not always have computers in them, and you can still find older cars available.

>The equipment used to manufacture all the pieces of

Who actually cares about this? The consumer should only care about the thing produced.
I was considering getting M1 laptop, but now that's off the table. I am looking for a performant fanless laptop that will run Linux. Any suggestions?
You're blaming smartphones for problem that exists because of the Internet. If smartphones didn't render computers irrelevant to most people, all this "bad app" stuff would have happened on computers.

And the computers that don't have "bad apps" are hacked and encrypted by ransomware. Is that better?

Spyware is older than smartphones.
With the space elevator, you can get to space easily, but getting to orbit is much harder. Basically, you only achieve orbital speed once you have crawled to the geostationary orbit, e.g. 35,786 km above the Earth. Crawling that far from the Earth costs a lot of energy.

If you crawl only to the LEO altitude (e.g. 300 km) on the space elevator, you will be in space, but not in orbit. If you let go of the elevator there, you will immediately start falling to a gruesome death.
Cities are still far and away most efficient form of living/housing as far as emissions per capita go, compared to suburban sprawl or even townhouse-style settlements.

How do these emissions look when normalized by density and economic output? Is there industry within city limits? Is it really a mystery that the largest cities in the world are also responsible for the largest emission outputs?

Because this honestly sounds like a non-story by a journalist that doesn't understand per capita terms.

Yes, we still haven't decoupled economic output from emissions.

Yes, we need to tackle it.

What's the proposed solution here? Not having cities?

Really thought Reuters would have some editors or standards, rather than publishing sensationalist nothingburgers like this.
Because a real space elevator would go all the way to geostationary orbit where the orbital speed is the same as the rotation of the planet. Remember that the further up you go, the slower the orbital velocity, i.e. the "horizontal part" shrinks until the "vertical part" becomes the whole thing.

In fact, the way to build a space elevator is not to build a "tower to space", but to put an anchor rock into geostationary orbit and then hang a cable down to earth from it. You can then connect the cable to terra firma so that it doesn't sway, but in terms of the main forces involved it's hanging down, not standing up.
> Andrei Alexandrescu

Who's that guy?
(you're right, I clarified)
Not necessarily. Remember, you only need to control the interface. A bag, not a wall.
^ has (sighs)
Your last point confuses me. The Earth is finite, and space is so big we don't even know if it is finite.
A clear example how money in the military-industrial complex (or DARPA) directs innovation paths. The military does not approve of hydrogen blimps, and so neither can the civilian sector use them.
Why do you consider carbon capture a stop gap solution? We still have thousands of tons more CO2 in the atmosphere than is safe, and it needs to be removed. Ceasing further emissions is also important, but not enough on its own.
This is a confusing paragraph, but the "final step" is not matching per se. The final step reveals whether a match occurred - but it's clear that the database exists on-device and the database lookup occurs on-device.

Note the last part: "... but it can encode the result of the on-device match process before uploading to the server." The result of the match already exists before it is uploaded to the server. This is also made clear in the diagram.

Depending on how you define "matching," it either occurs on-device or no explicit matching actually occurs. The server gets a payload for each uploaded image and attempts to use its server-side secret to derive its decryption key from the header. If (and only if) the image was a match - as determined by the blinded on-device comparison - it will now have a key to decrypt the rest of the payload (for review). Note that neither client nor server explicitly compare the real database hash to the image hash. The comparison is absorbed into crypto "properties."
Thanks for the positive feedback :)
That's my understanding, geosync is the point at which you continually fall toward the Earth and miss, closer and you'd eventually hit, farther and you would move away.
This is a stereotype, but having lived in a nice brand new apartment tower I can tell you it’s pretty true. People mess with all the common spaces at a level that’s not sustainable for management to fix. Renters as a group are insulated from maintenance costs and some individuals take advantage of this.

Never lived in a condo tower, might be the same.
For all intents and purposes, the US has essentially infinite landfill space. The technology to store solid waste is improving faster than the rate we're generating at. The majority of landfills actually have more capacity today than they did 30 years ago. And that's not even counting all the wide open empty space that's available to open new landfill.s
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Cool site. And there's an RSS feed! Excellent!
Is that you Char Aznable?
Unless you are a factory putting out metric tons of CO2 I don't think the tax is going to be much to sneeze at for most people. Gas going up another 50 cents a gallon doesn't actually make that big of a dent to your pocket book at the end of the day, especially in cities where rent is already like $2000 a month for a single. If you fill up your car once a week, even if the tax at the pump was a full dollar, you are throwing down like $48 extra a month, or 2.4% your rent. Seems reasonable to me.
> I'm trying to think of a case where rail is worse than airships though

You can ship non-standard cargo via air easier than rail if its wide. Eg. Moving a wide machinery, or parts to large construction project.
In case the given host implementation can be AOT compiled, the resulting binary will for all practical purposes be a LISP interpreter. Bootstrapping isn’t rare in this area.
This site offers a Global Lightning Map of events in progress:

https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;...

I don't know of a resource that overlays histories of such events with indigenous cultural burning activities, but maybe the data is out there somewhere.
This is cool. I will link to it from my A11y blog.
I think the tax filer max the ultimate decision on cost basis, not the financial institution.
That's an interesting idea, that there was essentially a trough to get through before the neolithic revolution and the (relative) caloric abundance it brought.
Actually the 'always' implies a causal relationship. 'while I lit up mig cigarette, the bus arrived' is not ironic.
Why did you choose this particular model?
It doesn't match my experience, with a real incident.

I was a dev in a small web company (10 staff), moonlighting as sysadmin. Our webserver had 40 sites on it. It was hit by a not-very-clever zero-day exploit, and most of the websites were now running the attacker's scripts.

It fell to me to sort it out - the rest of the crew were to keep on coding websites. The ISP had cut off the server's outbound email, because it was spewing spam. So I spent about an hour trying to find the malicious scripts, before I realised that I could never be certain that I'd found them all.

You get an impulse to panic when you realise that the company's future (and your job) depends on you not screwing up; and you're facing a problem you've never faced before.

So I commissioned a new machine, and configured it. I started moving sites across from the old machine to the new one. After about three sites, I decided to script the moving work. Cool.

But the sites weren't all the same - some were Drupal (different versions), some were Wordpress, some were custom PHP. It worked for about 30 of the sites, with a lot of per-site manual tinkering.

Note that for the most part, the sites weren't under revision control - there were backups in zip files, from various dates, for some of the sites. And I'd never worked on most of those sites, each of which had its own quirks. So I spent the next week making every site deploy correctly from the RCS.

I then spent about a week getting this automated, so that in a future incident we could get running again quickly. Happily we had a generously-configured Xen server, and I could test the process on VMs.

My colleagues weren't allowed to help out, they were supposed to go on making websites. And I got resistance from my boss, demanding status updates ("are we there yet?")

The happy outcome is that that work became the kernel of a proper CI pipeline, and provoked a fairly deep change in the way the company worked. And by the end, I knew all about every site the company hosted.

We were just a web-shop; most web-shops are (or were) like this. If I was doing routine sysadmin, instead of coding websites, I was watched like a hawk to make sure I wasn't doing anything 'unnecessary'.

This incident gave me the authority to do the sysadmin job properly; and in fact it saved me a lot of sysadmin time - because previously, if a dev wanted a new version of a site deployed, I had to interrupt whatever I was doing to deploy it. With the CI pipeline, provided the site had passed some testing and review stage, it could be deployed to production by the dev himself.

It would have been cool to be able to do recovery drills, rotating roles and so on; but it was enough for my bosses that more than one person knew how to rebuild the server from scratch, and that it could be done in 30 minutes.

Life in a small web-shop could get exciting, occasionally.
More links

https://rakudoweekly.blog/2021/08/09/2021-32-firstcon-done/
Dark City: The Mistress of Suspense
I think we're in a "lightbulb" moment: the tech has gotten good and convenient enough that a lot of people are having the same ideas. I mean, heck, I don't know anything about AI or art and I was still able to make my notebook. There's also been a bunch of paid solutions submitted to HN, too, as people try to find ways to build products off this.

The great thing is that the space is big and crazy enough that even if a bunch of people independently make something, everything they make will be different in interesting ways. I'm just focusing on making it as simple as possible, to the point where I don't even have an option to have different width and height. I give it maybe a month before someone makes a Colab that blows both of ours out of the water.

(I should really start aggregating the notebooks, so people who enjoyed mine and want to try all the other cool ones can see them all in one place)
A space elevator not only raises payloads, but also accelerates them to geostationary orbital velocities (~3000 m/s). Luckily these velocities are much much lower than LEO orbits (7600 m/s).

Ideally the energy to perform this acceleration comes from the rotation of the planet below, transmitted via the tether. The anchor station would have to be stabilized to prevent oscillation and rotation. However that technical challenge is minor compared to the tether material itself.

Another advantage of a space elevator is that we can use electrical power from a base station instead of onboard power on the vehicle alone. Also the power can be much lower than a comparable rocket. To ascend on the rail/tether you can accelerate much slower. It doesn't need to lift fast or fall. It can just slowly accumulate altitude and velocity.
> I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it. Problem is that the devices are really really good.

The devices are good, but still Apple has a weak value proposition.

Also, handing them your money probably isn't going to make things better in terms of alternatives.
I've read the summary and it does not change anything.

> These benefits are actually larger than the initial increase in tax burden in step 1

This isn't clear at all. I suspect this is only true in a specific set of circumstances, not as a universal rule.

> You could only do this until you run out of tax dollars being paid by poor people

The article is talking about the 50th and 99th percentiles. If what you're saying is true, the government should reduce taxes on the 50th percentile household all the way to 0%, and fund this tax cut entirely by increasing taxes on those who are more wealthy. And if what you're saying is true, such a change in tax policy would increase disposable income for the 99th percentile.

There isn't a single serious economist who believes the above. Even people like Sanders who would advocate for such a tax policy, are arguing for it from a fairness perspective. Not a "this will make the rich even richer" argument, which is what you're implying.