skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope everyone remembers when the authorities and the media were telling us that we are too stupid to use the masks correctly so the general population shouldn't be using it. This was early 2020.

And I am aware of Paul Graham's submarine (and Tim Wu's books and Edward Bernay's work force that matter)...

What I don't understand is what happened afterwards when masks became political and discussed everywhere. Where is this coming from? Who is pushing it and benefiting from it?

Right before the pandemic, attention to plastic straws was a thing in mainstream media, but I haven't seen anything about the environmental impact of the masks, most of which are made with plastics which take 400 years to degrade (compare that to straws which take 200 years). If plastic straw thing was purely environmental, there would be a push for cloth masks or masks made with biodegradable material from the same people, right? Does anyone have any ideas to what is happening?
I kinda hope that bike shop is incorporated into the silo just like that farmhouse in Wargames [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/8-T_uhQ0iE4
I wonder how well the average person (particularly those who doesn't listen to much classical music, but even those who listen to it casually but regularly) can distinguish between a fine musician and a great musician. Say, a 21-year-old still in a music conservatory and this man.

Perhaps I'm underestimating, but I suspect that most people wouldn't be able to easily tell that the person playing classical music in the subway was a master vs just someone who could play technically well, in the same way that they couldn't tell if they were beaten at chess by their local shark at the park or a GM.

On my end, I have the same problem with actors in movies. I find it bewildering to imagine how the nominees for "best actor" are picked each year, because above a certain level (i.e. not including the obviously bad actors) everyone seems to ceiling-out for me, and they all just seem to be equally capable actors who have just been given better or worse parts. Obviously I recognize that this is just something I'm missing.
Let's also not forget the impact of visiting or not visiting a toilet before riding. The weight change dwarfs most of the differences between single component choices, possibly all the way up to most of the components combined.
Even when something in academia doesn't have an agenda, it will be interpreted by everyone else as if it does.

Despite all the brilliant minds and appearance of professionalism and pride and campus pageantry...

it's easily a much more insecure, drama-filled, immature, and petty social dynamic and environment than most high schools.

That seems imo to be due to a combination of academia itself and a govt (or govt style) administration apparatus, where everyone is constantly trying convince everyone else of the importance of what it is they do.
https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Film_Grain/
To be fair, I'll bet there's quite a lot of people who'd stay there as one of those AirBnB experiences.
I noticed IGameObject in the post. I've been playing with both Unity3D and COM for several years, and kept thinking about the similarities.
COM has been considered bad constantly, but base on the popularity of Unity3D, IMHO COM theory shows its advantages in building an open system(plugin-friendly).
Xenia: Presenting the Presentation Update
I have used this for Chinese and English bilingual websites and it works very well once you get the hang of it.
I agree, except for ABS and power steering. As much as I think Tesla is overrated and overpriced, human drivers suck really badly at the edge cases. Certainly the vast majority of people can't out brake an ABS in slippery conditions let alone while still having the ability to steer.
In the early 2000s, there was a massive DEA bust involving a decomissioned missile silo turned into an LSD lab (which was apparently responsible for manufacturing 90% of the LSD on the market at the time). Other levels of the facility were turned into a massive party/tripping space - it's a fascinating story.

The man responsible (William Pickard) served quite some time in federal prison but was finally released sometime last year.

I'm sure there's no shortage of creative uses for a property like this.

https://historydaily.org/skinner-pickard-1990s-lsd-lab-built...

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-Bay-Area-Men-Busted...
There's a whole market of doomsday preppers who would absolutely buy in at whatever price you set it. Luxury condos in old silos are a thing. And the cost of excavating, building, and reinforcing the structure is far more than the cost to refurbish the inside of it.
Th EU spent more time negotiating a better deal. Also more promise was put upon the Astra Zeneca vaccine initially.
Easy?! Cooling, water intrusion, and access to sufficient bandwidth all seem like nightmares.
I’m going to be upfront and say I don’t understand your position You seem to be making a number of questionable assumptions: 1) That people would blindly reuse code to the harm of science, including on a multi-billion dollar project like an LHC. That’s not likely to ever happen.
2) That rejecting those who plagiarize others’ code in a peer-review process is somehow excessive or problematic.

I can’t begin to understand where you are coming from.
My grandfather was in the US army and participated in nuclear weapons testing throughout his later career. He said if war broke out with the Soviets that everyone should go sit on the roof and wait for the mushroom cloud to be sure not to survive.
>a few things may make it a bit harder for that to develop into a full snowball

Are you making a point by leaving human emissions of CO2 out of your list?
Wow, haven't heard about COM/DCOM for over twenty years (though i had some flashbacks, when starting with gRPC).
I remember they had an evangelist named Don Box, i think he even had a tattoo on his body that had to do with COM; Now wikipedia says that he worked at microsoft until last year, i wonder what he is doing now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Box

I mean, if one would tattoo some software architecture, then one would have to change the tattoo every ten years, as the subject inevitably becomes obsolete; bother!

well, almost everything becomes obsolete, with the exception of Unix; that fact could serve as an indication for the alien origin of this operating system ;-)

Another flashback from working with Windows: the MSDN CDs had the best documentation that i ever saw; no one comes even close...
I think the question was more about how your employers are violating US sanctions against your country.
I wrote a web framework (on Jester), and a cross-platform UI layer too, in Nim. I'm thinking of releasing the core as Open Source when I get a chance. That would be later in the year though.

Nim is an amazing language, definitely underrated.
I'm also skeptical. An unprecedented percentage of Americans have well over a decade of full-time education, yet here we are. People question it's quality or assert that some degree-holding buffoon proves it worthless, but I doubt they have convincing empirical evidence that our population knew more in another era.
It's a small underground facility in the middle of nowhere in Kansas -- even assuming that you could get adequate power service and bandwidth to the property (which is unlikely), you're still trying to run a bunch of servers out of a tiny, damp, hot hole in the ground. Not ideal.
Poaching is used across the industry for workforce quite commonly
I don't know about SBCL in particular, I just meant Windows development in general is pretty bad compared to the other platforms.

I'm using Visual Studio 2019 and ReSharper at work right now, and it's a slow, bloated mess compared to dev environments I've used on Linux and OSX.

Sorry to rant, but I recently started a new job using Windows for the first time in about 10 years, and the slow dev environment is my only pet peeve.
I always wondered how much targeting of silos occurred. Or at least how they dealt with that.

MAD really seemed to require you unleash everything and generally if the others did you would be targeting a lot of empty silos in the middle of nowhere. At least those in the Midwest.
You do have a point. I have little trouble recognizing that micro-transactions and coin-op difficulty creep are both profit driven modifications made to games, and also that I'd be better served by the life of a hermit than a time machine to the 1980s if I wanted to escape the effects of human greed, particularly on much more important things than video games.

I think it's important too to distinguish between a micro-transaction for something like a skin or a hat that has a cosmetic effect, versus "pay to win/pay to not grind", versus "pay every 5 minutes regardless of whether you win or lose" etc. My remarks on micro-transactions and difficulty creep is less about how profitable they are, but rather how the changes feel to me.

In writing my first post, I had a thought to compromise between the old school approach and the current paradigm: what if every game loop cost 1 credit if you win, 2 credits if you lose, and 100 yen buys 2 credits? If the challenge fits into my flow state so that it's at the upper limit of my competence, I would have an explicit 50 yen incentive to win in an engaging challenge. The game devs and proprieter would still make some guaranteed income on my play time. If no one has ever posited this idea before (and I'd bet someone has, and probably tested it, and maybe it doesn't work well for them), I feel like calling it "win to save".

It could even be an interesting study - players of games often won't keep playing if they feel they can't win, so the designer would have to be careful not to nickle and dime the player by setting them up for expensive failures. On the other hand, an engaging way to keep players paying could be to set them up for challenging victories that are very quick and efficient, to get them into the next loop faster... There's a lot of dimensions to this, more than I'm willing let alone able to put into one comment.

I agree arcades are a fantastic place for rhythm and dancing games. I hope you have a great day.
Oh thanks! I skimmed some paragraphs, must have missed that. Gonna check that out.
Just for maximum clarity, I'm fairly sure what they're saying is the car was in the shop for only 14 total days so far but it needs to be in the shop for 30 total days for the lemon law to apply.
> After reading TFA, I have learned that Operation Warp Speed essentially bought the risk and supplied scaling capital to bootstrap domestic biomedical manufacturing. OWS supplied capital for hardware, people, project management, brokered manufacturing agreements and organized large scale trials.

> Article mentions that moderna had a big weakness: Inexperienced at executing clinical trials and large scale manufacturing of its vaccine technology, it could produce a prototype vaccine in several days but had no existing pipeline to deliver industrial quantities.

> >It seems to me that once the initial vaccines were out, the mission became "we have the solution, now make everyone accept it" rather than continuous improvement.

> The vaccines were out in a couple of months. Amazingly, it turns out that the hard part is scaling to global quantities of a new product line. Re-engineering a global production is way hard, too.

> I agree that we should continue to fund the scaleout of domestic biomedical manufacturing.

I think OWS highlighted what could be done if incentives were aligned, and the only things that stopped it from being an inarguable success were 1) the same thing that made it a success (speed and comms to get shit done), which caused a lot of people to say "hey that's weird the government never does anything right when they move fast" based on most of their lived understanding and experience; and, 2) the utter failure of honesty from the institutions most needed to be honest.

If the CDC etc. had remained publicly politically unbiased throughout Trump's admin, they would not have been so distrusted, I think. If the Biden admin (and Democrats in general) had not campaigned almost entirely as anti-everything-Trump and instead recognized the few good things done, the polarized Republicans (and listless independents/others) might not have had such a visceral negative reaction.

All it would have taken to prevent a large majority of "vaccine hesitation" would be to have had Biden and Trump on stage together saying "Hey we might disagree on a lot but we need to work together on this." Maybe one or both parties refused to do this or maybe they didn't think to, I don't know. But I do know, deep down inside, it would have helped. Now, though? Way too late.
As somebody that's now literally a middle aged man in lyrca sometimes - I find the whole phenomenon really amusing, but then again, I've also been riding since I was a lot younger, and poorer, and the best I could afford was an all-aluminum specialized allez with 9-speed 105 stuff on it.

Back in the day, I probably rode 4-5x more cumulative km per year than I do now. And at that time, I found middle aged men in lyrca with more money than common sense to be equally funny.
I don't know why people like gmail so much but I found gmail's design, or Google's Material language in general, really bloated. Outlook.com has a flat and simple layout. Of course it's inferior to gmail in search and I don't understand why they makes me type out the "@outlook.com" part at login.

Another reason I use outlook is that I already gave everything else to Google so just diversify a bit.
I’m so glad I got to go with my brother when he was in town. A real walk down memory (and far beyond) lane.
“Memory leaks are memory safe in Rust”
Not necessarily. Religious communities have been taking care of the sick, the lonely, feeding the poor since, well, forever. Those who believe, of course, would think there is a higher purpose of them being there, but most, normally wouldn't ask for religious affiliation before handing people a plate of pancakes and sausages, or lentils and rice (https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sikh-pandemic-food-suppor...).

People shouldn't rely on religious organization for those basics - visits when sick, food when hungry, especially in a developing country, but the sad situation is that they are.
I agree. I'm really struggling how the latest Podcast app is an improvement over the last one. Last few 'upgrades' to their Podcast have been horrible.

Apple gets a lot of pass on a lot of stuff, but their UI is pretty terrible.

What they're really good at is overall device integration.
A nice companion piece here, showing how AlphaZero learns compared to human Chess history - https://en.chessbase.com/post/acquisition-of-chess-knowledge...
US jurisdiction doesn't even protect its own citizens against their government requesting data from google about them, why would it protect those of Hong Kong from their ... oh wait i get it
That organization is obviously sharing this in their social media because the findings here promote their worldview, but the reporting is not done by them, it's done by WPBF news, an ABC affiliate owned by NYC-based Hearst Television.

While I can't find them on any bias-meter, they have an official relationship with PolitiFact, which should speak for itself.
There's been a lot of news about Mongo and ES, wait until people start searching for MS SQL servers with blank sa passwords. I've lost count of the amount of conversations I've had trying to shut that down with various organisations.
> They weren't saying this because they thought face masks were ineffective, they said this because they were worried about supplies for healthcare workers.

This doesn't pass the smell test because governments could easily have banned the private sale of masks.

Many governments have used their powers to confine us to home arrest without a trial and they expect us to believe they couldn't have confiscated all the masks?
My portfolio website is 4-lingual and the initial setup was pretty confusing (a bit trial and error until I understood how it works). But now it works very conveniently.
Show HN: Sqlui-native – a simple desktop Electron app to manage your SQL conns
Title should read Unreal Engine not Unity
If spf only include the company ip and the dmarc policy is to drop unknown senders, then it won’t be received by the company’s mail server, it will be dropped.
I wonder how they assemble those groups. I'm guessing there is some significant selection bias in the process.
Ha. "Three thumbs up!"
Many static site generators are so fast that you could use, say, the unix `watch` command to rebuild your website every two seconds while running an `http-server` locally to preview the results. And then just rsync the artifacts when ready to deploy.
I’ve read State of Fear, and I agree that Crichton isn’t a great source for scientific facts.

But this quote isn’t really a criticism of science. It’s a criticism of journalism.

I think most people here on HN agree with his premise regarding the quality of science journalism. I’m not so sure about his conclusion that all journalism should be treated with the same suspicion.
Larpers would pay big bucks to run around a place like this shooting paintballs or airsoft at each other.

Set it up so the above ground barracks has some nice PC/Consoles to play with in the evenings, some hot pockets and Mt. Dew for breakfast and let them larp all day with their buddies for $300/person/day.
Op sounded very confident that the persons allegedly involved _are_, in no uncertain terms, not just definitely total frauds but also definitely engaged in a giant fraud conspiracy that definitely goes all the way to the top. If what they meant was "someone told me once that..." they could have said that instead, but they've chosen to word things very very differently. At best they've drastically overstepped reasonable limits of what claims one is able to rightly make, and that assessment feels extremely generous.
> Their lab mates tried to raise concerns and nothing happened. That person graduated, with everyone on the committee knowing the issues.

I understand after some time it would be an embarrassment for the department because they hired, vetted them, etc. But why did that get tolerated initially, was it a case of nepotism? It seems they must have had some kind of a special privilege or status to skate by so easily despite the accusations.
Let's be honest with ourselves though, and admit once and for all that upgrades are not bugfixes but bugswaps.
When I'm writing HTML, there isn't a ton of nesting. It's mostly <h2> <h3> <p> <figure> at top-level. No parent tags. This is standard HTML, the <html> and <body> are implicit. Sections are implicitly delimited by header tags. Open and close tags are generally no more than a few lines apart. I'm strongly in favor of "semantic" tags in general (and so, for example, I do not use <cite> <em> or <i> interchangeably, even though they are all styled the same) but AFAIK the <section> tag does not really serve a useful purpose, semantically, because sections are already delimited by header tags (and screen readers and the like understand this).

Anything like an <article> or <main> or whatever is going to get handled by the template. I only write the contents of each article, and let tooling handle the boilerplate. Just like how you don't write navigation bars or TOCs in markdown, you let the tooling do that for you.

Re: tables, to each their own... I find tables in Markdown to be a bit fragile and easy to screw up when I'm changing them. I don't like having the columns shoved into one line of text. And any time I'm sticking tables in a document I'm likely to want to adjust the styling a little. Tables are easily the thing I hate the most about markdown.

> Markdown extension of course vary, but my point remains that using Pandoc (my usual approach...

Using some particular markdown tooling you get TOC and footnotes... and using some particular HTML tooling I can get the same thing.

For particular pages I often add small snippets of CSS or JavaScript, which I can just stick in <style> tags at the top, or <script> tags at the bottom, because it's just standard HTML.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com...
Trailer for Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
People on HN are so odd sometimes. Ah yes, I must be a liar if I don't want to spill all the details my friends told me in confidence and ruin our relationship.

Sure, sometimes people lie on the internet but this is not an outlandish story.
I love it too, if I remember correctly I believe you could set it up to play your own mp3s in the car radio.
It does not, because of the Cloud Act and related american mass surveillance laws
Do you seriously believe that people who didn't trust MMR vaccines now do because of covid?
Sega World was always one of my highlights of going to London. Would always stop in there.

I remember one time I'd just sold 800 Beanie Babies for $250,000 in cash (dude flew in from Chicago with it) and was feeling flush. Went in Sega World and they had a new Jurassic Park hydraulic deluxe game. IIRC it was three quid PER CREDIT, and it was a two-player game. So it was six quid just to start. There was an employee stationed outside who would put your money in for you.

So, me and my buddy go and get literally hundreds of quid coins and go back to the game and pour these coins into the guy's shirt and tell him KEEP FEEDING THE BEAST. DO NOT STOP. So we played that fucker all the way through to the end. I think we only spent about 90 quid in total to finish it. The employee was over the moon. He said he'd been working there for weeks but no-one ever wanted to play after the first credit and he'd really wanted to see the end sequence.

I love you Sega. You'll always be my first crush.
I think you will be waiting a while. PoW isn't going anywhere, even if it were outlawed.
The ones that build the site server side completely (including the ones that are JavaScript based, but not the ones that are JavaScript framework based that tend to move certain parts to the client).
The rabble of ignorant science deniers aren't a problem for science, but they are a problem for policy. Reality itself can't sue climate change deniers for defamation, and for all intents and purposes they have control of policy in the world's largest economy as long as the US senate is deadlocked.
I saw a really good video documentary about this but forgot how to find it. The Wikipedia is fascinating enough in itself:

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

Edit: My mistake, it was about another duo who also made LSD. I'm pretty sure the silo is mentioned in passing.

The Sunshine Makers Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsvElED0-O0
To create that simulation I would need to team up with scientist who have enough credibility, reputation get the funding for programming that simulation (see my other comments on this thread). My part, the open source code would cost $25K to create. Collection and readying all the geology, all paleontology and part of biology science papers can partially be done with machine learning like Google's scholar search engine until you get a list of all relevant papers that humans must parse to find the timeline and spatial movements of rocks and materials we know about. A nice job for students.

Still, it would be a cheap research project with big science returns like the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, Dark Energy Survey or Sloan Digital Sky Survey did for cosmology.

Thank you for your answers, I now have a few weeks of science papers to read and follow up on.
I wish I could remember which implementation of Corba it was, an Irish company I think...hello Google it was Iona and "Orbix". Dreadful thing.