skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, like the article says, it's a big strategic problem for the USA to not have any domestic PPE production.

2 years ago all the health care establishments in the USA really, really needed N95 masks, but couldn't get them. Because they were all manufactured overseas, and all the countries that produced them decided to temporarily stop exporting to protect their own supplies. It was a problem. The emergency department where my dad used to work nearly had to shut down for a while due to staffing shortages from his colleagues catching COVID.

It happened with H1N1, it happened with COVID-19, and now the US is negligently ensuring that it will happen to them again with the next major epidemic, too.

(Also, that phrase "used to" should perhaps be chilling to anyone who lives in the USA and does not possess a mutant healing factor.)
Easy. Just say that the masks not only protect you from Covid, but also from those identity stealing facial recognition cams!
Yeah, I guess I meant why didn't it stay. Was it too much expansion or is the culture in Los Angeles just different?
> There are obvious drawbacks too like project going unmaintained.

This is a risk with proprietary/SaaS too of course. And when it does happen you're even worse off.
It can change. We dont care much about Russia, their army is in need of protection, it s clear now.

The untested one is China and who knows what they ll pull later.
Your off by orders of magnitude. Nuclear uses vastly more water than solar power per kWh.

“Nuclear Energy consuming roughly 400 gallons of water per megawatt-hour, 320 billion gallons of water were consumed by United States nuclear power plant electricity generation in 2015.” And that’s direct consumption in cooling towers, nuclear indirectly uses power in other ways.

By comparison the 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight project in Riverside County estimated 2/3 cup of water per megawatt hour.
No. NATO formed to defend against the USSR, which existed for a while last century.

Why exactly that cold war relic is still a drain on member nations' budgets, I can't tell.
Car GPS devices have had them built in for almost two decades now, and they routinely sold for around $100 or less as a one-time purchase once they were relatively common (unless you wanted weekly over-the-air map updates rather than monthly or quarterly).

Far more TVs are sold than those car navigation units ever did. I don't think money is an issue if they want a slow back channel. If they wanted to ship all ads over it, sure, but periodic phone-homes? Updates to DNS-bypassing lists of IP addresses? Unless they're prevented from selling it, they'll do it eventually.
I'm at a big tech company. I literally think I'd leave if they stopped feeding me.
It's such an amazingly valuable perk. It's worth substantially more to me than the raw cost of the food. Having to do my own food during wfh killed me. I'm a perfectly fine chef but it just sucks up so much time.
Due to a more contagious variant?
just checking your comment history and why you are on negative points, you seem to be having a bit of a culture mismatch with HN in your approach to commenting, check https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, I guess the relevant section is :- "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
What would really take this to the next level is if multiple users could actually walk around on your site and see each other and even chat. Given that you probably wouldn’t expect more than a dozen or so people on at a time it shouldn’t be that difficult to implement a solution.

Or at the very least, allow us to leave our own NPCs somewhere with a comment about your site.
I reckon that's a reasonable way to think about it. I often see people blaming irrational nuclear fear or environmentalists for the lack of nuclear development, but really if they want to see it be optimized as part of the solution in the future, they should be advocating for expanded government subsidies or direct funding because right now that's the obstacle, the fact that nuclear isn't part of a purely market solution.
There are a number of contributing factors. The lack of manufacturing in the US, which you can blame on bean counters wanting to utilize Chinese slave labor. A tax system that prefers the lower wage workers be either on the dole, work illegally, or work 3 gig-based jobs. A kafkaesque government contracting system dreamed up and continually patched by government workers. The same government workers that would work private sector if they were given a chance. But, they often can't because a lack of experience, aptitude or drive.
Brilliant and fun. Small bug when I go into the "room to the right/left", if I back out (via browser), the character will continue going in that direction without any button being pressed.

Curious to know what "Metatheoretical Structuralism" is, I am having trouble understanding after looking it up. If someone could ELI5 I would appreciate it. I get that it is philosophical analysis of empirical science, but would like to understand it on a deeper level.
“ because securing tons of gold isn't easy”

Why not?
Yes, you still have to drive safely. That's a lot more nebulous than just looking at velocity numbers.

Another thing to keep in mind, is that if you drive fast enough in Germany, and anything happens, the burden of proof shifts: the (extreme) speeder is presumed guilty of causing the accident until proven innocent.

Fun fact, the incident you linked to happened where I grew up.
It's very common for businesses and industries that governments deem to be strategically important to be protected from market forces.

Market forces are not a moral obligation, nor are they an invitation to put a huge "kick me" sign on your back, stand in front of some proverbial John Galt, and let nature take its course. They're just a description of how things tend to naturally work out in the absence of intervention.
Yes I've noticed the open outdoor malls are more popular now. I live in Fremont so Newpark Mall is the one I was talking about. You can see the plans on the attached link.

https://www.newark.org/home/showpublisheddocument/7665/63758...
> The number of students I have that actively presume I am trying to trick them is truly astonishing.

> I've put parts of answers in the question text, underlined them, and then had students tell me they thought it was a trick.

Why wouldn't they assume that?

Tests are nothing but games where students figure out what answers you want. They can do that by learning the material, but there's a metagame. What were you thinking when you wrote down this question on the exam?

For example, once I took a english test which asked me the correct pronoun for ships. Choices: he, she, it, they. I know that "she" is almost always used to refer to ships, but I also know that "it" is also grammatically correct. So which is it? Is the teacher trying to test my understanding of this historical tradition? Does the teacher think "she" is antiquated? Will I lose if I pick "she"? There's enough uncertainty here for me to pause even though it's an absurdly simple question. I know the answer but I'm not 100% sure what will happen if I choose it.

There are serious consequences to getting these answers wrong and students simply can't afford to trust you.

Entire books could be written about this teacher-student metagame. Another example: choice order. Suppose the choices to the above english question were ordered so:

Which pronoun is used to refer to ships?

A. It
B. He
C. They
D. She

Deliberately positioning an almost correct answer as the first choice was extremely common in the schools I attended. A student who's overly anxious or running low on time might read that, pick choice A without even reading the other options and move on. The second we noticed this, "letter A is never right" became a meme and to this day I feel uncomfortable choosing the first option presented to me in any context. Preparatory schools actually offered test taking classes where we were taught to read questions backwards because of this.

Teachers eventually noticed that we noticed and suddenly the right answers were the first choices. Do you have enough confidence in your knowledge to assert that letter A is correct? Now it's a deeper level metagame: does this teacher know that I know?

This is what you get when education determines your future job prospects. It is no longer about "actual learning". It is a game and our future hangs in the balance.
I'm pretty sure I had that blocked out in mental self-defense.
Yeah. It's less a hammer and more a strip of "do not cross" plastic ribbon across a freeway. It only works while they play nice, and they probably even breach it accidentally sometimes.
I'm not sure about the latter. But I agree that political considerations are important, and I deliberately ignored them and only talked about technical feasibility.
I m sorry but there is a Cantonese superiority complex, we see it here too in Hong Kong. It s not crazy, it s in a lot of other places (one american girl once told me Europe is boring, to which I replied for me all americans are morons: see a bit lol), but it s more than defensive and a big reason why we have so much trouble credibly communicating demands to Beijing.
Which means people need to work harder for every hamburger or the like and a deflationary spiral could occur which is even more terrible than an inflationary one.

I think the parent was referring to ‘to keep the commodity/cash stable’
Have you spent much time interacting with children of abusive parents? I encourage you to go do some research a learn how bad it can get and how difficult it can be for them to struggle towards acknowledging and coming to terms with that abuse.
Nah. Unless it's a social call, the video stays off in our team.
For context, the Edict on Maximum Prices was such a dismal failure that Diocletian ended up retiring shortly after issuing it... so take the restrictiveness and exact prices with a grain of salt (0.0001).
I don't get what's so confusing about gold. It's limited because it was created by the universe and it can be easily stored. If we had some gold-backed system, a real one, then where's the inflation ? Where's the problem for the average person ?
A short conversation with Medicare:

Never happened. They never pick up the phone, and they don't have any other way to contact them after you applied for benefits. I tried for weeks to resolve an issue with an application for my father, a dozen of calls, every time being on hold for hours. Sometimes the automated system says "leave your number and someone will call you back tomorrow at a certain time". That's a lie, no one has ever called back.
Part of the issue is that American businesses are not always better. So a requirement of purchasing subpar overpriced products just because they're American-made doesn't help anyone. They need to find ways to create innovative manufacturing in America.
If I don’t wear a mask, what are people gonna do about it?

Nothing.

People fold quickly when you ignore their requests to wear a mask.
Even if you blame this on NATO, which I don’t, it seems to have all but crippled Russia. Russia had an economy smaller than Texas. Today it’s economy is potentially smaller than Florida’s or Mexico’s. This was a colossal fuck up by Putin and the western powers didn’t even need to fire a bullet.
Are every single one of them going out of business?

Genuinely asking because the article is paywalled.
Easing restrictions will open whole new pathways to social groups who have not yet been infected. China is about to explode, so transmission and variants to come from there. Most people are not boosted, immunity isn't gonna be as strong as we think.
Please make this into a git repository that can be curated, updated and maintained by a community of volunteers
That is not how it works. Even if you could usurp all the mining powers, the Coins are still owned by the keys. You only have the ability to censor future transactions. Mining controls the future, key holders control the past.
I bought a Sceptre for a decent price last year. It doesn’t even have internet capability and it’s wonderful.
It's not about what you think about the particular price, it's about how you view the relative price. If one item is 9.99 and the next is 10.00, there's no practical difference in price, but a huge difference in relative attraction to shoppers.
>but Chinese in China have very real insecurities about being "identity-less"

No idea what you mean by that.

I didn't read the entire article but the fact that he said he considers Macau separate speaks for itself to me, he probably doesn't know much about it. Hong Kong was truly separate until recently, Macau had been under Mainland control even before 1999 so it's been decades now. The influence is clearly visible to anyone who knows the country. There also weren't any meaningful protests when the CCP broke the two systems agreement as there were in Hong Kong.

That said, I don't see any reason to ad hominem attack the guy. China is a closed off society and increasingly so again under Xi. A foreigner will not understand everything after living there for a short time. Of course that's true for any place but it's especially true with China. It's a running joke among expats that new arrivals who've only been there a year or two have the complete opposite view of the country than they're going to have a couple of more years down the line.
You can install Lineage OS android TV on raspberry pi and use the TV as a dumb screen connecting to the pi
First, worth clarifying that "information" can be misleading because it sounds like a very general term. For example, it may sound like it implies that there's some underlying super-reality that requires ~1.509 bits to model an electron. Which isn't (generally) the case.

Instead, "information" in that context often refers to how much information humans estimate that they could record using some amount of energy -- or, various things like that (depending on the model).

Mass can warp reality -- such as through gravity, and as noted with relativistic-effects. And apparently energy counts toward mass (e.g., the E=mc^2 thing), where adding energy to a system adds mass to it, affecting its gravity.

So, if energy and mass are linked, and energy and information are linked, then is information linked to mass? For example, would a sufficient amount of information-density create a black-hole? Kinda like an informational-[energy-based black-hole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics) )

That's kinda how they appear to be considering it.
The reactions I see are a sad crying sad face with a single tear and an angry red frown. Neither of those would be described as a frown. You are right that neither is something that could be used to tell someone they are being inappropriate.
This is what happens when you take a class where some students don't want to learn, put them in a classroom with teachers who don't want to teach those students, and expect the teachers to act as inspectors in addition to actually teaching them.

If you're trying to learn, and if other people are involved, the process goes something like this:

1. you find a mentor, a peer group, or a teacher

2. you read or watch the resources they give you, and do some exercises

3. you ask them to critique your work, possibly in exchange for money[0]

4. they give you actionable feedback, you thank them, and go back to step 2

This is because you want to learn, they want to teach you, and they're not the same person who's going to be testing you later.

[0] A good example of when you'd pay money is Drawabox's official critiques
> south, particularly in a Brahmin household, you will have one sambhar, one rasam, three vegetable currys

This is not even remotely typical.
What are the energy requirements? Is there residual energy to capture?
Mosul and Raqqa sure did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement
People are surprisingly motivated to try to steal generalized stores of value that are untraceable? Especially when it’s worth a lot in even small quantities.

So everyone from guards to govts would love to get their hands on it.

6000 tons of gold is worth around 384 billion dollars.
The title is a reference to the book "The Art of War"

Why was NATO expansion a mistake exactly?
Doesn't work on bare metal, floppy nor HDD.
Slave labor? Surely the ratio of Chinese laborers who feel enslaved is low enough that it's inappropriate to describe Chinese labor on the whole as slave labor.
All you really need for pumped hydro is a hill. It's cheaper if there is a natural basin up there, but you can build sides of you need to.
>2 years in and we aren't producing even Covid tests?

It's an error to assume that there are absolutely no COVID tests made in the US simply because the small handful you received wasn't.

For instance, the popular over-the-counter at-home test manufactured by Abbott is made in the US, except for swabs (mix of Thailand and US) due to supply/demand issues.

https://www.globalpointofcare.abbott/en/product-details/bina...
Fair enough, I just really can’t stand when other random internet users say shit like “please don’t say that”. No, be gone censor! We are peers here, you have no power to control what is said.

There is one man who I will listen to if he tells me to shut up, that man is the moderator dan g.
According to Google, the land surface area of earth is about 510 million km^2.

Divided by a trillion people, that gives you 510 m^2 per person.

For comparison, Singapore has 128 m^2 per person.
The archive.ph / archive.is links never load for me. I just learned that it's blocked in Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#Australia

Interestingly, only my landline broadband connection blocks them (Aussie Broadband), not my mobile provider (Telstra, Optus)!

EDIT: contacted Aussie since it looks like they've forgotten to unblock it.

EDIT: Not related to blocking - turns out archive.today returns invalid IP when queries by Cloudflare DNS resolvers (which I use): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet#Controversy...
So you prefer to trespass on private property while ignoring the requirements for entry available in law, posted on the door, and communicated to you directly by ignoring employees like they are non people.

Do you just do this now or were you doing this back in 2020 too?
Absolutely. You’re not alone though. This stuff can be difficult to process at the best of times.

It’s a tired horse to beat, but I’d recommend breathing if you haven’t tried it. My mind races just about every night unless I read myself to sleep. When it’s really bad I’ll often do some sort of hyperventilating exercise combined with breath holds, like the Wim Hoff thing. The rollercoaster of oxygen flushing the system and adrenaline (I think?) winds up being a stellar reset button and I can usually relax well after.
Seems to be about Lucian of Samosata's "True Story", which has appeared only twice on HN:

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18216459 ("A True Story", 72 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24365799 ("A True Story (150 AD)", 7 comments)
I feel like more an more having a lawyer on retainer is the only answer to this type of crap.
There's still some demand for them, it is just low enough that it can be met with imports.

And who could think of a reason why we might need the capability to domestically produce a bunch of masks all of a sudden, right? Inconceivable.
Give the poor person money, if you want to help her. Use an income tax (or land value tax or similar) on the rich guy to finance that.

No need to mix up your redistribution apparatus with your pigovian taxes. Both of them would be worse off for this double duty.
And it’s reasons like this that the Fed is so distrusted.

The should just openly admit to the general public that dollars are backed by an excel sheet that can be changed at anytime.
>the best in the school, in terms of awards and recognition. Not Einstein, mind you

I thought the conventional wisdom was that Einstein wasn't academically accomplished until his great works were published.

A lot of your story reminds me of my own but I've reached a different conclusion. Specifically I suspect I would have been accepted into certain magnet schools (pre college) with the sourcing and simple suggestion of taking practice tests. If I had a kid that I suspected would be capable of excelling in that kind of environment that is exactly what I would do to help improve the odds of said kid achieving that goal.

But I don't resent my parents for not bothering to help in this way. I'm honestly not sure why but I suspect it has to do with an unspoken and mutual lack of respect for "academics". The system is so easily gamed, and a gameable system is a flawed one.
How to comment on YT:

1 open https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

2 click on "Comments" link in lower right corner, the https://myactivity.google.com/product/youtube_comments.... one

3 Now you can write your comment

4 wait up to a minute and refresh page opened in 2, if your comment is still there you are done, if it vanished you write another one, adding more new lines, removing links, substituting politically incorrect words etc .....

or you simply stop interacting with YT comments because Google is evil.
> There are a number of issues with photovoltaic solar cells that close to the Arctic Circle.

What they need up there is a way to generate electricity from darkness.
Simple naive economics suggests otherwise. If a 10% domestic requirement keeps demand artificially high, competition will enter the market. New factories, etc. will spring up to get a piece of the fat. They will compete on price, quality, etc.--all the usual points of competition. People will get creative to get their piece of that pie. (Of course some of the creativity will be figuring out ways to subcontract it to China and still count as American.)
I kind of agree with you. I don’t care if a new hire has deep experience in every part of the team’s tech stack. In interviews I look for four things:

1. Do they know the fundamentals of each domain they mention in their job application? How well do they understand and how well can they explain core concepts?

2. Do they have an attitude to learning and teaching that will make it possible for them to pick up the gaps between what they know now and that they need for the job? Will they be able to keep going past that? Will they be able to support co-workers on their journeys?

3. What are the specific gaps between what they know now and what they’d need to know to work in our tech stack? This isn’t to exclude them from the role, more to understand what support they’re going to need and what the ramp up might look like. I try to keep it away from trivia and more general. Eg. “tell me a time you had to debug a problem in go code. What was the initial bug report and how did you get from there to solving the problem? What did you do to make sure it didn’t happen again?” Those open questions can lead to some good conversations and give a good sense of how well a candidate understands an area.

4. By now I’ve made my mind up about whether I’m going to say yes or no. Now I see if I can convince myself the opposite (without being a jerk).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459634
Both archive.is and archive.today resolve for me with 1.1.1.1.
Yeah, if only NATO didn't expand Putin would have committed himself to a rule of peaceful cooperation with his neighbors... /s