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YeH, just like bLaCkFAcE is NoT rAciST

Let's call it "Westerners blaming China to feel better, while they all get the virus anyway". Seems to be Western-style policy in a nutshell right now.

If you call saving millions of Chinese people despicable, it sounds like you're to be despised.

The cake isn't cooked yet, but Western governments are already eager to play the blame game, while China got on with getting results. Nearly zero new cases. Contained to Hebei.

You've been reading fake news... and worse, believing it. They're not pushing a conspiracy theory. They're taking a victory lap.

The comments about it being a bio weapon are from the FM, who is just volleying back Pompeo's comment about it being the "China virus". That's all it is. Tit for tat. If you believe everyone in China is obsessed with blaming the US for the virus origins, or, worse, that Chinese people believe it's a bioweapon, you're wrong, sorry.

They contained a crazy new pathogen in the biggest country on Earth, they don't need to play the blame game, and domestically their media is taking a victory lap. It's just revealing of Western incompetence, and insecurity that Western media is fanning these blaming narratives.

If you want to make me feel better, I thank you. Start by admitting your pro-Western propoganda does not tell you what's really happening in China.

The narrative in China right now...

Because there's one narrative in China, folks, and this douchebag knows what it is.

But seriously, don't buy what he's selling.

The only narrative China needs right now is its victory lap. It's nearly stopped new cases. Xi visited Hebei/Wuhan.

The comment above is wishful thinking of the highest order, and perfect projection. It's Western media and nincompoops like this clown who seem to need to play the "blame game"

China got on with solving the problem. Now they're taking a victory lap and responding to requests to help overseas. The Chinese, if they are blaming anyone, are not blaming foreigners for this, they're blaming the Hebei provincial authorities for their initial mistakes in handling it.

Because they've been successful at containing a virus in the largest country on Earth, they don't need to play the blame game. It's slow-to-act and complacement Western-style governments that are in desperate need of a finger of blame to point at anyone but themselves.

Drop the China bashing. If we're going to criticize any government on this issue, we need to criticize all of them.

Was there really any government without guilt or incompetence in their handling of this?

Really nobody who in any way delayed taking steps, nobody who in any way sat on information, nobody who in any way instructed a certain type of scale of coverage in an attempt to minimize panic?

Let those without sin cast the first stone.

But actually, I think the "blame game" is bullshit.

Everyone should just be like, "Holy crap, this virus doesn't care about what passport you have, we all need to just work together on this."

Good to see people contesting the blame narrative here, but better if we didn't promote this news at all. This is a highly technical site, surely there's a chance to share articles about studies, algorithms, ways data scientists/programmers/bioinformaticians can get involved, pool resources, donate cloud time, etc.

This is not new information, but some newly released documents about an already known story: what happened to Tesla's materials after his death.

Yeah, it turns out "El Coco" was actually just an AI master.

It's centered on the island of Hainan. I want to know what the center of mass is for that picture, since the humans are not uniformly distributed in that circle.

this is also a cryptographic hash function

I think speed can be improved further, by constructing a parallel version. Possibly, this would be similar to how BLAKE3 used Bao mode to parallelize.

That's cool

Really? This one is a 3D sensor. Off-the-screen gestures. Have you seen people making gestures above the surface of their phones?

I haven't seen that. Why hasn't it happened yet?

edit: Anywho, let's check the Microchip website. They don't call it what you said. There's no capacitive touch on its page, just the title. It's all 3D e-field. I think you must have got the wrong chip. Where did you see it?

https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/mgc3130

Why has this not taken off? Off-the-surface gestures seem like they'd really enrich smartphone experience. I don't get why this low power proven tech has not been incorporated into phones. It's already 8 years old!

Calmly relating my perspective is not bickering. It's not even meta, because I was directly addressing what's written.

Maybe some people are not happy with it, but you don't have to be the instrument of their will. I think you should have stood up for me when people accuse my original comment of being hostile when it wasn't, and the only thing hostile was reading it as hostile, and calling it pompous. How is that not obvious? But you let that slide....

I'm going to stand up for myself. Probably more so if I don't see anyone else doing it. If someone says something inaccurate, or gives something mean, I'll push back. What's the big deal? If you're going to disallow people to stand up for themselves, then you have to do it. And at least be even handed and disallow the ancestor comments. You gotta be fair otherwise it seems arbitrary, clawing and mean spirited. Hope you get it :)

Again, there's nothing accusatory about it. Stop moving the goal posts. People didn't like it. Instead of blaming me, and pretending "Cris wrote something bad", they need to face how they felt about it.

But to learn more about what you mean, how would you rewrite that in a way that sounds sympathetic/didactic to you?

In addition, what's wrong with suggesting you read the comments I just wrote? Maybe you'll learn something is not saying you are ignorant at all. Just saying I have something to offer that maybe you didn't think of. I think that's a totally valid and healthy way to think about my own contribution. If I wanted to call you an ignorant idiot, I just would have said it. So... I think that's you totally misinterpreting based on, probably, precisely the triggering issue I identify with eng culture. So thanks for proving my point. Because what's wrong with learning something? That's a good thing. Learning is a strength. Admitting "I don't know" is a pre-requisite, and acknowledging, "heck, someone else probably does know" is a corollary.

It's a theory about engineers but it fits a lot of the data I see. It's not a matter of being convinced otherwise, because it's not binary. There's not only one truth. It can be true for some people and not true for others. I think it's a useful theory that highlights how an aspect of the job/predilection affects/correlates with people socially. I'm comfortable believing it and also not believing every person with engineering skills needs to be like that.

I think your interpretation of bad intent is based on an overly inflexible reading of what my response to that question. It sounds like you want to find something bad there. It's not that hard to "presume good faith" and work to find that, rather than (as it looks like you did here) doubling down trying to "prove" I'm somehow doing something wrong.

Anyway, have a good one. Hopefully this was instructive somehow, if you're flexible enough to hear it. Just a different point of view, doesn't have to threaten your world view, just can be "something in addition" you add to your own perspective. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think it is a free-thinking rebellion against a certain type of conformity. I think that's a good thing, something that should be welcomed.

You don't know what's honest, hostile or pompous, only your interpretation. Pretend that's the truth? Don't impose that.

It's even harder through text when you don't have tone of voice, body language, other context. So you should be careful before leaping to accuse a hostile intent, don't you think?

Why should my comment be any less valid than the question. I don't think the question was bad at all. Don't judge stuff like that.

Your misinterpreting hostile intent should be a violation of the HN guidelines. That's not responding to the strongest version of what I said, that's misrepresenting to a straw man so you can hate on it. It's not my problem if you need to hate on something. That pal has nothing to do with me, so don't make it about me, huh?

Pretty clear I would think.

Also, "controversial" and "banal" depends on who you are, and context. When you put it like that...inspires me to think people maybe don't like having something obvious, but off-message pointed out to them? They want an answer, don't tell them to expand their mind.

But...teach people how to fish, not feed them, right?

Am I? Is it? I thought the characterization of people wanting an answer, not to be told to expand their mind, especially with something ambiguous was pretty accurate. That and a smaller number of people misinterpreting hostile intent.

I don't think it contradicts people also upvoting the submission. People like it, but don't want to be told they have to work for their own opinion on it. People come to comments expecting to get an opinion, not be told, "sorry, you're on your own with this one." Go back and read the comments I wrote here, maybe you'll learn something.

In addition, I do think engineers don't like having "what they don't know" pointed out to them, because they're job requires them to have answers. And I think they are willing to misinterpret that as hostile because of the shame they feel at not knowing something. It's just inaccurate projection. But in many other areas, ambiguity, openness and not having the answers are like good things.

I think people in hard tech can have more of that, that's all, bro.

Thanks. It brings a smile to my face how discussion forums take themselves so seriously, thinking they're all about robust discussion, but go batshit crazy on some dissenting points. I mean, this wasn't even flame war. I think a lot of it is about the medium, not the message. If you had a room of people, and I said that, maybe some engineer would have grumpily harrumphed and rolled their eyes, but I don't think it would have become a hate-fest or shouting match.

Think before you type, I guess. I do enjoy needling that narrow-mindedness like this tho, I think optimizing a little more for openness to experience is a good thing in the eng world.

There's no lack of charity. I would know, I wrote it. And the downvotes occurred before the community critique. Which also must have hit a nerve.

I think meta-questioning "do you even need to ask other's what this is about, why not let it work on you first" is responding to the strongest version of what was said, much stronger than simply answering the question.

People misinterpret dissent of the line for hostility, more so with something unfamiliar, where they want even more to have an answer "what is it". It's not very intellectually humble, but it is hilarious.

Interpreting hostility in my response ought to violate guidelines as well. Why should I be punished for others mistaken interpretations of hostility?

I think it's more about them reacting to their own misinterpretation.

I think it's a consequence of HN self-optimizes for people to be able to efficiently not just learn content from an article, but efficiently form an opinion from the comments. It's not so easy to form an opinion when there's multiple valid strands. I think people are projecting their expectation to not be confused.

"Don't tell me to expand my mind, just tell me what to think." It's not my problem if people get uncomfortable forming their own opinions sometimes. I think it's a good thing to have your own interpretation of Kicks Condor. That doesn't hurt anyone...but it might take you a bit of time/effort/discomfort to form it.

I guess I'm OK to do things that way because I grew up going to a lot of art galleries. Comfortable with ambiguity in some things. I think it's funny how engineers need everything to be explicit, and how that's connected to programming needing that as well. I think they could laugh at that about themselves, rather than getting seriously grumpy and hating on me...but hey, that's them, not me.

I guess the paradox of killing them all so quickly is it's unlikely the signal of poor quality propagates widely

first time I saw it was today and I thought it looked cool.

I think name and shame, street parade the criminal would be a good moderation idea. don't just highlight the best, highlight the worst. it helps reinforce standards

never seen a forum do that tho. it's always about the most liked

but in society we also know the most hated

not everything needs to be judged by how well it "makes sense at first glance", not everything needed be on message all the time....

some things take (demand) time to be appreciated and known (if not understood)

a good relationship, a work of art... maybe even content

not everything is optimized for quick consumption

The psychological effect of being a member of a formerly great civilization that has decayed in significance is not trivial. I wonder how societies deal with this "cultural status anxiety" through art.

Italians these days seem to emphasize how they are experts at "enjoying life". I wonder if this was always the case, or if this is in some sense a compensation for lost glory.

I think the structure of a virus capsid and various cell structures is probably somewhat conserve so I have concerns over how this would affect cellular structures in vivo

Morphogenesis from DNA is thought to be a haaard problem.....

That's a work of art!

I guess in addition to what I've already said in the comments, I've refused to work in some projects because it would have conflicted with other IP I have created. I think that makes me an awful selfish jerk.

is your experience with incarceration personal? what's that been like for you?

1. there was a guy who came from big companies at the remote startup I worked at. it seemed to me he made so many standup meetings to confirm his own importance, and because process was what he was used to. I pushed back against that need. also after the first six weeks of unquestioningly obeying everything in code review I began offering my own suggestions. he just blew up, later picked a fight with me and made it seems like my fault and got me fired.

2. at a previous job an obese boss with back problems asked me to give him back rubs and I refused.

generally I feel I push back against anyone who uses their position to push others around for the sake of power, instead of for the goal.

that let me clash with bosses i think.

I guess people have called me a jerk, treated me like one and I've been rejected at final interview stage many times despite having good skills at code and relationships so I assume it must be because I'm an awful unemployable jerk.

I'm not brilliant. I guess my impression of being a jerk comes from some women calling me that when fighting about relationships, and from the way some other people treated me as if I deserved bad treatment. I thought why are they treating me like that? Oh I just must be a jerk, that's why they're acting like I deserve this. finally it's my answer to why I've been rejected at final interview stage many times despite having good (not brilliant) relationship and engineering skills. I knocked back a few jobs because I didn't like the tooling, but mostly I applied to hundreds, got interviews with 10% and rejected by most at interview or coding task stage. so I guess the more complete picture might be I'm a jerk with poor engineering skills.

Thanks tho for being the one person questioning the assumption, I appreciate that.

I was going to title, "Navy HE Physicist gives crackpot response to patent questions" but considered that would be too click- or flame- baity.

I remember feeling I was really good at math in highschool and thinking I was really smart. Going to college, I attended a few math group seminars for talented students and I realized there were a lot of people way smarter at math than me. It was pretty shocking. But at least it happened when I was 20.