老子（李聃）到底有多伟大？
老子的历史地位非常重要。老子是古代哲学大家中最有后现代气质的人，在系统化的辩经大宗教崛起之前就预先对他们做了强有力的解构。 Read more
🎭 Playwright
Playwright is a Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. Headless execution is supported for all the browsers on all platforms. Read more
Awesome CTO
Awesome CTO — Hi, my name is Dima and I’m CTO — (chorus) Hello, Dima A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies Contents General Hiring Management Handbooks Development process Architecture Tech Read more
拆解中国和韩国的非接触体温计 日经中文网
日本为了应对新冠疫情，在办公楼和餐饮店的入口等处通过非接触式体温计测温的情况正在增加。如果在日本的家电连锁店或电商网站上查找以红外线传感器测温的这种体温计，可以发现大部分为中国制造。 Read more
日本疫情后资金流向这些初创企业 日经中文网
资金正在向瞄准后疫情时代的初创企业聚集。在日本经济新闻社（中文版：日经中文网）等汇总的2020年融资额排行中，引领去碳化和数字化转型等新产业的企业排在前列。尽管2020年的经济情况大幅恶化，但初创企业仍 Read more
Ask HN: Is abuse from supervisors as common in industry as in academia?
Among my late-stage PhD friends, it feels like 80% are unhappy, either because of deliberate abuse from their supervisors, or because of the supervisor’s neglect of what the student needs to finish her degree and progress to her next career stage. Read more
The CureVac Vaccine, and a brief tour through some of the wonders of nature
In previous posts I described how the two currently approved mRNA vaccines both use ‘modified nucleosides’ to enhance their efficiency. Meanwhile, a company called CureVac has created an mRNA vaccine that uses regular, unmodified, RNA. It is currently being tested in large scale trials. Read more
Stimulating Innovation with Money
Periodically I read about governments or institutions wanting to stimulate innovation, often to achieve a certain (worthy) goal. Frequently, the far larger amounts of money that other countries or continents are spending on innovation are then bandied about as justification. Read more
Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
For me, while I’m glad I went, I’m shy around strangers so it was extremely lonely. If I did it backpacking and staying in hostels I’m sure I’d have met people in the hostels but in my mid-40s, hostels are no longer in my comfort zone. Further, it was not remotely the same as taking […]
Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery
The landing of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover last month amazed the world. The stunning footage of the descent shows each stage of the sequence. If you have not seen it already you can watch it here. One thing that I found remarkable was the self-similarity of the martian terrain. Read more