skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, this isn't so much a story of "being young in 2020" as it is "being young in 2020 in the hyper-competitive culture of major coastal metro areas of the US". This phenomenon is actually pretty unique to a handful of metro areas, which happen to be over-represented on HN. In most of the country, bright high school students are focused on getting into their state's flagship public university, and exceptionally successful ones might be focused on getting into the honors programs at those universities. Those students might buff their resume by participating in the "National Honor Society", but they're not doing anywhere near the amount of credential-buffing described above.

Unfortunately, if you live somewhere where this is the culture, it's very difficult to opt-out. Parents don't have full control, because students absorb expectations from their peers and their peers' parents as well. Everyone agrees that the situation is out of control, but no one can "unilaterally disarm".
ClickBank+University+2.0
Hey old geezers - please keep old geez-ing. As a clueless amateur myself, I appreciate it when my elders set me straight. I need your wisdom.

Please don't be discouraged or lose hope on us, especially when our own hubris gets the better of us. We just don't know any better ... yet.
Under the exponential growth model, the increased incubation time (before you hit the same total population size) is inversely proportional to the log of the initial dose, so (e.g.) 1/100th of the initial dose gives you only ~7 (log2(100) = 6.64) additional doubling times before arriving at the same population size. While this is not insignificant, it does mean that initial dose is potentially much less important than sources of variability that affect the in-host doubling time.

Edited to add: Here's a preprint that is relevant to the "initial dose vs. immune system response" thought: <https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.26.20044487v...
Related: growing up, one of the things that my sister and I would joke about was the extent to which we both would both unconsciously smell our wrists and lower arm areas while doing math. We would catch each other all the time doing it and it was hilarious. Here is an example of what I am talking about:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/03/24/business/24artifi...

As a completely uninformed guess, I think the link between focus and smelling one's hand/wrist might have something to do with early feelings of comfort as an infant associated with the smell of a parent's skin. The idea being that introducing a close approximation of that smell would remove any distraction brought on by other, less familiar smells, and increase focus.
>> There are quite a few other French-speaking places in America and most of them are (or see themselves) under no cultural threat.

Well... This reads to me like you're saying something more.
That depends if your average person is poor or not. Poor people will spend their money (and thus increase consumption) while wealthy people will hoard it. This is incidentally also why "trickle down economics" do not work - there is no incentive for rich people to spend more money than they need, but (thanks to interest) there is the incentive of hoarding it for (virtual) growth.
That's why an OS solution is the only viable solution. Asking for the app to be open is the most ridiculous thing ever.
In the points of fairness, in 10 years of Twitter I haven't gotten into any fights on Twitter? I keep fairly close to the 'science twitter' group, never get any fringe weirdos 'walk in' and start fights, but I myself never start fights, Twitter is not the place nor the tool for that.
As I try to wrap my brain around this could I assume then in order for this to work, on approach to the planet you have to be going in the same direction as its orbit?
Bang, Bounce or Something Else?
One answer would be 'science is done in a much more collaborative way now' so singular titans of a field is much less of a thing.

That being said, I suspect another answer would be 'Imagine some kind of complex disaster investigation, who would the nation call on to help solve it?'

That he was brilliant and also seemingly very broad, is probably less common now along both axis simply because there's so much more stuff now in every field.
Same reaction here. MOSIX was basically this idea developed for real. Turns out there are a bunch of secondary problems to do with namespaces and security, scheduling and resource use, topology, performance, and so on. In the end it never turned out to be all that practical, and I know of several efforts (e.g. LOCUS) that went quite far to reach the same conclusion. There's a reason that non-transparent "shared nothing" distributed computing came to dominate the computing landscape.
Hahaha. Yes, the man telling us to inject bleach. Thank goodness.
On the other hand, in China they saw more susceptibility in men, which many have thought could be related to the cultural norm for men to smoke (and women not to).
Your own version of discord/slack app?
Hi, I've seen some clone on GitHub, has anyone written their own version of Discord or Slack?
Out of curiosity, what kind of shop was that local store that gave you a same day delivery and had a good inventory system?

Asking because I noticed that here (Seattle), a couple of specialized niche stores do that, and it works really well, but i feel like there might be some reason for why only those kinds of stores do that.

The one that comes to mind is Patchwerks (analog synthesizer store; disclaimer: I have zero affiliation with that store aside from being a happy customer). Their own online inventory system is a pleasure to work with, and they stock all kinds of rare items that are accurately reflected in their online system. Ordered around noon, picked up a couple hours later, it was a true pleasure to work with. What their website displays is in stock has always been in stock. Not even once the state of the inventory on their website didn’t match the reality. And yet, not any other more general store I’ve seen could even match it, whether it is a local or a larger scale store.

For example, Guitar Center’s online inventory system is a straight up joke. What the website says is in stock at my local store is not in stock 99% of the time. And it cuts the other way around too. Which renders the whole website useless, as i have to call to find out what they actually have, so they can spend 10 mins of my life on hold while they are searching for an item. Then rinse and repeat if I want to check on another item or if i want to check another Guitar Center that is a bit further away in a nearby town.
What are y'all using for an egress gateway? I haven't been able to find one that meets my needs. Typically I use Envoy, because it supports Opentracing and Prometheus metrics, which is what I'm looking for for an egress proxy. (I also like circuit breakers for external APIs; if Slack is down, there's no point in sending them another request for a while and it should just fail fast.) But Envoy does not handle dynamic HTTPS proxying particularly well (you can't just set $http_proxy in your environment and have it Just Work; you would need to create a cluster and route for every upstream), so doesn't work too well for the egress gateway case. (Things like Istio claim to provide this, but they actually just configure Envoy to act as a TCP proxy and can't extract your Opentracing identifiers or response codes. So you can get metrics like "you sent 2398473 bytes to 13.249.46.27" but not "100% of requests to api.slack.com timed out".
It's something, but not useful enough to be worth the configuration overhead for me.)

I have also looked at some of the traditional egress proxies, like Apache Traffic Server. It seems like it was invented before anyone ever heard of distributed tracing or metrics, and doesn't support those. So it doesn't work for me.

My ultimate goal is to configure every application I use to make all outgoing requests through a proxy, and then use network policies to physically prevent them from talking to any namespace that isn't the egress proxy or something it's authorized to talk to. That way, there can be no unexpected (and unaudited) communication with the outside world; if some container I use starts including a coin miner or a traffic sniffer or something, I'll know about it and can shut it down. But... nobody seems to care except me. So I might have to write my own, which is a pain.
Agreed. Just because you can get it from Amazon doesn't mean it's the cheapest way to get it because even though the provide free shipping, the price is substantially higher to compensate that.

Buying at a brick and mortar store reduce that need for individualized shipping, and the economies of scale of buying and delivering a large amount of product from the manufacturers by the retailer which is physically close to the customers help reducing costs.
You do have another 45 men who aren't dead. They appreciate that a lot. You left that out...like it's always left out.
No problem - figured after writing about games for a year it was time to spread the love!
I often wonder about food as a provided utility in some future. Interesting idea to deliver by tube.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is ‘alive and well’, South Korea says
Nobody should be paying for COVID-19, but everyone will be. I don't think there's any amount of financial magic or government support that can rescue small businesses from an indefinite loss of all their revenue.
A lot of the capstone archs are tablegenned from LLVM MC tables, and they didn't open source their mods to tablegen for whatever reason.

It's a lot harder to add stuff like that to capstone on most of their archs, unfortunately. : \

https://github.com/aquynh/capstone/blob/master/arch/PowerPC/...
While netflix doesn't have a monopoly on tv shows, they do have a monopoly on a given show. If you want to watch Tiger King, you have to have Netflix.

However even that monopoly falls down once legalities are ignored. In the 90s the only way to watch US shows in the UK was via the internet, so that's what I did. If netflix introduces adverts, then people will use piratebay or whatever to watch it without adverts.
If you don't mind shooting in B&W, Fuji Acros has relatively little reciprocity failure. Fuji claims no correction is needed up to two minutes of exposure (I've never tested that myself, I should say!).
For foreign-origin iframes, that's exactly what people do using `postMessage`. But for same-origin iframes there's no need since you can access the iframe's context directly. So people can (and do) write code exactly like this that accesses data directly.

And it was given a Promise. You just shouldn't use instanceof in multi-window contexts in JavaScript. This is why built-ins like `Array.isArray` exist and should be used instead of `arr instanceof Array`. Maybe you'd prefer to write to TC39 and tell them that `Array.isArray` is wrong and should return false for arrays from other contexts?

There's no use jumping through hoops to avoid admitting that OP made an error. They were wrong and didn't think of this.
First possible image of the closest exoplanet to Earth
at what point would you think that no contact tracing is necessary? Should you track people that are not at risk at all, just because some people are? What percent of those people should be at risk for this to make sense?

these are the type of issues that the original post talks about, real numbers that allow you o see what exactly is being traded off for what

how mild should a disease (in general) be for this to not be necessary?

would you advocate contact tracing for the flu? Should we contact trace HIV?
This is going to be very useful for one of the projects I’m working on, thanks for sharing
Personally I'd be wary of an online PhD. Most people still dont even trust online bachelors degrees.
There are many more factors.

Steven Pinkers "Better Angels of our Nature" attempts yo highlight many of the reasons we are less violent today.

I think poor behavior is often mitigated by the same factors.
Probably, because if we don't then we'll face a shortage when demand for those things rebounds.
Are these American figures or worldwide figures?
> It seems like the number of ads has dramatically increased in more recent times

Don't neglect to account that it may be that as you grow older, you are more likely to encounter these types of ads because the drug companies target older consumers as they are more likely to need the product.
Ubiquitous testing would be sufficient to stop the epidemic.
I used to bring this up in interviews and always ended up asking the candidates to write a program that will show who's right.
I still love this.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I have conflicted take on the movement as well, however their overarching "story" was one that should be told:

The current economic system is designed to reward the elite and keep a majority of the population in serfdom, and that we can collectively change things if we come together in purpose.

That last bit is the key, and why I believe that the whole Red vs. Blue division is fostered: divided we fall.

p.s., I'd like to hear the details of your "An-Cap/Crypto-Anarchist position".
Middy is a very nice middleware for who works with AWS Lambda on Node.js runtime, it allows you to decorate your lambda's business logic with whichever additional layer you might need such as auth, validation and marshalling to mention some.
I tried them both last week. All I did was spin up a server, connect through ssh.

NixOS was fine. Standard systemd (bleah!) commands to enable and then start sshd. (Because "enabling" and "starting" are two different things, yeah?)

Guix required editing a file and rebuilding the OS. This wasn't well documented, and they had forgotten to include the file in the VM image. (The manual says edit /etc/config.scm (IIRC) but it's not there. There's a bug open for it.)
I had to find a copy of the VM config and hack it up to work, but after that everything went smoothly. (Can you taste the irony on that last sentence? I am being sardonic. The experience was hugely demotivating.)

Anyhoo, FWIW, Nix seems great but I don't like the language (and I don't like systemd, and no, I don't want to talk about it.) Guix seems like it will approach being a new kind of Lisp Machine, Guile lisp is fine, and integrated into other parts of the OS. (Shepard seems fine.) But having to edit a file and rebuild the OS to get ssh access was gnarly.

All in all, something like NixOS or Guix seems to me to be the way of the future. Other build/package managers seem just stupid and dangerous in comparison (like operating a chainsaw without kevlar chaps. I have two legs thanks to kevlar chaps. Always wear your chaps kids!)
Yes - the original translation into English used 'Voices', but 'Prayer' is the exact literal translation, and I have seen translations in the past ~5 years that use 'Prayer'. (my recollection is that this had to do with the understanding of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, and trying to convey that meaning into English). In either case, the stories are perhaps more relevant than ever now.
Not at all, I'm merely sharing information that might be interesting to this situation.

Nowhere did I declare anything as fact, I even called something "speculation" by researchers when they don't consider it much one themselves:

> There are however, sufficient scientific data to suggest that smoking protection is likely to be mediated by nicotine. SARS-CoV2 is known to use the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor for cell entry[14-16], and there is evidence that nicotine modulates ACE2 expression[17]which could in turn modulate the nicotinic acetyl choline receptor (manuscript submitted). We hypothesize that SARS-CoV2 might alter the control of the nicotine receptor by acetylcholine. This hypothesis may also explain why previous studies have found an association between smoking and Covid-19 severity[1, 9, 10]. As hospitals generally impose smoking cessation and nicotine withdrawal at the time of hospitalization, tobacco (nicotine) cessation could lead to the release of nicotine receptors, that are increased in smokers, and to a “rebound effect” responsible for the worsening of disease observed in hospitalized smokers.

In that context, it really doesn't matter if this is a "respiratory illness", as nicotine can be applied in a number of ways, like patches.

So even tho it might seem counter-intuitive, this could be part of a plausible explanation why smokers are so underrepresented among COVID-19 patients not just in France, but also in the US and China.
The client -> relay protocol for weechat relay is not the same as the client -> ircccloud protocol for irccloud, and both of those are _not_ IRC

All those clutches exist to support the deficiencies of IRC, which only proves the initial point: IRC in its current form doesn't do enough, and that's why Slack, with all of those features out-of-the-box, "won".
This was a fun trip down memory lane thanks!!
Most of my exposure to the written word has been through the internet, and most of my time on the Internet has been spent on sites full of people who are much older than I am. You are what you eat, I guess.
A while back (like 2012) I saw a paper making the claim that video games reduce violence. The idea was that video games are so popular amongst the teenage and young men that they end up not getting into trouble on the street. It seems like smartphones are an extension of this observed trend.
Photoshop Performance: PC Workstation vs. Mac Pro
> I’ve even seen customers setup booths where they pay people in slums for their documents

and here I am with my GPU's heating my apartment with Deep Fake scripts to pass Binance Fake-YC after buying FULLZ off of Empire when I could just be paying people in the tents outside of the ground floor apartments.

I always felt like I was getting out of touch after the guy was passing out 'Elitest Tech Scum' collectible pins at Zeitgeist, but I thought it was just ironic until this very moment.
Missing the excellent "The War stories" from Ars Technica.
e.g.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/war-stories-how-princ...

Their PAX West/East reviews and thoughts are also excellent.
I initially felt similar regrets after purchasing my 2950X. Obviously, the advantage with this CPU is being able to go wide on all cores, not necessarily maxing out any particular one. And it does work in a lot of cases. I regularly see 100% CPU when running rebuilds of large .NET Core applications. But, I also recognize that on a single-thread basis, I don't really have any advantage over anyone else (potentially even a small deficit).

But, this is a narrow-minded perspective to have. The future cannot possibly be that we magically invent an x86 core that can clock to 8GHz w/ practical power & cooling. One has to push forward in some incremental way. The answer is adding more parallel execution units. Sure, lots of software and techniques used today are not feasible to directly port over, but that doesn't mean it has to stay that way.

As a software developer, I feel it is my duty to help push the state of the art forward wherever possible. I have already begun working on projects that are designed around the concept of extremely high core counts becoming the norm. Having 32 logical threads sitting in your local workstation makes it possible to practically experiment with the lower bounds of what would be required in a larger production deployment.

There are types of software that we can consider building today that would have sounded absolutely insane just a few years ago. Cloud gaming is now a thing falling within practical reach. How many more x86 cores per instance would we need before we could start thinking about rendering 100% of client views server-side (i.e. eliminate most HTML/CSS/JS) or deprecating the usefulness of discrete GPUs altogether? Pulling everything into a single memory domain could do wonders for breaking down the ages-old GPU/CPU functionality silos. One way to do it all with one instruction set and a single cache-coherent memory architecture...
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Rosetta would be in Mars’ shadow, having to rely on the limited battery supply instead of solar panels. The risk was that the batteries weren’t designed for the task.

Huh? This implies a change in mission parameters or doubt whether the engineering was adequate. The link in that sentence doesn't mention either. Just that the craft entered a "sleep" mode to conserve power. I expect the power subsystem was designed specifically for the task.
There's nothing "by default" about it, E2E encryption by definition can't be tampered with by anything on the server side, and the encryption mechanisms of WhatsApp are well understood
>“I adopted the attitude that those bar girls are all bitches, that they aren’t worth anything, and all they’re in there for is to get you to buy them a drink, and they’re not going to give you a goddamn thing”

Who hasn't said something of this sort or spirit at one time or another. Both men and women. Even if it wasn't part of some thought experiment, it's an irrelevant anecdote...
This seems more like a clear example of the "automation is just a smokescreen for moving the jobs to countries with lower cost-of-living and pay" trend.
It would be kind of interesting if skyscrapers were connected to each other via gondola lifts/aerial trams. However, I don't think this could be retrofitted, since likely supporting the cabling and trams was not in the original structural design of most skyscrapers.
I don't think that is realistic to expect unless testing would be as simple as blowing into a sensor.

why not apply this to every disease then? We could then stop every transmissible disease once and for all.

you know what the real solution is? What mother nature already gives you, your immune system. The key is finding out how to help the body avoid severe reactions. That is the path of success, finding out how to keep people's own bodies over-reacting, then everyone could deal with it just fine.
Why bother installing all the infrastructure?
"Move fast and break things" with ballistic delivery!
There's usually something close to a parabolic arc that will get where it needs to...
Of course things (like pizza) that don't deal well with being crushed into cylinders at high acceleration (and jerk) probably won't do well in either. But canned liquids should do it justice.

Lot's of impact absorbing material to carted off as trash though so not really eco friendly.
> But there is good reason to speculate that much bigger whales never really get caught if they get their accounting / creative financing ducks in a row.

GE would be good example of this. It was never really "caught". Maybe because it was too big to fail. Jack Welch who started it all still has huge fan following among Process/MBA types.
Poor men, always being left out. Maybe 2020 is the year we finally get a male President in the US. We can dream.
You can take most of the companies mentioned in this article which most of them are in SoftBank's Vision Fund: [0]

My favourites are 'Brandless' [1] and 'Wag'

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/13/softbank-expects-24-billio...

[1] https://brandless.com/
> For current teens, that consists of vapid millennials.
No music, no cool behavior, no new anything.
The only cool stuff teens can find is from their grandparents' generation or older.

I think you're just out of touch.

I'm sorry, but no one thinks about their grandparents' generation or stuff from their generation. Literally nobody cares. Odd that you think that people do.

"Vapid millenials"? Seriously? Sounds a bit like those NYT opinion pieces about Millennials written by confused boomers.