skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The model as you describe it wouldn't make a lot of sense. To simplify the description of what you're suggesting: it's to have the 'core' and 'UI' be separate.

But if the cores of different applications are interchangeable anyway (which they need to be, to make this model work), then why would multiple cores exist in the first place? It could just be reduced to a single one, and there'd be little incentive to start a new one if you can't deviate from the API anyway.

The closest real-world model to what you're describing, is an "implement once" public commons model; a shared commons of open-source / public domain libraries that implement a given responsibility or solution for a given problem, and that can then be used forever by everything, and that problem never needs solving again.

For that to work, the implementations in question need to be highly granular, so that using them is a no-brainer and you don't pull in additional complexity that you don't need. An "e-mail client", for example, would then effectively just be a UI, and all the business logic would be provided externally by a collection of loosely-coupled libraries.

Such a granular ecosystem, in turn, requires a dependency model where adding a dependency is (in and of itself) free and cannot cause dependency conflicts; otherwise people would start grouping complexity together again to reduce conflicts, as can be seen in the dependency ecosystems of many languages today.

The only ecosystem that is currently at a point where it can support the "implement once" model, is that of JS, due to everything being highly modular and interoperable. Rust is also moving in that direction, but its ecosystem is nowhere near mature enough yet.

Unfortunately, people are too busy complaining about meaningless dependency counts to understand what a highly-granular dependency model makes possible.
that actually sounds WONDERFUL.

I had a machine that I let run with an old (private) certificate for years because I didn't remember the how and the what of renewing that specific certificate.

I had another machine that had a hardware failure, and I spent an enormous amount of time recreating it.
Right. People who go to the world's top universities are in the position where they don't HAVE to work for a big company. I went to one of the listed "second-tier universities" and work at FANG (and to be clear, not Amazon), and I don't think I have a single coworker from Harvard or Stanford. I have one coworker from Oxford who considers himself the "failure" of his graduating class because he only works at a big tech company.

Big tech companies are sweat shops, offering just enough pay to have the TOP end of an upper-middle class lifestyle (after sufficient robbery by the tax man, since you're not quite rich enough for any of the Trump-esque tax loopholes to apply), in exchange for the expected 60-80 hour weeks. You still have to work for a living, and you're competing in Stack Ranking with the majority of employees who are visa workers (hiring visa workers is a PLUS for these companies) that will happily sacrifice their family life and weekends to avoid deportation by being slotted into the "bottom 10%" during the bi-annual performance review (which means you get fired). Sure, it's a local optimum for a lot of people (work insanely hard and sacrifice your health to drive a Porsche/Tesla and own a house/luxury condo in a top-tier city), but make no mistake, it is a second-tier lifestyle.

On the other hand, people from Harvard and Yale are UPPER class -- not upper-MIDDLE class. This means they have last names like Bush or Clinton, get ushered into upper management or C-level at their father's companies, go "work" for cushy jobs at rentseekers like PE/VC/real estate with corporate credit cards, run for office, repeatedly start failed companies, or go indefinitely "exploring" or "finding the next thing to do" (courtesy of their trust fund).

Meanwhile, the vast majority of my graduating class is slaving away as entry-level rat racers at FANG, investment banks, legal, Big 4, medical residencies, etc.
I have a different understanding. Before there was evidence, the health depts were not pushing things. The article goes over that. As soon as they got evidence (that's what those pesky scientists like, darn them), then they started doing what this article says.

One of the earliest public things I'm aware of this posting from a scientist in Seattle on Feb 29th, by researcher Trevor Bedford, part of the Seattle Flu Study about covid-19 tracing genetically. They were testing flu samples for covid-19 (the govt refused permission for them to do that but eventually they just did it, because it was so important). https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1233970271318503426
Yeah, UX matters, but reliability and robustness are part of UX, too.

I've had innocuous-seeming brew commands foul up my working environment. I don't think Nix would do that in the same way.

Specifically, updating a package in Homebrew can have unexpected knock-on effects due to updating dependencies. Left my working environment badly hosed at one point last year.

Nix's design should ensure that all such updates leave everything else stable, as I understand it.

I've been tempted to try it or Guix for years - I was delighted when I discovered Nix existed.

I'd been thinking about the problems with existing package managers for years, and both Nix and Guix have most of what I felt was missing from the existing tools, along with some other really cool attributes I hadn't thought of at all.
The death rate in Sweden is comparatively high but it is too simple to just blame it on their avoidance of a lockdown.

You took Switzerland as an example, but if you would have taken Belgium, Sweden would do actually very well. Still, Belgium took quite strict lockdown measures and in a pretty early stage.

What really seems to have had a significant result on keeping the death rate down, is testing: countries like Germany and Switzerland are testing often and early and have done so already in an early stage of the outbreak. This way they were able to treat patients early and to protect vulnerable patients against others in their surrounding that were infected.
I'm a huge fan of good explanations with an entertaining touch.

The title immediately made me think of nillkitty's "A Cat Explains" series about some under-appreciated, but fundamental concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgT1s2fOfiE&list=PLiHkSFy8bV...

On second thought stuff like AvE and The Coding Train come to mind.
I was raised as a nudist (I'm in my 20s now) and that really helped during my teen years to keep me "focused".

This doesn't mean I was focused on my studies or anything. But it did mean I generally gave far less shits about peer pressure than my friends at the time.

It's something I highly recommend if you have a close relationship with your immediate family. Let the inhibitions fall and allow the kids to realize they don't have to keep up with everyone.
I'd have gone with "supports", maybe, but the connotation is different; "subserves" says self-smelling is a major purpose of self-face-touching, "supports" suggests the association may be coincidental. Since the paper's claim appears to be the former, it makes sense to use the stronger word in the title, too.
"A hypothesis that if one touches their face, they are more likely to smell themselves as well"

is an infinitely clearer title, in my opinion.

If your goal is for only 5 people to understand you and think you are cool, then it's no surprise why we have academic titles like

"Embodied intersectionality and the intersectional management of hotel labour: the everyday experiences of social differentiation in customer‐oriented work"
Abandoned City with the Power On – Kitsault Canada
Interesting Graphic on Sugar in Cereals
The irony is that misinformation campaigns are the actual hoax here... calling them "hoaxers" is more accurate than you suggest.

The real lesson I got from the article is that politicians are the worst face of a pandemic response: it risks that half of the populace will do the opposite of the advice given.

Once the issue is politicized, that snowballs -- propaganda has infected modern discourse to a disturbing degree, and it's hard to see well-organized denialism being amplified by far-right media as anything but a cold-hearted hoax.
Yes, the moment you mention was among the most affecting of the first season. The scene is constructed diabolically to ratchet up the mob mentality — where people are just acting in the moment, purely emotionally.

I read the season as an allegory for where we are now politically. The captain is a figurehead, the passengers are readily manipulated, the far-off owners don’t care, yet everyone aboard is hurtling through space in a very complex machine that they don’t really understand.

Hugh Laurie is doing a great job in the show. Another draw is the creator, Armando Iannucci, who did Veep.
China is economically, politically, and scientifically going to war with us. We’re just not paying attention. We meaning you and me, hopefully not our leaders.

China is working with PWC on turning the Silk Road into a highway to reach Eastern Europe to speed up and ease delivery of goods to Europe. China is aggressively trying to get into space and control that aspect. China is likely working on a lot of experiments (those babies that were used with CRISPR to make them resistant to HIV) on human modifications.

None of what I described is a theory, it’s all fact if you look. Not sure how we respond to that.
They actually answer that in FAQ: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/FAQ
Actual experience in a field ?
Australia is a member of the five eyes. Whatever their government cobbles together will be used to build out the surveillance state. So if asked, by anyone: Tell them to stay at home and never install the app or trust their government with their data. Contact tracing is their wet dream and it will enable them to roll out much more serious measures in the future.
People have a ~50% chance of developing cancer and a ~20% chance of dying from cancer in their lifetimes. This means there are vast numbers of people very close to getting cancer at any time and there is no population wide safe exposure level.

To actually disprove the theory you need an experiment that can detect changes in cancer rate on the order of 40k per billion or 0.004% which have simply not been preformed.

Saying ‘we can’t measure it therefore it does not exist’ might be acceptable if it where the oldest theory. Except it’s not, people want to overthrow the existing idea with zero direct supporting evidence which is simply unscientific. If you want to supplant a theory then it’s on you to provide evidence that the existing theory is wrong, otherwise I can say low exposure levels are more dangerous because high levels result in multiple indecent cancers at the same time in some people. Therefore the risks increase at lower levels do to probability theory and we already agreed no evidence was needed.

PS: I am not saying my example is correct, just the argument your making is faulty.
Some people use their computer for more than trivial things like video games.
I'm not at all confused about why journalists relay information such as that, because generally it is combined with a very reasonable logic about why we're doing that.

Like Dr Fauci said, the virus decides the timetable, not us. Nobody knows when it will be safe to reopen.

Many businesses are simply not safe for people to mingle in. Many people don't want to understand or take the distancing guidelines seriously, if they're even adequate.

As far as whether they're worth the cost, there's plenty of room for speculation about that. I do think that reducing a potential overload on hospitals is a wise plan.
Graduated in 2010, immediately went to university didn't really know how school/finance worked(personal fault). Just went for phys/eng dual major... failed out(personal problem). I had things in my favor too eg. poor person grants. I picked up debt, I was not into computers/coding before this, it was like a chore to do a C++ class and just did what I needed to get by... luckily the thought of getting rich through making websites/ad revenue entered my mind in 2013 or so and I learned how make websites "full stack" mean while being unaware of sql-injection, xss and trivial stuff like that. My website ideas were dumb as hell but I still learned(LAMP at the time). A few people helped me out a lot Quick is one guy, but yeah, I try to return the favor now/help people asking questions.

Anyway I'm an SE now, not quite 6 figures, no degree... I don't know if I lucked out or what... but not having a degree is always on my mind but it does seem to boil down to competence and other possible avenues eg. freelance or your own businesses... I'm still not out of debt but if my life continues I should get out soon.

Just funny as I kept dreading my college days ending because my GPA was bad, I had debt and I didn't know how I was going to make it. I had so little clue about life back then... initially I was washing plates and what not, now the amount of money I make for my area is nuts... I can't imagine failing/going back... I don't live in extraordinary means but hard to imagining making 1/4 a 1/3 of what I make per hour.

Oh 96 is not indicative of my age I just choose that random number, I'm in my later 20's though

I'm pursuing freedom now (FiRe) as the fear of losing my job is always in the back of my mind/having to live on some schedule too... I don't need much.
the software that makes you the most money is the one which no one asked for and the one that everyone used
Yes, it can scale based on metrics. And metrics can be anything.

What it’s missing is all the discovery and network plumbing to tie running instances together with load balancing and inter-service comms.

Googles old Borg paper mentions Condor as a thing they considered and cribbed features from.

Honestly, serving a website is not as different from batch processing problems as you’d think. There are differences but they’re subtle, not mountainous.
I guess they meant the DP-3T. See https://github.com/DP-3T/documents
Parent worrier has some funny notions, to boot. Like, Cornell _is_ an Ivy League school by definition. It just isn't Harvard or Yale.

On the hiring front, undergrad school can sometimes tell you a bit about who a person thought they were in high school, and about their penchant for overachievement. Some schools might help instill different perspectives on engineering and the role of technology. But if you're not hiring right out of school, I'm with you on focusing on demonstrated ability to get things done.
>A vaccine showing up before we have to relax controls is not a given.

The opposite is probably a given. In the US, opening won't be initially full throttle but I think it's probably a given that significant re-opening will happen over the next 30-45 days.
Not sure it's a fair analogy. Even while they were being deceitful, the Soviet Union seems to have at least invested a serious effort into tackling the problem head-on.
If you don't think lockdowns have dramatically reduced the number of infections, you are incorrect.

More visitors may kick off more chains of infection (so higher numbers) but that's just linear growth. Stopping exponential spread is what prevented something far worse than what we have seen.
How do you feel about the right-wing media that was obsessively critical about Obama for strangely irrelevant things such as his choice of mustard or color of suits?

It seems to me that almost all of the criticism of Trump is well justified by his incoherence, rudeness, anti-intellectualism, blatant nepotism, lack of structure, refusal to divest, repeated untruthful statements, lack of logical consistency, questionable policies, and apparent tendency towards cronyism.
I can attest to this. As a Technical Director supporting artists the tools I create for them are more effective when I study their process thoroughly and also get my hands dirty. Then design and implement the tool and it becomes my job to manage the complexity. Designing for change is something I keep in mind as well.
College Campuses Must Reopen in the Fall
Why is this on the first page of HN?

Should we post hacks for WoW, mods for Kerbal Space Program as well?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, things have gotten much harder for those who are not born to the very rich. I know, I went decades ago to highly-ranked high school, and it is amazing to me, and sad, how much harder students who want to get ahead have to study.

And then there is the other 2/3 of society, who have been going downhill economically for decades.
I once had a retail client wishing for an "in-store Google Maps" that would guide customers to the products they are looking for. "So if I'm looking for pasta, the app should show me on what aisle to find it. That shouldn't be too difficult, should it?", he asked.

I asked him how the location of products is stored now. "Is there a system, a database that keeps track of where in the store, on what shelves, product is stocked? Something the app could use so it knows where your pasta can be found?"

He didn't understand the question. So I asked him how workers who stock the shelves know where to put what products. There must be a system that gives the workers that information, right?

"Oh no", he said, "there is no system. They know through experience and gut-feeling."
You read much more mature than your age. Not sure if this comment is some sort of humblebrag or a 40-something pretending some alter-ego.

Taken at face value I’d say stay steady, ‘tis a good path you’re on
how does that square with this saying: "penny wise, pound foolish"?
How to help someone use a computer. (1996)
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> There are countries where gambling is banned, and they don't have a gambling or crime problem.

Like which? The only democracy I see that (almost) fully banned gambling seems to be Israel, and their underground gambling industry is estimated at $3.5 billion.
I don't think you are supposed to "find your dream job" or whatever. Work is just a slice of life, and I think you should try to find something outside work that makes you happy (art? forming a serious relationship and devoting yourself to it? anything, really). If you are so lucky that you work in IT, you don't have to do much more than the minimum to live a relatively comfortable life, and be able to concentrate on things outside of your work. That world is much bigger, and you surely can find something that makes you feel fulfilled.
This can let you stream in new pages of memory only as they are accessed by the program, allowing you to teleport processes with lower latency since they can start running basically right away.

That's what "live migration" does; it can be done with an entire VM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_migration
To be fair, I think their point in this case is many countries are in proverbial glass houses, some stronger than others.
Hiding the list of conversations doesn't medan you have to keep away from them. You can still jump to windows and write to people using the search bars and commands! :-)
Another frustrating one - what is heredity? If it's possible to inherit something due to a shift in behavior (i.e. it's a cultural change that leads to a biochemical change), how does that connect neatly to mendalian inheritance?
Thanks for the insight. How might someone in a position to spin up services for this be able to think about capturing this sort of a market?

I work at a DL/ML hardware company; and many here on HN would know that packaging DL libraries correctly is a nightmare and a half. In fact a good chunk of our value prop is offering an open source pre-baked bundle. It's great (and I've deployed it on some friends' machines and they love it) but it's, let's say three-quarter-baked and moving it into a "fully supported" model with domain-specific expertise isn't something that our company has figured out how to transition into (also not easy given our company is really small), and given business strategy and software strategy are independently difficult enough problems.

Do you (or any others) have any suggestions?
That depends. For some like the Apple credit card they have a simple due date that's the end of every month. For others they often allow you to choose a day of the month as a due date (perhaps aligning with your paycheck date) and is shown on your statement, which gets produced about a month before the due date. And if by the due date you didn't pay off the entire new balance, the interest charges will then appear on the next statement.

Now you can see that for reasonably well off people credits cards offer a nice interest-free float. For example you make a large purchase of $1000 on January 15, but your statement gets produced on February 10 with a due date of March 4. Et voilà you can pay for that $1000 on March 4 with zero interest.
Could be, but only if companies that are behind OS products will survive by themselves. We hear crack sounds here and there already.

Yet, "the rise of hosted cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure" is just "anti-pattern" for the subject of the article. Commercial companies that exploit (fuzzy term here but still) OS software.
It's a interesting technical investigation that not only goes over the technology required to recreate the gold filter, but it's a nice explanation of how some imaging stuff works? And if the hack is interesting and well-written up enough, why not? This is Hacker News
Sweden is a country of only 10 million people, relatively homogeneous, and not a society where people have a distrust of experts and/or science. They are voluntarily limiting social interaction because they understand how important it is; don't need government to force them:
https://reason.com/2020/04/17/in-sweden-will-voluntary-self-...
Technically, "decimated" denotes the destruction of a minority subset, which is how I was using it. :)

My business is as good as it has ever been, and I do not work in any of the obvious verticals that would benefit from COVID-19, but all evidence suggests my case is an outlier.
I've used condor for ~5 years now, mostly for running simulations and processing data. Everything i've done with it has been trivially parallelizable (divide data into chunks based on time, etc), and in those applications it has been a superb tool that just works.

It should be possible to run a scalable website with it, but then you don't get "infinite" scalability like cloud services offer, since you're limited by the size of the compute pool. It would probably have its pitfalls.

That being said, coming in without knowledge of either, i found it much easier to learn and get started doing things with condor than kubernetes. I had all kinds of issues just getting simple things like LaTeX compilation as part of gitlab CI to work reliably. Clearly the experts know how to make things go, but condor is lower barrier to entry. For use cases where condor CAN work, especially data processing, i always recommend that.
> misinformation campaigns are the actual hoax

That simply begs the question. Whether you label it "hoax" or "misinformation" doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not something someone says corresponds to actual truth. The beauty of science is that you don't have to take anyone's word for anything, you can actually go and do the experiment for yourself. So by all means, if you think Donald Trump is on to something and the press and the scientists are all conspiring against him to make him look bad for political reasons, then do the experiment: go inject yourself with bleach. I won't stand in your way. But I will give you long odds that it won't end well for you.
No, that's not true. Decades ago I went to a high school that included a large number of that demographic, and things were far easier.
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