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Colleges have the ability to accept fewer incoming freshmen. And if K-12 schools were also delaying graduation, there would be fewer applicants.

One option for K-12 would be to take fewer incoming Kindergardeners, perhaps by moving up the birthday cutoff date. Parents can get over themselves; this isn't a normal situation and some shared sacrifice is necessary.

None of this is a good, but I find it preferable to the current status quo. Making sure students get the education they're due should take priority over meeting arbitrary dates.
I wonder how much of the "crazy dreams" comes down to people usually taking such a drug when travelling and having new experiences/seeing new places/expanding their mental schemas (which is known to increase BDNF / promote neuronal plasticity, and therefore likely to cause intense dreaming under the "memory reconsolidation" hypothesis of dreaming.)

It'd be interesting to compare to the dreams of people who take the drug without travelling, e.g. medical staff native to malarial regions, who take it as a prophylactic when interacting with malaria-infected patients.
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Hello HNers! This is my first post and I'd like to share a little HN reader app I created for the community. HN has been my main source of tech news and the place to go when I need some inspiration for quite some time now. What I've found particularly interesting about the HN community is the wealth of information and interesting perspectives in the comments of the various stories. Often when I read a great story, I find myself coming back to the portal searching for it and going through the comments section once again, just to refresh them in my head. This was the motivation for creating HN Digest. I wanted to be able to save stories and comments with tags, so I can find them more easily later. V1 of the app does just that. I'll be adding more features to it so please give me feedback as to what you'd like to see in the app. Thank you!
PS: I'm aware there is already quite a few HN apps out there but none seems to support saving stories and comments with tags.
> I think it's certainly possible that a model built on propositional logic does not cover the whole of reality.

Not only is it possible, this is the normal state of affairs. Until we have a theory-of-everything, none of our models cover the whole of reality.

But all of our models rest on a foundation of certain basic assumptions. Among these are that (some) statements about reality can be classified as true or false, and that these are mutually exclusive possibilities. Not all statements can be classified as true or false (e.g. Euclid's fifth postulate) but for the ones that can, if it is true then it is not false, and if it is false then it is not true.

If you deny that, then the entire edifice of human intellectual achievement really does crumble into dust.
The "real" Escape key is essential. I'm using a new 16" MBP at work and it's quite nice, but without the real Escape key I'd probably be cursing the computer every day. I thought I'd hate the touchbar, but I actually thought it was cute -- for about an hour. Then I realized it was just a useless gimmick and reset it to "Expanded Control Strip" which is Apple's euphemism for "Make the touchbar look and act just like the old Mac function keys."

I did add the "Do Not Disturb" key to the touchbar; it's nice to have one-button access to that function when I need to get work done without distractions.
I also map my Caps Lock to Control, but don't forget that Ctrl + [ is the equivalent of Escape in vi/vim. It's a chord, but it ends up being much more convenient for me since the keys are both comfortably around the home row keys.
Next press release may read as follows:

"The new magic keyboard, not only with the new inverted T arrangement of arrow keys, but also with absolutely brand new physical function keys featuring all new haptic feedback experience."
People who need to job to make ends meet usually have a lot more to lose. This very quickly creates an environment where there are real imbalances. The perception of these real imbalances can be even greater if there's a breakdown in trust / communication.
I agree, but the real number would be comparing to lockdown death rates w/o covid.

Over the past few years, the evidence linking human health and overall mortality to isolation and human contact has been increasing.
Don't get me wrong I'm staying locked down for the foreseeable future, but I have family and close friends whose mental health I'm seriously worried about. Not to mention physical health from stress, isolation, reduced activity, and can't afford to eat as healthy / stress-eating.

No idea if those are trends that will even come close to direct covid deaths, but we can't make informed decisions considering them.

> But it's pretty clearly all Corona-related.

If you count the above as "Corona-related", then I don't think the number has much meaning in terms of informing public policy.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> There is no mention of the durability guarantees that s3 has.

I wrote this blog post doing some of our math around this: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-durability/

But here is the thing: if you value your data, like if you will really go out of business if you lose it, then you should store three copies with AT LEAST two separate vendors. No matter how reliable any one vendor is, "stuff can happen" like your credit card is declined and the vendor deletes all of it.

I would recommend you use two separate vendors like Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2, and use two separate credit cards that expire on different cycles. I believe the credentials for login should be different on those two accounts, and the same one employee shouldn't have the credentials to both. Because one disgruntled employee should NOT have the ability to put you out of business. If you want some other thoughts, here is a blog post Backblaze wrote called the "3-2-1 Backup Strategy": https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
I haven't taken them myself, but my coworkers quit taking even though the company was buying them. So I assume it isn't the type of high people do willingly. Other coworkers took them with no problems though, so it seems somewhat person specific what the reaction is.
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No, they are usually not finding a better job. They usually got too high, slept too long, had a family incident, or just "didn't feel like it". They usually go to another very similarly low-paid job. At this level of the employment market (Wal-Mart stockers, gas stations, big fast food chain kitchens), employers and employees both see each other as disposable and interchangeable. It is a two-way street.
> I was shocked to find out there is no treatment for malaria when I traveled in affected areas.

I'd be shocked too; there IS a treatment for malaria.
This sounds like the UN...

Representatives from each country are voted in by the people, and those representatives vote...

(for now assume all countries have perfect democracies and the UN does away with its veto system)

Overall, it works, but I suspect we wouldn't see the explosion of "Blockchain 2.0" companies if instead they were "UN Governance 2.0" companies...
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Thank you for making this. Here's what I've been doing with it for the past month-and-change: https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/caddy_and_wireguard/
If you were given a brand new Twitter account and had to grow it 1,000 real subscribers without using your existing brand, how long would it take you and why?

Oh, and no developer or social/digital media topics allowed.
>software engineers didn't want to acknowledge the privilege they've been living with

Maybe people would be less hostile to the idea if you didn't dismiss the fruits of their labor with accusations of "privilege." It's kind of insulting to be told that you effectively didn't earn part or all of your success because of your race and/or gender.
"But it's walking that fine line between personal and professional life, while also bridging the technical abilities parts and the personal chemistry parts."

This is called networking and I don't think it's going away anytime soon.

I'm a consultant and I get along very well with the director of engineering where I'm working now. When cuts happen, I won't be the first to go. The first to go will be the people that have no relationship with upper management.

Career advancement isn't all about the job that you do.

"Basically I'd hope we can prioritise other ways to create trust than building personal bonds (TBH, being good at one's job for a decent amount of time seems plenty enough to me)"

Being only good at one's job is a great way to keep your current job and position forever. If that's what you want, it's fine. However, if you want to get into management or advance, you need to get noticed and build relationships so your potential can also be noticed.
It is common knowledge that later studies on vitamin C found no results like Pauling's. I had never before seen mentioned that his work used IV, and those later studies used oral doses.
Robert Strandh is working on an Common Lisp emacs based on McClim but, McClim basically forces you to use linux.
I see Caddy as your general use case production web server prior to hitting large scaling needs. I've never gotten it to perform as leanly or scale as well as nginx, but most people will probably not need the headroom nginx provides vs. caddy.

Caddy is significantly easier to manage and get running to a "good enough" stage for people that aren't familiar with nginx and apache, even for most medium sized production deployments.

But, if you've got a team that's comfortable with nginx or apache, and doesn't find themselves spending an undue amount of time fiddling around with managing them, I don't personally believe there's any reason to switch from them to caddy.
I don't like it when anyone productive and resourceful collaborates with violent people for any reason. We're on the same page.

You'll note that I did not attack Amazon for their warehouse conditions.

No one is forced to work in an Amazon warehouse and neither is Amazon the only employer in any city in which they operate; if they are there working it's because they themselves decided that it was the best job option available to them, and it must be equal to or greater than their other job options, making Amazon's offer of employment a net benefit to them, or, in the worst case, equivalent to the second best job available. Until very recently unemployment in the US was at record lows, and there were many other jobs available and looking for staff.

It might be difficult to accept, but every single person who works at Amazon is there because they want to work there. If someone has decided that that's the best option for them, it's not my place to second-guess them (aside from the moral issues of supporting a company with the AI-drone-war inclinations of Amazon).

The same goes for the people who work at Foxconn. The plant where they put up the suicide jumper netting had a lower suicide rate, per capita, than the province in which it sat (even before the nets).
Okay, thanks for telling me.

Not everyone knows this term, surely.

And I didn't know the Rust package manager is called "Cargo".
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This offers literally none of the security properties that are required for a secure decentralized currency and betrays a very fundamental misunderstanding of what proof of work is for or its (economic) security properties.

The most obvious problem with this proposal is that it’s clearly not secure - if someone manages to make fake passports (either because the cryptosystem isn’t secure, they steal the signing key, or they control the passport issuance authority) they fully control the system.
Most people don't understand their options. If they lose their job they probably qualify for medicaid, or for a subsidized plan through the exchange. In the short term they can purchase COBRA, and keep their existing healthcare. They may be able to purchase the same healthcare privately, or through the healthcare exchange.
Sad, there are various reasons, linked to audience numbers (drawing power) that lead to an inherently lower cash flow from their matches = less $$ for owners = less to pay players.
I am not sure how well the equality in pay can be spread across different playing venues? In a worst case, it could lead to some teams being unable to pay them from the lower revenues, laeding to a zero job = zero pay situation.
We have seen this played out in the auto business where almost 90% of UAW jobs as well as 75% of car makers have been lost to Asian and European car makers since 1950.
True, those left are paid and benefitted like kings(queens too), but many jobs lost forever. Due to seniority rules, the core of strikers were never left without jobs as the fall-off and retirement attrition were carefully balanced.
Is the license still the same. Pay for commercial user or compile on your own. Any change over the years?
Backblaze is clearly violating Oracle's copyrighted copy of Amazon's S3 API: https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Task...
There are two labs in Wuhan which performed experiments with bats and bat coronaviruses under unsafe conditions, where animal-to-human transmission could have occured - one being the Wuhan CDC and the other being the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Those are the kind of bats that most likely evolved COVID-19, which are native to southern China, not Wuhan. That's factual, not a conspiracy theory.

The CCP has ordered the destruction of evidence at those places and imposed gag orders on the scientists involved. Again, just facts, not a conspiracy theory.

The CCP has furthermore suppressed the spread of information on the initial outbreak and has been uncooperative regarding investigation on the origin of the virus. A large amount of the initial cases had no connection to the Wuhan seafood market. Factual.

Note that none of these facts support the conspiracy theory that the virus has been engineered or intentionally released.
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The usual metric is QALY, "quality-adjusted life years". (The idea of quality adjustment being that three years of being 82-84 isn't as good as three years of being 22-24.)
Slack still doesn't allow you to mute bots
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Touch bar is stupid idea because it is so narrow,and located in such place that it is hard to see it clearly due to the angle. If they really wanted to add touch capabilities to MacBook they should have put touch display in place of TouchPad, like Asus did: https://www.engadget.com/2018-06-05-asus-zenbook-pro-15-scre...
I hate this, but they'll have to cope, just like those who lost their jobs and those who lost family and friends.

It sucks, but the real issue is that there's no social safety net for these types of folks in many places, which makes my first sentence sound kinda uncaring, but there's not many other options.

The other major issue is that, for a lot of the students in college, they don't really even need the degree as anything other than a key to the gatekeeping tool used by employers. I'm not saying education is worthless, it's important to have a well rounded knowledge of the world, but you don't need that degree to be a sales person or a realtor or a welder or a carpenter or maybe even a developer. In other words, we shouldn't be forcing them to choose: degree or livelihoods.

This sucks, and I feel for everyone (I'm unemployed as well) but we all will have to deal with some discomfort, I'm really sorry to say that though.
> As long as you treat your employees with respect and pay legal wages, who are we to say that the wages are "poverty wages".

When working those wages leave you in poverty its poverty wages.

> Many of these low wage, entry level positions are/were meant to be filled by young people, still living with parents, or part time workers who may have a spouse that is the primary earner.

This is not the case, and has never been the case. The economy is not set up for the benefit of teens on summer vacation.

44% of all workers aged 18 to 64 made a median of $10.64/hr and an annual income less than $20,000. Its hard to overstate how many people across the country are living on poverty wages - the "young people" theory to me frequently only comes about from people who've grown up in affluent areas and had evening jobs at grocery stores. Most low wage workers in this economy are invisible.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/meet-the-low-wage-workfor...
I thought about doing that too, but BluRay discs are kinda small these days.
Yup, my clients are businesses that want to build some sort of integration with the Shopify platform.

It usually involves an embedded app that lives within the merchant's shopify admin.
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It is a security problem but it’s not hacking. Default passwords are security problems but they’re also not hacking. Overhearing conversations in an airport or bar or whatever where sensitive information is disclosed is a security risk but also isn’t hacking.
If pizza costs more than a certain amount, I am eating at home, and so are a lot of other people, leaving a lot of restaurants, who exist on thing margins already, to close.
But this is pretty much at the level of nginx config, except that nginx had more time and has more features and more flexibility because of that.
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This was auction listings ending within the next 12 hours that had bids, for the same spec as mine.

I also found CeX (a buy/sell company) are paying £350 for my spec, which is less risky (and no eBay/PayPal fees).
I don't think that is how libgccjit is being used in this project. Emacs is not being linked with libgccjit. libgccjit is only being use for AOT compilation.
If you want to get technical about it, the Catholic Church was deeply embedded in most European governments when the Index Librorum Prohibitorum was issued, and was the official state religion for multiple kingdoms.

The Hays Code was issued by the MPAA as a voluntary set of guidelines governing the then vertically-integrated studios and theaters. Importantly, they were not prohibitions on movie content. Many film productions did not adhere to the Hays Code and many independent theaters similarly ignored it. Indeed, the body established to enforce the code did not even how the power to order studious to cut material... The only instance of the Hays Code having an impact on films was during the short Breen era, which lasted only 6 years, and this only affected films shown in vertically-integrated theaters owned by the studios. Independent theaters continued to ignore the Hays Code, as they always did.

And the Broadcast Standards was a decency code intended to mollify advertisers, i.e., other private parties, who generally did not want to be associated with certain types of content. As with the Hays Code, it was a series of guidelines, not a prohibition, and late-night shows generally flaunted the Broadcast Standards with impunity.

In other words, not censorship...

Just private acts of self-interest to protect their market position.
I can only solve the first one. I click submit, get a "Solved" stamp, and it prompts me with the same problem again.
Probably Javascript/Node and a bunch of frontend frameworks like React/Vue/etc. You'll have lots of competition and pay is on average lower than for more esoteric technologies, but the market for that is huge. Almost every company needs frontend devs.
Let's look at Presidents:

Obama - commoner

Clinton - commoner

Reagan - commoner

Carter - commoner

Ford - commoner

Nixon - commoner

Truman - commoner

Sounds like routinely to me.
Show HN: New way of managing user' feedback with three-dots system
I launched feedback and product roadmap management tool. I got an idea to extend products that are on the market with dots system which allow users to pick between nice to have, important and critical features to give more precise feedback.
Yep! Or even just people documenting could look weird on metrics/etc. I'd admit I was in the dark a lot, and that many times I would be perceiving a "productivity dip" when it was a situation like you're describing.

I learned quick to not make assumptions, and to hire/retain people who I could trust... I also requested informal reports ever 48hrs or so with links to what you'd been working on, PR's, documentation, etc. Reports were sent to a distro list of all team members and replaced traditional stand-ups. So generally if I was in the dark it would all be figured out in due time without having to get up someone's butt. I feel like it kept everyone accountable and transparent when everything was in writing.

Also with ramp-up specifically... since I was paying attention to the hard metrics I started to get a feel for when something was difficult vs. easy. Projects that would kick people down for simple tasks would get priority for refactor, difficult onboarding was usually met with aggressive documentation, etc. Over time you got a taste of what these beasts were without even being an IC on them.
I'd recognize a LaTeX beamer presentation anywhere.

Here is the corresponding paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.02504.pdf
Hi @mholt, thanks a lot for Caddy. It is really awesome and we are considering using it for www.mailerlite.com landing pages. The problem that we have right now is that there is no Cloudflare plugin built-in for V2 so it is a show stopper for us.

Congrats on the release!
I dunno about you but my "default position" on Amazon fled circa y2k. Since then I've met numerous amazon employees and heard their stories, I've observed amazon/bezos's behavior in the public sphere, etc. Now my opinion on amazon is not "default" but "informed."

Your implication that the media is an anti-amazon conspiracy is absurd. The truth about bad actors is not kind to them. That doesn't turn truthtelling into a conspiracy. I seem to remember some positive reporting on Amazon recently, when they promised higher wages and more PPE for warehouse employees -- how does that fit into a conspiracy?
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The title misinterprets a statement about options vesting as a salary.
But the current standard for normal email security is TLS at every leg from inbox to inbox?

I mean I get the dream of not having the consider the network as an adversarial entity but surely they're about the same?