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I agree that our current situation might mean the milkman model is relevant again, and it would be interesting to see how tech could assist!

But if I see some VC-backed startup try to do “gig economy for milk” I swear to god...
I am an introvert. Many people (including many introverts) thinks this means you don't like people or social gatherings. That's not the case. Or at least it's not necessarily true.

Here's the best way I can describe it: being an introvert means that social interactions cost you energy. Being an extrovert (since I'm not one) seems to mean that social interactions gain you energy.

I see this in a relative of mine who is clearly an extrovert. Social interactions are her drug. She craves them and gets almost like a high from them and honestly gets really hyper as a result.

Compare this to me. At work I've had these extended work gatherings for several days where it's a lot of team-building, brainstorming and so on. By the end of the day I'm physically exhausted from all these interactions. Some people are not. Some will go to dinner in the evenings then out to a bar to drink and then back to someone's Airbnb for another gathering after that. That's all fine for them but it's just way too much for me.

So it's not like I don't like interacting with these people. It's merely a question of how much mental energy I'm capable of expending before I need to recharge.

So you see these differences really exposed by the forced isolation. I miss some of the interaction (and, to be fair, the food) of being in the office but otherwise I'm fine. You can clearly see that other people are not. While I have a natural excuse to avoid many draining activities, others are clearly being denied their recharging activities.

So yeah, I can totally buy neural cravings here. For some.
Where do you draw the line between "marketplace" and "retail store?" For the NYSE it seems fairly clear, but in retail it seems less so. Nearly every widespread retail store I know of either sells primary a multitude of other company's products but also has some store brand options, or primarily sells their own branded items but also sells other company's products in areas where they don't have a first-party offering.
It seems that thefts are increasing
> The flu kills way more than that

The flu kills a lot of people over a long time, this is 500k in just a few months while everyone is actively trying to avoid spreading it. The flu definitely does not kill more than that.
Except this is how many other countries work, so how is it even remotely simplistic or naive?
> Most of the rioting has been started by the police themselves

I reject that completely. If you riot, you choose to riot. The rioters I have seen shooting and stabbing people, and kicking them in the head while down are criminals. There is no passing of that buck.
That's not quite how the law works.
In the last week I've heard multiple ads for DDG during podcasts about business and startups, saw an article today on HN about how DDG is better than Google on privacy, the same article again with a different title about mobile choice, and now this article about an analyst who thinks Apple should buy DDG.

If I didn't know better, I would think DDG is trying to get bought...
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LLVM doesn't use GitHub pull requests, so obviously bors-ng isn't an option.
> His future job prospects in academia and to a large extent outside of academia depended on his advisor.

In academia, you're absolutely right. But outside, sorry, no.

I can perfectly understand how a PhD student under an abusive advisor would feel they're trapped. And I'm gonna sound racist, but I've seen the kind of toxicity there is among Chinese researchers in Western universities, and that's probably making this kind of situations even worse.

But I've worked in the industry, and then in academia (as technical staff, never researcher), and now I'm back in the industry, in a team where more than half the people have a PhD (or better).

Outside academia, people either don't give a damn, or know very well how fucked up it can be. Unless you're extremely unlucky and the hiring manager is somehow in the close network of your advisor, nobody will bat an eye if you, as a job candidate, say "academia was not for me, I dropped out of my PhD."

So please, if you read this and feel like you have no options, don't believe that.
You can't make the complexity disappear. Kubernetes just offers a very standardized, stable and relatively polished way to handle it.

The other alternatives, like running your own orchestration system, are just as complex if not more so, although you might be more familiar with it since you built it.

That being said, many companies don't need any of it in the first place for their scale, and that's probably the biggest issue with K8S today.
That's covered on page 6:

> Nothing in the above reasoning precludes the Great Filter from being located both behind us and ahead of us. It might both be extremely improbable that intelligent life should arise on any given planet, andvery improbable that intelligent life, once evolved, should succeed in becoming advanced enough to colonize space.
They include an arbitrary choice of parameters from very noisy sources over a really short timespan to find "an upward trend".

Looks like a fishing expedition to me.
France tried this. 12,000 French millionaires LEFT France each year. This was a disaster for the French financial industry, and did not generate much in new tax revenues.

Ultimately France admitted it was a mistake, and eliminated the wealth tax.

There are dozens of sources on this. It's lunacy that people don't read how this was already tried and FAILED.

...btw, you might be tempted to say "well, the French taxed people of much lower net-wealth", but remember that when the bill was first proposed, they had similar high thresholds, and as usual the legislative process broadened the scope of the bill to anyone with more than $1 million. The same would happen in the US.
It's not any different from any other government ID.
i don't think that matters. what matters is the jurisdiction where he works now. california doesn't want its employed population to be limited by noncompetes. they certainly won't be interested in honoring noncompetes from elsewhere.
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... How many things could you think of in technology that 40 plus years later are still being used in essentially exactly the same form as it was created? It’s not some niche thing that nobody has touched. It’s the heart of the entire way the Internet works ...

That about says it all.
You are speaking of Acrylamide, it's unclear (from reading Wikipedia) if it's actually a danger or not.
> In this case it was simply a copy paste error which they pointed out.

Right and life went on before you decided to play "hero".

> They apologized because they were being civil and polite not out of some admission of guilt.

But you told him not to apologize. So that means you told him not to be civil? Also, it's not polite to speak for others as it isn't part of civil discourse.

> I think you can see what others thought of your tone as well.

Others? Just you. And it's rather childish to "appeal to downvotes".

> Both of your comments here come across as very angry.

"Yeah, no."

Listen, the only one causing drama here is you. I made one innocuous and helpful comment. The guy responded and everything was settled. The conversation had nothing to do with you and yet here you are.
RIP Bill Thurston! Thank you for sharing!

His mini-essay made a lot of sense. I think he nailed it in the beginning by saying that the world collectively benefits from Mathematics as a whole. Or rather, benefits are a "side effect" of people's Mathematical achievements.
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No, but I would recommend resting on a rack rather than a plate if you want the get the best possible crust. It doesn't make a super huge difference, but the side sitting on the plate will get wet as juices come out which impedes browning slightly in the next sear until they evaporate off.

Just make sure to save those juices that drip down for your pan sauce if you are making one!
Are you doing something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9CIQ7ynOc

I heard about it recently and want to try it out next time I get a basil plant.
(not a lawyer, if one shows up, listen to them) Generally speaking, you can listen to anything, as long as it's not for commercial gain.
The exception to this is mobile phones, because it was trivial to listen to them using children's toy radios.

There's apparently some uncertainty around handling of encrypted emergency services communications: https://www.rtdna.org/content/scanners

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/interception-and-divulg...
A CNN reporter mentioned he was "listening to the police scanner in one ear" the other day while he was reporting live on a protest.
It's an interesting read of someone struggling with a hard idea. Im glad he started to think about the context, and why it's different for him to write about a Belgian nun than if he wrote a book with a black or trans main character. But he missed the idea that if he does want to write a book where the context is tricky, he should ask for help from people who know more about the context, who might help him realize whether or not the book is "misbegotten" and if he is "not up to this particular task." Writers look up lots of weird things for their books. They can look up a person who knows more about it and pay them for their help. That person might even give them ideas that they would never have thought of! The writer can also ask more questions to find out if what they want to write has tricky context: between the writer and the subject, who has the power? Who might be harmed? Does this fit bad patterns? What is the context? []

[] Questions from this post about how to have deeper conversations about cultural appropriation: https://jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2020/1/2/how-to-change-you...
For those interested Hoefler and typography.com were covered in Netflix’s Abstract (last episode of season 2 I think). I really enjoyed it and learned a few things about typography in general.
I thimk GP meant that pain concurrent with some experience makes the experience more memorable (ie, the brain helps you avoid future experiences by making previous experiences more readily memorable).
That depends on what you want from the judgement doesn't it?

If you want to be able to know the theoretical things you could do with the language, I think your definition is right.

If you want to know the most likely experience you would have using the language, I think mine is right.

I think it also depends on what circumstances you're using the language. Spinning up a new project probably lends itself more towards your definition. If you're looking to join an existing project, mine is probably more useful.
of course it can’t be avoided completely, but you’re supposed to try not to know who the authors are.
If you think the market is giving a wrong price or structural issues are not optimizing the right thing, the correct action is to fix those structural issues, not to try and fix prices by fiat. The market will continue to operate around that and distort elsewhere, usually to the detriment of everyone involved.

It is not an ideology, it is a fact of how markets operate. If something is in great supply and low demand, the price will be low, and vice versa. This is an observable, objective statement about the nature of the world. Having an ideology that makes you wish the price were something else, doesn't change the reality of how prices of things are determined.

The "structural issues" are usually the result of artificial distortions on the supply or the demand that come from the result of well-meaning but misguided efforts to get the "right" price according to one side of the transaction.
But it could be a UFO from alpha Centauri!!!! Just kidding, I gotcha.
>Maybe it's highly dependent on location, or maybe I'm just way overpaying for renter's insurance.

Or maybe Lemonade is like many other "tech" companies, and is selling their product below costs in the hopes of growing into profits. From a consumer standpoint, gambling with your insurance in such a manner is scary.
> but you sound close to saying "some thoughts are too dangerous to thunk,"

Some thoughts are too dangerous to be thunk indefinitely. Thoughts can trigger the release of chemicals in your body, essentially acting like a drug themselves.

This can be highly addictive. Addiction can easily make a person cruel. Poorly thought thunks are indeed very, very dangerous (ie self inflation, blaming others for everything, believing things will fix themselves).

This doesn't mean these thoughts shouldn't ever be thought, but we should never lose our way back home to reality. I've seen many a hippy who followed spirituality too far, and became so hooked on their own vibe juice that they are no longer capable of basic scientific conversations.
I would say winning a major tournament or title would rank up there with certain competitive math or programming achievements.
The other major news story is about police brutality and defunding/reducing the police force.

Exactly how do you expect people to defend themselves from violent threats when the number 1 counterpoint of "call the police" is taken away or severely limited?
Not to be 'that guy' but I vastly prefer your implementation. Having both the audio and transcription is almost mandatory to something like this (unless I'm an idiot and missing the ability to play the call on this).

I wonder if one could mix in openstreetmap data for a location to help pick up local references. (Eventually would be cool to round trip it with a little ping when addresses/businesses are referenced).
I'm sure there is a management/leadership training company out there who is leveraging this in their materials.
It already has a trillion dollars, it doesn't have to worry about trivial bullshit like cost-cutting. Wall street types don't really understand product building ... the math is more like, if you increase water in cola, you can increase profits by 20%.
If you're referring to the Turing completeness, the algorithm and cards that were found require both players to be acting in concert to achieve the Turing machine; either player could stop at any time. I don't see the fact that players can choose to act strangely in a game to be a reflection of the game itself.

If you're talking about things like combining effects together that happen to cause an unbreakable infinite loop, then I'd argue that you're wrong; there's a rule that defines unbreakable infinite loops as a tie, so you know whether you won or lost (i.e. you did neither; it's not an xor, although it is a nand).
There aren't many reasonable reasons for life not to appear ~2 billion years earlier than we did in our own galaxy.
Isn't this functionally saying that Amazon is outbidding other products for ads on its own platform?
I think cases like this can largely be dealt with by allowing non-competes, but only as long compensation continues. Without that the power imbalances are just too extreme.

EDIT: rephrased to make clear I wasn't just referring to base salary.
> When there are only 3 companies that compete in a given space, how can job hopping not possibly violate a non-compete?

There are more than three public cloud firms, and in any case you can job hop outside of that space.
I agree, but most of the examples in the article aren't the same same strokes in different orders, but different strokes altogether.
Our local dairy (https://www.danzeisendairy.com/) just started this and my wife jumped on it as quickly as possible. They've already been selling milk in glass bottles since they started selling through grocery stores here about three years ago, with deposits, but now since pandemic, they've expanded to include home delivery routes, and it's pretty great.

We can get eggs and milk and bottled cold brew and other goodies delivered on a bi-weekly basis. Since we're in Phoenix, they just have us leave out a cooler out front with ice packs in it the night before (since their delivery window is 4a-8:30a). Our old house had a milk door, but sadly our new (1921, but new to us) house does not.

Still pretty nice way to support the local operation!
We are seeing more and more proof how cops don’t take their job seriously. They are suppose to protect the community and neighbors. Instead, they are completely focused on protecting themselves at the expense of the communities and neighbors.
But even there you have a problem with the conceptual terminology.

A master controls slaves using through ownership and punishment. In computing that ownership aspect is usually very weak or not even relevant to the task at hand. I2C is a good example. Its about who controls the bus. So for "control" plenty of other concepts are applicable and likely more accurate. Since when does I2C need to punish? A little in / all in: if you want the concept use the entirety of the concept. But really you don't need to. Its actually unnecessary.

Supervisor/worker etc etc. Plenty of more accurate concepts exist without even needing particularly politically correct angles. Even Controller/controllee could work. I'm sure Head Ewok / lesser ewok might work as well if you want to go too far.

The resulting binary as presented to the processor is likely not particularly impacted. Isn’t that the real purpose of most code?
I think the public is simply unaware of how bad the "regular" flu can be... it's a long tail but every year otherwise apparently young healthy people die of the flu. Not to mention confounding factors of latent conditions and concurrent diseases.

The implication of conspiracy theories is that the Chinese government:

* Perfectly covered up the initial outbreak

* Took no further action

* Utterly failed to cover the "second leak" that led to the pandemic

Seems unlikely?

An alternative theory is social media now disproportionately focuses on the regular bell-curve extremes of our normal flu season.
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Thanks! This is helpful to know.

I've seen lots of friends (including dozens of YC founders) ask for upvotes, usually via FB in ways that wouldn't necessarily constitute a ring (e.g. asking strangers in founder-friendly facebook groups), and they're usually of things worthy of publicity, and they do make it to the front page pretty quickly after the upvote requests.

I've also seen a lot of instances where posting once didn't do anything, and then posting a second time with an equivalent but different URL + asking a few friends to help upvote made it to the front page pretty quickly.

For example, I posted https://github.com/dheera/rosshow on 2019-Mar-27 -- no dice.

Then posted it again with a "www.", i.e. https://www.github.com/dheera/rosshow -- then asked a couple friends to upvote -- and then BAM front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19519165).

So the only thing I did differently between trial A and B was asked people to upvote, and trial B succeeded.
The removal of EU legislation from British law and the UK-US trade deal. With the US demanding it's healthcare and pharma unfettered access to the NHS on terms equivalent to current US not UK standards. The UK is not, technically, slapping a FOR SALE sign on the NHS they've just put themselves in a position where pretty much anyone and everyone can demand a slice. Of course this assumes that the current gonverment doesn't view the NHS as an asset to be strip mined which I'm damn sure they do.
There are also mental health consequences to large-scale death and hospitals being over capacity. Would you choose a year of watching your friends and family randomly die over a year of staying home most of the time?
Holy crap! Those allegations are bad, but the student's suicide makes it much worse.
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Your scanner project was a marvel to me at the time.

Until a system can train right down to the officer/dispatcher I don't see how this gets beyond 50-60% accurate. I can't even transcribe half the calls, not sure why I should expect a computer to (at this time anyway).
The author is someone who "does this for a living", and has for a very long time. His Hoefler Text font was included by Apple with the Mac since 1991.
Posting a quote of a logical fallacy is breaking your own rules. Consider pointing out which rules you think are being broke and why (the “why” being the important part of that sentence).

Note that the genetic fallacy is similar to Godwin’s Law: it specifically doesn’t apply when pointing out a pattern of behaviour.

For example, pointing out that the author of a particular philosophical piece is from a certain school of philosophy is important to people who do not understand the background of philosophical schools.

It’s a form of reality check: would you accept relationship advice from a person who has never had a meaningful relationship?
> Plain old linux is the alternative

How do you run an application on a cluster of plain old linux machines? How do you do load balancing? How do you scale up and down? How do you update your app without downtime? How do you roll back easily if something goes wrong? How do you ensure all your servers are running the same version of dependencies? How do you update those dependencies? How do you replicate your environment if you want to add a new server to your cluster? If your app has microservices how do services discover each other? How do you mount volumes from cloud storage? How do you update configuration? How do you automatically restart failed applications? How do you monitor if your applications are working? How do you make sure the right number of MongoDB replicas are running at all times? How do you view your log files remotely? How do you port-forward from localhost to your Linux server to test your app locally?
5.7% was probably referring to fatality rate.

It is extremely irresponsible to say this is not a big threat. At this rate, the death toll of Covid19 in the US is up to as big as 4 times the seasonal flu. In some countries the mortality will end up being more than 0.8%. Almost 1 in every 100 people dying because of a virus seems like a big threat to me, and it is already clear that this will be way bigger than the Swine Flu.

What would you qualify as a big threat?
There are plenty of pass/fail situations where it is, though. A sale where you get the job due to a 1% lead over a competitor is still a sale.
“Plain old Linux” really isn’t an alternative to K8S though. You would need a load balancer, service discovery, a distributed scheduler, a configuration management system (K8S is a very strong alternative to building things around Ansible IMO). You can do all of those things without K8S, of course, but not with “plain old Linux” (what would that be anyway? GNU coreutils and the kernel? Vanilla Debian stable?)
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> That being said, how did Apple Maps turn out vs Google Maps?

Best is subjective, and Apple Maps UI is leagues ahead of Google Maps in my experience. Accuracy is improving over time.
If this is the newspaper-whack-to-the-nose that gets people to stop using sly TVs as more than dumb monitors, then I think we'd all be better off for it.
> defunding/reducing the police force.

The defund/dismantle/disband movement is, as I understand the movement, more about replacing the police-as-an-institution with a fundamentally different approach or set of approaches to law enforcement, not reducing the total resources or number of persons assigned to law enforcement functions.
Seriously... Not referring to the parent comment specifically, but when did people start _openly_ making the argument that naming yourself something magically confers all the benefits of the label? Presumably the overlap of National Socialists with "people in support of their nation implementing socialism" isn't very high.
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