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> Liquor stores are still open

One of the massive secondary effects is the huge rise in alcoholism. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) cannot meat in many States during lockdowns. Something like substance abuse accountability cannot be done effectively via video conference. They need to happen in person, without masks, where you can look into each other's eyes and tell people it's going to be alright.

Liquor stores and weed stores (in places where it's legal) are open, but AA is not. Child abuse ER visits have gone up 35%[0], and keep in mind, when a child goes to an ER for child abuse--they've been abused to the point where they have broken bones or critical injuries.

The current death rate for all Americans is 0.0022% if you look at a pure population vs fatality rate, even including the inflated numbers (and they are inflated; people with gunshot wounds who die with CoV-2 are COVID-19 deaths). The idea the lockdowns are stopping the spread just doesn't pan out when you compare countries across the planet with their different methods and levels of lockdowns and how they haven't really done a damn thing. I wrote a post on all the secondary effects recently: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/

I wish our leaders would stop dicking, around, stop making this political, and realize nothing is going to stop this spread, hospitals aren't being overrun and Gates/GAVIs mythical vaccine won't show up before this thing has already burned through the entire population.

[0]: http://adam.curry.com/enc/1593719588.319_scottatlasonschools...
It is bad because it is Chinese.
*(in her case, while taking stronger action in others)
FTFY
I use that in my filtering process. Thing is, if you want to make the big money in DevOps, you need to know all the and when to chose them. It's not a winner takes all situation.
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Initially, I was criticizing the content, which is on its face false: we are discussing multiple widely–read pieces from prominent people who claim they are being "canceled" for their views.

You claimed that they are speaking out for the benefit of less powerful writers. Since the goalposts have shifted to their intentions, attacking the source is absolutely relevant. I simply don't believe those intentions, given that these are people who themselves have prevented many diverse points of view from being heard in the first place.
But if you look at the last 10y of breakthrough advances in vision, text/language understanding, sensors, electric motors, & goal-directed training, and project them out another 10-20y... it's just a matter of time, isn't it?
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The low aspect ratio wings paired with the wing tip feathers to reduce wing tip vortices for birds of prey is pretty cool compared to the super high aspect ratio wings of Albatrosses.
> Aren’t there times when an ad hominem attack is fitting?

Yes! That's why I'm saying it's relevant.
To give you a glimpse of reality:

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EDIT: Wow i clicked on #Coding and it is like i taught about it...pure waste of time with Rainbowhairs and talking needle slim guy's with more grease on top than the hole movie 'Grease'
The parent comment made no claim that they were going to flag the post without reading it. Just that it was a controversial post, so it's less clear if good discussion would evolve from it. (So I give them the benefit of the doubt that they did read it.)
My understanding is that you only have a relatively small area in the center of your vision where you get a clear image. And so your eye moves back and forth so rapidly that you can't tell without slow motion, sort of scanning in the environment into a 3d map.

So maybe some of the variability is in that mapping circuitry.
This was a beautiful read, thanks for sharing
Didn't he claim the same last year and the year before?
The "why" is not really relevant here, the general perception is. The fact is, if you say "autopilot" and "self driving capabilities" to most people, they will infer that the car does not need a driver to be operated safely, which is definitely not the case.
Of 328 million people if 70% became infected, with a .65% fatality rate, we’d have around 1.3 million dead. The typical leading cause of death (heart disease) kills like 600k a year. Seems like racking up the dead to me. And it would probably be higher if we just pretended like things were normal and let hospitals get overwhelmed. That fatality rate is with a huge reaction by the country.
It would be interesting to see well-reasoned rebuttals to this argument from the HN crowd.
The double entry for the cash account in your books is the opposite terminology used by the bank to present your transactions. For example, in your statement you would see cash coming in as a credit and a payment as a debit. This is because the bank is showing the debits and credits from their point of view - you have money held in the bank that they are obliged to give you when you request a withdrawal.

Every accounting entry has one side posted to the P&L and the other to the Balance Sheet (unless you're reclassifying between accounts but that's for another time). In the P&L a debit entry indicates a cost to you, and a credit indicates income earned. In the balance sheet, a debit will increase an asset or decrease a liability, vice versa for a credit.

To record a purchase in your books you have to post one side to the P&L and the other to the balance sheet. Because of the rules mentioned above you debit an expense, and because you need to balance out the entry, you post the credit to cash, which conveniently decreases your cash account asset.

It's confusing at first but easier when you understand and accept the mnemonic DEADCLIC.
I think you're right, and it all boils down to this: the left is growing in the United States, and powerful people with large platforms such as Bari Weiss do not like it.

Yet it's ironic because left-wing views were consistently canceled. Even being against the Iraq War in 2003 was considered treasonous for a while.
So I'm literally "stuck" in rural Maine for this entire month. The landscape might be pretty sometimes, but there is absolutely nothing of value here. There are no jobs, no industry, no creativity, nothing being made or done or thought of here. The only people still left are the ones who couldn't run away. It actively feels like the town is dying, and it's not due to COVID as most people here think it's a hoax. What could these people possibly have to be patriotic of?

This is my home town. My mother still lives here. I cannot fathom how. The grocery stores look so run down the the Walmart one town over has entire chunks of the store just flat and open and missing. I tried to purchase a basketball the other day and there was not a single one to be found in any of the three low quality dollar stores or anywhere else. I tried to get something mailed to me and instead of prompt delivery it disappeared into a USPS facility for five days.

The town feels sick and dying
Wow, what an awesome insane story.

Reminds me of when I did a pleasure flight with a US missionary in a Cessna 150 in Nicaragua, and when I wandered into Managua airport afterwards I was hauled in by police and questioned, apparently thought to be a drug smuggler or so, until the good missionary showed up again (having parked the plane) and cleared everything up. (Not nearly as glamorous and dramatic as the attack on that Catalina Landaeaire of the coast of Saudi Arabia, though.)
Most of us HN'ers make use of websites to obtain information. There are lot of folks who still find it easier to make call instead of having to deal with the website UX.
Which media do you watch? The largest cable news network is staunchly pro-trump.
I think to make your case better you should cite paragraphs from the op-ed that bolster this claim.
> HTTP/2 a.k.a. SPDY is a comically bloated Layer 4/5/7 mega-combo protocol designed to replace HTTP. It takes something simple and (most importantly!) comprehensible and debuggable for junior programmers and replaces it with an insanely over-complicated system that requires tens of thousands of lines of code to implement the most minimal version of, but which slightly reduces page load time and server costs once you reach the point of doing millions of requests per second. I am filled WITH RAGE just thinking about how we took a fundamental part of the Internet, simple enough that anyone can implement an HTTP server, and replaced it with this garbage protocol pushed by big megacorps that doesn't solve any real problems but will completely cut out future generations from system programming for the web

This resonates with me, and I'd like to add HTTP/2 can only bring advantages if you actually go all the way to push/bundle resources into responses and have a strategy/priority when to push eagerly vs serve lazily; I'm even much more worried about upcoming QUIC (and DoH) because there's no impl in sight.
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Also worth noting that Bennett actually reached out to Cotton to write the piece
My favourite was a Canadian ISP changing its tech support number. This is before ubiquitous wifi and mobile data, but after electronic bills.

Like, if your service goes down, how are you supposed to find the new number?

I thought telecom tech supports numbers were sacrosanct.
Trying to replicate a classroom online is the primary mistake I think people are making. Why should there be a teacher delivering scripted lectures to students at a scheduled time at all. Trying to do classes over zoom is a terrible idea.
Why not just put all the kids on individualized learning plans, have the teachers act as tutors and counselors and graders, and let the kids go at their own pace, with staff following their progress closely and making sure they're getting their work done on time, clearing up learning impediments, etc. Then you can have the kids that need one-on-one help getting that time, and the kids that can do self-directed learning being free to go as fast as they want to.
I feel like this page actually comes off as a pretty good recommendation for systemd. Like it's a piece of software with normal bugs and the usual crop of hard decisions.
Author is really good at discrediting themselves straight off the bat in one sentence:

> for a ~~bullshit~~ unsuccessful project called CoreOS Container Linux that was EOL'd several years ago

CoreOS was actually quite successful to me as an outside observer. It had decent paid user base as well as people using it without paying. It has showed people that Chrome OS can be used to build atomically updating host OS with a readonly fs for container hosting. It has inspired many other container hosts to come like RancherOS and Google’s Container-Optimized OS. Similarly, it was probably one of the reasons why Red Hat was interested in the acquisition.

Furthermore, CoreOS was EOL'ed last month; not several years ago.

I can keep going on why etcd API was switched to gRPC and what benefits this offers, even at small scale. But I don't think it's worth anyone’s time convincing the author otherwise. Based on their tone, it's clear to me that they have trouble with using software when things get a tad bit complicated. Usually, there's community decision-making behind these decisions, and they're often deliberated for months, backed with prototypes and data. I'm pretty sure the author doesn't care, however.
You will note that none of the big league data center operators have a serious facility in California, where as you have implied energy and water are both expensive.
" the reason why I wrote this book is to help people in their tech careers"

$9.99

Right on. Thanks for helping me out of the goodness of your heart, kind soul.
The general case is developing software on a desktop OS in containers that are intended to be deployed on Linux boxes. Since the whole point of containers is that the container runs against the host OS kernel directly, clearly that is not really possible on a desktop that isn't running Linux as there isn't a Linux kernel there to run against. there are two ways past this. Emulate a Linux kernel, or run a real linux kernel in virtualisation for the container to run against

WSL 1 chose the first approach so the container thought it was running against a Linux kernel but it was actually a windows kernel plus a syscall shim. That's all fine and dandy in theory, but not running against real Linux means there was always the risk of different behaviour on Windows versus on the Linux deployment host. In WSL 2 Microsoft switched to running a real linux kernel in a hypervisor, which is basically the same approach as on the Mac.
well-put
Unfortunately we don't have a choice between unemployment being 20% vs 3%. The choice is between the current unemployment and whatever the rate would be if the govt issued no lock-downs and let the virus run rampant. I don't know what the unemployment rate would be in a world with overflowing hospitals and many thousands of deaths per day, but I bet it would be a heck of a lot closer to 20% than 3%.
If this were primarily related to BLM protests, the COVID hotspots would be the places where BLM protests were biggest, not Arizona, California, and Texas.

> The new research, which was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found no evidence that coronavirus cases jumped in 315 cities in the weeks following the first protests.

I'm sure BLM numbers affected it, but there were also millions of people who went to beaches, bars, and barbecues on Memorial Day Weekend as well who seemed to have moved the needle much more.

NYC, where there were massive BLM demonstrations, just had it's first day with zero COVID deaths in months.
Greenwald smears anyone who says anything not mean about Israel.
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I never claimed it didn't happen, and I never claimed my experience was representative of the entire country. I asked a question and relayed an anecdote.
So no quotes either from what Tesla said or what the court said. Bit of a useless article.
0.65% of California is still 260,000 people, even if we assume that only 50% of the population will contract it (a very conservative estimate) it is still a over a 100,000 needless deaths. So far California has reported just over 7000 deaths.
How many examples would it take to convince you?

And do you think it's possible for humans to claim they are driven by altruistic, while actually being primarily hateful, deceitful, divisive, and destructive?
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> Just look at the types of organizations that did get enormous PPP "loans"

Given that the state of California isn't the the entity that's handing out PPP loans, I'm not sure what this has to do with anything.

> Corruption

Agree with your broader assessment of what's wrong with California. Ultimately, the people in charge have realized that they can continue their corrupt ways and as long as they keep the NIMBY landowner class happy with low property taxes and the limousine liberal crowd happy with virtue signalling moves, they will get their votes.
> Is it so bad when anti-racist, pro-fact views are considered orthodoxy?

No it's good, but pro-fact views are going to be anti-racist by default, if the facts are presented honestly. The problem is that NYT more often than not acts allergic to facts that they don't like, creating stories that bend (often already questionable) studies or accounts to fit what their subscribers want to hear.

> Every publication has to draw the line somewhere of what the acceptable bounds of discourse are.

And they also have to follow those rules themselves. Including not doxxing private citizens for zero public benefit, which the heroes at NYT think is a very noble cause. NYT breaks their own 'rules' all the time.

> Finally, she says "stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences", but seeing that the NYT is the third-most popular newspaper in the country, that would seem to be objectively untrue or else people wouldn't still be buying it.

This is the worst logic to go at this issue with. It being the third most popular newspaper has exactly nothing to do with whether or not it has gotten worse or more narrow in appeal. It can get loads worse and still be one of the most popular newspapers, especially since the problems in media exist through practically all major publications. How many newspaper subscriptions do you think the average person actually has?

That doesn't even get into the various negative effects of the subscription model, and the fact that there is an obvious and undeniable economic incentive to manufacture and publish stories that hit with your subscribers. It's true that it has become the standard income method for these companies, but it's hardly any better than clickbait, if not worse.
There is a higher bar. This post is full of actually false things, giving it no credibility. A high quality rant I can get behind, but not a bad one.
>I think most mainstream news outlets do an incredible job maintaining their calm while reporting truly absurd and dangerously ignorant actions of the current US President.

You sound pretty biased.
> okay would be a liquid nitrogen leak, explosive risk oxygen condensing out of the atmosphere

I don't think that's very likely. I used to work in cryogenic labs and a simple LN2 leak would not have been considered a danger (except in a confined space). The only concern we had related to LO2 condensation was to never let a cryostat warm up or cool down while full of air.
Can you give me an exmaple of an intelligent discussion there? I’m genuinely curious. I’ve watched parts of a few of his chats with interesting people, such as Sam Harris, but I didn’t last long, as they veered immediately into vapidity and stayed there. (I agree he’s civil, though.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833140
I remember a Canadian ISP that asked me to call back at a certain number. It turned out to be the direct number to the call centre where they would immediately answer.

I published that one far and wide!!!
I'm a fan of the "Digital Wellbeing" features that ship with newer phones.

I have a social media account which I check approximately biweekly and definitely considered myself someone who wasn't falling into the attention trap in my pocket. I only read HN, a few news sites, send texts, and play chess on my phone.

I was amazed to see just how much time I spent doing these things. Even if in some way how I'm using the phone is more virtuous or less problematic ("this hour-long article about the architecture of the classic XBox gratifies my curiosity, is informative and gives me more context with which to understand my field!"), that time and attention sink still comes at the cost of everything else in life.
Some of the tesla car accidents prove the opposite.
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If you self host your repository, your hosting provider can pull the plug

If you self-host your repository, you don't have a hosting provider. There is no-one to "pull the plug" on the server at my business's office except the people who work in the building who could literally pull the plug, and I suppose the electricity and phone companies and our ISP.

What you are talking about isn't self-hosting, it's hosting in the cloud on VMs you're renting directly. This is an intermediate step between self-hosting and using a fully hosted service like GitHub.

With cloud-hosting, you are probably still subject to the whims of your hosting service. For example, you might be subject to occasional forced restarts of a long-lived instance if your hosting service needs to restart or replace the underlying physical server.

However, in most cases, unless you're doing something illegal using their equipment or compromising their system in some way, these hosting services don't much care what you're running on your virtual box. This option is still far less risky than using a fully-hosted service, not least because you retain full control over the underlying data so there is almost nothing that can happen because of your hosting provider that a reasonable backup strategy can't fix within a relatively short amount of time.
used wayback machine to dig up the most starred projects with their short descriptions. it seems the user has a couple slightly popular projects (10 to 200 stars) about gist and open source contribution tracking. so i think it's most likely a hacked account, given the interest in (extremely) short account names. the fact that they banned it without any message is disturbing. i hope to see what happens to this in a longer time period.
We should actually look at the court's reasoning (which I can't find referenced anywhere in the news articles). I doubt it singularly revolves around the interpretation of the word autopilot.
In the first use case, the original problem statement is probably used for routing and either the system is too poor to actually display that to the reps or they are chatting with many people and have SLAs on first contact/answer times so fire off a quick text question that they have saved.
What’s the aggregate toll on life and human suffering from Operation Iraqi Freedom?
“Kampf” means “battle” and can also have, like in “Mein Kampf”, the metaphorical meaning of “struggle”. “Krieg” means “war”. E.g. WW2 is Weltkrieg 2, not Weltkampf 2.

Having not played TWOM I don’t know which translates would be more appropriate. The GP is however most likely a joke (and not a bad one IMHO).
You can do AA over Zoom. It's not perfect but it's possible.
Does it have to be a protected trait? If someone (or several someones) decide they dislike me because, say, I'm ugly and they're just tired of seeing my face, and they start saying that I need to be fired, and putting ax icons next to my name, and going on Twitter to tell everyone how ugly I am and how it ruins their appetite for lunch when I walk into the breakroom, is that not a "hostile work environment" just because ugliness is not a legally protected trait?

If you did that kind of stuff at most places I've worked, you'd get fired for it, regardless of whether it fit the legal definition of "hostile work environment".
I hope so too. If she did face a hostile work environment (as per the legal definition) then she's entitled to compensation and/or an apology. But if, as I suspect, she's essentially whining about people not giving her the respect she thinks her offensive and obnoxious positions deserve, then the meritlessness of her argument will be brought to light in open court. Either way, the public hearing she claims to crave would happen.
> I can't take them too seriously until I see an alternative that does the work of collective discovery.

There is an alternative. It is you and I. The citizen journalist will become the arbiter of truth tomorrow. And that arbitration will be decided on rationality. There will be no more credentialism and gatekeeping. That is why the traditional media companies are scared shitless.
You're citing an openly right wing media watchdog whose goal is to perpetuate the narrative that right wing ideas are suppressed. It calls CNN "hacks" in it's headlines. That's not a reliable source.