skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/

In general, I’m not swayed by blog posts that claim I might not be capable of “critical thinking” because I disagree with your interpretation of data. Who’s your audience here, exactly?

For others who might take your post at face value, I offer the following food for thought:

> The current death rate for all Americans is 0.0022% if you look at a pure population vs fatality rate

Look at NYC instead. Death rate is 0.29% of total population of NYC. Serology testing suggests 25% of NYers were infected. Extrapolate this to the country and you have ~4 million dead, if everyone is infected. That’s the scenario people in public health are trying to avoid.

Yes, there are huge errors bars on all those numbers. It could be just a few hundred thousand dead. It could be 10 million if everyone gets sick at once and hospitals are swamped. We definitely don’t have a lot of certainty — but you have to have a very loose interpretation of the data to say that lockdowns “haven’t really don’t a damn thing”.

But, it’s true that the negative effects of lockdown are very high, and we need to do more — much more — to mitigate the other negative effects, including unemployment compensation, strategies to reduce loneliness, getting kids out of the house, etc.

Claiming that the lockdowns only have costs and not benefits, and citing, for example, the case of Sweden, which didn’t impose a lockdown but has a similar infection / death curve as places that did, ignores that Sweden also didn’t just “stay open” — people stayed home due to fear of the virus, and the economic costs were just as high too. In the USA, many people stayed home long before the official lockdowns were imposed.

The upshot is that this is a humanitarian and an economic disaster whether we impose lockdowns or not, because many people will self-lockdown out of fear. Official lockdowns might help us beat it a little faster, but any kind of lockdown / fear of virus is really hard on people, and as a society we should do more to mitigate that.
Just buy a washer drier. Don't have a hamper just put the laundry in the machine until it is full then switch it on. Go out to work, come home to clothes washed and dried.

Granted, you do have to take them out and put them away.
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I wish as a kid I had more resources to learn assembly back when I had a Commodore 64. I effectively maxed out what I could do with the machine; I had made it as far as redefining the character set to make games but I still working in BASIC.

But I never had the tools or instructions to do assembly -- it wasn't until I got a PC and had BBS resources that I did any advanced programming.
Could have been one if those Indian judges, who flagged it. They are on quite a ride recently.
As the instagram teenagers that made it popular are now 22 - 25, it's their turn to see a new generation overtake what is cool. Don't worry you guys will see them in 10 years sad-facing when BlopChop is popular with the now 5 year olds...
how could you be so selfish!
Just like shoehorning traditional office work into a remote setting doesn't work, you just end up with various forms of online butt-in-seat monitoring while losing all the benefits of asynchronicity, perhaps remote learning needs to be fundamentally rethought for the new medium. What would a remote-first learning experience look like? Probably more like a Khan Academy course than a real-time lecture, with the student-teacher time dedicated 100% to helping and interacting with students instead of going through new material.
SaaS is cutting corners, plain and simple. Yes, in a startup you need to cut corners, but it will bite you in the ass eventually.
I am referring to modern HPC like workloads, they will be using the GPU. Not saying GCC is using Metal in any way whatsoever.
What happened to etcd v1 that it's no longer useable?
Worth noting, in the US, there are likely people who were never hospitalized because they were afraid to go to the hospital because they lack insurance.
Good idea. It might be helpful to offer a contact form or some way to contact these folks, outside of LinkedIn or their social media.
People hate change, that's one thing I've come to expect.
>alternative that does the work of collective discovery.

The library
I support the Harper's letter and sympathise with many of Weiss' criticisms, but I agree that she flirts with cancel culture territory herself with her language about a hostile work environment. Do you want robust debate or not?
> HTTP/2 can only bring advantages if you actually go all the way to push/bundle resources into responses

Compared to well-optimized HTTP/1 (e.g. using minified CSS and sprite-sheets), sure. Compared to most HTTP/1 deployments, though: no. HTTP/2 gives you tons of advantages "for free" that you need build-time processes to attain in HTTP/1. With HTTP/2, you can do "the naive thing" that'd you'd have done on the 1995 Web in Notepad, and it'll be the optimal thing.

Also, HTTP/2 means less OS packet-switching overhead server-side if you have ancillary connections (e.g. websockets) open against the host, since those also get muxed into the same carrier socket.

Also, mobile clients wake up less, because there's only one TCP socket to do idle-keepalive on.

HTTP/2 also means that TCP's Nagling has more to work with, and so is less likely to end up needing to waste bandwidth on emitting many undersized packets—it can just pack N short requests into the same TCP jumbo frame, since they're all going to the same place.

I would also point out an indirect "advantage": HTTP/2 makes it cheaper to serve ads proxied through the first-party host (as HTTP/2 flows) than for the client to hit the third-party ad servers directly. People can still block the ads/trackers either way, but served inline to the origin like this, the people who don't block ads, will get a better experience.
Sadly I haven't had many teachers as described in this article in my university career.

I believe those teaching skills will eventually have to move to remote. The teachers who adapt fastest will be the most successful.

Any good examples for great remote teachers (beyond great presentation)?
The YAML spec has a lot of ambiguity in it which makes correctly parsing it surprisingly complicated.

YAML 1.1 (the most commonly implemented version) also lacks a great way of declaring sets (i.e. unordered collections of unique values).

I actually quite like most of the language a lot but the corner cases can be quite complicated.
No. I'm saying Tesla is successful because of Elon's hype. They are not "forgiving" his misgivings, they fully believe Elon will solve world hunger and invent FTL space travel. If you ask anyone who's bought into Tesla, they will tell you the "Auto Pilot on airplanes" lie, but they also believe Elon will deliver on Level 5 Autonomous driving. No cares about electric cars, they care about the guy's company who is using electric cars as a platform to save the world.
Is it just me or does this not work correctly in Firefox? The map loads, but no points are visible.

Seems to work as expected in Chrome.
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The aimless, constant dopamine hits are incredibly scary. Especially because people who tend towards using it are the ones who need it least. Especially in children.

I guarantee this: children who use TikTok (and YouTube to an extent, etc), will have issues in the future keeping attention on work, and other forms of important and difficult problems and introspection.

Our roommate who used it in our house is a dopamine addict. He never reads, is by far the laziest and sloppiest, he’s also unapologetic about it and unwilling to acknowledge it, sucks at conversation generally because he has nothing to add because all he does is game, YouTube, TikTok and work, and they all feed into each other. And worst - he’s just totally comfortable being the laggard. Everyone else is happier. They contribute more. They clean, they maintain. They do more and have more to talk about because of that.

I fear a generation of children raised on constant dopamine drip. I already see how hard it’s become for me to sit and read or sit and meditate and I try and avoid all that (Twitter is my vice). But I have a friend with a daughter who is addicted to YouTube/TikTok and I fear greatly for a generation raised like that.
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I work for a giant airline and used to work directly with the maintenance cost data. I only know about the 737 size, but if you want the plane to be able to fly, the plane has to go under a major overhaul every 2 years (plus a slew of other stuff). The cost of those are frequently in the 6-7 figures each depending on the year. If you don't need it to fly, I know there are restaurants made out of 737 shells that operate just fine so the cost should be feasible for a small business level of income.
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> Tesla goofed from the beginning by calling tech like "Autosteer" and "Traffic Assisted Cruise Control" under the moniker "Autopilot"

Aviation autopilots can do even less than that and yet they are still called "autopilot". Altitude hold? That's autopilot.

Also, "copilots" are generally fully capable of flying the aircraft and have the exact same capabilities.

If you are irked about the 'autopilot' moniker, then ditch aviation terminology entirely.
It is very obviously a great fit for any kind of mathematics.

Is students have the means to verify that they arrived at the correct answer, and the problems are easy to communicate, all that a teacher really needs to do is to guide the students search, and questions are a great way to do that.

But yeah, the Socratic Method isn't good at all for learning a language. You learn those by speaking, reading, and writing. Not by exploring ideas.

For history it's an interesting thing. A lot of teaching an empirical science is teaching how to ask questions.
> the Indian equivalent of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is "Kaun Banega Crorepati"

The North Indian equivalent is called so. Atleast, In TN we have our own version of the show, based on the same "Crore" denomination but not thus called.
This is much more about your opinion, and your axe to grind against google, rather than an intelligent discussion about the merits of software.

Personally, I really like JAX and XLA. These are two really powerful systems that work together to implement high performance machine learning and theoretical physics/biology. JAX can basically take derivatives of python functions (useful for training) and XLA optimizes the underlying compute graph to execute quickly on different physical platforms.
Considering a recent thread on HN regarding mixing up personal time and company duties I'd love to have the gist beforehand of what would be discussed inside chapters "Your 9-to-5 Is Not Enough" and "Side Projects" as the TOC falls short a tiny bit.
Local and state governments didn’t receive any federal aid so they needed the sales tax revenue from business.

https://medium.com/@philrocco/life-and-death-in-the-fiscal-v...
It is increasingly appears that the CCP government wants to confront every countries at the same time. First, I thought this was just the power struggle/grab between US-CCP economically. Then, it spread to the political issues like the South China sea claims which pisses off Viet Nam, The Philippines , Taiwan. The CCP even manages to engage India into its territorial issue resulted in sanction from Indian gov. In the north-east side, the CCP is irritating Japan to a point Japan is considering ramping up its army.

If the CCP wants conflicts at least it needs to find allies, right? So why then it tries to piss off just about every countries it's surrounded by?
> Tiktok, on the other hand, is playful, diverse, and interesting (at least my feed is). Once you start liking content, the feed completely changes from teenage lip sync videos or other teenager-oriented content into such a nice variety of content. I legitimately laugh my ass off or smile happily at so much of it. Other content teaches me about food, gardening, dancing, DIY, media theory, hiking alone, gender bending, etc. etc. The list goes on. Some of the videos delight me and others inform me.

How did you get there? I played with TikTok for a while, but never escaped the "teenagers making videos about other teenagers to pop music" ghetto, and it didn't seem like there was a way for me to tell the algorithm what I wanted without just hoping it surfaced something that I could like.
I think / hope that Elon Musk wanted everyone to be crystal clear about the end goal from the outset. Go on public record about the ambition in a way that will push himself and his employees. Use language to drive vision and outcome.
Engineering-driven-development, where the purpose of engineering is engineering and business problems take a backseat in favor of hiring lots of engineers, giving them toys to play with and having buzzwords to on your careers page. In this case, your objective is to fill up your stack with as many shiny things as possible regardless of whether they are necessary or appropriate to solve the business problem at hand.

This strongly correlates with bullshit VC-funded companies that wouldn't be profitable even on a good day so their only objective is to raise as much funding as possible (the business problem is secondary, because even solving the business problem perfectly wouldn't make them profitable) and chasing fads and buzzwords is sadly a valid strategy for raising capital.
It's not just for press, they directly make money selling "FSD" add-on for ever-increasing thousands of dollars which currently does a couple of gimmicks, but, trust him: will soon be driving you around effortlessly (and other passengers for $$ when you're not using it)
>I might be misremembering but I thought her appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast was cited by some as her making a fool of herself while trying to answer an honestly curious question by Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpurFfcSNfU

She called Tulsi Gabbard, an active Army National Guard major, an "Assad toadie" then had difficulty recalling what exactly a "toadie" is.
It is hardly just Tiktok policing content with an agenda. Twitter, Youtube, Reddit are particularly bad if you are conservative or have gender critical ideas.

Reddit recently banned a ton of subreddits that are simply critical of the idea that men can literally become women (they say it's to stop hate, but they leave up violent porn subs and other subs that hate women). Even subreddits like PCOS - a very serious condition that only females have - ran into trouble because they aren't inclusive enough with their language. Someone got suspended on twitter for saying only females get cervical cancer (this is apparently hate speech), Meghan Murphy got banned from Twitter for using the pronoun 'he' about Yaniv about a profile of his when he was presenting as a man. People get their videos taken down on youtube for "misgendering" people, or demonetized for not having the correct opinion.

American companies are absolutely policing content to their own political agenda.
This is why I can't judge Cuba's actions as a country. How do you effectively fix a country when the world's strongest economy and military is using biological weapons against you and your people?

What do you do when the massive amounts of disinformation campaigns remove any sort of international solidarity from you?
Lazy is a word that has a pejorative connotation. Nobody will reply "thank you" when they're told they are lazy.
In a lot of species the females are the one making noise, sloths and snow leopards as a couple of examples.
Of all things I would definitely not call it easy to read and write. It has super-weak (see this for examples: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks) dynamic typing, which coupled with requiring awful templating to get anything non-trivial done it has been the cause of many outages.

For real world Kubernetes needs to be addressed I'd argue we need Dhall or something with Dhall-like semantics and goals to have first class support.
> They have 1,600 journalists last year that were sent to 150 countries ... to gather facts around the world

Journalism is not our fact gathering apparatus. It is our sense making and relevance deciding apparatus based on those facts.

If we don't have good journalists providing those functions, we are left with the ersatz, AI based versions to decide what to pay attention to; twitter's, youtube's recommendation algorithms, google's ranking algorithms etc. None of which is good at saying "this is the most important thing we should pay attention right now as a society", "this is how you should approach this complex topic". Algorithms only serve one god and that is the god of engagement. But the amount of engagement they drive doesn't match their performance in affording us an ability to make sense of our world.

This is precisely what Weiss criticizes, that crucial human wisdom function is now subjugated by what those algorithms promote to be relevant; twitter being the worst offender. This makes us collectively foolish, and we see the results in our society with our inability to cohere and dialog as adults. Our collective intelligence approximates that of a tantrum throwing child, because our most used discourse engine that is twitter can only sustain that level of sophistication.
She is implying the NYT is making decisions based on how they think people will Tweet about them.
(By design.)
I didn't even know CoreOS was going away, looks like there is a Fedora CoreOS which seems essentially the same.

https://coreos.com/os/eol/
Spending 6 hours tracking down a `loadBalancerIp` that should have been a `loadBalancerIP` feels like a problem that shouldn't have happened.
I did run micro enterprise on Ebay for a bit. At some point I wanted to know how much money I'm actually making after all the fees, envelopes,stams,and etc. It took me quite some effort to arrive to a meaningful figure.This was a good lesson on how a small business could go sideways very quickly without not knowing the basics. These things are easy to do but not doing them can become very hard very quickly.
Large companies with very decentralized infrastructure (who also profit off selling clouds in many cases) promote zero-trust infrastructure models. This is predominantly based on what works for them (having hundreds of offices or large amounts of remote staff), and of course, a must to sell people on if you want to sell cloud services.

Zero-trust is not without merit, by any means. It is good to not assume there are no cracks in your walls, and you should indeed use as much internal security as possible wherever you can.

But you know what's really quite silly? Deciding to fill your moat in with dirt and knock over your castle wall because you think it's possible for someone to get in anyways.

You had better believe I'm going to use the latest authentication and encryption tools between machines that I can to ensure nobody can listen in from a stray network connection... and that I'm also going to put all of it behind a firewall.

Yeah, lock your doors inside your castle, but for heaven's sake, the moat and the castle walls still help. Defense-in-depth is a concept I swear everyone forgot when clouds became a thing.
There’s really no reason to get married unless you want to have kids or save on taxes. Every other reason will be more emotional then logical.
I thought Social Services are considered left-wing
> Isn't this a core feature of distributed systems? How can you be "consistent" if there's a network failure between some writer and the stream? How can you tell a network failure from a network delay? How can you tell a network delay from any other delay?

This is covered by the CAP theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem

The basic solution is: If you need consistency and there's too much network failure (or delay), you'll have to pause operations and wait until the network is fixed.

If there's only a bit of network failure (or delay), consistency stays possible using quorum protocols such as Paxos and Raft.

> how can you even talk about "up-to-date" data if the reader doesn't provide their "date" (ie, a logical timestamp)?

Implicit causality helps.

You're right that there may be no definite logical time, but it often doesn't matter.

When a program issues a read command, the logical timestamp is, implicitly, greater than the timestamp of all results previously received from the network that were inputs to produce the read command.

So the rest of the network "knows" something about the logical time of the read command. It's not an exact logical time, and if the timestamps aren't passed around, it might not even be an inequality. It's more like a logical property that relates dependent values.

If done right, that's enough to ensure strict consistency in observable results.

Unless the program issuing reads does wild things with value speculation. You may have heard how much things can go wrong with speculative execution...
Saving money doesn't put cash in your pocket. It will help keep the cash you have there, but is nothing but another cost item.
>Why is this?

I replied to the parent comment by accident, but:

That's the kind of content that survives the crucibles of Chinese censorship, "Creative and Joyful" opiate for the masses. This is an often overlooked aspect of Chinese social media / content filtering philosophy that has coalesced over time - block out the bad and divisive while elevating mundane joys. It's how the 50c operates, it floods the airwaves with small happy platitudes and avoids debates because engaging and challenging controversial topics (especially politics) is how toxicity is produced. It's counterproductive to even try. It's why TikTok's content policy is designed to protect the status quo, often misinterpreted as being pro-Beijing when it's broadly pro-establishment. The last thing Chinese social media platforms is designed to do is to start revolutions, encourage radicalization or sectarianism among impressionable audiences, things western social media platforms are dealing with now, and why they were blocked in China in the first place. That said, I guess it's possible for TikTok to be weaponized to sow division, but why would they need to when the whole of western media sphere is doing so already.

IMO the style has it's place, whole of China has no choice but to live under it, but in the west, a plurality of content management philosophies calibrated for different audiences is good. There's lessons in managing toxicity to learn from TikTok even if it gets banned.
Save yourselves, please!

A message from Hong Kong.
Cars are not an animal, nor are they energy-efficient compared to a condor. And Steve's dead.
You are not required to buy the "full self-driving" package when you buy a tesla.

It is abundantly clear what the current feature set is. From https://www.tesla.com/autopilot :

> Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its lane.

Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.
"markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."

TSLA proves this in spades, right now the stock is trading at more than double what Elon said was "overvalued" 10 weeks ago.
I did it for an university course this semester and it works surpringly well.

Especially if you have one specific topic and if viewers ask questions.

But yeah, it's a bit hard if streamers don't follow a red line and if they talk in a language that they don't command well.

YouTube is full of awesome content from Chinese and Indian people who talk very bad English, so they probably would have been done better with text.