skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Graham and I haven't been in high school for a loooong time.

My suspicion is that things have changed somewhat. That the youth are somewhat more tolerant and mature than they were back in my day. The kids I meet seem way ahead of where I was in high school.

Like in the movie 21 jump street, where 2 cops go undecover at a school, jock and unpopular kid. Only the jock learns his ways are no longer 'cool'.
In the United States 50k people die from the flu per year. 400k people die from cigarettes per year. 70k die from diabetes per year. 40k die from car crashes per year (2M injuries)
>Almost universally they suffer no long term complications and the most unpleasant part of the sickness is being confined to their home for a week and a half.

Citation please.

As a relatively young person suffering from the long-term consequences of this disease, I am infuriated whenever anyone says something so false.
dokieli was mentioned on here[1] that appears to do this. Their JS[2] is a 1.7MB payload though

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24676845

[2] https://dokie.li/scripts/dokieli.js
This virus cannot be eradicated. You'd have to force everyone on the planet to isolate for 2 weeks. Simply impossible.
> What happens if the KC-135 misses the rendezvous? What if the charging port fails to work for some reason?

The same thing that happens today with combustion aircraft: the crew makes an emergency landing if they can, or bails out and waits for a Seahawk to pick them up.

This actually happens with fuel-driven aircraft regularly today.
It's not un-recyclable, it's hard to move around and doesn't save a lot of energy compared to new raw materials.
For what it is worth, Boom is claiming that their jets will be carbon neutral.
Because of "composability", even if the highly coupled functions will likely never be reused.

And leaky "abstractions" that create more problems than they solve but look cooler than doing things the straightforward way.
Hi Divya! Thanks for reading!!
thanks, I will totally check her out!
I can parse the meaning fluently. I'd say I noticed English becoming its own entity (that is, I stopped translating a high speeds between my native language and English) a few years ago, although some days are better than others.
I know Myanmar is one country where basically everyone has just one name, but there are probably others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_names
I am hoping that the ones that remain can charge a sustainable price for their product when dinging out becomes a thing again. Restaurants are notoriously bad for working conditions and wages. May be they can charge enough to pay their workers better.
Yup glass and metal only. Water tastes terrible out of anything else. Beer too.
Time to get some Saudi investment into the NYC restaurant industry and kill two 
journalists
 birds with one stone!
>You seem to be mixing up cause and effect. The reason COVID hasn't been so bad is because of all the special preventative measures.

How does this square up with the fact that places without any lockdowns, like Sweden and South Dakota, still have fewer deaths per capita than places like New York, Peru, Belgium and Spain?

A recent study found no correlation between lockdowns and reduced fatality; social distancing is the thing that has an effect: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/social-distancing-more-imp....

“We found that an early implementation of social distancing is the most significant factor, with a very high correlation to the mortality rate,” said the researchers. “Countries that responded quickly with social distancing measures – not necessarily with a tight lockdown – ultimately emerged from the first outbreak with better results. In contrast, no correlation was found between mortality data and the severity and/or length of the lockdown. Even in Sweden, a country that never imposed a lockdown, we can see that the early decrease in mobility, starting in March, was manifested in the mortality rate. Our study is based purely on observations and does not relate to the premises of any existing epidemiological model. We show that the spread of the pandemic can be prevented by quickly implementing basic measures of social distancing – without a rigorous lockdown.”
Excellent Work There! Its greatly helpful. I have shared this with my friends. You should consider allowing user to upload any epub/pdf.
That’s honestly one of the most interesting parts of nuclear for me, along with large scale renewables (eg hydro): when you can break the energy = CO2 connection by using energy sources that don’t release extra CO2 per kWh, a lot of the math starts to change. Things that didn’t help before (washing glass bottles with water heated by natural gas) actually become a net benefit. Likewise making the glass in the first place.
I suppose my experience has been different! Everyone at work is expected to respond to any e-mail in 15 minutes at most (1 hour on weekends), I have no kids and honestly haven't seen a single one in zoom calls (I hear this one person's dogs barking a lot if they're in the meeting, though), calls are airtight and password protected, and most of my contacts have pretty good internet
For federal regulatory purposes the value of a human life is about $10M.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/07/17/870483369/your...
1. Someone is deliberately breaking the suspensions of otherwise intact Teslas.

2. Someone has observed a large number of otherwise undamaged Teslas with this peculiar failure and is documenting it.

Which one of those is more likely...? If you search for "suspension failure" at teslamotorsclub.com there are a surprisingly large number of results too.
Facebook will ban US political ads indefinitely after election
I have to have a counterpoint:

One of my favorite coffee places in Manhattan closed this summer. I was bummed. Their lease was up for renewal, and it didn't make sense for the owner to renew it as all of the office worker traffic was gone.

Two months later, there is a new coffee place at that spot. The guys (different owners) just got a great deal on the lease for the first two years, and they will just need to make employee expenses. One of the baristas, was actually the same barista from the previous coffee place.

so, many places will close, and new restaurants will eventually open, hopefully with better/cheaper leases, which in Manhattan is a major expense, and kinda crazy compared to other cities.

I think a lot of the businesses that depended on office workers are going to close. While the ones that are in more residential areas, with available outdoor seating, will fare a bit better.
It's economy also fell more than its neighbors
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-sweden-gdp-falls...
Seattle checking in.

Same.
I'd say the main difference for me is that I have no problem whatsoever understanding movies in my native language. I love watching movies and it is quite frustrating for me not being able to get the dialogue as clearly as I get it in my native language.
I've been lied to again?

Hopefully people can find good stuff to do with the heaps of shite we've already created.

Theres a guy in the UK that got started making skateboards out of this plastic, and showing people how to do it. Looks like they branched out. https://preciousplastic.com/

Some other companies jumping on the wagon train too. https://wasteboards.com/about/

This could just be more greenwashing, but it's inspiring.
I’ll take that bet. We’ll come in 20 years to this comment :).
I'm inclined to say "no", unless you're using a renewable energy source that would otherwise go unused. So excess locally produced power that can't be sold to the grid, essentially.

Power markets are very liquid, so I tend to favour calculating your personal footprint based on the average co2 output of the grid, not the particular energy production method you've chosen. This makes it clear that even if you're paying for wind power, it's still better not to waste electricity.
Since we(comments and PG) are all peddling anecdotes..

IME, the dynamics in Indian schools, are polar opposite to the ones described here. "Nerds" tend to do well in both academics and extracurriculars. And in the majority case can also be referred to simultaneously as "Jocks". The separation between "nerds" and "jocks" into two ends of a (lunch table) spectrum is the biggest culture shock to me. The words that separate "nerds" and "jocks" don't exist in my native language's vocabulary even.

For the longest time, I believed that intelligence is a broadly applicable trait, that translates well to rapid spatial reasoning(sports), abstract reasoning(academics) and emotional awareness(social). I haven't seen even a single exception to the rule while going through the Indian school system.

While there is some truth to it. IMHO, it has to do with cultural ideals that "adults" adhere to. Academic achievement isn't celebrated culturally in US (relatively speaking).

I say that while also simultaneously acknowledging that the current Indian definition of academic achievement is disastrously narrow and breeds a culture of arrogance and intellectual insecurity.
Aluminum seems like a great material for containers. It's easily melted and reused and you can coat the inside with a thin polymer to hold corrosive liquids like Coke.

Any reason we don't use aluminum containers outside the beverage industry?
I don’t know. I haven’t had a single good take out or delivery meal, beyond food types that were generally deliverable pre-COVID. Delivered sushi? It’s rubber. A crisp pan seared chicken breast? Also rubber. Don’t even waste your time with a steak. Once we get through this pandemic the restaurant industry will sky rocket.
Not liking a situation doesn't automatically push it into the realm of a sunk cost fallacy.
The state of the US economy, and society, is so incredibly frightening to me because we seem to no longer have a collective, shared experience and goals.

On one hand, people like me in the tech industry are doing fine, or better than fine. My job is secure and my skills are in high demand. On the other hand, I have friends who are highly skilled artists (musicians and dancers) who are going through the worst depression in a lifetime. Many trained intensively since early childhood, managed to succeed in a career where very few make it, but now are considering leaving that career, because they need to eat. It's beyond heartbreaking, and because of our general isolation right now I don't see us doing much (us as both a society and through government) to support these people right now. Yes, things will eventually improve, but in the meantime we are going to lose a generation of talent.
> It does! All the TLS/handshake data is transferred in CRYPTO frames (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-30#sec...). CRYPTO frames are more or less the same as STREAM frames (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-30#sec...). They both represent an ordered reliable byte stream - just in different namespaces.

OK fair enough.

> The Quic implementation has now the opportunity to merge everything into a single Quic "packet", and even a single Quic "frame", and send everything together. If those things were on top of datagrams, it might need to send the whole datagram again?

QUIC doesn't resend datagrams; QUIC itself just uses datagram ACKs for congestion control. But if it notifies the next higher layer about ACKs, that layer is free to coalesce on retry, just like normal streaming.

> There are also other scenarios: E.g. the stream getting reset while transmission is in progress. If that happens none of those data chunks will ever have to be retransmitted. I feel like having an additional layer here will make this harder and less efficient.

STREAM_RESET would be entirely internal to the streaming layer, right? Again, the datagram layer doesn't re-transmit so no need to worry about that.
Just started listening. Thank you for the recommendation.
Yes, it does. Unless its defenders have shown good reasons as to why the points raised by the satirists are inapplicable. Which they haven't.

The assignation of "quality" in people is a corrupt and folkloric reflection of the preferences of those in power, and that phenomenon is becoming ever more pronounced as industries consolidate.
It's really not that simple. The economy isn't a force of nature that will inevitably return - sometimes, a dead economy stays dead and a formerly rich region becomes poor.
That's the value of an average life. For public health issues, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year is often used instead (e.g. by the NHS).
Agreed - weird stuff.

if these actually do go public
> In the United States 50k people die from the flu per year. 400k people die from cigarettes per year. 70k die from diabetes per year. 40k die from car crashes per year (2M injuries)

right, so we shouldn't add to that and paralyze hospitals to not be able to deal with those 2 million injuries.

again, almost every country in the world understood this logic and did a similar or holistic solution. not doing it would not be a holistic solution for the United States
That’s weird. In Ontario we just temporarily shut off the fee for single use bags and used them while things were bad.
10,000 children per month are starving to death due to second and third order effects of the lockdowns.

https://www.rt.com/news/496482-study-covid-hunger-children-l...

The median life-span of an American is 78. The median age of death from Covid is 82. The more rational statistic is life-years lost than # of deaths. If a toddler dies, they have lost 70+ years of life. If an 80 year old dies, they might have lost just a couple years of life. Economic hardships for young adults will reduce their lifespans by several years, not counting drug and alcohol addiction, suicide, etc.

If I could trade a few of my years at 80+ to ensure a better quality of life for my child I would take that in a second. Practically every parent would.

The right path forward is to take appropriate precautions to protect the vulnerable while everyone else goes back to work. We may still have a lot to learn, but we know so much more about this disease than we did when we took "14 days to slow the spread." It's time to open up.
The poster you are replying to is leaving out the major parts as to why Sydney's strategy is working.

Borders (local+international) were closed before there was a major influx of infected persons.

We've had hotel quarantine for ~all entries into the state.

The level of infections has been low enough that contact tracing was never overwhelmed.

The level of testing has generally been very high where outbreaks occurred.

The level of compliance with stay at home/limit travel has generally been pretty good.

And a a major factor is that we've been very lucky.

Still, there's been a lot of businesses severely impacted. Those that were already on the edge and either unable or unwilling to adapt, or were not able to make their new processes profitable have gone under.

e:

Also, lets not forget that Victoria (Melbourne) had a broadly similar situation. They were unlucky in that their hotel quarantine process was poorly managed and there wasn't a strict adherance to quarantine protocols. This was a major trigger for their massive spike.

Anyone thinking this couldn't happen here in NSW (Sydney) is fooling themselves.
This is the original press release including video clip https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2020/09/chemist-uses-co2-to-conv...
The nice thing about comprehensions is that, depending upon how one looks at them, they can be declaratively defined yet iteratively implemented.
I would not support members of the WBC losing their jobs even if they protest (legally) with vulgarities outside of their jobs. They are indeed protected under their religious class. If this former Citi employee can successfully argue before a court that his views are the result of a sincere religious belief then I believe he should get his job back.

Seems a bit weird that I would support the WBC not losing their jobs but not the former Citi employee right? Well, as a mature adult I recognize that there are limits to freedom of association. The limits are imperfect, but are still much better than the alternative of not having them. Even if I want the WBC to lose their jobs I know I shouldn't support that because they have the right to their sincerely held religious beliefs.

Just as how the limits OF freedom of association are imperfect (and force us to tolerate awful people) so too are the limits ON freedom of association imperfect (and will ensnare less than guilty people). We go through a trial every time we meet with or interact with a person. They judge us on our facial expression, the way we carry ourselves, the way we speak, and what we say. You could be the perfect candidate for a job but if they don't like your resting face your application can be thrown out.

Too many people have grown too comfortable venting on the internet expecting there will never be consequences for their posts. So comfortable in fact that if anyone dare say they don't want to work with you or interact with you there are accusations of persecution and analogies of persecutions past (or at least a slippery slope fallacy argument that it is coming).
Don’t have depression but have some stress and tension. Tried this and it was very helpful! Did feel like it released some areas physically, while dwelling on and letting go past stresses.
You are right that the 60% of restaurants that will fail are likely the ones that were on the edge anyway, however, this is a different distinction.

I think the more important distinction is that this is 60% of ALL restaurants, not 60% of the 10% of new restaurants (or 6% of restaurants).

(I made up the 10%, but I'm sure it is small.)
We’re in agreement that the way to solve the problem of overconsumption is to raise the cost of consuming by increasing taxes on fossil fuels.

Problem is any politician that proposes it will get voted out because people want to consume. So until a a large majority of people are willing to forgo the type of life desired based on what people are used to and currently enjoying, it seems impossible to impose the requisite level of taxation.
You can’t recycle pizza boxes where you are? It’s corrugated cardboard right? That stuff recycles well I thought. They just slurry it down to a mash and reconstitute paper or whatever.
More informative for people interested in the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDJJVoTx7s
I mean, why don't we all just live in our bedrooms forever? We can order everything we need from Amazon, order our groceries and meals online, and zoom with our coworkers. Who needs physical human contact?
The problem is the plastic that doesn't make it landfill and is instead in the ocean/rest of the environment
> maximizing both productivity and income equality
> highest tax rates to rich and poor and the lowest to middle-income workers

This somewhat obviously achieves both goals by encouraging productivity at the bottom and applying redistribution from the top.

But... real tax systems are designed to maximize revenue, just like any business.
Well, give me another strategy in the case that re-circulation is possible. We can wait for a vaccine, which sometimes (highly variable!) is better than getting the bug itself, but that's all I can think of.
I think federation is still a half-measure. Instead of one big AOL, you have several smaller AOLs who talk to each other.

The system I have in mind would allow you to use the same identity seamlessly across any instances you come across, port the content while retaining threading and identifiers, and clone an existing instance within minutes.

You could import the entire moderator action tree from the old instance or leave it behind.

And so on.
Its already sequestered as oil just leave it in the ground. Given how little of the plastic can be recycled and it doesn't really decompose and pollutes the water and our food we tends to burn it for energy to get rid of it.
Imagine he picks one of the following ways:

1) picks randomly and opens the door, or
2) picks randomly and then, if that door has a car, switches.

His application of knowledge is converting those cases that would have been thrown away in case 1 into victories for "switch".

The counts bear this out. If you simulate it, 1/3 of all games go to 'stick' regardless. Either 1/3 or 2/3 go to 'switch', and either 1/3 or 0/3 (respectively) end up with Monty revealing the car.
> The technology works by adding the compound diamine to saltwater. The type of diamine used is CO2-responsive, meaning that the substance’s behaviour can be controlled when it comes into contact with CO2. The diamine binds with the added CO2 and thereafter acts as a sponge to absorb the salt, which can then be separated. The entire process takes 1-10 minutes. Once the CO2 is removed, the salt is released again – allowing for the chemicals to be reused for several more rounds of desalination.

This article leaves a lot to be desired.

There is no compound called "diamine." Diamines are a class of compounds. Without knowing which one is being used, there's not much of a discussion to be had. We can say nothing about practicality or environmental impact, not to mention a host of other issues.

What may be happening here is the formation of a dicarboxamide, which then does something. That carboxamide formation is not likely to be reversible at room temperature.

The article has no link to the primary paper, where issues like this could readily be addressed, and there is absolutely no excuse to ever neglect to do so in 2020.
> the current prevalent C/C++ ABI is not powerful enough

Can complex binary interfaces be useful though?

People still write software in C. Not because it's a particularly good language but because there is a simple binary interface: symbols and calling conventions. Libraries built from this code can be used from virtually every other language. People actually rewrite stuff in C just to obtain this property.

Complex binary interfaces restrict software reusability. If it's too complex, it will be extremely difficult to build and maintain the links between programs.

Modern languages approach this problem by getting rid of the links. All code and interfaces are visible to the compiler, the resulting binary image is a perfectly optimized version of the whole program and nobody cares about the machinery the compiler outputs. Nothing else can interface with these programs though... I don't see people calling Rust functions from Python without using the C ABI.
> Also, some of this speed isn't that the SSD components are necessarily that much faster, but rather that they're soldered directly onto the main board and located closely to the components that will use them. Modular, detachable storage located farther from the CPU is just gonna be slower, period.

Completely wrong. They're using PCIe 4.0 for the onboard SSD, and PCIe 4.0 for the aftermarket SSD slot. There's no performance penalty for going with removable storage here. We're not talking about a high-speed DRAM interface where shorter traces without the insertion loss of a connector really does help reach higher clock speeds (other things being equal).
short answer: aluminum is cheap, but plastic is cheaper.