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For most parts, we can't. At least not for grade school, less of a problem for college.

In France, they initially started to close schools, but for the second wave lockdown, they didn't. And now that cases are on the rise again and a third lockdown is being considered, the authorities are pretty clear: schools are the last thing that they will consider closing.

At school, kids are really taking the rules seriously, much more than adults: masks, hands washing, etc... no problem. Social distancing is a bit trickier but still, they do their best to do as they are told. One reason they are so docile: they really don't want another lockdown with school closure!

School is not just about learning stuff. It is a social hub for kids. Most of us here are probably lucky enough to have a good family, but for some, it is the only place where people actually care about them. It also teaches kids to be good citizens, respect authority, etc..., which is most important when parents don't do it.

That's not really answering the question, but my recommendation would be: try to get your kids to school for real, taking as many precautions as necessary. Kids are low risk for covid, are not that good spreaders and they won't get their lockdown time back. I think that small risk is worth it.
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I'm not sure its fair to jump straight to only viewing it through the lens of how it benefits that person. That assumes it was a completely self-centered act without acknowledging the possibility that they did it because they believed it was the right thing. I would argue that not making any statement would have been more political and less in line with their duty.

Yes, its possible there were political reasons but its also possible (and seems more likely to me) that the statement that was released was an attempt at applying a calm steady hand to remind members of the military of their duty and assure them and the general population that they won't put up with any anti constitutional behavior.

What happened last week was historical; it will be remembered long past the end of our lives. The capitol hasn't been violated like that since the war of 1812 when the British took the city. To me, it warranted a statement from them and I can't think of a better way that they could have handled it.
For those that don't know you can get a free account up to 20gb using referrals (check out ebay), 20gb is more than enough for me to sync my core work between my three main machines.
Really. Vacuum casing is not even close to sufficient to set heat absorption to zero because of thermal radiation.

And you can't just make the walls reflective once the cold object gets smaller than the wavelength of the radiation. The colder the object, the longer that wavelength.
I think the theory of Dropbox is that something like Paper derives its value by being deeply integrated into Dropbox.
I agree and I'd love to support Dropbox. But I think in order for me to consider that they'd need to have a somewhat competitive pricing model.

For example: I'm currently slowly running out of my free Google cloud storage that came with my Gmail account (15GB?). The next step for me is to upgrade to 100GB which will probably be enough for at least the next 10 years or so. With Google Drive that will cost me $1.99 per month which is more than reasonable. With Dropbox the next biggest package (after exceeding the free storage limit of 2GB) is to upgrade to a $11.99 plan for 2 TB (waaaaay more than I will ever need).

I'm willing to pay 5.99 for idealistic reasons but I'm not willing to pay more than that just for the sake of supporting a "smaller" non-FAANG company. They need to provide a better deal for something between 2 GB and 2 TB.
I think this is a bit like us diving into the ocean to observe algae. We don't do it because we're concerned about its imminent sentience and potential to "cause trouble". We just do it because we're curious; we want a better understanding of our world and universe.

We're likely to be approximately several tens of thousands orders of magnitude below the advancement of any supposed "visitors". Us being a threat is unlikely to be even a single virtual particle of thought in their intragalactic quantum brains.
Can I ask why you didn't just use email? If you wanted a technical challenge you could have setup your own email server. You could also run your own Teamspeak server for video conferencing.

This is the problem with matrix et al. They have to offer something that is leagues ahead of the current baseline, which I'm not convinced they are.
did you write this in 1980?
There are RISC-V cores that fit in about 1k luts. One could build a NoC of RISC-V using an XCS1000.
I think this should be mandatory. Restrict candidates to use a common website for campaigning/issues. Don't allow them to buy ads or campaign on other platforms (just in person). This would greatly reduce the billions wastefully spent every election cycle and make researching candidates more streamlined.
In the section on lambdas, there is discussion of the "Objective-C blocks" language extension alongside C++ lambdas. They missed that the extension is to C, not Objective-C.

I'm not suggesting they standardize Clang's language extension, but I think it's worth noting that a similar feature has actually been implemented for the C language itself, rather than a higher-level one.
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The individual app developers have to update their apps to use newer OpenSSL. I don't see this as a problem because the app's developers generally need to test their software with updated OpenSSL anyway, in order to make sure everything still works.
On the first graph, that last label makes me distrust the entire article.
Government subsidy / R&D spending would help with all of that. Less efficiently run? Ok, that extra money gives you more resources to try to make up for it. Take some extra moonshots. Give things longer runways.

Foreign companies hiring people away? Now you can pay more to compete.

Less well publicized? Buy yourself some attention just like US companies do.

You aren't trying to build the most immediately efficient company with the subsidies, but you're trying to keep local competition in the market, and be less at the whim of external companies.
Context is tech businesses funded by institutional capital. Statement is directionally correct in that context.
be very very careful, there is a aphorism:

"there are old mycologists and bold mycologists, but no old bold mycologists"
Yeah, you largely lose the "you can update this library in all your apps at once" benefit unfortunately.
Thanks for the great feedback, very valuable indeed! At the moment, deleting a record is not implemented yet, but it's somewhere near the top of the todo list :)
That's an example of the immune system working correctly. I commented on it yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25751600.

It would be a disaster if follow-up opinion pieces on inflammatory topics didn't get flagged. The front page would consist mostly of those, and they'd all turn into flamewars. The quieter, interesting submissions on unexpected topics—the lifeblood of HN—would get choked out, and HN would suffocate.

You may be under the misimpression that HN is a place for discussing the most important current events. It's not. The most important current events are far, far more important than almost everything on HN's front page. That's because HN is a different kind of site. Not every place on the internet needs to be the same, and I think there's room for one (at least!) which is dedicated to intellectual curiosity.
You should read this article about Target going to great lengths to figure out which customers were pregnant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
The problem is that revenue growth per se does not make a company valuable - or actually, it does while you can convince someone else to buy under the assumption that said growth will deliver competitive profits.

Selling to Wall Street is the "final sell": once it's done, you need to convince that profits grow, not just revenues.
I would say from my experience, having worked at a FAANG-like big software company for a long time, it's very easy to work longer hours because of the culture. You see people responding to emails after hours and during weekends, you see people going the extra mile to meet a deadline, the promotion process is regularly pushed and you're always trying to do more to move onto the next stage, etc.

It's all part of the corporate culture, so you don't even think of it as "workaholism", it's just normal. You live in a bubble and many of your friends work at the same company, so you can't even see a different perspective.

That said, it can be very lucrative over several years since they pay so well. I've since left the company, but have a good nest egg from my work there.
Twitter condemns social media shutdown
Airbus does have defense contracts.
Yes, but it doesn't support doing that whilst in a video call with them.
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Lower income tax.
Lower corporate tax.
Eliminate onerous labour laws.
Eliminate unnecessary regulation.
Improve English education.
Raise public sector tech salaries.
Stronger accounting and capital market regulations.
Stronger contract laws.
AlgoVPN is really so easy that it's hard for me to justify using anything else.
My favourite stat is that usage essentially doubled since 2019. Hearing that developers want to try Svelte is fairly common now but adoption is what drives an ecosystem of plugins/libraries, educational content and jobs.
It's quite common in the cloud industry to trade hardware for shorter development cycle these days too. I think that's because there is still very high growth in the sector and companies all want to be the first offering feature X.
As cloud services become more mature I expect people will be more cost sensitive. Though when that will happen I cannot say.
It has to do with size. On one end of the spectrum, there is unions which represent just a single company. On the other end of the spectrum there are governments that represent the consumers (and workers in theory) of an entire country.

In the middle between the two extremes tend to be where the local maxima is. The ideal setup is industry wide governmental organizations and industry wide unions, so there is a fast food union that regulates the price all fast food companies pay their workers, an industry minimum wage instead of a global minimum wage. This is how Switzerland does it, and it works quite well. This way different industries get tailored results for their workers and businesses that works best for them. Likewise, because all companies have to follow these regulations, new non-union companies can't swoop in and undercut the older unionized companies running them out of business, which is what happened in the US and one of the reasons we have so few unions today.

In this ideal setup there is industry wide governments representing consumers, so there is a fast food government that works on food regulations for customers. These governments have a larger federal government that passes guidelines smaller governments can follow. So eg, there is a country wide FDA that sets guidelines, and each kind of smaller government can choose to follow it or modify it as necessary to meet their specific situation.

However, for this to work, customers exclusively need to be represented in the government, not businesses. Likewise, for this to work unions need to be represented by just the workers.

There has to be a way to balance the demands of the workers vs the demands of the customers vs the demands of the businesses. If business fail over this, it's not handled well, so there needs to be some sort of pro business oversight as well (usually handled by a court system of some sort, but it doesn't have to be handled this way). For this to work properly there has to be severe limits and regulations on the power of unions and governmental organizations. Too much power to unions and goverments and businesses are restricted, which can be harmful to the larger economic economy, similar to how fishermen are limited in how many fish they can catch to not squash the ecosystem. Because of this there needs to be a government for businesses, eg minimum profit margin laws and what not. Workers and consumers can not milk the cow to its death, it needs to be healthy and happy too, so much so others are inspired to create a business.

This kind of system does exist today, in part in many European countries. Switzerland and Nordic countries are the closest. The only difference is governments are based on party, and those larger governments have strong power over smaller industry regulators. If the larger government has too much power over industry regulators it opens the door for corruption. There needs to be a balance of power to hit a local maxima.
As someone who currently has a pretty emotionally stable life and can totally relate to how you feel right now, I think the "emotionally stable" part is what prevents you from relating to the parent comment.

Back when I had a lot of emotionally turbulent events happening in my life, I was in the same boat as the parent comment you are replying to. Things in life going extremely sideways and leaving me heartbroken/depressed were what pushed me to that same kind of workaholism described above. Every single significant side project I wrote was during some awful-feeling events happening in my life. Those were also the times when I spent the least time doing "fun" things (e.g., videogames), because I just didn't feel like it.

That drive for me had nothing to do with the actual desire to make money or have career advancement, it was just a mirage. In fact, I would say I have more of the actual desire to make more money and advance in career when I am in "good times", but the drive isn't quite there. But when the "bad times" come, I have no actual desire for money/career advancement. I do however get that insane intrinsic drive to just get away from all the "bad things" in life at that time by diving deep into working/studying/etc. It wasn't about money, it was about doing something productive, because most of that work (at least for me) was just side projects that I didn't get paid a dime for, and neither was I expecting or cared to get paid for it.
What if a human being, but it's been murdered then cut into pieces by a bonesaw?
covid-19 is not 5 times deadlier than the flu. It is about twice.
The IFR sits at ca 0.19. Flu is about 0.1.

Covid scare-mongers using inaccurate and outright false data to cause panic, terror and so much confusion that the public is left to choose what to ignore and what to follow, are causing much more damage than covid deniers are.
The fear of going to the hospital among people with other ailments come to mind.
There was an article in Nature the other day on the 300% increase in stillbirths in UK due to lack of in-person pre natal care. Another delightful side effects of the extreme fear propaganda.

No one listened to the idiot deniers anyway. They never were the problem.

Source:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13423.
That's not exactly the same. I might be fine with installing Python packages with pip into my home directory, just not /usr.
You can still modify them though. It's just, uh, annoying.
If its that open-and-shut, why hasn't he been arrested?
> if they want to win, they will try

Why would someone not want to win?
in functional, competitive markets, you'd have a range of segmentation between price competition and quality competition (i.e., various differentiation strategies for diverse segments, not just one luxury segment). our markets are far from functional and competitive however, and we've let them consolidate in scope, power, and regulatory capture for far too long.
This is especially annoying when getting to the lower levels of programming. I'm maintaining a Rust client for SQL Server, and in recent OS X versions Apple decided with their secure framework to not support the measly TLS certificates of SQL Server (Azure, Docker). Now I have a ticket with no real help.

How I finally solved this is I got a Mac Mini from cloud, I could with a lots of trouble finally start docker in it (needed a desktop to click some icons) and test my code. This meant statically linking OpenSSL instead, which is not the greatest from a security point of view.

All of this took six months, and it was really hard to get Mac users to commit anything. It was ridiculously annoying to write and test without buying an Apple computer.

After this experience I just don't want to support any of their products anymore. Too much time wasted.
Protesting is a fundamental human right. Make it peaceful
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steve jobs said that these are features not products and well.... he hasn't proven wrong yet imo.
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Indeed it is far from straightforward that merely doing a video call suffices to check the keys.

Signal is famously using a special protocol for secure key sharing through the server, which I have not studied.

But as said by another comment, there is no way around verifying explicitly the public key using an independent channel.
> Nobody tells an athlete they "train too much"

Given that the side-effects of that are even worse than other over-work, fairly sure that happens.

> Or a researcher that they "research too much"

Of course they get told that they work too much, or don't let go of work enough. Common stereotype actually.
They should do hosting for conservatives :)
Bottom line: Dropbox has 0 relevance for gen Z users, we all use Wetransfer for sharing, iCloud or Google Drive for storing

https://imgur.com/a/6gtowek

It peaked in 2012 when the millennials were in college, but it hasn't been cool for the past 5 years now. I never use dropbox ever again after they got rid of Carousel and Mailbox because I frankly don't trust them with my files
Neither is true. Android in the stock configuration is much the same, and the hardware is worse.
I've tried to be transparent on another site by explaining why I downvoted a comment, but the aggravation of being downvoted in retaliation, having to engage in back-and-forth with the commenter defending themselves, and being stalked and downvoted consistently afterwards made it frankly not worth it.

This is a noble goal, and might work on StackOverflow, but I doubt it will get much traction.
Yeh true but as an other example Dropbox missed out on the privacy and end to end encryption market.
Processing power has cheapened exponentially for the last 50 years (Moore's law). I am skeptical that a continuation of this trend will drive a fall in wages.

In my own experience performance optimization is an important but infrequent part of my job. There are other skills an elite programmer brings to the table like the ability to build a mental model of a complex system and reason about it. If downward pressure on wages occurs I think it will be for another reason.
What new developer already has a reputation score?

You absolutely have to pay for an extended validation code signing certificate, or your installer will be blocked by default.

Third parties charge more for that code signing certificate than Apple does for a developer account.
I used to work at a place where "going above and beyond" was celebrated.

Our products were deployed on premises. The support model was that the on-site team would exhaust their ability to troubleshoot and then send you a P0 email or Slack message, and then it was you against the machine, at any and all hours, until the problem was solved.

On Mondays before lunch we'd all pile into the open space to clap as the product lead delivered kudos like, "Oh, and thanks to Will for helping Deployment Foo fix their database corruption on Mother's Day!"

But now I'm not there anymore and their stock is making me money. Grind, little drones, grind, grind!
'GAFAM' is a popular term in some places.
You would have to ask them. I have said repeatedly that this is well-documented over time and on the record. It's actually pretty basic search engine usage given that I cited some specific phrases to search for.

The other basis is expressed in the companies in which they choose to invest.
This looks really awesome. It's been a longstanding desire of mine to build a custom laptop with one of these powerful small SOCs (originally thought of something like the lattepanda, which is similar to an Intel macbook air, but as a slightly bigger tan pi soc).

Would be super awesome to do it with riscv
Can you clarify which graph and which label? The first graph I see is the number of new cases in Ireland over the past year, and I don't see any labels that seem suspicious.
China is probably most stable system throughout written history, practicing roughly same government/legal system and its approach to relation between government and individual person for the past two millennia.

Sure, if you ignore the history of China's Imperial dynasties, Mongolian rule, British rule, Japanese rule, and Mao/Early CCP. But other then all of these different governments and legal systems, Chinese has had the same government and legal system.

In western civilizations monarchy powers slowly eroded and had to either give concessions or be overthrown in a violent revolt. This never happened in China.

China overthrew its monarchy in 1911. Hundreds of thousands died. Since then China has had multiple violent revolutions resulting in the death of millions, though none of them were against the monarchy.
I think that's absolutely the key, honestly and it's why I'm a fan of AP/accelerated courses where at all possible. I also think ability grouping is great as you can work with students of lower ability without having to worry about those with higher ability being bored. I think that you need contact with those who aren't self-motivated, even if that's live classes they have to attend, as then they know there's accountability. But I do think that a good self-motivated learner, who knows how to learn would greatly benefit from just reading texts/watching quality videos (while taking notes) and having a teacher to basically ask questions to when needed.

Sadly, I'm not sure how much of the grouping I'd like to see is legal. I know my school got in trouble for offering 'Core' classes which were basically remedial education classes in core content areas (So you'd have 'accelerated algebra 2', 'algebra 2' and 'core algebra 2'), which worked as you could find ways to focus on real-life examples for those students, but gave rise to a host of other issues. But, overall, I see the only real way to do online learning entirely is through group segregation, at least at the secondary level. Hearing some of our AP teachers complain, it'd almost need to be a double split -- one on ability and one on motivation.

Of course, a lot of the latter, in my opinion, stems from the culture of the area. Sadly I'm in a rural area where well-paying jobs used to be plentiful right out of high school (or even without a degree!) and so a very anti-intellectual culture developed. Sadly, even though those jobs aren't present, the culture stays as most who have other values move out and leave. Me and a few of my colleagues (all from the area) are exceptions, but I know several of us would leave if we could. So you're also fighting a cultural battle on top of all the other stuff.
What "last label" are you referring to?
I have some friends there who have been job hunting recently, I think a lot of people could see the writing on the wall.