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> homeschooling alienates from society, and you become an Other, in your own eyes and the eyes of others

As someone who was homeschooled, and would quite happily at least try to homeschool my own children in the future, I do agree with this statement.

Nonetheless, I don't necessarily see it as a strict negative. Yes, initially after finishing my secondary education there were some difficulties with integrating specifically with my peer group (but not with other age groups). This took at least a couple of years to overcome to a sufficient level that I "passed" as a normal person. A lot of this was not social ability per se, but more to do with using the right vernacular, dressing to match my peers better, and avoiding certain social faux pas.

However, positively as an "Other", I am advantaged in some ways.

1) I fit in better with other "Others", like immigrants and their children, racial minorities, odd and strange people, and so on. Because I was/am one, they are "my people", even if I can easily pass as not-Other.

2) Learning to assimilate means that I can easily assimilate into different cultural contexts more easily than those who never had to. I can fit in with a wider group of cultural contexts and adjust quickly and easily.

3) I have a different perspective on some aspects of society that is not necessarily better or worse, just different.

When you add that up to the other benefits of homeschooling, I'm not sure the negatives come near to discouraging homeschooling. However, my experience is not everyone's experience, and I understand that some people remain stuck as Other and suffer for it. I also can't say it felt particularly good to be Other and unable to pass as normal, in the interim. In the long term, I don't know that it mattered that much.

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I feel compelled to note that the common idealisation of being a maverick, odd-ball, elite hacker on the edges of society and so on that is common enough in tech circles is not necessarily an advantage or something I am advocating for. There's nothing wrong with being ordinary, and being unusual often or typically works against you. I wouldn't homeschool my children to make them unusual, and I don't think we should glorify weirdness as superior. I don't consider my experience as being an odd-ball on society as something that makes me superior; if anything, it was for a time an inferiority to be overcome.
Ask HN: Can you go down two rabbit holes at the same time?
or how good are you at multitasking? It it possible to train oneself to be better at multitasking?
> Supersonic flight has much less overlap with subsonic flight than you might think.

And every supersonic aircraft also has to fly subsonic. So you really need two sets of software in a supersonic aircraft. Or more accurately three, because the transonic regime is weird enough to be its own thing.
as a layman when it comes to robots (or really anything, if I'm honest) this is amazing.
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Nah what happens is then people start trusting people who say "don't trust the experts, here's my theory though" and says whatever it takes to get clicks to their YouTube channel.
"This is the most shocking article I have ever read in my life."

Dare we inquire how long you have lived. :)

But seriously, I am not sure that the scientific community, nor all national governments, have reached a clear consensus on gain of function research. It is still a developing issue. Welcome to be corrected on that. Such research could potentially help to prevent pandemics as well as accidentally start them. The idea that scientists in the US might have been working with scientists in other countries, including China, on GoF research is not shocking to me. Here is a paper from 2016 on the ethics of GoF research:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4996883/

Perhaps the old saying about mistakingly attributing malice to incompetence applies here.

As for the cover-up, it is difficult to imagine that David Baltimore is wrong. I used a textbook he co-authored when I was in school; he is one of the pioneers of the biotech industry. It seems unlikely this was not created in a lab. Then again, it is probably easier to prove someone in a lab made a mistake than to prove soemthing exists in nature.
What falls under high-paying, easy, and stable?
This has been repeatedly discussed for several years now. There's some reality to both "sides."

On the one hand, it does seem clear that, as is often the case, initial research and observation was flawed and incomplete, and parts of it got taken up into the general cultural consciousness where it was then hard to correct or modify them.

On the other hand, many of the people eager to remind everyone of this seem to have ulterior motives. It is either stated or heavily implied that this correction to the original research means instinctive hierarchies aren't a thing, in either animals or humans, which is absurd.

Humans need, intuit, and automatically fall into social hierarchies based on power. Power comes from a complex variety of sources: looks, money, family, physical fitness, intelligence and so on. People respond to power, on an instinctive level. This response can (and should) be tempered to some degree, as should all instincts, but it can't be engineered away.

Thus, the concept of "The Alpha" is true in the sense that people understand and respond to power. They also understand and respond to compassion, duty, and a number of other factors, but social hierarchies based on power are a core part of human psychology, and always will be.

Now, does all this justify people being "jerks?" Depends on what you mean by "jerk." On the one hand, the cultural zeitgeist of the moment is almost certainly too far on the side of allowing and accepting people to be soft and weak. On the other hand, you have to be careful how you define "Power." Being overly egotistical, narcissistic and violent, not having control of yourself, not having proper patience etc are also forms of weakness. As with most things in life, excellence is a matter of finding the perfect point of balance.
True justice should include long prison sentences.
The issue is you'll have to ask for credit card numbers in order to prevent abuse, so you're not really giving anything away. I would still evaluate anything you call free as I would any other product. Plus integrating into my workflow, pitching it to my manager, these things have a real cost.

I'd actually argue you shouldn't offer anything for free, but instead charge whatever makes sense factoring in you're going to have to support customers even if it was a free product. For example if your offering website uptime monitoring, but it's not accurate that can cause a real cost to me
I'm not sure what your point is here. That the Wuhan lab shouldn't be called out for likely causing a global pandemic? It's being done in a very fair and non-aggressive manner. I don't really see what other approach could be said to take into account this stereotype more.
They can’t legally retroactively change the license on existing content though - and as soon as they change their EULA to say “You irrevocably assign copyright on your postings to us” then they’ll lose their thought-leader users - and the rest tumbles.
Best answer. Just be rich. Or, better yet, don't be poor.
Trump's use of the term "the China virus" was clearly, absolutely, unambiguously to blame China for the virus/pandemic.

By the time the variants started to emerge, the virus' biological structure and mechanism was sufficiently well understood that seeking to blame any particular locale for the emergence of a variant was seen to be pointless.

About pointless as blaming China for the virus itself appeared to be at the time, even if that may no longer be the case.
Why does anybody get offended? Life is too short. We're just dumb apes and we make mistakes.

We'll all be dead before we know it.
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> With one huge exception: self parallel-parking.

I agree. It's really nice to have the radar say "Yes, that space is big enough." and then put the car into it.
If only there were some facility for searching out past web postings. Might have saved some embarrassment.
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 A gravamen of the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site claim is that it's not aligned like others in the coronaviruses you cite.
Long tail ... you can never solve all the absurd cases.
I’m in full agreement. My comment was to show just how much investment was required and how injurious it was early on.

I’m saying Zuck / FB could not stomach it at the time.
SO is already cloned - every few months another new SO content farm comes along and clogs up the Google search results.
It's a story. Mature people can act smartly and morally even when they are annoyed

If I had to pick a "moral" of that fable, it's to never let your guard down, no matter what.
Uh, it didn't originate in Spain. From Wikipedia:

> "The pandemic is conventionally marked as having begun on 4 March 1918 with the recording of the case of Albert Gitchell, an army cook at Camp Funston in Kansas, United States"
I like this design for making requests, but I don't like it for serving requests. Because if you don't just make every field a String in CreateTaskRequest, and you want to examine it in some way, then you're losing information. E.g. if you make a field an int, and they provide a non-int value, your CreateTaskRequest can't hold that value so its just gonna have a 0.

A class full of strings feels like a code smell - but that is the proper representation of serving the request. And the alternative is needlessly restrictive. Ultimately it feels like pointless ceremony.
Would Fauci have even known? Budget numbers say NIAID clears around $5 billion in grant funding per year and this grant was more at the $100k per year level. Another source shows that NIAID receives around 3,000 grant applications per year and that's just in two of their multiple grant types. It seems most likely to me that the grant was approved and funded by a subject-area committee without Fauci being involved at all. I would guess that when he "admitted to it" was probably the first time he knew.
It was, and I shit you not, Anthony Weiner.
I guess I just disagree with the idea that things which are polarized across party lines are political.

Want to note that I’m pro Israel, think the OP said an awful thing, and I am a progressive.
why can't it be like (or actually be) TLS? that seems easy to implement in a tool based on Electron.
1. Make ransom illegal to pay.
2. Fine the hell out of any company that has not kept up with best practice in security. Require the board and exec staff to resign without payouts.
3. Make minimum jail time for ransomware hackers 100 years.
4. Make any hack that can be attributed to a loss of life (like shutting down a hospital) a death penalty offense.
5. State actors get economic death penalty - no US company or company that does business with a US company is allowed to do business (banking, etc.) with the state actor for 1 year for each offense.
6. Authorize NSA to retaliate in kind vs state actors.

At the height of the Roman Empire a citizen could walk the length of it without fear, because if they where attacked and killed the legion would burn the city / village to the ground that was responsible.

We had the Cold War and not a Hot War because of mutually assured destruction. I fail to see a reason not to bring that balance to hacking by state actors.

Bla, bla, I am a bad person. No, I am suggesting a reasonable measurable set of steps that force the companies to do better while imposing great risk to the criminals and state actors.
Comments like this bring up so many questions in my mind -- do you prefer conservative news media? If so, are you struggling to find news media to consume?

Are you aware of the top cable news network, the newer smaller ones, the media holding companies that dominate local news affiliates and dictate conservative talking points through their hosts, the massively popular hard-right conservative influencers, Facebook, etc?
The article content mentions the new name Delta, unlike the headline so I am guessing the copy editor is aware. Anyway, I guess my view is not as charitable as you as it is coloured by their coverage of events in the past.
Astrology in the age of AI: A hack story
It's as straightforward a statement as it can get. I don't watch YouTube much, but when I read threads on this kind of stuff, that's the mantra: here's what I found, here's what I think, go do your own research.
> Once the situation was out they did everything properly to fix it at home, and then even contributed to the science work on the virus

No, you misunderstand what actually happened:

- The release (upload to the Internet) of the molecular structure was unauthorized - the West was lucky to get it at all

- CCP work on a vaccine started before they admitted it was airborne

- those "useless islands" define economic zones for fish and gas - none are useless

- domestic flights from Wuhan were blocked, while international flights continued, including SFO and LAX

You simply don't know what you're talking about - you're a useful idiot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
With Scala you're still dealing with a JVM baseline though. You don't get the Erlang/OTP foundation that means the entire ecosystem and tooling down to operations and VM introspection are built around this actor model. It's a very different situation from Scala where you're a second-class citizen in the foundational ecosystem.

That said, I agree with you if you are planning to be a unicorn and scale to 1000+ engineers then you definitely should go with the well-worn path just because it's the only way to satisfy your insatiable hiring funnel.

On the other hand, if your aspirations are to focus on a simple but great product and keep the team tight rather than chase growth at all costs, Elixir/Erlang could be a super power to scale a cohesive product to massive scale with a very small team (eg. WhatsApp).
I liked the piece but it barely mentions Python. I wasn’t sure what has improved recently but wsl, which is sort of a side story.
A lot of sensationalist/fringe submissions lately. What’s up?
Fun fact: this project used to be coded in CoffeeScript!
I jumped to the comments first, and my initial thought was, “what would Nathan Marz think of all of this...and what is he investing in these days?”

I was honestly skeptical, reading all of this clojure-macro criticism (constructive for the most part), but trust was restored when I saw the author. Well done, sir! Excited to see the details.
Soon you'll be able to respond that even Microsoft is dropping support for IE. The IE application itself is reaching end of life on June 15th, 2022 [1] but Microsoft's own products will no longer support IE later this year in August [2].

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/i...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/int...
Neat idea. I have been working on something along the same line as this (but not necessarily for seed). Whats the best way to contact you to have a quick chat?
Not expecting “alpha chimp” to take off from a marketing perspective, even if a cage full of feces-slinging monkeys is a better analogy for those environments anyway.
Nice. I took a CUDA course at uni where I built a neural network and a physics simulation.
Optimizing them was very involved, but ultimately very cool; I learned a ton of stuff.

I'd love to work with CUDA in practice, but there's not that many jobs around.
>Did the Sackler family commit a crime here?

It would be good to think they did because some family members might then be convicted and even, gasp, get to spend some time in prison. However my understanding of this development is that it's not related to criminal actions but civil actions.

Unsurprisingly there are a good number of people who would like to see some members of the Sackler family spend their latter years living under a bridge, the development described here is related to them using their wealth and power to ensure they get to hang onto the loot.
Is anybody else frustrated that this somewhat lengthy article was relentlessly vague with the actual numbers? It was so consistent it felt like something you would present to a person allergic to technical detail.
The first observations of illness and mortality of the Spanish Flu were actually in the US. The origin of the name of the Spanish Flu is due to it being reported in the news most freely and widely in Spain as many other nations were limiting reporting due to being embroiled in WWI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
You're using averages across all of the EU which includes both countries with a higher GDP per capita than the US and countries with lower GDP per capita.

Some of the examples I gave actually have a higher GDP per capita than the US.
Thank you so much for this post!!
God I wish I had a CS degree, this looks like so much fun! One day, maybe...
It’s an obvious conflict of interest. To be making public judgments about whether a lab could be responsible when you are partly responsible for what that lab has done is precisely the definition of conflict of interest.

It’s called self-policing elsewhere, and anybody would see the conflict of interest immediately at FAANG, for example. Was FB causing teen depression? Researcher says no. (Then it turns out the researcher had done consulting work for FB or had been in contact with FB, advocating that they use the timeline feed to run experiments on unsuspecting teens…
Not the minimum jail sentences: The government will then just keep watering down the definition of "ransomware hacker" until all of us are technically eligible for 100 years of prison because of that one time we used an incognito tab to circumvent the NYT subscription nagware.
Biden administration makes USD$1B grants available for broadband on tribal lands
I think you've missed the moral. It's not about being annoyed. It's about making a choice on whether to dismiss someone's claims because of their past lies.

Sure, you can make the case for always ignoring past lies, and always evaluating every claim based on current evidence. The reason the story exists is to try to illustrate how most humans actually behave, despite there being a preferable response.

In addition, the evidence for the lab leak theory wasn't strong back when Trump became the mouthpiece for it. There wasn't much of a reason, even if you evaluated the current evidence for what could be another one of his thousands of documented lies, to take it particularly seriously.

That situation might be changing now, and we are seeing that in the media and culture right now, as we respond to new evidence, or more specifically, lack of other expected evidence.
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The courts agree it’s real. You can pretend that they don’t have any power over you, but you’ll be wrong.
Agreed-- lack of oversight for the legal system creates significant potential for abuse even if the laws are well written
Being good at this sounds like an interesting example of a life hack to put on your YC application.
Yes trust the experts if you cant run your own experts. You know the people who can be easily influenced by funding sources, political pressure and their own need for validation and success. If there is anything we have learnt is that 'Authority is Truth' and no one in positions of Authority or 'experts' has ever deceived the public.
So is most logging and monitoring. The important part is having those bits around when you _need_ to see them.
At the very least, ditch ad funded media.

When you're not the product, you'll get more truth.
No idea but this would make a good sitcom scene. Funny as hell!
Well two brains are better than one.
That’s totally different than saying straight guys naturally find gay people disgusting.
Given the US response to threats and disasters including COVID-19, global warming, fascism, white nationalism, gross media manipulation, wildfire, drought, opioid crisis, the 2007-8 global financial crisis, housing bubble, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 attacks, just to cover the past two decades, I'd say "asleep at the wheel" is standard operating proceedure.

All of those were known threats or repeat instances of similar previous threats.

It's the likely threats for which there've been no earlier parallels that I'm truly terrified of.
yeah of course it's an analogy. But by adding liability we'll get more recalls (patches) done. Vendors will stop playing FUD and will focus on the real cost of their security flaws.
And yes some will still not do patches, just like some car vendors are considered less trustworthy.

But at least the risk of suit will loom over their heads.
I agree that Trump's use was to definitely please his supporter base and blame China. But except for some racist bigots, I really doubt calling it the China virus/flu means that someone is trying to blame Chinese people for it, just like you are arguing for variants.

My point was, the same concerns people had for not using the country name on virus were applicable for variants too. If we chose one standard for the virus, we should have kept the same for variants too, after all there are some variants which are considered more dangerous than the others.
Shutting them up doesn't appear to have been particularly successful. The lab leak theory has continued to be discussed in all kinds of media and many parts of the culture over the last year.
> the amount of iteration on the software required to handle edge cases is not impossible but is exceptionally difficult.

If you want to fix this one exception (false positive) you will introduce unwanted false negatives. That's how precision and recall work, there's a trade-off. So I am not sure it's useful to fix it, how many times does this happen? Will fixing it introduce more frequent bugs?
Under the change, politicians’ posts will no longer be
presumed newsworthy, said the people with knowledge of
the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Politicians will be subject to Facebook’s content
guidelines that prohibit harassment, discrimination or
other harmful speech, they said.

Good. If you can't even pretend not to be a sociopathic human sack of feces online, you don't deserve to be elected to anything. We'll set that as the minimum decency bar, since it seems we never actually had a minimum decency bar until now.
It's Chargepoint, so it's useless to Tesla owners until Tesla decides to sell a CCS adapter in the USA.
Gain of function research outside of hyper-secure settings is, frankly, idiotic. It’s massively more dangerous than criticality experiments because of the potential for exponential spread.
They do sometimes get physicians and surgeons who have previous significant experience as patients before medical school. I've met a few over the years, and some are fierce about maintaining standards of patient care, and doing what they can to optimize care and comfort.

I also had "minor" complications after surgery & discharge. The IV was left in, and the bandage was too tight for the swelling. I had to return to the hospital the next morning.

Another time I spent 4 days in hospital with GI issues, after being sent home 36 hours earlier from overnight in the ER, and just being sick in hospital for the better part of a week was frustrated and tiring. I went home again (expected discharge)and recovered, got my energy back but it took a few more days.
> That $$ amount will indirectly decide whether we go to war with Russia or pay software engineers.

Not related to the subject, but wow I wonder how alarming it is that "war with Russia" meme is having a strong comeback, as it's being casually brought up in online discussions about software.