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I heard somewhere that we should be prepared for middle of next year. They don't want politics to influence the safety of it. Releasing a vaccine that would cause damage would be devastating for the company.

I'm wondering how do they test it, do they inject volunteers with the vacine, and they tell them to go infect themselves with a virus that 1 time out of 100 will kill them and an unknown percentage disable them?
How do you aggregate news?
We have air ambulances in the US. With it being the US and the community being largely rural and poor, it's more economic to die than be flown to help. Most families can't swing a $40,000 cost for a life flight, and insurance in some cases won't cover it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-the-flig...
My understanding is that while prevent infection using the vaccine is a big goal, the other more important goal is that it triggers a better response in people when they do get sick. Specifically, if you get the vaccine and then go on to catch the virus, your body will fight it better and you will have minor symptoms (and hopefully don't go to the ICU).

I will say that everything I've said is just from what I read. If someone with an actual medical background knows more, I would love to hear it.
If Apple wanted to use software updates to force people to upgrade their hardware, the original iPhone SE wouldn't be starting it's sixth year of OS and security updates.

Also, it's more problematic to me that when faced with customers reporting the same "this phone randomly dies while showing that it has a good charge" issue on the Nexus 6p, Google never fixed the issue.

>If you're among those affected, your phone will randomly shut down and completely die, even though your battery indicator might have said you had plenty of juice left. It's not a simple system crash, because your phone will stay dead until you connect it to a charger.

https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/nexus-6p-battery-random...

Eventually they just marked the issue as won't fix.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/11/16/nexus-6p-early-shut...
The problem with “white” is that “white pride”, “white power” were coopted by racist and terrorist groups decades ago.

The other problem - much like all lives matter - is that no one has ever been told to be ashamed of being white, legislation hasn’t been written specifically to imprison white people, white people haven’t been systematically disenfranchised, etc.

As for only getting fired if you say you support trump? Really? If that were the case he wouldn’t have a real chance of reelection, but he does because a sizable amount of the country supports him. I suspect being pro-Biden or pro-Obama would easily get you fired in many predominantly Republican states.

Finally, the “left” has no more power than the “right”, the difference is that you clearly believe that equal rights for minorities is inherently discriminating against you. Which is a classic response.
Of course it has political undertones; the only reason these companies felt compelled to issue this statement was to counter the widely-spread fear that the sitting president of the U.S. would attempt to corrupt the standard vaccine process to his political benefit.
You can't represent the interval from 0 to 1 inclusive without significant run time cost just because of the way floats work.
Disliking something well liked doesn't make you interesting.
Sounds like it's actually quite popular there now https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/economic-uncertainty-restric...
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I'm more interested in the general problem of building those interconnected services, figuring out how to verify correctness, and scaling them to service the traffic they get. I think consensus might be a part of that (maybe for garbage collection?), but it's not something I'm specifically interested in.
AFAIK it didn't have any death but it was sparked by a military coup d'état by lower rank officials. Later on the people on the streets supported the officials and demanded democracy.

So, when guys with guns depose a dictator it gets a little harder to argue that it is very peaceful.

However I thank you for bring up the fact that there was no blood.
Current Chef employee here. Progress has stated they expect to continue to support the Chef Open Source commitment, so Cinc should be business as usual.

Side note: As the Progress is publicly traded, there were some super strict guidelines around who could know about the transaction and when. From what I understand, pretty much no one could know, primarily because of the risk of insider trading.
I interpreted the comment I replied to suggest that masks remove a lot of the risks by itself. Is that not a fair reading of that comment?

The data I've seen suggests that being outdoor reduces risks, I have not need any data or studies that compare being outdoor with or without a mask. I'd love to read your studies if you have them.
How about "rushing" the vaccine to you know... end the pandemic? Or would you rather more people die "from covid" to hurt Trumps chances of winning?
This is simply not the case except when talking about a totally untested vaccine. The whole point of phase III trials is to confirm "safety and efficacy" in a wide population. Moderna, for instance, aims to enroll 30k people in it's (currently ongoing) phase III trial. After that, it's just a matter of data analysis. The FDA would certainly not approve a vaccine that had comorbidity higher than the disease it is trying to treat.
Please don't use "Google" in the title as an opportunity to drag this thread into your personal issues with the company.
The underlying problem is Linux's driver model. To support new features, you have to support a new kernel. To support a new kernel, you have to port the device drivers to that kernel. Vendors don't like to maintain their code and changes in the kernel often break drivers, so vendors often just give up. That is basically the end of life for anyone that chooses hardware with bad drivers, which I guess some OEM Chromebook manufacturers did.

I did a 20% project on Chrome OS when I worked at Google. At the time, I happened to use a Wacom tablet as a mouse and Chrome OS as my primary OS, and so I backported all the upstream Wacom drivers to the various kernels used by the variety of Chrome OS devices. It was a ton of work, and I really only did it because I needed it myself and there was one really nice person on the bug tracker who supported the tablets at his school. But it doesn't scale -- this was the easiest and most trivial porting job imaginable, and it took me several hours each patch; not because applying the patch was hard, but because validating that it worked as expected took a long time. It was a 15 minute build per device, then I had to reflash, then I had to try all the Wacom devices I had laying around. Now imagine doing that with WiFi -- where your laptop has to work with hundreds of craptastic access points. It's a multi-week effort for every (device, patch) combination.

I don't work there anymore so I have no idea what the official policy is... but understand that it's, to some extent, the OEM's problem. They choose a WiFi chipset that breaks every kernel upgrade, and only they use it -- that's their validation to do. If they don't want to do it anymore they say "hey we saved three cents on the WiFi chipset, now throw away your laptop."

As to why this doesn't affect Windows... Microsoft has spent years building in compatibility for binary blob drivers. On my fresh install of Windows 10 I have drivers from 2008 that are running (for my USB webcam, sadly). The code hasn't changed, so they don't have to revalidate it. It just works, forever. But with Linux there is no such option; you have to make your code compile against the latest kernel, or your device stops working. Hardware vendors (and OEMs) are very lazy, and you can see that in action -- Android and Chrome OS devices stop getting updates because nobody will maintain the code. This, I suppose, is the cost of building atop a GPL-based operating system. Hardware is "design once and forget". Linux is "evolve and grow forever". The impedance mismatch between hardware vendors and software engineers leads to a bad user experience.
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I agree. They are only saying they will demonstrate safety and efficacy through the trials, not that the trials will be technically completed.

And, I think that's fine. I'm not taking a politician's word for whether that has been achieved, but I agree with it in concept.
This is a kind of faulty reasoning that I've been seeing a lot lately, reasoning by majority case. If you receive 999 trivial text messages and then 1 with critical private information then it is still really bad for the defaults to not be private.
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How is an expedited vaccine political? It’s the author that’s asserting political motivation with assumptive logic at best and borderline anti-vaxer at worst. People are smarter than you think and they can pick up on subtle cues of bias. I know i’ll get downvoted for this because that’s how people on this website are, but the democrats have completely botched the covid/blm crisis as of late and their credibility is tanking. Just talk to people but pretend you’re a trump supporter and I think you might be shocked what you hear
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The thing with vitamin D supplementation is that, as TFA mentions, low to moderate doses (under 4000 IU per day) are generally very safe. And, being deficient in such a crucial nutrient certainly isn't a good thing. So, if you are deficient, supplementing in that range is probably something you could feel comfortable doing on your own. If it were me, I'd go out and buy a bottle of D3 and get my levels tested at my next checkup.
Why couldn't you stick with it? I, too, use a somewhat old Nokia phone (the 6110 Navigator, from 2007), and I absolutely love it. I really like its soap bar form factor, its sliding keyboard, and its battery--it lasts for around three or four days, although it can really take a hit with long phone calls, of which I usually make two or three every week. I don't like smartphones; I think they are the main culprit of many of the ailments of the current world.
Thank you for finding that! I’m glad to see the situation has improved since I last looked. 3x improvement over fp32 is impressive for sure. Their marketing claims of 8x still bother me though.
Saved about $100k / year by switching to our own video transcoder service rather than outsourcing it to SaaS.
Not to mention people's health...
I think you're misunderstanding the problem space here. We don't expect a coronavirus vaccine to prevent close to 100% of infections, so it's not a binary question of working vs. not working. The question is, how strong of an effect at what level of confidence is required to conclude that it's working well enough?
For the longest time they had https://com.google/, which got you a mirrored (flipped on x) version of the site.
I've had the exact same experience. Throw in a large dose of "no repeat customers" due to us prioritizing Feature A for Potential Customer B over fixing existing gaps that affected actual customers, and it was a never-ending parade of haphazardly created, bug-riddled new features that never got improved.

Made every single day a death march and a company that survives purely on the sunk cost fallacy on the part of the investors. They've already dropped $MILLIONS into building this thing, and the CEO swears that this next big deal will be what finally pushes the company into the stratosphere. As miserable as it was to work there, I'm honestly impressed they're able to keep that zombie moving.
Facebook is banned in China so there's no use in driveling over whether or not Facebook should do this or that, or Google should do this or that (Google also being banned in China)

This is simply the US copying China this time. I support banning all Chinese apps. Let it begin.
The article says that they've got $70MM in revenue, and yet they only went for 3x that amount?
It was originally posted to HN only 2 months before you created your HN Account. ;-)

I checked my account - created 3 years prior to the article. And I thought that I was late to the HN game when I joined. Wow... time flies...
The 1976 swine flu outbreak is one example of what can go wrong if you rush a vaccine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak

It was rushed by the Ford administration for political reasons and got a lot of people very sick.
I wonder if this will tip the scales away from Django being a favorite in Python development since this will destroy one of its USPs.
I made a similar site that is a curated list of absurd software bugs called https://500mile.email

I love reading stories like this, so I'm open to more suggestions!
As per the article the administration view on the matter is widely known. As is their widespread lying surrounding the issue.
Man, that was savage!
I think Trump’s sarcasm is lost on some people and thats why they dislike him so passionately.
The only visible comment is... not good.

How would one go about seeding a political news site with constructive comments?

As good as HN can be for discussion, many/most? political threads (especially pandemic or protest related lately) devolve very quickly.

Tough problem. Kudos for shipping.
I am not sure, in many photos I see, the protests are outside and have high mask compliance.
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Yes. See response to author's comment below.

On vitamin C - I stated dietary vitamin C to make it clear I was not referring to supplemental vitamin C. I was hoping to avoid this exact rabbit hole; that example was just to highlight an issue with the argumentation.
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If you knew that OP was in Sweden, would that statement still hold? I know there has been much debate on Sweden's action or lack of, but I have no idea how that applies to risk for children attending school.
To start, I appreciate your effort on this post. It looks like it took a lot of work and it does a great job of explaining difficult topics like why controls are important.

That said, I don't think it's fair to characterize the COVID study as low-quality. It's worth mentioning contrary results, even if it's an exception that proves the rule.
In the US, public health is politicized. It's absolutely reasonable to discuss the public health doctrine of the current administration and/or a possible future one.
I picked a few RSS feeds of news sources on the right, left and center based off of https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/
As opposed to Google losing their lawsuit with Nexus owners because they refused to fix the issue of the Nexus 6P shutting down unexpectedly in the same way?

>In the months and years following the launch, many Nexus 6P owners noticed their phones would bootloop or simply shut down without warning. The law firm Chimicles & Tikellis filed a class action lawsuit in 2017, and it looks like a resolution is on the horizon. Nexus 6P owners may be eligible for as much as $400 in restitution from Google and Huawei.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/06/07/google-and-huawei-a...
Speaking of Gould, I happen to have a previously unpublished recording of him playing his own composition "Suite for Twelfth Night". This might seem like an odd way of sharing it, but I've been putting it off for a long time because I thought it would be properly published at some point. I now realize it's never going to happen unless I do it myself, so here it goes: https://gofile.io/d/f5ORYZ

If anyone wants to mirror it, that would be nice.
Given the way this story is going, I’m somewhat expecting a future where right-wingers refuse to wear masks but happily take the vaccine, while the left goes antivax and refuses to take it (because it was “rushed by Trump”) but continues to wear masks. Perhaps by our powers combined, we’ll defeat the virus!
You're looking at actuarial estimates. Overestimating unknown-unknowns is more pragmatic than underestimating them. No, the article doesn't show how that particular sausage is made; we're all out here guessing.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but Splitgraph [3] has some solid datasets you can mess with.

Also, seekwell [0] might be able to fill that void depending on your use case and we're rapidly making improvements. So far we have highly customizable Forms [1] and editable tables [2] which you can add to a dashboard and expose to non-technical people on your team. We have a company with over 100 people in sales and operations using this daily. Supports Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake and SQL Server.

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especially right now, a failure when so many are paying attention (and large part of population is now anti-vaxers) could actually ruin the company.
And what basis do you have to believe such treasonous claims? CNN told you so? What motivation could they possibly have? Oh yeah, to get you to vote democrat. Don’t be naive.
/r/moderatepolitics on reddit is halfway decent. It's definitely liberal, but the way people discuss things is moderate, if that makes sense. It's not complete partisanship, and occasionally beliefs get questioned.

Reddit and Hacker News both solve the problem of "how do you host a site to allow for political discussion?"

To get good debate, you have to curate a social community by effective moderation. You see it on reddit all the time -- some communities are utter trash, and some are much better. It's a social problem, not a technological one.
The bank has already sold off the loans.

You're asking why bond buyers keep buying bonds from banks that promise high returns, without looking at the underlying investments.

And that is what hasn't changed since 2008 (or 1929, for that matter).
Such a bizarre argument. Direct quote from your comment:

> Tell me again why I should care what Kamala Harris opinion on the matter is?

Literally no one else is telling you that you should care what Kamala Harris' opinion on the matter is. You are the only one that seems to care what her opinion on the matter is.
Well, there is Chinook ( https://github.com/lerocha/chinook-database ) which was inspired by Northwinds, available for most popular RDBMSs. I used it to teach an intro to SQL course. It has some issues, but that's to be expected (and probably ideal for real-world considerations).
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Trump has made some very worrisome statements intended on either rushing a vaccine or placing the blame for the lack of it into whoever refuses to rush it.

Then the FDA answered with a non-statement that said basically "there's no conspiracy, we are fully invested into doing our job". And, of course, that gave a clear signal that the FDA felt pressured and was reported worldwide with that bias.

So, I read the GP saying that the manufacturers are telling the FDA "we know better than you" in an attempt to conserve their own credibility. Notice that this is a very bad message to pass into their own regulator, and worrisome for different reasons. But as long as it's only PR, it's not a real problem.
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They are grateful that they do not have to pay for childcare and can continue to work. Many people can't afford a full-time babysitter. Their choices might be: send kid to school and continue to work OR keep kid home and not work while past due rent and bills pile up. Although I have met some mid 20s parents that are perfectly fine with an excuse to not work.
I'd rather more people die to Covid than find out 20 million people have failing livers and 5 million were born with birth defects because they rushed a vaccine without enough testing.
You can trace the famines and wars in Europe between 1700 and 1900 by going to any town and finding the "X national historic center" and looking when the town was founded. People didn't just leave their family and friends in Europe for the fun of it. Most left because life was downright deadly back home and so staying was not an option no matter what they went into.

Getting to America was no easy. Families of 5 kids would leave, 2 would die on the way (if you got a cold on board the sailors would throw you overboard to ensure it didn't spread), then a third would be sold as an indentured servant (only slightly better than a slave, and it would only last 7 years - but no way to contact them after the 7 years were up). Then you have to find a place to live...
Somewhere around 0.5-1% of people who are infected with COVID die and a larger share experience very serious symptoms, some of which can be long lasting/permanent. The risks for the elderly are even higher, something like 15% death rate for people older than 80.

In comparison the risks of a vaccine are much much much smaller, as long as the risks are similar to existing approved vaccines. The testing process is explicitly designed to make sure that no vaccine gets released that causes more harm than good.

For comparison here is the symptom sheet for the flu vaccine https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/tools/vaccinfo...
Or an easier to read summary https://immunizebc.ca/side-effects
The risks of serious complications for flu vaccine are closer to 1 in 100,000 or 1 in 1 million, and even then the effects are usually much less serious than death.
I implement a few changes wherever I work:

- Commit messages must include a ticket number (or a keyword like "hotfix"). This is enforced by a commit hook that's bundled with the project.

- Ticket templates that encourage clear tickets. A ticket should always explain why it must be done. It should also contain enough information for any team member to judge its priority, or start work on it.

- Any relevant discussion about a ticket should be in the ticket.

Just enforcing this makes a world of difference. It ties every bit of code to a justification. This way, if you decide to rewrite the project, you won't end up losing years of discussions and important lessons. You'll also have a much easier time prioritising and assigning tasks, since everyone knows what they mean.

Aside from that:

- My first pull request at a company is usually an update to the README file. It rarely matches how you actually use the project.

- I write "recipes" for common tasks (lint, deploy, test...). This way, you know that the CI system and every developer in the team performs those tasks in the same way. You can change the recipes, but they are always called with the same command. "scripts/clear-cache" is also easier to memorise than "docker-compose exec backend rm -rf /var/cache...".

- Add :party_parrot: to Slack
with so many people out of work and struggling

This concern can be addressed other ways. I run two subreddits aimed at helping people establish an online income (as part of the goal).

In a post-covid world, I think we will do more good if we focus more on adapting to a new reality where increased germ control is a permanent expectation rather than expecting a vaccine to fix everything and allow us to return to "business as usual."
Vaccines are a bit different than "cures" for stopping trials.

If you test drug XYZ and after a while it's clear that far more people in the control group die, you quickly declare XYZ proven effective, stop the trial, and give XYZ to the control group to save as many lives as possible.

For vaccines there are no such dramatic effects. Everyone in the study is healthy, at least to begin with, so there is no tragedy to avert, and you can let the study keep going even after it starts becoming clear that the vaccine is good.

At least in theory. I don't know the actual bureaucratic protocols.