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Show HN: Baby Coming? Text-to-Blog to keep everybody updated
When my sister had her first baby they had to stay in the hospital for one month due to complications. We all wanted to know how they were doing. She would text my mom, who would text others, etc.

This happened again not so long ago with a dear friend's baby. COVID made it even harder. She would text her husband and mom and we would get info from them.

I feel this happens all the time when somebody is in the hospital.

That's why I built this

https://num.one/

(You should visit the site on your mobile for the best experience)

It allows you to create and update a "blog" via text messages. There is no signup. The first text you send creates your unique link. Following texts are updates. Images are supported as well.

This allows somebody to just text that number and then share the link, which can be shared again and again, and everybody can go there to get their updates.

After a certain amount of inactive days the system will offer to archive the blog and send you a zip file, before deleting it. I could add likes, hearts, replies, highlight new posts, etc, but figured I would start with an MVP first to see if there is interest.

What do you think?
Small correction: it means you get 95% fewer cases. People might still get infected, but never show enough symptoms to prompt them to get tested - and therefore never become a "case." This is the difference between "protective" (no disease) and "sterilizing" (no infection) immunity. The latter is the gold standard that you'd ideally like to shoot for, but the former is what the studies are actually measuring.

The distinction matters because there are vaccines (such as the original polio vaccine) that protect individuals against disease, but which still allow the vaccinated individuals to act as carriers and infect others. Those vaccines do not create herd immunity, because vaccinated people still contract and spread the virus. They do, however, protect the people who get vaccinated.
yes i found it! just canceled my roam subscription. thanks so much for your hard work!
It reminds me of the famous quote by Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
There might also be evidence that as with so many other things, different people require different amounts.

My partner consistently shows low sodium in their blood work, yet eats way more salt than I do (my blood results are normal) and craves saltier things. They will put salt on already-salted foods that I consider too salty already.
That has nothing to do with my argument though, unless we're willing to assume that by 2030 people will be only buying Tesla vehicles.
I've had a bad flu (negative COVID test but possibly a false negative) in September, and one morning when I woke up and felt difficulty breathing I ended up riding an ambulance to a hospital. (Ambulances are and doctors doing home visits are widely available and free where I live).

Turns out, it was a psychological thing; something similar to a panic attack, with my lungs completely clear. They gave me anxiety medication and the feeling has gone completely. Not saying that it's necessarily the same with you, but if you experience hyperventilation and feel like you can't breathe, try to relax and breathe slowly and deeply. May be it's not as scary as it seems.
Is there any way I could get this vaccine before the FDA approves it? I've looked through the studies and it's good enough for me.
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So many goodies to come.

First we need to finish multi partition transactions that we don't yet support.

We need to balance eager cluster balancing based on saturation (network, cpu, disk, etc) with other performance improvements.

As is the cluster achieves steady state in a couple of seconds for affected partitions and clients in Kafka retry.
A 90 to 5 by random chance?
The trial is quite large, it’s 95 people who have confirmed covid cases out of the tens of thousands in the trial.
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When the person I was responding to said "Not taking the vaccine is a substantial risk", I believe they were referring to the risk to the person not taking the vaccine.

That aside, driving a car, even with a license, is a non-trivial risk to others, possibly the greatest chance the average person has of killing somebody, so I don't see how they're not comparable. Moreover air pollution kills seven million people worldwide each year, which everyone contributes to when they drive, and that's way more than covid19's killed.
Spinning my fan, exhausting battery and memory,

segregation by compliance.
I suspect it very much will exist, but only once it's a node or two behind. It'll never be bleeding edge.
Lets be honest - there is 0 technical benefit regarding what OS you use today

Then you're being dishonest. There are many technical reasons to choose Linux over Windows. On mobile so will keep it short.

My desktop lacks Hyper-V. I went years thinking I can't run Docker because of this fact. Turns out the PC has no such limitation when running Linux.

Years ago, tried using Meteor. It was practically unusable as I kept getting error after error. Multiple roundtrips searching and a ton of Windows-specific GitHub issues later, I gave up on the framework.

There are plenty of frameworks and dev tools that are an afterthought for Windows. This, of course, is due to Windows requiring often heavy extras to be compatible whereas Unix systems simply just work. Plenty devs just don't Care that much whether their software runs on Windows. Those that do only consider it months, years even, after releasing for Mac and Linux.

Also relevant: MS have released new software or updates to macOS first. That is a testament to how poor their OS is when a vendor fails to release software primarily targeting its OS.
Maybe respect the privacy settings a user has set up?
> Moderna's vaccine appears to be easier to store as it remains stable at minus 20C for up to six months and can be kept in a standard fridge for up to a month.

Pfizer's vaccine needs ultra-cold storage at around minus 75C, but it can be kept in the fridge for five days.

I think this is a big difference. I don't know if many hospitals and clinics, especially ones in remote locations, can have cold storage the Pfizer vaccine requires
The term ghost rider exists in english as well I think.

At least I could find several articles talking about ppl going the wrong way after searching for it + wrong direction.

I'm not a native speaker however
Precisely. He got his tax cut; his pendulum swung so far to his side that Joe Biden is seen as a liberal candidate.

He's advocating for a comfy middle ground cuz he's won the war and now wants peace and quiet
This isn't the final evaluation. There will be another at ~150 cases. The numbers may seem small, but this is enough for the purpose of deciding for or against approval. Anything over 80% effectiveness would likely be approved, so it doesn't matter whether the true value (insofar one exists) is 90%, 95%, or something in between. It's useful regardless.
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Are you a doctor or someone who actually understands these vaccines by in-depth ?

Why is it so hard for people to understand that not everyone is eager to inject themselves with something foreign to them?

Where’s the compassion and empathy?

I’m by no means against vaccines but I don’t appreciate being made to feel like I have to take one either ?
I think the problem is in that people use the term “idea”. Ideas are worthless. What you want are opportunities.

Here’s the difference:

“I think people would buy a screwdriver with a built-in hammer”

“I just spoke to company XYZ and they would buy 1,000 screwdrivers with integrated hammers if we made them”

The difference is obvious to anyone. You can execute like a star on the idea and make it if you get lucky and a market exists. The opportunity only requires “minimum viable execution” to capture it.

One is a push, the other a pull.
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The same as what happened during the 1918, 1957, and 1968 flu seasons.
Oh, true. I was just reacting to the 2h-a-day.
Um, no — people are hyped because it will provide decent low-latency connectivity to areas that can’t even get a DSL line or more than a couple of bars of LTE.
There is a big dilemma about privacy in such contact tracing apps, solutions, that require a post of its own.

I mean, if you have no idea who access the data, who can use the data.

Yes anyone can put a TOS or privacy policy that no one can see the data, but even though that's the case, there have been numerous occasions where employees were found to misuse PII.
Better be ready for the malicious links. I'm the developer of https://t.ly/ link shortener. I spend most of my time adding in protection to prevent people from using the service for malicious links.
To add to your very generic statement:

Fruit juice contains a lot of sugar; Oranges contain a lot of sugar;

Make sure you check how much calories you take in regardless of the food.

A good understanding of food healthiness is to understand what you are eating.
I usually use sleep to rest.
FullHD display in 2021. Ridiculous.
From what I understand, rebound is fairly rapid at first when the crust itself uncompresses. Then it slows down and gets exponentially slower as the exceedingly viscous mantle flows back into the region. I believe that's what's occurring under Finland today, but I'm not sure how fast it ever was at its peak.
My own anecdote is that my dad was diabetic and he definitely didn't understand how much sugar was in fruit. He did ok controlling his blood sugar, but he considered fruit to be "healthy" and so ate about as much of it as he wanted, which regularly caused blood sugar spikes.

And I know it's not the same thing, but the number of times our small kids get offered juice as a "healthy" option when it's got almost as much sugar as soda... I think it's a real phenomena that certain things have a reputation for being much healthier than they are and it causes problems.
Sadly, that's the flipside of our strategy of telling authoritarian governments that they should follow rule of law. China made laws that obligate data companies to share the data with the CCP. So Apple must comply. All according to the law.
"I would have liked to watch a different movie" is an understandable reaction, but not a valid criticism of the movie you watched.
3.3k issues, 756 open PRs. do they need help?
Indeed. See the segment appender work in the github with the chunk cache which sums up our write behind strategy.

The reads are more complex since it involves understanding io priority scheduling etc
They're the number of people in the trial who contracted covid. The numbers in the trial are north of 40k if I remember right
Without account, shortening invited spammers and lead to security concerns and it was difficult to deal with that.

Businesses that I target have set up custom domains and reap more benefit from it.

I eventually plan to retire default shortening domain(blanq.io) and only offer custom domains.
I don't see where its a breach in the EULA to have the end user also be the manufacturer/builder of the system. Can you point out where its a breach?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/OEM/Windows/10/UseT...
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> IIRC the virus in the rhinoviruses family mutates more rapidly than the virus in the coronavirus family.

This may be true, I don't know. I do know that my experience with coronavirus colds is that they hit much harder and have more severe symptoms compared to rhinovirus colds. So well worth taking out just the CV segment.
Where in my previous comment did I say I knew? You are basing your dismissal of my comment on something I never said in a quite frankly unnecessarily passive aggressive tone.

I am not trying to attack you personally. Your comment is FUD because you’re making it seem as if it was undisputed that long term risks exist, and we just don’t know them yet. In your words these risks are even „significant“. Now that we’re pointing fingers, how do you know this?

If I may, I suggest you read up on this vaccine, paper here:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2022483
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Per NYT:

> Moderna said it would charge other governments from $32 to $37 per dose. The charge to the United States, which has already committed about $2.5 billion to help develop Moderna’s vaccine and buy doses, comes out to about $24.80 a shot

Yes, they're expecting to profit to some degree, but those charges don't look to be particularly out of line for a newer vaccine from a quick skim of price data.

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I can't see how any developed country would choose to pass on it at that cost if available to them while others are still under development/not available in sufficient supply.

The economic damage this is causing is massive and anything that gets you past this even slightly faster is more than worth that price.

You could vaccinate the whole UK population for $2.3bn (in medication costs). The pandemic is causing vastly more economic damage than that to the UK.

Through only August, COVID has cost just the UK government (to say nothing of other economic damage) over $277bn (@current exchange rates). The vaccine could cost half, it could cost 5x as much, but it would still be absurd to do anything other than pay it and get it out to as much of your population as you can if it's available to distribute and other vaccines aren't.

Even if you've got something else in the works, if buying what you can of this gets you "reopened/normal" a month or two earlier than not, it's still an obvious economic win for any developed country.

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Source:

Vaccine pricing - Table 6 - https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/284832/...

Moderna pricing - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/health/Covid-moderna-vacc...

Economic cost - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52663523
I'll share my experience as well. My wife tested positive after having a slight fever, some body aches, and loss of taste/smell. A few days later I also lost taste / smell but had no other symptoms fortunately. We are both in our late 30's. My children never had any symptoms.
This kind of humour is called "no sense of humour". Rare, but happens.
Client meeting in 40 mins and we use Trello for the project. Awesome.
HN has generally stayed apolitical, but there's been an influx of Trumpism over the past year or so that I really hate. Political discussions here used to be very rational and evidence-based. This thread would be considered lame even on reddit.
R0 would drop to nothing if they all vaccinated, pandemic over. Furthermore it's genuinely awful to have even if you survive it, and there is evidence of lung damage to healthy young survivors.
Can we just get an IBAN account at the ECB with a log of related SWIFT messages as proof of payment. Please, don't make it too hard with all the different clearing mechanism and other ways banks like to make money. Actually can someone suggest a simple online bank with those two features: IBAN and log?
Let me formulate it different:

Its 'healthier' to consume the same amount of sugar through fruits than through pure sugar due to its being easier for your body.

It does not change your calorie intake at all as its the same amount.
Waiting now for the "Why we're moving to Gitlab" blog post.
I don't know about this particular one, but there are a number of vaccine trials going on right now. You can try searching for "covid vaccine trial" in your area, or reaching out to your local department of health. My wife is in the Oxford-Astrazeneca trial here in Minnesota. She was recruited through a Facebook ad. The downside is you don't know whether you got the placebo or the real thing :) My wife has a 2/3 chance of having the vaccine. It's unclear to me when they will unblind her. It seems unethical not to unblind participants if a safe, effective vaccine is available, but I'm not an expert on trial methodology.
If you try anything remotely exotic, it's a no go on Linux.

E.g. I remember nVidia drivers always being crap. Even the blob ones.

Latest example for me is Swiftpoint Z mouse. Doesn't work on Linux.

From what I understand, either drivers are in the Kernel and thus open source. Or the drivers are outside of Kernel and thus break on every kernel update.
Having lived in both privatized and socialized medical systems I actually find that the privatized health care system was better at listening. It cost more money, but it was definitely better bar none.

I think doctors are as good as their tools (education) and the feed back they get. They can only listen to what patients say, however most people aren't able to explain in detail what is going on. As well, western medicine tries to focus on specific locations/ailments and can miss the holistic portion of sickness. This challenge is compounded by the fact that many illness have similar symptoms and human bodies are intensely complicated.

I don't trust a doctor 100% (many of my friends do) however I do put a fair bit of faith in their training. Anything serious requires more research on my own as doctors are fallible.

The thought you raise that you shouldn't challenge or ask questions of what a doctor is telling you is quite alarming and I would wager that kind of laziness leads to poor health outcomes. As I said, doctors are human and are fallible, the research (i.e. human health systems) is not complete, and they are working on deeply complex issues that have incredible amounts of interactions that are unknown and incredibly challenging.

That said - the doctor better be able to explain in a straightforward manner in order to gain trust. And any profession that you should just "inherently trust" allows openings for laziness, abuse and bad outcomes. Strongly disagree with you.
at rest relative to what?
This is the Just World Fallacy. It's not necessarily true that spending money benefits society. You can spend money to harm society, with or without intention.
Random cynical thought -- they noticed because the automated testing was bumping up the # of views on those streams, so their members were being forced to pay royalties on views that were not real ...
Based on what I saw in past discussions, I'm pretty sure that the takedown was not a run-of-the-mill scraper-based takedown (it makes no sense to be taken down just for linking to videos which, at best, is what any scrapers would have seen in the original test code). It was very much an intentional, manual one with actual lawyers behind it.
If your game-theory is correct, we are dealing with a tragedy of the commons like game.
These types of games have highly un-optimal Nash-equilibria. Hence, it makes sense to take collective measures to prevent that Nash-equilibrium.

Such collective measures would either be 'a sense of duty' or 'mandatory vaccination'. People ignoring the first option are kind of asking for the second option.
If any maintainers or contributors see this, thank you all for your incredible work! youtube-dl is one of the best tools I've every used. It's polished and always working and with such an incredible community. This is seriously a killer piece of software that is part of my default setup for every new machine I've had over the past 4-5 years.

I've downloaded countless free lectures that some universities offer for offline viewing and sometimes listening if it's a discussion based class. Seriously, this is great software.
Some countries are toying with the idea of using drones for medical supply delivery. A few are also sending defibrillation drones to heart attack locations. I've not seen anyone use one for organs, but I do not see any technical reason they could not if the failure rate of the drones is lower than human operated equipment. There are probably insurance obstacles to get over. Drones can fly in weather that professional pilots with thousands of hours of IFR experience can not in terms of average failures and the range of said drones is improving exponentially every year.
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> I strongly recommend getting an OpenWRT capable router and setting up your VPN there

Double it, OpenWRT functionality beats any production router firmware. Bought Linksys some time ago, now searching a cable to flash OpenWRT on it 'cause original firmware feels crazy dumb.
Quite a bold claim especially for MIT, but on the other hand it is psychology.
AoE2:DE Player here as well. It's a fantastic game and I love the current community.
IIRC, the domain predates the "sourcehut" name; for the first little while, the author referred to it as sir-hat:

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OMG everything you do on the site creates an entry in the browser history...
> Also very relevant that VPNs seem to be illegal in China.

How illegal are they currently? When I lived there, they were illegal too, but still everybody would use them. There was always a difference between "illegal by law" and "really illegal".
Ha! I was referring more to curation-scaling though. E.g. what would have formerly been termed a travel journalist / editor.
I try to avoid using words like "you", "people", etc., when writing explanations because it keeps the explanation from feeling personal (unless it's supposed to be personal). I also try to leave out any subjective statements without supporting evidence. At least to me, it can be discouraging when reading about a subject and the author talks about how "simple" something is, or allows you to "quickly and easily do X", but I don't find it simple, and struggle to use it to do X. Let the reader decide if it's simple, don't tell them it's simple because it could make them feel stupid if they don't find it simple.
It was common knowledge that Moderna’s vaccine was releasing efficiency results this week, and that the technology used to provide protection was very similar to Pfizer’s.
thanks anyway!
Story points were made up to keep project managers happy so that they leave the team alone.

This is a good indicator of how much time you should spend estimating.
Genuinely would like to know if you see your self as a Neo-liberal?
> (35% of us, including my family)

The numbers have gone up, according to the CDC it was 42% in 2018.
Yup.

The computer will be able to find optimal plays that require looking ahead several turns ahead while blundering obvious moves (e.g. capturing a piece that's clearly hanging after you used that same piece to capture their piece). Or they'll constantly move the same piece over and over again.
I don't know about the tax laws elsewhere, but IIRC, in the US gains from art are taxed as income, not as capital gains, which would seem to reduce their attractiveness as investment vehicles dramatically.
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also I feel that its worth noting that "avoiding work whenever possible" isn't something you can ascribe to just one group of people. Most people don't love working, which makes it easy to pin it on a specific type of people but you can see it in really anyone. And it can be caused by a lot of external factors, being tired because you don't go home to a place you can feel safe and rest, being consistently shit on because of your culture, not having a great upbringing, being sick, and sometimes some people just cant set their minds to a task the same as others. Things like this can be helped by having a stable job and being treated the same as other people around you.
Web servers log requests with IP addresses kind of by default. Unless they went out of their way to make sure ip addresses were purged (which they are now) they're probably going to be there.
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