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No. You cannot seriously belive such a rushed vaccine has been tested properly.

If you're young you will get natural immunity from it sooner or later.

No young person had any issues.

More young people will be hurt by the vaccine than COVID.
I think it's mostly because NHS organisations are already well organised for distribution of vaccines to staff. They're large organisations with thousands of employees.

Care homes are all mostly small, with a handful of employees.

EDIT: Wales has just said it's going to be really hard getting the Pfizer vaccine out to care homes: https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinical-areas/immunology-...
In Java there is Exception (checked) and RuntimeException (unchecked). Depending on which base class you use, the compiler will force you to handle them or not.
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I don't know how hard they would be to come up with ex nihilo, but they're fairly straightforward to prove if you know that logb(x) = log(x)/log(b) and log(x^y)=y * log(x).

For logy√z(z) = y

logy√z(z) = log(z)/log(z^1/y) = log(z)/(1/y × log(z)) = y * log(z)/log(z) = y

For logx(z)√z = x

logx(z)√z = z^(1/(logx(z)))

log(LHS) = log(z^(1/logx(z)) = log(z)/logx(z) = log(z)/(log(z)/log(x)) = log(x) = log(RHS)

Therefore LHS = RHS
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You can mute channels and hide them, or mute sections, or mute chanells and collapse the sections they are in. There are lots of ways to get channels you don't want out of your face.
Although really the first two already have a unified notation, namely x^y and x^(1/y). There are some minor differences in usage between x^(1/y) and the yth root, but those come down to the fact that the yth root isn't uniquely determined.

And there's just 1 logarithm, which has the property log(x^y) = y log(x). You don't need the ones with a different base.
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Those projects died due to management politics from WinDev, nothing to do with capabilities.

So much that many of the System C# features are now in .NET 5 and other ones will eventually land on .NET 6.
Safety tests were already completed and approved by regulators months ago. The Phase 3 trials are efficacy trials to show that the vaccine gives immunity. Certainly we learned more about the safety of the vaccines from Phase 3 data, but we already knew that adverse immediate reactions would be very rare.

What's ridiculous about this situation is that the regulatory authorities are not willing to weigh against the benefit which would come from an early emergency-use authorization (which could have happened as early as August). It's like CPU branch prediction: approve the vaccine for early distribution as fast as it can be made--which would only have been a few hundred million doses globally so far--while the phase 3 studies are going on. The early distribution would be watched as observational studies, of course. If it fails Phase 3, stop distribution and move on to the next vaccine.

If the vaccine works, this strategy would have directly saved tens or hundreds of thousands of lives, and potentially millions from getting sick and whatever long-term complications come from COVID-19. Indirectly, early vaccination of essential workers would work to decrease R0 and therefore cause fewer people to get sick through normal means.

If the vaccine doesn't work, there isn't much money wasted since the manufacturing is already being done pre-approval anyway.

In the worst case if the vaccine primes and adverse immune reaction, that is bad and an argument against early approval. However you have to weigh the added risk (that early vaccinated people have a higher CFR) vs the probability of that happening, which is low.

High likelihood of highly beneficial outcome if it works. Lower possibility of a relatively moderate bad outcome to a smaller population if it doesn't. Certainty of many added deaths if you wait. I don't have the data the regulators have that is necessary to quantify this and make the call.

But for dumb political reasons, this option is off the table. Only Russia and China went ahead with early vaccination; all the other national agencies decided not to even think about early distribution. It was not even an option on the table.
Was the SARS vaccine virus not mRNA?
It's pretty simple: picking the scab is part of the electoral strategy of the Democratic party.
:on-click? do you mean :active?
so geographical discrimination?
How does being a non-profit make their product more secure?
Related video by 3Blue1Brown: https://youtu.be/EOtduunD9hA

EDIT: correct link below.
The quango is the worst of all worlds, so it's not surprising that the concept was invented by governments.

I haven't seen the word used outside the UK so a definition might be useful: a quango, or quasi non-governmental organisation is the platypus of the British government world. As the name implies it's neither a part of the government nor the private sector. Instead, quangos are paid for by taxpayers but are completely unaccountable to them, as they can't be directly controlled by ministers or the civil service.

The theory behind this is that governments are crap at things because elected politicians interfere with the expert work of technocrats. So by setting up artificial blockades to political interference, power is transferred to technocrats and things should work better.

In practice what happens is that the government ends up hiring people who aren't very good at what they claim to be expert in, and who get corrupted by whatever unaccountable powers have been delegated to them. But they aren't easily fixable because they're "independent".

The Electoral Commission is a good example of a completely broken quango. Its only goal in life is to organise elections and referendums in ways that everyone agrees is completely fair and trustworthy. It is a staggering failure: the board of directors is full of people who publicly state very strong political opinions. It engaged in a legal vendetta against people who campaigned for Brexit. It has constantly prosecuted pro-Leave campaigners and got its ass kicked in court, where judges have repeatedly dismissed cases on the grounds that they have no evidence and/or are engaged in malicious legal behaviour. They've referred cases to the police that were then dropped for lack of evidence. Senior staff have posted on Facebook that they cried when the Tories won the election. Nobody who has followed these sagas can possibly believe these people are neutral, independent or even possess basic competence, but as they're a "quango" there isn't much of a framework to fix it beyond changing the law to totally abolish them.

tl;dr quango = power without accountability.
> Apple makes money by selling iDevices to consumers

For now. They haven't made any "I have to buy this right fucking now!" worthy revolutionary improvements in the iDevices lineup recently, the Western market for smartphones is near saturation - and with Corona tanking the US economy for wide masses, people don't have the hundreds of dollars just lying around to shell off for the latest iteration.

I believe that both the last (horribly expensive at that, and still people kept buying it) Mac Pro and the new M1 lineup is a sign that Apple wants to shift back attention to the non-mobile sector - because the competition there is asleep on the wheels. Everyone uses Intel who has managed to fuck up its lineup for many years now, Microsoft has thoroughly pissed off the privacy-conscious folks with Win10 and (judging by a random walk through a Mediamarkt) build quality in Windows laptops still hovers barely above "acceptable" - cheap plastics, tiny touchpads and abysmal screens are the norm, whereas Apple is only robust aluminium cases, giant touchpads and crystal clear, bright screens.

What I'm really excited for is when Apple decides to put an Mx chip into an iMac, paired with a decent AMD GPU. The thermals and energy profile should be allowing a lot more leeway for resource usage than a Macbook...
Recently I've noticed the discrepancy in management of one's business relations and personal relations. You could argue that the latter is more important, but it has nowhere near the multitude of tools and solutions of former. It is nice that Monica tries to fix this.
It’s not like they suddenly dumped a stack of papers on the regulators’ doorsteps. 99% of all the data they are going to get has been available for a long time and everything they are going to be able to check in their 20 days has been available for a long time.

How are they going to check if the manufacturer fudged the report? Run the experiment themselves again in 20 days?

Edit: by the way in the UK they were prepared properly and the vaccine is approved today. Or would you say they are acting irresponsibly?
> it's a habit of personal advancement at the expense of others

How does this relate to your point about a culture of self-criticism?
Microsoft is already kind of doing it, if you compile in debug mode, you get bounds checking in all STL types, and you can enable them in release builds as well.

But yeah, it only works if you use those types.

There are other divisions pushing for .NET and Rust systems code in Windows, but the political wars between WinDev and DevTools are quite well known, e.g. Longhorn (in .NET) vs WinRT (same thing just in COM).
Challenges in protecting virtual machines from untrusted entities
> "Implementing a complete C ABI (with struct arguments and returns) is incredibly tricky, and not really a lot of fun."

This sounds like it should be wrapped as an helper library on top of LLVM and embedded inside LLVM.
Why it is not the case ?
Intel hinted to investors in the last day that it might outsource 7nm, to focus on 5nm & 3nm — so here we are.

https://au.pcmag.com/processors/84184/despite-7nm-struggle-i...
Less than the risk of long-term side-effects from COVID.
There are inherent features of human languages that force you into weird issues. English for example has gender pronouns and that's why you see in profiles how you should approach someone. It's not like they want to add it, it's that they have to if it bothers them when people misuse them.

In Hungarian we don't have this problem at all, there's no concept of gender specific pronouns.
It is funny, because my app https://contactcache.com started like that. It was an Electron app working completely locally. Gradually I moved to a web app that can work locally in the browser, as long as the browser doesn't delete the local storage.
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I wonder how much it would cost Intel to acquire TSMC's process.
Yes, I think I reserve the right to judge him for a decision that hurts iOS/macOS developers as a whole. Can't I judge Facebook for being a privacy violating nightmare even though I've never had an account with them?

As for your other comments: I know what CI is; I use it daily! The way my CI runs (which is how most CI is!) is that a when a commit gets pushed a machine gets spun up to build it, then a few minutes later it shuts itself down once the compilation is complete. Why would I want to pay to have a Mac for an entire day in this scenario? I'd have to be pushing code every few minutes to have any hope of efficiently using one machine.

And believe me, I hate cross-platform garbage apps just as much as you do. But I am not in favor of putting arbitrary restrictions on how people can write their apps. Xcode used to be a soft-requirement to build apps and look how well that worked out: native developers have to stick with it all the time, even when it's acting up and being buggy, and developers who couldn't care less have reverse engineered it to the point where they either generate an Xcode project from a source tree and build from the command line, or they just package their own app bundle themselves with the magic bits that Xcode would usually apply. Trying to stop people from making garbage apps by limiting their tooling options rarely works. And, in fact, I personally know people who go services like MacStadium (VNCing in) to use Xcode for the couple days it takes to set up a build system with the right certificates and profiles, then they never touch a Mac ever again. It's the native developers with their own Macs who want to use a fresh machine to build their code for Mojave or something that they aren't running on their personal computers.
Engineers leaving Lucidworks one by one
Be interesting to get some functional magnetic resonance imaging done on this guy. Fortunately very few people in his circumstances (identical to countless others) act like this.
Do you already know what's new in PHP 8?
I suspect that they'll adopt MTE first.
Not really; MMO is just a massively multiplayer online game, it doesn't have to be an RPG. It could just as well be an FPS, RTS or any other genre...
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Might this also have a silver lining? If the virus is still able to spread, does that mean that it is less likely to face selection pressure to mutate around the vaccines?
You choose motherhood by having kids. You choose fatherhood by having kids. Do you feel empowered by fatherhood? What does it even means? If no, then that is the answer of why would choosing motherhood not be empowering.

Empowering means: "make (someone) stronger and more confident, especially in controlling their life and claiming their rights". Having child does not really make that and I dont see how it should make that.
UK approves Pfizer vaccine for rollout next week
The two other identities are only tricky because they're using logarithms with a different base and they're writing their roots with the radical symbol. If you write them using log_b(x) = log(x)/log(b) they become:

log(z)/log(z^(1/y)) = y

z^(log(x)/log(z)) = x

the first is obvious from the fact that log(x^y) = y log(x) and the latter is why log(x)/log(z) is also considered the base z logarithm. The only reason it looks nonobvious is because the notation they chose makes it non-obvious that log_b(y) = 1/log_y(b) (and that the yth root of x is x^(1/y)).
Yeah, should definitely have "US" somewhere in there, but I've lost hope about getting US netizens to specify which country their texts applies to, if it's the US, as usually the world seems to center around them.
I don't think it is fear mongering. While the health institutes have access to the data, I don't. I don't think anyone on hacker news can make many intelligent statements about side effects, yet, though the press releases claim that they are similar to what is typical of other vaccines.
Exceptions form a secondary, unseen form of control flow. A program can exit via ‘return’ calls (as normal), or at any time by some internal function way down the stack throwing an exception for something that could have been an error code.

Exceptions are not Structured Programming: they are worse than goto, because at least goto is scope-local. If, maybe, the language enforced that all throwable exceptions are declared by the prototype, then it’d be alright. But I don’t know of any that do. So, given a function call, will it error out? Can you know without inspecting the source, if you even have it?
> You don't need the ones with a different base.

To add on that, we need only one logarithm in the sense that all other then follows. For any base b, we have

log(x; b) = log(x)/log(b)
>>> I think they didn't have to collect sales tax on any cross-state transactions

That is not how it worked (or works), in the US Sales tax is owed by the consumer, just like income tax. Amazon nor any other retailer "owes" the tax, they collect it on your (the customers) behalf and submits it to the state. In fact most states pay the retailer to do this as they get to keep a small part of the collected tax.

Before some TERRIBLE court rulings in 2017, Sales tax was required to collective if your business had a "legal nexus" in the state which generally meant you had a physical location in the state you were required to collect sales tax on the sales you made to consumers of that state, so even "cross state" shipments had to be taxed if you say had a office in that state but your warehouse with the goods was in another state

If the sales tax was not collected by the retailer, you the consumer were suppose to pay the tax yourself, most states have a self reporting question on your states income tax return form.

Many people did not do this, so the states started passing laws attempting to "close this loop hole" aka the Constitutional Power grated to the federal government to regulate interstate commerce

Sadly the Federal Courts are TERRIBLE at applying the commerce clause of the US Constitution in its plainly written meaning, as they allow the federal government to use it regulate completely intrastate commerce (which should be unconstitutional) and now (as of 2017) allow the states to regulate interstate sales which also should be unconstitutional by allowing states for retailers that have no Nexus in their state to collect sales tax on sales to consumers in the state

This is also why Amazon, Walmart and others are pushing for Congress to come up with a Interstate Sales tax regulation to override the patch work for some 3000 taxing jurisdictions that make up the US sales tax regulations
Doing the theatrics and vaccinating people are not mutually exclusive. There’s plenty of people who want to get vaccinated now, so they can go first while the people who don’t can wait for this ‘necessary research’ to be done.
You can add mine side project https://contactcache.com to the list :-)
The size problem doesn't have much to do with malls - it has to do with parking. Many inner-city malls have no parking and seem very space efficient to me.

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Same here. I just heard about them yesterday, while browsing for interesting new startups in the "Who is Hiring" thread.

(Link for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266584).
It’s unlikely Taiwan would approve the sale, so it’s not probably worth the speculation .
They do, because many grandparents will expect women to do more of traditional household and will treat her more badly or with more resentment if she does not.

Also, full time childcare is quite tiring for older people, grandparents who are strong enough are typically employed.
I am not sure what you mean by "switch teams". Are you attempting to Switch Tenants?
Valuable step for new users that complete it. Not too valuable for anyone that just walks away.
It might be temporary, but removing features "temporary" certainly sounds like being shut down, but temporary.

Interesting that Facebook and everyone else has been knowing that these rules have been coming for years, they still haven't been ready. Certainly reads like they haven't been working with anyone, and their last resort is now to temporary shut down the features they were unable to fix, during these years.
You can see what API calls do not work on the listed page. Most of those should not require any privacy breaking features so it should absolutely be possible to implement them legally. They just don't like to do so.
Yeah, their assumption that there's a ternary relation between those immediately breaks down when you consider sets other than the real numbers. And you don't even need to go that far, roots as used on the real numbers don't make sense in C.

The way I see it is that there's only one fundamental function, which is the exponential function, and log is its inverse. Everything else, including a^b, is syntactic sugar. (If you define exp on C, even sin and cos...)

I guess a different notation could have some meaning pedagogically, math notation is incredibly inconsistent at times, but there really is no "deeper truth" here.
What I find kinda strange in American Culture (as an American) is that the rest of the pop music tapes are pretty much just period music that no modern kid would recognize.

The Christmas tape is a 100% known landscape. We let hits die but Christmas music is eternal.
We went from Prometheus (bursting at the seams and begging to be scaled) -> a failed Cortex implementation -> a rock solid Victoria Metrics implementation.

We found Cortex to be extremely over-engineered, extremely hard to tune (because of multiple configuration/argument refactors with incomplete doc cleanups) and found that it would just fall over under load. (Though to be fair, there wasn't much in the way of first-party deployment tooling at the time, so it was a hand-rolled Helm chart and at least 50% of the issues were likely my config).

In comparison, the first-party Victoria Metrics Helm chart worked straight out of the box, the maintainers have fixed multiple small issues within hours of me reporting them and we've thrown an extremely large amount of metrics at it with zero problems.
Ask HN: Has anyone seen smart TVs connect to unsecured WiFi without permission?
In IT circles I've noticed that whenever there's any discussion around Smart TVs, someone will usually say they buy a Monitor or Digital Signage TV instead as they don't have smart features.

This would be to avoid adverts, viewing habit tracking via content ID tracking or just running software without security updates on your network.

And inevitably someone will say that they'd heard that Smart TVs will connect to unsecured WiFi networks in proximity and start uploading your data.

This seems like something worth reporting to regulatory authorities at least. And also would be quite interesting to understand how it works.

But I've never heard of any specifics.
Like what brand does this? What data is it trying to send?

It's easy to spoof a public hotspot and then at least identify what domains it tries to connect to.

Failing that there might be information gleaned from wireshark.
On-package RAM and upgradability are not at odds with eachother. If upgradability was desired, we could see socketed SOC. This is one of the things modular phones (project Ara) were about.

Just because RAM was one of the last holdout of upgradability, does not make it inherently more suitable for upgradability.

The problem is a lack of interest in manufacturing repairable and upgradable hardware. It is simply less profitable.
I do not believe that it is a stereotypical British trait to be self deprecating.

Being self deprecating is very common in a large number of countries, among all those who are reasonably intelligent or educated, to be able to notice how many bad things exist around them.

As others have already mentioned, this is caused by the fact that people can see directly the many bad things that exist in their neighborhood, but they have very little information about how things are bad elsewhere, and they hope that at least in other distant places the same mistakes are not being made.
> you have to write the whole file each time

Will not write the whole file. Instead each page of the database (default = 4KB) will be separate put.

The use case is: one-writer multiple readers.

The readers will read an old snapshot of the database (from s3) and writer will write to the active one. This way a lot of readers can open the DB in read-only mode.

As for writer, each page will be a separate put. The writes will be appended to a log(s) locally and the page will be synced in the background. This helps to exploit lot of parallel PUTs to S3. Once the sync happens the disk space for that page will be reclaimed.

For the writer:

v = open_new_version()

//inserts + updates

//commit

close_version(v)

For readers:

open_version_for_read(v)

//select