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So this is "because it has higher efficacy" -but its false logic since there was no harm to having a potentially less efficacious fluvax.

I don't disagree that in itself, its net beneficial

BTW I was riffing on words said inside the post: the post implied there was a burden to getting traction on the funding side to improve on fluvax. I found that interesting because I actually question it: I think there has been no lack of good evidence flu causes economic loss and so corporates want staff vaccinated against flu. Or, that old people in care homes have higher risk. But, the original post said something I wanted to riff on: I think post covid, ANY story for investment in vaccine will secure funding and interest: we're now primed to believe this is "worthy"

I absolutely agree with your conclusion: its net beneficial in and of itself, if we could stop needing the 4 and 3 variant flu shot and go with a viral stem-based semi-constantly applicable vaccine, I'd be very pleased.
There's a subreddit that lists news stories of self-defence situations with a firearm. They don't make the news because they are all local stories but it happens all the time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dgu/

The idea that the US can somehow turn back the clock with hundreds of millions of legal guns already purchased is laughable. Almost every attempt at the state or city level has completely backfired. That train passed long ago. And the denial of this has only ever worsened the problem. I'd go as far as saying it's an anti-science position in 2020.
I'll have a read through your article later as I'm quite interested in hearing your point of view. However in my experience, it's pretty easy to get a reasonable Kubernetes cluster setup with stateless apps on a cloud platform managed Kubernetes service.
"Enhancing" punishments on accusations as vague as "causing unrest" surely won't be abused...
Yep, I’ve served my years as a dev under that model too :)
I think the problem is that Google doesn’t really want or need outside collaboration in their open source projects. They have project managers that steer the ship and more than enough smart people to write code. What do they need you for?

I think that’s often the (subconscious?) attitude Google has towards its open source projects at least. Which would be fine if they didn’t try to make it seem like their OS projects are a welcome place where anyone can contribute ideas and code and move the project forward.

As an example: Angular is open source but it’s very much a Google project. Rails is also open source but it’s a broad collaboration, certainly not a “37signals project”. Most people would rather spend their time contributing to the second kind of project.
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Well I like my Bose headphones, which use a single AAA battery but they are corded. Wireless anything is a hard no for me due to poor experience with it. I know a lot of people disagree.
A little too realized if you ask me. And with worse music.
Where they can execute JS, they can do so in the same security context as the containing document. So, yeah, they can be used in situ for any privacy or security intrusion that a script tag can.
That’s not how data works unfortunately. You can’t average the experience of a Chicago beat cop with a desk duty cop from Nome Alaska. Besides that, number of discharges doesn’t tell much of the story.

They’re not paid better due to the fact that they are in unions at all. Otherwise teachers would be rich, and police departments in major cities wouldn’t be struggling to hire even with relatively high wages. They pay that because nobody wants the job and the public is inexplicably antagonistic towards cops who join out of a desire to help people.

Saying that it’s quite safe is absurd and obviously untrue. It didn’t make your top 10 list of professions with the most deaths, but it’s barely below the cut, so still in the top 20 easily. And again, that data doesn’t tell the whole story.
You don't think a job which massively inconveniences petty and violent criminals - some of whom will be part of larger crime families and networks - is inherently risky?
Forked from version v1.13.0, the last released tag with the BSD license. Sigh. I use this for something that doesn't use their map tiles at all.

Hundreds of new forks on Github in the last few hours. Maybe there will be a semi-official community version.
To elaborate, the following distributions of Chromium are violating the Google API terms of service [1] [2] by publishing the API secret key publicly in the build source code responsible for building Chromium:

* Alpine Linux (community port) - https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/chromium/A...

* Arch Linux (svntogit, AUR) - https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/1e8f3fe7... - https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=chrom...

* Fedora Linux - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chromium/blob/e78656ce58d...

* Gentoo - https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/9acf51b665b6f4b5b97edb...

* OpenSuSE - https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factor...

* Slackware - http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/chromium/build/c...

* Ubuntu, Linux Mint (Canonincal Chromium Snap) - https://git.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/+g...

[1] https://developers.google.com/terms (specifically: "You will only access (or attempt to access) an API by the means described in the documentation of that API. If Google assigns you developer credentials (e.g. client IDs), you must use them with the applicable APIs. You will not misrepresent or mask either your identity or your API Client's identity when using the APIs or developer accounts." and "Developer credentials (such as passwords, keys, and client IDs) are intended to be used by you and identify your API Client. You will keep your credentials confidential and make reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other API Clients from using your credentials. Developer credentials may not be embedded in open source projects.")

[2] https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys (specifically: "Note that the keys you have now acquired are not for distribution purposes and must not be shared with other users.")
Lambdas get pricey quick.

PAAS tends to lock you in. You don't notice it happening as you add features, then you discover that escaping the platform requires significant re-engineering. (When freelancing, one of my more lucrative gigs was helping a company de-Herokuize their app after the original developers moved on).

Raw EC2 instances usually end up with wizards SSHing in to deploy & tweak. It's sooo tempting.

Having participated in all of these scenarios in the past, I'd recommend any sized company go right to containers. It's the straightest road from zero through MVP to scale, and the best for onboarding new developers.

That said, don't get sidetracked! Pay a company to manage the orchestration. And don't burn time on accessories like CI pipelines or blue-green deploys until the important stuff works.
I'm not saying we shouldn't protect them. But why not extend these protections to the general public?

I used the term first class citizens because people in power tend to grant themselves more of it over time or have privileges (official or unofficial) which benefit them, and not just to protect them. For example, how often do you hear about police being given a ticket? Many laws explicitly except the people in Congress as well.
And you Will find criminals that HAVE weapons. That's just an incorrect statement all around.
Tow truck driver, repoman, meth clinic server, bouncer, loomis car driver...
So are psychologists, doctors, debt collectors, lawyers, managers (think: firing), HR staff, businessmen and many other job categories.
If even their tools were stolen, how the hell can they claim "no customer data was accessed"?
I see. To my small brain it sounds like TD can intelligently memoize or cache the outputs of each "step" so that it only recalculates when it needs to as the inputs change.

I think Spark does that sometimes these days, but I don't know much about the specifics of how and when Spark does it.

Does TD have to keep _everything_ in memory, or can it be strategic in what it keeps and what it evicts?
The US govnernment already spends $$$ to give its president the kind of protection that can be only dreamed by ordinary citizens. Bulletproof cars, Air Force One, a gang of bodyguards who are trained to put themselves between you and the bullet. Sometimes they literally block streets and your right to peacefully move or assemble. Your tax dollars at work.

Why such unfairness?

Because the world is full of bad actors and crazies dreaming of killing the POTUS, and it pays off in the long run to not have the president killed off in that fashion.

It's not exactly black and white.
No.

Equal protection under the law and freedom of speech.

It's a terrible story being told here and I am saddened by her loss but this judge and you, and I, and everyone else are peers.

Judges may be interesting and special for brief periods of time while they adjudicate on their bench but out in the world they are normal people just like everyone else. If privacy laws are inadequate for them then they are inadequate for all of us.

I can't imagine a situation where I would know, much less disseminate, the address of a judge but that is without any question speech protected by the first amendment.
Criminals well into the crime world decided to commit a crime will find a gun regardless of the country they are in.

US is arming the average Joe with no gun training, or psychological evaluation, the guy that is selling weed at the corner of SF, Karen that is angry at the customer service and the full of hormones schoolchildren.

Now given that all of these people have access to highly lethal guns, law enforcement has to be more pro-active than other countries, thus all of the expenses to buy war machines for neighborhood police depts.

What could possibly go wrong?
> If the network allows outbound traffic, they can hard-code an IP list - this is how Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 works and malware has done this for decades – or they can use local DNS to resolve a single name

Why can't you redirect all 53 traffic to a pihole and block that single name?
I passed half my university courses lying down I'm pretty sure. Using a small laptop (one of those tiny ones) on my chest + an external keyboard and mouse plugged into with the keyboard sitting on the groin area.

Worked like a charm.
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That’s not the way the law works. I am surprised a federal judge is unable to understand this, but of course she has lived through the worst thing a parent could experience. And it is indirectly why we in the USA have a second amendment. Hear me out before downvoting me.

The police, sadly, are not here to prevent crime. That’s why people who get restraining orders continue to live in fear. Our legal system simply has no concept of preventing crime except through statute. That’s why some of us, especially those living in rural areas where the police could be half an hour away or more, are afforded self protection through firearms.
I'd maintain that awareness, training, and tooling are essential for achieving constructive outcomes here. Without knowing that one has dark personality traits, and thereby a particular way of experiencing the world and pleasure/reward that is different from how most people experience it, it's hard to not unintentionally develop abusive behavioral patterns. Goals develop from a world view. Improve somebody's perspective and their goals adjust.

Knowing that one deals with a dark personality makes it easier to adjust one's interactions and expectations to them and not fall for possible abuse.

Every problem can be solved with enough understanding.
The effort to post a song is the same as it is to post anything else. The creation of the song is what takes time. But then it also takes time to create a painting or vase or quilt or whatever else.
That is purely selection bias. You have to look at other countries.
Because it's just rude, and someones work life does not exactly correlate with who they are in their professional life.

Why drag their family, the neighborhood into it?
Yes, you’re right, they are (the solicitors) often defending people that are not well-liked. However, in a lot of cases, the government is losing the cases, as the govt is violating the law. Rather than attacking the process, the govt is in a position to change the law if it wants to.

A side note. Barristers in the UK do not choose their clients. There’s what’s called the “cab-rank rule”, which says that if a barrister is instructed on a case they are sufficiently competent in, they must take the case without prejudice.
Yeah, it's true that the people I know that use it do so on workstations. Still IMHO the technology (OSTree) is solid & perfect match for various server & mobile use cases. Once mature enough of course. :)
Can you say what model you've got? I haven't yet bought Bluetooth buds but when my tatty current wired ones die I probably will. I'd been thinking about Jabra's but I'll take whatever is cheap and works ;)
Practically, it would mean that you'd have to have a police presence there, wouldn't it? Or are you going to assume that the mob will always play nice, and never decide to storm the house?
I think to know if it's more risky, we would need to see violent crime statistics of people in these positions vs those who are not.
demonstrating intent in court can often be quite difficult. focusing instead on outcomes for the judges may help
Really seems like someone who made a vexatious litigant out of themselves on the back of "mens' rights" pet issues should probably have a full-time FBI tail.
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Obligatory: This suggestion immediately reminded me of:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/JudgeDredd

But let's leave that aside for a second. I would say that the order in which people should be better protected (w.r.t. the legal system) is:

1. Prisoners, from abuse by prison staff (and to some extent from inter-prisoner violence.

2. Detainees, from abuse by police and prison staff.

2.1 Your average joe.

2.2 Poor and minority detainees. Case in point: George Floyd. But there are lots and lots of deaths:

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-...

... and I'm guessing a lot of non-lethal violence.

2.3 People of political significance. Major case in point: Jeffrey Epstein, whose extremely suspicious death has made many suspicious of foul play:

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/05/who-killed-jeffrey-e...

3. Judges and such.

Why? Those people who attack, who hurt, who punish, who bind - at best, what they do is a necessary evil. But they are acting from positions of institutional power. The more you are considered out-of-order, abnormal, criminal, you are generally weaker, have less recourse, less able to protect yourself and more tempting to abuse.

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I also disagree with the judge's conclusion on the question of means rather than ends. Instead of giving judges special protection, I would rather US society did something about its horrible gun culture. The number of killings in the US is spectacularly high. And always it seems that the solution they opt for is _more_ violence, militarization, retaliation through superior firepower, body and vehicle armor etc. US police is already heavily militarized, being fed a nearly-infinite supply of military surplus equipment. Now we'll have fortified compounds where judges are isolated from people? No. That actually does reminds me of Judge Dredd, even if not of the exact details.
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As someone who has done some work in the PR sector, it was established that it's crucial to ensure the correct narrative is delivered.

There can be times when the "factually accurate" narrative conflicts with the correct one, there's a reason why most corporations have dedicated resources for engaging with the public.

What one normally consider to be "weasel words" are often carefully chosen to polish the truth while alleviating harm to key stakeholders.
For some reason Microsoft keeps doing dark themes like this. Same in Windows 10. Pitch black against text. Do they even let designers do this job or is it just devs checking in code? A designer should know about these things by heart.
It certainly wouldn’t hurt if our political leaders wouldn’t immediately bash judges if a decision doesn’t go their way. With the current election fraud outrage I see this even get worse.
Where's the active OSS fork? Surely one will shake out of all this.
Exactly my point.

You can see when it stops working right here http://blackfridaydeathcount.com/
In a lot of cases it's worth considering whether orchestration is necessary at all — pure docker can take you quite far, with just a couple shell scripts called from the last stage of your CI (or manually)
> The same Pi running a DNS server can run a proxy which applies blocking policies on all hostnames.

With DoH, it's easy to not just hardcode the resolver's IP but also the resolver's certificate. How would a proxy be able to intercept that?
I totally agree. The law is incredibly vague, I was just mentioning it as a "solution".
Only in movies do judges get every ruling right. There is an error rate, but thats the best case scenario. In reality many judges are political hacks, and cowards that will rule in line with their political backers when it matters. This has been true for as long as humans have lived in civilization.
Laws like this just give them more cover.
Our entire country’s yearly stats are a bad weekend in Chicago.

I wake up knowing I’m probably not going to be shot by some prick in Asda car park.
I trust Canonical more than Debian for security fixes. Canonical has a dedicated security team.
> devoid of trust and community

I assure you, this has nothing to do with being armed. This should be pretty clear from a number of observations:

A) The most heavily armed communities in the US are highly community-oriented and trustworthy towards their respective in-groups

B) Lack of social cohesion seems to be just as prevalent in western nations with full disarmament

The actual proximate causes of social decoherence are things that HN is probably mostly in support of, on net; urbanization, multiculturalism, etc.
Optional and nullable types are very different. When you wrap a type T in Optional, you make a completely new type that just happens to contain T inside, which means you cannot use Optional<T> in places where you previously accepted T, because you break a contract for the caller. With nullable types (which essentially represent a set `{t | t in T} v {NULL}`) it is possible. This is similar to the notions of co- and contra-variance for inputs/outputs of a function.

Rich Hickey had a good talk about problems of representing a missing information in programs, and why union types allow you to incrementally make changes in your codebase without refactoring the whole thing at once.
> In my house, the only way to see who has come to the front door is to peek through a bay window. In mid-July, after four months of Covid-19 restrictions, home deliveries occurred almost daily. Daniel’s killer took advantage of this familiar routine, coming to our door posing as a Fed-Ex delivery courier.

This to me is the most incongruous thing about this story. Why bother with a disguise if your intent is just to shoot everybody? He ended up just going home and killing himself, so it's not like he planned a big escape.

Salas was also coincidentally(?) overseeing a class action lawsuit against Deutsche Bank in connection with Jeffrey Epstein, leading to much speculation. The NY Times piece does a good job placing the motive solely on the FedEx hitman.
Ah, then nothing's changed (re the messiness) since Android 2/4/5. Sounds like they're still moving toward locking down everyone's hardware to ensure their ad platform revenue.

The couple of devices I've broken down a release for and rebuilt just to clean out Trojans included in the firmware were devilishly difficult. And does it ever piss me off that there's nothing generic and updated to run on them.
It takes about 15 seconds of googling to find out that yes, the user can decide what apps are allowed to run in the background. It's just that now, it's not "every app by default" and instead "what apps a user selects".
I don't think comparing headphones to a 5.1 set is normal...

Talking like other bluetooth headsets don't work is also not my experience.

There is no way I'm paying the Apple premium for what is already a solved problem for my use-case.
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Sometimes too much, sometimes probably not enough. Ear infections are pretty common for swimmers, but I made a point of shaking water out of my ears whenever I got out of the pool and swabbing them dry after practice, and I never had any problems. Some people use earplugs, and I guess caps might offer protection for some people (in my experience they didn't keep water out for long.)
> There are certain fields/work that are inherently more risky or serve a critical component of society.

You mean like grocery delivery drivers and cashiers?

What about virologists? Or what about all of the PhD students in Field X, where X is not virology but some other thing that will be at the focal point of the next crisis but which everyone today thinks is unnecessary and figures we should stop over-produce PhDs for? 12 months ago you could probably come to a place like HN, complain that you can't find a good paying job with your phd in coronaviruses, and be told that academia is a pyramid scheme, that no one owes you anything and you should just learn to code and go work on a labor law arbitrage product at the center of an even bigger pyramid scheme.

Since we're on a technology forum, what about the engineers who implement the software/hardware that's used to manufacture PPE, or run simulations to help design mRNA vaccines, or write firmware for the machinery and devices used to mass produce vaccines? Or even more mundane but none-the-less useful stuff like designing and implementing intuitive UX for no-contact payment methods?

Anyways, what's the point of drawing this line between "useful resource" and "everyone else"? What if the role of government were to treat humans citizens with natural rights that should be protected by law, instead of as economic resources to be deployed?

Also, have you asked any essential workers how they feel about being treated as a useful resource? Instead of, you know, a human with natural and legal rights?

Perhaps judges don't need special treatment. Maybe, perhaps, personal privacy is incredibly important component of human dignity.
That’s awesome. Implementation is the second hardest facet of self-reflection, after accepting the truth of how we prioritize things.
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YMMV. A friend of mine was recently in a fire, and several of her neighbors died because they tried to leave using the stairs, then succumbed to smoke inhalation. Everybody who stayed in their flats survived.

I think it's awfully situational, but in the case of a fire, if you live in a house with decent fire standards (thick doors, fire-retardant insulation), I think you might be safer staying inside and waiting for a truck to come with a ladder.

I would probably leave my flat through the window, with a rope. It's not terribly high, so if I mess up, I'd probably just break my legs.