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> but there is nothing but acceptance that what the government says is the ONLY answer.

To be fair there is a lot of non-government and also non-media sources of information about mRNA in general and mRNA vaccines.

Understanding how things work helps me make my own decisions about the safety. This talk was one of the better ones I found. It is clearly meant for other researchers or as a university lecture[1], so if they say something you don’t know or understand do pause often (I definitely had to) and get educated about the related science.

My conclusion: Most of this stuff is relatively old science. I was even taught parts of it in high school decades ago (i.e. not politicized). The only unknowns for me are the COVID specific spike protein, and potential overproduction/overreaction by my cells. Given many people (including some friends) have now been exposed to this specific spike protein, it is clearly inert from a non-COVID perspective. And therefore overproduction/overreaction seem to be not a big deal, given the inert nature of this specific spike. And of course now we have data from many people taking the vaccine that it’s not an issue.

Anyways, I don’t distrust the media, but I subscribe to “trust and verify”. Regardless of why you want to verify, the internet allows you to become somewhat educated on most topics in about a week. And if you wanted to spend 3 months you could even become very educated[2] on that specific topic. Might as well take advantage of it for yourself.

[1] https://youtu.be/tVh1s06H_nw

[2] it’s even possible to become an expert over the internet, but would require multiple years and enough dedication that’s it’s probably simpler to just go to college for the subject. But it’s definitely possible, so leverage it as much as you can.
Indeed, for reference, truly vast swathes of the rural western states are federal government land. Not all is BLM, some is national park and such, but same concept applies for zero population in a census block.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands
How do you know it's waterfall-like? If you ship working software every 2 weeks and every 26th one you release, hooray, you have yearly software that's super likely to work well.
People are too focused on data collection. We get it, surveillance is everywhere. It’s taking up a quarter of the front page at any given time. Anyone have anything intellectually novel to say? Or can I go write a bunch of articles about the same topic?
I'd not be surprised if we learn in $time_unit that everything in the universe is life. The variable is - like in relativity - the experience of time, not if something is alive (as opposed to moving in relativity). It may be close to zero from our perspective, so quite hard to spot, but we get better measurements with more time.
'I really wish we would treat sales people the same way. "How much money is this contract for? What date will it be signed?"'.

In well-run sales teams, that is exactly what happens. There is a constant move towards more accuracy and tightness in forecasting.

In poorly run sales teams, the reps basically set their owns quotas (padded, of course, to mitigate against massive uncertainty) and then are very imprecise at managing the WIP. Which sounds like a poorly run engineering team too. In sales, though, at least there is a very objective measure ($$$ closed) at the end of the period. Also, the period is fixed typically (months, quarters, etc).

Engineering is obviously different... what's the measure? LOCs? Obviously not...

Edit: just to be clear, I'm saying that well-run sales teams and well-run engineering teams probably have a lot in common, not that they are exactly the same.
No one who is legit just compares cost and availability they are going to also include the health levels of the nation, time to actually getting an appointment, time to get a surgery for a condition, etc. You can't just pick out two variables and say "see I'm right!" . There are a ton of European health markets that are superior to the US market when comparing multiple variables. We need to copy them or do something very similar rather than being stubborn assholes and think everything has to be home grown.
Related from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810942
Just to follow up on the ISS, they have made a total of 20 avoidance maneuverers and they do it if they calculate the chance of hitting as greater than 1 in 10000.

So it is a thing, but I wouldn’t call < 1 per year regular
Does anyone have a recommendation if I want to do the reverse, i.e. share my Android screen in a PC window (Windows)?

A quick Google search reveals that there are options, does anyone have any experience doing that?

Ideally I'd like to mirror an app view to a PC window regardless whether the android display is turned off or even the app is in the background. Not sure if that's even possible on a non-rooted android.
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I'd love to chat - shall I reach on twitter? or send me an email (willnash at me dot com)
Oh, that's exactly what I mean -- when I say "everything that's broken about the tone of web discussions these days", I'm talking about threads and topics other than this one. I don't see any 'fight' here, and that's what's so refreshing.
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My job title is data scientist, just as hers was. It's far less of a catch all title than the job title software engineer is. There are so many different kinds of software engineers, but only a few kinds of data scientists. Of the kind of work she was doing, in 2020 roughly 60% of data scientists did the same kind of work. Yes, not all data scientists create dashboards, but calling the job title a catch all is pretty far from reality.
Virtu is a market-maker. Comparing their win record to RenTech makes no sense. They have a high win-rate but so did brokers in the 70s...Virtu is doing the same thing as them (they are also APs for ETFs...again, the innovation there has really been able to make markets at very low cost).

There are hundreds of other quant firms with public records. RenTech has better numbers because they stayed smaller. It is difficult to generalise but firms either grow assets to a point where the market moves against them when they trade/returns drop or they go into strategies with lower returns at scale (btw, both things are common outside of quant too). They aren't doing HFT. Some quant strategies are tangential to HFT, for example front-running news was a big strategy in the early 2010s...it is somewhat latency-based but is still distinct from HFT, which tends to refer more to making markets.

The book says they tried hmm/speech stuff and it didn't work. It is likely they are doing more complex things now but Nick Patterson said they were using linear regression for most of the 90s. Generally speaking, this is a common misconception: people believe that because the results are good, the model must be more complex. This reflects how university courses are organised but the real world isn't like that (one big advantage that RenTech had was data, they had data that no-one else had for a very long time, another big factor is execution...these kind of practical edges are far more important than people think).

Also, they use a ton of leverage...their returns actually compare pretty well to what fundamental managers can achieve outside of a public fund. Having investors is a significant limitation because they will often force you to behave in a way that reduces returns (i.e. redeeming at the worst time, asking for risk reductions at the worst time). The structure is very kind to gross returns.

Retroactive reallocation of successful trades is very old. The SEC cracked down on this in the 80s, it is very easy to prove, and it is very unlikely that someone doing this would hire a bunch of scientists and then give them a bunch of equity in the fund...it doesn't make any sense.
Github seems like a toxic place to work.

"100% of Nazis were there" -- it's likely false. How do you even know 100% of Nazis were there?

I work in tech and have been trained to use appropriate languages and avoid generalization.

I don't doubt there are people who support nazis there. But how do you know all of them support nazis?

This person who said "nazis are about" is absolutely being inappropriate. Is it a fireable offense? I have no idea.

If someone said "looters are about" during BLM, they would be canceled so hard. (yes, many BLMs support looting, well, it's just property not people. Some even supports looting the shops who support BLM because protest must cause inconvenience! the worst strategy I've ever heard of)

At the current state, it would be better to forbid talking about politics at work because one side is given so much free pass to exaggerate and generalize.
Get something ready for Christmas business? Get a car on the road? Finish the cruise ship in time? ...
The reality is that software development is nothing like engineering or construction, it's totally different. You don't build a quick house, let people live in it and start building the walls whilst they live there.

Humans like to think via metaphor because it's a least-effort mode of thought but sometimes there just isn't one and it's just tough luck and start thinking from first principles instead.
This:

> But I still love you!

comes off as _super_ disingenuous.
I don't see this as "team blue" vs "team red" any more. It used to be, back when team-red was confident it could control the populist tiger it was riding. But now it's team-status-quo vs team-revolution, and judging by their tactics, team-revolution would rule in a top-down authoritarian manner, where power is distributed based on fealty and relationship, rather than on process and institution like now.
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249822
While a lot of BLM land is uninhabited, it is not all like that and not necessarily intended that way either. For example, the entirety of California's coastline is BLM land.

The BLM simply functions as the kitchen sink of land management at the federal level, catching everything that is not explicitly assigned to other agencies.
What data would be useful here? There are so many confounding factors.
A consistant alignment-free indenting only style is perfectly readably.
More reably than a lot of inconsitently applied and subjective alignment styles I often see.

Though I have also seen consistently applied non-subjective alignment based styles, that are also perfectly reably.
But no more reasable than a consistently applied indenting only style.
Alignment styles are in general more complex to describe and thus more inconsistently applied.

And sure some subjective alignment based styles are pretty are maybe even marginally more readable.
But does it scale?
Can the intern who is only here for summer weeks be expected to learn what makes it look nice in the teams opinion while also learning everything else?
How about that one coworker who just doesn't agree and refuses to conform to these subjective rules that can't even be written down.
Sure, you can have art if you want for your solo project.
But programming is a team sport.
I suggest you avoid using the word hacker, as to me you are using it in a negative sense, while missing that a good hack can be excellent engineering. “Hacker” contains a wild variety of behaviour and skills. The concept is too amorphous and people have wildly disagreeing meanings associated with the word (the meaning is very audience and context sensitive) so it is difficult to use the word as a proxy for the sense you wanted to convey, in a discussion with a wide audience.

Edit: I am suggesting hacker is a loaded/confusing word that is definitely not the opposite of engineer. Good engineering and good hacking are compatible - the right temporary fix can be excellent engineering. Cowboy (≈hacker) mechanical and civil engineers exist, so the concept of hacking is not incompatible with engineer. Using the word hacker intrinsically includes the concept of software, so contrasting hacking and engineering is not a tidy argument.
There is a huge Caviat in your scenario. A lot of people won't come in because they can't afford it, or they won't get the test because they can't afford it. Your wife can order the imaging test, but she doesn't have to deal with the debt, and/or months of arguing on the phone with administrators that her patient sees.

I live in Canada where I am enrolled in the provincial health plan. If a doctor recommends a test or treatment I get it. Cost isn't a consideration. My age isn't a consideration. Please don't spread lies about how universal healthcare works. Unlike insurance in the US, if the doctor orders it, it is covered by the healthcare system here.

Truth: I may have to wait based on a triage system.

If the doctor doesn't recommend a test as necessary or I don't want to wait for my place in line, I can go to a medical clinic that offers these tests privately and pay/have my employer provided secondary coverage pay.

In that way it turns out that we don't have to make the tradeoff.

I've had the best insurance I could buy in the US, and now I have the standard health care that every person in my Canadian province gets. My experience, which is backed up by studies, is that I am healthier, and the population in general is healthier under the Canadian system.
I was taught in school that `0.1` is rational. Afaik it isn't in any lisps. I think that's the point the GP was making.

That said, while making `0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3` come out as exactly zero, with a clean and principled way to avoid things going pathological when the denominator gets large, is nice, it's hardly one of Raku's "main contributions to the programming language design space that I probably haven't seen elsewhere?"! :)
Researching the abuse potential of what you put out online is an important step in making sure you remain in control of the narrative around your offering. If you don't do that one day you will wake up to find out that you are now co-founder of something that you abhor.
I'd rather see more of a chase for simplicity these days. It is the hallmark of good project. However today the opposite is popular.
No a failed state is defined as "a state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control" - or one who has lost its monopoly on violence. Homelessness is one piece in the mosaic. [1]

I'm thinking more about the 21,000 national guard troops sleeping on the floor in DC who have each been screened to make sure it's even possible to transfer power.

And to be clear, I was talking about the city-sanctioned homeless encampments, not just the free-form ones. [2]

[1] https://fragilestatesindex.org

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/21/us/san-francisco-homeless-ten...
Been thinking a lot about doing Strava for music practice. I've set the website up for being to sign up for 'the beta' so I can come back to them when I have more done. I have the basic app going but more work needs to be done. The website is pracso.com if anyone is interested?
You introduced "will never" to this argument here. Neither me nor parent comments said that being visible today or in the past has anything to do with being visible in the future.

I would argue that science is about a core of what is considered proven and thus is true, as well as topics that are currently discussed and a large amount of knowledge that still has to be discovered. And I think these galaxies that are invisible today might be in the latter category - if they exist at all. But I wouldn't rule out their existence unnecessarily. In a few years, due to advances in technology, it could be possible to "discover" (or rather estimate) far more galaxies than what is proposed in this study.

Just because mankind in the middle ages had never seen Pluto doesn't mean it didn't exist back then.
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I start with a Protonmail GPG key, but the more paranoid out there may want to generate their own keys to use.

Thoughts/feedback welcome!
For whatever reason the "Request Desktop Site" option is hidden in Safari behind the icon in the address bar that suggests it should just be about controlling the font (small-cap-A, big-cap-A). I think it took me two years to finally remember that consistently instead of just being frustrated that I couldn't find it.
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What are the names of the Israeli, Czech and British firms?
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Woah, I'm a CA resident and also surprised and happy. Are you seeing a lot of non-compliance?
I have an alternative to the xor trick that doesn't suffer from zeros.

def swap(a,b):
a=a-b
b=a+b
a=b-a
return a,b
it should be, and it needs to be if we ever want to fix this problem, but it'll be political suicide for anyone that even says this out loud. corporations would be all for it to.

(majority of) people with jobs have no idea how bad/expensive healthcare really is. they have excellent insurance coverage and they pay very little for it. if we make them responsible for buying their own it'll be impossibly expensive. but this is exactly what they need to realize so that we can have the political movement to overhaul the entire system
> It said the requirement for tech companies to compensate Australian news companies for coverage – including coverage of international news – while foreign media companies offering the same news would not be compensated “could raise concerns with respect to Australia’s international trade obligations”

Once again a free trade agreement being used to limit a nation's ability to make policy according to their needs.

FTAs should not be weaponized like this. It is counterproductive to the goal of free trade; countries don't want to open themselves up to litigation or litigious trading partners unnecessarily.
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Please stop feeding flamewars on HN. You've been doing way too much of this, unfortunately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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This comment breaks the site guidelines badly. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and note this one: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

This sort of thing, compounded, amounts to the death of this forum as a place for curious conversation, so please take better care of the commons here.
England is an island in geography, but it has a lot of truck (lorry) traffic to and from the continent, via ferries and the rail line under the channel. It's not just containerized freight, the trucks with drivers drive on and drive off the other modes of transit.

Being an island isn't required; you need effective border controls, and effective control of population behavior. It's just a lot easier to have effective border control with an island; but England certainly didn't make use of that possibility.
Nice. do you have plans to abstract the db layer further for non firebase + relational stores? Specifically like a tighter integration for postgres maybe?
From my point of view GDPR is the real ToS you never read but were forced to accept.
Something was bothering me about this whole thing. I think I found what it is:

1) This is an entirely self-centered approach. "These are the tools that I like, and I code the way I'm productive, with the specific knowledge I've acquired, tailored to how I best work." That's a lot of "I" in there.

The idea of programming this way really bothers me because as someone who's hired freelancers, the best interests of your clients are nowhere in your calculus. Now, if you gave them the choice between lower cost code and code that anyone else can work on, it's your client's decision. But you are making that decision for them. If your clients are non-tech people who don't understand the ramifications of each choice, then you are doing them a disservice.

Nowhere in your article do you mention documentation or making your source easily understood by anyone else, so I rest my case.

It looks like if you are ever hit by a train, your client is screwed, and you've not thought about that.

2) I know that we, as engineers, love to reinvent the wheel, but when you start implementing stuff readily available you introduce bugs and security weaknesses. Maybe you trust yourself not to do that, but do your clients know you're not using industry standard code?

Anyway, your life, your choices. I'm not sure you've been on the client side inheriting code written like this that no new programmer can understand right away. Whoever inherits your code is going to have a lot of head scratching to do, and the only saving grace is that they will have your tests to validate any changes, and they will hope that your test coverage is appropriate.

But from the point of view of your own interests, everything you wrote is very beneficial.
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>He is saying I am either a troll or a pawn.

I didn't interpret that comment the same way at all.

I think the gist of it can be summed up by (purportedly) Winston Churchill:

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

If, as you suggest, you're using a semi-throwaway account specifically to discuss COVID, unless other folks know that, your posting history with this account would likely give that impression.
I think you're right about the underlying concern about status. My sense is that people in this discussion are really asking whether software engineering is just easier than mechanical or chemical or aerospace--or whatever--engineering. That's also why I don't think calls for certification standards really address this concern (you can just as well be certified to do something easy).
I was referring to his second main point.
True, but in many, many ways it isn’t.
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Who cares? "Real" engineers love to gatekeep the term because they think there's an aura of prestige associated with the term, and they think that software developers calling themselves engineers are trying to steal valor. But in the present economic environment where fake engineers can make much more money than real engineers, why would anyone want to pretend to be a real engineer?
Thanks! This is helpful context, and supports my notion.
This comment made me login into my dormant HN account just to upvote it.
Alas, I also forgot poor Yorick.

(And combining both Wirth and Shakespeare, technically speaking Oberon is a valid first name, too)

There's also Chuck, Idris, Karel, Joy, Tom and arguably Euclid, Janus and Mercury.

The jury's out on "Rexx" and "Nial"…
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The arguments here and in the Assange case are similar. "he is not a journalist", "he is unstable", "he hacked computers" etc
I think that if you honestly consider GraphQL a better fit than gRPC, you probably should never have considered gRPC to begin with...

And much as we're considering GraphQL for some services as work... I'm not sure I buy it as an RPC framework. I suppose it has about the same appeal as SOAP for that purpose.
Hmm, swaps the zero problem for a overflow/underflow one?
Encrypting data after it has transited untrustworthy networks (which could have surveilled or modified it before it gets to you) is about as useful as closing the barn door after the horse has already escaped. The encryption (and authentication) needs to happen at the origin to get any security benefit.