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> The grocer also promised workers receiving vaccines that they would not lose pay for missed hours from work

It's not just the time to get the shot.

I've seen reports (both in the news and from a friend who has been vaccinated) that the second dose frequently triggers really miserable flu symptoms that last a day or so.

I'd be prepared to take a sick day or two.

And it's probably best for a team -- or a family -- to not all get the shots on the same day.
Missionaries and Cannibals Problem
> Our policy is that anything that requires a proxy to forward an invalid Transfer-Encoding header is a vulnerability in the proxy

It's great that they're fixing this anyway, but that's a bad policy.
How do they verify that people are actually getting the vaccine (and not forged documents)?
Facebook's Undervalued Stock May Fall Following Quarterly Results
The OS already needs to properly schedule tasks of different load intensities and match them to the available cores, which might already be running different processes. An application has strictly less visibility into whats going on overall in the system, what else is using resources etc., so I don't see how it can decide any better? All it needs to do is set the proper priorities, so the OS scheduler knows whats more important.
Great, really happy with Firefox for Android lately. It works well and all the extensions I need are already supported. Good to hear there's even more coming.

My #1 gripe was the lack of pull to refresh but that's coming now too!
I hear your point but I disagree with the binary nature of it. I do think the challenge of rural internet lies in the incredible amount of infrastructure costs with limited recovery. This is the same challenge the electricity markets have (or any public infrastructure). The other challenge in the US that most european countries don't have (for anyone from Europe) is that the US has incredibly large land mass with sparse populations and challenging weather conditions (tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, etc.).

This is where something like starlink et. competitors can provide a much better cost per outcome benefit. The challenge is how to bring the cost down for the benefit of rural areas on lower incomes. As it stands right now its pretty expensive for lower-mid income demographic to swallow price wise.
only shows IPv6 for me.
I'm also not trying to make a moral point. I'm trying to show that these kinds of problems are one of the possible failure modes on the free market, and whether one of the actors happens to be a government is immaterial - you could (like you personally just did) draw an equivalent scenario involving only private businesses.
I think Malevich gained currency because of his rejection of everything. He's seen as the original liberator from the Art World itself.

Today, I think that designation most certainly befits Tokyo's teamLab. A collective of artists and technologists specializing in interactive ephemera.

The Blockbuster Avant-Garde

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/teamlab-art-...
>they will listen to that

Citation needed

Gnome deserves whatever bad reputation it's getting, lest people make the mistake of building stuff on top of it.
Think about the game theory here.

I am willing to pay €4. But only if all my friends also pay €4 and decide to start using the app. Otherwise it's worth €0 to me. So unless I can convince them to start (which I usually can't, because they don't trust that their friends will use it), the natural equilibrium is that nobody buys it.

One solution might be a 30 day free trial? I don't know why free trials are so unpopular nowadays. I am much more inclined to buy something when I have had a chance to try it!
The uniform hasn't changed so slippers are there, guys in Northern fleet usually don't have conditions to wear those.
Seems like one of the side effects here is that a lot of people got dental work that wouldn't have otherwise done so. Isn't that a positive outcome worth something? If it's worth about as much (to the patients, and to society) as what was paid, maybe it wasn't as wasteful as at first blush?
I miss being a teenager and thinking pervasive computing and connectivity would bring freedom rather than just rebuild traditional social structures but with complicated software mixed into them.
IRC is lacking a ton of features. It doesn't even have a standardized charset! Nowadays people want E2E encryption, using multiple devices, multimedia, real-time audio + video, contact management, push notifications etc.
There’s a lot of country out there in between those two coasts.

The FCC has to set a baseline number for what it determines meets the statutory definition of “advanced telecommunications capability”.

Practically by definition this number is going to be set based on what’s possible to provide over several miles of copper (long distance DSL).

> We find that the current speed benchmark of 25/3Mbps remains an appropriate measure by which to assess whether a fixed service is providing advanced telecommunications capability. We conclude that fixed services with speeds of 25/3Mbps continue to meet the statutory definition of advanced telecommunications capability; that is, such services "enable users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video telecommunications."

The statutory definition is not whether you can download that iOS update in under 30 seconds. I think it’s hard to argue that 25/3Mbps is not a reasonable minimum for “originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video” when the engineering specs for HD streaming are actually within that envelope.

You can move the goalposts and say it needs to support 4 concurrent high quality video streams in a single household, but keep in mind the statutory language was written in 2006, and even as of one year ago no one would have reasonably claimed the minimum viable service level should be set anywhere near that high.

I think it’s reasonable to say that in light of the massive shift to remote work and remote learning it’s worth reassessing the national minimum standards for broadband across our 3.5 million square miles of land. That’s a job for Congress to change the standard.
As far as I know yes. It knows that the "usage" of that variable in an f-string is an actual reference to the variable vs just part of the string with the same set of characters.

Not sure what you mean by complicated expressions? If you mean the variable is referenced in a complicated statement with calcs or as part of a ternary operator, etc... AFAIK they are all supported. It even understands scope. So it won't go outside of the current scope where the variable is defined.

PyCharm's refactoring is very neat. In certain instances it even "refactors" relative paths inside a string if you move the file being referenced. Moving files around is intelligent and all imports get fixed. It has neat naming-convention renaming (myVariable->my_variable). Lots of nice little quality-of-life features, which is why I think it is the best Python IDE out there atm. Give it a whirl, it's got a free community edition that is near 100% functional!
Coins are popular collector items today. It’s plausible some rich person with a castle liked to collect coins way back in Japan.
Global Machine Learning tools and platforms landscape (01.2021)
Given that 900/8000 are out with COVID, that's within a 20% tolerance of being correct.
If a Nation mandate electricity, water pipes and telephone lines ( Not sure if telephone is still the case ) to new housing / flat. Or is that not a case in US?

Why isn't High Speed Internet Access the same? Where High Speed Internet is defined as user able to purchase 1Gbps Internet should they choose to. They could get a 100Mbps if they want it cheaper, but 1Gbps must be an option. This ruled out any DSL tech and most old Cable DOCSIS standards.

And if Phone jack, Which I assume they are all RJ11 used around the world, why cant we do the same for SFP+?
Nice website. Is there also a stretching pendant?
Wow, excellent work!
I deeply disagree!

Our code is riddled with heavily overloaded meanings in a single value/domain, and if you have a variety of filters, you end up with this atrocity:

Foo *f1; // hey, just test for NULL
double f2; // hey, just use isnan()

int f3; // aaaaah, crap
bool f3_specified; // god why

std::string f4;
// requires heavy drugs to solve existential catastrophes

Compare that to

template <typename T>
struct Filter {
bool is_specified;
T value;
};

Filter<Foo *> f1;
Filter<double> f2;
Filter<int> f3;
Filter<std::string> f4;

And the variety of code that has to work with either of these examples.

What happens if the boolean is true but the filter is null?

An assertion fails miserably.

What would the vice versa case even mean?

That an assertion failed miserably.

What happens if the filter is one? Minus one? Equals to PC(IP), BP? If NULL filter has to search for NULL values in a dataset? If we are looking for NAN values in a corrupted one (this one is even more tricky)?

Deeply!
And it is also goes usually unnoticed how funny is the accounting of US manufacturing output.

From accounting the whole value of the widget, and not just added value from manufacturing processes if inputs are imported, effectively, already pre-assembled (this is how I believe all "Made in USA" TVs are made.)

Factoring in obscene IP value as a "material" component along with some bs called "goodwill."

The "realisation" of revenue across borders, and so on, and on, and on.
I just doubt these users are ever going to care about setting up their own snap server, and if they do, they will quickly find out it's not possible and just switch to something else. (For example, plain old Flatpak is in the Debian and Ubuntu repos)

That "must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them" is a requirement for all packages that Debian ships, the difference with the nonfree packages is that if a breaking bug happens, the only real option there is to delete the package until the vendor fixes it.
Personally, your argument seems dubious but I'll answer you in earnest.

If your argument were true this map would look much different: https://www.fcc.gov/health/maps

Local politicians all work just about the same way when it comes to approving an internet provider. Attracting them generally has to do with business incentives, which means if the State and/or Federal government do nothing then you'll get what you have today.
Sorry, I was a little too indignant there. Apologies.

But also, that's contributing "out", not contributing "back". It's the difference between working with your neighbours, vs leaving your extra shit around your house on the curb for someone else to take.

The mechanics of how they relate to the groups from which they filter wealth, that matters imho.

When I get frustrated about how they don't really contribute, it's that I'm intensely cynical about the worldview from which their offerings come.

Anyhow, thanks for the generous comment, and the chance to reflect :)
VLF can apparently penetrate about 30m of sea water worldwide [1] when transmitted from one base station into the atmosphere. Not sure about ELF though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLF_transmitter_DHO38
That's my experience when exploring locally...most of the people I met are from a very tech/scentific related area.
Not true. See [0] for a list of examples, which contains several cases of barriers to entry that do not involve governments in any way (except as the entity that allows contracts to be enforced and the market to exist in the first place).

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry#Examples
Because I’m pretty sure that if they put that forward or in a more explicit manner, the first reflex would be to close the tab and move on.

They hide because it makes sense to try the product, realize how awesome it is to have all the conversations in one central place, and make you pay for it afterwards - which makes sense.
This seems like an obvious response to gnome's poor behavior in the open-source ecosystem, they've been been burning good will among a large group of developers for a long time now. I think the solution to that problem isn't to ask people nicely to stop being pissed off, it's to fix the underlying problems/attitudes.
I google for this type of thing, I find half a dozen. So 'first' is a reach.

But a good idea nevertheless! For those kind of things that can live on a door handle (few).
I joined Fosstodon, a community oriented around FOSS. So when I signed up, I got a sense that I was joining a community. I don't get that sense when I sign up for an email provider. Mastodon servers have rules and themes and therefore attract certain kinds of people. Protonmail might do this too, but it's not a social network, so I never meet those people through the service.

Also, ducking into other communities to grab and share content feels a bit weird. I didn't join radical.town or whatever, so I don't really feel like I'm a part of that community.

Does that make sense? I don't think I've fully processed this stuff yet, so it might not be a great answer.
It wasn’t until I started working with some of the top software engineers in the industry that I became afraid of flying.
RaspberryPi Pico: $4
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale/
> There is some mental block beyond 'free'

Yeah I'm not paying for an app nobody else I know is using haha

Can apps do custom trial periods? I reckon they'd benefit from something like a 3 month trial period. Let people really get into using it before committing.
This is not true.

Source: I've used a treadmill on a submarine.
I'm aware that school wasn't going that long in OECD countries either. At the same time, the last generation of this population going through for instance just 8 grades of schooling had to experience significantly less freedom, higher chances of poverty and a lower life expectency. Child labor is forbidden for good reasons and it's easy to forget what the exact reasons were if it hasn't occurred in the specific social bubble(s) we frequent.
"I don't know of any cruise missile that is used for reconnaissance"

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-navy-raytheon-de...

Sounds like it "works", but I don't know that it was practical enough for any real field use.
Did u consider working with Israelis? I know it sounds far fetched but I'm sure many companies wouldn't rule out hiring Gazans remotely. Whether they can do so legally is another question, probably not.
Yes, you say the same thing everyone else said before looking at the site!

I'd point out that the site also lets you target areas for stretches, which for me is awesome.
It's weird how many bugs I regularly find in our software by actually testing things by hand, as opposed to our QA department, which does only automated testing and insists they have covered 100% use-case scenarios.
FYI there are already new Feather and Nano versions in the works that will have the RP2040 chip!
The two hardest things in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.
That may have helped, but you can't ignore other factors such as relatively stable inflation adjusted fuel costs, combined with better fuel efficiency, lowering operating costs, or the trend towards eliminating amenities and increasing passenger density. Or the continued increase in airline safety while overseen by the not deregulated role of the FAA. Deregulation was only part of the picture.
Chewing gum or some kind of food that would clean teeth as well as brushing and flossing. I mentioned that to my dental hygienist and dentist years ago and they thought it was hilarious.
I wonder how similar the PIO's are to the PRU's on the Beagleboard.
Wife(30) and I(29) have some ways to go before starting a family probably at least 4 years.

Here is some content as not everyone has the opportunity to do this.

I work in software and she's transitioning into software as well. We could live a above comfortable lifestyle on my salary or a comfortable lifestyle on her salary.

The plan has been to build up our investment portfolio where yields cover the minimum to survive by the age of 35. This is to reduce the risk relying of the bulk of income coming from a single source.

At that point in time I'd consider looking for part time, freelance or consulting to be able to transition my primary focus into our family but also to reduce the chance of dipping into the yields from the portfolio.

With the freed up time I would homeschool and bring the children to activities for social interaction.

I don't think this environment would negatively impact them.
Any chance that we'll see the larger Pis get custom silicon instead of the Broadcomm SoCs?
Can't click head...
Like the current Windows file copy dialog, but using the entire bar instead of the interval between 98% and 100%?
I don't get what you are saying. Everyone in the US holds dollars. Almost no one (statistically) holds BTC or other coins. Outlawing crypto won't cause a depression. The Fed selling all the assets it has been buying for 9 months would.
To be clear, I think the comments should be readable by anyone. Maybe there could be some way for laypeople to submit questions that were subject to more strict moderation. Maybe there's too much overlap with /r/askscience - but as long as I can read about biology without running into any "will mRNA vaccines make my DNA give away my GPS coordinates?"-style questions, it would be worth subscribing to.
Maybe not now.
Yes.

This is how my original prototype worked.

I changed it to just target HTML directly.
I forget why. Probably because it was just
a prototype and I wanted to make it simpler.

But super easy to have markdown as a target
as well.

Edit: Added this answer to the FAQ https://github.com/treenotation/dumbdown/blob/master/README....
Maybe it's not a technological problem or a sheer-numbers problem of why we haven't been "visited". Maybe, after billions of years, aliens have gotten so weary and emotionally drained from watching primitive species (some with potential) torture and kill one another into extinction, and now they just are not even looking. "Call us if you grow up".
As others mentioned, I've also heard this as a lawyer taking claim from the chaos.

I also heard this from a friend that heard it from Ronald Reagan, who claimed it was his favorite joke.
> in the real world everybody is using GCC/LLVM

Wasn't Rust bootstrapped with OCaml? I'm sure there are additional popular(ish) languages (i.e. Elm and PureScript) that are compiled with pure FP languages.
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I have mixed feelings about the video on the website.
This is a good question, and I'm a little biased in that I do think chiropractic is pseudoscience as medical treatment, but it also feels really good. So I go every once in a while the same way I do with a massage.

I would just tell them my concerns and either ask for why they think that would help, or maybe get a second opinion? It's hard to say for sure.
What's your story of getting into coding/tech/startups? (here's mine)
I'm not debating whether COVID is dangerous for certain people - it clearly is. I would simply expect dock workers to not be an at-risk group. Remember that many younger people aren't affected at all, and may even be asymptomatic.

Your virtue signalling is not welcome here.
Not gonna lie, the chatbot comparison where the Chinese internet trained bot became friendly and helpful and the U.S. trained bot became a psychopath was pretty convincing.
And further, to the extent that we might say "a lot of ants experience people now", it's perhaps more a function of us being way overextended beyond the sustainable carrying capacity of our system.

In a world where humans somehow kept themselves from risking their own existence through limitless growth (which I'm assuming wiser intelligences would navigate better), the vast majority of ants colonies would never have any human take notice of them through their whole existence.
Maybe it hasn't been around for long enough.
Maybe I'm entirely misunderstanding the study but wouldn't we see the same results in a population that supplements vitamin d, or population that has vitamin d deficiency, or both?
What you are proposing is a great filter of confounding variable and diminishing returns. You really think these limitations are so overwhelming that practically no civilization could expand exponentially? Cause that's what you need to be saying, if even one in a trillion could then they should be everywhere by now.
The Vinland landings and artifacts have all been further north than Maine (in Newfoundland). So finding Norse artifacts in Maine means either they also traveled to Maine or some of their things got traded/taken south by someone.
Hey people of HackerNews. I'd love to hear how you each got into coding/tech/startups?
I wish some transatlantic airlines did this. Really annoys me when the (redacted) in front of me decides their right to recline their seat is more important than my right to be comfortable.
Just as someone who has essentially zero knowledge of app development, why is using GCM a negative? Apologies for the very basic question.
Well past the edit window now, but I discussed this with someone else yesterday and they pointed out the word I'm looking for to describe "at cost, including cost of living", non-exploitative part of income is earnings.
We improved our Akka Stream application throughput by 6x
Well, to a first approximation, no, nobody uses the factory pattern in other languages.

Once in a long while you see one in C# or C++. But the people making fun of Java aren't comparing it with C# and C++.
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I hope the plane does not even start, if the arrival destination is affected by hurricanes ;)
Yeah we found out later (but before we took final decision). We thought it was funny because everyone hates bathroom noises so we went with it!
That whole series is really good, life on a submarine is so interesting
Megaphones Amplify sound. Your analogy doesnt work. In no layer of the ocean is sound amplified.
A vaccine isn't for the customer's benefit, it's for the worker's benefit (and society generally, because you can't be a profitable business if society is still shut down).

If the worker takes fewer overall sick days because they've been vaccinated against the virus, the company benefits by having a more stable workforce than if employees were taking time off to naturally recover from infection.

There's also a legal liability question here -- could an employee sue their employer if they contract COVID-19 at the workplace? I don't think that's been decided conclusively yet.

And for what it's worth, scientists are trying to figure out what kind of vaccine we have -- we just don't know yet, because of how fast this vaccine was developed.

Do we have a "reduce symptoms so people survive the disease" vaccine or do we have a "completely block infection" vaccine? The latter would indeed hamper infection.

This article discusses more: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/12/covid-...
If we are the first, then its likely the 'great filter' is behind us. And it means we will never find life that isn't related to us.
I remember fondly the experience of reading a passage with either a chase or a fall, and each page having less words (down to 1 word per page, several times), the effect of which was that you started to page the book faster and faster, giving your reading a wonderful sense of acceleration.
Tell that to your grandma.
Thanks!
Yes we are doing a Kickstarter in February!

Demo video: https://youtu.be/SOPZ8-Ptk2E
To an ant, I am a mountain/ thunderstorm/earthquake/quasar.
Yes. The politically popular meme "City on a Hill" connotes the role of America as a missionary leading the world to the Protestant God. This initiative got mindshare more in the 20th century than the 18th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill