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Ask HN: Why don’t we have mobile vaccination vans for the USA?
It’s appalling how disorganized CA has been with the distribution of the vaccine.

The mRNA vaccine is likely the most effective, most tech advanced and with least side effects compared to viral vector vaccines(Astra Zeneca) or inactivated virus(sinovax/novavax) due to least antigenic properties.

But the bottleneck is in storage(minus freezing refrigerator units needed) and distribution(insurance/hospitals staff when patients go to get the vaccine) all this also makes the vaccine more expensive.

Why not have mobile vaccination camps. Load up vans with storage capacity and drive to peoples homes. And deliver the vaccines.

Mobile medical vans are not uncommon in Africa and Asia and India. This is how they get billions of people vaccinated.

Surely I can’t be the only person who thought of it. Either it is not practical(I don’t buy it) or there is some other reason why there is so much inefficiency even in CA where everything is ready for vaccination roll out.

If developing nations can do it..why are we lagging behind in California??
I know, but may be worthy to give Matrix a shot.
I suspect the issue is partly caused by outsourcing the enforcement to private contractors and setting targets!
I’ve had my pair for about a month now. I’m not an audiophile by any means, and I didn’t know it was possible for audio to sound this good. These are a quantum leap better than the Bose and Sony headphones ANC headphones I’ve owned, on a sound quality, aesthetic, and functional level. The noise cancellation was a little questionable at first, but it seems to have improved somewhat (firmware update?), although I was hoping for more. My biggest complaint is I wish they were lighter, and gripped my head better. I’ve had them nearly slide off my head when I leaned my head back to drink.

I found the ifixit teardown interesting. I wonder if the “open” case is a nod to the fact these are made incredibly sturdy and only the inside of the cups need protection. Still, I would prefer if they were completely encased.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Max+Teardown/139369

“With all their intricate, precision-engineered parts, AirPods Max remind us more of a mechanical watch than of any pair of headphones.”
LG says it might quit the smartphone market
Note that Oracle were using the name for their language framework for years before the blockchain people also started using it, and also had peer reviewed publications using it... do people not Google potential names before picking one?
No, it just uses WhatsApp web.

Even if it didn't the data is still passing through WhatsApps's servers.
No I don't think that's a fair comparison, in this case downloading the WebAssembly file is trivial and much more accessible to the average user.
Contributing factors also include, I suspect, more independence for individual subdivisions, e.g. states in the US or Bundesländer in Germany unless I'm mistaken.
If there is an iMessage bridge that would be considered a zero-day exploit. There is no official or un-office API for iMessage outside the Apple ecosystem and this is part of security measures by Apple to ensure privacy.
> or any previous president's

You mean like Bill Clinton who pardoned his brother's drug charges?
Yes they have.
https://deadline.com/2020/12/armed-protesters-enter-oregon-s...
Ah! I didn’t realize it was you! :-) Cheers!

And good point. I understand where you’re coming from, but... I didn’t understand it when I read the post and blurb(s).
Apple has direct control over being able to switch between parts suppliers - its an executive decision taken by Apple management. On the other hand, Apple can only instruct its manufacturer to not buy Cobalt from places exploiting child labor, even if they try as much to monitor their supply chain, since Cobalt is bought and sold on the open market.
I have a sqlite 'on top' of a chrome cache filesystem. My usecase is to torrent the database as i also have support for files. The caveat is that i primarily use as a key-value store (the btree storage part of sqlite).

They are used to share structured and unstructured data in a p2p way where a torrent could be a database(structured) or a fileset(unstructured) .

But all of this is part of a bigger project that is basically a new sort of p2p "app browser" with a local-first emphasis but where every app can share its functionality though RPC (locally or remotely) with distribution going over DHT's and torrents.
I see. I never downloaded these speedsubs nor knew they existed, because I had a choice. I could download high quality content, which I did. Back then I was never forced into crappy subs.

Today options are limited for many different anime, where you get one or more choices and all of them are just okay, not keeping up with the standard a decade+ ago.

At least professional subs today are better than fansubs in the 80s and early to mid 90s.
Did you mean open range? I've never encountered a circumstance where closed ranges are useful, though I presume they exist.

And yes, I think any typed language with a less expressive range syntax than Ada has some work to do. That still leaves open the question of the default, and I maintain that 0 <= .. < n is the correct one.
Multiprotocol clients and transports are a dead end.

Most walled garden messaging service developers are openly hostile to third-party clients - this goes back to early 00s and ICQ war against QIP and other much better clients. Modern technology and app distribution model has made it far easier for service owners to enforce their rules of using their service.
The major problem with internet explorer was that it was impossible to update without updating windows which costs money so most people and organizations didn't do it.
> support is available

In most places in the UK, mental health support takes about 3 years to put you through the waiting list (Niche problems like for example trans healthcare are even worse, with the current estimated waiting list from approaching a doctor to receiving medical treatment from a GIC being 7+ years in some places of England), and I've know people who have had trouble with being dropped off the list when being transferred from the youth mental health support to the adult mental health support. Also, it still relies on you being in a fiscally and materially stable position where you can address these problems safely and from a place where you are not literally worrying about your ability to live to tomorrow, which for a lot of people who do not have active housing, is not viable.
HJKL also allows you to keep your fingers on the homerow at all times which is really great. I had issues with RSI that when away when I started using Vim properly. Travelling to the arrow keys now feels like a painful task to me! Of course, as a sibling comment mentioned, hjkl is the worst way to move around--"power users" generally only use them to move a char/line or two.
QuantumScape: Can battery pioneer live up to the hype?
'Again'.

What's the issue this time folks?
$10/mo is steeper than I like for a chat app, but this is so huge to just roll everything into one place, and I like that it's OSS, so I'm happy to pitch in and support the devs even if I'm capable of self-hosting the backend.
There do not exists clear regulations. So you can't tell exactly how taxes will be calculated. Also you can end up by other regulatory laws that will just make things more difficult. As said somewhere else, I saw companies liquidated themselves in as similar area. Created a holding. Moved then to an other country (of course less regulated). Actually that is sad that this is happening.
>Are any Apple peripherals worth the price?

Well, most people swear by their Airpods, people also like the Magic Keyboard, Apple Watch is better than any smart watch out there, and the Apple Pencil has been universally praised as better feeling than Wacom's (that had a 20 year headstart). So there's that...
I'm not sure what the point you're driving at is; it seems you did understand the gist of my point.

It seems like you want a semantics debate about how neocons and neolibs are are equivalent terms? Sorry, not the conversation for me, nor the main point I was making.
I can’t say I’ve ever seen a post on the internet go ahead and explain what the prime directive is before.
> AirPods Max are aimed squarely at Apple devotees – of which there are millions – who simply could not bear to be seen with a pair of Beats headphones, even though Beats are superb.

You see this all the time in critical reviews of Apple products. The implication is that people who buy Apple products do so because they're irrational cult members, not because they rationally consider the device worth the price for various reasons.

I suppose I would be considered an "Apple devotee", in that I make my living doing Mac and iOS development, and own plenty of their hardware. I also have AirPods Max, and I think they're great.

"Superb" is not how I would personally describe Beats' stuff. I recently worked on repairing some Beats Solo 3 Wireless headphones for a friend. They're made like every other cheap, flimsy, plastic consumer electronics device, with lots of glue, plastic clips, and fragile mechanical parts. (One of the headband hinges breaking necessitated the repair.) If you're OK with the tradeoff between quality and price, by all means, buy Beats. (I think you're better off with a much cheaper competitor, considering the relative difference in quality is low to non-existent.)

By contrast, the AirPods Max are clearly a well-made, premium device, using metal, premium materials, and clever engineering. Add it all up with the good sound quality and usual integration with Apple's other hardware and software, and it's a device that's worth the price to me. If you don't value those things -- which is perfectly fine! -- it may not be worth it to you, but it doesn't mean that anyone who would buy them does so because they're a brainwashed Apple fanatic.
Ah, yes, the little project known as Debian completely failed and never took off. Anarchy is so bad. How could it ever produce anything of value, like say the world's most used linux distribution?
My partner and I were talking about this and honestly wondered if there had been either a mistake in reporting or a mistake in the actual process. The input of Thiel made it more clear.
An FU to Google?

Just to clarify what I mean... YouTube has banned Trump's channel.
Akka Streams adds named ports and defined backpressure, as well as a graphical-ish DSL for connecting everything.[0]

[0]: https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/stream/stream-graphs.h...
Capital One hit with $390M fine over “egregious” AML failures
I'm with you.

This is a "Yes, And..." tool. Dumbdown compliments existing solutions.

TDLR: Dictation, transcription of voice input.

First use case I thought of is voice transcription. Dictating HTML, markup, misc sucks. Dumbdown could make it practical.

Better dictation has been on my mind a lot recently. Once I got a dog, I got A LOT more interested in audio & voice. Podcasts, audiobooks, voice commands.

Now diving into using Siri Shortcuts for transcribing my Quantified Self stuff. eg I speak my weight and blood pressure, which creates entries in Health.app. Neat, right?

Well, dictation of text messages truly sucks. No editing mode. There's no vi style out of band meta language to munge stuff afterwards. At least none that I've found.

And Siri's auto carrot truly pisses me off. Not the mistakes, that's tolerable. What I can't handle is editing and correcting pops me out of whatever task I'm doing.

For my Night Shift style ramblings, I now just use the voice recorder. Basically sending voice mails / memos to my future self. I feel stupid doing it. Always reminds me of a boss (Peter) who'd do this. Very clever strategy. But omg his messages made us worker bees howl. He'd call his home phone and say something "Hi, this is Peter, remember to buy milk. Bye bye." Like he wouldn't know it was himself calling. Gods, I still crack up thinking about it.

Any way...
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I find it so ironic they'd buy out am extension specifically designed to defeat SEO blogspam, just to insert analytics based monetization instead.
This exists in almost every company by design. Engineering teams wouldn't make any progress towards their mission if they are constantly dealing with outside interruptions, but at the same time there are things which should be qualified.

Customer support is a cost center and the focus is on mitigating the cost of providing that support. If you fail to do this you can burn through a lot of cash quickly. What management needs to realize is that this is also an important interface point which requires attention. This doesn't happen at all, or is inconsistent.

It's important for at least the following to happen:

1. Bad issues that engineering will fix don't get stuck in support.

2. Product management review and respond to feature requests, or enable support to respond to customers.

3. Support have a reasonable level of technical and communication skill, and are empowered to answer for the company.

4. The organization works through rather than around support.

What I've always found interesting, is that all of these are often failing in some way at the same time in an organization of any size.

Your role as the back channel is helping to provide some coherence here. However, things can go bad if you left. Inevitably, this is the fault of the company, but when I've found myself in this position I've tried to "promote" people in support to take the lead on this role. Further, formalizing the special request process to be minimally tracked helps visibility with my manager and others. Eventually managers ask why you have become a gopher.

Improving the workflow often involves helping support build relationships with engineering. Management can buy in if support attrition is high (it often is if there is a limited career ladder for support) and it can also improve their perception when people are focused on trimming support cost.
It would not be wise to commit to intervene in all circumstances. Similarly, also the NATO treaties do not specify in detail how the allies have to react in case of an attack.
Where I lived in DC, people served them to eat dipped in chocolate.
This is a good question, but it's not obvious that geodesics will lead to the most visually pleasing gradients. In particular, because of hue super-importance, a geodesic between two highly chromatic colors of different hues will bend toward gray, which might not be as representative of a "gradient" intent as linear motion through a nice space such as Oklab or IPT.
To me, Fedora is a desktop environment (my preferred one!) and absolutely an alpha/early-beta server option at best.

CentOS Stream seems like "Fedora, again" and does not do what CentOS did. And now, the willingness to blow up CentOS with so little warning means there is a massive trust deficit here.
that was not what people got mad at notch about
It seems fantastic, I love the idea and goes to show how out of touch something can become by involving multiple people/workflow, etc.
Janet Yellen suggests 'curtailing' cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin
Ask HN: Are “Social Justice” questions in job interviews legal?
My roommate is currently interviewing with a consulting firm, and in the third round of interviews he was explicitly asked which social justice movements he supports. He said it was really out of the blue (no pun intended) and caught him off guard. He said something vague about BLM, and in the followup meeting the company brought it up again, saying something to the effect of "we agreed on that, so that's good."

Is this even legal? I was really shocked when he told me about this. I personally would have been really uncomfortable talking about identity politics during a job interview, even though I'm about as liberal as they come. It certainly sounds as if he had expressed any reservations about the social justice movement he wouldn't have passed the interview.
How would you rate the sound quality relative to your high-end professional wired headphones? Aside from potential latency, is there any reason you couldn't use the former in place of the latter?
Interesting. Do you work for Apple? The qemu patches that split up the RX/RW jit regions are maddeningly complicated. I'm curious if anyone has suggested this solution to them?
I would imagine pardoning assange was seen as a large risk to trump.
>How in the world did you get iMessage to work on Android and Windows?

>This was a tough one to figure out! Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge.

Can you elaborate? Surely this is satire or I'm missing something super obvious.
This is a quirky idea and it’s interesting.

Bit of an aside: why are the links in markdown poorly designed? The rest of the language is really intuitive so it surprises me that links are not. Using two types of bracket is an obviously bad idea.
Not connected with the project - but came across this
https://builder.totaljs.com/
Thanks a lot! Yes, guess a hard one as well.
https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
In addition, there is huge benefit if you can persuade a large company to defend against this. GitHub/Microsoft is one of the few entities that actually has the financial and legal firepower to take on the recording and music industry.

The smaller hosts may not have the financial and legal cushion to do anything but rollover if the music industry lawyers send them a notice.
The problem is company you bought from through the big platform did fraud, and the platform was too lazy to care.

It's fine being blacklisted from that tiny fraudulent company. It's anti-consumer when a legitimate chargeback can't be filed because some giant company processed the credit card and will bring their wrath upon you.
People here are forgetting that Typescript is first and foremost a static code analysis tool for Javascript. You can run Typescript's compiler WITHOUT writing a single type declaration as part of your CI, and you should. You don't have to write a single .ts file to use Typescript.
Was XMPP improved at that time?

Or a mess of nonstandard addons/plugins that you had to match up, like mods in a multiplayer videogame?
While the skin is undoubtedly thicker, the "of course not" may also be based on a misconception and/or generalization. The same kind of misconception alive today even in doctors when it comes to the skin and pain tolerance of black people, for example.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Inters...
Within the realm of audiophile headphones it's definitely not heavy or pricey.

It's more that the existing noise cancelling ones were designed to be cheap and and since they were made of plastic were also light.
There's a reason why I don't install any extension except a password manager.
Donald Trump is not the Republican party.
It seems you've misinterpreted the poster's intentions as if it should be illegal for a developer to do this. But he/she was merely informing users, and well informed customers is a requirement for capitalism to work.

The cost of using this extension is your information, and there are other products available that do the same thing at a lower cost. Based on the most fundamental concept of economics (supply and demand), "The Great Suspender" should fail as a product very quickly.
I'm in the same boat, having Game Maker as my first introduction to programming. When I was using it, though, drag & drop + scripting hit a wall pretty quickly and you have to figure out how to create a dll.
> the executive ... hasn't devolved into a dictatorship simply because of tradition and popular unease at that route
> I'm not really sure to what extent a constitution really can or should protect against popular despotism

Article II Section 1 of the Constitution?
If a family is starving, it's the responsibility of the state to ensure that they do not starve. If the state forces the families to send their kids to factories, then that's a failure of the state. China being China, there's no surprise there.

Nobody is asking for the people themselves to starve, or blaming those forced to work in factories. Every one here is calling out the Chinese government for enabling such an environment where it's either starvation or bust, or Apple for effectively funding that environment. Seems like that's a difference you simply can't grasp, or you disingenuously don't want to.

It's not a Western mindset btw, it's the policy that has been working in a number of countries including most recently Bangladesh and Indonesia.
hell yes its worth it. you may not make this much money forever. imagine what that 1m will compound to when youre older. it really is alot.

but in the end its a personal decision that only you can make.
Well, you might want a function which returns String, not Maybe(String), so that you can just concatenate, rather than handle Some(String) or None all the time.

So that's why you might want an empty String. If you have an optional element in a syntax, it can be convenient to match it with a rule using a Kleene star, and that gives you an empty Node, which would return an empty String if you request its value. And so on.

With open intervals, you have to represent that as, say, (3, 2). Which sucks.
I guess this was Cylance: I ran into this one on my work laptop with Firefox Nightly and managed to get it escalated internally from us too.
BLM vandals stormed Oregon State Capitol. They also established autonomous zone where they had their private security shooting two black teenagers.
Thumbs up for OpenSUSE, RH should have taken an example from how closely SUSE operates with the community, sadly I think Red Hat is too big and too corporate to give a damn now.
I settled on 0 based indexing as the right way to go when I was doing this calculation: https://madhadron.com/posts/2009-07-17-determining-affine-tr...

When you start calculating offsets and transformations of coordinates, starting at 1 forces you to carry around extra additive constants everywhere.
I'm super intrigued by luna/enso. Only that every time I've tried it, the editor has had serious stability problems. I wonder if a more traditional tooling and editor support wouldn't be more successful for wide adoption?
After a disclaimer, that sounds like a problem between the user and the Discord people.
Let’s Talk Security Tech About President Biden’s Peloton Bike
It's not just he "stole the secrets," he was so reckless that while at Google he instigated perhaps the first self-driving car crash in California: https://jalopnik.com/the-engineer-in-the-google-vs-uber-stol...
The more credible speculation I've seen (although arguably once you're arguing with speculation is more credible, you've already lost) is that Intel is doing a multiyear deal to have TSMC crank out its discrete Xe graphics/compute cards. Which frankly makes a lot more sense, they need a leading process to compete with NVidia who currently has access to Samsung's 7nm and AMD who has TSMC's 7nm and will probably move on to TSMC 5nm sometime next year as Apple moves on to TSMC 3nm.

So supposedly Intel is guaranteeing enough Xe business to get TSMC to convert part of its Baoshan complex over to making Xe. Intel will keep trying to fix its own fabs for its CPUs and probably intends to bring Xe cards back in house at a later date, but they also want to go challenge AMD and nVidia for datacenter GPUs now and that means getting access to a better process.

Outsourcing the commodity i3 whose main goal in life is run MS Office on a Dell Optiplex is definitely a strange rumor. Out of all the things Intel has, that's the area that has the least need of a process upgrade.
Append Ignaz Semmelweis to this important list, which is a plump one.