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Data is very encouraging.

Presently this battle is essentially a race between the current vaccines (which data indicates are very effective against current strains) and eventual variants that will make the current vaccines less effective (or in the worst case ineffective).

The mutations aren’t really a question of if just when. Vaccine data on some new strains is concerning and potentially an early warning of things to come.

If we can get shots in everyone’s arms and maintain masks etc before any vaccine-resistant strains can develop then we stand a good chance of getting back to normalcy. If the virus mutates faster or people let their guard down too soon (including vaccinated individuals) then we could have a big setback. It’s important that even vaccinated people follow protocols for now since if a vaccine-resistant variant does get out there we need to make sure it doesn’t spread.

Get vaccinated (when it’s your turn) and wear those masks!
There is Sia/Skynet which I think is really cool. Sia is the decentralized storage layer and Skynet provides file-sharing and HTTP-access through webportals. It's actually working and can compete with AWS S3 in terms of security, performance and price, while being completely decentralized. Check out https://siasky.net and the Skynet App Store: https://siasky.net/hns/skyapps/#/apps/all
OP is correct, the link you've posted shows that around 600,000 have had 2 doses, and over 15 million have had 1.

The UK is pushing to get all 'at risk' people one dose (around 49% of people getting the vaccine) as a priority, with the second dose following within 12 weeks.
I did get that especially given how the author fared in some of the Hot or Not and label outreach pieces.

At the end of the day, crappy music ain't gonna sell no matter how much you pay for streams. A hit will rise to the top and it seems like it is the biggest factor in if influencers/playlist makers will pick it up!
He said:

there was talk early in the project about whether Go needed an IDE to succeed. No one on the team had the right skill set, though, so we did not try to create one. However, we did create core libraries for parsing and printing Go code, which soon enabled high-quality plugins for all manner of editor and IDE, and that was a serendipitous success.

Which I read as they considered IDEs important.
> I wouldn't discount the possibility of one-off reunion shows in the future

I don't think Daft Punk are the type of artists to screw over fans by creating "Last Show Evarrrr" and "Final Reunion Tour (It's serious this time)" type shows.

> I would not be at all surprised if you get the chance to see them perform together again.

People seem to be ignoring the meaning within the video. The way he clenches his fist before the explosion. The solitary walk into the sunset.

I would not be at all surprised if one of them was terminally ill.
I don't understand why they do it so publically.
Have they felt a lot of pressure and this is the way to put an end to that? I haven't followed them closely, but RAM are many years ago. Have their been a lot of rumours about their next project lately?
Indeed, just went to see if I could find the show I saw, and I could [0] (though the footage is terrible). Just the use of the Close Encounters of the Third Kind sound at the beginning gives me goose bumps again!

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2DSzbt6wco
I feel xkcd's Ten Thousand[1] is appropriate here.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
I use Heroku for my own sanity as a solo founder, and I use Papertrail with email notifications to monitor logs. Nothing fancy. I bring my laptop on vacation, but I don't really ever have to use it. I freeze releases a week before vacation, to try and ensure that I don't break anything so that I have room to relax. I agree with other here: use boring tech that you are confident in. I have good integration test coverage, so that also helps. :)
> Regulation of a market by government doesn't mean abandoning free markets.

"Regulation" in the old sense of "making regular", perhaps. Establishing fair weights and measures, preventing fraud, etc. Ensuring that individuals are free to trade and that all transactions are in fact voluntary (including, most importantly, transactions with the government itself). But when your "regulation" consists of applying force to micromanage how people—shareholders in this case—employ their capital for the benefit of some other group, you've moved well outside the realm of the free market.
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Can you back this up with anything other than your own misogyny?
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Well obviously it would be great if they significantly reduce transmission as well. But even if they don't, vaccines could still effectively end the pandemic if they reduce severity enough.

It's stupid to imply that drastically reducing severity isn't a big win.
The UK is giving both doses. It's just that they are spacing them out at 12 weeks instead of 3-4 weeks. The idea is that this gives more at-risk people substantial protection more quickly.
> Why does it matter if the flagging is automatic? Does that somehow make it more acceptable?

Since the action (for “encouraging or promoting suicide”, bizarrely) was upheld on human review, whether the flagging was automatic or not is obviously irrelevant.

Clearly, this action is unwarranted and the Bishop should be entitled to a full refund of monies paid to Twitter for the privilege of having messages distributed on the platform, at a minimum from the point of the unjustified ban.
1 person-year is pretty much the smallest labor unit when quoting for modifications to government contracts.

If the government wants to change the logo on the login screen, they're gonna pay 1 person-year. Why would I quote less? It'll take over 1 person-year for another contractor to pick up and start supporting the codebase, and we won't support a codebase that another contractor has touched.

It's just the nature of government IT. Lowball the initial quote, then charge massively for any modifications and support now they're locked in.
But why does the strings package exist if it’s better to write out the for loop each time? Do you think there won’t be a slices package after Go gets generics?

The argument that writing out the loop is better for readability is just status quo bias. The real reason we don’t have standard functions for such things is a technical limitation that will probably be removed soon.
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Looking at the starting example, I thought "script start" should happen first. "promise2" should be after "promise1", but the rest seem arbitrary, and you shouldn't be writing code where it would matter.
Compared to Google, Facebook, and smaller companies I interviewed at, Apple was an outlier in terms of quantity of interviews. I was interviewing for a build engineer role, which is sort of DevOpsy as I understood it. More ops than dev. It was located in Tokyo.

Boston: 30 minute technical interview at career fair

2 back-to-back technical screen over phone

Tokyo: on-site with ~4 one hour technical interviews

Cupertino: on-site with ~4 one hour behavioral interviews

1 or 2 more phone calls with higher level managers (would have been in person, but COVID happened at this point)

I ultimately did not get the job, either because I was kind of a stretch in several ways or because of COVID.
Or you could just treat that collateral as a credit line that's always growing, if it grows faster than your spending, just withdraw a portion of your collateral. Just look at Youtube videos on makerdao, there's some good ones out there and try it for yourself once you feel comfortable with small amounts.

Once you actually try it, you're going to be like "this is the future", every single one of my friends that tried came to the same conclusion.
Ah yes, because any criticism on the current wealth distribution must be born out of jealousy. There are no other possibilities.
Really good, and I love the wikipedia format for this. It's a great trope allowing the author to gesture at related topics in a format we're all familiar with.

I think the expectation of a neutral tone from a wikipedia article makes it even more chilling. All of the actions of the experimenters are described dispassionately, as if describing experiments on a beetle.

Robin Hanson wrote a (nominally non-fiction) book about economies of copied minds like this[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em
Flexibility. “Too many” is debatable: most organizations wind up settling on a subset of the idioms that Ruby provides, and some of the more esoteric constructs see infrequent use anywhere.

There has been, however, discussion about the need to clean up some of the lesser-used language feature, but obviously doing so carries risks.
Quite agree -- I really enjoyed my linguistics classes in college, and if I hadn't discovered programming, might have become a linguist.
Nevermind article like this one then: https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/05/03/jp-morgan-microso...
This is the "statistician's rounding" as recommended in IEEE-754, so makes sense it is the default in R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even
One must be able to discuss one another's point of view while being able to point out problematic perspectives of the participants in the discussion.

Ideas aren't abstract. They are molded and adapted by the people that hold them.

I know people on hackernews feel triggered by terms like "implicit bias" and "privilege" and will downvote anything that references these concepts, but it doesn't make them nonexistent, and it's unfortunately a problem in a large percentage of the comment group here.

Listening to a podcast about racial privilege shouldn't make you feel "attacked". And my comment should not have made you feel insulted. Comparing you to people who pretend that racism doesn't exist was a valid summary of your point that you'd prefer to listen to informative content about architecture, science and technology without references to any racial connotations associated with it.

It does NOT mean that I associated you with slave owners, eugenicists, lynchers, or genociders. I didn't even imply that you were racist. (If I had that ALSO wouldn't have placed you in the same category as those people because every belief has a wide spectrum). I mean that. I have no evidence or reason to believe that you are racist and have no interest in insulting you.

But if putting a mirror to your ideology makes you feel attacked because you don't like who it's associated with, the problem isn't the mirror.

HackerNews is becoming an echo chamber of "free speech is being suppressed. Diversity and inclusion is a scam. The world is getting too political. And white people are constantly under attack".

There is only a few of us on here that speak up against this narrative, and we get downvoted for making people feel bad about their beliefs under the guise of "not being curious" or "immature". It's incredibly disappointing that I've been in this industry for >20 years, and the exact same problems exist today as then - technologists who fail to take an interest in the human side of the society they provide technology for.
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Yes to slavery being widespread in Europe of the dark ages. The church had something to do with its demise but I'm not sure it's one papal edict. Economics too.

But if "late Middle Ages" means say the time of the black death, and after, then at least in Western Europe that's much too late. By then slavery in England is long gone (or so rare as not to matter) and serfdom is in steep decline, and we are still several centuries away from European overseas slavery (no sugar islands before Columbus!)

Slavery in the islamic world was (I think) pretty continuous from the beginning until the 20th C. (Perhaps with ups and downs? There were many violent changes of leadership, over the centuries.) In the middle ages this would have been the primary meaning of slavery to Europeans -- the risk of being caught in some coastal raid and sold for labor (or for ransom, if noble). This no doubt horrified the pope but he had little power to stop this.
Indeed. While I appreciate some of that repetitive nature (really hammers a point home) I do wish it was accompanied with more analysis or commentary...otherwise we become like Reddit or any other forum with massive inside jokes/recurrent themed comments

Cue "...and my axe" LotR reference or something or the other
I always get nervous when an AI/ML demo doesn’t let you try with your own input. It is fairly easy to curate a set of examples in any ML model that work really well. However, a lot of them, quickly fall apart when faced with diverse, real world data.
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php gets a bad rep. It was fair at one point, but not any more.

I’m not a huge fan of mysql, but have not used it in quite a while so I’m assuming things have improved considerably.
If you opt into modules, modules get stored in GOPATH. If you don't use modules...source gets downloaded into GOPATH. If GOPATH is unset, it uses ~/go.
I know you're being facetious, but you actually prove the point well. I wonder what that % was 10, 20, 30, 50 years ago. I wonder which direction it's going?

But no I'm sure it would be far better if we banned such heretic thoughts and enforced our worldview.
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No. By closing schools for so long, they are literally harming kids. This is not a word game. It has real consequence. There are bad parents out there, so we can do bad things to kids? No.
I agree with this 100%. The US flavor of lockdowns are just pointless when there is zero enforcement and even in the most locked down places, indoor gatherings are allowed if they're small.
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That is not false, I didn't not fail to notice that after fixating on the incorrect double negative! However, not to be unfair, 401 is unfortunately not named "unauthenticated", even though it's conventional usage (as you point out) is not unintended to actually mean lack of authentication rather than of authorisation.
Hudson Yards in NYC is probably the most notorious example of this trend. Seems to be emblematic of a shift toward real estate as a luxury commodity investment, combined with massive developers having free rein to set up inorganic star mega-blocks. All this in close cooperation with cities that have an incentive to improve what were once brownfield sites and are now the most valuable undeveloped sites into tax behemoths.

See also: Seaport in Boston, Navy Yard in DC, Mission Bay in San Francisco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_ra...
That's 600,000 times OP is incorrect.
This issue really annoys me because some people start claiming that Indian developers aren’t good when it’s basically as simple as getting what you pay for.
To prove the comment wrong you just have to provide a single example, but you can't do that so instead you're criticizing the complaint and saying it isn't novel (which is true, but irrelevant to its validity).
There are a lot of cases where java is faster or lower latency than C++ and this article doesn't list any.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4QYkEpw9pA "This new district of Helsinki is being made almost entirely from timber [...]"
I couldn't get into Permutation City. Once they got to the part where they create another Autoverse inside, I was bored to tears, read the Wikipedia summary, and promptly quit reading the book.
Other similar libraries:

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/nanogui
Yeah I don't disagree with Lyn, low rates are underwriting our entire bubble ad not necc the monetary policy I'd prefer.

Rather than pushing up financial assets and then jamming everyone into more interest rate sensitive debt, why not print the money, give it to poor people, and create a bit of inflation.
Ah. The ‘it works on an isolated island with 5 million people’ fantasy.

Except it doesn’t work on continents with billions of people with multiple governments.

And then the magical mask fairytale. If only people had worn masks this would all be over. Except now it turns out people have to wear three masks on top of each other. How could that be if masks had solved all the problems? The answer is clear: they don’t.

There is no point in blameshifting to people that ‘didn’t wear the masks and didn’t lock down’.

Also it is 100% clear that tons of people can’t wait to be allowed to visit each other. Claiming ‘people aren’t going to congregate’ is simply a lie. In the Netherlands we had one test event with 1500 tickets and over 100000 people applied for a ticket. They can’t wait to congregate.
>Checked the latest literature and cross-reactive antibodies have not demonstrated correlation with either preventing infection or hospitalization. [0] [1]

The sample size of this study was only 251 people, apparently all from France, according to a comment on the study, though I could not confirm or deny that fact from searching through the source text.

In order to rule out cross reactivity, we'd need a much larger study comparing samples across many regions.
I wouldn't read too much into that small difference. This study wasn't really designed to show which one works better. The bigger takeaway is that both show significant protection even with just one dose (which presumably rises after the second dose).
Pretty good game and it wasn't too scary.

But I have to admit I found the whole premise better when I played it than when I thought about it afterwards.
Honestly I can't fathom her solo career, the zero seven era was so brilliant. I'm happy she gets some wide recognition, wealth and comfort, but musically she is off now. Her gamut is trimmed it's all loud and no subtlety.
Shoot, I’m so grateful to be in a state that was loose with the lockdowns. A friend in another state was frustrated that even the large parks where he lived were locked down. Even in our strictest phase, you could still go to the park and get a little relief from the confines of your home. I cannot imagine how other states are coping where things are much stricter. I am just shocked at the mental component of all this. It’s hard to articulate the way it makes you feel living through all this.
This has generated tension within the WSJ itself: https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-journalists-ask-publisher-f...
Just because something doesn't work in the first attempt doesn't mean it never will (see various attempts at ecommerce, online news, streaming video, or just general computer-network-for-the-masses attempts from the 80s and early 90s).
It looks like Axios is launching something like this. I asked and they want 6 digits a month - way to much for us so I haven't demo-ed so maybe it's not AI but more simple suggestions

https://www.axioshq.com/
> I can do that because I work remotely for a software company. How's someone who's working the drive-through going to do that? How's the manager of a Walmart going to do that? A pharmacist, a bank teller, a delivery driver?

No solution can serve 100% of the people 100% of the time. I would say that American society is already unbalanced enough in this regard that most people who can tell their bosses no for a 4pm meeting (e.g. the administrator participating in a meeting for some committee) are not doing so.

For example, in your example, a bank teller would tell their boss, who would arrange for a replacement. Maybe the bank would have to hire a few more workers, but normalizing this would help a lot. What happens now is that people get punished for it, implicitly as well as explicitly in a fashion that seems to be a holdover from the days of the 1950s. Addressing this as a society rather than shifting that responsibility on to teachers would, in my opinion, be more equitable and sustainable.

> Taking your kids to the playground in the evening does not address the fact that most people have to work during the day.

Yes, the cherry-picked suggestion that you mentioned does not. How ever, the other suggestion that I had in the same paragraph of having them stay with their grandparents or cousins would address this problem. Treating “normal social interactions“ and “watching over kids when their parents are not around“ is exactly what I am recommending against.
I stopped buying new laptops because none of them lasted more than a couple of years anyway. The only laptop I've owned that lasted longer is an oddball Ultrasparc IIIi from Tadpole.
> Wikipedia page should not mention Mac OS in the table, because it has nothing to do with the topic?

No - why would you imagine that?

The article mentions MacOS and by it’s own definition the conclusion is that MacOS is not a walled garden.

It would be weird to think that merely mentioning an operating system in a discussion about walled gardens makes it into a walled garden.

> I cannot access my OS and all my applications after changing the hardware or using a VM.

This is obvious bullshit. Your application and OS still work just fine.

Nobody is telling you what you can and can’t run on the operating system, or on the hardware it is running on.

That’s what the Wikipedia article defines as a walled garden, and has nothing to do with the licensing conditions of the operating system itself.

As to needing to pay certain people for hardware repair, that is also simply not true, and is not relevant to the discussion about walled gardens.

There is nothing preventing you from having your SSD repaired or replaced by anyone with the capability to do it.

By your definition, Linux is a walled garden because you can only run Linux binaries on Linux.

See how this makes no sense?

There’s nothing wrong with you preferring GPL’d software. But that doesn’t mean that everything else is “walled garden”.
Yes. That's why someone need to break down all the carbonate rocks and release all the CO2, that will probably work out to a few more ATM.. Easier said than done.
One, IMO, is a provably fair casino (Blackjack, Poker, etc.) that is decentralized and unregulatable.
This is an empirically testable result.

Are regions with the harshest lockdowns doing worse economically?

A cursory analysis says no. Places like Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Vietnam, China that had very strict lockdowns are doing well economically.

Then maybe the worst is intermediate lockdowns? Also no. There are few differences between regions with essentially no lockdowns and those with moderate lockdowns, though they fare worse than strict initial lockdowns across the board.
So according to your link and yourself, a graduate degree may encompass both master's and doctoral degrees, which would only serve to obscure the meaning.

Also, I don't think you intended it to be this way, but your inclusion of the pronunciation comes off as condescending.
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This seems like a problem for the prison, not the inmates. In general, the prison software being faulty means the prison should just hand-calculate this as needed. The inmates should still be able to be released as appropriate.

If it costs the prison 10x normal costs to do calculations by hand.. well, that's the cost of business.
A bit of an aside, when it comes to querying against a data store, I’ve always wondered why odata is not more popular. In my mind, it’s wonderful.
I honestly kind of wish they had hung it up a long time ago. Outside of the Tron score and a few other things, nearly everything I've heard from them in the past decade or so has had me wishing I hadn't heard it at all.

Along those same lines.. I was crushed when Orbital first called it quits, but somehow the music they started releasing when they got back together made me wish they had just stayed gone.
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Unless I’m missing something, the response schema will have an optional “comments” field whether the “with_comments” arg is passed or not.