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I built a number of VPN endpoints uning these for PoP's / Remote Offices. They're superb, not used any RF stuff with them but for the price and performance you can't go wrong.
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Human cult is still human. If we aim to continue our species it may be what we need. Say a civilization is built at the destination we can assume it will go through its own dark ages at some point before a renaissance.
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Flask – How an April Fools' Joke Became a popular python Framework [pdf]
I have been seeing legitimate concern with the response of "i want the better one" or "i want the quicker one" because these are being each obstacle to quick spread of vaccine. But attempting for to say only "just as good" or "no difference" is only creating more mistrust between public with agencies that already having great mistrust from public.
This needs a citation or more detailed explanation for why it’s not problematic.
There is no standard definition. The clinical trial would have a set of predefined outcomes ("endpoints") that are used for the efficacy analysis. The endpoints will not necessarily be the same ones for each vaccine, even for the same disease.

You'll need to read the actual trial protocol for a specific vaccine to find out just what they were measuring, and how they defined e.g. "serious" vs. "non-serious" cases.
Wow. This sounds incredibly invasive. Is the technology any good at detecting high speed sledge hammers? /s
The trouble I see with that is if I'm a consumer and find this buy now button and instead of letting me buy now you ask me to join a mailing list I'm not going to be happy. When you eventually launch the product I'm going to remember you as the guys with the website with the weird mailing list dark pattern and avoid buying from you. That said I may be atypical.
Ask HN: Any decent April Fools' this year?
I've generally found April 1 to be one of the worst days on the internet (though I have enjoyed Google's participation: Gmail, Google Nose, etc.). So far, this is one I enjoyed: https://blog.thenounproject.com/introducing-the-verb-project-d7db814fca8b
The US ship might have been able to steam out had it not been sunk by an errant missile from the neighboring war.
You can't compare the 91% vs 76% numbers because the 91% test was performed in the late summer last year between virus waves and in a location with an less-contagious form of the virus.

Whereas the JJ virus was tested during the fall 2nd-wave in South Africa when there was a lot of cases and more cases of a higher infection strain.

The only fair comparison would be if all of the testing was done at the same time in the same geographic location.

source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3odScka55A&feature=youtu.be
> But if some server suddenly starts acting weird while I'm on a roadtrip.

This sort of example always strikes me as odd because it seems far better to have a an oncall rotation for this sort of thing.

Granted that nobody has this for their personal servers, but that by definition is not an emergency.

However, if it's for a service you are providing to a paying client, I'd hope they aren't relying on a server being reset by a single individual who might be on a road trip.
Not the OP, but let's rephrase: if you go to the clinic to get the shot and they tell you they have so many doses of all vaccines available that it's up to you to choose which one to take, and either way, you are going to get the shot today, which one should you choose? And how much does this choice matter in your expected health outcomes?
100% of carefully formatted HTML email is spam. There’s no client side demand for better spam renderers.

The only reason web browsers are on the surveillance capitalism treadmill is that people are essentially forced to continually upgrade to the newest, shiniest version, since stuff like banking and shopping break otherwise.

If anything, I want my email client to support less of HTML. I already have images (and, I hope, javascript — better check) disabled. Nuking custom fonts would be nice too.

If this breaks the rendering of a message, 99% of the time, that’s a feature, not a bug.

Heck, I wish there was an open, simplified HTML news renderer where there is no JavaScript or tracking, and publishers target it directly (I pay for access to a closed app like this, but it is a walled garden.)
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Why would an emulated phone need 4-8GB of RAM? A $70 phone probably only has 1 or 2 GB.
Maybe the current SSN will just be a prefix, with additional suffix digits, like zip codes.
For one thing I said there are good reasons to completely ban cryptocurrencies. For another I didn't even say there aren't any good reasons against it.

Your reasoning is faulty, because you underestimate the ability of countries to cooperate. The US could probably even enact a virtually global ban on its own. Yes, some countries could try and resist, or some companies (and criminal organizations, of course) but they would be instantly limited to a much smaller market.

The only thing nations would have to do is make the interface between the Bitcoin economy and the rest of the economy illegal and too cumbersome. Bitcoin wouldn't die, but it would crash hard.
I have no idea. I’ve never lived without the internet and my entire lifestyle depends on it. How did people move to new cities and find jobs and a place to live without it? Cold calling once I find out how to get a foreign phone book? Sounds awful. If it wasn’t for the internet I would be trapped in my dead end home city.
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Colloquially "Why not?" is used to make a suggestion. That is, "Why not" means "Perhaps". One need not trace or question preceding statements or ideas nor is there any need to be annoyed.

Is English your native language?
This is reporting on the Krebs article which was discussed yesterday:

Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26638145 - March 2021 (770 comments)

Previously:

Ubiquiti Networks Breach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735032 - Jan 2021 (467 comments)
Sounds like someone wants to hold onto unsustainable monopoly.

Edit: chip shortage has been a known variable for over a year now. I think TSM overplayed its hands a bit. They didn’t want to expand and get caught when the demand would subside, which is very understandable. But what they didn’t foresee is that the US govt would get involved in propping up its competition in direct response.
Google does not sell information about you to advertisers. They sell targeted advertisement services. It is, in fact, in Google’s best interest to make sure the information they collect on you does not ever reach the hands of advertisers, because if it does, they lose their biggest competitive advantage.
I had taken parent poster to mean that car manufacturers hate keeping large stocks of their component parts, not of finished cars.
You can label it as a country variant unless that country is China.
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Pydantic has a nice way to parse/validate a collection of environment variables into native python types using type hints [0]. It solves for some of the pain points the author mentioned in a clean way.

[0] https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/settings/
I'm in a similar boat with the added difficulty of living in Japan and having a limited command of Japanese. My intended user base would be housewives.

I've got a few bilingual acquaintances I could demo the app to but don't want to risk not getting honest feedback. Does anyone have any additional points which might help?
Even then, unless they restrict the multicast groups, all it takes is join from the client to receive the traffic.
The biggest problem I had with that paper is that it was focused on specific areas of science, with different reasons for their difficulty. (Psychology and social sciences are brand new fields, basically in the phlogiston stage, which any new science has to pass through. Medicine is about trying to solve real problems in a complex system where experiments are hard to do, but can't simply be ignored.)

It's not that there aren't problems in every scientific field, but that paper tarred all the sciences with the same brush, and I saw a lot of people use this paper to advance their physics quackery because "Hey, most physicists are wrong anyway".

Nor is that meant to dismiss the way some fields and some journals were using their difficulties to excuse really bad practice. So if having that dirty laundry aired out has improved their standards, great.

But the paper itself seemed more like a way of drawing attention than a serious attempt at improving the fields. So I never had the admiration that the OP did.
In 2008, I was in charge of standing up a new service at the company that I worked. They were a heavy Perl shop. I considered using Perl 6 for it since it was "just around the corner." After some investigation, we realized that (a) it was not just around the corner and (2) Perl developers were hard to come by. We went with Java/Spring instead.
Had been waiting for something like this few years back and with Ubuntu. But with M1 chip's success, I think we are much closer and it could be worth waiting for an iPhone (or a bulky iPhone) with something like MacOS that docks into a desktop or lapdock.
But do you remember the origin of this? :D
Anecdotally, elementary OS is the only OS I've gotten my mom to use consistently. She's 70+ and Windows absolutely confuses her.
Right, but as the comment above was pointing out, there are many other factors.

Pfizer/Moderena both did their trial from July-November, whereas J&J did their phase 3 from Sept-January. Looking at the COVID case graph [0], you can see J&J was tested at the peak. Not only that, J&J was party tested in the UK and South Africa, when the two new variants were starting to take over.

[0] https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/02/15/seamus-coronavir...
> Sigils are for simpler visual parsing - they stand out and mark the 'nouns'. It is not about the compiler - but about people reading the code.

I would argue that python, ruby, javascript and similar languages have demonstrated that it's just as easy to read code without sigils as with them, probably even easier — let alone to write one. Uncle Bob and other evangelists of software craftsmanship suggest clear, descriptive names for variables that would convey their meaning to the reader. As far as I understand, perl programmers also don't dispute the value of meaningful names. At which point using additional twiddles for conveying intent to the reader becomes redundant.
The conventional wisdom is every time you need some online compute or storage resource as well the cloud is the future right?

And if Amazon cannot be trusted whats left of the Public Cloud that is actually trustworthy, it's not like Microsoft have an great track record of fair and honest dealings either.

That leave basically the smaller 2nd and 3rd tier operators and how much do we really know about their track record for honesty?
> I like to think of it as I am ~1/10th as likely to get the disease as I would be if i had not been vaccinated.

Same, and it gets less likely if you are in a group of vaccinated people since the chances of being exposed to someone who is sick goes down. Herd immunity at that point.
Agreed. I think many of us realize the futility of getting our leadership to change, and instead hope that our coworkers will change.
Last summer I installed a bunch of second hand Arubas for a non-profit. it was dead simple and the first AP you set up acts as the controller for the others, no cloudkey equivalent needed.

I'm not sure if the UI is 'consumer friendly' but I didn't need the commandline and I had never worked with any HP networking gear prior to that, and had no difficulties.
If I am refer to "British variant", no person is thinking I am racist against Englishmen. If I am refer to "Chinese virus", every person is thinking I am racist against Chinamen. But it is not "Asian coronavirus", that would be having more credible potential for racism. Persons who are using term in racist way are symptom, not problem: even while we are seeing use of alternate terms in all places, there still has been in past year increasing of hate crime against Asian. Neither terming has problem, British nor Chinese. It is a simple easy. Common man is not having any desire for to remember scientific names for any thing. And in last point, some persons are say that it create stigma against China: this is feature, not bug. China is deserving much fault for her failings in this manner.
Japan and Korea have a homogeneous population with a self-conscious national identity which is a source of pride to each individual. That's the difference you're seeing.
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I do a ton of different things, but none of them are quickly accessible and all lean off my strengths. I love economics, and MMA, so I've been gambling and trading for years and getting better at them over time. Any unique venture you go into, expect to lose money for a significant period of time (I'm still losing money on making startups).

That being said, you have the most in demand skill set in the world, and you're highly experienced in it. As some others have said, you should extend out the period of the demand here and look for ways to lean on your software background to make more money. So here's a list of items you can take action on:
* If you're in an expensive healthcare area, travel to get treatment
* Take a loan to extend the time you need that full dollar amount by
* Reach out to your network and see if you can find a contract on the side
* Find a new job---last I read people are getting a 20% raise finding a new job versus a 4% raise annually. No clue how real those numbers are, but this is business and you are a financial fiduciary for your family. You have obligations to do what is financially sound to take care of your family, and you don't owe anything to a business.

Just a note about good financial hygiene here, at the end of the day it's easier to spend less money than it is to make more money. Making money on different things takes time and practice. I meal prep my food saving hundreds per month on take out. I don't buy a lot of things. I don't own a car, and my rent has been relatively low most of my life. I regularly run through my monthly spending reports and cancel recurring payments. I make all transactions through a credit card for the points and consistently pay it on time. Finances seems to be a game of small wins and allocations. 1% saved money with an average of 8% annual growth over a lifetime becomes a fortune.
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Doesn't this imply that it would be unrealistic to create large amounts of new supply to satisfy local strategic needs in a global economy?

for a large market like the US/Europe couldn't they choose to not participate in the global market for chips? or tip the scales such that local competitors are favored?

I don't see any reason why certain products couldn't be on a sliding tariff scale dependent on how much is imported. 20-40% imports = no tariffs, 80% triggers a sliding tariff scale. This would allow for strategic preservation and global competition. Once you fully outsource an industry it's hard for it to ever grow back - even if it makes sense for it too.
On PHP 25year birthday Rasmus Lerdorf talked about how php came to be. He literally thought something better would replace it at all times.

https://thenewstack.io/php-creator-rasmus-lerdorf-shares-les...

I think he thought it would be Perl:

"And Lerdorf tells an only-in-the-1990s story about the day when Perl finally also released its own optional embeddable module for Apache web servers — mod_perl. “They’d made it way too powerful… If you were on the virtual host on an Apache server, and you had mod_perl access, you could steal the requests from every other virtual host if you wanted to…” Because of this vulnerability, ISPs wouldn’t offer mod_perl alongside other clients in a single Apache instance.

“So if you came to an ISP and said ‘I would like mod_perl‘, they would say, ‘Okay, that’ll be $600 a month,’ because back then, we also didn’t have VMs, containers, anything like that. So you had to have a separate, physical bare metal box for mod_perl. Whereas on PHP, you could put 3,000 customers on one machine, versus one mod_perl customer.”

the 25 year php talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ5TJCBWMg&t=315s
> Finally, let me end with this: read Sharon Olds.

Any recommendation on where to start? She has 15 (!!) published works.
> It doesn't have any sort of way for the user to run "programs" or instructions in memory outside the predefined functions

You’re intentionally picking a dumb toaster. I could also intentionally pick a dumb phone. What about the toasters that run Linux? or use a Raspberry Pi internally?

> ways to load and run instructions not included or designed by the manufacturer but a third party

As far as I know an iOS device can’t load non-Apple or non-Apple-approved code from a third party. Not even by me without explicit approval from Apple (which I need to pay them for the privilege).

How is the current situation meaningfully different from Apple hiring consultants, code reviewing the consultants code and adding that as optional iOS code (with the consultants retaining rights to the code)? Or including a random open source library into iOS as a downloadable, optional part of the OS (with the open source contributors retaining rights to the code)?

And to state again: as a customer I paid for this device wanting these limitations.