skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
int first_argument;
int second_argument;

void add_numbers(void) {
return first_argument + second_argument;
}

// to call it you'd do
first_argument = 1;
second_argument = 2;
int three = add_numbers();

> This is, I trust you all agree, terrible.

This isn’t really a case against environment variables per say but against global config variables generally. Whether it comes from the environment or a config file that state will be global. So the example of adding globally defined integers is obviously silly, but if you change those variables to a username and password strings then change the function to db_connect it makes sense.
Those are great, though they are pretty early results. I think in both cases, they finished giving the 2nd dose around February, so we've only had around 1 month of data.

I'm a little confused by the percentage though. Looking at the 2nd study, and ignoring 1-7 days after the second dose, there's still 8+7 people who got infected a week after the 2nd dose, out of ~5000 tested. How do they get to the 0.05% number? Also, if I understand correctly, the table says there's around 16,000 eligible, but only 4000-5000 were tested? Am I missing something?
Similar story with my grandparents. They put a pretty nice double-wide mobile home on about 3 acres and built a HUGE shop right next door. The mobile was more than enough living space for them, and the shop had everything my grandparents needed to tinker.
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> Yesteday I ordered new MicroTik gear to replace the last of my Ubiquiti gear only to find there's a two week wait for it to be shipped!

I've never seen any Mikrotik product available to ship, it's always on back order. I've even had resellers call me up and offer alternatives because my order was on back order.
How I Almost Ditched Cloudflare for No Good Reason
LG has decided to pull out of the smartphone business
Unrealistic given how much fab facotiries cost.

Your tariff method would work for say mining copper or say iron screws but not for a fab factory as it can't really be scaled halfway
I have long yearned for the sliding keyboards of yore; better touch typing, adds some articulation and yes, size, to phones that are too small and smooth for many hands, all while preserving screen real estate from onscreen keyboards AND visual obstruction from our moving fingers. To this last point, I have given up on physical keyboards returning to phones, but why can't we have a physical scroll wheel on the side? Handles so many use screentime use cases (infinite scroll...), unobstrusive, precise, piggybacks on accessibility UIs, etc. Early ipods were all scroll wheel, and there is great versatility in the clicking and smooth-vs-stepped modes of modern mouse scroll wheels. If we haven't gotten a decent keyboard in any device for years, at least give us a wheel!! Touch screens are like wearing cheap cellophane gloves, this is why nobody looks cool while using their smartphone, because there is no possibility of virtuosity in the dead, time lagged UI.
Depends on your IDE. IntelliJ IDEA supports this with the Lombok plugin
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Anti-racism is increasingly becoming racist
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I received Pfizer, but I would also probably choose Moderna if I had the choice. IIRC a Pfizer shot has 30ml of mRNA and Moderna has 100ml of mRNA. I know that the amount of mRNA injected shouldn't make a difference so long as your body learns the proper immune response, but my monkey brain thinks "more = better".
I just saw this (after selecting and copying some text) and was about to share here ;)

Not a bad April Fool!
> 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.

> Is this what they mean in this?

Yes, that's what they mean. And even for the vaccines that are ~60-70% effective, all of them have so far been 100% effective in preventing hospitalization and death. It's not binary, the vaccines don't make you completely immune to this virus but greatly reduce the impact it has.

I thought this video explained it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3odScka55A
There is nothing more to it: Project Gutenberg distributed books in Germany that are not in the Public Domain there. The rights holder sued. PG was condemned to stop distributing those books in Germany. PG complied by blocking the whole site in Germany.

No country has the same copyright law as USA. In those other countries, Project Gutenberg has not yet been sued. (Edit: and probably in some countries, people downloading from PG would be the only one in illegality, not PG)

For example Alfred Döblin's and Thomas Mann's books are not in the public domain in all of Europe, in most of South America, or in Australia.
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Must get tiring to perform all these mental gymnastics
The question of unprofitability is interesting on large capital projects - it's often a question of what timescale we're talking about, and if nations become involved then the timescales can be both significantly larger as well as the dynamics of possibly loaned or direct grant money for the capital.

If it's a matter of subsidizing one industry to favor the overall economy (e.g. more chips so the automotive and other sectors don't slow down), then nations also get involved. China pretty much directly and openly, and the US/Europe more indirectly.
I faced the same issue and in the end I had to create my own problem validation platform - needgap[1].

Problem, not startup idea because; IMO problems are tangible, it's something people have right now unlike a startup idea which materializes only when it solves the said problem and when enough people need it.

So, I created a platform which treats problems as first class citizen and new posts are strictly for problem statement. Startup ideas to solve those problems can be discussed in the comments along with existing solutions for the problem.

Potential customers search with their problem terms on search engines and so there's good chance they'll visit a needgap thread than a startup idea validation 'landing' page. I've been running needgap for nearly 2 years now and several projects have been created to solve the problems posted there.

I'm personally starting to get better understanding of the grammar of problems and startup ideas with needgap and hope to make it a even better validation platform with the help of the community.

[1] https://needgap.com
Is Liu misunderstanding the Western plans or am I? I was under the impression that the US and Europe intended to get some onshore fab capacity as a second-source and backup in case Taiwan is blockaded or worse.

If the plan was to replace TSMC entirely, well, I'd think he was justifiably concerned as (a) a threat to his business and (b) evidence that the US was decoupling from Taiwan. But I don't think that's the case.
It may be true that TSMC and Samsung can meet demand during normal times, but it completely misses the point that NA and EU want significant production capacity locally not to reduce costs, but to secure a critical supply chain.
Is this a situation where he may be concerned that significant expansion of production capability away from Taiwan and SK will reduce the West’s reliance on TSMC, which may be a security risk for TSMC or Taiwan? I’m nowhere near an expert on this sort of thing, I’m honestly curious.
Tax cuts are gifts for the wealthy. Starting with the premise that they are logical is extremely dubious.

Older buildings may be deemed worth less on average partially because not all are well maintained and many may trivially hide expensive problems due in part to defects in workmanship and in part due to defective or absent maintenance.

People will pay a premium not to deal with anyone else's problems or even a chance of same.
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Yeah, J&J especially got the shit end of the stick on that. 72% effective, in the US, at no symptoms, but 100% effective at preventing death but every talks like it's a worthless vaccine.
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I explore this topic in my blog post from a few months ago:

https://adsharma.github.io/flattools-programs/

In short, django models are written using a very low level of abstraction. I much prefer dataclasses generated from a high level IDL.

The blog post compares different IDLs and argues why flatbuffer IDL is more suitable.

In order to express queries over such models:

https://adsharma.github.io/fquery/
No, they aren't mutable global state, they are paramatrers which is something many languages support: the key difference by design is that their configuration only lasts for the dynamic extent of the call.

An environment variable is not mutable global state, for if a process change one, then that change is inherited by it's children, but not by it's parent or siblings, and the change effectively stops existing once the process ends. — that's a very important design change that removes all of the problem with mutable global state.

In that sense, they are more like thread local variables that are inherited by child threads.

A configuration file is much more akin to global mutable state of a system.
I had a Cosmo Communicator and sold it in short order when I realized that:
- Pinephone has better Linux support and always will. Planet Computers' phones all have mediatek chips, which will be stuck on ancient kernels with dogshit driver support for things like the camera.
- It will be impossible to find parts, so I would have to gingerly baby the thing and worry about the hassle productivity loss if my phone broke.
- The thing is huge. Just about the size of a pinephone if not larger. The keyboard addon to the pinephone looks like it will turn into something identical, albeit with a slower processor and ancient GPU but at least parts are found plenty if something breaks. It's something to think about.
For instance Russia, China
What's the US military budget? Let's say DOD decides it wants onshore chips. $10B is peanuts; $100B is easily doable if they say it's important enough- which it is.
> where auto correct gets in the way.

Even without autocorrect (say, with Hacker's Keyboard on Termux), I still get frustrated by mistyped keys. "Up arrow" instead of space in bash, "o" instead of "p" in org-mode (with speed-commands).

I miss my N900 physical keyboard.
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RMS believed that if a precedent was created for increasing wages, the logical conclusion would be that employees would be paid infinity dollars

Is he really that bad at math, or is he being misrepresented?
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Sleep doesn't require a swap partition (or even swap at all). The memory stays powered on during sleep. Sounds like it was broken for some other reason, which is somewhat surprising since XPS laptops are supported well by Linux in my experience.
The one thing that keeps me using ThinkPads is the Hardware Maintenance Manual (Which Lenovo has since butchered) I've got a complete disassembly guide and every possible combination of parts that are compatible with my laptop plus the FRU's so I can actually go order specific replacements should something fail.

I just bought myself a Dell Precision M6700 to lug around the office and while its easy to work on, quick to disassemble, I've found no comparable parts lookup for it. So when I eventually get around to upgrading this to an IPS panel and a GTX 980M, I'm going to have to go skulk around random forums for part numbers like some kind of caveman.
Another nice one is chdir() and how it behaves between threads.
The version of these tales that became internationally famous date from a time after Persia had already been under Arabic and Muslim influence for centuries and the Persian language had become replete with Arabic borrowings. It is the same reason that many of the traditions and foreign words borrowed into the cultures of Central Asia and the Volga–Kama region are generally referred to as "Arabo-Persian", even though those peoples were dealing mainly with Persian speakers and rarely met an actual Arab.
Ah, I see your point about the OP, though even that seems not so much a woke thing as "how can you X when the world is so Y", which is a sentiment that long predates the current phase of the ideology war.

I agree that it doesn't really apply to HN, since most of what appears on this site isn't particularly important. If we were going to apply the standard of world importance to HN, it would be a completely different forum. Most April Fools' jokes are still boring though :) - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642429
True, but it would be difficult for a random device to discover the group in the first place if they aren't being forwarded the packets.

But really, this would just add one more layer of complication that doesn't buy you anything. It's not like this is security data. This is the kind of application where keeping it simple can help the reliability.
> This is desktop software, why is there a monthly fee?

Because keeping track with the boatload of variety that email clients have and their updates is hard. You have MS Outlook in three different flavors (Windows, OS X, Android), Thunderbird on three major platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux), the various Android clients (Gmail, Samsung's custom thing they IIRC ditched for Googlemail somewhere over the last years, the custom clients by various mail providers like web.de and other), Apple Mail, iOS Mail on iPhones of various sizes and iPads of various sizes, the web clients every major provider has, I have no idea what Lotus Notes and Blackberry are offering these days... and then you have the hardcore nerds and privacy activists who have html mail turned off entirely and use commandline clients.

And literally every single client variation has a different subset of features they support or don't support, with the addition of spam filters and virus scanners randomly breaking things by injecting HTML somewhere in the message.

And then you also want your email to be forward-able without Outlook taking half a minute to think about each character.

Email is hard, cross-platform emailing is a nightmare and keeping up with all the stuff I just mentioned takes a massive amount of time to develop and to regression-test.

(In case it isn't obvious, I occasionally have to dabble in this area, and I hate it with a passion)
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I appreciate yours and ehutch's feedback.

1 AP is a hard requirement, sadly. I have 6 locations in my house I can plug in my cable modem and for now there shall be no hole drilling and Ethernet cable running. My current setup works, but I'm surprised I cannot just centrally locate 1 Wifi AP. We did that when I was younger in a far larger house. But I guess back then wifi was far slower and more robust?
1lb is still a lot on your head considering everything else you have to hang off of it.
How do you avoid burnout?
I've been a software engineer for 12 years, mostly working in Java, living life in GIT and CI/CD tools. I'm starting to burn out and looking at code is getting exhausting. I've been trying to add more "outside" time to my day, developing hobbies, eating better, but I'm running out of ideas. I'm ADHD and that makes it hard to do yoga, meditation, and other mindful activities. Would the community have some ideas for avoiding the crash of burnout?
This gives a little overview: https://fortune.com/2020/08/10/us-china-trade-war-semiconduc...

Sounds like a tricky situation for everyone, don't want to alienate Taiwan or Apple or China. And TSMC is building capacity in the US. It isn't really a West vs. East game.