skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guidance provided so far is that all three shots are equally effective. That's likely what the doctor would say.

From my own, semi-informed research:

* The effectiveness of J&J is likely under-reported because it was tested during a significant outbreak.

* Moderna seems to have slightly higher reports of side effects compared to Pfizer, though unlikely to be statistically significant.

* I am a young, healthy person.

With that calculus:

1) I'd pick whichever was available to me the fastest. In my area immunizations are by appointment and segmented by vaccine. I'd rather have Moderna tomorrow than wait a week for an appointment for another to open up.

1.a) In the unlikely case that I had a choice between the shots, I'd select J&J, as it has been shown to be safe and effective with one shot. This simplifies my life.

In reality, scheduling a vaccine seems to be the hardest. No one of the ~10 or so I've talked to who have had their first shot between January and early March have had the ability to chose. When I received my first dose of Pfizer last month I didn't have a choice of options; I was on four or five call lists and took the one that offered me an appointment. My wife received Moderna because her work coordinated mass vaccinations and that's what they offered. A coworker received J&J because there were leftover doses that needed to be administered.

Perhaps that's changed, but as many states open up to 16+ I suspect it'll remain the biggest challenge.
I read an article that said that this is intentional- they wait until other languages shake out features, and take it slow so they get it right.
I second the sugar intake point. I had tingling and numbness in my feet, and I have noticed it can get triggered by eating sugary foods. If I eat something super sugary like a bag of skittles it is immediate!
Curious on your response to this story -

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/30/amazon-tw...
“Java is a big DSL to transform XML into stacktraces” — so was the joke at the time when domain-specific languages were the hype.

This, and the FizzBuzz, Enterprise Edition: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

More seriously, what are you missing in Go that is well-done in Java? I assume verbosity of the code is still the defining characteristic of Java?
I'd love to talk about the ecological impact of capitalism but criticizing capitalism goes poorly around here.
I am not sure I understand, why would you want Optional type to never be null? Isn't it being null sometimes — the whole point?
It was for work but mostly to see if I could. I got a code review approval email while commuting and logged in to submit.
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One missing link, Steve Yeggie's Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus[1], whose core thesis is that:

> Software engineering has its own political axis, ranging from conservative to liberal.

Which is really very much at the heart of what this whole winners vs losers game discussion is about, I think.

[1] https://gist.github.com/cornchz/3313150
Agreed. That's why I advise to start simple/stupid, not necessarily deploy the stupid solution. It's a direct response to those who start out with crazy-complicated schemes in mind.
I think it's just inherent in the personality types that are successful at software. We are good at understandinging complex things, and we like it; it makes us feel good to master them, and creating one is a special variety of mastery, so we incline towards that.

I think it also takes experience to see that simple solutions can be more robust; the more natural response to foreseeing future problems (another trait) is to have specific responses for all of them, which generates a complex result.
I dont know if intent by itself (without an otherwise punishable act) can be a crime. That would be a thought crime, wouldn't it?

Intent can surely make something a crime, that wouldn't be punishable otherwise. Giving someone with a peanut allergy something with peanuts in it is not a crime, unless you knew they had the allergy and intended to hurt them. In some states it's illegal to intentionally expose someone to HIV, but it wouldnt be illegal to expose them if you didn't know you had it. If you slip and fall at a store you can likely sue for damages, but it would be a crime if you intended to do it.

I cannot be too bothered with people gaming the sleazy business that advertising is.

Yeah, I don't feel bad for any of the players involved in that world.
Are you okay taking a pacycut while moving to the Midwest ?
I mean ... Stasi and Gestapo kept different kind of data. You would have to do a more and different kind of analysis to make it into argument that makes sense. And seems like the people who throw around Stasi dont really know what that organization done.

Contemporary Germany has bureaucratic tendencies.
> which are escalating per transaction

Wrong. The number (or more specifically "weight") of the transactions that can be processed in a given time period is constant, and does not scale with the hash rate.

> it would take more than the entire energy production of the world to make bitcoin the sole currency

I do not follow..
I hear this often, and I see many on HN be in favor of this narrative, but I have the opposite experience. Its often the cargo-culting companies pushing these soft requirements onto education, as students and companies will otherwise complain about not being employable / finding starters who reach their expectations respectively. Most of the time, I see seniors reach for overly complicated solutions, when much simpler solutions exist. Which later falls apart when errors happen silently and simple ideologies like "single truth" are ignored for no particularly good reason, leading to massive duplicate code and gotchas.

At this point, I'm extremely unconvinced the problem is just education or juniority/seniority. The "paper factory" is just doing what companies are demanding. The real problem is a general lack of competence being used to market products, be they good when used properly (e.g. GoF, where many readers only look at design patterns and completely forget "composition over inheritance"), or snake oil.
It is genetic material but it doesn't get into your DNA and stay there. Those vaccines inject RNA into the cell. The RNA gets expressed into proteins, and then it breaks down. When people talk about genetic engineering, they are typically talking about permanently changing the genome of some host organism, and possibly that of its descendants.
This goes back to Soviet cold-war-era psy-ops. They planted the seeds in the US and now the US is exporting it to the rest of the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
The Kia EV6 vs. Hyundai Ioniq 5 design battle is the best sort of problem
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Or buy working devices and harvest the unneeded parts for resale.

Can buy a used MacBook Air, sell the lcd assembly and keyboard/trackpad and already recover a big chunk of the cost. (If you needed an Apple device).
I wish we just had non-nullable types...
The Feeling of Power & Activity (1958)
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We're considering switching from Proxmox to Kubernetes at work and I'm unconvinced that it's warranted for our use case. We only have one database, 3 back ends, and 3 front ends. We have about 15 servers across 3 DCs that we are already paying rack space for. There are only 30 people in the company that need to access these services. Because of these factors the benefits of Kubernetes aren't all that appealing to me.

- Cost savings: With us being an ISP we will always be paying for rack space at multiple DCs so there's no money to be saved here

- Scalability: Our applications can handle an order of magnitude more people than they currently do and reworking our programs to work with this is another time sink

- Portability: See cost savings. We're never going to be switching cloud providers

- Deployment: Gitlab CICD handles it now. It's just SSHing, cargo build, systemctl restart. I love the simplicity of that over building a new docker image and maintaining some docker repo

I should also point out that we're not even using docker as of now.

Right now it seems like we'll end up with the same outcome of running Proxmox but we'll spend quite a bit of time getting up and running with Kubernetes. Please let me know if I'm not taking some things into consideration
The difference here is that a running shell (including the shell environments that services run with in) are an abstraction layer about managing processes. Within that abstraction layer, each process can have its own unique environment variables that they can change and manipulate independently. That makes them not global.

Within a process the top level abstraction is the process itself, and anything underneath (class, method, function) will be impacted if another sub-abstraction makes a change to a global variable.
I have the same question as you. Two sources of potential feedback I've found, which are not spammy or unpleasant for people:

- Adding an update to an Indie Hacker product profile with a link to a blog post

- Adding a post to the "Share Your Startup" thread in r/startups, which has been a thread that is started on the first of each month [0]

But, in general, I have the same questions as you, so I don't imagine this will provide more than a small boost in feedback.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/?f=flair_name%3A%22Share%2...
True. After sending out a photon of energy E, a spaceraft of mass m will have its (invariant!) mass reduced by a factor of sqrt(1 - 2E/mc²).

In terms of energies, this is all rather trivial conceptionally: Rest energy (aka 'mass') gets converted into the kinetic energies of the spacecraft and the photon.
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At least G's office perks are way better lol
I think you can exclude people from a group. But when you're explicitly excluding people from a group on racial lines in the name of inclusion and fighting racism, you should expect some raised eyebrows. If you have an ideal of equality, you cannot use methods that are unequal; if you have an ideal that people should not be excluded based on race, you cannot make it a criterion of exclusion - at least, you can't and still expect anyone to buy that you believe in what you're selling.
3. They're trying to discourage competition, because competition impacts their (Taiwan's) national security.

I don't think TMSC is naive about the geopolitical importance that they have to Taiwan.
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There are rumors that Foucault was promoted by CIA money. If it's true, it's likely because he was an anti-USSR French leftist as opposed to all the pro-USSR French leftists.
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The Hong Kong government here usually uses its brand name “Comirnaty”. The news uses every variation “Pfizer-BioNTech”, “BioNTech”, “Pfizer”, or often just “the German made jab”.
Consider that the IRS provides an ITIN number for tax filing purposes to anyone who doesn't have a SSN. Millions of undocumented immigrants pay their taxes and operate in society without a SSN.
Betalist is good for this: https://betalist.com/

I'd also recommend spending the next 30 minutes putting together a very rough description and a mailing list sign up form, and then posting a comment in this thread with a link. Being on the front page of HN will get you hundreds to thousands of visitors, and it isn't easy, so don't miss the opportunity!
And once you start looking to acquire hundreds of phones, you can buy a lot of old phones on ebay or the like for something like $1 a phone or less. Most probably won't work, but at scale, you'll end up with enough that are good enough for something like a click farm.
>got burned out by XML and design pattern heavy frameworks

Most succinct summary I have heard lately :)
I think a good bunch of blame is also on the developers who blindly adhere to said patterns.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-ridiculous-Java-clas... to rest the case.
What leads you to the estimate of a dozen? Very few modern warheads have multiple-megaton yields, it's less efficient than many small-yield warheads.
Did 98 have gradient colors in the title bar? I thought that was introduced in ME & 2K.
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It's a restatement of the lesson of Chesterton's Fence.

There is a fence somewhere you wish to get rid of. Nobody around knows why it was there in the first place. No one will let you tear it down until somebody figures out why it was put there in the first place.

The important take away, is that before changing something, one should understand the history of a thing, or one runs the risk of being a victim of the same problem the unknown thing was put in place to address.

Life is way more complicated than the umwelt of any one individual, so it is not safe to just change something without doing the footwork to understand what led it ro be in the first place.

Demonstrate that work has been done, and generally, no one will get in your way.
Even the fish from Amsterdam are trying to get to the Culture Boat.
> The launch in fanfare of Perl6 in 2000 had a general chilling effect on Perl: many people considered from that point that there was no point learning and using Perl 5, because Perl6 was "just around the corner" and was "the future of perl".

Yup, the Osborne effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
There are apparently a couple of rail gauges changes necessary at the moment - https://www.railfreight.com/beltandroad/2020/01/30/four-ways...
> This makes it very convenient to express common things in different ways

This story has been told for decades, but it just isn't true. What is particularly convenient to express in Perl? The only thing i can think of is the implicit use of $_. Everything else is no better than or worse than in a more conventional language.
Taking "the slow boat to China" is an idiom in English for a long duration or long journey.
There was a new, recent study that showed that the mRNA vaccines were still 90% effective among healthcare workers during the big surge in December/January period when the variants were certainly present.[1] This doesn't mean the J&J vaccine is bad by any means, but it does show how incredible the new mRNA vaccines have performed.

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There's a big difference between the Optional containing null (useful) and the Optional itself being null (but why).
Nailed it. It was #2
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