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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it was acting "out of an abundance of caution".

How is putting millions of people at risk of long-term (or fatal) complications from COVID-19 an abundance of caution? An abundance of caution would mean you give people the vaccine because that way, less people will die! Unless a thousand people are dying from the vaccine a day, the math is simple!
The core language is something a person might plausibly learn in Y minutes. Getting any useful work done almost invariably requires learning a lot about the environment and system your code is running in. The idioms of the Windows filesystem stack and most Linux userland code are radically different.

Being able to write code for one will not confer immediate productivity in the other.
I would call this "obvious in retrospect". Of course you can tell a little story on why it is obvious, but you can also tell a little story on why the opposite is obvious. The tricky part is figuring out which "obvious" thing will happen and which "obvious" think won't.

If there was no growth and bleak predictions of future growth, it would have been just as easy to rationalize.

> This sounds pretty technical but I think I can follow. If you put people out of jobs and out of their homes for 1+ year, they ain't going to come back to an utopian pre-pandemic world. What did you think, that all the lost human capital & institutional knowledge lost in destroyed jobs and bankrupt companies was going to be rebuild in a day?

If there was no growth and positive predictions of future growth, it would have been just as easy to rationalize.

> This sounds pretty technical but I think I can follow. It takes a little while for people and companies to adjust to the post-pandemic world - takes a while to ramp up production, takes a while to stop saving just in case and start spending again. If you let people out of their houses to buy stuff, might take a couple months to transition back to normal but it will happen eventually.

If there was high growth in the short and bleak predictions of future growth, it would have been just as easy to rationalize.

> This sounds pretty technical but I think I can follow. If you let people out of their houses to buy stuff, after they couldn't for a year, then the economy is going to show growth in the quarter you let them out. But after that quarter, not much will happen. Long term growth depends on HN engineers developing revolutionary new software and the pandemic hasn't changed that. Opening up will allow us to catch up but won't have sustained effect.

And so forth.
I was always courious about this "state control". Seriously, I've heard this hundrends of times. And EVERY single person failed to explain how he thinks that happens.
At the same time reading all this banned criticism almost always left the impression of very poor analysis of the situation, usually non constructive and biased. The "state controlled" part of media also feels biased but more often than not it looks like a better job done when it comes to the situation analysis.
I misunderstood your post. Of course full disk encryption is vital for security. My point was that without secure boot you can't be sure that software asking for your password is legitimate. Typical setup consists of unencrypted boot partition with Linux kernel which asks for password. You can't be sure that this Linux kernel was not patched, but Secure Boot helps to ensure that.
It looks like the problem space the author is addressing is broader than Emacs; they seem to want to make TUI's one of many different, first-class-citizen presentation layer options, interacting with many different input mechanisms. A Lego approach to UI frameworks basically as far as I can tell.

It would be interesting if there was an Arcan-philosophy UI framework in CL for an updated Climacs on top of a bare metal Lisp environment, for a turtles-all-the-way-down CL experience. It would open up interesting interactions with Emacs that are an unreasonably big pain to implement today, like buffers that manipulate view ports into observability data under a pluggable UI that renders graphically a graph data-oriented view of the discovered structure of the data under an investigation taking notes into a Jupiter-like notebook with rich multimedia data, for instance.
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> kills 1 in 200 people

It kills less than that in the demographic in question, not to mention that is only of those who contract the virus.

> People are absolute garbage at thinking about scale.

I don’t think it is that, I think it is that for better or worse humans tend to view wrongs through inaction as less atrocious than wrongs through action. Additionally - they already have better alternatives and plenty of supply in the US (Moderna and Pfizer vaccines) so they are opting to just use those at the moment.
FWIW: In every desktop browser I've used and in Safari on iOS, long pressing the back button for a few seconds will bring up a list of recent history and allow you to get back when the button is hijacked by a page.
I didn’t realize there were so many CVE-based tools out there! I even have an ultra-specific one for PHP (with some extra logic for support timelines).
PHP Version Audit: https://www.github.developerdan.com/php-version-audit/

One thing I’ve noticed with PHP at least, is that their release docs will regularly have the CVE listed with the details for many days before it shows up in the CVE feed- even as long as a week. Sourcing only from the feeds is a bit slow, but perhaps that is limited to the process that PHP uses?
I think that simple news reporting inadvertently screws up how the general public perceives low-probability events.

Whether it's an airplane crash or a blood clot caused by a vaccine, human minds simply can't 'feel' that a phenomenon is rare when it is repeated over and over again in their newsfeed.
2 critical questions:

It seems you want to have debates in the back-end before publishing anything. What have you learned from Nupedia, and how do you expect your system to work differently?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia

It seems you want to use a scoring/voting system. These have some known issues when you're trying to find facts. Have you considered how to prevent gaming? One famous (albeit fortunately failed) example of such an attempt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
I'm picturing users instantaneously teleported to some mythical labyrinth where they're forced to fight their way back to Hacker News.
There is a difference who gets the data and how it is used. I may be tracked by the government, which already has my taxes to pay the costs, and it has been around since long before I was born. I may be tracked by my phone OS vendor (Apple or Google). But they have been around long enough, are big enough, have established business models, and are already kings of the mountain, so they're are unlikely to share data with anyone else (It would undermine their public image and competitive advantages). Most startups, on the other hand, eventually run out of cash, and then they and their data are often for sale to the highest bidder. Most companies in less free countries can be strong armed by their governments.

So the information which they collect may be the same, but my trust to different entities is completely different. Like most people, I go for a compromise, and I trust some of them, and accept what I can't change. I just want to keep the number of trusted entities as small as possible. The vendors of my car, my bike, my fridge, my vacuum cleaner, and my t-shirt are not among those I want to have any role in my life after I paid them money.
I‘m sorry my comment raised these feelings. People share their projects on HN bc they want feedback. I think it’s a rude thing to hijack the back button and a lot of people seem to share that sentiment. Rude behavior can be unintentional and even well intended, but the perception to others is just not great. I would consider this valuable feedback - it’s better to get it here and fix the bug/misbehavior than keeping it even longer.
You completely missed my point. I'm not equating it to censorship, nor do I even think statutory rape laws are unjust. My point was we should describe crimes accurately, regardless of what the law calls them.

If an act is wrong, it should be clear to the public it is wrong on its own terms, without misleadingly categorizing it as something else.
You don't get to insult people and then tell them not to take it seriously. That is not how life works.

If you don't mean something, don't say it.

Instead of apologizing, you've now blamed the person you've insulted, for being insulted.

If you're going to treat me this way, you're going to treat other people in this community this way. And that is a problem.
The industry back then was a fraction of the size it is now. Studebaker and Pierce Arrow are gone too, but that doesn't mean Ford can vanish overnight.
We used to purchase a district site license for Adobe. Since they have moved to this nickel and dime subscription we haven’t purchased anything since CS6. Just not worth the money IMO.
To be fair, the article seems to be more about the terminal emulation and the limitations it puts on the CLI rather than about the shell language.
It’s not just “rich people,” it’s “wealth.” Speculation in there housing market is a widely accepted contributor to rising housing prices: https://www.princeton.edu/~wxiong/papers/Speculation.pdf
Tried to play around with some JSX but unfortunately it keeps throwing the error that React is not defined.

Looks cool though!
I'd just want a PaaS with easy-to-use rate limiting and caching (e.g. for some routes use Redis if unauthenticated otherwise go to the backend, for other routes cache forever)
The comment was about house owning, though. Owning a house is becoming more and more a thing for the upper classes, it wasn't always like this.
Exactly. Why is there no car shortage? Because politicians can't limit car production.
> The irony of the GPL hate, is that without GNU we would just be using the usual UNIX flavours, with everyone taking whatever they felt like from BSD, as it was happening before Linux came into play.

More like: a small part of the professional word would be using the usual UNIX flavours, and the rest of the World would use Windows both for desktop and for servers (add a tiny share of free BSDs here and there if you wish).
To be fair, C++ just brings over templated wrappers around battle-tested C CUDA libraries like cuDNN, cuBLAS, etc.
Scroll down more it’s got per capita numbers as the 3rd chart.
If I get what you say right,

* it is impossible to predict the (economic) future if it is your job

* any layman can predict the future through simple extrapolation of GDP variation around the long term trend

So why are economists so much worse than the layman?
I think that there is something that is being overlooked here and not mentioned by Paul G. nor Keenen and that is the source of income of the new upper class. I'm not talking here about select few at the top but the few thousands that follow. This is very much in focus of the new book by Branko Milanovic where he emphasizes that the source of income for the upper class changed from being mostly income from capital to being both income of capital and labor. I will quote him directly.

Branko Milanovic:"Homoploutia is a neologism I invented (after some consultation w/my Greek friends). It indicates that the same people (homo) are wealthy (ploutia) is the space of capital & labor; your neighborly CEO who is in the top 1% by labor income and also in the top 1% by shares he owns."
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To test that with a simple example, could you describe how Uber could plausibly disrupt medallioned cabs in NYC without breaking any laws?
I dabbled and everybody should dabble, smoothly just for the thrill of hearing notes in time.

I wish I had a piano, weighted keys are so sweet. Another fun thing is large congas.. the depth of the sound is surprising.
I like Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming https://nostarch.com/Effective_C but I would since I wrote it.
You may be right. A small number of startups may be founded elsewhere. But the large income from a wealth tax likely provides a greater benefit.
We've had a wealth tax in the past. It worked. The only reason why it got removed was because the super rich used their vast influence. It's not something that's in the public's best interest.
First, it’s closer to 4 in 200 [1]

Second, there’s evidence that even if people don’t die, there can be long term neurological effects [2].

Third, even if we accept your number, 1 in 200 would still be 1.5 million Americans dead, not even considering the rest of the world. I am personally not comfortable doing nothing to stop that number.

I agree that being super worried about a 1 in a million blood clot might be short sighted, especially since the death rate from catching the virus is 2 in 100.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BT2ZI
Agreed, anti-vaxxers are already using this for their propaganda efforts. The core problem is that statistics isn't something that's well taught in schools, and so people can't understand effects of scale.

330M people means that (assuming an 1:1M incidence and a 80% vaxx rate) there will be 264 people dying from thrombosis. Which is bad, but nowhere near as bad as the millions that would die from an actual covid19 case.
You're always free not to use any kind of recent software and throw your computer in the bin. Consumer choice alright!
> I have no idea what it means

You have the whole internet available. I bet you can work it out without too much effort.
Brexit referendum was in 2016. Trump was elected in 2016. In 2021 the world has mostly shifted left.
Thanks! Now I'm never leaving the house again.
Honestly, you signed up for the annual subscription so it’s on you. They give a decent cost discount for yearly subscription—it’s only fair to them that they get their end of the bargain.

Important takeaway: only buy month to month plans when testing out services.

EDIT: I’m not a huge fan of subscription models in general. Software doesn’t need to change at the rate it is these days, but it does work wonders for the bottom lines of all these companies.

EDIT2: Monthly payments to open source software is a better investment because they actually need funding, and they aren’t paying shareholders profits.
This is why for such services (though I haven't used Adobe software in more than a decade) I use single use debit cards like the ones offered by Revolut.

Adobe is in the same ring of trust as a random shady website and one ring above a Nigerian prince.
Have to say I was surprised when I saw Michael Lyons's name pop up as a candidate for Nominet chairman. I went searching and found this The Register article[1] about a report he did for Nominet on their future governance and operations[2] which allowed the pieces to click into place.

Sir Michael has form for not delivering the answers he was hired to deliver, so the outcome of his report for Nominet is no surprise to me. I think the man is allergic to whitewash[3].

[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2016/02/05/michael_lyons_tells_n...

[2] - https://publicbenefit.uk/resources/Sir-Michael-Lyons-Report-...

[3] - I worked with Sir Michael on his Lyons Inquiry into Local Government, so this admittedly anecdotal evidence is at least first-hand anecdotal evidence.
Don't underestimate the tremendous advantage both Wozniak and Bill Gates had even having access to computers at the time. And that access was simply not available to most people.

Similarly, "all you need is a computer" is still very much an indicator of privilege on a global level. Good luck if you live in a favella in Brazil or slums in South Africa or India. It is easier than it was in the 70s, but by no means universally available.
"...keep in mind this is the same guy who argued against a wealth tax."

Everybody with a semblance of economic literacy should recognize that a wealth tax causes a lot of problems for what little income it creates. It is a distraction.

For the past decades, wealth inequality has been driven by asset price inflation, which is caused by the easy money policy required to finance government, corporate and private debt.

If interest rates were raised significantly, trillions would disappear off the balance sheets of all the billionaires. Immediately, all of us would be "more equal". The dollar would appreciate, and purchasing power would be restored to the average wage earner. Buying a house would become feasible again.

There's just one catch: Raising interest rates makes existing debt unservicable, causing a massive wave of bankruptcies and layoffs. At some point, even the US would have to default on its debt. The only way to avoid that would be to just print the money - and then we're back at square one.
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox, had to switch to Chrome for testing it, the new normal.
Poll Tax (Great Britain)
Agree! It is hard to sell security to SMEs! Vitamins vs. pain-killers...

We do have success with enterprise and our goal (hence the name) is to integrate with cyber-insurance.
This is the trolley-problem/CYA type of caution.
In the Netherlands we already have wealth tax (capital gains tax, but doesn't care whether you gained or not). It's nothing particularly disruptive. We still have the most wealth inequality in all the world. It might be a bit pointless to tax wealth in addition to capital gains though. You could just raise the former instead.
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You've been unfairly downvoted. Your question is perfectly reasonable.

This seems to be characteristic of HN in the last couple of years... very reminiscent of Reddit imo.

Long-term effects are one of the main points of study in clinical trials so why would these drugs ben any different?
1 in 200 people? Maybe if you're above the age of 75 and have significant comorbities. If it was 1 in 200 for all age groups you wouldn't have to convince people that lockdowns and maskwearing isn't all theater, they'd be so scared you wouldn't have to convince them of anything.
I was reading this article about the Meritocratic class reproducing itself
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n07/stefan-collini/snake...
Probably the same way they established that long covid is an apparent death sentence.
> now we don’t want to use one of the miracle cures

We want if there are safer options. Not all vaccines are equal. Important question is why we unable to scale up production of mRNA vaccines?
Did you know Bill Gates owns 51% of the USA farmland? He has it safely tucked away into a trust so that his "will" will be law even after death.

I reject this.
> anti-baby pill

German is such a pretty language.
Or less, as the store is allowed to discount (officially the reverse: the manufacturer is not allowed to set prices of anyone except themselves, so if a store takes almost no margin or even sells below price, the manufacturers is forbidden to even talk about it.
That’s assuming J and J has same incidence as AZ. J and J so far has had 6 clots for seven million doses.

Of course some more may show up in coming days from prior vaccinations.
>If that's how it works in your country then it seems likely your country is also broken/corrupt and is effectively 'in on it' (helping the likes of Adobe to steal from you).

How does this get settled in a non-broken/corrupt country? You lodge a complaint and the government launches a fleet of lawyers on your behalf? I'd be surprised if that's a routine response to consumer complaints anywhere.
Putting money aside, in terms of quality of life, we are definitely well ahead. Remember, you had to spend a day in a public library, to answer a question, that you can now lookup in seconds. (Intentionally not using a verb derived from a name of a certain advertisement company).
>That kind of addict is already spending 100% of their available money on heroin. Worst case the price going up means they take less, which seems like a somewhat positive outcome.

Yes, they end up taking less heroin and more fentanyl.
> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

Given that this isn’t “Show HN”, please don’t comment about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, there are things like credit scores, e.g. "schufa" in germany. Also, collecting via court order ("gerichtliches Mahnverfahren") costs around 20 Euros in fees and isn't that complex, you hand in 1 form in triplicate and wait for the money.
Powershell is great, it is the closest of the REPL experience from Xerox PARC, Lisp Machines and ETHZ workstations.

The experience could be replicated in UNIX shells, but noone sems to care to actually go down that path.
> My money will always be on the 18 year olds.

That is not only problematic but also illegal in certain contexts
Here's a question for someone smarter than me. Is there a chance that this number (six cases in seven million doses) will rise as regulators comb through previous reports of adverse effects?
In this world there are people with less experience or understanding. There are people who have varying levels of cognitive or sensory ability.
And there are people who are simply tricked by a company that does everything it legally can to fool them.

To suggest they either deserve to be tricked or shouldn’t be able to buy things themselves is revolting.
> If it was 1 in 200 for all age groups you wouldn't have to convince people that lockdowns and maskwearing isn't all theater, they'd be so scared you wouldn't have to convince them of anything.

Not really. 1 in 200 is fewer than how many die a year anyway of all causes.
Their website actively tries to trick you into falling for it.
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It's not a nerve agent until converted by ant digestion using an enzyme not found in mammal guts so it's comparatively safe to use around humans, and the ants never develop resistances to it.
We're still surrounded by a massive super colony reaching from San Diego to Santa Barbara, but I have no problems keeping my house and yard ant free, side from the occasional and inevitable failed incursions.
Despite our attempts at containing it, it has killed roughly 3 million people worldwide. I'd say it's cause for concern.
These vaccines have only got emergency approval . It is true that reliability of vaccines have caused some nervousness in society and that is obvious because no vaccine in history is out so early for use Must read https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/vaccine-development-b...
Whole world is going through tough time. I hope suffering ends sooner than later
> Important question is why we unable to scale up production of mRNA vaccines?

Where are you getting the idea that we can't?

Hundreds of millions of doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have already been made. Pfizer expects to make 2 billion doses this year.
> Owning a house is becoming more and more a thing for the upper classes

Something like 60% of US people own a home. 30% even own their home completely outright, with no mortgage.

Obviously 30%, let alone 60%, of the population cannot be considered 'upper class', and 'middle class' is probably even a stretch.

The home ownership rate seems broadly stable since the 60s to me, with gentle ups and downs with the economy, so as well as saying home ownership is an upper-class or middle-class thing not being true it's also not the case that 'it wasn't always like this'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...
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