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They're letting perfect -- even a single death is too many -- get in the way of good -- a small number may have shitty outcomes, but the overwhelming majority will not.

Same framework that's lead to all of the poor policy decisions over the past year.
CUDA kernels look very much like C, you cannot use the STL and a bunch of other things.

For practical purposes, it is C.
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Even less recently, we have had a very similar sounding Greenspun’s Tenth Rule.
Y=36000?
Interesting that for natural monopolies (water supplies, power distribution, telco, radio spectrum) governments tend to regulate and de-monopolise. For real estate it's almost opposite and oligopolies are protected.
I don't mean to troll. It just seems obvious to me that countries are pressuring other countries to do stuff all the time. Of course some countries have more power than others. Malawi isn't going to be able to lean on Poland in the same way the U.S. will be able to.
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„he hijacks the back button so he can“ - sounds pretty much intentional. No one would argue against an alert asking you if you want to leave without saving you work or sth similar, though.
the perception from the west is that corruption in Russia didn't go away but was simply hoisted up to the level of government. How do you feel about the level of wealth that Putin and his associates have accumulated during his reign?

It is interesting that you talk about different metrics and different words meaning different things to Russians compared to those in the west. If we can't use "left" and "right" as descriptors, and you don't place much emphasis on "freedom of speech", what _are_ the values that you think are important? (I suspect, from what you say, even "freedom of speech" means something different to you than it does to me)
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Good point! I was focussing on the UK since that's where the majority of AZ vaccine users are, but you're right. I'll swap in a more international first risk!

Maybe tonight I can work out do an IP address lookup and personalise it for your locality ;)
> We shouldn't have sympathy for things that actively harm people's health.

This is besides the point and no-one has suggested that.

Politically, economically, and socially, we cannot take livelihoods away from people. If ICE vehicles are no longer acceptable then there has to be a viable alternative for everyone, not only for city-dwellers or people who don't need cars/vans.

I mentioned the yellow vests in France because the protests were triggered by exactly this lack of consideration for people who live outside of central Paris: The government wanted to slap extra taxes on petrol and diesel (which are already heavily taxed) without any way around them for people who currently have no choice.

Some countries, e.g. the UK, have already said they'll ban new ICE vehicles from 2030, so we're hopefully going to see a drastic change in manufacturers' offering but governments have also to plan and ensure that affordable alternatives hit the market by then in order to avoid both economic disruption and social unrest (which both come with a significant political price).

That's indeed the compromise I suggested in my previous comment.
I am building https://www.jigdev.com which runs observable hq as a canvas locally. It's not open source as of now but there'll be a always free version for it.
> We know that there are no side effects that are common enough to be of real concern

How did they establish that there are no long term side effects?
Less, no? 1/million is the risk so far of clots, not of death.
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Why exactly is the wealth gap a problem? Shouldn't it be more relevant how well of people are in general?

There are so many nice number games to play, like the stagnant wages. Those usually fail to mention that the workforce has increased significantly, so the sum of wages paid has risen significantly. Buying power also tends to be not factored in. People couldn't buy iPhones 50 years ago.

Also if anybody is unhappy about some tech company, they are free to not do business with them.
I had this exact issue. I specially chose the more expensive monthly options and read all the fine print, but apparently the cancellation fee snuck by somehow. My solution was removing my credit card, adding a “you don’t deserve to get paid” prepaid VISA charged with ¥200, and canceling anyway. They tried to charge me on and off for about a month — and a random charge attempt 3 months later.

Having to do this is a terrible felling and I feel like a bad person, but I at least put the cancellation fee I would have paid to good use by buying Affinity Designer.
> I run some generic knowledgebase website and use my own ES installation to provide user-facing search, does Elastic want to see my Ansible scripts?

According to Elastic, "it depends" - if you can just search by entering a term in the searchbox, you're probably fine; If you allow users to use Elastic's query language, you're very likely in violation. If you let your customers define Kibana dashboards, you're definitely in violation.

It's worth noting that you can do a custom deal with Elastic, as long as you pay whatever they ask & accept their terms (or renegotiate them, which is a fairly painful process) - so maybe GitLab did just that.
Ask HN: How do you onboard to a new framework?
I'm a product manager working on developing an open source framework.

When you have a problem, and you come across a framework to solve it, how do you onboard to that framework?
Your link only has IPv6 records but the www. subdomain has IPv4.
Just an example from the city I live in:

The tax office doesn't go after the worst offenders it mainly goes after the ones where they can get the most money out for the least effort. But the worst offenders often have all kind of fallback strategies and good tax lawers so it's costly to get them and you likely never see the money. So instead they go after small one/two/three people companies as they are most likely to make some easy to spot mistake when making taxes which you then can spin out of control. That this often will lead to less taxes earned on the long run due to small tax paying companies going out of business due to a small mistake being turned into a big thing no one cares.

This also leads to absurdities that certain kinds of businesses are seldomly tax checked and in turn often used to do massive money laundering.
They are 2 cities in the UK that are ~220 miles apart, so 1 in a million people die every 220 miles driven
That's the thing. Pausing the vaccine will kill people. Judging by the numbers so far - probably more people. But different and older people.

How does one do that math ethically? There are risks if you do and risks if you don't. The FDA is the wrong group to make that call, because they're only concerned with the first kind of risk.

In Canada we reserved the Astra Zenica vaccine for people over 55 because of the blood clot issue. I think that's probably the right call.
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Thanks. It's been quite fun to research all the unlikely ways of dying!
"Add your email address to our waitlist to get the latest version of Eric's Geometric Unity manuscript." - there are times when arXiv just does not cut it, huh?
Not to be rude, but are you aware that Liverpool (like London) is a city? I guess I'm unsure what the confusion is.
Are math equations copyrightable? (I am not a lawyer)
One of example that pops into my mind watching Elon Mush show, he said something along the lines "it is not difficult to get money there is plenty of money and investors who want to invest, I can just turn few phone and I will have investment of few hundred millions". Because hast that type of the network.

For me and probably most of the people I know, I do not know where to begin, most average income people networks are not investors type, so we do not have a clue, where to even find people who are willing to listen for a five minute pitch, without feeling that you are begging for money...

In that regard poor or middle class will never be the same as rich, it is amount of struggling to keep up the daily needs.
If rich person gets bankrupt, he can easily bounce back, with connections he has, he can turn few phone calls and again pop up on the ladder, issue with other people they are not even close to ladder, until you get to ladder, there is path through swamp, forest, dark cave, and dragon on two ...
I keep hearing people debate about why housing prices are so high but it confuses me. Didn't housing prices fall dramatically in the 2008 financial crisis? Didn't various governments put vast amounts of money into the economy in an effort to ensure house prices returned to their previous levels and continued to rise?

It seems as if high housing prices are an explicit policy of most major powers at this time.
Paraphrasing one famous science commenter, we're playing Pandemic Trolley Problem and running over hundreds of people because we're not sure if the other path has one or two persons.

It's ridiculous.

Or as per someone that actually knows statistics: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1381925025964515330
Unfortunately not, and I see it as a big downside of C where you can only learn about important corner cases with your own bitter experience, direct instruction.

Advanced C usage remaining a black magic is not strength, it's weakness. This assures that attackers will always have a significantly stronger upper hand against industry's salaryman developers.
This is incredibly useful, a lot of my peers will certainly love it for quick prototyping data manipulation and exploration. I know I will.

This is a very clever/usable implementation of flow-based programming (FBP), which is dear to many people's heart in HN and out.

FBP matches very easily the mental model of data flow and calls for quick mouse- or touch-based manipulation. Coming up with a usable UX for such paradigm is not trivial though, and your project seems on a good track.

I can only encourage you to take the (harsh) criticism in this comments' section with the necessary distance, and keep working on the project, because it's very good! Well done!
If it’s an autoimmune reaction, autoimmune diseases generally are more common in women.

That’s not an explanation, of course, I don’t know the reason. But it places this in a larger category.
We are currently taking a % of success , but are also exploring deeper tie ups such as setting up JV that manages, distributes and monetise a brand
Huh, how do you know what the rich people of old were thinking? Your argument seems to be based on complete fantasy - both your assumptions about the mindset of rich people of the past and of people who got rich in SV are completely fabricated.

But never mind, it is hating on rich people, so it is always OK, right?
They surrounded your country with military assets and materials and you are the one acting aggressively in their democratic propaganda media machines which is owned by a couple of billionaires. I think the west think you should move out of earth and move to another planet.

Oh then they will accuse you of aggression again if you occupy the moon.

The US probably envy your military budget for all the campaign you are doing to undermine their democracy.
What jrockway describes is a common pattern; it's not necessarily the end of the company IME, but it's the end of the spirit of that company, whatever made them great is gone, they're riding on their laurels (relying on past 'wins').

Cadbury is a brand like this, as soon as they started smoothing corners on their chocolate bars to save a few percent volume and making the chocolate waxy they died. I expect under Kraft/Mondelez the brand is making more money than ever though.

I suspect there's a transition from R&D/development spending to marketing spending that marks the change.
There's about 1/250,000 risk of clots, but they are treatable.

In the UK there's been 19 people die after ~20 million vaccinations.
But if you want to send secure messages it also matters if your friend has remember to enable --dont-be-stupid and disable --automatically-guess-its-20-year-old-insecure-format
Keeping on the myth of birth control...

> A joint statement from the FDA and CDC clarified that the blood clotting was cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST).

I don’t believe birth control is associated with CVST at a rate of 1/1000. It feels very misleading to use it as a point of comparison.
I don’t see how you can be a technologist in the long run without this attitude. Maybe this is the no true Scotsman fallacy, but one of the key aspects of technology is it will change right underneath you often. (Except SQL injection, apparently, the team keeps finding it at an alarming rate in modern apps).
The rich outbidding poor people is not what is causing a housing shortage. There are only so many houses a rich person can occupy. Even if you assume that every rich person keeps a number of spare houses, there are not enough rich people to cause a housing shortage.
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Maybe. In a lot of places you don't really have a choice and, in the US, AFAIK the mRNA vaccines are more common. Also, while "vaccine passports" have started being discussed, they're not really a factor yet--given how many people still need to vaccinated--and may never be outside of scenarios like schools. (That said, I have heard people who see getting a vaccine as more pro forma saying they prefer J&J because it's just a single shot.)
London and Liverpool are major cities in England. 200 miles, 4 hours drive time, roughly.

Similar distance/time as DC to NYC.
"It's worth mocking purely because of the source"

"Anything that legitimises scientology is bad"

There's no need advocate for or against an idea for ideological reasons here.

We're not here to promote some ridiculous cult, obviously, you don't need to worry about that.

If there is a neat idea somewhere, then that's fine, even if it's from a weird source.

Cable News is a giant stream if narrative and advocacy misrepresentation, and everything is fully distorted 'because the source' and 'because we don't want to legitimize such and such'.

It's nice to have places where adults have conversations about things and can assume people act in good faith given the information at hand, instead of having to worry about how suppressive some people are going to be because they 'don't want to legitimize/delegitimize' some group or source.

Right now there is an HN thread on Bret Weinstein's supposed 'Theory of Everything' and nobody seems to be able to get past their personal views of the man. It'd be better to assume a shred of good faith and discuss his 'new concept' as either worthy or quackery on it's own merits, and not based on whether or not we like him because he works with Peter Thiel.
Those new systems retrofit into the existing DNS system very easily. There is no excuse not to try new approaches.
It was entirely possible to achieve the same disruption without breaking laws, so think instead of the opportunity cost - the damage done to the markets, granting wealth to people who demonstrated sociopathic tendencies and blatant disregard for the law, allowing those people to follow their principles and abuse their workers/"partners" at scale, and erosion of public trust in local governance.

All of which could perhaps be avoided if the investors were afraid to be associated with such scummy business practices, and instead pressured aforementioned startups to stay fully above board while realizing their vision.
None of our societal systems are setup to do rational cost-benefit trade-offs in a pandemic.

“Don’t wear masks.” “No, no: wear masks.” “COVID kills over 10%.” “COVID kills less than 0.1%.” Once we realized the difference in makeup between the over-10% and sub-0.1% populations, we still couldn’t bring ourselves to make data-backed differentiations for many, many months (and still today have many small businesses closed or restricted based on what they do rather than the risk profile of their owners and employees).

These are difficult decisions to be sure, but when being seen as on the “safe side” confers benefits without a commensurate charge for the risk of the “safe” action, you get a society which moves in the direction of perceived safety (and where perceived safety may be strongly sub-optimal).
Does it really come as a shock that you don't have a blanket right to lie about your identity to protect yourself from possible exploitation?
>would they get 100% of its notional value?

depend on the liquidity on that day also they could OTC sell so yes they can probably get the market price. However telling the market fist isnt going to help.

>There’s a reason companies list “cash and equivalents” and BTC isn’t included in that line on the balance sheet.

Yes, the reason is volatility and uncertain liquidity.
To compare BTC with cash equivalents you could use volume adjusted price over the last months, that would give a good short term cash value. But long term ofc its impossible to know what it may be worth.

Not quite sure how that's relevant to what I said, namely that assets hold by a company are not comparable to the companies market cap.
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That's odd, I found the Compiz cube to be helpful actually.

As a graphics effect it's about as basic as it can get -- even the venerable GLX Gears is more complex. And I found it to actually increase usability because it visually and very intuitively showed you the movement, so it made organization a bit neater. It made it easier to keep a mental map of what was where, because it could be arranged spatially.

If anything, it didn't go far enough. I wanted more faces, and the possibility of working in a "zoomed out" state, for when I need to look at a whole bunch of stuff at once.

The real novelty stuff to me were the Enlightenment effects like the water effect on the bottom of the screen -- now that chewed up CPU and did nothing of actual use.
Here is the npm log when you install it.
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They're half a dozen lines of text (counting glue records and DNSSEC anchors) in a database, it's OUTRAGEOUS we have to pay for that at all.

This is not what you are paying for. Every time this argument comes up it hides the real problem...what you are paying for is the legal wrangling, security overhead and general compliance that comes with the internet.

Phishing, trademarks, spam, business disputes,and valid legal requests will all still exist no matter who runs things. Those costs are what your domain fees really have to cover.

It’s been a very long time since domain costs were highly dependent on the technical requirements of the data they represent.
We've only had industry 250 years. Give it 250 million, maybe we sort that out, or most industry moves off planet as in Jeff Bezos vision with blue origin.
Mainly for epaper, as it has a reduced bitdepth.

However it can be used in other contexts, like in video.
It’s not a sim city decision. In young healthy people the risk of covid death is much lower than 1/200 , so you gotta see why this would make people hesitate.
Does Europe not have credit scores? Would these sorts of things not end up as derogatory events on them?
You're in luck:

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That's a pretty vague and arbitrary distinction.
Just a hunch but I suspect there may be more than “6” cases of blood clotting with the vaccine in the US.
Well, maybe. The fact that crime is, in fact, already illegal points suggestively at AML laws not actually being targeted at criminals. The law itself is mostly relatively new (article notes 1980s) and probably correlates to driving out people competing with entrenched US banking system and/or supporting the US's campaigns of using the dollar against rivals or inconvenient countries like Iran.

Freezing people out of the monetary system is less effective against criminals and more effective against business ventures the US doesn't like.

Anything linked to the Patriot Act is bad news; it was one of the 'rush stuff through in a crisis then refuse to unwind it' plays that the government makes when it wants unpopular law changes.
Med Student here so possibly wrong but...

There is a well established link between oestrogen and increased blood coagulability. Whilst it is possible females are more affected by the vaccine I suspect one factor is that their baseline coagulation risk increases their likelihood of thrombus due “reaction induced coagulability” compared to males.
False dichotomy and straw man fallacies. There are moral alternatives to borrowing money with usury.
Hey. What will that mean exactly? DNS is through Cloudflare using their magical CNAME pointer. Can you access OK?
Deaths from COVID aren't seen as the direct 'fault' of the regulatory bodies. Deaths from a vaccine will be... and fundamentally, regulatory bodies aren't really incentivised to take risks anyway.

If they follow your line of thinking and it's all fine... no-one's going to be writing articles praising them.

If they follow your line of thinking and more people die form blood clots... people will write articles attacking them. Questions will be asked, and careers may be harmed. Etc.
You remind me of a story my grandpa would tell me. One time he was getting off a bus and he saw a woman a few yards a way throwing bread to pigeons. She was saying "oh look at all the pretty birdies. Oh pretty birdies.".
Then one of the pigeons layed one thick on her eye.
"@%#$ you damn birds %#&@"

Just keep donating piles and piles of sugar to the ants and leave the house for a week or go outside.
Not fucking again, we had enough of this scaring with the AZ vaccine. While it definitely is sensible to investigate what causes thrombosis in the covid vaccines, the risk of thrombosis caused by either Covid19 itself or by everyday medication such as the anti-baby pill is many orders of magnitude larger.

It would be great if media still had actual science reporters who could inform their readers that while, yes, there is a thrombosis risk from the vaccine, you're way more likely to get a thrombosis from your contraceptive.

Unfortunately, most media these days rather prefers scare-mongering for clicks.
For personal project my hard limit is 80 cols. For work stuff, mandated by employer, we do something like 120 cols with clang-format. Four or five columns of code side by side, so I can see hundreds of lines of code at once. I still prefer not to waste too much vertical space on fluff.

It doesn't sound like you understand the difference between block structured code with a function call syntax and assembly. Thanks for the attempted ad hominem btw ;-)

> Anyways, you might think you're making a point by repeating "it's all opinions anyways", but that doesn't mean your single opinion is equal to everyone else.

You keep missing the point. Did I say "that's just nasty and bad habits" about your preferred style? Nope!

All I'm saying is that it'd be nice if people stopped presenting their preference as objectively good style and telling that everything else is nasty and wrong. We don't need to share the same preferred color either.

The first comment in this thread would've been a lot more palatable if it just said "I don't like this style." That would also give the comment the right weight: it is just an opinion after all.

I don't think popularity of opinion should matter for discourse. Of course I know I'm in the minority, and that's why I think it's all that much more important to state my opinion. Or do you want to live in an echo chamber where only the popular opinion gets said and everything else is painted nasty and wrong and downvoted to hell? Well, that is pretty much what HN is today. I hope you're not contributing to that.