skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes this is the rationale Canadian authorities have used in making AZ 55+ only here. Some calculation based on risk of COVID mortality in that population vs the hypothetical AZ risk. At first I was skeptical of this but the more I read about it the more it seems like a reasonable approach.

Even more so because here in Canada we do not have much AZ yet anyways (and no J&J yet), mostly Pfizer and Moderna.
This should be the answer. If the company requires the use of an "app" as a condition for doing a job, it should also provide a device that can run such an app. Is the janitor also required to bring her own mop from home to use on the job?
Yet another advantage of using a TLS-capable proxy bound to the loopback. It is very easy to disable session resumption.

A comment above mentioned SNI and some other stuff. Easy to disable or filter those things, too. Most sites do not require SNI and I never send it unless necessary. By MITM'ing TLS I can modify/delete headers/page content as well, before it hits a browser.
By design, only Safari can block adult websites on IOS.
Did you ever look at a password manager like saas pass that does not need a desktop app and the browser extension is a full blown app that is protected by 2fa?
Can we stop using the term Technical Debt?

First objection: Managers and Business persons understand Debt, like it and use it. I use credit cards and have a car loan. If we, as engineers, present the problem as "You can have what you want now, but you will incur Technical Debt" then any sane person will say "Sure! Good deal!" Ask yourself, how many times a manager or business owner has asked "What is the interest rate?" Zero times.

Even if you really want to call it Debt, don't. Even if you could convince me that Debt really describes the problem, I would suggest that you don't use that term. You are using it because you want to better describe a problem and reach an understanding, and achieve a goal. However, the managers will listen to what you said, agree that it describes the problem, and the proceed to go in the exact opposite direction that you wanted. Calling it Debt does not achieve your goals. You can keep calling debt because it's oh so clever a phrase, but see where it gets you.

Second Objection: It's not debt.

Debt would be if someone said "I need to build a bridge across here that can handle an Army, and I've got $1m", we engineers reply "It will take $2m", and they respond "Ok, I will borrow $1m so you can build the bridge I need".

Instead what happens is they say "Well, build what you can for $1m", and you say "Ok, we can make 'a bridge' for that", and then either (a) your infantry can cross, but the tanks have to get diverted 20 miles out of the way, or (b) the tanks end up in the river along with the bridge. Since (b) is bad, you then have to spend a lot of time planning the routes for the tanks, and making sure the tanks have the right air cover, etc etc, i.e. doing more work. More likely, however, is that the manager, who is not a structural engineer, sees a perfectly good bridge and orders the tanks across anyway, causing the loss of the bridge, the tanks, and the war.

It's not debt. It's just (at best) an incomplete solution or (at worst) a bad solution that fails at the worst possible moment - e.g. database collapses during registration for the largest event of the year.

Ah, but surely, if you build the lightweight solution for $1m, and acknowledge the increased costs of managing the problems that it doesn't solve, then thats fine? Sure, but that's not technical debt either! That is scoping: we (engineers + business) identify a workable solution that provides some business value. And then we do that well. When Cunningham, for example, talks about what to do about debt, e.g. YAGNI, these are all good ideas: scoping. But the term "debt" is incorrect in this case. The term "debt" will only ever get a team in trouble as it indicates that the team is unwilling to confront the actual problem as engineering, but only as a broken metaphor.
Vite: Next Generation Front End Tooling
The technology behind this vaccine has been actively worked on for over a decade. Yes, these vaccines have been sent to market faster than normal, but they certainly have not been "rushed".
The vaccine lessons the impact and keeps you from dying at the same rate. You can still get covid and spread.

Yes a new norm is required until it starts dying out or changes into something worse.
yeah but they built a nasa clone in 10 years. Till now they have managed to get everithing done on a scale unimaginable for anyone in the west. Our only hope is that hey will collapse from recent overheating of economy and political authoritarianism that is plaguing china from early 2010'
The word "woke" is a pejorative applied by the right wing towards the left wing. It really doesn't have any specific meaning, other than "liberals are bad."
Just the headline tells me that this article is designed to provoke outrage among right wingers.
Rent has been insane for a long time relative to median income in practically every major city across the world. I actually don't think that the rent in Paris is any worse than in Boston, and Paris is nicer to live in.
China actually has the solution to this which is simply dont allow international companies inside your country (even digitally).
My point was more the last part:

> Many adults (35%) say that at least half of infected people need hospitalization.

This is why so many in low-risk groups have been so enthusiastic - misinformation that has them thinking it really is the Black Death.
At the moment we're shitting on the younger generation even harder than usual, by denying them the opportunity to go out, meet people and generally enjoy their youth. Doing that for a year was maybe justified, but it is just totally unfair to carry on for an extended period.

To open up again we need to bring the demand on healthcare services down and we need to do it sustainably, i.e. in a way which prevents another exponential spike. If we can achieve that aim without mass vaccination of healthy young people then great, of course, let's do that. But: if the only way to squash this thing and return everyone to a somewhat normal life turns out to be to keep vaccinating until we get right down to the twenty year olds, shouldn't we do so -- for their sake as much as everyone else's?
Not just NTFS, but pre OSX Macs would do stuff like this. Like a formatted document would have a text/plain fork, and the formatting information in another fork. Or an executable could keep it's symbol table or relocation information in other forks.
Like animal sacrifice, worker surveillance is a lever the manager can pull to feel and appear in control.

Okay that's a little harsh. It's more like drilling into someone's skull: it might work, but probably not the reasons you think ("to excise the evil spirits!") and there are almost certainly less harmful, more effective techniques you just don't know about yet.

When we can reliably break Goodhart's Law (metrics that are targets aren't good metrics) maybe we'll outgrow our primitive hiring and performance rituals.

Speaking of, since the metric is now "moves around the building," do security guards and custodians ever carry the other's trackers for a while?

Perhaps there are "custodial red teams" with orders to dirty or disable something and see how long it takes to be restored.
Archaeologists find “lost golden city” buried under sand for 3,400 years
Apple removed the “Report a Problem” button they used to have on the App Store for each app: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1381463249749565440?...
You can either pay someone $20 an hour and give them a sense of responsibility, autonomy, & pride, or you can pay them $10 an hour and just coerce them to do the job.

Which do we reward?
> Because we don't know how well COVID-19 vaccines keep people from spreading the disease.

There are lots of things we don’t know. We don’t know if a supervolcano will blow next month and send the planet into a multi-year winter. Should we change our behavior today so that if that happens next month lives will be saved?

We don’t know and therefore we should do something is assuming the conclusion.
If they allowed side-loading, they might not capture 30% of revenue from apps sold through the app store. If they disallowed scams, they might not capture 30% of the scammers' revenue.
It's a fundamental concern I've always had with subscriptions for non-entertainment services or trivially fungible goods. I've become a big believer in business incentives and feedback loops for sustainable commercial relationships. Individual leadership and culture can stand against them to some extent for a time, but individuals move on and it seems that near inevitably over enough years organizations tend to track and/or drift according to their incentives and impactful feedback. In a traditional software upgrade model, the default is that they get no money unless they can convince people to upgrade each time. They make their money from overcoming that default, and if people choose not to upgrade that's the most core unignorable feedback for a business that something isn't right. It doesn't guarantee responsiveness or good choices, but it forces them to think about it. From a customer perspective, not paying means the status quo, they don't gain anything new but they lose nothing either.

But with subscriptions it gets inverted. Now for the customer failure to keep paying means losing existing functionality and/or having to expend additional resources (money and time) actively moving to something else. So rather then needing to be convinced to give the company more money, it's more that they need to be convinced not to.

There's a real difference between "a customer base that is very happy" and "a customer base that is merely not irritated enough yet to overcome the inherent energy hump and go looking for a new local minima" and I worry the subscription business model makes that easier to ignore. Not that companies can't in principle find out in other ways! They can do detailed customer polling and so on. But that requires active effort and expense by the company so the temptation will always be to ignore it and follow inertia. This doesn't require the slightest bit of active malice, just a break in feedback loops resulting in drift as a company starts pursuing things from its own tunnel vision. They then look and see the money keep pouring in, so what's the problem? The threat eventually becomes that if the energy barrier is overcome and the stampede begins it's too late. It's a shame to see happen to companies I really really like and have great visions that could be even better.
Yet the world keeps spinning just fine since it was adopted as the main language of the world. French has its own insanities and it was the lingua franca beforehand. Looks more like the more weird a language is, the more likely it will be internationally adopted. Every language has its quirks. The mere concept that a handful of people should have the dictative right to alter any of them in their own image, with force adoption by all, is far more insane than the quirks themselves. If you learn the history of the standardization of spelling, most of the fuckups we groan about to this day you can find roots in some authoritative asshole going, "You know, English needs to be a lot more like XYZ language." You see this is many words where they try to formalize English spelling using Greek and Latin spelling principles or word origins. Even if the English word was never derived from Greek or Latin, but it made it look better. Off top of my head when I read about this long ago, the word island. It's like isla or isula for Latin that relates to the concept of an island. So someone thought that English speakers saying, "iland", should add an s in there. The whole English spelling issue is a far more deep rooted and complex problem than your hand-wavy comment gives it credit for. In truth, folks with your attitude are what led us to the current mess because, "they knew better than all those low lives".
Giving end users control of their own computers is not a stated goal of GPL 2.

From the preamble:

Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.

This jives well with Linus's intention of "I give you software to do whatever you want with, and if you make improvements you have to give them back"
could cause some sort of mental change that causes one to be drawn towards fast-moving objects?
Apart from Indeed, are there any better job sites?
Don't use Google products for anything. You'll likely only get a year of use out it.
To respond to some of the sibling comments:

1Password originally operated on a licensing model, but has since switched to a membership model.

It is still possible to purchase a single license, but they make it very difficult to do so. The option of a standalone license is not mentioned anywhere on their pricing page: https://1password.com/sign-up/

As I understand it, only once you have downloaded the app and are logging in do they mention that standalone licenses are available. (But, at least on Mac, this option is only available on the version of the app downloaded directly from their site, and not the version downloaded from the Mac App Store.) This support thread shows some users' frustration with this, and their support team's insistence on pushing users to the subscription model: https://1password.community/discussion/102412/where-do-i-buy...

I'm not entirely certain of the differences between the subscription model and the standalone version, but I believe the primary difference is that the subscription model will automatically sync your passwords between multiple devices.

You can achieve similar functionality with the standalone license version by storing your vault (1Password's password file) in iCloud or Dropbox, and relying on that for syncing. I use the Dropbox version and it works incredibly well, even on iOS! I think they also support Google Drive for syncing on desktop, but not on mobile. Certainly the syncing offered through their subscription model is valuable, but for users who have other options, it's just doesn't make sense.

I gladly paid for a standalone license, and have purchased licenses for my parents as gifts; the product is incredible. The Chrome extension works great, and the app can be your 2FA device, so it will automatically fill in password forms and copy the 2FA code to your clipboard. It works just as well on iOS too.
Thus, eventually we'll be toast.
You're talking what we learned after the fact about thalidomide. And I'm obviously not saying thalidomide and the mRNA vaccines are similar in their actions in any way. I'm just saying we don't know what injecting a bunch of synthetic spike protein mRNA (a huge percent of which has errors) into your body might do. The same way we didn't know what thalidomide might do, we don't know what this might do. We are not at the level of knowledge about the human body where we can rule out unexpected effects. That is why we have a very stringent drug and vaccine testing regime.
The number of persons who earnestly say that it is a good idea to license one's work under or later-licenses is quite boggling.

It is putting one's work into the hands of license that does not yet exist, it is irrevocable and once the F.S.F. brings a new version and one does not like provisions thereof, one cannot go back.
I hope it gets the M1 and Apple includes a desktop-like mode. I have a Samsung tablet and Dex mode is extremely compelling.
> Please don't pretend ... It's not credible.

That's rather impolite. And I'm absolute surprised that Apple hasn't already eliminated the real web -- just like AOL and Microsoft (tried to subvert with MSN and IE), because full and unrestricted access to the web is full of negatives for Apple's business model.

> the last decade has been all about the iPhone and its pervasive and elegant access to literally millions of sources of content that is "outside Apple's walled garden".

No idea what this means. Are you talking about how the iPhone provides "pervasive and elegant access" to.. the web?
The table is a second thing - Section 6 is the medical devices loophole; I was just amazed by seeing that (unrelated) table.

Certainly simple! /s
I expect “20GB or 50,000 records and a year of revision history” costs them peanuts relative to development of their tools, and certainly way less than $15 per month (that easily gets you 2TB at cloud providers)

If so, to come out even at $5 per user per month versus $20, I would guess they need more than four times the number of paid users (as more users means more support, and that costs money).

⇒ Dropping the price would be a big gamble. It may pay off, but if it doesn’t, it’s hard to increase prices again.
App of the Week #1-Ajulu's Thoughts
Okay, it was 2am here and I must have misread your comment and lost the 'variables' part.
And how do you feel about the use of "he" as a generic pronoun in reference to an individual of undetermined gender? That has also been well established in English for centuries.
Also, if the effected group is only young women, the denominator isn't really the same as the total number vaccinated. Not saying it isn't still very rare, but in young people COVID deaths are also very rare. We have alternative vaccines, it makes perfect sense to advise young women against J&J for the time being while this is sorted out.

And for anyone that thinks this is just normal incidence of blood clots being blamed on the vaccine - that's what was said about AstraZeneca originally, and if these clots are anything like those it is absolutely not the case. Those are serious clots that are very rare to see period, let alone in young people, and require different treatment than normal clots (they have surprisingly low platelet count).

I suspect US agencies had good reason to want to pause J&J given all of that - the AZ vaccine issues were also disproportionately affecting women interestingly.
> into an `Option<&str>` from an `Option<String>`

`Option::deref` is a good choice here.
Reminds of nodered but without the form fields, which might actually be better.
False dichotomy. If the 20 year olds all get covid, almost nothing bad will happen. So just let them catch it. If the at-risk people are all vaccinated, then it's not a big deal.
Anyone know of a product hunt for academic journal articles
Does this exist as far as anyone of you know?
Haha fair enough. :)
Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
I'll do you one better: I can get you a job that will pay you $5/minute and all you have to do is lie in bed and move your hips in a particular way.

If you'll suck it up and do anything if the price is right, you're a prostitute. Professionals have standards.
Archaeologists aren't that new either. The oldest museum we know of was curated by Ennigaldi-Nanna, the daughter of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Why do we think she created a museum? When the palace was excavated, dozens of neatly displayed artifacts from widely different eras and places were found. That alone wouldn't be conclusive, except for the fact that the artifacts had labels detailing their origins. In three languages.

Ennigaldi-Nanna lived in the 6th century BCE.
It's latin1. The same is true of DOM strings in Chromium, like attributes, blocks of text, and inline scripts.

Webkit and the JDK implement the same string optimization, while .NET unfortunately doesn't: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/6612
I got scammed on the App Store a couple of weeks ago.

I needed the SmartThings app for some Samsung home automation devices, searched for it, and installed this one:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smart-things-smart-view-app/id...

When it charged me a $20/year subscription (now cancelled) I thought "Wow, Samsung charging me for this feels pretty cheap of them, but I guess that's how they do things - after all, I found this on the App Store".

The app I should have installed was this one: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smartthings/id1222822904
I once passed some take-home test from a small startup. They then requested a further take-home which a) would be monitored (it was a remote position) and b) would require some six to eight hours and c) would have to be done over the weekend. There had been no contact with anyone at that point other than passing the initial test, and no discussion of salary, benefits, etc.

I've rarely used unprofessional language in job application emails, but on that occasion I pretty much told them to take their no-name little company and shove it.
One culture's working class food is another culture's insufferably fancy food. It's all relative.
This is awesome, they look like the grilled cheese burrito.
French fries inside the burrito is definitely an improvement to rice. First time I ever had one was in Los Angeles. I wonder if the French are into guacamole and sour cream.

I also like Banh Mi as an improvement over ham a cheese on a baguette.
History of Logo (2020) [pdf]
I would assume the guidelines for aspirating would be the same across all of these vaccines, though? If so the original point still stands regardless of adenovirus vs. mRNA
JavaWorld and The Register are decent go-tos for me.
Because you can’t know all inputs and outputs across all of industry. You can play whack a mole on a per-industry basis and incentivize all sorts of wankery to evade regulations, or you can just price carbon and fix _all_ industries at once.
By far the biggest missing control is you can't restrict access to google secrets manager by source CIDR.

There were a bunch of other smaller nitpicks, but that was the overwhelming reason last time I looked at it.
Assuming this is true (hopefully it never comes down to it, but I'll leave that for the courts), then the simple act of hosting on Github, with its download source functionality, would make you in violation.
I would hope that the trust and safety team at Apple are sorting apps by revenue-generated-per-month and investigating the ones at the top of the list first.
Thank you for the feedback. I am big fan of analog meters. I still have an old cathode ray oscilloscope with 20MHz bandwidth
WWII killed roughly 75 million people, "only" 3% of the world's population at the time. Scale matters.
> So it's not just a scam, it's a scam pretending to be a medical app? The walled garden method has been proven a failure and needs to go urgently.

It sounds like you are arguing that more medical scams would be better.

App review fails sometimes, but removing it would be worse.
I think GP means they hate the phrase 'be the change you want to see in the world' (as do I) but was begrudgingly applying it to pull requests.
It's Latin1 which I think is code page 850:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850
Obviously not. They simply aren’t a meaningful target for scams the way the iOS store is.
Finally, thanks to your comment, I understand the whiteboard interview. I couldn't for the life of me understand how hiring for software engineers was conducted in such a ridiculous manner (i.e. not anything like the job you are going to do), but like someone else said on here, it's a dance that proves your proficiency to learn technical concepts.
> It is that it is an unknown side effect that did not come up in the original studies.

It's not clear that this even has to do with the vaccine. If you gave 7 Million people a glass of water on the same day, I'm sure at least 7 of them would experience some sort of moderate to serious health outcome in the days that followed.