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Ask HN: What was your Covid recovery like?
There's a front-page article about how all COVID news is bad news, so thought I'd ask for some good-ish COVID news. What was your recovery like if you were infected?

In my case my wife went in to see she could get vaccinated (there were some health centers vaccinating people under the age of 45), but they turned her away after waiting in a crowded line. She very likely got COVID there. She was sick a few days later, for about two days with a slight fever and body pain. We didn't think it was COVID, because we'd been super-careful, always masked, no conversations indoors, etc. This felt like a common infection as well, no out-of-the ordinary indicators. As per usual, I got the infection from her, and spent a weekend in bed. Then she complained that she couldn't smell. This freaked us out, so we got tested immediately. While waiting for the results I realised I couldn't smell anything either. Wife's test showed negative while I showed positive. Looks like her infection had already run its course.

Our 4-yo then wound up with a fever which then went away overnight. Wife can smell again now, and I'm slowly getting back my sense of smell. Taste is fine.

This was all two weeks ago. I know that a lot of us have lost people we care about, but it would be nice to have a few recovery stories as well, to balance out the obituaries.
That "before" photo: the fellow is pushing his belly out and holding his chin in to make himself look fatter than he actually is. Why would he do that, do you suppose?
The booster isn't because the first shot isn't working now. It will be required because your body will eventually forget how to fight COVID (you'll need three shots no matter when you start) or because new variants will pop up. Either way, your choice is "get the shots now and be safe for the intervening year, or get the two shots a year of non-protection later". The cost of getting another shot every year is nothing. I'd much rather get a shot every year than go a year without being protected.
“China powers nearly 80% of the global cryptocurrencies trade”
How does Google link the real life person who bought Voltaren at a store to the online account or fingerprint that browses the Internet?

Often, through the payment.

People use the same payment methods in the same stores over and over. This data is accumulated by the stores, and sold. if you signed up for a "points card" or some other gimmick to get 2¢ off something, the personal information you used when you signed up is added to the profile.

What you bought in the store is added to your profile (within legal limits in certain jurisdictions).

Some stores have devices that listen to your mobile phone's identifiers (wifi, Bluetooth, etc) and add that to your profile. Now the data profilers know what other stores you shop in. Some stores are experimenting with facial recognition (Walgreens). That gets added to your profile.

If you go to several in a single day, your route between the stores can be guessed. If you go to one or more places (stores, parking garages, streets that pass parking lots) that have sensors that read the NFC chips in your car's tires, then that can be added to your profile.

Now they know everywhere you go, everywhere you shop, everything you buy, how much you buy, how much you spend, your race, your gender, how you dress, what brands are displayed on your clothing, and any visible hair, moles, or tattoos.

That's just off the top of my head.

And people wonder, "Wow. I am a little scruffy. How did Facebook know to show me an ad for a razor?"
Unless you are CEO of a guns company...
This was a common urban legend when I was a kid, updated periodically to make the ignorant driver different nationalities.
Brakes deactivated and rolling downhill?

IDK if this is even possible in Teslas or if there is a safety mechanism that prevents it.
I mean the manual pretty much instructs to do exactly as it was done here:

> USE WATER TO FIGHT A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FIRE. If the battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is generating heat or gases, use large amounts of water to cool the battery. It can take approximately 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request an additional water supply. If water is not immediately available, use dry chemicals, CO2, foam, or another typical fire-extinguishing agent to fight the fire until water is available.

> Battery fires can take up to 24 hours to extinguish. Consider allowing the battery to burn while protecting exposures.
Yeah you have all the time to sleep well, prepare food and eat healthy, hydrate, stretch and excercise, work on any stimulating however trivial personal projects. What you leave behind is the stress coming from a job, miserable dates and rejections, and any stress related health problems which later on one is desperately tring to resolve with doctors and medical procedures.
And if you find yourself depressed and all that, stop reading "the news."

There actually is good news in the world, but it is seldom found in "the news."

See also Don Henley's Dirty Laundry.

Kick 'em when they're up. Kick 'em when they're down.
Article says it’s unconfirmed whether the car was in auto-drive. Part of me (without any knowledge) thinks someone was showing off the auto-drive and turned it off accidentally. But more details will come out I hope.

One thing in particular sticks out as concerning: the fire service did not know how to deal with the fire.

That’s not something specific to Tesla, Tesla does not make all battery powered cars, the fire service should know how to suppress electrical fires.
Some people do have that ability, yes.
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Why is that necessary?

Edit: To be a bit less standoffish and make my position clear.

You only need to form a consensus with the part of the network you are aware of. Datalisp leans into the properties of propagator networks (fully CP systems) to avoid needing to synchronize everyone eagerly.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26848549 to make the thread less top-heavy.
“The Macintosh was the first home computer from Apple.”

Sigh.
Fair feedback. That said, a lot of SaaS companies exists today which require a database connection in order to operate. They all also offen on-prem, but for enterpise sales only.

Everything I have is fairly automated so I think it'd be trivial to offer an on-prem version at some point, but currently still figuring things out.
Most programs would simply use bind(), instead of having a more complicated option parsing and condition around bind()/bind_unused():

sockaddr_in sockaddr = { 0 };
sockaddr.sin_port = HARDCODED_PORT;
// other fields defaulted...

// option parsing and filling sockaddr structure...

if (has_port_number && flag_use_random_port) {
error(...);
exit(1);
}
if (has_port_number) {
bind(s, sockaddr);
} else {
bind_unused_port(s, sockaddr);
}

vs.

sockaddr_in sockaddr = { 0 };
sockaddr.sin_port = HARDCODED_PORT;
// other fields defaulted...

// option parsing and filling sockaddr structure...

bind(s, sockaddr);

Yeah, people would just write the second version. And mind you, the sockaddr argument for bind_unused() still would have a local address to bind to, so what exactly is gained? Difference between 65535 or 65536 ports available doesn't warrant complicating API in such a manner, IMO.
There was no mention of the job being underpaid, was there?

Then, if your definition of “underpaid” is “lower salary than one could get elsewhere”, well, we are all underpaid. But it matters only if your salary is not enough to cover your lifestyle. Bearing that in mind, I’d rather be paid less to work in a nice working environment than better paid in a stressful professional nightmare. I’ve done my share of nightmares already.
People with social anxiety might retreat to their home to feel safe, but that's not the same as it being healthy nor the best option for them.

You might be antisocial, but at least one of the guys in TFA talks of overwhelming shame. It's arguably (perceived or not) external reasons for this self-solitude, possibly a matter of heteronomy rather than autonomy.

Of course it's a societal issue.

Getting these individuals help might just be treating the symptoms, however, if the cause turns out to be a cultural phenomenon. It might require targeted political effort to properly frame and address the real problems.
I am not referring to everyone who lives at home with parents, nor am I saying that living at home with parents is a bad thing or an indicator of social recluse.

What I said is I've seen this "exact attitude with individuals" (as in some individuals, not all.) For example, my daughter's kindergarten teacher lives with his parents, and I have absolutely no issue with it. However, I do know someone who is well into their 30s that is living with their parents because every job they've ever had did not "treat them well enough", in many cases they lasted less than a week, and their parents continue to allow them to basically get away with not working.
> I bet the vast majority of people shrug or laugh, but don’t change habits.

Or you tell all your friends about it and end up having a conversation about guitars/dishwashers or whatever.

It may not be intentional on their part, but spin off conversations can be a nice by-product for them. Feels like it helps it stick in the mind, a bit like writing a witty TV ad.
Airbnb should be simply banned.There's no way short term rental is any good for any city.
That's what hotels with different price ranges are for.
I find the implication highly questionable that naming this feature something else would have prevented this boneheaded incident. Stupid people do equally reckless things in their normal cars every day. As Musk says, experienced Tesla drivers know the limitations of the system and just get complacent. Or for all we know these people were just suicidal.
It's not? Vaccine roll out seems to be going well and cases are down in California and there have been articles about this, they just aren't very interesting...
Hanging out in a Tesla online community, I've noticed there are two types of Tesla fans (and investors even).

The first are those that believe that EVs are the future and love the cars Tesla is producing.

The other are robotaxi/FSD evangelists and believe Tesla will usher in the age of autonomous cars sooner rather than later. These people genuinely believe we'll have fully road legal autonomous cars (as in, requiring zero human input) by 2025 and that human driven cars will be outright banned in many developed countries by 2035 or even 2030. Some of them actually want Tesla to stop selling cars to the public in favor of stocking them for the robotaxi fleet which they are absolutely sure will be widely deployed in a matter of a few years.
Sure, feel free to substitute whatever terminology you like into the above comment
True, but the FLoC implementation comes with its own sack of worms look eff excellent post on it.
While not as marketable, "enhanced cruise control" might be a better name to avoid these situations because people associate cruise control with still needing to steer and remain focused.
> You guys are a cost centre

In most contexts this would be more open to interpretation, but since (a) I just asked you to stop posting nationalistic putdowns (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803989, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809750), and (b) you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> As evidence I offer the site, in partial or it's entirety.

TechDirt has been on a backslide in readership for years, primarily from it's crappy "we just post what we hear" nonsense. What you see now is a rebranding (eg* "free speech") which has served them better than the previous snicker journalism that they are known for. The fact that they have seemingly well-sourced articles is incidental to the past, which you seem wholly ignorant enough to assume was a quality source.

*It does seem to be working as other sites are increasingly linking to it.
I agree fully with your addendum to my comment.
Lately the loss of security, increased tracking, etc are very pressing issues, which the "general public" is not aware of.
Would it be feasible, or actually doable, to create an wareness month - a la Movember? This would help to shine some light on what is being done by major corporations, and which affects everyone.
Google once became as bad as DDG is. About 3 years ago they unwound that, a fair amount. Presently, I get some G searches w/ no results - which is helpful.
PS. I’m pretty sure the reason I’m thinking about this is because I watched the WeWork documentary yesterday. It seems like Neumann capitalized on using rhetoric about this very issue. He talks a lot about how people seem disconnected and disinterested in their surrounding community. A lot of people probably felt that message resonate pretty strongly with them. The problem was that he was trying to solve it with... new office divisions. Which is pretty fucking irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. But my feeling is that a lot of people bought in because they liked that message.
This is the exact reason why Google/Waymo moved on from a similar system a decade ago to directly making level 4 autonomy work. It provides users a false sense of security. Same with FSD feature set as well. Tesla and Musk’s constant misleading statements and marketing doesn’t help either.

At the very least, these kind of systems must have fairly strict driver monitoring. Musk says it’s not effective because they don’t try hard enough. The wheel nag and seat weight check currently implemented are too easy to defeat. There are literally products you can buy online to overcome that. I don’t know what’s stopping them from implementing an eye tracking system using cameras the way GM Super Cruise does. It’s a much more effective solution IMO.
Just to break it down, it seems to me that isolation is a different thing than inactivity coupled with constrained spaces.

If you watch the 'My Self Reliance' channel on youtube (and I realize the guy has a wife and older kids), the alone part doesn't seem so bad if combined with ongoing projects. Plus these are projects that have to get done.

Plus, he has a good looking Golden Retriever, no doubt better company than some of the people I know.
I suspect he’s a shark.
We live in an age of underappreciated princes with no fiefdoms.
Just trying to point out that it's a lifestyle incompatible with a large part of the population. Of course adults can live however they like. I don't mean to judge, and apologize if it comes across that way.
You are giving for granted that there is a private someone that is payed to evict people from an house, but that's not how it works in many places in the world.

In Italy (and I bet in many other European countries) this is the public force that is in charge of doing this and there are a lots of exceptions (for instance, here, you cannot easily evict a family where there are children or sick people).

And if you involve the pubic force, then you are inherently accepting the concept of a central trusted authority, hence the decentralisation fails as a requirement.
But people underestimate how much memory you can put in a server, and for how long it stays cost effective to do so.
Cruise control is not safer than a human driver, it's a convenience for highway driving, not a replacement for humans.
Is this a real law? can't find anything online about either the law or its actual text
This is a surprisingly practical list of good questions!
It might seem obvious to you, but I've been in plenty of companies that focused on one or the other and wondered why things were always burning down.

Sometimes there is value in stating the obvious, because it might not be that obvious to everyone.
Depends upon the noise, But even if they filter it out it will get the desired result of not having a cohart id. In case of opting out you are in the default don't like privacy invasive cohart
Absolutely. Solarwinds is a great example that if you can become important enough, and in with the bricks, the rats won't flee the sinking ship, even as the deck goes below the waterline.

If investors lost confidence in a company, and sold their shares (impacting the share price), could this create a sufficient paper-based loss for other investors to pursue the senior officers of the company?

I think you're right though - unless it is something that makes the CEO lose their job, or go to prison, it is going to be hard to get anyone to take on any (even marginal) increase in the cost of delivering the product.
There doesn't seem to be any evidence that China actually ever intended to meet climate targets. They've been building coal electric plants at a rapid rate continuously for decades now. In the meantime they've attended climate meetings and reassured everyone they're on the same page.
I believe part of the problem is taking seriously the multinational agreements that form the core of the climate remediation efforts.
Huh. Good argument for paying cash.
There are links at the bottom under References if you're interested in learning more about the context. Tim Poole and Project Veritas videos aren't going to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you.
Astronomers Detect a New Super-Earth Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star
You would have to open your mouth and point it at a 5G antenna to get a signal. But AM radio would be fine.
That's a lot of extraneous data to be adding to a stream leaving the phone. (Or dumping to a locally stored db file.), but you're technically correct, though not infallibly so.

The level of noise is incredibly problematic. My leading cause of dropped phone, for instance is forgetting I have it in my shirt pocket, on my lap, off my desk, or from my back pocket if I don't put it in just right. Am I a different person in each of those circumstances? The statistical answer would be no, but only cones from widening the scope of collected data. Suppose I fiddle with it? Dance with it? Have a habit of leaving it in a car? Without a control, you have a different set of relative patterns. At best you know there is a user with X. Yes you can make some statistical assumptions, but at best, when it really counts, it still needs to line up with a hell of a lot of other circumstantial datapoints to hold water.

Furthermore, I guarantee not a single person would dare make any high impact assumption based on that metadata given that once it gets out, it's so adversarially exploitable it isn't even funny. Imagine a phone unlock you could do just by changing your gait. Or worse, a phone that locks the moment you get a cramp or blister. Madness. Getting different ads because you started walking like someone else for a bit. Do I become a different person because I try to read something without my glasses, or dwell on a passage to re-read it several times? Or blaze through a section because I already know where it is going? These are not slam dunk "fingerprints" by a long shot. More like corraborating data than anything else, and in that sense, even more dangerous, because people are not at all naturally inclined to look at these things with a sense of perspective. It can lead a group of non-data-savvy folks to thinking there is a much cleaner tighter case than there necessarily is, and on top of that, mandates that people be okay with the gathering of that data in the first place, which has only been acceptable up until now because there was no social imperative to disclose that collection.

Going off on a tangent here, so I'll close with the following.

There is the argument to be made that that exact kind of practice is why defensive software analysis should be taught as a matter of basic existence nowadays. If I find symbols that line up with libraries or namespaces that access those resources, why should I be running that software in the first place?

I can't overstate how over 90% of software I come across I won't even recommend anymore without digging into it anymore. There's just too much willingness to spread data around and repurpose it for revenue extraction. It does more harm than good. What people don't know can most certainly hurt them, and software is a goldmine for creating profitable information asymmetries.
This is not limited to cities and Airbnb, but it's a general trend that pushes cities and countries to figure out sustainability of tourism.

There are other examples like islands where the tourist attractions were destroyed because of lack of regulations - Maya Bay in Thailand or Boracay island in Philippines were closed for extended periods of time. Now they need to figure out how to prevent the situations that led to those closures from happening again, and imposing some limits on number of tourists is one of the possibilities.
Yes, 10k to 15k machines is a relatively small cluster in my world.
There's been aggressive self-driving promotion for Tesla cars from the company and the naming of the 'autopilot' feature is just a small part of this. I don't know if this specific accident happened in a way that related to this, but I think it's likely that the general way that Musk and Tesla talk about their cars has led to accidents where people trust autopilot more than they should, or are trying to show off how great their car is because they think it can do more than it can.
We need to differentiate 2 things:

* Port 0 and DDoS: This is usually just a measurement artifact. Reflection-Amplification attacks create UDP packets larger than the current MTU, which leads to fragmentation and hence packet fragments without a UDP header -- however they are still identified as UDP because the ip.proto field is still 17, i.e. UDP). Interpreting such packets often leads to "port 0" instead of "port None", eg in IPFIX.

* Port 0 in the actual traffic. This has to be done via RAW sockets, since this usually signals the OS to use ANY port (especially if binding). This technique has been used ages ago (20 years? see Gobbler tool) to fingerprint operating systems, because they all responded differently to such packets.
> internal consistency as defined here seems to mean how "multiple reads" can lock into the same storage state

Sort of. When you make a single read of a single key at the end of a streaming topology, that's equivalent to reading a all the inputs and doing the computation yourself. Internal consistency means that every path through the graph back to the the inputs should be reading the same set of inputs. Things go wrong when one path has processed more inputs than another, or when a single input produces multiple internal updates and those updates aren't processed atomically.

> isn't it possible for subsequent reads to lock into the maximum transaction id of the first read

Your example would still allow credits to have read more inputs than debits, but it's on the right track.

In differential dataflow aggregates wait until they see a watermark before emitting output, so the sum in `balance` will wait until the watermark for eg time 7 before emitting the sum for time 7. That allows the output from the join to settle.

Of course doing that efficiently is non-trivial...
Friend of mine thought they activated the driver assist and let go of the steering wheel, only to go straight and off the road in the next curve of the road.. Had only activated cruise control or so.
Doesn't matter. J&J is much safer than Covid. If, on average, people are healthier by administering the J&J vaccine than not, it's profoundly irresponsible to take it out of circulation
>AMD notebooks/systems usually come with less memory, storage and inferior GPUs

Laughs in system 76

Absolutely loving my Ryzen 7 with an RTX 2070 Max Q.
I think (I’m not sure) its pairwiss preferences excluding those consistent with transitive preferences. ( so if A > B and B > C, the A to C preference is omitted.)