skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's important to make clear that what make the vacine being reject was not because of this number. The problem is that they remove the dna part of the virus that allow it to replicate once injected. But in all samples that they tested, in multiple batchs, they found replicant Adenovirus, that could make people who received the vacine sick.

That said, this is not a total rejection of the vacine. This is a rejection of the batches that where going to be imported. There are plan to produce this vacine in Brazil, and this batches could be approved in the future, if they did not find the same problems.
Google is saving $1 billion per year because of COVID-19, not because employees are working from home. This is literally mentioned in the article, but the headline is twisted (for clicks no doubt):

> During the first quarter, Google parent Alphabet Inc. saved $268 million in expenses from company promotions, travel and entertainment, compared with the same period a year earlier, “primarily as a result of COVID-19,” according to a company filing.

Even if they hypothetically continue the WFH setting for all employees indefinitely, other costs will still creep back up once the world starts getting back to normal. They will still hold conferences (and send employees to conferences). Team events and corporate retreats will still happen. Launches won't be digital-only. Advertising will pick back up. None of this is related to whether employees are at their desks in the office or not.
It sounds more frictioned if anything. Both would be pretty simple detective work. "Shooter had gun and ammo. Shooter bought from Bob's Guns. Case closed." vs "Shooter purchased receiver, ghost gunner, guncotton, loading bench, cases and primers, and prefabricated bullets/lead and casts. Case closed."
> In the entire country, you must apply to the DOJ for a serial number before completion of the firearm

This is incorrect and is itself "bad advice". You do not need a serial number from the DOJ if you are not selling. But as has been stated in the comments, CA does have more stringent local rules and I'll update my comment to reflect that. I also added a link that explains the situation.
I think you missed the point.

Many young people only have access to iOS devices for their gaming needs, so playing on iOS == playing Fortnite. Sure, if they had the option to play on a dedicated gaming device, many would prefer it, but many do not have access to the alternative.
Honestly, I (childishly) felt dependant on the Google office perks. I didn't want to work anywhere else. It was only after the office closed, I reevaluated my priorities, and subsequently quit Google.

WFH will impact Google's retention. It is no longer a differentiated company.
As an example of applicability, I used reciprocal multiplication and shifting, plus knowledge of how many bits of accuracy I didn't need, to get my old Kinect code for my former startup to run near 30fps instead of 2-3fps on hardware with no FPU and IIRC no divide instruction.
I used to develop a CASE platform for mission/safety-critical technical developers -- aerospace, datacomm, complex embedded (not corporate "MIS", which has morphed into "enterprise"). My company did some work that was ahead of its time, some of which would still be considered new and cool today on HN (and also boring stuff).

Based the recent carpet-bombing of UML comments on HN, I have a new theory about UML, and it's no longer that dotcommers have the strength of opinion that can only come from narrow experience (nor that the barrage is an accident of what I call blog-arbitrage)... :)

When Java first came out, it was one of the coolest things to be using. Then Java became an "enterprise" thing, and became very different. I'm wondering whether enterprise-sales-capture is what happened to UML.

Maybe the dynamic is IBM trying to sell enterprise products and training, orgs doing enterprise development wanting to have documentation and process standards, orgs mandating UML, lots of developers going through UML training, developers seeing UML as a checkbox expectation/requirement (like TPS cover sheets, rather than as a tool they find useful), etc.?

And that dynamic has driven the evolution of UML, as well as the examples-in-practice to which most developers have been exposed?

FWIW, even if UML has gone in a direction that's not applicable to a lot of developers, you can still draw upon it, and the earlier methodologies and notations, if you use it when it's beneficial. If you want slightly more visual class/entity relationship diagrams (visual association role multiplicity, and generalization triangle where it belongs :), you can use OMT. If you're doing concurrent and hierarchical state models, there's UML or Statecharts. Never underestimate the power of an old-school DFD for talking about processes and data flows in a way that all stakeholders can understand and reason about. And everyone gets old-school control-flow flowcharts for steps/branches/loops. And you can even explain event trace diagrams to any stakeholder, if you walk them through the important real-world example, and they see it as worthwhile.
Yeah, I did. A better ruling would have been on P&I grounds, as Gura had asked the court and Thomas concurred.

THAT would have nuked the drug war from orbit, along with every other instance of modern federal over reach.

As far as I’m concerned the ruling was stupidly ruled, and very carefully crafted to not upset any apple carts.

ETA: reread your statement above, it was very easy for me to misconstrue “narrow” as in the vote tally.
The more you dig into it the worse it becomes. There is clearly a “great filter” going on with mainstream media - they decide what is worth reporting on, everything else might as well not have happened. With examples like this one are we surprised people turn to FB for their news and latch onto conspiracy theories?
> bounds [spelling? English isn't my main language]

"Bonds" is the spelling. I don't normally correct spelling here, but you did ask.
And a kind of crappy one at that, you still can't even read reviews on a desktop browser last I checked.

EDIT: Looks like they're finally in the process of changing this in a "Preview" version now.
> Sure my kids will occasionally pop their heads in the door to say hello. I guess that's an occasional distraction, which has some small productivity cost.

Surely not a bigger productivity cost than a coworker doing the same thing, though.
I do most of my gaming on... my watch.

Yes, my watch. I have 2048, an Arkanoid clone, Pong, and a fun little strategy game called Tiny Armies.

Now, to be clear, I do very little gaming. Don't own a desktop or console, the only games I play on my laptop are occasional web-based games (usually when something shows up on HN and I'm bored). I had a phase of playing games on my tablet but I just kinda fell out of the habit, and for whatever reason, the only phone game I've played in the last five years is Monument Valley.

I did game on my phone more often in the early Teens: Doodle Jump, something called Bit Trip Beat, Osmos, and yes, Flappy Bird. Just kinda stopped doing it.

So when I'm standing in line, or watching video and kind of bored with it but not so bored I'll stop watching, I do some casual gaming on my watch.
> Google pays enough for people to do that.

No they don't.

Go look up house prices right around campus on Trulia. I would say it's shocking, but disgusting is a more apt feeling.
"Feminism is not just about giving undeserving women an advantage for no reason, it's about equality."

I didn't imply otherwise. You're reading a lot into my comment that isn't there. I was saying that a cover for a sewer probably isn't a high priority language thing to clean up. Where things like mailman, chairman, etc, were. Manhole isn't a job or position. I would guess "utility hole" would be a likely change you could make.
Don’t do it, the huge caveat is the plan owner pays for all store purchases.
Ha, I like your style – great minds think alike:

8⃣ = = = = = = : 37f52a074751239fd88888116130302ddb5074212bee34ecff0f1db531f43199

edit: welp, the unicode was borked. It's the number 8, scorpion, amulet, eight-ball, octopus, stop sign, spider
So it really is that you believe people will make the wrong decisions in adapting to the change while you personally know what's right? It makes sense that the general population isn't as smart as you personally because any common ideas they hold are limited to those ideas that are acceptable to a wide range of people. But we do use experts to help make these kinds of decisions for us. It's not all direct democracy with people voting on individual engineering calculations instead of voting to hire an engineer.

It my country, we had an earthquake a few years ago which slightly increased the flood risk of a suburb. Instead of building a wall, they forced everyone out and flattened the whole place. I think we're capable of writing off areas of land when they become too risky or expensive to keep using. There are actually some small towns which are expected to be killed off when the only road access to them is inevitably blocked by a major earthquake one-day because it may not be worth rebuilding the road.
This seems like as good a place as any to bring this up, if only to see if I'm the only one.

I want to watch Dave Plummer's videos but there's something eerily wrong about the amount his lips move (very little) versus his diction (which is very good). It sets off some instinctual discomfort I can't put my finger on. It feels like some kind of ventriloquism act.

That said, I've enjoyed his videos. I just wish his mouth movements didn't make my brain feel all funny.
Not so sure about that...

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1387096352845225984...
About eighty years ago, the US assembled the top minds of nuclear physics, and the US military knew the potential of creating a weapon out of physics, then BOMB. Now the situation is the same, it's reasonable to think the US is the most advanced nation in cyber weaponary.
Exactly. And everyone probably knows a particular junction where the Stop sign is waaaay more of a guideline than a rule and when there's no traffic there's little point in following it - expending expensive (for the wallet as well as the planet) dinosaur juice - just to adhere to the principle of following laws to the letter.

Traffic is probably one of the easiest examples where disobeying the law makes a ton of sense multiple times per day/week.

I would not want any entity to be able to track my history of these kinds of felonies committed multiple times per week (not related to Signal though, but keeping track in general).

And don't get me started on drugs. Crime has gone down a lot by decriminalizing marijuana for example. "Crime".
isn't it because it is not on the iOS store anymore?
>Also, the responses are very white and very female. If you are not either of those things, I urge you especially to share your data! It's anonymous.

It's strange that someone would make a comment like this.
That’s cool! On a similar note I’m curious if you’ve encountered Astro[1] and if you have any thoughts on where Next/Astro overlap and where they might not.

1: astro.build
KDE Connect also can be used to connect to other computers, which is super useful for quick file transfer. It's just great software!
when ever Japan is mentioned on the internet the ethnostate advocates crawl out from under their rock
Nevermind that crypto, for EVEN CLOSER TO FREE - just $200 - I'll sell you some magic beans that will DEFINITELY grow into a beanstalk that leads to a land of gold in the sky. Yes.
No. This is what I'm pointing out: the entire video game industry generated about $175 billion in revenue last year. Of that, about half (43%) came from mobile gaming.

Here is a more direct quote from statistia:

" In 2020, smartphone games generated approximately 74.9 billion U.S. dollars in annual revenue, accounting for 43 percent of the global gaming market during the measured period. Console games were ranked second with 51.2 billion U.S. dollars in global revenue."
Andy Byford by most accounts did a great job in NYC....until Cuomo got jealous and forced him out.

This was a nice anecdote that hiring actually-knowledgeable outsiders (not private sector dilettantes) can help.
I felt foolish after filling out a bunch of data only to not be able to save it. I'm active in the FIRE community and I really, really enjoyed the app, but it left a very bad taste in my mouth.
I think they could differentiate with privacy. Privacy is the ultimate silver bullet that could kill Android, because the Google's business model is built around lack of privacy. If iMessage could elevate privacy awareness and expectations, then it's possible that people would want to switch to iPhone.
Back in ~2015 Philip Buuck did a video series called Handmade Quake where he analyzed every file while trying to rewrite Quake 1 from scratch. This of course generated buzz and soon enough he got hired by Epic, as a result everything got scrubbed and deleted, his videos, his blog, all of it gone.
The people questioning why Amazon was worth so much, at least the ones I knew about, questioned the value of what Amazon was investing in and whether Amazon would be able to extract monopoly profits from eCommerce. Obviously, Amazon had some missteps (the Fire Phone was a huge sink of money), but their investments seem to have done well overall.
people forget how terrible steam was for its first 5 years, when compared to today. now, people are comparing the epic games store of today with the steam we have today, and convincing themselves that it's a fair comparison.
> But arguing around $1B saved won't be easy.

That’s about 0.6% of revenue for Google. Number sounds big until you put it in perspective and realize it’s just noise.

If people were even 1% less productive (in terms of producing revenue) then even that $1B saved isn’t profitable.

That said, there could be other arguments for expanding WFH but saving less than 1% of expenses is not one of them. It’s likely that the savings are largely due to COVID preventing typical travel anyway, which had nothing to do with WFH.
But those projects use that "simple and powerful scripting language" anyway, so clearly it is adequate.
To me Gamaleya is turning a thecnical decision in a political one. Thanks to mistakes and possible crimes commit by the Brazilian goverment, when rejecting other vacines, they are now being pressured in accepting this vaccine no matter what. I don't think this is how a sanitary inspection agency should act, approving things based in pure pressure.
Well you could get a Mac mini or run one of the laptops with the external display of your choice, so yeah?
That isn't a criticism of OKRs. That is a criticism of literally any and all metrics.
It doesn't look like Google Analytics does this today:

$ curl -sS https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js \
| grep interestCohort
[no results]

On the other hand, I could imagine them or other analytics services adding it since sites installing analytics services generally want to be able to slice their traffic by as many dimensions as possible. I would hope that any service considering reading FLoC implements it as opt-in, however, since sites probably didn't consider whether their pages are sensitive in choosing whether to add analytics (though perhaps they should have!)

(Still speaking only for myself)
There's a chunk of Americans who don't have bank accounts (or could work a government account online), so standard methods may not work for 100% of the population.

Also, the Fed is very leery of destroying commercial banking in the US via postal banking or a direct CBDC - I'd expect (if we ever do go that way) for there to a hybrid model. Under that system, banks provide the services to support a digital dollar, while the Fed works through them.

As for "why blockchain" - there's no real reason if the Fed is going to do the work/be the source of trust.
I hate, hate, hate, hate, this argument, it's correct but it distracts incredibly from the fact _numbers still do matter_. Software engineering, remarkably, is the only industry I know of that can wave away any metrics, at all, ever, being even mentioned, by pointing out it's possible to game a metric.
Even without a commute, the point still stands. Young kids are usually in bed by around 7, that’s enough time to eat and take a bath, maybe read a story and that’s it.
> I mean, he did basically design the Apple Watch

Not sure about that.

I was impressed by how Apple-y the Apple Watch was, especially before the first software update. I am convinced this is due to Steve Jobs' influence [1]. As soon as the first software update was released I noticed a marked decline, much like the decline we saw in iOS 7.

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/427636/steve-jobs-may-have-influen...
I find it very interesting that due to the existence of the Emoji Bar, and the lower performance and worse battery life due to Apple Silicon, the MacBook Air is now a far more Pro machine than the 15 inch MacBook Pro.
General fluid speed is ~0 at any surface and has some gradient to the proper wind speed as you get some distance away from the surface.
No restrictions? So if I divulge trade secrets in private, my employer shouldn't be able to fire me and litigate the pants off me and my family?
I agree. The whiteboard is still the most effective tool for communicating and playing with ideas.

I've yet to encounter a software-based set of tools that rivals it in the context of sketching out and sharing ideas and concepts (especially in an interactive manner).
Further, Sputnik V is the most effective (91.4%), non-mRNA vaccine. Therefore the best vaccine to take to minimise personal risk.

US officials are doing Brazilians no favor.
I pay for trash pickup, parks, libraries, roads, schools, fire, and police regardless of my usage (all out of property taxes). I can stick 8 kids in my local school system, or none, and I’m charged the same. Even my water and sewer are provided for by local government, with only my electric service being a for profit (yet highly regulated) utility, and yet internet connectivity is put forth as a beacon of capitalism where we expect competition when a natural monopoly exists by way of the last mile.

The “unfairness” is simple. You regulate the entity who runs your muni fiber operation, and if they don’t meet your metrics you’re measuring success by, you replace them (whether that’s internal folks or an org contracted to provide services).

TLDR Ramp muni fiber deployments with rigorous operational oversight as a requirement.
> If it wasn't, if all that mattered was having the most kids, then why would women go through menopause? Wouldn't it be better if women continued having children until they die?

Given that the risk of birth defects goes up significantly the older a woman is, menopause is probably evolutionarily advantageous.
her twitter audience is primarily that demo so she wants a wider demographic sample size. makes sense to me.
They're too embarrassed of all the shit code they've written that makes the app slow - so they obfuscate it to try to hide how shit it is - and it turn it becomes even slower ;)
So ... HNers don't want "eventual consistency", they want consistency now.

Some ignoramous roasted me last week for saying the above, and that I was "a decade behind." Like usual, I was ahead because I actually know what I'm talking about.
The original Macs came with very usable applications for drawing and documents that even pros used. So reviving those programs would be worthwhile.
Even 0.05% + $0.21 >= 2% on any transaction of 14$ or less.

I am not sure of the mix of transactions their dealing with but sub 2% seems unlikely, when freemium games average transaction is ~14$.
The 14 day policy cited in the article is wrong. It is more than 14 days of international remote work.
Pre-pandemic I had a 2 and 4 year old. The 4 year old was gone all day between 9 and 2 MWF for preschool, and we had a nanny the rest of the time.

I suspect post-pandemic it will be similar. Someone who works at Google can probably afford a nanny. It's just because people aren't comfortable with others in their home right now that it's a problem.
I don’t necessarily disagree with the gist of this post but there was one minor comment I found odd. It might just be my ignorance (I am not a transit person and have always been bad at algebraic geometry):

> Amtrak can and should fully replace its senior management with people who know how to run a modern intercity railroads, who are not Americans. But then middle management will still think it knows better and refuse to learn what a tropical algebra is or how it is significant for rail schedule planning.

Are transit middle-managers in Europe really applying tropical algebra to rail problems? My understanding is that the mathematical field of tropical algebra didn’t really exist until the 80s, and the research application to control theory is a 2010-era development. It strikes me as very strange to expect anyone who isn’t a PhD in math or operations research to even understand the algebraic geometry required, let alone apply it to a real problem.

But I suppose 30 years ago people would have said the same thing about linear programming. So maybe I am behind the times.
These perks are mostly targeted towards younger employees, who don't want to spend time cooking their own food, want to live in the city and use company shuttles to commute, don't care about getting out of the office early to get back to their kids, want to have more options to socialize.
Isn’t this kind of begging the question? It’s implicit in your reasoning that the CIA does exactly what I’ve claimed they generally don’t do.

Anyway, the point is that I don’t think you have to dig very deep these days to find plenty of instances of geopolitical power X doing bad things, so I’m not sure why the CIA would bother lying to stir up shit against them when they could tell the truth just as easily, with the same result. This assumes their purpose in releasing any information at all is to influence public opinion, not increase transparency, as the latter would probably mean divulging uncomfortable truths. The former does not—they can release exactly what they want, and no more.

On the other hand, flatly denying you’ve done a bad thing is a form response for governments and corporations (and politicians) at this point, even when it’s risible on its face. If you’re the guy responsible for putting those comms together and you admit wrongdoing, you’re never working in this town again. Simple as that. Deny, deny, deny. Deny everything. (Isn’t that a one-off X-Files title card?)

Has the CIA lied? Absolutely, though I’d guess far more often (orders of magnitude?) by omission than by outright explicit falsehood. The latter goes against the same ass-covering impulse that drives the bullshit denials. My brief comment above is meant to be a general observation on the sorts of public communication games the CIA and similar organizations tend to play, not an absolute truth or bible for living your life.
I can point you a good collection of 35000 barrels of DDT, you can pick these up for free...
xkcd #2456: Types of Scientific Paper
Because they'll push for regulations to only regulate data collection, grandfathering in possession of existing sets.
On the other hand "Google perks" which were once revolutionary are now standard at every tech company in silicon valley. They stopped being the differentiator a long time ago.
That, combined with the change in overall productivity. I don't know what the net is, for me personally it's a neutral since I was working remotely before COVID, but my hunch is that it's an overall negative due to how many people seem to crave the social aspect.
And WhatsApp was a start-up of less than 50 people that took over communication of entire nations in a matter of months. Who saw that coming? Biggest WTF since Napster.
"apple bad"

counterpoint: no, it's fine, and it's actually better than the google play store, far less random trash and far less malicious apps/rootkits being distributed.