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> WHY??? Why do they distrust the vaccine?? Anything? Any possible reason? It's probably the safest vaccine ever made. I. DON'T. GET. IT.

I'm getting my 2nd shot this week, but both mRNA and modified adenovirus vaccines have never been used for mass vaccinations before. The history of medicine is litered with interventions that were seen as totally safe and wonderful and lead to terrible consequences after some time. Push towards massive adoption of an intervention sets off my alarm bells.

All that said, personally, it seems the unknown long term risks of vaccination outweigh the more or less known risks of covid both on an individual level (I don't want to get it) and a community level (I'd rather like community spread to stop, so I can go back to being a hermit by choice); but if community spread wasn't happening near me, I would be happier not trying new medicine within a year of development.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/us/politics/dark-side-hac...

Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, said Monday afternoon that the government believed DarkSide was “a criminal actor” but was looking for any ties the group might have to nation-states.

My theory is that any competent nation-state actor is going to foster many criminal actors that they either directly or indirectly control, to use as both conduits and cover for their own operations.
Hope these ARM laptops still keep priority to NVME storage as a first class citizen instead of soldered storage
Maybe the retirees feel less pressure to talk about themselves on blogs/twitter, since they are retired they don't have to try and stay relavent and instead can just enjoy life.
You can do this in python and pandas as well

https://github.com/mnky9800n/data-analysis-tools/blob/master...
Thanks for your analysis but isn't the share of the social cost the fact that Babel will stop updating when these people can't support themselves? It's just delayed in this case, no?
In my project, the timing is more practical and related to chat management.
Sure, just like when you have 5 sick people, each needing a different organ to survive. We need the government to select a healthy person, take his organs and save the other 5. Sucks for that person in particular, but the public overall is better for it.
Great idea, I think.
> If you want to make money and pay developers a salary, you need a product. I don’t want my js tooling to be a commercial product

You contradict yourself there. If no one wants to pay for said product, how would a product bring in more money?

Tools is what makes us 10x more productive; its ridiculous companies cant spare 1% of their IT budgets to pay for them.
Babel has allowed developers to write modern JS without having to worry about older browsers - which, granted and thankfully, is now much less of an issue thanks to evergreen browsers and Microsoft having stopped with IE.

Typescript and Flow allow for much higher quality software without having to add complexity to browsers (like Dart initially was intended to).
Piracy wins yet again. If someone is watching what mp4 files you load into VLC, you probably have bigger problems.
Ground-Up Computer Science Sample Chater1 [pdf]
But you can't privatize the air?

Also, do you think the indian company was a perfect example of why capitalism should not involve itself with common goods? Unless you think it isnt a capitalist company despite presenting all aspect of it (including regulatory capture and threats of violence against slaves/employees).
URL protocol handler registration for PWAs
But the piano created Mozart. What I'm suggesting is that the limiting factor is the number of pianos and musical cultural environments, rather than the amount of potential musical geniuses.
Definitely. I'm not sure how you'd expect anything at all to function without power, water, food, messaging, etc would all be gone. I'm not sure how it'd be possible to survive if you're in a city.
Same thoughts. If the dev moved to a nice SEA country he could live a very comfortable life with that kind of money.
Much "smartness" is a willingness to work hard, being able to read the room and being willing to put up with a lot of BS.

If you think FAANG is bad, just look at academia.
Nuclear fission reactors have a lot of moving parts, and creating something that lasts 50 years without one of those moving parts failing, unmanned, and subject to the harshness of space, isn't trivial.

Nuclear batteries are extremely reliable though, as they are fully solid state. A Pu-238 battery can emit useful amounts of power for upwards of a century, and there is virtually nothing to break.
Individuals have a few $ a month to spend on charity like this. Companies, you know, the ones that make millions and billions off of open source software, have a lot more. If I'm ever in a position where I can manage funds or chat with a manager, I'd have my company donate a lot more to OS products.
Contrarily to the common claim of capitalism, this wouldn’t be an optimal solution. Let’s say there are ten shepherds sharing the fields. You privatize it and in a short amount of time, there will be one shepherd left, ultra rich, and nine unemployed shepherds. So capitalism is a good system to optimize the value of the field, not its value for society.
This is really cool! I'm glad there's more work going into the area - visions[1] is a similar tool which embeds the type system (user defined schema) into a traversable graph rather than encoding all type information in the trained network. We originally wrote it as the backend for pandas-profiling[2].

I'm not sure if any of the authors are on here but y'all might look into Sherlock[3] as well. They've got pre-trained models for many other semantic types than you've currently implemented.

1. https://github.com/dylan-profiler/visions

2. https://github.com/pandas-profiling/pandas-profiling

3. https://sherlock.media.mit.edu/
The problem with Julia is it only supports what Unicode supports directly. Which means you cannot have x,y,z as subscript for coordinate variables because Unicode, for some weird reason, does not have the full alphabet in subscript or superscript form. Also, when I first dived into Julia I found quite a few Unicode symbols that, when used as function names, lead to all kinds of weird compiler errors. Kind of defeats the purpose.

A language hoping to make this complete would have to do special formatting that allow super- and subscripting any Unicode symbol. But that won't work in a normal terminal...
Really? First I hear of it. I was about to write this comment as all "Oops, sorry, not intentional"... But then I got curious and checked around a little, and my current best guess is that you're mistaken:

1) Always only mentioned as female in articles, including by presumably "woke" sources like in an interview at WorldCon75 in 2017.

2) The Wikipedia bio page is chock full of "she" and "her", not a whiff of anything else on the talk page either.

3) Seems to me to sport a "traditionally female" look as far as hairstyle and clothing goes in photos.

4) Both personal web pages feature a traditional nuclear family with children, grandchildren, and "Fred", presumably the husband (and father / grandfather).

So I believe she doesn't.
You have just given me a most amazing cartoon science fiction vision of the future. Thank you!
Thanks for the that link. I just spent an hour in the Eyes on the Solar System web app and listening to Carl Sagan wax poetic about our Voyagers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H92iCnecYGQ

"…and far from home, untouched by these remote events, the Voyagers, bearing the memories of a world that is no more, will fly on."—C. Sagan
They’re used in cheaper brands too like Seat, and probably others from VW.
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They absolutely do, which is why I always deliberately give mine bad wifi credentials (if I didn't give it SOMETHING, it would nag).
You can't; each program is verified independently, and there's a small limit to the number of tail calls you can do.

Being able to run an unbounded loop in eBPF would be a big deal (doesn't mean it can't be done; in fact: it almost surely can be) --- a serious vulnerability.
OTOH, Babel is a piece of critical infrastructure, a core of every modern web product's path from development to production. It's not a junior / medior developer job to manage and develop a project like that.
That's clearly wrong. It lists Halt and Catch Fire with the mnemonic HACF, instead of the canonical HCF.
I think you might be interested in my comment sibling to yours about the work of Elinor Ostrom. She spent her life documenting those systems.
If you have the chance to research your genealogy, do so. You get to experience history (and see the actual implications of this statistic) for yourself, but also how resilient and resourceful your ancestors had to be.
That’s amusing. The German university system was actively designed (or modified) after 1968 to get rid of all such prestige hierarchies. There are real universities and there are universities of the applied sciences and that’s really it. Every German university is a high quality university.
>That means lower costs of things, not higher.

Theory and reality aren't the same. If Nike finds some slaves willing to work for .25 cents a day instead of .50 that has no bearing on what they charge for their sneakers. Nor does declining demand for labor mitigate the rapidly rising prices of the things people require to live (food, healthcare, housing, insurance).
> Now, what do you do?

You quit and go do something else. It's not like your life ends when a company ends.

In a less sarcastic tone: this is where your DRP and BCP get involved, and if you don't have those at that scale, then you were doomed from the start anyway and your existence as a company was on a short lifespan to begin with.
This hasn't really worked for real-life kidnap/ransom, which has probably been done since the dawn of civilisation. I don't see why it would change now.
A little practice over the past few days in connected chats (~300 people) shows that a certain order develops by itself
That's mistaken in two ways.

First, the tragedy of the commons - aka the public goods problem - is an argument why a commons can't work, full stop. It's precisely mathematically specified. If the conclusion doesn't hold, that's because the assumptions didn't hold. You can certainly argue that the assumptions don't hold in many places, e.g. among Maine lobster gangs or in the woods around Japanese villages, and indeed that's what various authors have done. They have not argued - and it would make little sense - that a different economic system would magically make public goods games have a different equilibrium.

Second, you're mistaken in assuming that actors in successfully maintained commons are economically irrational. One simple interpretation of these commons is that they are repeated games. In such games it is rational to cooperate to preserve the commons, since defection leads to others defecting in future. That is standard economic rationality. Elinor Ostrom put forward that interpretation sometimes. She also emphasized that communities used things like punishments and fines to sanction uncooperative behaviour - again, these mechanisms work for standard homo economicus reasons.
The original spirit of open source software is free as in freedom, not free as in beer. People have to make a living. And who will manage that thing where everybody donates a little of their time? Babel has nearly 600 open issues and 150 outstanding pull requests; it's a full time job just to manage that.
It was eating characters, which is the second worst thing it could do. Digging into the source, I found a really wonky software buffer... which kind of blew my mind - since hardware buffers and flow control exist. I don't remember if that was a case where python was somehow in the pipeline, but that was unfortunately very common in OpenBMC.

I also had a lot of trouble getting the thing to honor the most basic settings, like baud rate. But it is harder to confidently place the blame on that one. Is it OpenBMC's fault that the software provides no clue as to where things are going wrong in the serial plumbing? Is it the AST2500's fault that designers are routing every serial line through it and making it impossible to eliminate as the cause while troubleshooting? Is it IBM's fault, because the design of OPAL (OpenPower Abstraction Layer) encourages construction of this kind of Rube Goldberg machine?

If anyone from IBM is listening: don't route all your serial lines through the BMC on your reference designs... system implementers will just copy it.
It's amazing that in 2021 piracy is still superior to all the paid products in terms of quality and user experience. They've had over a decade to figure this out, and they just don't care.
After leaving the vfx industry for web dev I doubled my salary.

I guess the moral is that game / vfx studios need to start chasing dumb VC cash.
I've been reading HN for over a decade and I've seen comments from people with a huge variety of backgrounds. Many people switch fields later in life or they might just be interested in technology/startups.
I do hear many stories. On Twitter, on FIRE forums, some from friends. It's just that the kind of person to do this doesn't tend to be very outspoken.
Did you read the article? This has nothing to do with cryptocurrency.
It says a lot. Just because it is a bias, doesn't make it wrong. I've meet enough people in my career that would prove the rule about attention to details.
People are informed about the risks.
That does not follow.

There are definitely many CI pipelines that download all packages every time they're triggered. For those pipelines you'd be looking at tens of installs per day (or more).
What the Aging Field Needs
The fact you're calling it a JS library embedded in a web page already shows you don't actually know (and probably don't care) what Babel is.
> I've also hired candidates with horrible resumes, and it's never been a problem.

That's as much survivorship bias as it is to hire someone based on their attention to details.
Not really, the parent didn't say anything about overall supply, just that its cheaper to let someone else sort the diamonds from the dirt than do it yourself.
O’Reilly has been publishing good tech books for decades with books often written by a top subject matter expert.
Fundamentally, tools should serve their masters. When it's the other way around, it's time to find a different tool.

And yes, they had to get rid of ratings, because some people's feelings got hurt because they were being rated so low. Can't have that pesky objective reality rearing its ugly head.
Authority is constantly used as an effective source of trust in science.
Nonsense. Transpilers have been misused at times in the javascript community, but overall they have played a *massive* role in modernizing javascript and enabling us to write much sounder, more robust, and bug-free code that runs everywhere, including on older devices and runtimes. Society as a whole has benefited immensely from babel and other transpilers.

As time goes on, transpilers may ultimately become slightly less valuable, however for the past decade they have allowed us to grow and improve our javascript without sacrificing portability.
I'm always shocked at how high these US salaries quoted on here are. I don't know if that's just FAANG companies or people inflating figures. They do quote $11k for a full-time position as others have pointed out. What I make is much nearer to the $2k figure but I am in Europe.

Maybe they'd do better operating out of of somewhere cheaper. Many older open source projects including those I contribute to aren't owned by a single company, aren't trying to build a business and still manage to be popular and useful.
> Can we go back to the original spirit of OSS where everybody donates a little of their time instead?

That's a nice goal. But you don't create non-trivial high quality software in 2021 by random people chipping in a handfull of hours a week. (Yes I'm sure that are exceptions)
Good work so far

but why does an OSS tool have to be supported by Silicon Valley salaries?

USA and it's biggest cities are already hugely competitive even for profit making enterprises.

Even a company like Mozilla with real commercial partnerships and solid income every year can struggle, let alone a tool which is barely noticeable by 90% of users.
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CD-ROM was a fine replacement for software distribution though.

There was a 3,5" floppy compatible "SuperDisk" standard which could store up to 120Mb per disk. But the Zip disk already had a big market share then.

I remember using QIC-80 tapes for "software sharing" - since those drives were reasonably cheap and could be wired to an existing floppy disk controller.
In some cases that applies, but I don't think a paid version of babel would be viable. Electronic goods resist commodifying. It only works sometimes (like in streaming music), but you need to put in a lot of technological and legal effort.

I believe that societies develop in lockstep with technology. The industrial revolution was only possible with the beginning civil society and capitalism; capitalism as we know it was only possible at the end of feudalism and absolutism. It is intertwined. New technologies tend to disrupt societies, you can go where the tech leads you (e.g. content can be copied without effort), or you can go the other way and adapt the tech to the society (say, not using machines in order to save jobs). That is why I think we are due for a big change in our political and economic system. What that is going to look like, and how much it will still look like capitalism, I don't know.

(Sorry for derailing the thread...)
What does pushing back gain you though?

How about we stipulate that you can convince Facebook to pay you $70k to work for them. But they’re also happy to pay you $300k, so if I were a fresh graduate I,would benefit from taking that on board and adjusting my goals and strategy accordingly.
I was considering Zephyrus G14 at some point, so I visited the dedicated subreddit. There was a guide on getting it to ~8 hrs on battery. Man, I lost my enthusiasm right away. Custom fan management, getting rid of bloatware...
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There’s something to be said for those salaries being too “Valley”. $121k per year is a lot of money; you’d likely be able to find good JS developers in the UK for half that and in continental Europe for even less (in Eastern Europe you could probably get away with $30k…).
There are many services that people only use as long as they're free or cheap, but stop using when a price tag appears or the price increases.

Is it heresy now to propose that Babel maybe isn't THAT valuable?
Are you doing that at parking speed or highway speed? The rules are different.
Somewhat interesting that you use an argument against utilitarianism to argue against deontological ethics.
This may come down to whether you consider marketing email from legitimate businesses to be "spam" or if you reserve the term for the more scammy/seedy type of mail.
What people tend look at when they consider diversity doesn't work. The standard approach is to look for asset classes with uncorrelated returns. The problem that happens is most asset classes become correlated in a downturn. Look at what happened a year ago. If you had a split between ETFs, REITs and some crypto currency none of those investments would have been doing well.
You hire ghostwriters through freelance sites so it’s possible but for sure not a given the ghostwriter will be an expert. It’s more likely the author would do a lot of web searches and cobble something together that’s most likely or some value but it’ll likely be a got-what-you paid for situation.
$11k / month is pretty close to an entry-level Bay Area salary. Given that Babel is one of the most popular and widely-used tools in the history of web development, I am surprised that all the creators can afford to pay themselves is one near-entry-level Bay Area salary and a few intern-type salaries.
Note that this change in policy is probably ahead of a potential legislation by the government. Some industries do not like being regulated, and insurers are painfully aware of the impact of legislation. So this is more of a reaction than an initiative, but still kudos to them; it won't solve anything in the short term, but if it makes businesses invest more in clean security pratices, why not.
At least the Chinese dropped it in the ocean...

"Before leaving the station on Feb. 8, 1974, the Skylab-4 crew boosted it into a higher 269-by-283-mile orbit, in the hope that Skylab would remain in space until 1983. By then, the Space Shuttle would be flying and NASA hoped that astronauts could attach a rocket to the station to either boost it to a higher orbit or safely deorbit it over the Pacific Ocean. But delays in the Shuttle program and higher than expected solar activity resulting in increased atmospheric drag on the station ultimately thwarted those plans. It became apparent that Skylab would reenter in mid-1979, forcing NASA to devise plans to control its entry point as much as possible by adjusting the station’s attitude to adjust atmospheric drag.

On July 11, 1979, during its 34,981st orbit around the Earth, engineers in Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston sent the final command to Skylab to turn off its control moment gyros, sending it into a slow tumble. This was the best that flight controllers could do to ensure that Skylab would not reenter over a populated area such as North America. They expected that it would begin its breakup over the southern tip of Africa and fall into the Indian Ocean. As it happened, the breakup occurred slightly later and while the majority of the debris that survived reentry did fall into the Indian Ocean, some pieces fell over sparsely populated areas of southern Western Australia." -- https://www.nasa.gov/feature/40-years-ago-skylab-reenters-ea...
Genuine question: what is the distinction between a consumer and a distributor in the context of rights of selling an item that they own?

Which law prohibits the distributor from selling thermometers that they own?

How come an agreement between ETI and Thermoworks have any legal power over anybody else?
They say don't use annoying buzzwords, but personally I find "convert" to be a particularly grating buzzword. What's wrong with saying "gets you hired"?
It feels like that Blizzard developer Wyatt Cheng that got on stage and asked the PC gamer crowd: "Do you guys not have phones?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QRgpjfarY

The Windows Terminal guys are similar. "Do you have any plans at all to make this work for users of Windows?" "No."