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I agree with you that betting against lithium is dumb. The ceiling is probably a lot higher yet.

I forget the rationale for why Toyota (and by extension Japan) bet on hydrogen. Probably something to do with access to resources. Constraints that apply to many economies.

We simply have to get off fossil fuels. Zero carbon will involve hydrogen. Maybe not personal transportation. But definitely agriculture. And maybe manufacturing, heavy transportation.

At some point we'll have excess electricity. Using that to produce methane (carbon capture) and ammonia (replace fossil fuels) has to happen. Then we'll have abundant cheap hydrogen.

Maybe not solid hydrogen fuel cells. Maybe ammonia is practical enough. Optimistic me knows someone(s) will do something useful.
How about a monthly dose?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9775925/Can-long-...

The more times you take it, you are increasing your risk of an adverse reaction.

Yes, nothing to worry about here. 2 Weeks to flatten the curve didn't expand into anything else.
What is "outrage wallowing"?
Any employer engages in discrimination while hiring. Some categories are deemed legally protected. Some are not — an employer may choose to hire only people who have a bachelor’s degree. Discriminatory hiring practices are normal.
> He said there will be "an exceptions process for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other protected reasons."

Religion would be a protected reason, I assume.

Incidentally, Islam allows vaccination.
I hear lots of people say there's an argument that tilts one way, specifically that the risk to the vaccinated is >1 orders of magnitude smaller than that to the unvaccinated.

(I also hear lots of non-argument, such as "I don't know what's in…" from people who didn't say that about aspartame or other additives. My question was strictly about whether anyone is advancing a real argument that the risks may be comparable.)
That's a bit of an unfair argument. The site's intent is to show the general population's ability to organically reach those sites with ipv6.

AAAA records are necessary for that to happen.
>What would happen if someone blew up the mining company office due to a "paperwork oversight"?

It happens. eg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_C...

allegedly due to an "outdated map". They eventually settled for several million dollars.
>We swim out about 750m from shore.

Yeesh, this for some reason invokes a likely unreasonable bit of fear in me. I completely understand sucking it up and getting over things if money is involved (like working on a crab boat in the Bering Sea), but that far out for leisure activity spooks me.

I was always a pretty good swimmer and had my lifeguard license for a bit as a teen through boyscouts activities. I've always been aware of risks of open water and riptides and how to deal with them... for as long as I can remember.

However, a few years back now at Blacks Beach in La Jolla (reputation of the best yet most dangerous surf in California AFAIK), in a normal beachspot I'd spent a lot of time around away from the surf, I mind bogglingly got hit by an outlier of a wave out of nowhere in otherwise calm waters, close to shore. I had prescription glasses on with no safety, stupid, but I'd had no plans of being in anything higher than my low waist, and only for a short while.

Glasses got knocked off (I'm really near sighted without + severe static vision), wave brought me down under to the sand, and I was pulled out by the most insane force. I'm a mechanical engineer, so well aware of the sheer insanity of the forces involved with bodies of water and currents, but it was just an unreal and out of nowhere rip.

Got myself quickly situated and calm but internally scared as all fuck, was pulled out probably 1.5 miles by the time I swam out of the rip. Swimming back in was hell because I was mostly physically exerted from hiking already.

Nobody noticed what had happened and there wasn't a damn thing anybody could've really done about it either.

Not too sure why I felt the need to write this out... but stay safe. I can only want to get my swimming done in a pool at this point, unless I'm around highly competent lifeguards with boats and rescue equipment (I'm sure there's a chance you are perhaps around boats when doing this?). Just so much that can go wrong so fast.
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In my opinion pretending the vaccine is 100% effective and carries 0 risk has done more to shake public confidence than informing people about the risks no matter how small. In the information age it has become easier than ever to find contradicting data and there will always be contradicting data.

Besides, most people have enough life experience to intuitively know that there's no certainty in life. Being honest with people will do more to gain their trust than enhancing the truth for their own well-being.
And icloud too. They are very sensitive to ipv6.

In case of icloud, I attribute it to the Proofpoint spam filtering system, which also sell service to ups.com.

And even gmail, but at least gmail accept the email, then just flagged it as spam.
a downvote means I have threatened the integrity of a narrative - and that's when you know it's quality writing.

Neither your premise nor your conclusion are valid. A downvote could simply mean you stated a counterfactual or alleged a fallacy. Nor can any automatic inference of quality be drawn. By your logic, someone who just posts the equivalent of fart noises and is habitually downvoted for doing so is a genius.

Frankly, your comment's harping on shaping narrative seems like a case of projection.
Hey, it doesn't even have internal unit cancellation or convention ambiguity like "kilowatt hours per month". We can do worse!
I'm not sure how to respond. Did you miss the part where I said I have been vaccinated? I'm not trying to persuade anyone to go unvaccinated! I'm just expressing surprise that a lot of people either (a) don't know that the mechanisms for all the popular vaccines available in the west are completely new or (b) are completely unconcerned about the risks of giving such new medical interventions to a billion people within the space of months.

Given the grave situation we find ourselves in it seems to me that mass vaccination is the best option for humanity and for individuals. However, there is an unquantifiable downside risk as a result of lack of knowledge.

>I'm not sure others should be coerced into having to share space with someone who is willingly unvaccinated from a contagious disease. How do you reconcile that?

Well, we have been defending successfully against that risk for about 18 months.

> > People have been questioning the safety of vaccine delivery mechanisms for at least 20 years.

> And what has come of it? ...

I was just a bit surprised because you seemed to be suggesting that vaccine skepticism was a new phenomenon.
Obviously we did not trust them with the original vaccines. We made them go through a series of rigorous clinical trials and apply for authorization before we allowed general use of their vaccines. Most vaccines still haven't made it through the process and many never will.
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This should be prosecuted as crimes against humanity, along with lengthy jail times for execs involved in the issue. They won't be, for obvious reasons.
resubmitted often by usual suspects

Do you mean you think they were posting/reposting things purely for upvotes? If so, I still don't care: As something both interesting & important, popping up on the front page seems like a good thing every few years. I don't care if @tomte or whoever is doing it just to get meaningless internet points. Different people rotate in & out of HN, so anything really interetsing/important is just fine by me if it keeps popping up.
That's what I was thinking. For this to succeed, they'd have to differentiate themselves from Stripe's own offering and, at least to me, that's not obvious.
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So if a company wants to take the other side here and say they only want to work with unvaccinated people, would that be ok too?

What if an employer decided not to employ anyone who had received a different medical procedure, such as a splenectomy?

If unvaccinated employees can just find other jobs, why can't vaccinated employees just find other jobs?
I'm pretty sure this is what most of the guards were watching for, too. Quite often they react instantly once someone goes under, so you know they had an eye on the kid climbing on top of their tube before that.
Well, with Internet Explorer the problem was simpler and quite worse.

It had around 90% of market share at its peak. So Microsoft had a complete monopoly.

They stopped caring about Internet Explorer since their business was selling Windows XP licences and PCs with Windows preinstalled. As Safari, IE was an afterthought, a nice thing to have to craft a more complete desktop environment out-of-the-box (like Windows Media Player, Microsoft Works...).

Luckily Firefox, Opera (Presto[1]), Safari and Chrome shattered the monopoly in the early 2010s.

Safari is just the secondary browser in the ecosystem and pretty much the only relevant after Chrome and its derivatives. This days the duopoly has been achieved by fast pacing new web features and vendor lock-ins instead of grinding browser development to a halt (I lived the days of IE6/7 hell).

[1] Dang I miss the good old days of Opera Presto, it was great... Vivaldi is the closest thing and I use it everyday.
> Do you care to elaborate?

Not really because my viewpoint is not permitted on HN. Further discussion will likely draw moderator attention.
I feel the same!
I totally connect with what you told!

Do you think artists can predict or imagine our future?

I'm fascinated by movies like 2001: Space Odyssey!
Frustratingly, it doesn't seem to have predictive text/auto-correct. :(
The 5h Amendment protects US citizens from providing self-incriminating testimony. That's an absolute (in theory).

The question then becomes "what is testimony?"

Historically, the courts have ruled that physical things are NOT testimony. So, a court can demand you proceed a physical key to a safe. And now a fingerprint or facial scan.

On the other side, courts have ruled combinations, passcodes, and passwords (things you know) are testimony and are protected by the 5th.

I'm not sure of all courts have ruled the same way on fingerprints and facial scans, but if you consider them closer to a physical key than a secret code, then the current ruling makes sense.

Personally, I'm have mixed feelings about it. I could be swayed either way with a solid argument. So far, I lean slightly towards biometrics are closer to physical keys, but only just barely.
You're more frequently entering the primary user password (screen unlocking, logins, sudo...) so there are substantially more opportunities to observe it either visually like over the shoulder or from camera footage, or through a compromised machine fully online.

Generally the FDE is unlocked in an offline and minimally functional state, and being a one-time entry @boot kind of thing it's far more practical to secure with things like a temporarily connected crypto hardware dug out of your bag or somesuch.

There's clearly some value in making them different.
I'm just speculating here, I don't think your linked example comment was downvoted because it was douchey or because you offended people in other comments. In my experience, comments like your example are downvoted because they're "obviously" wrong or irrelevant, which is of course very subjective. Clearly you don't think your own comment is obviously wrong or irrelevant, but you were rebutting "people don't want to send cryptocurrencies in their messaging app" by pointing out how useful you find Venmo: an app that is popular for sending non-crypto legal tender.

FWIW I didn't downvote your comment when I encountered it days ago, but I do notice that comments that have very basic logical flaws in them tend to be downvoted without replies. Downvotes aren't just a tool to enforce civility. This is just my assessment of your comment, I hope you take it in the good faith that I intended.
Tech sites have been in a bad state for over a decade at least, after the arms race that occurred that 'freshened up' these websites from what they were around 2005 or so. Thankfully they still have RSS feeds or I can use services to scrape an RSS feed from them.
That’s a really uncharitable interpretation. Permissive licences were not a problem in the internet economy of 20 or even 10 years ago. The challenge now is that a very small number of internet companies - principally Amazon, Google and Facebook - have such market power that they can effectively co-opt permissively licensed products for their own ends. That wasn’t the case 20 years ago and probably not 10 years ago either.
Eye movement like Hawking, which is actually a form of typing though
Yes, most people are aware of it. But the common comment I get from people is that it's not going to disrupt our lives very soon. And I bet the disruption will come much faster than they think
I ask people to send me Amazon links to their gift list :-)
I will die under a bridge this February.
Look up the Explore-Exploit paradox.

Its much more about the personality types in the population than it is about outdated labels such as scientist or artist. There are scientists who behave like artists and artists who behave like scientists, which makes the labels themselves useless.

Much more useful to look at, are the personality traits of people in a group. And to ask the deeper question of why that specific spectrum exists.
To me its a slippery slope that we are just giving more power to the companies & reducing individual choice. Now it's mandate a vaccine, next its take pep pills to overcome poor performance reviews or all employees must abstain for alcohol.

In the future could we argue that since most felons come from low income households, that you need to be of a certain income threshold to reproduce?

These are batshit crazy things but where does it end? You dont really believe that it'll stop with this vaccine?
What about an order to "place your right thumb on this little circle", where the "little circle" just so happens to be the phone they seized from you?

You're not revealing any knowledge about the specific action—they're directing you to do it.

For the face scenario, an order to look directly at the camera is similar. You're not testifying that this laptop is indeed yours, or that you have access. The laptop is going to respond to your stare however it was already configured to do so.
Reminds me of "was this review helpful" feature at many websites that sell things that can get reviewed. But "was this up/downvote helpful" instead? (I like the idea)
Why not a standard? OpenMP is more than pretty much C(++) and Fortran, and has offload inspired by the needs of the Sierra supercomputer.
> It is obvious from hospitalization & fatality rates of unvaccinated vs. vaccinated people that the vaccine has already saved many lives

Note:

>> For this surveillance, a vaccine breakthrough infection is defined as the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen in a respiratory specimen collected from a person ≥14 days after receipt of all recommended doses of an FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine.[1]

Officially, the "unvaccinated" is a mishmash of three groups: a) received no doses; b) received one dose; and c) received two doses but less than two weeks passed since second dose.

Therefore, the comparisons of the "vaccinated" and "unvaccinated" rates are confounded by the fact that the latter group includes substantial numbers of people who have been injected with the vaccine.

Note that the breakthrough infection rate seems to be about 0.01%:

> A total of 10,262 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough infections had been reported from 46 U.S. states and territories as of April 30, 2021.

...

> As of April 30, 2021, approximately 101 million persons in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

If memory serves me, the "eager to get the shot" crowd were not very eager to circulate in the population by April 30. I do not know how many break through infections have occurred since then and there isn't much clarity around the question of side-effects.

Also, note that while breakthrough infection in measles-vaccinated individuals result in low viral load[2], the exact opposite seems to be true for the Covid19 vaccines.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e3.htm

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628760/
I think there's a lot of truth to this, in that it's good to understand all the layers below you. But there's also some truth to the opposite: Did anyone ever really understand all the layers, or even most of them? Even if you knew all the details of how your microchip worked (weren't those details usually proprietary?), you might have wanted your code to work on other chips, or even on future versions of your current chip. At some point, we always have to close our eyes and abstract away parts of the problem behind the contract we believe those parts will follow.
One wonders if he had not been stricken with cancer and lived longer, if Huxley would have had the opportunity to interact with fellow Southern Californian resident Philip K. Dick. Imagine Huxley consulting on a Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? adaptation...

As an aside, C.S. Lewis also passed away the same day as Huxley and J.F.K.
My first thought is "why isn't this prohibited by the Fifth Amendment," and it seems that the court order actually answers that question already:

"With respect to the Fifth Amendment, Reffitt's entering his password in to the Subject Device does not violate his privilege against self-incrimination, because his act of production would not be testimonial, since the only potentially testimonial component implicit in his act of producing the unlocked/unencrypted device is a foregone conclusion."

In somewhat more detail, this is permissible because the act of unlocking his laptop does nothing that can be seen as incriminating himself:

* The laptop is already known to exist, and known to be owned by the user.

* What is being sought on the laptop [a video the defendant recorded at the event] is already known and admitted to exist, and it is known that the files in question are (at least were at one point in the past) on the laptop.

* The video in question was prepared prior to the search warrant and investigation, so it's not a Fifth Amendment violation to produce it unless the production itself is potentially incriminating (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Hubbell). But as mentioned above, the ability to produce the information isn't protected anymore, since there's no question that the individual could produce it.

This feels like it ought to be a violation of the Fifth Amendment, but it seems that it's pretty long-standing precedent that there's really nothing here that would violate the Fifth Amendment. Were this password-protected, or even a locked box in a safe, there would similarly be no Fifth Amendment violation, and the biometric aspect of the request doesn't (nor should it) change the analysis meaningfully.
Keep in mind that the researcher was only 23 years old at the time when the lab accident happened. In some ways, she was basically a kid. As everyone knows, she ended up dying because of this.

A human has a fully developed adult brain around age 25, but for some people it is not until age 30 [1].

[1] https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/adult-brain?rebelltitem=1#re...
Presumably you've never worked somewhere that required a drug test?

Drugs (per drug policy/theory) might affect work performance, and drug tests can be specified as a condition of employment.

Drug tests require information about the contents of your bodily fluids.

Unvaccinated COVID-19 infection is a health threat to on-site employees, and it is in the best interest of every employer to minimize this occurrence by keeping unvaccinated employees away from everyone else.
Agreed, there are only 2 options:

- Lipid nanoparticle delivering mRNA expressing 1 protein (vaccine)

- Lipid nanoparticle delivering mRNA expressing many proteins (virus), that has severe short term side effects

Odds are much higher than the virus has worse side effects, but we will not be able to wait and see. Waiting just defaults to the second option (with all of its known negative externalities).

(yes, there are other types of vaccines too, and a discussion of which vaccine to take seems completely rational)
Was it linked to this one? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
Chilling thought:
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Apologies, I’m not very familiar with aircraft engines, why can’t we simply use high octane unleaded gasoline, like most turbocharged car engines? Are the cylinder pressures significantly higher in airplane engines?
The very problem is that tests failing is not necessarily due to behavior changing but implementation details not affecting behavior changing.

This is especially the case when tests rely on mocks, which don't really implement the BEHAVIOR of a dependency, but rather represent a "replay" of a specific call stack sequence.
Thanks for highlighting these issues.

1. Credentialing is definitely super slow. We want to get to the point where we can handle billing for our customers as well, so we'll have to create relationships with payers to speed the process up. Right now, many of our customers and clinicians are already used to this long process, so nothing is really different here.

2+3. We are providing the patient volume at 0 cost to the clinician. This is all just extra income for the clinician at the cost of their time, regardless of whether the clinician is in private practice or working for a hospital with a fixed salary. Opportunity cost requires for the private practice to do marketing, etc to drive patient volume to them. Also, the private practice, again, has the same problems around recruiting and scheduling that a hospital would have.
> you realistically can't know all the layers any more

This has always been true. What you percieved to be the case was an illusion. To paraphrase myself¹: Imagine someone who started with soldering, electronics, radio, and circuits, and is just beginning with computers and programming. They would probably feel the exact way you do; that they used to know “all the layers”, but that it’s somehow becoming too large for them. Knowing “all the layers” was an illusion for them, as it was for you.

> almost no feedback when things break.

This, however, is absolutely crucial. Fast feedback loops, however and at whatever level they are implemented (REPL, fast development iterations, TDD, monitoring) are essential to knowing that what you are doing is actually accomplishing anything and not just doing cargo cult coding.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19113359
Is distributed tracing the worst effort/cost to value ratio?
You said "What if I told you that those caves would be the same age regardless of who inhabited them over the years". One logical implication is that you think the age does not refer to the time at which the cave was inhabited, but to something else. It is reasonable to assume the only other thing you could be referring to is the age of the caves themselves, geologically. You should explain your thoughts more explicitly, rather than relying on implications delivered via sarcasm.