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> Evolutionary pressure selects for less deadly viruses over time.

I'm hearing that for the first time, do you have a source?

> longitudinal risk

With longitudinal I meant the risk of what we have labelled 'long Covid' but really seems to be a conglomerate of different, sometimes chronic diseases in different people, that we still don't really know how to treat effectively (not very frequent in absolute terms, but orders of magnitude more frequent than any serious side effects we have observed due to the vaccines).

So if I understand you correctly, what you are fearing is that there is some unknown risk about the mRNA vaccine, that will only reveal itself over time, but that we have no idea about the mechanism of action nor any actual cases. Is that right?
That's sort of how I explained it to a friend.
Manufacturers would not be willing (or allowed) to distribute without the full trials and recognition by the FDA. Where the government, on behalf of the sovereign, decides "no, we NEED it now" the full authority for the risks is declared not by the manufacturer but by the sovereign. Thus, in their great need and power, the sovereign gives them immunity in their actions in writing via the EUA.

It's good to be the king...but who laid the crown?
Pretty cool. Question, your lock reset resets the lock state without regard to of the lock is held on not, isn't it better to acquire before reset?
That's exactly the point - sleep states and efficiency is indeed 'byzantine' and I don't see how you expect individual purchasers to understand it. 'Byzantine' complicated things are exactly where regulation is needed to help.
Most of these climate change warnings are blaming the general public for not acting. I haven’t heard or read a study about the impact that weapons and wars on climate change.

Every now and then there is a new experiment for a new rocket or a weapon, which I believe took lots of experiments to reach the point of final release.

Aren’t these doing more harm to humanity and climate change comparing to other factors?
I'm on Netlify, but Vercel or Render are also popular options for static websites and jamstack
We have to get new ones, the current group is way out of touch. Old dogs, new tricks and all that.
I remember those too. Fun and I learned a lot from them. I also recommend them.
> this is the opposite of the unix way of doing things

Which makes sense, this is an article for people on Apple hardware (judging by the installation instructions), so no interest in keeping things "the unix way of doing things"
It’s a quote from Hamilton.
> I believe M4 was originally created to simplify the sendmail config file and then eventually pulled out into its own program?

m4 predates sendmail by 6 years (1977, 1983).
I'm sure there are cases where that is true, but doubt (hope?) it is not the norm. Perhaps instead of assuming they have zero value, maybe you don't have visibility of their value and contribution?
"An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about the prospect of global warming. A review of the literature suggests that, __on the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists' thinking as being one of the most important forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales__."

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/89/9/2008bam...
China's energy insecurity is also a large part of it.

Their exposure to shipping blockades in the south china sea and reliance on oil and gas imports provided a lot of the early impetus for beating down the price.
For some people the signal was back in 3 days. But for most people it never came back and they all signed up for satellite and cable tv. When we got satellite in 2005, the installer was surprised to see we had nothing. He asked what did you watch after 9-11?
A CDN? If you load JavaScript from it, then it has about the same "power" as a server hosting the HTML of a static site. So yes, there's some potential for misuse, but unless you're implying that hosting your own website is a bad idea from a liability perspective, I'd say it's safer to host your own JS instead of using multiple CDNs as many sites do.
> I suppose in the end Duolingo's valuation is more a reflection of people's desire to learn a language rather than people actually learning a language, though.

> Language learning is hard and a multifaceted thing that no single application is going to adequately prepare you for.

Why do you sound disillusioned with Duolingo? It's just an app. I think the hacker news community undervalues it for no reason
What makes this group of scientists and their warning more legitimate than these previous “imminent tipping points”

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...
> Is there such a thing as an "accurate reading of history"?

There are certainly worse ones.

> No. The ottoman empire essentially was.

The point of that turn of phrase was that the Turkey was born already with a significant amount of its territory ceded and under occupation. This territory was not given up back to the Turks willingly.

> Ah yes, the turks "beat" the british empire, french "empire", the US, etc combined. Does that make any sense to you?

Yes? That was what the Turkish war of independence was about. US involvement in this war was fairly limited at any rate. And as a matter of fact, the British, French, and Greeks fought on the side of the Ottomans in the war - almost as if the Ottomans were the Western 'vassals' here. You think the West really wanted to give up a compliant government which had already proven itself to bend to their demands for another which had proven itself strong enough to retake the land which had been ceded to the West?

> Europe had been wanting the ottoman empire destroyed for hundreds of years.

Europe had been wanting the empire's land for centuries, something the post-war Ottoman government was all too willing to cede.

> Do you really think the turks wanted to go from being the leaders of one of the greatest and wealthiest empires to a middling nation begging for acceptance at europe's doorstep?

This is extremely anachronistic. The Ottoman Empire had not been great or wealthy for the better part of a century, having been known as the Sick Man of Europe for the better part of a century prior to its collapse.

In light of the Ottomans' capitulation to Allied demands, of course the Turks had little desire to continue the monarchy. Why would they? It had not only lost the war, considerable amounts of territory, and the city of Constantinople, but the imperial government itself stood in the way of trying to retake any lost territory. Popular support was therefore on Atatürk's side, not the monarchy's; if it hadn't been, his revolution would have been impossible.
What? Poor people are free their spend the money the way they like too.
FYI: There are multiple asset types categorized under CRE. Offices are just one of those types.
It always bothered me that companies issue developers laptops. Why not desktops? Sure, it enables the free-wheeling, hot-desking, impromptu meeting culture that exists in most software development teams, but is that a good thing?
Right, you can pin the certificate or the public key in it - but that's much more specific than the entity that the cert is issued to and as you correctly noted is not practical for browsers to do automatically since keys and certs do get rotated without a change in owner.
I have absolutly no inside knowledge but my guess is that the loop and the vehicules inside it are more akin to a mini railway network with weird trains than roads with cars. As such the regulations are not the same and in particular the automatic features of the cars are not considered railway safe.
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I find it hilarious each time this subject comes up on HN (seems weekly now), everyone saying it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I know several(!) people, who while 'working remotely', are two timing it, having two jobs simultaneously, obviously unbeknown to the employer. And even then, they 'find' time during their working hours, to go to the gym, do the laundry, do some groceries. They are not some productivity geniuses, no, they are just regular lazy people, like most people are. I get why those people LOVE remote working, because they get paid and not so much work done. Win-Win?
On the plus side the schedule was reasonable, you had time since the 1990s :)
"Lye" is now frequently used for any kind of strong alkali. Nowadays caustic soda is much cheaper than caustic potash, so "lye" is applied more frequently to caustic soda.

The original sense of the word "lye" was referring, as you said, to the lye obtained from wood ash (or other vegetable ash), whose main component was caustic potash.

Caustic soda, having similar properties, was obtained from soda (sodium carbonate) extracted from evaporite mineral deposits.

Before the end of the 18th century, when the names of potash and soda (formerly just commercial names) were adopted in the chemical language, for many centuries the scientific names for lye (caustic potash) and caustic soda were vegetable alkali and mineral alkali, because of their different preparation methods.
Haven't we had multiple tipping points already? It really feels weird how the tipping point is always very soon(tm).
Can’t afford the time to send emails
I agree, it s one of the cheapest, they deliver and have custom solutions on request.
The cheapest is monzoon which offer dsl and ftth without contract (month-by-month basis)
Same thing every decade

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...
Hamilton reference.
Academics have been churning out bad studies that claim lockdowns work from the start. Spend time reading them and you'll see that they aren't valid. The most famous, with over 1300 citations, starts by building a fancy model that assumes only government restrictions can end epidemics. Then it takes the output and presents it as proof that lockdowns saved 3 million lives. Meaningless but got published in Nature anyway.

This particular meta-study isn't even only using published studies!

"34 studies were included in the review, from which 27 have been published, one of them in a journal without peer review, and seven were preprints."

This has no more validity than an HN post linking to a bunch of blogs. They were probably forced to rely on such papers to try and get their desired result.

You can see lockdowns don't work by just looking at the data with your own eyes. Look at the UK. Cases have been dropping for more than a week even though restrictions were mostly ended on "freedom day". Epidemiologists had been predicting a huge surge because they're all in denial about the ineffectiveness of their NPIs: their restrictions had no impact at all and they don't understand why.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/world/new-virus-cases-are...
I mean it wasn't very funny and HN is full of people who do make crazy statements like that seriously...
Denmark.

Table 2 states 1,644 deaths due to the flu.

https://www.ssi.dk/sygdomme-beredskab-og-forskning/sygdomsov...

English article:

https://cphpost.dk/?p=101073

Deaths caused by Corona is currently at 2,547. And out of 5.8M people there is currently 10 in serious or critical condition.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/denmark/
m4 is pretty neat, but debugging it is very difficult. It takes a long time to understand when a macro is expanded and how quoting changes that. It could also use a standard library of convenient string manipulation functions, perhaps a dictionary data structure. But at that point you can probably just switch to a more featureful programming language.
Maybe it's just my personal workflow, but I rarely feel the need to go forward/back by word. Beginning or end of line are common and useful, but otherwise if I want to get to a specific word/line that I'm looking at, I will mostly do Ctrl+s to search and basically jump there immediately or in one or two hops (or Ctrl+r to search backwards). It's hard to convey, but it feels less like "navigating" or "moving" around a 2-dimensional grid of text and instead just teleporting to exactly where I want.
Swimming and texting serve valid purposes which make life's quality better (communication/economics, RnR, preserving good physical condition etc). It can also indirectly save lives; the math of it would be hard to conduct on HN, but I guess no one will argue that it's an unreasonable argument.

While not getting vaccinated doesn't seem to serve any valid purpose - assuming loss of time, or v. small risk of adverse reactions are not big obstacles - then it has only benefits, both for you and others.

To sum up: closing swimming pools for <12 will save some lives and will cause loss of life (b/c poorer quality of life) - in the end it's a political decision based on what science can provide at the moment in terms of data. The vaccinating gain/loss equation is obvious.
No. Just no.

It's cool that you are comfortable with it (or at least for 90% of what you want it to do) but it is such a unwieldy tool that it gets painful very quickly.

As a curiosity for small projects it's okay. Seeing what's out there and extending one's view of the programming landscape is great.

But if you use it in a professional environment for heaven's sake please think of the maintainers that come after you and just don't use it.
I guess like real estate there are multiple markets. There is more of a shortage of experienced decent senior devs than people trying to break in.
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Twitter sentiment analysis in Python and JavaScript
I heard bees actually build circles, which turn into hexagons due to melting and reforming.
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I'm sorry, but that attitude is just pathological careerism to my ears.
This is one of my absolute favourite things to do. There’s something so beautiful about having software automatically finding the bug for you.
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> Straw man.

How is it a straw man? Are you sure you know what this term means? We're discussing a policy in which all Google employees who come into the office are being forced to vaccinate on the grounds that if any do not, it might be dangerous. That's exactly what we're discussing.

Your herd immunity numbers are just made up. I saw many estimates last year and none were even close to 90%.
I absolutely agree with this. Sure, there are a lot of bad developers in India, but guess what? There are also bad developers everywhere else on this planet. People forget that the scale of the pool of developers over there is huge and they overlook the exceptional talent, which while a small fraction of the whole market is still an enormous number of resources.
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Artefact of mobile use perhaps? "Open in new tab" is slightly harder on a phone or on a tablet.
> They say I need to move these price checks to be before the sign-in prompt.

> I can do this, but the whole episode just irked me the wrong way. What's their freaking problem?

Manually smoke-testing the app is part of the review process. If the reviewer can’t get past your loginwall, they won’t be able to review much.
The vax has been rushed to market and the risk of unpleasant side effects is probably a lot higher than normal.

Throughout the chain of manufacturing, sales and distribution will be a myriad of people with a profit motive, so even if feedback starts to be received that the drug is causing nasty things to happen, the risk of news suppression and continued sale is probably high. E.g., if power goes out at a storage facility and the temperature at which the drug is held exceeds recommended levels, people might still sell it to get their income and avoid blame even though they know the batch has limited usefulness. Pfizer probably has to protect itself from these elements of fraud and / or negligence which are probably exacerbated by the basic risk of the drug's effects and efficacy.

If the drug has been rushed to market, it is probably not only the drug's effects which have been compromised, but the security and integrity of the entire supply chain that will support how, when and where the drug is administered and by whom.

Yes, Pfizer could just package 100 million vials of tap water and send them to SA. However, whether SA was powerless to do something to the co or not as a result of the agreements it had signed, I very much doubt Pfizer would last long after the news of its behaviour reached the rest of the world. I am sure it still needs to ensure that it does the best job it can.

On the other hand, politicians are masters of the blame game and of wriggling out of any agreement. Even if their language does not allow for deniability, circumstances may change so that old agreements are rendered unenforceable.

I have no doubt that if SA (or many other countries) found it to their advantage to not honour their side of the agreement when circumstances allowed, that they would do so - potentially even without raising any spurious reason to do so other than "we don't want to and you can't make us".

So although I find the terms Pfizer negotiated distasteful, I do not blame them.

I do wonder, though, whether their terms are universally the same for all countries they deal with here. I suspect not, because SA does not have the power of USA or China or even Australia. It is far easier to say to SA 'we do not believe you, so give us the rights to your military base as a guarantee' than it is to say this to many other countries.

But, much of the blame for this poor negotiating position rests with SA itself.
I’m surprised I got upvoted at all, reading over your well thought-out comment.

I do command quite some deciding power. But I can’t figure out if it’s my technical skills, or the fact that I’m the only person carrying this project. Pretty sure no one else around me knows what a ticket is.

But what irks me is that my entire position feels incredibly ill-conceived. Like I’m not solving any actual problems. And I can’t “do” anything about it, because that would take years of company-wide restructuring. And I’m just not a long-term visionary, like my peers (who all happen to be, let’s say, at a much later physical and mental state in life).

That’s why I don’t see how in-company relationships benefit me. I wouldn’t dismiss them in general though, which I strongly came off as doing.

But it’s either that, or quitting. The latter will probably happen in the foreseeable future, once it doesn’t look too transient on my resume.
For the sake of completeness, the issue was later "fixed" by the company in the form of a refund

https://twitter.com/deesix/status/1420433764002373636

The story is published by a trusted, verified person, yet no screenshots were attached.
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Any chance you can link that script? I’ve been looking for something like this recently too.
Well yes, because they had been told HIV was a death sentence and only AZT could save them. What relevance does that have?
> Speaking and listening are related skills yet speaking is much harder than listening, and both are much harder than reading (for the vast majority of languages).

In my opinion it's the other way around.

Reading is easiest in any alphabetic language. Both intrinsically and to teach.

Reading has no time limit so you can make your way through text at whatever pace you want.

Reading instruction is strongly amenable to automation. You can just sit and do exercises on an SRS until the cows come home and you will eventually learn to read. Not on duolingo through.

Speaking is the next easiest, you can't go at any speed but you can at least go slowly. Plus you only have to deal with one accent when speaking, your own.

Most languages have more consistent spelling than English, so if you know how to read an IPA phonology chart (and if you are embarking on the multi-year journey of learning a language then spending a time to learn IPA is a no-brainer) then you can probably figure out how to speak in a way that is understood.

Listening is the hardest because you don't control either the content, the pace, nor the accent. If someone is throwing words out like a gattling gun or in a non-standard dialect then tough luck. The learning curve for listening is a cliff in most circumstances.

Neither speaking nor listening are amenable to automation. TTS is no substitute for native speakers, and automatic speech recognition is a joke. So the only way to pick up these skills is with real native speakers which is expensive and slow.
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Not when you factor in the cost of labor and other market dynamics. Like most markets, supply chains and expertise have become highly specialized and adapted to economies of scale. Wood is either sourced from farms, managed forests, or from people who make a living in niches, such as recovering sunken logs or scrap industrial and commercial framing, which are easier to scale and offer more consistency.

I've dabbled a little in woodworking, and AFAIU while there are still people out there willing to do the work for small, one-off jobs, they're few and far between, especially in regions without significant hardwood stocks. Fewer still willing to actually pay you for the privilege.

It also doesn't help that engineered wood products are displacing quality lumber even at the high end of the market. These days a new, solid hardwood floor would probably appear cheap or antiquated to people accustomed to the look of laminated flooring.
Used to have https://www.kvasir.no/ but now it's just a skinned Google.

sesam.no (not valid domain anymore) was an engine made by some a big Norwegian company back in 2005 or so.

Norway used to be big in search. FAST got acquired by MS back in 2008.
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Can they prove/know that you're vaccinated? One could get the vaccine but claim not to the employer, getting both benefits.
> Are you essentially saying that nothing could convince you of the link between extreme weather becoming common and global warming?

First of all, stop sealioning.

And second of all, provide links to support your rhetoric, instead of shaming tactics. Nobody can do anything without some kind of data.

(I've actually never seen a climate shill provide any proof, going back more than a decade.)
I can absolutely feel a kind of religious zeal and moral superiority from the pro-vax side. It will be hilariously stupid if long-term side effects turn out to be real.
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The radioactive isotope bullet was done in Transcendence, but I think a prion-laced bullet would fit nicely in a William Gibson or Charlie Stross novel.
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> Pandoc is honestly overkill for just converting markdown to HTML

Strongly disagree. Pandoc is the only solution I could find that outputs static HTML and supports maths. It's a really great solution. And it's pretty fast. I don't know in what way it could be overkill.

Using a hacky M4 script instead of Pandoc is completely insane. Find if you want to do insane things I guess but it's still insane.
I am. I would prefer we even expand abortion:

[The Groningen Protocol — Euthanasia in Severely Ill Newborns](https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZAuf1XZ8FnuCq5M0nmQ...)

[After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?](https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZpff1XZHSCOnUBdNG0E...)

Once the vaccines have Full FDA Approval then of course they can be mandated. Until then, medics decisions should be between a person and their doctor. Just like abortion.