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> better f'ing demand they have enough hospital beds

I am pretty sure people not getting sick in the first place is the priority, rather than making enough infrastructural medical capacity for something that is preventable. It's not like you can just magic up more doctors either.

> you want to lock down then we need a metric that you are trying to achieve by the lockdow

Well, this is obviously the vaccine

> Germany masked, distanced, and locked down better than anyone could expect, and here they are sitting with 4 million cases, 100k dead and are still in the pandemic. They don't even share a porous border with Mexico/South America

Are you saying you advise lockdowns (especially in winter) and then saying lockdowns are ineffective?
Either that, or Apple really doesn’t want their server to access (ie. decrypt) all photos by default. Maybe they actually weren’t lying when they defended being more private by having all computing happen on-device, and the server not accessing your data.

Now, what seems more likely to you? They suddenly decided to go towards scanning all offline files for no business nor legal benefit, or they tried to respect their own marketing of how their ecosystem should work?
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This is a vague statement that could mean two different things.

1. That quantum mechanics is deterministic (as far as wavefunctions go) and time-reversible. Knowing the state of a system at any given point, you can use the differential equation (Schrodinger's equation) that determines the evolution of the system, to find the state any other time.

2. The should in the statement is referring to the philosphical idea that we expect that the true laws of physics will always be deterministic and time-reversible.
> Amazons top priority is the customer

This is not and should not be true. If it were true, Amazon would operate completely differently. It should be more true than it is.
> somebody said that they will not need to learn anything about sort algorithms, because they can just google bubble sort and copypaste it if they need sorting at work

In this example, the missing skillset is not memorizing a book of algorithms as you seem to imply.

If performance isn't good for the use case, they should be profiling the code for root causes. Which will lead them to identifying the sort operation as a problem. At which point they can search for faster sorting algorithms which will quickly lead them to a better solution and libraries containing them (or even how to implement, if they're operating in a constrained environment where no libraries exist).

I don't want to hire software engineers who have memorized the algorithm book, that's not useful to me. I want to hire those who can apply discipline to the work, such as (in this example) be aware of performance and know how to analyze it and find solutions.
I don't think it's clear that the origins of covid are natural. This has become less controversial recently.
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COVID doesn't cause what you just described as "muscle weakness" in anywhere near 20% of people. The thing it causes that other people describe as "muscle weakness" is much closer to "I'm not setting new deadlift PRs lately".
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I care.

I'm vaccinated. I can still catch it - I'm much more unlikely to end up in hospital, but it's still an unpleasant illness to have, with a small chance of long-term complications that are not at all well understood.

And if I do catch it I can still spread it to others, who may not be vaccinated.

I very much care about not killing someone else by spreading Covid to them, even if they deliberately chose not to get the vaccine. I'm furious with them (and with the information sources they consumed that lead them to that decision) but I absolutely don't want to contribute to their suffering or death.
It sounds like you're asking why PRAGMA cant be used to affect the table only during its creation. The main reason for this with SQLite is that SQLite stores the table definition as text. If you run `SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table'` you can see all the statements that are used to create the tables. Therefore, in order to specify which tables should be strict, you would have to have something in that statement that indicates it. The other option would be to have the flag control all tables (even ones created previously) which prevents incremental adoption.
>Comirnaty is apparently supposed to be a portmanteau of several words — community, immunity, COVID-19, and mRNA — Fierce Pharma writes. The branding was produced for Pfizer-BioNTech by the Brand Institute — “The World’s #1 Naming Company”

someone was paid to 'design' this name, lol.
We really seem to know extraordinarily little about how our bodies work apart from physical mechanics & electrical activity. I can't even put a % on the rest except that we have barely scratched the surface. From epigenetics to the brain, metabolism, and immune system, we have a long way to go.

On the other hand, we've probably made more progress in that understanding during the past 100 years than in all of the time before that. So, if our rate of knowledge acquisition is increasing, maybe that upward hill isn't quite so steep.
Apple did more than just utter a sentence. Everyone who owned one of the phones was entitled to a free bumper case, and Apple eventually settled a class-action suit, agreeing to pay $15/user.
> In the 80s when IRC was designed, they didn't foresee the importance of channel #names.

The network itself used to provide the namespace. What we didn't foresee were all the economic/political pressures that would eventually lead us to Centralize All The Things.
Because I don't want to is a perfectly acceptable reason to say no. "Muh Freedoms" is all the argument you need.
The East Turkistan nation disputes China's ownership of this area.
This title breaks the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Cherry-picking a detail, especially a sensational detail, and making that the title is the main way that people break this guideline, so please don't do that.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Deno uses uint8array (pretty much Nodes Buffers (Node Buffers subclass UInt8Array these days)) for almost all methods. For example Deno comes with `Deno.readFile` which returns a Promise<UInt8Array>, but they include the special case Deno.readTextFile because of how common it is to convert the contents to a string.
Oh wow! Do you know if their employers pay them to work on it on-the-clock (how much of their job?), or if it's actually a s spare-time/hobby project for them?

This kind of traditional way of getting paid while working on open source (a company pays you a salary to work for them, you work on open source in some of your time, you don't make money from the open source) sometimes seems like a thing of the past for big/popular projects, interesting to see it still in play here.
> "51%" is frequently used as shorthand for the technically correct but awkward term "50%+1".

50%+1 is only correct about half of the time as the threshold, since votes cast is constrained to integers but not specifically even ones; ⌊50%+1⌋ is correct; as would be >50%, as, instead of trying to impress with (false, for both the 51% and 50%+1 options) precision, would be the both technically accurate and simple “a majority”, or, if the intent to is to emphasize the lack of a higher threshold, “a simple majority”.
Yep - you're right, edited and fixed.
I highly believe this space is moving to the metaverse too, and many non-believers are going to get a reality check in the future.
Yeah, but they called it a forklift mech, not a Warrior Mech!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255830
I'm sure patent trolls would agree with that advice.
All that amounts to evidently delusional US advisors, for years.

And on US side, it resembles corporations in a way. The more optimistic report you give, the more you are rewarded. If you talk about issues, you are sidelined. So people down on hierarchy know there are issues and high on hierarchy get to pretend how good everything is.

On afghan side, it amounts to organization capable people who have choice won't join. You join it to get free meal, to steal a thing or two. You join it if you don't have much perspective otherwise.

Patriotism can't be motivation either, because Afghan would be joining American led army. And expectations that US will be there forever was fairly reasonable too. It is atypical for US to leave I they can have influence.
A quick search shows ~20% of immigrants being deported testing positive (up to 25%). There are something like 200K immigrants currently encountered by border patrol per month. Naively that's 50K people coming to the US each month with covid who are poor (probably can't self quarantine), live in dense, multi generational households and exist outside of the law. Realistically, we'd expect that ICE (deportation) contributes to the spread. At any rate, I don't see how illegal immigration could be qualified other than a significant vector in the spread of covid.
Thank you, that’s another good example, to which I wish I could relate less. ;)
Interesting premise, but I'm a bit annoyed by the whole trial thing. Basically like a monkey press anything (variables, upgrades, the main screen) and win. This is like a less colorful version of candy crush. Does this modus continue for the rest of the game? Also giving out rewards after watching adverts is lame...
Since you're already planning on using hydrogen fuel cells for propulsion, does it play well with using hydrogen as the lift gas, too? Since the airship is unmanned, this seems like a good synergy.
The riled-up anti-mask parents get all the attention but in every district there are also parents pushing for more ventilation, testing, vaccinations, etc. In my school we've been able to get the ventilation upgraded with MERV-13 filters.
look at the headline 'Plane damaged after being hit by York police drone at Buttonville Airport'
if it were a civilian I am sure it would be 'Major disaster - as civilian drone crashes into a plane - potential suspects at large'
Well it’s been its name forever. My vaccine certificate from July doesn’t even mention Pfizer.
> If they are locked down, again, 16 months into this thing, they never beat anything.

They eliminated this virus across Aotearoa. We didn't eliminate it everywhere else (actually almost anywhere else) and infected people continued to arrive at their border, eventually one of those infections (from Australia) leaked into their community about two weeks ago.

Unless your point is some purely nihilist position like "In the end nothing matters" (then why are you posting?) they beat this and now they're going to have to do it again.
I disagree, it’s the tying of your email address to a provider. If your email goes to “first@lastname.com”, then a quick MX change side steps a Google ban trivially.

But if your email address is “name@provider.com”, you’re kind of screwed.
I suspect it may be just necessarily true that information is preserved in a consistent universe. I don't know though, maybe someone could come up with a model for a consistent universe with information loss, but it seems to me that would lead to physically possible states that are not derivable from consistent laws of physics.
Digital identity, digital identity, digital identity. Until digital identity is a first class citizen in the United States (with support through the various layers of gov from local to federal), private enterprise will continue to lean on suboptimal identity systems (SMS, pictures of government photo ID for proofing a la ID.me and Stripe Identity).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203374

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28194815

https://www.gsa.gov/blog/2021/02/18/logingov-to-provide-auth...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8215...

https://billhunt.dev/blog/2020/12/18/federal-policy-recs/#4-...
For at least one specific example - Amazon does an extremely poor job vetting products posted on its site which causes a lot of defective items to end up getting piped through it to consumers. Prioritizing your customer over everything else means delivering a high quality consistent product - which it fails to do with regular listings and fails spectacularly to do with Amazon Basics.
As someone whose partner is a med-surg nurse, and whose extended friend circle contains a lot of current and (mostly)former nurses, that post is not really the case. That's like saying that the shortage of software engineers is down to InfoSys having a bunch of IT layoffs.

The big issues are: the job sucks, the patients suck, the insurance companies suck, the hospital administration sucks. It's a hard, thankless job, where you get shit on all day by everyone, figuratively and literally, and for not much pay. Pre-COVID, pay was maybe $30-35/hr for most floor jobs. Or you could get an hospital office job, making more than that working a basic 9-5, no shit, no working holidays, no lawsuits (due to bone-headed coworkers fucking up), no feeling like a waiter, or being groped by patients.

Nursing is a terrible career anymore.
And they have failed every time until now.
Even still, those authoritarian governments have to serve the needs of a large subset of the population, often biased on ethnicity, and have an overwhelming monopoly of force. Neither of those is likely in Afghanistan.

The Taliban themselves are motivated by the rather modern goal of uniting the country's fractious and diverse ethnic landscape ... albeit under the banner of their extreme interpretation of Islam.
The most prominent example I can offer is when speaking about hospitalizations.

Headlines and policy have adopted the narrative that the unvaccinated are driving the most severe cases. Those previously infected are not acknowledged and could significantly overlap with the unvaccinated population.

Those who have previously had an infection with mild to no symptoms should be acknlowedged as a third group in evaluating public health policies (vaccinated, previously infected, and unknown exposure).
That does look like a big step forward.

It could really benefit from some linked examples on that page though - I stared at the interface for quite a while, unable to figure out how to use it for anything - then I dug around for an example link and it started to make sense to me.

https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder/?query=%7B%22conditi...
HP also has gone insane. We got a bunch of keyboards that had 3 defective keys on the numpad. Zero, slash and enter if I remember it, bog standard keys. HP Service desk says no problem, here's 512Kb of firmware update that will fix it. And it actually did. No hardware defect, just a software bug.

I have no idea why a keyboard without much interesting extras even needs 512K of firmware, let alone why the stock firmware fails on 3 of the buttons. They're only there since 1985 or so, you'd think they got around to test the numeric pad by now
For some reason I jumped to expecting this to morph the display in the direction of slouch, (such as tilting and shrinking into the lower-left corner a bit say) encouraging you to move opposite (sit up/lean right) to 'get a better view' as though the monitor were a window into a 3D world.

Probably hard to implement, but have you considered anything like that? I imagine it'd be quite a nice subtle hint, that you'd subconsciously correct for even.

Just seeing/reading this submission made me correct my posture though, thanks :/.
> Can we, for a second, remember that walking-makes-thinking-easier is a classic ADHD/ASD symptom?

Is there scientific evidence supporting this link?
Like the battered wife staying because "I can still stand it."
- yes, the generation described was good. But obesity, single-parent households, the Adam Walsh case and wokeness is absolutely destroying today's generation.

(What the author admitted was that Europeans were already has-beens, as seen in the Balkans wars where the UN fotces were both ineffective and cowardly.)

- one of the reasons Russia threw in the towel in 1990 was that American GIs learned electronics at home, which Russians couldn't match (a Russian general said that in an interview.) An American tanker who used say a PS2 daily for example will destroy a squad of Russian tanks.

Why American children cannot play outside alone since 1981

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Adam_Walsh
>Or what about the fact we are 2 years into this and we still haven't built a significant amount of hospitals?

I don't think 2 years is enough to just "build new hostipal", let alone staff them, supply them to hospital standards, and start taking business.

It's not land that's short, it's talent.
Amazon follows a core set of Leadership Principles (LPs) that we Amazonians aspire to every day. They are ingrained in our culture, and they guide the behaviors we value. It’s very telling that the first LP is Customer Obsession—leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/an-inside-look-at-th...
You are not wrong that any new entrant might be introducing yet another standard like the referenced xkcd comic...but I have faith that this protocol will be the one that sticks. Time will tell of course. As far as interacting with closed protocols, yes, matrix most definitely accomodates those scenarios using something called "bridges/"bridging" (via a few methods such as puppeting etc.). You should review the following page for more info (yes, there are lots of bridges though quality differs among them): https://matrix.org/bridges/
Anecdotally speaking, in my corner of England social distancing went out of the window shortly after masks were mandated in shops.
That is indeed an eye opening discussion, goes beyond the soundbites and much of the charade.
I use Visual Studio to trace through code I’ve written recently to see if it’s doing what I meant it to. It’s like proof reading.

(Professional coder since 1987.)
Ten in a row, apparently.
It is nothing about faith.

Cathy, like many modern influencers (Elon, Chamath and others) knows how to leverage social media to manipulate markets and create cult-like following, creating a feedback loop for sell-fulfilling prophesies.
Oh but interestingly isn't that a kind of conviction itself? They've been fed some kind of idea of 'freedom' that they now strongly adhere to until death (I assume a lot of anti-mask are also anti-vaccine and are now the ones dying in the hospitals).

If you look at American politics over the past 5 years, trump has almost become another napoleon in how fervent the support he has, and how the idea of 'freedom' has held.
Completely agree. Also smart people complicate things extreamly, probably because they want to push their skills and constantly learn more.
Yea, I like to use a framework. But I think devs should have the basics down about css. Like margins, padding, div vs. span, etc. I remember reading a css book on vacation in Aruba like 10 years ago, and just having the basics helps considerably, especially when just trying to debug small layout changes.
The vast majority of COVID patients aren't just "COVID patients". They're people with comorbidities that put them in a more serious position than a regular (otherwise healthy) individual with a respiratory illness. To "specialize" in COVID you likely need to have training on diabetes, neuro, renal, cardiac and other systems. To a certain point, you just need a fully trained nurse because you can't specialize too deeply on "COVID" without needing training on the comorbidties that come along with an ICU patient.

I guess I'm bias because my spouse is an ICU RN, but the ignorance of HN comments boggles my mind. Do all the hackers try to solve domain problems they have absolutely 0 experience in? I don't pretend to have solutions for the healthcare system because I don't work in the healthcare domain. I can assure you, the red tape that exists is there for very good reasons, because we've tried "unregulated" systems and they were a disaster. We've learned from our mistakes, and that means rigor that can't be replaced by some keyboard jockey writing webdev or embedded systems for unrelated fields.
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I gotta admit, Microsoft is pushing out some cool features that are widely accessible. I've been enjoying the Github Actions feature, Teams is actually getting my organization to stop using Sharepoint, VSCode is great, and now Excel is getting some nice function upgrades. We've come a long way from the 90s embrace-extend-extinguish MS business strategy (or are at least enjoying a period of embrace+extend).
Anecdotal, but an acquaintance here in Florida had to wait over 14 hours to get an emergency appendectomy (and over 12 hours to get from check-in to a bed in the ER) recently, due to both COVID protocols as well as COVID workload.
> The secret sauce is in the software.

I'll take my hardware without the sauce, thank you!
> It will teach you bad practices

Agreed, everything that makes good contest code is a bad thing for production code. In a contest you just want to hack together something as quickly as possible, it only needs to work once, will never be maintained or documented.

It's all good fun as a sport, but nobody should consider it relevant to working on production code.
From my point of view, a lot of people want to use the big stick the FAANG guys use, but they haven't learned that the big stick is heavy, to stretch an analogy. I'm overall happy I have seen a bunch of different workflows.

For example, I've been on the operational side of a leading browser game in germany some 5 - 10 years ago. Obviously, it must have been an amazing CI/CD workflow with great automation. No. The global deployment was me. With SCP. And we made money. I'm not necessarily proud of that on a tech level, but it worked. The job after that... we made money by using chef to copy war-files into tomcats and then we had some application to sell. Again, it's not technologically amazing, but it has a huge advantage: It's simple to get right, and hard to get seriously wrong.

Now, still at the job, but with a changed scope, yes, we are embracing docker and a container orchestration. But we do so, because we have to scale from 10 developers to 100 - 150 developers and we cannot handle the complexity in a central config management. We cannot support the 3-5 languages and frameworks necessary centrally anymore, so it makes sense to introduce a framework that's easier to cooperate on, in the layer that needs cooperation. It increases the total tech stack complexity, but it simplifies the things the individual team has to deal with, so it's a net benefit for most people.

But all that is driven by necessity. If you tell me to deploy half a dozen of same-blueprint php/spring boot/.NET Core apps on 1-2 servers without any infrastructure, I'd look at some ansible and some cheap VMs. Or if there is a natural thing like capistrano or whatever Laravel Forge is, that. I like not doing work and making mistakes hard to make.
True, but they can lose them by doing stupid things.

Voting in a way that looks like you're voting against the welfare of children's safety could be one of them.
Thank you!

Now I'm trying to figure out how someone gets their brown fat measured without being in a study or if its possible without an MRI machine.