skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are counter arguments to your counter arguments:
1. If you are mentioning large amount of people over in outbreak territory, Taiwan had 700K white collars working in China and 150K passengers travel between China and Taiwan weekly. Taiwan took action fast enough to avoid any major outbreak. Flight screening started on the last day of 2019.

2. Huge employee rotation may be exactly why govt should step in?
The problem is that it’s not that simple because your choices significantly impact other people: I can’t choose whether or not to receive the viruses you spread, so I have an interest in you spreading far fewer of them. My 4 year old child can’t be vaccinated so he, along with many immune-compromised people or those with certain medical conditions, is dependent on other people getting vaccinated to sharply reduce spread. Anyone who needs medical care is dependent on those facilities not being overloaded by people who chose to remain at high risk for a preventable disease.

This is not new: only the most libertarian fringes reject the idea that living in a society comes with obligations. We avoided millions of life-altering diseases with vaccination and politicizing medical care is going to go down in history as the worst move since the CIA decided to use public health workers as a cover story.
I thought everyone was saying full approval of vaccines take years of clinical trials. This was done much more quickly than that.
> "I also really like timetables and I like the logistics of putting things together."

I enjoy that too. It's also essential if you don't have a car. I think it's a shame that Amtrak no longer has timetables for download. Maybe it's to hide the sad fact that there are only 10-15 trains per day in one direction on the northeast corridor.
I can see 2035’s viral video already. Targeting people who were too young to get jabbed, some of which still living with the effects of long COVID. Others blaming long COVID for other issues. The narrator turning them against us, endless b-roll of both anti-maskers and politicians reopening cities. How selfish of us, reopening before they were protected.
Hair analysis, as in looking at two hair samples under a microscope and determining if they are a match, is definitely junk science. The FBI has specifically acknowledged this, dozens of cases have been overturned because subsequent genetic testing has shown hair samples did not, in fact, match. In at least one case someone was convicted based almost entirely on hair sample analysis, and later DNS testing showed that not only was the hair not a match, the hair found at the crime scene belonged to a dog. https://www.nemannlawoffices.com/blog/fbi-forensics-convicte...
> personally I don't see why you'd want to use anything other than Typescript right now.

Ditto. It's also important to remember that TS transpiles to JS, so you're not locked in in that sense.

(I've actually seens TS-to-JS-transpiled code that is much better than code that was written in/as JS in the first place.)
The future of real estate investing is here, and it's peer-to-peer
Sorry for your cousin's and fam's loss.

Sorry, also, but that's an anecdote.

All the data I've seen doesn't bear out all the hyperventilating of increased risk for kids.
I'm not sure you're allowed to say that out loud.
Show me data.
> different definitions
fair enough. certainly some bias from me, here

but, i’d still be stunned if introductory algebra, analysis at a baby/papa rudin level, and some point set topology would be sufficient enough to be called a math degree
>It's socially irresponsible and the impact to others is possible death.

Who are they killing? Others that didn't get the vaccine?
> I have always been a vaccine enthusiast but now I see infection surging even in the most vaccinated areas.

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrou...

The reported share of COVID-19 cases among those not fully vaccinated ranged from 94.1% in Arizona to 99.85% Connecticut.

The share of hospitalizations among those with COVID-19 who are not fully vaccinated ranged from in 95.02% in Alaska to 99.93% in New Jersey. (Note: Hospitalization may or may not have been due to COVID-19.)

The share of deaths among people with COVID-19 who are not fully vaccinated ranged from to 96.91% in Montana to 99.91% in New Jersey. (Note: Deaths may or may not have been due to COVID-19.)
The obese don't go around killing kids.
People don’t want to take the vaccine because others are trying to force them to.

They would say “it’s not FDA approved!” not as the core of their hesitancy, but because they were trying to be appeal to pro-vax peoples decision making framework.

I don’t think we should be able to require them to.

To many of you here: imagine the Trump admin trying to require you to take the vaccine in November of last year. Cities would have burned over it.

And honestly: I was one of the first to take it, but the desire to almost force me to take a booster, and the weird, Orwellian ways that the government talks about it, has turned me against the booster.

It ends up feeling less like the decisions are guided by science and more like they’re guided by petty tyrants wanting to control what others do.

Anybody who has ever lived under an HOA will recognize this.
I think what you're describing as xenophobia is fear of the other. What I see here is the fear of someone who would actually like to do the right thing, but has fear of what their own kind will do to them.
> breakthrough infections were always expected

That isn’t the way it was portrayed. The way that it was initially portrayed by the media is that these would be 99% effective and that after getting the vaccine you could go back to normal.
In my home state, Massachusetts, .3% of the total population has died of Covid-19. If you make a safe assumption that not 100% of people have been infected you can make a very basic assumption that the infection fatality rate is around .5-2%.
> we need more time to assess the long-term effects

You seem to be saying that the only issue is a question of time. Be specific: how much time? Will you say a specific number? “I will accept an mRNA-based vaccine if it has been around, and proven safe, for x years.”
Funny terminology in the headline, what are the meteorological conditions of a Twitter storm?
> However, reducing plaques does not seem to actually help patients with Alzheimer's

Just like reducing cholesterol does not lower heart attacks.

Read more about that here: https://medium.com/@petilon/cholesterol-and-statins-e7d9d8ee...
90% of my upvote usage on HN is balancing out people who have no sense of humor.
PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database
Thanks for the response. And thank you for clarifying that there is a larger ecosystem of package repositories, and that Deno does not give preferential treatment to any. In theory npm can do the same, but of course there is official support and community gravitational pull around a single service.

I agree there is nothing fundamentally less secure in general, but what you don’t get is being able to standardize around security for dev account protection, policies around immutability, DNS stuff, and some other centralized security measures. Neither are bullet proof, but there are some things you can’t protect against with random URLs.

I’d argue URLs are fine until you get massive use of a single package and it weaves itself into a complex dependency tree across multiple other critical projects. Then you worry about the what if’s.
Unity Workers Question Company Ethics as It Expands from Video Games to War
Probably because people roll over in their sleep and like to carry laundry or groceries by holding the bag to their chest.
To be fair, people in regional areas that travel long distances already pay far more fuel related taxes than those in cities on account of using more fuel per capita.
Quibbling over JSON
I think OP is saying corporations are not focused on innovation and manufacturing, instead busy with corporate virtue signaling while shifting manufacturing overseas. They’re faulting mostly white corporate leaders.
I think you're confounding competence and skill levels with "smarts". I wouldn't argue that the output of elite schools is not measurably different than that of e.g. state schools, but I think your view that the intrinsic quality (e.g. IQ) of the people is different is mistaken and not backed by any evidence.

Tangentially, I think it is lazy to say somebody who is disagreeing with you is just being "politically correct" or "a product of the present moment". I see no evidence for claims like yours, which strike me as more ideologically driven than you might believe.
This is not true. There could be birth defects or lower iq in babies born from vaccinated mothers.
It's been insane for a long time.
Why Government Crackdowns Lead to a Greater in Crypto Use
You most likely need strong grasp over OO, and design patterns to be a good library designer/programmer than Algorithms that you can easily look up online.
Obligatory XKCD comic: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
Two doses of Moderna is still highly effective. What are you going to do? Stay unvaccinated?

Given that both Pfizer and Moderna have virtually no side effects why wouldn’t you get it at these efficacy rates, even if lower?
Thats a terribly named, click-baity title (though the post itself is good, and already discussed on HN)

Why click-baity? The word "Twitter storm" gives the impression people are getting angry and offended (which is what we usually see on Twitter, which is why I quit 5-6 years ago and never miss it).

But the "storm" in this case is people enjoying his article, which is not what I got from the title.
We're having a vaccinated wedding. Unvaccinated/uninvited guests are now employing the base rate fallacy: "there are more breakthroughs than unvaccinated cases."
They're apparently already in chip design, so surely he means manufacturing as the potential new business line?
Software development is all about picking the right tools for the job. The right tool is a function of problem complexity, team size, experience of the team, maintainability, and other factors.

There are two main types of tool selection failures I see:

1. Teams that try to choose the “best” tools according to what they perceive as the state of the art without regard to the problem their trying to solve. This tends to become a game of picking whatever they think FAANG might be using, even if their problem is orders of magnitude smaller and simpler. At the extremes, these are the teams that end up building a Kubernetes-deployed custom React-based CMS with server-side rendering when really they could have set up a Wordpress install with a custom theme in a couple of weeks.

2. Teams that embody the phrase “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” These teams have been using the same tech stack for a long time and they’re so good at it that they refuse to consider anything else. Instead of trying new tools, they try to brute-force their current stack to get the job done. Some times this works well if the problem is a good fit for the stack. Other times, they waste a ton of time and money doing things that could have been solved quickly by trying a new tool.

None of us are perfect, but most failures fall into one of the two categories above. Eager startups often struggle with #1 when they have a pseudo-CTO cofounder who wants to pick all of the technologies but hire someone else to do all of the work.

My approach is to draw up multiple proposals with different stacks and present them with an overview of possible risks, benefits, and timelines. Usually once it’s all laid out, reasonable engineers might recognize that the right tool for the job isn’t always the trendiest tool. It takes some good presentation skills to navigate this but it can be done.

At the same time, I see some opportunities for you to grow your experience a bit. A CI/CD system has real benefits for delivery, but it shouldn’t require 3-4 full-time engineers to get going. It’s worth learning how to do this right so you can actually evaluate it, rather than dismissing it as useless complication. Frankly, setting up a basic CI/CD workflow with modern tools like GitHub or Gitlab isn’t a big chore. You should be able to come up with something usable and a good understanding of the basics in a workweek by yourself.
Replacing “unvaccinated” with “obese” here gives an argument for forcing obese people on diet against their will.
They already do chip design.

You could s/chip/battery/ and make the same incredulous statement 5 years ago

Or upholstery, or charging infrastructure, or casting equipment, etc.

Tesla had the capital to go as vertical as they want.
Yes, I believe it was lacquered and given to them by a coal lobby group.
I've been in a few over the decades, and sounds like every tech company after the glory/startup years.

Was even in one "hype" startup that began this way almost immediately.
> I caught covid for a day, still showing the strongest markers, i never noticed it, all I did was take vitamins and exercise, good friend got the vaccine, still can't walk, sick as a dog.

Your anecdotal evidence of 2 people sure is convincing! Everyone should do what you're doing.
Yep, don't forget that Razer were there first.

Does the Roccat software even require registration, or it's just bloated because that's all they could do?

I'd even say Razer wins on assholery.
We spend more than almost every country. It's not low in poor areas either; for example, Detroit Public Schools has much higher funding than the state average in Michigan.

The problem is not the amount being spent.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/us-education...
It's been about 1.5 years of study, and a billion doses given, give-or-take. There's plenty of data. The FDA usually is a glacial, unmotivated bureaucracy, but for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, this got a little bump in urgency.
Web apps are the default access mechanism for basically everything I do on my phone. And by that, I mean - I open chrome/firefox and navigate to the site I'd like to use.

I have less than 5 installed apps that I use on my phone directly, and those are almost all exclusively apps that need direct hardware access
- Camera
- Phone
- Maps

I also happen to use a few apps to work around sites that are genuinely awful to their mobile users (reddit, for example, is a black whole of dark ux patterns if you open it in a browser without faking your user agent - So I run bacon reader which [ironically] is just another webview running on the device anyways)
> Isn't that no greater risk than the status quo, though?

I don't have an issue with Apple scanning the stuff they're keeping on their servers, in accordance with their ToS. Have at.

The problem here is that they're doing the scanning on your device.
But should feelings matter in this question? The vast majority of us has no intuition when it comes to vaccine approval processes, as is the case with most things that aren't every day experiences. (And even then intuition or gut feelings can be misleading.)

Criticism should point out concrete failures to meet regulations or errors in the statistical analysis of the trials.
1) There is a trial period which allows to evaluate the software for its fitness. The software is time-limited instead of function-limited, which means that it'll be in the consumer's fault if they bought the software and found out that it didn't work (except for very limited problems, for example relating to said registration step).

2) EU regulations do have a nuance - and in this case, 1) makes determination if said software needs to have a refund policy for the consumer harder. While WinRAR does have a refund policy, it seems the period for refunds is shorter than what is mandated. win.rar GmbH is based in Germany, so how it did bypass these rules? Spoiler: they didn't, the rules allowed them precisely due to the evaluation period.
HN Comments from the original thread yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28262194

And if you want to read the original Twitter thread, try this as it avoids the auth-wall and also covers his story to it's completion:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428438081871433731.html
I'd be pretty fucking pissed if someone sprayed a fire extinguisher needlessly in my vicinity.
I wouldn't personally buy an NFT for those purposes, but tons of NFT owners buy them to be able to use them as profile pictures. Yes, you can put any arbitrary JPEG as your pfp including an NFT owned by someone else, but it'd feel the same as wearing replicas of branded clothing (and people mostly just don't).

That might not seem as meaningful as hanging them in your house, but I've watched it become that meaningful for a ton of people (as "irrational" as I think both NFTs and Hallmark cards are).
UK ICD-user here. So three weeks ago I had a severe ventricular fibrillation episode - I fell unconscious, had bystander defibrillation, air ambulance to hospital and two days later had an ICD fitted just below my left collar bone and was out of hospital the next day.

I use an iPhone 12Pro. The advice I was given was don't hold any phone closer than six inches away from the device- so holding it to my right ear is fine. Mag fields right next to the device can stop it sensing or in rare circumstances can cause a factory reset.

The biggest EM hazards in my house are the induction hobs on my cooker - these are worse than the phone. On full power I have to keep at least 60cm away from them or they will blind / alarm the ICD. So I am more concerned about them than the phone.

[Edit] Other hazards are drills held close to my chest and even the capes used by hair-dressers that have magnetic clasps to stay shut. Standing right next to the speakers at a concert is also not-advised.
Automation. The same reason that Office apps can be scripted with VBScript. It seems like OBS is GPLv2 so may be somewhat amenable to having external automation, but I suspect that may be a controversial opinion. Going that path depends on how risk averse you are.

OBS is open source software and various third parties have tried to wrap it up into a commercial services offering. They embed it in something like an Electron app and then have it talk with their paid-for services, all through node.
It's wild to me the top comments on HN are still "crypto has no actual use case," despite the literal billions of actual dollars ($) being transacted every day through projects like Uniswap, Axie Inifinity (a video game), and the plethora of DeFi apps and NFT projects out there.

Despite the massive UX problems that still exist.

It's willful ignorance at this point. Like, I get it, I was a crypto skeptic for a good while, I still think Bitcoin on its own is massively over-valued and doesn't actually accomplish it's original stated goals. But we're way past Bitcoin at this point, the evolution has been neck-breaking in speed. At this point, it's pretty obvious what problems it solves if you actually take an hour to earnestly learn about what's in the space (especially outside of finance).

If your best take on it is "it's all a scam", I highly encourage you to crack open some blog articles and actually explore some projects before writing off what I'm 100% confident at this point is the future of the internet.
Most of those years are not clinical trials they are getting funding to run a trail.
Gamer mouse are actually very tough and last a long time, like 5 to 10 years. The software usually is the first to break during the years of usage. Since 2000 I only bought 3 Logitech mouse and once tried Razor but the button double clicked broke in just a few months and never tried them again. All 3 Logitech mouse still works except for the oldest one because the drivers don't work anymore and I can't use the extra buttons, but as a mouse it still works.
but they are overloading hospitals denying access to healthcare to other sick people since gov around world decided to prioritize this hyped disease

for instance in Czechia there were 17K excess deaths, 10K with main cause COVID, the other 7K thanks to restrictions and doctors treating people over phone to keep hospitals empty for obese/old
Too many holes in this analogy. For instance, there are other unrelated errors that happen more frequently.
Reminds me of a comic I saw:

Interviewer: How do you swap two variables without using a temporary variable?

Candidate: x = x + y; y = x - y; x = x - y!

Interviewer: You're hired!

... two months later ...

Boss: What the hell is this code you wrote?

Programmer: I swapped two variables without using a temporary variable!

Boss: You're fired!
Yes it does. You own the art. (?)

For that price, you're getting all the rights to it in perpetuity.
"...for Sustainable Development" in the title is what caught my eye. Unfortunately, it isn't actually talked about in this article. I'm left guessing what the author's meaning was:

- This combo is lends to sustainable development because it's all FOSS.

- This combo lends to sustainable development because the cycle between coding and results is tightened.

- or?
> My personal (apparently risky, I don't recommend it to others) strategy

This seems to be the fundamental disagreement between the ‘anti’ side (anti-mask, anti-vaxx etc) and the ‘pro’ side. The reality is that different people can have vastly different risk tolerances. Some people are ok knowing they could die from a circulating respiratory illness and some simply are not. Some people believe vaccines are risky, others do not.

The challenge is it’s very hard (maybe impossible) to change someone’s personal risk tolerance. Imagine trying to convince someone with a fear of heights to go skydiving. You can state the facts, cite safety figures for parachutes etc but you are still unlikely to get them on a plane.
Yes, forever, like gay men won't have orgies without condom any more.
> By downloading Fedora software, you acknowledge that you understand all of the following: Fedora software and technical information may be subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (the “EAR”) and other U.S. and foreign laws and may not be exported, re-exported or transferred (a) to any country listed in Country Group E:1

Isn't this a blatant GPL violation?
if you don't think there's significant overlap I have a bridge to sell you

In either case, while non-mRNA vaccines may incentive the 'vaccine hesitant' to get poked, no amount of modification or scientific advance will get anti-vaxxers to get immunized edit: with a vaccine (I'm assuming an FDA-approved small molecule therapeutic would be OK with some of them).
You should come to Kentucky, you will see a lot of these:
https://secure.kentucky.gov/kytc/plates/web/LicensePlate/Ind...
any mandate that doesn't include exemptions for natural immunity is pure theater
And all this BS where I have to sign in, and download 200 MB files... and still no "chords" features on mainstream mice. I have Macros... but those are limited to how many buttons my mouse has.

Like with Chords...

Press Button 1 = Macro 1.

Press Button 1 + Shift = Macro 2.

Press Button 1 + Button 3 = Macro 7

Chords are so powerful but haven't really been adopted... Razer just adds more buttons to their Mice. And there's a limit to how many buttons you can add! Ha.

I could do more with a three-button mouse and software that supports Chords than I can with their like 19-button monstrosities.

http://acme.cat-v.org/mouse
> Types

There are so many better options if you want a good type system (Elm, PureScript, Rescript, GHCjs, Scala.js, and many more). TypeScript is unsound, and necessarily by it's design, it has to take on weird issues to maintain compatibility with JavaScript (null/undefined, can run effect anywhere, a lot of codebases are filled with any types). Heck, TypeScript doesn't even come with ADTs and proper pattern matching.
That data can be relevant. "Other historical vaccines" can not.