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I think that whoever is paying for something is the true client.

I also think that calling something thought-terminating can, itself, be thought terminating. In this case, a way of dismissing a commonly made point under the assumption that I have not thought through the issue on a much deeper level, but I have done so. We may simply disagree on our conclusions.
> todo item added: Figure out a way to mass-download all the auto-updating drivers

> todo item added: Start sniffing the protocol this tool uses to reprogram the mouse so I can build a cross-platform tool for it.

This does sound like an intriguing idea. For all those crappy Windows drivers that come with an 300 MiB+ Electron based configuration UI, auto updater, etc... figure out how to get the actual driver binaries and build a script that downloads and repackages them using NSIS.

One could in theory build some kind of Qemu based sandbox framework that snapshots the disk and extracts the binaries after installation. Tricking the updater into actually installing the driver inside a VM without the hardware might be a bit tricky, but depending on how they do the check (e.g. look if the USB ID is present?), I guess it should be doable and might be a bit easier than the reverse engineering approach in this Twitter thread (and also easier to automate, so it does not just work for this particular device).

I fear the biggest challenge for such a project would be dealing with the hardware vendors legal department though.
I guess it depends from a person to person. I actually find it relaxing, as being an Eastern European + an introvert I never really got used to American habit of smiling to everyone as a social norm. With mask I look less grumpy. :)

And also I think social interactions are constantly evolving process so, if needed, people would simply adapt to a new situation. Who knows, perhaps we'd start using our hands instead of facial expressions, just like the Belters did in The Expanse novels/series because they were limited by wearing space suits all the time.
State colleges serve the entire state, or a large portion of it (i.e., University of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University) are are typically universities instead of colleges.

Community colleges serve a smaller area, typically one county and its neighbors. Community colleges often have a much higher emphasis on trades and job prep. They will often offer more 2 year associate degrees, trade certifications and less 4 year degrees. They are rarely universities.
Transpiling TS to JS on startup does incur a cold start penalty, you can minimize it by using the `--no-check` option to transpile with SWC instead of TSC but it's still there. On subsequent runs though, it'll start up instantly because the JS is cached locally after transpiling (you can even trigger this step yourself with `deno cache`)

Beyond that, you still have the v8 engine running the JS, so yeah in most cases performance will be pretty much what you can expect from Node _except_ with regards to anything that reaches out of the sandbox (like filesystem or network access). These APIs are handled completely differently outside of v8, with Deno relying on a lot of Rust packages, and Promise-based APIs all the way down. For the builtin HTTP server for example you can expect higher throughput from Deno. Tail latencies also tend to be better with Deno.

You're not immediately going to get "blazing fast, native speeds" but you can get some nice optimizations.
This sounds like a great system and more countries should implement this. In Singapore (where I'm born), there's night classes/part-time degrees for people who need to work. It would be wonderful if more countries recognized the need for flexible studying options like Poland.
If anything I think they would 'sell' this as a cloud service I would think. But it would be a while before that happens.
>It’s also completely unknown what the long term effects of the virus are.

Long term beyond a year and a half? I think it's safe to assume there is very little.
I've now done two small web services in Deno, both are in production serving very small amounts of requests (i.e. tens per week scale).

The thing that attracted me to Deno is that it promises to be a more integrated Typescript experience on the backend while still leveraging a lot of value from the Node ecosystem. I've already forced my coworkers to use Typescript, so having better integrated tooling is just a big plus.

That's when compared to Node.JS. When compared to other frameworks, I'll just say it's nice that all developers on my teams know Typescript, so they can all contribute when necessary. In absolute terms, I think Node.JS is the dumbest thing to ever happen in IT history, and I hope something like that never happens again. That Deno puts a small bandaid over that open wound in my heart is nice.
That's comparing apples and oranges because you're comparing the effectiveness of a particular treatment (condoms) with the effectiveness of a particular policy (mask mandates).
> and an obvious question: if I do, will I get back any "secret" products that aren't in the "all products" list?

> "Beast Man Premium"

That has to be some sort of USB-controlled pneumatic dragon dildo
Enforcement is a total joke though.
It protects their balance sheet / investors by providing risk mitigation via hedged assets.
>I find it amusing that the crypto crowd looks at Visa and MasterCard as the ultimate form of endorsement

They don't. It's the non crypto crowd who do that. The crypto crowd look at them as the dinosaurs that need replacing, as the gatekeepers who can decide who can and cannot have access to online payments.

For someone who has spent a lot of time looking at next gen payment options you seem to have missed the woods for the trees.
The fear that you and your tribe’s quality of life will go down if resources, especially hours of low paid labor, were more equally distributed?
I first clicked the link only 2-4 minutes after it was posted and it was down so I doubt
"It doesn't look like vaccines will prevent the virus from circulating."

Do you have some numbers?

As far as I know, it indeed supresses the virus from circulating, it just doesn't stop it completely.

Here in my area, which started early with broad vaccinations - the numbers are way down.
Users of facebook are paying for something, they're just not paying for it with cash. They're paying for it with their personal data.
I wish that were the case—I also wish it were the case that “senior” meant “competent.” Judging by the number of device drivers I’ve had cause serious problems, especially with consumer gaming hardware (as is the case here), I don’t think it’s safe to make any assumptions about the quality of drivers.

For anyone else reading this who’s feeling smug because they would never buy such a device: you don’t need to; only the attacker needs to. Windows will happily download and install the drivers automatically the first time the device is plugged in.
There’s no free lunch. An overbuilt bridge the magnitude of a modern suspension bridge may well take 50 years to build. The romans weren’t building them that big and the projects that were that big took generations.
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
It’s always interesting to know the (side) hustles people are running that, in their opinion, provides recurring revenue that is either a good source or passive income or their main source of income.
> Would you go to Louvre to see Mona Lisa if you have an atom-by-atom identical copy at home?

The point is moot, as you can look at super ultra high def scans of many paintings from the comfort of your home.

And you can see more details this way and not pay any museum fees too
46 students put into 2 unfamiliar neighborhoods in the UK with various a level of affluence, and "surprisingly" people feel more positive about more affluent area. This says nothing about how residents feel or how different from their own neighborhoods they were for the students. Put me in an unfamiliar area and I'll prefer it to be affluent too, even when I was quite low on the socioeconomic ladder.
Yeah, when I realized you don't actually "own" it through any licenses it made me sour on the whole idea.

Is there a reason why people couldn't be granted a license to do whatever they wanted with an NFT? Seems kind of arbitrary to do so, but I'm sure there's a reason why it's like that.
Given global vaccination rates, it will have abundant and plentiful opportunities for breeding and mutation forever. There is no vaccinating the entire globe for coronavirus. Certainly not in our lifetimes. And not given the declining effectiveness of the vaccines.
> Making "universal" programs is the same thing as Afghanistan, you won't get anything out of it in the end and it'll end up costing you trillions.

You will get.. infrastructure, healthcare, education. How is this nothing?
This post really is a rant as the author forewarns, with barely any cohesion and no evidence to back up anything. I fear it has gotten upvotes simply because it's a popular opinion.

I don't think it's worth a detailed response so I'll just respond to the reductio ad absurdum in their tl;dr, that competitive programming has been taken to extremes (implicitly by employers).

This is plain untrue. Sure a lot of interviews I've been through ask for a coding exam, but in this day and age that's just a wise precaution and no company that I've heard of would hire based purely on that outcome.

I've met (interviewed) too many candidates who can sweet talk their way through any technical matter but barely know how to use a couple of for-loops. This isn't a surprise---the push toward driving down the cost of software engineering labor means that there's a massive volume of people churning through the bootcamp machine.
Can no longer edit, but the submission has been updated to remove the silly click-baiting ('revolutionary'), and to add '[video]'... I don't know if the flaggers and down-voters missed the earlier title so lack context, or what, but it's sorted now - I take no issue with the current title 'How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]', that's not what my comments above are referring to.
I like the part where you have to build the entire business before they will consider rejecting you.
> These APIs are handled completely differently outside of v8, with Deno relying on a lot of Rust packages

Very cool, thanks for the detailed answer.
Growing up in a neighborhood that was heavily Italian, I frequently experienced that gesture with my friend after we did something dumb at his house and got in trouble. Either his parents or grandmother would have their hands up in that pinched gesture, shaking them at you while yelling something like "Why in gods name would you two smash [friends sister] toys, put them in dog shit, set them on fire and throw them on the garage roof? Get up there and clean that god damn mess up! And you [me] go home." So yeah, saw that gesture frequently.
Kinda.

More like a heavily rad shielded vehicle with manipulators for working on atomic aircraft and reactors.
The author finds that spending energy on stable software ecosystem provides the psychological security to beat back the urge to study during free time.

I have a similar story of study and my escape has been to learn more about software design instead of frameworks or libraries. For example; DDD teaches how to describe problem spaces and how to talk about solutions in a way that is independent of any particular language or framework.

My learning efforts now seem better spent on building a core set of knowledge that has broader applicability.
Do you HAVE to install third party software to make your mouse work on a Mac?

I tend to just ... never install any software like that on my Windows PC.
The other user was suggesting lifting restrictions would be equal to "fuck the kids". Clearly that is not the case.

As for the risk of new mutations: if we were truly worried about that then perhaps the priority should be vaccinating the populations of poorer countries instead?
Thanks. For how long have you been using it?
State University: typical higher-learning university that requires application and awards degrees. Funded in part by its US state via taxes.

Community College: no application, no traditional degrees, no prior learning required. Often vocation in focus. Adult classes. Anyone can attend (dropouts, elderly, anyone). You even just sign up for individual classes. You, 8589934591, could likely sign up for an online class next semester/quarter. Some are highly regarded, Foothill College in SV for example.
It is pretty trivial to get local admin on any desktop or workstation with physical access, though typically doing so requires at least one reboot. User accounts are basically worthless, from a security standpoint, in that scenario.
Well, keep in mind that the transmission vector of HIV and SARS COVID are completely different. If we had found in the 80's that HIV was transmissible by simply breathing the same air as those infected, we'd likely have seen a similar response... without all the "work from home" benefits that we currently enjoy.
a reasonable explanation would have been "it was the best choice for our end users", not "it was the best choice for us"
The company is worth $45 billion and it buys $50 million of gold in a time when its business is booming. To me, this seems like nothing special. I guess people find it interesting mainly due to the company being at the crossroads of secret information.
So now you’re the IT administrator of your family and you’re assigning devices to your employees? It’s a gift when it’s your spouse but not when it’s your child?

> Furthermore, by law the parent still effectively owns anything "given" to a pre-teen child.

Now that’s very broad. Which country/state/etc? I think if you actually looked instead of assuming, you’ll find that people under 18 can definitely own things.
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Not at all: just like platforms "suspend" account and may un-suspend it at their discretion, the government arrests suspects and confiscates property for evidence. That it ends after a year or two is of no help - the business is ruined, the person's good name is ruined. At least with the private platforms online our fellow users give us the presumption of innocence after a "suspension". Conversely, having been arrested or indicted is a long-lasting blemish.

Government and regulated institutions have endless ways of denying service - whether by finding procedural errors or by stalling. Iron property of bureaucracy. For example: KYC and AML laws hurt small businesses at random, including countless PayPal drama stories.

Again the difference is in culture and in reporting: account "suspended" is often reported and perceived as unjust and raise understandable outrage (the egregious cases aside), while legal proceedings are usually reported and perceived as just and proper.

My point is, if we were to change the private platforms to strict regulation or outright government provided services, almost all suspensions would be reported and perceived as the user's own fault, and probably for the better of the society. Which puts the incentives of such supposed service-provider completely out of whack.

Case in point: a government-provided account would be suspended "for the duration of investigation into spreading misleading information about health/elections/finances/etc.", and reporters and people would largely shrug it off as "well that's for the better". Oh and trying to open an account with another government would raise all sorts of red flags, naturally.
I think it's because the audience here has both creators and consumers.
But if vaccinated people are also spreading it, I don't get the point of waiting for kids to be vaccinated.

The population at risk being vaccinated was the big deal, but that's done now (apart from those who refuse to be vaccinated, but then it is their problem).
> Coronavirus is real, but it's nothing more than another SARS, H1N1, Hong Kong flu, etc.

SARS in 2002-2004 killed 811 people. H1N1 killed 18,500 in 2009. Neither of those had the sort of mass lock-downs mitigating their spread that we are experiencing now. I don't know about you, but I can see a big difference.
Not really, at the rate death is declining overall COVID will almost certainly kill far fewer in the same timeframe.

And given differences in policy, and differences in resistance to them have not resulted in any discernible difference in result (ie, it's wild mess that makes no sense and more typically returns results opposite to expectation), it largely appears this would have been the case had we not ruined everything over it.
Maybe ipfs and p2p is a good tool for this? Escalate through increasing degrees of content sharing and validation, from anonymous on up, and build templates off of existing ipfs hosts that already do moderation?
I think you are still missing my point. You are using a circular definition of R0. Where did you get that number 6? Is that for a fully unvaccinated population? Are partially vaccinated population? If so, what percentage? Your calculation makes absolutely no sense, it's circular. You can't calculate R0 using R0.
Then don't
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Yes, but parent poster wrote: "Any talk of lifting restrictions before march is basically a re-formulated "fuck the kids"."

which is not honest in my opinion. The kids so far have suffered the most from corona - no school, no friends - no activities - yet had the least, to fear from it.

So vaccinating the kids is not really about saving the kids - it is about the older population.
The user could also fall asleep and the phone could end up resting on the chest area - and they may never even know that's something to look out for!
Did you already forget the comment that started this thread? This is assuming the rest of the population is vaccinated.
I believe Norvig later clarified that the negative correlation was untrue or statistical noise.
Lucky the current government has some pet economists that are happy to continue to prove the "lies, damned lies, and statistics" mantra.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Australian_think_tanks...
I agree that the whole globe will not be vaccinated and that will continue to be a problem. That doesn’t negate what I said though, unvaccinated children are a huge part of that problem.

> And not given the low effectiveness of the vaccines.

I have no idea what this means. It sounds like you’re under false impressions. The vaccines are quite effective.
This is the correct answer and should be highlighted more. The virus doesn't evolve to become benign, it's the hosts that will evolve. In addition to the endemic coronaviruses that you stated, another example are endemic/seasonal influenza strains vs. new strains.

(Yes the virus will evolve but in general mutations will optimise for transmission and be indifferent to lethality.)
Just to address your Electron mini-rant:

I've been trying to build a desktop application for the entire pandemic. In my professional work I work on infrastructure products (think software engineering, not DevOps or SRE). My skills are not really outfit for frontend development or desktop development. Shocking stuff, my ineptitude, I know (/sarcasm)

I ended up learning some JS and I wrote a desktop app with the help of a package called Wails for Go. It's electron-like in many ways, but lets me code up a "backend" in go while JS is resigned to doing things it's good at, like UI. Eventually, though, I struck the gold mine. I actually made a native desktop app in Go with an immediate mode package. It looked like shit, but it worked. I then went on to design a command line variant as well.

My chief takeaway after doing all of them: even my native code resembled the patterns found in JavaScript based UI developments. This basically implies "ELM is everywhere" to some degree, even in Frontends that don't explicitly say it. QT's QML is JavaScript that's pre-compiled for desktop. Sciter is the same way. You can gripe about electrons size, computational, and memory efficiency, but the opposite (native programming for UI) requires an order of magnitude of very niche programming that will only be useful for this purpose, of which any cool thing (like syntax highlighting) that you might want to do will need to be done for the first time. Just a quick reminder, again, I'm not really a fan of or regular user of JavaScript or TypeScript.

What I'm saying is, there are tradeoffs to be made. I don't blame a bunch of startups investing in a JavaScript desktop app when you can absolutely produce a stable cash cow with minimal skillset change and leave a handful of teams building independent threads and daemons that JavaScript can pass work off to that it can't do.
"If Japan had more Western investment [...] "

That's a big 'if' buddy. I am sure if free market capitalism worked its way, I would also have much more flexibility, which I may be possibly willing to put my dime in.
The size of the peak cases in countries that have high vaccination rate, vs previous peaks before vaccination.

UK for instance:
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases
Older people can get vaccinated
The scammers are skilled at washtrading the prices high and getting attention on social media. Lots of standard salesman/con artist tricks to get people to fomo buy in
Exactly, science is a process rather than a priesthood and we forget that at our peril.
Returning to this after the digression below:

I'm not willing to dismiss all of a source based on incidental errors. I may even be willing to allow some major factual or rational flaws where a piece does point out some salient point, or serves as a foundational resouce of some sort. (You could include virtually all of mythology, fables, philosophy, and/or religion in this description.)

Where a source is clearly making a motivated attempt at deception, or where it shows a clear ambivalence to truth (Frankfurt's definition in "On Bullshit"), and there's nothing in the source that's not otherwise available ... my tolerance drops sharply.

This is where the intentional deception of a tremendous amount of narrative (I hesitate to even call it "information") deserves a death penalty.

The attitude expressed by supermemo.guru seems to fall squarely in this camp.

I address the point of intellectual honesty and journalistic standards, of admitting and publicly noting errors, in this somewhat tedious subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261042
Nearly 300 hospitalized per day, nearly 500 dead so far. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/07/health/children-covid-19-prot...

Unknown how many will long-term health effects.

Even seemingly innocuous viruses like Epstein-Barr are tied to various health problems later in life. Why should we knowingly expose an entire generation to a little understood virus?
obviously we are talking about statistics, so of course specific examples exist that run counter to the trend. But without a doubt, I am 100% certain that on average the incoming CS class to MIT is smarter than students in the cs program at some very low ranked state school.

you can see the difference in which textbooks the school uses. It would be impossible to teach real analysis with Rudin at an average school or community college.

Or the math 55 sequence at Harvard, which basically gives students more mathematical training in a year than the average university student will get in an math entire degree.
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Seems pretty bold of CloudKitchen to stomp on a neighborhood like this. It wouldn’t take much for the residents to completely freeze their business by blocking that road with cones, parking cars so the garbage trucks can’t make turns, etc. If they only delay drivers by 5 or 10 minutes the effect on CloudKitchen’s scheduling is probably bad enough to make it not with the effort.

Or CloudKitchen could make them whole by leasing a parking structure and hiring full time valet service.