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That's not really different than how most scripting languages provide compile or application delivery features (whether built in or through a module). You're right that it isn't actually "compiling" as most people would expect that to mean in a programming context, but given that packaging into a single executable is generally what they're actually looking for, that's usually an acceptable distinction.

What I wonder is how big hello world is for a statically linked packaged dene application, and if it's easy to produce those (assuming 50MB is for linked binary). That's probably more useful in a lot of cases if it's not wildly larger.
Yes, the other approach is sport.
> They said immune protection from direct exposure only seems to last 3-6 months

I'm sorry about your experience. Having Covid sucks. But your anecdotal data here is inaccurate at best, especially since it was from pre-Delta variant (you said December 2020 was your time of this happening) and we do have studies from that time showing how robust immunity was for those who had natural infections:

"Available scientific data suggests that in most people immune responses remain robust and protective against reinfection for at least 6-8 months after infection (the longest follow up with strong scientific evidence is currently approximately 8 months)." [0]

No offense, but these kind of anecdotal reports that "someone said" (even a health official), which sound authoritative because of the context, are how misinformation spreads.

0: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/341241/WHO-...
The fact that mouse acceleration curves are such a common irritant is a bit mystifying to me. I jump between macOS and Windows frequently and occasionally dabble with Linux, and any differences in "cursor feel" disappear within ~30s of usage, after which I can't tell that there's differences in the curve at all unless I'm specifically looking for it.
You can't iterate without a plan. You need to know where to begin and where you are going and have a rough idea of how to get there.

You can't plan without iteration: Early decisions have to be made under much uncertainty and possibly with too many alternatives. Better first try the most reasonable sounding approach and course-correct based on experience.

Many teams run into a problem with that latter item: They start with the most reasonable sounding approach and stick with it at all costs because scrapping a few weeks of work and starting over is seen as a loss rather than a gain in institutional knowledge.
I don't support denying healthcare based on choices. But I heard that some hospitals in Texas have started using it during triage. And there is certainly precedent for that. E.g. try getting a transplant if you are still engaging in the behavior that caused you to need one in the first place. So if a hospital has only one bed available and two people to take it, one of whom is vaccinated experiencing a severe breakthrough case, and another is someone who chose not to get vaccinated, the hospital has to make a choice on who is most likely to survive.
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I care, and this is an issue because I have children under 12 and immunocompromised people in my household.
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If you want to keep your soil restrained, then you need to get Retaining Walls in London. These walls hold the soil perfectly as well as keep it in the slope. Plus, you can have retaining walls at different levels on two sides. These walls are designed to resist the pressure of soil.
> the chance of death for children under 12 is NOT ZERO

The chance of death for children under 12 from all sorts of things is "NOT ZERO" ... drowning, for instance, kills many more children than Covid and we don't make them wear lifejackets everywhere or even when they're near large bodies of water. Many of them have had their swimming lessons canceled to "keep them safe" from Covid though!

> every infection provides another opportunity for mutation and contagion

The virus is endemic, it is going to mutate and continue spreading in the population regardless of how many people receive the vaccines. This idea we're going to reach Zero Covid through any means other than natural immunity for a virus with animal reservoirs, a large unvaccinated population in the developing world, and non-sterilizing vaccines, has no scientific basis or precedent.
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> The owner of this website (www.bleepingcomputer.com) has banned your IP address

I don’t know what I did to deserve this, but I guess I’ll continue my morning without reading this article?
Which slightly incompatible version of TypeScript though?

edit to add: I'm serious. JavaScript tries very hard to not have backward breaking changes. TypeScript does have breaking changes at about ever minor release. The TypeScript team manages the project as a versioned tool, not as a distributed environment like the web. afaik, Deno hasn't really solved this problem, so there's a chance your code breaks when Deno upgrades its TypeScript version.
It will happen like clockwork. And once we get more subsequent variants with the current vaccine not working and requiring a booster, the perceived failure of the vaccine will be blamed on Trump with Operation Warp Speed.
What if leaky vaccines create an evolutionary pressure on the virus to become more deadly much like Marek's disease?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease
Off course. But as a Windows customer I would expect Microsoft to prevent such issues.
Yes I have, but that's just one personal experience. My frustration with your proposal stems from the general trend of government monopoly making for sticky and byzantine bureaucracies.

For all the warts of private services, there's alternatives available, and the journalists & public opinion don't side with them by default - but rather with the user.
FWIW, this is the policy on HN. But I agree it's irresponsible.
Interesting! It does not look like they are shipping a product yet though.
You've not addressed my point. The idea is not to tax, it's to have a progressive tax. i.e., the more units you own, the more limitations or taxes you pay. That doesn't work if investment firms can invest in individual entities owning individual properties.
> not as much as if they also got vaccinated, so it seems like the original point still stands

If previously-infected had as much resistance as vaccinated, they should not be more scared than the vaccinated. Even if they would have more resistance if they were also vaccinated.

Did you mean to say that previously-infected have much less resistance than the vaccinated? I would very grateful for a source on that. I tried to find out numbers on that but couldn't find apples-to-apples comparison.
It’s very simple: your freedom to choice does not apply to choices that harm others in society. Frankly nobody cares about your body when you’re putting their lives at risk by continuing to remain uneducated on the topic and stalwart. Now that we have FDA approval, there is no more guinea pig argument. I don't know if I support a mandate yet, but wouldn't oppose one on principle because this is a matter of public health. I absolutely support discrimination based on vaccine status and government and private sector mandates (like there always have been for other vaccines), for schools, hospitals, companies, etc. If you don’t want to participate in society and put everyone at risk because of some misguided principle of absolute power over your body, GTFO.
We use Cloudinary at work and I would recommend it to anyone, I think it's an awesome service and the API is really easy to use.

They offer a pretty generous free tier for personal stuff as well, although I wish they had some plan that was between the free tier and the $99/month cheapest one, which is quite a steep increase from paying nothing.
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If they’re spending the whole day in a classroom together the effect of masks is going to be minimal.
Smoking is already banned in places where it can give other people lung cancer. Cycling and driving is also regulated to reduce risk to other road users and pedestrians.

Putting lives of other people at risk is not your "health choice".
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Many medical professionals have been decrying the lack of transparency throughout the entire process and that still hasn't changed:

"FDA set to grant full approval to Pfizer vaccine without public discussion of data":
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2086?s=09

Expecting the public to have confidence in these vaccines is demanding a level of subservience and blind faith that most reasonable people are unwilling to provide.
> Users often use dark theme to distinguish UI from content, not blend content with UI.

Err, no. I use dark theme because I like dark themes. But I do think the OS should give you more options, like multiple colorblind modes like some modern video games do.
I guess what it comes down to is this: Do you think that if most people got vaccinated, fewer people would get seriously sick & die?

If so, then your position is hard to justify. If not, then I would be interested in your explanation for that belief.

had covid last week, it's preferable to a common cold

Glad it worked out for you, but plenty of other healthy people are dying. Others are passing it on to people who then die.

when covid is so insignificant to people who are healthy.

A truly selfish perspective

If you are so unhealthy that you need the vaccine (remedy) then you have bigger concerns.

Sure, and plenty of people have underlying conditions through no fault of their own, and the unvaccinated are adding to their concerns significantly by gambling with their own health (which is alright, I guess) and by extension the health of everyone around them (which, again, is selfish)

Also what do you mean by remedy? Definitions that I see do not match your use of the term. That word may not mean what you think it means.
This Supreme Court decision only ruled that it is legal to give a minor fine for not getting a vaccine, not that it is legal to forcibly vaccinate people.
There has never been a vaccine that was recalled because of side effects that didn't show up until over a year later.
What makes those angry people who have been in lockdown for so long think that taking the vaccine will allow us go back to normal?
See these articles:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tv-14-israelis-who-got-3rd-sho...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-21/science-c...
Well the analogy doesn't actually allow for a starter/bad swimmer as they drown first.

Also, swimmers don't swim with weights to improve technique or strength. I'd expect it would result in unorthodox or worsened technique due to trying to swim around the artificial imbalance of the weights.
A side effect of enabling "privacy.resistFingerprinting" in Firefox (enabled by default in Tor Browser). is that it always prefers light mode.
My current job is in biotech, writing cloud software which helps clinicians (and researchers) gather supporting evidence for their diagnoses. The install base is small, so it'd be hard to claim it makes the _world_ a better place. But it's a start.

I'd love to do more with it, because the software could actually help discover and refine the biomarkers which would inform diagnoses, instead of the other way around. But the FDA (and other similar regulatory bodies) have strong opinions on the distinctions between Clinical Decision _Support_ software, and _Diagnostic_ software. I think this job could have a much larger impact, but it's going to take the industry another 10 years worth of iteration to get comfortable with how modern cloud software changes medical device development.

My job before this was in ad tech. Another poster said everything I would, so I'll just say No, nothing in ad tech makes the world better.

Before that I was a teacher at a for-profit university. This is a harder call. I had a measurably positive impact on students, who have turned around and had their own positive impacts on the world. (I regularly see at least one former student here on HN.) But I left the job, at least in part, because the financial burdens the students were bearing wore down my enthusiasm.

Before that, I worked for a company which made office and art supplies. We had some pretty good school supply programs, and I got to see kids light up when we brought in boxes of paints and clays. Arguably, this job made the world better, albeit in a small way.
Why did you omit the first part of the quote? “If the public health professionals … tell me to take I will absolutely take it. But if Donald Trump tells us to take it, I’m not taking it.”

I think this is a reasonable message of caution when talking about someone pushing HCQ and drinking bleach on the daily.
Well in the UK we've had three separate scandals where major government officials (including the fucking HEALTH SECRETARY) were caught flagrantly violating their own rules with minimal consequence, so you can hardly blame the public for taking things no more seriously than our leadership does.
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XMPP is doing fine without Google. There are lots of public and federating XMPP servers out there you can just sign up for:
https://xmpp.org/getting-started/
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Are there any studies into the effects of being infected by multiple of these viruses at the same time? Or is this just what your doctor has told you? Also what do kids under 12 have to do with any of this?
I feel like this doesn't consider the massive upside to IAM roles as identities. Once a user is a top-level concept, there will be things that only users can do. When everything is a role, an action can be taken by a user or an autonomous system in the exact same way.

I don't think this was an accident. Internally, Amazon traditionally had very different methods for authenticating and authorizing users versus systems, and it was a massive pain. Switching to IAM roles relieved some massive pain-points.
Really seems like you're being deliberately obtuse here. We're talking about how the tax code might be changed to reverse the incentives that result in pedestrian deaths. The fact that this change hasn't happened already is not news to anybody here.
> - The Deno-specific APIs (like Deno.readTextFile()[0]) are Promise-based and have intuitive interfaces

require("fs").readFileSync("hello.txt").toString() // toString because it's a buffer by default
>Anybody who has ever lived under an HOA will recognize this.

My HOA telling me to take Christmas decorations down in January doesn't really equate to the government trying to keep me and my community alive and out of the hospital. Don't like the HOA covenants? Move. Don't want the vaccine? Stay away from places that will now be allowed to require vaccination.
> Dark UI is to distinguish from, not to blend with content.

This honestly feels like you're using your operating system's dark mode as a way to theme your PC. It's not intended for that purpose, at least to my knowledge. I use it as often as possible because it's easier on the eyes, because I like the aesthetics and because I feel like I can get to sleep quicker after using a dark theme for a while.

You should direct your anger at the lack of theming options in your operating system if choice rather than at applications following the standards that tell them to render things in a dark theme. Skin your operating system in such a way that the UI is dark and distinguished without setting the accompanying "dark" flag and you should be golden.

If your favourite OS vendor doesn't care, direct your anger at the applications lacking the necessary configurability to disable this feature. In Google Books on Android, you can change the reader font and background to either style. In Firefox, you can set ui.systemUsesDarkTheme to 0 in your about:config to make it stop reflecting your dark mode settings.
Do you have a non-paywall link to that article or a link to the actual data? The article should list sources.
> One thing I miss with 1.1.1.1 and WARP is DNS based ad blocking and filtering.

Isn't that a lot less useful today anyway, given the new trend of serving ads through the same domain as the content you want to see? Why not just go all in on uBlock Origin?
Ask HN: How do you manage a project you don't believe in?
As head of technology I just received a new project, conceived only by the CEO. It’s coming to me “ready to be built”. The project is wrong, there are a lot of bad ideas and it won’t work business wise.
Usually I have full control on projects but not this one. I did meetings to alert many board members. But it’s apparently too shiny on paper. I have to pursue, set up the team and use my skills to make it work "as it".

How do you manage a project and do top quality work, when you know everything will go to the trash at the end ?
And if lockdowns are not too restrictive and make a difference, they we should demand them, right?

Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lockdowns :

> Research and case studies have shown that lockdowns are effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, therefore flattening the curve.[4] The World Health Organization's recommendation on curfews and lockdowns is that they should be short-term measures to reorganize, regroup, rebalance resources, and protect health workers who are exhausted. To achieve a balance between restrictions and normal life, the WHO recommends a response to the pandemic that consists of strict personal hygiene, effective contact tracing, and isolating when ill.

As I pointed out elsewhere here, "lockdown" is a broad term.

Do not change the goalposts. You wondered why we don't implement method to reduce deaths due to obesity, alcohol use, and tobacco.

I gave you one a very clear reason.

I most assuredly did not say that prohibiting the sales of tobacco, with a high penalty, was the only way to reduce those deaths.

And I pointed to tobacco companies specifically fighting putting warnings on a box.
Does the first part matter in the context of what the OP was talking about? If Trump mandated it many would not take it on that basis alone. That’s the point I’m responding to.

“If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the Doctors, tell us we should take it, I'll be the first in line to take it, absolutely. But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it I'm not taking it.“

Note “But if…”. That programmers aren’t able to parse this if else statement is concerning.
Whats crazy is people have already forgotten that we had large outbreaks and hospitals overrun. The hospitals were way over capacity with the sick. Covid is not a normal problem.
Only recently did we reach the threshold where the majority believes in evolution, as opposed to "God created everything".
Why do you need to be scared of the unvaccinated?
I think this is for the most part what the person above you is suggesting. B2E and B2C relationships being severed over not getting vaccinated.

In addition like previous precedents, public schools would not allow the unvaccinated in the future. These things all combined would mean individuals would be having to change their lifestyle since they’re choosing not to participate in a way that’s safe for others.
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If you have a suppressed immune system from other medications, then other illnesses like the common cold and the flu can kill you.

This is why people who take immunosuppressants typically avoid going out in public, and when they do they wear serious masks intended to protect them from others.
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What you say is correct.

Since vaccinated folks can still transmit covid (even if the chance is lower) as well as other diseases, following your logic, everyone should wear masks as much as possible - even when vaccinated.
Do you agree?
The same reason to vaccinate everyone else: to minimize the opportunity for a more virulent strain to emerge - one against which current vaccines are ineffective.
duuuuuuuuude do you have any idea how labor intensive care for ICU patients is? ICU patients can't move. Requires staff to turn them so they don't get bed sores and to prone them stomach down for lung function.

If the ICU patient can't breathe on a vent and are able to secure ECMO, the ECMO specialist ratio is ideally 1:1. Under a crush of patients maybe 1:2 patients. A 1:3 ratio is risking all the patients under that specialist's care because the patients are all too tenuous. Let me reiterate and restate: 3 ECMO patients are too much for a single ES to support.

The ECMO specialist isn't the only person caring for the patient. There is the ICU nursing staff, the pulmonary therapist, plus the actual pulmonary doctors, the renal doctors, plus plus plus. You are talking decades if not a hundred+ years of study just to take care of a single ICU patient.

Labor and not beds is the bottleneck.
1. That article isn't peer reviewd.

2. You linked to an old version that says "However, in July, the effectiveness against infection was considerably lower", in the current version the same sentence reads "In July, vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization has remained high"
Right, but I see elsewhere that it is mostly about individual freedom. It is hard for me to understand if those two reasons are two separate groups, or if one is an internal reason and the other is the stated reason, for instance. If the latter is the case, it seems like it would be good to have a curious and open conversation to understand the hidden reason. Though that is probably impossible, since there is so little trust surrounding these conversations now.
The website isn't supposing anything. The browser is supposing that you want the dark version of the website because you are in the system dark mode.

Why should this be different from say view scale? Should a website override the user's zoom level and render tiny fonts because it wants to? It doesn't, because the browser tells it what scale to use. Same with light/dark modes. Your issue is that your browser doesn't let you configure this one setting, not that every single website on the entire internet doesn't implement what you want.
Hacker news is turning into Reddit style comments section.

Can we talk about natural immunity and the path forward?
"What would it take to change your mind?" is either a starter for bribery, or it at least implies that the mind of the other needs changing. All your "rational discussion" stuff aside, please explain to me what exactly about this you are not understanding? I might add that it also does not help a rational discussion if one part is lacking the ability to empathize with the other, and tries to invalidate the other by claiming their whole point is invalid, without even trying to zoom in on it.
But drug overdose rates seem to have increased, so the fact that suicide rates are flat doesn't tell us much.

Suicide is relative very rare. Even antidepresant drug trials find it very difficult to establish if they increase suicidality because of rarity. There are some antidepresants that are thought to increase suicides in children and still can be prescribed because of some improvement in the quality of life.

Lockdowns however where mostly bad except in some cases. I think that some young people who spend a lot of time playing games were happy. Incidentally they are also the ones who are most active online.
> it might not be the true one or the sufficient one.

Unless you’re dealing with an extraordinary individual or the issue is relatively trivial then you won’t be told sufficient reasons. A lot of what motivates us is deep down and dumb and we rarely want to admit it even if we’re aware of it which is even rarer. I find that examining reasons to change my own mind is much more fruitful because it’s harder to lie to myself albeit still far too easy.