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This thread is long dead and off the frontpage - and this likely won't be seen by anyone (or even you nextlevelwizard) but here goes.

> What else can we expect a third world country to do?

We can criticise the largest economy in the world as much as we want inside a browser developed mostly in the US on infrastructure (the internet) whose large parts were developed in the US talking on a website created and owned by a US based company investing capital in one of the largest tech markets in the world (the valley).

That said - the fact they have police/healthcare/tuition problems does not in fact make it a third-world county.

A developing country ("third world") is typically one with low human development index (HDI) (the US is "very high"). Low economic output (the US is the largest economy) etc.
> When did we start to produce people like this?

They've always been there but Covid and the ensuing hysteria has brought the authoritarians out of the woodwork. They're loud and proud right now.

> Did I really miss this wave of right-wing-minded people hiding on the left side?

Authoritarianism isn't unique to one side of the aisle and this comment speaks to the decades of FUD being spread by those on the left that anyone who isn't lockstep with the progressive agenda is "literally hitler".
Is any of the code available publicly? I'd be interested in seeing how you use libobs for stuff like adding the overlay.
I think a lot of people are holding out for scientific reasons:
1. vaccines require continuous boosters, not "fully" effective compared to natural antibodies
2. Those who have pre-existing natural antibodies don't need to synthesize more
3. Those with very low risk of COVID-19 such as those under 50 with no other pre-existing conditions, or especially the young, who are more at risk of dying from the Flu than COVID
This is the type of thing people mean when they say "legislation has not caught up to technology".

Where do you define the boundaries? How do you enforce it? If the boundary is "Platforms host video. Publishers distribute video.", who is going to make sure they every video sent through YouTubeThePublisher.com is loaded from some other domain that is not controlled by YouTubeThePublisher.

I agree we need some kind of regulation to foster a healthier competitive environment but it is a complex problem that lacks a single simple solution.
What kind of depreciation do you get on crypto mining hardware though? Will that setup still be profitable in x months, when better performing hardware exists?
This Supreme Court decision says nothing about the extent of the penalties; simply that it is within the government's rights to enforce health mandates.

This decision is a referenced legal precedent cited for masking mandates, stay at home mandates, etc etc. The case -stemmed- from someone protesting being fined, but both the decision, and the ramifications, intentionally, are far further reaching than that.

Yes, it is not a precedent for going door to door and forcibly vaccinating people. No one is advocating for that. What people -are- advocating for is withholding the privileges of society from any who choose not to get vaccinated, and there is a lot of precedent allowing for that. There is, as you note, even precedent for -punitive- actions from the state for failing to have it done.

So if you want to get technical, sure, there is no way to force people in the US to get vaccinated, just like there is no way to force people in the US to do anything; there is only carrot and stick measures to try and coax people to do something. If that was the point...um, okay, but that also isn't arguing against anything that was said. The original post was about taking hospital beds away from those who catch COVID who chose to be unvaccinated, and not letting their COVID bills go to insurance; that isn't forcing them to get vaccinated, that's just introducing new punitive measures for not getting vaccinated.
> The actual reason for most, which is "I have decided to risk an infection to let my immune system do its job"

To be fair, this is what the vaccines do.
Need to come up with a Nasal Spray version. The mucosal immune system represents the body’s first line of defense and makes up most of the immune system and should be more effective than an intramuscular shot.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-08-sniffing-alternative-...

Researchers even observed the nasal vaccine to be more effective than if administered into the muscles, Damron said. He explained that a high amount of IgA antibody gets released into the nose and lungs, forging a wall of protection at the site where viruses begin to replicate.
Not using design patterns seems like pure upside.

I don't think it's reasonable to use a library for most things one implements in competitive programming, because the work of getting your problem instance in and out of the library is probably greater than the work of writing the solution yourself, in code length and in runtime. As an example, the only time I ever needed to use A* was on a state space that was larger than the main memory of any computer on Earth. I don't expect that I can download a library that does A* on abstract state spaces not fully present in RAM for me, but I can just bash out my own A* that's fused with the definition of the state space. Maybe this is so easy to do partially because I did a bunch of programming contests in which I wrote BFSes that were fused with the definitions of graphs.
> Youtube is a platform that will host anyone's videos.

This isn't true? They don't host porn and many other things, so they aren't a common carrier.
Totally agreed with this. I do turn on dark mode from time to time (when reading longish text or code in a dark env) but I absolutely hate defaulting to dark mode. Worked in a couple of gardens over the last year and on my laptop screen it was horrendous. Had to turn it off one by one.

The aesthetic is fine if you want it, but websites should stop cramming it down everyone’s throat.

While I’m at it, stop it why the freaking wave emoji in your profile.
Yes. My work is designed to make the world a better place. Each product tends to have fairly small install bases, but makes the world better for a significant number of people.

However, it's been making my life worse. I assume could make far more money with almost certainly less stress and hours helping track people around the internet and selling ads (or something equally horrible). Is it particularly hard to swap from the do-gooder life track to the "I got more money and time for toys and fun" life track? Have people gone that way or (or the other way?) Am I deluding myself?
It comes through a combination of the artist's intent ("I am distributing this artwork in the form of a limited series of tokens") and social consensus ("We recognize that the artefact is an artwork, created by the artist").

What you are asking is similar to Found Art. A signed toilet is not "Art" until social consensus decides that it is. An blockchain-signed Eiffel Tower is also not art, unless society says it to be so. Perhaps that will happen at some point in the future (an artist's digital reinterpretation of Found Art) but at present the crypto artworks we are mostly regarding tend to have a more direct relationship with what the artist/creator is producing by hand (or via digital code/software).

It is not much different than a print series, where the artist says the prints signed in pencil are "the artwork", and social consensus decides that only those pieces of paper with the artist's own pencil signature are valuable, instead of a reproduction by a machine or by a forger, even though the reproduction may have the same or similar material qualities.
Imagine building a business and putting years of labor into a suite of intellectual property which makes you hundreds of thousands of dollars then they guy who built what your business runs on came out with something new to replace it and said hey now you can import using URLs and by default have access to nothing unless you ask for it.

OK?

Reminds me of how Rome is doing.

You can’t reinvent this stuff over and over again and ignore that at the end of the day there are people who use this stuff to make money. Node.js is already good enough.

I think if people end up using Deno it’ll be because of things people need to use that you can’t get or polyfill into Node.js today.

But it won’t be because of new behaviors.
> If anything leaving Afghanistan was the correct decision (and the US should not have been there in the first place).

It was the correct decision but it was done in the wrong way.
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I think you can also be glad that someone changed their mind and got vaccinated, however reluctantly, and simultaneously be uncomfortable with that sort of coercion.

Telling someone you'll fire them if they don't get a shot isn't quite holding them down and jabbing them but it's not really a free personal choice either. Many people aren't in a position to just hop down the street into a new job.
The more they mandate it instead of convince me with science, the more I am skeptical.
The pandemic doesn't need to have been deliberately engineered; it only needed to provide an opportunity for nefarious actors to exploit.

Unless you think we're living through the only crisis in history which powerful people haven't exploited to further their existing agendas.
Did you have to create all the usual routes and views for the typical auth flow like signup, login, logout, change-password etc yourself?

I did a quick test like this:

apt install -y python3-django
django-admin startproject mysite
cd mysite
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80

And it serves a Django site but there seem to be no routes for users to sign up, log in etc.

The urls.py file contains only this one route it seems:

urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
I was thinking about this and one thing i came up with was "Stowage." An airplane has stowage so it's "users" can store their "content" then retrieve it. The first page is all dictionary results so it seems pretty unique.
The salary is typically 10% higher than the other big companies in the area (Philips, NXP and Thermo Fisher).

Your expectations about early retirement are probably not met by what they offer.
Sadly I can't help with a fix. I just open the zoom settings and if that fails try restarting random stuff and if that fails reboot my computer.
If a position is held based on rational evidence, then there is always something which can change it: a flaw being found in the evidence.
> Competitive programming is a good tool for building the programming muscle. An extreme pursuit of competitive programming is worse than useless. Unfortunately, companies and students are both headed in that direction at the moment instead

So if both companies and students are heading in that direction then it's not that useless, isn't it?

This is a low effort anti programming interview difficulty inflation rant.

But anyway, competitive programming is one thing, tech interviews are another thing if you want to get technical about it. Mostly different set of skills are cultivated by each.

Finally, saying competitive programming is useless is equivalent to saying golf is useless (for example). Some people really enjoy competitive programming.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I find the idea of people sending this kind of materials via email to be asking for trouble, to put it mildly.
My understanding is that it's pretty clear that vaccine do not do a good job at preventing infection (i.e. testing positive and/or having cold-like symptoms), Delta or not. I don't think they were ever advertised as such.
> What deserves such incredible non-stop daily attention? Answer: whatever makes the most money.

I think initially the correct answer in the case of COVID-19 was more specifically: whatever endangers existing profits most. The whole situation spelled uncertainty at the beginning, and that's bad for everything where "business as usual" is highly profitable. The rushed response and large scale mismanagement this caused is what brought into existence the "never let a crisis go to waste" part that came after.
As far as I know electronics for recycling are treated as a high grade ore. Ground to powder first, essentially.

Hobbyist recycling exists, but usually doesn't count in these discussions for some reason (small appetite vs the total amount maybe).

Getting anything useful out of modern electronics isn't necessarily easy; keeping it functional as you pull it is even harder. I'm sure there's room for making the process more efficient but it seems to me there's going to be a lot of human attention required, no matter what you do, and that will keep costs high.

Then when you've got chips recovered, cleaned, etc; you (or your customers) have to test them and verify they're up to specs the original manufacturer may not care to share. Perhaps the OEM could be customers and use their extant knowledge and test lines but those are already full of newer components than the recovered stuff.

Personally, I advocate dismantling everything electronic that has stopped working; when its "if you can't see a problem to fix then you're not breaking it any worse than it was", at least. If nothing else the genius and scale of these assemblies can be appreciated.

Having a pile of "maybe that can be used for something else" parts is a great way to get into electronics, and with arduinos and "maker movement" shops like adafruit supplying know how and glue parts, much more of it can be used than ever before.

Keeping the pile limited to some sane volume helps a lot if you share your home with other life.
If I understand correctly, the main problem was that the Pyret project wanted Pyret to run directly in the browser, so they needed a JavaScript-backend. Since Racket doesn't have a JavaScript-backend, they wrote a compiler in Pyret that compiles Pyret to JavaScript.

I don't see the lack of a JavaScript-backend as failure of the language building facilities of Racket. In fact, the ability to quickly build a new language in Racket, made it possible to try out different features quickly. Also, it made bootstrapping possible.
Do you think a paywalled article from 2018 is supposed convince me that I am a racist? Or that the guy who called me a racist done so because he read that article? Or that national media is not supposed to be covering mass shootings from yesterday because that would make them racists?
To use it without the JS SDK, you need to create a server which integrates with their API. This usually means pulling an SDK in on your server which is often okay, though I did find their Go SDK (https://github.com/firebase/firebase-admin-go) rough on the edges. We ultimately abandoned using the service... I think if your integration requires any fine tuning or integration with other services, you might want to look elsewhere.
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One option might be to just sort the scored items by bookmark/dateAdded so related newest bookmarks float to the top.

Another beginning might be to just increase score if the item falls within the range in either the bookmark/dateAdded or the history/lastVisited.

This probably covers many useful scenarios e.g. I recall bookmarking (or visiting) a page regarding regex within the last 12mos, so that related item should float to the top.

Note: I haven't played around enough - it might just naturally do this anyway if the order being returned is based on how recent the item is in history or bookmarks!
I do agree these companies have an obligation to provide a user with the data he or she creates. We might disagree over how far that goes. Personally I think they just owe the user a zip archive.

My hotel analogy probably complicated things. The main problem I have with moderation on social media is that I think moderation is necessary (to keep the world relatively sane) but also impossible to implement objectively. So it's better to embrace the subjectivity than to obfuscate it with flowcharts and procedures.
Names and mascots are hard :)

Also important to note that this project is still aimed at developers (as is XMPP and all the protocol documentation). What's needed are friendly projects promoting to end-users.

Current work in that area would be:

- https://snikket.org/ - a client+server package of XMPP software for personal messaging (disclaimer: I started this project).

- https://joinjabber.org/ - a community of folk working to support new users joining the network with documentation and infrastructure.
> Simple. Bytes. Dont care about any "protocols".

You have a protocol there, you have an understanding of what's expected on either side of that communication. That is the definition of a protocol. And if that's for Web stuffs, as you say, then you must be implementing something related to HTTP/HTTPS, protocols.
There is absolutely no problem with those companies. The problem is the user. You. Stop blaming others.
I know very little about this, but could someone give a good explanation on how is a drug officially approved for mass use when the manufacturer of the drug still hasn't finished their testing?
Reports that it’s worse than burning coal are ridiculous and incorrect. That wouldn’t have been true 10 years ago, and things are far better now. The carbon payback is months, and that will continue to reduce as more renewables are put in use (as the energy used to make panels themselves will be more and more from renewables). This will be the same with wind - first commercial steel made with green hydrogen (instead of coking coal) was delivered just this month. The development of that will have exciting consequences.
> A pandemic seems like an awfully long and expensive way of doing that...

Actually a pandemic is a great way of establishing control and surveillance. Read Michel Foucault's analysis of the way the plague has shaped the society and power play between decision makers and average citizens.

https://foucault.info/documents/foucault.disciplineAndPunish...

> The only group who can be said to have really profited off this is pharma.

Really? The rich getting richer off the lockdown doesn't count?
The governments getting excuses to strengthen the hold on their citizens?

Two groups off the top of my head.

Also don t try to find some ulterior motif for all of this(conspiracy ppl do this a lot), it can very well be done just for the sake of it.
Who in the world is downvoting a statement like this?
J&J and AZ are more traditional vaccines. People have been looking for treatments hence the HCQ and invermectin investigations. Look at how long it took them to make steroids a standard treatment option. We now have a variant that is more contagious (delta) I’m waiting for the variant that is more deadly.
The part of this argument that feels shaky to me is it ignores externalities. If it were possible to risk an infection with no impact on others then yes, the conversation is over.

But diseases don’t work like this. If you get sick, you will get others sick. If you get very sick, you will occupy a hospitable bed. Given current hospital utilization rates, this could well end in a sick person being turned away.

Given the societal costs, it seems fair to me to ask for a stronger justification than “I don’t think the virus will hurt me”
stop software now!
I expect at some point that ship'll meet with an unfortunate 'accident'.
reddit consists mostly of edgy teenagers that have absolutely no experience with real life. The NH community would do well to start putting it out of its' mind.

TBH I'm pretty disappointed to see the commentary on HN cite reddit and wikipedia as often as they do.
A Ledger App implemented as a Smart Block seems significantly more descriptive to me while being about a simple and also less obviously a buzzword.
Not as old as reddit.
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> those more likely to be infected, are more likely to be comorbid with other conditions

I'm not totally sure that's the case - it's at least something you can't just aver as self-evident. I'd guess that those most likely to be infected early on are going to be people who travel or those who come most into contact with them (service & tourism workers).

But I also think it's a moot point. In the context of this thread - which is about how to move forward once we've accepted that containment is off the table, and especially about the risk that poses to the healthiest members of society (kids) - it doesn't make sense to cite numbers that you yourself acknowledge overstate the risk of COVID by being biased towards the most unhealthy members of society.
I have seen successful competitors people do basically that. And I have seen them train how to write basic algorithms super fast again and again.

Yes, they had also algorithmic problem solving skills. But they learned huge amount of algorithms and datastructures so that they don't have to derive them each time. And they spend time literally training how to write them fast without mistake.

It was not just about problem solving skills. It was a lot about knowledge base.
> I don't see why criticizing BLM automatically makes something racist.

It doesn't! Any social movement, no matter how just their cause, should be willing to accept valid criticism. However, when Person A says "look at this instance of systemic racism" and someone else replies "But MLK cheated on his wife!!", that's not arguing in good faith; that's commonly known as "whataboutism". [^1]

> I searched about the Chicago shooting deaths, and i don't see how it makes any point for or against BLM?

This is what makes it a dog whistle. The words are "google Chicago shootings", and there's nothing wrong with the literal meaning of those words, but other people here clearly received the message "this point about systemic racism is invalid because BLM is a bunch of hypocrites".

If you google for the exact phrase "google Chicago shootings", including the word "google", you will find many instances of people using that phrase to make bad faith arguments criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Not really? I don't see how you bridge a group worried about a short term existential threat (the virus) and another alleging worry about a long term existential threat (the vaccine) when the two things are 0 sum.

By the time group 2 catches up (because years have gone by of the vaccine not causing widespread problems) the threat is gone. Meanwhile the animosity has not truly been diminished because the first group will feel the second is responsible for insert issue pertaining to millions of people willingly not getting vaccinated that caused them pain/suffering.

It's almost like many people are "worried" about "long term effects" as just a smoke-screen to run out the clock on the issue...
> that I and all others should collectively drop everything and abandon all personal preferences and goals to focus single-mindedly on defeating the virus

This is SO dramatic! It's just a vaccine! It's done in less than an hour! Wearing a mask is not fucking hard! What happened to American tenacity and strength in the face of adversity? How do these things even make your life harder?
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