skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that Fauci's words here are based on the available science and medical understanding at the time, and that changes rapidly as more studies are done and we are able to observe how new virus variants behave in the wild.

The vaccine hesitant's tendency to move the goalposts when their reason du jour for refusing vaccination is invalidated is based on misinformation and unfounded fear. The exact opposite of good reasons to change your mind about something.
> So why does the US lose wars? Because we don’t let the military fight them to win. How else does a 21st century military lose to someone living in the sixth century?

I mean, yes. If the US goal was to "win" by which you mean wipe out the Taliban (and with it the entire population of Afghanistan), that could have been accomplished in very short order with no loss of US lives on Sept. 12th 2001.

The US loses wars because most people in the US (and worldwide) don't want to live in a country that indiscriminately wipes out entire populations.
"It was in the waning days of November 2001 that Taliban leaders began to reach out to Hamid Karzai, who would soon become the interim president of Afghanistan: They wanted to make a deal.

“The Taliban were completely defeated, they had no demands, except amnesty,” recalled Barnett Rubin, who worked with the United Nations’ political team in Afghanistan at the time.

Messengers shuttled back and forth between Mr. Karzai and the headquarters of the Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, in Kandahar. Mr. Karzai envisioned a Taliban surrender that would keep the militants from playing any significant role in the country’s future.

But Washington, confident that the Taliban would be wiped out forever, was in no mood for a deal.

“The United States is not inclined to negotiate surrenders,” Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said in a news conference at the time, adding that the Americans had no interest in leaving Mullah Omar to live out his days anywhere in Afghanistan. The United States wanted him captured or dead."

-- Did the War in Afghanistan Have to Happen?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/world/middleeast/afghanis...
A Promise-based API doesn't block the event loop, but a synchronous one like fs.readFileSync does. Their usage might look similar but their semantics differ vastly.
Java applets were one of the first and most visible ways that this was attempted. The user experience of applets was atrocious. Starting up the applet runtime browser plugin at the time would cause the whole system to stutter and stall for several seconds. I'm not sure if it was the single core architecture of the time, but I recall that the entire system would lock up while this was happening. I think that this single fact caused a lot of damage to the reputation of java in the general public.
How quickly we've gone from "comply to save just one life" to "laughing at their pathetic graves and funerals."

Like... what the hell? Do we not see a problem here?
Is this issue equivalent of setuid 4701 on executable owned by root in Linux?

What's the easiest way to scan whole windows file system for directories with this issue?
"It has been clear for a while now that the Pfizer vaccine works and is safe."

Yes, except there is an established process for quantifying "clear for a while now" and it involves sufficient time and control groups. That process isn't being followed and it is concerning for a number of reasons, including the effect of political pressure on expedited drug approvals in the future now that this precedent is being set. The elected leaders capable of bringing such political pressure to bear are invested in the very companies which stand so much to gain by relaxing the time-tested regulatory approval process. This is bad science and bad governance.
Ah, this is what I read earlier today, yay Google+color-changing links http://cldr.unicode.org/implementers-faq
It has a quite an effect.

If you notice at the moment the corona numbers are high in Netherlands and Denmark while low in Germany.

Because Germany has kept more restrictions in place, in particular mask wearing in shops and transport.
You say water under the bridge, others will say where there's smoke there's fire.
> ...a protest for having been left out of this process...

Because it's not like they live in a representative democracy, right?
Given that the sum total of your own words in the comment I responded to is "you just made that up, didnt you?", that is what I was responding to.

If @hairofadog did in fact just make up this claim, I'd be tremendously interested in hearing what access they have to time travel devices to plant a story from over three years ago in a major national paper of record.

As a protip, paywalled articles are often available through archives. Experience infonauts have learned to make use of these:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180813171901/https://www.washi...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...

Whether or not you're a racist is really up to you, and how you behave regarding and concerning race-related matters. That's not looking so good from where I sit.
The core of XMPP may be simple, but when you add in various XEPs, the complexity builds really fast. Just look at all this stuff: https://xmpp.org/extensions/
Add ferrets to the list of natural reservoirs.

Thankfully birds and pigs seem to be immune, which could have had a huge impact on food supply and transmission.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6494/1016
> The BLM movement is quite silent regarding other black deaths

There's an expectation that the police will investigate regular crimes and bring the criminals to justice. For crimes committed by police, there's no such guarantee. Why is it wrong for a movement to focus on watching the watchmen?

In any case, what are protests and rallies going to do against gang violence? You need social programs to keep kids out of gangs, provide poor families additional assistance, improve living standards and so on.
You're just making things up. Lots of drugs screw with your immunity to various degrees and for the most part they live normal lives. This difference now is we have a very contagious and much more deadly disease.
.5 deaths per 100K is 1 death per 200K.
I feel you man, I don't know how companies can make such good physical products and shit on them before selling with software of malware-esthetics w/prince-of-africa-wants-your-bank-account-info-to-help-with-his-fortune permissions, crashing as main functionality three-ring circus to provide checkbox and slider config.
Oof, that first picture. If the operator sneezes she's scrambled eggs.
These health passes will later be called citizen passes or similar, and you won't be able to do any activity without them.

"The key to unlock NYC" just reeks of cheesy marketing department brainstorming doesnt it?
A cloth mask does reduce the spread of aerlsols as well as droplets. Anything telling you otherwise is false and i will happily bury you in a dozen backing studies.
My pre-owned Pixel arrives tomorrow and I'm looking forward to playing around with open-source alternatives. I think I'm going to start with this: https://lineage.microg.org/
I'd happily pick cloud based scanning. At least that way I can opt out by not using their cloud. I have serious doubts that choosing not to use iCloud will actually stop Apple from running scanning code on my device. Having a capability pretty much ensures that it will be used, and likely misused.
Sure, happy to elaborate. The best example of this is my niece who is a nurse in NYC. She cannot participate at all in city life after the mandate and will soon lose her job over it this Fall. She's very seriously considering leaving the city and her profession entirely. Those who feel that when push comes to shove, people will just get vaxxed, are in for a rude awakening.

I understand that you believe that unvaxxed are where the mutations happen. Do you have any peer reviewed studies showing this to be the case? We know from experience with antibiotics that the opposite is true. Humans devise a treatment, the pathogen encounters that treatment, then mutates to circumvent it. Of course I'm a layman so if anyone knows why the opposite would be the case for COVID-19 or viruses in general, I'm happy to be educated on the matter.
I had a look at the readme but don't see the "first class scope" part.
HOA? Why do HNers habitually use obscure acronyms?! So frustrating!
Can you elaborate a bit on how they are overlooked? You can still get vaccinated after recovering (high-profile example: D. Trump), and the recovered that have been processed by health care system can for example get the same QR code that the vaccinated get in the EU (helps with travel I believe).
I think it's relatively important to recognize both the right of (the people who make up) a society to decide the rules for interacting in society, and the limits we have imposed on ourselves and the rules we make.

We have made up a huge number of arbitrary rules, some at a very broad scale (for instance, that you must shoes and shirts to go into most businesses), others idiosyncratic and basically between one person and another (no cats in this apartment). They all restrict our choices and our freedom and our actions.

We have also set specific limits on what sort of rules we can make up. You can say "no cats" in an apartment, fine, but you can't say "no pregnant women". You can fire someone for showing up at work one day with a face tattoo but not for changing their religion.

"Not wanting to get a vaccine" or "not wanting to wear a face mask" is not currently a recognized protected class (although not being able to because of a medical condition probably is, but hey, of the many many things I am not, I am not a lawyer). There's nothing saying it couldn't be -- we didn't used to have a concept of "protected class", we just had to make it up at some point -- but that's one way to frame this discussion.
>> You are misrepresenting the case.

There's a lovely bit in the Wikipedia article where it cites the decision. While it is not, obviously, the entire case, I feel it stands pretty well to show that the court was setting broader precedent than that one particular law. Certainly, it is very hard to say "this law is okay because (reason)" without also saying "(reason) is a good criteria to make laws from". At that point it's only a question of extent; there are laws and court precedents to prevent them from being arbitrary, oppressive and unreasonable, but, again, this case still clearly allowed for punitive penalties for non-compliance, in exactly this situation.

>> Wrongly so.

Citing an opinion by a single assistant professor of an unheard of law school that says he doesn't believe this case should be used as precedent doesn't do anything to disprove my statement that it HAS been used as precedent (a statement of historical fact that I made), nor does it really strike me as particularly compelling that it SHOULDN'T be used as a precedent (a statement of opinion that maybe you assumed I was implying, but which nevertheless is immaterial to the argument being made).
No, that's just a common excuse. People still smoke, eat McDonalds, rarely exercise, drive in cars, take drugs, have unprotected sex, drink alcohol, ... long-term consequences be damned.
Absolutely, and the pervasiveness of that mindset leads to things like tearing through swap and grinding the computer to a halt because the user clicked on a random file. It doesn't take supergenious or paranormal powers to realize that files might be arbitrarily large. Engineers mostly just fail to care.
That's a nice thought, but I can't cosign, unless Ben happens to also have an informed opinion on societal life under the tyranny of communicable diseases.
I won't knock you for that opinion but I can use VS Code, Spotify, Bitwarden, Discord, Teams, Notion, GH Desktop where not 10 years ago I would have been stuck with either the crippled web versions, running them in a Windows VM, or booting into my Windows partition.

It's fine to hate the tech and wish that someone would come along and make something better but the tools that everyone big and small is using to build apps is cross-platform by default and that's a huge huge huge win for users.
I came late to the software and web development game. I just wanted to prototype a tool I needed and ended up becoming a full time developer.

After grasping HTML and CSS basics, prototyping my heavily interactive tool seemed impossible with JS alone, until I learned React. React solved real problems for me. Create-react-app with a firebase backend got me VERY far with zero formal education.

But I struggled with SEO, load times, and needed a sprinkle of server-side logic. Next.js solved those problems, and more.

As my prototypes grew into products, complexity was hard to manage. Refactors were impossible, even with small, modular components and well tested functions. Enter TypeScript. The single most important tool in my toolbelt. I refuse to work in plain JS now.

I'm several years in now, at my 2nd full-time dev gig and working on my 3rd side-business. My stack is Typescript, Next, vercel, firebase. Both at work and at home. Hardly any third-party dependencies needed beyond these (stripe, coingate, mapbox). I write most my CSS by hand with css grid because its the least verbose way I've found so far. I auto-format with Prettier.

I can use types and tests across my stack, I can enforce bespoke auth/permissions behavior, all kinds of queries, media upload, pretty much everything I'll ever need outside of real-time collaboration. I can build and maintain profitable products by myself. I've done it.

This also happens to be a very popular stack. What's insane about it? Every alternative I've looked at looks way less sane. Multiple languages and repos for one app? No thanks. Managing server instances and databases migrations myself? I hope I never have to. Software is fun, but I like making products more. JavaScript just happens to be the best way I've found so far.
This is so true.

I've been looking around at jobs, and was advised to start practising on HackerRank for the technical interviews.

I've been coding professionally for 30-ish years. There is very little that I've seen on HackerRank that comes anywhere close to a "real" software problem that I've faced developing actual software.

Why is this being used to do technical interviews? What's the thinking here?
Sure, but I don't think that applies here. The section in question is about a settings screen where (for some reason) the user is manually entering all the connection parameters. There is no way to detect (without probing) whether the port that the user configured is using STARTTLS or direct TLS. Both are commonly deployed.

Probing could be implemented, but that quickly introduces complexity (and code just as likely for security issues to hide in) to implementations. It would be nice to one day say "only support direct TLS" for example, but that's not the reality of today's network (looks like ~41% of servers advertise direct TLS as of today, slowly climbing).

So the happy path is using auto-discovery as standardized. If you go the manual path and configure a host/port, I don't think probing is sensible to recommend, and I don't think strictly assuming only one or the other is going to fly right now.
> For example, the government being able to tell you what to do, vs. it not.

This. One hundred times, this. I realize in many regards they already tell us what to do, and that does not make the next time more palatable.
> Certain games, certainly.

An acquaintance mentioned that her daughter damaged the trackpad on her MacBook. She was making do with a regular mouse, but apparently hated it horrendously for Minecraft and desperately wanted to get the trackpad fixed. I can't even wrap my head around the idea of Minecraft on a trackpad.
It looks like the last step in missing: after discovering all disadvantages of submodules (they are in fact quite dangerous when working in a team), the author should have had switched to Git X-Modules[0] and use the same multi-monorepo approach without extra hassle :-)

[0] https://gitmodules.com
Think of it like those "Please respect our neighbours" signs that bars post outside their establishment.
The risk of dying or long-term complications from COVID if you're under 50 is not insignificant, especially on the upper end. Here's a pretty good graph of the estimated IFR by age [1]. (So far, there hasn't been a significant difference in lethality in the new strains).

The graph shows about a .1% chance of death at age 50 if you catch COVID-19. The chance of hospitalization and potential long-term symptoms is a multiple of that.

Vaccinated folks have a lower chance of catching COVID, so as a whole, they have a lower chance of spreading it.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289900/#&gid=article-figur...
This sentiment I absolutely I agree with.
You're speaking nonsense. If you mean the vaccine doesn't prevent a virus particle from going into your body, you are correct. They aid the immune system in fighting the virus once it's inside. "Infection" is usually used when some boundary of viral load is crossed, a boundary almost impossible to reach through any means other than internal incubation. Hence, vaccines prevent infection.
Yes, the whole argument of vaccines, lockdowns, masks are moot when you consider that the default position should have always been - if you're scared of the virus, stay home. If the virus was that dangerous, we would not need a global marketing campaign to tell us to how to be safe. The last 2 years defies all logic and common sense.
If you want to read more about this kind of thing, there's a book named "Move Along, Please" by Mark Mason, who travelled from Land's End to John O'Groats (i.e, from one end of Great Britain to the other) using only buses. Took more than 24 hours, though.
So new functions in the spreadsheets instead writing those functions in VBA? If VBA was too hard, Microsoft thinks that functional programming will go down easier?
> Thus, we have "surgical strikes" and operations that go above and beyond protecting civilian casualties.

While US army is significantly better then Taliban, the surgical strikes killed civilians fairly regularly and wish to protect civilians is not exactly "above and beyond".

> I'm not sure how replacing the US military with the Taliban is considered "the best possible outcome for the country."

I think that OP meant "compare to 2 years long war after which Taliban takes power anyway". That was the estimation as America was leaving - that ANA will be able to hold off for two years. They were not expected to win, but they were not expected to fold that fast.
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So there are two approaches to accomplishing the apparently desired goal(s) here:

1. a (typically) non-compiled language wrapper around the internal library

2. a (normally) non-compiled language used for scripting inside the application

Guess which one is easier to do? For bonus points, present a case for one of them being better than the other
the fact that the same people who are most invested in the libertarian framing are the ones who believe a secret government agent has been working for the last four and a half years to extrajudiciously round up pedophiles and liberals.

FWIW, that's not even close to true among the Libertarians I know. And as a Libertarian myself, I know quite a few. The set of people who "believe a secret government agent has been working for the last four and a half years to extrajudiciously round up pedophiles and liberals" may include a few actual Libertarians, but I would posit that most of the so-called "Libertarians" in that group have only the thinnest grasp on what the Libertarian perspective is about, probably haven't read/studied Libertarian ideology extensively (or anything else for that matter), and are merely repeating a few superficial talking points they heard somewhere that may - by happenstance - align with Libertarian perspectives.

But a whole ton of people on "your side" of this debate are quite clearly not serious about regulatory overreach.

Those people sound more like the fringe of the "Tea Party" movement... populist, anti-establishment and perhaps "anti government" only in the sense that they don't like the current government. But these aren't, by and large, people who have rational, well-reasoned, comprehensive arguments for the need to reduce the size and scope of government across the board.

YMMV, of course.
More than "the customer", Apple is, in the end, beholden to government and its laws, whims, etc.

Until a company is more powerful than the government I'm not sure how anyone can have an absolute assurance of privacy from a corporation.
"mass walk-outs"

I highly doubt it.

"Minds are not won by force."

How is it by force? They still have agency in their decision: Job or jab.
> who all happen to be full of misinfo, like Eric Clapton, et al.)

Eric Clapton took both doses. He suffered some severe adverse reactions. What’s the misinfo?
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> Well, what would it take for you to change your mind?

A vaccine that (1) did not use cell lines from aborted fetuses at any point in its discovery, development, testing, or production, and that (2) has been studied for 10 years to determine long-term safety and efficacy like we would do with any other vaccine.

What would it take to change your mind?
You misunderstand me. Being vaccinated is your civic duty. Failing to do so is unpatriotic.
> The WARP application uses BoringTun to encrypt traffic from your device and send it directly to Cloudflare’s edge, ensuring that no one in between is snooping on what you're doing

I can see the use case here for when connecting to the local Starbucks wifi to thwart potential bad actors sniffing your data on the wire, but your traffic can still be seen by Cloudflare. Using this is just shifting your network data to Cloudflare who play the 'good guy' (I hope)
I always hated working in an office. People are messy and wreck everything. And then there is the group of people that come into work and get the rest of us sick.
Why Did the World End in 1200 BCE?
According to those same cdc numbers the hospitalization rate in that same population is ~40x higher than just the mortality.

It doesn't matter how low the death rate is if the hospital system collapses.
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I definitely think that's a very scary prospect, I'm just not sure what an alternative strategy that is viable.
Has anyone else (without a background in physics) kind of given up trying to understand developments in physics? It seems like the reporting is usually completely inaccurate or a metaphor at best. And that to have some grasp of it requires having a solid foundation in undergrad physics at a minimum.

I'm just wondering if I'm being lazy by not trying hard enough or efficient. It's definitely not for lack of curiosity, but I also don't like to fool myself into thinking I understand something that I don't.
There's also recent evidence that consuming fructose increases your intestine's absorption of nutrients from the food you consume. The rapid integration of fructose into everyday foods (i.e. high fructose corn syrup being put into bread & sauces as a bulking / thickening agent) may be connected to the western world obesity crises.
The UK has only just started vaccinating under-18s, who make up a significant chunk of the population, and they are not vaccinating anyone under 16 yet. This is going to skew the numbers a bit. Among older age groups the numbers get up into the 80s and 90s.

We are also lagging among BAME groups and in certain economically deprived areas. If you are a white 75 year-old in Wimbledon the odds that you are vaccinated are around 95%, while if you are a 30 year-old Pakistani immigrant in Bradford then I would put the odds closer to 50%. Still a long way to go, but constantly improving.