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The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act is irrelevant here; the liability protection for all COVID countermeasures, including vaccines, is not under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program established by that act, but is instead under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program established by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.
I agree! But the issue is that where these processes exist they are not designed for the scale of the current pandemic, are too inconsistent when implemented, and rely on spare personnel that do not currently exist.
They're pretty much gone, there are still some mask requirements on, e.g., London underground, but 50% compliance? There is some talk of introducing a vaccine passport for nightclubs, football grounds in a month or two.

For me, the mood in London is "we've had enough, it's endemic, let's live with it".
Why would anybody work in offices? Enjoy covid, work from home.
Besides hardcore homeless drunkards there is a sufficient population of totally reasonable people who have just lost their jobs because of the crisis and can totally do nurse/paramedic job if taught for free and supported financially. I would steadily go for this if I had lost my job.
native is probably an exxageration.

But it means (in theory) the same experience on all plattforms.

And in my opinion, a working linux electron app beats a buggy wine ported version by far.

Because this is usually the choice. The linux market is way too small and unwilling to spend much money, than to justify a common software developer to spend the effort of porting.
Competitive programming is useless, but most things are useless! And here "useful" only means useful in the context of building and evaluating skills for industry. But my friends who do competitive programming do it because it's fun, and some of them don't even want to work in tech when they graduate!

There is a kind of pleasure in connecting the pipes and optimizing the loops and building a sick dynamic programming recurrence relation or whatever; we desire these flows. Who cares what skills they build?
There are state schools, I got my bachelors and masters from university of alabama and funded it by working at a gas station. In state tuition was ~1200/semester back in 2005. I graduated with ~5k student loan that i paid off in 2 yrs post graduation.
> This is a political problem not a technical problem.

I don't think the article suggests otherwise. Political problems are part of the "how" of production.
You don't need to install anything from Logitech to use most of their products.
LFP does have somewhat lower energy density compared to nickel-based chemistries. But it also has excellent durability and and stability properties (long cycle life, no fires).
The US needs it if they want people who are spooked my mRNA tech to get vaccinated. They also need it if they want a vaccine that is the mostly likely to be safe for use in children.
GPDR penalties make this kind of misleading information pretty expensive, even for Google.

Why would they do that when commercial intent is available from current behaviour so easily.
If they fall down in the playground they don't carry that injury home and kill one of their parents with it.
Just like the cloud still runs on physical computers, NFT’s require a trusted 3rd party.

For example crypto art can be uploaded that’s a direct copy of someone else’s artwork. Copyright doesn’t care about the NFT at that point you don’t own the image.
Maybe take a look at what concerns are attempting to be solved for (whether those solutions are ideal is a separate matter) instead of just assuming it’s all overengineered garbage built by brain addled babies who are easily distracted by shiney things.

After all if you’ve got such a perfectly simple way to handle all those concerns then your approach should win any day now. Right?
Concern? Why? The virus is under control in countries where the vaccine rollout has been swift. Why do you sound so keen to force something on people that they don't want, regardless of their reasons? Shouldn't people have the right to choose what they take? If people can lose their jobs over it then clearly they don't have that right - that's a form of coercion/blackmail.

I think the focus on a small minority of people who don't want to take a vaccine is unhealthy.
Yes, and as I understand it, the COVID vaccines under EUA are exempt from even this vaccine court system to date because of an HHS declaration in March 2020. So this isn't changing?

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-03-17/pdf/2020-0...
There's a lot of back and forth about the general idea of NFT's, why would visa do this, the usual HN pros and cons of crypto, etc, in this thread.

To the software devs on HN that might scroll past this, before you close this tab because of all the crypto stuff when you want to read about coding, hang on a sec!

There are some really really cool new user experiences being unlocked with so-called "web3" tech. Micro transactions, wallets embedded in your browser, these technologies offer so much potential for things far beyond a punk NFT or cryptokitty.

Any front-end dev I talk to in person I urge to get in contact with some of these communities and try out a consulting project or two, so I'll urge the same here. The pay rates right now are outrageous and you will get to try out some tech that might end up being useless or might end up being the next major comms layer, exciting times!

edit, adding some links here:

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/learning-tools/

https://ethereum.org/en/community/

https://ethereum.org/en/learn/

https://api3.org/

https://forum.w3f.community/

some of the above are ethereum specific, but there are always new communities popping up and out of ethereum. for example, Avalanche is ramping up their dev community funding right now with over $170m committed to the ecosystem.

https://www.avax.network/developers

https://www.avax-projects.com/
Uhh? To track you?
Even Apple doesn't do the actual manufacturing. I'm not sure adding another product line with crazy difficult production processes would be a good idea for Tesla.
That is a good point, but that would limit things to the standards. Sure, things that are standard should use standard interfaces, and I bet this mouse works perfectly fine with the standard interface, but adds some extra functionality beyond that.

Granted, it's absurd it needs internet access, I'm just saying that regardless of how well they are written, it would be nice if some drivers were available from the device itself.
That seems like a pretty big gap in accessibility.
It's just an idiom[1]:

> To be confident in or convinced about something's viability, veracity, etc., often to the point of being enthusiastically supportive of it.

People on HN seem excited about it. I wanted to learn why, and have received a lot of great responses!

[1] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+sold+on+something
Maybe "mask requirements" are a sign of society advancing? There was a time in human history when we didn't bathe regularly, or brush our teeth, or have sewage removal systems in cities, etc. Maybe the next step is "you know, breathing in particles that came from the other 600 people in this railcar is not so great".

I certainly don't see a reason to go maskless on public transportation in the future. And, as supply chain problems work themselves out, someone will probably make masks that actually filter out virus-size particles and fit more people's faces. (I feel like every mask I've bought so far during the pandemic has either been completely ineffective, or has been designed to fit someone that is 1/3 my size.)
Blaming Apple is not absurd. The interaction between magnets near the chest and cardiac rhythm devices has been well known since at least the 1980s. Even I can remember a published case report of a person carrying a stereo speaker, and a magnet in the speaker deactivated his ICD.

If Apple were two guys in a garage, you could forgive them. But a trillion dollar company... not so much.
yeah, it's a bit awkward and you have to dig through the docs to find it. We're thinking about making it the default behavior.
Only if they have a medical reason that prevents vaccination. Which is unlikely considering the number of vaccines already required.
Argh, that's annoying. I personally don't know why proper outlining support is absent from, basically, every single note-taking app that is not a literal outliner (like OmniOutliner) and, with Apple Notes, why I can't take truly freeform handwritten notes as I can in OneNote. (If OneNote didn't have awful performance and reliability I might just use it.)
Why isn’t the EUA process the default then? It sounds like manufacturing being after approval would just be a cost thing producers could figure out without needing the FDA involved…?

Edit: also why is there such a large lag between EUA and full FDA approval? That flow chart seems misleading.
It's widely reported in the US, too. But the data doesn't bear it out.
Yes they are, all sorts of "freedoms" hinge on it now.
Contrary to popular belief it is quite possible to buy and enjoy a Tesla as a vehicle to drive without buying in to the Full Self Driving promise.
Did the author ever worked a minute long or was the article made by a bs generator?
No mandatory face masks on public transport, and only advisory quarantine if you are pinged by the app. I don't want to go back to the office.

Sure it may differ If I travel but that's one restriction not a multitude as you suggest.
If you are on 15 min based pricing and charging when at home is 5 - 20x more expensive vs at nought or during the day, I think it’s a matter of time before someone releases a software update for your charger or car that coordinates charging your car with optimal energy prices.

In NL you can already get prices by the 15 minutes and sometimes I get paid to use electricity on windy and sunny days. eg see easyenergy.com. You get the prices 24h in advance, so you can even plan optimally without the need for advanced predictions.
It is 16 and over, not 12 and over.

Nobody knows when under 12 will get an EUA: they need more data before they can apply. Rumor is they will have the data soon and so the EUA will happen by the end of September. This is just a rumor: it seems likely, but could be wishful thinking.
And nostalgia is not as good as it used to be either. :)
The US has the J&J vaccine for that.
What are your criteria for qualifying as automatic productivity improvement? Would garbage collection vs manual memory management count?
I'm sure the US military is a formidable force; but despite this, the US as a country loses many (most?) wars it engages in. So the lesson to learn may not just be, how to build a good team on the ground, but: how to pick your battles wisely.

A startup CEO isn't just a platoon leader: they are also a politician and a strategist. That's what makes it so difficult.
Off topic but your response is spot on, and a key justification for why I want out. I want out of Silicon Valley. I want out of tech, out of screens, out of all of it.

I’m using COVID as an excuse to move away and start drawing down my involvement with all of it. I spent years trying to work my way into one of the few tech companies I considered at least nominally not trying to ruin the world for money but that’s not even enough.

We have built a dystopia, and short of finding a way to dismantle it that still lets me pay the rent and eat and not resign myself to a cat food retirement, I just want to get as far away from it as possible.
If medical boot camps are as effective as Javascript boot camps... you may want to wait a while before exposing yourself to other people's germs.
It's standalone in a sense you end up with a single executable, but deno is embedded with your code. A `hello world` example is more than 50MB stripped.

The command to do that is called `compile` but its a bit of misnomer, it does not compile a free standing executable with your code but basically creates an executable wrapper around `./deno yourcode.ts`.
Makes you wonder who's really benefitting from this drive to switch to EVs.
Honestly I'm probably just going to stop using computers so much if that happens. Linux Desktop has consistently proven that it has no interest in doing anything in a sane or consistent manner, and Apple is just as bad as Microsoft in terms of fucking shit up for no reason, only in different ways.

If we're very very lucky, something like Haiku will gain a hypervisor, WINE port, and graphical acceleration, then take off in popularity and become the last refuge of the desktop. I'm pretty skeptical it'll go down like that though.
A tab on a browser the user is already running would cost less memory and CPU.

It's also with chrome super easy to open a page without the normal browser UI that looks like an app add a .desktop file and presto it's an app it would actually be superior in many respects.
I upgraded from a Trek xm700+ with a front shock. Both served me well but I don't miss the shock.

Yep, they're both commuter/cruiser type bikes, so probably not best offroad.

Both have the top end Bosch Class 3 motor, so they're usually against the rules on trails in my area.
> Without options, null and undefined checks are often necessary before manipulating a function's argument (even in TS codebases).

Not if you use `strictNullChecks` in Typescript, right...
Norway’s leading exports are fossil-fuel extraction.
How does covid transmit to wild animals like deer that have almost no interactions with humans ? The transmission chain must be very long. I'd appreciate any links or resources to read more.

Perhaps we can learn to be more mindful of our interactions with other animals, wear masks in public spaces or public transport, and hopefully WFH becomes a permanent option.

It seems that I stepped on many nerves, please, feel free to disagree or argue.
I can't work in certain jobs without a security clearance.

The government is not forcing me to get a security clearance.
Is this in Dlang?
Also Moose.
Every happy web developer is happy in the same way, every unhappy web developer is unhappy in a different way.

Other people would tell a story similar to yours except it revolves around Ruby on Rails, React, Docker, CSS, npm, emotion, or some other tools or standards.

You either are in a state of peace with your tools or not, and that is something that can change over time. For my job I work on a React application that was started by other people that has some good ideas in it but has plenty of accidents built in.

I was doing a side project and was tempted to make a little application in Svelte, which would have been a perfect fit. I used React instead because I wanted to build on and extend my experience. I had a 60kb bundle which might have been 20kb in Svelte but the graphics files are way bigger than that and it loads faster than a speeding bullet as it is.

That's the way I attain peace.
You are simply a bad parent and this will stay true even if covid ends.
Yes, I saw that for the first time moments after I posted my comment!
This is a classic example of Berkson's paradox [1]. If the job applications you receive have a positive correlation between on-the-job performance and competitive programming performance, and you use competitive programming performance to select who you hire, then you can very easily end up with a negative correlation among the people you actually end up hiring.

When you don't include the people you rejected in the statistic, the correlation is useless.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos
Well, 20% of new sales are still fossils so you'd have some grumpy men in the outskirts but I think that would be it.

Even in the most northern county (Finnmark) the new sales for EVs are approaching 50%.

I have two EVs myself, and going back would be a hassle. Imagine having to go to the gas station every time you need to "fill up" :)
Vaccines work. Vaccinated people are far less likely to contract COVID, and when they do they are far less likely to require healthcare resources beyond the standard treatments for someone who has the flu (stay home, rest, treat symptoms as needed).

Social distancing and masking work. They reduce the possibilities for spread between people -- not perfectly, but enough to reduce it to a manageable level for our current healthcare resources.

Saying that our current measures to combat the virus don't work is disingenuous at best, and a blatant disregard for everything we've learned from the past year and a half at worst.
It’s not a pivot for me, particularly since I got the vaccine, but I think there are legitimate reasons to be hesitant and removing one reason doesn’t invalidate other reasons people may bring up. The big one in my mind is how do Pfizer, BioNTech, or the FDA validate safety of the vaccine over the long term? For instance what if it turns out that something approved today turns out to be carcinogenic twenty years from now? This is one reason I feel mandating vaccines or coercing people using other means (like creating great inconveniences) is not okay.

It also does seem like the approval process may be influenced by political pressure to remove barriers to hesitancy or to support vaccine mandates. My understanding is that the approval timeline here is faster than any previous one. Did the FDA really review the over 300,000 pages submitted for this approval and scrutinize it to the extent necessary? Maybe. But from the outside it seems suspiciously quick based on relative terms.
Sweden and UK saw an almost identical death curve per million despite diametrically-opposed policy decisions.

Gibraltar had almost no COVID, vaccinated literally everyone and then had a massive (and ongoing) outbreak.

We can go back and forth for hours with many examples proving and countering each factoid of the "narrative" - and only make my point; it's an inconclusive mess.

Rigid adherence to the prevailing dogma is clearly foolish in such a situation.

As for deaths, if you really want to argue about it, you need to exclude the "died within 28 days of a positive test"'s, the ridiculously-ignored co-morbidities, and the "cases" that resulted in death that were based on RT-PCR's at cycle thresholds above 35, obviously. Those coronavirus "high score table" sites don't do that nor bother to account for any of many subtleties in reporting that can and do have major impact on results.

Good luck trying to figure any of it out then. But hey, don't let that stop you entertaining a false adamancy - I'm sure it feels just great.

Using Ioannidis and others you can make some attempt using seroprevalence studies if you're really interested, suffice to say it's just generally much, much less overall than the SAGE-induced nonsense, you've undoubtedly succumbed to, would have you believe.

Finally, as now hundreds of peer-reviewed RCT's worldwide have shown, it's now one of the most treatable illnesses out there, if you bother to understand its mechanism of cell infection and how to inhibit that, instead of not doing anything to help and then putting people on a 25%-survival-rate ventilator, which thus far has been the most common response.

The problem is not scientific or medical anymore, its political and social. The science and medicine has been worked out for months now.
Thanks for the suggestion. Any tips on how or where to find these communities?
Quick Tech – Terraform-Docs
The switch from experimental to full approval is mostly about repeatable and certified manufacturing and logistics. There is no new science in this approval.
This just don't make sense. People do scripting in sh, bash, python, etc all the time. Why not js?
Competitive programming is just like a sport, as in every sport some people may like it, some may not. When it comes to programming interviews, companies do not try to check how good your competitive programming skills are, but they measure your will power, eg whether you were able to commit time to learn and understand DS&A in such a way that you can easily juggle them.
A better comparison would be to a TI-89
These tech presentations, especially by Karpathy, tend to make me feel overall optimistic about the progress Tesla is making in this space.

But then instead of the presentation ending with "And that's why we're confident in our 5-10 year roadmap to Level 5 Autonomy" they end with Elon tweeting that some beta version is going to roll out to customers in 2-4 weeks and the optimism all comes crashing back down again.
There's the Novavax one. It's been in testing about as long as Pfizer and is US based. It hasn't been pushed along with the help of a larger partner like the others. Maybe they will get there. I would have preferred a vaccine using more traditional technology due to the lack of information on the potential for autoimmune conditions in the future.
That's assuming they're not going to find out yet another excuse. Both vector vaccines and inactivated virus vaccines have faced just as much opposition.
I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me
Many artists would disagree.

The token is conceptually tied to the artwork. This is especially true with digital & software-driven work embedded within the blockchain, such as Deafbeef's tokens[1].

These issues are not new to crypto. Plenty of art is only 'conceptually' tied to their distributed editions. For example: an artist or photographer may own a digital master or photographic negative, and from that they may decide to produce and distribute 50 printed and signed editions. The distributed work is valued not because of the material (a piece of paper) or its contents (a rendered image), because it was distributed and signed by the artist's hand. Anybody could photocopy that print to produce the same rendered contents, or even print their own copy if they have access to a high resolution file and inkjet printer, but the copy would be worth no value, because it did not come from the artist's hand.

[1] - https://www.deafbeef.com/
> I think you put on your tinfoil hat by mistake there buddy.

Condescension is not helpful.

> Net breakthrough deaths, ..., is not a real metric.

What terminology would you recommend for getting the number of people who died from Covid19 after being fully vaccinated against Covid19?

>> Deaths† 1,587 (20%)

>> †341 (21%) of 1,587 fatal cases reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19.

The numbers are from the most recent update to CDC's page[1].

So, "net breakthrough deaths" as I called them are 1,587 - 341 = 1,246.

> As of August 9, 2021, more than 166 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

So, 1,246/166 = 7.5 breakthrough deaths per million vaccinated.

Since the CDC do not report these as a time series, but they just overwrite the most recent numbers, I linked to snapshots of the same page over time[2]. If there is an arithmetic error, I would like to know.

Now, if you look at the snapshot from April 30[3], the numbers are:

>> As of April 20, 2021, more than 87 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

>> Deaths† 88 (1%)

>> †11 (13%) of the 88 fatal cases were reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19.

So, the net breakthrough death rate is 0.9 per million fully vaccinated.

7.5/0.9 - 1 = 7.33

meaning a 733% increase in the rate.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...

[2]: https://archive.ph/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/hea...

[3]: https://archive.ph/DoRHj
The acceptable level is pretty much defined by when the hospitals aren't falling over again.

If everyone would just get vaccinated, we'd be there.

Instead people are for whatever reason ignoring the risks of the virus, and if the rate of hospitalization in their age category is only 1 in 50, enough of them making that choice mean that 2% of them guessing wrong is knocking the hospital system over again.
I use solaar[0] on Linux for my MX Master 2S; it's really nice and mostly works out of the box!

[0] https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar
That backfired with anthrax.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2003/12/judge-or...