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Obviously it’s not useless if people find it useful such as the people who compete. By some metric you care about it may be “useless”, but who made you the arbiter of metrics? Competitive programming may or may not correlate with success at say software engineering, but that isn’t grounds to say it’s useless. An Olympic archer may or may not be a terrible bow hunter in the wilderness but they still have a clear skill that is useful by metrics such as people want to watch it, practice it, and compete in it. Dualist thinking like this where things are strictly good/bad, useful/useless, etc. is a really limiting thought pattern. How about instead of “is this thing useful OR useless?” we ask “in what ways is this thing useful? In what ways is this thing not useful? How can we best leverage these properties?”
For example, there's a lot of frustration over people who make politically-motivated judgments that climate change is bunk. Under the normal model of science, it's easy to explain why this frustration is legitimate: climate scientists aren't working on some kind of higher plane, but they're smart people trying their hardest to find the truth, and if you're going to discard the entire field you need a better reason than "I just don't buy it".

If science is just another sociopolitical theory, it's hard to explain why people shouldn't do this, because it's entirely legitimate in that space. There's lots of smart, honest experts working on political theories whose fundamental premises I don't agree with, and I feel entitled to ignore their conclusions without necessarily pointing to flaws in specific arguments. If someone showed me a bunch of Islamic scholars with arguments against charging interest, my response would just be that their perspective doesn't interest me because I'm not Muslim.
I was just having this discussion with a friend of mine this morning. How is this not the exact same mistake Go made when it was released in 2015? They spent years and years walking back the issues that "go get" had in favor of a real, actual package manager. I know Deno encourages users to use versioned imports, which works around some of the bigger problems that Go had, but creates a lot more problems in terms of upgrading transitive dependencies. How is this a step forward?
I used to be 100% on board with you and totally agree.

The problem is that in today's world, a few players dominate the entire industry and can erase up and coming startups by simply pouring engineers and money into problems. Innovation can be copied on the cheap by these titans, leaving the hard working original inventor (companies with products and not trolls) with nothing to show.

Small companies with products (not trolls) need something to protect themselves against the giants. Because it certainly isn't a level playing field anymore.

Power is concentrated. Google and friends can't be the winners that take all.

I don't like patents. But there's no other way to survive when a giant wants to clone your product.
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Being in favor of vaccines in general, but not the ones for COVID.
Oh no, we can't stop all bad things in the world, so we have to throw up our hands and give up.

Yes, let's also reduce premature deaths due to obesity, smoking and alcohol use. You write that like you think it's farcical, but many people advocate for exactly that.

One problem is that many companies make lot of companies make a lot of money pushing sugary foods, tobacco, and alcohol.

That money affords political power preventing stricter laws.

John Oliver, for example, did a segment on Last Week Tonight about how tobacco companies prevent change, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_(Last_Week_Tonight) , with examples of how, for example, PMI sued Uruguay at the WTO to prevent including obligatory health warnings on tobacco boxes.

There was no Big Iron Lung opposing the polio vaccine.
I used to think so; loved it, helping people. Fixing the broken things. Technical challenges, helping people learn, and fulfillment. Because I hate myself, it filled me up, but I don't know how to care anymore.
I think your entitlement is leaking. You might want to have it checked.
No it really isn't a valid comparison and you're clearly more of an ideologue than someone interested in examining the entirety of the situation critically.

If the vaccines are effective, then the only people at risk are those that refuse to get it. Everyone is subject to the consequences of their autonomous choice alone.

The same is true for potential long term negative effects of the vaccines. Those that refuse to get it are subject to the potential long term effects of COVID, if they get it. And those that get the vaccine are guaranteed to be subject to the long term effects of having done so.

Either you believe the vaccines work or you don't. The variants dominated highly vaccinated places like the UK and Israel, so don't blame the unvaccinated for bringing it about. The selective pressure applied to the virus by leaky vaccines is far greater than natural immunity.
While what you're saying would be nice, I think if this were to be enforced then it would end up going like the nvidia control panel. You install your drivers and if you want access to the nvidia control panel then you have to install them from the Microsoft Store.
I am sure all minorities, specially the ones more affected by long term unemployment are happy to know that their means of subsistence are being shipped to East Asia, but at least Citigroup has a cool new PR op.
Vaccinated Covid patients are NOT overwhelming hospitals. LA county isn't that extraordinarily highly vaccinated. It's a county much denser and with a greater population than a lot of countries in Europe. There's been <4000 fully vaccinated people in 8 months admitted to the hospital. Only 36 have died. Not a lot more have needed ventilators.

This is a blip in the ocean of hospitalizations in LA county.
There is a large continent of space, ideas, and legitimate reasons between "trust everything government/big pharma seems to have panicked agreement on" and "the government is trying to microchip me".

It's important to have that clear-headed discussion, not this elite arrogance that discussion and arguing the points is somehow bad for discourse or society.

People are rightfully skeptical of new pharmaceuticals based on new technology with zero long-term studies being not just approved and being sold, but also being required for basic activities in society like earning a living.

There is definitely an argument to be made about not being locked down forever, and finding a way forward despite endemic COVID. But vaccine passports, and accusations that anyone with a hint of hesitation is "anti-vaxx", is a terrible way to engage and broaden the tent so all concerns are heard and addressed.
So, the anecdotal evidence would be to visit /r/medicine and /r/nursing on reddit.

It may not be universal, but it certainly appears to be the case that many hospitals are being pushed over the limit due to covid patients.

Part of the issue, though, appears to be the fact that hospital admins are unwilling to raise salaries on essential employees like nurses.
You're right, we should be talking about it. There are good arguments for why a COVID-19 vaccine mandate would not violate these commitments: for one thing in the United States, we have a de facto vaccine mandate for all kids attending public schools. The justification is that not being vaccinated harms other people, and we can require it under the principle that "your right to swing your arms ends where the other man's nose begins". This seems perfectly reasonable to me.

But, the key thing is to acknowledge the ethical commitments you've made, and explain your actions. Positions can change, but I would not want my leadership to simply ignore them because they are momentarily inconvenient. If they set that precedent, what's to stop them from ignoring other commitments — binding or otherwise — to defending our allies, protecting our environment, or upholding basic principles of justice?
We get more efficiency out of nearly every sector of the economy. We grow more food despite an ever decreasing number of farmers.

The problem is that the incentives aren't aligned with health care primarily due to third party payer system and onerous regulations.

You ever wonder why there is a line of people outside of urgent care every day to get tested for covid? Presumably, there are cheap tests that be administered at home without having to see a nurse or doctor. Or if you really can't do that you can train someone how to administer tests in a few hours and have that as a service. But in the US at least, it's nearly impossible to do these things. It took until April 2021 for the FDA to approve at home covid tests, and they're still not popular or available (at least I haven't seen them)

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
We can test your model of reality. When X amount of youngsters get vaccinated, will we go back to normal? Ye or ne? My mental model says ne.
In theory yes - and that's what's happening in many countries. E.g. in Germany there is a differentiation between high risk areas and virus variant areas, with different testing and quarantine protocols etc.

However on a global scale only some countries are sequencing some of the time, and only in humans (with ad-hoc exceptions)! Which is simply not enough.
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My old company locked us out several years ago for a period of time that continues to be uninterrupted.

It certainly did shake out lots of problems...

(My point is that after having had that happen to me, if it EVER happens again and isn't cleared up within minutes, the sonic boom you hear will be my tactical resume deployment. I dismissed the warning signs as "minor glitches". Never again. However, if it is something planned and I agreed to it beforehand, I guess that's OK. On second reading, you might have been describing something like that.)
I think some of the concern is warranted. And it's a slope which has been proven slippery in the past. Remember how we used to -- hah hah -- sterilize the undesirables?

Well, it was supported by a personage like Oliver Wendell Holmes. I will quote, and then add my own emphasis:

"We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes."

Let me repeat: The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. From the Supreme Court, no less. You can read about Buck v. Bell on your own time, but even in 1978 that sort of thing was rippling down to a minor being sterilized without her consent and the judge responsible prancing away scot-free (Stump v. Sparkman).

Any vaccine mandate needs to come with a hell of a lot of fences (thou shalt not change vaccines) and traps (if you try to extend this past vaccines we cut off your head on the steps of the White House). It needs to be surrounded by thou-shalt-nots to avoid the kinds of overreach that are actual matters of historical record.
I agree. Once my kids can get jabbed, I will cease giving covid much thought. I don't want to get a breakthrough case, even if it's not dangerous, because I loathe being ill, but getting sick periodically is an unfortunate fact of life.
Ah you must not of heard of Edward Snowden
It's it's that there are known and unknown/suspected risks with both actions. We know that some vaccine recipients develop Graves disease. Some autoimmune diseases take years to develop. So we have risks on both sides, but there's not a lot of information about how common those risks are, especially for longer term effects.

So all I'm saying is that the value proposition for an individual is based on the risks associated with vaccination or infection, and that the decision for people in age groups with the lowest known (short term) risks associated with infection have lower known benefits putting more emphasis on the unknown (longer term) risks or benefits. So for someone over 70 with about a 5% IFR, it's easy to say there is more benefit than risk because it's easy to see if a serious side effect is happening at a 5% rate or higher and the time horizon for longterm issues developing is limited by natural lifespan. With the quality of the VAERS data and the much longer time horizon, it's more difficult to discern a benefit for someone with an IFR of .002%. Of course we can't even look at the rates of many of the side effects to compare something other than IFR because the data data quality doesn't allow for that level of sensitivity.

Edit: why downvote?
Most people in the antivaxx community are willing to take some vaccines. Being 100% anti vaccination was never the core issue.

Random article on the subject: You can essentially break anti-vaxxers into two groups, says Tim Caulfield, the Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta. The first consists of full-on disbelievers who make up somewhere between two and five per cent of the population, depending on which study you look at. Their minds won’t be changed. The second group — somewhere between 20 and 30 per cent of Canadians — is for what some now call the vaccine-hesitant. They may get some of the required vaccinations for their children, but not all of them. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/who-are-the-anti-vaxxer...
> I'm almost sure 100% vaccination rate with the vaccines currently available won't change much.

How can you be almost sure ? Are you an immunologist or a contagious disease expert ? Do you have data to back this up ?
Looks like a very unbiased source
Yep. All it takes is to find a vulnerability in any USB device driver at all, and you have an effective evil maid attack.
> a difference between being anti-vaccine, meaning that you are against all vaccines, and being hesitant to receive a specific vaccine

Philosophically, yes. Practically, no. If you are voluntarily unvaccinated because you’re a nutter or are lazy, you’re the same risk to the public.
HN has a decent amount of nut jobs (of all kinds) on it. I don't think it correlates much with intelligence.
It is obvious. They are making fools our of us.
I agree and I think mobile got that part of sandboxing wrong. I think a better solution is to sandbox by default, give the application no way of being able to tell if it has permissions or not, and making the user manually go in and grant it permissions as they find they actually need them. This would incentivise application developers to try and use as few permissions as they could possibly get away with.

However, it would also require a really good, understandable interface for granting permissions to applications. Files are relatively straight forward, as the file open/save dialog can be handled by the OS and anything the user does with it can be considered explicit permission. For other resources something similar might work, or might need a completely different abstraction.
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Nobody is being forced to get a vaccine. If you don't want it, you are free to avoid it. You are free to change jobs. You are free to go to a different restaurant. You are free to go to a different concert.

As for stigma, I have no problem stigmatizing people for their choices when those choices are harmful to others. I feel comfortable stigmatizing neo-Nazis.
Exactly, I don't care if the mouse is "tuned", I just care that the cursor moves at a reasonable tracking speed.

That said, I'm full time trackpad, even on desktop, so mouse stuff is rarely an issue for me. I'm only using a mouse in specific scenarios.
From 1, page 42

> Among 3410 total cases of suspected but unconfirmed COVID-19 in the overall study population, 1594 occurred in the vaccine group vs. 1816 in the placebo group. Suspected COVID-19 cases that occurred within 7 days after any vaccination were 409 in the vaccine group vs. 287 in the placebo group.

Why are there suspected but not confirmed cases of COVID-19? The document doesn't say. But here's what we know: not all participants received PCR tests to confirm their status, only those that presented some set of symptoms.

1: https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download
What can we do for those people, assuming forever-lockdowns aren’t an option?
Weird how the least receptive populations were dominated by delta first.
I read something once from an advertising executive and he said the biggest problem in that industry is that nobody knows the history of it. It's all about the latest, shiny, cool thing and nobody realizes they're repeating the mistakes of the past.

I feel like we're getting to the same point in software development. I'm seeing things presented as new that were done decades ago.

"JAMStack!" You mean, how we pretty much had to do things 20 years ago?
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Thankfully most of the better mice keep their settings (including macros) in hardware. So you can save all the profiles, settings, macros, button customization, etc, to the mouse, and then take that mouse to any computer and it'll work fine.
While at least generally true, requiring to go into many workplaces (and therefore stay employed) and many other indoor locations is pretty close to a mandate if widely implemented. I'm not saying I disagree with doing this, but it gets close to forcing people in all but name.
Except protection from natural immunity is weaker than the vaccines and more susceptible to variants, thus significantly increasing the likelihood of reinfection and passing to others. I can appreciate the debate, perhaps a test to show natural immunity would be sufficient, but there's certainly a case to be made beyond "pure theater."
Yeah, if the problem is lack of staff in COVID wards, just start COVID-specific training programs and hire COVID-specific personnel, who are only allowed to work with COVID patients. That should reduce training time a lot.

This approach might sound like some completely out of the box, untested and extreme approach, yet it’s completely standard in industries that are not as heavily regulated as medicine is. Alas, healthcare has its Rules and Procedures and Best Practices, and as a result, everyone else must adjust and implement novel approaches, so that the healthcare industrial and regulatory complex doesn’t have to.
It's stories like this --gov't makes out of court settlements and vaccine retracted-- that give a lot of credibility to those against/ hesitant towards vaccination.

I'm in a low-risk group and see no use in getting vaccinated, especially since herd immunity is off the table and nearby ICUs are not overflowing. The media/pharma/politicians/bigtech are all passing out the same message: get the vaccine. Non of them highlight that there are good reasons not to. So much for informed consent?

Why all the hate against people being cautious?
> not caring about the greater good

This is an emotional appeal that has been used to justify countless atrocities in countless civilizations. A rational society shouldn't be thinking in such blanket and qualitative ways
I hope that's the case. The question becomes though, what influences politicians in their policy making the most?
How has their development been impacted? I mean apart from the ones who died.
Regular non-electric bike pricing gives some good clues. There are decent bikes made by Asian ODMs quite affordably, with simpler but good enough parts like steel frames and 3 or 7 speed IGH. They're not that easy to find on the market because it's hard to tell them apart from the crap ones, and this state of affairs is profitable to people selling bikes.

Also there's been a lot of consolidation, and there aren't many big bike manufacturing companies, so some illegal collusion is not out of the question.
It makes sense when you think about its evolution.

GPS capability delivers incredible military advantage. (See: Gulf War)

Consequently, US government funds constellation. Because money is no object vs the military advantage.

Because of the nature of GPS, receivers (devices) can more or less be iterated independently of transmitters (satellites).

US government allows civilian use (with reduced accuracy) for economic and geopolitical reasons.

Commercial market rapidly iterates on the device technology (smaller, faster, cheaper).

Transmitters are upgraded and enhanced, as expanding commercial market now justifies expense. Eventually accuracy limitations dropped.

We end up at today.
>car drivers don’t expect you to be going that fast and as a result aren’t wired to look for you
That's why I use hi vis jackets and reflective motorcycle helmets. I am not going like a run of the mill bicylist.
I use all terrain tires, I never had an issue and I am certainly not the only one that uses motorized bikes like this, in Argentina and Brazil for example, there are lots of people using them daily for their commute and nothing really happens.

>If you do happen to get off at 60 km/h you will have road rash that will take off large chunks of skin even if you wear an armored jacket and armored gloves
Wouldn't that happen with a motorcycle too? I don't see your point
I wish this was true. Most Europe is still under various lockdown restrictions, even though in a lot of countries, there's been enough vaccine for everyone (who wanted) to get vaccinated by now.
Post it on twitter/reddit and see what response you get
Not at all. The only thing going in favor of the kernel mode drivers is that they have to pass Microsoft's approval process.
Maybe try electron with WASM? :D

(Full disclosure - I don't really recommend this, it's not ready yet, imo)
Such a pity they won't take anything older than model 3 as I have a few gathering dust. Really wish they would.
Why don't those people go get the vaccine like I did?
Because there is a non-insignificant portion of the population that is thriving off corona hysteria.
You seem to take issue with `prefers-color-scheme`, which is the only signal a website has to know a user's dark/light preferences. I agree websites should allow users to choose (and remember the choice), but I disagree it's wrong if a website honors `prefer-color-scheme` with no option to switch.

Websites that only have a dark mode regardless of user preference I can agree are problematic, but even there I think more context is needed. A personal blog that is only available in dark is probably fine, an email client from a large company would not be.
"Comirnaty"?

What does that even mean?

Do marketing people just play Flappy Bird all day?
Thanks for the correction! I guess I sound a bit callous in my previous post, but I'm quite happy to learn that 3000 fewer children drown each year than I anticipated (it did feel like a high number). The 800 deaths per year figure can still function as a comparison for the expected child deaths from covid-19.
I understand that point of view and I agree for the majority of projects but relying on a fully working system that is coupled to some structure can be limiting if you need to make something slightly different.

I see a frameworks like laraval as the middle path where you can rely on the framework to handle auth but also can make any changes you may need.