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The post is about how we should learn about leadership from the military. The US army is the mightiest military force in the world. But that's not enough to win wars. Winning wars seems more interesting than having great teams.
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"The big companies pulled the blanket so much that without using their services, you may as well not exist on the internet."

It's an edge case (one small country), but in New Zealand you currently can't exist *in public* without either iOS or Android. They've universally deployed a covid-related tracking app, which has been made mandatory this week, and only supports those two platforms.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/coronavir...

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...
Sure, but you always have tradeoffs for implementation time, interface friction, etc. You need to scope things properly so people know how to prioritize them and, in my experience, infosec people are really bad at that. They're so ready to hype up whatever they found that they don't really care how it relates to the real world.
No way you will ever come in the top 10 results even if user is specifically searching for your product. View is a too generic. I search for rust docs etc a lot and I still see a lot of results of generic rust on iron or cleaning products for rust etc.
They probably just don't read their emails or messages.

Maybe customer support agents are just very badly trained. Or there is a second/third/forth level that investigates those emails, but they are getting too many messages to go through all of them.
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Hope you're doing better now after the ICD! My 81 year old father had one fitted a few months ago and it's been pretty much life changing (once he was allowed out of the hospital, they managed to nick his lung, which was a whole big thing).

Was going to say induction hobs - that's a huge one, especially as gas is eventually phased out and they become the defacto hob type.

NHS recommendation[1] is, as you said, 6 inches for most mobile phones, but no special callout for the 12.

Apple goes further[2] and says 12 inches when wirelessly charging, which also makes sense.

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pacemaker-implantation/recover...
[2] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211900
Yes. It's still true. Arguing otherwise requires applying that same logic universally. Any life decision that could result in worse health outcomes "takes a hospital bed away from someone else." Once you go down that road, you now need a way to define what is "healthy," so that you can legislate what to do with people who made poor health choices. If we delegate the definition of "healthy" to the FDA, then trying out something as benign as a novel diet could end up in medical discrimination. That's not a world I want to live in.
So you want country wide restrictions solely for your own comfort? Sounds incredibly selfish.
There must be a USB gadget where you can just set any USB device ID to report to the host, so any infiltrator not wishing to give Razer money can just copy one of their USB IDs and plug the "yes I'm a Razer USB device" into a USB port.
It’s baseload, and having fixed baseload is just one operating model, not a requirement. The future is VRE + storage + dispatchables, with a bit of demand management.
Typescript definitely has some flaws but it also has some really powerful features that aren't found in any other type systems, like the ones you listed.

And in any case I don't think anyone is really saying "Use Deno because it has static type annotations". It's "Use Deno because it has static type annotations and is fast and easy to deploy and has a huge ecosystem and doesn't require a project setup file to use third party libraries and ..."
Or, spare yourself the histrionics and work for one of the hundreds of SV companies that don't build megascale ad-supported services?
> personally I don't see why you'd want to use anything other than Typescript right now. It certainly feels like TypeScript has "won" and is now the defacto standard for anyone doing any kind of work in the JS-ecosystem.

There are a bunch of nice languages featuring good FP support that compile to JS that are have viable sized developer communities and longer histories than TS. For example ReasonML, ClojureScript, Flow and Elm. Then you have the bunch of languages that compile to asm.js or WebAssembly. Not to mention the majority of Node and FE developers who continue to use JS.
The comments have just devolved into people arguing or confusing mature big-brand IDEs, with excessive and all-encompassing features, as the definition for an IDE.

Anything lesser, they're calling a simple code editor but, by actual definition, they are referring to a lighter IDE (as the ones that can be installed as base editors they have all extended with plugins/extensions to that point) and then acting like the topic is about the big-brand IDEs, even though it is making points against tooling they are all using with their "editors" just like what you're using VSCode for.
Question for everyone defending and promoting mRNA (1st ever approved 2020) and viral vector vaccines (2019) - do you also use all your software in Alpha/Beta versions and never wait for Stable?

Or is it just your body you DGAF, but you have higher requirements for software?
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The article is about what raw materials may be in short supply as the world transitions to electric vehicles. Lithium-based batteries are expected to remain dominant as they are very efficient and so much know-how exist about them. The world is not expected to run out of lithium as existing reserves will cover the demand for many decades to come. Also, the reserves are likely to expand to meet demand. Especially if the cost of lithium increases. Cobalt, apparently, is the real bottleneck and most of it is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo under unsafe working conditions. Fortunately, researchers have invented alternative lithium battery chemistries that doesn't require cobalt but are still as efficient as them. Batteries without nickel is also being researched but those are further in the future. Recycling is still more expensive than mining raw materials. Making recycling cheaper would make the shortage problem easier to manage.
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Or 12 inches away if wirelessly charging - so if you charge your phone on your nightstand that may cause an issue if super close to you.
It's also not about seniority or competence. Writing kernel mode drivers is being given the task of juggling running chainsaws with real chains while on a balancing board. "Success" is declared when you're able to do this in a lab without there being an issue, ignoring the fact that in the real world there are dodgeballs being thrown at you. Also, no one I've ever worked with writing them has ever wanted to maintain & improve the quality of the drivers they wrote - they wanted to move on to "interesting" work as quickly as possible. This includes myself. The work isn't interesting, fun & usually not important to the business.

In this case, why does a mouse driver need to live in the kernel in the first place? Microsoft should be improving the HID layer to make that unnecessary.
Total bed usage is a very poor metric for this.

The bottlenecks here aren't total capacity, they are (in order of importance) 1. the number of vents, 2. the number of nurses with ICU level training, and 3. the number of ICU beds. The total number of hospital beds doesn't even factor in.

Source: I am a physician.
yes actually.
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You're right, it's very sad we've come to this state of affairs. Shame also that the defenders are rushing to justify the coming vaccine passports:

"These are private businesses!"

"You can just stay home/quit your job/order groceries online/do curbside pickup/etc"

"We need to focus on SAFETY".

Interesting that the "my body, my choice" crowd has gotten super quiet on this particular issue.
The mortality rate for my state is 4% of all cases. [0] The mortality rate for the entire country is about 5.6% [1].

There has not been a single certified influenza death in Australia since 2020. [1]

It certainly appears that my health minister was downplaying the difference, not playing it up.

[0] https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavir...

[1] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provis...
thank you for responding with this info. i had no idea dxdao even existed and now this will be my first answer to any curious devs!
My needs were relatively simple in that I needed a system to route quick, short messages without much client overhead. I'd previously done this with XMPP (using Python) which worked well, but the protocol offered way too many options. Also, trying to find a decent client for my iPad was a nightmare. I switched over to MQTT which is more suited to the role in my case and works as intended.
FDA approved or not, they cannot be sued for vaccine drama.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...

Claims can only go by "vaccine court" (yes that's a thing according to Wikipedia)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Injury_Compen...
>” The virus is under control in countries where the vaccine rollout has been swift.”

Israel would like a word with you.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...
I’d argue it’s higher given the exponential nature of disease transmission. While the odds of harm in who you directly transmit the virus to might be lower than the odds of you hurting someone drunk driving, if you play the tape forwards it’s almost a foregone conclusion that you’ll kill more people in the chain of people you infect than you would if you were drunk driving.

Also vaccine requirements aren’t anything new, so is the concern here that they’re mandating vaccines or this specific vaccine due to how new it is? If the latter, then what’s your bar for acceptance?
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1. I don't buy that python is necessarily much better as general purpose. It has a lot of great libraries for some specific things, but its performance is worse and its type story isn't nearly as good as TypeScript's.

3. I have a few internal CLIs for use in scenarios that don't have npm available by default. It's very nice to be able to ship a single runtime and not have the folks downstream from me need to worry about node version + npm version + package installs from untrusty sources, etc. I can do that work so they don't need to, and give them a single runtime. I happen to not use Deno at the moment, but it's an appealing feature. Python has a comparable problem: I run into issues with some frequency around python versions and python environments. There are solutions, yes, but there are also scenarios where you want to bring your own dependencies.

I haven't used CodeArtifact, but is it something you can deploy on-premise?
I think you misunderstood the technique, e.g. you can simply apply it to yourself.

If there is nothing that will change one's position, it's not worth engaging because the outcome is set.
Not every day but once every two weeks I have a trip with about 500 km each way.

When I came home yesterday I had 4% left from 100% on my model x.

Still if I had to charge a bit it would have been included in my 20 minute "pee and hot dog break" on the trip.

The biggest issue I have with fast charging is that the car charges so fast I don't have time to eat properly.
People have become deeply confused between censoring and censuring. They feel bad when told their opinions are unwelcome and consider it an act of silencing, rather than an act of reprimanding. Calling something a lie and choosing not to engage with it is an act of censuring; and you can disagree with my barrier for when to censure you. Preventing you from speaking the lie is censoring.
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I am struggling to understand how Deno is supposed to do that. To me it seems like they are re-inventing the package.json What is the difference ? https://deno.land/manual@v1.13.1/examples/manage_dependencie...
I'll let you in on a little secret: FDA approval was never important to the people who won't get a COVID vaccine. It was simply the easiest way to get smug, condescending know-it-alls like you to stop bugging them.

Personally I won't go near a COVID vaccine until they're eligible for the VICP.
I'm really amazed that there are a lot of antivaxx people here on HN.

Sad to see smart people talking about "consent" when public health is in danger.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/11/07/generate-usb-descriptor...

there ya go.
5 presses, to be exact.
I think someone mentioned this particular model needed the driver for customizing the LEDs.

Off the top of my head, non standard features could be

haptic feedback, vibrations, or purosely slowing the mouse down for interacting witha game

palm print reader

electric shock if the wrong person uses it

locking mechanism for a secret compartment

temperature sensor to let you know you might be sick

fan to kick in to cool your hand off if its too hot

persistence of vision display using the laser on the bottom

That's all I got right now, but the point is if someone wants to do something weird they should be able to.
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Exhibit A: Turing-complete font hinting language evaluated in kernel mode. Found to be exploitable.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/07/one-font-vuln...
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I don't use Dark UI to distinguish from content. I want everything in dark mode ... so I use the Dark Reader extension, but when I notice a site has its own dark mode, I turn off Dark Reader for that site, since they tend to clash.

It should be up to the user: the browser should let the user select which theme preference to pass on to websites. Magic extensions like Dark Reader should turn themselves off when the site is using its own dark mode.

While we're on the topic of browser/site misbehaviour: Sites that presume that my full-screen portrait mode browser is a mobile device need to die in a fire. I do not need big buttons and a hamburger menu on my desktop monitor. WTF don't they have a device-type-query instead of guessing by aspect ratio?
70% of non receptive surrounding people is enough to stifle any virus.

What changed was whether the surrounding people were receptive to infection and capable of spreading it.
This is a problem with all proprietary software. For example, it's impossible to install most "bought" Windows software outside of dedicated VMs for me and stay happy because (a) most "enterprise" installers still want to run under elevated privileges (hell no), (b) as soon as elevated privileges are granted basically rape the registry and file system all over the place, touching everywhere they shouldn't and (c) cannot be contained because of this except on the OS level, hence multiple VMs and finally (d) cannot really be uninstalled without reinstalling the entire OS as the uninstallers (again, having privileges to delete everything) themselves cannot undo what the installers did.

I have not installed a lot of software on Windows, macOS and Linux in my "main" OS instance because it simply looked and/or behaved shady as fuck.
My first impression was that "there isn't any there there" but after this article got a lot of upvotes I realized I could find real content using the navbar at the top.
> But that's not enough to win wars.

The blog post never says it is.

> Winning wars seems more interesting than having great teams.

It's ok to write blog posts about a variety of things, even if you think there's something potentially more interesting elsewhere.
Sure! I understand what you mean. I am always wary that I'm falling into point 2 which is why I posted this. I have build CI / CD systems before. It's just that it comes out-of-the-box with Forge in that some basic things run like pulling the latest code, migrating any database migrations, building any assets etc. It's not like deploys were manual etc. Just a push to master and the CI / CD would run.
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I don't think very many reasonable people would count a "persistent cough" as "becoming disabled".
Terrible comment. No one is forcing medical treatment. Private businesses can mandate vaccinations for employees, but no one is forcing the employee to continue their employment.
GP is challenging the idea that "HN" is a single cohort with a consistent monolithic viewpoint on anything.
Making it illegal to harm someone by transmitting a disease to them, and all of the logistical problems with proving it, makes more sense than mandating the covid vaccine.
Having the web site match the site's (dark) theme to the browser's (dark) theme is a feature, not a bug. If you are using a dark theme in your OS or browser, the web site can assume you'd prefer to match that as the default. But providing a way to opt out would be nice too.
That question might best be prefaced with “here’s what would change my mind… what about yours?” That formulation might come across as more curious and open rather than patronizing. Though I honestly don’t at all understand the mindset of people who don’t want the vaccine, so I have to admit this approach could quite easily still be offensive.
Cool story, the facts however show unvaccinated people are filling up hospitals and children under 12 which account for approx 75 million people or approx 20%+ of the population in the US are now being impacted and they're not eligible for vaccination.
> This is similar to a frustrating pattern of my own behavior over last year. Would you like to know what is behind it?

I don’t understand why someone would take this approach. Why not just explain the thing?

Then again, this seems like more of what was described, so perhaps this is in character. And this makes me wonder if this comment is actually trolling. Please understand that I’m not accusing you of trolling so much as I’m observing that this would be a really well-executed troll if such was the intent.
Would be an interesting step, if Microsoft would only allow open source drivers into Windows Update.

There could be another option: If you want to ship it without exposing the source, you need your drivers vetted by some third party that has access to the code.
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Once platforms become economically important, they must become open markets. That means rule of law, tort, fair and impartial adjudication, etc.
The "small minority" is stated in the parent comment to be the "desperate, angry anti-vax people". Some of those are in the 50%, but quite a few are "meh, whatever" apathy or mildly anti-vax there too.
Inaction is a deliberate choice. It doesn't matter if it's driven by some misguided notion of "autonomy". Deliberately choosing not to get vaccinated is about as close a comparison with drunk driving as you can get. People are deliberately choosing to behave recklessly, with possible deadly results for others. The only difference is one reckless choice is against the law and one is not.
The "Warrior" part seems inaccurate. More like Mechanic/Engineer Bot, not intended for combat uses, no?
-- "google Chicago shootings" has become something of a racist dog whistle

you just made that up, didnt you?
Every Ebola carrier has the right to spread Ebola through the population. The Ebola carrier should not be discriminated against by forcing the Ebola carrier to isolate, and prevent him/her from killing the entire village or planet.

Public health supercedes individual rights. It has been like this since we started forming large groups of civilizations. If you don't like this, you should leave civilization.
That's the hard part, I'm all for giving the vaccine to all who wants it.

And at the same time not forcing everyone to take the vaccine.

As an example Denmark will reach about 75% vaccinated without any mandates, though a Corona passport will be in effect until October 2021.

That is one of the better ways of handling it in my opinion.
Ironically, the very thing that everyone assumes will allow China to dominate appears to be hamstringing them: politics.

China can say they have a priority on domestic semiconductor production, and they can throw obscene amounts of money at the problem.

But ultimately, something that takes 10+ years to develop isn't appetizing for China's current political climate. It needs to be the best, yesterday.

Consequently, they'll continue throwing money at whoever promises results next year, and starving whoever says it can't be done but offers a realistic plan to eventual dominance.

Capitalism sucks in many ways, but decentralized command economies (national government commands, local supplies) are about the worst of all possible worlds for high knowledge, long lead time, heavy research industries.

Which is why you saw the Soviets do pretty well at heavy industry, but not so well at computers.
It was 84% for the original covid. Anything lower was a lie.
Obviously you need to post here and once the issue gets on the front page of HN, someone at Apple will see it and fix it.
A mortality rate of 4% in Victoria is obviously wrong. The only way to get a number that high is to ignore all the asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic cases. US CDC data shows a mortality rate of only 0.6%, and that's mostly from earlier in the pandemic before vaccines were available.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Last thing I want to hold a crappy 3d print textured mouse under my hands for 10 hours. I will take my chances with Logitech and stick to mx master. $130 for a mouse? Are you serious.
People have been clamoring for government mandates as well. I think this will clear the wat for military and state workers mandates even if CNBC doesn't explicitly say so in this article.
Electron is like 80MB, uncompressed. That isn't really the issue here anyway.
Here's the deal: you don't have to take the vaccine, but promise to stay away from people, and not burden hospitals when you get covid.

It's not your personal choice when it can harm other people (e.g. immunocompromised people who can't get the vaccine themselves, other people who need ICU beds).
> Why? Apparently my government isn't capable of providing useful guidance to keep me safe. We keep hearing about masks, but the mandate got dropped and there was never any talk about mandating the clearly superior KN95 or N95 masks.

> Anti-vaxxers have been consistent from the beginning that they're not getting vaccinated. You know whose position keeps changing? FDA & CDC. Whether it's how effective the vaccine is, what the side effects are, do we need to wear masks, how much social distancing is required, whether or not a booster is useful...

> You and everyone else blaming anti-vaxxers are letting the government redirect blame for its own failures.

Science adapts and adjusts based on new information.

The lack of willingness to adapt when confronted with new evidence has an unfortunate name.