skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data I've seen is already adjusted I believe, because even absolute count shows more hospitalization and death due to Covid, and its more likely less people have been exposed to Covid than have received the vaccine.

My data is EMA in EU says for under 40 year old, of 197 million vaccines, only 321 had the heart inflammation and 5 died from it, the rest recovered.

While CDC data says in the US till now, for under 49 year old, there's been 60902 hospitalizations for Covid (3782 under 18yr), with 24 deaths in the under 18 year range.

The population in US for under 49 year old is 210 million. So even assuming worse case, that every under 49 year old in the US got exposed to Covid, we get:

Vaccine (under 40yr - in EU):

321 hospitalization out of 197 million ~= 0.00016%
5 deaths out of 197 million ~= 0.0000025%

Covid (under 49yr - in US):

60902 hospitalization out of 210 million (best case, likely inflated) ~= 0.03%
24 deaths (under 18yr) out of 82 million (best case, likely inflated) ~= 0.00003%

Unfortunately, I find it hard to find good data, that's why for one I need to use data from EU EMA, and the other I'm using data from US CDC, and one includes the 40-49yr old group while the other doesn't. But I think those are far enough apart anyway that to me it seems clear that Covid even in the best case, where I assume everyone in the US in the age range was exposed to it, is much more likely to put you in the hospital or kill you, even if you are younger. But better data might be needed to confirm, especially data restricted to the under 18 year old age group, since their chances of getting the heart inflammation seems higher, and their chances of Covid complications is lower.
The 83(b) is not for the option per se, but the shares you own after you exercise the option.

> ... if the stock purchased pursuant to the exercise of an option is subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, the service provider may make an IRC §83(b) election with respect to the stock received pursuant to the exercise of the option.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/corporations/equity-stock-bas...

Also see "Restricted Property" in Pub 525.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2020_publink1000...
> I once got bounced from a job interview for not knowing about a quirk of the newest XCode (less than a week old)

Sounds like they did you a favor. Who’d want to work for people like that?
"When I use Reply All

...

When urgency is needed to a critical item that requires escalation in good faith."

This is passive-aggressive behaviour, and I call it out as such.

It is up to the current owner of the urgent critical item to escalate it. A one-to-one visit or phone call to that person is appropriate. Email is not appropriate for urgent matters. Multiple-addressee email, even less so.
Harm done without intent or malice is not evil, it's amoral, it is no more evil than lightning, a tsunami, or an earthquake.
Is that not a different kind of test, for current presence rather than past use?
> If not, and SCOTUS has overreached

All SCOTUS has done is decline pre-enforcement review of the Texas Law on threshold grounds that won't apply once there is an actual enforcement action; while this is hugely significant in practical impact, it very much does not address the moral, or even legal, status of the law itself.

(Now, is the Texas Legislature overreaching and setting itself as the moral arbiter of women’s bodies? That's another question.)
I really like the mycelium bag slit approach to fruiting, I had never seen this done, I'm sure it's common enough but it is a wonderful idea.

For those of you unaware the guy who made this video maintains Mycodo, an absolutely amazing piece of software for automating and monitoring sensors and actuators of basically any kind.

https://github.com/kizniche/Mycodo
The joke is the premise that happiness is relative, so being less happy on a bad vacation makes you more happy when you return to work. This is an ironic subversion of the expectation that happiness will put us in a good mood and unhappiness will put us in a bad mood.
Bridge building is only minimally adversarial. You have to make the bridge strong against chance, natural threats, and casual vandals.

You don't have to make the bridge more than minimally strong against attack by a foreign military-- or even some wacko with a van full of ammonium nitrate, and you probably can't (or at least it would be utterly budget breaking to make a serious attempt and doing so).

While if you don't make your computer strong against fairly powerful attackers it will get attacked, because the economics of powerful computer attacks make them much less costly to create, almost free to deploy, and relatively low risk of consequences for using them. Fortunately, defending computers from attack also has good economics compared to defending bridges.
That's absurd, but at least it saved you from having to work in an environment that valued appearance over substance?
You only need one job so yeah you will get rejected by trick question interviews but it shouldn’t stop you getting work
There’s a cost to learning a new framework that may outweigh the incremental benefits, especially if you have to do it every few years.
If I were a US citizen, and I accepted that scanning cloud-stored photos for CSAM was neccesary, I would greatly prefer Apple's approach because any such search coerced by Government are protected by the Fifth Amendment. Whereas if the search occurs in the cloud, Government can force Apple or Google to search for whatever they want, using whichever algorithm they want.
The Bargain of the Century- 2 houses for sale on 1 plot in Retreat
Cap'n Proto is only sortof-mutable. You can update e.g. an integer in-place, but if you want to change anything that is variable-width, e.g. modifying a string, adding/removing inner objects, etc., then it can get awkward. New objects will be added to the end of the buffer, and removed objects will just be zero'd out, wasting the memory. You can "garbage-collect" by making a whole-tree copy, of course.

But yeah all the stuff about untrusted data is BS. NoProto's readme lists "Safely handle untrusted data" as an advantage vs. every other format it compares against, including Protobuf and JSON. What? Every serious serialization format supports untrusted data.
My understanding is that the new law still requires a warrant, but that the warrant can be granted by an administrative tribunal rather than a judge - so technically what Fastmail are saying here about only acting on a warrant would be correct.

As per the response from Fastmail, it does still require targeting; the intent of the law appears to be to 'take over' an account and use it to catch conspirators, e.g. "we caught Timmy red-handed planning a terror attack, let's log in as him and tell his co-conspirators to come meet us somewhere, then arrest them all".

Whether or not that's what it will be used for is another question, and a valid concern.
Hope brave does the same as soon as they can.
Visual Basic doesn't get enough credit for revolutionising development. It isn't sexy, it isn't sitting on a cool language, it had serious limitations.

But wow did a lot of systems get developed in it. Microsoft still haven't got a decent replacement for it and nobody else does either.
I've been using the regularly published Ontario figures, which are broken down in finer grained results by age and sex:

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/health-topics/immuniza.... e.g 164 per million for male 18-24 second dose (which is highest result).

For covid fatalities, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-00698-1 provides a formula which seems to have held up: log10(IFR) = −3.27 + 0.0524 ∗ age (weirdly, this gives a percentage, so IFR=10^(−5.27+.0524×age) may be more useful). e.g 47 per million for an 18yo.

Of course, even if you take this data as gospel (you average human you!), these are still apples and oranges: how likely are you to get COVID-19 (I assume high) and how likely is myocarditis to be fatal (while I've seen 55% fatality over 4 years, who knows if that is accurate on these cases?).

If anyone has better data sources, or fairer interpretations of this data, please reply!
The difference is that IE/Edge no longer dominates the market. There is a fair competition between browsers now, so there is no need for an anti-trust lawsuit. Or if there is, it should be against Google.
Hope Brave Browser does the same asap.
I have no particular insight into that particular number, but it isn't believable that covid has been broadly circulating in China uncontrolled for the past two years, and there isn't much middle ground between "uncontrolled spread" and the media-reported state of affairs.
If You Can’t Stand People Fidgeting, You May Have Misokinesia
> backend devs get more respect than front end

This has not been my experience. FE are expected to know a lot, and most backend devs I've known respect that.
Thanks for posting this, the lack of a security clearance seems telling. Even contractors often have them. Also, a person in a real position of responsibility would never behave this way, and to be fair to him, they would never be treated this way.
I have a Synology NAS. I guess it’s fine. But the real problem is what software to backup my win10 desktop to? I tried EaseBackuo which was terribly documented and the UI made no sense (made in China I think). So I gave that up, abs bought Acronis True Image. This software looks nicer but works horribly too. It has intermittent spells of failing backups telling me only “failed to lock file”. The support team has just been giving me a run around for 2+ months. Provides no concrete details or solutions despite me sending them the 35mb log files that Acronis generates. It’s all shameful. Is there a decent software for this????
Apparently you didn't actually read the linked article, or watch the original video on which it's based. Prof. Pollard never suggested surrendering. We should try to vaccinate as many people as possible. But other interventions like isolation, quarantine, reduced travel, masks, and social distancing are obviously not sustainable indefinitely. Most regular people in free societies won't tolerate them. So we'll have to eventually just accept the risks and move forward.
Why was the TS/react rewrite needed? Had react or ts broken it’s api?
you will never be a woman
I am corrected.

The usual story is that is is about pitchers, but the timeline is wrong. The first official baseball game is cited as in 1846, with "southpaw" occurring in 1848 already referring to boxing.
Anecdotally, I have never met nor heard of anyone mixing anything with weed except for tobacco, sometimes.

So how is this "correct"?
I still remember very fondly the days when this sort of shit was firmly in the realm of adware/spyware and widely avoided by the technically-inclined. Unfortunately the (for lack of better word) sheeple who end up with dozens of toolbars in their browsers and innumerable pieces of adware/spyware outnumbered everyone else, and MS thought they could get away with the same tactics since they already had a near-monopoly on desktop OSs.

The frog is already medium-rare, and MS knows that.
[insert Captain Renault meme here]
As a firmware dev it looks like all yalls crazy
It's slightly more complicated than that: There's 3 parties at play in this story. NSA, RSA, and NIST.

NIST was evaluating dual_ec_drbg for certification for government usage, with people from NSA heavily pushing it. NIST was actively contracting out to RSA to evaluate it for weaknesses. The kicker is here: NSA then secretly paid RSA something like $10M to advocate strongly for dual_ec_drbg, behind the back of NIST. So you have one government agency spending money on a contractor, hoping for an honest expert opinion, then another government agency spending money on a contractor secretly so that the second government agency can sneak something behind the first government agency. It's insanity.

Sure, RSA should not have taken the money from NSA, but given that NIST crypto certification mostly matters to government implementations (and not to the private sector), isn't the bigger problem that NSA is happy to introduce backdoors into crypto exclusively used by other government agencies? It's traitorous.

Thomas Massie offered an amendment in the house to try to stop this. He gave a pretty good overview of the situation (he is an electrical and mechanical engineer from MIT) to the house when the amendment was brought to the floor.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/h290

(strangely, the video has been sort of cut on cspan. It's supposed to be at 3:17:11 https://www.c-span.org/video/?326244-2/us-house-debate-fy-20... )
time I spend typing: 10%.
time I spend thinking about how to optimize slow convoluted pythonic one liners: 60%.

seriously people need to get over verbosity. its literally not an issue. problems usually arise from fucking condensed one liners that you need 10 minutes of thinking to unpack.

vs oh no.... I need to write 3 additional lines to declare the data's structure..... i'm so slowed down.
That's interesting, the EMA EU data shows 1.6 per million, while this CDC data would show 16 per million. This is where I've struggles in the Pandemic, sources of data are hard to find, and then understanding their details for one against another are similarly difficult.

For example, the EMA data I use to see 1.6 per million is for under 40 year olds, so maybe if you partitioned it under 24 year old same as the CDC you'd see something closer to 16 per million as well.
Wow lots of haters here. I love their products. I, for one, don’t have that time or energy to build or manually maintain my own home grown networking gear. So having something that works flawlessly for me nearly all the time is very valuable.
In some situations, changing the font could absolutely considered a hack -- this can break apps in subtle ways by messing with the spacing and sizing of elements, and it gets worse if you designed your app for some specific form factor(s). It's perfectly reasonable for an app developer to say they only support certain fonts. I'm sorry if that's disappointing to hear, but every app developer cannot be expected to test their apps with every single font in existence that someone wants to use.

The default apps that come with GNOME are designed to be simple and unobtrusive. They're not trying to be a Photoshop or a Final Cut Pro. If you don't like them you are of course free to install and use some other alternative, for example KDE apps should run just fine inside GNOME, and vice versa. I don't have any comments on the file chooser, anything we say is flogging a dead horse. You can search some previous discussions on reddit for all the times that's been discussed (unproductively) over the last 15 years.
Eh, idk. We could have lisp, x-expressions, macros, and DSLs instead of most frameworks. We could even use lisp dialects to “write C” (eg Chicken Scheme).

I do think a lot of frameworks are fashion statements, but that’s okay because style matters when doing creative work.
I stopped following news back in 2011 while previously being "addicted" to it. Whether about about tech, music releases, world news, etc. Turns out, if something is important enough for me to know, it will reach me eventually one way or another without me having to proactively track everything. If I start something new or a have a problem to solve, I research what an adequate, modern way to do it would be.

I was frontend developer at time time but moved to more backend dev again. When I last year did a frontend project with react that I knew only conceptually from people talking about it for the first time, I didn't had any problem using it productively in a couple hours. The only thing that was a bit jarring, was that many people seem to have forgotten that there are html tags besides `div`.

While software certainly moves fast compared to things, that have been around for hundreds or thousands of years, I feel, for the most part it just moves fast on the surface. The fundamentals have been pretty much the same since I started and I reckon for decades before that.
Not to mention the potential severe consequences of the inevitable false positives, given the target subject matter.
On some ancient systems { and } don't exist. So an alternarive made of more common characters is provided. There is also a two-character combination for [ and ] and a three character combination for |, & and some other characters. The feature is called digraphs/trigraphs and is disabled on most modern compilers by default.
It might fragment things further, eg imagine a job posting for a C++ programmer with web experience, browser knowledge and use of a specific C++ front end web library.
Anyone here ever wanted a UI outside of the Devtools for deleting individual keys out of a site’s localStorage?

No? Didn’t think so.

If this individual-cookies-manager settings page didn’t already exist, would you think it worth it to introduce one? More worth it than an individual-localStorage-keys-manager (which clearly nobody is scrabbling for)? If so, why?
I think it depends how long the vacation? A month long vacation for me always helps when I find myself becoming overly negative.

Edit*
Should add, a lot has to do with your attitude. Some things won’t change and fighting then just makes you look like a jerk in the office. Either come to peace with it or find another job. Of course after you have reasonably done what you think you can to make a difference.

Many jobs are brainless 9to5 collect a paycheck do bare minimum and this is ok for a lot of people, they find creativity and joy elsewhere.
They had A/ROSE [1], it could have been a good platform if it had a link to HyperCard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/ROSE
For that specific issue I would suggest using MenuLibre: an easy to use menu editor that will allow you to create a launcher for your custom app that you can then pin to the dock
Using Bitcoin as Legal Tender
So what is the chance of an ad by a third party exploiting systems or accidentally breaking them.

Is there a good reason to believe that that ad space will be treated differently in the long term from any other space?
Both lifestyles require monocultures. One more than the other actually, and that same one also requires more water and land, and creates more pollution. I'm not a vegan, or even a vegetarian, but I think it's objectively true that those diets are morally superior even with animal rights aside.
You’re just banally pointing out that different applications have different correctness requirements.
I use windows for affinity suite and unreal 4 and I think that’s it. About half my gaming needs windows too. Everything else is Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a great OS, it’s just missing a few apps (mostly graphics related) that certain people need for their work
The speed with which Google moved things around 2012 was just stupid. Gwt to angular was fast and left basically no real migration path. Or recompense for having jumped on in the first place.

I believe angular got better, but I didn't stick around to find out.

React has at least been steady. It has some parts that I'm personally in the camp is over engineered. But, I think that is more that the scene encourages highly engineered solutions. Reminds me a lot of the j2ee days where there was just so much ceremony on a basic ui.

The rest of the technologies you list are similar to me. Not wrong or bad choices, at large. Also not typically needed, at large.
I’m really confused where you’re coming from, in that you’re aware of that case enough to cite it, and yet not aware that it is (and this is a direct quote from one of the first lines on Wikipedia about it)

> The result of the case is central to the rationale behind passage of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, aimed to allow internet service providers to avoid liability for user content on their services while still giving them the means for removing illegal content.
Trust is really the main motivation in a lot of these situations. Imo, the value of “networking” in business is building trusting relationships with other people. I’ve gotten jobs by referrals from others, and helped other people get jobs via referrals. In those situations the referred candidate had an enormous advantage over the candidate off the street, but it’s not a system of buddies looking out for each other. It’s a system of people who’ve spent time establishing trust with each other.
If you know of better sources, I'd love to take a look. I can read Japanese, but I'm way better at searching stuff up in English.
Am I the only one who sees Duke, the Java mascot in logo?
Setting uses UWP underneath.

It's a dead platform.
> or by imposing that condition in government contracts

Not just government contracts. The intelligence community extensively partners with corporations. If I had to take a bet I wouldn't be surprised if the customer that demanded this wasn't the government, but was one of these partners.

A minor nit:

> is not “suspicious” as a choice of random generator, it’s stupid.

I don't think this is completely fair. The security of dual ec is related (though not quite reducible) to the hardness of elliptic curve discrete log in the relevant group.

If it weren't unreasonably slow I think a lot of people would be inclined to adopt a well reviewed and standardized RNG for their ECC-crypto system that itself had security traceable to ECC: if the DL assumption in that group is broken, then the connections are already insecure.

Overstating the arguments against dual_ec weakens our security, rather than strengthening it because it obscures how reasonable people would go along with such proposals and undermines how critical it is that our standards receive adequate public review.
That may have been something done by OEM bloatware, I don't remember anything like that showing up by default after a clean install of Win98.
Correct. Although there are some "doing agile" it may only be a relabeling of waterfall processes or insertion of agile processes into the current ops. Teams are all too willing to say they are following agile even when they aren't.
Really? I just moved to NZ a couple of years ago and don't know how to drive, so will be wanting to hitchhike! What is a better gesture?

"I’ve always used the traditional thumb approach (the norm for NZ)."

https://churnewzealand.com/hitchhiking-in-new-zealand/
There's a difference: Amazon can pay more. As you said, the millennials can't. If there's a millennial out there flush with cash but didn't get the house they wanted despite having $$$ more than needed, then yes-- that would be their own choice. Just like it's Amazon's choice to live with a driver shortage if they can pay more but won't.

Based on their 2020 profits, they can pay more. $20B in profits, 170,000 deliverers worldwide. They could take 10% of that and pay those folks an average of about $10,000 more/year.

They have the money, so if their business suffers at all as a result of too few drivers, then it's absolutely self-inflicted.
The leader of the proud boys once stuck a dildo up his ass, on stage, in order to "own the libs". It's documented, you can look it up.

I think you're underestimating lib owning as a motivational factor for these guys.
You can still delete per site cookies in the preferences no?
> Fungi, plants or rocks don't have nerve cells, never had nerve cells and never will have nerve cells, so they can not have a brain.

[Citation Needed]

The current mainstream understanding is that fungii pass electrical signals along mycelium networks to communicate.

Every cell in this network is essentially a nerve cell. Connected in a network spanning multiple organisms, genders and species.
The idea would be to map the existing e.g. Tcl/Tk wrapper to target WASM.