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We use Elixir/Phoneix at Papercups for our backend.

Good:

* Friendly developer community and very active Slack channel

* Makes websockets much easier to get started

* We like the simplicity of Phoneix framework (We avoided rails because we didn't like the magical parts at times)

Bads:

* I miss types (We at least use TS in the frontend)

* Deployments are more complicated and I had some trouble figuring out the build release process.

We had no familiarity with Elixir when we started. We decided on Elixir since we thought it went very well with email messaging. We've been wanting to try elixir and realized that if we didn't use Elixir then we would never switch.
There's growing evidence one natural infection is better than any vax for future immunity. One recent report, based on Israeli data:

"Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine"

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

I love vaccines; especially the Pfizer until further research helps lower the Moderna (& Pfizer) doses.

If I'd had COVID, I'd want 1 extra dose, perhaps a half a year later, as an extra boost.

But it's unfair – & unscientific – to insist on such doses for the proven-recovered (who are also more likely to have bad vax reactions).

Other countries are doing this better – just like other countries got faster immunity, & stronger delta-variant immunity, by delaying 2nds doses to get more people 1st-dose vaccinated in early 2021.

Our local scientific bureaucracy is killing us & generating unnecessary extra social conflict, with their unscientific inflexibility.
I think you mean "directly into matter".
Recent datacenter network controlers (Mellanox, marvell) have 'gpu direct' capabilities, so direct interactions with devices with no cpu interaction. I've also seen fpga+network boards do that with success. And with libraries like nccl and 200gbe eth links you could almost forget you have CPUs or network links between.

What I miss is a simple but efficient data queue between cpu and gpu. Everyone's doing manual memory reservation and cudamemcpy, I want an async send (gpu->cpu) with an mpi or socket-like interface. I've seen someone posting stuff on io_uring from gpu code, but just bragging, no code.

Buying Mellanox, and their bluefield dpu (integrated 8 or 16 arm cores in the NIC) stuff I feel, nvidia could probably go the way you're seeing. Haven't seen any Mellanox/NVIDIA tech convergence yet.
https://archive.is/3jmo8
They already have Apple Music available in a lot more countries, so I don't think that is the issue.
This gets rehashed every time the topic comes up. It charges fast enough that you can wear it 24/7 and just put it on the charger while you shower.

Comparing it to a Casio that doesn't do anything other than tell you the time is pointless.
Who ever thought Artie would outlive Norm. RIP to a giant
There is a good chunk of society that absolutely refuses to move on.
A great video essay about Norm Macdonald from great YouTuber nerdwriter:

https://youtu.be/EbthMC6spAE
Anecdata comparison: My series0 is still functional (retired for a couple of years now) but I power it on once in a while just for kicks. I took it to the ocean about 10 times, swam with it several dozen times and showered with it hundreds of times.

YMMV I guess. But my series4 is doing great for 3y with similar levels of activity.
Do you use it for anything?
> Sorry, I don't agree. If the supply of labour increases without any consequent increase in demand, then one would expect to see the price of labour reduce, right?

Which is only true if the foreigner in question teleports themself to their country of origin whenever they are not working. Even if they got all their food delivered from Poorland, there would be an increased demand for deliveries.

> That's what econ 101 would say, right? You're the one making the claim that it doesn't. If such a claim is self evident, then you should be able to produce some kind of reasoning as to why it is so, no?

No, unless we assume that workers don't consume anything and are perfect substitutes, if there is perfect information in the labour market, etc...

None of these assumptions holds true, so the impact of immigration on wages can't be estimated like the impact of potato overproduction on the potato market. So it becomes an empirical question, and evidence suggests that no country experienced long term wage compression because of immigration.
> Last I checked, every single bit of market research indicated that a super majority of phone owners use cases of one variety or another

Mostly because an iPhone is unusable without a case. Naked it has no grip, you'll drop it frequently. Also, the camera bump in the back absolutely needs a case.
I wish it had a charger similar to the Whoop fitness band. It's a separate battery that you place on top of the band while wearing it, so it can charge while you're sleeping or even while you're just wearing it throughout the day.
They will release it to a lot more countries and have subtitles in 6 different languages, audio english only. So I'm not sure if the language barrier is the difficulty.
We’ve been flattening the curve for a year and a half. They had ample time to build capacity. Why is it not built?
> COVID-19 Antibody Tests cost more than the vaccine (roughly $40 Vs. $16/dose).

That's not a valid reason at all.

> We lack the quantity of Antibody Tests we'd need.

We also lacked vaccine quantity, and many people still do.

> We'd need to set up additional systems and processes to accommodate the testing and proof (which, again, is a cost).

Meh, that's a very weak reason considering it's a small incremental cost to vaccine passports and covid testing.

> The implicit assumption that often go along with these natural immunity proponents is that the vaccine is unsafe.

That's just your 'implicit assumption'.

> Since if the vaccine was safe, the logistical and cost arguments win the day, the only way to make the argument otherwise is to start with the assumption that the vaccine is unsafe and work backwards.

Except vaccine efficacy is much lower than natural immunity and vaccine efficacy wears off over time. We literally have ZERO data on the long-term effects of the mrna vaccines. Plenty of drugs have been found to cause harm 5, 10, 15 years after being approved.

> Therefore, I propose that the argument between natural immunity Vs. vaccine is largely a distraction that people who believe the vaccine to unsafe use to obfuscate their goals.

Your comment here is a distraction. You literally haven't brought up a single fact or data point on vaccine vs natural immunity efficacy.

> Since the data on vaccine safety is a settled issue

How is it a settled issue when there is literally zero data on long-term effects?

> you're really just discussing if the US should waste money on multiple redundant workflows so that vaccine hesitant people can feel better.

Cool story bud.
NB: Post author here.

Yep! Briefly noted that in the post, but deserves re-stating! it's definitely a more complex analysis to figure out the percentage of users affected (though often more important) could be majority could also be one user who has some data scientist programmatically making hundreds of long API calls for some task...(can you tell that I ran into that? Even worse it was one of our own data scientists ;) ).
Nothing I said has been debunked.

1. Lots of people are talking about mandates.

2. I didn't say anything about ICUs, or about obesity spreading to other people. Across the entire healthcare system, there could be much alleviation of burden if people took dietary and activity-based steps toward being healthier.

3. Banning smoking in public places doesn't stop smoking altogether. If the government wanted to end smoking, they could "mandate" the complete shutdown of tobacco companies. Or the tobacco companies themselves could shut down of their own accord. But folks involved care more about their business than about the health of their "customers". Healthier food in school cafeterias is great, but clearly not enough. People are being hammered with anti-COVID material left and right; nothing even close to that is being done toward pressuring people into taking better care of themselves through diet and exercise.
Seems a little imprecise? I have none of the apps installed, they are detecting.

Scan HARDER!
Sure there is. You simply maintain N phases of digests, and every T time you evict a phase and recompute the summary (because T-digests are easily merged).
Privacy concerns are real, but possibly misguided. Mesh networking will obviously reveal much more to people around you than the centralised model. But in return you get shrouded from centralised infrastructure. It's a legitimate trade-off and I imagine people preferring one way or the other. But instead of talking about a trade-off, we tend to reject ideas because one of the aspects would regress.
Mostly that I started my crawler before learning about Colly and it didn't make sense to rewrite the code.

By "not Colly" I just wanted to remark that in Go is relatively easy to write a crawler from scratch.
Making a sticky game is much harder that it seems.

Many of us could code something like this technically but it would play horribly and look worse - and would be more than 14kb of WASM

It is the little things, the lighting, the little sound effects, even the unlimited ammo
One way to think about why we tend to use averages instead of medians is that it is related to a really deep theorem in probability: The Central Limit Theorem.

But I think we can twist our heads and see in a way that this is backwards. Mathematically, the mean is much easier to work with because it is linear and we can do algebra with it. That's how we got the Central Limit Theorem. Percentiles and the median, except for symmetric distributions, are not as easy to work with. They involve solving for the inverse of the cumulative function.

But in many ways, the median and percentiles are a more relevant and intuitive number to think about. Especially in contexts where linearity is inappropriate!
I've found the iPhone notifications to be very handy in this regard though - I throw my watch on the charger when I shower and then pick it up whenever my phone notifies me it is done charging.

https://daringfireball.net/2021/03/your_watch_is_fully_charg...
I think the thing you're salvaging is the orbital itself. That has value and the salvager should get a percentage of that. This requires international regulation we don't have though.
Workouts use a lot more sensor and GPS data. Series 6's 18-hour quoted battery life includes an hour workout. However, if you want to run it with a continuous workout, you can get "up to 11 hours indoor workout, up to 7 hours outdoor workout with GPS and up to 6 hours outdoor workout with GPS and LTE".
You're asking me about something that I didn't say. Here is what I did say:

> Since the data on vaccine safety is a settled issue

My post was about the logistical and cost problems associated with certifying people with natural immunity, and why that doesn't make sense unless you believe the vaccine is unsafe.
Can someone sell me an Apple Watch?

What is a feature you can’t live without?
I guess that’s because our minds (and animal minds as well) are always aware of the pace of repetitive events. If something is off, the anxiety alarm rings. One old book on the brain machinery described an example of a cat that was relaxing near the metronome and became alert when it was suddenly stopped. Unpredictable delays are disturbing, because a mispredicted event means you may be in a dangerous situation and have to recalibrate now.
I guess it's a matter of perspective. I could never replace my smart phone with a flip phone... because I don't really use it as a phone. In the same way I don't really use my smart watch as a watch. My smart watch is a fitness tracker first, and the watch part is a bonus feature.
To be fair, you're describing the USA over the past century
Pointless? That’s what a watch is for. To tell the time. Or were you thinking of composing email on that tiny screen? What exactly else would you do with it?
That's exactly what bitcoin is.

Every HODLer spends half their time virtually knocking on doors trying to make you the greater fool, by buying into bitcoin.

These big conferences and coiners on HN are constantly doing PR to make more people buy into bitcoin, to make their stash grow in value. And this speculation and pumping the only reason to do it, because it's a failure as a currency.
I quit all social media outside of forums about 5 years ago. I would say my life is better. I cannot think of one thing I miss from it or one benefit it provided that I would go back for.
You claim developers that are show skills of collaboration thru acts like vocalizing their thought processes, ensuring mutual understanding of a problem, brainstorming, and ability to approach and deconstruct a technical problem with another person are LESS likely to get things done?

I must say, that doesn't check out to me. Writing code is a small part of building apps, and while some organizations have ICs who implement a spec, and a whole team who builds that spec, I think it's clear most orgs would be better off with someone who doesn't require the spec in the first place to figure out what code to write, and doesn't need to be browbeaten to do it in a way that makes sense to their team.
A Systematic Review of the Protective Effect of Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Repeat Infection
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.27.21262741v...

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

Prior COVID-19 protects against reinfection, even in the absence of detectable antibodies
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)002...

SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: a large, multicentre, prospective cohort study (SIREN)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33844963/

Risk of Reinfection After Seroconversion to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): A Population-based Propensity-score Matched Cohort Study
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

Assessment of the Risk of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Reinfection in an Intense Reexposure Setting
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection 1 Year After Primary Infection in a Population in Lombardy, Italy
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

SARS-CoV-2 antibody-positivity protects against reinfection for at least seven months with 95% efficacy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...

Association of SARS-CoV-2 Seropositive Antibody Test With Risk of Future Infection
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Quantifying the risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection over time
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34043841/

Longitudinal observation of antibody responses for 14 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8325385/

Persistence of neutralizing antibodies a year after SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.13.21260426v...

Antibody Responses 8 Months after Asymptomatic or Mild SARS-CoV-2 Infection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920668/

Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...
> when you’re on the cusp of a new thing, unless you’re super lucky, the result will necessarily be near the noise floor. Real science is like that.

That's not necessarily true in social sciences. When you're working with large survey datasets, many variables are significantly related. That doesn't mean these relationships are meaningful or causal, they could be due to underlying common causes, etc. (Maybe social sciences weren't included in "real science" - but there's where a lot of stats discussions focus)
I don't really miss RIM software, but I have yet to learn to love a phone which lacks a physical keyboard.

I am very content with my BlackBerry Key2.
Doctors and nurses don't get built in a year.
When running a walled garden the lack of SEO is a feature.
Meh. I disagree. He frequently made below the belt jokes about the appearance or attributes of others, particularly women and gays. He was pretty funny otherwise though.

Fully realizing this will be downvoted, but RIP anyway.
I think the vouch button is only available once the post is dead. (Same for comments.)
I agree with the goal, I have mixed feelings about the listed solutions

I'd like to add one: using consistent metaphors. A user of software is constantly trying to form a mental model of how this ethereal, formless thing behaves. A state machine. What can and cannot happen, what will and will not happen after a given action, what can and cannot happen once we're in a different state. The shakier and less scrutable and/or reliable this mental model, the more anxiety is felt.

As programmers we're partly insulated from this effect. We may not know the exact inner-workings of a piece of software we didn't write, but we know some general things about software and the way it does and doesn't behave that soften the huge void of scary unknowns. This helps us form our mental model.

Physical metaphors of objects, continuity, permanence, locality, persistence, independence, are often used in GUIs for this reason. If I click a tab and then click back to the previous one, I expect to return to the same state I was in. If I change the text in one field, I expect that unrelated fields won't be impacted by that. Etc. This is a good starting point. Desktop platforms and then mobile platforms have built additional semi-consistent UX expectations on top of those largely physical intuitions. This helps too. But your application needs to go beyond that: it needs to present a simplified model of its internal state-machine to the user, and then it needs to hold to that. That mental model, once formed by the user, needs to have predictive power about the way the system behaves under different circumstances.
The barriers to entry for developing, publishing, and distributing a game have also plummeted, meaning there is far more competition in the gaming industry. This should lead to lower priced games.
I was about to say same, but I think one of my family would like a watch and my series4 makes a great handmedown.
Foot – a fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
My $JOB is maintaining such a desktop CRUD app that's been in use for the past 20 years. It uses a Swing (via a proprietary higher-level framework) for its GUI. Over the years it's accreted a few dozen services (also in Java) in its orbit, but the central GUI app and its data-base still remain and continue to be extended as new requirements arise.
Crazy idea: can new satellites be assembled from the parts of old ones: the parts are already in orbit, you can’t reuse chips, but you can reuse solar panels, wires, external walls, etc.
> Do you use workout tracking ?

Nope :(

I had not considered this impacting the battery, due to being stranded in Singapore I haven't been working out. But now that you and someone else mentioned it I will definitely monitor battery to see how it impacts me when I can get back into a gym.
Do you have any examples you could share? While I can't say I would be a huge fan of Grima's work, some pieces do look quite unique and pretty bold too. Definitely delivers a statement.
Thank you. I've been saying this every year since 2007.
I don't think this is right at all. C is a universal constant, and it is not in fact known for sure whether light travels at c or just below (whether photons have a mass). However, individual photons in certain conditions can absolutely move at speeds lower than c. If photons of different energy move at different speeds, this would be detectable by firing the photons at the same far-away mirror, and measuring how much time it takes for each photon to return (on average).
But no voice recording. I bought mine mainly to have a recorder one tap away. Don't really care about them showing time.
I find it interesting that Instagram promoting celebrity culture has provoked such a backlash but the Chinese governments attempts to tackle the same on their streaming platforms is seen as misguided.
My 3.5 year old Garmin can easily track activity for 18 hours with normal GPS mode (high accuracy) and probably much longer with power saving (less frequent data recording).

I don't think it's a great smartwatch, but I don't know because the last thing I need in my life is a device on my wrist with push notifications.
Wait - Biden cares about civil rights? Could have fooled me. #mybodymychoice
I admit that this has me fired up. But that is really the long and short of the explanation. You see "pushing agenda" I see "championing underrepresented not just opinion but facts in the face of government overreach and media blackout".
I think CCP is indeed preparing for a war over Taiwan. There are plenty activities recently pointing to the mutual independence between China and US, in economy, cultural, military etc.

I don't believe there is an active war plan in place. But it looks like at least CCP is laying the foundation for a war, so that there might be chance for US to concede wholy to relinquish their support for Taiwan Independence.

Well, I guess that's better than a nuclear war.
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> there are really incredible works in existence, including but not mostly, wrist watches

Please point us in a direction! This is a rabbit trail I'd love to go down …
Why would you assume that vaccine hesitancy is uniquely American and immutable phenomena? Why would you assume 2 shots of vaccine is enough for life when a new variant pops up every month? As an official, how would you pick a country to send vaccines to when most of the world has lower infections and death rates? How would you ration your vaccines when FDA may authorize them for younger kids any day? What about vaccine mandates? Those are supposed to up the demand, right?
Same. Not into smart watches until they have a week long charge at least.

The Steel HR from Withings is the perfect middle ground for me. Doesn’t look like a slab, 3 weeks charge, still some smart features.
I guess I find it easier to keep my eyes on the road and just go by the vibration than looking at my screen.
All my iPhones and iPads habe at least 512GB.
I am no longer customer of fast food chain (mostly BBQ at home) but many years ago when I used to I very much preferred Harvey's to anything else.
What are the rules / law for identifying an instagram post as an ad? If this isn't enforceable then young people don't stand a chance against the insidious nature of marketing.

In the 90's, "cool-hunters" would hire street promoters to hype brands one-on-one, directly to the consumer. These promoters were often friends of the consumers, who essentially became walking adverts for <insert big brand here>. Sounds a bit like the company "Influenceter". It's always been a goal of advertising to capture the minds of the youth culture. Facebook just does it to scale.
Fine. Do it like the experimental physicists do: if you think you're on to something, refine and repeat the experiment in order to get a more robust, repeatable result.

The original sin of the medical and social sciences is failing to recognize a distinction between exploratory research and confirmatory research and behave accordingly.
I have a Garmin 945, lasts a whole week and love the thing.