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I like Motorola Droid4 keyboard. I'm still keeping them around, because of keyboard and HDMI. They still work.
By the time these are distributed the virus will have drifted and these legacy doses likely not as effective with the new strains.
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This a program launched (14/09/2020) even before the country started vaccinating its citizens. So yeah, you're spot on !
> Does that mean that I and people like me cannot do open source in 2021?

Absolutely not, but it does mean that you are likely to have difficulty if your aim is to build and support a project that is used by many, or otherwise be widely recognised.

If your goal is to play with cool stuff, put the results out there so others might see it and maybe use it or further build upon it, and won't be bothered if people don't, then you can definitely do that successfully without any of the community building & engagement noise listed.[‡]

If your goal is to contribute fixes and other help to other projects, then that too can be done without any of that noise. Unless one of those noisy channels is the only way to effectively communicate with the project you are contributing to, at that point some compromise may be needed on your part unless you prefer to move on and do something else instead. Moving on and doing something else instead, or branching and doing your own thing that way as long as you are OK with any licensing implications, is always an option.

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[‡] I'm not autistic, nor as completely introverted as I used to be, but my thoughts on this feel like they stem from a similar place to yours and this is how I will manage that if I ever get around to releasing some of the stuff I have bubbling under: I'll put it out there, if people want to use it then great, if they don't then fine too, if they want to mail me fine (I might even respond!), but I won't be putting it out there to build community or to serve one. It'll be my playground, and while I'd be happy for others to find it useful if I move on and stop maintaining it or don't have time to respond to correspondence I will feel no guilt. If people expect more of me than I am comfortable providing, then they can just go on expecting!
Javascript became mainstream with the Web 2.0/AJAX hype of 2004. It was still Google's "fault", but it was the slick Google Maps site (and also GMail) and not Chrome that was the inciting factor. With an assist from Microsoft's Web Outlook and XMLHttpRequest.

Really, the reason Chrome invested heavily in optimizing Javascript was because it had started to be widely used in more than trivial scripts.
> become so successful without VC funding

Does HN live in a bubble because of ycombinator where they think it's unusual for companies to be able to self start?
Oh, how I miss BLISS. It was the first language I learned that got rid of the silly distinction between statements and expressions. What a revelation! Everything was an expression. Everything returned a value. I guess a bit like Ruby, but 40 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS

https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/classes/cs520/spring06/bliss.pdf
> Functional programming is popular because it's intuitive! I mean that a function _is_ what it does, but not so with a procedure. One cannot bake a value as one does a cake!

I suppose it really depends on what you've learned first. Myself, I started programming (C++) in my early teens, a bit before I was introduced to the concept of a function in math classes. I didn't have much problems with that part of math, but I knew something doesn't feel right about it. Only many years later I realized that I never fully internalized the concept of mathematical function being a relationship and not a procedure. And I had the same issue with "=" symbol. After being exposed to the concept of assigning values to variables in imperative programming, it took me years before my brain fully internalized the concept of equivalence relationship.
What?

As fascinating as this would be the only connection the tweeter makes between the two is that Tether bought a lot of CP and Evergrande happens to need a lot of money. Tweeter needs to get off whatever he's smoking
PHP is still used by pubescent future billionaires and the now mid-career professionals that began their journey during the free market anomaly of 1995-2000 (an anomaly brought to you by The Architect of the Dystopia, a man worthy of an antagonist role on Dr. Who; that is, the ultimate responsible party for creating PPP/RAS.) PHP is also used by artisans from other genres that migrated to web tech later in life in search of (tech) "jobs". I would dare to add that, other than those who normally operate in technician-like capacities (including BPO roles), no serious software engineer would choose to initiate a new project in PHP. In PHP's defense though, the "language" was created to solve an actual purpose, which makes its existence 101% valid IMNSHO. That purpose tho, was a dude seeking to make it easier to update his online resume (bc ColdFusion cost bank during the economic nuclear winter that followed said market anomaly and LI didn't exist yet). Not knowing what to expect, but wanting to lay off hundreds of thousands of expensive American workers during that economic disaster (following the dot-com bubble), IBM adopted PHP for a short while and turned it into a "real" environment, training thousands of their BPO replacement workers to be used by it. At some point, Marky Mark and The Facebook Bunch made a compiler for PHP because they had trouble attracting workers during that era who were competent in other "languages". But, as the Industry began to refill with labor that knew there is no dash in mantissa ( https://www.leaseweb.com/labs/2013/06/the-php-floating-point... ), PHP fell into an "everyday kind of socialist hell" (in the spirit of the "movement" by That Kid who grew up on the outskirts of the USSR and then formed an unholy alliance for bits of Hurd with that Sybok-like guy from MIT). PHP has been going sideways (="wasting millions of man hours on 'backwards compatibility issues' created for all major projects written in it") ever since. PHP should really come with its own theme song https://youtu.be/_KwA34pX6rg

[ https://youtu.be/fLVN05Jl6wA ]
People seem to vastly underestimate the (accidental) complexity introduced by branching and delaying integration, and overestimate the risk of integrating and releasing the changes, which is literally the essence of professional software development.

Your job from the business perspective is getting the changes into production. Facilitating that makes high-performing teams. Think about what you would need in order to safely merge to main multiple times a day. Trustworthy test suite? "Extra pair of eyes but without the wait and comment ping-pong", also known as "pair programming"? Build automation? Great deployment scripts? Trusted feature toggles? Shared code ownership?

Doing "feature branching" instead of that you get exotic branching strategies, sophisticated infrastructure to deploy your system from any desired branch, PRs hanging for weeks, even months, testing features in isolation, required approval rules, big merge conflicts... and a dumpster fire when something inevitably breaks and it turns out eventually you HAVE TO merge that hotfix to main branch QUICKLY.

I've worked in teams that mandate double code review, for reasons of "safety and code quality". Guess what. Code quality was shit anyway, and deployments were done infrequently, always with the feeling that it's risky.

I've helped same teams to simplify the workflow and deliver more value by just building the trust and gradually transitioning from "ask" to "show" & "ship" approach. I like the article a lot, since it describes something I've seen to emerge in reality.

But don't take my word on it, watch this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ijkq6Myfc
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> or is it more like of a `cat atlantic_pipeline | grep bomb` thing

For what us ordinary people know, there are "selectors", something similar in purpose to regular expressions, that can filter out data out of the streams (not just raw IP communications, but also phone call metadata and PIR datasets from airlines) for storage and human inspection. Think of stuff like the phone numbers, names or email addresses of known or suspected "terrorists", drug dealers, organized criminals, or whomever else ends up on one of the flag lists.
Ah yes “forced to surveil the populace”. This is horsehockey. They already do it, they just don’t want to be told what to do by daddy government. It’s “resistance as a competitive advantage”, minus the real resistance.
Likely because it is tedious (think watching paint dry) and expensive. And except if you take a shotgun approach to the service/goods classes you register in, you are still going to have exposure (in the US you need to provide proof of use down the road so its a non.starter there).
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> There is no need to do robberies to survive.

Then why do robberies happen at all, including by members of the native German population?
I loved my blackberry's keyboard, but I adjusted to iOS on-screen keyboard (starting circa the iPhone 4S) pretty well. Last couple of years though iOS autocorrect has started to be extremely aggressive and frequently very wrong (incorrectly changing were->we're, ill->i'll for example. and today changing "Torvalds" to "Torshavn" or something when I was talking about Linus and not the Faroes).

If someone has a nice phone with a physical keyboard I'd seriously consider it when I replace my iPhone
Nuclear was never really replaced by coal, it was mostly replaced by wind and solar, you might even say that thanks to Germany planning to shut down nuclear in the early 2000s wind and especially solar are where they are now and would be much more expensive if nuclear wasn't shut down.
> It's kinda like saying if you support anonymity, you must be clearly pro-crime, which I don't think you are.

I think it's that, if you are pro-catching-crime, you're against anonymity, because that's a prerequisite. If you're for anonymity, you don't have to be pro-crime, because crime isn't a prerequisite for anonymity.

> People are all for anonymity until law enforcement can no longer catch criminals.

That is certainly true. I just think that it's used against morally-good causes much more often than it's used against morally-bad, or at least that the benefit we get for the latter doesn't justify the former. One salient example is the security theater we have to go through in airports since 9/11, which have eroded the liberty of millions of people and have probably caught (or even deterred) zero people.
“ the US, on so many fronts, positions itself in contrast to Europe - free market ideology, small government rhetoric, fiscally conservative.”

No. Not the whole US. This idea is not in majority. Some people do think so, but they don’t get to control the whole country.
Sorry that my answer comes so late, but I'll put this here for posterity. I will only address the latter part. My point was that a brain is an N x N -matrix in the same sense as an ANN. An ANN is no more an N x N -matrix "in reality" than a biological brain; in reality it is some collection of analog electric potentials and configurations of matter which can sometimes be represented as a digital N x N -matrix for the convenience of the programmer. Thus the situation is exactly identical to a biological brain, which is also not "in reality" an N x N -matrix but can be represented as one. If we had sufficiently advanced (nano-)technology, we could manipulate human brains through their abstract representation as a matrix just as we can ANNs. Any distinction is purely pragmatic.

In any case I was not saying that being representable as an N x N -matrix is sufficient for consciousness (which I do not believe), simply that it is clearly compatible with consciousness. I agree that a self-aware ANN would probably require a body (possibly simulated) and some notion of agency.
How do you think they're profiting from this? Does medium pay for impressions or something?
They reduce severity of illness, and don't produce sterilizing immunity and eliminate transmission. And that's the problem, if you pick up a nasty mutation but because of vaccine you are able to still function, you are more likely to be out and about spreading it.

And when your limited immunity wanes in a few months this mutinous bastard copy you pushed on the masses may come back to bite you in the ass.

Maybe not though if you got your booster in time and if they designed it to match. Better hope your country went with the gold subscription.
What is with this East/West bullshit oversimplification?

Humans have a tendency to divide things into two distinct groups with an imaginary gap between them (this v/s that, us v/s them), this comment is just another example of that.

There is so much more to it, but no, apparently it's just East/West. HN is going down the drain, it is the new reddit now.
I wonder. If we really create something that can become much more adaptive than all of us, is that a good goal?

And I don't buy the usefulness - maybe, but there is the problem of validation. At some point, a superhuman AI can state whatever it wants and we'd just have to believe it, because it and others like it are the only beings able to verify the statement.

Think of mathematical proofs that no single human can understand or that would take a generation of mathematicians to validate - and it spouts out hundreds of them a minute. The proof seems to apply most of the time but we don't know whether it's really true all of the time.

It is quite literally the creation of our picture of a god that we'd just have to believe. And the kicker is: they could make mistakes as well due to their architecture.
The US Dollar is the primary currency in which trade is conducted in much of the world. The US banking and financial system has much of the most powerful entities in the world relying on it for their future financial gains.

China, by comparison is a relatively more fragile economy with much of the growth there coming from manufacturing and real estate , both of which are sectors that are starting to struggle because, either there's pressure to move manufacturing away from external forces or internal force in China are clamping down on real estate speculation to free up the capital allocation crisis there where people would rather put their money on brick and concrete rather than back scientific innovation or commercial enterprise.

In short, the US can print $4-$5 Trillion dollars and get away with it while China simply does not enjoy the same luxury.
The X-Windows Disaster

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

>Things That Happen When You Say ‘X Windows’

>I was digging through some old papers, and ran across a 15 [now 33] year old “XNextEvent” newsletter, "The Official Newsletter of XUG, the X User’s Group", Volume 1 Number 2, from June 1988. Here’s an article that illustrates how far the usage of the term "X Windows" has evolved over the past 15 [33] years. (Too bad The Window System Improperly Known as X Windows itself [still] hasn’t evolved.)

>Someone on slashdot asks, “Why is it still called X-Windows?”. Predictably, the first reply says: “It isn’t. It’s called ‘The X Window System.’ Or simply ‘X’. ‘X Windows’ is a misnomer.”

>He didn’t ask why it is “X-Windows”. He asked why it’s called “X-Windows”. You’re wrong that it isn’t called “X-Windows”. It is! It’s just that it isn’t “X-Windows”. Being something is independent of being called something.

>The answer to the question ‘Why is it still called X-Windows?’ is: It’s still called X-Windows in order to annoy the X-Windows Fanatics, who take it upon themselves to correct you every time you call it X-Windows. That’s why it’s called X-Windows.

>The following definitive guide to the consequences of saying “X Windows” is from the June 1988 “XNextEvent” newsletter, “The Official Newsletter of XUG, the X User’s Group”, Volume 1 Number 2:

>Things That Happen When You Say ‘X Windows’

>THE OFFICIAL NAMES

>The official names of the software described herein are:

>- X

>- X Window System

>- X Version 11

>- X Window System, Version 11

>- X11

>Note that the phrases X.11, X-11, X Windows or any permutation thereof, are explicitly excluded from this list and should not be used to describe the X Window System (window system should be thought of as one word).

>The above should be enough to scare anyone into using the proper terminology, but sadly enough, it’s not. Recently, certain people, lacking sufficient motivation to change their speech patterns, have fallen victim to various ‘accidents’, or ‘misfortune’. I’ve compiled a short list of happenings, some of which I have witnessed, others which remain heresay. I’m not claiming any direct connection between their speech habits and the reported incidents, but you be the judge… And woe betide any who set the cursed phrase into print!

>- You are forced to explain toolkit programming to X neophytes.

>- Bob Schiefler says, “You should know better than that!”

>- The Power Supply (and unknown boards) on your workstation mysteriously give up the ghost.

>- Ditto for the controller board for the disk on your new Sun.

>- Your hair falls out.

>- xmh refuses to come up in a useful size, no matter what you fiddle.

>- You inexplicitly lose both of your complete Ultrix Doc sets.

>- R2 won’t build.

>- Bob Schiefler says “Type ‘man X’”.

>- Your nifty new X screen saver just won’t go away.

>- The window you’re working in loses input focus. Permanently.

>[...] Don wrote the chapter on the X-Windows Disaster. (To annoy X fanatics, Don specifically asked that we include the hyphen after the letter “X,”, as well as the plural of the word “Windows,” in his chapter title.)
Like where? I m happy to look into a few you would consider a success.
Relative privation is still a fallacy, though, isn't it?
It's like an insurance - you pay with chills now to avoid bigger hit later (more serious sickness or death).
I 100% believe that the main reason a country stays stuck in the middle income trap is its capability to create high tech IP which the nation can use to suck up what I would a global rent for lending out its IP.

That why the patent system is so toxic for the global south its like cutting off the steps on the value chain stair.
Just to give you a quick reply here, because its late here:

Yes, the basic fire weather metrics are derived from the factors you mentioned. Different places globally have some different measures, but I can speak to Australia, Greece, Portugal, California style setups. Northern US and Canadian pine forests are a little more outside my area of knowledge, but could locate more info easily enough.

I wouldn't wish to pursue a project using commercial IP or introduce additional costs where none should exist.
More like "Endless Error Handling Blog Posts". For all the big talk about how horrible the error handling is, it's really not a big deal in my day-to-day (having written Go code pretty regularly for over six years now).

For instance, if you have a function that does multiple things in sequence, how common is it to reorder the individual steps? Most times you have an intrinsic ordering between each step. And even if you reorder at some point, flipping some ":=" into "=" or vice versa based on compiler errors is not as big of a deal as the author makes it out to be.
It's not just a couple of dissenters, the official position of WHO is the same - we need to vaccinate the whole world before booster shots and vaccinating children in the rich countries.

As I see it there _is_ a consensus among scientists and healthcare professionals, but not among politicians who see booster shots necessary to keep their national economies up.
The scientist who's breakthrough made the Covid19 vaccine possible
It also can be used once shortlists are determined.

EG, we suspect person 1. Now, do a deep search on 1, find associates, do deep search one those.
Yeah of course, these are members of the community that were already contributing a great deal and just hired by Amazon. However, if Amazon is able to control the project and makes decisions for itself instead of the entire community of developers, that's a problem. My inexperienced opinion in OSS project management is leadership should be representative of the users and not cater to a subset.
How would it be a huge money maker for Apple and Spotify when anyone else can provide the same content, driving the cost down to the minimum required to cover the hosting and bandwidth.
Saw the thread title & clicked through to post exactly the same :)

It's a great set of episodes. This is without a doubt my favourite podcast. 2nd favourite being Knowledge Fight, which debunks Alex Jones and the nonsense that he spews on a daily basis.
I dont miss it... at all
What about sending the unused doses to developing countries? Then they wouldn't go to waste.
According to Harry Frankfurt, author of On Bullshit, it's when someone makes statements without any regard to their truth.
How do they propose to get Pfizer shots that have to be stored at -70 C, to areas in developing countries that need first doses?

As far as I can see, the vaccine that is actually suitable for developing countries is the AstraZeneca one, and this isn't often used in the west because of the blood clot issues.
The problem with this sort of analysis is that the logistical concerns of shipping vaccine doses are immense. For one thing, single "doses" don't exist - both Pfizer and Astrazeneca are distributed in multi-dose vials. If you as a patient are given a dose at the end of the day, and no one else is available right then and there to receive it, then that's anywhere from 1 to 5 doses which are literally thrown away.

As vaccination rates rise, the mere existence of vaccine stocks in countries with high vaccination rates means doses will be wasted - i.e. keeping the bare minimum on hand to vaccinate people as they need it means we have quite a lot of surplus doses which will otherwise definitely be wasted.

Hence the analysis of boosters: if there's any benefit at all to high risk groups (i.e. healthcare providers who overwhelmingly now were vaccinated about 8 months ago), then that's a productive use of local vaccine capacity which has to exist in some form (i.e. new people are hitting "vaccine recommended" age every day).
When have you last used a modern Android OS? This is just not true, it offers exactly the same kind of controls as iOS does.
I heard against the Delta variant, RNA vaccines help divide the chance of contaminating others by at least two, even if you're asymptomatic (because basically, the virus last half the tine in your body). And also, since you're contaminated for less time, there is fewer chance of a variant popping out of a vaccinated person.

Take it as someone who heard someone talk about it, did not research himself (because i don't really care) and isn't really sure of what the truth is. See this comment as a clue if this stuff interest you.
yeah ideally that should happen :) Just it hasn't so the choice isn't "use locally or send abroad" it's "use locally or let them go to waste"

TBF I guess this must be a really complex logistical challenge.
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