skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sinovac is considered barely effective, even by WHO, who consider it to be 51% effective, vs. 70+% for Western vaccines. (50% is considered to be ineffective.)

Most countries who have an alternative don't use Sinovac.

Japan reported contamination of Moderna, and recalled a million doses:

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pande...
A couple of things I found interesting from the study:

- The eligible participants in the study tended to be over the age of 65 (Moderna median = 66, Pfizer median = 68)

- The Pfizer cohort (738 eligible participants) was almost twice the size of the Moderna cohort (476 eligible participants)

Would these factors have skewed the results at all? To me it seems like the study strongly indicates a difference for those age 65 and over but not necessarily for younger groups.

There is also still evidence of strong protection from hospitalization and death with both vaccines so I don’t think anyone necessarily needs to be regretting the fact that they got a pair of Pfizer shots at this point.

Source study: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7038e1.htm#T1_down
Voip.ms suffering from multi-day DDoS attack; POP servers down
There was some discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28559517
The whole state has a housing crises. Even the little towns in the sierras or way up north.
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Polartec is the industry standard for synthetic outdoor clothing fabric. It’s like boots with Vibram soles - not exciting, but reliable and long wearing.
haha yes that first part was what I was implying
SB9 is highly politicized, I'd assume a little much for Sat night for most of us haha :)

I imagine if this wound up higher on the page it would be flagged out
Hm I don't see mention of vi key bindings? set -o vi is awesome in bash / Python / R, etc.
Toy Story was not "re-rendered at great effort for 3D". It was converted to 3D. Obviously, this takes a lot of effort.

It's not obvious whether any of the comments here that "they didn't feel it was worth it" are actually informed, or that's synthesis (guessing).
Time is money, which is why I'll be saving both by not using amazon anymore. A week and a half ago I bought a small item I need soon. I found a listing which was clearly a no-name Chinese seller but the listing was prime. Today I checked on why the package hadn't arrived yet. It turns out it shipped from China a few days ago and was expected to show up sometime in a month. I got a refund and ordered from Home Depot.

Amazon is good for nothing right now.
yearly iphone replacement costs $1 a day. Cheaper than your daily latte. Hate to break it to you, but $1 a day won't save the earth.
I can agree with you. I am not trying to press antivax or for vaccines. I am trying to highlight how terminology was changed to allow covid mRNA to qualify under the FDA.

I also was taken aback by the full on defense of 'capitalism' as it relates to the covid shots.

That was not a freemarket driven choice. It was paid for by the US government via tax payers. To conflate them because of social purpose, or whatever ideology people want is just wrong.

They stand to make decades of profit and it wasn't some high moral road. It was only for money.
It’s weird that there is so little mention of natural immunity as a cause of declining measured “effectiveness”. The vaccine effectiveness should trend towards 0 as the unvaccinated population acquires natural immunity. That doesn’t mean the vaccine isn’t working.
I believe it still does make a difference. Email has transformed greatly in the past 10+ years. What has primarily been a communication medium has now become a key to our online identities. As our online identities gain further importance in real life, it is critical more than ever that we protect our email accounts both technically and legally.

The technical aspect has been improving with more emails encrypted in transit using TLS, so email being inherently unsafe is only half true. We also need to care about the legal aspect too, and it makes sense to avoid email providers operating in countries without legal protection for users.
> inferior vaccines for poor people

I thought the vaccines in the US were free, why would the inferior ones be for poor people?
The text of the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
Tiger on PowerPC: 8.99999999983257

Catalina on Intel: 9.000000000000055
People with magical powers are somewhat equally relatable to Western audiences as non Western audiences.

So any Marvel movie that works in the America will be good anywhere.

Hollywood comedies however struggle in the new system, good humour is site specific. Unless you take it off site like Pixar does.

Throw in sequels help people who are not immersed in Hollywood/West, and you have a profitable formula which allows you to invest more in each movie.

Like everything today the answer is the Internet, but it's how Marvel are using the globalisation, as it stands.
A perfect storm for container shipping
They look… exactly the same as these? https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/sunglasses/RB2140%20UNISEX%20ori...
If you're the sort of person who does risky things you tend to know. Hooking up every night in the Castro isn't something that just happens, even if the acts aren't particularly premeditated.
Three years ago Comcast told me they would be rolling out IPv6 to my business account... I'm still waiting.
Not sure I follow this.

Flutter uses Skia as the rendering engine - albeit with a different layout engine.
JS on Chromium uses Skia.

If you are using JS to talk to Flutter to then talk to Skia, what's the value add? Is it the multithreaded layout engine?
Where to find decent, unbiased news?
Would anyone have any recommendations on where to find news that is as unbiased as reasonably possible? Modern media seems to be agenda-driven and completely compromised from an ethical perspective. US-based here and I’m looking for just the facts to be honest. I’m not even sure if this is a thing for journalism anymore (facts).
Yeah, so what?

Pretty much the entire world uses time as developed by Sumerians 5,000 years ago, the sexigesimal system. Base 60. That's why there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. Also, since the year is about 360 days, the Sumerians divided up a circle into 360 degrees.

I have developed a system of 20 hours in a day, and 100 minutes in an hour, and 100 seconds in a minute. But NONE of those countries has adopted my more modern method and continue with a 5,000 archaic system.

If anyone wants to buy clocks or wristwatches with my new time, let me know.
The rush to comment while relevant is getting out of hand frankly. Some things require actual research.

EDIT:
However, I have some personal experience in single family zoned housing in the Bay Area, but I would really need to read up on the proposed changes first...

That said, I can say I felt very out of place and wish I had found a better, smaller place to live, for less.

Meanwhile, my first apt in SF was clearly built in a rush, the light switches were leaking, and homeless people would shoot up by the door. All for just over $3k/mo.

No thanks.
Do you mean the golang library fiber?
By definition, the places where land is abundant do not face market pressure to build dense
https://www.buyforlife.com/ is one place that's trying to do this, and while their product selection is pretty limited it seems like they're sticking to their principles.
Assassinating leaders individually seems to be a much more human solution to resolving conflicts compared with drone killing/bombing civilians or starting wars. Imagine if somebody had assassinated Hitler long before the 2nd World War had started.
> yet the companies she freelances with lately never seem to understand that they need to hire prod-dev people, so she ends up doing it

Absolutely. This seems to be a trend, and a lot of fashion designers I know have learned how to work with a factory or factory agents to get technical product design details communicated. Full-stack fashion.

It's also great to have a technical designer in the process so you don't end up with surprises like 20% margins because of exotic materials or three-month delays because of accessory availability issues. You end up with one person that knows how to create and design appealing products, and another that anchors them in the reality of the business and "steers" them towards options with better margin outcomes (who in turn is probably working with people in procurement and delivering technical specs to factories).

> But the benefit of her method is that she can more easily switch to different contractors and factories

Every businesses dream. I live in Los Angeles where this happens a lot in "smaller" batches downtown, which is always cool to see. It's a shame we've lost this ability on a state or national level.

> Are the products you have experience with garments/shoes or something else?

Almost exclusively shoes, and a little bit of everything else (handbags, some apparel and jewellery). It was a very humbling experience, learning how little I knew about design and manufacturing and that software was just an enabling force (not necessarily a driving force). Supply chain problems are hard.
> In this piece I explore how the history of the subculture left it open to fascist infiltration [..] This was not just what Black Sabbath were about, but also the blueprint for what heavy metal was supposed to be about.

Right. Every element of metal that the author dislikes is something that was "twisted" or "infiltrated" or "betrayed", and the author is the one true authority on what metal should be.
The original title on this was better imo
I remember reading article about San Francisco being the "mercenary city": Young professionals come here, live in tiny apartments, get big tech wages for a couple of years, then move somewhere more affordable.

With the remote situation, people are getting out of SF faster than ever.

Won't this bill drive up the price of a single family home while driving down the price of multifamily homes? But the dream for most American families is to settle down in a single family home. And so even if this bill lowers rent, won't it actually push more senior tech workers to look elsewhere for their eventual long term home, making the region more "mercenary" than ever?
That’s now how pricing happens at all. Rent is not based on “cost plus” pricing it is based on supply and demand
My soulver app on iphone says 9 - answer = 1.162985x10^-97 wow. That's basically infinite precision.

But then excel gives a compartively horrible result 8.99999999983268000 (maybe all the casting to and fro degrees and radians makes it worse?)

And python on the same machine, similar: degrees(asin(degrees(acos(degrees(atan(tan(radians(cos(radians(sin(radians(9)))))))))))) = 8.99999999983257
That isn't a uniform "housing crises" throughout the state. Susanville and Eureka are really different from San Francisco or South Lake Tahoe.

The bill also doesn't eliminate single family zoning everywhere, things like no sewers (so have to use septic) still apply to necessarily reduced density.
Just to talk in concrete terms, Jon Favreau only directed Iron Man 1 and 2. He was executive producer on Iron Man 3, and Avengers 1-3. Plus acting credits in MCU Spider-Man films.

He deserves plenty of credit for his work on Iron Man and launching the MCU (and the MCU's film making formula). Favreau has contributed to the MCU's continued market success with the Avengers films.

In my view Favreau's contribution ends there: the MCU is far more than just the Iron Man character, and Kevin Feige seems to me to be the one who has been pushing the MCU forward and keep it relevant.
Was hoping to see age addressed but I didn't, unless I missed it. Our population is getting older on average and that may have an effect.
The onus should be these "other places" to justify their egregious violation of property rights. The default should be people can build what they want as long as conforms to the building code.
>Enthusiastic Teachers & care-givers who gave support & encouragement to the children to use their laptops for creation & not just for consumption.

I worry about the prevalence of iPads in (first world) schools. iPads are great for consumption, but pretty terrible for creation outside of a few areas like drawing.
Seems great! https://cayimby.org/california-yimby-celebrates-signing-of-h...
Had the same story, I joined a startup as the first sales employee. A week later Twitter acquires our competitor, few months later the team dissolves and we are the only other company doing remotely something similar.

It seems like there is a pattern of companies buying other companies and that essentially helps the competitors.
> what is dark matter

Dunno. Does it even exist? Is there any inkling of this proposed stuff NOT acting according to some deducible laws. Seems pretty boring stuff - interacts with regular matter just via gravity. Do we have it in our head ? :-)

> is there a theory of quantum gravity

Is that a practical issue for predicting behavior of physical systems at any given scale? I'm pretty sure we don't need quantum gravity to adequately understand the chemistry of our brains.

> what is consciousness

Self-introspection via feedback paths in the brain. Damage those feedback paths and you'll get a condition such as "blind sight" where you can provably see, but not be aware of your ability to see.

> how does the universe exist

Dunno, but we're in it, and governed by how things behave in it. That question seems a bit off-topic regarding free will within our universe!

> is there any kind of fundamental randomness

Dunno. I'd bet not. Does it matter at the level of classical physics and above?

> are two particles of same type actually the same

Not sure what you're referring to. The Pauli exclusion principle?

> how about Godel's incompleteness theorems, etc

What's the relevance to the discussion? I can't prove what the stock market is going to do tomorrow either.
I wonder how many people will go from "I can afford a single family house in SF" to "I cannot afford a single family house in SF" as a result of this bill.
Affordable housing (or rather the zoning changes needed to realize it) is not always a popular topic on this site.
Volume/real estate
Has there ever been an effort of freeing up high density construction that resulted in lower housing prices?

In the places I lived, new construction of big apartment complexes was correlated with prices going up. The new buildings charged more for rent, people paid it, and the surrounding housing followed.
I think a largely unsolved problem is it's more satisfying to match than to re-kindle a conversation with a past match. The window after a match where a conversation can spark and lead to an offline interaction is fleeting and, once gone, it feels weird to re-message a past match.
Allowing multifamily homes to be built means people that want multifamily homes can have them. The other 98% of the land won't face the same pressure and it can bring down prices for everyone.
Mostly because it has first-class functions and that's about it. Future might be used as a monad, but I'm not sure. Currently it has no ADTs, no pattern matching, Java-like immutability, null safety seems to be a special compiler feature rather than an option type or monad.

Right now it's less functional than Java, about as much as JavaScript (though in JS classes are less idiomatic so maybe it's a bit more functional in practice).

Considering what people are asking to add to the language (https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/05...), I wish people would start with a minimal functional language (Caml/SML without the modules, so functions, pattern matching and ADTs mostly) and then add things from there. It's a strong basis for a language, and people are going to ask for that stuff later anyways.
OS has a really nice app I’ve used for long distance walking trips. I still carry hard copy maps because I’m like that but I mostly don’t use them except to get a broader view.
Your comment makes no sense. Building more housing means that housing costs will go down, making it way more likely that you WILL "be able to afford a single family home -- the American dream when you settle down..."
Bats in Laos Caves Harbor Closest Relatives to Covid-19 Virus
I have an iPhone X. I considered replacing it for a 13 Mini because I find the X very large and heavy, and uncomfortable to use with one hand. Otherwise I have no reasons to replace it. I have recently replaced its battery (same-day repair for £60 or £70) so it lasts as long as it did when I bought the phone.

When they replace lightning with USB-C I'll be very tempted though.
Where are you seeing these empty unused lots of land?
How can you not see the cognitive dissonance in your own comment?

The reason why everyone lives in tiny apartments and then moves to a cheaper area is SF is largely covered by single family homes, and building anything else is subject to so much process it drives costs up to the moon!
> Some foster collaboration and encourage outside contributions, e.g. Linux. Others are completely insular and barely tolerate it. The GIMP maintainers fall into the latter category. Unless you're part of the inner clique, you won't get anything merged.

I can't speak to this, as I don't contribute to them. However, for all the criticisms of Gimp and its development team, for photoediting no open source SW comes close to the power of Gimp.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Exactly, and apart from illegal work such as drug-dealing, the article points out a "working for cash" category with the example of electricians; I'm sure there are tons of people mowing lawns, etc. The more onerous tax reporting is, the more of that there's going to be; there was a time where this would simply have been considered "working".
Stages You'll Go Through When You Leave Your Job
Zoning laws are responsible for higher prices:

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2018/pdf/rdp2018-03....

The mechanism is clear cut. Restrict supply, price goes up. There's quite a bit of empirical support as well.

I don't doubt what you've observed but I think it needs to be addressed rigorously.
This was my "learn Rust" project:
https://github.com/technion/open_safety

The time I've spent on the Github actions is substantively higher than the time I've spent on the .rs files. Of course you can't "test actions before commit" in the way you can actual code, so I kept having to make branches, make 15 commits like "try action fix again", followed by squashing them all down and merging.
Hmmm ... yes? Actually ...

If you instead gave that $1USD/day to whatever carbon ofsetting startup out there you would neutralize your carbon footprint and even go into "negative emissions" territory.

So yes, that dollar could save the earth.
Yes, seattle over the last 5 years, as well as down town Houston Texas have both seen construction booms and price declines or slower than average price increases.
With retrograde thinking like that it's little wonder the UK lost its empire.
> A study by UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation found that the new law likely would add, at most, fewer than 700,000 housing units across California.

A good, a pointless divisive bill that does nothing to fundamentally address the issues.

It’s almost as if California politicians have discovered it’s better to have a bill that makes a lot of noise to make it seem like work is being done while simultaneously not doing anything meaningful that would truly disturb anyone.

This is another version of banning restaurants from automatically giving water while the majority of the water goes to farms that hardly pay anything for it.
Strong disagree. For image manipulation, Krita is not even close to Gimp's capabilities. I dislike that GIMP keeps being compared to Krita, when the goals of the two projects are quite different. Krita is more for digital artwork, whereas GIMP is more for photo manipulation.

Ditto with Blender - it's like comparing Blender with Photoshop - it makes no sense.

I used to do heavy photo editing in GIMP. I know of no one who does serious photo editing in Krita.
It all seems horribly overengineered. Use apt to install python and pip, then use pip to install Ansible, then use Ansible to install a bunch of stuff that appears to pull in docker as well.

Good grief.
Just in case people don't understanding zoning laws, this doesn't mean you can't have single family homes. It just allows people to split existing lots (with criteria around 3 years of tenancy and some other caveats) and in general removes places where you can only have single family homes.

As a general question, I think this means that people who currently own single family homes around the Bay Area are going to make out like bandits even more than they already were.
That reminds me of my experience with the cannon.

I was driving on a highway once here. And pulled off to get some gasoline. At the gas station, there was a semi truck with a huge object on it, and two military people were filling up the truck. I asked them what it was and they said that it was the cannon for the Warthog and we talked about it. I asked if they were not scared that someone would steal it from them. They laughed and said take it, that's ok. But it needs special depleted uranium rounds, so unless you can get them, how are you going to fire it? And secondly, how are you going to maneuver it around to actually use it? I asked him, in jest, that I could just strap it onto the top of my car to use it. They started laughing. They said that if you fired it, your ca would be going backwards at a high rate of speed.

My friend and I spent about 5 minutes talking to them after that.

That's my Warthog story.
If you write js (without kraken), you are limited to web browsers.

If you are using flutter directly, then you write code in dart (which react and vue do not support). But you can target native app platforms like Mac, windows, iOS, andi etc

If you use kraken, you write code in JavaScript, and can leverage react & Vue and target all flutter supported platforms like iOS, android, windows and Mac OS
I’m in the same boat. I’ve been openvpn for years and finally made the switch and blown away how well it works. All Linux of course.
The French version:
https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/carte?c=6.89051647838162,45.9...

you have the entire country at down to 1:3000, but the best ones are around 1:25000.
unfavorable response - this is not the place to ask. HN is not as nutral as you seem to assume. The real answer, is you have to do your own research. There's no easy answer, as everyone will give something different
There’s an obvious and easy first step: End Prop 13 for anything that isn’t an owner occupied home. Business/capital interests won’t allow that though.
If I wanted to move to California and live in a single family home (my wife is from there), won’t this legislation just make those dwellings even more expensive now? Because California government says no more future supply.

I get the urgency on addressing the housing situation in California, but this feels to me like “we must do something, and this is something, so we will do it”.
3.0? Don't forget the 1991 war.
The post is from 2018. I always like seeing discussion of other people's shell setups.
700,000 is not a tiny amount.
It's consistent with basically all non-US research too though, this is just one study out of many with consistent results.

The evidence for Moderna providing a larger immune response due to the 3x dosage and longer intervals between doses isn't really in dispute at this point.
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I sense a recurring theme... computer folks don't get that you can't just upgrade all the time, you have to actually keep legacy stuff around for decades if it's used for manufacturing.
Three popups for me on mobile Firefox. Closed the tab after that.

The web is so fucking awful these days.
I'm not sure about that last part. In general the people who own single family homes in the Bay Area have had nimby opposition to more dense housing being constructed since more supply lowers prices.