skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are going on your fourth shot?

Going? Gone.

Why would you take a second Moderna?

I initially thought about treating the Moderna round 1 as a booster to my 2 rounds of Pfizer. But the first time I posted from this account (I never should have used my real name for my primary account, too many crazies) it was to comment on a story about studies that Pfizer is less effective than Moderna vs Delta, that was 38 days ago. Now this discussion is coming from a story about hospitalizations rates for Pfizer vs Moderna. As the science regarding this pandemic changes my risk tolerance for myself and those for whom I'm responsible will change too. Right now "over vaccinated" isn't even a concept, if that changes I'll accept the consequences of my actions.
Angela Merkel did one Astra dose in April and then one Moderna dose in June. It likely works quite fine. I've yet to see any data showing that mixing vaccines produces a particularly greater risk of a bad outcome.

It did make me wonder why Merkel went with Moderna instead of BioNTech. I would assume she could have easily chosen either. Perhaps because Moderna was thought to be more potent by the June timeframe.
How about policies like those enforced in some European countries where it is illegal to contact an employee outside of normal working hours?
I assume the environmental impact is kind of peanuts compared to buying a car.
> So far this restoration (including money spent on 4K77 and 4K83) has cost TN1 a little over $16,000, but sadly there can be no box office receipts or DVD/Bluray sales to refill our bank accounts when it’s all done.

If you're looking for a cause to donate to, this seems like a good one.
Hello from Linux on my Apple M1's internal storage
The one shortcut I use the most, in addition to the listed ones, is "Ctrl-e Ctrl-e" which opens an editor then sends the resulting content to the shell.

Using an editor is great for loops, loops with nested conditions, etc.
This is nonsense. Devices with long life / good resale value sell more and/or can charge a premium (think German luxury models). This is true of iPhones as well, as even described in the article. Like the author I used an iPhone 6 until a few months after the 12 came out. I don’t see Apple driving “planned obsolescence”.

There is tons of cheap tat out there but high end phones are a peculiar target.
(Other than that quibble, I'm agreeing with the point.)
Well given that it’s replacing a 6s plus I think I’m ok.
Telegram blocks Russian opposition leader's chat bots during vote
> 10x magnitude of complexity

Yeah but if that 10x complexity jump is wrapped in an off-the-shelf facial recognition algorithm and some 30 year old motion control algorithms does it really matter?
North Carolina farmer, pilot witnesses emergency landing by military chopper
Damaged B-2 Moved to a Hangar Days After Skidding Off Runway
No inclination to let that Prizer dose be purchased for someone in Africa, eh?
Generating fresh ssh keys on the remote computer is an alternative to ssh-agent forwarding, not to ssh-agent per se. The alternative to ssh-agent per se is I think to leave your keys with no passphrase.
is Frash depreciated? Tried browsing without ECDSA support lately? It can be done.
Show HN: Live-paint (powered by ts-liveview)
live-paint (https://paint.liveviews.cc/) is a demonstration of ts-liveview v2-rc3. The server converts JSX expression into plain HTML response. The UI is then updated via websocket.

As opposite to React.js. The DOM updates are fired from server, and instructed with query selector (no virtual DOM). Hence, the amount of javascript downloaded and executed by client are minimal (or even optional for static web pages).
There really isn't anything because there isn't much reason to do it beyond "because I can".

The SoCs used in smart TVs are mostly older ARM and MIPS chips with just enough power for what they need to do so it's not like a game console where it's an interesting development target.

Beyond that, by their nature TVs have inputs, so plugging in your own device that runs whatever you want is trivial, so there's no real need to get something running on that device specifically when you can shove a stick in a HDMI socket and make it do whatever.

If the telemetry and whatever are your main concern you can just not connect the TV to the internet in the first place.
there's so much junk on amazon with gibberish brand names - a lot of the items under different brands look almost identical.

and this junk always is at the top of the search results. From flatware to electric kettles.

case in point - I think these are identical, just photoed from different angles. And there's several others that look the same.

https://www.amazon.com/Elemore-Home-Protection-Stainless-Bot...

https://www.amazon.com/Elechomes-Electric-Hot-Cocoa-Protecti...
one thing I dislike about costco - costco-specific models make finding reviews hard.
This is a great idea. I understand that the models are incomplete and there may be things we don't understand yet but every time one selects a particular partner for marrying and rejects the others we are engaging in some level of genetic testing. This is only slightly different from that.
I think there are some misconceptions here.

Wasm on the server using WASI (which nowadays is probably either wasmtime or wasmer) doesn't have anything to do with Javascript.

Actually, wasm on the browser doesn't have anything to do with javascript either! This is actually unfortunate, because wasm in the browser can't natively interface with JS's GC yet [0].

On the other hand, I think a great strength of wasm is that wasm isn't tied to a single memory management system: if it forced a GC on you, it would also need to dictate the memory layout, and would need to determine how this GC gets run, all this would add unnecessary overheard and inflexibility when compiling low-level languages. Or when compiling any language that don't quite conform to the memory management model, different languages want to manage memory differently. This is a pain in the JVM and wasm fixed that.

Another strength is vendor neutrality. All major browsers embraced wasm, and it's got multiple implementations in the server as well. There isn't really a dominant implementation that others must conform, and wasm tools are interoperable between implementations. There are also embedded implementations (I know of wamr and wasm3).

On a darker note, I'm sad to see see one WASI runtime bashing another [1]; I wish the competition was more cordial, or at least, more professional.

[0] see the issues in this repo https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc

[1] https://wasmer.io/wasmer-vs-wasmtime - makes outlandish claims and uses benchmarks without clearly specifying what is being benchmarked (ideally it would link to a Github repo)
Is this sarcasm? I wish publishers gave a damn about page weight. I’m sure some big names do, but most don’t, and it’s easy to see if you open any monetized website at all.
...unless they're unlucky to get caught early enough or don't have support of their rich family, in which case that's a propensity to make people go to jail.
Yes, exactly—Apple decides what's best for me. I know they'll fiddle with my menubar as they please. But it's very much outside their usual mode of operations to let random other apps decide what's best for me.
The ‘short lifecycle’ is a common idea, but it doesn’t match my experience. I think few people actually upgrade their iPhone every year or two, and if they are then they’re probably selling it or trading it in (in which case I assume it’s refurbished and re-used) because it has years left of life in it.

My friends who have Android phones seem to upgrade them almost twice as often as I upgrade my iPhone (about every four years). I’m still using my mid-2015 MacBook Pro for work every day, it’s a little long in the tooth so I will upgrade early next year (assuming there is a new Apple Silicon model around the end of this year). That will be six and a half years of heavy use out if it, which is longer than most laptops I’ve had from other brands have lasted…
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Android should be the focus of this. I’d be upgrading every two years with most android manufacturers, and maybe a year or two more with a Pixel, but I’ve got an iPhone XR than I probably won’t even think about upgrading until the iPhone 15 but will have to think about it because my XR will still be getting updates. The Pixel 3a is the closest Pixel Android contemporary to my phone and has been been in the new lately due to random bricking so… iPhones aren’t perfect but it’s been a while since I’ve needed to jailbreak to do something I’ve needed to do.
I have two reasons for supporting FOSS:

1) I should control all the software that runs on computers I own

2) Access to information is always preferable in all situations

This article really jogged me on the second one. The caveat is that there wasn't much beyond correlation proving it. But regardless, I think it's a really cool example of why access to information is so important.

What's tougher is drawing the line to connect access to information and direct benefit to the person giving up copyright. Presumably, most of Germany benefited from industrialization?
True but also the amount of code React requires (even putting the library itself aside) is ridiculous. I’m working on a React project (but not directly on React) and the file length for ridiculously-basic stuff is mindboggling. Vue and Svelte are much saner.
I fail to see the downside of choice.
It's fair enough that the manufacturer provides their basic out of the box apps, and no-one forces you to use others than Samsung's.

If you don't want to use the Samsung versions, they're easy to hide away eg in a folder in the all apps directory.

Typically a user puts most often used apps on a desktop anyway, so you'll only see what you want to use. My S21 Ultra has 512GB of storage, it's hardly want for more.
There are sites like this one that attempt to categorize stories according to left/right bias (of course, there's no way to label the bias of a story that isn't itself biased) https://www.improvethenews.org
> Amazon is filled with cheap junk nowadays

This makes it sound like there isn't a reason to shop at Amazon anymore. While it's true that there are a lot of fake reviews, fake products, and generally poor quality merchandise, I haven't personally had a big problem with it. I spend thousands on there every year and almost always get exactly what I'm after for a great price.

Now I don't buy a lot of cheap Chinese junk there, but I have(phone accessories, bluetooth devices, LEDs and lights, etc) and it's generally worked out great. If I want something Chinese I generally try to buy it for less on Aliexpress or another site, but that said, Amazon, for me, is still well worth the prime membership.
'ensuring that regulators and airlines perceived the MAX as so minimally changed from the previous 737 model that pilots would find little difference.'

What is consistently not discussed is that moving the engine mounts forward, to fit the larger fans, seemingly should have called for a new type certification. That would be epic expensive, so FAA and Boeing and airlines went along with the software tricks to make it appear to pilots to fly like other 737s. That works OK in most flight conditions, though can be occasionally catastrophic.
It's not obvious that transportation and quality assurance are cheaper overseas. At this point, China has grown its manufacturing sector so much that it's potentially better than the US in many ways (as far as QA goes). And for transportation, economies of scale mean that it's potentially cheaper to ship a massive container of good to a common port instead of having to hire trucks for each of your factories.

I'm not saying that either of these claims are true, but it's not clear that they are false either.
Just to reply to downvoters, since this was negative when I saw it: title has been changed! And I wholly agree, >1-2 years old deserves a year marker.

Sometimes I wish that this field didn't change so much, but sometimes I rejoice that it does.
Anything similar for Linux and Windows?

Modern SoCs do have secure enclaves, but how can one use it? I don't want a Yubikey dongle which i will forget at home when going to the office and vice versa. I'd be happy to get just the secure key storage without the fingerprint feature.
most of the new development is midrise to highrise condos.

I don't think there are any new SFH being built on empty lots.
Agreed. I'm not fetishizing scalability. I am saying that it is an inevitability.

If you can avoid it great, but if you continue growing. You must face it.
There are broader points to be made about the voting system on HN, and the efficiency with which we're sorting information. It bothers me how little conscious time we spend improving the mechanisms of the places we discuss in.

If the sorting system were a little better at avoiding good comments being downvoted, when they are pointing out something not immediately obvious and agreeable, that would elevate the efficiency of discourse.

That seems more valuable than the time that has been spent on it would seem to indicate.
Inspiration4 mission splashes down safely in Atlantic Ocean
> spend like 30 minutes weeding through crap, scammy duplicate looking listings

I'm confused. What are you shopping for if this is your experience? I've run into a lot of fake reviews but otherwise I still goto Amazon by default for any purchase outside of groceries or bulky, cheap items.
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This blog post by a VPN company is totally not biased and not written to promote their totally independent (for now)
, transparent (for now) business.

I mean they're not wrong, but it's hard to take seriously when they've got a horse in the race.

I subscribe to not one, but two VPN providers, but it's less about anonymity and more about region blocking and the fact that certain sites behave differently if you're out of the country (which, I am on a permanent basis).

This is mostly, I presume, anti-fraud measures that seem to pop up when visiting niche Australian web apps from overseas.
Mozilla's VPN is just Mullvad.
earthquakes, at least in SF
If your phone is paid for, and your are out of contract, an you are in the US, your carrier must allow you to unlock your phone in regards to carrier locks. This is a requirement from the CTIA Consumer Code for Wireless Service that all major providers in the US are a signature.

see : https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/cell-phone-unlocking-fa...

Will they make it hard, probably, but at the end of the day, they will comply.

They will not unlock Bootloaders and there are no laws to require them to, and the FCC doesn't have authority over this element of phones.
Conjecture: a downvote can also mean "does not add to the discussion", where 'the discussion' is the original topic.

Counterpoint: I see many threads that get off-topic from the original post, and yet downvotes for them seem…random. Some off-topic sub-threads become lengthy and lively.

Colour me "confused".
.NET has always had a simple to work with date time API. At least compared to other languages it feels a lot cleaner.
Mutability introduces an entire class of bugs and is slower to execute. If don't mutate something, it's almost always frictionless and better to make it immutable.

There is tooling around immutability and a whole host of compiler optimizations. The resultant code is far less error prone.

Do you feel the same way about static typing?
> due to the 3x dosage and longer intervals between doses

Aren't these just hypotheses? They're very plausible, but I wouldn't go as far as saying the mechanism isn't in dispute. It's the outcome that isn't in dispute.
It's all tech/consumer products nowadays, everything has a 'short' lifecycle, which I guess means I shouldnt call it short since it's the norm. Relative to 50 years ago, perhaps.
Almost every phone I’ve ever replaced has been resold to somebody else to live a longer life. I assume this happens again and again until the phone is broken and is no longer worth fixing.

Is this not the case? I mean, we can’t all buy used phones all the time. Somebody at some point in time has to buy a new phone.

My current phone is going to be sold at a steep discount to one of my friends who has a smashed phone from like 4-5 years ago. It’s not like it’s going to the landfill.

I do agree though that iPhones should be more repairable, such that battery and screen replacements are more affordable. That way, my friend might have been able to repair his phone instead of replacing it.
Correct, the ABI is not stable. Given that they build a base system with a single rustc, that's not an immediate concern, though of course, a more stable ABI helps dynamic linking be more relevant.
> why don’t other companies do this that could better target dumb people?

This is the interesting question. I think mostly it's the (correct) fear most businesspeople have of being caught taking advantage of rubes. They fear the social stigma, the impact to their business reputation, and potential litigation. It's the ones willing to take on all this additional risk that go on to rake in cash selling snake oil and magnetic holistic government-grade encryption bracelets.
You can use Linux network namespaces to apply it only to processes in that namespace.
> Rainbow (USA series) flip-flops

I will never buy another pair of flip-flops. So comfortable and the durability is so good I'm only on my second pair after 15 years of very consistent use. I literally run the treads out.

Breaking them in takes a solid month which is just getting your foot imprinted into the cork... but any initial discomfort is 100% worth it, and minimal in my experience.

There's also a very good warranty but I haven't personally used it.
The larger point is that we have to reduce consumption to make a dent in climate change. The old slogan was "reduce, reuse, recycle" where reduce and reuse come first. But that requires giving up luxuries or learning to repair stuff which is much harder than sorting your trash a little bit while continuing the same consumption patterns - I think that's why reduce/reuse are largely forgotten now and the focus is on recycling. Meanwhile there's data showing most stuff thrown in recycling ends up as trash anyways because sorting and recycling is prohibitively laborious and expensive in most cases.
I wrote it in another older thread: Make a service that asks you for say $1000 USD upfront and then pays you back partially every month until you find a match.

Of course there must be logistics against anuse/fraud. But that would align incentives.
Yes CDC tracks how much of each vaccine was administered. See bottom of below page.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-...
Ehh services like turo will bubble up, I just got back from a 5000 mile road trip in a turo car, cost less than enterprise would, and had a much better car.

I'm usually not big on gig economy services, but this one has made it much easier, and the owner of the vehicle was stoked, he earned 2 car payments in 9 days.

* I'm not plugging turo, I just don't know any others in that space and is the one I use.
Correct.

was that because of the carefully asked and answered question about previously having had moderna, and not mentioning the previous pfizer?

Nope. I'm not going to bullshit anyone here, if I had been asked if I was already vaccinated I would have lied (BUT NOT IF THE DOSES COULD HAVE BEEN REDIRECTED, I never would have requested the Moderna round if doses weren't sitting unused.)
> These days, 99% of shoes sold in the U.S. are imported, many of them from China, Vietnam and Indonesia.

So you’re part of that 1%, congratulations.
Most (if not all) states aren't requiring an ID, so it's pretty easy. I'm getting suspicious of the Santa Clara county vaccination numbers. I wouldn't be shocked if 5% of people got a third dose.
https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2021/09/14/boeing-MQ-25-T1-...
It's actually because retail markup is about 2.5x on top of wholesale. The difference pays for rent, salaries, marketing, margin for discounts, and so on.
So this is kind of a 'dark pattern' as it makes orders harder to cancel. I think it can be intentional sometimes.
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Guderian's Achtung-Panzer! is required reading here.
Apparatus – hybrid graphics editor and environment for interactive diagrams
The gifts could then sit in "quarantine" for a day or so, with an Android phone running AirGuard sitting nearby.
Hopefully someone's testing this, but I'm really curious if J&J would be better as a booster because it works somewhat differently.
> I’d much rather be an elitist than go through life thinking comic books are the height of human expression.

Perhaps I'm too much of a child to understand your point, but this seems like a straw man.

I think the original contention was that MCU content is low quality (and no one has provided anything to support that claim beyond hand wavey "it's for children" nonsense). The other contention was that MCU films reduce the quality of the cinema industry overall, which is a similarly baseless claim.

Independent films still exist. Dramatic films still exist. Artistic production still exists. I haven't seen stats, but I would be shocked if the market for such content is smaller now than it was in 2008.

There's the possible claim that MCU sucks the oxygen out of the room for more artistic productions. I think the idea is that the world would be better if popular content didn't exist, so that we'd all have only "artistic" content available. I think that is a world in which fewer people watch movies at all, not a world in which everyone is driven to only appreciate high art. Thus the claims that MCU reduce the quality of cinema overall seems hard to defend.

I'm curious about the other perspective, so any perspective or analysis that better explains the thinking would be helpful. Otherwise I have to assume folks are just coming up with stories to justify their elitism.

BTW: "theme, meaning, film making craft, and artistic merit"

- craft was addressed in all of the sub-categories listed: performance, visual art, music, audio, effects

- theme/meaning: varies by film (because they aren't all the same). Sometimes it's loss and grief. Sometime's it's managing conflicts. Sometimes its reckoning with the inherent conflicts in heroism. Sometimes it's displacement after war. Sometimes it's about the forces that drive people to extremism. IDK humans aren't that complicated.

- artistic merit: a bullshit concept and I think you know it. Literal urinals have artistic merit. Canvases painted red have artistic merit. "Artistic merit" is elitism in distilled form.

Edit: I will concede that the performances in "Black Widow" were particularly weak.
Playing video games and receiving welfare while living with the parents is probably not a bad choice for those with few opportunities. I would not want to do dead-end jobs just to never be able to own my own home and have a wife and children etc.