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> The unvaccinated are showing an extreme lack of empathy.

I see this sentiment a lot and it indicates to me a fundamental misunderstanding what is driving people to avoid vaccination.

There is a very strong correlation between vaccination rates and trust in the government. Groups with historically low trust in the government (like conservatives, blacks, and hispanics) have the lowest vaccination rates. Conversely, groups with historically high trust in the government (like liberals and asians) have the highest vaccination rates. This suggests most people decided on whether to get vaccinated long before it was available based on their trust in the government which is pushing so hard for it. The resulting spread in misinformation is just the result of mass confirmation bias.

The "lack of empathy" argument depends on the unvaccinated actually believing the vaccine is safe and effective, yet still ineffective enough that their vaccination will help protect others. But they obviously don't believe that.

Suppression of misinformation wont help because - as I'm sure you've seen many times by now - the very act of suppressing information will only reinforce their confirmation bias. It's quite the dilemma.

I personally believe the only solution is for people to hear these people out to patiently, compassionately reason through their concerns. And I believe we should do this knowing full well that many will not be convinced the first time and many will not be convinced ever. Of course, it would help if we collectively agreed to stop harassing them and treated them like concerned humans with misunderstandings instead of malicious fools. Sadly, social media rewards the opposite of this behavior.
Except that the unvaccinated are doing in en mass, if there were 1/2 a million deaths from parkour us pro-social people would be screaming about it too.

In the end staying unvaccinated for no real reason (mah freedoms! is not a real reason, nor is any other misinformed gibberish like 'it's not a real vaccine' or 'I don't want to be in the experiment') is antisocial and should be squashed as any other antisocial behaviour like graffiti, stabbing car tires, sucker punching strangers, puking in doorways, dine and dash, etc... Yea yea yea, some of those are actual crimes. But that's not my point. It's selfish and unnecessary. Shame, shame, shame.
this made me smile. :)

oh, uncountable infinities.
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It seems to me that some people on here believe there should be no moderation/censorship whatsoever on the internet. I don't know how they propose to keep sites from being completely overwhelmed by bad actors, spam and illegal activities.
Why have a bias for that particular attribute?
>(Though it supports the idea that all laws should have a sunset clause and have to be intentionally renewed rather than just stay on the books because of apathy)

This is honestly one of my favourite political concepts at the moment. I first became aware of it after reading an interview of Owsley Stanley of all people, but I've seen it discussed here on HN recently too. I really think it could solve a limited but very important set of society's problems. It's also neither left nor right wing in any meaningful sense, it has a broad non-partisan appeal.
I guess I misunderstood. Both being obese and being unvaccinated are risk factors for ending up in the ICU due to Covid. One is morally reprehensible according to some people and the other isn’t. I think we should accept both or none.
Right, but any constant doesn't "encode" this information. To use a normal constant to encode information, you need to encode the location of the substring of interest. Generally, the location of the substring of interest needs to require as many bits as the substring itself (unless there's an intimate relationship between the number and the substrings of interest). So arguably it's the location that encodes the data, the number is irrelevant (and why not encode the data directly into this location?).
No, Classical music was popular period. But the elites consumed most of the professionally performed music as it was expensive, whereas other people had to rely on friends and families who could play an instrument themselves, or go to a place where there was a free or cheap performance, for example Church. But just because the elites consumed most output of professional musicians did not mean that ordinary people did not consume the output of amateur musicians, especially in their own families, where it was not uncommon to perform music after a meal or during family gatherings.

Many families would have at least one member who could play the piano or the violin - more often the violin. Here is a noted British musicologist reporting on his travels through Europe:

"I crossed the whole Kingdom of Bohemia from south to north, and being very assiduous in my enquiries, how the common people learned music. I found out at length that not only in every large town, but in all villages, where there is a reading and writing school, children of both sexes are taught music”[1].

Yes, many of these violins made by local luthiers were cheap but by modern standards they were serviceable. In terms of people who did not own their own instruments, they heard organs and choral pieces in Church -- the Church was the primary provider of public music at the time, and sacred music was until recently the most commonly performed type of music, and indeed the development of Western music began with sacred music (the Byzantine empire was responsible for elaborating on the music of classical greece and giving us much of western music theory).

When public operas began to open they were wildly popular. Mozart wrote for one of these. This is much like the situation with restaurants. Originally the elites had private chefs that cooked for them. Over time, these chefs began to open their own business and cook for the public. Then over time, the food got cheaper with casual dining.

But this is not to say that people didn't eat traditional meals, they just cooked for themselves, as amateur cooks. So with music, they performed for themselves as amateur musicians. It is interesting to note that the first uses of copyright were not recorded music but sheet music, that people would pass around, copy, and perform for themselves.

But "free" public music -- e.g. apart from a wealthy benefactor paying for a public concert or something outside of a Church -- did not become widespread until the advent of the radio.

[1] The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and United Provinces. London 1775: newly edited by Percy A. Scholes as An 18th Century Musical Tour in Central Europe and Netherlands. London Oxford University Press, 1959) Cf. Chapter X, p. 131,32
Out of interest, what’s your concern with your phone reporting the location of other devices?
Microsoft and Amazon are software/cloud companies; they can pick up and move on a whim and Olympia knows it.

Manufacturing is much more vulnerable, over much longer timescales.

King County runs the state and everybody knows it. I don't like it, but I don't delude myself either.
Yeah, and sometimes it feels like I'm writing a really cumbersome dialect of javascript.

I mean, something simple like:

let i = 0;
const inc = () => i+=1;

becomes:

const [i, setI] = useState(0);
const inc = useCallback(() => setI(currentI => currentI + 1));

Every single thing needs layers of abstractions upon layers of abstractions.

For all the hate angularJS got, at least with dirty checking your javascript was just plain javascript. I'm leaning more and more towards svelte, which offers this, but more performant than with dirty checking.
How would a video on youtube prove iraq did or did not have wmds? That wasn't determined until the US was able to inspect the country themselves. That's the thing of this. Anonymous accounts on the internet should not be seen as a source of truth since videos are easily misconstrued or manipulated or are outright fraudulent, yet people frequently hold up some faceless video as their truth rather than someone who spends all their time working in whatever area and is paid to have this expert knowledge. Like, imagine millions of people rejecting the advice of plumbers when it came to plumbing thanks to these crazy conspiracy videos being circled around the internet. That's not helpful to society, but its literally happening when it means medical advice.
Hopefully ECS/fargate will also be supported soon. I tried shifting our CI workers to ARM but it resulted in not being able to use them to build ECS images, which was not great.
For me, the other side is shifting goalposts.

I could not get vaccinated in Germany. Every illegal immigrant could get vaccinated but I as a German citizen, since I was not registered with the police, (some countries have this, for a US citizen this sounds weird) could not.

Ok, caught corona in south America in the Andes mountains and had serious breathing problems but survived.

I have a biotech background and I am sorry to break the news to you. Vaccinations won't make corona go away. I fact it may force it to adapt faster.

So why should I get vaccinated now? I dislike all the government pressure that is put on citizens in this regard.

An the parties in Sao Paulo are back on. No masks. Germany is not considering Brazil even as a high risk country anymore.

So why the force for vaccinations? Freedom won't come back except if the Citizens demand it.
I acknowledge that you have responded to my comment and therefore I do not consider you were trolling. I do not acknowledge that you have addresed my points (especially 1.1 to 1.5). Actualy answering to this will however take significantly more time. I do not know if I will actually allocate that time, it's past midnight.

I tried to focus on your 2 points and how the initial link did not actually support either of them and it was mere video editing trickery. You have instead brought a good chunk of your world view on the subject into the discussion and even some accusations.
I will note that even in QM, both space and time are considered continuous - the Planck length is just a smallest measurable distance, but nothing in QM currently assumes that particles must be separated by an integer multiple of the Planck length (unlike spins, for example).

I believe there are some theories of quantum gravity that do rely on the idea that space-time is quantized in integer multiples of Planck's length, but these are far from definitive theories.

A much more relevant limit in terms of possible information density is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which essentially puts a limit on the maximum possible precision for any measurement.
From my understanding, Adams is talking about clearly defined outcomes such as "lose 50 pounds" verses targets "get healthier" and is suggesting that it's better to have targets and then devise systems to get you incrementally closer to the target.

In this vein, there's a good quote from Elon Musk in Everyday Astronaut's interview with him at Starbase: "A guided missile is going in the wrong direction at any given point in time, but it course-corrects.

You don't want to be a super precise cannonball when you don't even know where the target is."
Yeah, fighting ignorance isn't easy. But the alternatives are much worse, ineffective in the long run, and by damaging your credibility, impair your ability to fight rationally in the future.

De-platforming is always going to fail because your opponents are hydras. "Yay, we crushed Milo Yiannopoulos!" Er, wait, how's that going, really? Malevolent troublemaking nihilists are still at large? _Donald Trump_ won the next election?

Better to have it out in public.
It will probably take a while to ramp up - it's explicitly opt-in and I expect there's a huge amount of existing code that creates lambdas without being able to specify the architecture. For starters example Terraform and Cloudformation don't support it yet. And if you're using a 3rd party layer you need to wait for them to publish a layer that explicitly supports that architecture.
I mean, they stopped demanding the feature every day. Clearly they were aware that something changed.
What kind of vaccine mandate are you talking about? In my province, there are only a few non-essential activities that require vaccination. I wouldn't call this "banning from basic society", at least not in our case. But your experience might be different.
This is also the guy who basically wrote a letter to the public / app developers that said 'you can't use flash' so blatently the DoJ, SEC and FTC were roshambo'ing each other to see who got to sue him first.
(2019)

What a strange post. This guy namedrops Scott Adams and writes a few lines referencing Adams' 2013 book How to Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big, but it's pretty unclear to me if he understood the point that Adams was trying to make. In Ch6 Goals vs Systems, Adams writes:

> To put it bluntly, goals are for losers. That's literally true most of the time... The systems-versus-goals point of view is burdened by semantics, of course. You might say every system has a goal, however vague. And that would be true to some extent. And you could say that everyone who pursues a goal has some sort of system to get there, whether it is expressed or not. You could word-glue goals and systems together if you chose. All I'm suggesting is that thinking of goals and systems as very different concepts has power. Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system. That's a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.

Looking at the blog post author's emboldened claim, "Systems don't work without goals", and his implication that every olympic athlete who does not claim his or her medal emoji is a failure, it seems clear to me that he either missed Adams' point entirely or has his own agenda with respect to "goals" as a buzzword. I will also point out that the project that his blog links to is a $10/month subscription service that itself functions as a system to help people achieve their goals -- so perhaps this is someone who has a vested interest in this semantic battle.
Wow, I was unaware of this and was really confused why the sourcer got fired.

DOJ helped software engineer salaries tremendously
It's a pity Alipay was hamstrung by an impotent Winnie the Pooh. It could have been a great catalyst in the belt-and-road region, waking US payment companies to the opportunities in this region.

I'm glad Stripe is a making small steps.
https://zty.pe/ is played by typing words. Great sound and I find it addictive.
Not in any way that shows up in the actual statistics.
Let's get some perspective on U.S. deaths in 2020 [1]:

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

For the whole year 2020, heart disease was 2x bigger killer (700 thousand) than COVID (350 thousand). Cancer was bigger killer still than COVID. Stroke was smaller than COVID - I was wrong about that.

COVID gets scary in the few months when it gets out of control, like in January [2]. Those trips are a reason to use some extraordinary measures to prevent next ones.

[2] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19-continues...

Long term, COVID is a smaller killer than the other killers in the U.S.
I think there is a lot of context being left out here, and people who were not in the industry during this time period will wonder whether this is legal or whatever. The answer is, no it is not legal and there was a class action lawsuit.

Also, to be clear, the lawsuit was not defending any company's right to hire from anyone they want. The class action lawsuit represented the employees of the companies involved in the anti-competitive behavior.
Seems like a gross overreaction to fire the recruiter in question.
Your hardware needs a low-power mode to activate, before you can activate it.

All of the iPhone “off” features, like express transit cards and find my use dedicated low power hardware that seems to be capable of running the feature without an active CPU telling it what to do.
I suspect we'll see "Cover Song Generator" any time now. Put in name of selected song (or just a lyrics prompt), put in name of selected musician, press start. The RIAA is going to hate this.
Fun fact: incidence of skin cancer in notoriously cloudy and rainy WA is substantially higher than in almost always sunny HI or CA or TX. I bet the vast majority of "scientists and doctors" don't even know this.

https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/#/AtAGlance/
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Every number has infinite digits or can be made to have infinite digits for a given representation, but that's not the same as a number having an infinite amount of information. PI represents a finite amount of information, as opposed to say a number like Chaitin's constant which represents an infinite and irreducible amount of information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant
That's weird. I got bit by a dog 5 years or so ago. It was such a light bite that I initially didn't even realize it had broken the skin - when I realized what had happened and went back to talk (realistically maybe strongly talk because the guys dog bit me with no provocation that I was aware of and zero warning. Animal didn't even bark - it was straight to lunge. And the guy was parked right in front of grocery store. ... but I digress)

Anyhow the guy and his dog had vanished. I waited a day or so and then went to the Dr. and the ended up getting the rabies vaccine which was annoying because it's 3 ... or maybe it was 4? shots over a couple of weeks. It didn't cost a lot though. I guess insurance covered it but it's not like I've got wonder insurance.

Who knows though maybe it is incredibly expensive.
> the goal should be is reducing hospitalizations, deaths and long-Covid for the good of people (don't die) and that of the health care system (ICUs not overrun).

I agree, that's an excellent goal! Universal vaccination seems to be an excellent means of achieving it. Besides that, what other thrusts would you like to see?
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There's physical skills involved too, it's not just knowledge.
Oh really? That's surprising as well, I would've expected top talent to be paid more by jumping around.
That'd be great. I'll also stop paying taxes that cover public healthcare and just use private hospitals while I'm at it.
No amount of increase of general scientific literacy will allow public in general to read/understand highly specialized fields. And most fields end up being highly specialized. But access to source can allow someone to validate the claims by a journalist or a public officials trying to bend conclusion to support their view. On top of it, it allows wider cross functional view, when someone with a data science background can check statistical reasoning used in, let’s medical research paper, etc.
Ok, take the vacc. (I would have taken it if had been offered it before I got corona.)

Ok. Then what? What will happen? Corona goes away? Seriously? Corona is here to stay my friend.
To be honest, there was more effort in all the backend stuff, and some friends helped me along the way.

I'm a digital communication strategist, so all the design and content took about 16 hours. The theme being used is from my old website and was I had built it around content-modules that can be mixed and matched.

Next step is to reach out to doctors and researchers in Neurology so that they can use it and guide the development of new features they might need.

Thank you for your comment.
To be fair, this is Hacker News.
This is such a strange claim to make, I can't even tell what you could have meant. We are surrounded by simplistic mechanical computations moving muscles , and have been for more than a hundred years, since the industrial revolution at least.
But, to be clear, my argument is that you constantly posting the same links over and over again, just comes off as bad faith berating.

Do you understand this?

Because it is not clear that you are actually reading my comments or that you understand this.

Can you like snap out of this? You aren't helping anyone when you constantly post the same links over and over again. It feels bad faith.

Do you understand the problem with how you are acting?
Well, they generally can't: laws are written and passed by a legislature.

You could make this sort of argument for executive orders, though.
> yet I just can't get seem to break into the next job title tier because "We don't need a principal."

> I just found out my lead was just promoted to principal.

Brutal. Good luck.

Got a plan?
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They do, but the lawsuit was brought by the class of affected employees, not by the companies. The companies were all in on the anti-competitive behaviors
YouTube's business model is based on the free speech rights that have been secured by flesh-and-blood citizens for 245 years. The same benefits they don't see fit to extend to those citizens. They are like a beverage bottling company that draws clean water upstream before dumping their toxic waste back into the same river downstream.
Your way at arriving at 99% is quite dubious, as it assumes that from the beginning of the pandemic an equal number of Americans are vaccinated and unvaccinated, and that they are equally exposed to the virus, and that they are in equal risk groups, none of which is true.

From what I have read the those who are vaccinated are about 17 times less likely to be hospitalized. Here is a link to an example article showing that statistic:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-vaccin...

There is very worrisome data coming out of Israel that shows that the risk of breakthrough infections is likely to rise, as delta becomes more predominant and the efficacy of the vaccines wane.

https://www.science.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vac...

Simply put, I don't think the assertion that the unvaccinated are killing the vaccinated is untrue. There is a lot of data that shows that being unvaccinated greatly increases your chance of spreading the virus. The virus is a much bigger part of our lives due to the unvaccinated.

Data is increasingly showing that being vaccinated is not a guarantee that you won't wind up in the hospital, have long term symptoms, or die from the virus, especially if you are in an at risk group.
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> I'm not sure what "not a chance" is referring to.

That a business that would use Ruby in 2009 would use Go for the exact same thing in 2021.

Of course companies use low level tools.

But is any startup going to use the Rust version of Rails for their website? No. And on the flipside, is anyone going to use Ruby for some highly intensive numerical computation? No.

Businesses usually use more than 1 tool. Need fast computation? Use Go, Rust, C++, Java, etc... Need to prototype a CRUD website super quickly? Ruby, Python, PHP, JS. This isn't exactly a rule, but Rust isn't meant to replace Ruby any more than Ruby was meant to replace C.