skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Two doses of BNT162b2 or ChAdOx1 vaccines in Alpha variant index cases independently reduced PCR-positivity in contacts (aOR, adjusted odds ratio vs. unvaccinated=0.18[95%CI 0.12-0.29] and 0.37[0.22-0.63] respectively).

> The Delta variant attenuated vaccine-associated reductions in transmission: two BNT162b2 doses reduced Delta transmission (aOR=0.35[0.26-0.48]), more than ChAdOx1 (aOR=0.64[0.57-0.72]; heterogeneity p<0.001).

> Variation in viral load (Ct values) explained only a modest proportion of vaccine-associated transmission reductions.

> Transmission reductions declined over time since second vaccination, for Delta reaching similar levels to unvaccinated individuals by 12 weeks for ChAdOx1 and attenuating substantially for BNT162b2.

Legend:

aOR: adjusted odds ratio. 1 => no effect, < 1 => positive effect, > 1 => negative effect. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938757

BNT162b2: Pfizer mRNA covid vaccine.

ChAdOx1: J&J adenovirus covid vaccine.

If I interpret the results correctly, as antibody concentrations decrease with time, virus transmission increases, to the point that J&J has no virus transmission protection after only 3 months and Pfizer being "attenuated substantially". This explains the boost push, as boosters re-increase the antibody concentrations, at least for a few iterations. Boost baby, boost!
I never understood why we don't do more of this stuff in school, and how calculus instead became the defacto advanced math curriculum in most high-schools. Students grow up working on their basic algebraic operations, solving equations, etc. Liner Algebra introduces them to the universe that lies just beyond those techniques, has very readily applicable uses, lends itself excellently to simulation/connections to computer science (which is super popular to teach now), etc.
They did successfully sue the manufacturer over those quality issues. The Fairphone 4 is produced by a different manufacturer and is expected to have much less of such issues.
Your US section is mostly accurate (and mortifying for the "trust the government" argument) in terms of how it was mentioned, but I disagree the "Trump's vaccine" segment. The numbers of the rollout might fit that story after the fact, but doesn't make it true.

Moreover, the entire odyssey of you should get this vaccine but only if you're in a very specific age or risk pool and let's punish people and hospitals who violate this set of ever-evolving poorly communicated rules did happen and might be even worse.
> More like there's obviously no designers on the team.

Given what we've seen from modern "designers", I'm actually going to count that as a positive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

However many downvotes you may have gotten initially, most of them are now for this reason.

To the original comment, what exactly was the role of government handling in the automotive industries mishandling of their chip supply chain? How did these automotive industry missteps lead to inflation?
I still walk in all kinds of shoes. From boots to boat shoes to trail runners. If I know I'm going to be walking long distance on paved paths, I will stick to a regular running shoe. I wear Brooks almost exclusively after a lifetime of Asics. If I know there will be softness to the ground (dirt paths/meadows) I will wear something like my Merrell Trail gloves. If there is any amount of ankle articulation, I will likely wear a high top of some sort, be it a street shoe or a hiking boot, either will work for 90% of my walking now days.

When I hike, its almost exclusively with my trail gloves, they just provide so much flexibility, they are also super light weigh and quick to dry.

I'm a bit of a shoe lover though, so walk with what you have, when you NEED something different only buy it then, but you can get 500-1000 of miles out of your running shoes when you are just walking.
> Awesome chiptune potential: 4 SIDs, OPL2™ (wip), 4-channel 16-bit DMA-based Audio in FPGA

FOUR SID devices? A new lot of actual 6581 or 8580 chips (which would justify the price, BTW), FPGA approximations (likely), or emulated in software?
ADHD is not something that pops up after 2 years. You prob just got bored lol. Either look at your work in a new light that inspires you, or find some new work. Or just take a break and go travel or something.
It's extremely rare that that happens. It's typically considered a criminal offence if you are caught twice in two years, but rarely anyone is following up on that. Only really frequent repeaters are really prosecuted.
That Sinking Feeling
Specifically they need to telemetry on the biggest change they made: how poorly does the new world generation and chunk loading work.

This was a huge change and it is honestly pretty slow even on beefy boxes.
Telegram deleted account/session was still able to receive messages
Briefing Paper – Six Actions to Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C
Silicon Lottery store closing
Mine's from 1997 so easily in that range.
This is more a discussion of semantics than about the amount itself.

The way I read the statistics is that the current debt is $28T of money that is already spent while the quoted debt of $146T is the amount of money needed to be spent to fill full current promises and expenses.

It's interesting that since the USA got off the gold standard in 1971[1], and thereby all countries that had a currency backed by dollars, the average household income has risen 5x but the price of goods like a house have gone up 10x.
This became possible because all for a sudden money was not backed by gold anymore, but could simply be printed when needed. This created huge money supply inflation [2].

Everything is getting too expensive, and the only reason we don't feel this too much just yet, is because often times cheaper alternatives where available.

My parents are in their 70's and they still have furniture that was (second hand) given to them when they got married. Can you imagine an piece of IKEA furniture being used daily and lasting for >40 years? My point about "cheaper alternatives" exactly...

[1] https://mises.org/wire/today-1971-president-nixon-closes-gol...

[2] https://twitter.com/WTF_1971
The McDonalds employees are not likely to know this. The contract itself is abusive, and its unenforceability is not a defense.
It's worse in every possible way: worse quality (improved recently, still worse), expensive, includes non replaceable batteries, therefore requires charging and increases pollution when the user is forced to ditch the phones just because the batteries died.
Thank you for your reply and for the links. Much appreciated.
When it works, it's no longer AI.

I know I'm paraphrasing someone smarter than me there.

(Edit: Larry Tesler maybe)
If Cloudflare is able to do this now, why wasn't Akamai able to do exactly the same thing when AWS was still a baby? Serious question. Was it lack of vision? Poor execution? Technology or market just not ready yet? Without such an answer, we might have to consider the possibility that Cloudflare isn't any more able to do this than Akamai was.
Keep in mind that most of the big three regions are located in the same metro area, often times right across the street from one another. They have private network peering that circumvents WAN circuits, your data is literally transiting between ethernet ports on the same switch.

So generally speaking, latency and bandwidth between services is not a significant concern. It's all about egress billing.
Cloudflare is truly amazing.

They almost compete with everyone now.

DNS: They eat simpledns lunch
Pages: They eat Netlify lunch
Worker: They eat serverless/lambda as in AWS/GCP lunch
R2: They eat AWS Lunch

And finally

Email Forwarding: They eat ... my own lunch (I'm founder of hanami.run an email forwarding service)

That's being said, from a user perspective, if my domain is already on CloudFlare, I can just host everything on it.

Right now, cloudflare workers is pretty great to add some dynamic stuff. And pages is great for static site.
Anybody has an example of website that is running one of the new certificates so we can see if our devices can connect?
>Identifying how a user dies is a fantastic way to identify items which can be sold to prevent those common deaths.

Just as commonly, it is done to identify bugs and issues, tweak the game balance to get it to a better state, or to see which things players like to do (as opposed to what they say on forums and in focus groups) in order to provide more of similar features.

It is no different from engagement logging in a lot of applications. It is far from always being done for the purpose of monetization. If my business application has a lot of users stuck on a particular screen for prolonged periods of time due to the UX being confusing, I would want to know about it and address it. A lot of times it is hard to gauge how bad it is, because users might just tolerate it if it is ok, or maybe it is something users attribute to their own fault (i.e., they might feel it is just them being confused about it, not that the UX is confusing for everyone). Engagement logging would help me identify that problem and pinpoint it very fast.

>How do you know [they are not using it for monetizing]?

How do you know they are? I am more surprised they didn't have that type of telemetry already for a while, because that's one of the most common ways to identify pain-points in the gameplay balancing, which features might need more attention/rework, identifying potentially very tricky to catch bugs, and come up with ideas for new feature ideas that users might like based on actual data (as opposed to hearsay and public feedback, which can get significantly skewed by selection bias and other factors).
If you look at his twitter videos are clips from the channel, and they're all about berating any initiative to take a free and safe vaccine.

Must have spoken in greater lengths about negatives that don't have any scientific bases. Which honestly at this point makes sense to start punishing. Where most of the people against the vaccine (Tucker Carlson/Bret Weinstein) at this point that are popular have taken it but puppet different positions for building a brand and/or money.
taking all the data with it

Man, I thought the failure mode of SSDs was (mostly) "can't write anymore, but can at least read, so backup NOW and get a new one". Or am I overanalyzing parent's statement, and taking it too literally?
https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2021-Sep...
So, this whole “Collatz Conjecture” thing
> there is debate to be had on these matters

Exactly what tobacco company execs said when they denied the links between smoking and cancer and other diseases.

Exactly as the climate-change denialists say when they delay and distract from efforts to address global warming.

Spreading doubt, deflecting criticism, and diverting attention are right out of the playbook for bad-faith actors.

What are we going to do to stop them?
Scalable server design in Rust with Tokio
Meanwhile in the UK: yearly train season ticket for 1+ hr journey: only GBP 5600.
As someone who is often interested in buying music hardware, it is hilarious seeing people freaking out about the price of this
Don't you think, though, that each boom and bust cycle leaves us closer to real accomplishments?

We now have protein folders and superhuman Go players -- that's new.

I agree that ML ("AI") is currently at the alchemy stage. And, guess what? A neural network isn't even Turing complete! [citation needed - correct me if I am wrong.] So ML can only compute SOME functions.

AGI, when it comes, and believe me, it will, will have ML as part of its structure, but only a small part.
If you can't reach slack.com, here's their status page:
https://slack-status.azureedge.net/2021-09/06c1e17de93e7dc2
Ask HN: Preferred Internal Wiki Platform?
As a startup, we found that Google Drive was sufficient for maintaining things like policies and procedures. Then, we hired people. I'm leaning toward using an internal wiki as a way to organize divisions, departments, policies, procedures, etc. and am interested to hear where you all have had successes or failures.

What are your favorite platforms that accomplish this goal, whether paid or OSS?

Also, any pro tips on how to effectively organize and manage an internal wiki are appreciated.

Or is there a better solution for organizing a company's internal knowledge and resources than a wiki?
yeah and maybe "The government" can step in and tell that private company not to censor them! you know. so the government....can protect a private individual from the actions of...a private company. through, i dont know, like a "law" or "regulation" or something, and...if they dont obey it, you know have courts and police and stuff all employed by...the government, to make sure it all works. Then we can get on with being libertarians!
If you install a server distro, the number of default processes is pretty minimal. Run GNOME on FreeBSD and you'll get the same huge list of processes.
Again, if this "experience" so "rudimentary", why do top engineers spend time on leetcode trying to get better for interviews? Wouldn't this "rudimentary" experience be learned through their, you know, actual work experience?
Regarding "genuinely curious": I've seen some real passive-aggressive comments that say that :)

Regarding "asking devs directly": I often find it challenging even to figure out where to ask. Going from a program to its package, dealing with interactions between packages, etc. All of which goes back to simplicity as a core goal. "Good reasons for complexity" isn't sufficient, IMO. Complexity requires having a place to explain the reasons, and making it easy for people to find the place. Considering that we're all volunteers when it comes to open source and this sort of documentation is difficult, I'd often rather err on the side of not having a feature rather than having a more complex feature.

On the other hand, there are fields like internationalization or power management on laptops that are irreducibly complex. Not sure where I'm going with all this. Open source today serves businesses more than people, IMO. But it also serves people indirectly through businesses. This is a difficult topic. Your comment made it seem like there's an easy thing Drew or I could do. I'm not sure that's the case.
I’d consider it at €400 (i.e. above a full MiSTer setup price) if it was a well crafted case like this but an Amiga 1200 equivalent with a C64 mode and SD card slot as “floppy”. Something more pragmatic.

This one instead reminds me of those Vampire FPGA’s with SAGA graphics mode running on a so called Motorola 68080, that is so niche on a niche system that nothing is developed for it other than tech demos and software compatibility suffers to boot.

Then again, I don’t like to complain about these passionate projects! They’re clearly 80’s “dream machines” of sorts. I just think that from a financial/success perspective this may not be where most profit is at.
Assuming those memories are from the 70s, $10k then are worth about $50k today. Never mind the fact you’re also buying a much, much better vehicle in most aspects.
Some portion of servers also prefer cash tips because it enables illegal tax evasion, which increases their effective take-home income.
I'm not seeing what about this isn't obvious. If you stimulate a crowd of people by firing a gun into the air they all react at the same time. If you stimulate a group of people with a stimulus it's possible to ignore like a story only the ones not ignoring it will react.
> Like I said, around 2010 even payment (e.g. the fundamental opposite of where a dynamic type system makes any sense)

What does a type system have to do with payments? The implementation of numeric types matters more, you can use a statically typed language but if you're using plain floats for a financial app you're going to have a rough time. Also a type system doesn't prevent math errors.

Ruby is also strongly typed so it's not like you can just mix up numeric types, plus has numeric types (BigDecimal) that are suitable for financial calculations (to be fair pretty much all languages do, even JS).

> Companies are building the same sorts of solutions in Go today that they built in Ruby in 2009. Loads of web applications are being built in Go.

Is there a single example on the level of Stripe, AirBnb, TripAdvisor, Shopify, etc...? Even early stage?

I don't see any Go equivalent to Rails, Django or Laravel. Most Go applications seem to be either back-end micro-services and it seems to mostly be in use in larger organisations. I have never seen a startup with <5 people using Go although I'll admit to have not looked that hard.

> That's like the first 0.05% of a product.

Is it? Tons of startups started without much more.
> They eat serverless/lambda as in AWS/GCP lunch

Aren't Cloudflare Workers a very specialized kind of lambda that's severely resource constrained and whose runtime is capped at 15ms?

If anything Cloudflare Workers compete with Lambda@edge, but it's very disingenuous to compare them with AWS Lambdas and it's completely absurd to claim they eat anyone's lunch.

Cloudflare Workers's usecase is extremely limited and specialized: run a script comprised of a couple lines of code that do not do much at all right at the edge. We're talking about things like adding a response header. Even then they are immediately killed if pretty much they don't exit immediately.
The quantum supremacy demonstrations were effectively showing that a quantum computer can simulate a quantum computer better than a classical computer. That is sort of meh…
LineageOS does not have certification (i.e. does not meet Google's quality standards) to install the Google applications. Manufacturers who want to ship with Google Apps have to take everything up a notch to get the certification, which is a huge amount of work (on top of everything that LineageOS and the likes are doing).
Based on that status page and the list-serve email link you posted it seems like they still don't understand what's going on (if that email is correct).
Two years ago a young woman died here in Norway from rabies - it was the first case in over 200 years. She had been on vacation in the Philippines, and while outside she and her friends had found a small puppy on the roadside. They took it with them back home, washed and cleaned. Apparently, the puppy had been nipping on them from time to time - like regular puppies do.

Later, back home, she started showing symptoms - and subsequently died 3 months after the vacation. None of the others that had played with the puppy tested positive.

In any case - if animals bite you, especially in high-risk countries, get started on a treatment.
I like your idea.
The only reason all those accessories are mandated, is because the car industry made it so, thus increasing the value (profit) of a standard car.
We could just as easily 'mandate', a different class of vehicle. Call it a classic class, or something. For example, motorcycles don't have back up cameras, air bags, etc.
Back to the consumer having a choice. Similar to right to repair.
That maybe true, but my anecdotal evidence is the opposite.

> cars used to break down much more often and require much more skilled maintenance.

My '78 John Deere 4640 (not a car I give you that) if it breaks down, I can fix it. If I cannot I can order the part. If I cannot, I can have the part made within a week.

None of that is possible with a 2021 6145M. If it breaks, I have to sit and wait for JD to bless me with their part.

I have less problems with non-electronic equipment than with the electronics enhanced ones.

I venture it is very much the same with personal cars.
I think that requiring all your desktop apps to be rewritten is go is going to be a big ask - equivalent toolkits like KDE/QT have gone out of their way to provide multiple language bindings, or to just support X-apps natively
nice, what did you end up going with? I built a "scoring" function for candidates based on how many other words can intersect each letter (based on grid layout and squares already filled) plus a backtracking system. ended up working pretty well, although each grid took >1 minute. I used an NYT historical word list as the dictionary
I don't believe that there is a polite way to say "These people have no idea what they're actually doing, they're applying other people's logic blindly, and if anything goes wrong they're stuck."

If that's not what you meant to communicate, you should probably explain more what you mean by 'script kiddie'.
Ask HN: What’s the cheapest stack you have supported millions of users on?
I'm not sure that I understand the point correctly, but if I do...

One of the point Dawkins' used his original meme concept to demonstrate is that a meme may not be beneficial to the person or culture carrying it. The meme just needs to persist and reproduce. He is the selfish gene guy, after all.

Also I agree that cultures evolve, but I think the analogy to natural evolution by natural selection can be overstretched. This dynamic exists and can even be dominant, but there are other evolutionary dynamic going on.

For myself, my "Big Theory of Bureaucracy" is simply that it accumulates over time. The larger the scale, the less competition and creative destruction happen so bureaucracy can keep growing undisturbed.

You could analogise corporate bureaucracy to just about any traditional culture: the US senate, the catholic church or some small island tribe.

The US senate does this ritual around debt ceilings. There are written and unwritten rules that make no sense from the outside. It's all based on a rule from 100 years ago, and stopped serving its initial purpose generations ago. Meanwhile, the whole process has gained incidental important roles in coalition consolidation & legislation bundling. Those now depend on debt ceilings. It can be resolved either by vote or a ceremony whereby a small metal object is place inside a large building. The whole thing requires a lot of paperwork.

50 years from now "debt ceiling" might refer exclusively to a quaint ritual where a president gives some guy with a special hat a special coin. At this point, it's impossible to tell bureaucracy from ritual. It's just stuff that needs doing in very specific ways for reasons that are not externally logical. They have history, dependencies, tradition, etc.

Maybe bureaucracy is just an inelegant version of that.
I’ve always been bad at telling stories.
Listeners would more likely fall asleep in sync than have their hearts racing.

HN have any tips, tricks, books or blogs to help with story telling skills?
Yeah, I've been a fan of Paul for a long time. But his group has lost the plot since Covid happened. Perhaps an echo chamber effect.

Early on I was happy someone was fighting back against government overreach. This was around the time they were closing beaches in California, and showing photos in the news carefully taken at a 15 degree angle to make it look like people fifteen feet apart were on top of each other. It doesn't take a tremendous amount of science education to know folks don't get respiratory infections outdoors at a sunny, windy beach.

But that era is long over, govt has mostly stepped back.

Their channel however has since degenerated into sloppy, constant tone-deaf vaccination, CDC, and card bashing. We don't know everything, but one thing we do is that the major covid vaccines are orders of magnitude safer than getting it. We've had vax cards for school, etc for a long time as well. It's just an odd stance for someone with a medical background to take.

That said I wish the government would dial back its spending. Something Paul would do better to focus on. Not sure what to make of Youtube, but it's their network.
But I don't see the link between a 'different kind of VCS' like Unison is and a language..