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>if it were a proper vaccine, the vaccinated wouldn't be able to contract covid at all.

What exactly does this mean? Some vaccines confer sterilizing immunity, some confer non-sterilizing immunity. Both classes of vaccines have been used successfully in humans and animals to control disease outbreaks for decades. It's difficult to confer sterilizing immunity to coronaviruses as they are more likely to mutate. That doesn't mean the vaccines 'don't work.'
Hacker News has not used Cloudflare for some time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496344
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> What do people gain by arguing over these? Genuinely confused

If you assume some arguments (eventually, in some way) lead to people altering their opinions closer to the truth, then people gain more accurate views of the world. This also reduces the spread of misinformation (when the people who have corrected their views no longer spread it), thus having a compounding effect on more people getting closer to the truth.

Or if you assume people never change their opinions as the result of arguments, then I suppose people gain nothing by arguing.
I had the same thought process.
I don't wanna be a jerk, but honestly that proves my point. The correct wording would be; "there's a high probability that we can". But saying "we can" is clear cut. You provide strong arguments, but unless you have a time machine, you can't argue in definitives.
Googler opinions are my own. I'm not a spanner expert, but I use F1 at least a little.

If you start having global spanner replicas, don't you start getting into read safe times? According to the GCP docs, a given node may not know if it has the latest data, as global replicas could diverge by up to 10 seconds ( assuming I'm reading the docs right).

I am little sad that Google never made chubby a service on GCP. That is underlying locking system that many systems that Google use.

Chubby: https://research.google/pubs/pub27897/

Spanner read write docs: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/whitepapers/life-of-re...
a) It was impossible to know the rate at which immunity would decay in January.

b) Even if the vaccine only lasts 6-9 months without boosting, why would that change your mind about taking it? It just means we need boosters. You only acquire natural immunity by getting COVID, and avoiding that is kind of the whole point.

c) In any case, if you read the article, the truth about immunity decline is actually still very unclear. Antibody numbers clearly decline within months, but cellular immunity does not. Decline of protection is probably most severe in the elderly, and there still seems to be strong protection against severe illness.
This is exactly it for me. For any task that has to do with words - writing, reading, code - lyrics are devastating. Even “lyric like” music, where an instrument is imitating speech for a track, grabs too much of my attention for me to focus.

For most tasks, lyric free chill hop is a perfect balance. It replaces the chaos of my environment with a predictable backdrop that can fade out of focus.

But for tasks that require extreme focus, like putting together a novel (to me) algorithm or exploring a new code base, even chillhop is too much. I have to find a place with absolute silence - anything that grabs my attention is devastating to the task at hand.
Naming things, especially functions that you tend to use in lambdas, is often hard. Imagine if you had to name a for loop to us it. That's how it feels.
The soulless robot is operated by a person, making it more like a puppet. The contrast in the article between satisfaction with robot visits and “tablet visits” indicates a clear preference for the robot over the tablet. It doesn’t give any detail about what a “tablet visit” looks like though.

The “visited by preference list” probably looks like this:

Costumed Human > Robot > Tablet > Nothing

I do think an interesting question is whether “random stranger not-in-character” beats “random stranger driving shiny robot.”
The Math of the Sandpile
I'm pretty sure AWS Textract does that already.

https://aws.amazon.com/textract/
Short sellers have an enormous incentive for the company they short to fail and they will do anything (legal or sometimes otherwise) in order to negatively affect stock price.

It turns out when a company has multiple entities with significant resources trying to make it fail, it sometimes negatively affects the shorted company.
I'm not sure you understood what I was suggesting...

A more concrete example:

Buy $10k USDC, borrow $5K USDT on Aave, trade this for USDC on Uniswap

Net result: $15k USDC and -$5K USDT, if USDT crashes you gain $5k, if it doesn't, you pay ~4% APR on the $5K loan (current rate, variable)
Yes but unfortunately it garnered significant network effects along the way and it is still more prominent than the myriad of superior implementations of the concepts it demonstrated.
Whenever I've "started over", I've sometimes longed for going back to pre-existing stuff and evolving it. Sometimes, but not always. Whenever I've 'evolved' existing systems, I've almost always wish we'd started over (or some variation thereof).

Recent-ish project: holding on to multi-year old legacy data that was simply bad/broken (but was assumed to be good because it was barely used/examined), then requiring every single new feature to work flawlessly with broken data, ensuring that legacy customers 'never' hit an error (when 95% of them have not logged in in years). That's a candidate for 'rewrite from ground up' - you can keep an old system going in maintenance mode, build the archetypal "version 2", then decide if/when/how to migrate old data over...

Knowing that you can 'evolve' a system towards improvements and knowing when you should do that is another sign. Something may be technically possible, but the time/effort/cost can outweigh whatever benefits there may be.
The context is key. First interview.

The issue isn’t taking time off, it’s that the prospective employee’s head is up their proverbial ass. First interview is propspecting. If you were selling a product, if the customer is asking about the return policy before even selecting an option, it’s a similar signal.

When you’re in a subsequent interview talking about the benefit plan, salary, etc, that’s where that sort of question is appropriate - you’re finalizing the deal.
The amount of arrogance and ignorance in this comment is remarkable, and clearly shows you didn't even bother to open the article...
Parca: Open-source Infrastructure-wide continuous profiling
I think this would be the Python equivalent:

x = [1, 2, 3, 4]
x = map(lambda x: x*x, x)
x = filter(lambda x: x < 10, x)
x = list(x)

Or is there a more elegant way?
Sure, but that's not something you can fix at the ecosystem level, it requires effort from the package maintainers and/or researchers to backport these fixes to older versions. And if the fix requires effort from the maintainers that is not actually very benefical to anyone (i.e. the vulnerability does not actually impose a security risk) then we are back to the question if it's really worth it. The effort has just been moved from the consumer to the library author.
I'm sure they'll support new features that apply to rescript runtime context.

Things that don't make sense in javascript runtime context should not be supported.

Backward compatiblity on OCaml side is also something they don't need to care about as its ephemeral - it must typecheck and spit out valid javascript code, that's all.
While I appreciate your brave defense of the status quo and how it harms poor people, I'd suggest you think outside of the box. There is no reason a check can't be verified almost instantly thanks to advances in technology, thereby reducing the risk to the check casher to zero. Perhaps regulations can allow exemptions for checks that cannot be verified. Or, better yet, the USPS can be used as this article discusses.

But the idea that the current system is the best we can hope for is ludicrous.
The USPS is a government service, it can't "lose money". Does the fire department lose money? It doesn't make any sense. The USPS is a revenue generator and a budget item, but those two things are not linked.
It's like saying "arabic numerals were even used in USA". Sure - they were, like everywhere else, for centuries before.
Simple counter-example:

There are two ways to subscribe to the New York Times: through an IAP, or by visiting the NYT website.

If you then decide that you want to unsubscribe:
Subscribed via the IAP? No problem, you click a button
Subscribed via the website? You will need to call the NYT between business hours and have a chat with someone who will try their darnest to convince you to keep your subscription.
This is the behaviour from a “reputable” company.

Apple could charge 0% and these companies won’t be happy - they want the direct connection so they can find as many ways as possible to take your money.

Things like IAP let people make purchases without having to make a trust evaluation of the developer. Frankly that is great for new, small or foreign developers, because consumers know that they can get their money back from Apple should things go poorly.

Sure there’s downsides to this approach - but choice also exists, so why should we be forcing this particular choice in individuals or in this circumstance (why not on Nintendo, Sony, Amazon, Microsoft and more?)

I dare say once this change is formalised worldwide and we have Premium-SMS style exploitation, there is going to be a lot more work needed to clean up the unintended consequences.
Note this is specific to Tetris (and probably generalizes to very similar tasks, but is unlikely to generalize to computer games generally.)
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Am I missing something or is this about detecting moving magnetic fields? The researchers waved a magnet over tissue samples.

Moving a magnetic field through electrically conductive material generates electrical currents. That seems like a much simpler mechanism than some invoking quantum effect.
This is true. And bad!

But to clarify, DNC doesn't play a legislative role in the party. It's a bigger deal that the Congresswoman is currently one of several Chief Deputy Whips in the House.
2 weeks to flatten the curve!

90% to herd immunity!

100% vaccinated or else!

goal posts are fun!
Short sellers can also lobby the government for policy changes and enforcement actions that harm the company they've shorted.
Hacker News also went down for me. Any major Internet-wide outage today?
Musical Study with Isomorphic Computer Keyboard
>Old Rasputin Imperial Stout is still 11.9% ABV, if you are looking for hangover-fuel-in-a-bottle.

It's actually "only" 9%. (https://northcoastbrewing.com/beers/year-round-beers/old-ras...)

If you want a high-alcohol beer, consider a draught of Tactical Nuclear Penguin at a bracing 32% ABV (https://blog.brewdog.com/usa/blog/the-worlds-strongest-beer-...)
I don't know if someone already mentioned this, but a big factor is that a bottle of soda costs the same as a bottle of water, and some times even less. It's absurd, because soft drinks are made of water, so water must be cheaper! Unfortunately, soft drink companies try to corner the bottled water market so it doesn't undermine their sales.
And I’m fairly sure I would perform much better at university if the courses were exactly the same, just serial. I really like getting to the very depth of an interesting subject, but doing a few hours a week of one will simply kill my brain. As soon as it finds it interesting, it has to context switch to the next one.
I know what lambda is, I just don't see any usecase where the limitation is a problem. If your lambda is so complex that you need more than a oneliner, then what's big thing with using a nested function?
At the time, people were saying the slowdown went away if you logged out. I wanted to comment on things, so I didn't try it.
"more value = social benefit" -- only if you ignore externalities, it seems to me. If companies had to pay for their environmental impact alone, much of the S&P500 would be wildly unprofitable. Leaving aside social externalities which are harder to quantify...
Structuring email content for professional communication
Music and Geometry
Surely the good life is composed of both simple pleasures and those that derive from fulfillment! I would suggest: Don't overthink it!
Besides, Result types with sufficiently advanced ergonomics might as well be semantically identical to exceptions.
It actually counts number of search results. I think the intent was to use number of web pages as a proxy to measure popularity of languages, but since large chunks of the web are behind walled gardens (e.g. social networks that are invisible to bots), this metric might not be as relevant as it used to be.
from my experience, it's absolutely necessary if you listen to a lot of podcasts because every tech-illiterate podcaster dude will see an EQ setting on their microphone/recording software and think "low frequencies are manly and sound good" and boost the hell out of it, and it sounds absolutely awful.

Granted my home speakers might have something to do with it, and headphones/earbuds do tend to have a high-pass filter built in just from their construction, so it probably doesn't affect everyone the same way.

I've been using equalizerAPO for desktop for years. I can only think of a handful of content creators that don't pull that bass-boosting garbage anymore, so the high-pass filter pretty much always stays on unless I'm playing music.
> new construction with 10G Fiber Internet (You will never get this in California due to failing infrastructure)

I've had 10g fiber in three places in San Francisco and almost moved to a house in Cupertino that had 10g fiber. Not sure about the rest of California honestly.
avoid drugs (weed, alcohol, nicotine)

What about coffee? I'm in the process of not drinking any more. Then casual drinking will just give you a push and then back to normal.

Also make sure you're not missing any micronutrients. Get a good B vitamin complex, one of those that gives you "huge" doses of it, especially B6 and B12.

Theanine also helps keeping you alert but calm. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

And don't sleep more than 8 or 8.5 hours. Quality sleep is what you need. Imagine you're drinking water. Drinking dirty water is not better than drinking less clean water.
They're akin to when you're a kid with friends and one of you starts cussing, the rest don't react negatively, and then you just f-bombing all the things. Some people don't want to be adults or approach life that way, they just want the veneer of adulthood.
> But cellular immune responses are longer lasting — and as Jennifer Gommerman, an immunologist at the University of Toronto in Canada, explains: “Cellular immunity is what’s going to protect you from disease.” Memory B cells, which can rapidly deploy more antibodies in the event of re-exposure to the virus, tend to stick around, and so do T cells, which can attack already-infected cells. Both provide an added measure of protection should SARS-CoV-2 sneak past the body’s first line of defence.

So clickbait. Also fearmongering from politicians and others.
Sure but the point is a browser level adblockers can separate the tracker content from the legitimate content while a network level blocker can either block both or neither.
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Even if you are doing mundane crud stuff, you are eventually going to run into hard problems that don't have obvious answers. Not everyone has to be able to solve those problems, but it's useful to have someone in the team who can.
As someone who was happy to get the vaccine (and would do it again if necessary), I find it eerie that there's basically no discussion anywhere in the mainstream about how any of this affects the bottom lines of vaccine producers. Why would they NOT want to develop a product that produces a neverending revenue stream?
Long term Safari fan here. The new tabs have terrible UX but what's worse is stability. Whoever is "at fault" there - don't try to use jira with the latest Safari as it will crash eventually.
I mean, I go and set up ASCIIQuarium on every phone I have. Hunting down the APK gets harder and harder though.
It helps if you take the six months off in the same calendar year, so end job A in January, start looking against in July-August. On a resume/CV, that's invisible! But even ending a job in mid-2018 and then looking in February 2019 didn't seem to raise any eyebrows for me. I just said I got a nice layoff package and spent some time traveling and basically got "must be nice!" in return.
Can you show any evidence to your claim that natural immunity is superior?
I didn't know that, but it's cool, and I think shows that Microsoft had a healthy culture.

If you can laugh at yourself, you can learn and grow. Companies aren't a monolithic hive-mind (even Microsoft!)

I still love that video.
Hit 'reset' on your life: Learn to live as a minimalist
Fine to use whatever tool that works for you.
Using the words “clients” here with reference to Hugo is confusing though, as clients would never be effected by it. The way I read that bug, it would be Hugo itself that is effected and crashes at generation time.
It sounds very interesting, could you please expand on it/give me some keywords I can look into it?
Filed under: EDUCATION IS RACIST!

Hold back the smart kids because not doing so would be "segregation" and make the others feel bad about themselves. Self-esteem and diversity equality for all. Forget merit, self-confidence, and IEPs because that's racist, sexist, and ableist.
> In IPv4, multicast addresses are used, there is no concept of broadcast address

I think there's a typo there, and the author meant IPv6, right ?
Heh, I opened the comment section to link https://kazlauskas.me/entries/errors.html and https://sled.rs/errors.html :-)
JS has at least good package management and distribution compared to Python.
Initializer for Laravel – A quickstart generator for Laravel projects
Hello, author of the project here. I wanted to share my first publicly deployed Laravel project, so any feedback is welcome.

In short, Initializer for Laravel is a web form where you can define metadata and dependencies for your next project. When submitting the form, the backend adjusts the default https://github.com/laravel/laravel starter according to your choices. After extracting the archive you are expected to run the `initialize` script which takes care of installing dependencies, running setup commands like `php artisan jetstream:install` and compiling frontend assets.

As it is built upon Laravel Sail, you'll need Docker and Docker Compose installed on your system, but not necessarily PHP or Node.

The project is inspired by the Spring Initializr (https://start.spring.io), which is the de-facto standard for setting up new Java projects using the Spring framework, so I thought the Laravel ecosystem could use something similar.

For more information visit the repository on GitHub (https://github.com/NiclasvanEyk/initializer-for-laravel) or see the about page (https://laravel.initializer.dev/about). Feel free to ask any questions, I'll gladly answer them here.
I think Tailwind really shines alongside a tool like React where you don't abstract out a class of Tailwind classes, but a whole component with minimal to no functionality. If you end up with too many of those then maybe it's a sign your design language is getting too complex?
I thought it was a neat article, I assumed it was talking about git lfs.

It would be neat if github could store all its data in git, similar to fossil scm. But I suppose microsoft would not want to lose lockin.
/r/conspiracy is NOT far right, FAR FAR FAR from it

it is 1990 Democrat, which today sadly is "right" given that "left" has taken an extreme left turn...
Is this something you're doing yourself for mental health or something being imposed upon you that you're trying to deal with?
Seems cool, but is a whole crate worth it for the `.context` function when you could just use e.g., `.map_err(|source| Error::Opening { source, filename })`? Seems like all `.context` provides is not not needing to name the originating error? (And obviously the `#[snafu(display(...))]` macros could just be moved into a `impl Debug for Error`.)
700000+ is also a lot
they should have some sort of hazard like flash when they are stopped for an obstruction like humans in the roadway. that would also reduce the rear end situation where they are unreasonably stopped in traffic due to crappy software.
Do you think that because you don't find it offensively personally, that it's 100% fine to say and anyone else who finds it distasteful is wrong?
I'm an American and radically pro-gun. I'm also radically pro-responsibility. If we want to renormalize firearm ownership (As in, you can mention it in Whole Foods without getting dirty looks), we need to reshape our culture of safety and ownership of our own actions.
to what purpose
Back then weren’t they called omnibuses?
Pfizer's Covid-19 immunity protection diminishes after 2 months
I'm not sure that's a given. For example, does paying taxes that depend on how much you earn leads to more hate and more issues?
I've found it helps by forcing focus on a narrow task. In these tests they used tetris, but rockband or guitar hero is similar too.

There's some evidence to support anxiety being tied to rumination, thought loops, hypervigilance and such. If you're able to force yourself to focus on a narrow task I think that can help relieve some of that in a way that lingers for a bit. Makes it easier to reframe stuff.
I suspect "music" means different things for people.

Any time I have vocals / lyrics in music, it drags my attention away - so I only listen to non-vocal (in my case electronic) music.
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> Every pizzeria I know has a web site.

This is because pizza delivery is insanely profitable. Over the past decade, Domino's Pizza has outperformed FB and Google. By a _lot_. They have plenty of incentive to spend on marketing and reachability.

And they have far more leverage than tech does, in terms of consumer preference. Think of it like this: if you want to order pizza, and your preferred pizzeria isn't on Apple Maps, do you order from somewhere else? No, you load up Google Maps instead. Or any of the other dozen replacements for the Yellow Pages launched in the past 20 years. And they all fall over themselves to find and add these places, making it easy to list (just a postcard in Google's case).
Thomas Watson thought there was a market for maybe five computers in the whole world. Now computing devices outnumber humans. There's no guarantee that there will be a similar explosion in the size of the orbital (and eventually deep space) markets but it's not a large leap to believe that lower cost of access to space will open up many new opportunities that we haven't even imagined yet.
I haven't looked, but is there something stopping other browsers (say firefox) from integrating with keychain on the mac side other than maintainability/pride/whatever?
The larvae of only a few species attack clothes, these ones in particular:

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

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