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It could be that idea of a free market if everyone did what was right and not cheat, screw over, sabotage the competition to get ahead. You beat the competition by being better.

We don't have that though, people are assholes, so we have a regulated market.
A candid quote from a virologist in a recent Nature covid paper: "We’re flying by the seat of our pants trying to figure this stuff out."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x
I have ADHD, so wearing my consumer hat for a moment, I guess I just don’t really care.

It’s their problem to figure out how to present their product to me in a compelling way that I am willing to pay for. I don’t open my wallet just because I feel bad for starving founders.
I call bullshit. Antibodies wane but the memory cell response is robust and holds up over what looks to be a pretty long period (studied intensively for 6 months but with no sign of decline). Here's a new paper that shows that in detail (paper itself is dense but Twitter thread is fairly accessible):

https://twitter.com/rishirajgoel/status/1448711946010710023

By basically all measures, these vaccines work better than the flu vaccine, which for some reason doesn't attract the same sort of criticism.
I'm sure you are right, but it would seem to me that those agendas are usually so much insider baseball that it doesn't really harm the public.
Isn't the term just "too powerful"? It seems to me that the reason we don't have laws against companies being too powerful is that most people don't think it's a big deal for companies to be too powerful, as long as they're not monopolies.
18th century England had strict anti monopoly laws. For example canal owners could not operate their own boats. This type of centralization and monopoly acceptance came with railroads.
I think a more interesting question is how many hours of actual work did you do in a day, as opposed to the company required hours.

8 hours a day required by company

Probably work closer to 5.
Speed Matters
I'd second your assumption. Geary, MegaPixels (the camera app), Phosh (one of the few window managers), the modem firmware, and more are mostly shared between all the distros. Doubly so for upstreamed SoC firmware, battery efficiency improvements, and more that I'm sure I'm overlooking.

Frankly, it makes me question anyone who says desktop Linux is divided because we have options - at this point, it's more like there's no large corporate backer with a vested interest in making the desktop experience mainstream.
I think we're agreeing. If all you have is a riverwalk or otherwise a nice core but nothing much else that isn't pretty much generic city, that probably isn't much of an attraction to people who don't have some other reason to live there. As a counterpoint if you want something city-lite and don't want the expensive and concentrated NYC experience, maybe a smaller and slower place will be attractive. But, personally, if I can sample most of what a city has to offer in a weekend, I'm probably not interested in making the tradeoffs of city living.
> Shouldn't more treatment options be a good thing?

If they work - if they are safe and effective for the given disease, then yes.

If.
After reading this article I have decided that the researchers earlier conclusions about how the rats keep track of their environment is suffering from a serious defect introduced by the researchers at the start.

Their earlier work involved studying rat and bat navigation in unnatural environments - a "2D" space which was really a 3D space constrained to be along a single level. This forced or even allowed the rat brains to dumb things down to a situation where they had no need or opportunity to consider things outside that unnaturally limited space and so their brains naturally optimized for that simplistic situation.

You have dumbed down their environment to the point where you have established a minimal ability that they need to master in order to function and navigate that environment.

Then when you discover that their memory encodes navigational information from this dumbed-down, unnatural environment in a regularized grid, this should be no surprise. They are minimizing the energy required to thrive in that environment.

Once you allow them to navigate in a more natural environment you should expect to see this regular grid disappear since their options for reaching a destination are no longer constrained to a single path along most of the route to their destination. Their brains will have to incorporate many more clues to guide their route selection and those clues could be time-varying as in the case where they are tracking the source of an odor as they search for food so they will need to monitor air flow and direction, odor intensity, potential obstacles between themselves and the source, alternate routes which present themselves as they move through space, threat detection from predators or bait traps, etc. In short, there so many variables that will need to be evaluated once you remove the flat plane constraints that led to their grid discovery that it should be no surprise to discover that a more complex environment uses different optimizations, some of which are encoded in a regularized notation and others, probably situational events on the path-picking decision tree, are more random.
> The important thing is remembering that this is a business decision, not a holy cause, and the right answers vary from project to project.

I must say - that's exactly about it. No holy cause, technical decisions should not be made in vacuum and there's a lot more to it, always and if not, should be.

Having said that, mine is a qualified statement. If you have abstracted your workloads to the Kubernetes abstractions alone, you're good to go anywhere from Linode to GCP and anywhere in between.
> I was thinking just yesterday about how Clubhouse's strategy may (who knows really) have backfired, it seems to me by betting on FOMO-manufacturing they just gave time for others (like Twitter Spaces) to catch up before they filled a niche.

Yeah, it was essentially that kind of mistake. Like, it appears that nobody learned from Fb's mistakes (letting Orkut get a toehold in brazil before they moved there).
Gee, wonder who could possibly be downvoting you and what their “beliefs” are /s
Even for generic drugs there are a limited number of manufacturers and distributors, and there are lots of shady operators making money off of whatever "cure" is being promoted this week.
Nobody is saying your app should be entirely free. They're saying it should be opt-in after the free trial, and that you shouldn't be collecting payment information until people are choosing to pay for your product. That's good practice in any domain; it's especially important in the field of mental health care.

Many lawyers offer a short consult before they start charging. When we have work done on our house most contractors will provide an estimate and a brief discussion before charging anything. When we go to a store we can look at things before we decide to buy them.

A free trial for an app is along these lines; it's not saying your product is free, it's saying people can check it out enough to make an informed decision about whether they want to pay for it.
Good, we don’t need AI.

I’d be more interested in augmented human intelligence. Growing neuron structures to speed the acquisition of skill and knowledge.

AI as we know it now is for empowering aristocrats. Here’s Googles data center empowering Google to make business choices that involve extracting effort from us.

I’d rather science and technology empower individuals uniquely and not be ground down to the fiscally prudent efforts.
Propaganda. By Edward L Bernays. (1928) [pdf]
Maybe an unpopular opinion here: as a user of web applications, I very strongly prefer the "modern" javascript heavy SPA dominated culture of recent years. Every once in awhile I get annoyed by something that is just a webpage but thinks it's an application, but more often I have the reverse annoyance.

But as a developer, I agree that it is harder to develop these kinds of applications that I like than it used to be to develop multi page applications with mostly server side logic and only sprinkles of javascript.

I guess I just do, actually, think there is UX benefit to the complexity. But of course there are better and worse ways to accomplish it, figuring out that balance is the hard part.
The GNAA was probably the first tech group to play the "am I Nazi or am I just joking?" dogwhistle with the earnestness we often see today.
You will continue going forward on inertia
Crikey, these folks have been pivoting a lot over the last few years.

Originally, this was a complex set of libraries that made up a microservice framework. Then they threw everything into micro and making it more stable and simpler. Then they launched m3o which had no free tier but it was a place to run micro apps. Now it's an AWS Alternative?

I liked them, I donated money to them for a while through Github, but it really has taken five years to figure out what they do and why, and after a while, I lost interest in following them. I'm sure it's great, though.
M3O seems to be more like an API aggregator with its core available as open source. Not an AWS alternative at all. Ultimately it looks like it is hosted on DigitalOcean if you let them run it for you: https://github.com/m3o/platform/blob/39b5d04a933ae3b63490081... for example. If it is meant to be an AWS alternative, then it will grow as big and complex as AWS if it gets popular and used by many.

Some of the API-wrapped services require you to get separate accounts for them like weather, sms, email, etc. Don't see a value unless they have multiple providers for each service to pick from. And then you may be in the situation of wanting a feature available for only one of the providers... in which case you'll end up having them to wait to support the feature, or support tacking on info to API calls not unlike Kubernetes metadata annotations. Or in the UI world waiting on features being added to a cross-platform API.
Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement
One side is blindly downplaying, the other is blindly catastrophizing as you have done here: "kills 1-3% of people as hundreds of thousands of their neighbors die painful deaths". It's clear what tribe you are in, just as it's clear what tribe they are in.
Technically not correct. Most blinded, randomized controlled trials showed improvements in symptoms and timeline [1,2,3, among others], but they are generally underpowered and so many consider the results to be not compelling. All the headlines you may have read that ivermectin studies found no results are way overblow; science journalism has never been great to begin with, and now politics has thoroughly infected this so signal to noise on this question is terrible. Some better trials are underway now, so we'll see.

Not surprising, the patentable drug got a decent trial since pharma actually has a much bigger financial incentive there.

[1] https://ejmo.org/pdf/A%20Comparative%20Study%20on%20Ivermect...

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/030006052110135...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...
Hear that? That's the sound of 41 million new tether coins entering the market
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Did any of your teams put private data into HTML or JSON responses authenticated with a cookie, but which didn’t require anything like a CSRF header? If so they should have cared about it because without CORS policies any user logged into your site could have their data read by any other site they visited.
I realize that adding up numbers doesn’t tell you if it’s a prime…I liked counting primes to quell anxiety but i couldn’t after the numbers got large. So I would just add random numbers to manageable digits and stick to simple prime numbers checks.(sorry..I can’t articulate…it was just something I did on the road because I hated driving)

Thanks re: book Vs series Dornick. I am trying to get into it. I just finished episode 3. I have mixed feelings about the series so far. I don’t think I can go back and re read Foundation series. I won’t even know which order to read it in…

Not spoiler alert but small detail reveal :

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In episode 2, there is a bit where Dornick counts primes and utters an even number..corrects herself and realizes that ‘something is wrong’. They make it look like it was pregnant with some kind of meaning. The whole thing was just odd, but it made me wonder if I missed something or if I forgot the book plot.
nuero non typical wonder twins unite. f these people.
Actual paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00104.
"But do your own research, the studies are there."

A large clinical trial from June 2020 has shown no clinical benefit to hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19

No clinical benefit from use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: https://www.recoverytrial.net/news/statement-from-the-chief-...

From the above:

> A total of 1542 patients were randomised to hydroxychloroquine and compared with 3132 patients randomised to usual care alone. There was no significant difference in the primary endpoint of 28-day mortality (25.7% hydroxychloroquine vs. 23.5% usual care; hazard ratio 1.11 [95% confidence interval 0.98-1.26]; p=0.10). There was also no evidence of beneficial effects on hospital stay duration or other outcomes.

> These data convincingly rule out any meaningful mortality benefit of hydroxychloroquine in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
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> When asked, the person I was responding to admitted that they didn't do that but were instead relying on “common sense”. If they had some real data, a concern based on some real mechanism which would explain why it's risky for them personally in a way that doesn't show up in the population-level statistics, etc. that could be something to discuss because there would be a claim which could be evaluated scientifically.

They did exactly that, to quote them:

"I use my common sense to know that a vaccine that didn’t even begin testing before spring 2020 does not have a long enough track record to assure safety."

No reasonable person is going to interpret this as "they admitted they didn't weigh the risks".

My favorite part is how you set the bar to "something that can be evaluated scientifically", without also admitting that __"SCIENCE", IS IN THE MIDDLE OF EVALUATING__.

This is the reason no one trusts people like you, your willingness to dishonesty and misrepresentation makes you untrustworthy. Nothing anyone says will change anything other than the bar you claim others should be clearing, said bar just so happening to cause everyone to land on your opinion.

Not even the CDC takes a stance as strong as yours.
I'm largely agreed with this, but to add on:

if you consider the idea source -- Alexander's A Pattern Language -- the notion of a pattern is a more useful than that; it is both a communication tool, as well as the realization that the problem (in his case, buildings) can be subdivided into smaller parts, and at a certain level, these parts fall into common repeating forms (patterns). You can thus mostly initialize the design by simply composing patterns together.

The key that typically gets lost in GoF pattern discussions is that it doesn't end there. Once the patterns are decided, you need to account for the non-standard details of the problem at hand -- e.g. the house is partly on a hill. The hill raises the height of the door. The door had a relationship with the window -- it's no longer aligned, and will have to be modified to fit. With the shift of the window, the mirrors need to change.. and with the mirrors, the door. Eventually these changes will stabilize, producing an equilibrium (TB: he declares that equilibrium to be "beauty", and a feature that everyone can innately detect, though they may not know how to reach it... this corresponds strongly to "code smell" or "elegance" in programming)

So the elements of the home starts as patterns, but they're also in a fluid state, and the effects of reality will trigger a feedback loop, creating continuous design reflows, until the whole thing reaches an equilibrium (and you can now build the house).

He then goes on to note that the home exists in a continuously fluid state (as it's used and changed by inhabitants), constantly deviating from that equilibrium, and being brought back into that state. So the most beautiful homes are those not designed into a harmonious state, but maintained in a harmonious state -- I particularly like the correspondence to programming here.
> Doesn't that mean the core development is divided 14 times?

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. A lot of these competing mobile distros are using and working on the same libraries and porting desktop applications to mobile in similar ways. The biggest differences are usually the desktop distro that they’ve made their base and their desktop environment of choice. It’s common to see enhancements to an application or even core functionality like battery utilization or suspend improvements land in one distro and then be quickly adopted by others. As someone who’s mostly a bystander, the outliers seem to be the people working on the distros that aren’t ports of desktop Linux, like Sailfish, Nemo, and Ubuntu Touch. Of the main desktop-Linux-ports cluster the biggest divide seems to exist between launcher/DE development. Developers are split between the Gnome-based Phosh interface and the Plasma mobile interface. But a similar dichotomy exists on desktop. I’ll also throw in an honorable mention of sxmo and its wayland port, which I consider the equivalent to the underdog tiling window managers on the desktop; which is to say its only option good enough to consider using.
Usually isn't much good if you let something like thalidomide slip through.
I am supremely interested in this business idea. ADHD is an incredibly large population and frequently disadvantaged in ways they and others are incapable of seeing.

As a point of comparison I have a son with severe dyslexia and another with severe ADHD. My son with dyslexia was completely illiterate until almost the 4th grade and now he is almost making a 4.0 in high school with ease. ADHD is by far the greater challenge affecting everything from learning, functioning, and motor cognition.

I am a bit hesitant to comment here. The last ADHD related thread I saw on HN was the worst shit show I have seen on HN filled with big tears and many narcistic people injecting unrelated defenses against personal attacks that didn't exist.
It's not as straight forward as that. One of the major hurdles AFAIK is that many of those office buildings still has asbestos in them in very significant quantities; the buildings were made before the dangers of asbestos were realized.

There was some reasons for leaving it in place, and to be fair a major renovation would have to run into these hurdles either way. But it's probably going to be quite a bit more costly then you're imagining.
Not much. I would say that a flow state happens on purpose for something you want to do, and you can easily stop your flow even though it may be difficult to get it started again. With Hyper focus it may happen to something you don't want it to, and you can't easily stop. In the moment it is hard to tell the difference, at least when it's something you want to do.

For example, I was late to an event for my child the other day because I was trying to improve the speed of a one time copy of data from an old computer to a new one. To the point that when I finally pulled myself away, after receiving multiple phone calls, it had been hours and the original method would have been finished if I had just let it run. I felt like I was being productive, but I was not. Once I realized I was wasting my time it took me two more hours to stop.
It's not a treatment option, that's the problem; it's being presented as if it was.
I can't understand the headline. The typical solar panel is like 15% efficient. 1000% more power from such a panel would be thermodynamically impossible.
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I think the “difference” now is that efficiency capabilities are such that you come back with less people.

If you had 200 people last boom, you’ll have 80 the next.
I come from a financial reporting background where pages needed to be dynamic and update through filters / sorting / etc- think Excel or Robinhood- these are applications, not pages. When you are building an application, users don't want to experience a page refresh. You either want a dynamic behavior without page refresh, or not. React Router gives you client-side routing- I don't know why you wouldn't want that even if you were building something like AirBnB where there is mostly static content- to argue against dynamic search and filtering without page refresh seems silly to me.
I'd really prefer lawyers and congress to focus on breaking up monopolies in the health care system, where the government requires certificate of need and through licensing allows cartels to control the supply of labor to ensure high salaries. You know, actually abusing their monopoly position.
It's not about fairness, it's about freedom. You should want something like Bitcoin to exist. It's the first form of decentralized money in world history. That means that a majority of the world's root problems (e.g. war, inflation, etc) are solved.

Ironically, Bitcoin is the most fair form of money that's ever existed. Governments can't print more of it, they can't manipulate it, they can't tax it (directly), they literally have no control over it. That's why the propaganda machine against it is relentless ("look at what this evil thing is doing, but ignore our never-ending stream of atrocities that make your life objectively more difficult!").

While this may fly over the head of most privileged Westerners, this means the difference between hostile regimes being funded and terrorizing people vs. a family being able to build a business for themselves and live a peaceful life.

If you're against Bitcoin, you're against your fellow humans whether you realize it or not.
I think that depends on the organization we're talking about. There exist organizations where spies getting in probably should be per se negligence. The CIA and NSA are indisputably in this list. We just don't punish them via lawsuits, because there are better mechanisms for public groups.

The question at hand is whether Twitter belongs in that group. In the general case, I tend to believe no. Twitter has no deterministic means to tell whether a candidate is a risk or not, and they cannot be held liable for actions they couldn't know were illegal.

I do believe they can be held responsible for espionage in the event that they knowingly hired a spy, which seems to be the case here.

If the government believes it is important to national security to prevent Twitter from even unknowingly hiring spies, I think the onus is on the government to nationalize whatever parts need protecting. In this case, they could probably just nationalize the background check portion via security clearances. It doesn't sound like we're at that point, though.
An actual news worthy event would be something like, "The Army's $XXB project two months ahead of schedule, and 5 billion under budget".
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The media is pushing the image of anti-vaxxers being suburban white conservative "Karens". But if you look at the actual numbers, that is one of the most highly vaccinated demographics.
Genuinely curious; how big is that title? Are they essentially an overall project manager who gives the green light? Do they have the power to tell the executive class "Nope" without getting fired?

Never mind. I saw Buildsjets comment that explains his position.
I think that attitude is the root of our current political morass. The primary motivation is the desire to hurt those that we dislike/view as The Other, and we'll happily bend any logic or principles it takes to justify it.