skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I initially skipped over this post because it appeared to be written in bad faith [1]. But I gave it another shot and read the linked paper, and I agree with the summary. Thanks for pointing this out -- your post has changed my understanding of the vaccine's effectiveness.

For skeptical readers - The linked paper is a medrxiv preprint, with authors from several locations. Many of the authors list affiliations with Pfizer, and the last author is an MD at Pfizer. This seems to be a required report from the ~6-month point of a clinical trial. There really are 14 and 15 all-cause deaths reported in the placebo and treatment groups, respectively. The causes of death for each group are in table S4 [2]. The incidence of COVID in the treatment group is much lower than in the placebo group.

I'm surprised by these results because I would have expected to see significantly lower mortality in the vaccine group.

One possible reason for this surprising result is that only a small fraction of people - even in the placebo group - caught COVID at all. I'm not sure how to account for possible missed infections but Figure 2 of the main text indicates that 0.08% of the placebo group became CASES (which I think means something like "person felt bad enough to see a medical professional, who then diagnosed them with COVID"), and the table in Figure 2 indicates that there were 1034 "occurrences" out of ~22,000 people in the placebo group (which I read as "~5% confirmed infections").

So, it's possible that the beneficial effect of the vaccine is still hidden in the statistical noise since there have been so few infections in the placebo group. It's also possible that some people _were_ harmed by receiving the vaccine (see table S4 [2]), so there's a fixed harm upfront to the vaccine group, which may eventually be surpassed once more of the placebo group gets infected.

Thanks for posting this!

[1] I really do appreciate you making this post, and it helped me learn something. I would have been more willing to read it initially if it had excluded the phrases "such a joke", "since people like to be binary thinkers", "crappy associative arguments", "to quote the great...". It seems like there's a silent majority of HN lurkers that are interested in all perspectives, and really are open to quality arguments like this, but might dismiss this post before reading it because of the choice of phrases.

[2] Link to supp material PDF is on this page: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...
There are other equivalent ways. Using iMessage is not like walking compared to Messenger, it's just parallel railroad tracks.
> The main downside for me is a lack of plug and play pieces,

Hashicorp just announced Nomad Packs filling that precise niche. Still in beta, and it was a long time coming but IMHO it was the main thing missing and is honestly awesome.
By default..? Oh dear.
I see hunt and peck people in IT pretty regularly. I also see an increase in the number that aren't familiar with basic efficiency shortcuts such as ctrl-c/ctrl-v.

There are people joining the workforce as "IT professionals" who have not used a keyboard as their primary input device for most of their life. Many people have now grown up with phones or tablets as their primary computer.

It says a lot that 90% of the time I click a WikiPedia link in an online forum, it is the ".m." mobile version, not the desktop version.

Over the next decade this is just going to get worse.
I am primarily a Python developer, but recently discovered express.js. It is similar to Flask (which you mentioned). Maybe give it a try?
> Thanks for replying and I do apologise if my first reply was inappropriately aggressive.

No worries mate, I've got a thick skin and you sparked a pretty good thread, eh?

> > Okay, but a mass movement towards ecologically harmonious living would, so what's the hold up?

> I think my hesitation is this: don't you worry that the only people that have the life circumstances to contemplate anything like ecologically harmonious living are the affluent, educated, middle (UK terminology) or upper-middle (US terminology) classes?

Well, people of the "First World" are doing the most harm per capita so it seems to me that we're the ones with the most responsibility (and means) to change, and that that would have the greatest immediate effect.

> In other words, I think perhaps you're being much too optimistic about what individual humans can achieve, or even care to achieve. Huge numbers of people live near the poverty line; there's no way they are ever going to even think about changing their lives in the direction you suggest with the motivations you suggest.

Actually, a lot of these "technologies" (like Permaculture and Syntropic agriculture) are pretty cheap to implement. And many folks in impoverished areas are already doing it:

"India's Water Revolution #2: The Biggest Permaculture Project on Earth! with the Paani Foundation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDMnbeW3F8A

"This man changed the fortunes of a barren land using traditional water wisdom. The story of Dhun" (also India) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415an1V0FxQ

"Two Years of Permaculture Application" (Jordan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFFFt6G6YNU

The cool thing about regenerative agriculture is that it's, uh, regenerative, meaning that it creates the materials that you need to make more of it (seeds mostly but also biomass for mulch, etc.) By working with life (instead of against it) you are part of a system that has evolved to make more of itself! :)

> ... habitat-preserving changes have to be mainly driven by institutions and policy/law/regulation, rather than by the actions of individuals?

I'm generally wary of top-down impositions but even if we are going to mandate eco-friendly lifestyles where do you get that mandate if not from (masses of) individuals?

My original question is why, if these lifestyles are more fun and more economical, is it taking so long for folks to catch on? More to the point, what can we do to help them catch on?
In this case the irony lies in one of Chappelle's jokes from his special...murder a man and no one cares (Jaylin Craig), but have a joke that offends a gay person and you will be a target for cancellation.
HyperDragons is a game where your dragons eat CryptoKitties to grow stronger.
> But nearly every website I visit is powered by AWS at some level, either directly (the site itself) or indirectly (one of the site's service providers). To my mind, this is something new(ish) that is monopoly-adjacent and needs to be taken a bit more seriously. Telling people not to use the internet, or to deeply audit every service they patron, is not a practical solution at all, even for technical users, nevermind the average non-technical user.

It isn't the job of antitrust law to make sure you don't have to use AWS.

Also: AWS is not plausibly a monopoly at all. It faces competition from a number of other cloud providers AND doesn't have a particularly large market share in cloud services anyway.

~ antitrust economist
Rutter (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build the data layer for ecommerce
This is completely wrong.

Supermarkets, departments, hardware, chemists etc. in every country is dominated by 1-3 chains who have the capital and time to extinguish any competition. And it's been this way for a century or more.

In the online world every sector has anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of competitors not just locally but from around the world.

To setup an online store you just need Shopify, supplier and a few thousand for ads. For a physical store you need tens of thousands for fit out and leasing.
I think most people have seen the app server crash and burn while the data is nice and safe in the DB. Seems sketchy to merge them. But some some usage it would be simpler.
The “government can fix it” mentality. A rule set and power grab for the sake of helping the little guy, that don’t really care about to begin with. It’s postering like this that clearly mark two rivals as the opposite side of the same coin.
“The poll showed the exodus is primarily driven by the pandemic, insufficient pay or opportunities, and burnout, according to Morning Consult.”

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/18-of-health...
“as_strided” and “sum” are all you need
This is correct.

We run a Raft cluster of 5 voting members with 13,000 physical Nomad nodes mixed across OS's with a bunch of random workloads using docker, exec, raw_exec, java, and some in-house drivers. I'll clarify that (and I can't... because I can't edit my post anymore :( ).
Makes me think that your best bet is to find a lawyer with this domain knowledge or (more craftfully) become a lawyer with this knowledge and charge ann exorbitant but less than double tax fee to consult others how to achieve this.
I'm generally quite anti whitespace sensitive languages; in that sense I really dislike haskell's syntax. But, quite a bit of it is very beautiful.
So they get legal ownership of the artwork the NFT points to? Wait, what do you mean they don't? What do you mean all they get is a legally unenforceable digital hash representing that they "own" it in some nebulous way? What do you mean the actual owner of the art can mint a million NFTs pointing to the same piece of art and sell them all? What do you mean someone who isn't even the actual owner of the art can mint an NFT for it and sell it?

This deal is getting worse all the time!
productivity is delivering value to your customers
Some other very handy shortcuts in MS Office programs (and maybe others) is alt-shift-up/down arrow will move the entire line up or down. Quite handy to move text around when composing an email for instance.

Ctrl-up/down will move the cursor past newlines, so you can more quickly navigate when there are long lines with lots of wrapped text.
I enjoyed the read.

> If you compare two coders, one who can touch type and one who has to hunt and peck, the difference between them is not just down to typing speed. The hunter-and-pecker has to think about typing! This consumes attention and short-term memory that is sorely needed for thinking about the program itself.

I never learned to touch-type, but I've also typed a lot of stuff[0]. I seem to be a lot faster than most folks, and I write wordy code. Take a look at my codebases, to see what I mean. Lots of documentation[1].

Also, I have a friend who is an amazing programmer, but has been absolutely clobbered by RSI. It looks like the worst case I've seen. He's had at least one operation. Maybe two, by now. I think they didn't fix the issue, just ameliorated it a bit. It really does break my heart, because I consider him to be a treasure to programming.

I like my code to be performant, and I seem to be able to get releases out the door in good time, but I suspect the author would go crazy, looking at me work.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
Look up Administrative law, and prepare for the pucker moment when you realize that what you described is actually exactly how it works.
It has been longer than 12 months that Vault has had integrated storage.
It isn't semantics. You want to use the word monopoly to mean something different than what it means. Feel free to make the more nuanced point about "abusing market power", but if you're building your argument around the word monopoly, you need to be using that word to mean what it means.
So you want to get away from social networks and still use twitter conversation to rank them?

I like your idea, but fear the hand picked blog approach is not going to be sustainable. Your UI is clean and crisp, search is fast. Good job.
The FAA oversees all portions of pilot licensing, airplane manufacture, airplane service, operations, traffic control, idiots with drones, etc, for general and commercial aviation in the entire country.

Certifying new commercial models is but a small portion of what they do. By number of employees and budget I would bet that ATC is actually their biggest responsibility. That's not to say that they should just rubber stamp all that...
I don’t think apple should go anywhere. There should just be more than 2 options
It's not about whether governments can do it, it's how easily it's accomplished.

If it's as simple as the stroke of a pen, then it can and will be easily and frequently abused. If it's technically possible, but it requires diverse favours to many individuals and unusual behaviour and lots of manpower, it'll rarely be considered and barely ever accomplished.

A turnkey service, provided by an arm's-length organization like a corporation, is an almost irresistible lure. Good value prop for Apple, too; this'll generate favours for them, at least at first, when governments want the system used for this and that.
I did a review of this the other day.

https://caniuse.com/webp

The biggest holdout I can see is that users of older Macs don't have webP support on Safari. I have an old Mac Mini that my wife uses to read her email that is that old and confirmed that webP doesn't work. On that machine, WebP works just fine with Firefox.

I decided it was marginal and that I was going to support JPEG and WEBP in my current project because:

1. I'm not publishing a huge amount of content and the storage cost of the JPEG isn't a problem, and
2. I want the system to be adaptive to what image formats the client supports (looking forward to JPEG XL even though I'm disappointed with AVIF) I am building the facility in and might as well demonstrate it works with JPEG.
> I have NFTs under my control. I can transfer them, list them for sale.

An NFT is not a "copy of a the art". That's the part that you got wrong.
The cameras that are certainly watching you at checkout are the same ones you know or should know are watching you in every retail establishment in the country. The ones overhead. Retailers use a relatively small number of cameras mounted overhead in order to have broad coverage of a large area that is hard to obscure.

I do not know for absolute certain, and couldn't divulge it if I did, but I am about 99% sure that the cameras mounted in the all in one systems are part of the standard equipment included with that model of computer NOT part of store surveillance coverage which is more than adequately served by existing cameras. That is to say that it would be a waste of resources to watch the other cameras watch you.

The key is that they include user facing sliding camera covers designed for users to secure their privacy. This wouldn't be true if they were intended to watch you.

The reason you are being watched is that people steal and people steal MORE when dealing with a machine because they feel less guilty about doing it perceptibly to a machine rather than cheating in front of an actual cashier.

The Atlantic did a piece on it where it was found that around 1 in 5 people stole from SCO and about 4% of merchandise that went through SCO wasn't paid for.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/stealin...
Yep! We do agree. I wouldn't have commented if people were saying "these companies have too much power" because I agree. But they aren't monopolies.
It is not a real apology without the list of names of people involved.
I understand the sentiment, but I think additional sensitivity may be merited where the group being offended is disadvantaged or subject to persecution.

To put it another way, it's been said that comedians should punch "up" (i.e. make fun of those in power) and not punch "down."
This blew my mind when I first saw somebody do it. I was a bright-eyed young engineer in shorts visiting a customer site, and he had a PhD, dress slacks, a white button-down shirt, and a tie. I assumed had a jacket to match the slacks hanging in his office. I said, "Whoa, what terminal emulator is that? I need to check it out." It was xterm.
> For a fraction of the cost there's also the ol' hand-grenade-duct-taped-to-a-quadcopter.

Its like people don't know we have CIWS or something.

Rockets flying at 500mph are shot down regularly by aimbot defensive weapons. But suddenly a drone flying at 20mph is too tough to handle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d_h5uqnYOI

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"Duct-taped grenade on drone" is just a crappy TOW missile. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW), which were around in the 70s. That's not a new strategy. We have CIWS today that provide mild-protection against weapons like this.

Wire-guided missiles are older than the TOW system. But I assume most military buffs would know about the TOW.

EDIT: Wow, I knew that there were wire-guided missiles before TOW. I didn't know that wire-guided missiles were in play in Nazi Germany during WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhrstahl_X-4

In any case: the problem with pure wire-guided missiles is that when people are shooting guns at you, and you're hiding in a trench... fiddling around with a joystick trying to move your "drone" (or wire-guided missile) to hit them is a lot harder than it looks. Even if the enemy is the size of a tank (remember: the tank is moving surprisingly fast)

TOW were optical-guided + wire-guided, meaning a computer calculates the positioning, and you "only" need to point the optical scanner towards your target, no joystick involved. 1940s style joysticks being used in modern combat would be a significant disadvantage compared to modern systems.

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EDIT2: CIWS is the big version we put onto the Iron Dome or Cruisers / Supercarriers. Apparently the smaller version is called APS (active protection system), when its put onto a tank or IVF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JI0cYo6rag

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For an actual anti-tank weapon (or really, anti-anything weapon), look up what TOW missiles can do today with their simple point-and-shoot interfaces: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a17654/wat...

That's two explosions: once "over" the target, the TOW 2B Missile (one of the many, many variants of TOW) explodes, sending an armor-piercing round over the top of a tank where the armor is weaker.

The 2nd explosion is the actual explosion designed to kill the tank.

TOW missiles fly at 300m/s (or ~650+ miles per hour).
I thought the idea was to get data out/transmit out of an "infected" computer when it has no public network access: and not actually sniffing normal traffic. so it assumes a compromised air-gapped computer, is that not a concern of infosec? is that a purely theoretical scenario that won't happen ? why?
The point is that there's no keys involved, nothing in your private office. No rummaging either.

Publishing to a public web server is analogous to that little free library, out in the yard. No keys, anyone can look in it at any time. If you accidentally put something sensitive in there, where anyone can see it without any access control, you can't blame them for doing so.
I am completely ignorant here.

I read an article not that long ago where a journalist was
trying to figure out where Tether kept its money (if there was any).

The main characters seem to be distributed in different parts of the world and were not inclined to be interviewed.

This corporate entity seems to be highly convoluted,
which means its hard to know what jurisdiction they
fall under.

My question: How is Tether compelled to pay this?
What happens if they do not?

Can they just terminate whatever US subsidieres there
may be and keep operating the same?

Do they need a corporate component in the US, if so why?
Patrice Evra: I'm sick of giving the Ballon d'Or to Messi
We used to do such stuff at Nokia, on HP-UX with Clearcase and .o build caching supported by cleartool using aCC, while working on NetAct, professional enough?
Nice!

Cricket has also had these tweaks for a while, and One Day International and Twenty20 are basically new formats of the game, invented because no one wanted to watch two teams play out a match over five days.
Peter Thiel bets on the far right
How about you tell us which country you live in and how many supermarket, chemist, hardware etc chains exist there.

In Australia for example, we have basically 2 supermarkets, 4 banks, 3 chemists, 2 hardware stores, 2 department stores etc.

This idea that winner take all is unique to tech is laughably ridiculous. Especially for those of us who have had to compete and /or work with one of those major chains.
How food trucks and farmers markets can spell doom for affordable housing
It's not that circular - you start with Consul, add Vault and then Nomad, clustering them through Consul and configuring Nomad to use Vault and Consul for secrets and KV/SD respectively. And of course it can be done incrementally ( you can deploy Nomad without pointing it to Consul or Vault, and just adding that configuration later).
RKE2 is the closest thing we've found to a turnkey, on prem, production ready Kubernetes distribution. Though we were last looking about a year ago so I concede there might be better or comparable options now.
As a general rule, punching up is more acceptable (and funnier!) than punching down. Making fun of the groups that are traditionally dominant in our society (certain religions, political leaders etc) is more compelling comedy than mocking those that have been traditionally victimized and oppressed.
Empty Christmas stockings? Don't blame Covid; blame California
You speak of "teams" in a way that implies there are two sides equally unbased, equally
mindlessly driven just by team mentality. In this misguided rhetoric, you equate all the scientists
driven by data at one side, with the snake oil salesmen driven by whatever
on the other; as if both sides were equally wrong for defending their position. The thing is,
when we didn't know if those drugs worked or not, all scientists were jumping at the chance of
studding them, after all, there is a lot of clout to be have by finding a cure, there were no teams. But after the
results came out and certain drugs have shown to not have a significant effect, then the serious
scientists moved own (or wanted to move on), but formation of the "team snake oil" to go against the data means
that scientists have to keep repeating themselves debunking things that we already know don't work.
Cool, so that's certainly new. But even then, you're dealing with the Raft protocol. The different is it's built into Nomad compared to Kubernetes where it's a separate service. I just don't see Nomad and Co being that much easier to run, if at all.

I think Nomad's biggest selling point is that it can run more than just containers. I'm still not convince that's it's much better. At best it's equal.
Testing Bash Completions
This is a solution to the main problem, which is healthcare being a steaming puddle of diarrhea and medication being gatekept by the industry and the government... for your own safety, of course.

A poor solution imo (at least for any serious cases), but at least someone is trying something.
It does mean those processes are no longer "ongoing".