skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone will need boosters at least once per year in perpetuity if they want to maintain any reasonable amount of protection

At 6 months, there's a stark difference between VE against infection versus VE against hospitalization. What endpoint should we really care about? Constantly boosting a non-sterilizing vaccine that is apparently still highly effective at reducing the risk of severe outcomes is mind boggling.

There are people getting breakthrough infections just 2-4 months after their second dose. Look at how much drama has been generated trying to get people to take an initial vaccination series. The idea that vaccination campaigns for perpetual boosters every 3-6 months could ever be widely successful is absurd. It just isn't going to happen.

It's pretty obvious that virtually everyone is going to get this thing at some point even if they've been vaccinated, and eventually public health officials will have no choice but to accept that natural immunity is a real thing.
I reply myself, yes!, it could also be used as a Dead man's switch. Sorry, my bad!
> Excel allows non-coders to do many useful things

I heard a great quip at some point: "Why is Excel the most useful IDE?" Answer: "Because it's the one IDE every business allows every user to access."

Most of us here have forgotten that many businesses flat out ban access to programming tools for the majority of users.

And what is an enterprising user to do, when they realize they're performing the same process 100 times a day?

Reach for the only wrench they've been given access to.

PS: I guess an analogy would be people griping about shell scripting, without considering that someone might not have the ability to install their framework of choice when connecting into a client server. It gets the job done, with the tools available.
Why are you trying to diminish his accomplishments? Does that make you feel better, to try to bring someone down? You come off as bitter and unaccomplished and this site could use less of people like you.
Neat, thanks all.
I think this is spot-on. No-code solutions allow non-technical folks in marketing and sales to build some amazing things that would have required teams of software engineers: marketing, shopping cart, and email integrations; email onboarding workflows; complex ad campaigns; better inventory and wholesale sales management; and a lot of other things I'm not creative enough to think of. I've seen an entire application prototype built by a product manager by duct taping Google Sheets, Mailchimp, and a database together with Zapier.

However, their wants always grow just beyond the no-code capabilities, and there's still a need for software engineers for things that haven't been fully solved yet.
+1 for Cronometer. I evaluated a bunch of nutrition tracking apps mostly on simple/focused UX and this was the winner.
HR5874: Restoring Software Patents in the US
For those purposes I've found hyphen to be a nice substitute.
Basically no one uses /var/tmp for anything (and nobody should either). World writable directories are a mistake and only continue to exist because apps assume they are available.

/tmp and friends are poorly named. They really should be /shared or /dmz or /freeforall or something.

* If you need service-specific tmp space use RuntimeDirectory or PrivateTmp if your app is hardcoded to /tmp.

* If you need service-specific persistent data that goes in /var/lib/your-app.

* If you need temp space for your user it's at /var/run/user/your-uid.

* If you need more than one user/service to share files but not everyone then god have mercy on your soul because all options are bad. There sure are a lot of them but none of them are at all satisfying.
Well, sorry if my exposition is unclear. If you point out self-contradictions and what you perceive as willful misreadings, I'd really appreciate that (I assure you none were willful!).

I mean, I'm not here to "win" a discussion, just hoping to present my point of view. And it looks to me like we agree on everything, so I'm surprised to leave you with this impression.

In any case, it was great to talk!
> only problem Tesla is so big in terms of market cap that the bigger fool at this point can only be the Federal Government

He could easily sell his Tesla shares to the public but hasn’t. He could take SpaceX public and make another dozens of billions. He hasn’t done it. I don’t see the pump and dump you are attributing to him.
React-native might be the close to what you're looking for at the moment. But the ecosystem is still tiny on Desktop, and I don't think it supports desktop linux at all.
Conversation is already starting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190804
> Why does an arbitrary 1 of 7 billions semantic view of the gradients mean more than anyone else’s except for his politically protected privilege?

I read his essays long before YC was founded. (Online first and then in dead tree reprint format.) I chose to read them because they were interesting and thought-provoking not because of some claimed politically protected privilege.

If other authors resonate more with you, I think it’s reasonable for you to read their opinions instead.
Yeah, it definitely gets hairier when using anything that's more than just a drop-in binary.
I'm not "afraid" of it, I just think it's unnecessarily compicated to work with spaces in filenames on the command line.
Sidewinder – The Weapon That Changed Air Combat
I agree that it will take many launches before a human is put on Starship.

That said, SpaceX will probably be able to relaunch early Starships with a few months of their initial launches, and might be able to refurbish a Starship for launch within a few weeks in short order. I would not be surprised to see a single Starship perform three launches and landings by the end of 2022. We could see a dozen total Starship launches and landings in that same timeframe.

We might see people fly on it by 2023. That's not a long time.
It doesn't look like it.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

> SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold (95% CI, 8.08 to 21.11) increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021. The increased risk was significant (P<0.001) for symptomatic disease as well. When allowing the infection to occur at any time before vaccination (from March 2020 to February 2021), evidence of waning natural immunity was demonstrated, though SARS-CoV-2 naïve vaccinees had a 5.96-fold (95% CI, 4.85 to 7.33) increased risk for breakthrough infection and a 7.13-fold (95% CI, 5.51 to 9.21) increased risk for symptomatic disease. SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees were also at a greater risk for COVID-19-related-hospitalizations compared to those that were previously infected.
There are many other state actors who can do this, and they wouldn't necessarily have good intentions. Wouldn't it be great if you could use it to identify which PEP (politically exposed person) is using booking.com to cheat on their partner, and use this as leverage to drive through certain political decisions ?

I agree most people aren't going to avoid booking.com, but that doesn't justify leaving your system vulnerable to advanced hackers
Looks like it's typically run without any arguments, so it's probably fine.
I remember when I was very little there were those special occasions when my father allowed us to pick a record from his collection and he would play it, songs from strange and ancient looking albums which, as I realized decades later, were all the classic albums of the 60ies and 70ies. I also remember the "pop" sound when you pressed the ON button on the stereo, and then the thing lit up like a christmas tree, literally dozens of red LEDs and golden background lighting and the speed checker light of the turntable.

As a kid, I had dozens and dozens of cassettes and later CDs that I carelessly threw around my room, they were cheap and it was nothing special. My father, on the other hand, valued the vinyl collection he built up as a teenager in the early 70ies higher than anything else of material value in our house. His generation had a completely different relationship to music than the following ones.
Nope, I take IIHS’s tests as proof. Nice try though!
> At the end of the day, nobody will remember you, and you will be forgotten.

Absolutely, and I think not enough people understand or internalize this.

I think there are two responses to this - one is that the grand cosmos will not remember me, but my children, friends, and those I can mentor and teach will. You may not remember your great grandparents, but your parents do, and their influence influences you.

The second is that it takes a whole crew to sail a ship - I'm not the hero of the story, but my efforts can help accomplish changes I think are worthwhile in the world. I won't see the end of the journey, but I can help it along the way.
Sustainability Starts with Oneself
What's a good local dev version of this nowadays?

We invested heavily on `logger` in Python and equiv in JS, which makes debugging most straightline issues a breeze. However, not so much with some of our async & cross-service flows. It's not hard to add correlation ID handoffs across REST API calls, so curious on both agent instrumentation and local UI (e.g., 10 lines of docker compose config)?
Well, I guess I'm wrong too then, as most web apps I create are SSR (with dotnet), with a sprinkling of vanilla JavaScript. Previously I used jQuery, but we're finally at the point where it's not necessary.
Eh, not really.

Boston area has no big chemical/hard industrial industry, and nothing on that map. Neither does seattle (but the map shows some small process in areaa). Id wager a lot of modern "intellectual" cities (where knowledge worker industries dominate) can be devoid of such processes. Tourism cities too - eg, Vegas and Miami don't have such a history and their maps are clean.

Obviously SFBay is a notable exception to the knowledge-worker idea, but SV was founded on horribly toxic silicon refining which, while mostly gone, has a terrible history of poisoning the ground.
PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed
In the Netherlands the minx farms were closed (and all the minx exterminated) because these were catching covid-19.

Of course this could have been used to perform experiments that you can’t ethically perform on humans. But apparently we’d rather ‘navigate the mist’.
Co-working spaces in higher demand, 23,500 seats taken during July-Sept quarter
One char away also physically on the keyboard (maybe that's what you meant?).
Great advice. I think I'll go with this option. Thanks!
> For one thing, convection to a website via one of those protocols first, and then a header informs the client that it can reconnect via QUIC/HTTP3.

Nit: new SVCB DNS records can serve the same purpose as Alt-Svc HTTP headers before the initial request, so the first request to a server is HTTP/3.

But yeah, HTTP/1.1 isn't going away (and shouldn't go away) for many reasons.
Forth does something like this, by virtue of its reverse Polish notation.

In Forth, 'words' (which are roughly analogous to functions and operators) must always be separated by whitespace, as Forth doesn't parse out operators the way most languages do. In exchange, you get the ability to use symbols in identifiers, as Forth has no reason to single out symbols like + as being syntactically special. You can even use a number for the first character. (For that matter, Forth will even let you override the usual interpretation of a numerical literal, but that's always struck me as going a bit far.)

It gives you a + word, analogous to the + operator of most languages [0]. It also gives you a 1+ word, as an (admittedly slight) abbreviation of the sequence 1 +. [1] If you wanted a 2+ word, you could easily define it yourself.

(This property of Forth evidently wasn't enough to get it to take over the world, but it's still neat.)

[0] https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/ansforth-cvs/documen...

[1] https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/ansforth-cvs/documen...
Off topic, but that's why I hate GUIs and animations hiding log output of the system when it's doing something important.

With a text console you can see exactly what was going on and in case of where it hung.
Yue was a naval power. It’s logistics like prevention of seasickness or tropical diseases.
Here’s an example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Red_Cliffs
>Cao Cao had chained his ships from stem to stern, possibly with the aim of reducing seasickness in his navy, which was composed mostly of northerners who were not used to living on ships. Observing that, the divisional commander Huang Gai sent Cao Cao a letter feigning surrender and prepared a squadron of capital ships described as mengchong doujian (蒙衝鬥艦). The ships had been converted into fire ships by filling them with bundles of kindling, dry reeds, and fatty oil. As Huang Gai's "defecting" squadron approached the midpoint of the river, the sailors applied fire to the ships before they took to small boats. The unmanned fire ships, carried by the southeastern wind, sped towards Cao Cao's fleet and set it ablaze. Many men and horses either burned to death or drowned.

Mongolians did not like the weather of the south in China as well so their forces an DNA are much less common in the south.

The use of optics in Europe also allowed them to see and prepare for ambushes, invasion and spying from far distances. The best modern example is keyhole: a Hubble space telescope designed for high resolution worldwide orbital scanning.

Africa was also not colonized without the aid of vaccines that killed Europeans and genetic mutations like sickle cell prevented the local populations from malaria.
I'm similar, but I would like to support labels intended for humans, along with various translations, as metadata on top of e.g. filesystem path components.
I’m not sure what Americans actually want, but direct automaker-to-consumer sales have been prohibited in almost every US state by franchise laws requiring that new cars be sold only by licensed, independently owned dealerships. This has been the case for about 80 years or so.

If you have the desire for a specific color/options and it’s not on the lot, the dealer will either get one from another dealer or order you one from the automaker.
Yeah, I've seen it used to allow teams to use consistent frameworks and libraries across many different microservices. Think of authentication, DB clients, logging, webservers, grpc/http service front ends, uptime oracle -- there's lots of cross cutting concerns that are shared code among many microservices.

So the next thing you decide to do is create some microservice framework that bundles all that stuff in and allow your microservice team to write some business logic on top. But now 99% of your executables are in this microservice framework that everyone is using, and that's the point where a lot of companies go the monorepo route.

Actually most companies do some mix -- have a lot of stuff in a big repo and then other smaller repos alongside that.
Not really my area, but (on the surface) seems doable with systemd sockets as well:

https://mgdm.net/weblog/systemd-socket-activation/

Certainly not as nicely integrated, but a game-agnostic approach - similar to inetd from the older days.
I didn't notice that you had posted the one I linked to. There were a few comments on it, which is why I linked.
Monorepos (up to a certain size where git starts getting too slow) are easier to use unless you have sufficient investment into dev tooling.

I think "monorepo" here is a shorthand for large, complex repos with long histories which git does not scale well to whether or not it is all of the repos for an organization. For example I'd call the Windows OS a monorepo for all of the important reasons.
Yeah, these days Windows is like Fortnite: free with cosmetic IAP.

This is also why "Windows is a service" according to those Windows Update nag screens, but if Windows is a service and it's free, are you the customer... or the product?
According to that table, VW had 9 models among the top 50 whereas Tesla only had 1 (the Model 3), and all but one of VW's 9 most popular models outsold the Model 3 so far this year (January to October). The Golf alone sold over 3x as many units as the Model 3.

So while Tesla is quickly gaining market share, VW is still selling 10x as many cars in Germany.
No there is no fixed price, it depends on the hotel. Smaller hotels typically get a worse deal than large chains.

Note: a lot of other "Facts" supporting the idea that booking is all evil are at least partly wrong.

Source: used to work for booking some time ago.
How to Make a JavaScript Polar Chart
Nobody truly separates JS from HTML. You either have to put something HTMLish in the JS, or something JSish in the HTML (HTML itself supports this of course).

IMO the HTML-in-JS solutions (i.e. JSX) are superior to the JS-in-HTML solutions (e.g. Angular/Vue Templates) because they put the standardised turing-complete language in the driving seat rather than the propriety, hard to extend template language.
This is the 1000x startup toxicity attitude people talk about, right?

Surely there's better, more comfortable long term gain to be had being good customer service human beings, to some extent(?)
APL Demonstration 1975
If you are asking about increasing longevity, it's mostly about taking care of yourself (rather than some magic pill or supplement). Don't smoke, exercise, maintain a healthy weight, get the recommended cancer screenings (e.g. mammograms and colonoscopies), find a reason to live (communities, family, purpose).
Discovery mode should have multiplayer with in-world chat, a roleplaying environment. In fact i wonder why they did not release it as such.
Don't worry, pedestrians will defend themselves with their guns.

Joke aside, anyone thinking these ads depict acceptable behavior is nuts, and will find ways to harm others even if they never drive. Any thinking adult knows this is fantasy.
Just to add on to this, I've found using dev/master or any other two-trunk setup also tends to encourage bad habits. One branch is seen as the 'production-ready' trunk while the other becomes 'broken-or-incomplete-code-ok' trunk.

When it comes to releases maintenance branches like you suggest are a lot more flexible and allow you to support old versions. Releasing v1.1 after v2 doesn't really work if all your releases have to be a merge to master.
The hypothetical words I have placed in the mouth of a hypothetical student have not been vetted or approved by an educational professional.
People have always paid for their food to be prepared outside their homes even in ancient Rome with food stalls.

People paid for the colliseum, and well known fighters reaped rewards for their wins.

Yes, I am sure OnlyFans attracts many people who think it's easy money only to realize that just like Youtube or Twitch it's a difficult fulltime job that requires very heavy interpersonal skills. That doesn't seem like a failing of capitalism.

> Could meaningful work be subsidized so women who don't actually want to show their nipples to the world can get by without feeling pressured into trying to make a quick buck?

If it isn't making money, it probably isn't meaningful, with the exclusion of volunteer work. Capitalist societies use money as our value indicator for services as tempered by demand.

What meaningful work do you think should be subsidized?
Your soul bears the validity of your NFTs into the afterlife, making them ill-suited for inheritance. They'll all be lining up for St. Peter covered in Nerd Chimps.
I see the same thing in most ticketing and planning systems, they all have some logic to decide what next steps are allowed and to edit those steps you modify a graphical representation of a state machine.

You don't need to write code to modify it, but if you have no knowledge of flows or state machines or logical succession of events you simply can't solve the problem. It's not hard, but no-code isn't going to make it less hard either.
In case anyone else is curious, here's xelf's .asd: https://gitlab.com/dto/xelf/-/blob/master/xelf.asd
The TS ergonomics still have a long way to go, imo. Typing components is a little bizarre -https://github.com/sveltejs/language-tools/issues/442
I would guess that pattern comes from the git-flow diagram: https://datasift.github.io/gitflow/IntroducingGitFlow.html#h...
I've been saying things like: "we'd like to hear more about how you'd use this, to help us build future versions".
This is how your brain operates on big tech futurism larping.
That's a nice snippet of the original source code! Does anyone recognize the language? Googling tells me that VisiCalc was written in Apple II (6502) assembly, but this is clearly not that.
The extensions that aren't on that list but are in the list provided by lalaithion are pretty "big" extensions that can severely increase the bar needed to understand Haskell code (I'm looking at ImplicitParams, QuasiQuotes, DataKinds, TypeOperators, and UndeciableInstances).

In general, I've only read over IHP code, but never used it myself, I'd be worried about the quality of GHC error messages for a Haskell novice with the amount of magic IHP is providing.

There's some nifty type-level programming going on in the background with IHP which works great when everything compiles, but can have confusing GHC error messages if you have an error.
The finished building will look nothing like the renders. The "crack" that's shown in all the renders as filled with lush greenery faces north. It will be in permanent shade. If they actually do plant all those trees, they'll be dead within months.
Svelte and Vue got started when someone just went and did it. If you think it's so important to have many competitors in this space, just go and do it :)
Sorry, but that seems a bit ignorant. A lot of the things we rely on every day have toxic byproducts.

I’m not saying this is good, but by your logic you should give up your car because someone moved in to the lot next to you and built a house.
No, I don't think Page + Brin needed Sand Hill Road to introduce them to fellow Stanford alums Jerry Yang and David Filo.

Profit isn't revenue and visa versa. But it's on record that Google had $220,000 in revenue in 1999.

Yahoo contracted out their search back then; they started as a directory and they believed in that. It's not clear exactly when the Yahoo search deal started. But it is clear when the Yahoo investment was made (which was after Series A).

Yahoo also used Inktomi and Google's leverage with Yahoo was that they were better than Inktomi or Altavista. But their leverage with VCs was that they had revenue and it was going up and to the right.

Sun was another company with early profitability, very early in Sun's case. That's my main point. Revenue and early profitability is good thing for founders but not VCs.
Tailscale in WASM Demo – Brad Fitzpatrick
There is no evidence yet the deer actually get sick. It's quite normal for a virus to be terribly pathogenic in one mammalian species, and able to infect a wide variety of others but without illness or only minor illness. For example, camelpox (related to smallpox) is horrible in camels and kills a quarter of camels infected. In humans and most other mammals it usually is limited to skin sores at the site of contact and goes away quickly. Similarly, monkeypox is highly contagious and usually fatal in its host monkeys, much less contagious and only infrequently fatal in humans, and downright hard to give to a cow or mouse and it won't make them ill. But they can catch it. All of the poxes exhibit that trait, with family- or genus-specific pathogenicity but broad cross-species contagiousness.
Reminds me of beenie babies. Some are still valuable to the right buyers but that can be said of any collectable over the last century. However that doesn't mean beenie babies were a good investment or that selling beenie babies led to any lasting success.