skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your countries health care service most likely has public guidelines on this which you should consult.

If you have some kind of medical condition and a booster concerns you I advise you make an appointment with your doctor to discuss your specific concerns and get professional advice.

Hacker News is not the place to ask such a question nor give any response other than "check with your local health care service or doctor" imho.
What about Tetris? Though the line gets blurry about "official" ports of Tetris, I'd wager that the core game concept is one of the most ported of all time.
Threat Modeling with HCL
Oh people of the internets are so smart as shit. Bravo sleuths!
Flatpak very likely is not the future indeed but it seems like a good step towards it.

Of all the arguments of the author I only agree with the RAM usage part. It's true that having containerized apps will lead to much more CPU L-cache trashing which can dramatically reduce performance if you are regularly starting and stopping programs. This is indeed a problem that needs solving. I can envision a NextFlatpak that keeps a global cache of versioned libraries (kind of like Apple does in macOS) so as to try and reduce RAM usage as much as possible.

And I agree with the author on the startup time (which is also related to memory usage and CPU cache trashing). That too is a problem that needs solving.

The rest of the arguments though, meh. Are you seriously arguing the case that we need to respect 120GB NVMe SSDs because they are "expensive"? Really? I spent 255 EUR (288 USD) on a 2TB NVMe SSD (and it has 3210 TBW of endurance, one of the very highest of all NVMe SSDs!) for a spare dev laptop and I am convinced most devs would have no trouble making that purchase any time they get the whim about it. And even people in my poor country, people who are mind-blown by their new 1300 EUR salary, can still plan financially well enough to afford a new iPhone 3-6 months later. So again, not convinced here. As much as NVMe SSDs are expensive per GB, they are still well within the grasp of most users who actually need them.

As for security, it seems the author overstates the efforts of distro maintainers. They do an admirable job, this is well-known, but they really can't be everywhere so him praising them so much might be a bit misguided (as do other posters here). Flatpaks don't change the game in almost no measure there, especially if they get properly isolated (as another poster alluded to: I want to be able to stop all internet access to an app; just one example). And none of what the author states will stop a malicious app that's not in a container so really, what's his point there? That the Debian maintainers inspect 100% of all apps and will spot a malicious calculator? Come on now.

And the rest of the post is just ranting and having a beef with a few things, which is clearly visible by his change of tone. Call me crazy but such an article can't be called convincing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I can link to your comment too where you imply that the bad news about North Korea is just defense contractor propaganda. Thanks!
If it's illegal to exchange goods or official currency for cryptocurrency in the nation you are in, the usefulness of cryptocurrency is going to be considerably constrained. This depends on how thorough or draconian the state is but a lot of people just shy away from illegal activity without enforcement being that strong. After all, if buy a tangible good, I want legal title to it and having engaged in an illegal transaction to get the stuff makes that less certain.
> Mercedes has 6 station wagons/shooting brakes, VW has 4, BMW has 4, Toyota has 5, Hyundai has 4, Kia has 3, Honda got 5

Okay, and now go to each of these manufacturer's US websites and check how many are available in the US.

Also, consider that Mercedes and BMW only offer luxury models at luxury prices in the US.
The claim upthread was that this data was inaccurate in Colorado to the point that it was not useful.
Very sad to see Lockwise being sunsetted. It provided good basis for new product that actually could be a competitor to 1password. However, I felt in guts it will have problem with traction, because it seemed too opinionated for me. I have noticed some people wanted to use Lockwise just like a password manager. However, by a long time it was a read-only client for Firefox Sync. No silly OTP calculator to cover Google Authenticator logic. It also didn't support custom Sync Servers, which made a bad taste for very advanced users. Mozilla is losing yet another niche, where Lockwise could be a profitable, open-source full-featured product.
I agree, however the obvious answer is that society should then build more hospitals and train more nurses, the same way that China did in 2020. Not plunge the economy into debt and force millions of people to change their behavior because of a broken system.
This observation always really irritates me; making no comment about this particular instance, data jumping around doesn't necessarily mean it's noisy. Some datasets have high variance.
I was very good at making reliable apps and managing states manually in the jquery days. Having a scaffolding helps overall and in many ways, but now in the dense jungle that is the JS "ecosystem", there is sometimes a productivity loss searching for "the right way to do X in framework Y" or troubleshooting underlying tools instead of just writing the code to do the thing. Easier, maybe, but not at all satisfying.
Do those #s include children?

The numbers here are very high (in one of the most vaccinated US states) but only if you look at the 18+ number or something similar.

We still have plenty of unvaccinated kids spreading it around and they end up spreading it to some vaccinated people.
Tokens like Bitcoin, Eth, NFTs etc are the only thing one can own in the digital space.

So if a country makes the possession of cryptocurrencies illegal, it makes their people digitally possessionless.

This would cut them off from the next version of the web. Similar to how North Korea cuts of their people from the current web.

So far it seems no country that cuts of their people from the internet has been able to flourish.
That’s sorta what happy hour is.
I get bothered by the use of the term "nation-state" in this context.

And I thought I was pedantic.
I recommend you stop going to their website. You seem to be having a very tough time.
Love the films by this guy. I still hope to see a District 10, and the shorts Rakka and Zygote made into full movies.
Not sure what you are writing regarding Firefox Send and Lockwise. They are/were good, or at least good for me.
Well, that's one way of outing yourself as someone who knows literally nothing about modern computer security.
>Can’t you structure things like Zuckerberg or Palantir and just have the founder retain unilateral company control?

Fyi... Zuckerberg didn't "retain" unilateral control. He lost his 65% majority ownership control because it was reduced (diluted) to 40% when Peter Thiel invested in 2004.[1]

What eventually happened was that Zuckerberg later consolidated voting power from other shareholders like Sean Parker and Accel Partners.[2] Why would they give voting power to Zuckerberg?!? Because Zuckerberg was doing a good job running the company.

Yes, Facebook also later set up class B shares with 10x voting power for Zuckerberg. But investors won't accommodate founders with that structure unless the company is a big success.

So in short, MZ lost 65% control, and then eventually got majority voting power back after some business events. Even though he now only owns ~14% of Facebook, an article said his voting share was still at majority of ~58%.[3]

[1] Facebook ownership was divided between Zuckerberg, with 65%, Saverin, with 30%, and Moskovitz, with 5%. After the transaction, the new company was divided between Zuckerberg, with 40%, Saverin, with 24%, Moskovitz, with 16%, and Thiel with 9%. The rest, about 20%, went to an options pool for future employees. -- from : https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-booted-h...

[2] https://venturebeat.com/2012/02/01/zuck-power-play/

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-26/facebook-...
Short answer: the UK and the EU have different priorities and the Tories are not interested in giving money to get more fancy “intellectuals” (who tend to be foreign and liberal).

Also, for now Brexit is costing more than the money that was supposed to be saved.
Meta, Amazon, Google, Tesla:

MAGGOT

Arse, that ‘o’ is in the wrong place.
Based on the link in my comment, 600 deaths from covid in the 17 and under bracket since 2019. ~70m people in that age group, so that's 1 in 200k per year for 2 years, roughly? The vaccine risk (1 in 50k) is based on the .0022% figure in the grandparent comment. Not sure how that varies by age.
Personally I like Pocket although there are certainly places where it could use improvement.
It's a one-off, the tooling was at most wooden forms.
Wouldn't the criminals just wear masks? I think we may need to move to iris scanning.
as the former parent of a 100+ node cluster, am mostly with you -- but we also had dev environments that were 1-10 pods, and where we would have liked low-overhead and didn't need HA

also valuable for creating local copies of cloud infra so you can develop + test
The business isn't doing any better if it grew by 6.2% this year, the currency they are receiving and paying you with has reduced in value by 6.2%, so it is breaking even. I'm not saying this in a "capitalism is bad" sort of way, I'm saying this in a "capitalism is good" sort of way. Wages are up in the majority of sectors, unemployment is falling, if your company or industry can't do 6% this year you likely have other options that can. Use at will employment to your advantage.
I'm surprised Consumer Reports isn't enormously popular here. It's not personal, engaging blog-style writing - it seems written to help the broadest possible audience, but it's the most technical research by far:

They have actual domain experts, labs (well-resourced), scientific method, and loads of objective data - e.g., for bicycle helmets, they have human head/body models, put all the helmets on them (I'd guess 50 at least, IIRC), dropped them on their heads (I don't remember how the impacts were constructed), and measured various outcomes. Through their research they discovered new risks, such as the stretch in the chin strap.

And it's in sortable, filterable, dynamic tables. What is not to like?!
Your claim is no more substantial. The claim upthread is about Colorado, not Washington.
Whenever an article says cheap food is bad, just close it.

You can get a loaf of whole wheat bread for $1, or you can buy a TV dinner for $1.

Efficiency Is Everything website has researched this.

This is a low information problem, not a capitalism problem.
The bottling plants for soda etc. tend to be fairly local. Syrup gets shipped further.
Nonsense. The virus is now endemic and will never go away. You can't seriously expect people to continue with masks and social distancing indefinitely. Fortunately vaccines and other treatments reduce the risk to a very low level.
There is exactly zero chance of maintaining an up to date, reasonably fast and secure browser without a large, dedicated team of highly qualified developers. Good luck with forking...

Mozilla has definitely failed with most of their side projects, many of them really redundant. And shutting them down is really bad for their reputation.

But they also need to find some funding source that doesn't make them beholden to Google or Microsoft. They have been desperately trying to do that.

Ignoring the fact that many of those side projects probably took one or two part time devs, with the vast majority working on the browser ... only working on Firefox won't get them any revenue.

And no, a subscription model probably won't work. As things stand they would need maybe 30-40 million subscribers paying 10$/year to match Googles money. That's never happening.
Are you aware that Dollar Tree and Dollar General are different stores with different business models?

Dollar General does not price all their items for $1. I don't believe they ever have.

And Dollar Tree does not sell groceries (at least not any I've ever been to).
NSO have started threating to release dirt on Israeli politicians because they are unhappy that the Israeli government isn't covering for them.
>A lot of people in this thread seem to be suggesting that since we can’t pin down an absolute answer we should what… do nothing?

I don't think this is the most generous take. I think what most people are trying to find is the underlying principles. Consider the following potential first principles:

1) Minimize suffering

2) Minimize animal death

3) Minimize charismatic mega fauna death

4) Minimize climate impacts

5) Maximize human health

6) Maximize human performance

7) Maximize human longevity (healthspan or lifespan)

Each of those can lead down different, sometimes competing tracts. Can vegan/vegetarianism be compatible with any of those? Sure. Can it optimize all of them at the same time? I'm doubtful. It's certainly possible that in the rush to do something we end up on the wrong trade-off. That's why it's import to drill down on exactly what one is claiming is ultimately important.
If you haven't seen it, there's a great talk on YouTube on the Xbox One's security. Surprisingly, it's from a senior Microsoft engineer.

Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325421
This is so so so sad. I use firefox as my main browser and lockwise was so much useful when I needed to log into something on my phone. Very disappointing.
I see that a lot in RCAs - it's generally easy to rush out how something went wrong, but it can be much more subtle why it did; but since heads will roll if it isn't sent in 24hr, we get useless recaps.
Probably Simpson's Paradox. A 59 year old is both more likely to be vaccinated and to die from any cause, compared to a 10 year old.
That's probably because previous Congressional acts mandated regular sales from the SPR as evidenced here https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35032

Not to mention the 10M barrels we sold just to pay for the upkeep (it's like selling gas from my car to pay for new brakes - we shouldn't be bartering oil for maintenance expenses).

But a trade is a trade - had they not bought the 77M the SPR would have dropped by 74M rather than the increase of 3M.
They are decent - but they are undermining the development of the Firefox browser by consuming lots of precious time and money which is not what Firefox needs right now.

Remember that Mozilla get's 90%+ of its funding, not from donations, but from Google for being the default search engine. Firefox's market share is now ~4%, dangerously close to where Google might decide that the payout isn't worth it. And close enough where Google thinks they could stop payments without causing any antitrust ire because it's such a small percentage it doesn't make any business sense.

You would think Mozilla executives would take that as a sign that their funding and core product is at stake and they need to double-down on it. Instead, they fire engineering teams and spread into the many side projects in a desperate attempt at diversification that isn't working.
Maybe- theres certainly a lot of frozen CO2 in comets available for harvesting. Where would the CO go, however? It's not the sort of thing you just want piling up next to your habitation zones.
The article seems a little misguided. The news was "private cryptos", not all cryptos.
So you're saying for two of the three arbitrary rules I mentioned you need additional tooling for analysis... sure sounds like my initial point.

But that's not even the point.

> If anything I'd say the contrary is true, people overestimate what MISRA achieves, big chunks of it could be summarised as "Don't do things that are obviously a terrible idea".

This is exactly what I mean. You're missing the point of MISRA if you think that's an overestimation or just to make managers happy... MISRA is often for life or death, and it's not even going as far as the random ISO standards that end up applying on top of it in some domains. It might be "obviously terrible" stuff, but very excellent developers end up doing it anyways sometimes, that's just being human.

The ground work to even verify a Rust toolchain doesn't even exist, (the closest I could find is a WIP https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/) so I'm guessing everyone forcing this is likely rolling their own setup of additional tools?

If you don't work on ABS controllers and you work at somewhere like Tesla where the bar for safety is a little lower in the name of using new shiny things, by all means use Rust. But I wouldn't do that in a million years. I simply don't buy that using established MISRA C tooling is less safe than rolling your own lint setup.
Plan for the divorce during the honeymoon.

Then put the agreement in the safe. Two outcomes:

* everything goes swimmingly: you've wasted a bit of time and paper
* everything does not go well: hard decisions are already made

Before I co-founded a startup, I read the Nolo books on partnerships, especially the parts about dissolving them fairly. The details differ slightly if you have an LLC, C corp etc (as long as it is private) but the overarching themes are the same and so so important to consider.
The risk of testing positive for covid is conditioned on the probability of being tested in the first place. The CDC guidance skews towards testing unvaccinated people more aggressively, hence the numbers are predictably skewed towards the unvaccinated. Further confounding the issue, vaccination among kids and teenagers is recent, their VE numbers are going to decline over time.

Medical research indicates VE against infection of about 50% after 6 months, which is 2:1.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/t...

* People who have symptoms of COVID-19.

* People who have come into close contact with someone with COVID-19 should be tested to check for infection:

* Fully vaccinated people should be tested 5–7 days after their last exposure.

* People who are not fully vaccinated should get tested immediately when they find out they are a close contact. If their test result is negative, they should get tested again 5–7 days after their last exposure or immediately if symptoms develop.

* Unvaccinated people who have taken part in activities that put them at higher risk for COVID-19 because they cannot physically distance as needed to avoid exposure, such as travel, attending large social or mass gatherings, or being in crowded or poorly-ventilated indoor settings.

* People who have been asked or referred to get tested by their healthcare provider, or state, tribal, localexternal icon, or territorial health department.
Costco is known for less of a choice, but whatever choice there is you can trust it to be of a higher quality.

When I go to Costco I definitely have my guard down and don’t vet and don’t scrutinize each product as much as i would do at other stores.
This is about the 12th time that India has "banned" cryptocurrencies. Don't believe it...
IMF warns El Salvador: “Bitcoin should not be used as a legal tender”
See the “dual class” structure he managed to set up early on to preserve control.

https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/11/19/18099011/mark-zuck...

This was made popular by Larry and Sergey in 2012: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312512...

It’s really only possible if the company/investment is so compelling that investors will invest with virtually no control.
That's a curious interpretation of the graphs... in all age groups in the US, the unvaxed line is higher than the vaxed graph (except for 1 data point for ages 12-17).

If you're unvaxed and using "So even unvaccinated younger people (age < 30) are better off than the average vaccinated Joe." as a justification, it's a bit like saying "I know being unvaxed I have worse survival odds than a fully vaxed 65 year old, but I prefer that!"

And please just compare data from close time periods, if we can pick different times for our rates, then I would pick October 2016, the chances of dying from Covid-19 at that time was absolute 0, even for the unvaxed!
> is there any device with a high monthly active user count that has a higher cost to purchase a black market exploit than the iPhone?

This is unfair, because there is a duopoly and the only alternative on mass market is Android. Of course in such circumstances the exploits will be expensive, even if security is awful.

Ignoring this, Purism takes security more seriously, because they give the user full control over the OS with possibility to replace/reinstall or harden it. In contrast to that, rarely updated iMessage is impossible to uninstall on iOs.
I think it means that they're pissing in the wind and hoping that the direction is away from them.
> I could not care less about people having their TV programming interrupted, and everybody has had shitty days at work

Yet you feel it is somehow contributing to the world to intentionally create shitty days at work and not give a shit about people trying to enjoy what they're watching?

> I think we're just two people that would hate each other in real life and leave it at that

Yeah, I generally don't like people who think it is ok to take their entertainment in the form of making others miserable.
There is also /r/Petioles for people who want to moderate their usage :) https://www.reddit.com/r/Petioles/
Why is that a problem? I "possess" nothing in digital space but get much value from it and I posses various things in meat-space that I also get value from.

Moreover, I can spend my conventional money in digital space and get further use from. A "digital possess" seems a thing that doesn't improve the world in a good way.
> The atmosphere falls off exponentially (IIRC).

Yeah, with constant gravity and no friction.

100km isn't enough because no height is ever enough, because friction exists. Any wall will have a flow of air near it going away into space, as a result, the pressure will fall much slower than exponentially.
Dollar General is not a "dollar store"

> Even though Dollar General has the word “dollar” in its name, everything in the store doesn’t go for a buck; their merchandise is just low priced.

https://www.rd.com/article/dollar-tree-vs-dollar-general/
do ORMs still target lowest common denominator ansi sql? I only know that EF doesn't - it has "providers" for each rdbms it supports and will liberally emit CTEs and db specific language features like "outer apply" or "join lateral" but then stupidly ignore powerful features like "for json" or "json_agg/json_build_object" which could eliminate the outrageously naive way it encodes 1:m and m:m results - it boggles how smart and stupid orms are at the same time.
> However, I still remember the hell that was updating the state and keeping the rendering in sync with it when using jQuery. Native JS of course doesn't improve on that

I think this varied a lot depending on how teams approached it and that a lot of the appeal to something like React, Vue, etc. was simply that there was one way to do it.

The approach I've been quite happy with is to use JavaScript classes (IE11 is less than 1% of global web usage) for internal state, where you follow standard practice for having ownership and updates between different parts of your app, and the HTML5 data APIs for the public elements which are managed by different codebases. Web Components has something like 95-97% availability these days but this can be as simple as using element.dataset.whatever as needed. React is definitely good for huge apps but a significant fraction of the web sites I use are solidly in the level of functionality which in 2021 doesn't need functionality outside of what a modern browser provides.
Only money acquired through illegal means can be considered laundered.