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If the virus has mutated so much, shouldn't there be new vaccines?

I'm kind of doubtful about the idea that delta, being different, means we need another dose of the vaccines that were developed for the original virus.

In a few months, there may be something that is on beyond delta circulating.

With flu, we expect the vaccines to be updated.

The other issue I have is that my first shot (Pfizer) didn't bother me at all, but the second caused a lot of pain in my arm and a fairly short, but miserable overall feeling of illness.

This contrasts with my experience of the flu shot, where the very first time, I felt almost as bad as the actual flu, for 1/5th of the time, but on subsequent years, had no reaction at all.

What I'm saying is, two data points make a trend, even if not a terribly reliable one, and I don't have a good argument for why a third shot would not be as bad or worse.

I think I've read that the reaction may be largely to inactive ingredients and not the vaccine itself. What does that mean? I don't know, but I can worry that the more times I'm exposed, the worse it will be.

I've also read that the Moderna vaccine provided better immunity in retrospect, and you can probably choose whatever you want for your third.

It seems like at the moment, cases are up, but fatalities are down. If I get the sense that half of the population has had a booster, or that vaccinated people are being hospitalized, maybe I will. Otherwise, I'm not in a rush.
Synthstrom Deluge. https://synthstrom.com/product/deluge/

I had an OP-1 for a number of years but I could never progress beyond 2-4 bar loops. When I bought my Deluge I made a full track in my first two hours with it, and I was pretty proud of it. I own a number of groove boxes now, but have only ever managed to completed tracks on my Deluge.
> I’ve had trouble however finding employment in the industry without a degree…I know this is not many peoples experience but it has been mine.

I've worked with a fair number of people without a degree and they all have interesting stories of how they got their career started. This industry is fairly welcoming of people without degrees, but that doesn't mean it's easy, so try not to feel discouraged.

It's not always possible, but you might consider taking a lighter load of classes if you can. Having fewer classes may be helpful as there will be less choices on what work to do and that can help. And, given that doing work is hard (even if the work isn't), you may only have so many useful hours in you for a week. If the work itself is hard, all the more reason to take fewer classes.

Definitely talk to your school's learning center. You're not the first person with these issues at your school, and they may be able to help you.
In addition to the other replies, we haven't built new rail lines in a long time. Some of them are at capacity. Some trains leaving Seattle must go through Portland instead of heading straight east.
You mean, the little ant on the floor?

I barfed at 1-based indexing for about a week, but now it is as natural as anything.

I would compare 0-based and 1-based indexing with whether you put semicolons at the end of each line or not. Either way doesn't really change the feel (semantics) of the language.

Also, fortan is 1-based, iirc, and a lot of numerical code is in fortan.

Oh, and many many beginning programmers and scientists have a hard time with 0-based indexing. Not sure why, but such you hear, so the choice is really not that odd.
> Ever since then, I've been getting notifications on the settings app about how my iCloud storage is almost out of space because somehow my iPhone backup takes nearly 4.8gb, even though I have disabled the vast majority of app backup permissions.

iCloud backup does a really bad job of reclaiming space, back when I was on the free tier every once in a while I'd clear the backup (I think by disabling it?) and then re-doing the backup.
I'm with you. Wearing a mask seems like not a huge deal (though I should note that folks on the spectrum may find the experience really unpleasant, and we should do what we can to support folks who aren't neurotypical.)

Try different masks, different styles. There's several different patterns for masks and finding the right one for your face helps a lot.
We also don't know what the mortality rate is. Suppose it has 100% vaccine escape but 0% mortality. Would it be "BAD"?
Also, being psychosomatic does NOT mean they are ficticious, which is a widespread opinion.
Yes, if the message is only 40 bits long there is a 100% chance. But the point is that you still only need 20 bits even if the message is 100000 bits long

Because if 50% of bits are corrupted, each bit has a >50% chance of being corrupted, so
With 20 bits you have only a 1 in 2^20 chance of missing all the corrupted bits.

The 20 bits don't allow you do correct anything, BTW. To do that you need a locally decodable code. What we are talking about here is the ability to detect corruption of the original data.
> result in the recipient learning two things about the sender (name and phone number, both of which are configurable at transaction time)

The recipient of Japanese bank transfers only gets the name. The phone number is only for the sending bank's side to reach out to the sender in case the transfer failed. Particularly of importance when you make transfers without owning an account at the sending bank (not sure how common that feature is outside Japan).

Also of note, the Zengin system actually allows additional metadata in so-called EDI messages. However it's somewhat rare to see this offered by interfaces, and so likely not generally suitable. Here's one example: https://faq-chibabank.dga.jp/faq_detail.html?id=31

> The Single Europe Payment Area (SEPA) offers free, instant transactions between European banks. They’re pull based

There are also push based SEPA transfers. Not that the article claims there aren't, just seems incomplete to present only the push based version for Japan (and not furikae and its challenges) and only the pull based version for Europe.
Did the folks downvoting me forget about Gatekeeper and trustd or what?

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

> It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slow and it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet.

> Because it does this using the internet, the server sees your IP, of course, and knows what time the request came in. An IP address allows for coarse, city-level and ISP-level geolocation, and allows for a table that has the following headings:

> Date, Time, Computer, ISP, City, State, Application Hash

Would anyone care to actually make an argument how celebrating an OS that phones home about every application you run, all but forces you to create online accounts, and pushes you to store your data on the cloud as ‘pro-privacy’ because its chief competitor is truly outrageously bad does not speak to a serious degradation in our privacy standards?
Which Java?

OpenJDK, GraalVM, Open J9, Aicas, PTC, microEJ, Azul, Amazon,....
Proper union types are really hard if you want to do anything more than check. Once you're into inference territory, this gets really hard.

Look at Haskell's faux union Either. It should be true that Either a a = a but of course, it isn't and you always have to destructure this.

In inference it's easier to just infer one most general type instead of a (possibly infinite) number of sets of types.

Basicaly wherever types are ambiguous, you'd need to try all alternatives and possibly compile all of them.

Faux unions are also underused but we do find them from time to time.
Ok fair on tone. Apologies.

First you’re opining on what the disease is? It’s actually the converse to your preposition: it’s a giant symptom cluster (50+) and no one generally believes it’s multiple diseases lumped together. Read the Mayo paper.

The rest of your comment has a logical fallacy which renders it moot: do they have a diagnoses, yes/no? If yes, then your “try other things” and “maybe it’s psychological” comments make no sense and are refuted clinically. It’s like saying “is your computer turned on? No? Ok, it’s probably a software bug. Let’s just be open to possibilities and not be close minded here.”

Also a) you’re assuming they didn’t try therapy. And b) “they’d be open to more possibilities”…like what specifically? The self reports is 20k data points and they got bought by 23andMe; but we could pull PubMed and get to the same result. Nothing seems to work and more importantly other than a believed onset from a post-viral infection, there’s no known even rudementary understanding of how it works. Clinically there’s no known above zero effectiveness non-“say no to everything” modality. What do you suggest these people that have spent 2 to 3 years probably trying everything imaginable attempt?

Like it’s so straight forward. Try talk therapy for a year and then try anti depressants. Oh it didn’t work across a gigantic cohort? And the scientific community generally agrees psychological isn’t a recommended approach? Very Donald Trumpian to say “who knows who knows, let’s keep an open mind here” with no backing on data to stand on other than an intrinsic belief regarding a clinical topic.

You’re suggesting a high rate of false positives. The links show an expected 91% of false negatives (I’m assuming due to the sheer difficulty of diagnosis) and literally no comment of false positives. Not clear how you can defend that assertion.
Ok, I installed gambit from master, ran the compile-all script with "gsi" but it has been running for an hour or so. Trying your gsi command above also seems to take awfully long. I tried building rsc.scm with gsc and that made an executable that let me create repl-min.scm.c that was invalid C because of two definitions of "input". I commented out one of them and was able to compile a REPL that could do (+ 2 2) but segfaulted when I tried making a user-defined function and calling it. Something similar happened with the web demo on github.

I see that the extra "input" definition in the .c file is in an #ifndef next to some clang pragmas: does it expect to be compiled with clang? I'm using gcc 8.3.

I got rsc working with python after a few false starts, but that also crashes (with a python backtrace instead of a segfault) when I try to define and use a function.

Also have similar crashes when the scheme output of rsc, under both gsi and guile.
My summary regarding the book was:

"Listen to your doctor! It's not a good idea to chase miracle cures. But trying this book on top of what your doctor tells you? I can't see anything wrong with that. You're not harming anything. You're not refusing conventional medicine. If it works for you, great. If not, you have lost ten bucks and two hours of your time."
(https://backpain.2uo.de/)
Flutter, for sure. It feels like a much more thoughtful system overall. I'm not as impressed with the Dart ecosystem as I am with the Flutter one, mostly because the Dart ecosystem lacks widely used/supported frameworks for server-side development. I would LOVE to completely remove Javascript from my life and if there were a solid server-side framework for Dart, I could use it literally everywhere.

Re your problems:

1. Yeah, break widgets down. Yes, it's more work, but it's necessary in the same way that breaking code down into smaller functions is necessary. You don't just cram everything into one file and you shouldn't expect that a mega-widget will be the right way either.

2. Flutter for web is still very early on. You should know that there are two renderers (one that uses canvas and one that uses real dom elements), but they're both just "okay" at this point. They have been rapidly improving however -- the difference between now and this time last year is significant. It'll keep getting better and in the mean time, it's usable enough. The download sizes are huge and sometimes rendering can be a little janky, but again: it'll get better. For me, the promise of a unified system for desktop, web, mobile, and even some limited 3rd party embedded Linux support (https://github.com/sony/flutter-elinux) is really appealing.
Guy from Romania here: we can even pay to phone numbers if you’re on ING (Dutch bank) or Revolut (from UK). They will get their client’s IBAN for you. At least in Bucharest almost every person around me has an account on both of these.
>Surely you realize some people are better in social situations than others

Absolutely, and the cause of poor social function is almost only childhood trauma.

Being sensitive to others emotions (pop-culture empathy) is not equal to actually knowing another person's emotions. There are many many such studies that prove this, here is a random one I found on page 1 of Google: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6c5968c1 Many more actually negatively correlate being sensitive to others emotions with accurately gauging others' emotions. I also mentioned there's a study that correlates age (accumulated social experience?) with the knowledge of how little they themselves can infer from other people (can't remember the exact topic, but it goes something like that). Side note, emotional sensitivity is linked with childhood trauma.

Therefore we can say being sensitive to, or thinking we know, other people's emotions has nothing to do with being good at social situations (at worst it actually impairs social function). At best being sensitive to others' perceived (not real: projected) emotions is poor boundaries.

This counter-intuitive reality needs to be clear when the topic of emotional intelligence is brought up. Emotional Intelligence is not a virtue, but yes, we can agree it exists and people that are healed (unfortunately, not all) can posses it. To tie it all in, would a truly emotionally intelligent person (in the academic and psychotherapeutic sense) know how Kim would respond, or would the emotionally intelligent Kim respond negatively or positively? It is not clear, and thinking one knows the objective answer to this scenario is suspect. We can obviously say "if I was Kim, I would feel..." but I argue nothing more can be said.
Payment method need an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escrow to scale
This is known as a "Norman Door". There's a great episode of 99% Invisible about them. https://99percentinvisible.org/article/norman-doors-dont-kno...
Oh man! Thank you so much, It is hard to convey how much I have used hillmap. I just had to check in and make sure the site was still up.
Anytime I want to roughly get a sense of distance it is my first and only thought, from planning offtrail backpacking and ski trips, to trying to figure out how far I ran on a given day, or trying to talk my girlfriend into swimming various point to point routes.

I'd say of the pin bindings the race style are the ones I think of when I admire the design.
> The cognitive distortion is taking uncertainty and replacing it with the worst possible interpretation.

So being a good computer scientist / engineer?
Such a strange trend. On the surface it feels like “we’re so interested in your curiosity that we want to offer you a job”, but in reality it’s more like a very subtle marketing campaign designed to boost brand awareness.

So curious how the internal conversations go when these are proposed, and why they are all so similar.
> n the U.S., I expect bank transfers will struggle to see general adoption as a payment method, even after the release of FedNow, but who knows what will be built on top of them. Cards are very popular and entrenched, and the economic model allows them to outcompete free on price alone. New payment methods will need to find something very interesting to offer to capture the user’s interest, and some participant in the transaction to pay for it; Buy Now Pay Later had the interesting insight that some businesses would happily underwrite their customers’ use of credit if someone else took the payment risk. Perhaps we’ll see similar experiments in applications using bank transfers as the underlying payment rail but with more complicated economics split creatively between the parties.

Well, yeah, the other thing is, what interest do I have in letting the merchant get my funds directly without a middleman who promises to step in in the case of fraud? I am quite happy to continue paying with credit.
So others didn't have to and come explain the same thing we were all thinking.
Musical theater icon Stephen Sondheim dead at 91
Had Oracle not bought Sun, Java would have died in version 6, and MaximeVM would never had become GraalVM.

There weren't other buyers in town, besides IBM, which I probably would have managed it just as Oracle has, given that the trio have been around in Java world since the early days.
Yes, something like this. For all we know, everything else might just be a big chemical reaction, with no pain involved. The dog reaction might just be like a reflex.

The only reason why we know it own pain exist is, well, because it hurts :)

(But once again, I think the theory that other people and animals also feel pain is reasonable and probably the truth)
I forgot about this. Sansa with RockBox was the best.
Nice to see you on HN. Been following your channel from the early days.
> It’s to the point where your level of skill can mean nothing if you make one costly error.

But usually you're playing with people who are not experts at the game, so they also make 0-1 costly errors per lap. It's hard to find someone who makes no errors.

Most items also favor the people who aren't first or last, so there's a chance those will change the outcome.

> MK64 character driving attributes also vary, but the character select screen doesn’t inform players of this

This is true, but you can explain the differences easily and they're fairly intuitive (because they're all based on size).
Well, are they really though? Sales taxes are more than twice that where I live, and anyway I don't have to pay it directly.
I suppose that various KYC / AML checks are a significant obstacle to frictionless international payments; another is fraud protection.

I bet it's seriously harder to get two countries agree on the lists of undesirables, and streamline e.g. court protection across jurisdictions.
Why some people don't add some screenshots in their projects?
This was a missed opportunity. Have one group mask up for the China virus* and one for covid, with masks indicating which group you belonged to. Make it a competition to see who can wear the most masks.

* we have always named diseases from where they are found, and China/Wuhan virus would have been more catchy. However that hurt the pride of Xi and suddenly we all changed our minds.
Most modern languages have the concept of “libraries” that one can “import” and that can extend the language’s feature set.

For example, I don’t think C++ has such bit strings (the confusingly named bitset (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/bitset) comes close, but don’t think it does the substr and concatenation parts. basic_string<bool> has those, but not the Boolean operations), but they can be added when needed.
There are different kinds of back pains, and for a few years I had them on and off, and it very likely was posture related. The first time I tried a good lumbar support my pain almost disappeared while using it. It was such a relief that even now, a decade later, I have that lumbar support for all the chairs I sit in - home or work - even when I'm pain free.

However, my pain was unusual (did not fit the usual symptoms people normally have). There are other types of back pains. Sarno was always insistent that a physiological cause always be investigated, and if one is found, to treat it accordingly. Absent that, he would recommend a psychological approach. One thing he highlighted that I've anecdotally found to be true when discussing with others[1]: The pain often disappears near/after retirement. And almost all physiological problems get worse with age - not better.

Me personally: Sarno's approach didn't work with other pains (ones he claims are within the scope of this type of pain). I don't know what the cause is - doctors never found anything and physical therapists have told me they've never dealt with my types of pains. Maybe it is psychological, but I must emphasize: Sarno's approach didn't work for me.

[1] A former boss is an example. He said he had severe back pain on and off for so many years - had to take time off from work, etc. Nothing really worked. But eventually, in his mid 50's it went away and he doesn't know why. He's near retirement (senior guy with money), kids all grown up and graduated from college (or near graduating). Once a lot of his life worries got resolved, so did his pain.

His story is fairly common.
That design is everywhere in Japan, and can be quite embarrassing for tourists.

First time I went to Japan I walked up to my hotel late at night. I went to the door. There was no handle or obvious way to open it. I stood there like an idiot for a minute or two. I walked back out to the street to make sure I'm at the right building. I walked back to the door and finally got it. The trick... you have to wave your hand directly in front of the door an inch or two. Places in Japan often do not put the motion sensor ahead of the door, but straight down. You start feeling like a Jedi at times, waving doors open.
> Private mass transit has been tried many times before. Read up on the damage it did to places like Santiago, Chile.

In Sweden, it's been privatized for quite a while (since the 1990s) with substantial cost savings and service improvements. See https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2010/03/03/in_socialist_s...

In your points you assume privatized = unregulated, but nothing in the modern world is unregulated. You also assume privatized = not publicly funded. In other words, all of your points are strawmen and don't apply to modern privatization efforts.

In fact even in states that have public transportation, what they do is typically create an authority which is a GSE -- government sponsored enterprise -- to run the infrastructure. The vast majority of port, rails, etc are run by GSEs. The difference between a GSE style approach and privatization is that the GSE is awarded a monopoly for all routes that never changes. That creates a lot of disincentives for good performance and cost efficiency.

The rationale of privatization is that you let private businesses bid for contracts for fixed periods of time -- rather than just awarding a permanent contract for all routes to the GSE.

> I know you haven't thought deeply and this is just an internet forum post, but how do you address:

Ouch. I'd suggest that you could think some more about this issue as well.
I think the more specific (and more interesting) claim is that it retains its shape after being run over by a car. Grass gets flattened. Sand doesn't really have a shape to begin with.

It's interesting that they place a cover over the jelly first. Makes me think it's not nearly as good at surviving shear forces.
Here are some more "normalizers": https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/html-and-css-tricks/#normal...

I prefer: https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/
I don't see any of this as novel. This is just a non-Newtonian fluid where the suspension is made up of flexible polymers, just like many others. They talk about specifically selecting guest molecules and altering them to change the properties of the material, but the exact same functionality can be accomplished with any NN fluid by adjusting the ratio of water to particulates or polymers. That has been known for a long time.