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Honestly, always surprised I don't see more about CDK. As far as I am concerned, this is the future of software development. Object oriented infrastructure, where you create abstractions over pieces of infrastructure, put them into a library, and then use them as composable components is incredibly powerful. We are just scratching the surface, and through libraries like constructs, large swaths of development will be automated.

Again, this is incredibly powerful.

For those that don't know, cloudformation is now often thought as the assembly language of cloud development, with CDK the higher level language.

I work at Amazon, and here we have a growing library of internal CDK constructs that make creating internally facing infrastructure, that works with other infra, incredibly easy. Even the databases that other teams have, their queues, etc, can be vended as common infrastructure packages, and then consumed, attaching your own AWS resources to theirs via library imports.
It's not a "slam piece," it's an email from a listserv, send two months ago. Someone realized it'd be catnip for people on HN and posted it.
I quite liked the coinhive approach of having the user run a blockchain workload as an alternative to ads. The project and economics didn’t work out for them but it was an interesting approach.
I bet a part is that apple genuinely doesn’t want to deal with MacOS being a server OS so they want a little bit of “are you sure?” Requirements in there.

A potentially bigger reason (for requiring 24hr) is to incentivize people who need a max for small bursts (eg build server, testing a website with safari etc) to just buy macs.

I imagine a reason to require bare-metal hosting because everyone is lauding apple on how snappy and lively the M1 is and if they’re split between N number of VMs then you may have a worse experience and apple is protecting that.
That's only true if you don't have a camera cover (or anything on your desk you can use as cover). Pretty quickly someone is going to go "I'm sick I look awful, I'm keeping my camera cover on" and that's just like Zoom. Though I agree there's a stronger incentive to have camera on (is that a good thing? Does that help creating "a sense of privacy"?)
Ask HN: Is incorporation in the US still needed for successful fundraising?
Most VCs and Angels in the US only invest in companies incorporated there for legal and tax reasons. Is this still the case, or did that change over the past years? Any experiences?
Something like 50% of the people in intensive care for COVID still die.

Even if we were able to handle the load on the healthcare system, that still would be a very large amount of unnecessary suffering and death. And even though there are some fundamental issues with working conditions and pay in this area, fixing them would not be enough to be able to handle the load that an exponentially growing viral disease could cause if it remains unchecked. If you do not stop the exponential spread, even with twice the capacity you'd only gain another 1-2 weeks until you're at capacity anyway.

The vaccines work well and are safe. The problem is that too many people didn't take them. There's plenty of problems with how this was organized in Germany, but in the we simply didn't manage to convince enough people to get vaccinated.
>Humans will be around until the next comet strike

Not necessarily. For all we know, we might evolve into a different species over the next million years. Either way, though, extinction is just part of the natural process for any species, and not something we should worry about for ourselves. As you said, we are much better off considering how to improve biological conditions and quality of life than worrying about the eventual end of H. sapiens.
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It would put pressure to avoid the vaccine. However:

1. There would be fewer cases compared to unvaccinated people to give it the chance to mutate. It doesn't have any more chance to mutate among vaccinated people. It has less chance. Just a lot of mutations that still look like the current virus will get killed off by antibodies.

2. Randomly making changes to the spike protein, this virus's most important part, is likely to reduce the virus's danger.
Staffing, mostly. There are a lot of "beds" still available, just nobody to tend to them.

But another thing that always gets scrambled in the newspapers is the "level" of ICU beds.

The ICU at my town's hospital (and it's not small) has patients that would lie in a normal station at a big university hospital.

ICU bed != ICU bed. In smaller hospitals, ICU means "post-op, needs surveillance" or "gets oxygen".

At a large hospital ICU means "ECMO" or similarly severe conditions.

So when you're reading that there are x thousand ICU beds still available in the country: most are not really up to the task when it comes to a severe covid case, and furthermore, an ICU bed at the other end of the country doesn't help you much.
> Back when I was a bit younger could still find an apartment in LA for $600, try doing that now.

What cities in the USA could you still find an apartment for $600? Inflation has long blown past those prices. According to:

https://www.rent.com/research/cheapest-rent-in-the-us/

The only city that comes close to $600 is Fargo ND.

> While you do have tons of homeless people who have no interest in changing their situation, many are just stuck.

Those are the easiest homeless cases to solve and I'm not convinced that they aren't being solved already (by public services and/or charities).

> I'm extremely fortunate in that I make enough money where I can just up and move to practically anywhere in the United States.

People are extremely mobile when they don't have roots (either an owned house or job or family or a kid in school that they like). It actually is pretty easy to just pick up and move. And that's what has happened throughout history (including the original Okies that moved to California during the great depression).

> It wouldn't be a bad thing if people fled LA en mass for the next 20 years or so while housing catches up. Then in 2040 the city might have a middle class again.

I agree, but the law of supply and demand probably means that will never happen. If people fled LA, there is enough demand from people wanting to live there that other people would move in and keep things about the same as they are now. As long the wish is "I hope LA becomes less popular so I can move there", it is simply never going to happen.
Runs fine on my nothing special 6-7 year old computer. I also disable tab rendering and use the tab side panel instead, I'm not sure if that makes a difference.
Just curious, what is the difference is between "Border" and "Edge" to you? To me, they are nearly synonyms.

Apple's Dictionary (Oxford?)

> 2 the edge or boundary of something, or the part near it: the northern border of their distribution area | figurative : the unknown regions at the borders of physics and electronics.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/border

> 1 : an outer part or edge

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/border

> the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
A simple answer to OPs question should be "Yes". Given a finite number of moves, the state space is finite and thus, e.g. using naive min-max, you can verify if you can force a checkmate. In practice this is infeasible for any large N as this is NP as you noted.
This sounds like a corporate/team culture issue with remote work, rather than remote work as a whole. I can still tell when my coworkers are falling behind and check if they need help, as well as building bonds. The bonds certainly aren't as strong as when we used to all go out for lunch or drinks every so often, but they're still there.
Very insightful but doubtful more capacity would prevent the mandates, given that state medias around the West are all now calling for mandates, two tiers, and punishment for those who don't follow. Like the next round of "war on terror" measures where states get to shift their citizen management. Don't forget to call a spade a spade.
Time to rename that Wikipedia page, I suppose.
Anyone with a webpage that publish everything that gets public?

Could upload to YouTube and Archive.org, but we still need some place to know what is published and what is not yet found.
Another factor is that the German government tried to keep infection rates low at all times, leading to very little natural immunity in the population compared to other countries.
Have you considered buying an nvidia card and 4k monitor of the same height (or width) and setting square resolution + cropping one/both edges?
The argument is that herd immunity for covid cannot be attained via vaccines. Not even 100% vaccination.

The comparison with measles, another contagious airborne disease, is instructive. The threshold for herd immunity is estimated at 94%. This is possible because the vaccine effectiveness against infection is also 93-97%. Unfortunately covid vaccines have waning effectiveness against infection, estimated at about 50% after 6 months, and possibly waning even further.

"Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00728-2

"For example, the measles is a highly contagious illness. It's estimated that 94% of the population must be immune to interrupt the chain of transmission."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

"One dose of MMR vaccine is 93% effective against measles, 78% effective against mumps, and 97% effective against rubella. Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% effective against measles and 88% effective against mumps."

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html

"Effectiveness against infections declined from 88% (95% CI 86–89) during the first month after full vaccination to 47% (43–51) after 5 months."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
You need to know what are you looking for in a potentially hostile device. I really like the story about The Thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) You’ll never know what opponent has discovered and using for his advantage.
Relatedly, does anyone know why subtitles are displayed over the video itself, as opposed to in the black rectangle that often exists below? I can see that it might be a little harder to look down to the text, but it would be much easier to have sufficient contrast against a black background. I wish this were at least an option!
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He literally addressed this, albeit obliquely, in the message

> I have heard that Risc V proponents say that these problems are known
and could be fixed by having the hardware fuse dependent instructions.
Perhaps that could lessen the instruction set shortcomings, but will
it fix the 3x worse performance for cases like the one outlined here?

Macro-fusion can to some extent offset the weak instruction set, but you're never going to get a multiple integer multiplier speedup out of it given the complexity of inter-op architectural state changes that have to be preserved, and instruction boundary limitations involved; it's never going to offset a 3x blowup in instruction count in a tight loop.
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Thanks for the clarification. (I'm a little surprised I haven't seen this spelled out before, considering how much ink has been spilled over this issue, but I digress.)
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The rates of animal transmission are very low. If we eliminate it in humans, it's unlikely that the virus could sustain itself in animal populations and unlikely to reinfect the already-vaccinated humans.
Interesting, but what is the source?
Not sure about "no longer worrying about that pesky 80 column limit"...

For once, I have an ultra wide monitor, and having 1-2 files of code, a terminal and a space for testing and research all next to each other is quite great.

Furthermore, I'm probably getting too old, but I find line length limits really helpful for readability: When you start to wrap those long lines, it kinda makes you think about introducing some temporary constants, extracting logic into a separate function, Not nesting conditions and loops too deeply... Maybe I'm just so very used to it, but I'm a fan, regardless of monitor size.
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Ask HN: What skillset/portfolio do you expect from a front end dev/engineer?
To all the engineering managers and CTOs here, if you are looking for a frontend dev/engineer with atleast 5 years of experience, what sort of portfolio or skill sets do you expect the candidate should have?
I'll give that a shot!

Do you know if this is generally an in-house position for companies that use third party platforms?

I ask because Workday has been the absolute bane of my indexing existence, and I suspect they make it hard so they can own distribution of jobs to approved search engines. (Makes it easier to upcharge that way, I suppose.)

If the administrator for the job site is the Workday customer (i.e. Qualcomm or NXP or whoever is using Workday to host their job ads), I'd suspect I'd have a chance at getting a better way to index their jobs. (My god, I'd love API access if that's a thing I can get. I'd be a fly on the wall in most cases - one index a day is plenty for my purposes!)
I was going to suggest mozzarella di bufo but I realised that you are referring to what we call bison here, because buffalo has two meanings. We also have feral buffalo (the non bison kind) that said, I've had bison burgers in Minneapolis so the meat is definitely valuable. Camel meat and camel milk are sold here in Oz, supply consistency is hard.

We make a lot of buffalo product btw. We export it.

The Web says Catalina island land management keep the herd down to about 150 animals to preserve both the island and the animals. A nice solution.

Feral animal management in Australia is a huge problem. Horses in the high country are destroying the land but are defended by some people and it's become vote winning politics across state boundaries.
This particular card had names written in pencil, presumably by the borrower, then a rubber stamped date. The library eventually moved to dates only, I assume some time around the 70's because I stopped seeing peoples names written in cursive in books from that decade.
Are hospital admissions and mortality rates similar among vaccinated and nonvaccinated individuals?
They provide recommended insn sequences for overflow checking as commentary to the ISA specification, and this enables efficient implementation in hardware.
Don’t you need some pretty solid source data for you to trust them?

I only recently picked up typescript, coming from decades of .Net and later a Python, and the way you can turn things like json results into typed data via interfaces while also having the vast open source libraries I’ve done to love from Python, I gotta say it’s just been so easy to work in an enterprise environment where the source data is often really terrible.

I can certainly follow the points of this article. It is sort of silly to type an uuid as a string, but when does it actually break?
Well, yes. Americans have sort of a brain block when it comes to driving vs any other mode of transportation.

It’s at least partially rational, though: usually non-car transportation is hilariously impractical wherever they currently live, and also wherever they’ve lived in the past.

The struggle is to get people to see what could be possible when they have minimal to no experience with it.
>Some people are selfish and willing to harm others for their benefit. A few are outright sociopaths. Some fraction of these will end up in positions of power.

Some sociopaths become business leaders and politicians. That's not the interesting question. The interesting question is the opposite: what fraction of business leaders and politicians are sociopaths? I'll wager it's nearly 100%.
Also that straight forward searches with an exact product or website name get their first result high jacked by the top bidder, forcing you to sell ads to users who are exactly looking for your site!
Some receivers also have this function. On my Onkyo, it's called Dynamic Volume.

In my setup, I go one step further. I have a 'no subwoofer' activity on my Harmony hub that turns off a smart outlet switch to the sub and turns on Dynamic Volume. No more keeping my roommate up by watching movies late at night.
I worked on a cross-platform C# application that ran on both Mac and Windows. I really liked the language and most of the experience. The biggest problem was that the C# toolchain was very glitchy on Mac. (I did have to write shims in C so that Objective C could call into C#.)

In our case, C# was the right choice because of what the application did. (There was no way we could be web based.) For many applications, Electron (or similar) is the right choice.

We did have two native UIs: WPF and Cocoa. The Mac developers eventually figured out how to use C# models and controllers from Objective C.

Again, I would only recommend such an approach if you need close integration with the UI. We had tray/taskbar icons, filesystem watchers, drivers... Things that really don't make sense to do in something like Electron.

I'd also like to point out one advantage of Electron, if you can do it: Garbage collection. I personally find memory management in C/C++/Rust a chore, so if Electron is "good enough," you get all the advantages of V8's garbage collector.
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Are you suggesting that code is more rational than the imperfect people who implement it?
There are safety-critical systems, though.

Big vessels full of poisonous (but useful!) chemicals. Aircraft control systems. All carefully designed to be far more nines than 99% reliable - provided that the components behave according to their datasheets and how they behaved during validation.
Completely damning sequence of events here.

> Meanwhile, at 3:24 p.m. on Oct. 13, Angie Robinson, cybersecurity specialist for the state, emailed Department of Public Safety Director Sandra Karsten to inform her that she had forwarded emails from the Post-Dispatch to Kyle Storm with the FBI in St. Louis.

> “Kyle informed me that after reading the emails from the reporter that this incident is not an actual network intrusion,” she said.

> Instead, she wrote, the FBI agent said the state’s database was “misconfigured.”

> “The misconfiguration allowed open source tools to be used to query data that should not be public,” she wrote.

It's a shame blatantly lying and smearing a reporter will probably end up helping the governor's approval rating rather than getting him chased out of office.
Part of what made Momento great was discovering that the timeline was backwards, you were just as confused as the main character...that was the point.
Based on Apple not giving a shit what volume you’re buying, the price is the price.

Maybe the rules are a bit different for Amazon, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
The first picture at the top struck me as reminiscent of the the 1989 Indiana Jones: Last Crusade computer game: https://images.gog-statics.com/05869835e8442e054b58246339b07...
The WinApi is too low level for most developers and situations.

Usually, you won't need to directly call any API function to build even a complex program.

.NET comes with everything included
> the societal ills that defi is trying to solve were caused by software in the first place (e.g. internet advertising as a democracy-eroder).

How in the world is DeFi supposed to help this? From my POV DeFi makes it worse (advertising funding can now be untraceable/unauditable).
No you don't understand, the unvaccinated are the reason the vaccinated are getting the virus /s
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Got married in the '00s in the US and IIRC in that state it was still the case that, to be valid, you had to have an ordained minister or certain officials (a judge) sign the paper.

Now, would anyone ever check? Nah. Unless litigation (divorce, inheritance, whatever) came up and someone thought invalidating the original marriage might somehow help their case, though even then, dunno if it'd really matter.
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I took a class on religion in college and had a professor tell me what the rituals in my religion were and what they meant to me personally. I don't think she understood the difference between Catholic and Protestant because she argued I was wrong when I brought it up after class.
I don't think you can aggregate all of society's changes into a single "worse" or "better" metric. It's like trying to decide if cheese is a better food than apples.

What I think you can say is that software has had many good effects in various ways for various members of society and many bad effects for various members. Those effects and members are sometimes overlapping, sometimes not.

There is no clear line between baby and bathwater. It's like trying to decide if iron or wheat has made society better or worse. I don't even think it's a particularly interesting question.

A better question to me is, given where we are now, what incremental steps can we make it better, and for whom?
Who needs horror films when journal articles can be that scary!
“Evolutionary pressure” doesn’t really exist if the virus doesn’t get a chance to replicate. The virus is trying to find a mutation which bypasses the vaccine, the more chances it gets the better. This is why people talk about animal reservoirs and immunocompromised individuals. The chance of a beneficial mutation occurring increases the more the virus is able to replicate within an organism. It replicates more in unvaccinated organisms.
"Idealogical flamewar" a.k.a. any non-leftist talking points so downvoted into oblivion. You are a terrible human being and there will likely soon be consequences for people supporting this non-logical persecution.
I am replying so that others can be informed.

* NASA: [Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right](https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-mo...)

* Scientific American: [Climate Science Predictions Prove Too Conservative
Checking 20 years worth of projections shows that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has consistently underestimated the pace and impacts of global warming](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...)

* Yale University: [Can We Trust Climate Models? Increasingly, the Answer is ‘Yes’](https://e360.yale.edu/features/can_we_trust_climate_models_i...)

* Geophysical Research Letters: [Evaluating the Performance of Past Climate Model Projections](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...) — "We find that climate models published over the past five decades were skillful in predicting subsequent GMST changes, with most models examined showing warming consistent with observations"

* MIT: [Historical Climate Models Accurately Projected Global Warming](https://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/2019/historical-climate-models-...)