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This is a bit hyperbolic. Wide scale COVID vaccination is needed for a functioning society.

It's clear that waves of death won't stop without it. Especially now with Omicron, the fourth wave. In the US, average life expectancy dropped more than 1.5 years in 2020-2021. More than any year since WWII.

Right now, COVID vaccine is more important than wearing clothes in public. And being naked in public checks more of your boxes for making you a non-person than nonvax restrictions. Being naked in public you go straight to jail.

So is forced wearing of clothes even more authoritarian than nonvax restrictions?

Well, no. Neither are authoritarian because they're both needed for a functioning society. Unvaccined are a literal danger to the public with how contagious and deadly COVID is.

If you don't want to wear clothes or be vaccinated that's fine. But expect to be pushed to the edges and marginalized for not following basic requirements for a functioning society.
What is your house made of? How can you have multiple ways of entering a house without any damage if you have walls, doors and windows? What else is there?
The jury is still out on Apple Silicon. Initial reception was incredibly positive but let's let it all marinate and see what happens.

One of the things I think Apple does best is reads the tea leaves on where things are headed, takes their time to develop a solid product but a couple years after they launch, are met with stiff competition on what is considered "best".
Reminds me of an old favorite

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My suggestion is to change the pricing to pay as you go. There is no commitment from customers, whatever they save you get some percentage of it. Say you turned off 50 unused machines than you take percentage of 50x1hr of pricing(for demonstration only you choose what you want to charge).

1. This will show clear value of your service as you are charging tiny percentage of what you saved.

2. Customers would be able to try without any upfront costs/commitment so it would be easier to sell.
Assuming you live in the US, that is the kind of thing a person living in the country with the most deaths in the world would say.
That's a very reductive and limiting view of what an engineer does. Someone that accepts requirements, and outputs artifacts.

A senior/staff/principal engineer should be aware of the customer needs they are working to solve, and focused on the problem. Their engineering skills are a tool to fixing it, not itself the result.

In your example,
* The industrial engineer should have asked "Do you need me to build car engine machinery?" And if they said no, pursued a different job.

* Once on the job, if management said "let's start building car engines", he should have said "Why, how does this help our customers?"

Actually, in your example:
> However, once the new engineer started to work on chocolate line, they found it extremely boring and devoid of challenges. So they somehow convinced management that the chocolate factory needs to start producing car engines for their delivery trucks.

That's borderline unethical. If you're bored and devoid of challenges. Change your job, don't ruin your company.

You place the blame on managers and say "maybe management should listen to feedback from engineers", but that's exactly what happened in your scenario, and was the root cause of the problem! The manager listened to a poorly motivated, mis-incentivized, yet strangely persuasive engineer.

The problem was that neither the managers nor the engineer actually thought about the customers, or listened to them. Incidentally, maybe they would have found out that the customers actually really like the chocolate but it always get delivered too late warm and melted, and so actually investing in building bespoke engines for their trucks would have been correct in that situation. But it has to start from the customer, not the prior skills of the engineer.

Fix the process, and maybe neither the managers nor the engineer need to be fired.
For tall the clamoring about the issues with Big Tech or Big Government, some HNers seem all too willing to sign over essentially everything important just because it's more convenient when those powers have a backdoor to right wrongs.
There's still more than "a few" people dying "from time to time", so even by your metric, it is not over, or anywhere near over.
>If you have too severe of a virus, then all its hosts are killed and it can't live on.

Ever played "Plague Inc" ?

Its a fascicle way to show how this model is unlikely to play itself out in todays hyper mobile population.
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>Can you give evidence to support that environmentalists fighting nuclear is why we have so much coal? Seems like the coal lobby has been pretty strong lately for their own survival, independent of any environmental concerns.

Nuclear is (or at least can be) long-term cheaper than coal, the biggest cost of nuclear is the initial construction cost which can go way down if the process isn't bogged down with local environmental opposition and if instead of a few one-off plants you have a consistent schedule which allows for effectively mass-produced power plants. Government usage of nuclear scaremongering to prop up power and support the geopolitical struggle with the USSR and the environmental adoption of this attitude put the construction of nuclear plants severely behind and limited research and development of better, cheaper reactors. In other words, much of the cost of nuclear can be attributed to opposition to nuclear which if it had not happened would have resulted in much less carbon being burned for electricity. Lobbyists can do a lot but they can't make major economic benefits magically disappear which is why coal shutdown has been slowed but not stopped by the fact that coal is now among the most expensive electricity and nobody wants to buy it.
Predictable downvotes, but you are right that the sooner we lose the unwinnable war the better.
It sounds like a rare opportunity to self train. This is a good time to pick up some hardcore courses like EdX, or learn something new like functional or a new language. Contracting is fine, but it has a habit of taking up to 40 hours/week and make you neglect your actual job. I don't think they help much in a career, but it's better to try out new code in a contract than for free.
The data we collect are real basic, like views, subscriptions, comments sort of data that for example YouTube collects. And device language of course, to provide the stickers in correct language. This also helps us suggest better stickers for the end users. Can you help me understand how it can be a bad outcome for the end users?
Yes, surely, but those techniques were implemented on deterministic direct algorithms, as opposed to artificial neural networks. Patrick Winston may come to mind, "the new technologies do the same things we used to do, only worse" (not literal quotation).

I think this effort is towards modelling networks that "approach the environment more like a human would" (e.g. "try and see shapes instead of textures").

I do not find it clear which problem is solved. Is there a road towards progress in "fuzzy Minsky" (trying to convey the idea)?
Oh my goodness, this is awesome. It's like the tactics language of Coq, but less irritating and pretty formatting. I will be recommending this to everyone!
People also use gestures and facial expressions while talking (see Italy for a frequently portrayed nation for this), why not use the next best thing in (non-formal) communication?
thanks ben, you are too kind.
You aren't "essentially killing other people". This is shifting the blame of the virus onto people. Vaccinated people can still transmit the virus. Yet you don't blame them.

I don't have the right to give you covid, nor do I want that right. But it may or may not happen regardless of whether I am or am not vaccinated. Similarly, you don't have the right to tell anyone what to inject into their own body. If you want it, then inject yourself with it, as many people have.

How would you feel if I forcefully injected you with a "vaccine" that prevents all imaginable diseases? Or one that keeps you in peak physical condition for as long as you live? One that makes you immortal? I take it that you would be rather open to the idea considering those things seem desirable...
This is true (and hopefully so w/ Omicron) when looked at a long enough time scale.

The real concern is if we're currently in the "still getting worse before it gets better" part of the timeline.

We're all waiting to see how many severe hospitalizations occur w/ a large enough population.
The seminal text referenced in the article is a short, poignant, and enjoyable read: On Bullshit[1].

[1] http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...
Quite amusing.
The guy building X isn't a charlatan in any case. The charlatan is the guy selling X, which is presumably the guy who hired the guy who builds it.

If you tell me to build you a system you don't need, and I do, and you insist on using it against everyone else's better judgment, how did I become a charlatan?
Filtering out the assholes is an accepted policy today but it didn’t just happen. Assholes were accepted and that sort of attitude wasn’t discouraged, until people started speaking up about it and others realized they probably had seen that dynamic. I see this article as a step in extending the anti-asshole policy to people who engage in this sort of behavior.

Can I tell you a perfect personality test that will always work and never fail? Absolutely not. Even the anti asshole processes don’t always work. But it seems a good thing that this sort of behavior is at least being described and reported on.
Ask HN: Web Development with the intuitiveness of Winforms
I'm very curious and excited at the rise of web app development. I think it truly represents the concept of Write Once Run Anywhere, it gives common people easier access to software, and promotes the idea of a web browser as a user environment.

What I don't like is how much of a mess web app development is. It seems like things are growing more complex, which is great for high profile projects, but the browser should also be for amateurs. Does anyone know of any frameworks that operate similar to WinForms where the user can just drag controls onto a template, bind events, etc? If not, it would be a great idea.
That's the most rational plan. However pharma companies can just buy media presence, create panic and criticize their authorities(this happens to Bolsonaro in Brazil for example). Then riots begin, generating a whole other set of problems for the authorities who have no other choice but to save their neck and concede pharma companies demands.
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I'd list the DAG and testing as core features as well, but yeah, basically. In a very transparent and non-magical way (I despise magical data solutions). If that summary doesn't resonate with you, it's probably not the tool for you. No need to force it.

I'm not familiar with Trino at all, but that sounds like a specific database. dbt is not a database, it is tooling for working with databases.
> Likewise, my ssh keys are also not password protected. If you are able to read my ssh keys, you have already won anyways. No point to me in having a password on them.

None of this is ever so black and white. If I have your ssh keys, haven't I only won if you're not also using a password? Otherwise, all I have is your ssh keys, which granted, is bad, but defense-in-depth, no?
Exactly. There has just been constant appeals to ‘science’ but how can I trust this science if I can’t inspect it? Even in a simple system, a small change can create chaotic consequences. I absolutely have a right to know what I am being forced to take into my body: an incredibly complex system. And I don’t care if someone calls me “selfish”, all human behaviour is selfish. There is no such thing as a completely altruistic decision. People pushing for mandates just want “things back to normal” (not realistic), which is fine, but it’s their personal prerogative that I don’t have to care for. Every decision a human makes is self-centred.
Predictable uninformed comment.
"Will someone think of the children? Us non-vaxxed are the victims, here!"

Rubbish.
> You are serving an evil cause. It will go down in history as such.

> Hopefully you never find out how hard people fight when they know that they are fighting pure evil.

LOL, "pure evil"? That kind of melodramatic hyperbole just makes you look ridiculous.
Yep, I posted this today after the author of gigablast posted a comment in this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29417061 today
We're not talking about some ordinary rank-and-file engineer here. The situation Rachel is talking about where the person is usually well-known among a significant fraction of their industry for their expertise in X. That level of seniority (principal level or beyond) is supposed to imply that they also know when -not- to use X and the responsibility to speak up, but sometimes either their belief in X is too strong ("When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.") or, in some cases I suspect, the monetary and career-enhancing incentives are high enough to overcome any unease they may have misapplying X. Then you get this situation where a mandate comes down for X is used where X is not really the appropriate thing to do.
What is the history of ITA Matrix? I thought it was bought by Kayak.com. Was that just a license to some data or something?
The irony about using "my body, my choice" in this context is that the very phrase is constructed to justify the killing of another person, by conveniently pretending that the other person doesn't yet exist.
I don’t see how it would favour people with money, as it should become simple economics: Disney can afford the $1,300,000 at year 40, but if they project that their revenue from the work will be $300,000 in that year, why would they renew the copyright? They would instead allow it to lapse, and probably get somewhat reduced revenue. Cash flow should be the only situation where people with money could be favoured, and copyright renewal loans would become a thing to smooth that out (though I wouldn’t expect them to ever be common).

Registration is a heavy burden that has caused all sorts of pain in the past, and although terms are unreasonable these days I do think that automatic copyright is reasonable. You’re not unsure for ten years, you know for ten years from publication that it’s copyrighted—so you contact whoever wrote it, if you can find them, or you wait and see if not (which would be the case if it was registered anyway, since you can’t predict whether they’re going to renew the thing).

Actually, another argument against requiring registration: it strongly favours big publishers, who know the rules and are used to filling in the paperwork, and makes life harder for individuals, especially in the case of unexpected success (“I didn’t bother registering it because it’s been a waste of time every other time and I didn’t expect it to get popular”). After ten years, you’ll have a fairer idea whether your work is of meaningful commercial value, for which the answer is normally “no”.
The entire takeaway seems to be that the physiological changes effected by vaccination mimic physiological changes induced by Covid infections themselves. I’m shocked. (Sarcasm)
I thought it was the movie
>>>how can we take anything seriously like that especially after their uniform design so clearly ripped off of scifi

We have all sorts of neat things because people with real jobs "ripped off sci-fi". Plus I'm glad to see a military uniform that breaks with such conservative conventions, and if you are gonna steal style cues from sci-fi, TMP-era Star Trek & nBSG are some of the best to copy.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/tech-leaders-share-how-...

We're still waiting on our Starship Troopers power armor though:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/vikrammittal/2020/08/17/militar...
It's not correct to say they just license the insn set. They license ready to use cpu and gpu core designs (like the Cortex family in most Android phones).
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Every company that I’ve been in that had an anti asshole policy has meant that they don’t tolerate assholes at the line engineer level, since that’s reserved for management, especially director and up.

I guess it’s better, but the proof is in what the management team looks like.
> Wasn't there news about how as a virus mutates over time it becomes less severe, but more transmissible?

That's sort of a rule-of-thumb, not a fixed law. In the case of covid there's a relatively long period of time (up to several days) in which people can spread the virus without yet showing symptoms. As such there isn't a lot of evolutionary pressure for it to become less virulent.
The new Wave?
The deprecated frontend stack they reference would seem to be GWT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit

So they're rebuilding the app in TypeScript with Angular instead of with Java+GWT.
In theory, you could write dbt in make. Actually, Whenever I introduce to others about workflow concepts (DAG), I tell them it is similar to how make works.
The plastic bottles for Coca-Cola are manufactured all around the world. They don't ship much bottled Coke from the US to other countries.
You missed the point here. Instead of a clear explanation in written form, people think an emoji is enough, which is a problem. As the author doesn't want to know how other 're feeling , they want to know their thoughts instead.
I never understand these comments. We try are prevent deaths for all diseases. Infectious diseases are probably the easiest ones to prevent. Yet, we have these odd comments that we should allow people to die just as we allow people to die with the flu. We don't just allow people to die of the flu either, we try and vaccinate vulnerable groups. But ignorant comments such as this stand in the way of these effects. Just as it stands in the way of effectively dealing with Covid.

The issue is this disease is killing younger people than those who typically die of the flu. There number of general hospitalizations is significantly higher, with more longer lasting after infection effects.

Nearly all my friends who have had Covid can't taste or smell. That alone should scare you. I have not had it, because I am vaccinated and wear a mask while I do my normal social activities here in South Africa.
Googling that with the brackets I get results containing "eggzackly this" ranked 3, 4, 6 (your comment) and 7 whereas the others contain just eggzackly (or with the 'this' preceded by punctuation as you mention).

Therefor I don't see how your last sentence is the explanation (there are results), I've also happened to land on no results found sometimes with overly precise quoted queries (for coding errors mostly IIRC). But it is annoying that it doesn't seem stricktly enforced even when you want it to.
There's at least one exception to this; rabies. Wild animals can be vaccinated using baits containing an oral rabies vaccine.
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Maybe that’s why the billionaires are trying to hide in space.
Storing the dislike counts for each user takes a binary state at the minimum, and a byte of storage typically. Considering the HUGE global user base, that would be too much data storage and maintenance required for a company like Google/Youtube to invest their resources in. It also improves user experience by minimizing the data transfer requied to consume products in the platform, thus improving the efficiency and speed in the platform.

It is for the best of the users, and is a great design for the user. User's will learn to love them in time.
> Perhaps that is against the tos and a large company couldn't get away with it like an individual can?

A while back they made a change to the terms of the GeForce driver, barring it from deployment in datacenters except for blockchain processing.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-ge...

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/
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Why would you leverage signatures? An hash would be enough for showing knowledge.

Maybe you meant you needed to show proof that only you (not somebody else) knows some data?

Even for such scenario I would not be sure it’s correct. Many signature implementations hash the data, then sign the hash; if I happen to know the hash but not the data, I could just sign it without owning it.

(I should verify a few things, this was written off the top of my head).
> If the standard is "they don't compete against each other now, but would be disincentivized to compete against each other in the future," that could be used as a rationale to block literally every merger.

Try it this way: How many other companies are likely to compete with them in the future? If the answer is a thousand, the loss of potential competition is not very significant. If the answer is less than ten, it is.
That, and OP, reminded me of the Eames "Powers of 10" film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0