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Yes, we vaccinate children with established vaccines with well known risks that have been understood across decades. We simply do not have that knowledge with these vaccines. I believe saying it’s “no more risky” is relying on an assumption that simply is not based on any factual data, since the factual data to make that statement definitive will not exist for years.

Consider the following with these (mRNA) vaccines (speaking from a U.S. perspective):
1. This is a new type of vaccine that was developed extremely rapidly and the companies behind the vaccines have lawsuit protection against damage the vaccines may cause (now and in the future).
2. An accelerated testing protocol was used.
3. There are political drivers behind these mandates.
4. It is unknown if there are long term effects across the population at all ages and there some known specific risks for boys at a certain age group that has caused some countries to pause using these vaccines at certain age groups.
5. They don’t prevent infection in the same way that we understand other vaccines to work.
6. We have not yet established that the vaccine provides a greater severe disease protection rate in children beyond their already existing rate against severe disease Covid (there are just not enough kids experiencing severe disease to make a statistically significant prediction of vaccine protection).

I’m a thrice vaccinated individual, and I believe the risk/reward ratio for the vaccine for folks above 50 is frankly a no brainer decision. However, if I had young children…I’d be hesitant about vaccinating them with an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine and I think it’s simply much better to vaccinate the at risk population around the kids at this time where the severe Covid disease risk ratios are higher.
So you don't want doctors (or presumably any form of expertise,) or governments, or corporations. Just you and your brain thinkin' thinks.

I'm wondering where exactly you think all of this "information" you would be digesting would be coming from, absent the "censorship" of structures and systems needed to collect, validate and disseminate it?

Good luck reconstructing the last 8000 years of human progress and knowledge from first principles, naked and alone in nature with some crystals and potions before you fucking die of parasites and tetanus I guess.
I don't know if I'm totally sad about this... I don't know how many female friends I've had get sexually assaulted or raped inside a taxi cab. They could never catch the taxi cab drivers because nobody memorizes the number of the cab they're in...it's happened inside an Uber/lift but they actually got the guy because of the app

I'm sure many cab drivers are very anti-rape but nobody seemed to have done anything to make the situation safer
Assuming ‘web3’ is ever a thing, surely people would just use less restrictive software? Unless you have a, whisper it, CENTRALISED SOURCE of ‘web3’ client software, of course…
I find that exposing my kids to a variety of perspectives helps them become a more well rounded person. I reject the idea that mere exposure to an idea will make them become any one thing, and that I have to shelter them.
s/RedHat/IBM
In 1991, the decision was way beyond made: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1_October_1991_build
> Is there even any proposed mechanism that would give rise to long term effects (that show up months or years later) from this vaccine?

The whole goal of a vaccine is to induce a long term effect (a change in your immune system). Should we just assume it can only have desireable long term effects?

If some treatment caused (for example) a tiny cancer to form internally, and only be diagnosable years later, what are the odds that we would ever understand the connection (let alone in the first couple years of that treatments use)? And that's for something obvious like cancer. What about weird new ailments, like strange allergies, or anything mental health related? This is why I've never been able to buy the argument that "no vaccines cause long term adverse effects". I can buy that we've never succeeded at linking the two, but that doesn't give me the same warm fuzzies.

Other than that, do things only go wrong in ways that we can predict? How many of us have seen our own (or our colleagues) code changes lead to unexpected results that we would only understand after the fact? Even in codebases that we wrote ourselves, let alone in an enormous legacy codebase.

My own prediction is that most things that do go wrong weren't something that we envisioned happening beforehand, otherwise we wouldn't have done them in the first place. Of course there are high profile counterexamples of this, but I would expect them to be the exception.

I don't have the same faith in the speed of our collective knowledge building abilities that some people do. We accomplish amazing things eventually, but the road there is strewn with the wreckage of prior attempts.

This isn't to say I think people shouldn't get vaccinated, just that they should beware of hubris in attempting to force everyone else to.
Thank you for the insight. Any recommendations on how to gauge company reputations on the local level without having many industry connections? Are orgs like UXPA-MN worth a damn?
> Whenever I add a new service, I record the exact docker run command I used to launch it and refer to it when I need to re-create the containers for whatever reason. I know that this is an area that could use improvement; it's quite manual right now. I'd be interested to hear about some kind of light-weight solution for this that people have come up with.

Later...

> I host my own analytics ... They provide an open-source, self-hostable version which I have it deployed with docker-compose.

Wouldn't docker-compose be the "already doing it" answer to the first question? It's pretty much your library of 'exact docker run commands', plus sugar to manage the running ones collectively.
That’s terrifying.

When my grandmother had a stroke, she was unable to speak for multiple days. She was able to hear and understand me and she was able to answer my questions by squeezing her right hand once or twice.

It was an horrible situation. When it happens, you understand that someone you loves can understand everything you say but can’t inform you of anything they wish.

I could not imagine the horror if you can’t even answer with yes or no and being surrounded by people who don’t know that you are here.

Btw, that’s some important discovery that we can communicate via MRI. It must have been a relief for those patients to be able to communicate.
I find it overly amusing that the article is tagged with "CHRIST WHAT AN ASSHOLE". After clicking through to see other stories with the same tag, it's...apt.
Ask HN: Reducing the maintenance surface area of hosting a small internal app
I work in a small research group in a university where I'm the only one coming in with a background that leads one to care about maintenance and upkeep of infrastructure software. That means that whatever I set up should be trivially maintainable by those coming after. Ideally, it should be able to just be hands off for the next 10 years, but I know this is a bit unrealistic, unless the only application is a static site or the application is hosted on an air gapped machine.

That said, what's the best way to reduce or offload the maintenance surface area in a way that's most trivial to budget? I've been away from infrastructure myself for about 10-15 years now, and am just barely familiar with what Docker, k8s, and all this other stuff is.

Is there some way to box up the application code and libraries and let it run on a remote machine that someone else maintains? Amazon Fargate seems close but I'm terrified about misusing their services and ending up with a huge bill. Heroku might work too if I can slot everything I'm doing into their services. I really would like to have a timeseries DB like Influx or Timescale, but the load is so tiny that Sqlite or Postgres might do just fine. The cloud offerings from Influx and Timescale are just too expensive -- what we're doing would run just fine on an Rpi4 with a USB3 attached drive, but now we're back to a machine that needs to be maintained.

One thing I'm quite weary of is pay per request. I would much rather pay a fixed cost per month and make users wait, rather than having the price per month just be a question mark. Again it's an internal app -- I'm not trying to hit any kind of latency target, and I can build clients with some degree of robustness to services going down or timing out.

The most important things to me are hands-offness and fixed cost. Again, I would love to stick an Rpi in the corner and forget about it if this were not such an irresponsible thing to do.

Any thoughts?
>a metaverse setting!

So The Matrix but run by Zuckerberg instead of the machines? I'm having a hard time deciding which would be worse.
Another thing we don't seem to know is if infection from fomites with Omicron is more likely than it was for previous variants. Particularly in a cold climate it seems possible someone touched something and got Omicron from that. The medical community has barely embraced the aerosol spread of Sars-Cov-2 and there seem to be no new studies of spread via surfaces since the early days of the pandemic (and there weren't many then either).
Kubernetes and managed AWS services for production workloads. Fedora Workstation for everything else.
I still don't understand how Web3 doesn't become centralized like Web2 did. While services like email are technically decentralized we see that they are highly centralized on Web2 because almost everyone uses GMail. We see similar centralization with other types of services. I understand Web3 is also trying to decentralize not only the services, but the hosting. I still don't see why the big main players like AWS wouldn't just continue to host the majority of the servers. I feel like a lot of Web3 evangelists are asserting decentralization but not explaining a good mechanism for it to be so. Web2 has clearly shown us (as most of history) that momentum is powerful and that there is a positive feedback loop in systems like these. That power begets more power. So what's the mechanism for maintaining decentralization?

As for the crypto parts, I'm all for making everything possible cryptographically secure by default and E2EE.
Netflix still runs a dvd rental business, with a much higher offering of titles (less content restriction than with streaming)
COVID-19 by and large goes from an overwhelming threat to most countries healthcare systems to a seasonal flu variety.
Things I Learnt in 2021
Cache to cents? Kernels 2 cents on how your code is utilizing the cache? I have 0 clue too.
Sure, people want things for free, but that is orthogonal to the simplicity angle. Something can be free, but won’t see use if it sucks badly.

People spend $$$ on Apple products because of the “just works” reputation. I’m not saying people want to pay for services, but I think it’s important to distinguish UX vs. cost when examining what motivates people.
I eagerly await MoMA's removal of Warhol's despicable fakery[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans
The problem was caused by a memory management primitive. This wouldn't be an issue in a runtime with a GC designed for concurrent loads.
Completely agree. And this is the most important bit:

> If you find it impacts your life negatively you should definitely see a doctor.

To OP: Don't suffer in silence. Have a chat with your doctor as they may be able to give you some advice.

I agree with @emsy that meditation can be helpful. Although it's expensive, Headspace is a good app for getting started. There's a free trial but there are probably other cheaper alternatives. You definitely don't need an app though. There are free podcasts out there that are very good.

There are other practical things you can try too. Do you take notes? Writing things down can actually help you understand things more clearly, as well as remember them. It's a good habit to get into if you don't do this already. Even if you have to take loads of notes, and other people don't. It doesn't matter. That's just the way you roll!

But yes, also, everyone has these sorts of issues occasionally. What's always worth remembering is most people go through life covering up their own internal worries and perceived flaws. It's not just you. So try not to worry too much if you need to ask for more clarification, or worry about being judged. People are generally more wrapped up in their own internal dialogue rather than spending their time judging you!

But most importantly... Talk to your doctor!
The paint line is the most common method I have seen. I was an inspector and for fasteners in a critical load path we would use an ultrasound machine to measure the length of the bolt (these were installed in flange like connections). We would measure them when first installed and compare measurements after that piece of equipment was used.

For really critical components we would disassemble them after every use and would perform multiple tests on each piece including fasteners.
The biggest use statistically is bot and malicious traffic.

> Based on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/#:~:text=Ba....
Great post. And the timing as well for me because we almost lost our home to a fire just a few days ago. Someone bought the 5 acre lot next to our place recently and about a month ago they hired a guy with bulldozer who's been knocking down almost every tree and all the brush and piling it up and burning it, and then leaving the fire unattended all night and on the weekends.

It burned for three weeks before it spread to our place and it was pure luck that one of our daughters and a granddaughter took a bag of garbage out just a bit after midnight and saw it burning on our property.

It was pretty much inevitable it would do that and pure stupidity on their part, but legal where we live to do that. But there are laws that make it clear you're responsible to keep it under control and liagle for any damage that occurs if the fire crosses your property line.

There were seven of us here so we called 911 and then ran outside and started raking leaves and dead fall away from our old wooden barn and chicken coop to create a firebreak. The fire was less than 30 feet from the barn and it would've been no more than 10 minutes at most before it would've caught fire. From there it would have spread fast to our house.

When the firefighters showed up they asked us to get out of their way, which of course we did. Then they spent about 4 hours getting it under control.

Since then we've had many neighbors and locals reach out and offer help and that's been incredibly heartwarming. The guy who bought that property hasn't contacted us though. He owns a construction company but I'm pretty sure he bought that lot to build a home for himself so it's in his best interest to reach out and apologize, but so far nothing at all.
Here is one perspective, unvarnished:

Those experiences are now part of you. Love yourself, including, without exception, hesitation, or restraint, the pain and scars. Genuinely care about them, as if they are truly important in the world, because they are (even if others won't see it). Someone wise once said to me, love them; if you try to suppress them or fight them or ignore them, you will be a slave to them.

I'm not saying, dedicate your life to them. I'm saying that if you don't love them, you will dedicate your life to them. What I suggest will be painful - I'm not offering a panacea; facing such emotions is painful without qualification. IMHO a defining aspect of aging is that you gather those wounds and scars - you become fundamentally different than someone younger - and one thing that defines our lives is what we do with them, how we carry them with us. Some pull away from life, to degrees, some turn to drugs, some lash out, people adopt myriad coping strategies, and some grow and become more faceted and maybe wise, though not without consciously making the effort, which is challenging. I think we also can learn our limitations and strengths, after running full speed, head first into walls in youth, heedless of consequences, now we can know a little more and choose when, where and how.
For what you describe Etsy is a fine starting place. It’s low effort, and you can actually sell there. But you may want to tailor your expectations. Selling art is hard, and art online doesn’t feel the same as art in person.

There’s sort of two things going on here, and it’s important to delineate the two. There’s a website for marketing and there a website to help facilitate commerce. Since you say online payments are not necessary, then marketing sounds to be the primary initial goal.

For marketing you’ll likely find that no single effort will be very useful. I am not a marketing expert, but I’ve seen the mistake multiple times of thinking a single X is all someone will need. Discovery is the hardest part of selling and I have only vague ideas as to how to discover art work online.

A place with a domain you control is sort of a minimum. You can set up a wordpress site almost anywhere, and there are lots of payment options these days. Etsy might suffice for this, but I can’t remember if you control the domain. After that a minimum 1-2 hour marketing spend weekly should go towards adding content to any and all places people go to find art work. The idea being to brand the artist and funnel people towards marketplaces in your control. It’s a real slog, and it will likely take years to gain any real traction. Chris Do has a lot of good content on marketing for creatives (though most of it is aimed at hourly/contract worker).
Have exactly the same problem.
Can You Sail from the Great Lakes to the Ocean?
Contrary to what you say, rust compilation speed is a top priority for rustc developers. Rust compiler times have gone down YoY every year for the past few years. See, eg, https://nnethercote.github.io/2021/11/12/the-rust-compiler-h...
Being decentralized can't be the only reason (unless you're a part of a group actively being wiped from a centralized platform).

You need to do something better that makes people go "oh, this is neat". I had never heard of Murmur/mumble before, so I spent about 5 seconds checking it out. Nothing about the home page appealed to me... so I closed it.
I consult with a seismic expert at UC Berkeley about once yearly and he's pretty cavalier about pre-loading ...

Which is to say, he wants me to "pre-load the shit out of it".

Which is to say, our "indicator" is that we start to bend the HDB with the threaded rod. For instance, if we have two of these, horizontally, on either end of threaded rod:

https://www.strongtie.com/boltedholdowns_holdowns/hdb_holdow...

... he tells me to tighten that threaded rod between them until we just start to see the hold downs bend (toward each other).

So, not very scientific at all, but easy to tell that you're pre-loaded ...
> isnt a "goo core" less structurally strong than a solid bolt?

Yes, the oil used in the centre offers zero structural support.

> Is a bolt tightened to a setting using a SmartBolt vs a regular bolt with tension wrench going to manage the same loads or not?

Depends on what the original bolt is made out of, and what the SmartBolt is made out of. Two different bolts are always going to have different properties, it up to the designer to match the size and strength of the bolt to their application. You would need to validate you design with SmartBolts to ensure they have the properties demanded by your application, you wouldn’t just swap normal bolts for SmartBolts without making sure SmartBolts were at least as strong as the original bolts.
an applausworthy article.
Its not allowed to installed in my company since long time.
Ah, thanks for sharing and saving me the time. I would have discarded the blog the moment I encountered [0].
Every company I've worked for has had DLP, firewalls, and content filtering in place, and circumventing those is a violation of acceptable use policies, and thus grounds for termination... so it seems pretty cut and dry to me.
The only thing that is hard/impossible to scale (without tradeoffs) is stateful services like databases, and those won't go away even if you move to microservices.

Appservers can be trivially scaled horizontally regardless of whether it's one process that does all (monolith) or a mess of microservices.
It's interesting how so many (most?) people just follow the dreams of others. But in the tech/VC/startup/HN world you kind of forget about people like that?

I don't even live in a remotely tech-y place, but spending all day on tech/crypto twitter, hacker news etc. kind of skews my views, I guess. I think I'm a dumb lazy freeloader, bc all day I'm reading about how Vitalik came up with Ethereum when we was practically a kid, and he continues to put out all the brilliant ideas. And so many founders we read about... I'm like, how are they so brilliant?

But I think the biggest thing setting apart many tech/startup folks is (I think) that many of us are "DO"ers - we want to do what others have done; we're not "WANT"ers where we merely want the success of what others want. I don't want to have invented Ethereum; I want to be able to create something of massive value to the world, all on my own.
Buy and hold is a good strategy if you never need to touch the money. However, life happens and I got divorced, so I had to hold on to my profits or be left with nothing.

It's yet to be determined if a buy and hold strategy is a good one for crypto. I am aware of the price rise since 2012 but as the old adage goes "trees don't grow to the sky." Trees built on wild expectations and promises of glory, like were made before the dotcom crash (the internet has rewritten the rules of the economy!) seem to me to be more likely to topple over than keep growing taller.
I agree that Netflix moving from dvds to streaming could be argued as an evolution instead of a pivot, but I would argue that moving from streaming and delivering others’ content to producing their own content was a very significant shift worthy of being called a pivot.
Nothing needs to be replaced, it's all in the standard, and Apple just needs to support it.

Every dumbphone around 2005 was able to share, and receive files, use HID devices, and put a lot of context to things like remote control info.

Apple famously was unable to get proper BT keyboard support for 5 years. Nor still it supports OBEX.
I wonder if people realize that, to a large extent, cities are designed to exacerbate loneliness. Most people don't even form relationships unless forced to be in the same space and time by an external force, in school or work. As they get older, the emphasis on heavy parenting excludes other people from their lives. In the past, the church, the cafe, the market were meeting places, not anymore. As we are entering an era of remote-work we have to start building solutions to these problems. The industrial-era city-warehouse is not a good model for our times.
Some censorship needs to be accepted as anti terror measures. If you white people were ok with random brown people being pulled aside by TSA for random checks after 9/11, I as a brown progressive am ok with your Christian white Taliban organizing and propaganda being censored after 1/6.
Such expectations depend on heuristics; to me it didn't look good after RedHat started slowly eating CentOS in 2014, and was eaten by IBM in 2018. Actually even before that, dependence on a single commercial company was a red flag: cancelling products is something that commercial companies do regularly.
Focus on small communities, not lots of large communities.
That depend on how you do it.
The client selects what you see, you can unsubscribe from accounts with spam, and your client will refuse to show posts from those you don't follow
I use them with my Android phone. Seems to work well.