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One could assume it's nearly all unvaxxed COVID deaths or lockdown induced suicides depending upon political sports team affiliation.

Breakdowns would be appreciated for the less dogmatically inclined though.

Personally I wonder if it isnt heavily driven by hospital backlogs. I know people who have essentially died from medical neglect caused by systemic overload. This is hard to "count" though.
Given that bitcoin is just one tiny piece of massive electric inefficiency in our world today, do you not see eliminating externalities as the goal at hand? I just don't see how you can possibly solve your worries without getting to the root cause. IMO electrical production emissions damaging 3rd parties is the problem and bitcoin outrage is the symptom. Eliminate bitcoin and something else maybe picks up the electrical slack, with no real assurance what it will be.
But actually it's more like dependency hell because you pull in the same dependency in N versions and you can't update transitive dependencies in a senseful matter? And you get a lot of libraries that are like 4 lines and computing basic operations (like there was a lib "isOdd"... i mean x% 2 === 0?).

So you won't gain anything from this type of dependency management, because it is way to complicate to understand and to manage for a developer.
This is because of the specific immunological response the body mounts to Q Fever (which would happen with a repeat infection) if a person already has antibodies, not because vaccinating someone who has already had the condition being vaccinated against has some inherent triggering effect that is detrimental.

There is no good reason to perform a similar screening in the case of SARS-CoV-2 and there is good reason TO vaccinate because the vaccine is more consistently protective against hospitalisation and death compared to an infection of the same
Nuclear Power Gets a Fresh Look as Nations Chase Climate Goals
"All the person has to do" reads to me as if you're implying it's a guaranteed road to success, or that it comes at minimal cost. If this wasn't intended, I apologise.

Not negotiating means you get low offers, standing firm might mean you get none at all. I think the latter is the worst case result.
Please show your math.
> I can skip lunch occasionally, but never breakfast.

That's because you're addicted and you're experiencing withdrawals symptoms. Just like when I tried to stop coffee, I felt like shit for days/weeks before my body went back to its baseline.

People are used to eat three meals a day and your hormone cycles adjusted to that schedule, now if you skip a meal your body feels like it's starving even though you probably have weeks if not months of stored energy.

> Everyone's different.

Not really, different conditioning but mostly similar response to food intake.
Wow. You've just given me a vision of a future where we know enough about other animals that we've been forced to give up on human exceptionalism, so we fall back to insisting on social-apex-predator exceptionalism instead
It dropped out somewhere around 0200 PST. If you haven't downloaded your bookmarks in a while and this outage has reminded you of that, you can still reach it at 64.62.134.190.
A meta repository that lists versions reviewed by a trusted group of people? It would ad latency to bug fixes and limit the amount of available libraries, but would prevent single developers from taking down the ecosystem on a whim.
That's slightly different. XEP-0070 is about allowing someone to verify that you own a given XMPP address. That is indeed often all you need for a "Log in with XMPP" functionality. Just how many sites allow you to log in with an email + verification link today.

However it does not grant someone the ability to connect to your account and perform any actions. Movim is an XMPP client. It interacts with the XMPP network as you, not as a third-party. That's very different to what XEP-0070 is for.

Currently the only practical way to allow someone access to your XMPP account is to give them your credentials. But if you do that, there's no way to restrict, monitor or revoke their access (apart from changing your password - something they would also be able to do!).

Many XMPP server implementations already implement some of the building blocks for something better (e.g. Prosody and ejabberd both support OAuth in some form already). But there are a number of important missing pieces before we can get it usable and adopted, and that's what I will be focusing on this year.

Again, in Movim's case it's fully open-source. You can self-host it or run it on your laptop, so you're never forced to hand over your credentials to any third party today. But many people would find a mechanism to grant a third-party limited access to their account an acceptable solution, so they can use Movim instances hosted by others.
You sound like someone who doesn't own an EV? I plug mine into a standard outlet outside my house. It's pretty much always charged. If your plumber is driving so far they need to recharge on the way I think you have bigger problems than the ROI on the vehicle.
Might be a while before they respond: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1476079701978345472

> Dec 29, 2021: Alright, I'm going to take a year off the twitters and see what else I can do with the time. Follow @idlewords for blog post notifications, http://blog.pinboard.in for actual Pinboard stuff.

All good an nice, but the blog is down too =)
With all due respect to RMS, having read the linked page, that's a weak rebuttal. He seems to reject the premise on the grounds that it's sometimes inconvenient, but accepts it entirely on philosophical grounds when explaining why the FSF doesn't dual-license.

So I think he agrees with my general argument that dual licensing does undermine the principles of free software, but accepts that not everyone can afford to be a zealot.

I'm just suggesting that more appropriate licensing schemes already exist if a developer wants to be paid.
> Although to be fair Pidgin doesn't exactly have the reputation to be maintained (despite recent efforts to start again) so i would strongly recommend to try again without that specific client in the equation.

Quality of Implementation matters. If Pidgin "doesn't exactly have the reputation" and yet it's still notionally part of your ecosystem, then your whole ecosystem doesn't exactly deserve the reputation you thought it did.

Here's my unsolicited recommendation: Block Pidgin. Not just Pidgin, any time the XMPP community finds itself having to explain that oops, that client doesn't work so good, please use a different one, just block the client, permanently instead, from all popular and well known servers, tell anybody who will listen that's not a real XMPP client, not any more.

Any time the community just can't bring itself to block a client, cross off the features that don't work across the ecosystem due to that client. Those aren't really XMPP features any more since they exist only for some users and the community is apparently OK with that.

And each year, stand back and look at the resulting two steps forward three steps back juddering "Progress" and reconsider - was this the way to get where you wanted to go? Or are you all wasting your time on an exercise that would be easier done a different way.
Sry, a k8s integration is not planned. I use it only with docker
Yes, it looks like ADHD symptom. It's called hyperfocus. People with ADHD often focus on something that is giving instant gratification (like learning new thing or trying to find clever solution for a problem). The other, probably simpler things are neglected. And no it's not just "caused by Internet and smartphones". I had this before I even got a computer. I was hyperfocusing on reading books (very shallow, just wanting to check what will happen next). TV was boring because it was too slow.
Wait, you are saying that the ATAGI for COVID-19, which was set up directly under the Minister of Health as part of the Federal Department of Health to advise and adjucate on everything immunity and vaccination related, who has produced all the current stringent Australian Covid rules, is somehow NOT part of the federal government ?

They have litterally made the rules, and are sometimes delegated to adjudicate on specific cases.

Checking that would have taken you exactly 5 seconds. It's litterally on their web page header, but in their statutes as well.
The biggest problem is that a huge component of school is socialization. Interacting with other kids in an low-control setting.

Much like conferences the "hallway class" is a huge component.

Ass onto that that many kids are bad at focusing on online classes and the whole situation is not up to the standard of in-persin schooling (with current systems).
Think of it as Node.js + Typescript, but you don't have to think about configuring the typescript compiler, linter and formatter as everything is bundled in the `deno` binary.

Don't think about syncing that formatting/linting/import aliases configuration with VSCode, all you need is the Deno plugin and you'll get all the benefits of working with TS on VSCode.

Packages are obtained (and heavily cached) from any URL instead of relying on a centralized repository. Obtain your dependencies as you want, whether it's Deno's proxy, directly from raw.githubusercontent.com, your own http server, or any other thing accessible thru an URL.

At the end, the permission system is the least interesting part of the project imho. It's useful, because if you're doing a CLI that just receives stdin, processes it, and prints to stdout, you can block any disk and network access, but apart from that it's really limited because the nature of JS itself. (Maybe for the next trendy language we could think about the Object-capability model before it's too late. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model)

The thing I value the most is consistency and having a fully working development environment out of the box to be productive.
Well I’m taking a stand against the anecdote then
I find it quite disheartening that nobody (or at least very few people in this thread) have looked who the complainant(s) actually are, i.e. the European Digital Reading Lab (EDRL) and (indirectly) the Readium foundation, both of which are community–driven non-profit organisation, operating on very modest budgets.

The Readium LCP software system (as distinct from the Readium the reading applications) was created a community effort to offer readers a user-friendly alternative to proprietary DRM systems. IT plays a particularly strong role in libraries ebook lending where it’s rule it is to ensure that a loan is just that a loan.

I understand the misgivings some have about the DMCA, copyright law and associated copyright protections, and the capitalist system in general. However, please set these aside for a moment and look at the situation from the perspective of readers, authors and others.

Readium LCP is fundamentally a trust system. It relies on copyright holders and that is not just large media companies, but small independent publishers, authors, agents and similar.

The largest consumer publisher (Penguin Random House) is but less than 1/100th the size of Apple or Amazon. Also the earning of an average author in the UK is in the neighborhood of a mere £7,00 per year.

If beg everyone to consider what the practical ramifications would be of destroying trust in a community-driven platform hat spent years to generate.
It means library lending of ebooks would cease entirely or revert to the old system such as Adobe’s RMSDK (reader mobile software development kit) with all the usability issues so familiar to anyone who does software development in the publishing ecosystem.

Aside: the acronym LCP originally stood for “lightweight content protection system” it is “lightweight” by design. For “marketing" reasons (or what I call “trust building”) it was later changed to stand for “licensed content protection”.

Also note that this is a discussion about consumer publishing “trade publishing in the vernacular of the industry) which is distinct from academic publishing (scientific journals, textbooks, etc.) a market dominated by Elsevier, Springer Nature and similar where Readium LCP is hardly used.

Disclaimer: Yes, I personally engage in weekly Readium engineering calls, but neither me not my organisation use or contribute to Readium LCP. WE use and contribute to the general Readium ebook reading software. I can attest that Readium comes with all the issues and problems of a community-driven open software system, but please recognise it for what it is, a community-driven , not-for profit effort.
It is one of the many reasons why the hype died. [0] Ultimately they could not move quick enough against the competition.

The expectation with apps these days is to release on both platforms from day 1 and Clubhouse was still too busy writing their Android app a year after releasing their iOS app, meaning they were too slow to compete against everyone else.

As soon as that was finished with the invite system removed, everyone already left for Twitter Spaces or Discord Stages.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883580
Tbf the website doesn’t state it’s for those with depression
It reminded me to take my meds which I legitimately forgot to take this morning. Ymmv.

I also think that the use of the shit emoticons should've been enough hint that this is primarily a joke website
I'm working on a solution that is along the lines of the "package.lock" method that you've mentioned. My solution involves defining payment plans in code:

https://github.com/openfare/openfare#payment-plans-defined-i...

Come say hello in the chat room if you have a moment!
If someone was offering free donuts with a sign that looked anything like the MIT license, you would be a fool to eat them.
The upgrades aren’t even substantial. The CPU, RAM, and fan are all original parts. You could’ve ordered this exact configuration from Lenovo. The only deviation from stock is the AC WiFi upgrade.

I daily drive a T530, it was max spec already so I haven’t changed anything. It has more than enough power to do software dev.
Sure, save this to `.npmrc` right next to your `package.json`. It doesn't retroactively change versions, so any existing ~ or ^ ranges need to have those characters removed. But further `npm i` invocations will save the versions without range characters.

save-exact = true
package-lock = false
update-notifier = false
>This should be step one, always.

No, no it shouldn't

There's a really, really, really fine line to walk between preventing the AMA from lobbying congress to screw us and preventing actual grass roots people from paying someone to argue on their behalf.
Just one question. How would you handle transitive dependencies?

Let's say I want to license package A which depends on package B (which is, let's say, licensed under AGPL). Package A enters the Collective, package B doesn't. What now?
Ok, but if I get vaccines I’m exposed, but may not be exposed to Covid or at least a variant that causes an immune disorder.
> The CEO isn't to blame either. He has to make his investors happy.

So you are saying the buck stops at the heads of the rich class? Sounds like Marxism is back on the menu for the 21st century, we can all be the "investors" if the means of production don't belong to the old investors.
It's a part of it, but it's in the name, it's an "advisory" group.
edit: forget I said anything. There’s unlikely to be civil or sane discourse on this topic.
what do you mean they cant bully ukraine?

they are literally doing that as we speak, while their "peacekeepers" are rolling around Kazakhstan prepping up a corrupt dictatoriship

Russian leadership will always find resources to gamble on geopolitics, even if that means tanking their economy ,like they did with Crimea
This isn't unique to Github, though. You're advocating for absolutely no use of third party services, then.
My MIL has rheumatoid arthritis which came on suddenly last year out of nowhere. It’s always in the back of your head that perhaps it has some link to the vaccination but I’m withholding judgment until proper statistics are available. She was a ( daily ) smoker but has given up since the diagnosis.

Note that everyone in both families are vaccinated, boosted etc and it has not changed her opinion on vaccination.
That is awful to hear. I unfortunately think this entire debacle will leave a lasting distrust of our medical providers and institutions. Vaccine hesitant are already distrustful, and I believe in the coming months/year as more stand up to the censorship of these real issues, a growing number of vaccinated will feel mislead and lied to (whether justified or not). The only recovery path I can see is the return of a strong level of informed consent between patient and provider, and big tech getting out of the healthcare game.
EdiNation makes EDI so easy
I think they're pretty good. Some have an annoying flashing LED that could annoy a bed sharer but could be cured with a piece of tape inside the headband, and they have occasionally abruptly woken me up with a loud "LOW BATTERY" warning.

The other issue I have noticed is the volume changes whether you are lying on the back of your head, or with your head on its side with the ear pressed against the earpiece. Short of putting some gyroscope thing inside the unit, though, I'm not sure how they could correct for that.
Imagine the abstract bean proxy factory required to create an instance of that!
Um,

If it is asking him actual questions and gets the first question wrong in terms of him I kind of see his point that is doesn't seem to apply to him very well?

Imagine a questionnaire that starts with

Do you currently program in:

Cobol, fortran pascal or basic?

Maybe it wouldn't be aimed at you...
Imagine a society which is not able to handle a pandemic in a better way than just to throw people age 60+ under the bus.

Interesting thought.

For what do we optimize actually? For the working class? For human lives?

You know what would have not been an issue if we would talk to each other and would find a global compromise independent of capitalism?

A pandemic.

We would just take our knowledge and resources we have and transform it temporarily in a setup in were its not an issue to work from home, work less for a year or two, have family and friend clusters were subgroups can visit each other without spreading virusus, high vaccine rate, masks everywere.

I don't mind discussing IF our society should throw older people under the bus, but only if we accept that we did a lot of stuff shitty before and we could do it much better.

But also lets not forget one thing: This is a pandemic. Our first pandemic in a modern time, unique to our society.

We have handled it much better than 100 years ago.
> Worst case if Greenland's ice sheet melts, that adds 7 meters to sea level, and Antarctica's another 60 meters. I won't see that in my lifetime but my children might.

How likely is this worst case?

IPCC in 2021 [1] projected a 0.5 m to 2.0 m sea level rise by 2100 (see Figure SPM.8) and NOAA in 2020 [2] suggested a worst case of 2.5 m sea level rise by 2100. It appears that neither are considering the possibility of an entire ice sheet melting?

[1]: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

[2]: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
Excel is out-of-proc so it relies heavily on marshaling. It's either that or custom marshaling. Also it's the same interface as is used internally in the application with VBA scripting.
If we can’t acknowledge that complex tool wielding and laughter are potentially galaxies apart in terms of abundance, that future looks grim.
But they aren’t in the same magnitude - for example, incidences of peri/myocarditis is 30x (at a minimum) greater in someone who has COVID vs someone vaccinated; and vaccination leads to shorter milder breakthrough infections which (should - I can’t claim to have seen a study) lead to a lower incidence compared to someone who was unvaccinated and infected
Well, the most popular complain is that FB will "radicalize" you by their psy-ops algorithms based on your profile. If you don't read news on FB, then they can't show you antivax/trump-supporter/whatever posts, right?

Besides, I always get a feeling of hypocrisy when this is being discussed because the argument people make is that FB is scum of the earth that will destroy democracy and society but the same people wouldn't delete their account because then they will miss the posts of their knitting group or something. So for me it seems that either people who are making the argument actually don't consider FB as much of a threat, or they value democracy and civic society less then their knitting group.

Anyway, let's not derail NFT discussion into typical HN big-tech-hate flamewar. Sorry I brought up the subject.
Indeed. Studying obesity rates and historical dietary habits find a strong correlation between snacking and obesity even when the total number of consumed calories is the same.
Do you put adkim=r; aspf=r; pct=100, rf=afrf; fo=1 ?
Back to the Future is only evidence of what that actor or the film's creator believed. It's not a well-researched documentary.

The original pronunciation is with a hard g, though there was a brief period after the US National Bureau of Standards claimed otherwise where some people in America thought otherwise. At least according to [0].

[0] https://www.quora.com/Was-the-prefix-giga-originally-pronoun...
You're selling a product (service.) You need to market the product.

You also need to handle administration of the business or outsource those tasks.

Regardless of who is putting in this effort, your business needs to pay for it (your time or the time someone else puts into it.)

Add to that, self-employment taxes, insurance, sick leave, vacation leave, equipment, office, utilities, etc. Anything you aren't charging for, you're subsidizing.

That's ABC stuff.

I don't like the word freelancing, because people take the label with a bunch of assumptions, which may not be correct. The language "the most important thing" is also troublesome because it may put you in the wrong frame.

The reality is that running a business is a common complex thing. It's like relationships, many people are in them, but being such a common part of life doesn't make them easier to figure out. Society gives you basic scaffolding, which you need to use or not use as basic building blocks. Come to the problem with an empty cup and start building from scratch. And then it still isn't easy, as many people get caught up in details which isn't necessarily giving back the same return on the end result. My heuristic is to start with the envisioned end-result, work backwards and then build a plan going forwards again. The entire time, you have an eye on that end-result and asking if what you are doing is serving that end-point. And then, as Tyson said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." But a plan is better than no plan.

There's no "the most important thing." It's more complex than that. You have to approach a complex problem with agility to shift frames. Be creative. Be curious. Ask questions. Do research. Answer the questions. Every article about "this is how you do <insert complex thing> is missing massive amounts of detail.

Also note, there is a goldmine of articles on making money on building software in HN. Do a search. If you stop at this thread, you're seriously missing out.

And further reading on detail in life...

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...

ETA: This is more about the mindset than the nuts and bolts. There are tons of golden posts here on the nuts and bolts. Do a search and see what pops up with the most votes and comments.
I've had pineapple in a number of cooked preparations, the only one I enjoy is sweet and sour. For me it's definitely the kind of preparation and not a lack in execution.