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This is very true if you don't actually understand and/or couldn't implement the magic yourself. As someone who has had to implement CSRF protection, cookie management, etc., from scratch in other languages/frameworks, it's just a pure productivity boost when I use something rails-based.

Where you can really get into trouble is if you take rails things for granted, and then go to a framework in another language. For example, you could have been brought up on rails and just take for granted that cookies are encrypted by default, and not realize that your supposedly server side cookie secrets stuff in express is being set in plain text.

What I like about rails, though, is it tries really hard to stop you from doing something stupid. Strong Params is a great example of that. You have to really fight ActionController to get it to do something actually unsafe. By that same token, properly configured rubocop will catch 100% of potential SQL injection vulnerabilities.
The UK is considerably more vaxxed and boosted, enough that the dynamics could be different.
Watch2Gether (w2g.tv) or SyncTube (sync-tube.de) might be useful, though the best and easiest thing the teacher should do is to drop the URL to the video in the Zoom chat. If possible, it would be a good idea to capture the footage of the playback to show the teacher how it looks since they might not understand how severe the problem is
Doesn't pre-workout contain a fair amount of caffeine as well?
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Thus far, every indication we have is that there's a successful decoupling of cases and hospitalization/death. Omicron's been in South Africa long enough for the lagging indicators of hospitalization/death. They remain low.

Good examples here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2022/omicr...

Screenshotted here due to paywall: https://imgur.com/a/gk73qDy
Gentoo is a great Linux dual-pane file manager, but they should change the name to not conflict with the Linux distro of the same name.
I had an "implement binary search" interview once. I came away feeling like I was being interviewed for the wrong role. I don't understand how anyone could think that's an appropriate interview task for a DS position.
I think you should give it a shot. Unless you have some pre-existing condition (severe anxiety or something), there's basically no risk. Head to a coffee shop some morning and spend a few bucks for a small coffee. Maybe you'll find a new small joy in life. I have one cup, each morning when I get up, it's a tasty little ritual. Or maybe you won't like it after all, and then you'll know.
Given that Brian Acton apparently "left over a dispute with Facebook regarding monetization of WhatsApp, and voluntarily left $850 million in unvested options on the table by leaving a few months before vesting was completed"[0] and that he went on to found the Signal Foundation one year later with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018, I feel it's not a super clear signal that Acton or Marlinspike are trying to "sell" Signal.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Acton#WhatsApp
Gold doesn't make false claims about being "decentralized" while being anything but. Gold also has actual industrial uses outside of simply being a store of value.
No, Apple built-in a feature for carriers to disable it.
Why five ? why not a seven day week?
If you’re in the US, have you found a wireless provider that meets your criteria?
If I am reading this right (and I am not an expert at all), if wanted to subsidize my current electric bill I could just buy a few solar panels and a grid tie inverter that I just plug into any random outlet and as long as my house consumes more energy than the panels provide and I don't exceed the amperage on the breaker I can effectively do this that simply? (even if the ROI doesn't make sense?)
Omicron Origins – Omicron Optimism
The New Yorker profile of Moxie stuck with me. Worth reading in full: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/taking-back-ou...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24824956
People make mistakes. Seems to me Acton is trying to do everything he can to correct it.
Vaccines have not halted the pandemic. What do you mean to say?
Two things to note: I'm not in the US, so my comments are based on the communication standards of IT and NL, which I follow more closely.

While in NL the scientific advice and communication has been simply ridiculous (mandatory masks introduced at the end of last year, with still the idea that "science doesn't know if they work, but we are gonna make them mandatory" from the government, and "we're against that, they don't work" from the head of the CDC-equivalent), in Italy it does contain the cautious wording that I advocate for.

However, this is the official communication that is written in "legalese" and not passed through the people by means of interviews and press releases. The media of course bears a lot of responsibility for the dilution of the message, chasing scoops and making headlines that leave no space for doubt; but the communication of the government to the public ends up using similar headlines, which I see as the problem in this case.
The message says that the user's "cellular plan doesn’t support iCloud Private Relay," so is this the same thing they've done with other VPN providers? That is, do they just count the traffic against the tethering/hotspot limit, since they can't shape traffic on it to, e.g., limit video quality to 480p when a user has a plan with that limitation? I don't know if they actually do this, but I've heard it before.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/9ja8y1/i_can_confi...
I think this is also very US-centric. America suffered very little economic damage throughout the war compared to Europe and Asia, and it's economy was pretty well off until the others repaired themselves.

Of course, the political system was also a factor. In some parts of eastern Europe, now considered part of "the West", women were obliged by law to work.
You don't even need any. Eventually the zoomers will be the boomers, is more my point. At some point, even the baseline becomes progressive.
>In the case of boosters, the communication (c|sh)ould have been "we're gonna give booster. For now we think only immunocompromised people will need them, but we can't really rule out other options. Further research will tell us whether other categories, or perhaps the whole population, could need it, although this does not seem the case at the moment.

Could have? Yes. Should have? $20 says 90% of the population simply ignore communication worded this way, and that "GET BOOSTER NOW, YES YOU" is more effective.
My point is that there is nothing new that warrants a change in your relationship with your doctor or your approach to medical advice.
Where have you heard those figures from? (I assume you are telling me that 5% of pre-schoolers, in your experience, have had chronic outcomes from Covid).

Yes, I have seen many preliminary studies linking Covid to many different long-term health problems [1]. Personally, and especially as Covid has been around for over 2 years at this point, I strongly prefer to avoid the obvious long-term damage caused to my kids by the disruption of their academic and social development.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/10/01/restless-an...
I know a fully vaccinated person (2x pfizer vaccine) in NYC who's also received 2x boosters and is NOT immunocompromised and has legitimately tested positive for covid three separate times.

I'm vaccinated with a booster and I'm starting to loose sight of the point.

That said, cases are skyrocketing and hospitalizations (most of which are unvaccinated people) have only slightly increased.

I've already given up two years of my life, that's about enough.
No. There is no requirement (or implied requirement) to raise more money after doing YC.
> Those who don't want to get vaccinated should take personal responsibility for that, not expect society to take as much care of them when they're choosing not to help take care of society

Unfortunately as much as I agree with this it will never be the case. Hospitals are hurting for blood too - sucks. These spikes are largely unvaccinated folks from everything I'm reading. They're stressing the system but I guarantee you they don't care outside of their own selfishness.
Yes, but you can't set custom DNS for cellular networks without a configuration profile or an app, so it's unlikely that most people have that set.
yes but you can add quotes to avoid that from happening!
I guess thinking about it more, it would be fairly simple to say something like "if consistently can't setup private relay" and "on cellular" display this message.

For a moment I was thinking it would only trigger with something specific from the carrier, but I see little reason apple would actually work with them on this. They are not really in the business of making the carriers happy.

Edit: someone else pointed out it is actually a feature that the carriers can do. that... is disappointing.
No he didn't, what are you smoking?

It is on the person using code to do due diligence to ensure that any code pulled down in an update is good to utilize. You're seeing an implicit obligation where there has never been one.

In general, most just have the integrity, empathy and detachment to not do what he did, however, any programmer/developer who doesn't have a checklist item of "audit that code" before updates is committing an aggriegious breach of professional ethics;as this is the exact circumstance that everyone should be on the lookout for.

Everyone here assuming there is an obligation on Marak's part to continue to provide an interface in a non-molested form for their convenience are part of the problem. You should have mirrored, or paid the man.
He did leave Facebook because of privacy issues right? That should be a good sign…
We're comparing transactions per second, are we not?

The US Dollar has far more transactions per second than the measly 7 transactions per second.
>Absent any evidence of journalistic misconduct, I don't understand the point of making this connection.

It's a textbook conflict of interest. Most sane places have a policy of addressing even perceived conflicts of interest.
There are a few "buts" here. The biggest one - based on transmission rates in countries with higher vaccination rates vs the ones in lower transmission rates - is that the vaccinated (at least at first, when everybody believed the vaccine is 90+% efficient against transmission) might have engaged in more risky behavior as they felt "protected".
> he made a post last year where he said he would no longer be developing software for companies to use for free

I understand the sentiment, but why chose MIT license then?

GPL would be the right choice if one wants to stop companies profiting from free work without giving anything back.
> There would have been so much less confusion if they were consistent with their communication from the start, and did a phased rollout of the booster just like they did with the original vaccine.

The problem is: science is continuous discovery of and adaptation to new facts. In a society where significant amounts of the population have such a low respect for science that they seriously believe that Earth was created by God 6000 years ago, it is obvious that these people literally cannot grasp or cope with the fact that new discoveries come in timespans of single-digit weeks... Omicron was discovered at the end of November, barely a month later cases worldwide reached Delta records and now they went through the roofs.

I agree that there have been communication fuck-ups by politicians and the media, but basic science education in schools (and scientist staff in mass media) would have lessened the impact dramatically.
Depends on the ISP. If they block or re-write DNS packets, then setting your own servers wouldn't fix it. That's a real thing people see in the wild: https://superuser.com/questions/897543/how-can-i-check-if-my...
I guess I’ll provide a counterpoint that I have been incredibly impressed with the quality of Canadian healthcare after my sister had kidney failure, was on dialysis for a year, then received a timely transplant from me and neither of us paid a dime. This was in Manitoba. She still has to pay for her medication, though - hopefully pharmacare passes in the near future.

Meanwhile down here in the US I was charged $150 after going to an urgent care clinic for strep throat. They couldn’t tell me how much it would cost ahead of time.

Also, due to a temporary billing error in the Manitoba hospital (everything was supposed to be charged to my sister's insurance, but some things weren't by mistake) the hospital's billing department half-assedly pursued me for payment for a renal ultrasound. The bill was fifteen (Canadian) dollars.
What's not true? It seems correct to me.

You're just providing an alternate scenario that isn't as favorable. And since the initial $125k implicitly has a $2m valuation attached to it, if you raise again at $3.75m, then that's probably not ideal.

So a sensible approach would be to view this as providing an implicit minimum value to target for your next round, i.e., >$5m (7.5%).
FizzBuzz (or equivalent) is actually great IMO. It weeds out the people who lied on their resume, without punishing the people who never learned CS because they were too busy learning things that were actually useful to DS, like statistics or data visualization.
The only miss information here is your comment.

>the virus is still very dangerous to the unvaccinated

According to gallup (which I hope we can agree is not some sort of alt-right outlet) the risk of an unvaccinated person needing to be hospitalized if they get covid is 0.89%. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...

That is insanely low. That is just the risk of hospitalization, the % of those that are hospitalized that actually die from (not with) covid is even lower, which is a key distinction that your Reuters article doesn't make. Most hospitals are required to test patients for covid (if they are admitted), even if they are being admitted for something else (like a broken leg) if they come back positive then they show up in the stats even if they exhibit no covid symptoms and require no to little treatment from the hospital for covid.

The healthcare system is not remotely being overrunning by covid, it only appears that way because of these scary, missleading, numbers.
I'm not going to say that you can't build a secure messaging system with XMPP, but you should be skeptical of any analysis that suggests that XMPP is secure because it uses TLS, and "engineers are working on E2EE to add even more security". The security you get from TLS in these systems is not meaningful, and by the "it uses TLS" definition, virtually every messaging system is "secure".
Maybe with some modernisation the system would work better and therefore cheaper, so more people could afford it.

In theory.
The Iceland data is interesting and "14-day incidence per 100.000 by age and vaccination status" is different from the California data, where case rate per 100K is still, as of 12/26 numbers, much higher among unvaccinated (no breakdown for 2vax vs 2vax+booster). https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#postvax-status

Iceland also has a higher vaccination rate, I would be very interested in demographic breakdowns of the unvaccinated there vs in California. Is the Iceland group much more atypical in terms of how often they leave their house, say? Is the California group possibly just much more boosted (the Iceland numbers show that the boosted group has still less Covid than the unvaccinated group stil) - but actually, that doesn't seem like it, because that ratio is still far higher than the CA one. Though... even your own link for data on boosted adults in Iceland contradicts your "not even a little" statement.

Actually I bet it's just a small number problem. Iceland has a population of 366K. 8% of that population is just under 30K. California has a population of over 39 million. Much more significant sample for unvaccinated people in CA.
In run 15 kw solar array on the roof and 5kw over pool, in addition to plenty of daily energy and good grid buyback prices I have nice view from a drone :) also have some monitoring based on grafana and mqtt, both my invertors have proprietary protocols and it was fun to hack them to get data. I think every roof should have pv panels with grid tie connection, so many photons are missed :)
Pick any US state and there's at least a roughly 10x higher death rate than Australia. Nationally, the US is at 254/100k.
People have extended social circles in PRC that span hundreds to thousands depending on connections. Family & friends, their acquaintances, coworkers etc. No one I know in PRC has or knows of anyone that's tested positive. Reports are similar from other PRC diaspora as well. Including business owners with thousands of employees.

Whereas every Chinese diaspora knows of someone getting covid abroad. Every Indian / Pakistani I know have lost people during delta wave back home. Everyone I know in west knows someone whose tested positive during omicron. And this is with noticeable lockdowns, congested hospitals, burning dead bodies on the streets. Versus PRC that has been open since mid 2020 except for targeted lockdowns.

There's also other indicators like import case statistics that many countries maintained into 2020. The TLDR is while flights from North America / EU and other regions were transporting massive amounts covid positives in repatriation flights early in the pandemic, PRC exported very little in the months after Hubei lockdown and then as far as I know, none.
Have you tried just taking a Tylenol?
You might have spent too much on the array. Most people target a 10-15 year payback period. But benchmarking it on December/January production is also likely to blow up your projections as you noted.

If you're net zero in the middle of winter you're probably going to be positive in the summer unless you live in a very hot climate. IMHO sizing an array to be net positive over the course of a year is probably a mistake, as this draws the ire of your power company and they'll probably screw you on overproduction. If you're planning to buy an electric car or something in the near future then it might not be a problem, but generally the best plan is to buy for about 100% of your total yearly usage. Solar panel production typically decreases by 2% during the first year of operation (0.5% every subsequent year) so you'll be slightly net negative which keeps you on good terms with the power company.

One nice thing with the panels is that they effectively lock in your power rate at whatever you paid. You won't get burned by ever increasing power rates. It's a hedge against future rate hikes.
It does. About 1.5-2x the amount of a cup of coffee.
They incorporated Signal as a nonprofit, so it is illegal for anybody to personally profit from the sale of Signal. Of course, that hasn't always stopped people from trying (eg, the recent debacle with the .org tld).
We can infer from labor history itself. All of our benefits today came from workers who lost their lives in fighting for better working conditions.

But even if we don't look at history, the fact that all companies worldwide consistently unite together against this one issue (unions), as well as spending millions to counter it, should make any employee suspect. In contrast to millions of dollars lost due to bad CEO leadership or fraud, employee attrition/retraining, managers favoring nepotism, etc. Curious how they don't unite to fix that stuff when it plagues all companies just as hard.
There's a reason the term 'solar farm' was coined. You're much better off growing tomatoes on your balcony, as balcony-scale solar takes decades to break even. And you won't get to consume anything of higher quality while doing it.
I agree overall, but I do think the CDC should’ve known better with masking, at least not to discourage it like they did originally in spite of lots of experience in Asia.
this would be fine for factory work, but I don't think it would be effective for knowledge work where most people can only consistently grind out maybe 3-5 hours of "real" work in terms of coding/writing/whatever. I think this is pretty commonly acknowledged on HN that nobody is grinding out 8 hours of hardcore coding every day

Working 4 days for 10 hours is going to result in reduced output for the company, but better for the individual who wants to work on their side project with a fresh mind 3 days per week. I'd love it as an employee.

Other obvious issue is that the rest of the world is pretty much working 5 days, so you risk losing deals and delaying all sorts of stuff over weekends and things like that
The dictionary definition is pretty straightforward:

"An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state." But wasn't that true in many ancient civilizations? Haven't individual merchants and property owners been around for a long time?

I think the significance of industrialization for capitalism was that it marked the first time that an individual could rapidly amass a large fortune within their own lifetime. Prior to that era, you had to be affiliated with the government in some way, able to raise taxes from a large number of subjects, to pull in that kind of money so quickly. The gap between the royals and the serfs began to fill with a middle class. Once capital became disentangled from government, people started talking about it more as an independent entity. It wasn't so much that capitalism emerged as phenomenon in the 18th century so much as it emerged into the public consciousness then.
These pandemic-halting benefits seem to be illusory with delta and omicron. The drug companies seem to have no particular motivation to release updated vaccines.

If I'm going to be forced to keep current on a shot if I want to be employed or enter buildings, it should come with some form of justification that is periodically evaluated. If it doesn't work, the inconvenience should not exist. If the virus mutates and risk falls below some standard, the inconvenience should not exist.

I have been taking off my shoes for 20 years at the airport. I understand that you can never eliminate the possibility of someone putting a bomb in their shoe, so we just have to do this forever. But viruses change, and I'd at least like someone to acknowledge there should be a goal that I won't be forced to do this also in 20 years.
> The majority of people

Is this true? Basically a lot of people in europe will jump to soft g. Will latin america pronounce "gi" as the aspirated H?. Don't know anything about the countries in africa, I hear nigeria is pretty big and there's a lot of tech coming out of there. India (big elephant, pun intended) I suppose is hard g, but what about china -- I have no clue? Japan (120M, almost half the population of US, mind you) is exclusively soft g -- likely because hard g collides with the name of a prefecture (province). Korea I think is hard g (50 m, almost all very tech-savvy). Indonesia?
Without too much difficulty. Just needed some XEPs. But matrix devs had a severe case of NIH syndrome.
I tried many time to stop coffee and tea and for one year now I am sober. I am very happy with my decision. I feel much better and much less anxiety