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> i suspect that's what they disagree with

Ah, I see your point.

Equating WHO to Fox News directly as organizations does not make any sense. They are not even on the same domain.

I assumed, the readership would not conflate them on all possible attributes.

The reason for my statement was specifically to point out the flaw that WHO is guided solely by medical reasoning.

Just like it would be a flaw to assume Fox News is the unbiased broker of news events.

Is the connection that cambalache thought I was making that WHO and Fox News are both brokers of medical news and information?

If so, I'm at a loss on how to better phrase "WHO is a political organization with medical leanings just like Fox News is an entertainment channel that covers newslike topics." to convey my intent and would really appreciate better phrasing.
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Power of Framing
That’s why this article has some value. I interpret what you’re describing as the usual M-without-V flavor of MVP. Customers (including me) hate the mockups, we want something real even if limited.
Even with just one dimension, the average may not be characteristic of the population.
This interesting but all a bit wordy and meandering.

Tldr: The air force was using the average dimensions of their pilots to design aircraft. Coincident to this, there was a large number of downed planes questionably attributed to "pilot error" but that many believed to be from an unknown cause. A recruit from Harvard charged with collecting data on pilots realized few people were close to the average, and recommending cockpits be fit to each individual. The AF took the recommendation and eventually companies produced aircraft with adjustable seating and cockpits.

Tldr tldr: dont just reach for the average
Google being culpable for malicious ads will only happen if the US finally removes Section 230 immunity. Until then, they'll keep profiting off criminal activity whilst claiming it's not their fault.
Because there's not another marketplace where you can, with some effort and very little actual innovation, turn a $5,000 investment into a six (and sometimes seven) figure a year revenue stream.
Learn from US businesses and launch same white label product in Europe. This avoids running afoul of taking advantage of any data on European Amazon sellers.
> any sort of censorship is scary to me

i agree. but at the same time, why do people not get up in as much arms about manipulation? of course, censorship is a form of manipulation, but the u.s. media, advertisements, corporate culture, politics, etc. is one big cesspool of manipulation, both direct and indirect. it's just as controlling if not more controlling than censorship and, of more sinister nature, hides behind supposed ideals of freedom.
I think this thread does a terrible job of explaining its point. I've no idea if it's accurate, but the premise seems to be that people who are highly likely to get the virus do more to spread it than people who are likely to connect with many people conditioned on getting the virus in the first place, with acknowledgements that the two labels are likely to co-exist.

Just throwing it out there, I think this is likely going to be true, and the populations with higher proportions of old people are going to see greater infection rates than populations with fewer old people. That is to say, those who are vulnerable to the disease have a greater likelihood of getting other people sick than people who are naturally resistant to the disease but will behave irresponsibly. If you had a city with nobody over age 50, not only would the death rates be trivial due to the health of the population, but the spread of the virus would be very small.

I also don't think the views here hold once a non trivial proportion of the population is infected, like we have now, so it probably doesn't matter and is hard to act on anyway.
And even in states that can deficit spend, it seems like their efforts are stymied by the lack of the federal executive being unwilling/unable to manage supply lines. Congress handing money to university research hospitals is a necessary component to the TTSI strategy, but it will result in very little unless the executive branch steps in to coordinate access to the raw materials for these tests.
Google&DeepMind Unify Normalization and Activation Layers, Discover ‘EvoNorms’
My work iPhone 11 Pro I use as a glorified RSA token, monitoring Slack when needed, and use it to browse Instagram for about 30 mins a day. At the moment I'm getting basically a working week out of it (essentially standby).

Am guessing that will get worse over time, but am thoroughly impressed with where it is for battery life right now.
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If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
The other thing is that Amazon effectively has unlimited funds to fight a seller for control of an ASIN. They can sell at a loss for as long as it takes to squeeze you out. They have a massive unfair advantage.
This is not that different from smartphone OS makes building functions from popular apps into the OS
Similarly, Netflix's sometimes odd choices for their deals or for original content production is certainly driven by the performance or certain metrics of previously acquired content.
Snaps evolved from click packages that were developed for the Ubuntu phone. The design dates back to 2013: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-May/0370...

Flatpaks, according to Wikipedia, were first released in 2015. I don't about the current situation, but initially a bunch of features that are considered necessary for snaps were out of scope of the Flatpak project, such as IoT support.

So it wasn't so much that Ubuntu selected snaps over Flatpak. Flatpaks came along later, and Ubuntu had already invested considerable resources developing snaps.
Would this possibly explain some of the speed improvements?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/ubuntu-19-10-quite-s...
I find it more intuitive to to discard the spatial intuition and think in terms of events. You want something in the X% norm? Think about it like a X%-heads biased coin flip. If you flip it enough times, it'd be shocking to get all heads. Even if the coin flips (dimensions) are correlated, many coin flips (dimensions) means at least some tails (dimension outside the norm).
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https://twitter.com/wilfredchan/status/1243887606569590784?s...

Fine, things like this "happen". That is, incredibly cowardly and dishonest persons can play roles in otherwise not completely cowardly and dishonest organizations. However, where is the criticism? Does this guy still have a job at the WHO, what would you guess?

People who look the other way with something like this have nothing to tell me, ever, just like someone who murders people doesn't get to tell me to not use swear words.

Anyone who claims to be concerned about outcome and public safety, and wants to cooperation of people who pay attention and are not blackmailable -- I dare say, the kind of people whose support you want, not the "majority", but the ones with principles and determination, who will stick with things as long as the things demand it, not as long as they are cozy -- should get the WHO as far away from this as soon as possible. That shouldn't even need saying, but now that it's been said a lot, failure to even acknowledge the issue simply means some people do not care about outcome, they care about agenda and the prepared networks to push it, and others just blindly fall in line.
Care the back that claim up?
>I never understood why Intel gave up on smartphone chips.

They didn't sell enough. Phone makers, software developers and users settled on ARM.
What'd that be? When it comes to actual software once hardware drivers, modules and bootloaders are sorted out, it's all the same ARM processors.
Your analogy is false, though. A more correct one would be "Netflix is allowed to show all initial movies in a franchise, but sequels are fair game to anyone."

Do you understand the difference between primary and secondary / supplemental insurance coverage?
I think having a MacOS/Windows competitor is a good start, a lot of people try a Linux distro and choose a flavor that's familiar (Linux Mint is very similar to windows for example).
I realize that the audience is quite different, but it’s interesting to compare the response to “no woman matches our expectations” (means they’re fundamentally broken) vs “no man matches our expectations” (means the model is fundamentally broken).
Keep on top of committing changes.

I'm terrible for coming back to my dotfile repo, finding I have some staged changes, some not, and some more untracked files, and then it's sometimes a struggle to work out if they're important changes that I'm using or not. Keep on top of it, and try to make your commit messages useful notes you yourself about why you have it that way, so you don't come to change it later and break one workflow for the sake of another.
if they want such massive platforms and play on such marketplaces, they must obey their own guidelines, else they are either stripped from the playground or someone else should own the play ground.

So here's a question: Is a store really a marketplace? It seems to me that Amazon, Target, Macys, etc, do a lot of curation and editorial work with regards to standards of production and marketing for items in their stores. Isn't that more akin to publishing?

I think the grey area and critical zone is this: Should a company be allowed to advertise their ecosystem/playground as akin to a "marketplace" when what's really happening, is that they are tightly controlling the product and harvesting the information for themselves? Seems like a bait and switch to me! ("Your margins are our opportunities," is the most fundamentally aggressive business statement I can possibly imagine, and Jeff Bezos said it!)

Apple, Amazon, and YouTube all seem to fall into this general pattern: A "marketplace" or "ecosystem" which is less bazaar and more their tightly planned cathedral. "Partners" who are put upon, data-analyzed, and sometimes cannibalized. This pattern seems to be very widespread, and it only stands to reason, given the tremendous increase in the ability of companies to leverage technology to harvest such data in their own playgrounds.
We are exposing writable storage buffers and textures in all shader stages (there is a caveat discussion [1] on the topic though), which means you can write data out directly. Sharing data between shader threads can be efficiently in the compute shaders (via the shared group memory), which are included in the core of WebGPU.

P.S. vange-rs [2] is written on wgpu-rs and uses ray-tracing in fragment shaders for the terrain. I hope to run it in the browser one day!

[1] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/639
[2] https://github.com/kvark/vange-rs
Interesting. I run rainloop on my (local) server so I can have mail in my browser (while on my lan). I'll have to see if I can get bridge for linux working with that. Server is headless, so hopefully bridge is too...
You have the terminology backwards. Coronavirus is not (epidemiologically) airborne, but it can be aerosolized and transmit through the air.
ah, can we know anything at all then? can any statement, no matter how forcefully and obviously effused, be absolutely uncertain?

but i digress... as fun as the debate may be, hn is probably not where we solve epistemic dilemmas.
The “visionary” plan which should be enough for a family is only like €20/month
Yes you can.

Cayley Hamilton theorem gives a linear relation between A^N and the terms less than that.

So for your problem, you can calculate the number of paths from A->B of length k in k*N^2 time, you need O(N^3) to compute enough terms for Berlekamp Massey, O(N^2) to compute Berlekamp Massey, and then O(n log n log k) to compute the k-th linear recurrence term with FFT.

I've actually considered writing a blog post about this :) It's a cool example of how much further you can go with a problem where many people only know the O(NK)DP solution.
Look at what happened in December 2018 when the Fed tried to raise interest rates and let assets bought during the financial crisis roll off at maturity...the market immediately crashed.

Fed is backed into a corner where it can’t raise rates without crashing the market and can’t lower rates now that we’re at 0.
Compliance rules could be extended to include due diligence on partners, and block contracts and payments to and from entities that have no clear ownership.
Oyo Faces Regulatory Smackdown in Multiple U.S. States
I meant no offense to the user and have myself been the victim of using old, unsupported software (ie. I play TF2). The point I was trying to make is that companies can't expect the world to stop changing and advancing just because they don't want to build new things. AFAIK there is no computational reason that any software can't be made 64-bit (within reason). We've moved on from 8-bit and 16-bit software; what's stopping them from leaving 32-bit behind?

When I hear that some group (ie. pro audio software makers) won't update their offerings I have to believe it's because they don't want to or they just don't want to serve the market anymore. In either case it seems like there is an opportunity for someone to create an alternative, and possibly make some great money.
Paywall bypass http://archive.is/7cdD3
Weird since Intel tried themselves to kill x86 with IA-64.
How did I not know about this? I just replaced my phone, so I can't really justify the switch, but that is almost exactly the phone I want! My only nitpick would be 32GB storage seems insufficient since android takes multiple GB of that and music collections plus a few apps will use up the rest quite quickly.

[edit] On My phone "System" is listed as 11 GB, other google apps add up to another couple GB, and my music collection is 14GB so out-of-the-box I could see me having just 5GB free with no other apps.
Well, for one, you can learn from other people's mistakes, which is better than learning from your own, because then you don't have to feel the pain.

Go is a deserving target for this criticism because the language itself deliberately made a lot of the mistakes other language communities made and learned from, like weak typing[1] and naive garbage collection algorithms. Literally if you opened an undergraduate textbook on either topic you'd see much better ways to do things. But early adopters argued vehemently that Go was simple and didn't need those things.

It does seem like Go is learning from their mistakes here: they've introduced precise garbage collection and it seems like some form of generic or template types are inbound in the next few releases. Perhaps in a few years Go will be a language I am willing to work in. But it would have been nice if a new language which already had these problems worked out had become popular, instead Go, which has reached popularity through hype rather than technical merit[2].

Tracking the history of template/generic types has been somewhat humorous: you can almost see it in this article[3] where the author starts in with the title "Who needs generics!", goes on to describe some frankly horrible ways to get around the lack of generics (it's amazing how complex Go's simplicity can be!) and finally backpedals in an update ("I am the last one to balk at the idea of generics in Go."). I don't mean this to be picking on the author here though--I've seen this history played out on other blogs and in the comments of Hacker News as well.

[1] Before you flame me on this, ask yourself if you can articulate the difference between strong and static types, because if you can't, you don't have the prerequisite knowledge to have an opinion on this.

[2] It's worth noting that the decisions made in Go probably have merit within the context of Google. The problem is that most Go users aren't at Google, and have different problems than Google, so the tradeoffs made by Go are nonsensical for their use cases.

[3] https://appliedgo.net/generics/
Apple has kept OpenGL support held back to version 4.1, and it's also been deprecated. They also invented their own rendering API instead of settling with the cross platform Vulkan API that GPU manufacturers settled on. Apple's got no one to blame for game support but themselves.
How soon do these new Ubuntu server releases come of AWS?
> What really is the issue?

This issue us that Amazon also dictates what you are allowed to sell your product for elsewhere. It would be one thing if they just used your own data and created a competing product, but the fact you cannot sell your product cheaper elsewhere is the issue.
Is there a way to centralize all my emails in protonmail?

Can't see an option to enter my pop3/smtp server. Or I'm blind?
A Covid-infected attendee emerges from CES in January
I don't think a threadripper would be expected to have particularly good single-threaded performance?
I hope you're right. Every flu season my wife has to stop getting essential medical treatment and hide in the house because she's immune compromised and no one in our culture seems to care if they spread it, including medical staff.
>Please, this isn’t Soviet Russia, economists disagree about practically everything, so the whole argument that the profession has a serious groupthink problem is unconvincing to me.

They disagree on a lot of things, that is true, but the one thing they all seem to agree upon (except for Austrian economists) is that the economy can be effectively modelled and that effective policy prescriptions can be derived from said statistical models. It is a supremely complex system and it is the pretence of knowledge (in the words of Hayek) to believe that you can use monetary policy to command it, much less policies based upon empirical models which are as you say constantly bickered and debated about.

Furthermore, the Fed is not exceedingly transparent - audits of its operations and its meeting minutes are classified and are not open to public review, as is the case with most central banks in the world. I know because I've tried to ask for copies of open market operation details from my central bank (the Swedish Riksbank) but was denied as they are classified by law (which is incredibly unusual for a society where other government agencies publish everything, including income tax returns).
Totally agree! I just don’t want people to get the wrong impression-easy to think that the takeaway is “inflation is always good for young people.”
I'm not sure education is the issue.

I think the issue is people latch on to these things due to feeling or being powerless. They reach for solutions rather than being stuck in an endless waiting or trusting period, hoping for remote experts to do something. Education can help that but not always, and especially if the experts are adversarial to groups of people.
ProtonMail/VPN are great products, but after the Crypto AG fiasco I suspect it is another CIA front. We'll find out in 50 years.
Don't grocery stores do this with own-labeled items?
Ye olde crash things, use spare cash buy them on the cheap from those in distress, lather rinse and repeat game.
But that's not what parent was saying, I think. He was saying that WebGL not being opt-in was a security disaster; while saying nothing about the security hardening of the WebGL module itself.

Even when a module is well tested, I'd like non-essential modules to be opt-in too.
> We're all being forced into a medical experiment against our will.

I'm disappointed by your false equivalence between being told to stay home and safe and being made into a guinea pig.

If being home and safe means you lose necessary income, then your ire should be directed at your governments at all levels for refusing to prepare critical safety nets and regulatory environments that would make it possible for you to stay alive and safe without laboring every day. But advocating a regression on everything that history has taught us about medical ethics is terrible and bad. We're talking about thousands of years of accumulated and refined history lessons here. Medical ethics is a perfect example of why learning history is important.
What climate do you live in? I live in the north (Canada) and during the winter my skin gets very dry. The glass and metal of recent iPhones feels extremely slippery to my dry skin. I use a rubberized case which makes the phone much more grippable, at the cost of even more bulk. I really want a small, lightweight, grippable iPhone.
Not mentioned in the article was the "market research gone wrong". New Coke was market tested in supermarkets with taste samples and questionnaires. New Coke was preferred in these taste tests.

But the context was wrong, a small sip in the supermarket under surveillance is not a bottle at home / cinema / picknik.

But: "almost ruined" is wrong, too. After this CocaCola basically got the status as USA national heritage.

So maybe it was the most successful marketing ploy in modern history. (CocaCola denies this).

Source: Some marketing books from the 90s and 00s.
> For any of the services covered by Medicare. Quoting the Kaiser Family Foundation, "private insurance would be prohibited from duplicating the coverage under Medicare."

That's correct. Supplemental insurance can still cover copays and other out of pocket expenses. It can also cover procedures not covered by Medicare.

Now, tell me, how is that "banning private insurance" if insurance companies can still sell those policies?
I've never had New Coke, but heard it was good. Can anyone speak to the flavor?
Insurance companies are already offering discounts for using their apps while in car.
This is a duplicate, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230287, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220499 and more.
This is not something unique to Amazon. Everyone does it. Costco, Target and even smaller ones do it. However the problem and scale is magnified because Amazon has a monopoly on online shopping so given their volume they can always undercut everyone else.
Please, Canonical, just for once use the default and stick with Flatpak like everyone else. We don't need another Mir, Upstart, Unity, ...
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Except Amazon disallows and punishes you for selling your product cheaper on a different platform.
If the aim is to curb monopoly powers of Amazon etc this would be disastrously counterproductive

When Joe's Custom Bike shop isn't allowed to be a manufacturer and a retailer of someone else's bike equipment, the customer is going to go to Amazon or Wal Mart to buy it. And retail giants, buoyed by the government killing half their competitors, will still find a way of squeezing their suppliers and funnelling sales data to preferred suppliers or related entities.
I think you'd lose a lot of people with the open source argument. Open source software is many wonderful things but it's not innovative. Been using and writing it for over 20 years: the projects that fundamentally change the conversation are nearly always proprietary (or sometimes open sourced for strategic reasons but developed as proprietary). Open source hits are usually clones.

Linux -> clone of UNIX, on desktop sometimes macOS

Git -> clone of BitKeeper

Android -> developed in a proprietary way with minimal community, heavily iOS inspired

GIMP -> clone of Photoshop

OpenOffice -> clone of MS Office

qemu -> clone of VMWare

etc.

It makes sense. Open source projects exist to 'scratch an itch' and are rarely optimised to maximise the size of the userbase. There's little incentive for open source developers to innovate: more users can be as much of a downside as an upside. Mostly it just equals more support headaches. Proprietary products are all about getting lots more users, so there's an incentive to try new things.