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With respect to specific modelling efforts policy makers sometimes act as antagonists because, without joint modelling of all the concerns they are trying to balance, they are forced to rely on their intuition. This leaves society particularly exposed to the character traits of our leaders, because it is they who end up modelling the interaction effects (in their heads).

For example they might claim in the early stages of an epidemic that we actually just have linear case growth. It is then up to the modeller to try to justify why that isn't the case, which in limited-information regimes can be near impossible in any rigorous sense, for the reasons you describe.

However, assumptions are important, and showing decision makers what might happen given certain assumptions (and providing a justification for those assumptions), which is part of what a model does, can cause them to reassess their current thinking, and it is for this reason that these kinds of models can remain useful, even if it is not possible to reasonably distinguish between some set of models given available data.

Returning to the epidemic example, justifying why exponential rather than linear growth is likely in the early stages of spread is something that can be done on an intuitive level, and explaining this to policy makers, and showing them the range of possible outcomes that are consistent with current (at the time limited) knowledge, can be extremely powerful.
The media report on it, but this is hardly something I can properly investigate myself.

A domain where they thrive is domestic politics and in such a small country it's not that difficult to verify whether they lie and manipulate or not.
The problem is that the press drives policy decisions, so you cannot disengage completely. You would need to find a direct line of communication towards representatives without the press. We have the means for that theoretically, but it needs a lot of engagement. I think most people would benefit when cutting out classical papers.
People have been making this claim for the last ten years, it hasn't happened yet.
I'm all for quality investigative reporting, but that is not something that 99% of journalists do.

I've been interviewed by journalists a few times and I've seen at least a half-dozen other people be interviewed. The articles published are totally disconnected from what was actually said. Heck, I've had a journalist make up a quote and attribute it to me.

Don't talk to journalists. If you must, record everything.
The very idea of having compilation unit boundaries look like project boundaries squicks me :/... the lightweight compilation unit structure C/C++ has--with the ability to elide information but the requirement that it be prototyped--frankly always seemed like the perfect tradeoff, and it generally means that projects are able to be compiled in massively parallel environments as all of the dependencies are explicit. This is why distcc is such a trivial project to just drop on almost C codebase, and is why I have been able to get our builds doing like 100x parallel compiles on AWS Lambda (and like, before someone tries to claim that header file bloat somehow prevents this: it doesn't, and build engineers do massively parallel build farms for C/C++ all the time, and it is only in some specific corner cases of C++ projects defined entirely as templates where this comes up, and even then there are trivial techniques you can use to help break the translation units apart). Every time a new language comes out and tries to "fix" translation units by adding tons of cross-file information dependencies without the explicit definition vs. declaration difference I kind of roll my eyes as I know there's almost no chance the build is ever going to fast, and these "we need all the code at once to even begin to analyze it" languages are the worst :(.
> What is in / that is dangerous?

...it's...the root of your entire system? Are you really asking me why `rm -rf /` is a meme, or are you just being contrarian?

> Finder hides all of /etc and /bin and /usr for the "protection" of normal users

And you can change Finder's preferences to show those folders, like any actual macOS user that's qualified to be making changes to those folders should know. If you lack both the curiosity and the ability to look up how to enable that option, then you frankly have no business modifying them yourself. If whatever you wanted to copy or edit there wasn't important enough for you to take ten seconds to look up how to do it and then follow through with the instructions, then why on earth would you be complaining about it to anybody?
It's not acceptable. You should respect the author and his fears and remove the link.
I am pretty sure they had those TSMC conversations BEFORE the announcement.
Some mods worked to make it worth to manage pollution by cranking the military to 11 so that the conflict couldn't be easily solved by just more military.

Nauvis Day + Rampant, while unfortunately broken code, was a very interesting setup (I think we also did Angel+Bobs with it), which led me to start building complex reprocessing plants so that instead of deep underground release the captured pollution could be used to recreate raw materials - we had a lot of pollution mitigation because otherwise we probably couldn't defend despite seemingly impregnable defenses.
It's a terrible goal, and a terrible metric.

TIf immigration is good, then you want as much as possible. If immmigration is bad then you want as little as possible. It doesn't make sense as a goal to say you want to limit something you want to get.

The second is that wage is a very fungible metric. It's a bad metric target because the economic value of a work to the country is not necesarily measured by wages. Clinical doctors make less than some categories of software engineers, but their value could literally save lives by cheapening and increasing access to healthcare.

And then you have a lot of ways to manipulate it: FAANG pays a lot with stock that does not show in the base compensation, so now the incentive would be to eliminate stock and increase salary, which can be tax inneficient and more expensive and inconvenient for the company and the employee. Then you can cut benefits: PTO, parental leave, health insurance. Then you can cut office presentism and hire contractors, etc. What a perverse incentive.

> It solves the whole issue with consultancy companies flooding the H1B pool with extremely underpaid bodies, thus making it more difficult for other people to get their H1B visas.

It solves them by reducing the underpaid persons wages to 0, because they become unemployable in the US. Why a software engineer making 70k is better by making 0? Senseless. This is a senseless discussion that only exists because a rule exists. This discussion makes no sense in hiring international contractors, importing software products or hiring internacional software companies, all solutions that pay less than prevailing wages and pay no taxes to the US.

Most countries run subsidy programs, campaigns, prizes to try to keep software engineers from going to the US, and the US keeps investing money in throwing that advantage away.
> planning, optimising, getting perfect ratios,

At the expense of what? Optimizing for what?

I remember watching an episode of NatGeo's "Megafactories" showing a Coca-cola plant that could run a massive operation with only 17 employees. Everything beautifully orchestrated, everything so optimized. Yet, hardly what someone would say "the best allocation of time and resources that need optimizing".

Is society better off because this plant managed to reduce its unit production cost by 0.05%, or have we just ensured that we can keep getting cheap unhealthy sugared-water for a little while longer? Was any person that lost that job due to the automation now going to take the time to improve/acquire their professional skills and go on to work on better jobs, or did we just send someone to either welfare or some crappy gig-economy job?

If it was "just a game", sure, go ahead and enjoy it. But I would bet that a lot of people playing the game take some of its lessons and strategies as a model of how to behave at work in real life. And in real life engineers and executives should be able to ask themselves "Why am I optimizing this?", "Why do we need a perfect ratio?" and have answers that go beyond "it looks good on a spreadsheet"
Currently if you google his real name SSC is not even on the first page of results. If the NYT publishes his name in an article about SSC it will be the top result.

Also I am not sure what you mean about Wikipedia - I don't see a current article about him (there was an old one with a wrong name but it was marked for deletion).
Jackfruit is pretty uncommon in NY City outside of specialty Asian markets. Durian even moreso.

Dragonfruit exists mostly as a frozen smoothie ingredient, although you can get it seasonally as well.

Lychee is somewhat available seasonally, longan never or almost never.

And I've never seen a Pomelo outside of SE Asia.
Having worked on inflight connectivity apps and Earth Observation respectively, for a couple of startups I'm inclined to agree overall. Workarounds would be:

[i] ground sync, which would be fine for a lot of use cases where higher revisit rate and sometimes less cloud cover is sufficient to make the imagery valuable, and open up non-wifi flights. Ground sync can be over regular 4G or even swapping flash drives [some W-IFE boxes update this way, though infrequently].

[ii] Getting dedicated bandwidth from the satellite/a2g internet provider, who can potentially allow you a lot more than is made available to an individual consumer, but obviously at a hefty charge.

[iii] using streaming codecs designed for low kbps rates - though this is obviously lossy, and pixel perfection matters for a lot of EO use cases.
Dated a journalist who would ask me to explain tech things. Aghast, I asked if this was how she wrote about everything. It was. She's now a management consultant which explains alot.
I read it as a very cynical message about the inevitable destructiveness and cruelty of human nature.
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Historically many well regarded news sources have had a public editor[1] or ombudsman who takes complaints from readers and looks into matters of ethics. It is the public editor of the New York Times whom one would ideally complain to about something like this.

The New York Times didn’t have one for most of its history, though they had one from 2003 to 2017. Other cash-strapped newspapers have been removing or weakening the position too (eg the Washington post replaced their ombudsman position with a “readers’ representative” position; the guardian have a public editor who spends most of their time on holiday). Some broadcasters (eg npr, pbs) do have public editors.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_editor
This is a simple application that triggers GET requests periodically. I'm currently using it to trigger the sending of emails of another of my apps (http://mailaday.com/ - checks due emails every 5 minutes).

This is currently very bare-bones but I'm publishing it here just to see if people are interested in something like this.

I guess this kind of services may be useful for developers which do not have access to system crontabs but still want to periodically run some tasks (which they can program to be ran from a URL endpoint which cronbeats will send a GET request to), like doing db backups, sending emails, clean the database, etc.

I have a free version which allows users to create 10 cronbeats, but if it finds interest, I'll find motivation to build the code to the "pro" versions..
This is really sad. I hope SSC comes back. What the NYT is doing here is almost incomprehensibly shitty. I can't imagine why they would think it's so important to publish Scott's real name.
You should look at Microsoft Teams & Streams. Yuo can record your video conference, it produces a reasonable automated transcript which is searchable, letting people easily jump to the relevant part of the meeting.
Do you complain if you’re running your OS on a CPU micro architetture VM abstraction?
"people could find out the information is they looked hard enough" is also ridiculous because, yeah, that's trivially true - the journalist already found the information.
There's plenty of independent journalists on YouTube/Patreon/Alt-Tech, some more reliable than others. Hopefully, in the future, more people will start getting their news from the independent YouTube/Alt-Tech journalists who wound up migrating to those platforms after they were laid off from their mainstream media publications during the past decade of layoffs for that industry. Anyone can find a list of such YouTube/Alt-Tech channels by searching Reddit. Of course, that also means having to go through the process of weeding out the biased low quality journalists. Hard hitting debates are rather rare on YouTube, but, as a general rule, I have found that the YouTubers who are willing to debate others (and who present facts during that debate) are better sources of information than those who are unwilling to ever debate anyone.
There has been unusual hot and cold spells of weather on the high latitudes in the past year or so due to the arctic polar vortex behaving in an unusual way.

My knowledge is limited, if there's a meteorologist reading this comment, please enlighten us on the topic.
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I would delete it. He deleted his posts. His name was protected through security by obscurity. A weak defense, but it had been enough so far.

Highlighting a way people can find the name encourages others to dig.
Sure, and I didn't mean to come across as obtuse, my point was that it's hard to find truly culture-insensitive aspects of the human experience.

Even the basics like our tastes in food, and what traits we find physically attractive, are steered by culture. You're right of course that ultimately we're wired to enjoy sugar, fat, and salt, in a way that works against our health when they are available in effectively limitless quantities.

I don't agree with Most of our behaviour is based on instinct. We allow perfect strangers into our homes to fix the plumbing. (Bruce Schneier wrote a great book about this kind of trust. [0]) A baby can learn to enjoy the company of a Malamute. Even our instinct to avoid being eaten by wolves, seems to be negotiable.

> changes in availability of unhealthy food are needed to improve the population health.

Agreed.

[0] https://www.schneier.com/books/liars_and_outliers/
The Mac Pro was seen as an an assurance that Apple was going to support their Pro customers for the foreseeable future. It's not just the Mac Pro itself. It's the software and supporting hardware.

Also crucially, due to Apple's spat with NVIDIA, the Mac Pro doesn't support CUDA. This means software has to be modified to use Metal Compute to support the Mac Pro.

If you make pro software Apple just let off a huge signal that the future of the Mac Pro is at best uncertain. So maybe hold off on that Mac support for the next two years.

Apple is not going to make an ARM Xeon. The resulting computer would be so expensive after you amortise all the R&D to create a single workstation class CPU for it, that nobody would be able to afford it. All the Pros who bought Mac Pro got played hard.
Why are you so sure about this? Because the journalist who wanted to disclose his name said so? I've also been interviewed once by a magazine that assured me (and the marketing folks) that it would be a positive piece when in fact it was a hit piece apparently initiated by a major advertiser.
> The reason synchronous video communication continues to dominate is because it's more information dense than text in many situations, and more interactive than asynchronous alternatives.

You really don't join the kind of video conferences I'm called into, where an hour long meeting might easily have been done in a few minutes by email.
What's going on with the nyt? This is incredibly bad quality writing.
That doesn't matter! Art is about what we, the readers, make of it.
> What is "quality investigative reporting" in an objective sense, when most of the MSM outlets are owned by oligarchs, or simply "toe the line"?

I don't think better ownership changes anything. The Guardian is owned by a trust, yet falsely reported Mark Duggan was unarmed in a front page headline (if you're unaware, this was false and the Gruan had to retract the claim after a PCC ruling).
> "I don't trust anything they write without checking the facts."

I am not sure you are aware but your statement makes no sense whatsoever.

How do you "check the facts" if you don't trust professional journalists?

What sources do you use for those facts, say on the outcome of a political meeting, the current best advice on how to avoid catching covid, the economic situation or impact of new legislation on a specific economic sector?

The world is complex, fast-moving and there are trillions of possible information sources. With your expressed view you have to either live in conscious avoidance of any kind of news and only go to perceived primary sources (which journalists might help you understand the biases of...) or, more likely, you simply believe whatever sounds right to your existing views and biases.

The latter in fact is the cheap and lazy way out and typically justified by a view like yours - "I don't trust journalists" translates in most cases to "I don't trust journalists unless their writing exactly reflects my viewpoint."

This is a really dangerous approach and the root cause of most current problems in developed countries. Instead the best course of action would be to be conscious of inherent biases, try to read different press to get s wholistic picture rather than just whatever reinforces your viewpoint and then, when something is really important, try to look for primary information.

Journalists are doing an important service to society. There are bad apples (and it seems you met one) and tasteless apples or apples that want to do the right thing but just get it wrong (eg because budgets are so tight that not enough apples can be hired...), that doesn't mean you should distrust all apples.
I'm not saying there aren't consequences to the freedom, and the effects of social media make me wish we could ban entire publications at will, but it's the wrong direction to be thinking.

I must admit, the ability to sway stock prices is pretty far from what I worry about when I think of bad ethics in press, but it does happen to be the kind of thing that would make licensing prone to corruption. The money influencing that kind of corruption would be right at the door of the licensing body, just waiting for the first person to crack the door open.
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Meanwhile, in NTSC land, people were expanding the colour palette by generating interference that would be interpreted by NTSC TVs as additional colour information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors

PAL wasn't as amenable to this sort of endeavour, so platforms that were more popular outside the US tended to focus on effects like those described here - give the impression of more colour space even when it wasn't there. Efforts like 8088mph (https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-al...) that create much more colour than the hardware was nominally capable of are solidly tied to NTSC, and it's interesting thinking about how much the demo scene ended up split by the behaviour of their TVs.
I feel that in a lot of cases, this is basically just bullying. Where people in power, or at least senior positions, will belittle others to their own benefit. It may not be racist or sexist in its cause, but can be in its nature. Basically, if there is a way to highlight someone for any differences, a bully is likely to use that, especially if it can aim to demean that other person. So it will be sexism, or racism, though not because the originator is racist or sexist, it's just because they are ignorant, not bothered and just like to bully or put down others with any tools at their disposal. Made worse by the way they might rise in power as result of being an asshole in this way. Until they fall
It is a documented (aka scientifically proven) fact that women generally prefer to work with people and men prefer to work with things. There are exceptions, of course.

In my 20+ years working in IT I met a single woman that was a developer and chose to stay a developer; a few moved from development to project management or operations, but most never wrote a line of code after graduating college, jumping directly in PM, ops or any role that allowed moving away from coding. I do not have any good explanation for this, my first sentence doesn't fully explain this.
Half a decade?

In France Medical Doctors require 6 years of externship, 4 years of internship + various amount of years depending on the specialization up to 5 (?) for example for neurology.

It's also the population that lead to the most suicides due to how intense the expectations are and failure will lead you to tenures you don't want (There is a spot for everyone but not where you want and on the speciality you want, even though we are lacking doctors ...)
Being named is EXACTLY what ((([redacted])))’s (((kind))) fears the most.

(((They))) will flag this comment to silence the truth.

THEIR NAMES ARE (((SCOTT [redacted]))) AND (((CADE METZ)))
So would your tendency at this point be to agree with Trevor that differences in tranmissibility are inconclusive? Or would you tend towards supporting the transmissibility hypotheses as long as there is some small amount of supporting evidence?
How can a dog be racist? It has no prejudice and acts solely on previous experience.
NPR isn't explicitly biased, but it does lean left. A recent example:

> Even In A Pandemic, WHO Believes That Public Protests Are Important

> June 8, 2020 5:40 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/08/8724198...

14 minutes later

> Trump To Restart Political Rallies This Month Despite Coronavirus Pandemic

> June 8, 2020 5:54 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...