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> I know I might be a dissenting opinion here, but I can never wrap my head around `jq`.

I don't think this is uncommon. People generally reach for jq for simple path expression evaluation against JSON objects, and never get deeper into it than that. It seems like the kind of thing you could re-implement yourself in an afternoon. However, as soon as you start taking advantage of some of the more complex functionality--say, a program like `.entries[] | select(.size > 1024) | .name`--there's a disquieting feeling of "what the hell is actually happening here?"

I took some time a while back to really dig into how jq programs work, and was surprised to discover how deep and powerful jq really is, while being built out of some very simple fundamental building blocks. Most of the jq builtin functions are actually implemented in jq itself[1]; even more of them could be, but aren't for the sake of performance. And the power and self-consistency of jq made sense when I found out that the creator Stephen Dolan is an "actual" Computer Scientist (in the academic sense) with extensive programming language research experience[2].

The main obstacle I see for most people is the lack of of an accessible introduction to how jq actually works when it comes to streams, function calls, generators, and backtracking. They're explained somewhat in the docs and on the project wiki[3][4][5], but in a fairly blunt way that assumes existing familiarity with terminology and concepts. It takes some effort to learn initially, but once you understand it, everything falls into place. I'm hopeful that subsequent installments in this "mastering" series can explain how the jq model works in an approachable way.

[1] https://github.com/stedolan/jq/blob/master/src/builtin.jq

[2] http://stedolan.net/research/

[3] https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/#Advancedfeatures

[4] https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/Advanced-Topics

[5] https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/Internals:-backtracking
I'm 29 and I haven't had TV for...8 years now? We only watch Netflix/Amazon prime or watch movies on blu ray. Every time I go visit my mum and she has the TV on(she's literally the only person I know still paying for satellite TV) I have no idea why you would. Constant ads, shows which are being interrupted by ads, no freedom of selection when it comes to content....I honestly don't understand why people still watch TV at all. I can maybe understand the argument about watching live sports, but it inevitably comes with watching all the other shit as well.
* People don't act rationally about small risks, and greatly exaggerate or diminish them based on fear.

* Not everyone is going to put the same value on their own life.

* Some people will find major restrictions worse than a very small risk of death.

There's three perfectly good explanations.

Also if you use $5 per micromort, a pretty standard number, you get a motorcycle-riding cost of about eleven dollars a day. Plenty of people would pay that on purpose.

Also using perpetuity math is really wrong unless you plan to live hundreds of years.
Just curious, thought of doing something like this for my company too, how long did this take and who did you have to go to to get this approved for public consumption?
That's absolutely true. A severe limitation of Modelica's type system is that you cannot constrain your modeling domain to something that is always solvable, or at least analyzable. You cannot, for instance, limit yourself to linear equations. In my opinion it would be the library author's responsibility to constrain the usage of their models in a way that prevents typical modeling errors (as in your example, the switch).
I can only assume the only remaining reason why people even still want traditional TV is live sports.

Stuff might finally be happening. I can‘t wait for Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, etc. to just come in and start getting those licenses. Imagine a FIFA world cup on YouTube live-streamed in 4K. Granted, it‘s unlikely to happen soon. But sports is really the only valuable thing the traditional content providers still have.

Wait a minute, though. AT&T and NBC both have have their own streaming services now. So why wouldn‘t they use their sports licenses to stream games on there?
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FWIW, your particular example is doable with vanilla Vim with the same efficiency (with less strain)

V<count>j (3)
:'<,'>norm A, (8 - The angular brackets are automatically added by vim)

Vs

qq (2)
A,<ESC> (3)
q (1)
V<count>j (3)
<CTRL><Space> (2)
Seems like DuckDuckGo is blocked in India
Anti-bundling rants based on subsidizing unwanted channels are illogical. You're annoyed at paying for cable channels you don't watch but OK paying full freight for Netflix where you'll watch less than 5% of the available content? You're subsidizing the other 95%! Or that a-la-carte channel you want, you won't be watching it 24 hours per day so why subsidize programming that's on when you're sleeping or at work? Do you listen to every genre on Spotify? Use every machine at your gym? Drive on every road in your town? Read every article in the local newspaper (if your town still prints one)? Refuse to subsidize! Demand some money back!

Its not unbundling you really want, or a-la-carte, it's just a lower price tag.
It is small group of people isolated from rest of society. If you notice her points, none of them is about being alone and all of them are about being away from rest of us.
> the PGP word list covers just 2 bits per word

huh? no, it covers 8 bits per word, just a bit less than yours (6 vs 8 words per 64 bits)
something everyone should have done about 4 years ago (at least).
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The French translation of the website is really hard to read
You are the only one talking about vegetarianism.

It's fairly obvious that from the traditionalist point of view of the poster's friend a Brahmin is expected to care more than inferior people from no-good castes about religious and semi-religious precepts like not eating lard (to avoid eating inappropriate animals, not because lard isn't vegetarian).
"using a less "powerful" (non-IDE) editor helps you write better code"

When you see what influential programmers use, its clear that a disproportionate number of them are on vim/emacs.
This article is very far from truth. The Karen stereotype started and continues solely because there are tons of obnoxious, entitled people who just like to make other people miserable for no reason.

Just watch a few of the thousands of videos of someone making a scene because they don't want to wear a face mask or don't like when a 7 yo kid makes a chalk drawing on the street.

The trend is driven by these people's antisocial behaviour and I don't see anything wrong in condemning those acts.

BTW, the term Karen is also widely used to refer to men who act this way. It is not directed exclusively against women.
not sure if totally accurate but if it is then it serves the rest of the world right for playing nice with the US while the US screws them over anytime it is convenient
Nit: Hindi is a language, a Hindu is a person who practices Hinduism
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Twitter doesn’t help finding out the misunderstanding and do a reset, you have arguments/counter-arguments spread between thousands of messages with no overview of what is being said, what are the core ideas being discussed.
Well, cancel culture is like a superpower for these social science professors and "thought" leaders, who otherwise might not have much klout or academic prestige. Of course they will use it liberally.

It's a kind of anti intellectualism, and ironically largely university funded.
Is there a project that shows which portions of the sky are currently viewed by which telescopes?

Also, how can researchers request/rent usage of telescopes (especially satellite-based ones)?
If you won't or can't get medical care due to covid and die from your lack of medical care I'd say it's fair to say that you died because of covid.
Just feel the urge to mention cscope which is ctags on steroids
I dont shake hands with colleges and have literally zero physical contact with them and they have zero physical contact with each other. I found the one person who did various physical contacts uncomfortable to be around.
> It requires nuance to understand how deeply and yet subtly embedded caste is in India

And this is the nuance I'm talking about. I understand vegetarianism definitely has positive connotations in India, but it's rarely about caste, which is what we're looking at here.

There's a lot of different opinions in a country of a billion people, but just labeling it as caste isn't going to do any of it favors.

> It’s not a light subject

None of it is. It's not fun being a vegetarian in the States; doesn't mean people have ostracized vegetarianism because they love their meat burgers. Two different things here, we can't get to the root of things if we don't parse them properly.
You don't have to go back to 1918.

1957 - 1958 pandemic estimated to have killed ~1.1 million people worldwide: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemi...

1968 pandemic estimated to have killed 1 million worldwide: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.htm...

I think of SARS & MERS as near-misses. They could've been a lot worse if the viruses were just a bit more contagious. Overall, it seems like some form of pandemic could be expected at least every 25 years or so, on average! I also wonder if this might be increasing in frequency as the world population grows & global travel becomes ever more common.

I think covid has been handled exceptionally poorly at every turn. Globally, we need to get a lot better at handling something like this. As bad as some viruses have been, it's not difficult to imagine even worse ones if a parameter or two were tweaked.
I am sorry that you had to face it.

> how hindu society openly supports and promotes it

My 'high class' friends always bring up their caste even when it is not related at all.

'in Bramhins we don't do x'm 'In us Rajputs, we don't do x'

They can easily say, 'I am a veg or I dont' drink or my family is xyz'. But no. their caste _has_ to come up.

A friend of mine had asked one of her friends who used to do this: 'okay, we get it that you are a Bramhin, there is no need to bring it up in every other sentence.' She was shell shocked and never ever did I hear her say "oh we Bramhins we do xyz".
A lighthearted example: https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/01/12/how-we-accidentally-made...
Not sure why they down-vote you, you didn't said anything about 'free' healthcare, and you are absolute right, the 'customer' does not see much of those layers, but ask any Healthcare-worker that has to work with insurance...they can tell you story's!
Thank you for kind words.
Regarding learning, basics are out there on the Internet but it all required a lot of testing, so yes, trial and error approach.
Depends. The manager can always turn around and come after you, and usually managers have more investment put into them so if you look at it from just a numerical perspective it might be worse to do so.
I am an Indian and here is my perspective.

A significant portion of Indian smartphone users are not technically literate. Lot of shady adware developed in China is ubiquitous in India, due to inertia and network effects, as well as lack of awareness about security / permissions given to apps etc..

For example, that file sharing application called ShareIt. That's a piece of shit. But people used it and if you wanted to share some movie / song / something like that with other people, you would've needed that crap. I have refused to use such adware since an year and it worked for me because content I consume was different, there was cheap Jio internet and I didn't need to share much files with others. The technically educated of us used Google Files or Xender which were better than ShareIt. And most people don't own PC/Laptop thus Pendrives are out of question.

Similarly people used browsers like UC browser without concerns, because they didn't know better.

Now there is friction between China and India, the ubiquity of Chinese apps is a threat, and Govt. has taken right step. But more stuff needs to be banned, and the danger needs to be clearly communicated instead of a blanket ban, which leads people to think it is just an act of patriotism.
Either using shift keys or:

type_a_constant ctrl-[ vawU

That sounds more than it is. Really I just touch type it without thinking consciously about it.

Probably don’t even need visual mode that’s just how I work.
I think the point is that almost 20 apps 'got caught' reading the clipboard but people are only singling out TikTok because it's Chinese.
macOS, being an operating system does not have spreadsheet. If you looking for a spreadsheet on macOS, Microsoft Office is available and provides Excel.
American taxpayers contributed at least $70m to the development of this drug[0] and our reward is to be gouged by Gilead. It's the exact same shit they've pulled with Truvada[1] and it's grotesque.

[0]: https://www.citizen.org/article/the-real-story-of-remdesivir...
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/prep-hiv-aids-dru...
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Couldn't people just change their last name? I imagine if suddenly everyone's last name was Gupta, that kind of discrimination would become difficult.
Thanks! I knew there had to be something wrong in there!
Unless you piss them off and become their target
And it wasn't profitable then, either.
There was nothing unpredictable about this. In 2013 I got handed a copy of a book called 'Spillover, Animal infections and the next pandemic' by David Quammen.

It was pretty much a storyboard for how COVD-19 (and other) diseases come into play and spread around the world. Totally predictable, in excruciating detail.

https://books.google.nl/books/about/Spillover_Animal_Infecti...
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Email is an enormous market with probably thousands of use cases. I share his perspective that email (for the most part) isn't broken FOR ME. B/c the way I use email is pretty straightforward, it's basically another messaging platform for my life. But I have a ton of friends that would kill for better email clients b/c they have different use cases. And instead of killing, they are paying for Superhuman, Hey, Front, etc. I always appreciate a different perspective, that was an insightful read, thanks for sharing.
It says its open source, but the only link to this in the faq says you should "get access" to the source via some developers circle(?) which goes to an apache "it works" page
I have heard a few people with speech disorders when validating clips. I also recall some discussion of it in the discord or issue tracker. At the moment it is entirely up to people to encourage people with voice or speech disorders to submit. So long as they meet the validation criteria they will be included. I can't see a flag in the user profile for recording a disorder, so it's not likely you can filter just these recordings from the data.
The videos of 3blue1brown are very good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDu9oVAE-g
This just sounds like a nightmare to me. I can't stand it when I have a terminal program with an unseeable list of files/panes that have to be opaquely navigated through. I very much want to be one of those vim/emacs ninjas but I just don't see how this is more ergonomic than Jetbrains where any file - not just 'open' ones - is readily available with all sorts of search methods with a single shortcut. And then I can visually see what files I'm working with instead of groping around through one file at a time in the dark.
Not always. As I mentioned, an American (not of Indian origin, and presumably without thinking about caste) warned me about rennet when he knew I was a vegetarian. Please don't misunderstand my words.

I talk about vegetarianism because the GP talked about it through the lens of caste, and I stated that I thought otherwise.
What do you mean? One of the points of government funded health care is that you get rid of several layers of needless indirection and profiteering. You basically vertically integrate a big chunk of the industry and have it work together to minimize overall costs instead of maximize profit of each individual component.
Still a good value. Comparable cable service in our area still hovers around $95/month, plus this has better recording and works on many devices (simultaneously!). We've had it for two years and no complaints -- we recommend it.
Would moving the standup to sometime where you are naturally interrupted, e.g. just before or after lunch, work better for you or is it the nature of the standup itself that's the problem?
There must be a thousand ways to codify their stated objective 'to help as many people as possible', but I can't imagine why you'd think a completely flat pricing structure would be optimal for any of them.
Really depends; some people have personal sites all about a specific niche. If I have no interest in that area then it shouldn't be interesting, but oftentimes the passion comes across and the sheer enthusiasm makes it interesting.

Mostly I click on random "personal" sites either because I want to learn about that specific individual, or because of a google-search.

So I'd say it would be nice to see a picture, or have an "overview" or "about Bob" page, to give a little summary.

But at the end of the day you decide what you want to write, share, post, or create.

For what its worth my own site has some mixed content, but generally it's about software, security, and making my own hardware. https://steve.fi/
Maybe not for her. Seems her education is actually electrical engineering for some reason, and her Wikipedia page lists no record of AI research achievement beyond racial/sociological stuff. If she accepted that the USA/AI isn't filled with racism she'd presumably have to go back to signal processing.
IQ isn't the point though. I'm not a huge fan of IQ specifically either. Your original objection was intrinsic to the idea of detecting things from faces. These objections are to the quality of the measures. I'm not going to defend IQ as a useful measure, because it has a ton of problems and that's not my point here.

> If the evaluation function is flawed (which is essentially your contention, and which I absolutely agree with), the trained model will exhibit biases that reflect the flaws of the evaluation function. An ML model isn't suddenly going to solve the cultural issues we have with measuring IQ. It will encode the same biases that society does, because the model will try as hard as it can to do exactly what the human proctors would have done.

Of course. But so what? There are people using IQ now for things. An ML model isn't going to magically make those biases worse, either. What it's going to do is bring them to the surface, so that they are quantifiable and we can actually do something about them.

ML is the solution to the bias problem. Right now these evaluations are being made by other humans. Humans who we cannot statistically debias. Humans who's biases we can't even effectively interrogate. The reason people are making all these memes about biased AI is not that it's more biased than humans, it's that the bias is more measurable.
unfortunately facts wont stop the agenda
Well this is a contrived example. But the fact is that all datasets contain the full biases of the world that created them. So there is no "unbiased" dataset... meaning that powerful AI amplifies the world as it is, rather than a designed point of view of how the world should be. That's fine in some cases (e.g. tumor detection in X Rays -- the combined judgments of thousands of surgeons might truly reflect how we want to treat a patient) but may not be better in other cases (the combined judgments of thousands of police officers may NOT be how we want to treat a suspect).
Such a great point. It made me laugh. And cry.
>What on Earth are you talking about? Crimean Tatars are doing better than ever with Russia resolving land issues in their favor.

Just as someone having direct access to opinions of Crimean Tatars I can assure everyone that Crimean Tatars do not share his(gdy) view. They are politically prosecuted with false charges for terrorism.People disappear and they experience all kinds of state abuses.
Sample of their protest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKUSWWLx1GU&t=23s

Therefore I consider his comment as nothing more than propaganda lie.
> I assume they are still making a profit selling doses at low costs to developing countries.

Why would you assume that, instead of assuming that the high prices in the developed world are subsidizing losses elsewhere? (Or, at least, that they are amortizing R&D costs with the prices in the developed world, and doing so allows them to make a profit selling more of it above the marginal cost of producing more.)
A better example would be casting for a film. You can definitely cast only Aryan men for a Nazi role. That would be reasonable and the law permits that. Generally speaking cases of discrimination are settled in court and judges have the latitude to, well, judge.
Lots of unchecked rampant generalizing and evidence-free racism from new accounts in this thread towards Hindus and Indians.

So now anecdotes spilling vitriol are allowed?
In the UK we pay a fraction of what companies in the US do. See also, our nightmarish trade negotiations with the US: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/01/nhs-drugs-b...

Not a scholarly article, intentionally. I wanted to give a flavour of the existential (to our health system) nature of the problem of US style drug pricing.

There's also the small matter of pricing varying highly by country. Another more emotive example: https://www.drugwatch.com/featured/us-drug-prices-higher-vs-...

See also: https://www.drugwatch.com/featured/us-drug-prices-higher-vs-...

So actually, it is substantially better in Europe.
You may enjoy reading "The World Until Yesterday" by Jared Diamond.
We (https://obvious.in) documented our entire hiring process on our Playbook (https://playbook.obvious.in/hiring/hiring-process/engineerin...).

Took us about a week to write everything down the first time and then we continuously updated it until it reached the current state.

We had the advantage of being a "public by default" company, so there was no need for approvals of any sort.
They definitely charge people to use maps... A lot.
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I prefer Ctrl on Caps Lock and Escape on the original Ctrl. Works pretty well too.
No. Pandemics keep happening repeatedly and based on the past ~100 years, you'd be inclined to say that the frequency may be increasing: 1918, HIV, 1957, 1968, 2020. (and particularly so if you factor in the near-misses: SARS and MERS)
Corporations are bad, but that doesn't distract from two very distinct facts:

1. We let corporations do this to us. The cult of profit over all else is why all of those things you mention are an issue. As long as we keep removing regulations, laws and things that were put into place to stop companies from doing this shit, what can we honestly expect?

2. There are many things we've done which are not the result of corporations but rather our own narcissistic drive for fake freedoms above all else. The people refusing to wear masks for example or practice basic preventative measures against pandemics are not doing so because of businesses and media corps telling them to stop. They're doing so because of pervasive behavior which has infected the national debate and is peddled by elected officials. This won't change until people stand face to face with the results of their actions and unfortunately in a pandemic that means mass death.

Our general reaction to the coronavirus convinced me that we're lucky it's not far, far deadlier. Because if we had to stare down a virus that would threaten our extinction, we'd choose extinction.