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This is a problem with the recent social movements -- and you can even listen to Dave Chappelle offer this criticism: the people who may be right may be entitled to be offended, but the way they're going about it is not going to help the cause.

It is not good, when anyone who offers even a little bit of truth or reasonableness during a discussion is struck down as the enemy and attacked instantly by the vehemence of someone's offense.

If the successful chief scientist of a huge company can be taken down by forces such as this, while speaking truthful statements, what is the likelihood if I were a lowly junior researcher, I would dare voice an opinion or participate in the discussion? Or after a while, seeing what happens to such people, want to help?

Fear and exclusionary self-righteousness are not the way to win a social struggle. History shows that success comes from making more and more people feel they are a part of the solution -- not making them fear to open their mouths.
Especially if, in the end, we each still stand alone in the voting booth and pull the lever based on how we've been made to feel.
That's why guilds exist in videogames. You are surrounded by the same people every day just like at a physical company.
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> How many years of normalizing and internalizing the utter insanity that is the US medical industrial complex does it take to be able to just say that with a straight face?

I hate to tell you, but it's not better in Europe just because the racket is obfuscated by several more layers.
A civil engineer should be able to do that (or decline to do it if they can not) and that's why it is their job and not the geologist's job to build the bridge. Research != engineering.
e.g.

https://consumerist.com/2008/12/22/amex-lowers-your-credit-l...

Capital One has admitted doing the same, as well as a number of other lenders.

There's been analyses done since, that show that when controlled for all other variables in credit reports, credit issuers issue less credit to blacks.. e.g. Cohen-Cole, 2011, Credit Card Redlining, Review of Economics and Statistics
Also, regular commuters would typically buy travelcard, and pay a flat monthly rate for unlimited number of rides.
If Bagger 288 tries to drive across a footbridge that's not really the engineer's fault.

Although while everyone intuitively understands the load bearing capacity of a footbridge, not many understand the capabilities of ML models. So perhaps better advertising the capabilities of AI would help inform decisions.

On the other hand, nothing an engineer or scientist can do will stop the Chinese government from using their technology to predict and suppress dissidents and minorities.
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I share your belief that it will change a lot, but I'm less fearful about it. I believe that quite a bit of traditions and "how we do things" are mostly there because that's how it was done, not because they are still what people want. A major disruption makes that more obvious and asks the question whether we still want it the way it was before.

Maybe we don't want e.g. theaters any more. They've had declining audiences for quite a while and are, at least over here, heavily subsidized by the government. That money could also be used on other things that more people care for. Starting anew isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I guess that's the point of Graal VM, right?
> I'm not convinced that being true redeems any and every statement.

What does that mean?
It's not 1:1, but there's a clear correlation. To caricature a bit, the Brahmins at the top of the hierarchy can afford to have an elaborate "pure" vegetarian diet with lots of ghee etc (the Jains, mentioned earlier, even exclude root vegetables that would kill the plant), somewhere around the middle of the pile you start eating animals because you need to get your protein where you can, and at the very bottom are the outcastes who do the dirty jobs like butchering animals.
It’s just odd that they bothered getting into this space in the first place and that they used their YouTube brand for this - “YouTube” was meant to disrupt and subvert established television, not become a part of it.

I guess Google’s thinking was that the data about what people are watching was worth something which would allow them to extract higher ad revenue from TV-provider-ad-inserts as they’d be more targeted than the general-audience ads you get with traditional cable/satellite TV - but Sling and PS Vue have the same proposition to advertisers.
They say the goal is to help as many people as possible, and that this principle has guided their development and pricing of the drug.

How do they reconcile this principle with the huge price difference between the USA and the rest of the world? Or between the developed world and the developing world?

I assume they are still making a profit selling doses at low costs to developing countries. If the goal is to help as many people like they say, why not extend that pricing to everyone?

It’s disappointing that taxpayers fund the development of these drugs and then get screwed by the same companies when it comes time to make a profit.
Any asymmetric activity involving a moderate amount of exertion and repeated regularly would create a difference in strength between the sides of the body, so this could actually be an explanation. ;)
I read with horror once here that in some places in the US, AI is used to grade pupils exams in the form of long-form essays.

AI in its current form should not be used ANYWHERE as the default arbiter where human accountability is needed. Like in grading an exam, or in dishing out a court sentence. That is a pretty obvious thing, but most people are immune to understanding obvious things, especially if it doesn't fit their agenda.
> He's also very careful to stay politically neutral about every issue he touches upon.

It's worth noting that the most effective propaganda is the kind that convinces you it's "neutral."
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I think parent means that it's not racism and that there are similar activity based segregation rules within the same family living in the same house
same reason that makes notepad, internet explorer popular
Plenty of mutations are already produced by faulty copying. This is how viruses mutate. An early organism would have very error-prone RNA copying. How would the cosmic rays, producing a tiny effect on top of this, be relevant at all? The author fails to explain this. The secret to chirality might simply be chance: once the machinery is running it can only understand its own chirality.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...

The IP apologists have successfully lodged a massive noncentral fallacy of “unauthorized information copying = theft.” As anyone with a gram of brains can see, the force of direct arguments against piracy is much less about their consequences and instead focuses on just putting piracy in the category of theft. Categories though are but arbitrary social constructs used as a shortcut in thinking.
If anything, the star certainly looks like a perfect candidate to go supernova…
I saw it speculated that one of the reasons children are more resistant to COVID-19 is that they have strong immune systems due to the constant challenge of new viruses they are exposed to at school. But now they aren't at school.
Yep, neovim, coc and fzf has made me really productive in vim lately. After years of vim I was tempted to use VS Code until I found out about coc.
I'd imagine that such a completion would take long enough that we'd see it dimming (maybe irregularly) first. Then again I'd have thought so would a star collapsing...
Do you have a randomized clinical trial comparing the two treatments?
I imagine the free plan also doubles as a trial for a paid subscription. Moving issue trackers can be a hassle, so having unlimited time to test out the workflow and features for a small team or project makes good sense, and if you decide to switch it should be easy enough to upgrade.
So just to be clear:

1. You are taking money directly from customers
2. To serve content that you do not have the right to sell access to.

> If we had paying subscribers that were reading your content and we reached out to you

That sounds like a lot of ifs. It sounds like you're making money directly off access to my content which makes me deeply uncomfortable. If you reach out to me, and you're unsuccessful in contacting me, you're still making money directly off my content whether I chose to monetize it or not.
Yes, and there is a good argument that such deaths are COVID-related, even though the virus itself didn’t infect the person. This is one of the reasons that “excess deaths” is a compelling measure.
Unlikely. It's going to be a restricted permission on Google Play, which means the application must have a good reason to use it. Specifics will be provided later, but I'm pretty sure a mobile game won't have a reason to use this permission.

> Note: The MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission allows apps to access potentially sensitive data on shared storage. In an upcoming policy announcement, look for Google Play to provide guidelines for apps that need this permission.
They’re releasing for the general audience. Not targeting larger companies/governments/hospitals.

If people keep downloading and installing, the fact that it’s only $50 makes it easier to justify and pay.

Most people don’t keep backups. Every time I had someone close call me about a phone they lost access to and if there was anything they could do for their pictures, the only thing you could say is, do you have backups? Then direct them to someone who could mess with their hardware (if they still had it) and see what they could do.

If it was a screen, they’d pay to get it replace. If it was a sketchy soldering job, they’d risk it just to get their photos, same with transferring boards, etc. If it was just paying $50 bucks, I know a ton of people that would spend they money and probably like 80% of them would then keep using their phones without backing it up.
On a Mac at least, ctrl+n/p/b/f/a/e all navigate text without reaching for the arrows, with the added benefit they work in every application. I quit vim because I prefer using a smaller but universal set of navigation that works everywhere from Xcode to VS code to the terminal or typing in Chrome.
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> "but but communist evil"

Noone told that. CCP is not even communism.

Chinese apps collect a fucking lot of data and Indian People innocently use those shit apps like ShareIt because inertia and maybe network effects. If you want to share a movie / song something with an ordinary indian citizen you'd have needed ShareIt which is a piece of shit. Technical ones among us use Google Files or something like that but I have so far refused to use ShareIt because it is such shady adware. Note that most Indians don't have Laptop / PC and USB / Pendrives aren't ubiquitous.

Now that there is some friction between China and India and given the nature of Chinese Governance these apps are threat to national security.

Ideally they could have banned PUBG also, the shit is ruining many lives.
Interestingly, the 4 equations shown in the article are due to Oliver Heaviside [1]. Maxwell came up with 20 equations, which captured electromagnetism. But it was... rather unwieldy.
Heaviside reformulated that into 4 equations. Basically, Maxwell managed the breakthrough and Heaviside cleaned up after him and made it palatable.

Why is that interesting? Because it raises the question: is the analogy made in the article more akin to Maxwell (breakthrough, brilliant but close to unusable), or is it more akin to Heaviside (taking known concepts and making them usable in practice)?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
Which gives me pause. German speaking countries have a wide range of dialects, even regional. I am able to tell a guy from Vienna from someone from Tyrol. Upper Bavaria from Lower Bavaria, Berlin from Hamburg. There are older people who can tell from Bavarian county and which mountain valley you are. The latter becoming more difficult, so, with people moving around. Just imagining to use these differences to discriminate people gives me the chills, because it would so damn easy to do. And also, at least superficially, maybe even legal.
It was in Europe months before it was detected in China.

Seems pretty inevitable that it would have spread.
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Nitpicking: If they build the weapons, they aren’t the researchers but the engineers.
It's both. JIRA can often be terribly slow. Each page loads about 10 seconds for me, and I don't know why. Other people say it is ~2s for them. I suspect it has something to do with networking and amount of requests being made, etc.

Then, on top of it the flows in Jira can be super slow, which is another story.
> Mindbogglingly stupid on WHO's part.

WHO is front organisations for a gaggle of medical professionals who between them have a lot of different opinions on the effectiveness of face masks. At the top sits a politician of sorts who job it is to seek a consensus on various topics. His job is comparable to asking computer professional to canvas Hacker News for the consensus position on which is better: react or vue, and report back to the masses on what they should use.

Translation: right now asking for the consensus opinion of the medical fraternity on face masks is asking for something that doesn't exist. Come back in a few years time.
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> Go down 5 lines

Look at the beginning of a target line, remember the number (takes up a slot in our limited short-term memory), switch to command mode, type the command.

vs

Hold/mash "down" button until cursor is there.

After watching a few vim coding screen-casts I have the impression that the second way is more popular in vim too.
Not the OP, but I also share the same opinion.

- OS Frameworks are not designed for the next year's IO, rebooting last years best practices, rather have long term roadmaps.

- The build system has stayed mostly the same, instead of having had multiple reboots

- C and C++ are integrated with the rest of tooling instead of feeling like an burden that has to be supported to keep game devs happy

- Everything that matters on iOS development is available in XCode, instead of being a mix of Studio templates, stuff dropped in Github that we are supposed to build ourselves and apparently official APIs (e.g. Oboe, Vulkan)

- Back to frameworks, while iOS offers high level frameworks for common workflows, Android offers Lego blocks that everyone fits in different ways with lengthy discussions on what is good Android code, MVP and whatever is the fad of the month on /r/androiddev

- When Apple does game development sessions, they actually talk about game development tech and do provide related tooling, Google talks about Play Store console and advertising for gamers. Notice that main GDC 2020 theme for the Google talks was to try to show that they are listing and trying to change, pity it came 10 years later.

- Most APIs in iOS seem to have had some though placed into them, in Android you have stuff like Animations that have had multiple instantiations, or others that have deprecated stuff even before reaching a proper release.

- When Google decided to drop Eclipse they had nothing to offer for NDK devs, almost two years later JetBrains decided to create CLion and then they had a solution. Otherwise most likely there still wouldn't exist an alternative to this day.
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So the main benefit of being able to vote for judges is that you can vote against one who is doing something that wouldn’t be allowed in a sane system anyway, by voting for one who did the same thing just with groups you don’t disapprove of...?
Because fixed costs such as building rent, maintenance and such will continue. Those are substantial amounts for any venue of note.
Vegetarian is a huge identity marker. Quote from a professor from my college to my then girlfriend about me - “I wish he was at least a vegetarian”. I happen to be a vegan now and I have a lighter complexion and I clearly get assumed to be “upper caste” and somehow “smart” goes along with it.

Answering to GP above - I don’t mind talking about it but some bar conversations have opened with it. That’s not pleasant. It’s not a light subject. It’s like me opening with some light chat about racism in America. It requires nuance to understand how deeply and yet subtly embedded caste is in India. You can’t get a house for rent in certain neighbourhoods of even major metros. It’s the reason I don’t use a last name at all. Not even legally. If people shun the practice of disclosing the caste it’ll one day disappear. But that’s not going to happen anytime soon.
What this letter did not address is the fact that the US is hoarding almost all of Gilead's Remdesivir in the upcoming few months. Leaving the rest of the world with almost nothing.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/us-buys-up-w...
If the images are all black and white, why not train in a two tone, or greyscale colour space?
At the time you posted this, it was late evening / overnight.

Most programming is on earlier.
That’s me. I’ve been subscribing to Netflix for 7 years now despite not having watched it at all in 4 years.

I only have YouTubeTV because it’s still the cheapest way to get the BBC World News channel in the US. I used to have DirecTV but they started demanding $130/mo (without the sports channels!) minimum to get that channel - while my local cableco (Wave) doesn’t carry it at all.

I understand the bundling of channels from the same providers like Viacom and NBC/Universal that forces cable/sat customers onto higher pricing tiers, but channels like the BBC World News channel are sourced individually (as far as I know) and are offered at-cost (again, as far as I know) by cableco/sat providers - so there is absolutely no excuse for DirecTV to charge so much besides market segmentation (which they’re probably right on-the-money for (pun intended): the people interested in getting the BBC World News channel probably can afford $130/mo - and they’re right: I can afford it, but I still think it’s outrageous.
I would be interested to see more explanation for why cosmic rays turn out to have a specific chirality-preference, and the actual proportion to which they do. The article seems very light on information on that point.
There's no point in comparing them, in my opinion. VS Code is a tool for programming; I would call it an IDE but I 'm not very familiar with the app. Vim is still "just an editor". You can still use it for programming (not just coding bash scripts), but that's making your life harder than it needs to be.
In my experience the amazing text editing features of vim are only very rarely useful in a software developer's work. I feel the same about multiline editing though.
And Vim has amazing text editing features, but severely lacking code editing features.
Religious flamewar is not allowed here. Please don't post it.

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If you were an Iraqi, yes, it was really that bad.
If you're unhappy that people don't like free software, have you tried donating more money and contributing more to those projects so that they'll improve and people will like them more?
Remdesivir: US buys up almost entire world supply of coronavirus drug
I’m not certain it matters. The hydroxychloroquine paper was retracted: that’s not a great sign for it’s effectiveness as a treatment.
I guess I see your view and my view as two sides of the same coin - that “research ethics” is different from “application ethics”. I inferred that view from the following exchange:

Twitter user: “ML researchers need to be more careful selecting their data so that they don't encode biases like this.”

YLC: “Not so much ML researchers but ML engineers. The consequences of bias are considerably more dire in a deployed product than in an academic paper.”

Perhaps I’m wrong. That’s the whole problem with Twitter though - you can’t convey much nuance or sophistication in 140 characters.
Map caps to ctrl and you can get access to a world of convenient insert mode shortcuts.

ctrl-[ (for right hand) or ctr-3 (left hand, thanks teddyh) => escape

ctrl-i => tab

ctrl-h => backspace

ctrl-m => return

ctrl-w => delete prev word

ctrl-u => clear line

ctrl-o => cmd mode for 1 cmd

...and many, many more, including all the completion options.
Yes well if we want to go all Veblen, we can see that throughout the world, not just India.

But let us be real here, there are a lot of people in poverty following vegetarian diets, especially because meat doesn't always come cheap in India, and dal/milk relatively are. Some follow it because they were raised in a vegetarian culture. Some do it because they dislike the thought of eating animals.

Brahmins aren't always rich/powerful, and the "lower castes" aren't always that hard off, and this has been the case throughout history.

Some of my friends my well-to-do friends eat meat (sometimes including beef) just fine, some don't. Same with people from different socio-economic levels. This just doesn't reflect reality any more.