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I don't understand why governments haven't made the contracts and guarantees to ensure increased global production over the long-term (not just for Covid-19). We're going to need a much higher rate of production for years to come, yet everybody keeps thinking "Next month! It'll all be over next month!". I'm tired of this shit, and I'm tired of governments thinking so short-sightedly. The EU alone could make a huge difference in this area, but they're so unwilling to actually effect positive change in the world by using their position as a unified region.
A Voice for Nature: The Whanganui River in New Zealand Is a Legal Person (2019)
How $400/wk unemployment will affect the economy
Just read the same in Wikipedia. This is extremely strange. Harrods bag and Mars candy in 1985 Moscow would be a telltale the size of Kremlin tower. Kutuzovsky avenue was a KGB owned turf, lots of Communist apparatchik lived there, including late Secretary General Brezhnev.

It reminds me a joke about Soviet spy arriving in Berlin and caughting stares from everyone around. What's wrong with my cover? Is something gives me out? Maybe it is a parachute? Or AK-47? Ah, it should be blue Slavic eyes! And he wears a sunglasses just in case.
Just to be clear, none of what I wrote is legal advice and I would never recommend avoiding legal representation. My point wasn’t that you should avoid it, my point was that in America you often don’t have any choice but to retain counsel, even when you know your own counsel are just additional parties to the game of robbing you.

> But luckily, there's a fairly good alternative -- in-house counsel. If your lawyer is on your payroll, they have zero incentive to do anything extraneous.

This sounds like a good way for companies to mitigate the issue of perverse incentives, but how can individuals benefit from this?
I did read it. It doesn't explain anything. I still have no idea what it is.
Just a friendly outside view that maybe it's their house and you could just assume you are talking in a public space if that fits your worldview.

Otherwise you may not want to talk to them on the phone if they are using android phones and should ban them from discussing anything you talked about while you were there after you're gone and they plug devices back in.
True, but it's hard to imagine a developer accidentally buying a domain that had previously been used by an unrelated developer and wanting to release packages under the same namespace.
How could you tell it slowed down?

You must be just as friendly in person as online if you are one of the few people ever to have an Apple store employee not go the extra mile for you.
I used a library called swiper.js for the heavy lifting. The rest is plain js
> It sounds like your fourth paragraph is exactly what Auden was disagreeing with.

True, but Auden wrote his paragraph in the context of a different information technology environment.

Today, say artist X puts out objectionable content Y and harmless content Z. You could argue that consuming Z is all fine and dandy (side-stepping questions of whether financially supporting X is a good idea) because you are not supporting Y.

But the giant AI neural net models around us aren't so smart. The more views Y gets, the more it starts suggesting Z to other people. In a world where simply consuming a work also literally boosts its signal and the signals of all other works by that artist, the question of whether a non-offense of work should be shunned takes on a very different character.
Why do we use cross entropy and mean squared error?
It is not the irony. The core idea of GPL is to fight proprietary software with its own weapon.

Also, I think that you misunderstand the GPL terms. The aggrieved party in this hypothetical case is not the original author, it is the buyer of this modified software, whose rights to four essential freedoms [1] would be violated. These violations have a very real material cost.

BTw, it is common for people to believe that GPL requires publishing source codes on the Internet. It is not so. The requirement is to provide the user of a program source codes, so he can exercise the guaranteed freedoms. You can do it in any suitable form, publishing code is just the most convenient way to do it, but not mandatory.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
The scene with the women walking past holding the dead pigeon really flipped me out.
If your microservice only updates billing details on a dynamodb table, it'll never be vulnerable to having someone take over it and stealing all the data from it.

It's what I call a micro level permission. The principal/actor can only write to one resource.

Where places get it wrong is when their application writes to dynamodb, reads from S3, does a scan on another table etc. It leads Devs to making overly permissive permissions while they debug why their app isn't working like it use to.
Poplog was a 1980's integration of a Prolog, Common Lisp, C-like POP-11, and SML. Regrettably, it's academic authors had commercial dreams, which seemingly neutered the transformative impact I thought it might then have had.
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Hospitals aren’t full but rather empty.

My wife is an ICU nurse. Her hospital on a regular day last year had 19 ICU beds, with half of them occupied at any given time. These are beds for patients who require level 2 or 3 support...basically constant monitoring by a nurse with specialized training, and support for respiratory or 2 or more failing organ systems. Not all nurses are certified for this level of care (CCRN certification), and there is a limit to the amount of equipment needed for a bed on this floor (you've heard of ventilator shortages).

Fast forward to today. Her hospital expanded from 19 beds that used to be 50% utilized to 38 beds that are 95% utilized. That leaves only 2 open beds in the ICU. So if 10 people get hospitalized for COVID-19, and 3 of them have to go to the ICU, 1 will have to be transferred to another hospital. The rest of the hospital is pretty empty. The elective surgery clinic, allergy clinic, hearing clinic, orthopedic clinic...these are all closed. The emergency department is also open. So a hospital that normally has a few hundred beds seems empty, but the ICU that normally has 10 patients has more than triple that. It is a contradiction that the hospital is both empty and over capacity at the same time.
After posting that I kept digging and got slightly different numbers. Annual milk consumption from Wikipedia is just over 600lb per year in the US, where another source listed 500 lb (Might be milk vs milk + dairy products or an approximation?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_milk_cons...

For total milk production from Wikipedia “ The United States dairy herd produced 84.2 billion kilograms (185.7 billion pounds) of milk in 2007” https://www.statista.com/statistics/194302/number-of-beef-an.... Lists numbers of beef and dairy cows.

185.7 billion lb / 9.4 million cows = ~20,000 lb per year * ~5 year lifespan ~100k lb. https://albertamilk.com/ask-dairy-farmer/how-long-does-the-a... However, I am not sure it’s a clear comparison as this may be excluding calf’s from these counts. Which would drop lifetime production closer to 60,000lb and better line up with other sources.

https://extension.sdstate.edu/how-much-meat-can-you-expect-f... Suggest a typical cow at 490 lb of beef and this https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/st... gives annual beef consumption of 58.1 lb beef per person per year (2019).

PS: Of note dairy cows are also consumed for meat, though generally of lower quality. Which further muddles the issue suggesting that reducing milk consumption might simply increase the number of beef cattle ~1:1 to compensate.
Since almost everyone mentioned some form of listening, I will add this: dare to laugh. A lot. It's so relaxing and nice to spend time with people that realize that when you're socializing it's one of the rare and almost sacred times when we can just goof around and have fun. Having a laugh ready to fire off will spread like wildfire in a circle of people you're interacting with. You might feel that it's contrived at first, but then after 30 minutes you'll laugh genuinely along with everyone else and people in that circle will loosen up immensely. I don't know why we're so conditioned to have small talk at hand whenever, but a laugh at hand at whenever is almost unheard of. I dunno, I might live in a boring country.
The Amiga didn't age well.

It was dramatically better than other computers at multimedia when it first came out, but that didn't last.

I remember programming planar graphics for the EGA, and it was tricky. HAM mode on the Amiga was kinda cool but I'd hate to have to code for it. If you look at the WDDM/Wayland/Programmable Shader model of programming today it vastly better.

In the 1980s there were many computer vendors who got on the 68k train but they all got off because Motorola gave up on it. Apple, Sun, and some others switched to RISC architectures. Quite a few others went out of business.
I would say that up until 1990 or so, anything GMO from the lab was more similar to modern wheat than modern wheat is to ancient wild wheat. Since then we have gotten better at genetic editing, and we probably will see things in the field shortly that actually deserve the name "frankenfood" but it bothers me that people have used such a broad brush for GMOs while simultaneously ignoring the fact that humans have been modifying our crops for as long as we've been growing them.
We don't consider brushing your teeth theft either by the way.
You see similar constructs in about any system where the system both touches multiple addresses in a single instruction, and can take an interrupt somewhere in the middle of that instruction (whether that be an exception generated by the instruction, or just to keep external interrupt latency down).

The lowly Cortex-M0 exposes the progress of load/store multiple instructions in architectural state so they can be restarted where they left off after an interrupt for example. They even do this with the multiplier too, so if you have the slow but tiny 32 cycle iterative multiplier in your design, you can still get single cycle interrupt latency.

The M68ks had a halfway mechanism where it would just barf up partially documented internal microcode state onto the stack in a chip version specific manner on exceptions in the middle of instructions so you didn't restart the full instruction. Probably the grossest thing about that architecture.
We track Calicivirus seasons in Sweden, I'm still waiting for the final report on that, but there are indications that the Corona scare basically killed the season almost 10 weeks early.

See "Figur 1" https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/0ad710ef37...
This is awesome. The fact that it writes the same word very differently each time is impressive. Would be interesting to know the underlying mechanics.
In the US, nuclear plants were being sold at a price competitive with coal plants. But that wasn't because that was what it cost to build the plants, it was because the vendors were setting the price to compete with coal plants, with the hope that costs would come down with experience (which didn't happen).

These turnkey contracts cost the nuclear vendors a lot of money, and they moved away from them for that reason. Only in the last wave did Westinghouse go back to these kinds of contracts, and it drove them to bankruptcy.
Just to make it obvious:
Paper is https://cs.pomona.edu/~michael/papers/formulog_sub2020.pdf ; code is https://github.com/HarvardPL/formulog .
I'm using 'finite' in the same colloquial sense as GP:

> there is a fundamental difference between finite, rent-generating resources like land, and value-added goods
Me neither such content can’t be funny, but why should one keep thinking about it all the time when using the platform? Not everyone wants to be a freedom fighter
Not an order of magnitude cheaper. Fairies still required for that.
As a 14 year old, learning to code and having written some small programs, I got word that the woman (27) I thought I was in love with, was getting married. It was just a crush but at that hormone filled age, my mind was a mess (almost as bad as it is now! )

It's common to play games and have other activities at wedding parties here. So I spent about a week developing Get The Picture software, to be used at the wedding.

Man I was so nervous it would crash or something, but it all went fine.

I remember the weird kiddo feeling that if I could have some influence over what happened at their wedding, my crush wouldn't have _really_ been lost. Oh the cringe...
It's still illegal. So make sure you don't get caught.
But doesn't the state provide a free lawyer to anyone that needs one?

(if that's not obvious, I'm not from the US btw)
There's something that scares me about Rome: it's lack of plugins.

I really like Babel because of its plugins. My project typecheck.macro, could not exist without Babel plugins.

How will Rome support compile time transformations like graphql.macro or typecheck.macro?

Compile time plugins allow JavaScript to evolve super rapidly & make the creation of frameworks that act as compilers instead of traditional frameworks possible.

[1] https://github.com/vedantroy/typecheck.macro
...and I'll form the head!

Wait sorry, I'll come in again.
I was on the Shanghai-Pudong maglev train last year. They accelerate to 300 kph.

It uses German technology based on 1920's era patents. It doesn't use superconductors.

All the foreign passengers took selfies with the lead car in the background. :)

There's an excellent maglev museum at the Shanghai terminal.

The "maglev" rail stores yard is half-way along the route.

AMA.
Is it more likely to be a vast global conspiracy involving such unlikely co-conspirators as the prime minister of new zealand and the POTUS ... or a chaotic and rapidly evolving situation?
The worst situation I’ve seen are workers that work primarily on commissions and were not laid off. They’re stuck at their State minimums without any “Covid bonus” while seeing others get $1000/week sitting at home. It’s very perverse.
So what? The law is easy to bypass and a very separate thing from morality.
This sounds like a good process, but it depends a lot on the relationship between dev and ops... I've seen too many dev shops push against changes requested by ops or security because their main pressure is to ship features fast. And then it turns into a management fight and whoever has the more influential management gets the final say while the other side is forced to grumble.
Really interesting post, thanks!
I would argue, though, that you should distinguish between "users" and "customers". The service wasn't free to their actual customer who needed help digitizing books, it was free to the users who aided in the process.
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Console #3: Containers From First Principles [video]
My bad, late night!
Here we are in 2020, and web search is not what I’d hoped it would be. I would love to see more niche, small search tools like this rather than better general-purpose search. Building upon that, maybe an aggregator of search results from many small niche search engines. Actually, just writing that sentence reminded me of Searx [0], which I have to admit I haven’t tried in earnest but really should.

0: https://searx.me/
Everyone who had a positive test is counted as a “covid death”. Irregardless of the actual cause of death.

This is not true. Or, more accurately, it is not more true about COVID-19 than other diseases. If someone tests positive for COVID-19 and then has a car accident, the cause of death does not add to the COVID-19 death count. As was the case before COVID-19, the physician fills out the death certificate with the immediate cause of death and the circumstances leading up to that immediate cause. There are some cases where the cause of death is not entirely clear, but this was the case long before COVID-19. Examples would include George Floyd, who had a knee pressed on his neck, exacerbated by heart disease and diabetes. The official cause of death was "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression" despite the fact that he tested positive for coronavirus.
But it does invalidate it, as the comment does not attack the cause, it's just blaming an outcome of poverty rather than the poor. It's why often those same commentators blame the poor for being poor rather than attacking structures that continue to trap people in poverty

Cutting poverty is a more effective measure.

Actually I'll go further if you were serious on cutting crime you would be advocating to cut poverty!!
What is vertical payload integration?
It's far worse, USA needs their entire economy to stop relying on IP
Cops Tap Smart Streetlights Sparking Controversy and Legislation
Do you mind elaborating on what you mean by "Our regex engine"? I'd love to hear more about what you needed a regex engine written in Lisp for.
Exactly. It’s a great time to be in debt, as inflation is gonna happen.

Banks know it — Citi and Chase pretty much stopped cheap balance transfers in April for most customers.
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The Razor's Edge.
This is why the people arguing that the loser should have to pay the winner's costs as a deterrent against frivolous lawsuits have it completely backwards.
IARPA Research Projects
Not in civil cases, only criminal
In fairness, it's barely supported in Terminal.app --- in that I had to make a bunch of solid-colored images to make it work! It should be a first-class feature of all terminal applications. I had no idea how much I want this feature day-to-day until I got fed up with a 27" monitor display crammed with overlapping identical-looking tcpdump windows a few weeks ago.
Here's a pretty good video with some technical details on why spacex isn't always the best option:

https://youtu.be/QoUtgWQk-Y0

The government also wants to maintain redundant capabilities, and ULA, which has an incredible success rate and is an incredibly reliable company, is a pretty damn good option for one of the two.
Not for civil cases. But again for something like this I don't see why you would rather drop the issue and capitulate rather than at least try to fight it out without a lawyer.
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I think you are selling at least some of the philosophers short. What is a pile and isn't a pile is not entirely subjective (i.e. we all agree that 1 grain of sand is not a pile), nor is it entirely objective (in the sense that different people will probably draw the line at different places). On top of that, the transition even for a single individual is not abrupt.

Understanding and dissecting these sorts of ambiguities with something as inoffensive as piles of sand can be useful for better understanding disagreement that stems from ambiguity when things are more contentious.
I was referring to Ioannidis’ meta study analyzing 24 studies on c19’s IFR

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v...
https://blog.plan99.net/pseudo-epidemics-7603b2da839 ...
There is a real opportunity for society to learn a lasting lesson here, mainly how relatively little is gained for the economy from extra cash (tax cuts) to the already flush.
My belief is the reason the US is suddenly freaking out about China is

a) China is now creating their own IP. Because of course once you outsource manufacturing all the engineering and technical skill quickly follows. The next generation of products doesn't get designed in the US, it gets designed in China.

b) China being flush with cash is now moving into international finance. You can imagine how well that's going over in the financial centers of the indebted west.
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That's certainly a risk, but "we're the only launch provider in the US, and we just raised prices from $250M to $2.5B, and any potential competition will take 5-10 years to get up to capability" is a big risk too. The DOD isn't gonna launch GPS satellites on a Progress.
I guess you misread her signals.
Sorry, are we implying that it's better for society if people don't pay their debts?
UI audit is based on samples, and most labor departments process more claims in March-July than they did in the last 5 years. It’s a smart move for the employee to stay away, especially if the job pays that shitty.
Maybe it’s just an echo chamber of misaligned incentives?
Should anyone be wondering why this doesn't work in fish, it seems it overwrites the title back to the default pretty much instantly. So no custom tab names with fish, it seems!
Real Time Machine Learning (2019) [pdf]
Putting in a plug for ZTex as well (https://www.ztex.de). Not the cheapest but far from the most expensive, and they publish full schematics. Stefan Z.'s support is first-rate in my experience.
I doubt that otherwise they would have been paid $100K up front.
Do you see the irony of your posting a cynical, throwaway comment like this while complaining of toxicity on other platforms?
I take it you are familiar with Samsung Galaxy phones?
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Then you can go to an AASP.
intellectual property is conceptually corrupt.

at the very least we should be honest and admit that it's all about being continuously paid for things we already finished doing (sometimes even generations ago).

but I am pretty sure that it will have to get worse, far worse, so bad that a Kafka seems tame before people get convinced that ownership over language is stupid.
Make sure you get a warning tap from the CCP so you’re ready for it
During a pandemic? Yes.
Read more similar books until lessons naturally internalize.

Pick one thing/idea/concept and try to apply intentionally all day in real life. See when it worked or not.
that only applies for criminal cases, not civil
but still, there are services (e.g. dom9) that implement alert and monitoring for cloud infrastructure security.
If the books are guides to killing people and the subversion of your community, then yes burn them.
You'll have to watch the documentary for context. I don't think the time was the requirement, but more the level of expertise. And it surprised me that egg sushi was the most difficult one to get right. Upon being able to do it, the chef was considered a shokunin (master/craftsman/artisan), but it didn't mean that they were at the peak.
"The Age of Wonder" by Richard Holmes which contains several chapters on Joseph Banks has the advantage of being more widely available and covering a wider set of characters from the same period.
One way is to make your country an attractive place to live for the top innovators from around the world. China can’t do that. This is a proven strategy for the US that is being sabotaged by the current US administration.
You can't trust the devices themselves to tell you that, so the best approach is to put them behind a (hardware) firewall that protects both ways, not just from external connections but also to prevent devices to call home if their behavior is unclear.
In the name of love, I used to send this girl a song every day so that when she woke up there would be a song from me which she could listen to in the morning. My idea being that it was a small romantic gesture showing her I thought of her every day. At the time, it was a long distance thing/attempt which ended up not working out later in person, but I had put together a simple website which listed the songs [0].

[0] https://sgloutnikov.github.io/Radina/
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