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I see it differently. Yes, young people are much less likely to have a serious illness from COVID. But, there are still young people who will die from COVID (the death rate is not zero for 0-18yrs old even without preexisting conditions). For those young people, it is death. To say, "you young person, you'll be fine". Is inaccurate. To say, you will most likely be fine. Yeah, sure that's accurate, but some of those people will actually die. Let's not candy coat that. Death is permanent and awful.
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Why get paid once when you can get paid twice? This isn't about right, it's about might... let's see where this shakes out. The corporations have much more national political power but the cities can run a backhoe through your fiber uplink and then say "oops." I don't think the outcome is at all guaranteed to come out in favor of the streaming services.
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So according to them, they should get paid for any video watched in their city?

Sounds kind of pathetic, tbh.
> there was a concern that it might create a conflict with if an actual meaning is assigned by the HTTP specification

Wow, guess they better not do that then. In the meantime, it sounds like their spec is wrong.
Honestly, I recommend paper. I know, I know, no full-text search, no backup, etc. But files are really easy to misplace, accidently delete, or lose due to a hardware/software failure. They're just so small.

I've found that if I write something down on paper, I'll physically remember where it is. It's really hard to get past the permanent aspect of pen and paper, but once you do, and you're willing to write down imperfect thoughts with zero organization, it's wonderful.
Everything is more international nowadays. Not sure this is a problem at all?

Kessler syndrome is far more likely to be caused by war than progress in satellites. Space is big and sats are tracked and powered nowadays.
How about we stop starting wars instead of stopping progress?

Space based telescopes are going to be vastly more useful and popular than land based telescopes today.

As costs come down dramatically access to space is going to expand rapidly, that is a good thing, not something to fear.
Hi Hn,

I actually built this three years ago, but ended up not really doing anything with it and it kind of just sat there for a while. I recently decided to rewrite it with Aurelia 2 and release it again, more optimised than it was previously. I built this because like some, my GitHub account is 10 years old and I have a tonne of forked repositories as well as starred repositories, many of which are heavily outdated or just forgotten.

This was to scratch my own itch, but I figured others might get some use out of it as well. It only works for private GitHub accounts. It's not perfect or pretty, but it helped me.
That's great at and all, but I honestly don't understand how that would help in this situation. Unless you write something absurd like "Mark Zuckerberg's stock will be transferred to Palmer Luckey if this promise is broken", which just about no one in Mark's position would agree to, how are you going to actually prevent something like this from happening?

edit: and as ComputerGuru stated - such a clause can just as easily be put into a traditional contract
People's personal experience is not an anecdote...
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It's also dangerous to assume that every business decision hinges on taxes. One of the extremely annoying things about politics is people constantly arguing that GDP growth is a function of some marginal tax rate here or there. The obsession with taxes overlooks so many other facts that govern success.

Why isn't Sweden a hellhole? They have higher taxes than many other EU localities, but have a more vibrant startup economy.

The artifact that created Silicon Valley was the University of California system, and the location of military and national labs, a nexus of government and academic R&D, with a ready and waiting STEM labor force. It was not because it was a tax and regulatory haven.
it all started with my knees feeling suddenly sore for no reason. A few hours later I started to cough and develop a fever and my whole body hurt. By the next day I was in agony and my head was so hot it felt like it was going to pop like a zit. I lost my sense of smell / taste, which added to the difficulties of eating because I couldn't sit up or stop coughing. After 2 weeks I was down 40 lbs and had pneumonia in both lungs. Recovery started after about a month and a half and was difficult. Walking more than 20 feet was hard, but eventually I made a full recovery.

This was in 2012, and was not Covid-19. There will people who get it easy and get it hard. That happens with all diseases, and covid-19 is no different. I'm not saying it's not dangerous, especially if you are older, but acting like its some sage advice to watch out because this one person got it bad, when we do know that the majority of people dont. especially if young. I think this doom and gloom does more harm than good and prevents us from taking steps to handle the virus appropriately.
More work was put in for this joke than I've literally put into any development related thing all summer. I like it.
"Can" is the operative word here. This argument gets brought up time and time again to support animal agriculture and makes a few generalisations. The first is that all pasture land is unfit for growing crops, the second is that all cattle farming is entirely grass fed, finally all this is localized only to cattle yet is presented as a kind of argument for all animal agriculture.
"Yes, young people are much less likely to have a serious illness from COVID. But, there are still young people who will die from COVID (the death rate is not zero for 0-18yrs old even without preexisting conditions). For those young people, it is death."

You may believe this to be true, but your sense of risk is ridiculously out of proportion to the actual risk involved. In the US, fewer than 300 people under the age of 25 have died from Covid:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

During the same period that those 300 kids died of covid, literally thousands died of all other causes.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-death...

For those young people, of course, death is also death. More young people have died this year from accidents than have died from Covid.
Yeah, but it's not enough. The whole chip doesn't have enough SRAM to hold a tenth of GPT-3, let alone GPT-4. These are the kinds of models you would hope a chip like this would help with, but as soon as the model gets too big to fit in the SRAM then the advantage goes way down. And I think the models of the future will continue to get much, much bigger.
No. Much as one battery would not be sufficient, this storage station that can only power half of one small town for five hours is insufficient storage for the province, much less the country.
I recently discovered dendron (https://www.dendron.so/) to scratch exactly the same itch you have.

It is a set of vscode plugins, which help me manage a workspace of markdown notes. Fair warning: it can be a little overwhelming to get started. At least for me it was because I wanted to do everything the "right" way. Changing stuff and refactoring is easy, so now i just write things down and worry about structure as it grows.

So far, i really like it and the dev is very responsive on discord to fix issues i had with windows. He even offers personal 30 minute sessions with him where he tries to learn more about the way you'd like to use it.
>I don't even gross 200k USD per year and I could afford a 1-2% wealth tax, no sweat.. wouldn't even miss it. In fact my savings would continue to grow almost unabated.

THIS! Most Americans just don't have many sitting assets, so even if you made the wealth tax apply equally to everyone, and we all had to pay an additional 1% on our net worth each year, for most of us that's either 1% of our house value or 1% of a small amount sitting in a bank account. For a billionaire that's $10M, which is about my city's whole budget. So another framing could be: "billionaires should annually pay for a small city's municipal expenses" -- it seems more than fair.

Even in the case of not-yet-wealthy-startup-folks, assuming shoddy implementation -- "my money isn't liquid -- paying 1% tax on $1M of monopoly money from a startup is going to be hard" it's actually just $10k. And marginal rates and floors can easily make it all work. I'm a spoiled tech employee, I'd pay 1% of my salary a year for the purpose of helping mitigate income and quality-of-life inequality.
The notion that you need a cloud login for a piece of computer periphery to work is just unacceptable to me.

"Want to print a page on your locally, USB-Connected printer? Log in at hp.com".
You are bad at separating probability from risk versus no risk. These are separate things. Young people are MOST CERTAINLY at risk. It is just that the risk is smaller. But young people do die of coronavirus and/or suffer serious complications. Your analysis of excess deaths is laughably bad. Miles driven is WAY down. People under 25 are driving way less and therefore dying way less. Coronavirus, which affects young people less is not increasing excess deaths much in that background.
An economic system based on peer evaluation sounds interesting. But there are many related problems that are far from solved. For example: online comment moderation. Or SEO-resistant search ranking. Or even democracy.
Note that Kevin Buzzard is talking in the context of convincing "mainstream" mathematicians to use a proof assistant. He specifically clarifies somewhere (not sure where in this video, but I've seen other videos where he clarifies it) that when he talks about "proper mathematics" he is doing so in kind of a tongue-in-cheek, British way and does not mean to suggest that other kinds of mathematics are not proper (don't remember the exact wording).

In the context of that video, his comments about category theorists and type theorists make a lot of sense: type theory people and (perhaps to a more limited extent) category theory people tend to be more easily sold on using a proof assistant since the kind of mathematics they do translate more easily into current proof assistants than, say, analysis or topology.

I definitely do not think that Kevin Buzzard is suggesting that type theorists and category theorists are not doing interesting and/or useful work (after all, the proof assistant he is advocating for is based on type theory). At best, he is making a sociological observation that there is a gap between the type theory/category theory community and "mainstream" mathematicians making the widespread adoption of proof assistants in mathematics more difficult.
I looked into the details[1] here, it seems like a minority of these charges are from wind/solar, eyeballing it, it looks like 50% or so is from Nuclear and hydro, with something like 20% other (mostly nat gas), and 20% wind.

It seems to me like it's essentially a breakdown of marginal vs fixed costs.

1: http://www.ieso.ca/-/media/Files/IESO/Market-Summaries/2020/..., page 21
>taxes don't disappear into nothingness - they pay for civilization

Paying for civilization creates the conditions for even more elites to emerge. From an inequality perspective, you probably should disappear it into nothingness.
It's OK, but I noticed that my colleagues started cursing a lot more after we started using it. It's still a bit rough around the edges, and there are interesting pitfalls you just learn after failing.

We mainly use the K8sOperator, and the logic is mainly inside independent containers. Therefore our development and testing is not so tightly coupled to Python or Airflow.
In my experience with several Bazel projects, when everything works, it's great.

But, the case where it doesn't work are way more painful than anything I've encountered from CMake + (make, ninja). Bazel is basically pathologically bad about resource use - if you run out of anything (CPU, memory, disk, inodes) you're totally hosed and probably have to reset the machine. Bazel caching is great, but boy do you pay for it in disk space - the bazel cache on my machine, for a reasonable (but by no means huge) monorepo is probably more than 100GB, and because it absolutely loves creating symlinks to everything it's very easy to run out of inodes on smaller disks even when there's plenty of space otherwise available.

Bazel basically feels like the "GC language" of build systems - it behaves like there's nearly infinite resources available and so long as that illusion can be maintained, all is well. For reference, the machines I'm using are plenty beefy (several AMD 16C/32T + 128GB ram + 1TB nvme, and several Intel 28C/56T) - it's really inexcusable that a build system makes the machine hang.
How are traditional TV Station different form Netflix and such?

Arguably Netflix is structurally and goal wise closer to any traditional TV station (who would owe that taxes) than to any individual using the internet.

The biggest point IMO is that they sell stuff film producers make to show ads — which is precisely the same thing TV stations did for decades.
I don't see the point you're trying to make. Perhaps you want to interpret asymptomatic cases, or presymptomatic cases as mild. That's something no one in the world does because by definition mild cases are cases where you experience mild symptoms.
Yes I now focus on business ideas that cannot be blocked/banned/rejected ... Since 2011 I had 4 startups that where killed by either google, apple, Facebook and YouTube.
In 2016 I decided to avoid them as much as possible and never rely on third parties, ... Yes this is discarding a lot of good business ideas ... But your business then cannot be killed by a third party at any time
The significance of medical records - and the importance of maintaining their privacy - is often overlooked. This is far different than leaked password hashes or addresses or credit numbers - it's information that cannot be changed or effectively de-identified. Any company that accumulates medical records on that scale must be very careful. I'm biased (as a co-founder of a major healthcare secure cloud software compnay), but it is hard work and all-too-often neglected work.
You might be interested in my blog post about it: http://forwardscattering.org/post/36 (Special relativity, faster-than-light communication, and absolute time and space)
No,

> That quote is a rich dude talking out his ass about shit he didn't know.

He knew it very well, but still chose to lie.

I don't think the guys was that much of a complete idiot. This is pretty much like how the current American establishment tries to sell Americans the rationale for its bizarre alliance with the Saudi tinpot kingdom.

And it is also completely no wonder how Saudis started to get into trouble with USA the moment they started to close the door on American money.
it's not just familiarity, it's also privilege and inequality.

the better-off, some of whom control the media, feel no threat from the flu because they all have lots of psychological and social safety and good health insurance, and so we have cursory coverage of the flu, mainly to remind us to get a flu shot (and then push it out of our brains again). none of those folks are ravaged by the flu, so no panic, or coverage of heartbreaking, anecdotal cases.

but covid is different in that the better-off don't already have an easy defense. so they're spreading their fear around disproportionately, so others can act on their behalf and for their safety. if it didn't affect the better-off, we'd have none of this attention and panic (and endless fretting over masks as the de facto sign of subservience).
Never heard of this before. Sounds like Zim-wiki, which is what I use. Does pretty much everything this can do plus is completely free.
Haven't used Meson, but if you know a nice way to cross compile a project with generated source I'd like to know.

More specifically, I'd like the following things happen:

1. Compile flatc with the host compiler since we have to run it later, the FlatBuffers schema compiler which compiles .fbs schemas to .cpp, just like protoc of protobuf.
2. Run the flatc on all my .fbs schemas.
3. Compile the output of 2 with the cross-compiler for the target.

With Bazel it can automatically detect the fact that it is going to run the flatc on the same box so it would be compiled with the host compiler. With CMake it seems impossible since it does not have a concept of "build host", so my current solution is to add the FlatBuffers repo via ExternalProject_Add twice, once for host configuration with a patch to change its CMake target namespace prefix to "flatbuffers_host" (because apparently this is not possible to override later) to avoid name collision, once for the target configuration, then change every reference of flatc in my project to "flatbuffers_host::flatc".
I don't know how GP does, but if you don't trust certificates:

https://www.jmbullion.com/kilo-pamp-suisse-gold-cast-bar/
Yes, indeed a “bad flu”. One that sends 10% of its victims to the hospital, half of these to ICU and half of this latter group to the morgue.

And this, assuming a functioning health infrastructure, otherwise you get many many more ending in the last group.

That’s pretty bad, I’d take it - literally - dead seriously.
Europe is not the egalitarian utopia most Americans seem to think it is. Germany's wealth gini coefficient is 79.1. The US is 85.9 (100% is complete inequality, higher is worse).

Sweden and Norway are both in the 80s also -- two countries people in the US constantly point to as places where things are "fair". But in terms of wealth (and income) inequality, it's not that much different.

https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/wealth-distr...
Seems like a positive effect if it gives people pause before they take unnecessary risks.
Ah yes that calorie dense food broccoli we all know and love... You need to make the comparison with something like soybeans, oats, potatoes or rice.
It's true. I should...
> And a vaccine could be perpetually "one year in the future" - for many coronaviruses we still don't have one after decades, so all those announcements that we're "18 months from one" are mostly media BS and labs competing for funding.

This is not entirely true. There was no economic incentive for the previous ones but this one is different. We are able to successfully develop vaccines for Coronavirus related diseases in animals. The main problem is upper respiratory tract is a hard area for the immune system to protect.
I assume it was the flu then?

And what percentage of people that get the flu, get it that bad? What percentage of covid patients are getting it that bad?

And how much more contagious is covid than the flu.
If I understand correctly, they convert the js file to .ts file, ask tsc for error diagnostics and automatically apply transformations to resolve those errors when they can.

Yep that’s how I’d do it too. I wrote a simpler version when doing a tsc upgrade to resolve a whole bunch of errors. It parses the tsc errors and does simple string replaces.

Has anyone played with the tool to report how good it is?

I remember v8 did an experiment back in the day where it would run code and profile the input parameters and output of functions and automatically generate typescript types.
> In fact, you normally don't have the advantage in these types of sales, so you don't get to specify these things.

You could always so no and just continue running your company?

Even if you really do want to get out, you can probably get in some conditions if you are willing to reduce the price.

That's what I would assume at least
> You would get a different sound from the different types of security pins

I'm not sure that's true...it may be true, but it hasn't been looked into. Also 99% of security pins are in the driver pins which aren't the actual pins that are making the clicking sound against the ridges. Since there is a set of pins (key pins) between the ridges and the security pins that could also "dull" the difference security pins change the sound.

In the same vein, though, great locks can also use different springs for each set of pins which also may effect the sound.
I feel like half of the west coast caught something like that in December.

I had visited some Chinese friends in San Francisco for thanksgiving and came back early December and ended up knocked flat for the month of December with a cough / fever / shortness of breath deal. After I recovered, a person I see in the elevator said he got this really bad sickness after visiting people in San Francisco that was the same as mine and I was like me too!
There is no "years later" evidence about COVID-19.
That's are pretty complicated boundary between good and bad you've defined there. Political ideology is OK but not religious ideology? Being a 2nd in command is OK but not a national leader?
I just wanted it to be financed through taxes as it used to be.

It was completely ridiculous; after switching to a licensing model, DR’s costs for raking in money went up by about 15 million DKK just in fees to lawyers, if memory serves correctly.
> We’ve all heard of iCloud, AWS, cloud computing etc,

iCloud mixed with AWS. A cloud service for end users, vs cloud computing for business.

You lost me there my man.
Simple: turn off the services for residents of those cities. The "public servants" will need to find a new line of work.
> It’s not funny

Yes it is.

> it’s not clever

Hmm. Don't really care. Ever try to debug clever code? Exactly.

> Please don’t do it

Dev goals: I'm absolutely going to find something I can sneak this into.

> Find another way to be clever and funny.

Yes, but after I'm done releasing these precious 418s.
HiAi–get information as objects, scenes and more from an image
Follow up question: When a black hole is created, is that a change in spacetime topology?
There's still a big sampling bias in that.
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FWIW, my anecdata is different. I've travelled - both short work stints and holidays - in ~30 countries over the space of a few decades.

I don't know if I could confidently pick the worst service experience across that time, but a sit-down dining comedy club in Manhattan (NY, USA) would probably be towards the top of the list.

I tend to be non-demanding, accommodating, and convivial etc, so that may have skewed most of my experiences across Asia and Europe towards the positive end of the spectrum.
So I could simply take a photo of a restaurant and sell it on flickr to be used in advertisements or whatever the buyer wants to use it for?

(maybe the only thing I'd have to do is then blur out the logo)

This is quite astonishing for some reason.
One question for all users of knowledge-bases like this:

How often do you write something down and look it the next day and realize it's not relevant anymore because of reasons like:

• you memorized it

• it's not as important as it seemed yesterday

• it's a todo and having it there actually nags you and prevents you from completing it

• it creates some other kind of mental load: while skipping over it, it grabs your attention, which then prevents you from attending to other tasks on the list.

I have a theory that GTD helps only few, for most people it just makes them feel better because they are now spending time creating lists instead of doing what's on them.
I just bought an Oculus Quest and now feel bad about it. Sadly there are no real alternatives.
I use obsidian and dropbox with markdown mobile apps (text editor on desktop)> It's teh best setup. Way better than roam.
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