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The question was simply to stimulate a more holistic view of the example at hand: that Pfizer did this on their own and essentially didn't need/get any financial help. Sure, Pfizer didn't receive direct subsidy in the short term related to COVID R&D and is taking on risk.

But let's look at this more holistically. Pfizer and pharma benefit a reasonable amount from public research. Pfizer has received their fair share of governmental funding in the form of products, services, and research:
https://www.usaspending.gov/search/85a918fa6adf5152dbac723d2...

They've also been subsidized by people with illness over the years that isn't related to COVID (directly or through their insurance provider pools). It's in other cases the previously sick that have padded Pfizer's profit margins enough to enable them to accumulate enough capital they could take on this sort of risky R&D. Theres also the costs of enabling laws and defending their IP rights from external pressures the US pushes.

It may not be direct subsidy but there are plenty of indirect subsidies that enabled Pfizer to do this. Let's stop pretending these businesses pull themselves up by their bootstraps to success and take on all the risk: they don't. They very often take low risk returns and transfer to high risk and use subsidized activity (e.g. federally funded research) to their advantage. Anything high risk like pharma is prone to failure and needs assistance.

Should we continue assistance? Absolutely, I think so, it's good for everyone. As one parent mentioned, it is good to see these businesses reinvest in further R&D that lead to new discoveries in therapy and treatment as opposed to simply hoarding capital.

Apparently the thought of the narratives that Pfizer didn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps financially makes some people cranky. Everyone needs assistance (especially in high risk arenas), let's not pretend that assistance doesn't exist simply because its indirect, time delayed, and being shifted around.
dang, can you comment on why this was flagged?
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That's not a bad hypothesis, but then why pick the color most strongly associated with communism?
Yeah, if you're going to make something freely available, I don't understand the frustration when someone, even a lot of someones with money, decide to use it, for free.

If they start making demands for fixes, enhancements, etc., Then sure, by all means provide your $$$ rates, or encourage them to contribute to the project with their own programming time.
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People in the west understand it just fine, thanks.

Some of us see an unfortunate trend recently, in which our political powers collude with or badger the owners of these companies to engage in censorship, and find it highly alarming.
> It's like we're stuck in a codebase that was started centuries ago, and everyone is too afraid to commit a bugfix, let alone a major refactor.

This describes everything about the classical music world. They're still playing the same old pieces by the same old composers, on the same old instruments. There's nothing wrong with doing old things, but it's somewhat baffling.

As a home guitar player and producer, I can trivially get pedals and amps that practically let me make any sound I want with my guitar, as well as equipment for alternative techniques like the E-bow. If you jump over to the MIDI/DAW world, there's pretty much no limit to what you can do. Some stuff is already coming out that lets you translate humming into MIDI in real-time. Yet people trip over themselves to tell you why there shouldn't be pianos of different sizes, let alone (god forbid) pianos with different keyboard layouts. I can only imagine the reaction of the average classical performer if you were to suggest making a major overhaul to the design or performance of an instrument itself, if not adding in new instruments altogether.

As an engineer, I've been doubly baffled by the adherence to doing things traditionally just because that's how it's always been done. The attitude I've perceived from people in the classical world that I know is that they pretty much don't believe there could be a better notation, technique, etc. Meanwhile in the software world, it feels like we have a new coding language every year and 10 different frameworks for each of them. Even if language A and language B can do the same thing, they could each offer engineer X and Y more comfortable or preferred solutions for doing that same thing. Music isn't that different; in the end you're just creating an evolving soundscape with different pitches and timbres, so why not try a new design that offers the same sound, or a new sound that can play the same role in the soundscape?

It's unfortunate because I have immense respect for the skill that classical performers have. I just wish we could see what they could do if they applied their talents towards performing new music and instruments. The people who do innovate in this respect produce some incredible stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q.
> Just imagine getting locked into a car with glass you can't break (like in cybertruck) and getting asked to pay a ransom to get it unlocked.

If there is no threat of force, just wait the attacker out.

If there is a threat of force (for example, the attacker has a gun), then you would have been just as bad off without some crazy movie-plot attack involving your door locks.
The association in Sweden is strong enough to say “it does”.

And yes, the mechanism is likely that Pandemrix activated a predisposition. But it was not activated in statistically equivalent kids who did not get Pandemrix.

Why is it so hard to acknowledge that not all vaccines are perfect, and that there’s a risk involved? I am not avtivax. I am pro vaccination. I am anti religious “a vaccine can never be bad” thinking which seem to be prevalent among otherwise rational scientific people.
I'd also be interested how many of the women wear make-up intended to make themselves look younger vs men. Or How many of the (generally older) men are bald or have generic male haircuts versus the women. Or wear necklaces. Those might account for why "girl/kid" and "hair", "neck" might exist in the women's categories and not in the men's.

Since you can find out exactly why a label exists just by interrogating the NN - on that basis I'm disappointed by how shallow this article is, a whole load of speculation about "why", when it should be possible to find out. I feel like it's just playing on the readers biases/paranoia towards sexism in the tech industry, leading them to assume what the answer to these loaded questions are without Really trying to understand.

Another thing that annoys me is how often articles like this conflate bias in the data, and a poor choice of data by developers, with bias of the actual developers themselves. A NN has nothing to do with the phycology of it's creators, beyond choices of dataset, oversight etc. It essentially allows authors to make personal attacks against devs, as if a NN who says something racist was reading out a racist script written by a dev.
This makes me curious; wouldn't it be possible to write an automated linter or static code analyzer that would catch and automatically fix these issues?

In Node environment, I think that I would be able to come up with an ESLint plugin. Doesn't Python ecosystem have something similar?
And what year are we in? What equal rights don’t women have today?
> I don't consider MBPs as "professional" devices due to lack of options

Counterpoint is the 10s of thousands of "professionals" (like me, senior software engineer at a Company You Know) who use them....
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Seems it's another cookie-less, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative. This time from Germany!

It's pretty cool that there's so much going on in this space, but is it really wise going into the market with seemingly the exact same features that Plausible, Simple Analytics, Fathom, etc. offer? Even Cloudflare recently entered the privacy-friendly analytics market with a free product, so it seems that market is getting really crowded. Then again, every (commercial) website probably needs such a solution, so maybe the market is big enough.

I wonder though if these cookie-less solutions can give people the insights they need? You can do only very simple overall statistics and funnel analyses with this approach. Maybe that's enough for most websites though?
Yes, with conditions. That’s answered toward the end of the article, along with a picture of old business class seating and some terms to continue web searching (class 1, class 2).
I do not like that you expect redundant fields be omitted. Just because they might be the default does not mean you shouldn't show your business rules
I've recently just tried SendGrid, and it was super easy to setup. Their "dynamic templates" feature is great. I also took my templates from here: https://codedmails.com/

I then have an AWS lambda function (which also holds our API). After a user "activates" or "logs in", I just schedule a send. Seems to be working fine as of now.

I do hope to have a lambda function running every 24hrs or so in the future, where it just scans the DB to look at user events (alternatively, it can also scan Cloudwatch logs) - and then do some logic to send X email after Y event.
It seems like a person would have to look down if they are making a flint tool from a rock, or when they are butchering a kill, or when they are gathering berries.
What is your standard here? If the massacres had been riled up by spreading paper pamphlets you would want to shut down the printers? If it had been though the TV news, shut down the TV stations?

I think Twitter and Facebook should continue to do more to mitigate harms, but the people doing the harm don't get a pass. The Myanmar government must think Westerners are idiots. They kill tens of thousands of people and the general response is Facebook is bad.
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Yeah we had a tandy 102 that was my dad's and that was the first thing I thought when I looked at it. It was a fun little computer my son used to write basic programs on it.
tsk tsk, it's called "paying in visibility" or "career-building opportunity".
I came to this article prepared to defend games where you play general, but this is not about that. The moral ambiguity described is playing a game where you are specifically playing a nazi general, and the 'Good German' myth promulgated by the Cold War that has made that palatable.

So like I told my wife when we watched "The Book Thief"- I was not expecting this to have a happy ending
It ends beings negligible, when you start to have 10 devices sipping 0.5-1W each.
I would bet that since these are only for crew they can also put them in places that are more 'unsafe' than general passenger seating. (At least in terms of exit paths and safety regarding getting bumped around during heavy turbulence.)
Antisocial? Let me decide about myself. How did it go, "my body, my choice"? Also, I find it interesting how everyone suddenly trusts 100% every claim made by big pharmaceutical companies, even though most of them don't have a good history. Volkswagen was also complying to all the laws and standards, until it turned out it actually didn't.
A cheap tablet can last for many, many hours on low brightness when playing movies, even without charging from a battery pack/laptop/seat port.
Cars need flight mode .. but it should be called something else. Perhaps tunnel mode? :)
Why? In any transaction there's a non-negative spread between how much the buyer and seller value the item being exchanged. Why is it disgusting if the seller captures that spread but not if the buyer captures it, or is there some other distinction you're drawing?

Off-topic: this same idea has been cropping up a lot on HN recently with respect to salaries when moving to lower CoL areas. The argument on one side is that their work hasn't become less useful, and on the other side we hear that with a lower CoL you need the money less, and we have a bit of a holy war going on trying to describe why one side or the other has some moral claim to the entirety of that surplus.
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Sounds like China to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide#Compulsory_ste...
You sum the expenditure and divide by number of successes, with some accounting for the delay. It is actually much easier than trying to figure out the cost of a specific drug, because research is sometimes shared.
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> ReCAPTCHA needs to be redesigned such that it doesn’t serve as tracking

Obviously.

> and free labour for image recognition

Why?
The problem is not making these things available but the impulsive buyers who get these with no project in mind. All these soc are not really meant to replace a daily driver but be project specific and only imagination is the blocker here.

Personally I applaud the trend of making these devices. They will inspire countless future hackers the way a lot of us have been inspired before.
I think it should always be insanely profitable to save the world!

That is something we want to encourage!
This is a good point, but I think there are some unfortunate side effects. Once you give away free stuff because you used someone's (open sourced) code, now you have to get the PR people involved. In the future if your devs see some other open sourced code that they want to use, now instead of needing to get legal on board they also need to get PR on board.

"Oh, hm, well we don't really want to give away free consoles this time around. And if we don't then it will make us look bad because we did last time. So don't use that code."

As a dev, I don't really want to have to check with 50 other divisions in the company before I use some open sourced stuff. And then get denied because of some unrelated PR event is going on.
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I don't know the answer but with Autopilot or FSD it's possible that the car could safely slow down and park itself.
I feel like the better question is, how do you sell a stolen Tesla with features that require a near constant connection with Tesla? Maybe you sell it for parts, but even then most Tesla owners aren't the type of people to buy an entire battery pack or wheels from some online character.
It's because of the way the AZ vaccine works. It uses a different virus to infect cells which then create the antigen to stimulate the immune response. These are a bit unstable, since the vaccine itself, being a virus, is an immune system trigger. The immune system might snuff out the vaccine itself after a huge first dose, then the second dose is wiped out.

This is I think why the mRNA vaccines are doing better. They don't use a virus as a vector, they use a less convoluted vector of a more basic mRNA instruction set. They're also in a way more "scalable" in that a future disease or a mutation of Covid with a new spike protein could have a new vaccine made quickly by tweaking the mRNA sequence.
I think the US is better because we have legalized same-sex marriage, and I’ve always supported it. But it’s hard for me to say that an issue is such that “reasonable people can’t disagree” with policies that differ between the US and Switzerland.

I agree there are some issues that are beyond politics. But there is an impulse to expand that category beyond what fairly fits in it. The debate and compromise attendant in politics is how societies achieve consensus, and prematurely stifling it creates problems.
I have setup an auto-response for these kinds of requests which is "Describe what it is that you want in an email"
Contradictory evidence to your point is that they regularly design all kinds of data center Hw (famous for starting the whole paradigm of building data centers with consumer HW) and build best-in-industry ML accelerators (TPUs).

Don’t mistake building and selling consumer HW with building components. Very different problems. The former is as equal parts art as it is engineering. Building your own CPU will be vastly simpler. Whether or not Google has the same level of coordination between HW and SW to have Android benefit so greatly, I don’t know. It’s also unclear how big a step building the CPU is for Google. Lots of talented people on that project. That being said, it’s already behind schedule if I recall correctly so it legitimately could be causing them problems. Or they don’t have enough direction and good leadership to actually execute competently
How can I get US email addresses of different states?
Imagine the symphony of 50 Casios playing the same tune, scattered around the house :D
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> Feeling bad about a game is pathetic.

That's a particularly uncharitable sentiment. Weighing moral consequences is a thing we do in real life (unless we're complete sociopaths I suppose), and doing it in a simulated environment free from real consequences has value the same way practicing anything in a safe environment does.
Doxxing is fairly contextual. It can be looked at via the lens of privacy (if your state has those laws), or assault and harassment if you're doing so when a mob is involved. It's like the nuance of screaming "fire" in a crowded theater. You knew there was a good potential for harm and if there isn't actually a fire then all that's left is malice.
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You can skip almost this whole hand-wringing article as the "why" is articulated right here:

"the focus on Rommel and more generally the German side (many wargames feature prominent German military motifs and use German military nomenclature) cater to a genre that customarily finds more interest in playing the underdog, relying on [the player’s] brains rather than overwhelming force, and accepting the challenge of reversing the historical result."

Combine that appeal with uniforms designed by Hugo Boss and it's a no-brainer why the Germans are the most popular force to play in wargames. There are some VERY interesting tactical/operational challenges for the Japanese and the Soviets, depending on where you look in the war, but neither force is quite so well-dressed as the Waffen SS.

This article is like an extremely-long-form version of Twitter outrage...the same mentality that is targeting otherwise-fun-looking content (Ghosts of Tsushima, Cyberpunk 2077) and wants to beat us all over the head with how bad we are as people for enjoying it. It's tiresome.

"What sorts of subject matter are appropriate for a game? Before you rush to answer, ask yourself how you would feel about, say, a version of Transport Tycoon where you have to move Jews from the cities where they live to the concentration camps where they will die."

Man, I hope this guy never finds out what sorts of sociopathic stuff Rimworld players get into...

"If, as I dearly hope, you would prefer not to play such a game, ask yourself what the difference between Panzer General and that other game really are. For your actions in Panzer General will also lead to the deaths of millions, at only one more degree of remove at best."

See what I mean? The next thing you know, he'll be writing about how we shouldn't play a real-world map in Civilization as the Europeans, because their explorations led to millions of deaths from colonialism. Slavery shouldn't be a featured game mechanic either, for the same reason. If you play as the Spanish/English/French/Germans and you research Slavery, then you are a BAD HUMAN BEING. Maybe games should send a message to a centralized server, alerting Big Tech so your media accounts can be flagged, and your bank account terminated?

I have ancestors who survived genocide, and ancestors who survived chattel slavery. I enjoy wargames, in all of their varying degrees of focus, without the ridiculous navel-gazing.
I think the controversy with this comment is that if people want to "GPL their shit," nothing is stopping them. Personally, anything I've open sourced is under MIT, because I don't care if it gets used. And that's my choice
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I am aware what the caveats are regarding fighting words are. I think that is a sensible concession.

However what most people mean by "hate speech" is protected from what I understand.
If it were historically faithful the German player would never know how many of his forces were going to never show up because of mechanical failure and air interdiction.
I don't think we know based on public information. Some media report "up to 90%" which suggests the upper bound of the confidence interval, rather than the centre. Could also be a very wide CI, that overlaps with the standard dosage.
What companies like Nintendo should do is to sign up for OSS support services like https://www.tidelift.com/, and whether they have or haven’t we don’t know.

Sending out free consoles would just be a marketing gimmick, and could just as well backfire as “you can’t eat a console, do Nintendo really think consoles are the way to support open source maintainers?” etc
The point is, they offered a library with the MIT license, expecting money for it doesn't make sense.
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Perhaps you are right. "statically typed" (as well as other programming language attributes) can be taken for another search request keyword to find programming languages.
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I'd be interested in seeing how the funds were actually allocated, if the leaks actually leaked out of Facebook or if they managed to contain the leak.