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Or even in modern movies with CGI-enhanced characters.

Gollum moves as if his enormous head was empty, because the actor doing the motion capture didn't wear a heavy helmet.

In "Rust and Bones", Marion Cotillard plays a character that loses her legs after an accident, and she has her legs removed by CGI, but there are scenes where she's carried by Matthias Schoenaerts that look unnatural, out of balance.
This just isn't true. No firm wants to enter a perfectly competitive market, because the expected long-run profit margin is zero. If a firm loves competition, they are free to increase competition in their market at any time by giving away their patents, copyrights, tech, etc. They don't do these things because they don't want competition.
Just because a bunch of people claim to love competition doesn't make it true.

Regarding the rule of law, some pretty disgusting things have been done for private investment (i.e. capitalism.) Banana republics come to mind.

This "broken capitalism" claim is essentially a no-true-Scotsman fallacy. Real-world capitalism didn't play out like the perfect scenario in our heads, so blame it on "broken capitalism" or "crony capitalism". In truth, the system yields flawed results like everything else.
You're lying again. Maybe you just don't know what the word Commutation means. Let me help: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/commutation
It's hard to know how much of the lag is A) holidays, B) reporting delays, C) logistics delays (allocation to the state isn't delivery to the point of care), vs D) ramping/administration delays.

I suspect many more doses have been given but not reported (B), and a lot more of the shortfall can be explained by A & C.

If that's true, we're going to be production limited very soon... though the decision to hold back more than half of the doses doesn't help.

Reaching phase 1B will help, too, because it will mean the opening of mass vaccination clinics, which can run in parallel to the remaining portion of 1A which is more targeted and logistically complicated. E.g. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds are set up for high throughput drive-through COVID testing and plans are to use the same infrastructure that can host massive numbers of cars and lanes to have massive numbers vaccinated and waiting out their 20 minute observation time. This site will be able to do thousands of doses per day-- >0.3% of the County's population per day-- alone, which exceeds the number of doses we can be expected to be allocated for quite some time.

Johnson and Johnson is the best hope for another near-term EUA, which could significantly improve vaccine supply in February.
Apple loses lawsuit alleging iOS copyright infringement
> The half-dose/full-dose regimen was a mistake in a clinic administering the trial, though.

More on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25548342
You still have to rebuild the infrastructure from scratch. So yes, we can piss off all the new users by reclaiming the right of ways (technically). But there's still a huge cost in recreating what was torn up to make it useful for a different purpose. My own opinion is that between the "piss off new users" and "cost of rebuilding", these right of ways will stay "rails to trails" forever. Which, again, isn't a bad thing.
I would easily pay 0.0005 per solve if it meant I don't have to deal with a captcha again when browsing.
ACE-2 is a popular target for blood-pressure related medications, but I highly doubt the vaccine is creating enough spike proteins to cause a systemic effect. Otherwise you'd see people showing up with oxygenation and other blood/lung related issues, just like actual COVID patients. You just create a little bit of spike protein to give your immune system a benign target to work off of.
I would love to see a series of "20 years later" posts on a bunch of different fields. Where was the field at in 2000, where did they think they were going, where are they now? Related: what are the fields that did fade or have a major change where they may not even be around now.
When I wrote my comment, it was using reply.account.username, which I would guess is safe. Now it’s using a properly escaped reply.account.display_name (good job there, ognarb), which I expect could otherwise contain < and &.
Much harder to make the machine that makes the machine. Mass manufacturing these robots is probably unlikely at this time.
Agree. Nearly all the work of programming I have done is related to the task of trying to figure out the business problem in enough extreme detail to provide a solution.

The main lever to improve productivity for me as a developer are open source tools, commercial APIs, and similar things. This isn't reducing the amount of programming, it's just moving it around.

Magically 1,000x faster computers would maybe help me be 20% more productive.
> The tomato paste on a pizza was recently ruled a vegetable too, depending on its volume.

This has been going on for just about 40 years now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable
Amazing story, and if your profile is current you have one of the more interesting jobs on HN.
The ironic thing is, the genetics that are making
us unhealthy, are the exacts ones that made us healthy and able to survive when calories were scarce and intermittent.
Eh, I don't post often, but I have to reply this. Please don't normalize that behavior. It's not funny. That's like a bully.

It's only acceptable for him to do that because of his position. Imagine a factory worker doing that to the CEO "just cause it's funny". That's the same with other funny-but-inappropriate behaviors we should discourage at work.
Super tragic for sure. Seems like something was screwed up because the goal was to flatten the curve below hospital capacity, not merely delay the spike until later. At this point it seems like LA will probably be another Italy or NYC.
My reading of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinWin was that it was more like an embedded device that does in fact use Linux as the kernel but throws out the userspace and runs busybox + custom code, or even further like https://gokrazy.org/ - at which point it is Linux, but ... I mean, there's a reason why people don't think of Android as being a Linux system.
Ah, I see the confusion in what I’ve said. Yes the IO calls themselves are blocking but you can easily wrap them in separate OS threads.

The GVL will release when the IO call blocks allowing another OS thread, including the parent, to continue.

That allows you to make blocking calls in parallel but is heavier weight than using the new scheduler and fibres for those parallel IO calls.

In the case of ActiveRecord I think it’s down to the database driver implementation, anyone who knows care to comment?
Same, but for Canadian card holders: https://www.mastercard.ca/en-ca/about-mastercard/what-we-do/...
I think you've lost sight of the original context of this thread. Here's the top comment:

> As long as companies Apple are not legally responsible for their supply chain in front of developed countries’ courts nothing will change.

Of course Americans can and should decry Chinese slave labour camps, but you've just finished explaining why the American slave labour issue is a lot easier to address and deal with, so if they can't get that one sorted out I don't have high hopes for their chances of enforcing legal responsibility when dealing with China.
Exactly. I cringed when I read that. I'd never treat one of my employees that way (or allow an employee of mine to treat a subordinate that way).
The right answer is for the near-trillion dollar company to stop calling what is not a road a road I'd think rather than a rural landowner to have to go thru the expense of putting up a gate!
https://web.archive.org/web/20201214014408/https://twitter.c...

Don't know what you were hoping to show with this comment, maybe you were unaware that there were archive links of her tweets.

In any case, Domingos wasn't wrong, yet for some reason you seem far less willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, while asking others to do so for people you seem to agree with. Even in this case, for a person who clearly doesn't deserve it. I am curious as to why.
That's going to create more social unrest for China and blocking out the west only resulted in more demand. The unground economy just gets bigger.

For the NBA dealing with covid this is a drop in the bucket and perhaps it's better this happened now because it kinda of forces the NBA to push into other markets. Surprised the NBA/Africa don't have a stronger relationship.
As someone who works in mapping in fire and rescue, I run into this problem constantly. It's fine for an established city, largely speaking. However, you get out into the country (and I use that term fairly loosely) and roads will be labeled incorrectly (I saw one that had the name of another road a mile off once, that was fun) and its idea of what is and is not vehicle-worth can be ... optimistic.
when Ballmer took over MS was right after the anti-trust fiasco. There was a time when people were not sure if the software giant was going to survive. They did under Ballmer.

From a sales pov, the company also grew and prospered. Microsoft had phenomenal growth while under Ballmer.

It's easy to remember all the things he botched (hello iphone?) but if you look at it objectively I think Ms did survive and prospered under Ballmer.
DNS hijacked on GoDaddy?
By that standard, is a Hyper-V server running Windows? AFAIK, that's also just running NT as a guest.
Wow, that's beautiful. Any idea how they did it? Were they all hand drawn? Is there cartography software that does this sort of thing these days?
Absence of choice. Necessity.
Not sure where you're getting your data, but it's incorrect.

It was not considered a failure. There have been some questions about what the best dosage and timing might be for the highest effectiveness, but I've heard the UK may approve it as early as tomorrow.

The USA may wait until the trial being run inside the USA is completed, but that has more to do with ensuring the vaccine is safe and works on their wide demographics than any concerns with how the UK and Brazil studies were done.
Overall, it’s a good thing to encourage obligations of organizations to be diligent about cyber security.

However, I think comparing cyberspace attacks to meatspace burglaries (in the not-Ocean’s 11 sense) and negligence is an unfair comparison.

It’s like a cat and mouse game in actuality. Even with good defenses, determined attackers could still keep banging at the gates trying to get in. There are also attackers that have a good deal of sophistication and ‘cyber arsenals’ to go after these bigger orgs - including nation-states and large crime rings.

In a meatspace analogy: If someone owned a staffing agency, they might require employee ID badges, set 2FA, and have cameras in a building... but probably have no contingency plans for the Russian government attacking them or criminals with a wrecking ball smashing through the walls.
If you look carefully, you can also see reflections on the robot's visors.
Pretty obvious to me that this text being misleading is deliberate. Certainly went through some expensive lawyers to get it just barely defensible enough.
> The new vaccines were 90 percent and 94.5 percent effective, said Mr. Paul, Republican of Kentucky and a trained ophthalmologist. And “naturally acquired” Covid-19 was 99.9982 percent effective, he claimed.

This is a good point, since you can't get COVID a second time if you're dead.
It's conceivable that this study's results apply only to video games with sufficiently unrealistic depictions of violence. The newest Assassin's Creed depicts human violence more realistically than anything I've ever seen before. It's still not quite there, but once we get there, maybe the psychological effects will be different.
I guess if it's anonymized they just want to find patterns. So if 70% of men aged 40-65 who "flies to the Bahamas often" also like to eat at the local 5-star restaurant there, they can go to that restaurant and tell them to either join the Visa Perks experience to reach the other 30%, or maybe tell them to put out ads at the airport. You can even tell them which months these visitors like to come, so you can time those ads...
It's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across the river
i live in canada, but this matches my experience in normal times... my brother had a bike accident and cracked his head off a car and we walked into a nearby hospital with blood running down his face, he was concussed such that he kept asking me where he parked.. and the triage nurse said, "just go home, unless you want to spend 3-4 hours waiting to see someone". we left. so the issue of hospital capacity seems to go way beyond covid, imo
In that section of the article they are discussing labor internal to the prison, specifically maintenance and daily chores. Yes, it is true, while in prison you do not have a choice but to participate in that kind of labor and refusal will not help you be released early for "good behavior" or anything similar.

External labor, the kind discussed here - contracted by a 3rd party for money - is voluntary.
As an outside observer to both these political and political cultural camps, often "woke" means different things to each camp.
As someone who has been profoundly Deaf since infancy, i found your description of auditory testing to be spot on.

I am not an expert by experience but what you have described sounds like a possible Auditory Processing Disorder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder). Experts in this disorder are very limited but there are strategies available for managing APD. However there is rarely a silver bullet for hearing disorders.
>Equating slavery with forced labour belittles the gravity and awfulness of what actual slavery is (or was).

Doesn't matter. That's a crap argument.

First, because enlarging some things (which necessitates belittling others) can help put an end to them.

Second, because forced labor and slavery are not that far off anyway. Both are depriving a person of their agency and steal their time and effort.

Third, because slavery itself was historically a spectrum. There were "domestic slaves" (sorta like Stephen in Django), cooks, nannys, teachers and "butler" types in charge of estate work in ancient Rome and Greece, etc.) that were treated and worked more or less like modern employees (except from the forced labor), even slaves in management of other slaves, and slaves that were chained, worked to the bone, beaten, raped, etc.
An extra 10+ months to gain experience and increase capacity made a huge difference in the 3rd spike. If this had happened 8 months ago things would have been vastly worse nationally.

Further, this is very much a flattened curve. We could have easily seen 2 or more times the current rates of infection back then.
I thought this article had some good counterpoints about the claim Bitcoin uses too much energy

https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co...

> Dams can only store so much potential energy in the form of water before they must let it out. It’s an open secret that this otherwise-wasted energy has been put to use mining Bitcoin. If your local energy cost is effectively zero but you cannot sell your energy anywhere, the existence of a global buyer for energy is a godsend.

> [detractors] are mum when it comes to the energy used to illuminate Christmas lights, to power the data centers behind Netflix or to distribute untold millions of single-serve meal kits. It’s clear that because Bitcoin’s footprint is so easy to quantify...it is singled out for special treatment.
And proteins have two major parts; the sequence of amino acids that they’re composed of, and how they’re folded. This folding detail is no small thing, as proteins don’t do the right thing when they’re folded wrong.
Haven't people been sent to jail for doing this much or less? I recall something happening to a guy who probed AT&T's phone number registry or something?
I had heard that the FDA rejected the outside the US data, stating it would not be sufficient for approval. They are supposed to be in constant communication with the regulators, so nobody is submitted EUA until its basically a sure thing.
"Raspberry Pi", yes. But they don't have a trademark on "anything Pi".
[deleting a frustrated and sarcastic comment I shouldn't have made]
are you talking about ducted fans? if so I've wondered the same thing. here's a plausible answer: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/36726/why-dont-....
I'm really trying to make the point that there is evidence that vaccination reduces spread, if you open your mind a little.

My use of sarcasm is maybe not the best way to convey that, but I am who I am.
The answer is to put the burden of cost on the victim?
It's ok. If you start to suffer from a persistent autoimmune reaction, I'm sure there's a therapeutic you can take for the rest of your life that only costs about 30k a month.
Short-term thinking.

US semiconductor manufacturers would have had a long and prosperous time selling billions of dollars worth of semiconductors to Huawei and other Chinese companies.

China won't make up its lack of semiconductor manufacturing for a few years to come. But when their time comes, their newer fabs will easily undercut the prices of their previous US monopoly suppliers. And the US semiconductor industry will go the way of all of the other previous 'outsourced to China' industries.
If only we knew how to prevent this. Ten months ago.
This is very true. I don't think there are any examples of pure capitalism.

I don't typically speak of pure capitalism when discussing the topic. Most of the time when people say they want to change away from capitalism they are actually talking about the current system. Often when they talk about ending capitalism they are actually talking about slightly increasing the mix of socialism.

But there is a strong sentiment that our current system is inherently broken due to the level of capitalism it currently contains. I would argue that it's the best system we've ever had. By that I mean the mix of capitalism and socialism we have in the western world. All the varying mixes that exist have been wild successes compared to any historical systems. Also noting that changing too fast could be dangerous.

Much of the language is used inaccurately, something I'm very guilty of, so it is hard to assess what change people are hoping to achieve. I've heard a scary amount of poorly thought out claims that we have a suitable replacement for our current mix of capitalism and socialism. I'm afraid that could lead to similar problems that the Soviets faced. I could be wrong so all I call for is caution.
Because the bill says "you can't use slave labor" but also "you can't audit your supply chain to determine if slave labor is being used because audits are unreliable" so the only way to comply with a bill like that would be to completely pull out of China. Apple is desperately trying to do this with Vietnam and India plants but it doesn't happen overnight.
Context makes every difference here. I could very easily imagine some lower level employee doing this to a CEO and getting a laugh out of it. Context and relationship.

EDIT: not that im saying Steve was in the right, who knows what their relationship was like
>Prison labor is compensating for crimes committed against society and other people

Strange how this "just" system getting inmates "compensating for crimes committed against society and other people", ended up with 25% of the world's prison population in a country with a mere 4% of the world's population.

Not to mention this 25% seems also racially targeted - predominantly blacks and latinos...
>me a little sad more people are not aware of the ridiculously cool technical advancements going on lately

"The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/01/24/future-has-arrived/
one could argue that Windows is the most popular consumer OS even today (keep in mind the HN is not representative for what people normally run).

Also, a decade later, Microsoft is experiencing a software renaissance, in part, due to the the work Ballmer setup. One example: Azure. In the cloud space there are 2 gorillas: AWS and Azure (everything else is vaporware and at this point I don't think it would be wise to bet the farm on GCP or ... Oracle). How did Azure get here? Do you think they decided to do cloud and it happened magically?

Another example: the XBOX. I personally will never but a PS, and I believe XBOX is awesome in this space.
Hope you're picking up the terms from Real Steel (2011). I think BD now has the technology to build a device similar to the ones depicted in that movie, if they wanted to.
MinWin is arguably the windows kernel without most of the userspace. Though it's still massive and contains a lot of userspace: 25MB on disk, 40MB in memory.

The xbox kernel has absolutely no connection, it forked off at a completely different point and was hacked and slashed until it fits into just 256KB.
Very nice layout and presentation, thanks!
Let me guess: You wouldn’t have ended up making a million dollars a year.
AWS instances run Windows too. And MS makes money off those instances. Also, Azure runs Linux too. Microsoft is in the post-Windows phase and it's working on things that will keep it relevant long term
Flip flop: the un-Australian history of the rubber thong
>What does any of this have to do with the Chinese Communist Party literally forcing slaves to pick cotton

So, sorta like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_State_Penitentiary
> Seems like something was screwed up because the goal was to flatten the curve below hospital capacity, not merely delay the spike until later.

Yes, people are screwed up.

You have antimask morons protesting grocery stores. [1]

The goal of flattening the curve was to flatten the curve...we never really did that. We gave it a shot until everyone got bored or were deemed essential or had a pre-existing condition of being poor.

[1] https://citizen.com/-MPkpO03IQfFeYb_MLWT
Ouch that doesn't sound good. I hope things get better for you.
This is the most dodgy looking “enter your CC info” site to ever exist.

I can’t imagine why /s
You could be right but I have found almost this exact bug in production systems (credit card oracle sitting on the public Internet of a big card processor with no rate limiting and a really obvious timing delta). Both scenarios (batch or live processing) are pretty likely IMO. Just depends on what mess of APIs you happen to end up on.
That could work only if the city ordinance allowed it. If not, they can request a variance hearing with the city officials to explain them the situation and (hopefully) get approved.
I can think of two reasons why a hypothetical future AGI would care in the slightest about its own survival.

The first reason is that someone programs it to, just as a general "might as well throw in Asimov's Third Law" impulse.

The second reason would be in the case that someone creates a general AGI, it is asked to do something, and it carelessly destroys itself in accomplishing that task. "Drats," say the programmers, "we'll have to get a copy from backup. In the meantime, let's make sure it doesn't destroy itself next time."
I now realize how lucky I am to have worked with great people. The worst job I had was just boring.
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I would argue the article correctly points out that the tendency of capitalism via the prism of Amazon is to concentrate wealth and power and undermine the justifications that it grew out of.