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I fondly remember the days of the BBC Microcomputer. Typing out pages of code from a book. Then after fixing all the typo's finally being able to run a simple program. Modifying games by tinkering with the code is what inspired me to become a developer.
Apple's Copyright Infringement Claims Thrown Out by Court
Good end of year reminder! I’ll find some charities on GiveWell to max the deduction
I've been dreaming of something like this for a while. This is amazing. Thank you so much!
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horizon zero dawn was the first game I saw with such invasive privacy policy (no opt out, many unnecessary data collected), but I always wondered whether they're the first game to do it, or was only the first game to tell us.
How long does it take to vaccinate the whole population?

I did not look for better sources, but I read in this [1] CNN post that in 2021: AZ is producing 3 billion doses, Pfizer 1.3B and Moderna less than 1B.

So in total we are going to have 5 billion doses in 2021. Each person requires two doses. So we end up vaccinating around one third of the world's population. It seems to me even at the end of 2021 our lives will be still far from "normal".

Are there other promising vaccines on the way?

[1] https://us.cnn.com/2020/12/30/investing/premarket-stocks-tra...
Thank you, the review looks helpful.
This makes me think of the way that an experienced jazz musician can seemingly know an overwhelming amount of standards (common practice jazz songs). Or how jazz musicians are expected to pick up a tune on the spot even if they don't know it. The key to this seems to be that most jazz progressions are based on circle of fifths, or interlocking cells of CoF progressions. This would imply that there is a grammar of jazz chord sequences that experienced musicians use to play or fake a massive amount of repertoire without having to cram rote learning every day.
I hope this is just a narrow ruling based on the specific legal claim. It does make sense that you can skip having a separate consent step by making it part of the contract, if and only if the user is actually aware that is part of the terms (and no, the fiction that they will read through the legalese does not count). If the contract said something prominent like "Faceboot will process your data for purposes of publishing it to your friends", that would be reasonable consent to me. But it is obviously nonsensical for a user to be thinking they're signing up to interact with their friends, while insisting they're technically somehow contracting for "advertising services". There's also the severability part of the GDPR, where a user should be able to consent solely for the interaction with friends, while explicitly not consenting for these "advertising services".
Most of them, anyway.

I've been putting an Apple Watch SE through its initial paces over the past week and was mildly disappointed to find that only Series 6 ship with a Type C cable in the box - the SE uses Type A.

The same split is true for iPhone 12 Pro, so far as I can tell, even though (curiously) my 11 Pro from last year did include a 20W Type C Power Adapter in the box.
Biden is gonna spend four years giving the CCP everything they want
> Bonds have an interest rate on them

Exactly, and bonds are included in government debt. Hence this statement is wrong:

> Government debt have no interest

Also this statement is also wrong, since government bonds aren't money in circulation:

> National debt is simply the amount of the national currency in circulation.

Another proof about this statement being wrong: Sweden has currency worth just 1.26% of GDP in circulation, but about 35% of GDP in debt. If what you said was true that would be an impossibility. You are trying to spread falsehoods and even contradict yourself, that is a fact.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_krona
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The covid response did not depend on the opinion of a single person. The FHM is responsible, not Tegnell. This was clarified early during the pandemic (somewhere around May maybe?). The director of FHM essentially told everyone during the press conference that it was very shameful of "some people" to paint Tegnell as the sole responsible for "the failures of the swedish strategy". An example here disproving the "crazy scientist Tegnell myth" is that the messaging remained exactly the same even when Tegnell went on vacation during the summer.

Also, it's even more complicated since FHM don't have authority to tell other government institutions how to run their business. You could call them a governmental support function, if that helps.

Regarding that Swedish politicians are "free dumb" and "they can't do anything". We have laws that could impose lockdown in the event of war, but these laws do not apply to a pandemic/epidemic. My understanding is that Norway and Denmark have similar laws, just that they do apply to pandemics/epidemics. I don't think it is right for politicians to have the ability to lock up people when the law does not support it. We should have had a law that could be used during a pandemic but we didn't.

I also think that the asymptomatic carrier thing is more complex than you describe. I don't think a majority of the cases were from asymptomatic carriers and if you follow the recommendations (social distancing + wash your hands etc.) it wouldn't be a problem.
Over the last several years, I've stopped buying games that aren't on Linux. It's just too much of a hassle to be switching around when there's plenty of Linux-supported fun to be had.
You often have a choice of either exploring the unknown, with possible but uncertain rewards, or just work with what you already have, and try to exploit it as best as possible.

This is a common theme in machine learning and agent simulations, but can be found everywhere.

> Exploration involves activities such as search, variation, risk taking, experimentation, discovery, and innovation. Exploitation involves activities such as refinement, efficiency, selection, implementation, and execution

(from here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02560909155997...)
> My contract even forbids me to contribute to OSS

What, in your spare time? That seems... restrictive
Not mentioned in the article, but Amazon also hasn't fixed its problem with fake reviews at Audible either. Thousands of 5-star ratings are similarly worded blurbs by accounts with 1 or 2 book reviews.
I do hope you are right, this is so agonizing to watch.

The other concern I have are these cases with mild symptoms, but then becomes a psychotic issue several months later.

It seem to affect a small percentage, but a small percent of a big number can still be a big number.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/covid-psychosis-me...
Even when Amazon reviews are legitimate, keep in mind that the reviewer may have been looking for something different than you are. Plenty of times I've bought stuff expecting one level of quality based on review scores, but got something less--all because I had a higher standard of what should be a 5 than most of the people who bought that.
I mean, if that's truly the underlying belief system with regards to science of the signatories, I agree with you. But I think it's worth leaving open the possibility that what you highlight is an effect of the fallability of humans (which science is designed to help protect us against) and the "merit" stated in the letter is in fact the platonic ideal science sets out to attain - I would hope many scientists would acknowledge that the gap between this ideal and the reality is a problem, as you have.
Huge difference between art and war.

See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570038
I can see exactly how this has played out:

1) Someone at Nintendo learns about a "anonymous hacker conducting exploits against the 3DS"

2) Exec's panic because "anonymous hacker" and a history of piracy battles and consequently hire a private eye to find out about the person behind the exploiting

3) Private eye does their job and writes a detailed report in the style of a private eye

4) Nintendo uses information to establish communications with said hacker

Just Hanlon's razor at work
Stories November 1969: A Retro-Review
When the police have qualified immunity, public apathy, one of the only unions left with teeth, and an authoritarian complex from President on down, this is the “proper outcome”.
Ask HN: Am I special in finding bugs early or is software just so bad?
I seem to have this "special" ability to find bugs in all sorts of systems pretty early on. This seems to be so pronounced that even outside observers confirm it. IOW, I have a reputation amongst some of my friends and collegues to be the one guy that can easily break things. Now, this is a bit esotheric, I know, so I am suspicious. I hear folklore that people like this are sometimes hired to put their ability to good use. I guess my question is, is this a real thing? Or is software really that broken these days and some poeple are better at ignoring situations where a system is behaving strangely?

I sometimes wish I could feed my bug list upstream somehow. I am a iOS VoiceOver user. Some of the bugs I discovered 8 years ago are still present, and the list is slowly growing. I sometimes wish I could fly over to Apple, sit down with the dev team for a week, and get all of these small to medium hickups fixed. And Apple is just one example. I guess I could do that with almost everything I use daily.
But this raises a question: are we passed the point where software is so broken that expecting it to behave relatively bug-free is an illusion? Why is it that I can unbox a new product, start the configuration process and find 3 UI hickups in 10 minutes? Why do I see these, and the QA group does not?
Not to mention what competition is there to have over raping? Shooting games are purely competitive, a competitive raping game just sounds dumb.
Microsoft became successful because everyone wanted BASIC, and they were the main vendor able to quickly provide compact versions for the main CPUs in use.

The idea they "pushed it" onto the home micro scene is nonsense - Microsoft was small enough to be pushed around by much larger vendors at the time, and were cheap.

Jack Tramiel at Commodore infamously received an offer for $3 per unit, and supposedly countered with a $25k offer for a perpetual license (they did end up negotiating a new agreement when releasing the C128, as the license only applied to versions of BASIC already released at the time it was entered into, but by then they'd shipped millions of units).
Hmm. We've had a pretty good experience with it on somewhat large deployment in the field. What issues did you run into? Just not fast enough? Or functionality/configururation issues?
Vaccination passports. You won't be able to travel without getting the jab. One step closer to being chipped, which is the end goal of the technocratic cultural engineers.
Does this only emulate "local" same-screen multiplayer games, or can it also emulate the LAN-style dedicated-screen multiplayer games that supported the PS1's obscure Playstation Link Cable?[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Link_Cable
Those RFIDs make it possible to not just scan them when the article gets bought, but also to very easily scan the inventory of the whole store by just walking through the store with a scanner.

Just as useful, although currently still more likely to be done with barcode scanners is to identify the products in the logistics chain. Right now you need scanning ports with at least 4 cameras/scanners or humans manually scanning each barcode, with RFIDs the port would be simplified further.
"Literally" is carrying too much weight there.

They made extremely clear, however, that they thought a Clinton victory in 2016 would be dangerous for the world, while a Trump victory would reign in the worst tendencies of liberal leadership.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...
> where you have 26 of them, they are single letter prefixes to files and not hierarchical

ADFS supported hierarchical directories with name limits the same as files (IIRC 10 characters?).

Sounds like you are thinking of the earlier DFS.

> hard to unlearn line numbers

That seems odd. Where was your sticking point with them?

I started out with BBC BASIC, eventually with a little 6502 assembly for a few bits & bobs, and had no trouble at all seeing the benefit of dropping that bit of structure when I started tinkering with QuickBasic and then C on a PC.

In fact if you had a BBC machine new enough to support ADFS, then you had one with a BBC BASIC version that supported procedures and functions in a way that allowed line numbers to be effectively ignored (no GOTO/GOSUB needed) in many cases. In fact there were methods to write without them (write the code in a text editor, like the one built in to the Master series, I forget its name, then TYPE it from the file to "add" the line numbers for the interpreter to like).
Part of the problem is that the period is overloaded. Massively overloaded. And not in a BNF (or other regular syntax) style that makes sentence breaks mechanically identifiable.

Even a period-space-capital method is far from foolproof, Mr. Anderson.
Overwhelming support for Unsubscribe. Moved higher in the issue backlog!
In many of the cases where I've done this, I've had a worse experience. With one company, I wanted to return the product because it was defective but was never able to actually contact anyone. With another, it arrived broken and I was never able to get the company to replace it. In either scenario, Amazon makes it easy to correct the problem.

I want to support manufacturers more directly, but their customer service has continued to be lacking.
Most of the world doesn't think like that, and referring to a major battle the US won in what is probably the single most justified war in US history as "problematic" make you sound like a nazi.

Edit: specifically the line "referring as it does to the World War II battle in which US forces defeated the Japanese."
The same thing happened to Ebay and Etsy - once they reached a certain level of popularity based on the original premise it turned into a outlet for cheap junk.

I've taken to finding as much as I can at places that DO NOT have a "marketplace" such as Target or Home Depot.
> Is there another language/library that spells it dequeue?

Yes.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/dequeue
https://api.jquery.com/dequeue/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.queue-1.dequeue?view=net-5.0
SQLite does have an in-memory option but you don’t want to use that here, otherwise it won’t actually be persistent. It’d get destroyed when the app restarts. You want SQLite to persist to a file.

I think OP meant stop as in “unsubscribe”. Ability to unsubscribe is required by law in a lot of places, I’d definitely want to have that in place.

This kind of use case falls under “transactional email” and there are lots of providers you can use for that. Mailgun, AWS SES, Postmark, Sendgrid, and a ton of others. They’re purpose-built for sending one-off emails like this.
The Impossible Mirror Scene in 'Contact'
I worked for a startup that sold a food product direct, with a significant part of sales on Amazon. We decided to switch our standard size from 12 packs to 8 packs to better fit our customers consumption habits.

But on Amazon that meant creating new listings for new SKUs, abandoning hundreds of positive comments/ratings on each 12 pack flavor SKU, which would crush sales for a while.

So instead we let inventory run out for each 12 pack SKU, then shipped replacement 8 pack SKUs, and renamed the SKUs from 12 packs to eight packs.

They still had some reviews praising them for having a dozen packs, which was weird but the ratings were still there.
Eh yes that's the UK as I mentioned.
Which CoD doesn’t end the mission if you shoot civilians? I’ve played US versions of every CoD and remember it being this way.
I think we should let the individual decide based on their own situation. Taking away the choice to own a gun for self defense, or suggesting in a blanket statement that people should sell their gun or make it inaccessible (useless for self defense), is not something I support. Maybe your perspective is different, and that's fine.

That French page is not very useful - total numbers of firearm deaths is not as important as looking at suicide rates. Suicide rates between the US and France are 13.7 and 12.1 respectively (WHO 2016 data). That doesn't seem like a very big difference, especially if you consider the large difference in guns per 100 people (US 120, France 19, suggesting weak correlation). You also see developed countries in that data which have low gun ownership and higher suicide rates (Sweden, Japan, etc). This seems to point to factors other than gun ownership driving suicide rates.

The New York article is looking at short term reduction studies. We see that suicides drop temporarily after a prevalent method of suicide has been removed. If we follow the rate over time, it will increase as people learn of new ways to kill themselves. In the US, we have recently seen an increase in teens gassing themselves with household chemicals. It just takes time for societal knowledge to perform that shift, so you end up playing a shell game.

The best way to reduce suicides is to focusing on getting at-risk individuals treatment. The starting point is to destigmatize the subject and educate people on the options. Addressing the root problems are more effective than addressing the symptoms, which just ends up going down a never-ending rabbit hole of banning the next method to replace the last. There are a number of mental health workers who agree.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-brain/201607...
Scott Kuindersma shared some high level details of how they do some of the stuff they have done in their demos in this talk https://youtu.be/EGABAx52GKI

He doesn’t say exactly how they have done things on the low-level, but there is enough to go out digging into what he and other people have published.
Yep, in casual text conversations (i.e. chatting with friends) I sometimes use extra spaces between words or sentences as a stylistic choice to express tone.
one of the reasons why reading negative reviews is often helpful: there you often can figure out if the complaints about quality are from people with your standards or from people with higher ones. (after you filter out all the people who don't understand the difference between a product review and a review of their local postal service of course...)
Does this mean Pycharm et al. will also have support?
Many have. This is more or less how I learn every new programming language. Generative music is really fun and immediate. Anyway, I think the first time I ever saw anyone introduce recursion into music generation was Giles Bowkett's Archaeopteryx. That was way back in the days when Ruby was still young and cool. He did some interesting stuff for keeping a stable clock in ruby using recursion without blowing up the stack, but also managed to use the same technique for generating variations on probabilistic sequences. Pick your language and you will find people doing small projects like this all over the place.
List of retracted Covid-19 papers grows past 70
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In general, yes. Politics aren't really on the discussion list here.
so what changed these situations? it wasn't violent revolution.
>It would be one thing to do this in the natsec context, where such an approach is understandable, but it is another for a private company to surveil and intimidate someone who has legally purchased hardware. Video games are amazing entertainment and (sometimes) art, but their importance in the big picture is out of sync with the disproportionate nature of these measures.

"show me the incentives I will show you the outcome" or something like that.

Capability trickles down over time thanks to technological progress constantly making things cheaper and more accessible. No surprise that BigCo is constantly nipping at the heels of the kind of stuff that 20yr ago was so resource intensive it was reserved for state sponsored actors.

Both types of organizations have responsibility spread so thinly that they will behave as badly as they can justify in pursuit of their goals. Obviously Nintendo isn't gonna slip polonium in this guy's tea for hacking and France isn't gonna drone an ex-pat on a beach in Miami, the risk/reward doesn't favor that kind of behavior. But something like sending PIs to tail him is clearly fair game by Nintendo's analysis or they wouldn't have done it.
Since forever? Whiskey Rebellion, Kent State, etc.

More recently, since 1967: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
i’d have trouble keeping line length limits in docstrings.
Best of Machine Learning in 2020: Reddit Edition
It's like Linux wasn't even an operating system until we had systemd!
There are a lot of places that are intolerant of men, would you suggest they be banned too?
There's no scenario where AI become sensient through realization that one group of human is harming the other and refuses to act ?
> Hyperbole

Fwiw, I completely agree!
> as many of these tests show

The tests appear to compare ZFS and ext4 and clang and gcc as much as FreeBSD and Linux.
Their hiring process works well for a very limited number of people, especially in core IT positions. I am working with Amazon (they are my supplier in an IT project) and I have friends who work for Amazon, core IT people are very good, project managers are a mixed bag, the "business oriented" people are hit or miss, some are good and some are plain incompetent. This is because they are probably too large and hire too many people and they cannot always be too picky (a friend is a hiring manager and he is complaining how hard is to find competent people).

That being said, the problem is not very complex to solve, but the motivation is fairly low: they get a percentage of everything is sold, at some point that income can be a lot larger than the damage a few news articles usually do.
A Secretive Company’s Impact on Congo’s Election
To be honest, that doesn't sound so straightforward to me. Going the other way and implementing Set on top of HashMap is comparably trivial, making those kind of API acrobatics unnecessary.
I had a power strip catch fire. Posted photos and the seller tried desperately to get me to take them down. Monetary offers transitioned to creepy comments about my social media activity to try and freak me out.
None of what you say aligns with disappearing people. NATO can easily do its role without that. In fact you can argue that NATO states like US/UK/Turkey which have disappeared people are very unlikely to do it against peer adversaries like Russia, China etc because of the risk of blow back. It's far more common to it to groups deemed as terrorist, Latin American countries etc.

Similarly countries like Sweden and Japan are well armed and not in the business of disappearing people.
Pretty happy that new frontends for reddit are showing up on web like they were for android. Used teddit[1] recently and personally I enjoy it more but I'm glad libreddit exists too. And gladder that it seems to work A-okay without JavaScript enabled.

[1]: https://teddit.net/
Occurring to the AP this is inaccurate,

> Jacob Yount, an associate professor of the department of microbial infection and immunity at Ohio State University, College of Medicine, has studied the syncytin proteins as well as SARS-CoV-2. Yount said the COVID vaccines do not contain syncytin-1 protein or mRNA encoding syncytin-1, and thus there is no reason to think that an immune response against syncytin-1 would be developed.

> “We don’t see infertility with the flu vaccine and that is also targeting a viral fusion protein in a similar way that the spike is a viral fusion protein of the coronavirus,” he said.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-9856420671