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At worst he is deluded or overstates the benefits and understates the negatives of the IP system but 'evil' is clearly a massive exaggeration given that he clearly does try to do good rather than hold this view to profit personally.
A good indication of an anti-trust violation, if there ever was one!
Python was intended for education originally. It's possible that some uses are just too far outside that wheelhouse to expect it to work well forever. Doubtful I'll ever write desktop GUIs in PHP for example, though it appears some have already done it.
It's literally going to hurt the future of music/art that has working class roots more than it will that of people who can afford to go longer without making money before finding success.

To frame it like the person you replied to did, as working class people vs. elite artists, is incredibly shortsighted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25874105
You can lose a game and not be a "loser". You can fail and not be a failure.

We used to teach that, not tell everyone they did good for participating

Somehow we've lost the distinction between the outcome and the person.
Speed was the most important thing?

Teaming up with a large drug company was the fastest way to determine if the drug was safe, effective and get it manufactured.
That's like asking, what do you use your 3-room apartment for? Can you not just do with 1 room and a large cupboard?
It looks like probably around $3000/year.

https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-online/buy
Work that’s PD in the US but not in Germany. German rights-holders took PG to court (or rather, a poor German sysadmin for PG), court demanded PG pull the titles for Germany, PG refused saying that it was down to the users to determine PD status for their home country, and because of HTTPS the German court’s only option was to block PG at the domain level.
It's an article in The Guardian that's critical of Brexit. You're not supposed to actually read it, just skim the headline, have that confirm how terrible post-Brexit life will be and then carry on with the rest of your day with a feeling of moral-superiority over the plebs who voted for Brexit.
An electric field is a field within which charged particles experience a force.

Voltage is the energy difference per unit charge between 2 points.

Current is the amount of charge passing a point per unit time.
The article has one throw away line supporting the headline and then a lot of fluff. The WSJ journal article has a lot more background on the various parties behind this and the financial incentives.

www.wsj.com/amp/articles/oxford-developed-covid-vaccine-then-scholars-clashed-over-money-11603300412

>One longtime Oxford donor, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was assisting with Covid-19 efforts globally. In March, Prof. Bell says Trevor Mundel, head of the foundation’s global-health program, told him, “You guys need a partner.”

>Prof. Bell says he told Profs. Gilbert and Hill that they had a conflict of interest in any talks between Oxford and potential partners, because of their ownership stake in Vaccitech.

> Prof. Bell also didn’t want Vaccitech at the negotiating table, and considered it inconceivable that the company, with just a few dozen staff, could help coordinate a global vaccine rollout.

> After 10 days of talks, AstraZeneca agreed to commit to global distribution that wouldn’t favor any one country or region. It also agreed to provide the vaccine at cost during the pandemic, or at least until next summer, pending terms they were still hashing out. U.K. government officials worked on a deal to pay up-front for doses.

> Details of Oxford’s agreement with AstraZeneca are private. But a company spokesman said it guarantees to sell at no profit the roughly 3 billion doses for which it already has agreements in place.

>The big drugmaker offered a sweetener: It said that as long as Vaccitech signed over its Covid-19 vaccine rights to Oxford to enable an exclusive license, AstraZeneca in turn promised to explore ways to collaborate with the small biotech firm, according to an agreement signed by Dr. Pangalos. The nonbinding agreement cited “AstraZeneca’s potential participation in Vaccitech’s proposed Series B financing.”

> “The university didn’t enter this discussion with the idea of making a ton of money,” Prof. Bell says. But it didn’t want to be naïve, either: “Let’s say [the vaccine] becomes a seasonal coronavirus vaccine, and it sells a billion dollars a year. For us to be sitting there and making no money looks pretty dumb.”
It’s little sad the americans primary source of community is work... maybe remote work can help y’all fix your priorities
As much as I’m sure Gates is a cutthroat bastard, I’m sure this was about distribution. Without IP exclusivity there’s no incentive for pharma distribution.
But keeping track of where the mouse pointer is is much easier using a virtual desktop.
> You’re trading “py2 vs py3” with “py2 mode vs py3 mode”.

Yes, that's the whole point. Because compatible modes allow for a gradual transition. Which in practice allows for a much faster transition, because you don't have to transition everything at once (which puts some people off transitioning entirely - making things infinitely harder for everyone else).

Languages like Rust (editions) and JavaScript (strict mode) have done this successfully and relatively painlessly.

> So you’d have some magic code that switches py2str to bytes. Which means every py3 caller has to cast bytes into a string to do anything useful with it, because returning strings is the most common case. Then that code has to be removed when the code it’s calling is updated to py3 mode. Which is basically the blue/green issue you see with async functions but way, way worse.

Well yes, you'd still have to upgrade your code. That goes with a major version bump. But it would allow you to do it on a library-by-library basis rather than forcing you to wait until every dependency has a v3 version. Have that one dependency that keeping you stuck on v2: no problem, upgrade everything else and wrap that one lib in conversion code.

> Then you’d need to handle subclasses, wrappers of bytes/str, returning collections of strings across py2/py3 boundaries (would these be copies? Different types? How would type(value[0]) work?), ending up with mixed lists/dicts of bytes and strings depending on the function context, etc etc.

I'm not sure I understand the problem here. The types themselves are the same between python 2 and 3 (or could have been). It's just the labels that refer to them that are different. A subclass of string in python 2 code would just be a subclass of bytes in python 3 code.
Perhaps my grammer isn't as sharp as it should be, but I don't understand how "go in" would be any different. We say "please go in" and "please go into the room" without any issues, I think. What is fundamentally different between "sign in" and "go in" leading to this style guide not also discouraging "go into?"

I don't interpret a meaningful difference between "can not" and "cannot," nor between "any more" and "anymore;" thus, I don't find a meaningful difference between "in to" and "into."
It's not about the source; it's about the application. The intention with wine is to let gas layer in the bottle, not introducing it into the liquid directly.
The HN headline has been editorialized to emphasise Bill Gates's contribution, when this was a decision of the University of Oxford.
You could though probably make a wrapper that only kicks in when dd is called from the command line (as opposed to, say, from a script or some GUI program) and asking a confirmation "Do you really want to overwrite your main drive?", without breaking backward compatibility?

I have written a few wrappers like that on my own system preventing me from making a few common mistakes of mine (like scp'ing a file locally to a filename ressembling an IP address instead of on a remote server ;)
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Looks like Weylus is what you're looking for:

https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus
Because vaccines are not good business for pharma companies (single dose, no return customers) but it is very good for society at large (and specifically for the economy)

So government, which represents the public good invest the money so this will happen.

But free market fanatics like gates cannot allow any solution which "does not compute" from that (your) perspective.
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Well, I wouldn't own a 3-room apartment if I could change those rooms with a keystroke and effectively own a 9+ room apartment.
Note that the Astrazeneca share price is about the same now as it was before the pandemic. So if there is some fortune to be made out of the vaccine, it seems the stock market has not yet noticed.
We tried all the various boxes and found ones we like (bota maybe - the wife buys it), mainly white wines. They seem to keep in the refrigerator fine for a couple of weeks.

Haven't really found a box/bag red that I like enough to keep buying. Instead I keep a bottle of some sort of red on hand so I can have a 1/2 glass with whatever food I cook that night.

Additionally, I order cases of more unique wines from b21 and keep it on hand for special occasions.
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words aren't uni-semantic, they are poly-semantic.

"Guys" as said in one context resolves to the meaning "people". In another, "men".

It is pretty much always clear when a speaker means one or the other.

As with, eg., "bank". No banker is complaining about the "collapsing banks" of a river.

It is pretty clearly an opportunistic misreading of "guys" to accuse a speaker of some how implying "men", or even "men" as a plausible implication.

It is only in the eye of the "feminist of language" do words fail to have contextual meanings; and it is this eye we should be suspicious of, rather than any possible double meaning.
Sources? This article seems light on evidence and long on drawing conclusions.
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GNOME Web has implemented it though, so that could give some hope that this is feasible for Chromium as well.
Or in other words, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche."
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It's a huge incentive to work on a product that is good for society, but not good for business.
> Now think what could happen of Nvidia owned ARM, Apple would soon feel the screws. as would all the ARM using group as Nvidia would flay them to the bone to get that $40 billion it went into debt to get back so it can throw the money lenders off their back.

Why would Nvidia be able to sell to Apple at a higher price than the price ARM is currently selling at to Apple?
> we would all be much better off if they went the RISC-V route

Or indeed just license ARM like everyone else. It's not like they can't use ARM without buying them.
It's a weasel word.

"Aside from that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?"
It's important to note that the Oxford/AZ vaccine is 5-10 times cheaper than all other vaccines which is overlooked here[0].

This is clearly not some quick profit grab, and there are likely good reasons behind it, some of which are hinted at.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/18/belgian-minist...
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I’m the outlier among my friends- I grew up in the suburbs and I absolutely love them and want to go back. Nobody else I know does.

Granted, my city is huge and so living in the city feels more suburban than living downtown would.
> Why should a EU company focus on the UK when e.g. China is a much larger market and growing much faster? Or Japan? Or Brazil?

Some reasons would include China and Japan being highly protectionist and difficult markets to enter into successfully, the language barriers, but most importantly, distance.
Being locked down and not about to go out and working remotely are two different things. They just happen to be coincident at this time.

Also, I am sure that Stanford online is disappointing compared to in person. But there are ways to improve the social aspects with software. The particular configuration of the software and how it's used will make a huge difference in the types or amount of online social interactions.

For example, if you want you can create a virtual dorm room in Gary's Mod or Rec Room VR and get your friends to log into it at lunch and dinner. But the fact that they aren't forced to interact with you because they are physically in the same space does not seem like it should be the only factor.
Congratulations for the diagrams on GitHub! This is rare these days, but so helpful to understand a project.
It depends. Diversity of thought is extremely important to avoid complacency in a dynamically changing marketplace.

If your company is providing services to specifically white men and women in the 20 to 60 age group, you have a pretty good mix of people. You could use somebody who isn't in the target demographic like most of you to help you out of the demographic Johari window, but otherwise your diversity is perfect.

If you're trying to market to people who need food around the world, you will at some point hit a wall on how much you can understand all the different markets. For instance, what do a bunch of white guys from the suburbs know about how a Sub-Saharan African interacts with food markets?
> That the money exists but isn’t moving through the economy means that we’re essentially building more pressure in a system that is already at 0% interest rates.

You're not wrong, but it's a problem I'd "like" to have: too much economic activity. I'd rather worry about inflation and things running hot, with low unemployment (or high participation rate), than the opposite.

Remember late 2019, when the US unemployment rate was 3.5%?

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

> The absence of velocity will encourage central banks to print more money in the belief that it will encourage spending when it clearly hasn’t done that.

When the central bank's rate is zero, they're flooding the market with liquidity, and bond yields are zero (or negative), then that's a signal for governments to open the taps:

> I would summarize the Keynesian view in terms of four points:

> 1. Economies sometimes produce much less than they could, and employ many fewer workers than they should, because there just isn’t enough spending. Such episodes can happen for a variety of reasons; the question is how to respond.

> 2. There are normally forces that tend to push the economy back toward full employment. But they work slowly; a hands-off policy toward depressed economies means accepting a long, unnecessary period of pain.

> 3. It is often possible to drastically shorten this period of pain and greatly reduce the human and financial losses by “printing money”, using the central bank’s power of currency creation to push interest rates down.

> 4. Sometimes, however, monetary policy loses its effectiveness, especially when rates are close to zero. In that case temporary deficit spending can provide a useful boost. And conversely, fiscal austerity in a depressed economy imposes large economic losses.

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/keynesianism-ex...

When rates are non-zero and bond yields are high(er), then it is dangerous to print money, and government spending could 'crowd out' private economic activity.
I don't understand why is this bad? AZ is selling vaccines at cost, 20 times cheaper than moderna (which this article for some reason keeps mentioning) and they licensed (or just gave away?) it to generic manufacturers in India and elsewhere to produce cheaply (which the article does not mention?)
If the problem is indeed that truckers are refusing certain economically important trips because they would be uneconomical to them (and I have no idea whether that is true), it seems to me that this is an entirely legitimate question:

* There is demand for the trip to happen.

* The truck exists

* The driver exists

* It is legal for the trip to happen

* So why isn't there a market clearing wage at which the trip happens?
Yep, a lot of this isn't true. Unfortunately, there is a ton of misinformation on this topic (almost no-one in Britain has experience ordering things from outside EU). So...

No, you won't have to pay anything with Amazon. I ordered something from Germany last week, no extra fees.

No, there are no tariffs. There are VAT charges and potentially fees, although in almost all cases this is unlikely, that isn't the same thing as a tariff.

No, import/export has not stopped overnight. What has happened is that demand for certain products went through the roof this year, this has created massive issues in shipping with lots of containers ending up nowhere near where they are needed. The same issues are occurring, although to a lesser extent, in the EU. Freight costs into the Felixstowe are up 5x though, this will correct as time goes on but it will be a while (this issue is global but is particularly severe in the UK because our consumer economy is relatively large).

No, there is no issue with food supply. Frantic articles in tabloids about the food supply are constant, they were printed when people bought newspapers, they used to happen every few years when truckers striked, these stories sell but that is their only purpose. Where I am, food supply has improved significantly since earlier this year, that is going to be the case for most of the UK...with one exception, NI. They are still in the EU trading area but do most of their trade with the UK, they were sold down the river by everyone (there were some people who pointed out this was going to happen, that advice wasn't regarded).

Saying the UK relies heavily on imported food is...reductive. The UK relies heavily on imported food and also produces a lot of food for export. That is why some EU markets have shortages in certain products. The what and where is more important. The UK imports food from outside the EU, generally many countries imported food from outside FTA areas (and the UK and the EU are in an FTA). This is not something to panic about.

And generally, these rules applied to many countries outside the EU without FTAs. They are not prohibitive, they are not the end of trade. This is how most trade is done globally.
Yeah even CMake got the bit right. CMake!!
Is it so horrible? I have friends outside of work.

I get on with my coworkers, we talk about non-work things, we occasionally do (well, did) social activities in the evenings or weekends... but if someone leaves I fully expect to never see or talk to them again, and the thought doesn't pain me.
I think we are in complete agreement. Creative employees must have the right to direct their own work day (especially their uninterrupted deep work hours), and the responsibility that they fulfill all their formal and informal job requirements. One aspect of the latter is casually exchanging ideas with coworkers they don't usually work with.
Your peddling of nonsense while taking the moral high ground is sickening:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Ltd.#Founding this is no startup with some glorious founder-lifer figure trying to cash out into retirement.

2. Even if it was, rampant acquisitions are terrible for society, and we shouldn't let startups off easy for cashing out. The just costs are just too high.

(Yes, appealing to self sacrifice that leads to coordination failure, but some sort of pact among startups to merge with each other rather be bought by the monopolists along with sane anti-trust would do the trick.)
Isn't Brave yet another adware? I thought they had identifying tokens and were editing urls to put their affiliates codes? Or did they stop doing those horrors?
This is not going to be true forever.

The idea that devs in india can never be good as devs in the USA is so absurdly arrogant I don't know what to say. I'm sure mechanics thought the same, engineers thought "no way the japs can make better cars" yea we saw how that went.
Wouldn't it be great if people were perfectly rational agents, gifted with objectivity vision and purged of all bias?

Of course you're right, you should discuss blockers whenever you have one. But people don't want to discuss blockers (or don't want to discuss at all), or don't identify something as a blocker, or would like to solve it themselves, or want to "protect the team" from this information, or think they'll get it resolved sooner without extra communication, or expect that they'll disagree on the course of action, or feel ashamed of having this blocker, or any other reason out of a hundred.

They won't rationally formulate it like I did just above, but it's just what people do: they get biased and their brain doesn't take the most rational course of action. A personal bias: I tend to prefer solving uncertainties by writing more code than talking to people. This is a stupid thing to do and I actively fight against it, but the fact is that I naturally tend to favour the "code" approach to the "communication" approach: standup forces to surface the problem and people can challenge me.
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You may be right or blinded by hindsight. Personally I'd rather see more breaking changes in languages like PHP that have a lot of baggage holding them back.
And don't forget the idyllic car-free existence that almost everyone has in Europe. Meanwhile, in the actual world, I think I know one person in the UK who doesn't drive (and his wife does). European car ownership is lower than the US in general but it's a very very far way from zero.
No you were right. Too late to edit my comment now, however.
The chips might be mostly produced in Taiwan, but they are mostly assembled into products in China. If China banned use of ARM chips in products that would disrupt basically the entire smartphone supply chain. Of course, this would greatly harm China too. But they can still use the threat of doing without actually doing it.
Again, this isn't some law of nature. I regularly connect with old colleagues, we all went our separate ways and a lot of our commonalities changed, yet somehow I can still talk to them, see what they're doing, etc.
That 63% number for Germany fits very well with the fact that police in Germany it's always patrolling in groups of at least 3. I could imagine that that lessens the pressure on any single officer. In the US, if you are overwhelmed, you might be done, while in Germany there is always another officer ready to help.
In case of vehicle stops, one officer can interact with the driver comparatively relaxed, which helps to deescalate, while the second officer is covering their colleague.

That is not to say that we don't have problems with police brutality or cover-ups here, they are just less deadly usually.
I replied to another poster about the collection of ethnic minority data in the UK. I repeat what I said previously: these stats are collected in order to provide insights into important issues such as health, employment, housing and yes, inequality.

For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that deaths from COVID-19 are higher among black and South Asian groups. Without this data we would not have been able to identify that these communities are at higher risk.

Link to my previous comment on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891543
This thread is depressing. It seems like so many of us are happy to build an incredibly fragile world.
I think it goes beyond resilience, at least for me. Sleep is required to experience a state without stress.
Indeed. Straws were symbolic and their ban has little effect, but the bag bans are amazing and in some countries the plastic cup bans are almost as effective at reducing trash on the street.

There are environmentally beneficial effects to these but there are also significant effects on overall litter. It's like when soda can manufacturers switched their tab system to one that doesn't get discarded.