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Bill Gates’s position makes sense to me.

Like he said, there aren’t factories sitting around that can start spinning COVID vaccines out if only parents were removed from them.

Besides, an open patent scheme means that any pharma company can sell the vaccine. And I guarantee that the vast majority of companies that will start doing so will be fly by might operators that will take advantage of desperate countries to sell them crap that will end up killing people and simply damage vaccines in the eyes of people all over the world.

What we really need is for governments and potentially private operators to invest money towards setting up more production capacities among the many major vaccine manufacturers that already exist.

The Indian government, for example, had months to support the Serum Institute’s expansion plans, but simply did not. It’s only now that they’ve agreed to let them sell their vaccines for slightly higher prices of about $5.5 to state governments and about $8 to private entities per dose (although they have still capped the price at $3 for themselves, which is basically a political ploy so they can hand out free vaccines ahead of several elections coming up this year), that has allowed them to start expanding.

What’s happening in India is a massive failure of governance at the federal level which the government is trying to find any excuse to distract from.
> (And this isn't even radioactive!)

That's sad, though. "Radioactive" is a synonym to "the problem solves itself given enough time". Non-radioactive toxic waste stays dangerous forever.
Thank you for pointing this out, I wasn't aware! I had just assumed that Erlang's message passing was also synchronous...
Maybe we can finally lay self driving prophecies to rest. Self driven cars will never share the road with human drivers. There's no legal framework for liability. And AI is far from understanding human intentions and speech.

One day we'll have purpose built lanes for robots, maybe. Boring highway routes between big cities will be first.

I think tech wizards will take the easy road and automate planes and ships. There's too much crap and unpredictability on the ground. That's why all the automated military stuff flies or floats, or dives. Skittering along the ground is best left to meat control
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No, that gets even harder to understand, as Tesla sucks at solar.
Depends what you mean by incremental support. It would definitely help someone to base new work on what's already approved, merged and supported without the need to hunt for the latest updated external branch and reconciling it with their local version. (But maybe that's what you're calling branching issues)
The problem with entr is that:

- it's unix only, which, when using a multi-plateform language like python, is limitating

- can't be used programmatically without subprocess hacks

If you use Python, watchdog is an interesting alternative:

- it works were Python works: pretty much everywhere

- it uses the best API for the job (e.g: inotify on linux), but will fallback on manual scanning in a thread if the underlying OS has no special file system watcher API

- it's a lib that can be use programmatically

- it features the command "watchmedo", which is basically what entr does, but with an optional rich file format and plugin system

- for simple use cases, all that stuff stays super simple
It would be interesting if current computers could take advantage of all expressions running in parallel; back last century that was exposing more parallelism (and incurring more coordination costs) than a better, coarser-grained, approach.
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And steadily declining year on year. The next government is likely to feature the green party and possibly even a green party prime minister. IMHO that will set in motion an accelerated shut down of lignite and coal, which only narrowly got averted by the CSU in the current government (the CDU looked more likely to compromise on this). Even so, it will likely take a while.

Otherwise the headline here is that renewables are already the dominant source of energy in the German market. Gas is the only thing growing in market size currently other than renewables and that's mostly just offsetting the decline of coal and nuclear. Overall, renewables grow faster. Otherwise, many EV owners also put solar on their roofs and/or buy power from renewable sources or charge at public chargers hooked up to renewable sources. So, the notion that EVs are powered by coal is very dated at this point.
i may simply be unaware of this, but what other attempts have been made to solve this and other social issues?

as far as i can tell, also from personal experience, education and friendship are the only ways to solve social issues that actually have a lasting effect.

as you pretend you agree, the people who happen to disagree will slowly move themselves out

possible, but as i said, pretending is not actually part of the strategy. you don't pretend, you empathize, but that doesn't mean you agree or even pretend to agree.

There is strong social component

which is broken by your friendship. you show that they can find better friends, and you are one of them.
I'm not following why I need a Crowd-funded CDN
Except one that is more secure, perhaps?
I don't try talk about my gym routine with coworkers who aren't interested in gym workouts. It's boring to them and the conversation goes nowhere. So you should not try to talk about politics with people who aren't interested in your politics.
How about the barrels and shells filled with chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic Sea? This being a sea, all that munition has a good chance of making a big chunk of Europe very sad at some point in the near future.
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I'll go against the common thought here. CEO pay is ridiculous. They can only pay that much because the workers have to work to pay their mortgage and pay for their health concerns. Noone would agree to making other people rich otherwise. The whole system is a mess and ready to be disrupted.
That part is so perplexing. Apple wants you to use that folder! Multiple useful things are stored in it, but you have to jump through hoops to go do it. It should be added as a favourite by default.
Because the EV market grew much faster, e.g. +260% for Germany (from 108k in 2019 to 395k in 2020).
If you’re in the EU, you have the “right to be informed” according to the GDPR . So you can make a GDPR request to find out.
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You are confusing a few things here. First, the chip cards are still vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, which is what the modern intermediate devices now do, even though many still call them "skimmers" out of habit (some are advocating for the similar-sounding "shimmer" to describe these devices).

They are quite effective at stealing from Europeans just as well as they can steal from Americans, except Americans are not on the hook for the stolen funds whereas Europeans are.

Here's a Krebs on Security article that has pics of a shimmer found in Europe in 2015:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/atm-shimmers-target-chip...

There was 1.8 Billion in chip card fraud for cards issued in Europe in 2018, with the highest rates of fraud in France and the UK in Europe in 2018, although only 20% is at Point of Sale and 80% is online.

But the real difference vis-a-vis the US and Europe is not chips in cards but the massive epidemic of wholesale identify theft in the U.S. The vast majority (in terms of dollar amounts) of credit fraud in the US is part of identity theft, something the US suffers from due to lack of consistent ID cards and ID card enforcement - and very little todo with chip and pin technology.

The US has 24 B in credit fraud, the majority of which is identity theft, and the largest amounts related to entire bank accounts and fraudulent loans being taken out, lines of credit being issued in someone else's name, etc, and not some illegal transactions stolen at gas stations with intermediate devices.
It's not ambiguous in the context. And normally people don't bring the sorites paradox to definitions of words that describe gradients -- we can describe something as cancellation even when there are more severe cancellations that are possible.
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> Funny though how Germans turn blind eye on their own oligopolies dominating and devastating European markets.

Everybody wants sellers to compete when they're buying, nobody wants to compete when they're selling.

> For them internet is whether "stupid websites", a medium serving copyrights violations, or legal compliance issue (see "Impressum" hysteria).

The large corporations and media companies had issues with the laws around imprints? That wasn't my perception at all. Rather, it was average people who wrote blogs etc who didn't want to put their real name, home address and tax IDs onto their sites for various reasons, but the law was so vague that nobody was sure their site wasn't "similar to the press" or "with commercial interest". Larger companies didn't care at all -- they were generally compliant way before that law was introduced.
You can turn off "location services" for local-only GPS fix but it's difficult and hounds you constantly.

After warranty ends I flash Lineage and run location spoofing.
What if you are trying to build a system you would be willing to fill any role in, but your opponent knows the current one is very lopsided and they already have a favorable role?
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Does economic inequality fall in the first or the second bin?
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> A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist.

This isn't _new_, this "chorus" has existed for so long that it used to be referred to exclusively as a "khoros." Secondly, it's totally embarrassing that the matter isn't considered settled. The standard argument against free will is sound. The closest thing to an objection you'll see is people moving the goalposts so far that we are talking about something else.
I somewhat agree with what you said, but I think you sidestepped the intriguing question of why so many people in US seem to use credit.
I don't know if it's intentional separation of powers. The American culture is very individualistic, especially compared to the German. This just naturally means that American companies tend to "go it alone" in relation to the public sector for longer than they would in Germany.

Certainly when American companies get to the right size they seem to become much closer to the political bodies that matter to them and their interests, as is the case likely everywhere
When I go to a supermarket, I easily make 50 purchase decisions.
That's a first step, it's not an accurate overview of their whole project. They have a term for posting on your own site, under your control, while also syndicating elsewhere (e.g. Twitter). [0] They also support ideas like federation. [1]

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

[1] https://indieweb.org/federation
I quick bit of Googling finds that just the Model 3 has sold ~800k while the Nissan Leaf as sold a total of ~500k
It's annoying when Windows, Linux, Android, and MacOS will let you play any resolution video you like even when it's above your native resolution.

I bet it affects many people with HDR monitors that aren't 4K, there's tons of those.

A good percentage of users that hook up Roku to a PC monitor will run into this.

Roku only supports HDR at 4K and normally I can just set youtube or whatever to "4K HDR" and OS downscales. Roku won't do it.
More importantly: who cares? The point of classical equal rights is the MLK, "my children won't be judged by the colour of their skin". The moment you ask a question like that, you are deliberately rolling back his vision by implying that a 100% male engineering group is a severe problem that needs a solution. It's not. It's an entirely expected statistical outcome given the demographics of people who study the profession. And it's inherently political to ask your question because by doing so, you're implying the answer matters, which is very much a political and left-wing stance. Whereas what's actually been encoded in law and up until very recently, culture, is that it's not even an allowed question to ask at all.

This blog post by Basecamp is excellent. What a fantastic company it must be to work for. It's too late now because I'm starting my own company and am fully dedicated to that, but part of the reason for doing so was the feeling that there weren't enough (any?) companies with these sorts of policies in the world. I'll add Basecamp to the small list of software firms I'd be willing to work at in future.
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I don't understand. Can't you say on stand-up that you are "patiently thinking problem"? You can try to explain how this process works for other team members and maybe they will learn something new. If you can't explain what you are doing maybe it's not as important as you think.
Why is fact-checking never attacked with oceans of examples of bad fact-checks?

Fact-checkers as they exist right now are, with extremely few exceptions, exemplary. I would love to be proven wrong, but never have been.

Edit: I can accept an argument (at least in theory) of fact-checkers being selective on what to fact check, but that would still not be an argument against fact-checking, but rather a call for more of it.
Most of the large tech companies have similar hiring policies. It’s not unreasonable to think what goes at Amazon is fairly similar to what goes on at Apple, Google, etc. There’s a reason the FAANG acronym exists.

Also, if your takeaway from “at least half the employees will be women” as a goal, at a time when the breakdown is 43% women, and has been a lot lower for the past decade, is that “55% women is ok but 55% men is not”, it’s pretty obvious you’re arguing in bad faith.

It’s pretty obvious that’s a goal that at least half the workforce will be women in fewer than 4 years. What that actually means is that Twitter is likely gonna barely cross the 50% mark, if they are even gonna meet it.

The reality is that the moment they hit 50% they will ease off on the effort to recruit more women than men, which, thanks to structural factors that have led to the current unbalanced distribution of employees, will only make their hiring easier ans allow them to continue hiring equitably.
Would be great if everything were ready by the time 16" M models come out. :)
From what I've seen, it's still different in the US. If you dispute a payment, in the US the bank apparently sides with you most of the time. In Europe bank sides with you only if it was a clear case of not receiving the service/goods, otherwise it's usually considered a valid transaction.
Technically no, no one has to explicitly lose money or pay for these rewards. The economy is not a zero sum game. There are direct costs with handling cash for merchants, for smaller businesses these are often higher than credit card interchangge/merchant fees. There are also indirect costs like lower sales and consumers losing cash due to theft.
> There's a large cost to maintaining your own HTML based platform (which is what most 3rd parties are) and the HTML platforms pretty radically under-perform these days.

I'm struggling to understand the claim made by this statement. Maybe I missed something? What does HTML have to do with serving video over the wire? Underperforming on which metrics? What's the time value of "these days"?
You may be interested in this API - https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/...
Agreed, although at that point, what's the point of the decentralisation?

As a comparison, email is technically decentralised, but if I were to move off of Gmail, 80% of my emails would still be on their servers because that's what their recipients use.

(This is of course somewhat of an exaggeration - it's still better than if email were a proprietary Google thing. But it's less of a utopia than my decentralisation-minded self had in mind in the past.)
> Mario sprite was never intended to be seen as made of blocks

idk I still play on a 1990s CRT and it's pretty blocky
I prefer a parser-friendly template that makes Web Scraping easy. My template [1] is both parsable by HTML5 and XML processors.

[1] https://github.com/Conaclos/origin.html/blob/master/template...
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As a European neither have I. Couldn't I just have the bank do a chargeback in case of a bad charge?
> The invisible fee is paid by the merchant, not the consumer.

But the customer pays the merchant. It's all paid by the customer.
Are you referring to Stylus?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

Nowadays, when I need to fix some CSS quickly, I add a rule to the 'My filters' tab of uBlock Origin's dashboard. (I do use proper style sheets if I'm making enough changes to deem it's worthwhile.)

> example.com##html:style( background: red !important; )
If you kill a chicken in Europe, you will not go to prison - at least in my country which is in EU.
It's actually the recommended approach from K8s upstream - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
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Holy Molly, learned about git bisect, ty paulmd. HN comments amazes me, I always learn a thing or two.
Raw trilinear is shit. It only reasonably works because mipmaps sort of do what you rail against, namely taking multiple samples, and averaging them. Actual modern graphics rendering uses anisotropic filtering, using typically 4 to 16 trilinear samples, averaging the lot. The result is both more consistent and much sharper.
I think the better way would be automated cameras that fine vehicles that turn or change lanes without turning on the blinker beforehand.
> The standard argument against free will is sound.

I must have missed that memo :-P
You're raising an interesting point here. Humans pattern match everything (and integrate it into a world model). When something out of the ordinary appears, attention is brought to it immediately. By comparison, today's AIs just match what they can, leaving everything else out. I don't think that FSD can happen as long as that's the case.
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Oh, definitely. Not (just) for the common cold, but for all the other places where Covid shook us from the local maximum. The obvious are WFH, ecommerce, deliveries, courier businesses, normalizing masks in the western hemisphere. More subtle is the general shaking and closing of unprofitable businesses and making room for new ones. Yet more subtle is rubbing everybody's nose in the fact that long term risks and black swans are something that should be paid attention to.

But by far, the most useful thing we got of this pandemic is once again moving medicine up in the priority list. Lately it had gotten stuck at "hiv is not curable, let's have another cancer fundraising". And one year later we're at "vaccine for cancer, pill for common cold", plus god knows how many other things. And hopefully, just hopefully, it's shown enough people that FDA-style organizations are a huge brake for serious progress. Challenge trials -> vaccinations started 6 months earlier -> probably 0.1% deaths overall (yes, it's 6 months in an exponential).
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In the European market the range advantage might not be a big deal, but it's a major selling point in the American market. Probably the biggest concern I hear from people about going electric-only is range anxiety - the notion that they might need to drive a long distance on a whim and worry they might be "stranded" with no battery, regardless of the actual likelihood of that. With America's generally poor public transit infrastructure and car-as-default culture, it's even a fairly reasonable concern in many cases.

Maybe once the charging network becomes as saturated as gas stations are range can no longer be an issue, but we're nowhere near that point outside of major cities.
Because that adds cost. The game here is producing a car that is cheap to manufacture that can drive itself without having to have a data center in the trunk and a large lidar bump on the roof.

The gamble here is on the software, not the hardware. All the accidents that happen are not a failure of sensors not sensing but of software not detecting what the sensors captured. We're talking cars crashing into things on a clear day. Cars not recognizing situations that a human would recognize from the captured video. Etc. They need to solve that anyway. Regardless of whether they have lidar or not.

Other companies like Waymo pushing the Lidar agenda are also behind on their schedules to launch autonomous driving. But at least they have actual driver less cars on the road right now driving actual passengers around in very select markets.

Either way, this is more or less a greenfield market without a lot of contenders shipping actual products yet. So, Tesla can afford to spend more time developing this market. If they nail this somehow, eventually, it will be a big growth driver for them.
It makes me so sad when well-meaning people concentrate on non-problems and ignore the bottleneck.
In Settings -> Accessibility -> Display & Text Size you have an option "Button Shapes" that will show a button outline on any clickable text.

I always enable this when setting up an iPhone for a parent (or myself).
I agree, and went the html road as well for a time, but I hit roadblocks:

- When I'm in the flow, I really don't want to think about the structure of my text. The ms required for the tag insertion breaks that.

- Unless you very disciplined with your HTML use, it's hard to get back structure from you HTML doc. You have to limit yourself to the subset you would get from markdown.

I'm experimenting with asciidoc now, let's see if it's working.
A lot of these discussions start off badly by not agreeing a definition of Free Will.

It's a really really nebulous phrase, and that frequently leads to people talking past each other.

This comic illustrates things quite nicely:
https://scienceandtheology.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/dilbert-...
It's hard not to escape the conclusion that the goal of Basecamp's new policy is to quietly suppress or ultimately evict people who think like you.

There is no connection whatsoever between diversity and building product. Note: you haven't tried to explain your claim there is, just implied it's obvious, probably because you can't. I've seen people try to honestly intellectually defend a connection between employee diversity and product design before, and it's always a joke. You get anecdotes about face recognition not working on black people (reality: the software in question just had trouble with low contrast images and also struggled with white people's faces). And that's about it. I can't recall ever seeing someone actually argue that more women == better product because, well, that's a pretty sexist thing to believe isn't it? It implies men have no empathy, or that there's a universe of product requirements women will only tell to other women, etc.

If discrimination is happening against an individual and you work with the management chain to resolve it, that's not a political act, because you aren't attempting to radically remake the entire organisation for everyone (politics), but only address the specific problem that was actually observed.
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You can migrate your number off Verizon easily. Everyone else uses GSM, it's best to go with the flow. For GSM you have countless options
I had heard about the Wirecard scandal, but didn’t know the details. Having read the article now, I do wonder how Ernst & Young signed off on Wirecard’s accounts.