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This is not what the world needs, these planes will be extremely polluting and inefficient and carry very few people. I doubt if the US properly taxed carbon that these planes would even be considered. This is the worst idea the aviation industry has come up with in quite some time, I thought we learned better than to replicate the bad antique ideas from the past.

This seems like something that could only come out of tone deaf and climate denying America. The rest of the industry is trying to improve their climate targets and innovate, this is going straight in the opposite direction. I would sign a petition to ban these planes in a heartbeat.

We shape the future through investments, an investment in one thing takes potential away from another. Over a hundred years of fossil fuel investments have starved investments into for example batteries and the electrical grid, not to mention the whole thing was subsidized by the hidden cost of climate change. We as societies have failed hard to provide subsidizes and funding for these technologies, and a carbon tax at least at last reflects the real cost of fossil fuels, and creates innovation that is going to at least be useful in the future.
Reading too much into it because it's not blocking "Google Analytics competitors" it's blocking that specific one, probably an error with their flagging system. There are plenty of other analytics competitors that run just fine and don't get flagged.

This is a support person with no agency, the real problem is this can't really be escalated and fixed - that's the big downfall Google doesn't want to fix because it would be too much work.
yea the content isn't all that bad. And its getting better. But Im still iffy on how long it'll be free to consume.
As they say, everything old is new again.
I didn't know they hired anybody to write content.
It's 5 years too late, however it is welcome still.

It's a shame that it is missing the most important part where company such as Facebook gets their competitive advantage over smaller local companies - that is tax avoidance. You cannot compete with a company that has a significantly smaller tax burden than yours.

I think the UK and EU should be looking at creativity of accounting, how money flows between entities and how profits disappear or are converted into tax free or near tax free money. They need to look also how this money is then is being used. Is it used for lobbying? Hostile take overs?

I am worried that these days regulators sound tough to signal they won't sell themselves cheap, then lobbyists get involved and the whole issue melts away, except that another cohort of politicians get rich. It's a vicious circle.
Consider the priors. There's one lab of that type doing that kind of work in China. What is the likelihood that an epidemic emerging in China next to that one lab while not being from the lab?

Also lab leaks are a type of industrial accident. Industrial accidents happen even in the places with the most stringent security protocols. Were that lab's protocols the best in the world? Can't say. And those that are best in the world have contingency plans, for when shit hits the fan.
plenty of adblocking filters block even self hosted analytics JS packages.
It matters for stopping this happening again.
>> Opinionated products are better than flexible products.

But they will rub some users the wrong way, and that's OK. In the open source CAD world you see the distinction in Solvespace vs FreeCAD. One is loved by its users as an easy, highly productive tool, if a bit odd looking. The other is regarded as more capable and feature complete - which is true - but is considered bloated, annoying, and crash-prone by users of the former.

There is definitely room for both approaches, or even multiple "this is the one true way" products. If you delight a segment of the market you'll never be obsolete.
To be fair it does not sound like many people doubt that they were conducting gain of function experiments at the Wuhan lab, which makes it not unlikely that a lab leak as successful as covid was one of those engineered strains. If it was a lab leak at all.
In addition to the other answers here, there is a large informal economy that essentially caters for the poor. This both provides them with informal means of income but also allows the poor to access essentials cheaply.
For example a typical middle class corporate worker may earn a salary and live a lifestyle that is comparable to European counterpart. This same person may employ a full time housekeeper for $350 a month and this housekeeper somehow gets by because she exists in a parallel economy of sorts.
"its own derivative" is defined in terms of things happening at infinity though. Calculus is very much a study of what happens to things at the infinite and infinitesimal; and e has its heft because of calculus.
IMO, academia is not better or worse -- often they do apply their citation culture to code.

The overall problem is that people tend to think only in terms of first order consequences. A little copying here and there might have minimal financial or reputational risk. But the second order consequences of that becoming the example and the norm for the junior ranks and the next generation causes larger organizational risk. So got to consider the bigger picture and nip the ethical lapses immediately.
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good one. :)
Read the actual pamphlet:

https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1622578816840-a...*

https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1622578795816-a...*

My opinion:

The pamphlet is tone-deaf in light of the worker abuses at Amazon, but otherwise it's fine. It contains sound advice for staying healthy and uninjured while doing what is a physical job. It emphasises health, and not all-out performance. It contains useful information, like a bullet point about Amazon's program that gives employees a credit that can be used for buying shoes. It's not significantly different from the advice given by posture coaches and dieticians that have been brought into places I've worked as a software developer. Employers want their employees to be healthy and performant. These health initiatives are not altruistic, but also not evil.
My best work has always occurred in two types of situations:

1. Relaxed and unconstrained by other obligations, whereby I can creatively follow the course of the work rather than trying to jigsaw it into an itinerary that balances several other tasks, or

2. Such extreme time pressure that I get into "the zone."

Your comment touches on #1 but there is something to be said for the power of last-minute panic.
I'm normally one to be quick to criticize the media for its many faults, but in this case I blame the scientists--namely those at the Lancet--more than the media. Journalists aren't virologists or biologists, and I have a hard time blaming them for taking the statements of scientists at the most respected medical journal at face value.

This is massively discrediting to the Lancet. Similar to the review of Linux patches from U of Minnesota, it would be prudent to review past publications by the scientists who published the Lancet statement.
Very unfortunate as it would have been a boon for the northern communities.

Or was it all a ruse to allow Russian mapping of the Canadian Arctic waters?
Islamic terrorism was confined to minor nuts before 9/11. Some of those minor nuts hijacked a few planes and the US paid trillions of dollars to lose to some more minor nuts in the hinterlands of Afghanistan after 20 years of war.

You think terrorism was a huge operation but it never was. The US made it seem huge to deceive the world, erode human rights, fight needless wars, kill millions of civilians, assert dominance, and waste our money.
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I think it really does depend on the domain. When it comes to web, "move fast and break things" is the norm, and the expectation. This is exactly where dynamic languages are great - so what if you don't have the cleanest code, so what if you throw exceptions due to mismatched data types, if you can get the MVP out there then you're already half way there. Let future generations deal with the tech debt, using the warchest you amass from all the funding you can get by showing off your successful launch.

For lower level / systems programming, though, I think that's somewhat less true. Think about database plugins like timescale, or VPN solutions, etc - stuff that, if it breaks, somebody's having a really bad day. It's probably worth spending more time on robustness and then a statically typed compiled language can really help eliminate many classes of errors off the bat.
Yes, but it has to be maintained.

The issue is that we have no incentive to remember information that is 'useless'. So the brain, being efficient, forgets it.
You have to be careful about quantifying things, because you can't measure all the things you'd like to measure, but that doesn't mean they're not important. The pinnacle of science measures very simple things very rigorously, like in physics, and even there you get the occasional revolution where you realize that you've been measuring the wrong things all along.

That's for something as simple as atoms or subatomic particles. For something like people, it's far harder to take any real measurements at all. And what measurements you do take heavily colors the results you get. It would be great if we could study people the way we study atoms, but we can't.

But that doesn't mean it's not important. How we organize society is at least as important as fundamental physics. These are decisions we make every single day. We can't avoid making them just because we can't be as confident about them as we are about atoms.

That's no excuse for doing bad science, and I'm not taking a position on what's being done here. But it turns out that it's harder to define pseudoscience that we'd like it to be. The difference between "hypothesis revision" and "moving goalposts" is fuzzier than we'd like to tell ourselves, and that's something we do all the time for the hardest of sciences. The lack of math is not automatically a disqualifier. If anything, over-reliance on math in the social sciences is a red flag that somebody has measured one thing that's important to them and is crafting a theory to fit it.
> "You've read 3 of your 5 free answers this month"

The content was created by the contributors for free, it would be (legal) theft to do so.
Yeah, the fact that you're talking to a person-operated robot rather than an automated one doesn't change the fact that you're talking to a robot.
The sarcasm was unnecessary.
> I don't see why Elixir is exempt - do you mind explaining?

Your points don't necessarily apply super well.

Point 1 is about hiring and teaching. There's going to be a different candidate pool of people interested in learning Elixir vs Scala, and while I don't know Scala my understanding (heh, see what I'm doing here?) is that it's a pretty large, complex language. So your experience onboarding and training new devs doesn't really apply. In particular your comment about "many ways to shoot yourself in the foot" doesn't resonate with me as an Elixir developer at all. It's a small, simple language, and there's really only one way to do most things.

Point 3 also doesn't necessarily apply. Yes, Elixir is smaller, but for all I know the libraries are better than in Scala or vice versa. I haven't run into too many missing libraries, and the ones we use are generally "production quality", though I don't really know what that means. They have tests, documentation, etc. But again, maybe that's a language culture thing. Dead simple testing, a great doc generation system, and compiler help, combined with general practices prevalent in the community, mean libraries are pretty robust and easy to use. Furthermore, erlang interop is super easy and done a lot. I know Scala has the JVM in principle, but I don't know to what extent you can lean on those libraries, to what extent it's typically done culturally, and to how smoothly they work with the rest of the code.

In short, I think "my Elixir was Scala" is an interesting take and worth sharing. But I think you're leaning too hard on that relationship, without clearly demonstrating that you know Elixir itself, in order to make strong recommendations against using Elixir.
as I comment in basically every one of these shell articles, while Unix shell does kinda suck, the main problem is that the bad examples far, far outnumber the good ones, and so everybody programs in an overly complicated manner.

SCRIPT_DIR="${0%/*}"

works in practically all shells, as long as the script is actually invoked by path (if you do curl script | bash, you're SOL right off the bat).

the same applies with "combination of grep, awk and cut". awk contains almost all the functionality of grep, sed, and cut, so any pipeline of awk plus one of the others is almost always unnecessarily complicated. it would be like complaining "in python, string handling is so hard. look, you have to do import re; for x in re.sub(...).match(5).split(' ')[3:-5]: lst.append(x)". of course if you make it overly complicated then it will be overly complicated.

there are also too many footguns. spaces and newlines are trivial to handle in 95% of scripts, as long as you quote every expansion. as long as you never ever write cmd $file and always write cmd "$file", that solves virtually all whitespace problems. quotation marks in filenames are never interpreted in a special manner in Bourne-like shell unless you use eval, which has the same pitfalls as any other interpreted language (see python above).
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Im dont even get the debate. Theres a lab studying and experimenting on sars viruses so OF COURSE there COULD be a leak.

Still its a GOOD thing to have labs studying it. Accidents happen its a fact of life so a leak (or even a ramdom mutation) was always a matter of when not if. Playing the blaming game is not going to change anything.

And actually if anything to blame, we should blame politicians who didnt listen to people like Bill Gates when he said this exact kind of viruses coul make milions of death and that we should prepare for it three years ago. But still.. humans always react, not proact, its another fact of life that no amount of internet outrage will change.

In the end the virus will make our society stronger to thkd kind of threat.. But then when will be the turning point for the climate ?
That just kicks the can down the road. It basically boils down to "art is stuff I like". Art also has a reputation of opening people's minds and letting them see the world differently. By the logic of worthiness, people should never support art unless it's basically propaganda for their own beliefs (which is what I believe modern art functions as).
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Cryptographic signing of the temperature readings will do right?

I have a pet idea of electricity meters that cryptographically sign their value and timestamp. We have state employees who come every month and take readings. We can automate these readings without going full IOT.
it is quality assurance just for bugs relating information security.
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Same situation in Brazil at the moment, around 40% of the productive population working informally: https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-.... Uberization at an extreme level.
I am genuinely interested in how this would play out in court. On one hand, sure, intent is important in a lot of situations. It could be challenging to "prove" that Google had "bad" intentions just because there is a disconnect between their documented policy and what their AI actually enforces.

That being said, in an anti-trust case it seems like the actual outcome for the consumer is what is most important. Anti-trust laws come into play when monopoly's business practices are not illegal, per se, but ultimately harm the marketplace because of their scale and eventual negative consumer outcomes.

Anyway, INAL, so maybe (certainly) I don't have the full picture here....
TSV/PSV generally don't allow newlines and commas/quotes are not special so are fine. Though Excel doesn't always play nice, but if you care about data integrity, you won't open it in Excel anyway.
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I don't know if that NPR article has been edited, but the only thing it's saying is that in january 2020 there was low risk of contracting covid compared to a regular flu, not that the virus was less dangerous, which at the time seems accurate.

From your vanityfair link:

> As Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and much of the GOP parroted the president’s no-worries line, MAGA originals like Steve Bannon and Mike Cernovich sounded the alarm.

I did notice the difference in Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity coverage, but you're right, there seems to have been a split within the grouping. Seeing as how many on the right are Trump loyalists (to a fault), that was the generalization I was drawing.

Yeah, the Vox one is bad.
that's because labor is a lot cheaper than in those countries, where there's a lot more jobs that require education
Apparently[1] at one point Reddit only supported SSL through a separate subdomain that was created to let people pay for ad slots on the main site (back in the days where people thought HTTPS was only important for protecting payment information). That same subdomain also happened to serve normal Reddit pages if you passed it the right URLs, so HTTPS-Everywhere added it to their rules causing all Reddit users with HTTPS everywhere installed to get redirected to pay.reddit.com. I assume the domain only exists for legacy reasons now.

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There's another game in development with redirected walking you can try now called "Tea for God". It's in a bit of a rough state, but with a large enough play space it's quite a nice stroll and gives off "Another World" vibes. The basic concept works really well. It uses non-Euclidian geometry to basically turn you around MC Escher style so you don't run into your couch. I like these games as a concept, but don't think they will ever be mainstream due to the space requirements. Hardly anyone has a mostly empty large room at home.
If Fauci is responsible (in part, vis funding) for "assembling" the virus that caused the pandemic and is also responsible (in part) for abetting a sham WHO investigation, then certainly he would be relevant globally. The fact that the US NIH is sort of a clearinghouse for top-tier global medical research, by virtue of US hegemony, also makes him more relevant than just about any other national expert.

EDIT: Please don't downvote Pyramus. He asked a legitimate question and as far as I can tell followed HN rules. There are ~7.7B people who are not in the US.
Visual Complex Analysis is the text that introduced me to this concept. The functions cos and sin suddenly look a lot like accessor functions for a two member object.
Are you expecting a number? The joint probability of low-probability events is itself very low.

I'm not saying you should calculate it like P(10 000 tails coin flip) * P(1 000 000 tails coin flip). That can be done numerically. I'm saying that based on everything I've read, the highest probability hypothesis according to my own evaluation is the unintentional lab leak. To me, that's as uncontroversial as it gets. Human error happens _all the time_. Arguing against the lab leak, knowing what we know about China's refusal to allow an actual thorough scientific investigation into it, seems quite a bit more controversial to me.

Labs burn down, medical errors happen, bridges collapse, whatever. That's just reality.
The NY Times Headline is much more informative and interesting:

> U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can’t Rule It Out, Either

Sub header:

> A new report concedes that much about the observed phenomena remains difficult to explain, including their acceleration, as well as ability to change direction and submerge.

Those descriptions are a tectonic shift on the topic from the US government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting...
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In my opinion, the scientific community has severely undermined their ethical and persuasive capital over the past year and even longer

I would agree with the "even longer". I think it most noticeably started with the scientific community's intermixing of concerns regarding climate change with political forces who have had their own agendas. It's made it extremely difficult even for scientifically-minded and informed people like myself to sort through the bullshit vs the good information. People without even my background have no hope of knowing whom to trust, so they've fallen back to just trusting their political inclinations.

This past year and the politicization around pandemic issues has definitely seen an increase in the the problem, though. It's been a sad year for Science. Hard-won public trust in scientists has been thrown away. You can see it in the hesitancy to get the vaccine.
What if it's also Tom, Dick and Harry? How mamy times does it have to happen before its stips being brushed off and starts being takes seriously?
database->datalake->datavault->databunker?

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Fourth paragraph from the bottom:

> the doctors themselves told me the disparities in medicine aren’t imagined. Minority populations, especially poor ones, do have worse outcomes than whites in all sorts of metrics.
That seems like a dangerous idea to me. If you decided to have an element with an ID of, say, "print" you'd end up getting the window.print method instead of the DOM element you're expecting.
I presume getting it to work in XCode in a presentable way was also quite an undertaking. Perhaps the simulator already existed, I don’t know. But if it did it probably wasn’t anywhere near release quality.
What grates me with these situations is that they have my data, which is one thing, but I don't have access to that data!