skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hikaru Nakamura took the Mensa IQ test and scored 102
How is that relevant? The question is: How effective are these vaccines really against that variant? In the real world, not in the lab.

If half the cases are in vaccinated individuals and only half the people are vaccinated, how can the vaccine be 80%-90% effective? That's a mathematical impossibility.

In the case of the deaths, it might be possible because the vaccinated are far older on average and likely over-counted.
The problem here in this discussion is looking at yourselves and your corporations as solutions to the world's problems.

Same goes with the recent ESG investment trend. A corporation exists to make a profit, period. Suggesting otherwise is just emotional manipulation, albeit very profitable manipulation.

The corporation causes all these problems, and it does it for profit. The phrase "business ethics" makes zero sense, but it serves a PR purpose. Even the term "national defense" in this magazine is doublespeak for imperialism, looting and pillaging other nations for profit.

I have no interest in the neoliberal fantasy world of corporations solving our problems, because I am a pragmatist. Yet people continue to send billions into ESG companies to ease their guilt, while these companies actually profit from and exacerbate the very issues they promise to solve.
How does the percentage of those with 1MM in assets relate to whether or not you should prioritize savings?

Are you suggesting individuals should not be saving for retirement or long term financial well being? If so I'm not sure I have anything to offer to you.
How much does the specialists earn in Turkey? In Australia Surgeons, Anaesthetists and internal medicine specialists top the highest earning professionals chart. Registered Nurses and allied healthcare staff also gets paid quite high. Then there is stupid high cost of prosthesis in a country where we do a lot of knee and hip replacements. Do you have those private space odyssey type hospitals distributed in the whole country or only near Istanbul?
Yes, my partner likes to remind me we don't have it here in Australia. You could never write a search engine here. You can't write code that scrapes websites.
The landing page for it states the below, so hopefully not too much of an issue (though I guess some folks may find a 0.1% risk high).

> GitHub Copilot is a code synthesizer, not a search engine: the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before. We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set.
I use plain A4 paper, a physical clipboards and lots of colors(more than 10) and mechanical pencil.If I need to digitalize them for archival, I use same the Fujitsu snapscan automatic feed scanner that I use to digitalize books.

I can draw well, so using plain text feels so limited and constrained, rigid and not flexible enough.

Linear text and having to use a special language (markup) feels so clunky compared to a real 2D connection.

With paper you have eink support, A3 and A2 sizes if necessary and as big space as you need.

It is extremely cheap, does not need batteries, mobile and normal people understand it(WYSIWYG) much better than if you have to explain them how to install a Markdown viewer or worse something like emacs modes.

I am a lisper,fluent in emacs, could use it for notes and sometimes I do. I used Latex in University instead of Word.

But it feels so wrong for me. When I talk with artists in general they share the feeling I have. They will not use the keyboard if they could but their hand. For them programmers are just autistic not understanding their world.

Most programmers also can not understand artists. For them losing all the expression of handwriting and writing is just fine and for them the keyboard is sacred, and people should be trained in typing instead of computers doing the work for understanding human natural movements.

Very few people understand both worlds.
Private broadband contributes / donates to Republican politicians. Private broadband does not want municipal broadband.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp...
It is a perfectly normal GOP position to be against a government service that isn't police or military. What is kind of weird is when the GOP bans at say, a state level, something some cities might want to do. This does run counter to some of the other GOP political ideas, that local governments should be free to make their own decisions and not hampered by state or federal government.

Perhaps they are worried that municipal broadband will be popular and thus spread, if cities are allowed to do it, which then would threaten some of their donations, and some of their fundamental ideas.
To be quite honest, most of it is sold by the media, who have mutually beneficial arrangements with the for-profit healthcare/insurance industry. If you’ve ever seen how many advertisements on American TV about prescriptions, health plans, etc, you know what I’m getting at. The debate is kept tightly constrained to make the capitalist system seem more robust and successful than it actually is. So: media propaganda, more or less.

Also want to add: my child’s birth cost $20,000 (with insurance). When I would tell other Americans about this, the response was (usually) “you know you can get on a payment plan, right?”
The public argument or the private argument?

The private argument is that it lowers profits for the corporations who give them campaign contributions.
Schools, govt, and other public places should all run on FOSS.
Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind
To be fair, your comment was rather nebulous. If you're going to comment on a topic that tends to polarize people, then it's wise to be slightly more explicit in one's statements.
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Having a job I like that pays the bills would be the main goal. I honestly don't see that as being achievable.
I'm totally aware of all of this and I strongly agree with P0s policy.
Decreasing the price of programming work doesn't necessarily mean decreasing the wages of programmers, any more than decreasing the price of food implies decreasing the wages of farmers.

But on the other hand, it also can mean that.
I can find many many many Canadians that complain about the level of care they get from the Canadian system warning Americans never to allow a system like theirs to happen here..

Long Wait times, inability to see specialists, or get surgeries or MRI's etc

US Care is expensive, and we need to solve that, but I still am not convinced turning it over to our inept worthless corrupt government is the best or only solution to the problems with paying for US healthcare
What laptop doesn't have a front webcam especially one that is at least 720p (I assume that is what is considered hd)? You can buy a $150 laptop and it likely would work.
You are right to worry. Remember net neutrality? Those were the days.
The difference is that you have multiple clients but only one boss. So saying no to a client doesn't mean you lose all your business, but not wanting to do what your boss tells you to means you need to change to a new job.
> As presented, this tool streamlines copy-pasting random snippets.

It synthesizes new code based on a corpus of existing code.
Alright, so you're right there's a good chance Africa will have a largely electrified car fleet by the end of this decade. It doesn't ease my heart on the entire oil industry though, as personal transport / commute is just one piece of the pie. We still have transportation of goods and materials, which is something that's hardly electrified at all (I suppose rail is? though I'm pretty sure the big heavy ones are still diesel powered).

And they still need to generate that power, and if oil really does become cheap enough for them, wouldn't they still buy it to turn it into electricity?
no but it just needs an email to try it
There’s that line from COD that I’m sure is from somewhere else - amateurs practice until they can get it right, professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong. That’s sort of how I look at it. It’s served me well so far.
Clearly not all of them or we wouldn’t be in this thread discussing it under this particular OP. I don’t care either way though I was just working through what the GOP logic likely is. Not representing my own opinion.
I had this same problem. Was it an old Radeon card? I don't remember the model, but Microsoft's website said it was too old, so it only has basic support from Windows 10. That means black bars. Drove an ultrawide monitor in Linux just fine.
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Even if I don’t directly benefit from a service, if other people benefit is that a good thing? If I’m acting selfishly, perhaps I can console myself that some of those beneficiaries might spend more money on my for-profit service.
Like walkie-talkies. Phones only work as communication devices in vicinity of the network towers.
Oh yes of course, not every sentence would need to be rewritten multiple times (some may even have come out great the first time!); I think the meaning was just that he went through so many rounds of revising the entire book, end to end, that some particular sentences here or there might end up being rewritten 10 or 20 times.

On Wodehouse recommendations: this seems a nice post, with choice quotes that give an idea of what readers who like Wodehouse like: https://honoriaplum.com/2017/01/08/p-g-wodehouse-reading-gui... (For a specific recommendation: "Right Ho, Jeeves" is available online, and Stephen Fry mentions somewhere that one of the scenes in it "has often been described as the single funniest piece of sustained writing in the language"; John Le Carré was also an admirer.) Not to everyone's taste perhaps, but Wodehouse's talent for the language is clear; he's easily one of the masters of the English sentence.

Edit: The Wikipedia article has a section on "Technique and approach" (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P._G._Wodehouse&o...):

> Before starting a book Wodehouse would write up to four hundred pages of notes bringing together an outline of the plot; he acknowledged that "It's the plots that I find so hard to work out. It takes such a long time to work one out." He always completed the plot before working on specific character actions. For a novel the note-writing process could take up to two years, and he would usually have two or more novels in preparation simultaneously. After he had completed his notes, he would draw up a fuller scenario of about thirty thousand words, which ensured plot holes were avoided, and allowed for the dialogue to begin to develop. […] In his younger years, he would write around two to three thousand words a day, although he slowed as he aged, so that in his nineties he would produce a thousand.

> […] Wodehouse would ensure that his first draft was as carefully and accurately done as possible, correcting and refining the prose as he wrote, and would then make another good copy, before proofreading again and then making a final copy for his publisher.
> The e63 doesn't support touch and TouchGFX doesn't work with keypads or buttons so interfacing the keypad to the GUI engine was not a trivial exercise.

I found this amusing, considering my keyboard runs on a pair of STM32 blackpills
That works fine for locally generated traffic which has knowledge of the routes. For hosts going through a router, they have no idea what the outbound link MTU is, requiring PMTU discovery or messing with TCP MSS.
Money.

Only the newest Intel and AMD processors will do:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...

Deprecating a whole generation of hardware that do not meet minimum requirements will generate sales for Intel, AMD, and PC OEMs.

Edit: downvotes? Where's your counterargument? How is Windows 11 not designed to give Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and PC OEMs more profit?
Chinese censorship, surveillance found at Australian universities – rights group
Twitter confirms that missing Latest Tweets option is a bug
r/personalfinance for me. I got a lot of use out of the primers and guides they link to.
plaintext works well because it is universal and interoperable with everything. markdown is a great compromise in terms of keeping the portable format while giving you a bit more power. the article talks about reaching outside of plaintext for certain content - another approach is to adopt a plaintext note taking tool that has better supported for more complicated note types.

plug: i'm the creator of one of these tools (dendron.so) which I use to manage over 20k notes in plaintext
I have the same feeling, out of the fact that I have not achieved anything I want in my life so far and I can't adjust my targets according to my shortcomings.

Everytime I take a vacation I feel bored from the 2nd or 3rd day and want to _do something_. Maybe I can indulge myself in one night of games/movies but the second night I'd definitely feel very uneasy.

And frankly the older I am, the stronger the feeling is. I want to tell myself that OK this guy can achieve _nothing_
I want in his life and he is almost 40 so maybe relax, but I don't listen to myself.
> Nope.

Nope to that!

See I can make unfounded assertions too! It's fun.

> Leaving aside the the current psychotic break the GQP is experiencing this year, universal health care is not something they've ever wanted.

There's a difference between "I would never, ever vote for this under any circumstances because NO WAY" and "I'll get voted out if I allow an increase in spending on something that my voting base doesn't want".

In the same way that Democrats couldn't go to their voting bases and say "see we got universal healthcare! " if they had to give up the necessary funding in other places in order to make it budget-neutral, Republicans could only hope to get re-elected if they could go to their voting bases and say "look yeah we compromised, but it was on a thing that was budget-neutral! We didn't get a tax break for you, but we did eliminate all these other $horrible programs!"

I'm not saying that's good or right or what we want. But both sides are playing to their audiences and very much tuned in to what they want. That's what you have to do to get re-elected. That's why neither side is interested in compromising to make a deal. They'll get crucified for "not standing up for what WE believe in" and "compromising with that other side full of awful, evil people"

I don't really like that the US hasn't done much legislatively in the last 20 years. But, I, personally, myself don't get to decide how all this works. And neither does anyone else.
You speak of Webauthn like it isn't wildly new/still being adopted.
I'm arguing that working hard is not the main goal. PG completely misses how you need to be in a position to benefit from that hard work. Without that positioning it will be pointless/useless.
We're looking for more talk submissions to the Longhorn PHP conference. Talks don't have to be about core PHP (although we love those talks!). We would also be interested in talks on any variety of web tools and technologies that could be valuable to our audience.

Talk submissions are due tomorrow - June 30th. I'm happy to answer any questions about Longhorn PHP and our CFP.
Associated Twitter Support tweet confirming the same: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/140998383524532633...
Or development cost lowers by 10% keeping salaries the same, and more work that was previously too expensive to do is now feasible.
I understand you're trying to use examples that seem clear to you, but you're begging more questions than you answer:

>" You can get you own armed guards - but you will still subsidize other people's police force."

Why? This is an especially open question in areas with large police forces and high crime rates, or histories of police abuse of power.

>"You pay taxes to provide a minimum service to all of the community, you can then take advantage of it or not - that's your prerogative."

Again, why? What's 'a minimum service to the community'? Do you mean public goods, or services that have positive externalities, or things that help the poor?

>"I pay for school taxes, but I don't have kids - should I get my money back?"

Maybe! Depends on your beliefs surrounding political authority and ethics.

Perhaps you might do better to point to your ethical framework, and highlight what it means with respect to municipal fiber.
i disagree fundamentally about the question.

for me, the question is: how can we prevent the virus from mutating enough to escape vaccine- and covid-based immunity with another variant? the answer is to stop the virus from infecting a host in which it can mutate freely and from which it can escape. we don't know these people, so we should aim to vaccinate as many as possible before it finds another person who walks around with the virus for multiple months with no symptoms, accelerating natural selection thousandfold.
Oh, a pager 2.0! An omni-pager!

But once you consider an email client, it turns much larger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNz6MekFesg

It’s OSB, then a weather resistant barrier, then the cement fiber siding on the outside nailed into the OSB.
I'm having a hard time getting on board with "data hoarding" being used to mean privacy invasion instead of archiving publicly available data.
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AWS IAM roles for GitHub Actions workflows
I think this is a fantastic attitude. And if the file grows too big, you can also do a simple compression.

MS office is a weird thing in this regard. The current formats are technically open (called Office Open XML), but good luck with the multi-thousand page reference.
Arguably, your purchased internet will be of better quality and have better support because of competition than if they remained a local monopoly (which is the case is a vast majority of regions).

Especially if the service eventually becomes revenue positive and pays for itself, possibly providing non-tax revenue into the municipal general fund and lowering your tax load.
It also doesn't list the files. It prints all matching lines (and their line numbers), without the corresponding filenames.
> I doubt interior load supporting walls are 2x6

Could be another regional difference. Our code requires 2x6 minimum for load bearing walls.
no disagreement here, but the same standards should be applied to misinformation from vaccine-skeptical folks. 'we don't know' is an honest answer for both sides.
I tried signing up a few weeks ago and they are not allowing international or Australian access.

I'm surprised the comments here are missing the elephant in the room.

Sridhar Ramaswamy was the Google executive directly responsible for putting all those ads on Google's search results. If Google search got broken then I reckon he did more than anyone to break it. He had a brutal rivalry with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Vivek Raghunathan put all the ads on YouTube. Those ads are so bad Google makes money from people paying to remove them.

They left Google after a scandal with YouTube showing ads on videos that exploited young children and appealed to pedophiles.

Are the architects of the problem the right people to trust for a solution? The born-again anti-advertising schtick just seems too clever by half. They are collecting more private personal data than Google ever did.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-exec-sridhar-ramas...

https://camilancumicumi.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-former-google...
No, I'm sorry but this blows photogrammetry out of the water. The original NeRF paper photorealistically handled complex occlusions (like foliage) and reflective and refractive caustics. No other technique comes close. That is the entire reason it's interesting, and believe it or not there are practical applications for it right now. Forget gaming - this lets you capture lightfields for VR with a cell phone in 5 minutes. And if the NeRFs themselves can be rendered in real time, it solves the problem of compressed light field scene representation. Buckle up for photorealistic VR.
If I’m prying too much, just feel free to ignore me.

How would you define “a job you like” and how much would you have to make to pay your bills? Are there main drivers for those bills like high cost of living, medical issues, student debt?
You're trying to reframe my argument in a bad way.

I'm talking about people deciding to use a certain technology with tradeoffs.

You're talking about people going against quality standards of a development team. And that's where I end the conversation, you bore me.
>Boilerplate optimizes for the right things - code that's easier to read and analyze, but takes longer to write.

This is wrong and the same retarded logic Java used to defend not introducing var and similar features for ages. Boilerplate is usually noise around the actual logic - it's a result of limited abstractions. When you're repeating same code over and over you raise that segment to a separate concept, that's how abstraction and high level programming works - it increases readability and maintainability. Being easier to type has nothing to do with it.
You can just assign document.QuerySelector and document.QuerySelectorAll to $ and $$ yourself.
The system in the US is exactly as crazy as it seems. It generates lots of profits and lots of financial hardship for patients. There is just about zero political will for any political party to fix the situation and we all expect it to continue to get worse.
i imagine perspective of being sued for spreading it would be a good motivation to get vaccinated.
Love this approach to using GitLab to incorporate intentional documentation in sync meetings. I work at GitLab, and we use the platform to collaborate, but I've not used it as described here. We'll have to give it a try!
Who has $19k plus another $6k to put away every year to max retire accounts?
I get the impression the only way to use this is in a github cloud environment, which means all the code you type will essentially belong to github in some capacity?
It is rare, in the US at least, for any representative or direct democratic situation to ask for unanimous consent. Someone will almost certainly disagree once you get past 1 voter (or one representative), and possibly they'll disagree with themselves.

What's interesting about this case is that the municipalities have made moves towards this with their own money and efforts. And it is the state which is attempting to squash it, that is those around them. It would be as if you said to your neighbors, "I'm going to try and do something which will have zero impact on you, like eating more vegetables that I grow at home." Then they all gang up on you and deny you the right to grow and consume your own vegetables. If the action were harmful to you and your neighbors, like say you decided to make meth in your home, then it could be a reasonable response.

What about municipal broadband causes harm to those outside the community which wants it such that their representatives in the state legislature have any reasonable standing to try and bar it?
I can only feel happy if my blabbering helped you. Reach out if you have any questions or need advice (although advice is a dangerous thing in general). I've been around, I learned to be kind and I love helping people when I can.
I think part of the problem is that the industry doesn't seem to value embedded software engineers. The work embedded software folks do is just as complicated as that of a full-stack developer working for a SaaS company, but the salaries aren't comparable.

It doesn't help things that the skill sets are very transferrable. It's tough to find somebody willing to forego 20-30% of salary just because they enjoy embedded - after a while, people get fed up and move into better paid SE roles. So, embedded software departments are often short-handed. A former employer of mine lost a senior firmware engineer almost three years ago. As far as I know, they still haven't filled the position.