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Metaculus is not convinced: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/6341/when-will-starship-...
It is true, the government did lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order to gain popular support for an unpopular war. More relevant to this thread is the fake vaccination campaign CIA orchestrated in Pakistan[1] to achieve some militaristic and violent goals for the USA government. It is an interesting question indeed. Why should we trust them?

We should also talk about this, and we should even be blaming the poor vaccination rates in the USA on this tendency of the government to lie in order to serve a narrow self interest. In my opinion this kind of behavior should not be expected from a government that calls it self democratic, and there needs to be some repercussions to the people responsible. Until then, it is totally understandable why people are skeptic towards any of their claims, including claims about the efficacy of Covid vaccines.

That said, my answer to my previous question: “when should we trust the government,” is: on a case by case basis. When it comes to Covid vaccines, there have been ample studies, by many parties, independent agencies, etc. And the claim is consistent. The vaccines are safe and an effective protection against serious illnesses from Covid 19. In this case, the government appears not to be lying.

1: https://www.grunge.com/321975/the-tragic-true-story-of-the-c...
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How is modifying our diets a "cure" for Type I diabetes?

The only "cure" I know about for Type I diabetes is insulin, the subject of TLA and as far as I can tell, the subject of GP's comment also. Your comment appears to be the first introducing the idea of diet, which suggests that maybe, as I said, you're confusing diet-related Type II diabetes (not the subject of the article) with Type I diabetes (the subject of the article).
Quite the opposite. Menial work will be automated away (e.g. CRUD) and only good programmers will be needed to do the more complicated work.
I have surveyed these, but in general, they simply don't come anywhere close in quality to that of courses offered by edX.

An example that readily comes to mind are the courses on manufacturing processes offered by both MITx and NPTEL. The MITx course was clearly a class apart - you actually got to see the processes in question and how they were applied in the real world factories. When speaking about how a product was made, the lecturer actually bothered to bring samples of those products, sometimes dismantled them, and showed us how they could have been put together. I only audited this a few months ago, and to this day I remember the concepts vividly.

On the other hand, in the videos I watched, the NPTEL course lecturer simply read out from powerpoint slides, which he prepared from a standard textbook. You were better off reading the textbook directly than watching the video alternating between the slides and the lecturer's face. It was a very uninspiring, depressing experience.
nothing more than what I was expecting :D
It sounds like you're pitching https://hackmd.io/

Also, https://overleaf.com for LaTeX projects.
How is our credit score system much different than a centralized database used to control individuals?
> little bit of a facelift

Proceeds to download 30kb (compressed) swiss army knife of a library when just a toothpick would do.

jQuery is about as much of a gateway to ES6 as pot is to heroin. Devs who still use jQuery have had 10+ years to learn `document/element.querySelectorAll()`. Longer for event listeners.
And the US does not particularly need to urgently aim for ~$10-$15 as in many other affluent nations. This is a mistake commonly made by those griping about insulin prices, they expect that somehow magically we should just warp to $12 insulin pricing. That desire for step-skipping is never going to happen, that's a great way to never get anywhere. The reality of the giant mess of a healthcare system the US has means it can't work that way, and thinking otherwise is pure fantasy. Instead, $30-$40 would do just fine compared to where we're coming from, it would be tremendous progress. Once we get there, we can target ways to reduce it further to try to get closer to in-line with other nations. As you note, this improvement is welcome, and we should then focus on going after the next step-forward improvement.
> Why not just bring cash to tip

If the point is not to keep calculating the tip, that's worse. And then we would need to wait to get the change on the tip?
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> There are many many people who have confirmed positive COVID tests. At least excuse those.

The virus is a moving target and what was true of the alpha variant may not be true of delta or downstream. I guess it depends on what you mean by excuse. If you mean allow people to say go on a cruise with a positive covid test as opposed to a vaccination record that seems tentatively reasonable. If you mean allow workers at an old folks home to opt out based on a prior positive test that is unreasonable. If it makes you even possibly slightly less likely to kill the old folks you should get the jab.

The real problem is the grey area created by such a rule. There are probably multiple times as many people who think they have had covid compared to those that have actually had covid that have never been tested. I know people in the US who had an illness in 2019 who are sure they had covid. If you give them an opening they wont let it go. It will surely get ugly.
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> Is it not like our situation with the flu?

Nope, and for the same reason COVID deniers who claimed "it's just like the flu" in the beginning were wrong.
This is really the same argument as it used to be: help intelligences (used to be only human, now artificial) to find bugs by matching text with code.
> They distribute it with money taken forcibly from citizenry.

Yes that's exactly the point. I make $150k a year, live very comfortably and pay almost 30% tax (in USA). If the government stops funding endless wars and starts using my tax money to help people get healthcare and education, we wouldn't have this problem.
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Can I see a link? I'm not finding the same report. Instead I'm finding these [1] which point to the vaccine being highly effective at keeping you out of the hospital.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
I love scanning a QR code and having a pdf open in my browser. Faster than waiting for wait staff and easier for restaurants to change the menu. I think most people disagree that nobody wants PDFs.
I'm currently learning Japanese and I tried playing with this for a bit. I have to say that this looks really nice, and almost exactly what I was looking for. The flashcards are interestingly presented, and the selection of sources is great (Though it doesn't have Minna no nihongo 2 which I'm currently going through).

Great work, and thanks for working on this and making it available!
> There is a proposed law right now in the USA to disallow platform owner to own companies that use it platform

Is a company disallowed from using its own platform, or merely having a subsidiary do so?
If QR-code based ordering doesn't decrease the quality of the food (I think everyone agrees it doesn't) why should others have to subsidize your 'personal touch' experience paying higher prices for increased wait staff attention when they may be OK with (and prefer!) impersonal service, which has a built-in lower cost of delivery?

It seems to me your focus is less on the quality of the food (provided it means quality standards) and more about the ambiance and experience of another human catering to your customized requirements. In any other domain this would be a luxury you'd be expected to pay more for.

I say bring on the impersonally delivered, high quality, cheap food!
I use Neeva with Firefox on iOS.
I like your comment, and I agree the Swiss are probably free-er at this point--but we were something of a free nation at one time, and we still (Orwellian?) bill ourselves as such.

> There are tons of central databases you are already registered in, all available on demand.

Most of these are not ran by the government though. Thus their use is not mandated.

> your freedom ends where other's begins

In libertarian circles this is generally spoken about as the `non-aggression principle`.

I in no way think that a proof of vaccination system put together by private providers, coupled with businesses' choice to check vaccination status is wrong. I do think the responsible thing to do is somewhere along the lines of self isolating to either being vaccinated or having an antibody test.

My objection is a government orchestrated vaccination database with mandated use in private businesses.

edit: I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I did upvote you for the thoughtful commentary. : )
According to the comments here, people have been using this for a couple of weeks now.
Maybe UPNP?
> With Arweave you pay a small upfront fee to have the network store your file forever.

How are the economics of this sustainable? "Forever" hosting for a small upfront fee seems like it must be a lie.

Can you only upload small files, so you end up paying 1000x+ S3 prices, with the hope that Moore's law outpaces cost of keeping the file online?

Are reads monetized, so unpopular files will inevitably lose the forever guarantee?
We all have a right to use public space. If the users are not interested in the vaccination or don't already have antibodies, that is on them. They will have reaped what they sowed. It's not your business to police that though.

And you ignored what I said about Florida and the other states where people have been going maskless for a long time without the numbers changing the trend.
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I think the major advantage wood construction has over concrete is that individual wood elements are replaceable. It would be hard to ship-of-Theseus a reinforced concrete structure.
Not thinking about it isn’t the same as deciding that there isn’t an answer. Nor does it preclude planning. It’s just not something that bothers me or seems important. I have more interesting existential thoughts when I think about the enormity of the universe.

I also don’t see why you think there is risk in it. After all you can have a long term plan to do extremely dangerous things to self actualise. Both routes (a false dichotomy in itself) in fact have a possibility of having very real negative consequences even if your plans are dull.
Moreover, half of the deaths from the delta variant in the UK occured in fully vaccinated individuals:

https://www.businessinsider.com/vaccinated-among-delta-death...

I would see two main reasons for this:

- vaccinations are far from "94% effective" in the age groups who need it the most (elderly with weakened immune systems)

- deaths are over-counted (death from any cause within 28 days is counted as COVID death)
This is true; but there are multiple entry points to that data (The Graph, Infura, etherscan, etc) and just because one fails does not mean the entire ecosystem will collapse (ie: you can easily create a new indexer and switch HTTP provider from Infura to NewInfuraReplacement), or even run your own node for your company.
I don't entirely agree with this premise.

I do agree on the furry + anime vices stuff that mixing that in with the legendary byuu was silly and wouldn't surprise me if it was unfortunately due to their autism (they they have it in the twitter thread).

However I don't think LGBT + incredible hacker is a huge blunder IF and only IF, you can be assertive about it, which is much easier said than done when:

A: Most people just want to live their lives without none-sense

B: LGBT people are far more likely to be brought up either through parents or environment to feel the need to be introverted about themselves to protect themselves from harm.

But say someone like say Rupaul, even if they get hate, they simply would never take it.
> Fix the broken trust between people.

What you describe is mostly fixing the trust in institutions. And I agree that doing so is important, though I don't see it addressing disinformation all that much (except, I suppose, official disinformation.)

But the problem with disinformation isn't so much the trustworthiness of institutions. It's, first, information originates somewhere. Sometimes it's from an institution. Sometimes it's from a foreign institution that's deliberately sowing disinformation. And sometimes it's from an individual who's either misinformed or deliberately sowing disinformation.

Then, second, disinformation gets spread. These days, much of this part is by individuals, though some of it is by fake individuals who are part of foreign disinformation campaigns. And this is where your quote comes in. Fix the broken trust between people? To do that, I need people who are trustworthy to not push disinformation onto my feed. To fix the trust, you need to fix the people so that they become trustworthy.

And even that breaks down when you have foreign disinformation campaigns, who create fake people and do everything they can to make them appear trustworthy, so that they will be believed when they spread disinformation.

I don't have a good solution. But any solution has to involve changing people.
Good point, thank you for the perspective
Yes, that’s fair. My only exposure to LA culture is the entertainment industry and the large amount of influencers that are based in LA. So I’ll be the first to admit my understanding is shallow. I was just curious why you are so jaded to travelling.

My point still stands that travelling the world is not a completely shallow endeavour. However you seem obsessed with labelling people as shallow, which ironically comes across as pretty shallow in itself.
It's not novel, this technology has been trialed and used for a decade, 3 years in vaccines.

We do already have long-term data. You would see side effects for a vaccine within six months, and we have been administering it for much longer than that.

The vaccines are safe.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7956899/
It seems obvious, but it is much more cumbersome to read and write HTML than it is to read and write Markdown.

Markdown is perfectly readable directly off the page, and is easy to write. HTML and XML are a pain both to read and write.
Tabnine already does this locally, but I didn't have that good of an experience.
I try to have hobbies outside of programming that still feel productive, either due to a social, health, or simply intellectual aspect.

BJJ hits all three for me.
Even if not, if the camera is required for login/screen unlock, have fun removing and reapplying that tape several dozen times a day.
Links:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/delta-who-urges-fully-vaccin...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/vaccinated-people-account-for-h...
This. I had the same surgery. Mine were because of toxoplasmosis.
Yeah I agree that Idris itself would be much too large, however you could write a much smaller Lambda Pi that could still enable a lot of nice features.
Definitely a factor. There are still a lot of emacs use-cases which call out to or depend on unix tools, but yes. It's more common to try and "live" in emacs than in vim, whereas vim is more of a component within a larger experience.
And? That doesn't change that there are still things which are common sense and rooted in basic logic accessible to anyone. That Nature journal article is one of those things.
Their contention is

> Why was GitHub Copilot trained on data from publicly available sources?

> Training machine learning models on publicly available data is now common practice across the machine learning community. The models gain insight and accuracy from the public collective intelligence. But this is a new space, and we are keen to engage in a discussion with developers on these topics and lead the industry in setting appropriate standards for training AI models.

Personally, I'd prefer this to be like any other software license. If you want to use my IP for training, you need a license. If I use MIT license or something that lets you use my code however you want, then have at it. If I don't, then you can't just use it because it's public.

Then you'd see a lot more open models. Like a GPL model whose code and weights must be shared because the bulk of the easily accessible training data says it has to be open, or something like that.

I realize, however, that I'm in the minority of the ML community feeling this way, and that it certainly is standard practice to just use data wherever you can get it.
Use styled components if they suit your use case, by all means.

But if that use case is We don't have to learn CSS because we can just not think about it with this nifty innovation then the use case is horrific.
Sorry I think I missed that. In that case you will have to find someone else who can do it and figure out how to get them paid. If you want help doing that, don't hesitate to ask.
The question should be the other way around: Why is there `getElementsByClassName` when you can do `querySelectorAll('.myClass')`? Why have `getElementById` when we have `querySelectorAll('#myId')`? Why have `getElementsByTagName` when we have `querySelectorAll('tagName')`?
No, you can use your cellular connection all you want. It'll just eat your data. If you want to trade a little effort for a little data saving, that option is open to you.
Not at present; sharding (part of Eth2) will change this scalability dramatically though.
Firstly, as the article emphasises, _diffing_ is far from the only issue with virtual DOM. And this isn't about microbenchmarks; plenty of people have run up against React's performance limits in real world applications and have had to spend time engaging in menial optimisation work as a result.

Secondly, you're dismissive of the idea that 'the virtual DOM is fast' is a meme (in the original Dawkinian sense; I'm not talking about gifs with Impact-typefaced captions), which suggests you haven't spent a lot of time around developers on places like Twitter and Stack Overflow. This misperception _absolutely_ exists, and this article was written to correct it, not to 'sell' Svelte.

Svelte isn't intent on 'taking over'. We're quite happy providing developers with an alternative to React that enables them to write less code and not have to worry about performance. That said, I'd argue the 'irrelevant' label is somewhat unfair (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1409529125539254277, https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/technologies/front-end-fram...).
But then why leaving them out? I accept your point but BioNTech is as much credible for this as Pfizer
"for people already seropositive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from a previous infection, getting the first dose of an mRNA vaccine increased antibody titers by two orders of magnitude on average"

That's not what this says -- you're extrapolating that the vaccine somehow changed the immune response, when this letter is only providing data that people who already had Covid had a clear, ~immediate antibody response to vaccination. That's exactly what you expect to happen when immune people see an antigen for a second time.

In other words, the previously infected recipients already had a well-primed immune response. The vaccination isn't necessarily doing anything to increase the response -- it's just the expected reaction of an already-primed immune system, when it a bolus of antigens it already knows about is injected into the body:

> The antibody titers of vaccinees with preexisting immunity were 10 to 45 times as high as those of vaccinees without preexisting immunity at the same time points after the first vaccine dose (e.g., 25 times as high at 13 to 16 days) and also exceeded the median antibody titers measured in participants without preexisting immunity after the second vaccine dose by more than a factor of 6.

If anything, this letter (not a paper) provides further evidence that vaccination for the previously infected is not necessary.
I had a similar realization. My inner desire had weird bits of fear and narcissism at its core. When that side of me cracked the desire to perform vanished. I did do some math after that (mostly to asses brain damage after health issues): i could do some new stuff, and did enjoy it.. but something changed, there need to be solid reasons: either aesthetical (a sudden epiphany that I need to study topology) or social for me to go into workhorse mode.

Another thing is that I also realized that crushing is not progressing.. so very often I understood things without any effort, what it took is for my brain to accept an idea more than anything else.. so I stopped forcing things, I simply walk around ideas and let things come and go.

All in all.. I also believe that is simply biology talking.. when young all you care is being the best, with age your focus spreads over other people (SO, kids, family)
Yeah, I get all that too. I think my problem was that I sort of misunderstood what Node is. I've always thought of it as a web server, not a language runtime. So to me it seemed like using Node to run command-line tools was akin to doing

python -m http.server my_cool_cli_thing

which is, of course, a bananas way to do things. But now that I've dug into it a little more I see that this is a misapprehension that I formed based on Node's original use case as an event-driven web server.

Thanks again.
It's in the RID catalog: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Mi...
> I have a right to use public spaces.

So do I, but you say I shouldn't because you're afraid.
While reading over that kernel code, I kept wondering how it could possibly be code reviewed before landing. The amount of context required to spot mistakes must be overwhelming

If there was ever a case for Literate Programming, I'd vote for using it on kernel code before I would on rando CRUD app
How sure are you about the long term effects of COVID?
No, and I agree with your point 100%, but that article does note that part of the increase was due to people changing types of insulin. So it's not as simple as companies charging 2x for the same insulin.
i think this topic was covered here not so long ago and the short, suggested explanation was, as far as i can remember, corruption.
carta.com or if you are feeling very cutting edge: bitclout
They can change prices and/or update the menu at any time and they avoid printing, storing, handing out, collecting, and cleaning the physical menus.

An appliance menu server would cost practically nothing if they're already offering Wi-Fi or use electronic POS/ordering systems.
Cement fiber is definitely the trend, at least in the PNW, but vinyl is still a budget option, and cedar has it's place as well.
I chuckle when one of the bullet points is that it autogenerates the stupid, pointless unit-tests that you need to write to verify trivial code, but boosts your code-coverage metrics...
We cannot force some to isolate and others not too. We have reached a point where the vaccine is proven effective. Virtually anyone in the US that wanted to get a vaccine by now has had ample opportunity to do so. Those who choose not too will either contract the virus or not, that is their call. I am fully vaccinated and would encourage everyone to get vaccinated but I don't see how we have the right to force anyone to take a novel medication if they don't want to or restrict their movements. It is their body and their right to do as they wish. If we force people to take this medication, what is to stop people being forced to take something else that another group may disagree with.

The US has moved past isolation, its just not going to happen again, there is no political will for it. I fully support vaccination, I just don't support a police state asking to check our papers.