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> gnoring the country website, previously if you wanted to search only local news it was very easy to do

Also the opposite: insisting on pushing local and localized results on google.com even when I set my browser language to english.
> All you're saying by declining the vaccine is that you care more about the u-u risk to yourself.

which is fine, i think this is a valid position to take.

The invalid position is to prevent others from isolating you (who have this position) - for example, by mandating a vaccine passport for certain types of services or activities. You cannot take the position of wanting to protect yourself from u-u risk of vaccines, _and yet_ also continue consequence free life.
Note, that there is a new (substantially accelerated) "autoscheduler" implementation in TVM (one of competitors in the article linked), details can be found in https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06762
I wish Elon was a railway nerd, it would be a much more effective way to spend the cash.
“I am vaccinated. Look at this unvaccinated person. I am not like them. They are not like us. Lets go find more of them. Let’s throw stones at them. We’re not usually allowed to throw stones, but we can because they are bad. And I am now doing good, and it brings me satisfaction and purpose.”
These sort of unofficial background checks are unethical IMO, because there's often zero trace of them occurring. That person is essentially blacklisted without any hope of remedy. Unfortunately even where they're illegal they still happen sometimes and the candidates are none the wiser.

I agree with you on workplace safety, but in this case it seems like posturing, since the SARS-2 vaccines don't protect from sickness and transmission (any more). Several countries are experimenting with "vaccinated, cured or tested" to enable reasonably fair and safe access to social life. Since tests will no longer be free, this seems to be a very strong incentive to get vaccinated.

In countries like the UK, Germany, France, etc they're also pondering making it mandatory for health care professionals to get vaccinated. That probably makes sense, together with e.g. teachers, especially since kids can't get the vaccine. But the government must guarantee that any vaccine side-effects will be made up for. The nasty thing about AZ for example was that you would of course get treated if you got the brain thrombosis, but no compensation was awarded. I indirectly know of someone that had this critical side-effect and they survived but last time I heard they were still half paralysed.
> provide a platform for all their good journalists

What will all the recent journalism school grads do before they become skilled?
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The linked article title appears to have changed now, at the moment it is:

Some Apple staff have quit because of the company's stance against remote working, a report says
> However, if the directory has many files or sub-directories, tree becomes much less helpful: you only see the last screen full of information as files scroll past you.

tree | less
I didn't know of entr, or inotify at the time. Years ago, I wrote a script that did mostly that, but I've found myself to instead more often use a different script to rerun things based on manually triggered global hotkeys. It scratches a different itch, but in case you want to check it out: https://github.com/swarminglogic/shell-scripts/blob/master/r...

In short, you set up a global hotkey to trigger the rerun of a "key"-ed command. Then you can quickly run a command, which can be rerun with that hotkey.

So, a global hotkey set up for `runrerun -r foo`

Then in a terminal you can use `runrerun -b foo -- <COMMAND>`.

It is a bit over-engineered with multiple sessions, different kill signals for restarts, etc. But that's the gist of it.
> But how do we make politicians aware of the seriousness?

Don't you think they ought to be very much aware by now? And probably they are, but are either unwilling or unable to affect true change. Unwilling because it is insufficiently in their own interest, and unable because those unwilling and their friends wield too much power. Making things move very, very slowly, at a glacial pace.
Accounts haven't had the ability to spin up Classic unless you were grandfathered in, iirc, and I also believe people have been getting emails about this all for quite some time. Most likely, if you're using EC2, you're not using Classic.
For simple templating I use my own version[1] of pp[2] preprocessor. The idea behind it is ridiculously simple: everything between ^#!$ markers is shell script. Output of the script is pasted verbatim in the document.

[1]: https://github.com/TeddyDD/pp.awk
[2]: https://www.mkws.sh/pp.html
Philosophically or legally? I’m fully aware that US has weak worker laws, but in Europe you can’t fire people based on whim.
First worry is always a tsunami, but in this case it seems like it only generated a max of ~20cm: https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2021/07/29/qwzteb/7/WEAK...
man is not a safety nor mission critical system. It was trivial to work around functional anomalies. There was nothing wrong with this, and it was hilarious.

I'm glad the VLC developers never backed down from the Santa hat popping up near Christmas, despite ridiculous criticism from a tiny minority of users.

If you don't like it, fork it.
>while nothing will be done about huge industries

But Johnny Average is what all those huge industries are ultimately there for. It all leads to production of goods for the people.

Also, straws, plastic bags etc are actually a different issue. Those are about plastic pollution and have little to do with climate change.

Also also, plastic pollution is not as big of an apparent problem in the West. Who knows with microplastic contamination though. We might be doing lead pipes 2.0.
Effort estimation in agile development is supposed to solve this right? Does it not in practise? I'm not a developer, I've just heard of agile so I don't really know how its actually done in a big software org
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The NPC thing nailed it home to me just how dystopic this is.
Really cool! An alternate design is also detailed in this stackexchange answer: https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/86/is-it-possible...
> Previously, you needed to rely on cuBLAS for fast hand-written Matrix Multiply kernels, and then your LeakyReLU would need to read that result out of memory,

You could do that, but you can also just tell cuBLAS to fuse ReLU, by just passing the "CUBLASLT_EPILOGUE_RELU" option (among others), see the manual: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas/index.html#cublasLtEpilo...

This has been possible for years. It's the kind of 1 line change that makes a big difference.
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I did not say it had no testing at all. It has gone through short term testing. But it has insufficient testing to pass the standard hurdles and thus could only be used with the Emergency Use Authorization. Which carries with it the risks of consequences being unknown. As in this case, the long term consequences. And that’s where the category of experimental unknown results lays and how the Geneva Convention on human rights applies: not being allowed to force this vaccine on people through force or coercion.
They always "knew" that it hit them in the profit margin but the journalistic talent had more leverage back then, newspaper margins weren't as thin and growth prospects werent as meager.

If tech has a bad decade no doubt theyll suddenly "realize" that free breakfasts arent doing them any favors and scale them back.
Exactly because companies are typically not allowed to force employees to undergo certain procedures and treatments - and for very good reasons - no exception should be done in this case either.
No matter which end of the vaccine debate spectrum you fall on, this is free market at work. These are private corporations that can do business with customers and employees as they see fit within the laws. If people strongly disagree, they need to vote with their wallets and either change jobs or need to start a new company.
> I have not gotten the vaccine as I prefer the known, extremely low risk of contacting COVID

Your risk of getting Covid if not vaccinated (and leading a remotely normal lifestyle) is close to 100%. With an R0 of 6 you can't just free-ride of people who take the "unknown longitudinal risk", because even if a lot of people take the jab it's extremely unlikely we will achieve herd immunity any time soon -- even if the jabs (or prior infection) granted perfect and permanent immunity which they don't. I'm suprised you think otherwise, and would like to hear your reasoning, in quantitative terms if possible.
Are we sure that marketing article was not changed after the fact? The Nvidia Triton Release notes show 'Starting in release 20.03, TensorRT Inference Server is now called Triton Inference Server.' [0]

It kind of looks like the article just changed the heading later since in the article the docker images they refer to etc. are all still called 'tensorrtserver' which was the project's name before they changed naming in Release 20.03.

The OpenAI-Triton Author says on reddit: 'You can also look at the github history and you will see that there is no mention of the "Triton inference server" up until version 2.0, which wasn't out in 2019 (I ran `git reset --hard v1.9.0 ; grep -ir "triton" .`)' [1]

- [0]: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/triton-inference-server...

- [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/otdpkx/n_i...
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Around 1 in 1000 may have died in King County, however the risk to an individual varies with age and comorbidities. If GP is young, isn't overweight, and doesn't work in close proximity to others, their risk of death is about an order of magnitude lower just by basic social distancing and exposure reduction. [0] shows COVID involved in about 3% of all deaths in the 18-29 group and about 13% in 85+.

Personally, I can't imagine the guilt if I knew I caused a close family member or friend to contract COVID, and have remained pretty cautious even after we have all been vaccinated.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
Failing to give feedback also fails to give someone the concrete evidence they'd need in a meeting to persuade their boss to change course.
In general, google no longer primarily searches what you asked them but for what they think you want. This might be better for the average user but can be extremely frustrating when you are trying to find something more niche.
> “South Africa is a very corrupt state, it's just too easy for that system to act in a way that does not have integrity.”

Being a corrupt state does not imply a corrupt legal system. SA’s legal system is based very closely on the UK’s (with some Dutch law and African customary law tweaks thrown in) and is considered to be very good actually. Some legal systems around the world are weakened by lobbying and politically placed judges and there is lack of evidence that this is a problem in the SA legal system.

A recent demonstration of this resilience to corruption is the fact that the courts recently put the ex-president Zuma in jail; someone with a lot of corrupt power.

Besides, protecting yourself against a corrupt legal system with beneficial legal clauses just doesn’t make sense. Why even use a contract at all if you don’t believe in the legal system? They put those clauses in there precisely because the legal system is good and they will be held to account.

No, Pfizer is just being a bully because they think they can get away with it. Same thing happens every day when individuals feel trapped into signing unfavourable employment contracts because they are too far along and feel that there are no reasonable alternatives. I think that it’s a good thing that this generated bad PR for Pfizer.
I wish we could make decisions collectively, on how to spend resources. Rather than hoping our Lords have the wish and temperament to choose the best thing. x)
For Google Authenticator on iPhone I would recommend Authenticator by Mark Rubin:

Fast

Light

Free

Allows you to backup all tokens in an encrypted backup (not iCloud)
> rewrite d3d9.dll to emulate the API in user mode on top of D3D12.

There seem to be such a project actually, just released to open source:

https://github.com/microsoft/D3D9On12

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/open-sourcing-direct3...

But it seems you have to actively enable it in the development time, the OS won't just silently do this on itself and I doubt Microsoft or anybody else is going to update their software to do so.
Seems like CUDA only is only at the moment.
From their github:

>Under development: AMD GPUs, CPUs
The radical change is that previous generations took, at scale, vaccines against Polio and Small Pox. To the point these diseases don't matter really anymore. Today we tend to prioritize personal inconvenience over a truely greater good.
Hexagonal packing is the densest way to pack circles or spheres [1] [2].

That's why it pops up all the time in nature, from honeycombs to crystals, the way bubbles, beads, etc arrange, etc.

Of course circles and spheres are also optimal in term of surface area to volume ratio.

Bees have evolved to build the optimal honeycomb.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_packing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres
Didi Global Considers Going Private to Placate China and Compensate Investors
I hope so! Thanks for the article
An Accurate OLED Display Power Profiler for Modern Smartphones [pdf]
You are right, people who has contrarian views are only more entranced upon hearing counter arguments.

Though the delta variant clearly shows vaccine works but if you get infected you don't die. Even with infection spikes in France or Spain for example you don't see deaths spike.

In the low vaccination countries you see spike in the infections and in deaths.
Collect information for skilled journalists and work with them. Isn't that kind of how news agencies always operated? In the "Patreon for Journalism" model you just change the number of "agencies" from a dozen per country to a dozen per city. With all the up- and downsides that come with that.
I'm a dev that previously had a high powered desktop, then COVID happened and I had to move the desktop home with a friend from the office because I don't drive. The standard desktop builds didn't include the VPN settings because desktops don't move, right?

Now I have a laptop I can WFH from and take into the office when I do, and it has higher specs than the desktop (VR more-than-capable) because we don't update hardware piecemeal due to leasing it. The only benefit of having a desktop for me would be to allow for more HDD bays internally.
The best way to stop global warning is through intervention by Central Banks. We need to create monetary policy which promotes incentives such as green energy and carbon capture technology. We also need to focus on improving battery technology to store excess energy for later use.

We need to introduce innovation permits to restrict who is allowed to work on green tech so that we don't waste effort reinventing the wheel. We need to bring all the top green energy minds under one roof with one director at the top who has a PhD and a proven track record of success at raising capital.

The key to innovation is to reduce competition and increase collaboration. With such focus, it's critical that we don't put the wrong people in a position of power. We need a solid proven track record in academia, politics and/or business - The only way to do this is by looking at the financial track record. The stock market is the only mechanism which we can trust for ranking top people. Mediocre people who can't achieve success in such easy economic times should not occupy positions of power. If they can't make it during such easy fiscally expansionary times, how will they perform during hard times?

We need better leaders with a proven track record and top credentials from top universities.
Political manipulators use lies that validate people's base emotions and fears.

Telling people that all the indulgences they love are destroying the planet but won't affect us until generations in the future is a poor strategy that only a tactless political manipulator would employ. Nobody wants to hear about climate change, it's tone deaf.
Not OP, but I guess some anti-vaxxers are wary that what if the vaccination has some "time-bomb" where bad things happen say 5 years after you take it.

But if they're worried about that, they should also be worried about stuff the virus might do in the long term.
The average awarded amount per case, depending on the year, is between $250k and $1m. Considering this is the average of hundreds of cases there must awards significantly above this for those who have serious health effects.
Most of my talented friends from Germany/Europe leave for the US. I wouldn't say people are worse at problem solving it's just that they understand their value prop much better and know how to use the system to their advantage. At the end you get what you pay.
Why Keto Slender Is So Famous
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Who is this man?
lol who did that?
> what people do on their own time

if taking drugs would cause bleed-over effects into the job time, then it's not really only affecting their own time, and thus, the employer has the right to control it partially.
>Bureaucratic systems don't help the small inventors. Bureaucratic systems, without fail, are going to benefit people who can hire lots of lawyers.

These are blanket statements and ideological normative statements. You don't engage in argument.
GOP Congressmen Draft Bill to Strip Section 230 Protections from Big Tech
You're raising a point that has no relevance to the conversation. Neither economists nor epidemiologists rely on self reporting. In the face of a large scale disaster, such as the rise in drug overdoses, self-reporting is meaningless and can be ignored. Economists have other ways of estimating the overall experience of the public, mostly looking at aggregate numbers that point back to some real experience.

Put a bit differently, if you know someone is an alcoholic, and they tell you that they are happy, you would be a complete idiot to believe them.

A poll saying that Americans are happy has a certain limited value that needs to be balanced against all of the other behaviors that Americans are currently exhibiting. If the average life span is falling because of excess "deaths of despair" that is a very large fact that you would be foolish to ignore.

"that difficulty doesn't give experts a crystal ball to replace self-reporting"

The entire profession of economics has devoted the last century to developing various aggregate numbers that give some reliable picture of the mood of the country -- reliable in the sense that investors can make actual decisions based on those numbers, with the results being good more often that bad.

Americans telling a pollster that they are happy is a fact that needs to be balanced against other facts, such as the decline in the formation of new firms, the spike in gun violence, the spike in drug overdoses, etc. Compared to people's real actions, a poll means very little.

It's amazing to me that such an obvious point should get so much push back on Hacker News.
I loved gum so much in college) nice article
Once upon a time m4 had value as a guaranteed-available tool on Unix systems. But then Red Hat and Debian removed it from base systems, despite it being classified in POSIX as a mandatory shell utility, as opposed to utilities like c99, which is part of the Development Utilities extension set.

If you have to rely on the downstream user installing additional dependencies, that substantially changes the equation. You can either have them install a better tool, or remove the external dependency altogether. I personally think m4 is elegant, but most programmers seem to struggle with recursive string interpolation, at least on a practical level if not a conceptual level. And complex m4 programming quickly devolves to dynamic code generation, which is even more hostile. So I've learned to avoid it.

Autotools was prescient in this regard (or perhaps usefully conformant m4 implementations were spotty) as ./configure scripts rely on sed instead of m4 for templating, including for Makefile generation. While heavily used by autotools, m4 is used to generate ./configure, Makefile.in, and similar inputs that are statically included in the release rather than generated downstream.
Obviously he was referring to people with the possibility of having the vaccine which deliberately reject it, not people who couldn't have it.
Maybe he is living isolated in a remote location...
If you’re programming, I encourage you to get into self employment. Your customers will care about your output, reliability, and value to them.
I use Duolingo to learn Spanish and it's pretty good if you take it seriously and add on research outside of Duo (mostly on grammar). I'm hoping to reach a level where I can read things in the language which are interesting to me (with the aid of a dictionary of course), so I'll probably replace HN with some Spanish variant for example.
Yeah, that might be it. Finnish Google is rather useless in general -- especially for Swedish results -- and I expect the same for Norwegian ones.
Google changed SEO from a seedy practice to something they actively encourage, promote and support.

Google stopped shitcanning sites that that present different things to Googlebot and regular users, including sites that require a login for normal users but show content to Googlebot.

Google imposed arbitrary ranking criteria that favor long-wided blogspam over concise articles that immediately tell you what you want to know.

Yes, this is their making.
Clarity in philosophy is, to draw an analogy with Rich Hickey's argument, akin to ease in programming. A dangerous mask for complexity. Are Plato's dialogues really easier to read than Hegel's dialectic? Only superficially.

I got into philosophy with a gnarled copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in my bag. I read it on my own, without guides. And though yes there was a huge amount that I missed, it's anyway an inexhaustible work, and I thoroughly enjoyed it and it transformed my way of thinking. I would argue that's especially what that era sought to achieve (especially as a retort to Neo-Kantianism).

Philosophy, like code, should be as hard as the concepts it's trying to express. Not more, and not less.
Nah, johnny will now buy more expensive, bamboo plastic straws, in plastic packaging, in a plastic box, with multiple boxes in a plastic covered cardboard box, and all of that wrapped in plastic foil. He will also buy a reusable bag, made from much more plastic than single-use ones, and per gram of plastic, wont last as long.

Johnny will also be told not to drive his car... by a guy, who went to the interview in his private jet. Media will also praise a kid, who uses a sailing-yacht to travel, because she doesn't want to fly (due to carbon emissions), and in turn, she needs a whole team to operate the boat, which will then have to fly back home with a plane. We also pay a lot of money for recycling our goods, to be then just burned (and just stuff like copper scrapped) in 3rd world countries.
Just to be clear: I never made a statement about quality of software. It's mostly because of timezones, cultural differences, and language.

I specifically mentioned India because more than one consulting firm told me that India would be the future and software developers would not be needed in Germany anymore, only project managers.