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The thing that really hammers home that there's something to study here is that we basically eliminated polio through vaccination campaigns, and we did this in my lifetime. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988 (one year after I was launched), and since then the number of annual cases has dropped by 99.9%, from 350/year to a handful. 2% of the people that contracted polio suffered paralysis, which would necessitate living in an iron lung to keep breathing.

Before last year, I would have said that the clear and obvious harms of polio were the reason so many people got vaccinated that polio is basically eradicated. But since the start of COVID, over 10 million humans have died miserable deaths from COVID, yet so many people reject the vaccine.

There's an extremely grave threat, but there's also an easy way to gain near complete invincibility to that threat, but tens of millions of people in just the US are refusing invincibility to COVID. 99.2% of US COVID deaths now are among the unvaccinated [0]! 99.2%!!! Clearly there's something going on to make so many people make such an irrational choice, and that's worth studying, as the benefit of getting a few more people to embrace invulnerability is worth so much more than the cost of funding some research and outreach.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/08/fears-of-new...
I'm glad to see a little accountability happening, but we've been building up to this for a long time as standards have loosened and money flooded in.

One startup I happened to follow was uBeam; their former VP of engineering had a great blog called Lies, Damn Lies, and Startup PR that tracked what was going on there. Whether or not it was legally fraud is a matter of debate, but it was certainly dodgy: https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/search/label/ubeam

I'd be curious to hear about other startups folks here think were somewhere near the borderline of fraud. There must be a lot of stories out there!
It's pretty cheap for what it is. The OP-1 is a related toy and it costs about $1000
That's weird, I'm at 25k miles, my model 3 tires are pretty close to new, and ICE drivers have commented that the tire treads look good.

I'm not a tire expert, but I've heard that there are huge differences in tire longevity, and for people that live near water should be using the higher longevity tires to reduce microplastics.

And if you live in the SF Bay Area, the microplastics in the ocean are mostly tire microplastics, not straws or bags or beads in shower gels.
I'd disagree with this tight relationship.

I bought an air filter, it has a PM 2.5 meter on it.

Everyday I'm discovering and understanding what drives PM2.5 in my house.

It's not really an engineering breakthrough, you could loophole it to PM2.5 meters are getting cheaper. But really to me, it's the measurement, just better data.

I could have bought a PM 2.5 meter years ago but culture held me back. I personally don't believe in working from home, but if you did, once again the tech has existed for a while there's no real breakthrough happening.

Get the tools to the people.

Why is there no free easy to use OCR (Tesseract = PITA), I don't think a breakthrough or discovery is needed there.
After the incentives don't work...you'll be forced.
My a6000 allows raw + JPEG, usually the jpeg is good enough. But it’s nice to have the raws for saturated shots.
I’ll read the article again with this in mind but on first read it didn’t come across as trying to convince of anything other than using the gini coefficient isn’t insightful and he pointed out the flaws as he sees it.
This assumes that turning a RAW in to a JPEG is a computationally significant task. Cameras already have fairly powerful CPUs to be able to record 4k video. If more power was needed it would make more sense to put a high power ARM chip in the camera than to build software to do it externally.
I often wonder if processes running as other users on a multi-user system could exploit top/htop/etc via the display of command-line arguments etc.
I was but punk and metal were more my thing, so I ignored it along with Tiffany, Poison, and Belinda Carlisle...

No one seemed to play it anywhere in Seattle that I went to, for whatever it's worth.
>https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambys...

>It was 1 billion at time of donation but sits at about 400MM now

The source you provided says he donated $1B in various tokens/coins, not in ETH (as bpodgursky originally claimed). This is an important distinction, because a $1B donation in a very thinly traded coin/token is worth significantly less than a $1B donation in a popular cryptocurrency like eth/btc. The same source also says he only has about $1B in ETH, which makes me even more doubtful he actually donated $1B (in value after liquidation, not at market price).
That's a bit harsh. Many technology products have delays, it sucks, makes customers unhappy, but is not uncommon and is not considered lying, not in my book at least. Windows Vista was delayed for many many years [1]. They actually promised a full database replacement to their file system that it never really shipped, etc. This is not to criticize them, but just to say that when ambitious goals are set, it's often the case that delays happen. You can definitely make the case that maybe it's better to release products Apple-style and just unveil them when they are ready, that would be a fair point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista
How much of that hardness is necessary, though? Backward compatibility is quite costly.
The first note in the issue was also straightforward and clearly reasoned. Aws-cli is a lot more than a Python script. It's used by hundreds of thousands if not millions of developers and admins. I completely understand their desire to avoid being caught up in the complexity of Python package management.
But Facebook is a private company & Facebook can do whatever it wants...And Facebook, being a Corporation, has the same rights as a person...

A glib argument? Sure. But this was the same argument used to censor other political speech. What's good for the goose is good for the gander...
This seems good but falls apart with.long approval chains (which are maybe the core issue).

If I need library PR approved so I can make a service 1 PR so I can make a production release request so that I can deploy a one line change then it's hard to get things done with 4 hour ping time.
The beginning of something good I hope.
I can think of one specific use case: supporting an upgrade path for older versions of a given application.

That's about it though.
Sorry I actually think I got thrown off by some poor wording in a NameSilo email. After searching I think the actual restriction is that the domain can't last for more than 10 years after the last time you paid (but you're free to keep moving your 10-year window by continuing to pay) which is way more like what you'd expect. My bad if I alarmed you! I was super confused myself and I was wondering why that supposed limit wasn't more well known lol.
There are modern alternatives. AVIF and HEIF. HEIF is used by Apple for photos on the iphone and AVIF is just starting to gain use. Problem is decades of legacy make JPEG hard to replace. Most would rather full support on everything over a small amount of space saving.
True, super valid point but a technical programming book would not be a great way to be remembered after you died. The technology/library/stack/language you're writing about will probably die before you do or otherwise mutate beyond your book being useful.

I doubt that I would see "Here lies Fred, he wrote the greatest book on Fortran ever written" on a tombstone.

Or "Justine, her book on JQuery changed the world" in an obituary.

For a "heritage" book the topic would need to be longer lasting.
>So, how can we be so sure that FSD can't EVER be ported back to HW1?

Are you saying that the possibility is enough to prove they didn't cheat people?

If, some day, Tesla hypothetically says "we have determined it is technically possible to backport FSD, but we aren't gonna, because we like making money, not spending it" is that enough in your mind to demonstrate they didn't defraud anyone way back when?

Or do they actually have to make it run to fulfill the original promise?
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Re: the strawman argument, I already clearly stated where you misrepresented my argument so if you're still unclear about it read it several times. Your point about ad absurdum is wrong because you're not making a statement on my initial argument about the amount of evidence required to make a high confidence decision on long term safety.

Re: "existence of some unnamed person somewhere believing a proposition having any bearing on the truth of the proposition"

You seem to be making things up now, if you make absurd claims, back it up with evidence. Where did I say such a thing? My point has always been about the amount of evidence, if you understood otherwise you misinterpreted what I said. At least now, you are starting to agree with my point about the need for evidence, so we are making some progress here.

> Really now? Its basically a meme at this point to use a line like this when talking about race relations

This is such a dumb thing to say with no relevance to the point at all. If you feel the need to resort to such analogies to strawman (yes, read what it means if you don't get the use of the term here and keep re-reading till you understand) my argument, it is clear you have nothing of substance to say. The reason I brought this up is not to virtue-signal as you seem to have misrepresented but rather to inform you about the sources I'm getting my information from. All of my friends who work in these fields agree with these risks and advise against getting the vaccine until there is more data unless its unavoidable.

Re: Zabdeno - The fact that it is an exceptional use authorization is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that it is approved and has been in use for over a year. That reduces the uncertainty about long-term effects. If you don't trust the rigor of the EMA and doubt that it is safe despite being in use for over a year, it is up to you to discount the evidence. Irrelevant to the point.

In any case, I have not heard anything convincing from your end as to why the people who are holding off of getting the vaccine because of the lack of long term safety data are wrong. And instead, it is increasingly clear that you have not done your research or thought about this matter deeply enough. I know it is not representative of all the people who are pro-vaccine so I would like to allocate my time hearing from those who have actually thought about this and have substantial things to say. Good day.
There's something about this guy's style of prose that I find deeply unreadable.

Edit: I think I've figured it out. If there's a complicated way to say something simple, he takes the complicated way. If there's a rarely seen word he can substitute where a common word will do, he uses the rarely used word.

His prose reads heavy, but the ideas in it are light. This is like the exact opposite of Paul Graham. His prose is easy, but I find deep and actionable knowledge in many things he writes.
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Plenty of countries have affordable healthcare. I don't think we need to reinvent the wheel, (in the US,) when we can look at how other countries run their healthcare systems and see what works and what doesn't.

The economics of treating rare diseases and is very different than handling a broken leg or a heart attack. Unfortunately, when we talk about healthcare we tend to lump both problems into the same boat, when paying for rare conditions versus common conditions are two very different things with very different solutions.

If you've read this far, you probably realize that I'm beating around the bush, but if you understand how technology development starts with an expensive iPad, and then a decade later there are cheap generic tablets, I think you can understand the gist of what I'm saying.
Ever try crystal brand deodorant? It's literally just salt and inhibits bacterial growth when applied after cleaning
in lightroom, note that you can apply preferences you made to one image to all images in the batch if you want, same for exporting.

if you dont like the default color profile of the raw processor in the chosen app, you have to import a camera profile or manually adjust and apply in batch. I don't think there is any way around this as the default raw processor is the computational assumption of most correct. Maybe some machine learning and analytics can help a program guess for the user.
"got in early on the USD" would imply a time where USD was still on the gold standard. I'm not aware of any gold standard currencies where they increased the valuation (ie. previously they promised to pay you 1 oz of gold but now they'll pay you 2oz of gold), so at best they would have retained their original value and not made any gains. If we count the debasings and/or transition off the gold standard, they would have lost money due to inflation.
And sometimes, it is not. I am accepting the consequences of becoming a second-class citizen. If you still disagree with my choice, then what you desire is control, not cooperation.
> Imagine you write a project and some solo developer in the U.S. (that's not Microsoft) violates your copyright

how is this completely different situation relevant in the slightest?

we're talking about possible massive, pre-medidated industrial scale copyright infringement by Microsoft, a large multinational with a substantial UK presence

not some random guy in the US

if Microsoft don't show up to the court: I win by default

I can then send in the bailiffs to start seizing their property (and their staff will be arrested if they interfere)

personally I'd start at one of their datacentres
In general, yes. Though in this office I’m the youngest (at 38) and I’m the best at it. Being paid hourly may help, if they want more they have to pay me. The rest are salaried.

I was definitely awful about working excessive hours in my 20s, but once paid OT was off the table, I kicked that habit quick. Even when it came back, I would work OT on occasion, but I realized I enjoyed my life more than work.
Article discusses the problem, but does not discuss solutions much. About the only concrete statement involves "column based task boards".
Quality? A sensor size doesnt affect quality, it affects what you can see and how many photons can be collected in a time period. So the only quality would be that full frame can assist in lower light scenarios without increasing the electrical gain (which causes noise)

The point of full frame would be more flexibility at lower focal lengths, and the high correlation to being put inside of more fully featured and sturdier camera bodies with faster I/O. It doesn't have to be that way, it just is since the wafer cost is already higher and already segmenting customers by price, they just give a greater package to the remaining people that would pay more.
Yes, what is bound by law is not an option. However, in most cases the law should handle it. Meaning that the post remains unless some legal action is taken as the host often can't just know the legal status except in the more obvious case of child porn etc.

It is censorship when it is out of the control of users. It is filtering when the user has a choice.

Yes, users want to see or not see some categories of content. That certainly is not a problem when it is presented to the user as a choice.

There are platforms that operate mostly in this method, like MeWe.
It seems you also picked up on his sense of humor. ;)
I honestly don't think that's possible. Based on what I've read, conscious reaction time is on the order of 200ms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_chronometry

> "One of the most obvious reasons for this standard pattern is that while it is possible for any number of factors to extend the response time of a given trial, it is not physiologically possible to shorten RT on a given trial past the limits of human perception (typically considered to be somewhere between 100-200 ms), nor is it logically possible for the duration of a trial to be negative."
> Craigslist killed newspapers (it took their ad revenue) Citizen journalism hasn't replaced that; buzzfeed-style sites did.

Craigslist killed classified ads (in the US). Twitter and Substack replaced investigative pieces, leaving legacy media companies reduced to peddling outrage for clicks.

> Hollywood is thriving.

The Golden Globes are over. Last year's Emmys saw the lowest viewership of any Emmy ceremony in the Television Academy’s history[1]. COVID killed the cinema[2]. AI is diminishing any production advantages that remain.

> Blockchains have produced nothing of worth, especially if you consider anything outside of cryptocurrency (but let's be real, cryptocurrency is also worthless)

That's demonstrably untrue given Bitcoin has a market cap larger than all but 20 countries[3]. Blockchains allow, for the first time in history, humans to coordinate at scale without human intermediaries. Only dead weight bureaucrats, machiavellian statists, and the innumerate who have been sold lies from the former would argue that blockchains are worthless.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/21/emmys-2020-primetime-awards-...

[2] https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekly/

[3] https://fiatmarketcap.com/Country
Show HN: Published my first blog on dev.to about math
I really liked writing up this blog. Any kind of feedback is welcome :)
It's like every attempt at a great replacement: the incentive is for a group of people to replace another and get the same benefits. Be it a communist revolution, the crypto alt finance or whatever, the hardest is always to build an all encompassing compromise to let people have moderate increase in comfort while not totally shifting the balance in the opposite direction.
That is not a normal use of the term “down payment”.

A deposit is a better word for it. If it can be used towards the purchase price, then maybe even earnest money.
Gives me hope that some day we can give the ST:TNG treatment to other 90s Sci-Fi that was unfortunately shot on tape and Video Toaster'd.
> This is every bit as pretentious as it seems, and literally requires a high price attached to it for it's target market...

I think you’re completely right and it‘s funny reading the justifications for the price and the hype. I mean, kudos to Panic for their success with the Playdate, but I have a justified reason to believe that a lot of these devices will end up in drawers after the novelty factor has worn of.
Anyone who disagrees can't be upvoted. Such hypocrisy. Ivermectin works as a therapy...

Have you not asked yourself why NOBODY is allowed to promote therapy when you're sick with Sars? Why the gov't is literally silencing doctors or threatening jail time?
I've been building out a very feature-rich editor for the last few months using Slate. Looked at all the alternatives and fell in love with Slate's model over all others. It's been great so far, far better than the old Quill editor I've been tasked with replacing. My only complaints are related to documentation, and a few footguns if you misuse the provided utilities, or get too crazy with your rendered react elements.

Test-driven development is not my usual approach to coding, but it's extremely beneficial (and easy to do) with slate. Especially for the recursive normalizer, which has grown very complex and fragile but plays an extremely important role in my editor.

I worry about long term maintenance of the library, only a small trickle of contributions come in. But in practice its been a perfectly stable library.

RTE in the browser is a full-time job even with a library like slate. Be warned!
That may be how "laws" work, but it's not how society works. There's a reason why "Robin Hood" is a parable. Legally, not all theft is treated the same, either - wage theft is largely ignored compared to other kinds, despite accounting for an order of magnitude greater amount.

And for that matter, not everyone agrees what theft even is. Leftist will say that wage labor is theft, and the far right will tell you taxation is theft. It's all relative.
looks really good!
Aren't Tesla's brakes supposed to last a really long time because of regenerative braking anyway?
> So you say, but is there really?

Yes. The US has managed fine with exactly such a dichotomy. The reason it’s easy to draw a bright line at obscenity/porn is because you know it when you see it.

> What about hate speech? Should that go there?

No, but speech inciting violence is pretty easy to recognize. Again, First Amendment jurisprudence has developed clear rules for this.
Slack uses Vitess: https://slack.engineering/scaling-datastores-at-slack-with-v...
Such an idiotic title. That's the ONLY good reason.
Thanks for the write-up. I thought we would be protected because calculations are done using decimal places and then the final return is prepared using rounded integers.

But we have heard this a few times, so I think it would be good to make it explicit somewhere that it's done this way, or switch to bignumber. Do you think if all our calculations are done using decimal places, and then numbers are rounded to integer dollars on the final PDFs, that we'll still have errors?

Created an issue based on your feedback. Thank you! https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes/issues/457
> There's no reason to live in a city if you work remote.

Some of us actually enjoy it, though.
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Hmm maybe I agree with him more than I think I do then. And yeah I've enjoyed at least one of his books and "feel like" I've read another just because of how often it gets quoted to me, haha.

Definitely there are at least two ways of screwing up, and they're both about using the wrong tool for the job. One is to use urgent methods for stuff that's not urgent (which bothers people). And the other, which it sounds like you're alluding to, is using a non-urgent method (email) for things that truly are urgent. Or that are, to use a metaphor, "bandwidth-intensive." You can usually get a heck of a lot more communication done faster in person than you can by email. Although much of it will be lost into the ether, too... unless someone's taking notes. Everybody just use the right tool for the job okay? Great, that's settled!
There's been a noted downward trend though. See the sc2 expansions and the remastered games.
Definitely ups the sketch level.
Most likely I'd send a polite e-mail letting them know that I saw this and reminding them that they aren't supposed to share the file. The expense of a lawyer wouldn't be worthwhile. You seem to assume nefarious intent. My goal is simply to be able to let people buy a DRM-free copy of the PDF with a mild disincentive against sharing.
What do you think funds our union pension plans?
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I play indoor football regulary, both as a goalkeeper and as a defender. It's similar to the full 11v11 game, but on a much smaller pitch, and thus much quicker.

I can't count the number of times I've performed (useful) actions, to then almost be stunned for a moment as I reconcile what happened.
The one I remember most vividly is a ball that was passed right at me from across the pitch. I knew my teammate kicked it, but I thought it was a shot towards goal at first. I couldn't see till about 2 metres away from me as it was across a defensive line, but it was a driven, pacy pass towards me. I stuck out a foot to kick it into goal very tidily, before I even registered that the pass was actually coming towards me.

Feels like time slowing down around you for half a second, pretty cool.