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> The mRNA vaccine technology is "agile".

Yes and this means governments can quickly adapt to new variants by reformulating the vaccine, dumping old stock by "donating" it to developing nations, or dumping it, and buying new stock from big pharma.

Since developing nations will always have far lower vaccination rates than first world countries, the virus will continue to mutate and proliferate outside of America and Europe, ensuring new opportunities for revving the vaccine.

That's a sustainable business model for the first world.
The onus is indeed on me. When I've lived in places with rare susceptibility to tornados, they use the emergency alert system. When I lived somewhere with susceptibility to north korea firing missiles overhead, they have an air raid siren. When I lived somewhere the only weather danger is hurricanes, I just check the weather forecast.
I'm not arguing any kind of point, in fact like I said I completely agree that the 100-mile limit is absurd, I just want to know if there have been actual examples of abuse to point to...
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few other things that users typically want that standard data viz tools don't make easy -- auto-updating data pipelines so that your data viz is never stale, and notifications when the data updates. Not exhaustive by any means, but just some more color.
> GM has one of the best fully automatic cruise control systems now; Mercedes has full self driving on the autobahn.

Compare either of these to Tesla's Autopilot (Which is NOT the same as FSD!). I'd be surprised if there were significant differences.

> Many cars are as or more efficient per-mile,

Are they, though? I dunno about other cars, but the Taycan is extremely inefficient. The Taycan 4S Performance Battery Plus has a 93 kwh battery, but only 227 mile EPA estimated range. Meanwhile, my Model 3 Performance is 75 kwh, but EPA rated 300 miles.

> out-accelerate all but the most expensive Teslas

And significantly more expensive.

> have as fast or faster DC charging systems

That are fewer and farther between, not to mention expensive, and also I'm not sure about the faster part. The latest gen superchargers are up to 250 kW. I can drive on any Interstate highway in the continental USA and not have to worry about where to charge. Even the I-90 corridor across over 1,500 miles of rural highway has enough Superchargers on it to make a road trip viable.

That all said...

In the long term, you may be right. But we're still 5+ years away from their downfall. The other manufacturers have REALLY been dragging their feet on making good EVs. Honda could be selling tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of fully electric Civics and CRVs, but don't because ????.
Are those needs being met, though? Or is there just now a deficit in those areas?
Forbes had a better write up back in April when this story made the rounds: https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2020/04/14/...

Also, Terry got a PPP loan for $20k for his one person soybean farm. Seems legit.
This ^. If the shots are truly protective, I don't understand what the hubbub is all about.

Is it really all about protecting those who truly can't get the shot for whatever reason? I doubt it.
The most terrible ones could also be the most difficult ones to change.

Because if they're so terrible, the hidden reason to keep them in place must be specially strong. Or they could be extremely difficult to change because of some shadowy societal forces that lead to unintended consequences.
The lede (in my opinion) is SFC plans to repeal their 2019 moratorium on facial recognition surveillance*, to free the city government to fight terrorists etc.

>"While this legislation created a clear public process and transparency relating to surveillance technologies, it also created barriers for law enforcement when responding to public safety emergencies. It hobbled law enforcement when confronting life-threatening incidents like active shooters, suspected terrorist events, hostage taking, kidnapping, natural disasters, or looting."

*(The blogpost doesn't explicitly name "facial recognition", but from context I understand she's referring to this law [0] that was frequently discussed on HN [1]).

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/14/18623897/san-francisco-...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=san%20francisco%20facial%20rec...
>So many people don't even know all the rules of the road, but still manage to drive just fine without accidents.

There are huge differences in insurance premiums that can't be completely unrelated to accidents. People like to talk about other factors, but still.
He was elected Chancellor in 1933.
What is interesting to me is that we have the capability to do so much, but we always pass the buck to someone else and refuse to come together or take ownership of any problem that isn't beating down out front door.

It's never an issue with resources. It's an issue with community and leadership, and the refusal of the community to appoint leaders who lead.
Yea, I am not really fan of 1000 line stack trace for an error in single line. I like Go's error handling better. Also it is clear you like error handling in Rust/Java etc which is fine. Exaggerating over how bad error handling in Go is hardly productive when a) many people do like it b) people can switch language when error handling primary concern over everything else.
Couldn’t agree more. I’m a huge space nerd and this is the LEAST I’ve followed a project because I’m so worried it’ll fail. I keep up with the headlines but I’ve found it very difficult to get excited over it as I’m pretty much expecting the worst and anything more than that will be a bonus to enjoy later.
You can only get a scientific answer to an "ought" or "should" if you believe that morality is objective in the universe. Otherwise, you have a hidden principle "We should do what we like best", which itself cannot be justified and must be taken as given.
What is a good payback period for B2B and B2C businesses
CS334: Intro to Parallel Programming
> An example I used elsewhere was the introduction of Myxomatosis in Australia, to control the invasive rabbit population. Over time, the local strain evolved to be more deadly, but with a longer incubation periods. This way, bunnies had more time to pass the virus around, then once that job was done, the virus was happy to kill them off.

Do you have other examples besides Myxomatosis?
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It’d likely be a felony offense.
"Intelligent design" is a label invented deliberately as part of a political strategy by a group of evangelical Christians to teach creationism in American public schools. This history was well documented decades ago so it's bizarre to see someone try to pretend otherwise.
with generics you wind up with two parameter lists, and type parameters have metatypes. All type parameters need to have a metatype, and the metatype `any` comes up a lot. Once you start using generics you'll start to feel the pain of writing `interface{}` in those signatures, especially when you are dealing with functions like this one:

func doSomething[X interface{}, Y Fooer[interface{}]](v X, src Y) error {
}

versus:

func doSomething[X any, Y Fooer[any]](v X, src Y) error {
}

the signatures can get long pretty quickly when you have more than one type parameter.
The relevant concept here is what’s called “common knowledge.”

Systems behave differently is everyone knows that everyone knows that… (repeat ad infinitum)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge
>According to your own link, these XSAs do not affect Qubes 4.0

Yes its been updated since, but the point is its still PCI linked, which you probably use.

>Does this mean that nobody needs security or privacy? It just means that it's too hard to use (not transparent to users) and probably that most users do not recognize the dangers.

It means that this is overkill, and even when its easier to use its still not being utilized.

>The performance hit mostly comes from the lack of GPU acceleration. RAM is getting cheaper and more available with time. My laptop has 32 GB. Battery drain could be worth the added security and organization of the workflows. It is for me. I did not notice any problems with the audio quality.

Needing to buy 32GB of ram to run an OS on a laptop that works fine now isn't a selling point, I had tons of crackling.

>I am not sure what you mean here. Could you elaborate the use case? By giving the remote access to dom0 you are practically breaking the whole security model of Qubes. Although it is possible.

It would be better as a server OS you VNC into.

>It's a huge difference. When was the last time someone escaped VT-d virtualization?

In the real world, it doesn't matter, its a nuclear bomb shelter, I would rather build a house with a fancy kitchen for cheaper.

>Actually you do not need to learn anything serious unless you need some advanced things. Qubes relies on Linux VMs, and you just use all their apps and stuff. This could probably be another pitch point.

It isn't easy to get used to the isolation of all instances especially if you use more than one computer, and other people's computers.

The pitch is that your computer is more secure (from what real world threats?) at the cost of huge battery drain, going from needing 8GB comfortably to 32GB, slower from PVH that gives problems like no GPU acceleration, while its still running insecure backdoors like Intel ME, or AMD PSP, which are far more dangerous.
London Breed is such a weird dystopic name.
r/econmonitor
You’re kind of missing the whole point. It’s about the psychic epiphany of the divinity. This epiphany is the root of magic and cults, which then develops into the sacred mysteries and the herds that follow. Despite the religious veneer that has a poor taste in the zeitgeist of today; there are deep spiritual roots that are the essence of both spirituality and science.
I spent a few weeks living with religious relatives. While it wasn't really my thing, I was impressed by how it brings the community together (they met twice a week) and by the heavy emphasis on morality (even if I disagreed on the particulars). I feel like we've really lost something. I suppose the regular meetings thing exists today with most clubs, but clubs are way more niche -- it used to be that the whole village got together every week. Though I suppose the same was true (weekly meetings in a town hall) of Viking society before Christianization.
I scrolled thru the last 2 years, and honestly I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

Too much profit? Sure. I don't think the boosters are going to be what solidifies that issue for corporations though..

Some timing issue with selling? I don't see it.
I would suggest that it may be more related to the declining birthrate. Having just had a second child, I can say that kids have made me more active in my local religious institution, and I have observed the same among other friends with kids. I suspect that many people wander back to their childhood religion once they have kids, especially if their major cultural events are at least nominally religious (e.g. Christmas).
Yes. No-one should make cool, novel opinionated graphics libraries or else we will succumb to a monoculture. Lol
I also think it's mostly semantics. Someone who was truly unable to visualize things mentally wouldn't discover it late in life by browsing reddit or whatever, it should be very obvious very early on.

Things that would be much harder or impossible for someone truly unable to visualize things:

* assemble ikea furniture

* pass geometry in grade school

* have a dream

* masturbate to a sexual fantasy

* think back to all the places you might have left your car keys

* navigate using a map

* play billiards

I think people read about aphantasia on the internet, think to themselves "huh when I imagine things it isn't literally identical to watching a movie, I guess I must have aphantasia".
> When a more severe variant starts dominating and everyone goes inside and stops spreading it that makes the more severe variant die out

Except this doesn't happen, otherwise COVID would have already stopped spreading. Our social response to COVID isn't adequate enough to stop its spread. We can't get people to actually lock down or stop transmission.
Cash Glut in Eurozone Drives Dollar Demand
HackerNews on TypeScript:

"Like OMG we need to get rid of Any, it is such a catch all bullshit workaround for a very serious problem, I have developed billions of applications across every domain and like OMFG this is garbage, THIS IS NOT TYPED, WE SIMPLY NEED TO REMOVE ANY AS IT MEANS ANY GARBAGE AND KIDS JUST USE IT".

HackerNews on Go (6 years later):

"AT LAST! WOOOO HOOO ANY, WOW"

Me:

"what?"

HackerNews:

"Go"

Me:

"OK?"

HackerNews:

"Yes"
https://libquotes.com/donald-knuth/quote/lbq7w0c
This is temporary though due to the non-religious self selecting to have vastly fewer children.

It’s why the UN is projecting that the share of non religious globally will actually continue to shrink as the EU fades away and a hundred million Christians are added in China etc.
Last I heard, people were going after him for sending jocular texts about "mingle mamas" going to Las Vegas, and asking a staffer if she'd ever consider a relationship with an older man. He wasn't exactly Comrade Beria.
>I want to use the REPL as a _interactive_ REPL, where I can write my code and later copy that to the file

Just write in the normal editor, and evaluate interactively code from there. Emacs does that too
Funny to see this thread, as I recall Google just recently posted a similar vector search library.
Hi, Jimmy . I think what you're saying is that when a new page is loaded, you want to avoid getting kicked out to the 2D view of the browser first (similar to switching between apps on Oculus Quest). I think there are opportunities to achieve that both at the web page level and at the browser level.

• At the web page level, an alternative to loading a new page entirely could be to load new content into the existing page, similar to a SPA. However, like you mentioned, that wouldn't really work if you want to seamlessly transition to a WebXR experience from a 3rd party. That's where browser-level innovation could come in:

• At the browser-level, it could be possible to come up with an innovative solution to this. For example, perhaps the user could grant a site permission to load the second site in a second browser instance and then transition from the first to the second once the second has loaded. This is kind of like allowing popups in a traditional 2D browser, where a page can create a new tab with window.open(), but with the additional capability of allowing the page to programmatically navigate to the new window once it has loaded.
I didn’t see it in the analysis, but it would be nice to know how tight the distribution is. A few months on average, but perhaps years for certain individuals?
Is it possible that the fix is just a full replacement?
I read that they experimented with non-desperate methods of fundraising and it decimated their income, but I don't remember where I read that.
But it also appears to have a runtime Python dependency, which is equally unacceptable (to me) as electron...
Escrow is using middlemen to prevent any potential loss or theft. Every transaction has some counterparty risk. Who goes first, the domain transfer or the wire? To be sure you won't get robbed, you deposit the money with the escrow agent and the seller transfer the domain to the escrow agent. If one party falls through, the escrow agent gives their property back. In web3, the smart contract is the escrow agent and 100% automated. So you deposit your money, the seller puts in the ENS name, and now instead of a % basis for the fee (escrow.com is like 0.9%), you get a flat cost of running the smart contract based on the network fees. It's just like how you can transfer $1 of bitcoin or $1B of bitcoin for the same price.
A useful way to think about religion, is to acknowledge that there are certain universal human features that never go away. For example, there will always be a highest principle by which a person's life is ordered (if they seem to change a lot, that highest principle might be their Self). It is very useful to consciously think about and cultivate the way that we might recognise our highest value, and the way we interact with it. We should realise potentially negative consequences of having the wrong thing for our highest value. This type of consideration is best classified differently to other life questions, and historically questions like this have been classified using the term "religious". This "highest value" is a placeholder in the human mind that Christianity would claim should be occupied by God.

Once you reframe the conversation like this, you realise that there is no such thing as "non religious" people, and in fact denying a religious aspect of life is a form of suppression that could cause damage, because driving the most important questions of life into the subconscious realm makes a person vulnerable to ideological possession, e.g. through politics.
Peer Pressure / persecution/ discrimination I would say is up there is why people identified with some religion ?

For modern example Scientology in Hollywood you maybe discriminated against or atheism during McCarthy post war period you would be persecuted or killed if you were jew in Nazi Germany.

While by no means completely eliminated, we have kind of gone from genocide -> persecution -> discrimination, so more people are comfortable identifying what they really feel.

The discrimination is still strong, today it is almost unimaginable to elect an explicitly atheist president. Being gay/woman/non-white a candidate would face probably lesser discrimination for presidency than not identifying Christian even if they don't practice in meaningful way like say Trump, also being more devout seem to give no advantage either, but not identifying as Christian seems big challenge for office.
Well, if you're looking for someone who can tell you how to do electrical engineering without being able to visualize a circle, you'll have to find someone with less imagination than me. I can do a circle, it's the "using your mind's eye as scratch paper for doing integrals" bit that's beyond my highly average abilities.

As for higher dimensions, yes, when you can barely visualize R3, R4 doesn't seem much harder, but that's hardly a superpower, it's just a pair of equal inabilities. I find it easy to accept the principles of noneuclidian geometry, but that comes with the side effect that if I was told they applied to euclidian space, that'd come "naturally" too.
Never had that issue myself, but it can crash and lose all my work? Wayland sounds like 100% regression on functionality for some lame graphic benefits.
To restore the peace, rather than assemble a tower of corruption for it to horridly implode, yes.
> For example, there will always be a highest principle by which a person's life is ordered

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wikipedian_protester.png
the fact that the set of types that can satisfy an interface is open is the source of their power. "closed interfaces" are broadly an antipattern in Go.
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"Consequences of societal change are inherently unknowable"

Let's imagine for a second that we really believe is this idea - society is in a fragile equilibrium, and any change is dangerous and could be for the worse.

Well, first obvious effect is that any change regarding woman rights, etc. would not have happened the way it did. That's in line with the Conservative viewpoint.

But more importantly, the society changes all the time from technology and market forces- it has changed massively with globalization, introduction of mobile phones, and social networks. Nobody talk about that!

No mainstream conservatives proposes 'let's ban kids form having mobile phones and Facebook until we fully understand their effect'. So if you are not willing to apply the principle consistently, are you just using it a a charade to mask some irrational belief of personal gain? It seems hypocritical, a bit like 'pro life' people not supporting healthcare reform.
A good touchpad does not get in the way of using the keyboard reliably at all, this is a key part why we should not accept bad touchpads or bad touchpad software
The age old “did nothing create everything or did something create everything discussion” :)
ITT: Capitalists. Hard core capitalists.
I would bet that humans, especially in the early times that interpreted all of the now current religious texts - were poorly educated, biased, and also human. So ... there were "additions/mis-translations/an individuals belief/better if phrased this way" type of interpretations over thousands of years.

My bet... in the grand universe scheme of things, a creator doesn't give two craps about which human created, modified, "game of telephone" religion a person follows. As long as that person attempts to be good, and improve themselves, and kind. And ask for forgiveness of mistakes.

I believe G0d is smarter than all of us, and looks past all these individual human infightings of "my football team (errr religion) is better than yours" type.
I would be very, very surprised to see Go in this space and not at all surprised to see Rust.

Go has a garbage collector, which fundamentally introduces nondeterminism. Due to implicit interfaces, it can't enforce exhaustive typeswitching. Every pointer type is nullable, which means entire classes of runtime bugs which can't be caught at compile time. And the type system requires far too many escape hatches (resorting to `interface{}` and typeswitching) to have the kinds of type safety guarantees necessary. And lack of sum types means functions return errors and values instead of errors or values which—in my experience—has been an unending source of foot-guns in production code.

OTOH, Rust has none of these drawbacks and many, many other strengths that enforce static guarantees about safety at compile time. It's not perfect, but it's an extremely worth successor to Ada and just about the only feature from Ada I wish it had was the ability to specify tighter domains on types (for instance, numeric ranges on integer types).
Those are not the only choices:

Binary Ninja (disclaimer: BN dev here)
Hopper
JEB
Relyze

That said, I 100% agree with the impact Ghidra has had on the market. It's definitely making it _much_ harder to sell a commercial product when a well maintained, zero cost, open source alternative is available. If we (Vector 35, Binary Ninja devs) hadn't been as far along in our development roadmap and growing our customer base as we were when Ghidra was released we'd likely have had to simply do something else which would be an overall loss for the community.

Who knows what other products/ideas will now never see the light of day. The barrier to entry was already extremely high in this space for a limited return, but now? Nearly impossible for anyone new to entry.
That seems.. harder to use than what I described because being precise with three fingers (eg precise enough to drag to the correct row in detail view) isn’t easy. Also gesture accuracy decreases as the number of tools (read: fingers) goes up.

In all cases, that is easier to implement in code than a stateful transition like I described since there is no state persisting beyond the gesture itself, it just needs gesture_start and gesture_end support (with the difficulty being in determine if a three-finger gesture has started or if it’s actually a three-finger gesture on its way into becoming a four-finger gesture).
I believe the free market is like Darwinism for economic organisms: unintuitive and little understood by the regular folk, however working just fine nevertheless and able to solve and explain any issue without needing the intervention of an intelligent designer/regulator.

People will still look for a planner though…