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Yes, I understand English and semantics. I still disagree with the derogatory phrasing. The intent could've been phrased in innumerable alternative ways, with various other words and idioms and phrases.
I didn't yet make the update and what I hear about it doesn't inspire confidence. We have 5 machines at home running win10 smoothly. Three max. 2 year old midline laptops, one desktop upgraded three years ago in quite good hardware and my work horse as well. Two of the machines tell me they are not equipped with hardware that supports win11.

If MS believes I will replace totally fine hardware functioning and still really up to all I throw at it, because it wants me to update a OS they must be delusional. Why should I buy new stuff when all is good?

I am way past tbe 'I need new shiny stuff each year'-phase of my life.

So as long as my employer doesn't force me to switch I really would need to see good reasons to jump.
It’s like investing in a company that does bad things. Some people invest in oil and some don’t. People find ways to justify it to themselves but it is what it is. It’s not something to be proud of yet many clearly feel no shame. That will change as the problem gets bigger, which will happen if crypto continues to enjoy success.
> Programmable CARS relies on intermediaries in the form of programmers

Yes. You do trust intermediaries in the form of cart manufacturers. So what's your point exactly?
TLDR: For anybody wondering why "hospitals" appears in the subject line, it's purely click-bait. Hospital services were not targeted or particularly affected more than any other industry.

The only statistic in the article that gives a clue how many hospitals were affected appears in the statement:

"In Montana, more than 250 nurses at Missoula's Community Medical Center have missed out on pay due to the hospital's decision to pay employees by duplicating an early December paycheck"

So in this particular company, some nurses were forced to accept their expected regular+OT pay and will have to wait a couple more weeks for any extra overtime they might be entitled to.

How many healthcare workers were affected? No more than any other industry. I couldn't find any news on the internet actually revealing how many workers in general were affected other than "up to thousands". So how many might be health care workers? Up to hundreds? So maybe 0.005% of healthcare workers have been inconvienced?

So my question is, why has NPR specifically addressed the impact to "hospitals"? Why is the impact to healthcare workers more important and news-worthy than to the impact to everybody else?

> "The outage is an unneeded administrative nightmare timed precisely as the omicron surge is hitting hospitals, Riggi said."

Ah! The outage was "timed"!!!!

The evil hackers intentionally timed the attack to threaten COVID victims!!!! My god! They're MONSTERS! attacking and murdering the weakest of us! It's outrageous!

What should be done? Is it's time to fire up the gas chambers for these inhuman hacker terrorists? Or maybe it just time to click on NPR's clickbait title?
video of one in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iwRbIMpPMs
Just a note that the same video is already on the linked website.
The legislation was changed such that a licence is needed to watch any content on iPlayer.

This was the whole 'iplayer hole' stuff which hit the news a few years ago. The Beeb were hoping to have the various commercial streaming services covered by the licence requirement, but failed - in part as it would break/invalidate the operating model for those commercial services.
I don't disagree, which is why I use KDE, as it is trivial to get it to look and behave like macOS and do so stably. Probably why many KDE distro that aren't following KDE's defaults use it too (Garuda Linux, XeroLinux, FerenOS)

I think Linux DEs are fine, it's just that the default config / on-boarding rarely asks what the user wants and what they need.

More distro/DEs need to incorporate UX/Desktop Layout Switcher, like Ubuntu Budgie, Zorin OS (Gnome, XFCE), Manjaro (Gnome, there are plans to do KDE as well in the forum?), and FerenOS. It'll solve the issues of personal preference in UX, as people could just one-click choose what feels/looks the best for them.

I personally don't mind taking a few hours setting up the UX I want with Fedora KDE, but I doubt most others do.
That doesn't seem isobaric. Searching if it's possible, I've seen mentions of condensing working fluids, and bumby mentions ocean floor bags which seem like a good solution.
Maybe the rope was not made from jute, but made by the Jutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutes although then it should be capitalized so that also seems unlikely.
Did you read the whole article you linked? It doesn't say the vaccinated get Covid more often than unvaccinated. (They don't.) It doesn't say the vaccinated get Omicron more than unvaccinated. (They don't.)

It merely says the vaccinated are infected by Omicron more than other variants like Delta. That's it. In other words, the vaccines are quite effective against Delta, but due to mutation, Omicron can slip past immunity a little easier.

The vast majority of folks in hospitals and the morgues from Covid (Alpha, Delta, or Omicron) nowadays are unvaccinated.
> makes this Canadian ore very unique in its chemical composition

Are there other thorium ores that are only a bit unique in their composition?
> Galesburg Illinois has a total population of 30k people, so nobody in Galesburg is spending 2 hours in a car unless they're commuting to another state.

Yes, that's why that was the upper range. Note also that I did not restrict it to commuting — designing around car-only transportation means that almost every common activity becomes time spent immobile in a car, and people famously underestimate the amount of time they spend driving, looking for parking, etc. — usually “a 20 minute drive” means “25 minutes if you exceed the speed limit, hit every light, and there's minimal traffic and parking right in front”. If you start measuring that, you realize how much time people spend on things like unnecessary (we have relatives who'll spend an hour going shopping for like half a bag of groceries) or single purpose errands in addition to commuting.

> So I personally think the problem (at least for small-ish midwestern towns) is the bias of state DOTs towards creating new infrastructure (paving new roadways / bridges) over maintaining the infrastructure they've already built

Definitely — and one big factor for this is that single-occupancy vehicles are extremely inefficient so there's always this call to add more lanes or a bypass road to “defeat” traffic, but that reliably encourages more usage so conditions usually only improve for a few months after opening.
This talk is from the 2020 Black Hat Conference. The presentation (40 mins) is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar_lVqkWcHk

One of the authors of the research, Jianjun Chen, demonstrates email spoofing using Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook in these short (1 min) videos from 2020.

Email spoofing demos (2020): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL--A-gWJV1dJ19Syhkzkl...

Status:

- Gmail: "fixed"

- Yahoo: "reported to Yahoo security on Oct 28th, 2019. They disregarded our report."

- Outlook: "reported to Microsoft security on Oct 28th, 2019. They disregarded our report ("Unfortunately your report appears to rely on social engineering to accomplish, which would not meet the bar for security servicing")."

I assume the response from the Outlook team ("social engineering") refers to the fact that body of the email must still contain a phishing link.
Thank you! That's the kind of comments why I come here.
For something like this to be successful, I think it has to have some kind of domain focus. I've been working in bioinformatics-adjacent jobs for the last couple decades and I've seen things like this get used when there were a lot of integrated, domain-specific tools. Even then, the users were a curious slice of the population that could think like a programmer, but had not bothered to learn a language.

It also has to have a lot of buy-in and support. As everyone here is fully aware, a lot of problems get solved by Googling for a Stack Overflow answer. That's tough to do with a niche-y tool.

Not saying this isn't a good thing; it's just that it'll be difficult to be successful as a general purpose tool.
> There is a large cohort of developers in India and other third world countries whose main exposure to programming concepts is poorly taught classes with sometimes hundreds of students to an instructor for instance. That kind of thing simply does not exist in that capacity in the west.

Boy do I have news for you
Nim's concepts [0] are sort of like Rust's traits or Haskell's typeclasses - maybe more expressive in some ways. Pattern matching can be added on as a simple library and has been done several times, maybe most pedagogically outlined here [1]. Lifetime annotations just seem unproductive to me. Nim with ARC/ORC does have safe [2], automatic memory management without "a GC" or need for lifetime annotations.

[0] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual_experimental.html#concepts

[1] https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/03/10/fusion-and-pattern-matc...

[2] https://uploads.peterme.net/nimsafe.html
Win11 and it's various disappointments is what finally pushed me to make the jump to Ubuntu. It's been a couple months now and there have been some educational challenges here and there, sure, but I'm finally quite happy. Most of my games even run. Good luck, Windows.
Setting aside cool factor, practically speaking, Johnson noise does just as well and is so cheap it comes with every electronic component you can buy.
When you depend on third parties for critical but not directly business related tech you are just as vulnerable to disruption as if you directly got hacked. Even huge companies with ridiculous valuations can fail to audit indirect suppliers like payroll (i.e. Kronos) or air conditioning contractors, like in the famous Target hack.
The “only 1% will die” argument, sure I remember that one from early days.

But hospitals are currently overwhelmed with mostly voluntarily unvaccinated people. My advice is don’t break your arm or get in a car accident or have a heart attack right now - it could be lethal because health care resources are at a breaking point (in the US).
Absolute numbers aren't a tax rate. 1% of $2M home gets you to $20k/year easily. But the article talks about $100-200k homes; there is no way this town can have a 10-20% property tax rate.
It definitely could work if people felt more secure in taking the leap, because it wouldn't mean financial ruin and destitution for themselves or their family. Maybe even social grant opportunities to encourage it, instead trying to tap dance for venture capital.

Much also comes out of publicly funded research, and spinning those findings out into net gains for society instead of maximized profit would be good.
Java uses sum types for “result or error”. Exceptions just make it a language-level construct, with automatic addition of very useful stacktraces, auto-unwrap in the “result” case, etc.
> One particular region of England became so internationally famous for its saffron—in fact, each autumn, the entire area was carpeted in purple petals—that the local market town of Chepying Walden changed its name to Saffron Walden.

I would have never guessed that a British town would have been at the epicenter of Saffron's history! Thanks for your comment :)
A book by Deborah Mayo "Statistical Inference as Severe Testing" might fit.
Plus, Cloudflare gives us WAF, DDoS protection, full site protection, and a lot more...
Maybe the data you are citing is "simply wrong". Or maybe different studies at different locations and times with different methodologies have different outcomes. Science is messy.
What a ridiculous comment. The OP is not "denying reality" if his experience is as he stated. On the contrary, he would be denying reality if he would believe his observations have to be wrong.

It is not reasonable to ask for "evidence" for his observations, either, as that is impossible to provide. Not even the article posted here provides any evidence, you just chose to trust them as an institution.

He did not write an article for publication, it is just a comment in an internet forum. It is absolutely OK to report personal experiences in that context.
If you put in the work on guitar, your odds of having some kind of success are very high.

The degree of success is often largely beyond your control. Maybe it'll be weekly shows at the local Holiday Inn. Maybe it'll be the cover of Rolling Stone. That part of it doesn't correlate to the amount of effort all that much.

But having any success vs having no success is very largely correlated to the amount of work you put in.
And farther north. Greetings from wisconsin.
> I don't share this pessimism however.

Ah yes. The good old "you don't believe enough". There's literally no way to solve programmable money for everyone without intermediaries.
> I wonder how under-reported mild breakthrough cases are, due to self testing?

I bet Google & Facebook have enough metadata to measure it more accurately.

I personally know of a dozen or so unreported positives (both tested positive and presumed positive), compared to two reported positives.
I live in a "strong town". On my modest home, I pay $8000/yr in property taxes. In addition I pay over $10,000 in local income tax to the town. The housing market is strong. Houses sell within days. The schools are excellent. The roads are well-maintained. The community center is awesome. Taxes are too high for sure, but we get outstanding services and facilities for those taxes.

Galesburg is a city not a town. It can't benefit from the wealth effects of a town within 20 minute commuting distance (car and bus and light rail) of a major city. Small cities like Galesburgh can only thrive if they bring in significant outside money - usually in the form of tourism and tourist who decide to stay. I think of Bend OR as an example.
>Current estimates of cases and hospitalizations by vaccine status, and vaccine effectiveness

Estimate is the key word here. It's really difficult for me to trust official figures given that omicron appears to be spreading virtually unabated across the world regardless of vaccination rates. There's far too much political (state and corporate) pressure to paint a "safe and effective" picture.

As others have pointed out, people in the US are simply not reporting breakthrough cases. There is no incentive. The majority of my fully vaccinated remote workers at have recently tested positive, presumably for omicron. Yet our small startup has still chosen to announce mandates for all, including remote workers. This all feels a lot more like blind faith than science at this point.
Gotta love HN down voting this comment that gets to the crux of the problem in OP's original comment. Just goes to highlight the subconscious biases that a lot of predominantly Western devs have when they are totally cool with throwing around language like that without realizing why or how it is problematic.

Some examples of phrasing that would have worked just as well:

- Low-cost developers

- Unskilled, inexpensive developers

But that doesn't quite have the ring of some good ol' casual racism/stereotyping that everyone can pile on I suppose.
I think the point is that, like a lot of cost problems, a relatively small proportion of users end up accounting for a relatively large share of costs. Just excluding those expensive users (implicitly or explicitly) is a ‘neat’ way to reduce costs and improve outcomes at a particular school. Unfortunately under a funding-follows-kids system that leaves a small population with $X in funding that costs $10X to serve. Maybe grouping all of those users provides enough economy of scale, but that’s not obvious, and sounds a bit like an asylum to boot.
> This is an all-encompassing figure that is constituted solely by different types of social democratic spending, and encapsulates every major type of social democratic spending.

No, it's not. That's a superficial and biased interpretation. There's a minimum threshold to be met if one is to spend energy on a reply, hence the need for something more than just your hot take, especially since your credibility is already very low because of your union conspiracy ramblings.

One more time:

If that is such an obviously correct interpretation as you suggest, please provide reputable sources that agree with your claim, after that we can dive deeper into other possible causes to an increased social spending without that being "an embrace of social democracy".
Is this whole thing at all related to climate change? I know nothing about that field, just seems interesting timing of "once-in-a-lifetime" events
That's interesting. I wonder if most of the unvaccinated population has already been infected with an older variant of covid-19, and if that previous infection provides a more effective immune response than the vaccine for omicron?
To get to 18M number, author approximated that cost of repair 3.5 lane medium use road in industrial area (aka heavy trucks) to all roads in the town which just not make sense. Cost of repair low use residential 2 lane road which is majority of roads in the city is much lower and frankly nobody repaves local roads every 30 years - it just not needed.

In addition $100 per month per house is significant but if it's the only thing that make small town more expensive than dense city it's still does not make city that much attractive.
Five Levels of Hype
Did you even read the article you posted below (since flagged, not by me)? It outlines the study's results, which very clearly say that the results only show that omicron is effective at evading vaccines, and do not indicate any increased susceptibility based on vaccine use. It describes its results as "a measure of how well Omicron evades the vaccines compared to Delta." It also states, "from our recent characteristics release, we also see that unvaccinated people overall are more likely to test positive for COVID-19, regardless of variant" (emphasis mine). Not to mention the test-hesitancy of the un-vaccinated population. You need to stop spreading misleading interpretations.
We don't have enough nurses/doctors to open new hospitals. It doesn't matter how much money is in the business if there's simply not enough nurses/doctors to go around.
I suspect it's not as bad as that as it's not like people are spread evenly across the USA, they're concentrated in the coastal States and then further concentrated in urban areas. I agree the USA's low housing density makes some infrastructure more expensive to maintain though.
One of the other differences is that in the UK taxation raised by central government pays for services that in the USA are paid for out of local taxation. Education is the most obvious one - schools are paid for largely out of the main pool in the UK rather than being paid for via council tax. There are also various redistribution mechanisms intended to move money from richer to poorer areas, urban to rural and England to the other nations to compensate for geographic inequalities.
the alignment is not "republican", it's "ignorant". my relatives who are well educated doctors ("we voted for trump because taxes") don't believe this; they got vaccinated (and kept their mouths shut about it) like the majority of other well-off republicans.
To me Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica are the same in that regard. Ridiculously strange bad acting, or maybe just completely different from what else I was watching at the time, but an interesting story line which kept my interest.
Did the downstream thread get flagged? I replied to this comment and I only see 3-4 replies now. I can still view my own comment in context but it isn’t appearing.
How to motivate a product team – Mind the Product
“The original codename for Python Package Index (the central software repository for the Python programming language) was "CheeseShop" in reference to this sketch. The current standard packaging format for Python software is called "wheel", as a reference to a wheel of cheese.”
You also have people (like GP) advocating for a 100km from the city taxation zone, which is far more than “within the same city/town”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955707

I trust city voters can address intra-city financing needs, particularly if the more numerous would benefit.
Then they have a very strange definition of nice things, when it includes worse error-handling, more verbosity and bad abstractibility.
While you cannot trace the money all the way through the economy, you can definitely trace the funds allocation by the articles of the budget, and pro-rate the amounts to the sum of the taxes paid by a person.

It's similar to the way you see amounts that went to taxes, insurance, etc on your payroll.
That's quite a bit more complicated than just another suicide cult. From your link:

> Increasingly aggressive techniques were used to try to force the Branch Davidians out. For instance, sleep deprivation of the inhabitants through all-night broadcasts of recordings of jet planes, pop music, chanting, and the screams of rabbits being slaughtered. Outside the compound, nine Bradley Fighting Vehicles carrying M651 CS tear gas grenades and Ferret rounds and five M728 Combat Engineer Vehicles obtained from the U.S. Army began patrolling. The armored vehicles were used to destroy perimeter fencing and outbuildings and crush cars belonging to the Branch Davidians. Armored vehicles repeatedly drove over the grave of Branch Davidian Peter Gent despite protests by the Branch Davidians and the negotiators.

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> Criticism was later leveled by Schneider's attorney, Jack Zimmerman, at the tactic of using sleep-and-peace-disrupting sound against the Branch Davidians: "The point was this—they were trying to have sleep disturbance and they were trying to take someone that they viewed as unstable to start with, and they were trying to drive him crazy. And then they got mad 'cos he does something that they think is irrational!"

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> At around noon, three fires broke out almost simultaneously in different parts of the building and spread quickly; footage of the blaze was broadcast live by television crews. The government maintains the fires were deliberately started by the Branch Davidians. Some Branch Davidian survivors maintain that the fires were accidentally or deliberately started by the assault.
I tried it in 2020 and it was basically in an unusable state for even the most basic work. It seems nothing has been committed since then and the issues remain open.
I don't think that is the primary benefit of latex.

Latex is exceedingly expressive and lets you be very precise about exactly what you want on the page and how it is typeset - much more so than Word is capable of. This comes at the cost of learning the language, which isnt user friendly - e.g. I've never had a word document that didnt compile.

Turing complete code, by contrast, demands a high level of language expressivity to do everything beyond the most basic tasks.

Using a GUI to write code becomes like using Word to professionally typeset a an academic textbook very, very quickly.

So quickly I'd argue that there's almost no point even starting.
> would they want to pay their software developers to build systems that reliably collect evidence of defects?

The point was this would be picked up by the regular KPIs collected, not something that would specifically curate to failures. Think: temperature of each wheel, deceleration rate (of each wheel, again), the ESP feedback (the car would inevitably shift when breaking and so ESP would continuously kick-in to compensate), and so on. This is probably very easily detectable by the software without having to specifically design it for it.
Sadly, this isn’t the first case of the U.K. government going for something this super creepy. I’ve personally seen London’s “Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes” posters, which are felt like a parody by its own opponents to discredit it: https://mindhacks.com/2007/01/09/secure-beneath-the-watchful...