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> Glenn Greenwald still puts out good investigative journalism

Everything I’ve seen from Glenn (to be fair, that's filtered by what his fans make popular on other platforms, because I’m not actively following him) since he shed traditional journalistic standards enforced by editorial oversight at the outlet he founded has been fairly naked ideological hackery that demonstrates why he was wise to establish traditional journalistic standards and editorial oversight when he founded the outlet he left for substack.

Previously his ideological bias was pretty clear, but his journalism was nevertheless, if not flawless, at least recognizable as such. Now he's just throwing red meat to an ideologically-allied fan club
the model Y had a spate of qc problems a while ago and it's still recommended that you do an extensive inspection before accepting delivery. I thought it was really funny that I'd have to drive over to Fremont and spend a couple hours inspecting a car for major problems like that (and cancelled my order). Instead, I went to a Toyota dealership, bought a car on the spot, and will drive it, without quality problems, for at least a decade if I want to.
The term partial refreshes leaves much to be desired. I'd call it unclean refreshes.

Perhaps I'm overdramatizing.

> But why wouldn't it be possible to manufacture and sell such a device at < $1000? 13.3'' displays are at $370 [1], and the remaining specs are inexpensive [2] (given there is no ssd included). Solely depends on ones profit margin, it seems.

Notice what I wrote was different. I wrote "There's negligible chance of you realistic hitting less than 1k for a functional EINK laptop ". "You" being Alex. That's because I saw a Spartan FPGA in there just as a display controller. That alone tells me the claim they'll be able hit 1k for a laptop device is seriously scammy.
Here in the US there is no upside to having proof of infection. It doesn't relieve you of needing vaccination or false tests in any situation.

Edit: not false tests; true negative tests.
I’m not following. Genuinely curious what you mean by this.
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You can also read the post as “out of all Indian devs (who on average tend to be cheaper than devs from most other countries), hire the bottom of the barrel”. I doubt they meant that all Indian devs are bottom of the barrel.
Gill's book, Bayesian Methods, is even more dismissive, and even hostile towards Frequentist methods. Whereas I've never seen a frequentist book dismissive of Bayes methods. (Counterexamples welcome!)

It boils down to whether you give precedence to the likelihood principle or the strong repeated sampling principle (Bayes prefers the likelihood principle and Frequentist prefers repeated sampling). See Cox and Hinkley's Theoretical Statistics for a full discussion, but basically the likelihood principle states that all conclusions should be based exclusively on the likelihood function; in layman's terms, on the data themselves. This specifically omits what a frequentist would call important contextual metadata, like whether the sample size is random, why the sample size is what it is, etc.

The strong repeated sampling principle states that the goodness of a statistical procedure should be evaluated based on performance under hypothetical repetitions. Bayesians often dismiss this as: "what are these hypothetical repetitions? Why should I care?"

Well, it depends. If you're predicting the results of an election, it's a special 1 time event. It isn't obvious what a repetition would mean. If you're analyzing an A/B test it's easy to imagine running another test, some other team running the same test, etc. Frequentist statistics values consistency here, more so than Bayesian methods do.

That's not to come out in support of one vs the other. You need to understand the strengths and drawbacks of each and decide situationally which to use. (Disclaimer: I consider myself a Frequentist but sometimes use Bayesian methods.)
So, one factoid, small and relevant (contrasting the fate of the operatic character vs the actual history on which she was bases), so annoys you by highlighting your misogynistic worldview that it is the only thing in the entire article that you find worthy of comment? Why so threatened?
Internally, Microsoft is chock full of super pissed-off people. Everyone's pissed at everyone else, since everyone there is constantly bombarded by angry friends' and relatives' complaints. A decade under Ballmer of firing anyone who wasn't good enough at weaseling ("unregretted attrition") has resulted in a company full of people who literally don't work at all 90% of the time.

The company does an insane amount of spying ("telemetry") on its users, but all I've ever seen ANY of that data used for was weaseling out of things. "Oh, only 5% of users use that feature" or "Oh, that bug only happens 0.1% of the time". Of course, if you use a product with 1000 bugs and each one of them has a 0.1% chance of occurring on any given month, you're going to run into bugs all the time
I wonder how under-reported mild breakthrough cases are, due to self testing?

I'm fully vaccinated and boosted, and I had what I suspect is Omicron about 10 days ago. I had a mild fever (approaching, but not reaching 101), a sore throat, sneezing and nasal congestion for 3-4 days, and I tested positive with an over the counter rapid test. Overall, it was like a very minor cold. My girlfriend also tested positive, and she had no symptoms at all.

I never got any "official" test (I didn't want to put additional strain on the health care system), so my case was not counted in any official stats. If I hadn't tested positive, my girlfriend would not have even tested, and her case would have been totally unknown.
> It's a more hardcore lifestyle change, but it can also be a psychologically simpler ruleset to follow.

It's a hardcore change but "simple" to follow? Isn't that part of the problem? The physical and mental are tightly interwoven. Telling someone they should just eat vegetables and chicken breasts ignores all of the other problems, mental and physical, that could be leading someone to unhealthy habits. In fact, a "ruleset" like this could contribute to further psychological problems and then further physical problems. This is the issue with diets, they ignore all the other factors outside of food.
Generally pro government, as in wanting more of it, but anti government of the day.
Did you see the pressure wave it caused in the atmosphere from satellite images? Seems like the island got obliterated by the eruption
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Murdoch's been crying about the BBC and the license fee for decades. They are no doubt aware that canceling the BBC would put them even more at his mercy, so in this instance I can see why they might not cave.
I generally agree that KDE is pretty decent.

Since Microsoft continues to treat Windows and its users like garbage, I'm fairly certain a Linux Desktop will be the lesser of two evils in my near future so I'm spending a lot more time working out how to live with it for my workflows. I discovered I really like Silverblue. Immutable OS with Flatpak focus and Toolbox cover a lot of what I want, even if the implementations are somewhat less than ideal.

Unfortuantely, Kinoite (the KDE spin of Silverblue) is hot garbage. Half of the things don't work including Flatpak icons (until a reboot) and running a GTK app in Toolbox causes it to inexplicably pause for several seconds at a time. I can't even report the latter issue (several of the former have 2 month+ open issues already) because the login for the bug tracker is busted. So I'm stuck with GNOME, a 'desktop' that desperately wishes it were running on a phone.
their stock is the same price as last year and up 5X in the last 2 years, not exactly free falling
Who are they supposed to blame, Tesla?
I forward skype-in VoIP to wherever or voicemail. Verizon is going to kill my prepaid flip phone in December 2022 so I need to find a new flip phone that can do 4G at least. It's harder now that Walmart and similar stores are a few hours drive away. To be phone free I just power it off.

For navigation I have 2 portable GPS navigation systems. A really old one that I just can't get myself to throw away and a recent Garmin. If that fails I stop and ask for directions and meet new people.

Something you may find useful to reduce the phones attention-seeking behavior is to find a way to disable all sounds on your phone. I don't know if smart phones can do this but my little flip phone can be entirely silent and I can set custom ring tones in the phone book for important numbers. If something is important from a number I don't have they can leave a voicemail.
There's a bit of responsibility from us IT / cybersecurity folks.

Our system is setup that we defend the networks we've been assigned to. The greater cultural problems are someone else's problem. We don't actually look outside of our own networks.

Hospitals getting hacked? Well, that's sad, but not our problem. Not until they pay us at least.

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Granted, I'm not sure what we _should_ be doing about this issue. But at least acknowledging our current culture would be a step forward. Good IT security comes from the top, from a culture of security.
Most of the world's gold is stored in central bank vaults guarded round the clock by armed guards.

What does this quality imply for most commodities?
I have to say I don’t understand this, because a 2x2 square is already stable
It appears that you are speaking in the past tense and therefore fit in the category of "those that cared left".
I'm not making a racist judgement here. There are good and bad developers of all races and from all countries!

To be conservative in my financial estimates, I made the assumption that chess.com's technical workforce is mostly made up of less accomplished developers, and, orthogonally, of those in areas with a low cost of living. If I said "bottom-of-the-barrel Silicon Valley devs", I would have estimated their costs 3x higher, but I wouldn't have become racist against Californians.
> Roads are initially built with the promise of future returns in mind.

Roads are like startups! We should get VCs in on the action.
> As for the BBC it's firmly establishment leaning rather than left leaning in my view, and they also carry a lot of the blame for promoting Farage's poltics e.g. more appearances on question time than anyone else

As much as I hate everything that is Farage & co, I think that is rather a symptom of the BBC being less biased than other outlets. If you want to claim to be unbiased, you have to give both sides of any argument a voice in a place like the UK, regardless of how terrible or great one side is.
No, in the US the government just classified encryption as weapons unsuitable for export. A more clean approach, rather than think of the children shenigans, all while certain members of the royal family have ties with a convicted child trafficker and his wife.
Great analysis, I agree with your points.
Can you post one of these articles?

What is the contention, people who are vaccinated are more likely to get omicron?
Sure, biologically needing less sleep is certainly an advantage. But in the context of this thread it is a bad example. There are some things common among successful people that are feasible to do and would increase odds of success. The reason "sleep less" is dangerous is because it is feasible to do, but it is not going to be helpful for the majority of people. If you are someone that functions best on 7 hours a night and you start pushing yourself sleeping 5, you will notice some cognitive decline, and very well could be decreasing your odds of success.

Stress tolerance is an interesting one, because there's definitely a huge innate component but there also are ways to improve your stress tolerance behaviorally. It's an interesting question for child rearing too, because there is a lot more opportunity to modify stress tolerance during development than in adulthood. How do you give a child the right amount of stress exposure? I imagine it varies a lot between kids.

I will concede there probably are sleep hygiene things that could be done to decrease the amount of sleep needed a bit. But sleep is one of the few things I won't mess around with much any more. Granted if your career is not going well you may be more inclined to roll the dice, but I just consistently find lack of sleep to cause nothing but issues, and I personally haven't discovered anything that allows me to feel rested with < 7 hours.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955204
it's pretty impressive he survived every single previous controversy and even managed to get brexit through... if he's going to be felled by a badly timed and ill-advised party.
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Yeah, saying "Udansk" is all too common. Though is strikes me as a word almost exclusively used by politicans - maybe a tactic that some spindoctor picked up from US media at some point?
We need a new government (then a new political class, but small things first...)
You get money from the initial sale of the lot. This convers the cost of initial construction.

After the sale, the town only gets tax revenue which is a lot less.
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Plenty of innocent people have. And many states permanently strip voting rights if you are convicted of (plead guilty to) a felony. So the folks most likely to have been adversely affected by this cannot take part in elections to fix the problem.

Check out public defender Twitter. It's a real eye-opener. Police officers still on the force but put on DA lists to never call because they've lied so often on the stand that even the judges know automatically they're full of it. (Almost never charged with perjury though.) Judges constantly handing out bail for minor offenses they know the defendant can't hope to pay even though they aren't a flight risk. DAs regularly withholding exculpatory evidence until just before a trial date in the hopes the (innocent) person agrees to a plea deal while they rot in holding for months.

Threatening to fake DNA evidence is just the tip of the iceberg.
I try to assume good intent, but I found it hard here considering the phrasing
The state of file managers is really annoying. I'm currently using Caja, which is a Nautilus fork for MATE, so basically Nautilus frozen in time before they yanked the spatial bit and destroyed a bunch of the rest of the usability too, and it's better but still then hampered by just undoing the latest generations of damage done to it, not trying to do better - it was never great.

To start with, I wish all of these would learn the lessons from E.g. AmigaOS of separating the "serious file manager" (which would tend to be e.g. Directory Opus or Disk Master II) from the launcher / desktop (e.g. Workbench). Though Directory Opus could be used as a Workbench replacement.

Secondly, I wish they'd all learn from the "middle ground" Workbench offered as a spatial-ish launcher: Workbench does not force only one open window for a given directory, so it's not fully spatial. It also does not remember the locations of everything unless you make it. But it does let you lay out directories spatially on the desktop and "snapshot" their locations and the locations of the files within them. And that makes it far superior as a launcher because you can organise your most used directories etc. for easy access. I get why people hated on a fully spatial launcher, but the tradeoffs of Workbench gave it the main benefits people who like spatial launchers/file managers tend to be looking for without the downsides people who hate them tend to hate the most - e.g. you can use Workbench without ever being affected by it's ability to snapshot icon positions or window positions if you prefer.

These don't make it a good file manager, but for that a multi-pane design is far better anyway and trying to shoehorn the full flexibility of a good file manager into a launcher is a folly. Dual pane + a command palette is a start, but e.g. DiskMaster II is the one I like best, because it lets your fully configure the layout with arbitrary file listing windows + arbitrary command palettes. For a file manager with that flexibility also having the option to open in tabs would be great, as long as it can be turned off.

The result of insisting on trying to combine the two seems to usually be something which is bad at both (though nothing really prevent you from making something that reuses most of the functionality to let you configure it to work like both a good launcher and a good file manager, it seems temptation then quickly turns to trying to merge the two modes)
That's probably essentially what you'd expect with omicron, which is more effective at immune escape but appears less effective at causing serious illness (at least in vaccinated and previously infected people).
What about those that are non-profit? You can refuse to do business with for profit hospitals. Getting rid of the for profit does more harm than good, especially for underserved communities.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the tech jumping the shark with the Prometheus. They handled pretty well how they were very much a small fish in a big pond.

As for the device in "Fifth Race" and "Point of View", it burned itself out, making it not very practical except in rare situations. It's totally a fair criticism to say that there are some pretty contrived reasons to keep their power generation limited (across all three series really), but I give them credit because at least they gave a reason rather than just forgetting it like many episodic SFF.
In that case it is a culture of low salaries and tech being a support function. Governments aren't paying market salaries for tech and are not willing to have highly technical people in many leadership roles.
> And considering Illinois' property tax is higher than every other state other than New Jersey, I'm guessing the homes appraised value near you is likely a lot higher than $374k, even.

It is the opposite. Illinois homes’ sale prices are kept down due to the higher (and always increasing) property taxes.

NJ is also the same outside the regions that get buoyed by the higher incomes of NYC/Philadelphia.

It is the same as any business with a lot of debt that gets valued lower than a comparable business with less debt. And NJ/IL and a few other jurisdictions have debt that is multiple standard deviation from the mean.
For people who are using zotro, this extension will be great.

https://github.com/ethanwillis/zotero-scihub
What's wrong with "classical roguelike" or "traditional roguelike"?

Definitions change over time, often you can't do anything about that. But I would expect those two not to deviate too much in the future (hopefully).
Like comparing Word to Latex. Latex is faster when you know it.
A 2x2 square's predecessor is not necessarily a 2x2 square - many patterns will evolve to a 2x2 square.

This conjecture is anout patterns whose predecessor must be the same pattern, which means they cannot be constructed by colliding gliders.
Is Wikidata the proper way to get the currently functioning mirror? I was under the impression that you had to get it from Elbakyan's VK or the SciHub Telegram. I've been assuming that the subreddit would update with accurate links, so I've just been scraping it from there: https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986...
.. because in money handling, there is always someone that benefits when the money is not transferred?
> then it automatically bypasses any CPU and TPM restrictions that normally pop-up and prevent you from upgrading if you try to upgrade

Are you sure you used the retail iso and not the insider one? I tried it with 1st gen Threadripper and it didn't work, it still complained about non-supported cpu.

> with many things I care about being a bunch of hack/addons built by the community,

That's what you are used for.

I regularly use Windows, Mac and Linux and each of them has this problem, but for different subset of functionality.
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Does anyone have data on boosted death rate?

It is really hard to find stats. “Vaccinated” is such a difficult term because it can encompass J&J from nearly a year ago for example. I see some breakdowns by vax supplier vs hospitalizations.

Really would like to know how many people who have taken the booster have died from covid ideally with age data.
> Reporting on yourself is the polar opposite of journalistic integrity.

1. are there any news outlets that abides by this rule?

2. if I get my news from listening to BBC on the radio or whatever, then am I just out of luck?

>Reporting on yourself but not even noting to the reader that you're reporting on yourself is worse yet.

I get how including a disclosure makes sense if the affiliation isn't obvious (eg. washington post reporting on amazon), but do you really need a disclaimer to let the reader know that the BBC in the article is the same BBC that wrote the article?
Hospitals have terrible budgets. There's never money to buy anything. Doctors make big salaries, but there's so much administrator bloat, it's similar to colleges.
Hmmm....it's for the children. This sounds like an attempt to keep law abiding people from privacy while guaranteeing that any criminal worth their salt is fully protected by their own encryption. Again, law abiding citizens are left unprotected as the government seeks it's own interest in keeping popular platforms wide open to their unconditional snooping.

Spending tax dollars to eliminate privacy for those paying the taxes. Keep poking the bear.
Hiring devs who are bottom of the barrel and located in India (super low CoL) =/= claiming all Indian devs are bottom of the barrel.

Please try not to jump to racism accusations immediately, it makes the world a worse place. It even goes directly against the rules here at HN, where you are instructed to take the best interpretation of someone’s comment.
OK, how far Way over?
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https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/coronavirus...

"those who have received three doses of a vaccine and test positive for COVID-19 are more likely to be infected with infections compatible with the Omicron variant compared with those who are unvaccinated"
- Population is considered fixed (or growing very slowly)

- More people get vaccinated: A

- Less people remain unvaccinated: A' (=1-A)

- More people get infected: B

B/A' will of course grow more rapidly than B/A
One thing to note is that the effectiveness metric also includes the behavioral and populational differences.

I'd personally really like to know what the metric would be if (hypothetically, just for analysis) the vaccine was a placebo. For example, if the people who get the vaccine are generally more able to work from home, then the metric would still be significantly above zero.

Just for clarity, I believe that the vaccine is effective, but I question the measurement methodology.
Nobody is doubting that there's amazingly talented Indian developers out there. Some of them are running huge IT companies in the US, as you know. However, anyone who has worked with a "random" outsourced IT company from India knows how atrocious it can be. Between hiring US developers (much more expensive) and average Indian ones, the difference is usually night and day.
The West / East divide is fundamentally a European concept, because it has existed there in one way or another for almost 2000 years. The West is associated with Germanic peoples / languages, Catholic / Protestant churches, West Roman Empire, capitalism during the Cold War, EU / NATO, and Europe. The East is associated with Slavic peoples / languages, Orthodox churches / Islam, East Roman Empire / Ottoman Empire, communism during the Cold War, Russia, and Asia. The more boxes you tick, the more strongly you are in that camp. Countries far away from Europe are only Western or Eastern by extrapolation.

(In a similar way, the Europe / Asia / Africa divide is fundamentally a Mediterranean concept. The farther away from the Mediterranean you go, the less sense it will make.)