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> The studies showing reduced admissions are either grasping at statistical straws or a reglorofied statement of "This is a novel contagion in a herd without immunity at which some unknown percentage may be clinically at risk from genetic or environmental factors."

So... the vaccine reduces hospital admissions for young adults because some unknown percentage of them are "at risk" due to (unknown?) factors?

This argument reminds me of Greek astronomers inventing epicycles to fit the model to the data!

Are you referring to Vitamin D supplementation? Would be interesting to see a similar study which factors this out.
US has higher income inequality than India[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#/media/File:M...
I think about it from time to time. One of the aggressors owes me money from making them a website they never paid for.
I keep wondering if this can be directly related to car advertising.

Most car ads always show the car as alone on the road or street, as a symbol of ultimate freedom ("own the road" often comes back as a catchphrase). Yet this can't be further from the actual reality of driving.

Maybe the cognitive dissonance is what drives (pun intended) driver entitlement and anger when challenged.
If most of the miners collude like that than ETH will lose most of its value. The game theoretic aspect of PoS is an important part of its overall security.
I doubt the dealer cares about subscriptions per see, they would be happy to install a factory remote starter for an additional fee.
Frankly on larger projects overall time to create and test the whole thing in modern C++ or (I assume) in Rust should not take longer than in Python. I do not understand this idea of mixing languages where one is enough.

In my own case I rewrote decent size Python app in C++ and it had taken me about the same time as for original developers. And no I was not porting code but rather working with the specs so did my own design.
The problem is that content is pretty well dispersed across multiple platforms.
I thought the US had very little vacation, so sounds reasonable.

Standard in professional jobs in the UK would be about 7 weeks including public holidays (25 days plus 9 public holidays), maybe 8 or 9 weeks, especially after a few years tenure.
Also blurs the line (hrumf) between what is hardware and what is software? I mean software designed the hardware to behave with a certain ... algorithm?
Slow tooling, slow runtime, it's all the same to me, I want fast programs. Not sure what you mean by esbuild written to support dysfunction, could you elaborate on why that's the case? If you mean that well-developed JS-made tooling can be on par with esbuild and similar, I will have to disagree as benchmarks show that compiled languages like Go and Rust are orders of magnitude faster, and whatever architectural improvements can be made in the JS-made tooling can also be made in these compiled-languages' tooling as well.
So if I acquire 51% of validation power, and you catch me cheating, the person who gets to decide if I get punished is me?
People here, as always, get hung up on legalese bullshit, but miss the overall picture.

The dynamics in play is highly questionable. Countless artists and photographers put effort into creating their works. They put they work online to get some attention and recognition. A company comes along, scrapes all of it and starts selling access to the model to generate something that looks highly derivative. The original cohort of artists and photographers not only get zero money or attention from this new endeavor, they are now in competition with the resulting model.

In short, someone whose work was essential to building a thing gets no benefits and possibly even gets (financially) harmed by that thing. Just because this gets verbally labeled "fair use" doesn't make it fair.

Additional point:

Just a few years ago a bunch of tech companies were talking about "data dignity". Somehow, magically, this (marketing) term is no longer used anywhere.
The spammers seem to be training on transactional (rather than marketing) emails. New account info, receipts, etc are allowed under can-spam and it looks like Gmail actually privileges them to make sure they get through.
Small point: you don't have any evidence that moral panic groups are unhealthy. If you're going to wield that "objective knowledge" sword, you'll need to die by it, too.
Using a CA they control is only essential if they don't want to be caught. However, I would assume most webrowsers in China are using CINIC certs. At that point it would be trivial. Just return a different DNS entry, and have your CA verify it. Sure, pinning might alert some people that something is going on, but what are they going to do about it? I could have done it 10 years ago with WCCP and a bluecoat.

But yes, I was wrong about them openly breaking SSL for decades. Doesn't mean it would be difficult.
Agreed - my experience with non-SQL tech (ORMs) with Django and ASP.net MVC made me really appreciate SQL so much. Most of the time I felt everything would be so much easier using raw SQL instead of dealing with model objects. It also felt like in their quest to replace SQL and make things "simpler" they were recreating some db features again.
Price of Pints in London Could Rise to £14 in the Next 2.5 Years
Forsaking HTML doesn't imply embracing command line.

In my experience, most mails don't actually use any styling beyond the automatic blockquote for the endless quote chains that mail clients automatically add. So people are wasting storage and transfer for something they don't really use.

When I see a mail which could actually use some styling, it's usually something involving maths and HTML is not suitable for that case. People usually send LaTeX snippets in plain text in this case.

And while I'm at it, the endless quote chains are another thing which has no reason for existing. Each mail in a thread steadily grows in size, because mail clients "conveniently" always quote everything and put the text cursor above it so that the user doesn't stop for a moment to look at the size of what they're sending and consider the absurdity of the situation, when their client is perfectly capable of reconstructing the whole thread without copying all mails in each message. Quoting should be opt-in on a case-by-case basis. As they function in the wild today, the quotes are just useless garbage attached to everything.
It's updated several times a month https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases
The biggest caveat would be to be aware of the default connexion to an alternative extension store, https://open-vsx.org, instead of Microsoft's own store, which does not have all the extensions the official store has. But that's less and less an issue, thanks to projects such as https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions. In the worst case, I just manually `git clone`d the desired extension in my local extension folder. Nothing to complain about otherwise
The code is cross-platform (C++ code with almost zero dependencies) including the windowing framework (Qt) that the browser application uses. I have built Linux versions in the past to test it and I would also like to build a MacOS version, but bandwidth makes it hard to support multiple versions for every build.

If it starts to get some traction, I can work on that.
Surveillance capitalism, transhumanism, AI government, tech overlords.
People have no guts or comprehension to revolt.

We are an easy target for the combination of psychology and technology hacks which is “bestowed” upon us. For some time ahead, there will be a temporary mitigation route.

But in general, we all have fallen to our internal strive for comfort and convenience. Eventually, with high energy prices and scarce resources, we all be renting everything. So you will own nothing.
I previous had some exposure to rigid body dynamics using the more conventional Lie group notation used in robotics (as seen here: http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/index.php/Modern_Robotics and https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~junggon/tools/liegroupdynamics.pdf). But I felt the Lie group theory surrounding it were hard to understand (I don't have that much exposure to abstract algebra, I wasn't a mathematics major).

So you think would PGA aid in understanding the weird properties of SO(3) and SE(3) (and its tangent spaces), as well as writing simulation code with it? I know that people use various representations for rigid transformations (screws vs. dual quaternions vs. exponential maps vs. motors), but I am interested which method would work the best in both a theoretical sense (in understanding the kinematics and dynamics more abstractly) and in a pragmatic sense (difficulty of writing and reading actual simulation code, amount of operations used, SIMD-friendliness, etc.)
What’s your opinion on WinForms? I’ve yet to come across anything that’s better in terms of perf, developer experience and stability.
k8s saves a TON of time if you need to run on more than 1 machine and you use a managed solution (by AWS/GCP/Azure) and only use it as a glorified docker container orchestrator. Ingress solves how to route HTTP traffic coming into your domain. PersistentVolume solves how and where to store data. LivenessCheck solves how to restart your crapware when it freezes. Just don't go crazy with it unless you actually need the fancy stuff.
This used to be a selling feature of cable. In the not too distant future, all of streaming will have required ads too.
I regret the title now but that ship has sailed.
That's surprising, I didn't know that about Node
You are spreading false information. Besides the "centralization" thing that was already replied, the part of

> and if you try to validate and not censor, you will get your staked coins taken from you by the protocol (as opposed to PoW, where you just fail to get your block in the chain)

Is outright false. It is the same as PoW. You choose what transactions you include in your block. So some people may choose to not include some transactions (Ethermine is already doing this on PoW with Tornado Cash). But there is no mechanism that slashes your staked coins because the other validators didn't like what transactions you included. At most your block will not get attested. Slashing can only happen for other reasons (proposing twice, attesting twice, attesting something that surrounds something else).

PoS is in fact even more resistant because in PoS you can kick out the malicious validators by doing a social fork that slashes their stake. In PoW if 51% of miners are malicious there's nothing you can do, you can't slash their hardware.
Love the simplicity of their system but don't like the price tag.

Anyone know of cheaper alternatives to ModernTreasury.com ?

Funtionality needed: ledger + integration with payments.
i saw the headlines. i haven't read about any ideas what would be the cause. but whatever it is, surveillance of public space is not going to solve it.
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I think this is a bit unfair. As always, blanket statements in software engineering aren't really meaningful.

As I understand it, the article talks about switching from python to rust in a non-trivial database service that is required to be fast and robust. I can't imagine python to do well in this regard, especially when C/C++ extensions are required to enhance the performance.

I also agree that 'Python has been a strict liability and the promise that you can "just rewrite the slow parts in C/C++/Numpy/etc" has never held'.

I just don't agree those points necessarily imply "avoiding Python for new projects". Even in the case of the original article, was it, in hindsight, a bad decision to start with python? I'd argue not necessarily. Python is still great for quickly hacking together something that works, not necessarily fast or maintainable, but if you're under time pressure or you're still trying to feel out the market fit for your product, it's not a great idea to waste brain cycles to deal with borrow checks for example.

Python's weaknesses only show when you need to scale, both on the performance and on the lines of code / number of collaborators metric, which is a problem you have only when the project succeeds. Avoiding python because of these problems reeks of premature optimization, unless you know it's how the project will end up in advance.

As other sibling comments point out, python is still great for small scripts and weekend projects. Perhaps you do mean 'avoiding Python for new projects that are expected to grow non-trivially', which is fine advice. I'm just a bit tired of all those over-reaching blanket statements people make regarding software design that only really makes sense in a limited context (here's a funny one I've heard recently: never write nested-for-loops because it's sloooww). It would be unfortunate to have the message "don't use python for large projects" be misinterpreted as "python sucks no matter what".
Cycling already has the lowest percentage of road traffic fatalities compared to other modes. The highest is pedestrians - should pedestrians wear helmets?

A helmet requirement is wholly incompatible with the role of cycling in NL. You hop on a bike anywhere, regardless of what you're wearing. It's a casual transportation mode, just like walking, not a sport activity. This proposal can only make sense for people who don't live in this reality.

In addition, as mentioned by another commenter, when the dutch traffic rules were written decades ago, it was found that helmet usage correlated to increased accident rates - people take more risks when they feel safer, and that in turn makes pedestrians less safe.
Can you imagine if they start putting ("privacy friendly" ads) in VSCode's side bar? I think people will complain for a little bit, and just accepted, they would probably pay a couple of Youtube Tech influencer like Google is doing in the privacy space, and move on. I know this is speculative, but I can see it coming sooner rather than later.
Yeah, specially when people refer to stuff taken from ML as Rust "features".
The trend shown by the tweets happened before automobiles became affordable. I feel that you’re missing the point. These tweets are to demonstrate that the masses in general will demonize anything new and unfamiliar. It’s not really about bikes.
There is no ambiguity about calling a dog a dog being better than calling a cat a dog.
That’s why Elixir developers like to make NIF callouts with Rust. It’s dangerous to do anything outside of the BEAM but Rust negates all of those concerns.
I think they’re also a bit blind towards what potential market they’re losing, even if it’s just step by step.

My peer group would probably have been a great target 10 years ago. Now I hardly know anyone at my level with a car, and if, it’s an old one or cheaper brand. I think this is a luxury product in decline, other options just keep getting better. If I like to pay a lot, I’ll just Uber everywhere. Public transport is becoming less shitty (eg with contactless payments in a lot of places, and google maps to find the routes), cycling is safer (and showers in offices) etc. Why deal with this nonsense, and insurance and fines and parking and repairs?

I think they’re looking at these revenue streams as a way to save themselves because it might increase revenue per customer, without seeing that it might actually reduce their market share even further.
Agree the saturation is pushed to the point of absurdity in the moon image. Doesn't look like a 'Real' Photo anymore and thus looses it's impact/gravity.
Best thing about piracy is that not only is there no ads, it's that you don't have to even think which streaming service has the particular show/movie you want. You also get to watch it on any device of your choice, in any player of your choice, completely offline. And you get to take screenshots. And it's free. I simply see no reason to ever pay for movies and tv shows — you pay money AND get a worse experience.
Add to this, you can also rent/buy through some services (usually big tech). It might seem steep, but if you're paying $10/mo for streaming with barely anything you want to watch, one-time payment of $5-8 for a film maybe once a month isn't bad. TV seasons are overpriced but I think of it the same way, at one episode per week. That used to be the norm before streaming allowed "binging". Occasionally some content is only available through streaming in which case I burn through what I want and cancel.
Sure, maybe they all do add ads. I wouldn’t hesitate to cancel everything. I’m happy to pay money for service, but I’m also happy to cut ties with companies that actively disrespect my time.
Perhaps there will spring a cottage industry around enabling these features without a subscription.

I'm sure the lawsuits will flow — but bad look, no? Shades of McDonald's shake machine....
Statistics about injuries are even worse for cars. It's a fact that cars, despite the infrastructure being designed for them, endanger pedestrians more than cyclists.

We all agree about common sense. It's just your perception of what represents danger doesn't align with reality. It's important to understand where the danger comes from (for both cyclists and pedestrians) so you can support measures that actually makes everyone safer instead of just some people feeling better.
Unlikely. There are plenty of other coins out there to mine and one of the advantages of GPU vs ASIC is that you can just switch instantly.
let's just rebrand it JPMcoin and get this charade over with already...
> The value prop is indeed in algorithmic content, but using "friends and family" as the hook.

What you are describing is bait-and-switch, which is unethical, in retail, illegal, and will result in long-term irreversible audience atrophy. Selling keeping in touch with friends and family and delivering clickbait is not a sustainable strategy.
GM is definitely escalating. They are requiring the "optional" OnStar on all models of some of their brands, and some models of other brands. $1500 up front, covering a 3 year subscription. Not part of "MSRP" but it's not optional either.

Now OnStar isn't a necessary set of features. And it certainly should remain optional. But if demand is high enough, consumers will buy from them anyway and they'll continue to escalate as much as they can.
This is most likely increases in "B", less "LGT", though I expect all to increase given the reduction in stigma.

Vast majority of new cases of "B" are likely to be cultural. i.e. White women in HS/Uni. Declared, but never expressed.
The slashing can only occur if the validator can be proven to break certain rules e.g. double voting. The reports are evaluated by the network.
Knowledge Base I grant you, but snippets are a crucial feature to trust a result is correct before clicking through.

AMP is completely unrelated so I'm not sure why you mention it. Website owners have to create a specific version of their own site for AMP to even work.
So, in other words... they react to changing circumstances (the exact opposite of ideological)?

Coal used to be worse than gas, so they wanted less coal and more gas, but now the gas is worse, so they want less gas and more coal?

They were opposed to arming Germany out of fear Germany could be tempted to attack other nations, but now that it wasn't Germany who started the attack, they want Germany to help defend?

This is the exact opposite of ideologically driven and it is exactly how every party and politician should be.

If your position is to be against war, even when a tyrannical dictator sends his army to murder your people, that is a stupid position. If you position is to be against war unless it's against the army a tyrannical dictator sent to murder your people, that is a very sensible position.
Exec should just be behind a separate permission anyway. A flashlight app has no legitimate reason for exec()ing random code that was not in the APK bundle, but the permission should be there so that JIT's and stuff like Termux can make use of it.
My suspicion is that Ethereum got so popular because there were so many ways to make money from it. Basically a cash cow for developers and miners.

Does anyone know where the money making opportunities will shift to with POS? Block builders? Validators? I suspect the amount of money to be made through MEV will dramatically decrease.
I sort of agree, but I also think type systems are somewhat overrated compared to performance, static compilation, native compilation, easy cross compilation, good tooling, expansive ecosystem (esp devoid of C dependencies). I think TS and Go are on par with respect to tooling and ecosystem, but I would rarely trade Go's static, native compilation model (distributing a single static binary is pretty awesome) for some extra type system features.

Specifically, I posit that returns on type system features diminish--there's a ton of value in going from a dynamic type system to Go's pre-generics type system, but every addition thereafter offers decreasing value.
Xamarin (native) used to be my go-to technology for cross-platform mobile apps, but Microsoft has absolutely driven it into the ground since the acquisition. Looks like they only care about MAUI, for which I couldn't care less given the horrible user and dev experience.

The motto for Xamarin used to be "you can do all the same stuff you can do natively, with day one support". Not anymore, and it's disheartening to see.
If Ethereum is inflationary, and there is a minimum cost to staking, why would I ever begin to stake if I know that the cost can only go down in the future?
The schema how they're appointed and which country appoints which is.. muddy to say the least.

And then EC bureaucracy has a lot of weight with appointed commissioners (who frequently know jackshit about assigned fields) acting as PR figures.
For those of you who like a minimalist approach to apps, if you have an iPhone you don’t need any app to use the algorithm. Just say “what song is this” and Siri will employ the Shazam algorithm.

Even more obscure is the list of all songs you ID is maintained. Launch the “iTunes Store” app (why is this still even a thing) then tap the upper right hamburger menu. Then select the middle “Siri” tab. It’s kind of neat. I use this feature when I’m out and about in restaurants, stores, etc.

Again no need to install any app.
Interestingly Object Pascal was my introduction to data type modelling for constraints, followed by Caml Light, Modula-3 and Ada.

Naturally one can argue they weren't popular, with exception of Object Pascal.
> Scientific studies have shown that decisions are registered in the brain’s motor cortex milliseconds before a person decides to move, suggesting that in the brief moments before you become aware of what you will do next, your brain has already decided your next step.

This is probably one of the most important yet overlooked findings in all of science. Free will as it's normally conceived is an illusion. The conscious mind is along for the ride, not in charge. The feeling of being in charge is an illusion. (It's pretty easy to reveal this to yourself: just try to change one major habit. Or try to think of a single thought (like a red triangle or pink elephant) for more than a few moments.)

Anyway from there the question is raised, "if there is no free will, what do you do with this information?" It should be immediately obvious this is a foolish question: we just said there's no free will so you don't do anything with the information, because you don't do anything at all.