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As someone from a country with a decent welfare system, this comment is utterly repugnant to me. Welfare should not be viewed as a "dependency web" that trap people. It should be a safety net for when people have no other choice.
> Do you think that back in the 50s and 60s
> when your parents or grandparents were
> buying the first mass produced disposable
> diapers, they would have expected 60 years
> later people would be forced to go back to
> washable cloth diapers because they couldn't
> afford regular diapers?

I tried looking up the real price of diapers since the 50s until
modern day, and the only thing I could find suggests that this
statement is outlandishly inaccurate.

Here's a document that quotes prices from the 50s in the US[1]:

[...]Prices typically ran above—sometimes well
above—ten cents per diaper, while cloth
diapers sold for 1-2 cents each and diaper
services typically charged 3-5 cents per
diaper.

According to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com 10 cents per diaper
in Today's money would be $1.03. I don't live in the US (although I do
buy diapers), but looking at Amazon for even small packages you've got
prices like $15 for a 40-pack of Pampers, which is $0.40 per
diaper. It looks like you can easily get that price down to half of
that if you buy bigger packages, buy non-brand etc.

So I think you can tell your grandparents in the 50s that accounting
for the price of soap etc. their grandchildren are going to live in a
country where disposable diapers are as cheap as cloth diapers. That
doesn't sound so bad.

1. https://www.edana.org/docs/default-source/default-document-l...
I love this mature response. It really reflects well on the state of sexism in the industry.
Taxes are just the minimum required, always free to send the government more if you think that’s the best use of your money.
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I meant to say, read more articles about this more recently, but don't remember where and a very quick Google search didn't return anything that seemed familiar..
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It could be a way of cheaply moving water from water rich spots to water deficient places.

Lots of water used at X to create a system to reduces water at Y.
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No, but there's a lot that the US (which, remember, is THE RICHEST AND MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD (caps for the people in the back)) can do as a country to improve the basic standards of living. Basic things like affordable health care for everyone (and free health care for those that can't afford it), education and equal opportunities for everyone (so that kids whose parents are poor can still go to university if they have that drive / intelligence - I'm saying that because I had that opportunity), etc.

The cost of disposable nappies is not the issue here. Neither is happiness or contentness. It's being the richest country in the world while 13.5% of its population is living below the poverty line, while people are literally dying on the streets due to being neglected by both the government, their neighbours, and a lack of acceptable health care. With the poor staying poor due to no social mobility, access to education, or normal jobs that don't involve having to scrounge the bottom of the barrel looking for e.g. passengers to drive around.
I could use the cash and some of the credits, but most of it wouldn't be used. But maybe I'm one of few doing AI projects not involving a deep neural net? Hehe.
This is what @mjg95 should be saying.
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Ah, I was referring to how you're creeping people out using their Facebook :) Sounds like a fun thing to do
I called doctors as I was worried my kid only pooped once every second day, he said the normal range was around 20 times per day to once every 10 day (don't remember exactly).

The price of diapers also have a very large range from a few cent to a several dollar per diaper. So it's worth checking several markets. Poor people usually don't have much free time though. Especially when you have 3-5 small kids to take care of. Taking the buss around the city with all your kids is very impractical. Add the sleep deprecation and you wont have much patience either, and make stupid decisions. It is really hard to imagine the life of a poor family mother/father when you have a nanny that takes care of dressing, feeding, diapers, cleaning, washing, etc. It's basically a full time job.
The GDPR seems to have many companies changing their policies and behaviour, and it's not even active yet. So there's that. I'm sure they'll be plenty more data to be gathered on the consequences of those rules the next few years.

Technical measures can also be effective, but they usually suffer from the problem that each individual must know about the threat, must know about the technical solution, and must use that solution, which usually requires some effort. I see very few people arguing that health inspectors ("policy") should be abolished and every individual should be responsible for not eating at unhygienic restaurants, even though there are technical solutions one could use that would allow someone to mitigate risks in such a scenario.
I'm always surprised by how little services charge to remove advertising. YouTube will do it for $9.99/month.
Well the main problem with amtrak is that they never get anywhere on time. When you make the train trip itself the vacation though it makes it much more enjoyable. The sights on the california zephyr are fantastic.
My uninformed guesses:

1) Hard to price discriminate. Some people are worth almost nothing to FB, others are worth a lot. The price would either have to be absurdly high (e.g. $500+/y) or they might leave a lot on the table from that very profitable minority.

2) PR hit. People more easily accept that a frivolous luxury is only available to the wealthy, whereas even many people who use FB see privacy as more of a basic need. See: response to "price gougers" selling stuff like ice or water at a premium in disaster areas.

3) Hard to cleaning delineate. It's a social graph, your data is useful to generate data on your friends. Could they use it in that case or not? If they do, will that expose them to a lawsuit?
Paper was way too expensive for most to waste on hygiene under wood pulp paper was invented in the late 1800s. As other posts mentions there were plenty of alternative methods, from your left hand, rags, corn cobs, etc.
I generally dislike Apple products, but holy shit, AppleScript is awesome! We NEED this on Linux!
You're correct I trivialized it a bit to help my argument. No one should be left to die and everyone should get help when in need. That's a humane and right thing to do.

Just to clear it up - my issue is with people feeling entitled to get help, while they can work.

Yes, no tiny creature should be punished, but there has to be a thought put into it at first I believe.

You mean the adults who were left to starve? No, it works better when children are loved and brought up in a normal environment. I see your point :)
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This is a key point that folk are genuinely surprised by when I explain it to them. It's kind of a reverse herd immunity. (I'm sure there's a better analogy.)
If they really focused on delivering quality tools for organizing groups I'd pay that. $60 is a bargain compared to MeetUp.com admin fees.
Yep. However I think that you responded to the wrong comment.
So unmarried women who can’t afford birth control, or who live at home should be forced into abstinence?

Your entire comment is incredibly entitled and condescending. Have a look through the other comments on this thread for some reasonable discourse on the subject, plenty of people have commented on how the issue is far more nuanced than you make it out to be.
They stopped caring about those people when they dropped skeuomorphic design. They expect their users to have some experience with phones.
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> but autopilot still lowers the death rate on average.

I think the question of using self driving vehicles comes down to this. Do you want to be part of a statistics that you can control, or do you want to be part of one that you cannot?

When we go in trains or planes, we are already being part of statistics that we cannot control. But those things also are extremely reliable.

So there seems to be a threshold, where someone should opt for being part of a statistics that you cannot control.

The people who are pushing SDV's, by some sleight of hand, seem to hide this aspect, and have successfully showcased raw, (projected) statistics that implicitly assumes the rate of progress with SDV's, also assume that SDV ll continue to progress until they reach that capability.....

>And also the idea that an automatic driver is easier to improve over time (skewing the trade-off better and better) than human drivers.

But there is always are risk of catastrophic regressions [1] with each update, right?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_interference
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Eg. much greater ease of banning fringe political groups, ideologies, websites etc. This is one example of "freedom to" (everyone has right to express their opinion, even if it's hateful and extreme) valued less than "freedom from" (these loonies might get to power one day, we gotta protect ourselves against it).

Off the top of my head: https://www.theblaze.com/news/2012/03/22/simply-visiting-ter...
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Turn on the feature to hide photos you're tagged in and tell people you know they're not to show photos of you to other people then? Or tell people not to take photos of you?

If Facebook didn't exist, people would still show photos to people in other ways. If someone takes your photo they're more than likely going to show it to somebody so I would assume a low level of privacy by default.
I think you may have misheard him: farmers used to use corn cobs to wipe.

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/what-did-people-use-before-to...
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It's not evidence of continent splitting but of soil erosion, much like what is happening in Rome[0]

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> how do you know when you come across women in the HN comments?

usually start with "As a woman.."
I have acquaintance who visited Fukuoka while he was alive and who grows rice this way today. I helped him harvest one time. It's hard to estimate just by looking, but his field definitely seemed to have a comparable yield to the neighbours. He's been growing rice in that field for 10-15 years so it's pretty well established.

There were a couple of obvious differences between his field and the neighbours. First it was clear that he had a lot more wildlife in his field: frogs, insects and a lot more spiders. Second, the surrounding fields had been damaged by a typhoon that had come through, while his was in great condition. He surmised that it was because they were using a more modern variety that works better with the fertiliser schedule while he was forced to use an older variety that had a more coarse straw.

He grows all the rice for himself and his wife. His wife has another plot somewhere (that I didn't see) where she grows all the vegetables. They buy fish and meat, etc at the grocery store. He tends to trade a lot with the local orchards for fruit. I'm not entirely sure how much rice he grows -- probably about 3-400 kg. I think the normal yield of rice is about 2.2 kg per m^2 (someone has written an online tonne per hectare to kg per m^2 calculator...!)... which is 200 m^2 or 2100 sq ft, which is basically bang on the size of his field.

We harvested the entire field by hand (just with a little hand scythe). It took a weekend, but was surprisingly easy (we were not rushing in any way). I expected it to be "back breaking work", but it's not at all -- at least for such a small field. We were mostly just hanging out and chatting. I asked him how much work it was the rest of the year. He told me that it took him a day to prepare and plant the seed and that after that it was just about 30 minutes a week to water, etc.

After that he has to thresh the rice and polish it, but he uses machines for that and says that it isn't that much work.

At the very high supermarket prices for rice in Japan, it's probably just worth your time ($1000 worth of rice), but it might be difficult to justify the cost of labour if you were trying to do it commercially.

Of course Fukuoka's idea is that anybody can grow the bulk of their food in their spare time as a kind of light hobby. From what I can tell, that's totally doable. It certainly was an interesting experience for me. I have unfortunately lost track of my acquaintance, but I will be meeting a mutual friend soon, so I'm hoping to reconnect in the future.
Well, I'll definitely try it out. I don't make up my mind just because I don't like a technology personally.
Just like those stupid hand air driers at public facilities. God, how I hate those. Americans have it easy, in general paper towels are available even when the damn air thing is installed. But here in Europe, most often you only get the stupid air machine with no paper towels.
There's a game called Valhalla, in which there is a fictional version of the internet where everyone online is assumed to be female and where women didn't have to hide their gender in online communities to avoid biases. The game's take on internet culture feels absurdist, but the satire really hits home when you see threads like this that highlights how invisible women are in our IRL internet culture.

In an ideal world, women don't have to call out their gender in comments (as another user suggests). Instead, we shouldn't assume all posters are male by default.
I don't think that makes a lot of difference. It is more about identity/persona owned by companies.
My speculation on the race condition fixed in the patch:

The while loop in `main` calls `play_beep` multiple times. Each call to `play_beep` opens the `--device` and sets the global `console_fd`, and then sets the global `console_type` based on the `ioctl(EVIOCGSND)` error, before calling `do_beep`.

This normally prevents the user from writing to arbitrary files with `--device`, because without the `ioctl(EVIOCGSND)` succeeding, `do_beep` with `BEEP_TYPE_CONSOLE` only does a (harmless?) `ioctl(KIOCSOUND)`, not a `write` with the `struct input_event`. However, the signal handler calls `do_beep` directly using the globals set by `play_beep`...

So I image that with something along the lines of `beep --device=./symlink-to-tty ... --new ...`, you can rewrite the symlink to point to an arbitrary file during the first `play_beep`, and then race the open/ioctl in the second `play_beep` with the signal handler such that `do_beep` gets called with `console_fd` pointing to your arbitrary file, and with `console_type` still set to `BEEP_TYPE_EVDEV`, resulting in a `write` to your arbitrary file.

Exploiting that for privesc would require control over the `struct input_event` for the `write`... `handle_signal` calls `do_beep` with a fixed `freq` of 0, so all of the initialized fields are set to fixed values... However, there's an unitialized `struct timeval` at the beginning of the `struct input_event`, and it's allocated on the stack...

Seems like a curious security vulnerability, I'll assume the debian security team must have a working PoC in order to actually call it out as a local privesc vulnerability... I'd love to see the actual PoC eventually :)
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about washing in a bucket with bar soap and other suggestions, time is money.
It's not that infuriating, since you gave them your money anyway. And a lot of it.

You warmly, and strongly screamed "do that again please" with a big heart shape.
i think the real question is how come you like to play as a female?
I used cloth diapers for my 2 kids. You save a lot of money, especially when they are less than 1 year old because it happens so frequently but it is just urine and liquid poop. Rinse and soak them in a pail of water with detergent for a few hours. It will be stain free. Wash in washing machine afterward once you accumulate enough pieces. Forget about ironing and boiling water. It is unnecessary. Since they are pretty thin, they dry quickly too. Reuse!
> And in the current climate of "all new things must be super extra safe to be used, even if it displaces much worse technology", I think machine driving cars will have a hard time being accepted.

Exactly this. People will not accept being hurt in accidents involving AI, but will accept being in accidents caused by human error. There is no way this will change, and car manufacturers should also have realized this by now.

As far as I can see, the only viable solution to the "not quite an autopilot" problem that tesla (and maybe others) has created for themselves is this: Just make the car sound an alarm and slow down as soon as the driver takes his eyes off the road or his hands off the wheel. The first car that doesn't do this should be one that is so good it doesn't have a driver fallback requirement at all - which I think is two decades out.
That's not intelligence, it's privilege and having sufficient disposable income to invest in cost saving.

Items like chest freezers that cost more electricity to run, but allow me to buy more food and freeze it. At the cost of larger electricity bills.

It's having enough money for fuel so I can drive 80km to Costco.

It's having /time/ so I can just do the baths of all the above because I'm not working 60 hour weeks to feed the family.
It is quite clean, for sure! It's so much cleaner than any other place I've been to.

But people are people and some things are quite normal and expected here.. Like randomly putting these bikes ~wherever~ or littering cigarette buds.
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> Sadly, that attitude does not seem to be the prevailing one.

You are right. I was just trying to point out how treating one's YT presence as a business could be done right, but I agree that's not the majority of Youtubers.
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i’m sure that humanity has the ability to learn to use he escape keys, just like i’m sure you have the ability to learn to farm your own food. that doesn’t mean you should have to do it to get things done though

computers have gotten easier and learning what F5 does is not in the realm of necessary things that people should have to know to operate their work device
Yes I noticed this too:

> In the United States, the average diaper sells for about 25 cents

That's so much more expensive than here. Looking at the pictures you can get the same brands and nappies for half the price here.

In the decent sized packs from amazon pampers are only a touch more expensive but yeah the Lidl ones are just as good as far as I can see. We mostly used pampers because they are cheap with a subscription but have used Lidl ones fairly often. Shame we're not very close to a Lidl store (well we are, but traffic).
Comparing the Uber and Tesla fatalities
What about normal bank transfer? Is it really cumbersome?
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I know, it definitely gives me pause to see people dying and is definitely a reminder to be safe. I remember when I was using AutoPilot on the 101 in the bay area this weekend, I noticed I was in the far left lane and decided to switch to a middle lane. So it's not that I don't think AutoPilot could kill me, as a matter of fact there have been several times when AutoPilot was definitely about to kill me but I took control in time to course correct. I think I've used the system enough to get a sense of what it can and can't do and feel that I'm less likely to get in a collision due to not paying attention while AutoPilot is on than I am to get into a collision because I was driving.

Also, in response to the statistics you cite: I wouldn't expect the statistics to be that far off the average because AutoPilot is limited in it's possible use cases at the moment. Even in cars equipped with AutoPilot people are always still driving the car for at least some part of the trip. Therefore I wouldn't expect the impact of AutoPilot to lead to a significant deviation from the average. Plus, I'd speculate that the crash rate per mile is probably higher on a Tesla then an average car -- I'm thinking of like a Honda Civic. Faster cars probably get in more crashes, right? Maybe not, who knows. Regardless it should be possible to control for this and assess the effect of AutoPilot on per mile crash rates by comparing rates for Teslas with and without AutoPilot. This is somewhat complicated by the fact that even Teslas without AutoPilot have automatic collision avoidance, but should shed some light on whether AutoPilot is making people crash more or less.
I would buy the one without the Touch Bar, even if it cost more!

I would almost assume that if they ever make a new model without the touch bar, there would be no price reduction for it.
I would support this - but who would pay to the school? That would mean taxing the income at 50% or more?
Hm, can i afford a child, can i raise a child? Should i have a child.
Probably closer to twice as much. Business class flights for returns within a few days are usually around $4000-6000. This will again allow same-day returns and would probably go for closer to $8k-$10k return. Capacity will be extremely limited, there are >1000 business class seats/day just out of Heathrow to JFK.
What's the limitation? Why can't we make actually flushable wipes?
The problem with this point of view is that there are other people who also work in dark places and make many sacrifices for their families in the $10 an hour group and perhaps the only difference between them and you is their parents weren't able to buy them a car and a college and a house. Considering we live in the present and cannot make people work harder in the past, is it better for us to have a "got mine" attitude in either direction?
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There could easily be more than just a wealth differential, e.g. people who are more are of their emissions impact might also be be more aware of intoxication impact.

I'm any case, "statistically more safe" is a weak argument, e.g. we would be terrified of boarding a plane if they were merely statistically more safe than driving (by a small margin).
you don't, but when unspecified with "as a woman.." I'm guessing people in the tech community are generally just assumed to be men since that's the majority
> Serious question though, how do you know when you come across women in the HN comments?

We're all suspecting that the real answer is that OP has always assumed everyone here who comments is a guy and women just read and don't comment.
They could fly faster (most have max speeds >0.9 mach) but are slower to save fuel. The optimal speed would be slightly lower but as airlines and manufacturers have settled on 0.85 mach for long-haul, introducing a slower plane would mess up schedules and could be seen as a competitive disadvantage.