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So do those jurisdictions provide passports for free (or very low cost) and/or make them easy to acquire?

In the US to get a passport isn't an arduous process, but it isn't easy nor cheap; when I got mine done (full thing - card and actual passport), I had to first get a passport photo taken and paid for (walgreens), then go to a local courthouse during a weekday (which I had to take off the time for), then pay a bunch of money (oh - and I had to give them my birth certificate and some other ID - which I got back when I received my passport weeks later) - then wait.

I think there were fingerprints involved too...

Anyhow - it wasn't an easy or cheap process, but I can understand why they make it that way. But for most people in the US, unless they travel internationally, they never obtain a passport, because of this process. It is only set up for people who can afford it (both in time and money).

So - if it is a requirement in other areas of the world, then receiving or obtaining a passport would have to be made easier for those who couldn't afford the time or money; time could be made by legislation making employers provide time for doing such a thing, and/or keeping courts or wherever to process the applications open on weekends or have later hours or something.

Of course - we are talking about "non-US" places, which seem to have far saner social policies under which this would fall...
Do you really want to live the rest of your life without ray tracing?
Yeah until the government database gets compromised and all the private keys get leaked.
The NYT is not useful as a source of important news. It is useful as a barometer of what a portion of the US establishment thinks. It's pro-Iraq war cheerleading predicted there would be no significant pushback against it, for instance.
They do this because they promised people with Autopilot 2 that they'd get full self-driving. They didn't because AP2 hardware wasn't capable of that.

Why should we believe Tesla that HW3 is actually capable of FSD this time?
> They've convinced people to subscribe to advertisements so they see them as soon as they're posted. That's even better than Facebook convincing everyone to give them all their personal information so it can be 'shared'.

Except Facebook also gets people to subscribe to advertisements so they (have a chance of) seeing them as soon as they are shared.

But Facebook actually builds it's business model around that, unlike YouTube, and charges the advertisers more to reach more of the subscribers even after they've expressed interest, while YouTube treats videos as a venue for ads it sells, but doesn't treat the channel-subscriber relationship as an advertising channel to monetize the way Facebook does with Pages.
In a browser you have control about cookies, I'm sure iOS can leak more sensitive data even with default settings.
Thats a good quick chart I can use to pull up when arguing for a single payer system.

I think the biggest problem with single payer in the US is cultural, not even political - people simply don't trust the national government to do anything at an acceptable level (except when it comes to defense, the post office (74% approval rating), and the CDC).
> local zoning/permitting strangling construction

Looking at the Seattle skyline from my apartment, it's construction cranes as far as the eye can see.

A lot of construction is happening. It's not enough, though, because there's an absolute torrent of people into the area.
OK, good suggestions, i'll look into improving it. Cheers!
This is true.

I allow certain apps to use notifications because there are things that I want to be notified about. My card balance from the Starbucks app, or breaking news from the New York Times app.

Both of those companies started abusing notifications. Their apps are no longer on my phones.
Or, you know, you get it working without LIDAR and make boatloads of money.

Humans don't rely on any sort of LIDAR to drive, I don't see how you could be so certain that computers need to.
> You are harming your family and friends by harming yourself.

Are you asserting that this is per se the outcome of ingesting psilocybin?
That's what's so striking about this. The new hardware
can run neural nets really fast. So they'll be able to
do something that can do the job most of the time, but
will still screw up badly some of the time.

You have perfectly captured the reason I don't trust myself to operate a car.

I think that Tesla is moving too fast for public perception. A person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals, and expected value and engineering [1] set speed limits and goals that are far faster than PR, c.f. Greenpeace's anti-nuclear stance being significantly responsible for global climate change. But "they have to never make any mistakes" is a crippling double standard.

[1] https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
The Paul brothers really give me the creeps. I'm old (50+) and don't understand them. My hipness crapped out around the time of Jackass on MTV, and this feels like the rich grandchild of that moment, except now they are entirely focused on money.

Same goes for PewDiePie. Who the hell sits down to actually watch him? I tried watching all three, and clearly I'm not their target.

The fame and influence they wield, is it more or less nefarious than using celebs to market pre 00's? It feels more so to me.

I finally understand the cultural gap my grandparents must have felt when I played my Atari 2600 all day and they just shook their heads.
> the money used to buy that yacht paid the salaries and income of all the craftsmen and laborers that built it for you, compensating them for the value they provide to society.

The point he is making is that they are compensated but no net value is returned to society as a result of their labor and resource expenditure. The yacht "disappears" in your private marina where it will rot away providing you with a purely private satisfaction, whereby the same labor could create houses, a public parc or some other widely shared goods, whilst still compensating the workers the same and having the same overall economic effects.

Symbolic, money wealth, thus becomes a force that diverts social physical resources away from social needs and towards private needs of wealthy individuals, making everybody else worse off compared to an alternate more egalitarian social arrangement.

I would interpret it that as long as billionaires don't sink their fortunes into megalomaniac wasteful personal consumption, like say building pyramids, the results of capitalism and inequality are not very different from a more egalitarian society, the vast majority of resources are still employed to make most people better off. What's unequal is just the representation of wealth, who owns what and who works for whom.

For example, if Warren Buffet would start to liquidate his symbolic wealth to build a giant Warren Buffet statue, this would have a net negative effect on the wealth of the average citizen. Yes, it would provide jobs, but it would also extract available capital from the market that could be invested to create other jobs, so over all it's a wash. No saleable products are generated and a massive amount of resources is required, bidding the prices of these up without putting anything back. The consumption of everybody else would diminish to accommodate for the higher prices and lower overall quantity of products now available. Society has "decided" to shift production from cars and houses towards a giant statue that nobody really needs.
How does that work when the law forbids you from assembling to effect political change?
If you haven't seen the videos, one of the prizes that is redeemable in the "box" is a $250 million home in LA, only there is no evidence that this is even in the box, no pictures outside a stock photo off the internet, no odds of winning, nothing. They could easily just have put it there as a joke to trick people. As far as I know draft kings actually works as intended, you bet and win/lose depending on real world results that are verifiable. Here it is a super obfuscated slot machine with no guarantees of anything.
>all the way down to people performing essential services who can't afford to feed their families on full-time work.

This is a feature of the system, not a bug. If these folks weren't barely making it, there'd be more free energy for rentiers to extract through various rent-seeking behavior, and since rentiers have significantly more political power, the system would get subtly worse for the everyman in whatever ways have the least-bad optics until they're barely making it again.

Like, this is why the SF Bay Area has the zoning-caused housing crisis: because it can afford to.
Gaming is one of the use cases where native wins, specially since WebGL 2.0 isn't widespread and it only exposes a subset of OpenGL ES 3.0, let alone GL ES 3.1, 3.2, Metal or Vulkan.

However if the game is a Flash like one, then WebGL/WebAssembly might just be enough.
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So, their navigation subsystem can limit the cruise-control speed before an off-ramp/lane change/whatever? That's nice, but it's a gimmick. It's not meaningful driver assistance, let alone self-driving. Meanwhile, the newest Audi top-of-the-line car (already sporting one of the most advanced feature sets when it comes to driver assistance) will reportedly be able to "drive" itself in very slow-going, very heavy traffic, even if the driver momentarily stops paying attention. That's at least as good as what Tesla will be able to do in the same timeframe.
say what now? are you basically just saying location aware pricing? that is nothing nuanced of course - look no further than any fundamental supply chain management firm - it is the crux of their business.
You are not able to ascertain the degree to which restaurant employment would increase if there was a lot of illegal employment or no illegal employment because the statistics are, by nature, unreported.
The university's position is absolutely ridiculous and has everything to do with what's wrong with higher education at large. I think the only reason that other frats/sororities/organizations with a similar rule weren't dinged is because nobody probably pushed it like the girl who got this sorority in trouble.

I taught in a college setting for a few years, and the pressure to kowtow to students, pass almost everyone, and hand out a's and b's is intense. Giving assignments that resulted in 4-6 hours of homework per week was frowned upon in a 3 credit class. Absurd.
I'll leave that argument to others. I only raised the point because of the related discussion on HN. I'm specifically thinking of discussion ~6 months ago about how half of US startups had immigrant founders:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11309080
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858597
Using notifications to bypass spam filters speaks to the quality of the notifications you're sending.

If your e-mail is important, people will find it.

If your e-mail gets lost in the noise, then notification is probably not essential.
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I've played a lot of Ultima Online back in the day, which is probably Richard's most relevant creation.

It was a fantastic MMORPG. It was really balanced and it managed to be equally fun to be a "worker" (lumberjacker, farmer, blacksmith) or an adventurer. In the shards that I used to play, there were not a lot of overpowered players, so it was very common to see beggars and poverty in the urban centers of the game's world. And those were PLAYERS, not NPCs.

I don't think any game since then has achieved this kind of feel.
OKRs are straight out of Andy Grove from Intel. If you read further along, the author indicates that getting fired from Google is very rare. So it's not a fire the bottom 10% every year.
Nope. Jets use external oxygen; rockets carry or make their own oxygen.
I think universal single payer healthcare would be wonderful, but the issue of healthcare is politicized enough as it is. With a private company I can fight. I might lose, I might have to go elsewhere, but I have a choice. With the government I have no choice, and I have no recourse. When has that ever led to better outcomes?
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Are Safari push notifications desktop only?

https://developer.apple.com/notifications/safari-push-notifi...
As pointed out elsewhere -- That's the median resident income. There's a huge class of workers that are never given residency that are purposefully ignored by the official stats. Roughly 1/3 of the inhabitants of SG are non-residents who typically work low wage jobs (nearly all domestic help in this category) and they have very limited rights.
Would this be along those lines? https://www.cs.ucr.edu/%7Eeamonn/Motif_Discovery_ICDM.pdf
Assuming you're in the software space, management is still writing software, but your language is people, not machines.

People are not machines. They're extremely heterogeneous, they have emotions, they wear out, they burn out, life happens and they can't dedicate themselves to the tasks you care about as much as you might want them to. But the advantage is they have all the creativity and brilliance of a human mind, and can make things machines can't. Often times, I find the task of a manager looks less like scripting and a lot more like environment creation: build a space where your best and brightest can be happy and motivated, and you can trust them to fill that space.
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>Humans don't rely on any sort of LIDAR to drive, I don't see how you could be so certain that computers need to.

1. using that logic we would still be trying to build airplanes with flapping wings like birds.

2. humans aren't that good of a drivers.
>I'm also not sure its fair to consider DF's writing as similar to donavanm's -- they're not operating at a different level so much as a totally different task. donavanm's writer as I understand it is trying to lead the player through a story, whereas DF's trying to produce a story through the player. The former produces an overarching theme, plot, characters, etc. The latter produces pieces that could fit in a story (or stories), and hope it will occur as an emergent phenomena of play.

I don't think they were only talking about an overarching large scale story, but also the small scale side stories that happen throughout the world. Allowing the player to overhearing the backstory of 2 train robbers right before they start the robbery, or coming up with a back story for an abandoned house and telling it through the items left around. Small additions that add flavor and detail to the world. When you add to that some game mechanics around choosing to aid or stop the train robbers, choosing to find the lost treasure hinted at by a journal found in the abandoned house etc..., and then the game world reacts and changes based on those actions, to me, you're doing exactly what Dwarf Fortress is doing. To me the difference is scale (granted it's a huge difference and I think much more difficult to pull of right). Dwarf Fortress does it on a much grander level that allows for more variation and more genuinely unexpected emergent behavior.

The creators of Dwarf Fortress write small stories that add flavor to the world and then they add systems to make those stories possible. It requires much more human effort to develop than just piecing together systems and hoping that the interactions are interesting, which is what I think donavanm meant by being less scaleable.
Does becoming a manager usually mean more recruiting/interviews also? Any tips about how to recruit, internally or externally? How to add to or complement the current team?
The experts/critics seem to be questioning that motivation. They're implying that profit-motive (regardless of any other motive) is inherently bad.
Like pay rises, funding more roles to allow more career progression or gasp retuning it to the share holders?
To further your suggestion, start referring to "identity theft" as fraud. Banks/loan makers don't just libel you, they further the initial crime and commit fraud every time they transfer/sell/bundle the fraudulent debt.
The idea is that big companies have money to spare and small companies don't. Therefore big companies should be paying for the benefits they are receiving to support the tools they rely on.

I'm not convinced personally, but I think that's the idea.
Read this outstanding article by John Hockenberry to understand how the dynamic works:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/409217/you-dont-understan...
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I have to disagree with you here, even from a social media perspective. Namely, with apps that leverage hardware at a high rate such as the camera features of Snapchat and Instagram.

I agree that reddit might not need an app in the same way, but I'm sure there are ways they could improve their user experience by further leveraging mobile hardware in ways that don't relate to tracking.
You're talking about rewrites. I'm talking about cleaning up messes left by lazy people long ago, so long ago that most of the juniors are scared to clean it up despite it being impossible to understand without a days reading.

You can say it disrupts others understanding of shitty old code, frankly I don't care. Code is not immutable and maintaining status quo helps nobody except the old guard stay relevant.
Richard is one of the most down-to-earth tech-celebrities out there. He is easy to talk to on Twitter, or email, or snail mail. He is, IMHO, among the most important historical figures in the game industry.
As long as they keep on upgrading the hardware for free until they can provide full-self driving to the owners that chose the option it shouldn't matter?
>High performing participants in the stock market gain more influence in it. This is an optimising feedback loop for the economy and is less fair (but more effective) than simply giving everyone an equal say in the matter.

It gets worse. They not only get more influence in the stock market, but their access to wealth gives them outsized influence in stuff that has nothing to do with the stock market and where the logic of finance capitalism can actually be destructive to the central mission of the activity.

This happens in government, the arts, the academy, sport, charity, etc. The dominance of business-people in the business sphere allows them to dominate all other spheres despite being manifestly unqualified due to the fact that politics, education, art, etc. operate on different value systems than businesses do.
I'm quick to call people ignorant who demonstrate their ignorance. It's not even an insult - I'm ignorant about lots of things. There's nothing wrong with being ignorant about something if it's not important or relevant to you. However, if you want to get involved in technical discussions about a topic that is of importance or relevance to you then I believe it is your responsibility to take advantage of the resources available to you to learn about that topic so you're not ignorant any more. In my experience the C++ community is quite helpful and generous about helping people who want to learn but you're going to have to do a certain amount of the work yourself.

I'm not part of the standards committee nor do I represent the C++ community as a whole. I personally am not particularly interested in trying to educate people who don't want to be educated. That doesn't say anything about whether I or anyone else in the C++ community is interested in the opinions of regular C++ programmers.
In many cases, technology is no different than those people who run conferences for "real estate advice" - the advice is incredibly simple and straightforward, but I don't get to charge you $2000 a ticket if I can explain it to you in the elevator.

Every time I try to learn machine learning, I run in to this problem. Nobody actually tells you how it works (because it's actually pretty straightforward), they want you to attend their course, or purchase their book.
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If it isn't, then I would hope Tesla makes it right somehow (providing HW4 for free or something similar) or they'll open themselves up to be liable for false advertising.
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This is more of a sidenote, but after having way, way more experience in healthcare system over the past few years, I thought I would share my experience.

The Affordable Care act made some big changes in health insurance. Unfortunately, making it "affordable" was not one of the things.

But, if you do have money, you have the option now to have absolutely great health care.

For about $1300 a month, you can cover a family of 3 in california. That amount is less if you qualify for subsidies. And that is not a budget option. This is a premium silver PPO from a large provider. All your normal medical needs are covered with copays. $40 for doctor visits. $80 for specialists and $350 for an E.R. visit. Your max out of pocket is $7500 per person or $15k total. So $30,600 a year is your absolute worst case maximum that you would have to pay if everyone in the family had serious medical issues in one year.

Now, I agree, that's expensive. But we are on a plan like this and it is very good coverage (and it's likely not much more than companies pay for their employee plans). While sometimes navigating everything has been a beurocratic nightmare, it has never denied us coverage and almost every doctor we have come across is in network. It also pays about $600 a month (after $80 in copays) for our regular, ongoing prescriptions.

It also covered the $600 a month eyedrop Rx I needed for about a year for dry eyes.

The quality of care is top notch and we have never had to choose anything less than the absolute best when it comes to treatment.

Anyway, my point is, American quality of care is some of the best in the world. If not the best... If you have money.
I don't agree with the parent's solution. IMO one of the things that open source software has done right is that it mostly doesn't distinguish what you can use the software for.

However, I understand the point being made. It's essentially a tragedy of the commons argument. Because the companies that get the most value from open source are also often the ones with the greatest resources to give back to open source projects if they chose to, they have a moral obligation to do so. There's also a sentiment one often hears along the lines of: I'm fine with people using my work for free but I don't want them making money off it. (This is essentially the basis for Creative Commons' non-commercial variant).

So it's not so much that large companies are actively hurting the projects--though you could argue that hosted offerings compete with the projects themselves. But that they often don't help in anything like the proportion that they benefit.
I'm not sure I agree with this. The yacht could get very little use, but so could a house that you build for someone. If the argument is that we should only build public goods that will be widely used like parks, I disagree, because the concept of private property is very entrenched in our society, even in socialist countries.

I also disagree that the Warren Buffet statue would have a negative effect on the wealth of the average citizen. Warren Buffet would be taking capital that is locked up inside assets and spending it to build something, directly contributing significant income to the middle class (laborers) in the economy. This would have a positive beneficial effect on the economy in general.

Imagine a wealthy billionaire with all of his assets locked up in gold bars in a swiss vault. Outside of a few hired guards that protect the gold, nobody benefits. If he liquidated that gold and used the proceeds to build statues, quite a lot of people would benefit from the income generated.
This is effectively "it." But I do like to branch off the more useful refactors into their own commits.