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> Why even bring in the "systemic oppression" part?

Because systematic oppression is more of a systemic problem. Individual problems are easier to solve than systemic problems, i.e, you don’t need a code of conduct to solve a problem with one or two people in your association. If you make one disparaging comment to someone, we can hope that they take that one comment in stride and move on. If you make a disparaging comment that reinforces systemic oppression, it’s no longer a single comment, but it’s part of a larger problem. The way these comments harm the group is that e.g. in response to low-level misogynistic comments, women silently leave the group. You might not even notice this happening until it is too late.

One of the core freedoms which is protected by the first amendment is the freedom of association, and a key part of that is the freedom not to associate with people you don’t like. If you don’t make an explicit choice about who you want in your association, the choice will be made for you by the most toxic members. So you are basically given a choice between an open code of conduct which people can discuss or comment on, or a secret/hidden network of people who make the decisions without any clear way to understand why they make these decisions or how to appeal them.

That’s just my take on it.
This comment is "historically accurate" but misleading. Even though the comment they are replying to tried to clarify the situation this commenter continues to push for their agenda without heeding the facts stated.

Political Parties are not set in stone, their goals and morals can change just as easily as your own personal affiliation can change.
Following Thomas Nagel, I understand 'x is conscious' to mean roughly 'there is something that it is like to be x'. In this sense, a system can be intelligent without being conscious. Consciousness, intelligence, and self-awareness might all be orthogonal. We currently know vastly more about how to build an intelligent machine (extremely low as the level of intelligence may be) than about how to build a conscious machine (we know nothing at all about that).

Imagine waking up from deep sleep. In the first few seconds, there is virtually no intelligence present other than basic autonomous body survival intelligence, which is also present during deep sleep. So what has changed? What is the difference between being in deep sleep and being in the state of unintelligent awareness a second after waking from deep sleep? There is not something that it is like to be in deep sleep. There is something that it is like to be just awakened from deep sleep.

There is a lot of confusion in most conversations between consciousness, intelligence, and self-awareness. The three are different concepts and the relationships between them are poorly understod.

I can imagine a human-level intelligence that lacks consciousness (this is sort of what is meant by the term 'p-zombie'). I can imagine a being that almost or completely lacks intelligence (in the sense of problem-solving ability, pattern recognition, etc.), yet is conscious.

Humanity currently has a lot of knowledge about how various material phenomena (drugs, being hit in the head with a brick, etc.) affect consciousness, but as far as I know humanity currently has zero knowledge about the mechanisms by which material phenomena affect consciousness. Consciousness in its essence is not understood at all and may be fundamentally beyond the reach of science.

There is no reason to assume that it is in principle possible to objectively evaluate whether some entity is conscious.
Regulations in California are generally tiresome but it's ridiculous to claim that regulation could be responsible for things like startup stock offerings making local rents double over the course of a few years. Those buildings are already constructed and if you live in them you can observe that no major remodelings or other updates happen during the time period where rents are skyrocketing. The rent boosts when startups and startup employees come to a new neighborhood are a consistent pattern and it kicks out local residents as landlords find ways to evict them to raise prices.

Meanwhile new construction is way more expensive than the existing boosted rent. You can claim regulation is responsible for part of that, but why wouldn't the vendor charge less than the nearby boosted rents to compete? Did regulations somehow literally eat $1500/mo worth of margin? It defies plausibility.

When I moved to the SF south bay area about 10 years ago, my rent was $700/mo. The equivalent is now upwards of $2000. It's hard to imagine policies that could possibly make it go up that high. Imagine if we had rent control...
They’re locked in because they do license agreements for office, not because they can’t use anything else on windows. Plenty of companies use g-suite on windows.

I was also talking more about home and personal use in general, rather than businesses.
Which one? The S, X and 3 have very different interiors.

I had an S for a week recently and it has physical controls for most everything. It felt like driving a normal car, I hated it.

I don't really see a need. The Model 3 automatically locks when put in drive and unlocks when in park. You can disable the unlock on park option. Child locks are controlled via setting and not switches in the door panel that kids can easily play with.

Apart from a scenario where you are in danger and need to quickly get in the car and lock your door, why do you need a dedicated button?
Big bands were essentially killed [0] by cheaper multitrack recording, synthesizers and samplers in the 80s, when there were no such things as torrent trackers. Even the wonderful although hugely inefficient Napster was more than a decade away.
Today artists get most money from gigs, while record labels profit the most from printed music sales and royalties.

[0] The correct term should be "relegated to niche performances". If you love big bands you can indeed listen to them somewhere today, the difference being that mostly for economical reasons they're not anymore the default method used for example to make a film score.
Gives me the impression that Tesla made a small innovation which they're trying to overblow to investors since buzzwords like machine learning are more interesting than actual progress. I'm not saying Tesla isn't making massive progress but that anything they say to the press should be taken with a grain of salt.
I wouldn't say so.

Lobbying and legal bribery are far more prevalent in the US than in Europe.
Seems like the regulatory bodies don’t actually function to protect the consumer, but rather to protect the interests of the corporations that lobby. A good example of this is the telecom industry.
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> > While running Emacs over a modem, I got into the habit of regularly typing ^A ^E to pace my cursor back and forth across the current line, to keep connection warm.

> Huh. I got into that habit recently, because over the past year, I've been frequently working on the go, by SSH-ing to my home desktop and using Emacs terminal frame (emacsclient -t)[0]. I do regular "weather checks" with ^A and ^E - because the hardware has its weather, SSH has its weather, and the link I'm on has its own weather too (particularly when using an LTE hotspot, though I've noticed even when being in the same LAN, the response time is not always consistent).

You may find mosh [0] to be useful, as it buffers input client side to remove input lag.

[0]: https://mosh.org/
Does Google?
Of course not. Why shouldn’t the people who live there be able to decide the character of their city? If the cost of living gets too high either people will move to lower cost of living and companies will follow or the opposite will happen. The United States is a big country with lots of land.

Besides, the federal government is the least representative of people in larger cities. Your vote counts s lot more in rural America and in smaller states partially because of the electoral college and partially because Rhode Island has the same number of Senators as California.
Thank you. Listing to people intone about how dumb slippery slopes are makes one wonder if they think the world is 100% stochastic without a trend in sight.
The first article mentions specifically weaker sales for smartphones (as well as US/China tensions) as the culprit. Makes sense that this industry is underperforming no? The (high-end) smart phone market has become saturated, and there is no need to buy smart phones anywhere near as quickly as phone manufacturers want us to, and especially not at flagship phone prices.

Seems more the case of market saturation than signs of a recession.

> However, network communication- and server-related applications are likely to continue seeing growths, Lee added.

Other markets seem to be doing just dandy
> Regulations are known upfront.

Ideally, yes. In practice, no. Capricious zoning and development regulators are on the HN front page at least weekly.
If you truly believe that... then you must change jobs every few years. If not, you’re a hypocrite. So, how long have you been at your current job?
I think the most important issue in modern governance that nobody ever talks about is the tendency for the number of laws and the size of the legal code to monotonically grow towards infinity
You need way more configuration than that, python's http server doesn't handle keepalive and threading correctly (or didn't when I last used it, maybe that's fixed in 3).

I historically had to use IIS or Apache, and at work we used a full Apache install. If you used python your performance was much worse if your application worked at all.

For C# apps you can at least just spin up a HTTPD directly in your app using system APIs, but it's also kind of flaky.
Does it really matter whose fault it is if the effect (entrenched companies collecting economic rents) is the same?
Lobbying is legalized corruption. Corporations are considered people. People have freedom of speech and rights to influence public policy. Only thing we are missing is a death penalty for corporations like that exists for normal people.
"But pressing the button while moving does absolutely nothing - you get a beep telling you that you can't do this right now."

Not quite ...

We owned a 2013 Mercedes E320 4matic (wagon) (US version) and although these did not happen often, you could:

1) Hit park while idling and lurch to a park even though you were driving >0 MPH.

2) If you were creeping along into a difficult parking space and you opened the door at, say, 1-2 MPH to look down at the divider line or something, the car would insta-lock into Park. I assume it is a safety measure or something as the door was, indeed, open, but I really don't want the major driving mode of the car auto-selected for me ... also it's quite a KER-CHUNK to throw it into park at 1 MPH ...
That is a really cool app. I have been using Miniplay for this. Already installed it and uninstalled Miniplay.

Edit: Oh, and it is always on top, you are my favorite open source contributor.
I don't know - do you? Additionally, do you know they never will?

They're not collecting (AFAICT) facial information (though there is a camera in nearly all taxis, so it's possible) but it's hard to believe they aren't collecting route data even if it's just to place stands more efficiently to service commonly requested routes, at some point they might start selling that data... or they might be acquired and their acquirer might either sell off their data - or use their data internally for other purposes.

In the modern world we really have a lot of fuzziness when it comes to how usage data is treated. There are lots of UX people that want to know how people are using sites to make them better - but that same data can be resold for quite creepy purposes.
Only 5% of working adults in the US have more than one job. The average worker between 25-54 works 40.5 hours with an average commute of 26 minutes each way.
I hope they do. That might put pressure on other "platform"s to better police themselves.
Tried to publish with Firefox, got the following error (in console):

TypeError: t.t0.response is undefined
Create.js:139:16

Please fix your site for Firefox; it's sad when people only test with Chrome :(
If there was a systematic push of men to dominate all levels of higher education, then only a minority of men would end at the bottom of society while the wast majority at the bottom would be women.

So it isn't making intuitive sense why the most people at the bottom of society is male if it holds true that men should have the most power and have held the most power over the success pipeline for over a generation.

It also does not make any sense looking at other system of oppression. If we model our theory based on the typical caste system with the oppressed at the bottom and the powerful at top, then men and women as either the oppressed or oppressor does not fit.
"PoC claims to require orders of magnitude less electricity per block than existing PoW solutions"

Ok, but a "block" is not a set amount of value or effort, is it? The way I thought Bitcoin and anything similar works is that the resource requirements are adjusted in a feedback loop. If some other scheme is 10x more "efficient", then whatever the operation is that is required, it will just be done 10x as much.

I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds to me like saying "company A uses much less electricity to generate a share of stock than company B".
Eh, I think there is a difference, and it should be obvious, which is why it should be discernible. There is something to learn from hacking videos. The people tend to put them up "in good faith", a critical component of my argument.

Hate speech, calls for racial violence and other overtly harmful speech with no redeeming value, lesson, or skillset are discernible from videos about skills that could be used for good or bad.

A video about how to shoot accurately under pressure isn't bad. A video about how to take cover and kill as many people as you can in a church when the revolution begins is harmful.

Showing unpatched vulns that have been reported in IoT devices, or teaching about discovering web vulnerabilities, is good. Publishing a specific zero-day with no warning to the vendor in a way that would compromise many peoples' PII or banking data should be banned.
I would hand over all my email and bank statements to get unlimited free travel...
I often look around on the route to see if it's suitable, what I'm going to past, where I might stop, things like that. Just entering the destination and going without looking first is a recipe for being one of those idiots trying to drive down an unsuitable country lane, in my experience.
> I would assume [...] a bad classification wouldn't cause an insane behavior

I want to assume this too, but what evidence is there that we can actually assume this?
for a moment I thought this was some kind of NN for Rails
Amazon should be held responsible, and they can recover damages by suing the third party. This protects the buyer in the case that the seller disappears or cannot afford the settlement.

IMO, amazon would be better off moderating their platform.
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It ends up definitely being a tax on developer efficiency overall. It also makes web development more hostile to newbies because they have to figure out how to configure a server or hop into some third-party toolset on the web to start experimenting. With the tendency to ban use of new features on non-HTTPS origins (hi again, Chrome) a newbie developer will soon have to have both a server and a https cert before they can even start experimenting. If they host on a third-party https domain now third parties are responsible for malware that might get hosted there.

It just sucks.
Its standard ifconfig handles all the equivalent functionality.
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According to your link, the share of retirement plans has increased dramatically over the past century and it looks like around 35% are attributed to foreigners, which is not a shock, as globalization has increased and even many other nations invest retirement funds in U.S. stock market.

Over 54% of Americans own stock.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/211052/stock-ownership-down-amo...
> You're assuming a precision in their post that I wasn't (i.e. that it's actually coming from the PCB, rather than 'the collection of parts called a PC sitting in front of me'... which would include the speakers for most people)

For what it's worth, this _is_ hacker news. I concede not everyone is tech savvy but I tend to respond to comments as if they are.
> Unconditionally returning on errors all the way has exactly the same effect.

No, an uncaught exception crashes the program. I guess you can generically catch all exceptions and get the same affect.

> panic() is just another symptom of the same disease.

Not sure what you mean here

> There is no one true way to handle errors.

Never said there was. I only made a comment that `try` does not fix how people are handling errors.
Exactly, free markets do not exist in a vacuum.

To simply exist, free markets require a ton of government-backed regulations, the most obvious one being the right to private property.

There's this dichotomy between the Good free markets and the Bad big government. They're actually two sides of the same coin : they need each other to exist.

Radical advocates of free markets (and anarchists) always seem to forget the violent nature of humans.
> I wish they'd make simpler cars. With physical knobs that have proper tactile feedback.

They do, they're just entry level, basic everything, fancy nothing. You get from A to B and that's pretty much it. Some may lack even a radio or a/c.
Because for many people the front delts are more developed than their chest and biceps so they are essentially doing a shoulder press.

You can also see it at the gym with people not doing a chest press correctly.
Because lobbying is the right of every free citizen to communicate their wishes to their elected representatives. Get rid of that and we might as well have an unaccountable dictatorship.

The real problem with society is that we try to build static structures (laws) in an attempt to foil dynamic adversaries (humans). This simply does not work.
The goal of an individual corporation is to return value to its shareholders, but blah blah invisible hand blah blah, in aggregate this is supposed to add value to the economy and deliver social benefit.

What we are seeing is this may not always be the case.
Not so positive other things to think about.

Auto loan defaults are near record and are bundled similar t mortgages in 2007.

Student loan debt is at record high with stagnant wages over the last 10 years.

Personal loan and mortgage debt is similar to 2007.

Stock buybacks and allocation of capital away from workers is spiking after the 2017 tax cuts.

Plus, those tax cuts are counter to some schools of thought on raising taxes in a good economic period to pay back the last or save for the next economic downturn. All this with increasing spending and record increases in the deficit. The deficit has become a left wing talking point no as previous deficit hawks have walked or are no longer the opposition party.
Don’t know about that. My wife just created an individual account to sell some things around the house. She had to jump through so many more hoops than I thought.

She needed to upload her passport to prove who she was. She had to have a credit card with her name on it. Plus she needed to prove she had access to the bank account (needed to have it show her name on the account). As well as the usual social security number being used at sign up.

Way more than I thought, but she had some identity theft issues. So that may have impacted or triggered something.
> creating a video called "my sick game livestreaming" whose content is a guy telling you to go somewhere else to watch your sick livestreaming might be seen as this type of spam.

this happens a lot with many twitch streamers who also do youtube. I don't think it's banned under youtube.
In my experience, people jostle to take part in a rotating on-call roster where they are sufficiently compensated, in my case $1700/week, to occasionally answer one or two calls.
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I mean... I’d be fine with that honestly as long as it was stated up front.
He was quite abusive actually, not "abusive".
Amazon does the entire sales process, collects the money, overwhelmingly ships and warehouses the products, tightly controls listings.

I'm not sure there is any case where Amazon should not be liable. You buy something "fulfilled by Amazon" and at no point in the transaction is any sort of third party involved.
"showing how to bypass secure computer systems" reminds me of the DCMA debate, where "circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a [copyrighted] work." is forbidden.

If it was a "secure" computer system, it shouldn't be breakable by anybody after watching a how to youtube video.
"(...)Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

One of the topics mentioned in linked article is "sexual discrimination". How is it suddenly not related?

"The reason we have guidelines like this is that these discussions are totally predictable, and therefore devoid of curiosity. They generate a lot of het-up agitation though, which is destructive to the community."

Saying the truth is destructive to the community? Is this some kind of censorship?
> I’m a quadriplegic and drive a heavily modified van

> I am assuming you mean paraplegic?

This is the most contrary Hacker News I've seen yet.

Do you honestly think it's likely that someone is mistaken about whether they're paraplegic or quadriplegic?
It would be interesting to hear a comparison from someone using https://crystal-lang.org/ at scale. It's basically Ruby + types, which would make it the closest for isolating that one feature. It can't run Rails, but there are very similar web frameworks available.
Now the CEO is getting praised on Twitter but this doesn’t address the main complaint which is the read status itself. Yes, location made it worse, but that data was mostly bunk anyway because Gmail (and probably others) will show the location of the Gmail server and not the user themselves.
With markets, "free" is orthogonal to "competitive". Yet all the political rhetoric is about free or not, regulated or not. What we really need to be talking about is how competitive a market is and whether regulations make it more or less competitive.

Free and uncompetitive: social networks

Free and competitive: breakfast cereal

Unfree and competitive: stock markets

Unfree and uncompetitive: comcast, san francisco landlords, NFL
The language we use tends to shape our views, having that in mind "good lobbyist" is an oxymoron, is like saying "good mass murderer", it's better say "effective lobbyist" or similar wording that can't be confused with a moral judgement.
This is true, but the problem was not nearly as bad before Citizens United (which basically freed corporations up to throw massive amounts of money into politics).

If lobbying was actually limited to citizens or small groups of citizens the negative impact could be reduced. Many other countries aren't impacted by regulatory capture as bad as the US.
Reminded me of patents
You could just look at the logs to see what kind of stuff they download. And since they know it’s automated they will likely download even more stuff. If you see something interesting then maybe you can start a conversation with them at that point.
I use the touch screen for about 30 seconds when I hop in to adjust HVAC, set my route, select a radio station, and that's about it. After backing out of the garage I rarely touch anything but the steering wheel or accelerator.
Only some of the packages are 2nd to none, but as you note some of them like Simulink have large and dedicated userbases. I've heard very mixed results from the VHDL stuff, but some people love it.