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I think it's less defensible that people want free money than it is than corporations want free money. Because fundamentally lots of people don't want to live off handouts.

It's kinda telling that economics treats trained workers as something that springs into existence unbidden. While raising children is mere 'leisure' and government funded education is dead weight loss.
Again, you're talking past the point.

Signature cross-checking just checks the signature with the voter registration. It doesn't tell you if the registration is fraudulent. Don't you recall the articles about thousands of people being allowed to register in California that shouldn't have?

>and according to the Dept of Justice, only 13 cases occurred between 2000 and 2010

Again, how would they know? You appear to think voter fraud is only a mismatch signature on the ballot and signature in voter registration.
I love that book. It is for me the best book which shows the spirit of what "hackers" really are and stand for.
Nothing is stopping a more technologically capable civilization from directly measuring our pain. You’re describing a purely technical limitation.

We have plenty of ways of directly measuring people‘s brains and CPU’s energy use etc. The issue is speed and resolution which is hardly a philosophical limitation.
This last summer I read through the two Chernow bios for Washington and Hamilton. I came away from them with a renewed respect for their leadership through a difficult war and the daunting challenge of errecting a new government built on a system of checks and balances that protects individual rights. I'd say they were pretty darn successful.

We are lucky that they were able to pull it off. It really could have fallen apart. But it didn't. And for that they deserve an enormous amount of veneration.
It's profitable for certain strata of economic classes and is destructive for most of the rest. But "in the aggregate the pie gets bigger", so Macroecon 101 is conserved. Yay.
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Many, many people live out of the range of public transport. Not everyone can drive, private taxis _are_ an essential service.
> I have seen some time up precisely their pregnancies to maximize time off work, but still getting paid 100%.

I don't get it. This is exactly the kind of thing companies do to optimize their own profits. So what's good for the goose is good for the gander, no? Unless you're saying that the kind of ethical framing laissez-faire capitalism encourages is bad for society.
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>You are arguing in bad faith and I have no interest in entertaining it any further.

Ironic, because this entire comment chain was started by you with a loaded question that was asked in bad faith. I guess it's fine when you do it, but not others, eh? Is this the same mentality you're holding in regards to sourcehut? "It's fine that I'm building something that may be used nefariously, but when Google employees do that, they're bootlickers"?

The fact that you still dodged the question is duly noted, btw.

I'll remind you that this "line of questioning" wasn't intended to bash SourceHut or you in any way, but rather to try to get you to empathize with the fact that "quit your job and stop working on things you enjoy just because someone on the internet disagrees with your company" is hardly a winning stance to take.
Honestly, maybe we do not have to move all the industries but they make sense at least in the current dimension.

For example, I found out that my country, Portugal has the highest number of houses per inhabitant (6 million houses for 10 million inhabitants). It's natural that now that large-scale tourism has collapsed it's not possible to make more houses.

We must therefore not only question whether we can change the means of production to a smaller scale, but whether these means of production make sense.

The problem is the creation of work but then we could think of other forms of wealth distribution such as universal basic income.
That would be ChromeOS tablets. Full linux terminal in container and all. Hasn't really made any difference.
> I don't think many deserve being painted as a victim of this situation.

Especially the least educated individual users are largely victims of this situation. Any who could possibly educate themselves further are proportionally less victimized and more complicit/approving.

Open standards are the answer, and the more individual demand we can create for these products and services, the better served we will find ourselves.
> ation from the I have a ton of money, can work fr

is uber cheaper than cabs/public transpo w/o the VC subsidy? 15 years ago there was no uber and people were able to get by using public transpo.
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That is only the revenue, which is mostly meaningless because most of the revenue is disbursed to content creators. We also don’t know how much the whole system costs to run.
Which is fascinating because the TPP that got bi-partisaned slamming in 2016 was an anti-China trade agreement for the APAC region.

When the TPP fell through, China moved in with it's own version lock down the region called RCEP.
>Why is this being posted now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23220544
I argue that the government has essentially zero accountability, while the private sector has a huge degree.

Our bandwidth for holding government accountable is so limited as to be useless. Consider the federal gov't, since I think it's what you're mostly talking about anyway. We get to vote for

* 1x Presidential primary every 4 years, from a field of, let's say, 8 to be generous: 3 bits

* 1x President every 4 years, from a field of 4 at best: 2 bits

* 2x Senator primary every 6 years. Let's again say a field of 8: 3 bits

* 2x Senator every 6 years. Let's again say a field of 4: 2 bits

* 1x Representative primary every 2 years. Again, very generous field of 8: 3 bits

* 1x Representative every 2 years, field of 4: 2 bits

That gives us 5.4 bits/year of bandwidth to actually hold our elected officials accountable. Yes, we can write letters and stuff, but that doesn't really allow us to hold them accountable. 5.4 bits in a year is nowhere near enough to express our feelings on the myriad of topics that the government is fiddling with, so we have effectively zero control over those things.

Compare that with private sector. Even for entities like Google, we've got huge latitude to vote with our feet. We can use DuckDuckGo, etc. Our choices as consumers provides a comparatively enormous bandwidth.
Please do tell in very specific terms what Google does to enable a tyrannical dictatorship.
I expect people leave a lot of food uneaten at restaurants. The times I completely clear my plate, which should be the norm, I often get the same comment from the waiter, "Wow, you really liked that."
Which states are hitting records? AZ, one of the strongest reopenings as far as i know, has been on a downward trend on every relevant metric for about a month now.
I haven't seen the code, but from what I read, it may well have been better to have done this in an Excel spreadsheet.

Of course we all would have been just as horrified at that.
Time to order my Pinephone.
The problem I see here is that Youtube is not deleting other content that's obviously politically insulting. "Feminazi libtard cuck" is a 0 on PG's disagreement hierarchy, but such comments aren't hard to come by on Youtube videos related to social issues in the US.

If Youtube wanted to have a broader policy of deleting, or better, optionally hiding incivility, I'd have no objection to "共匪" being part of the training data for that filter. This seems much more targeted than that, and I don't think it's unreasonable for people to guess that the reasoning has something to do with pleasing Chinese officials.
Other than for commercial tool vendors like JetBrains, development tool improvements are rarely business critical in that way.

Go in particular is known for stability. In the short term, descoping or delaying Go releases is unlikely to matter to any business goal. Language and SDK improvements are for improving the ecosystem in the long term.
Single income households were only ever a norm for the upper classes, whether aristocracy or haute bourgeoisie. Almost as soon as that changed society did. Mass leisure society with many single income households were a post WWII US thing. The richest country in the history of the world sustained that from maybe 1945 to 1970, by which time feminism was in full swing. Capable women got bored and wanted meaningful non family work.
> The owner insisted the driver take the pizza in a heated bag so the customer didn’t get cold pizza, but leave an ID so the driver would be compelled to return the bag.

>Doordash was causing him real problems. The most common was, Doordash delivery drivers didn't have the proper bags for pizza so it inevitably would arrive cold

What this means is that the restaurants really care about their customers. The delivery really really don't care.

I spoke with a few restaurant owners in NYC and they all universally hate the delivery companies. The restaurants are charged anywhere between 30% - 40% which is a ridiculous amount.

There's another company in India called Swiggy. I used to travel to India and would frequent a few bars in Bangalore and Hyderabad. All of them absolutely hated them for the same reason.
Good luck brother. Keep your head up.
The Chinese government literally arrested doctors and ordered them to recant their statements saying there was an outbreak of a SARS like disease.
“This question is locked and replying has been disabled.”
It’s always been true, but the answer to the question “for whom?” has changed a few times, like in the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
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>have a car mental model.

I suspect buying a reasonable used compact car is much more financially prudent than using Uber as you means of transportation. Maybe the calculus flips in a dense city like NYC but there's no way people who commute every day with Uber are doing so for cheaper than actually owning a car.
Is it actually a FM transmitter, or is it FSK? Or something like AFSK?
>I hate that macOS is starting to go the iOS route of only letting me run applications that are Apple certified. No, I do not want to open system preferences every time I want to launch something. I am a power user.

Yeah, such a power user that you can't use any one of the easy, documented ways to deal with that? You're not exactly helping your case here.

>Put it behind some shell command or something... but have it easily documented and marketed towards people like me.

sudo spctl --master-disable

Man page for spctl is all there. Or how about quarantine? That's just controlled by an extended attribute (com.apple.quarantine) and you can remove it (interactively or via script including recursively down a directory tree) with xattr. Want to totally disable SIP too? That's also documented and there, boot to recovery, pull up the terminal and

csrutil disable

With SIP off you can also then modify what it applies to in a more fine grained way if you want.

Yeah, Apple has put up more guardrails in macOS. But contrary to your assertion, enhanced security is plenty useful for "power users" too. Being a power user doesn't mean that it's nice to have some bad software clobber your install or a zero-day nail you. Some of the new security features could definitely be made much more easily useful for power users sure, up to and including having a GUI on them. It'd be nice if Apple had functionality to easily have your own root signing setup alongside theirs, so that we could take advantage of all the signing mojo as well. And it's reasonable long term to be concerned about a day when Macs also have hardware trust chains and what happens then.

But for the time being macOS remains 100% modifiable for an actual genuine power user. The new stuff can be turned off, and more easily arguably then back when you needed to recompile your own kernel to mess with kern.securelevel and the like. Somehow someone in the company continues to open source a certain amount of macOS same as the old days, see https://opensource.apple.com/.
That's one of the funniest things I've read on HN.
Indeed. And they allow third-party payments from within apps. And they have long since supported the most important PWA features (including notifications) in the mobile browser, making the unrestricted web a viable platform for delivering apps.

I sometimes find it difficult understanding all the complaining about Google and all the love for Apple, with regard to doing what's right.
Like half of those billion people aren't even on the internet. According to the same source, Baidu has 65% of the Chinese search market, which seems about right. https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/ch...
Somehow, all the comments assumed that the article meant parental leave. The article said "maternity leave," and showed a stereotypical photo of mother with child. The PR piece was written by Patty, and the study by Amy. Amy's hobbies listed on her Stanford page include -- and I kid you not -- "learning how to cook." She's a member of several girl's-only clubs.

This would have been wonderfully progressive in 1960.

(As with most posters, I'm 100% in support of universal parental leave. However, something about this whole thing feels like a bizarre parody piece.)
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This is something I see employees worry about all the time, but I have never seen a business owner or person with hiring authority consider it. People who get to that position within a company learn to inhabit shades of grey; unless you personally did something illegal, they're not going to hold the company you worked for against you, except to the extent that they may think that people working at that company are incompetent.

I see ex-Facebook and ex-Uber employees popping up all the time at high positions within hot (and sometimes even ethical) growth companies within the valley.
This is a terrible measure.

The World Wide Web was invented only 30 years ago, yet it's arguably the single most essential service during this time. Without it, social distancing while keeping large parts of the economy alive wouldn't have even been an option.

At the rate technology is becoming embedded into our daily lives, I think an arbitrary number of years is definitely not the way to decide whether something is essential. Context matters. What if instead of a pandemic that affects the lungs, the next one affects older people's ability to walk? Not very hard to imagine Uber being considered a 100% essential service at that point.
I teach information technology and computer science courses. In addition to providing sustenance, it supports extracurricular open source development while allowing me the flexibility to choose which open source projects to contribute to and when.
How you scope the entirety of the universe and how you group the people within determines the minority.

Either way, the point that if hate speech is targeting against a "group", then that group can be anything and anyone. There is no specific connection to "minorities", whatever that means to you. It just dilutes the discussion about defining hate speech.
Maybe he should get better at building cars.
Judging from my experience - restaurants are not. We have started cooking more since the beginning of the lockdown being able to cook during the time that would have otherwise been spent on commute. And we have saved a surprisingly large amount of money in the process.
I am not saying that he will solve AGI on his own (he did quit rocket science after all), but you are greatly underestimating the impact he can have in the field. He basically evolved almost on his own two multi-billion dollar markets by doing noticeable technology leaps and finishing things at the right time.
That must count for something. I would bet he cannot solve AGI, but he will surely leave something inspiring behind.
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Some countries have had good results from making it mandatory.
Android apps ship with a file called AndroidManifest.xml that (among other things) tells the operating system the latest version of the API that the app understands, i.e. what the app was compiled and tested against. The operating system tries to maintain backward compatibility with what the app is expecting.

The Termux maintainers have built their app to tell the operating system that Termux is only aware of how the Android 9 API works. So when you run Termux on your Android 10 device, the operating system tries to behave like it's Android 9. So it allows this.

They (Google) do this to ease the transition so that when a new version of Android is released, they don't force all developers everywhere to immediately fix all compatibility issues.

But they do want developers to do it eventually, so at some point in the future, they will probably stop allowing the Termux maintainers to upload an app that declares "I don't understand Android 10 yet".
Just the reality that headsets like Quest are the true future of VR, PCVR is an evolutionary dead end a very small percentage of people who can afford them want a gaming PC tower in their home, PCVR is a fraction of a fraction of percentage.

I own both and demoing my Rift on a high spec system my friends were blown away and the first question was "Can it run on my macbook?" Then thats where the idea of owning VR died for them.

Demoed my Quest and one person bought one within 2 minutes of taking the headset off, took his to a family BBQ and two more people there bought it after trying it for a few minutes.

I still enjoy many PCVR games but this is just reality.
I don't genuinely know if it is the vast majority of people consider having a sexual encounter at all times whenever they interact with another human being.
>We NEED enforcement of the new rules(6ft, masks) because they're not being followed where I'm at.

How should those things be enforced in your opinion?
Yep, being able to voice one's feelings, even if they are negative or erroneous, is crucial to mental health.

It wasn't until Dr. King began exposing/revealing the violent hatred of southern white supremacists to the public consciousness through mass media that things began to change.

"Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."

-Letter From The Birmingham Jail, 1963
They should have followed Tesla and started with different manufacturer's chassis. The Tesla Roadster was just a Lotus Elise with electric drivetrain and stylistic changes to some panels.

Once they had the drivetrain down and some sales they could raise money for the factories or buy a flagging automaker
Deleting spam is universally agreed upon as OK censorship. I think it's viewed as OK because everyone can see that many conversation forums can't even work if they're flooded with spam.

And to head off the "no, deleting spam is clearly distinct from censorship," imagine you write a book, so we're dealing purely with ideas.

Obviously, for anyone to read it, you have to promote it. If you post it in too many places or are too "hypey", you'll quickly get banned as spamming. You got censored, there's no way around it.

So we've always been in the "what censorship is OK" realm.
American Airlines famously killed upstart after upstart that attempted to fly out of Dallas Love Field. They kept a lease on two gates, but left them unused almost all of the time (AA generally flies out of the larger Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport). Whenever any new company tried to start new service out of Love field, American would open those two gates, match routes exactly to the startup, and charge substantially less, clearly incurring a loss for each plane flown. As soon as the new company was driven into bankruptcy, AA would again shutter those gates, leaving them available to crush the next company that tried to start at Love Field. See, e.g., Legend Airlines.
> If the results aren't reproducible, they can't be assumed to be true.

I don't understand why having brittle code would mean that the results are not reproducible? You don't need to modify the program to do a reproducibility study.
We shouldn't all move to Montana after the pandemic
As a researcher, if I want to find a software engineer willing to review my code for free (I have no budget for this), how should I find one?

The article says

> We can’t ask software experts for a code review every time we do something important.

but I think there are people who'd be willing to give at least 15 minutes of their time to review scientific software once.
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You don't own the airspace above you. If someone wants to fly over your house or business, they can generally do that--airplanes fly over your private property all the time.

Granted this bozo might be violating FAA guidelines by flying too low or out of sight.
> 1) There's an argument that deleting the comment disallows the expression in the first place.

That argument doesn't hold water. If someone pins a message to my corkboard, I'm disallowing the expression if I express my disapproval by removing it?

> 2) Sure, private companies can do what they want. My point is that they just use the first amendment, because the current nebulous definitions aren't really working.

The First Amendment only works because non-governmental actors in society are allowed to decide what to publish, what to pass on, and what to throw away according to their own standards. It's not some blanket "everyone allow all" rule.

Most pamphlets are judged to be garbage and go into the trash, much to the consternation of their authors.
Nice to see Promise.race() in there. I've used it to emulate timeout logic on I/O functionality. Useful when your JS is operating in an environment where there's a timeout constraint you can't control and you want your JS to gracefully handle timing out instead of the script just being killed.

Example use case is a background job running in JS via React Native. iOS limits these jobs to 30 seconds then kills the script. Promise.race() is one way to regain control of the thread and begin teardown prior to iOS killing the script, if for example the other promise is hanging past 30 seconds. Keep in mind this is not a true timeout, the other promise will continue to try to resolve until script is terminated.

https://github.com/billmalarky/react-native-queue/blob/5c45b...
To make AGI from scratch, first you have to create the universe.
Yes, by paying taxes you are supporting the government you are paying your taxes too. And yes, this leads to paying for things you disagree with if you do not agree with some of your country's policies.

Hopefully, however, you have a voice (vote) in that government. The same obviously does not apply to you with China, nor generally does it apply to Chinese people within China.

You also generally have less choice when it comes to paying taxes, and significantly more choice when it comes to not buying things from China. If there are no non-Chinese alternative for X item, you can always choose to not buy X. However, that probably means not buying quite a few things, as you point out. But that was GC's point – it is fairly hard as a techie to not support the CCP. But just because something is hard to avoid does not mean you aren't doing it or aren't responsible for doing it.
I built 5 workstations with these CPUs and RTX 2060 Super GPUs last Friday. Love the price/performance and power usage. Would have went with the GTX 1650 Super but wanted the raytracing and tensor cores (we use both).