skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All these were passed when public support was hovering at 25% - and shortly after they were passed, public opinion quickly shifted in an S-curve.

You're mistaking correlation for causation.

Things first pass when they have ~25% popular support because that's when they first get enough votes to pass in a two party system. You get 51% of the party that controls 51% of the legislature, your measure passes.

Then support for it increases because that's what it was doing to begin with, which was how it got to 51% of 51% from whatever smaller amount of support it had before it passed.

If you require a higher bar to change the law, it takes longer. But change inevitably still happens.

Slavery wasn't doomed by voting, it was doomed by economics. Before the industrial revolution, working on a plantation (essentially serfdom) compared favorably with your other alternatives, which typically consisted of starving to death in the wilderness. After the industrial revolution, you could run away to a city and get a job in a factory, which is what everybody started doing and the whole system started to disintegrate.

And it was the same thing for women's suffrage. It came about following economic and social changes that essentially made it inevitable in a modern society. It would have happened anyway. It did happen anyway, despite being passed by constitutional amendment in the US, which has a supermajority requirement for enactment.

By contrast, ill-conceived ideas that aren't inevitable would die when they go out of fashion without ever being implemented.
We need to get to zero (or negative) net carbon emissions. Building brand new infracstructure for gas is counterpruductive to say the least.
Too expensive. The fault lies with legislators and the damage was already done years ago.
I think relying on perfect information from the consumer is a little naive?

It's easy to (say) find the phone with the best camera, but you never know you need freedom until it's too late.
I see a lot of concerns here that the LEDs are software controlled. Judging from the source code of the privacy driver [0], it doesn't look like it.

I'm not too familiar with the kernel interface for LEDs, but as far as I can understand stubs are added to read back the LED status, but not so much setting it.

Phoronix's description of 'manipulating the relevant LEDs' seems to be misleading.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201103125542.8572-1-Perry_Yua...
This is pretty cool. Several restoration groups near where I grew up do birding outings and record their results, but I have no idea if those results are aggregated.
> But I can't bear the idea of actually raising a child. That responsibility

Most people are like this. When you see friends with kids you realize it isn't rocket science.
This didn't backfire for the RIAA, it backfired for GitHub, who are absolutely not the bad guys in this. They have expressed more support for the project than they would have needed to and are bound to laws.
GitHub’s security scopes are the closest that I’ve come to dropping them.

When I create a token, I have to grant access to all repos or none. That’s crazy since I admin some stuff any token I have for work means it’s a risk to everything.

Also, there’s no read-only scope for some admin functions. So to read private repo metadata for simple auditing purposes I have to grant access to edit them as well. That’s crazy.

Same for repo access. The fact that I can’t create a read only token for a repo is annoying.

I think this is a legacy from them not having a nuanced security model and it’s annoying.

The only around this now is to create different user accounts and that’s annoying.
IT is a cost center to them and they want to build/maintain their software as cheaply as possible. Short term it's cheaper to sweep this under the rug than to actually build a culture where security and best practices are important. Long term it doesn't matter because the senior management will have moved on.
Now if we could get Australian politicians to stop taking that coal money...
Banning states from banning municipal broadband would help (by making broadband providers less monopolisitic).
Of course there's happiness benefits to it in social settings, not disputing that. Just saying that, in a vacuum, any amount of alcohol is harmful to the human body. The "1 glass of red wine per day" is BS.
This is what terraform is for (among other things).
What papers have you sent out so far?
Like the awful people of Seattle? Or Nashville? Or Miami?
Exactly. I guess "re-boot" was the wrong choice of word. I meant to create a new country on new territory, but with sufficiently like-minded people.

EDIT> I mentioned anti-discrimination rules because even if you wanted to create a new polity, you can't actually legally deny membership even to people who would be hostile to that polity. Unless you start a religion ... weird.
> "The PCB shape had to be defined early on so that the industrial designers could get on with the housing design, and I then stared endlessly at the PCB layout, trying to get one of the USB ports to route to the right side without wrecking the signal integrity of the memory or the HDMI; I could not find a way to do this. "

I'm not an electronics designer, but why would some kind of a symmetry of the PCB not work?
That’s what I do. So that is similar to me just scripting out admin actions myself. Not the end of the world, but hopefully will get better in time.
Would this kind of attitude by an organisation incentivise malicious/nefarious activities? Is it because if actual funds are stolen they'd be covered by insurance and could leverage law enforcement, but open security research may just cause extra internal costs?
You're absolutely right, not sure why you're being downvoted. As I said, I get that the cost is a function of GDP, so the cheapness is kinda expected. Though I'm doubtful that the driving force behind broadband costs is labour, so I'm not sure why the costs are a function of GDP. Even with the ability to string cable everywhere at will.

But I still expect that the tech would work better in a developed country.

Maybe all those NIMBYs objecting to mobile towers near schools are the problem.
> majority of gay men never have a long term partner

I always thought that was a stereotype?
Repealing laws is much harder than passing new ones (both politically and procedurally). Depending on the law and location, you often need more votes to repeal than to pass.
If only we had some form of decentralized source code management.
> For example, using Http/JSON/Database libraries have always been a lot harder than they need to be due to a die hard approach to pure FP.

Hu? There are plenty of alternatives to the pure FP ecosystem.

HTTP: Dispatch, Requests-Scala, literally any Java client if that's still too FP for you

JSON: uPickle, Play JSON, or simply Jackson

DB: ScalikeJDBC. Quill and Slick do a lot more but are not particularly die-hard FP either.
This already occurred back when renewables were nothing more than the fantasies of tree-hugging hippies like my mum.

Before I left the UK, the flat I lived in had two electricity rates, with the night rate being significantly cheaper then the day rate [0]. This meant the water heater and the (electric) storage heaters [1] were powered at night, when schools and offices used no power.

[0] I’m not certain, but I think it was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_7

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater
In a dictée, you listen to a longer passage, and the challenge is to transcribe what the person wrote.

They're also used for grammar practice. In that case, the challenge is that there might be many written forms of the sentence that would be pronounced the same as what was said, but only one is grammatically correct.
Logistically and operationally speaking, it'd be incredibly difficult to gate it to a single state. People move in/out of state, people split time living between multiple states, students may temporarily move states for the school year, cars are frequently purchased in one state and shipped to another, used vehicles auctions redistribute cars all over the place, people pass in/out/through the state while traveling. All of which ultimately has to be taken into account for the entire lifespan of the vehicle.

Even ignoring the cost and complexity of the logistics, the manufacturers will open themselves up to an expensive and drawn out stream of lawsuits litigating every conceivable edge case (such as the above examples). All with little minimal upside for themselves, since right-to-repair primarily harms dealerships and minimally harms manufacturers (since most if not all states make it illegal for auto manufacturers to own dealerships).

Plus all of the above leads to higher costs the manufacturers have to bear, which will ultimately get pushed down to dealers/consumers. And isn't limited to just Massachusetts, due to the ripple effect of increasing overall complexity in their manufacturing/distribution/sales processes. Which could decrease sales volume across the entire market if everyone went this route, or result in loss of market share if other manufacturers do implement it nationwide and you can't maintain competitive pricing.

At the end of the day, it'll end up going nationwide, because there's no real reason not to. And every reason to go nationwide. Auto manufacturers would love to be able to have direct-to-consumer sales, and starving the primary profit stream of dealerships makes that easier to happen. It's drastically cheaper - every car rolls off the production lane exactly the same, there's no enforcement mechanism to maintain, and no potentially costly class action lawsuits to worry about.
All while having a perfectly valid rationale to show they aren't deliberately harming the independent dealership model, and are simply complying with their legal requirements as efficiently as feasible.
It's a step, though. Methane is inherently unstable and won't stick around in the atmosphere forever once we stop emitting it. CO2 gets absorbed into the ocean very slowly and with acidification as a consequence.
The end result should be largely the same regardless of whether the externality compensation takes the form of an import tariff or user-facing retail tax. Either way customer prices rise and manufacturer/importer/seller margins drop. Tariffs are a blunt tool, but so are most consumer-end taxes as well. But coming up with the sort of Pigovian precision instrument, that attempts to fairly reflect the actual lifecycle externalities of a good or a service, is probably going to be almost impossible for several reasons.
It looks like `micmute_led_set` does exactly this.
OP confirmed that his (allegedly human) contacts at Chase were aware of the closure, and chose not to comment.

I would generally also suggest incompetence above malice, but above fact makes that very hard.
Wow and it only needs a 7/8 super-duper majority to overturn.
And since Microsoft is a RIAA member...
Modern trash burning plants capture emissions and turn them I to solids which get buried.
In the short-term, no. In the long-term - should companies like Microsoft get sick of their crap, all of the RIAAs power is based in regulatory capture. We can (and should) change the copyright laws that enable them to sue someone over a creative work that quite frankly they shouldn't get a single piece of after an extremely short period of time. The RIAA is big, Microsoft is much, much bigger and could tie them up in courts and outspend them in lobbying without missing a beat.

You helped make an album? Great - here's your flat fee, royalties go to the artist and the artist only. The problem would fix itself overnight.
Tokamaks are good for science and understanding the physics of plasmas, but seem to be particularly unfriendly to utilising the energy produced by fusion. The materials in the reactor become radioactive and need replacing frequently, diverting the heat out is tricky, but not impossible, as it is essentially a sealed ring.

I certainly agree that fusion would be the biggest thing to happen to civilization. It would help us to clean this planet, and get to others.
Because our energy consumption is ultimately tied to the exponential growth of the economy. Even if everything around us would become 10x more efficient - which already would require many scientific breakthroughs - that's just multiplying the exponential growth curve by a constant factor of 0.1. A little bit of relief, but it fundamentally doesn't change anything.

And that's ignoring the reality that if you make something 10x efficient, it tends to become used more - sometimes much more, cancelling the gains. Our economy is self-regulating; altering one factor only makes all others readjust to compensate. Permanent change will require more complex approach.

Energy efficiency is definitely a very important part of dealing with climate change, but it isn't a silver bullet.
It's hard to imagine anyone would keep working for that $400,001th dollar if they only got to keep 16 cents of it. Surgeons, for instance, can literally stop taking patients and go to Aruba when they get near the bend. High-dual income households is another example-- imagine a double-physician household where one of them is taxed at 84%-- they'd save money by one of them not working at all considering daycare expenses.

Actual taxes on the 1% in the 50s weren't really that much higher, despite the marginal rates--
https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/
I also want to know this.

Here's what I made up in my head:

Corporate managers and lawyers in particular have to constantly monitor for and defend against legal attacks, both legitimate and illegitimate. They have to stay on their toes about tricks and traps built into contracts and business deals and that sort of thing.

When a nerd comes to them to report a true fact about reality that will help them to know, we (the nerds) expect them to be grateful and cooperative.

But in fact they are trying to figure out what the angle is, or if not, what the angle could possibly be. One nerd's helpful security disclosure is a corporate lawyer's extortion attempt: "Nice corporation you got there. Too bad about this critical security vulnerability that may or may not constitute fiduciary negligence, but would definitely harm customer trust in your financial institution. Maybe we can help each other out, friendly like..."

So when someone comes at you like that, what do you do? If you're a hardass corporate lawyer you posse up, lock down, stonewall, shut off any practical ability for the person to have any further interaction with you, use all legal means at your disposal to get them to shut up about the issue now and forever. After all, this person just proved they have the ability and probably the willingness to discover vulnerabilities and extort you with them. Maybe. Why risk it?

That's the story I made up about it. I think it's a combination of incentives in the legal landscape and a huge culture clash.
> Uber a state granted monopoly?

Well, they were able to setup a "Taxi Service" that undercut all existing Taxi's everywhere in the US. They were able to do this without concern about any of the regulations that Taxi services have to follow. Government regulation and existing Taxi providers were too slow to respond and were out-classed by the aggressiveness of Uber.

It's not accurate to say "state granted". Maybe it's more accurate to say "state granted by virtue of incompetence by the state"?
Um, this is already happening, in a big way.

Cars are more fuel efficient than ever. I own an SUV and average 30.1 MPG. Imagine that in 2000.
Light bulbs are overwhelmingly LED these days.
New homes are much more insulating than ever.
Smart homes are less wasteful.
This includes heroin, does anyone know if it also covers psilocybin?

Edit:

It reduces misdemeanor drug possession to a non-criminal violation on par with a traffic offense. People with small amounts of drugs including heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, LSD, psilocybin, methadone and oxycodone will get a ticket and face a $100 fine or have the option of being screened for a substance abuse disorder.

Makes it sound like they'll send people to rehab for psychedelics, which is pretty funny.
The CCP has absolutely zero problem suppressing its own citizens if they threaten the government’s power, I seriously doubt they care any more about the rest of the world.
This sounds like the closure was due to Anti Money Laundering. I suspect this sort of activity triggers the banks AML procedures and it's standard operating procedure (sometimes mandated by law) that you can't disclose if an account was closed due to AML breaches. Obviously agree that you weren't money laundering but that's what this closure sounds like.
Exactly. The big blocker to a full-scale rollout of renewables is storage and it has been this way for years. We're still facing the problem of the duck curve, which has been known for years: wind and solar peak at the wrong times because peak load is actually in the evening.
> What they wanted was the checkout process to be fast enough that your cart doesn't stop as you are leaving the store (unless you stop to bag your items after you paid for them).

That could be solved by giving the customers handheld barcode scanners.
Yes. And for the love of god do the same for noise, as well.
It doesn’t matter if supply sinks up 1:1 because demand doesn’t. If solar always produced the same energy evenly form exactly 10AM to 6PM EST for some parts of the day you could have an over supply of solar and at other parts of the day you would have an under supply. The same is true on the weekend vs weekday. Even seasonal power demand is less in spring and fall than summer and winter due to heating and cooling.

Though when selecting individual locations for wind, different locations favor different time of the day. And of course solar output varies significantly east/west and based on local weather conditions. That all gets modeled ahead of time and in practice get reflected in market rates.
> The point is that this often isn't someone's primary job. They take a job at Walmart or driving a school bus, it doesn't pay very well, so they get off work and pick up some rides to supplement their income before going home.

> They don't need health insurance because they got it through their first job or their spouse, and imposing that cost on the second job only requires them to get paid less or have less flexibility etc. as the trade off the company has to make to justify paying the additional cost of mandatory benefits.

Interesting to follow your thinking and your strategies, thanks for open sourcing it. From a European perspective all this sounds absurd though. Having medicare for all and a social safety net is standard in all European countries and other Global North countries.
Which will, in turn, result in a higher likelihood of similar bugs in the future.
>When you see friends with kids you realize it isn't rocket science.

It isn't hard to do, it's exceedingly hard to do consistently and well.

That being said, all of the headaches are outweighed by watching a hot weirdo develop out of the tiny baby you made. It is amazingly funny to watch children figure out the world.
about 5 years ago I took my infant son for a morning stroll and found an SSD drive laying in the grass next to a busy street (jamaicaway in JP). I picked it up and later looked to see what was on it because I wanted to know why someone would throw out a perfectly good SSD (they were still expensive back then).

Long story short, I found a bunch of mdb files with personal information about people's ambulance rides. I reached out to EMS and they were very nice and took the drive back with them.
A few weeks later I got a scary lawyer email asking me to submit all my computers for a search because I hacked their security to get the data.

It eventually turned out OK, but the moral of the story is that I will never again do the right thing if I happen to discover a problem that makes a large entity look bad.
>> We simulate the election 40,000 times to see who wins most often.

>And that's some bullshit.

I assumed this was a reference to Monte Carlo simulations. What am I missing here?
Looks at thinkpad X1, has this already, shrugs.
I think banks have much bigger concerns when it comes to regulators.
IMO the government (the people) should own the transmission & delivery infrastructure - water, sewer, gas, electric, fiber - and companies provide the service within constraints.
> I can see no reason to use micro HDMI in this version - there's a lot of spare space, why not put full-size HDMI ports?

So to be clear: you are rejecting the board designer's assessment that this was not possible without sacrificing something else?
I'm confused. It says:

>The Monkey, is a proprietary tool that infects random machines in the target environment and propagates to them.

Is the Monkey different thing than Infection Monkey or is it actually not open source? Or is the term "proprietary" used only as buzzword?
I typically print only a few times per year, so I use the printer at the public library, which is a short walk from my home. They even have an online service for submitting print jobs.
According to the companies lobbying its what the drivers want. No one has established it actually is, and in fact some drivers have quit and spoken out about the apps constantly nagging with propaganda. Also as a rider who’s gotten drunk drivers, idiots going reverse on highway when the exit was missed, or pulling up in beater cars where the engine stalls out, I’ll just say there’s a reason taxis were more expensive and not all riders wanted this outcome. In fact, drivers will be paid below minimum wage since the laws are crafted to only apply minimum wages while they have a passenger in the car
Another "user" is the taxpayer - who ultimately ends up paying for the social security, healthcare, and other unmet needs (lack of paid sick leave, lack of paid maternity/paternity leave etc.) of these contractors. So in a way, by exempting Uber from these rules, but not others, society is handing out a subsidy for both the passengers and drivers.
> The rot set in with printers when the technology got good enough for there not to be any easy improvements and the mindset changed from building a tool to help people create, to seeing customers as a resource to be exploited.

Sounds exactly like my experience with a low/mid-tier HP laptop a few years ago. Full of bloatwear, constantly overheating, gave up after a couple of years of light use.
That looks more like coupling the state with the UI. You could try refactoring your code in an MVC/MVVM style like react such that the state isn't being modified during a UI draw. That sort of out-of-sync issue can happen even with retained mode UIs. I wouldn't say it's fundamental to the paradigm that you intersperse your business logic into your UI. Granted at large scales basically any UI framework falls apart.
> It's so obvious I wonder why it isn't talked about more

I think this is because energy consumption is directly related to our ability to manufacture things, and the ability to manufacture things is directly connected to both wealth and military power.

(I’m half-remembering someone else’s explanation, so I assume this is an oversimplification).
Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network (2018)