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It's not just hard, it's also political.

The amount of nuance can be overwhelming. CPI doesn't account for the ability of consumers to substitute inferior goods, but GDP doesn't account for the sacrifice involved in doing so. CPI focuses on consumers, while GDP focuses on all sectors. CPI includes the price of imports while GDP does not. The list goes on. Making all of these choices and keeping in mind the consequences for doing so is exhausting, but you shouldn't just pick someone who looks like the most credible person in the room and trust them because the very nuance that you were hoping to avoid allows people to torture the numbers to say anything they want, and the most credible person in the room might not want the same thing you do. GP argued that OP was torturing the numbers and I argue that GP is torturing the numbers. Who do you believe?

Here's a test to avoid getting lost in the wilderness of nuance: "What would Elysium look like in this model?"

I am referring of course to the movie where a small number of rich people live in luxury on a space station while Earth and its population have devolved into a gigantic poverty-ridden slum. In this case, CPI might show that a basic basket of food, clean water, shelter, and education have become prohibitively expensive for most humans, while the GDP measure would argue that most members of the slum can't afford clean water or proper shelter so those things shouldn't be included in the index. Instead, people live in tents and drink barely-filtered water, which are both still affordable, so what's the problem? More generally, any figure expressed in terms of dollars (GDP, value creation, etc) runs the risk of placing low weight on what happens in the slums and high weight on what happens on the space station. The average (unstated subtext: dollar-weighted) person can afford luxurious accommodation in all facets of life and sees nothing but perpetual economic improvement, so again, what's the problem?

Which metric is the right one? That depends entirely on the point you want to make, but the "Elysium test" is a very basic honesty check that catches the more egregious errors.
While you say that science creates reality, I say it reflects reality. Ironically, you are constructing your own reality based on the stories you're telling yourself - the things you say below are vague, unsupported, and generally orthogonal to the points that you seem to be most interested in. Science cannot solve the problems that ethics focuses on.

> the scientufic world view is pretty clear on the abortion issue, yet whole voting blocks reject right to choose

What is the scientific consensus about abortion? Do you mean the question of consciousness? That's an important component, but it's not an answer to a challenging ethics question. 55-60% of voters are pro-choice in the US[0], btw.

I don't think voters vote based on the science. This is unfortunate in areas like climate change, but not all that relevant in morality-driven context, like for abortion.

> But we also have atom bombs and given extinction event and multiple potential ways to wipe ourselves out. We are also more ideologically divided than in any period in history.

Is your point here that we have applied science to develop things that are used for good as well as bad? That's uncontroversial, but I'm not sure how that supports your point that modern science tells people what they want to hear to maintain authoritative reality (what the heck is authoritative reality, anyhow?)

> We are also more ideologically divided than in any period in history, I'd argue, and precisely when it is most necessary that we be informed and unified

It might feel this way - it does to me! - but, frankly, I don't think you can accurately measure modern, much less historical, things like "dividedness" or "[it is now] most necessary to be informed and unified".

I'm not going to argue that there aren't big, important, hard problems to solve. But I also think this type of handwringing tone is unsupported by objective evidence.

> So science is a more powerful paradigm for building certain technocultural realities at the expense of others.

Do you mean expense of other realities, like religion? That makes sense -- when one paradigm proves superior to another in describing reality, it is natural that it will replace the less-useful model.

What we currently are focused on is a very small slice of reality. I don't see much reason to think these are new problems, or that they're unique.

> I would say it fails in ways that the older science of cultural uniformity and authority succeeded.

We do know what a lot of the costs for uniformity and authority are. Especially when carried out by imperfect humans - that's what leads to the Inquisition, or racism, or any of the other base instincts we seek to reduce.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-abortion-debate-isn...
I've been stopped and scolded by "concerned citizens" before (even recently) for going on runs/hikes without wearing a mask... I tried to explain how outdoors masks are only really necessary where social distancing isn't possible and crowd density is high but they seemed to think I was just an anti-masker. At least now I can point to an actual study, for whatever good it will do...
The point of capitalism is that people with capital get to make decisions about what to do with it. They don't have to put it into things that make money, they just need control over it.
I found one of the last paragraphs quite interesting...

"He has overall responsibility for Apple’s ethics and compliance program"

The head of Ethics being involved in bribery? Yeah, that's a problem.
In Haskell, it's the norm I think to do both: let the compiler infer the type and then add the inferred type to the code. This locks in compatibility.
You never know... what? I'm a 2A supporter and a hunter, but I simply don't understand this kind of reasoning for why you need to concealed carry. The chance of you ever being in a position where having a firearm on you in public will make things better rather than worse is so ridiculously small that it just reeks of irrational fear. If you're that afraid of whatever situations you're imagining, how do you ever get in a car when your chance of getting injured or killed in one is astronomically higher?

That said, California's constant fight against 2A with absolutely idiotic rules needs to die.
>nobody knows how to make cobblestone.

Can you expand on that? I didn't think cobblestones were made? Don't you just pick suitable stones?
The work is supported by the UK Medical Research Council MR/M012190/1 and Wellcome Trust Our Planet Our Health (Livestock, Environment, and People, LEAP 205212/Z/16/Z).
This sort of requirement is met by compile time computations. I know C++11, D and Rust have them, and I imagine many more languages do as well. The need for this sort of thing clearly has not gone away, we're just moving away from a free-form, textual pre-processing stage.
>People in the West don't understand how much of an advantage social media has been in countries where media was always controlled by corrupt businessmen or politicians.

You severely overestimate the independence and faux-organic nature of "western" social media. Every last aspect of it is controlled by "corrupt businessmen or politicians".

If you're in "the east", wishing for a system like in "the west", be careful of what you hope for and be cautious of what you actually build.
By "legislators" do you mean members of government? You linked to a California proposition, which any citizen can create:

"In a special election held on October 10, 1911, California became the 10th state to adopt the
initiative process. That year, Governor Hiram Johnson began his term by promising to give
citizens a tool they could use to adopt laws and constitutional amendments without the support
of the Governor or the Legislature. The new Legislature put a package of constitutional
amendments on the ballot that placed more control of California politics directly into the hands of
the people. This package included the ability to recall elected officials, the right to repeal laws by
referendum, and the ability to enact state laws by initiative."[0]

[0] https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/how-qualify...
I like this article on the subject. It examines many of the possible reasons given by others in these comments.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/25/wage-stagnation-much-m...
The problem with an industry like tractors is, from my humble and limited experience as a farmer who hated it is that it's less about the industry and more about a mismatch between needs and reality. Farmers need machines that can operate at as close to zero ongoing cost as possible. They need automation and simplicity from the machine as well as any software. They need an assurance that, if something goes wrong they can either fix it themselves at that moment with common and standard tools, or that someone can come fix it for them within the hour, for a very low cost.

The problem with fancy modern tractors aren't that they are a negative value, or that they aren't extremely handy. It's that they are unbelievably expensive, because they are geared toward huge production, extremely efficient corporate "family" farms.

The kind of people who use old, out of date machinery because it's cheaper and easier to fix are a) dying out, and b) not a huge market in the US.

Maybe I'm way off base, but the 'need for disruption' in farming has always struck me as naive at best, and extremely egotistical at worst. That being said, as someone who actually did farm for 20+ years before quitting that for a cushy office job, I would love for the barrier to entry to be lower. I would love to hobby farm, but it's so expensive to do anything nowadays that it's impractical. But that, again, is not much of a market.
I would assume "crowded areas" are areas where there are more than 1 person per [pi * <social distance recommendation>^2]

So as a rough example, let's say social distancing recommendation is 6ft (this changes by jurisdiction). Then for a football field to be "crowded" you would need more than 57,600 / (pi * 36) = ~510 people evenly distributed on it. If the social distancing recommendation is 20ft, then you can only have 57,600 / (pi * 400) = 45 people on the football field before it starts getting crowded.
Basically whataboutism at this point. The conceal carry movement has grown leaps and bounds since the 70's and DC v. Heller wasn't until 2008.
Ehh, of all the industries that exist in the world, I find it pretty unlikely that the office space industry is going to be monopolized by a company that is price dumping, and that this is going to put everyone else in the office space industry out of business.
> If you do practice good security and require a username/password for the RDP session, the router can still spy on that traffic for the malicious remote

Wow, Microsoft added TLS to RDP way back in Windows Vista (cite: I worked on it), and they apparently still don't have it required by default, based on some blog posts I see from 2019 explaining how to force it on. That's shameful.
At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him. He carries his men deep into hostile territory before he shows his hand.

He burns his boats and breaks his cooking-pots; like a shepherd driving a flock of sheep, he drives his men this way and that, and nothing knows whither he is going.

To muster his host and bring it into danger:—this may be termed the business of the general.

-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Book 11. The Nine Situations
https://suntzusaid.com/book/11
How can we prepare for cyber-Covid?
It's not a fair fight. In the end, there is a huge asymmetry in power, all the real power lies with the corporation. Behaving with clemency and goodwill is a privilege bestowed upon employees (and unions) that can be unilaterally revoked. If push comes to shove, the corporation can very much steamroll any resistance, especially when times are bad, and even more so once the corporation diversifies the risk by becoming a multi-national.
There are a few of them because wealth concentrates upwards. Their mere existence as dynastic families proves that wealth does not always flow downwards but persists in an American aristocracy that stands out of public view and allows us to pretend otherwise.
Super happy for him. This is one of the best parts about programming, how easy it is to share and interop things. That is beautiful
Open source licenses say nothing about giving back and in fact the OSI quite deliberately moved away from that idea as a key differentiator between themselves and the FSF.

If someone wants to distribute their software with the expectation or requirement that derivative works in some sense give back to the community they should use the GPL or AGPL.
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Acknowledging Women in Ancient Science
thanks John :)
> This free money would pull qualified people away from more productive endeavors.

If this was actually happening, we would see the impact in increasing labor prices, not stagnating labor prices.
One day after LA county shuts down all outdoor restaurant dining, with no relief/bailout for service industry businesses or workers in sight.

https://la.eater.com/platform/amp/2020/11/22/21590433/corona...
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> It doesn't matter that these bytes are filled with garbage,

That's only true if the strategy avoids hitting an invalid page.

Reading a single uint64_t which is aligned on an 8 byte boundary will be fine. If any byte of that is within a valid page, the other bytes have to be.

If two uint64_t's are read, then as a whole, they have to be a 16-byte-aligned block for that same assurance to hold.

If the code is using misaligned reads, that itself will crash on some processor architectures, or possibly trigger expensive handling.
They listed a bunch of things, some of which are in fact bad (although "it's the dose that makes the poison"). But "ions" is pointlessly generic and makes the whole story suspicious (after all what are you drinking when you drink salt water? OMG ions!)
Also Friendlyarm's NanoPC T4.

M.2 PCIe x4, 4GB LPDDR3 (a bit old perhaps).

https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...
Where do you live? If we didn't paint our machinery every 2-3 years, we would have rust in the frames. Source: The Massey 1100 that is sitting in my machine shed right now acting as a huge and impractical paperweight because of a lack of rust maintenance by the previous owner.
Postgres: The Batteries Included Database
Yep, this is one of the best examples of the racism that underlies a large amount of gun control. For other examples, see the laws targeting Saturday-night specials, or even the army/navy laws in the Jim Crow south. Today we're seeing much of this repeated with increased paperwork requirements, taxes, and price increases. Regulatory requirements and ATF overreach decreases supply and helps move affordable firearms out of reach for many working-class or poor Americans. Many people are concerned by increased voting requirements preventing people from voting, but fail to understand that these regulations do the same for gun rights. Or maybe they do, and it's intentional.

Reagan did a whole lot worse than this. He signed the Hughes Amendment, which cut off the supply of new, civilian-transferrable machine guns. I just can't understand how anyone likes the guy in spite of the awful things he did to gun rights. The Republican party is only somewhat less awful for gun rights than the Democrats.
All the (three?) articles about this gloss over whether/how this is remotely exploitable or whether you need to be on the local network. This would seem to be evidence that it is:

> Basically, the first IP address you see there – 222.141.xx.xxx, which comes from China – was trying to upload a malicious file on the router using the vulnerabilities.

Since when does a router respond to the whole world on port 80 by default?
Less "whataboutism" and more "the ship for undoing (arguably) unconstitutional gun control laws has long, long sailed and we're never getting those rights back."

I suppose we _might_ get changes to the CCW laws; but, anything more complicated than that is never returning in the United States.
> [H]ow much of the cost of a good is the energy, how much labor and raw materials?

For physical goods, most of it. Raw materials in particular aren't expensive except in terms of the energy required to extract them and process them (modulo supply and demand).

For labor it's more complex, but in general falling energy costs drive capital investment in automation (displacing and lowering demand for less-skilled labor) to lower price and capture greater market share (in order to get a return on the investment of capital), lowering labor's share of the final price, and the Jevons paradox drives increased consumption of the lower priced goods (as well as the lower priced energy). Software has been driving the same sort of dynamic for a while, though the way it affects industries seems to be more contingent, 'lumpier', and less predictable (eg. in hindsight, the disappearance of the travel agent as a result of online booking was somewhat obvious, but AirBnB effectively adding a lot more inventory to the market wasn't).

Not sure what happens when software and energy both more directly affect each others' supply and consumption, but the effect on the rest of the economy is going to be... interesting. Smarter energy grids that shift the economics of energy plants and sources at different scales; vehicles, homes, factories, & data centers that can all adjust their energy use/storage to take advantage of spot pricing, energy costs driving the ROI of training machine learning models etc. and thus changing the return on investment in compute capacity (and in software efficiency), and so on. There are a lot of feedback loops, and as "software eats the world", more (unanticipated) feedback loops will be created.
I dunno why this keeps getting shared. it is just an advertisement masquerading as information in order to promote a bitcoin investing service. The selection of charts demonstrate data mining and do not align with the 1971 target. IN some of the chart you can see that the trend began before 1970. in others it began after 1970. IN other charts there is no change. In other charts there is exponential growth but it seems steeper after 1970 because the data appears compressed on the lower-part of the y axis. This is why log charts are used for exponential growth.
To avoid this type of spam or paywall:

1. Open it with Incognito
2. Setup and forget: use https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (also for firefox)
3. using a website like outline: https://outline.com/7eq6fK

(this one has the article)
Getting lucky with posting on Hacker News
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Do you mean like a center pivot? Actually that’s not a bad idea. In theory.
California's sheriffs are completely corrupt wrt this the CCW process. It is impossible to get one with our being a political friend or giving massive donations.
That’s why the firing.

On the other hand, I think he’s in difficult position given that this kind of shakedown is common practice.

What’s especially absurd is that there are many people who carry concealed guns into the Bay Area legally every day, who just happen to live in counties where CCW’s are easily approved.
...and also legislative reforms that wound up being bad for the regular people, like electronic voting and removing secret votes in Congress. Some of the issues might have been corrected, but the lack of a secret vote meant legislators became less inclined to vote against their backers to the benefit of their constituents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Reorganization_Act...

...and the re-emergence of corporate consolidation and the rise of the conglomerate in the 1960s, which reduced the power of labor to negotiate for a fair share of the gains.
Incredibly well put. Hats off to you sir. I don't think it's simply the unwillingness to think things though that make people attack him though. I think that halfway through writing their heated response, people realize their mistake. However, in today's climate, a lot of people are frothing at the mouth in anticipation of finally having found "a nazi", "a pedo" etc. So much that they see them everywhere.
I hear it's really difficult to get a CCW in CA unless you are rich or famous. I'm wondering if that's true?
you can say the same for probably any year of the past 50 years
As the article points out, the coal or charcoal in steel production isn't just a heat source, it's also a reduction reaction. Heat speeds up the oxidation reaction, so you need something in the crucible/fire that is capable of scavenging oxygen before it binds with the iron.
I wouldn't use Authy as a second auth factor. Like, yeah it's not Google, but it's a glorified SMS code. Unfortunately I don't know of any good replacements that are viable on Linux.
Reminds me of the short lived netbook-fad but more stylish and less useful
They only count hours that a customers is in the car when calculating that, so it comes out to about $5/hr minimum wage which is below federal minimum wage.
You are making me nostalgic. Old Masseys are the best!
It depends how it happened. Having a parent or relative take you to a prostitute, or being peer pressured into it when you are a teenager and not ready is sexual abuse.
Given these enormous price tags, why on earth hasn't someone disrupted this industry?

Surely someone can build a useful, powerful tractor that meets the needs of a large portion of farmers for less than a third of a million dollars. And if they make it repairable and not DRM-encoded (like John Deere) surely that would build a loyal brand following too.

Bezos has that famous line: "Your margin is my opportunity". Well shoot, there really does look to be a margin in that industry.
I wonder about this and the (perceived?) lack of mechanics in the states. It could be down to centralization into large corporate farms and the shift in ownership preferences favoring leased equipment with factory support.

But as a one-time farm boy myself I wonder if it isn’t simply a lack of opportunity or the presence of better opportunities?

I work in tech now because I can but my first career path was auto tech/farm hand. I worked on a farm to pay for school but as soon as I could get a better paying career I did.

I also don’t miss the stereotypical trade work environment. Lunchtime conversation on the farm or auto shop would be fireable in the tech world. Lots of “locker room talk”. I wonder how many people that kind of culture scares off.
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From what I understand the real reason this or equivalent layouts haven't happened is emergency exit times. I think the current requirement is that everybody can at least theoretically get off the plane in 90 seconds, and tightly-packed bunks inflate that time compared to seats.