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> Forced labour in prisons is legal in the US right now.

The Constitution refers to it directly as slavery. The 13th says "except as punishment for a crime." Folks may want to mince words about it because prisoners are technically paid (pennies per hour), if they are even getting paid in the first place. It was major news that prisoners were sent to fight fires in California for little to no pay. Plus, prisoners are on the hook financially for a lot of their sentence, so that money is basically spent before they even get it.
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Microsoft, with the almost unlimited $$ they have, decided against their own browser engine. That made quite a statement.
What I am seeing here mostly is the biggest problem is that you can't hold an IPv6 address in your head. Ever.

I can look at an v4 address then 15 seconds later look at another address and know they are different. That's not possible with v6.

So I think people are conflating "difficult to wield" as "more complicated".
Why do we need the infrastructure of cities to survive?
Because we are too many people to live off the land like our ancestors were able to do. Also, we lack the knowledge to be self-sustaining.

Why are pre-industrial cities not a good model, i.e. why didn't pre-industrial cities provide the protection we have knowadays?

Exactly because we were able to leave out pre-industrial cities in times of turmoil. Since we cannot rely on our self-sufficiency to survive, we need to maintain infrastructure to keep us alive. Maintaining infrastructure is cheapest when the infrastructure is used by as many people as possible. Having a widely distributed population requiring well maintained, widely distributed infrastructure will not be possible.
You're right that it's being worked on - organizations like the SENS Research Foundation have been advocating it for years and pushing the field. From what I see though, far more resources are spent attempting to fix symptoms of aging (cancer, heart disease, frailty), than on preventing those conditions from occurring in the first place.

If we cure cancer, at best we're adding a few years to the average lifespan before something else kills you off. If we rejuvenate the immune system to that of a 20 year old, not only are those cancerous cells far more likely to be killed off at an earlier stage, but also prevent a ton of other age related diseases.

I don't think it's something that should just have a blank cheque written for it, but I think that governments should encourage young people to become researchers in the field and should spend far more resources on basic science. We can change the incentives for insurance companies to pay for preventing diabetes instead of treating it.

Climate change is solvable - it requires both research and effort to get us there. Many people are simply not willing to sacrifice to solve it since it won't affect them. We also have tons of older people who go from producers to consumers, and are not contributing to fixing climate change. A 75 year old can be building windmills instead of hanging out on a golf cart in florida. A research scientist can continue their work instead of experiencing cognitive decline. We'd probably experience a short term increase in carbon emissions but I think the long term trend would be much lower since we'll get past the technological hurtles quicker with more people working on the problem.
That is true, it's an order of magnitude of difference. For example, look at this location:

https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka?x=13.8929744&y=50.0331743&z=14...

And compare it to Google Maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0297578,13.8901237,13.85z

Google Maps is substantially better at search and places data but this advantage is slowly shrinking.

Also, Mapy.cz has a tracker feature with online sync and gpx export.
We shouldn't trivialize nazi atrocities.

However we also shouldn't trivialize Chinese atrocities:

A number of the things that happens there will hopefully get into the history wall of shame as soon as we dare challenge it.

We are however in a rough place right now IMO:

- US is weak and has little (but still significant) moral edge.

- US has a military edge but a full scale conflict will >70% become really messy (think nuclear)

- China has a number of other countries (and influential persons) around the world by the b*lls.

- China has an advantage on manufacturing and logistics

Anyone who wants to fix this

- either needs a brilliant idea and probably lots of luck

- or some serious skills in politics (to get local support for taking correct actions with the necessary firmness)
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I can counter your anecdotal evidence with my own:

I also know families that are hard working, responsible, still still cannot afford to make ends meet.

Likewise, I know families who are none of those things, and have never known a real struggle.

Implying that not being able to achieve the American Dream is result of not working hard, and/or living beyond your means is a gross oversimplification and frankly ignorant.

This simulation illustrates that when you have low income how hard it is to make ends meet.

http://makethemonth.ca/
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I agree with Palo Alto, but how is Mountain View restrictive by Bay Area standards? It's added a higher percent of people than Oakland on the past decade.
Worse things have happened at sea :)
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It's just another expense. If US authorities have shown anything so far it's that they're very forgiving especially with companies with government contracts.
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this is survivorship bias, I also knew an unsupervised child that accidentally lit himself on fire and suffered third degree burns over the majority of his body
Does OSM support address-based resolution of places? AFAIK, Google is getting things like store hours when it crawls websites. Which, of course, it's doing anyway for indexing. As long as it can figure out the address and the store hours from the website, it can put them on the map.

In the meantime, OSM generally doesn't even have place addresses in my experience. If I could resolve addresses to places in OSM, then I could easily write some scrappers to help out with filling in other data.
I remember the nearly the exact same experience and games! Which MicroCenter?
Perhaps it's because it's confirming something that we all knew anyway? I'm sure most of the HN crowd have played all sorts of video games, and we lead pretty non violent lives (I have to assume).
The quality of a translation makes a dramatic difference in the reading experience. I have 4 or more copies of the art of war, each with different translators. Dante’s inferno, the Illiad, Dostoyevsky, Beowulf, Confucius: some translations are unreadable and one or two incredible. Automation is just not going to produce the really good translations. The only benefit of a technique like this will be to generate unlicensed translations of work that will not otherwise get translated, which isn’t even that big a deal because the communities already produce unlicensed translations of just about everything.

Edit: The other use is to help create better context aware data scrapers that can combine bi-modal information streams and add some body language understanding. I guess it will probably end up in automated surveillance tech like security cameras/mics etc if it works.
I heard it was also a thing that there are less murderers, because the type of people who are targeted by marketing and generally play video games is young men. Essentially, shifting the pool of potential murderers inside to play video games.
Then why give specifics at all? Why not say something like "use industry best practices for encryption" or equivalent legalese?
>Apple is far from perfect, but they do more than 99% of manufacturers.

Source?
"Mild" in contrast to "severe". With a 30dB loss, you can still hear the louder noises, speech, etc. I have a 30dB loss in the mid range in one ear, just where it matters for speech. I can hear and understand people pretty well, but fail when they are whispering, or when they are speaking something else than my native language in a noisy environment. On the positive side: if I sleep on my good ear, a lot of the background noise disappears.
Some Kei-cars were and are sold in Europe, but they are regulated the same as any other car, rather than having specific tax and regulatory advantages like they do in Japan.

This also means that the European variants don't have to meet the kei-car regulations regarding size, engine capacity or power output, so some of them are a bit bigger or have more powerful engines.
Then allocate time for hobbies, even if it's for 30 minutes.
where did you find these figures? I've been trying to find some reliable source to keep an eye on it and I haven't been very successful so far
Doesn't their editorial control over what they publish/don't publish push them further into intelligence agency territory?
Without opening a platform, competitors and would be service providers have a clear investor story. By opening a platform, Google undermine their story to investors, making it look like a commodity. Then, each time a competitor is diffused, Google can cripple the service or raise the price so much as to make it useless.
That’s a really good point. My understanding however was that you still need to pay some parts of the treatments, even with top healthcare?

I’m no specialist on the US system, so could be wrong, but I heard from a friend who paid $4K cash for a broken ankle (arguably out of a total bill of $25K+, and not sure what type of healthcare they had), whereas your bill in the U.K., France or Spain for the same injury would be exactly zero (as an example, from countries I know better). The same would be true, I believe, for child birth for instance (again, I could be wrong as relying on second-hand accounts in both cases).

Agreed on the type of specialist you would get in the U.K., although in my experience it’s always been very feasible to see top specialists when warranted, even on public healthcare. You would typically get faster access for non-essential care on a private basis though.

Overall, it seems from Yours and other comments that the salary multiple in U.S. tech specifically may still be significant and would probably make these moot.
Check out this calculator from Pequity: https://www.getpequity.com/relocation-calculator.html

They help companies set up compensation plans and put together a calculator for this.
1990s was a long time ago - economics and demographics around the World have changed a lot since then (in fact, The Simpsons lifestyle - at least in earlier seasons - seems to be more reminiscent of 1980s era). Things like inflation and changing consumer trends have led to what we see now -- don't know about small towns but at least in major North American Cities.

What we have now is either people staying single longer and eventually they end up with Simpsons' style living standard (while staying Single) or they eventually achieve it via DINK lifestyle.

I think a huge part that has played into making this transformation is due to people's increased access to cheap loans (mortgage) and the idea that real-estate is the ultimate ROI game-in-the-town and the new pension fund.

What we see now (compared to say 1980s): almost no major corps offering pension, inflation to the point where both Husband and Wife need to work in order to just afford a property and perhaps a kid, creeping fees/charges (cellphones, internet, netflix, disney+, etc.).

This all leads to people, in my opinion, to look for safety net in order to fend themselves in old age: buy house -- no, make it 2 or 3 houses so you can live off their rent income, delay (or forget about) having kid(s) to achieve that financial goals. Automation and globalization has also caused some pain points: IT jobs are much more competitive than say even 10 years ago and there is always threat of being left out in the cold due to outsourcing.

See, funny thing is, here in Canada, I would always see hardworking immigrant families where the Husband and the Wife would be working in multiple low-income jobs and even their teenage kids would be picking up retail/factory job while studying to balance their family's financial books. To me, it always seemed excessive or even mindboggling - but now, it makes perfect sense...it is the very future for the masses in North America.

And for folks in developing World: Don't worry, your turn will come to experience all this (if you haven't yet) soon enough in your lifetime. I guarantee it.
The smart ones actually lie and say no they don't have guns. Refusing to answer will get you binned as a gun owner just like refusing to disclose race on a work or college application will get you binned as White. And in both cases those answers will likely get flagged as uncooperative too.
Fairphone is also about being fair to its user, e.g. with available spare parts.
Along with car camping is walk in camping where you have to go a few hundred yards from the car. Enough to make it inconvient to haul a keg or large cooler. Can get some nice spots that way. And you can practice w the backpack and have backup of the car if needed
Yeah, if your problem is mostly banging around matrices, Matlab feels really great (it is, after all, Matrix Laboratory). I prefer python for the most part, but it does feel a lot more verbose in comparison whenever you are in Matlabs wheelhouse.

Not to mention the IDE is actually very good, and you almost never have to deal with package management etc.
other parents are doing the suing and police reporting too, I think you’re looking for an answer that fits a personal bias
Page 31, table row "mitigate health inequities" says:

An upside (green) of vaccinating essential workers (non-healthcare) first: "Racial and ethnic minority groups disproportionately represented in many essential industries. ~1/4 of essential workers live in low-income families."

A downside (red) of vaccinating adults age >65 first: "Racial and ethnic minority groups under-represented among adults >65".

The next page (32) concludes that "mitigating health inequities" (what the paper calls Ethics) is the metric with the biggest difference in outcome, in favor of non-essential workers. A bigger difference in outcome than the one for "maximize benefits and minimize harms" i.e. preventing the largest amount of deaths.

Of course, the presentation doesn't define how these two different things are supposed to be compared. But its recommendation is that "Ethics" outweighs "Science" (their terms, not mine), and therefore populations with larger ethnic minority and low income representation should be vaccinated ahead of those at higher risk from the disease.
Definitely. I'm about half way through 'Medal of Honor' on the Quest 2 and I've never really been in to war games (or movies) at all. But I've been having an absolutely great time doing the various missions - and training - where you get to mow down the nazis with a variety of weapons.

And naturally, different to a console game, I'm physically pointing the weapon (controller) at the (virtual) target. It's really more fun than it should be ;)

It feels like being a character in a (cheesy) WWII movie.

(Also, I don't think stabbing zombies in the head in 'Walking Dead :Saints and Sinners' will ever get old)
I have to disagree. My daughter started drawing on paper but quickly moved a tablet. What she can do is faster and more precise than a) what she can do on paper, and b) what modern desktop drawing software can do. I think she'd call her style cartoonish for sure, so maybe drawing something other than interesting characters doing weird things is beyond touch screens, but the ability to generate, combine, and manipulate elements in a drawing app on a tablet blows anything else I've seen out of the water in terms of the quality of the end result and the speed at which she can achieve it. And yeah I'm probably a little biased.
no one outside of the video game industry would waste their time with this study because they already know the outcome from having passively observed several hundred million children not become violent from video games.

Video games do not make people violent - and based on my observation of at least several thousand peers - it actually has the opposite effect. The truth is video games are a healthy outlet, as well as self train an individual to deal with defeat over and over and over again.

I bet if you took groups of individuals whom played sports for X hours a week, and compared them to an equivalent number of individuals whom played video games for X hours a week, the sports group would have more violent tendencies. This isn't just hyperbola, after observing as many humans as we have in both these activities, it's practically self evident.
I believe in the future people will look at sugar and alcohol the same way we look at hard drugs today.
Modern Europeans are people from Asia, they only migrated a handful of millennia ago.
> I am told that the older you are, the harder it is to adapt to hearing aids.

I started wearing hearing aides in my mid 50s and had no issues, and the positive effect on my hearing was immediately obvious (night and day, in fact). However, I think if you were much older and losing manual dexterity and visual acuity there might be problems - e.g. they can be quite fiddly to put in and clean on a daily basis. Cleaning the tube that goes in your ear is like threading a large needle with a fat wire. Steady fingers and corrected eyesight helps.
It was do or die, but you could pick an engine right?

There are engines that will allow you to do a 3d FPS and make it look very good without ever having to worry about any low level barycentric coordinate issues.

Isn't that a good thing?
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"Making a name for yourself" is overrated. No one really gives a fuck. And you can still make a name for yourself with any amount of resources anyway, probably even easier to do when you already start with a lot of wealth.
Hmm, the poverty rate in rural America is almost the same as in urban (https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/the-changing-geography...).

The broad trends in union membership, financial insecurity, and income and wealth distribution hinted at in the article are, to my knowledge, broadly true in the US, and also true when broken down by geographic distribution (rural vs urban).

Anecdotally—I grew up in rural America, and people would talk about the nearby (50k person) city like "the big city." I would say there was very little awareness of urban folks how rural residents nearby lived, and similar ignorance in the reverse.
If you're a wealthy celebrity, this is a spectacular way to become very well acquainted with your local, state, and federal IRS offices.
Some tools would break compatability if fixed. That doesn't mean new tooling should also be broken.

Note that on OpenBSD "df" shows space in "blocks" by default, which pretty much nobody wants.

Hard drives are sold in real units for decades.

And floppies of "1.44MB" were always 1000 times 1024 times 1.44 bytes. Madness, eh?
Single sentended answers don't give me much to go on, though.
I really need to start digging into my IoT device APIs - wonder how many of them have something similar so I could run a kind of “home dashboard”
I'm not necessarily suggesting that the participant in the simulation is trying to do nothing more than commit acts of violence. But if the goal is predicated on committing violence, and can't be achieved without it, then I don't think it's logical to dismiss the violent aspect.

To transpose the argument to reality, a serial killer may see the act of killing as a neutral act pursuant to a goal they consider important. There are plenty of serial killers with manifestos.

Whatever they are trying to achidve, they aren't welcome in society.
Awesome! https://archivebox.io/ should be mentioned in this context too.
The Simpsons wasn't a kids show. Originally aired as part of the Tracey Ulman Show, then eventually a prime-time shot.

As a 1st generation American immigrant kid in the 90's, both my parents had to work.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, other than the fact that others can't comprehend what you said.

There are a lot of people out there that don't feel the need to spend money to be happy.
Prop 22 is a tremendous success for Uber and other companies. The courts and legislature in CA went out on a limb to force Uber and others to do the right thing, and prop 22 erased all their work.

If you don't live in California, you may not know - they added a $1.50 fee to every order, in addition to all the existing service fees and delivery fees, which often add up to 20-30% of the order. (Also by the way, uber and grubhub already artificially raise the prices of items on the menu and keep the difference, and restaurants can't do anything to stop it). They can blame it all on Prop 22 even though they spent millions to pass it.

Now obviously people are paying all these fees, so it appears that drivers are being paid a lot, so no need to tip. But most drivers don't even qualify for the money! We are paying money on orders that probably won't even go to our own driver.

Personally I've decided to stop using these food delivery apps. I can't stop using Uber, but I can pick up my own food. It is depressing that so many delivery drivers didn't understand what they were voting for and did nothing to stop this
For people discussing the difference between forced labor and slavery, this document from the UN's office of the high commisioner on human rights, tracing the history of such terms in international law, may be helpful.

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/slaveryen.pdf
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Isn't the whole moat of google maps that it's part of google? when I search I don't want to have to use different websites for each type of search, right now google is the leader but even if they become only mediocre at maps but stay at no. 1 at search they're very safe.

I don't see any future where google creates a special modal box for apple maps on it's search results page no matter who is deemed "the best map"
>However, the processing of Information into Intelligence that can be acted upon is what characterizes Intelligence agencies. Wikileaks does not concern itself with this phase. Yet, the CIA’s Pompeo is trying to paint a narrative that Wikileaks is doing this by labeling them a “non-state intelligence agency”, thereby justifying the CIA’s actions to attack Wikileaks.

Wait, think tanks, all political pundits, every newspaper with an opinion column, and everyone reading Hacker News processes information into intelligence. Who can't be targeted under this definition of a non-state intelligence agency?
I have three boys, aged 3, 6, and 9, and your comment pretty much nails our experience. The lack of childcare, the lack of access to grandparents, the lack of school, the volume of energy in the house constantly, the messes, the crazy amount of dishes and food prep because they don’t eat breakfast and lunch at school anymore; I could go on and on, I can laugh and I can scream and curse, in the end I do what you do and just try to be present and carry on. It is exhausting.
Yes, I think that confirmation bias is very strong here.

My rule for analyzing social science articles is pretty simple: If the study contradicts your intuition or understanding of human behavior, it is likely that it does not support the conclusion because of extensive methodological errors or statistical skullduggery.

If, on the other hand, the study confirms your intuition or understanding of human behavior, it is likely that it does not support the conclusion because of extensive methodological errors or statistical skullduggery.