skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part about driving skill is definitely just wrong, there are many reasons why cars get damaged. Though I agree that it's way better to drive cars that are cheap enough to repair or replace out of pocket.

Insurance companies make money by overpricing the actual risk. And they make a LOT of money. The expected value of an insurance contract is negative to the buyer. Coverage of tail risk (e.g. millions in liability), makes sense since you don't want to get bankrupted, but when there's a capped risk you can tolerate (e.g. value of car), avoiding the insurance statistically saves you money. Insurance companies pay their actuaries very well to guarantee this.

Plus, not having to deal with insurance companies makes car repair so much less stressful in my experience...
What's the cost of something like this? IMO this looks a bit too complex and time consuming to manage.

Why not something like Heroku?
People focus on the white privileged males.... ignoring that the U.S. is full of uneducated, broke, white males with little going for them. The country is like 70% white... so of course on a numerical basis you're going to come across more well to do whites than other races.

But as a white male - the U.S. did repress the Japanese, American Indian, Muslim, Black, Jewish, Hispanic etc in large swaths, and numerous other minority races in localized areas.
Either way, it’s insane that anyone would rely on a put of random GitHub users for the “integrity” of their money.
https://archive.is/1IkV3
What's "white privilege"? A secret spell that a white dude from a trailer park can pronounce to summon wealth?
UK applying to join Asia-Pacific free trade pact CPTPP
Alcohol makes you relaxed and perhaps sleepy, but has been linked to poor sleep quality and duration.
Also opinions and perspectives change. I was quite liberal, politically, in my 20s. In my 50s I'm quite conservative, though I would never have thought that could be the case when I was 22.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1462/
There are some of those! Along with 330, 105, 301, 326, 641, 302, 102, 103, 300, and I just assume a few others, all coming from ESENT.

I guess that's a question: what would it look like on a Windows 10 system if it had a truly broken ESENT installation? As far as I know ESENT has never directly been a problem. Its log output is just part of the noise that now makes using the Event Viewer a complete waste of time unless one knows precisely when a problem was logged.

> Feel free to reply here with your flame. ;-) I can handle it. Really. :)

Believe me, if I thought the state of the Event Viewer and its logs were the fault of any one person, I'd be able to muster some sort of impassioned, vituperative response. I'm not angry, son, I'm just so disappointed in you. Ahem.
Sometimes I wonder if a prerequisite to becoming the kind of civilization that could span a large volume of space is becoming the kind of civilization that has solved the problems that might drive a civilization to need that kind of expansion.

Consider Earth. If we set T=0 at one year ago, and assume that there really is no way around the speed of light, then it follows that by year N, every human alive must be within a sphere of radius N light years.

The average human has a volume of about 0.06 m^3, according to a few sites I found on the net. If you divide the volume of a sphere of radius N light years by 0.06 m^3, you get an upper limit on the number of humans that can be alive in year N.

Given a fixed population growth rate, you can figure out at what year the population hits the upper limit. It is startling faster than you might guess.

At 1% annual growth, we hit it by year 12059, when we'd have a population of 1.04 x 10^62 needing to fit in a volume of 6.22 x 10^60 m^3.

At 0.1% annual growth, we hit it by year 127168, with a population of 1.27 x 10^65 needing to fit in 7.26 x 10^23 m^3.

At 0.01% annual growth, we hit it by 1341545, with 1.45 x 10^68 people needing to fit in 8.56 x 10^66 m^3.

It is clear then, barring faster than light travel (or expansion into other dimensions or parallel universes or something like that), that growth rates for an growing civilization must in the long run go down, and keep going down until growth is very very low if that civilization survives long term.

Keep in mind that my numbers above are the time to hit a ridiculously high limit (packing all space that could be reached at the speed of light starting last year with over 16 humans per m^3). If you use a limit not as ridiculous, such as the still ridiculous limit of all mass within that volume is used to make humans, you'd get a much shorter time to the limit.

I think this might be a candidate for the Great Filter. Lowering growth rates means getting some people not to reproduce, but millions of years of evolution have selected for reproduction. Maybe civilization hit a point where they must slow down growth more than their citizens are willing to do, and that leads to internal conflict that if it does not destroy them at least stops them from further advancing.

The result may be that there may be a lot of civilizations out there, but they get stuck at the first size limit that they hit where (1) they don't have the technology to get past that limit but (2) they have the technology to make war over that limit devastating.

Civilizations that avoid this have figured out how to thrive indefinitely without depending on growth. Such a civilization might not feel the need to expand into a large volume of space. They may be content to stay within their solar system.
Baseline capacity and the ability to scale up to withstand peaks are two separate things.
How much of a drag is the high mobile data cost in the US for the technology market ? Or does it even matter ?
Yeah, but the question was, what happens <100%.
8% CPU average actually sounds like a lot, unless your 25 users are chatting around the clock.
You could either read the article or read the comments. (If there aren't any, wait until there are and read them.) But don't do what you did, which is make a completely uninformative comment. Even if the article is clickbait, and therefore a waste of everybody's time, don't add to the waste with comments like yours.
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Frustrating that you'd seek to just undermine my knowledge on it rather than honestly assess my point. But I'll play:

- He intros by talking about copyright, DRM, terms of use, etc

- Then jumps to the fact that Opioid companies try to hook you with addiction, just like Facebook. (So what's that got to do with Copyright, DRM, Terms of use?)

- Then hints at network effects of "How can you leave Facebook if all your friends are there?" (What's that got to do with anything?)

- Then he talks about service lock-in which again has nothing to do with Intellectual Property. You are locked in to all sorts of things in your life as a consumer, that is a capitalistic practice the fact that software companies use IP as the way to pull the lock-in lever is kind of secondary to the point isn't it? Isn't the main point: Why do we accept lock-in at all? (Again he's conflated these, not separates them)

- He talks about Copyright like it's just the US... so what about GDPRs "Right to data portability?", that's the beginning of inter-op. Or Countries copyright exceptions for interop purposes? No mention of those. So not only has he conflated Monopolistic tendencies with IP, he then conflates "Global IP laws" with "US IP law"... which misrepresents the vast majority of the world. As I've mentioned in other comments, in the country I live in: there is no such thing as "Fair Use", you are allowed to copy things for certain protected reasons, and people can't even bring a case against you for those reasons (A subtle but important difference).

- Lets take the kindle example where he says (paraphrase) "Amazon have locked you in, and you are breaking the law if you attempt to undo it"... Well what if I live in a country that allows me the right to reverse engineer for the purposes of inter-op? I can (legally) hack that kindle to pieces... Now they might make that really hard, or even impossible... In a similar way that Oil companies have depressed the EV market and made it WAY harder to own an EV to an ICE... But IP isn't getting in the way here.
I was responding to someone saying illegal immigrants in the US are slaves because they immigrated illegally instead of not doing that.
I found it would typically take 5-10 minutes to fall asleep. The one thing I did notice, that was really weird, is that as I fell asleep I'd have trouble "remembering to breath". Which was quite a strange experience.

I once got woken up by a security guard in the casino as I was taking my 35 nap sitting up and I found when I just said the phrase "medical reasons" he backed off.
> unless you use 2 monitors at different scales and load an X application

Agree 100%, this is the only issue I ran into using Wayland (Sway) with different DPI monitors.

I only want to stress that the impact of this issue is very limited—at least for me. Most of the apps that I use run natively on Wayland and scale perfectly: Firefox (with some extra setup), Telegram Desktop, Alacritty, all GTK and KDE apps.

The apps that do get blurry are the ones that are made by big companies for which Linux experience is not the first priority (thus they don't care about native Wayland support). Zoom, Chromium, Google Earth, Discord, Steam, Skype. I don't use them much, and when I do I try to keep them on my big (non-scaled) monitor, and it works fine.
A thought.. the Samsung Galaxy app store never removed the game Fortnite when Google and Apple both did for financial reasons. Perhaps Element could also become one of the apps there.. there's a lot of Samsung devices out there in the world.
12 years and an optimistic future of constant growth.
Yeah it’s almost a VC firm at this point. You’re not investing in the discounted future cash flows of Tesla absent influx of capital, rather you’re investing in the ROI you think Tesla can generate using money from equity raises.
Makes me very happy to see this author posted here, I do recommend signing up for his regular posts. They are always insightful and beautifully written on highly topical themes.
What I’m saying is that the heuristic you describe is perfectly understandable, but it’s a bad outcome for society. My comment is not about the “why” behind the existence of this heuristic. There are many obvious reasons that leap off the page in terms of evolutionary adaptation, confirmation bias, availability heuristic, halo bias and so forth.

Instead what I am saying is that if I approach a new conversation tomorrow and I say to myself something like this,

> “Boy, my friend Bob sure is not going to like to hear about the very overt evidence of Trump siding with white supremacists. He won’t like that so I’d better not appeal to facts where Trump’s quotes were compiled and analyzed by researchers. Instead I should tell him about my experience walking near a Trump rally and directly observing racist language going unrebuked by campaign staff. Then at least he’ll connect with the part that is my experience instead of immediately taking a motivated cognition biased position gainsaying the more official data.”

then that would be a very bad thing - much worse than directly confronting Bob with the actual facts and making it clear it’s not OK for Bob to inhabit a false reality where one type of fact (anecdotes) is accepted but another (data, research, journalism) is rejected. That cannot be left unchecked.

Mitt Romney actually said it quite well in the Senate inauguration proceedings after the Capitol riot,

“If you respect people who are disappointed by the outcome of the election and believe it was stolen, the best thing you can do is tell them the truth.”

Of course the election is just an example, but the point is more general. If someone is resistant to real facts, and you actually respect them and want to reach a positive conclusion, the best thing is absolutely always to confront them with the truth. If you instead deliberately mollify it and water it down to an anecdote they are more likely to accept while not adjusting their beliefs, you are only disrespecting them and hurting yourself, the other party, and discourse in general.
The rancho viejo development. Maybe closer to 5 miles outside of SF.
Emma Goldman was writing about yellow journalism about prostitution and "the traffic in women" and liberal response to it back in 1910. It's 110 years later and Nicholas Kristof et al. are still publishing the same dreck in the New York Times, absolutely nothing has changed.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-the-whi...
This actually does help. The problem I have is it all returns years later which is why some people have LSD once a year or shrooms once a year or whatever. I'd love to trial this in a clinical situation but it's gonna be a long time until we see that I imagine.
>Is this google starting to test the waters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon
There are alternative clients: https://matrix.org/clients/

FluffyChat would be the main contender.
I feel like we're passively reading a piece about this rather than doing anything about it because Stallman never thought, "How ya gonna pay the bills," was an interesting question.

I offer WSB-- the assholiest of domains, yet one where that is an interesting question-- whose users are actually doing a better job of showing the world the corruption of their domain.

I shall endeavor to write a weird piece of Gnu fan fiction about this.
This looks pretty good. Yeah, I'm definitely not interested in institutional books.
It uses Python's built-in inspect module to get the caller frame. https://github.com/gaogaotiantian/watchpoints/blob/68bc13716...

It then uses sys.settrace (which is intended as an interface for debuggers) to step through the code and check whether the variable has been changed. Documentation on sys.settrace: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.settrace

Python exposes most of its guts as part of the standard library, making clever hacks like this possible.
>I would much rather see a universal basic services program that guarantees universal free at the point of use access to services such as housing, healthcare and education provided directly by a government body or non for profit enterprises.

I agree that creating such a program creates political incentives for increasing it over time in excess of inflation. That's a real cost that needs to be weighed against alternative approaches.

But consider what happens when you make services "free at the point of use access". The price no longer serves the purpose of summarizing and transmitting information about the good or service. The consumer of the "free" good no longer gets any information about the scarcity or quality of the resource, and the provider no longer gets any information about the demand for their good and consequently how much to produce. Prices are the primary mechanism for coordinating decisions efficiently by summarizing actionable decision making information and economizing on expensive knowledge acquisition, interpretation, and communication costs.

It should hardly be a surprise when demand and consumption of those goods and services with a zero price goes up, and supply and quality goes down. Now suddenly you need to grow large bureaucracies for rationing the resources which will inevitably miss the mark of serving disparate individual needs as efficiently as the price mechanism could in a free market.

It's the classic recipe for degrading quality and creating shortages. I believe it's much more desirable for housing, healthcare, and education to be served by the market precisely because of how important they are to people. Putting cash into people's pockets directly has a much smaller distortive effect on market operations, and allows people to express their preferences in allowing them to vote with their dollars, as opposed to "free at point of service / consumption" goods and services.

It's no accident that UBI was proposed by Friedrich Hayek, and the Negative Income Tax by Milton Friedman. You could hardly accuse either of being in favor of wealth transfers, but they both understood the profound negative consequences of distorting prices, which essentially is lying to economic decision makers about the costs and benefits of taking certain actions, resulting in inevitably less efficient allocation of scarce resources that could possibly have been used more productively elsewhere in the economy.
Continuing to below comment, media is doing govt propaganda to scare people as well so that they don’t come Delhi. People are relying on social media as news source, and mobile communication. That’s why govt suspended these services in nearby places. gGovt has been trying to uproot the protest, even Supereme court said protest is people’s right.
A dedicated server at hetzner is about 30-35 dollars / month. That will get you a ryzen5/64 gigs/512 RAID-1 NVME on linux.

Heroku at that spec really starts to hit the wallet.

More than engouh for a lot of applications. Hell, I ran a E-commerce company with 20MM USD/year in sales on a dedicated server from 2005-2013.

Most things are plain vanilla and rock stable. I can go from new server to running my first services is less than an hour. Ansible or cloud-init go a long way to turning my pets into cattle, so to speak.

I spend nearly no time "managing it" -- I have grafana dashboards and Hetzner monitoring the critical things.

Happy to share more.
Because the X11 protocol itself enables every X app to keylog every other app without any "hacks" involved, which is what this is.

It's the difference between having a poor quality lock on your door and having no door at all.
I've tried some tools like Mayan and Paperless, but am always disappointed with them. I wanted a super organized, auto-tagged, etc document store. I ended up caring less each year and have settled on a directory with scans organized by date that I can search through. Occasionally I'll rename the files or move them somewhere else, but that's not too often anymore.

My current setup is:

- Scanner hooked up to a raspberry pi

- Push button on the scanner, the pi scans it in and saves a .tif file per page to my nas

- A script running in a k8s pod monitors that folder, performs some steps on each .tif file like increasing the contrast, cutting off the edges, detecting blank pages, etc

- The same script then converts those .tif files to a pdf and runs Tesseract on it for OCR

- That pdf gets uploaded to a folder in my nextcloud instance

It's not great, but I can either use my local file explorer to search through the ocr'd PDFs or (more slowly) I can search inside Nextcloud's web ui using the fulltextsearch plugin.
> 700M Chinese citizens who live on $140/month income.

That's an incredible amount of space for internal economic growth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l7em07/cowo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l7bpf5/30_s...
Gary Gulman talks a bit about the relief he got from it.

Unfortunately for him it was only short term relief, but it really did seem to work.

He’s doing well now, so maybe that short term relief helped in some way as part of everything else.
A minimum wage is bad because there is work people want to do which isnt worth 15 an hour. UBI means people will be able to afford rent and food and engage in their choice of labor, even if it's not highly valuable work.
I have no idea how all this works in detail. I think some of the GME naked shorts were not even really legal.

I don't see any value in all this shit and hope shortselling and similar metashit will be outlawed all together. How is speculation a valid business?
I’m a bit unclear on what the word “fact” means. Does it mean “known true proposition”, or “independently verifiable true proposition about an event”, or what?
FYI your link to "Design of Monolithic Circuit Chips" is broken.
Aah ok my mistake, it does look like the "cash" account type is not the default. Thanks for the info.
The value of a shiny new Veyron. Once it's driven off the dealership premises, its value begins a free fall to the ground. I'd be surprised if an average veyron is worth more than 300k.
I actually think the biggest engineering issue is gone be truck stops. Large truck stops that have 100+ trucks wanting to charge at the same time is gone be an issue.

I don't have a good understanding of the grid, but I have heard that if more and more cars go from 400V to 800V+ that could cause issues in cities as well, but I don't understand it technically. How many cars will actually go to high voltage architecture is not clear yet.
I suspect people who give these institutions the benefit of the doubt haven’t actually moved around in those circles. I certainly would have given them the benefit of the doubt 5 years ago when I didn’t actually know anyone from those institutions.
If we’re being honest, this keylogger is not exploiting a weakness in wayland. So it’s a bit clickbait to call it a “wayland keylogger”
I doubt this can be seen anywhere in the world. They are using long exposure (and probably post processing) for a reason.

You are probably seeing a decent sky. Did you try observing after strong rain or winds? Do you have any light nearby? For perfect viewing you need clear sky after rain with no moon and far from any source of light.
Sleep Hygiene and Reading are my saviours here, I have a rigorous sleep routine. Phone on charge in different room, electric blanket on, ablutions, kindle for some fantasy (a change from heavy reading), then if I make it to 30 minutes (I set a timer on HomePod) I set a sleep timer with the Podcast "Sleep with me" on HomePod. I never get to the end of my 25 minute timer.
Yes, there are mechanically better comparisons, but probably not better lay explanations. The goal of the article is not to describe the precise technical details of how an IDFA works, but rather the role it plays in how apps track you.

(Good luck resetting all your IDFAs at the same time and remembering never to log into any of the same accounts again. Yes, you and I know how to do this and that it can be turned off, but I assure you based on data I've worked with people do not.)
>"He explained that he would have on hand a drug that could neutralize the hallucinogen, if necessary."

How is right now the first time I have heard of this?
This always happens. Post about X. Somebody replies with, "look at my Y". Usually off topic and trying to take advantage of the posts visibility.
I'm in favor of instituting demurrage currency, which has the feature of being unable to hide money from taxes.
Though if you have any financial assets to use as collateral, you can get cheaper leverage elsewhere. Then you don't need to buy an insurance contract with negative expected value, for a capped risk that you can tolerate out of pocket.
Peter Thiel on Seasteading [video]
More rediscovery of avant-garde technology and ideas from the 1960s.
Because broadband penetration at the time wasn't as large as it is today.
> I do believe that the path forward has to be Mac OS/Android/iOS style sandboxing

No this would be exactly the wrong path. One of the major strengths of FOSS/Linux is the fact that there are multiple authorities checking the code for bugs and security issues. You usually have at least three stages: contributor -> release manager -> package maintainer. On some distribution you even have a dedicated security team. And on top of that, since it is FOSS you have full synergy across the whole ecosystem. Which means e.g. if the Debian security team finds a bug the Arch team can correct the problem within hours.

FOSS needs to play it's strengths and the fact that the general case is running trusted software whereas the exception is running untrusted software is one of those major strengths. Which means additional complexity and user annoyances stemming from overarching access control measures only apply selectively to a small set of programs.