skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This LTV argument is a really good one and one I've never thought much about until you raised it, but reflecting on it, I've seen this at places I've worked at.
Yes, something that could do what Postman does.
The debunkers are going to have a hard time reconciling their views with the fact that some pretty prominent individuals in our government are basically admitting that these are not terrestrial in origin [1].

[1]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2021/03/22/uf...
2013 XLT Supercab (the suicide mini doors), $26k used in early 2015. But I wanted the 3.5l Ecoboost. (20-21mpg, i.e. in the same ballpark as the WRX upthread.)
Data61 was mostly gutted over the last few years anyway, the slide downhill started when it changed from NICTA. The politicians hate the idea of long term research funding, so they had the idea it would be self sustaining, but big Australian corporations spend nothing on external research, lowest in the OECD, and foreign corps don't reinvest in research overseas.

Also, I remember Hugh Durrant-Whyte (robotics/SLAM pioneer, ACFR, former NICTA CEO) telling us that CSIRO culture would overwhelm Data61. So no surprise.
Usually laws like this don't apply until you're a certain size, headcount or revenue. I'm not sure if that's the case with accessibility but usually startups building MVPs can focus on the product and come back to hit compliance once they start growing.
> Look at websites, ask friends, etc.

Lol, etherium.
No. Sell your truck and get a car. You're not allowed to have a truck.
I cannot disagree more with all that omyou said.

The UI can be whatever you want.

It has themes, and I understand you can create your own.

I don't see how sublime is more modern. For me are very similar.
The issue with fungi is that we have so litte efficient medication. What little we do have is slowly being render useless by its overuse in agriculture.
The article was about fungal infections, not bacterial infections. In both cases the amount of both antibiotics and anti-fungals used by humans is small relative to their use in agriculture. That may be an easier place to start, although it doesn't preclude sanction against whatever bad practices are described in your linked video (didn't watch).
I don't necessarily agree that it's clear cut lying but I do think it's deceptive. Claims with asterisks are an awful invention by advertisers with lawyers. Price tags as widely understood do not encode savings beyond the time of sale.

Similarly, the public has a definition for what "unlimited" means and mobile carriers using asterisks to redefine the word is exploitative.
I for one welcome our new Cordycep Overlords:

* https://thelastofus.fandom.com/wiki/Cordyceps_Brain_Infectio...
That implies christel was the only staff with access to DNS until now and was hiding that fact, since the domain's been registered to Freenode Limited since at least 2018 and they'd have noticed the change had they been accessing it.

I've been reading more into it and it seems that wasn't the case [1], but that just leaves me with more questions.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/f569c5e4727d21eb939fff9...
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From what I've heard, larger companies have stopped trying to prevent shoplifting under a certain amount, since they don't want the liability of their staff getting injured in any altercations. The companies are actively telling their employees to not intervene in a physical manner. This has led to the brazen behavior by shoplifters to steal without concealing their actions.
Financial access is an accessibility problem too. It makes sense to target the largest demographics by problem of access if you cannot help everyone.

Also, when you have financial access issues, it implies that you have access issues for everything in life, including the basics like medical care.
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At a base level HTML is very accessible by default. It's the layers upon layers of fancy CSS and JS people pile on top which makes it a nightmare.
Trucks, vans, suvs are the size they are, at least in part a due to CAFE regulations that give fuel efficiency concessions to vehicles with a larger wheelbase.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_econo...

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Ford did a lot of internal research, and focus groups, on the marketability of differently designed electric trucks to their primary customers and came to the conclusion that their consumers like the way the trucks look and are more likely to adopt electric trucks if they look the same and offer tangible benefits. Consider the massive frunk, that can hold 400 pounds of gear, or the 2k hauling capacity, or the on board outlets, including a 240v plug, or all the fancy new towing features (that are hopefully not useless vapor ware). If I was in charge of a large truck work truck fleet that averages less than 200 miles/day I'd be replacing at least a few of my oldest trucks with these and give them to the senior guys to break in and see how they do. This truck could be a serious game changer. Ford's not my favorite vehicle manufacturer but they've got my respect for building a serious electric truck at a reasonable price.
Fuck yeah, this is awesome. I’ve always wanted local enforcement that is decoupled from the nonsense that the police do.

Instead of SFPD, I could have my neighborhood served by high end local security that’s more responsive to local needs. We’ll just cut our spend if they’re douches instead of having some Dianne Feinstein sitting on Billionaire’s Row telling me that I need to accept some amount of robberies.

Fuck yeah! I’m rooting for you, Frame. Democratize access to police.
You probably want to link the podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/fungu...
To be fair, as I'm always telling my wife, just because you can't imagine the explanation doesn't imply the alternative that it's a supernatural explanation (or substitute aliens here) is true.

It most probably is just a failure of imagination.
What would drive you to the conclusion that a complex, specialized mechanism was developed before literally the simplest solution anyone could imagine (a stick you pull on)?
In my neighborhood in Seattle I've seen a tweaked-out individual literally just walking down the street spray-painting cars at around 6pm on a weekday.

I called the police and they told me all officers were busy on more urgent/violent calls and wouldn't be able to respond.

This was before COVID and the department is even more short-staffed now.
Cataclysmic events are very often reported by newspapers, but in practice only a few are actually cataclysmic
asdf is nice except is uses shims. They are pretty slow. If you offten run script as part of your prompt for example, it gets noticable pretty quickly.
>the best meat for the buck you can get

In France it's usually the worst meat available, aggregated with salt and spices to hide the horror.

McDonald's has the best meat I'm aware of and they've gone to great lengths to wash their shit food image.
Really interesting use of intents and entities. I feel like some of this is reinventing the wheel, since there is already a grammar specification, but novel use of intents/entities. https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/
I agree for some of the faangs (google who has to deal with contents in multiple language, Facebook maybe ?) ; However I'm not sure a french customer is costing that much more to Amazon because of i18n. Regulations, that petty thing about "paying taxes", etc... are probably stronger factor.
Or, more likely, it will show more conclusively that, despite what a few spooks want to have everyone speculating, the phenomena are not impressive at all.

Of course, no amount of data will put this to rest. When other instruments will have failed to register the same event, people will not accept the obvious conclusion (the one instrument that "caught" it was malfunctioning/misinterpreted one way or another), they will start claiming that not only are the objects special, they are also invisible to radar/infrared/[...].
Life is just an ongoing chemical reaction. Maybe in the future people will start empathizing with metal and feel a moral prerogative to stop its oxidation. Larry David may be onto something when he asks 'Do you even respect wood!?'
> Private citizens are not under the same legal scrutiny officers are

Government police have qualified immunity and are not subject to market oversight. As you might expect, this fundamental lack of accountability results in abuses, particularly of minorities, historically and presently.

I’m much less concerned about the Starbucks security guards becoming a gang. Unlike government police, as soon as they start bashing gay people or colored people, I can stop supporting them.
well part of the problem, in Seattle at least, is that even when they do catch the people responsible, the DA is pressured by the city council and mayors office to generally release people who go on to re-offend. I have friends on the police force in Seattle and they lament that there is no point in arresting certain people for property crime because they just get released. It just becomes a waste of their time with the paperwork and showing up to court for nothing to come of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijoL3Hy_Bw
Ah, the privilege escalation attack.
The trend towards BIG is a major part of that. Compare, for example, the classic Toyota Hilux to a Ford F-150. The latter is substantially taller off the ground and, given how much of the driver's view is blocked, much less safe in a residential area than the former.
Hi Mark. I just bought your book in leanpub.
I own the book about common lisp and haskell, I find your
style very pragmatic succint.
Please follow witting books like those.
The Cicada's Love Affair with Prime Numbers (2013)
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Right, but banding together in mobs tends to precede the establishment of a state with laws, due process etc. Hence why we tend to be appalled by vigilantes (even the professionals do a pretty uneven job when it comes to enforcing our laws, letting everyone do it as a hobby is not likely to produce a better result?)
> should not be left to an oligoply with bad history of not respecting users freedoms and privacy

So companies with a lot of data, then.
But it's not my job! My job is what my team tech lead says my job is, what my CTO says my job is, what my team agrees my job is. There is a million vital things we could build into the software, why is this one the uniquely important one? Go change business culture first and, when you're done, come back and tell me what my job is.
That specific job might be for tools. But open Apple Music in your browser and tell me what it is using?
Yes keep insulting working developers accessibility advocates, that'll surely work this time.

Seriously, accessibility is hard. There's no single standard or spec I can look at, a bunch of disabilities I've never even heard of, no standard test suite to pass, and a bunch of specialized hardware I should be testing on but can't afford and even if I could I don't have time. Reading accessibility blogs by professionals in that field is a minefield since they aren't even able to come up with a coherent narrative among themselves.

Know what my job is? Responding to the pile of functionality requests my paying customers have asked for. Know how many of them are related to accessibility? Zero.

I WANT my application to be accessible. It's good karma, it's good for people I know who are disabled, its good for my customer's employees, its good for getting government contracts. But accessibility is difficult, expensive, and meshes poorly with the short development cycles that are the hallmark of the startup space.

So how about you assholes stop insulting me and start coming up with some solutions?
You know, every text editing system I've seen that knocks off word (has those "bold", "italic", etc.) selectors has something anomalous in how selections are handled.
> These committees decide, in a transparent process of deliberation, which productions from the ones submitted, they believe, are the most promising artistically and are most feasible.

Having built websites and various products under the direction of business committees, I don't trust a committee to simply choose a tasteful color and style for a "submit" button on a contact form, let alone choosing between between different film ideas. It's probably even worse if the committee is made up of "industry experts" and "academia".

> And when you visit a European Fest, especially one of the big five it just blows your mind that in fact, literally thousands of amazing films are made, but they’re simply locked out of mainstream distribution.

To me this is a really great and key point. The culture exists.

There's probably hundreds or thousands of unknown good films released every year in just about every country. You don't need official committees of academia or industry experts to decide which film production should be prioritized. Dedicated artists find a way to produce what they want to.

The bigger issue is distribution. There's Netflix, Hulu, and a few other places where people generally watch movies. These corporations are essentially deciding what a vast majority of the culture most people will get exposed to.

Is there a better way for people to simply find out what culture they're missing out on?
I thought this was about whales?
Part of what underlies the discussion is that basically you must address inequality or else. Or else the oppressed class will rise up to upset the status quo, typically violently. He touches on this idea as well.
In the absence of good data, the fallback is a position of ignorance -- not acceptance of bad data.

The prior studies were neither well-done nor directly relevant. As such, they didn't constitute good evidence on the topic of mask-wearing for the recent pandemic. The proper understanding would then be that the effectiveness of masks was little informed by such studies.
A little tangential question - but is there a time at which art becomes public domain? 50 years after its creation? Longer?

edit: Here's more details https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain
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Yeah, that part makes no sense to me. If you use IAP for Google/Apple there is no need for Stripe (other than maybe payouts to creators?). Or maybe Stripe is for when you pay on the web?
That's exactly what happened to Firefox WebRender a year ago. I even managed to pick out the raw image frames in a memory dump of the process: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627739
Don't forget to "diversify" into shitcoins, too.
UFOs ..... universally, always, without exception pictured by grainy out of focus long distance cameras. That’s the real phenomenon, in a world full of high resolution superb optical equipment. Never ever once imaged clearly and never once imaged up close.
> The question is whether you think there is a remote chance that increasing the money supply by 25% in one year could have negative economic distortions such as inflation.

I believe that's a perfectly reasonable question. Fortunately there are graphs which show the inflation rate before and after the US got off the gold standard.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2497/historical-inflation-rate-b...

Note that the inflation rate has pretty much stabilized since the 1980's. Before that the inflation in 1970's were due to OPEC policies largely (hence the national speed limit set to 55mph). Before that it was WWII. The transition to fiat currency happened in 1933 domestically in the heart of the great depression.

And you can see that inflation was in fact wildly variable before 1933 -- with severe deflation in the midst of the depression as people hoarded gold rather than depositing it in banks.

So effectively the US ran out of the ability to control the money supply.

It's not theoretical either. Loss of control of the currency has been a sticking point for countries in the EU. GB never did accept the Euro -- largely because they would lose control of this. Spain who did join the EU had 40% unemployment and lost the use of monetary policy to try to alleviate that, etc.

> I don't think hard money has been settled.

Back in 2012 the Chicago Booth school of economics surveyed a good number of economists from freshwater and saltwater economists. Here are the results:

https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/gold-standard/

My favorite response is this one:

"Why tie to gold? why not 1982 Bordeaux?"
That analogy doesn't hold water. A hammer isn't meant to shoot bullets. So shooting bullets would be something the hammer was never intended to do.

What I'm telling you is that you have an opinion that is different from mine and also probably an ignorant one since you didn't answer my question about whether you have ever owned a truck.
An example cited in the article mentions a Citizen staffer wanting an escort to a coffee shop...if these are the types of situations where one might want to utilize a private service...what's the harm? The police aren't your personal bodyguards. Most colleges have walk-home services etc.

In many states, security guards can be armed in public, but so can private citizens.

The endgame for this will be large-scale gated communities that are town-level. A surefire to prevent homelessness in a particular town is for the entire town to be private property. If you can't card-in, you don't get in. Dystopian yes, but probably inevitable, and the trail was blazed by the modern corporate campus that operates on the same principles.
I want a super small pickup truck. My neighbor has a very old truck, it's SMALL (only font seats, no "cab", smaller width, height and everything) So they used to make smaller trucks.

I'm serious. I just need room for myself, occasionally one other person, and random crap (canoes, boats etc on a rack in back, garden, house, etc crap in bed). We have a family car for the whole family. This could be uncomfortable and small (and ideally cheep) but obviously no market for that or it would be out there. What's smallest pickup currently sold in US?
It depends on how you define ethics. I am for example deongological rational egoist. I can decide for myself if my acts of sending money to Iran are ethical. In my case, I send them to people who are aginst the regime, don't torture anyone and are secular. So I exchange good work of good people for value they otherwise couldn't get. This is what matters. Voters', politicians' ideas and opinions, etc. does not.
I just don't understand why open source software can continue with the assumption that every single contributor is honest. Imagine if this philosophy was applied to, say, cryptography or network security. What would be the state of encryption algorithms and key exchange protocols and so on, if their developers had a meltdown at the mere suggestion of there existing a liar?

Since the Linux kernel is installed on many millions of computers, it is obviously pretty important that it doesn't have bugs in it. Certainly not malicious bugs. And if all it takes is a couple grad students and an assistant prof to get them in...well, that reflects very poorly on the state of kernel maintenance, to me. Which seems far more important and deserving of attention, than endlessly arraigning three clueless guys at some university.

I'm not in a position to be more specific about what should be fixed. But, what would your answer be to your query? Apparently, do nothing, and assume that everyone in the world is honest, while writing self-indulgent "public letters" about it? How is that going to help when the CCP tries to insert surveillance into the kernel? Or when Russian hackers try to get exploits and ransomware in there?
> in some reference frames where an object would be observed as at rest, is it still "using" energy

There are numerous ways to measure relativistic mass (total energy) of a system from outside of it. As long as there is a measured energy, it is still using energy. Observation tricks usually just juggle energy from potential to kinetic, they don't change the total energy, so they don't change the usage.

> I don't really understand what "use" means here.

Energy causes change. The total amount of energy of a system measures the total number of changes happening every second, essentially actions per second.
Action = Energy x Time = (Action / Seconds) * Seconds = Action

Energy is really only transformed, it is never created nor destroyed, you probably already know this basic tenet that Einstein espoused. The energy of mass is commonly thought to be "at rest" but in actuality, mass is just the phenomena of localizing the changes that the energy must cause. When this localization is upset, you get a nuclear explosion, a lot of change that once was concealed.

We might want to know how many changes per second a single Joule of energy causes. We can calculate this by taking the inverse of the Planck constant. Since Planck constant, h = Joule / Hz [1], the inverse would give us Hz / Joule. Which yields a value of about 10^34 Hz per Joule of energy.

I wish I knew all of this earlier in my life, as a lot of my _energy_ was spent on trying to do Cellular Automata simulations of our universe. Knowing how fast our universe computes, makes any simulation attempts with our current computers seem quite foolish if magnitude matters at all. Some might still argue the rules are more important, but sometimes, as you see in strength sports, even a 50% difference in strength beats any technique advantage a fighter can muster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant#Value
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I think it is very similar to human beings, except relying even more on the non-verbal.

If you have doubts about interpretation vs "facts", then I can only guess/assume that you have not had this experience.

The best advice I can give for establishing a relationship is to think hard about what the animal wants most, and try to offer it in a way that it can understand is connected with you.
I dunno, maybe it's because the state itself is not much better? To some degree, if some asshole falsely accuses you, at least you have the grounds for a civil suit where the judiciary is a true neutral party and be recompensed. Whereas when the state via its law enforcement does something bad to you the judiciary isn't truly neutral, the best you can hope for is for it to try to be.
Economic systems failing in the past is not evidence that the current paradigm will fail and it’s certainly not evidence that it will fail because it’s fiat. Economic systems in the past have failed for countless reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with the dominant paradigm of the economic setup.

> The rules for that govern economic systems SHOULD be concrete… The rules for money should be transparent, mathematical, algorithmic.

Why?

I’m not being pedantic when I ask this, Why?

If there’s one thing we all should have figured out by now, it’s that humans, society, stuff, and the almost unlimited amount of chaotic ways these interact with each other, we should have learned by now that we have to be fluid, we have to be agile, we have to be ready to adjust. Why should the rules be rigid and unable to adjust for the almost infinite ways wrenches can be thrown in to the gears?

Are there still a large number of people who don’t yet understand the complexity of human nature and everything we touch?

Look, I live, work, and play in a technological wonderland. Along with the people in this community, I’m about the furthest away from a luddite that one can find, but we’d be foolish if we failed to recognize how early in the iterations we are from letting math be the sole decider of infinitely complex societal interactions. If we don’t recognize this yet, we’ve somehow let hype get in the way of an accurate analysis.
I think it is relevant that Manhunt =/= vigilante justice and people are widely conflating the two. When the police, family, or NGO post rewards for info, this isn’t vigilantism.
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