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I wonder how courts will ultimately classify AI face recognition when it becomes attached to lethal devices.

Tripwires attached to a claymore fall under boobytrapping laws under arguments of reckless endangerment. I've heard it reasoned as there's no mind behind the assault and so it's reckless even if it harms someone breaking and entering.

Facial recognition gets closer to an intelligence behind the weapon, but a less than human intelligence (less than canine?). At what point does your "tripwire" have enough intelligence to be legitimate under castle doctrine?
> do yourself a favor and use LSTC

Would be nice if you could mention how your typical reader could feasibly (and legally) do this.
Right, there's lots of interest in Bitcoin as a speculative investment, but no longer as a payment network. That's the part that people are talking about in the past tense. The idea that bitcoins themselves have utility beyond being something valuable that can be owned.

It'd be like if the number of Facebook accounts kept rising, but hardly anyone posts content anymore. If I were a Facebook investor, that would worry me.
Probably depends upon how exactly it's done. Our local farms let us come out and pick our own food. They weigh it at the end and charge us based on that. It's cheaper than anywhere else. And fun for the kids.
While it’s perhaps true that many promises of cryptocurrency have yet to come to fruition, it is also true that programmable money has the potential to reduce the need for the use of coercive force and violence by the state, as well as reducing socioeconomic violence in general. Now is the tool being used to these ends? Yes, by small projects compared to Bitcoin, but yes. Crypto can create stable stores of value and currencies ( these are already in common use) and can add features like automatic taxation, demurrage, and ubi for users.

Just because few people are using a tool correctly yet does not mean the tool is without value.
I think it's at least possible these drones may actually reduce collateral damage. Some combatants work amongst civilian populations, using the potential for collateral damage in their favour. Smaller, highly targeted drones could reduce the effectiveness of using civilians as shields.

Obviously some scary as hell scenarios as well, but just pointing out there might be some benefits.
I always thought an RFC browser/searcher would make an excellent text editor plugin
No, counterfactuals are basically a separate matter. For instance, we can ask questions like "What if Lee Harvey Oswald's gun had jammed?" This doesn't involve any free will; it just involves the ability to work forward from a state that didn't actually occur.
can't they post a wide 85k - 250k salary or whatever?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...

If you want to be 100% legit.
Wait the person that landed on it can also participate in the auction!?

Wwwhat I need to see experienced people playing this game by the official rules or whatever the consensus is, since official seems to change over time too
When the commenter mentions a tarnished publication history, that’s an understatement: he had multiple retractions for fraud.

https://retractionwatch.com/2015/01/09/plos-genetics-investi...
Nobody takes it seriously, they just think you are on some sort of fad diet. The chains don't take it seriously either but since they're standardized you know what makes you really sick and what makes you less sick.
Obviously, the system shouldn’t be allowing negative fares to occur. Uber needs to eat the cost on those and provide some minimum payout floor for the driver.

The driver posted more details further down in the thread showing some of the charges: https://twitter.com/TheSofaaa/status/1399070201925312512?s=2... Ironically, the negative balance appears to be due to regulatory fees applied haphazardly. This includes a $5 surcharge from the airport and two charges from the city of Chicago.

It seems like the correct solution would be to pass those charges to the customer, not the driver. I don’t know how they came up with the idea of charging the driver.
We continue to use it, because it offers ARMv8, PowerPC, and SystemZ runners. No other service does this yet.
Rico cases are meant for more then just "criminals". A civil Rico case is one route
It's not for the anonymity, it's for the censorship resistance. US govt blocked payments to wikileaks
Bugs like this happen sometimes. I used to work at Uber, here is what happens with bugs like this:

- Some engineer will get paged, look at the incident, and eventually the root cause of the bug will be found.
- The root cause of the bug will be fixed to prevent it from happening on new trips, new fare calc tests will be added, etc.
- Engineers will identify which commit introduced the bug and which dates/trips are possible affected.
- Someone will run a batch job that recalculates fares for all of the trips that might be affected, and payments will be made to any drivers who were underpaid.

The time this takes from when an engineer is first notified to when all trip fares are recalculated and drivers are paid out varies based on the complexity of the bug, but in most cases this would take no more than a few days. The time it takes for an issue like this to be notified to engineering also varies on the complexity of the bug, it's anywhere from within an hour of when bad code is released to many months for the most subtle bugs.

A lot of the people in the comments here are reacting negatively to the fact that support tickets are partially automated. However, there are a few things to note.

The first is that fare calculation code is very complicated, it involves lots of geofence calculations (e.g. to detect toll roads or bridges) and in some cases there are other location-dependent rules, various promotions may be running, etc. The only people at Uber who are qualified to determine whether or not there is a fare calculation bug are the engineers who actually work on fare calculation code. Sometimes there are obvious errors (like in this example), but in most cases the fare calculation bugs are subtle enough that support agents wouldn't actually be able to verify if the code is wrong. Even if the support person could tell there was an error (as in this example) the best they could do would be to escalate the issue to engineering and wait for a fare calc engineer to investigate.

Additionally, besides support tickets there are a lot of other monitoring systems that look for abnormal deviations in number of trips happening, fares, etc. If there is a major bug affecting something like fare calculation it will show up in these metrics and someone will investigate.

I don't work at Uber anymore so I don't know the specifics of how this bug was handled. But in general I would say that bugs do happen sometimes, and Uber has policies that seem reasonable (to me) for detecting the problems and correcting any erroneous payments made.
Disputing charges with a credit card is an interesting thing. It's a consumer being able to unilaterally say "give me my money back" and the merchant basically being stuck with the tab. Doing a chargeback means the relationship between consumer and merchant is ineffective that they can't resolve their differences normally. That the merchant doesn't want to risk more money on serving such a customer in the future is perfectly rational.
In the best spirit of “someone is wrong on the internet”, I made this demo
> You can't have a legitimate copy of LTSC unless you've got volume licencing.

Apparently the minimum for getting a VL agreement is 5 licenses, and the other 4 can be padded out with cheap/filler licenses. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
Because if I don't — and especially, if I instead try to dispute the charge — I'll be severing my relationship with [big logistics provider], and so end up on a blacklist where nobody will never ever be able to send me another package through [big logistics provider] again.

Which would be especially annoying, because 99% of the time, when ordering things online, I don't get to decide — or even know in advance — what logistics provider the shipper will use to send me something.
My town's school system is all in on healthy buildings -- they got parent MD/PhDs to read the literature and invite outside experts to advise, then they set minimum air change per hour and minimum filtration criteria (something like, classrooms may reopen iff they have 5 air changes per hour with outdoor or MERV 13+ filtered air). They did a bunch of HVAC work to support this goal and have reopened okay.

The town's other public buildings as far as I can have ignored this and I think the libraries are just gonna reopen and hope for the best.

Advocates of healthy buildings have been telling us about the risks of low airflow (focusing mostly on cognitive effects of high CO2 vs the disease impacts). It sucks but the pandemic is their once in a generation opportunity to push change in indoor air quality -- I hope some of it sticks.
There is a lot of straw-manning going on, so if you say you disagree with the WHO on a minor point, you could be accused of calling COVID-19 a hoax.
> (and before anyone says it: yes, it's entirely possible to have conducted clinical trials of masks. a cluster randomized trial, for example, could have been used to establish efficacy early in the pandemic. That we didn't even consider doing these "because it's a pandemic" is one of the biggest scientific lost opportunities of our lifetime.)

There were studies done; all the way back in March 2020 there was an infographic making the rounds showing a rough estimate of percentage of particles filtered/let through by different types of cloth masks and N95/etc. If I remember right, all the cloth masks let through >50% of particles.
>and to my knowledge you can’t install it either

Yes you can. https://github.com/kkkgo/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore
But if I don't want to read Pravda or GlobalTimes, I simply don't, if my fellow countrymen want to read them, they're perfectly fine to make that decision themselves. I don't want to prevent people from reading those sources.

On the other hand, YOU don't just want to not read the New York Times, you want to prevent everyone else in your country from doing so. It shows that 1) you don't trust your own countrymen with thinking for themselves and 2) you're an authoritarian.

I guess my question is, why are you using a VPN, or participating in a website that would be banned in China?
Well, OK, here we run into a bit of a problem, in that the rules don't actually specify how the auction is conducted, so what happens if everybody passes is kind of just undefined. What you say is one reasonable interpretation. However, there is no interpretation that leaves these games as the shortest.
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Is this true though? I think engineering salaries very definitely plateau at a certain point, much more so compared to other professions even
The economist was my first experience with this tactic, and I promised myself I’d never sign up again, no matter how good a deal they offered.
Well, you'd need to manage multiple OS/architecture configurations, and keep them separate from your dev environment. I'm sure it's all possible with qemu etc, but having (a) somebody else do that and (b) actual hardware instead of a VM-on-emulator cludge, is a game-changer
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They are not the only ones at all. Same thing happened to a lot of other people. There was for example a lot of good information from the Italian National Institute of Health that simply listed the number and type of comorbidities in deceased Covid patients. Mentioning these numbers, even with proper citation was cause for being banned/not being approved by moderators. It didn't fit the official narrative.

Like my sibling poster said, it probably triggered the "covid hoax" spidey senses. People are not rational in these times. They're emotional and won't even listen enough or think enough to understand the difference between looking at facts and discussing them vs. calling it a hoax. Covid is very real. I know from multiple close friends affected. I was also told via official channels that anyone obese would dare badly and die. Anecdotal data: Yet some very obese friends made it through without more than a few mild symptoms. Months later new research came out that said being sedentary is much worse than being obese. This friend while being obese is very active. No car, walks everywhere, physical labour job etc. Just telling this story would probably get me banned on certain sites.
Well, they get paid ridiculous sums to speak at events, but really they're just being paid for an hour or two of their time. (And a favor of some sort). They're among the most well-connected and powerful people in their political parties even after leaving office, and paying them to do things after they leave office is perfectly legal.

This is a little different than Kanye or George Foreman, who are paid mainly based on their brand value. At this point, stamping a mediocre shoe with Kanye's name is the same as stamping a shoe with a Nike swoosh, except the multiplier is higher.
What would you imagine happens if everyone passes? It would be absurd for the rules to require a player to bid who does not want to bid, particularly if they did not write that out.
I like your analogy. I'll add another. VHS. The early adopter to VHS tapes was the porn industry. No longer did people have to watch porn in a seedy movie theater, they could do it privately at home.

So, yeh, early adopters may often be driven by the seedy side of culture.
Often the “lesser” properties go to auction and it can be worth trying to get them for less than the mortgage value.

If you land on a high-value property you want to buy it outright mainly to deny the monopoly possibilities to others (high value being the orange, etc).
Opening a window, even with the fan blowing out, is not exactly an option in the winter. Nevermind all the rooms without windows...
I'm not sure if I should interpret this as masks are an ineffective tool, or more narrowly that combined with other efforts it's unclear what the impact was since there's a large degree of opinion on the matter compared to data with a higher standard of a peer reviewed double blind study.

With masks being such a hot topic in certain regions, it would seem unreasonable to conclude that there is only correlation available.

The opinion I'm referring to and cited is in line with this one (just did a quick google search, I don't remember the original source of my assertion): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200624082657.h...

There appear to be a number of smaller studies available as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_masks_during_the_COVID-19... which if cloth masks are effective it would seem to me to be reasonable to extend this to rate of adoption and a contributing factor.
The anti-trust thing was kind of ridiculous, though. Would you have preferred to have to get a floppy disk in order to install a web browser? How about Acer replacing IE with its own piece of shit browser in OEM builds? (hypothetical) Looking back, I don't think that was a good use of the Sherman antitrust act.
Yeah but what's the alternative? Unfairly ding me instead of the business? Not sure I should be forced to accept that.

I need something by date X, Amazon says they will deliver by X-1, they actually deliver on X+2, so I buy from a physical store on X because I still need it on X, and now I have an extra item and it's not my fault.

I mean, if someone here is an Amazon manager and can convince their engineers to add an "shipping delayed" option to the list for free return reasons, I'm all for it, and I'll use it.
Why are you doing work for Kairosoft unpaid?

Like at least put in an applications, your time is valuable.
I've watched a fair amount of live cricket and swimming, and it's _very_ rare for me to find the interviews interesting. I might leave them on as background noise or if I'm waiting to see something after them, but I'm not going to seek them out. They feel like a way to fill air time more than anything.
I did say "in all calculators you have access too, including kalk" ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27336530
Real monopoly dissolves down to a cutthroat game of diplomacy around the auctions and trying to trade for a monopoly.

It’s brutal and not at all kid friendly unless you like making children cry.
There’s a dev-time vs. reliability debate here, I think. I don’t think it’s worth worrying about most of the time but I would approve a PR if someone did do the work.

When scripting things that probably shouldn’t be scripted but I care about them (like covid stuff), I’ll take the time to find a good browser user agent. I would be worried about bot-prevention measures catching a non-standard user agent and taking it down. Or even worse, someone else made a terrible script posting dos-level traffic and mine gets banned along with it...

The next level is using a custom but specific-to-the-script user agent. I do this whenever I also own the backend, to make tracking down logs way easier.

For everything else, I use the default! In this case, taking the extra time to think of an appropriate user agent isn’t helpful to the project. Sometimes, I might still send up Star Wars references for fun.
This deserves a wall of shame
Use of cryptocurrencies for transactions is also limited due to tax treatment - in the US and many other countries you are expected to calculate and report capital gains for every transaction. Of course this sort of treatment won’t be done for CBDCs (algorithmic stablecoins with governance tokens is the answer here. I’m still waiting for someone to combine this with a reasonable mobile UX, feeless transfer, and transactional privacy. All these properties exist independently (Frax, Nano, Nano, Monero, for example) but not in a single product. Yet.)
Often when something's delayed I end up buying from a physical store at the time I actually need it, and then have to return the Amazon-purchased, late-delivered duplicate.
I know I’m coming late, but if anyone want to understand more about the technology behind cryptocurrencies I’m happy to answer any question. Obviously I don’t agree with the post, but I think education is more important.
Came to say the same thing. Or only do a push when the user actually performs their query.
Ask HN: How common or plausible are TLS MITM attacks?
In building a financial app, I've been thinking constantly about security. Ultimately everything comes back to TLS. If that's able to be compromised, there's almost no way I can think of to stay secure. How common or realistic is it to assume this could ever happen to my application?
The thing is that there are fundamental trade offs that you can't escape even if you make laws at the federal level.

Laws which add costs to labor means that wages are going to be lower than if those costs weren't there. In a tight labor market that means employers have to go elsewhere, so more outsourcing or they cut back on labor employed. There is a reason why Europe has such high unemployment rates (and comparatively lower salaries) and struggles especially with youth employment. But they have much better worker protections. It's a tradeoff.

Now that doesn't mean it's not worth it to pass certain worker protections. But every such protection will have a cost in terms of reducing demand for labor. Maybe the cost is small and the benefit is high, in which case, go for it. But don't pretend that the costs aren't going to be paid if you federalize the law, or that there is some sort of legal arrangement you can make to outlaw economic tradeoffs. The costs will just be paid in a different way.

And it's not like everyone in Colorado is suddenly unemployed. Lots of people are hiring Colorado workers. It's just a small decrease in demand for Colorado labor in response to a small increase in employer headaches for hiring people in that state. If those who supported this law didn't expect exactly this to happen, then they were uninformed. I am assuming most people in Colorado knew this would happen and decided to pass the law anyway. Time will tell whether the benefits outweigh the costs, but there are always such tradeoffs.
Chrome end of support on Win 7 is in only 7 months from now.
Microsoft licensing is such a byzantine hellscape that this assuredly is more complicated than can be easily summarized, but pretty much any of their resellers do have VL upgrade options. I don't normally like linking to vendors as it's not my job to drive them sales, but one of the top links off DDG:

https://softwaremedia.com/shop/microsoft-windows-10-enterpri...

Many people will find themselves happily hoisting a jolly roger with a KMS emulator (several on github) given that they very likely already paid for a retail license of Windows and LTSC is basically just Windows 10 minus all the horrible annoying shit.
Yes, everyone can bid. You can use this to get properties for less than the mortgage value and then immediately mortgage it.
Everything has to start somewhere.
Hakka is not Chinese-Indian. The Hakka ancestors who went to Canada might have Indian links but that's a very obscure subset of the Hakka clan and definitely not representative of it.
In your particular instance, I would have collaborated with a single team to work on converting a single service over to the new framework. Once some success was made, it would be much easier to make traction with other projects and teams. Also, a vision or a plan doesn't mean you're not winging things as you go.
There's a "report lower price" button that shoppers are incentivized to use...
Wait whaaaaat how come nobody told me monopoly went to flat tax!
Imo the problem is that the debate seems to involve a lot of people with strong opinions but a poor understanding of the field.
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So is the point of Grand Slam to find the best personality, or the best bridge player, or the best model, or the best tennis player?
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I would like to recommend PhotoPrism, a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos.

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I've heard that Ketamine treatments cost something like between $400 to $1000 per treatment, and insurance often doesn't cover it (as it's off-label use), so it has to come out of pocket for patients.

This seems completely insane, especially as the cost of ketamine itself is supposed to be negligible, and what you're paying for is the therapy.. but the therapists role in the treatment is itself virtually nonexistant.. they just hang out and let the medicine do the work (or, in the case of lozenges that patients take a home all they do is write a prescription).

When you factor in that most people who treat their depression with ketamine have to come back again and again every week or two (possibly for the rest of their life), this is a HUGE money maker for ketamine clinics and I don't see how it wouldn't send any but the richest among us in to the poor house.

I've heard some psychiatrists and psychedlic therapy advocates express concern about this and say they want to find some way of making sure that everyone who needs help gets it, regardless of their financial situation, but I don't know if anything ever came of that. AFAIK ketamine treatment is still not covered by insurance.

All the ketamine clinics springing up like mushrooms after the rain seem like a big money grab, and I can't believe they couldn't make the treatments orders of magnitude cheaper.