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99.999% of business owners are not and never will be billionaires. There's plenty of upside and profit for business founders without the promise of them becoming so obscenely rich.

> No businesses implies a poor, stagnant society where every body suffers. Kind of like all the communist experiments of the last century.

This is just not a fair characterization; for example the Soviet Union was hardly stagnant -- in the span of 30 years they went from an agrarian society to being the first nation on Earth to launch a satellite and the first man into space.
> "Putting up a house involves a ton of manual labor by people who have to be paid minimum wage as well" …

I don't think I've ever in my life been paid minimum wage at any manual labor job I've ever had. Everything I've ever done in that field of work (ranging from literally digging ditches with pick-axe and shovel to commercial interior/exterior remodeling) starting pay was generally 1.5-2× minimum wage and often higher.

When I think of minimum wage, I think motel janitorial, burger flipping, supermarket bagger, etc, though I suppose who pays minimum wage for what job also depends on location and employer.
Switch is infamous for adding lots of input lag to its PC ports (like hollow knight). Not to mention the abysmal online experience. The steam deck looks like it will destroy it for any third party title.
> much of my time is just telling scientists what I would do if I was in their place anyway.

That sounds familiar. I guess they mostly don't listen, whatever your record -- especially if it was in a different field they could learn from -- but I hope it's not always like that.
You're not wrong.

I've been watching FOX45 for over ten years. I would describe myself as politically moderate. And I've noticed this trend also. The Fox45 morning news show is filled with the cognitive biases you mentioned and a paid advertisements disguised as news stories.

After the news there usually a segment from their FOX news affiliates and it comes with the crazy opinion based news. There is never a point from the "other side" Like with something like PBS where they have one person from each side of the argument tell their story.

The news story about the Mosby's tax issue from months ago that has been resolved. They still report on it everyday. And if they don't report on that story. There will be some guy who got off on a legal technicality or because he was searched illegally without a warrant and it's somehow Mosby or her husbands fault. They always find a way to mention mosby's name but only in the negative.

The recent news story about the schools is suppose to make you hate Baltimore city school officials and show how ineffective or wasteful with their spending they are. Even go as to far to show some dumbass parents on there like "I don't know why he's failing" even though they don't help the kid at all with schoolwork.

Fox45 has spent all their efforts investigating the school administration when they should be interviewing kids. I bet they would never tell the story about how at Patterson high school truancy was such an issue they had hall monitors, who the student colloquied called bouncers. The bouncers job was to make sure kids were actually going to class. But it was often you'd see them bolting after a student and tackle them like a running back only to drag him back into the school to serve out the rest of his sentence for the day. Or how they swtiched to taking Scan-tron roll calls at every period because kids would leave the school after homeroom where attendance was taken originally.
I never read the update notes and the only time I've ever bricked my Arch system was by pulling the power chord during an update. I probably could have recovered from live cd, but it didn't seem worth it.
There was a plan to do that with shuttle tanks. If we used them, the ISS could have a humongous ring of habitable former tanks.
Curious how far you’ve gone with this. You could have your CI/CD sync your stored procedures. But you would probably want to go further than that and manage them with a tool like db-migrate so you can keep your stored procedures tracking with your schema changes rather than just versioning them. At the end of the day, can you really separate your stored procedures from the data they operate on? I would say no you can’t.
This isn't a right to repair issue, it is a purchasing specification and policy issue. The DOD can and does specify what has to be field repairable by soldiers by design, documentation, and spare parts. The fact is that they made a policy choice that they don't want this.
"Just walk away"
You must be a macOS or iOS user.
Ask HN: How much equity for first tech (Director/CTO) hire?
Hey HN,

I'm considering jumping into a startup under as Director/CTO for a post-revenue, seed-backed (including seed bridge) startup. This would be their first full-time tech hire. They're offering pretty competitive salary but I'm wondering how much equity I should negotiate for. They have an MVP but want someone to come on and actually build a scalable (greenfield) platform in anticipation for a Series A next year.

A bunch of stuff online says from 3-5% typically for a first tech hire, but if I'm going to be building a majority of the platform (notwithstanding a couple senior/junior hires as well), should I negotiate for more?
I'm not a lawyer, but I'd assume when a field unit conducts operations, in the field, and some equipment fails, it's the job of the supply chain to do everything possible to help mitigate the issue reasonably fast. Definition of "reasonably fast" would be an expectation, carried from previous history of similar cases, and definition of "similar" is carried from previous history of purchasing equipment for the army. In other words, one can't just say "oh, this is more complex, and suddenly you can't rely on your practices anymore" without first - when the equipment was talked about - making that clear.

And "everything possible" would include tools, electronic or software, and software codes - and yes, possibly engineers who created them on the line, something like what was done when Apollo project had landings on the Moon. Only in this case I'd assume different kind of responsibility than just contractual.

I don't fall in the military hierarchy at the moment, but that doesn't mean I can give aid and comfort to enemy. Again, I'm not a lawyer - that's why it's a tribunal - but for a court to give go-ahead to this (absent more prompt collaboration beforehand) would be something to expect. What would you expect if you'd be in the field in this case?
For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable.

It's an established result that the Continuum Hypothesis is independent of Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms of set theory. No proof is going change that.

So whatever has been proved here doesn't change that. It will take a second to get the reference but Raymond Smullyan says essentially that "we're not looking for a proof or disproof of CH, we're looking for an assumption that can be shown to be natural enough that we can take it as an axiom".

Just sayin' since the (subheading) writer seems to be playing fast and loose with the concepts involved.

Edit: article goes on to give rigorous explanation but still starting "no one knew" confuses what's going on.
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> 1. Fedora is not a rolling release, so you don't get every single kernel point release like you do in Arch.

Wrong. The kernel and mesa stack rolls and is rebased regularly throughout the life of a Fedora release. Fedora is prepping for a rebase to Linux 5.13 for both Fedora 33 and Fedora 34 now: https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-to-fedora-linux-kernel...
I went to the theatre last weekend (first time since before the late unpleasantness) and showed up about ten minutes after the posted showtime. The attendant at the ticket booth confused asked "are you sure you don't want the next showing that one has already started". I confirmed no I wanted the one that had "started". I didn't miss any movie though just the ads.
Certainly the Steam surverys support the notion that the people who won't shut up about $1,000 graphics cards are very much a minority in PC gaming. They eat up all the oxygen in the room, but they certainly aren't the actual majority of the group.
I thought this was weird too. Why are comments the dividing line? Because they sound like a human? How do we know Copilot won’t regurgitate an exact copy of human code that doesn’t have comments?

It’s kinda surprising Copilot even reads and outputs comments.
That's fairly easy to implement with comptime.
A synonym for the noun "evil" is the noun "evilness", just as a synonym for the noun "good" is the noun "goodness".
Most people (in my area) hire a photographer to take senior photos. They may hire me because they see my ad instead of someone else they already know of because they like my work better.

Or, let's say they decided to just do it on their own/have a friend do it...until they see one of my images and go "wow."

The second may be spending money when they wouldn't, but that's pretty rare. If they do it's because they decided it was worth it. The others are just being shown another option that they might not have known existed, meaning they're more informed about where they're going to spend their money.

I don't see who is getting hurt in this scenario. I get work that I need to survive and they're getting photos that they're excited about.
Does anyone remember the name of the music video in the examples?
I imagine that in the next decade, the USA (and California in particular) will learn that there exists a tipping point where a homelessness crisis turns into proper slums/favelas/shanty-towns. The middle-income and developing world is replete with examples of this happening, and America is foolish to think itself immune. Since the current trajectory of increasing economic disparity and insufficient home construction in desirable areas is likely to continue, the result should not be any surprise.
really? it's this because it's too expensive to do an FFT? this would give you all probable matches directly? no?
isn't this how most countries changed to a total war system?
looking at world war 2, most countries radically changed their economies and nationalised a ton of industry to be able to conduct warfare.
> UBI only works when it's 1) Universal (even to rich people) and 2) When it's funded by dismantling some/all of the existing welfare state.

That's overly vague and also wrong; What is fundamentally necessary is that the benefit cliffs of existing social welfare programs are eliminated, which requires that any effective benefit reduction be made gradual and distant from the low-end of the income spectrum.

The general way of doing this is:

(1) Making the benefit nominally universal across a population qualified by basic community membership traits (e.g., citizenship or legal residency),

(2) Replacing any means-tested benefit programs (non-means-tested social welfare programs may or may not be replaced, but are not critical to replace for the basic function of UBI, whereas means-tested programs are critical to replace.)

(3) Funding most of the cost (benefit plus administrative savings of displacing means-tested social welfare programs generally will not suffice for the benefit levels to functionally replace existing programs since the target population is much larger) with high-end taxes (e.g., in a system like the US systems, equalizing capital gains with normal income taxes, adding additional high-end brackets, etc.)

#1 and #3 are slightly different together than your #1, since the actual (that is, net) benefit (even discounting displaced programs) isn't actually universal, since some at the high end are net payers, and #2 is more specific than your #2 as yo which parts of the existing welfare state are essential to replace.
Triangle partition mode was in VVC VTM 6, cant remember if it made it into the final spec due to complexity increase.
No thought experiment needed. If I watch a bunch of movies and then make my own movie, whether or not I lose in court depends on if the movie I made is at least "substantially similar" to any movie I happened to watch - or, in other words, had "access" to. That's a fact-intensive thing that juries usually decide on a case-by-case basis.

The difference between that and having an AI do it is probably low. My gut instinct is that using an AI constitutes "access" to the AI's training corpus, so if it spits out something at least substantially similar to that corpus, then I'm infringing if I use that output. If it doesn't constitute access, then a copyright owner would have to prove "striking similarity", which would really only cover things like using Copilot to spit out fragments of old Quake code verbatim.

Clean-room is a way of arguing down the level of access that you have to something that you want to make a non-infringing copy of. It usually requires having actual attorneys review everything the clean-room engineers get to see, and stripping out the parts that are actually copyrightable. Merely training an ML system on input as a way to only have access to the uncopyrightable parts of that input probably wouldn't work.

Pretty much every Internet service is going to have similar clauses to GitHub's; because anything else would basically be a "click here to make me liable for copyright infringement" button. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised that merely running something like GitHub but without a ToS would still give you similar levels of implied license over whatever people push to your server.
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It's pretty common to run db locally in docker for integration testing these days
I see you point. But using "right-wingers" is a tell of sorts. It makes you appear dismissive of the opposing viewpoint.

But otherwise I agree: there is such a thing as truth and there are out and out lies.

I hope that my views are based on truths but I recognize that there are areas that while true are nuanced enough that someone else can come to a different conclusion than me. For this reason I don't claim that everyone with a different view is backing their view with lies.

Sometimes though, some of them are.
Run ads internally for a period of time disconnected from the number of clicks. It's worked well for decades. Basically, to reduce the integration of ads and browsers.
> Plenty of games that are released on PC are best/better played with a conroller

Fewer than people think, in my opinion. Snake Pass and Outer Wilds insisted to me that they would be better with a controller and both were wrong.
That should be done by the parent, not the child. There are more than enough tools for a parent to police what their child sees online.

The problem is that parents aren’t trusted to do their job by some and some want the government to step in and do as much parenting as possible. That’s not how parenting works though. The government doesn’t own your children and shouldn’t get to decide how they’re raised.
Influencers have direct deals from sponsors, so the sponsors are less reliant on FB's ad-targeting capabilities.

Influencers get their own vanity URLs with discounts and tracking attached, so attribution is no issue, beyond the friction of the extra 'link in bio' step. It'll be recorded accurately whether or not the vendor's site has the Facebook Pixel installed.
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> How many real numbers exist?

You might be tempted to say "lots". And you would be right, as far as that goes.

But that doesn't satisfy a real mathematician. The question that immediately arises is whether "lots" is "enough". And that leads the better sort of mathematician inevitably to: "enough for what?" That is what mathematicians are deep in the middle of exploring, now.

For example, when you are asked, "Does this skirt make my butt look too big?", you obviously must not say "yes", but you just as obviously cannot, with an entirely clear conscience, say "no", either. But for anyone with an intact survival instinct, the counter-question, "too big for what?" should spring immediately to mind. And it's a good one, but it depends intimately on the true size of the set of real numbers. So, this is not an idle pursuit.
> Therefore I suggested SubVersion

This author has much to teach us about evil after all
It was more or less a purely ideological thing.

"Ideology" is usually better termed "marketing" in the American political context. The war media popularizes the myths and prejudices (even if they weren't fake they wouldn't rise to the level of "ideology") that make favored wars more likely. They do that in order to make more money, which is typical of marketing.

Besides, both of these wars can be traced to particular events rather than some sort of general ideology. The Korean War was foisted upon civilian leadership by the insubordinate and deliberately poor tactics of nest-feathering military brass like MacArthur. The Vietnam War was justified by the Tonkin Gulf Hoax executed by navy but mostly by NSA.
Yes, that's what I meant. Even though it was subsidized by ads, you still needed to pay for it.
Thing is it is not that difficult to lock down most porn sites if you are in control of the router and can force the use of a specific DNS.

If you have your childrens iPhones as part of a family setup you can also block their access that way.

However I salute you for your choice, which is the harder and better way. If more parents did as you, we would not have the issues we have today.

Porn is nice enough but watch, but because there is essentially no discussion about how to have sex (outside of school, which at best is put tab a in slot b, here is how not to become pregnant, this is what STDs are.) the only input too many teens get is porn.
"Fiat Lux" not "Fiat Calor"
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They certainly don't have control over the military in the "Napoleonic supply officer coup" way. Diversion of funds and corruption while bad cannot lead to an outright coup. Gear is a long term thing for securing loyalties of the men holding the guns. Money alone wouldn't work well - the government has more and gave them everything they have. The high level of complexity and specialization of advanced military gear while favoring them fiscally also means that they wanted to go full treason and use their manufacturing capacity to equip an army covertly they would be at massive disadvantage from lack of skill even if they had enough legitimacy that their employees wouldn't just nope out the moment they did something so crazy. That and fear of facing serious charges.

That bit aside the reason is that corporations do a better job at it. The US navy once had their own manufactury - they quit doing it when private industry could get them better bang for their buck. Also methods of social arrangement which are helpful at a corporate level for their domain would be disastrous for governments.

Having competing monopolies of force isn't a stable situation for instance. Squabbling divisions drawing from the same resource pool are bad for serving the root cause. Corporations have seperate resource pools in competition without the same set of problems.

A government would have a Morton's fork for its own manufacturing. If they had only one division they have the same disadvantages as a monopoly. If they have multiple for the same niche they have the same issues as above.
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Armaments manufacturers don't just control the military. Actually they control the entire war media and most national politicians as well.
Sometimes ads bring items into your life that improve it. That’s not going to be the majority of cases though, usually ads will bring products into your life for the good of someone else, which is bad.

If you didn’t have ads, your dentist would have told you about electric toothbrushes.
but providing some stability through housing and food seems like a productive, and achievable first step for a city government to accomplish.

The problem is how it's done.

I've eaten in soup kitchens. It tends to be lousy food and I was homeless because I have a serious medical condition and I eating healthy is critical to my ability to function at all.

A lot of homeless people have serious health issues and the attitude is "Beggars can't be choosers. Eat the free stuff that's been put in front of you." when sometimes that free stuff is actively harming their health and if you count the medical cost for requiring more medication and the opportunity cost in lost wages because they remain too sick to work, that "free meal" is an expensive as hell choice to make.

The longer I was on the street, the more I avoided things like soup kitchens, which not only tend to provide lousy food, they expose you to other people who are sick, coughing, haven't bathed recently, and are smoking either cigarettes or marijuana. I have a respiratory condition and am, additionally, allergic to marijuana. Soup kitchens were a nightmare.

What I think we ought to do is expand the food stamp program and lower the barriers to getting food stamps. Food stamps are put on a card, much like a debit card, and you spend it as you see fit and it gives you access to normal middle class food sources, like grocery stores.

Food is absolutely an essential and good quality food programs help protect the health of the people and mitigate the impacts of poverty, but many things aimed at "helping the homeless" are amazingly bad to the point of being mostly counterproductive in my first-hand experience as someone who was homeless for nearly 6 years. And when you are homeless, no one wants to hear your criticisms of this terrible program and how it doesn't actually meet your need. They expect you to be grateful while putting a gun to your head and saying "If you aren't eating at the awful soup kitchen, it's your own damn fault you can't solve your problems."

We really don't do a good job of helping America's poor access opportunity. This is no longer the land of opportunity and that's the crux of the problem.

If you can't already afford a new car and a big house, your life is likely slipping into the toilet rather than climbing towards a better future and it's incredibly hard to fight against the many trends pushing you down as just an individual being crushed under the boot of myriad larger forces.

I would like to see more mail services for the homeless generally, but the shelter system seems to be as bad as soup kitchens or worse and I never once spent the night in a homeless shelter.
It sounds like you have an ideological issue rather than a scientific one.

CA's lockdowns were based on scientific evidence that COVID19 spreads through the air. Requiring masks was based on that evidence. As there were a lot of scientific unknowns during the past year, the lockdowns were overly broad as a matter of necessity--nobody knew how bad it could get. Moreover, CA's refusal to stick to the lackadaisal CDC guidelines was based heavily on the Trump administration's politicization of COVID19, and especially on the CDC's missteps at the beginning of the COVID19 crisis (i.e., when they were originally advising people not to wear masks...because they wanted to save them for medical workers and had neglected to make purchase orders for masks).

Requiring masks after vaccination was required for several months because it wasn't yet known how effective vaccinations would be in the real world. Once that data was established, the mask mandate ended for the vaccinated.

Also, note that the vaccinated can still get and spread COVID19, especially the newer strains like delta, they simply won't suffer severe symptoms if they do get infected.

If you don't want to live in an environment like CA where science and public health plays a role in decision-making, it's probably for the best that you're not living in CA.
there are research groups this would be useful for but structures are not on the critical path to drug discovery or approval.