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Yeah, I knew about dandelion tea, but I didn't know you could eat the while plant. I wonder what all those leaves I put in the bin yesterday taste like. They would have to be better than rocket.
Whilst apple also have its share of this ui change (like keyboard butterfly or no hole in portable etc.), I still think their design team actually work to solve sone user problem. Not just marketing or engineering… I cannot be sure. Just that I thought.

Hence not all in the dark side.
This just highlights how deeply flawed the utilitarian moral perspective is. Any form of totalitarianism can be eventually justified with "it's for the public good"
"Physically Based Rendering in CSS" sounds kind of silly, but here we go

First, the width of the blurred region (penumbra). Imagine putting a camera on the ground and pointing it at the sun. By moving the camera in and out of shadow, it can see more or less of the sun. Intuitively we know that the higher the box is, the bigger the penumbra. The sun has an apparent size of .53°, and so does the region of partial shadow descending from the edge of the box. Some trigonometry later, and The ratio of the width of the penumbra to the elevation of the box is .00925 or about 1%

Next, we can calculate what portion of the sun is visible from the penumbra. The amount of sun visible is a portion of a circle, so we do an integral of a circle function and hoo boy would that be a pain to type on mobile. The graph is sort of a `smoothstep` shape, but is very close to linear
So here's the thing: the FDA has already given full approval to the vaccine. They've approved it. And yet, somehow we're still having this discussion about whether it's ok to give a third dose, after several months, despite good evidence that doing so would often be helpful. We can argue about the data, but a reasonable person, looking at the data, could come to the conclusion that there is good reason to give a third dose of a vaccine the FDA has already approved. So where's the ability of physicians to exercise their expert discretion? Why are we even having this discussion?

Contrast this with the opioid epidemic, where lives and communities were being destroyed wholesale. Why wouldn't it be appropriate for the FDA to step in and temporarily put greater restrictions on the medications? They regulated dispensation of pseudoephedrine and do all sorts of things. Why not do it with opioids? When there's actual serious harm, the FDA shouldn't do anything because the drug has some legitimate uses sometimes, but when there's evidence of very little harm, the FDA should leverage its complete authority to prevent it, despite evidence it might be of public health benefit?

I can give other examples of drugs where in the peer-reviewed literature there are review articles concluding that a medication is completely safe to be offered over-the-counter, but conclude that it shouldn't be so as to not establish a precedent.

The problem is this inconsistency: what real authority -- not legally inherited authority, but actual authority, in the sense of moral authority -- does the FDA have if it bans substances like cannabis, all the while allowing alcohol (which has much more serious consequences), letting an opioid crisis burn like wildfire, and then putting the hammer down on a third dose of a pharmaceutical it has already approved?

Think of it this way: is it any wonder there are so many vaccine skeptics when the FDA behaves as if a third dose of a vaccine it has already approved is so dangerous physicians shouldn't be allowed to use their discretion to prescribe it?

It's no surprise that there's such a crisis of skepticism about expertise in this country. The credentialing associated with the expertise is empty of meaning anymore, and it is constantly overstepping its role.
And what happens if I physically intervene to stop them from putting out my flag?
Nobody elected you moderator, let alone arbiter of constructive commentary. I don't answer to you, and I'm certainly not here for your edification.

Besides, HN isn't a community. It's a groupthink incubator where overprivileged techies who weren't bullied enough as children simp for billionaires and VCs. Newsflash: senpai will never notice you.
This is not as large of a change as it seems: single-family zoning was already (quietly) dead in California. Under SB13, almost all single family parcels can already have both an ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) a Junior ADU, for a total of three units per parcel.

SB9 increases that number from 3 to 4: you can now split the lot, and each half can have a duplex. This does give owners more options though: they can sell the other half of the lot, rather than having to rent out ADUs.
> If you just try to judge a leader or organization based on how they acted in the past, you will be misled

You might be. But I don’t really see how you know that about anyone but yourself.

How someone actually makes decisions is obviously more discernible from the decisions they have made in practice than from a set of statements they make about how they do it.
It's hard enought to get any of that stuff to work when you have a fully-stocked lab and a raft of PhDs poking at it from all angles. Some Joe in his garage might get something interesting to happen, but it is a long, long way from there to virulence. The viruses themselves are banging away at this all the time from literally trillions of different angles; how often do they land on a winning ticket?
I might be wrong, but it seems the details betray the headline.

All I see is throwing more money at homeless people and voluntary upzoning program that city councils probably aren’t going to voluntarily use (hence why this problem exists in the first place).

> It includes provisions to prevent the displacement of existing renters and protect historic districts

Like all bizarro housing legislation passed in California, these bills sound like they'll make it even harder for developers to build. Not easier.

I'm genuinely confused how even more red tape is going to somehow make it easier to build.

It’s like developers said “we can’t build because there’s too much regulation” and the CA government responded by saying “here’s 3 more pieces of regulation!”
Netflix will download TV shows and movies but only onto your phone! You should check it out it's pretty awesome for going to the gym using wireless headphones and the treadmill... Android 1plus6t & Bose qc35.
Don't carry a phone is obviously not option for people in many positions.

IMO it's a bit nihilistic compared to pushing for privacy guards for infrastructure.
"Second world" doesn't mean "half way between developed and developing" to me, it means "was part of or heavily allied with the USSR".

I am not trying to insist that "third world" needs to retain its original cold war meaning or anything, obviously it is widely used to refer to less-developed nations.
Whether or not there is a warrant is tangential to my argument. There used to be hard physical limits to the amount of surveillance that could be done. Now, the only limits are legal limits. Those legal limits were never designed to be the only limit, and are insufficient in their current form.
> Some people are just missing that part of their development that helps them to intuitively grasp what counts as abuse when there are no clear written rules.

I think the guy who quit after two months' leave knew perfectly well it was abuse; he just didn't care. Or maybe he felt slighted by the company in some way (unfair resolution of a conflict, promotion denied, underpaid, whatever) and this was his way of getting even with them.
Ten years ago, in 2011, Pete Warden discovered that the iPhone was tracking peoples' locations. It was considered to be a bug at the time, because it was only intended to be stored for up to a week, for knowing which phone transmitter to use.

https://petewarden.github.io/iPhoneTracker/

"the advantages of Location History"

I thought that this data would be useful to help geotag the photos in my iPhoto library. So I wrote a little script to parse the iPhone data, and cross-match the timestamps with photos. Never became really popular though, probably because people now use phones to take photos and they already include the location in the EXIF data.

iPhone Geotag

https://peterburk.github.io/programs/#iPhoneGeotag

"keeping that data to themselves"

Once the bug was fixed, and Apple stopped storing location data indefinitely, I thought it would be kind of handy as a feature. So I wrote a little PHP script that ran on my jailbroken iPhone and saved a log of my location every 30 minutes.

It recorded data from
Monday, May 12, 2014 3:44:52 PM
to
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 9:00:06 AM

My battery life got worse, because the GPS kept turning on. During that whole year, I never wanted to check the data, not even once. So I turned off the script. Not tracking myself made me less self-conscious about where I was walking and what I was doing, and it was a relief.

I do use an iPhone, but it's an old 4S with iOS 6.1.3, and I only switch on 3G rarely in case of emergencies. I don't use iCloud for backup, only USB sync. The phone companies will know my location, but Apple probably don't. With the security features all compromised through jailbreaking, I can see everything on my phone so I know what data they could possibly get. And that's good enough for me.
I also saw this pattern. Yet many people will insist on getting their wealth because they are greedy.

For me that is plain envy sorry. And, who is the greedy the ones that save their work or the ones that want the wealth made by others? Because that is more greedy IMHO.
While I 100% think that SFH has often been used for this reason I think larger reason that "my house will go up in value if I restrict all other building" is more accurate. Keeping out black people was one of the early use cases with it but certainly not the only or the first.

SFH has existed heavily in New England, Canada, Iowa, pretty much every where in North America in spots where there are very few black people. Even heavily black neighborhoods like Baldwin Hills (aka Black Beverly Hills) historically had quite a bit of single family zoning. I think if that thesis was true you'd see large historical discrepancies with SFH in different states but you really don't.

I grew up in a suburban white town next to a city that was 95% white and our town had a lot of NIMBYs who prevented condos from going up. I do no think it was because they were cool with 95 white people moving in but scared of 5 non-white people. I think they just knew that it was bad for property values (for supply/demand reasons) + property taxes (for budgetary reasons) and were selfish.

The only reason I push back on this is because I don't think its helpful. I live in LA and the most common cited arguments against SB9/SB10 was that it would hurt "middle class minorities in south LA" and the representatives of these areas all voted against the bill (presumably because their biggest donors are black+hispanic+white landowners in these areas)
The love of guns by certain segments of society can be tied to the US history of fear of slave rebellions and Indian raids.
Yeah I read a lot about Iodine, and everything says its primary use is to make the thyroid hormones which are ostensibly signaling molecules. I think those "hormones" are actually just a storage site for Iodine. The hormones are T1, T2, T3, and T4 and differ mainly by the number of Iodine atoms attached. That just doesnt look like signaling to me. Its storage for an important atom that would diffuse and leave the body if not incorporated into an organic molecule.
> point still stands regardless

No it doesn't. The rhetoric of "remove weapons of war from America's streets" does not jive with the "small arms are not good enough weapons of war" argument.

> The existence of small arms is not what lead the Taliban to success against the US.

Okay, but Americans have more than that, they have everything you mentioned. They have the largest economy in the world from which to draw the wealth needed for those things. They have militias, they have state governments with treasuries, a significant portion of the population is trained by way of service in the military.

But even beyond all that, I think you're underestimating the importance of small arms in waging an insurgency. All of those other things exist only to ensure that bullets can be fired.
A) most abortions aren't in response to rape. [0]
B) most rapes aren't surprise attacks in a darkened alley or parking garage; it's by an acquaintance or intimate partner of the victim. [1]

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/24/rape-a...
[1] https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics
Isn’t it a chicken and egg problem? The only way to fund the new infrastructure to accommodate growth that will bring in property taxes to fund it in the future is via debt or impact fees. Either can be difficult for local governments to do.

Also voters are often given lots of say, people who don’t want density get entrenched and vote for local leaders who are like minded.
Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
Everyone is ok with being sold something that they understand, most people are not ok with being sold something that screams "UNLIMITED" and then uses fine print to limit your seemingly unlimited plan.

Maybe the plans you're describing could spin the feature as "throttled for your pleasure" or some such. I'm sure there are marketing people that can come up with a positive way to spin it that isn't a borderline falsehood.
"a complete 360"
180*
I escape loneliness by escaping society. I'm never lonely unless I'm around other people.
No, it's not. It's just being dismissive because your wants are being met by the current state.
> If you believe that it is the governments duty to extend lifespans and prevent illness at literally any cost

I do not. The cost of fast and strict lockdowns is very minimal. It's when you wait to enact a proper lockdown that it becomes very very expensive, because it suddenly takes six months to finish instead of six days.

> More people die every year from making those choices [diet, exercise] badly than anything else.

Yep, which is most countries tax things like sugar more heavily than they do vegetables, and why your health insurance is cheaper if you're in good physical health. We already have restrictions to incentivise good habits there.

> If you believe liberty is important on any level, then you would believe people should generally be able to decide for themselves what risks they want to take with their lives.

I'm fine with people deciding what risks they want to take with their own lives, I'm not fine with them deciding what risks they want to take with the lives of anyone who happens to come into contact with them.
I've worked with some large Jira installations and I don't remember ever running into 10s page loads without a broken VPN/internet connection. This sounds like a very very broken setup.
I think that is the goal, it's just what we currently have is an AI that's like a naive child who is easily tricked and distracted by clickbait.
The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% – ex CIA spy
Is there definable criteria for measuring the success of this policy direction? What are the metrics?

Is there an example of this policy direction working elsewhere?

Is the goal solely improving housing affordability in locations with high-demand?

Is exacerbating the wealth gap of concern? Density is almost always developed as rental units; growing the permanent rental class means eliminating access to the only vehicle for building wealth for middle and low income Americans.
Sub-heading:

> In a few weeks, Windows 11 will arrive. Should you upgrade to it? Let me answer with a question: "Should you stop hitting your head against the wall?"

Well, I mean, yes, I SHOULD stop hitting my head against the wall. So then, you're saying I SHOULD upgrade to Windows 11? I think the author's logic got confused here. Or else the joke just flew clear over my head.
> …revolutions in France have done more to guide government power than anything ever that happened in the US.

Sorry are you saying that the French Revolutionary Wars were not fought with guns?
so, the middle ground is, "unlimited" is not, at all, unlimited.
Pff. That is nothing. Try to run your own mailserver and deliver a mail to a t-online.de address (T Mobile Germany).

They basically only accept pre-approved providers. If your have your own domain and infrastructure you have to petition them to whitelist you. Totally insane.

If you can read German, this guy who runs a shop decided to block himself all of t-online emails since they basically run email out of specification.
https://blog.rolandmoriz.de/2020/09/21/t-online-blockiert-ma...
Protection of BNT162b2 (Pfizer) Vaccine Booster Against Covid-19 in Israel
Not really. Security is built around likelihoods, and most attacks are really not likely, so it’s just a question of which attacks are likely and mitigating them.
> It includes provisions to prevent the displacement of existing renters and protect historic districts

This is specifically in reference to the owner-occupancy provision. If you choose to split your lot into two parcels, the owner must attest that they intend to reside at the property for at least 3 years. This concession was made to satisfy a demand from the California Association of Realtors and get the bill passed.

Note that this is different from the duplex provision: each parcel can have a duplex, regardless of whether you split the lot or not. The duplex provision does not have any owner-occupancy requirement.

> So it's voluntary?

SB10 creates a voluntary process for 10-unit apartment buildings near transit. SB9 is involuntary, and allows duplexes and lot splits in single family zones.
Thanks, I really appreciate all the positive replies.

Mostly they have been arms length connections - intros from people I know. Tbh, so far minimal pushback due to the (relatively) warm nature, and in their profession (healthcare) they are clear value in the value being provided. The TestFlight system is actually reasonably easy.

While the private beta idea is good for today, plan to move past it once I validate a few more parts. There’s no fomo/network effects at play.
OK, how about Argentina?
hopefully millions of people die because biologists screwed up.
"Youtube has no realistic way to tell whether someone producing home-made science on youtube is a phd ex-nasa biohacker who follows best practices or just a complete quack who tries to sell dangerous fake remedies to vulnerable people."

We shouldn't pretend someone with a significant following is banned or demonetized because The Algorithm Made Me Do It™.

YouTube has the resources to verify if a popular streamer is a genuine PhD and formerly worked at NASA. Far smaller companies do these kinds of vefrifications all the time. It just chooses not to, even in the process of banning an account.

Note I'm not arguing those credentials alone should mean very much. I just question in general, the argument that companies can't "realistically" take certain measures because it wouldn't scale. Most of the time, they don't take them because they're neither required to and it wouldn't improve their bottom line.
> If you just try to judge a leader or organization based on how they acted in the past, you will be misled if circumstances have changed, unless you can read the leaders mind.

Only if you don’t take into account the changed circumstances. And if you’re going to ignore circumstances, clearly no set of written priorities will save you.

How someone actually makes decisions is obviously more discernible from the decisions they have made in practice than from a set of statements they make about how they do it.

> But, and here's an important thing: a leaders' values may be different in different circumstances! The same person, when running a 5 person startup, and a 50,000 person company, will land on different sides of the same tradeoffs! Organizational priorities change.

This is a point I explained to you earlier. I’m glad you now agree with it.
they haven’t actually innovated anything or made their cars cheaper in like 4 years (the model 3 is more expensive than it was then). people are realizing autopilot is fake

so all they have now is their wacky steering wheel to get attention
It's a little weird to tell someone to ignore their lived experience and instead watch a YouTube video to learn about their own life.

I don't know Santanello, his videos, or his positions, but I don't think he'd be able to get a full picture no matter how he tried. Yes, I am sure there are black people in rough neighborhoods who do appreciate some of what the police does. But I am sure there are also many who don't. And if you ask those same folks in Santanello's videos if they're ok with stop-and-frisk, I would not expect to hear "yes".
That article was brilliant, thanks! Probably deserves it's own post
Ellen Pao has her own axe to grind. Ms. Holmes isn't on trial for being a woman, she's on trial for defrauding investors. The other male entrepreneurs Ms. Pao refers to have certainly been guilty of gaming the system -- isn't that what "disrupters" are supposed to do? But that's different from deliberately lying about the product you're trying to sell.
This has amazing potential. I'd encourage you to form a non-profit, turn this into something that can last as an organization without becoming what you're trying to avoid becoming. This is a good enough start that I bet you could raise a sizeable startup fund very soon from a combination of crowdfunding and foundation grants—I bet the Sloan Foundation would love this!
We should stop hitting our heads against the wall. Instead, the wall would automatically hit our heads.
While the process isn’t perfect, I’m under the impression that EPA range is tested with “typical usage”. I’m sure there’s edge cases but getting an extra 100-200 miles for typical usage is pretty significant.
What would you consider more of a win here: everybody in town has internet that they pay for through the city (either via taxes or fees), or Los Alamos owns and operates its own network? The model used for the other utilities may not work, for example the DOE puts up the money the lab uses to buy electricity which effectively subsidizes the town's costs, but they need power and don't really have much of an alternative (unless they fire up the reactors again...). The lab already has their own backbone connection so I doubt they're going to be interested in buying internet services from the town.