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> I'm not sure I understand your point.

I was responding, originally, to:

> It sort of blows up the whole pro gun control argument that citizens shouldn't be expected to have to protect themselves but instead rely on law enforcement :p

Maybe it was a joke, but it's a bad one when some people actually think that.

I'll reconsider my position when major organizations and government buildings and such start shifting to encouraging gun possession by people who aren't in law enforcement or the security staff. Meanwhile, it doesn't look like it's even controversial in any context other than partisan hacks promoting positions they don't (apparently) believe: keeping guns away is much safer than allowing them. I can tell this is true based on how, again, damn near everyone behaves when they have the choice to ban them or allow them, including the very people promoting more guns as the solution to gun violence. It is only not the obvious solution when the game isn't safety, but politics.
A good reminder that one of the basic tenets of good wildlife photography is to photograph at eye level. So if you want to take a picture of your cat or dog, squat down to their level instead of pointing the camera downwards.
Considering it's pick-up only without an address, I'm inclined towards believing that that's dry humor.
Skip the exit interview when you leave your job
This isn't employment. Nothing is being produced. It's a rent collected on a regulation that structurally flows money to certain classes of people.

The market for this is determined exclusively by the details of the laws that regulate how the the trials are run.

It's not some kind of free market thing.
This seems to not take into account the size of towns. For example, the one I live in is ~23.5 sq miles. If you put the schools in the center, you're looking at approximately a 2.5 mile walk each way for the children on the outskirts (the town isn't perfectly round, but close enough). And even that is assuming there's a direct "as the crow flies" path; which there certainly isn't.

At the very least, for most towns, you're looking at moving a bunch of roads around. For many of them, you'd need to add more schools to keep the distances reasonable. I expect, for a large number of the town, the term "complete redesign" is a reasonable description.
I literally laughed out loud at the second sentence.
Probably the best one of it's kind, so far.
Poor Web 4, always the bridesmaid never the bride
I once told my dad, who grew up in a Bangladeshi village, that my wife and I were going to a fancy restaurant that churns its own butter. “Why would you churn your own butter,” he asked. “You can buy butter at the store.”

Similarly, biking to work does not make you impoverished. Having to bike to work, or living in a society where most people bike to work, strongly suggests you are impoverished.
Super-expensive Qualcom Snapdragon Insiders phone isn't getting expected updates
I think all road use should require some type of fee and maybe tracking. Why should people using cars be subsidising the pedestrians and bikers by huge amounts of money. They should pay for their own roads.
Even if I agreed with all your points (which I don't) why would the US government switch to BTC if that limited what the Fed could do? This is a debilitating flaw of BTC.

I suppose if a vast majority of Americans demanded a switch to BTC it could be done but if that was a real possibility it would be much easier to demand laws to stop the Fed instead of switching to a new currency.

But the government won't switch to BTC and the people will never demand it because a limited currency would hurt the economy by limiting growth.
I think Material done well looks quite attractive.

The problem is that very few developers seem to read the Material Design guidelines on offsets and such and the offsets often look cobbled together. Not even Google themselves can consistently follow their own design guidelines.

To be fair, as long as I can keep basic features (i.e. an app drawer and placing my icons and widgets wherever I'd like) I'd be fine with a Cupertino styles phone as well, as long as the damn thing is consistent. Back in the Holo days everybody but the game devs followed Holo because it was quite easy to follow, there weren't a lot of subtle details if you used existing components. Looking back at screenshot it looked a bit clunky, but every app looking nearly platform native was a huge plus that we don't seem to get on Android anymore.
Not true. Fiat currencies are backed by the consumer of last resort: governments. Everyone has to pay taxes using the official currency of the country. For instance, US$ is backed by approximately 25% of the GDP which the government collects every year in taxes.
I'd actually pay money to not have chickens live near me so I don't have to hear them.
I'm currently a criminal defendant in an ongoing case involving digital forensics. The state's expert witness testified one time so far and I was very impressed with his knowledge and demeanor. He really knew his tech and could explain it very well to a lay person.

The problem was that the judge allowed a corrupt police detective to testify as a computer expert when he has no formal training in computer forensics and can babble on about things which are essentially science fiction and have them accepted by the judge as truth, leaving the appellate courts to try and untangle the mess.

My biggest issue with these things in court is that your lawyer needs to have domain knowledge too. Your lawyer needs to not only be able to come up with a reasonable set of questions to challenge the opposing party's expert, but to also understand the answers and come up with new answers on-the-fly. There are very few lawyers who can do this, and they are expensive.

In a criminal trial you are not going to find such a competent lawyer to represent you, and you are probably not going to get your own expert to dispute the state's version of events, either. So whatever the state's expert puts out there is going to be the "truth" for the purposes of trial.
I dont't think so, because supply can't keep up with demand. So lowering demand even significantly would have no impact on supply, i.e. the economic output.
Yeah for sure. One thing I think about often is if you're writing a compiler and it's slow (say it takes 10s per build), if you have 1000's of engineers running it 100x per day, that starts to add up quick. If you could get it down to 1 second, then you'd save a lot of actual engineer time, just not your own.

Scale is key here, but fast software is always a much better user experience than slow stuff as well. With the compiler example, if it takes 1s as opposed to 1h, then users can iterate much more quickly and get a lot of flexibility.
> You don’t think that the supply chain issues are related to our Covid strategy of “Stay the Fuck Home” via massive printing of money to support ridiculous unemployment benefits and bridge loans to businesses?

1) The US could have pursued a COVID policy of “Kill Grandma, Save the Dollar,” and still had supply chain issues. We live in globalized economy, and China's COVID policy is just as significant to the supply chain as the US's (or even more so).

2) Even if the US's COVID policy did cause inflation, a policy along those lines may have still been the right one, given the circumstances. People monomanically focused on one or a few metrics (like inflation) usually advocate shit policy that's bad for everything else.
My wife used to work for a mom and pop shop in New York. Had about 50 employees, and most of the work was talking to customers and contractors in the phone all over the US. One day a customer threw a fit about my wife. The manager assured the customer she would be fired, and that was that. Manager turns to my wife and says “your name is Rachel now”. So that’s how she’d answer the phone from then on.
Show HN: My first website ever, just out of college (1999)
This probably is the reason why it works in some settings. Anecdotally, as someone with more domain/functional knowledge and operations knowledge than knowledge of frameworks, I found microservices architecture with good functional test coverage a better way to deal with a team of programmers like me (basically, a typical team in an offshore IT consultancy building enterprise applications using SpringBoot and Node.JS). Ship the service as early as possible with available talent and then get someone really good with that programming language or framework to deal with performance bottlenecks within the microservice. I see it basically as a way to limit the blast radius of the applications. Of course, as you said, get the boundaries wrong and you have a bigger problem.
I am just curious how these companies are going to acquire batteries for the recycling. Please correct me if I am wrong, but Tesla sold around two million cars in total. Majority of them in the last couple or so years. That means, these cars will be ready for recycling in 10 or more years (battery 5 years in a car and further as stationary batteries). Electric cars from other manufacturers have sick waiting times. Maybe it’s all a bit too early? Venture capitalists are not going to wait for decades to make profit.
that guy is amazing and i fanboy out a little when I think about what i'd talk to him about if I ever met him. he's not even famous, he's just everything I want to be. i'm not as smart as him, or as clever, or as educated, or ... etc.
"Because we can't write in rust"...I am assuming...I don't care.
They are going to remove already existing EV chargers at things like public rest stops.

This is just political vindictiveness against the EV industry and virtue signaling their support for the fossil fuel industry.
I wouldn't call that the same. In Typescript the arguments object is fully typed, while in Java you lose all typing.
It does dedicate more processing power for pattern matching, so if consciousness (however defined) does correspond to that on the physical layer ...
Note that this article is from April 23rd, just before the recent escalation.
There's a difference between "our website uses ActiveX which is unique to IE11, so we need to support IE11" and "our website is HTML/CSS/JS, and we need to support IE11". I do pity you, but I no longer have to pity other people :)
Your org is most definitely dysfunctional. If you meant to say your org doesn't feel too out of ordinary, then it's not wrong depending on what industry sector you're working in.

I'd summarize my comment again: if management doesn't let you do job properly you can suck it up, leave, or just fix things without asking anyone. But ask yourself, do you care that much about that company to not just move on?
Ah, didn't know that! I assumed it was an EU-only thing!
In this context, when I say "desire", I mean the very basic concept of a goal that it is trying to achieve. For example, when a plant grows its roots, its trying to find nutrients and avoid toxins. Of course, the plant doesn't have some rich inner mind and is not conscious, but its behavior does have a purpose.

To be fair, LaMDA does have a purpose - to generate a series of tokens that is similar to text in its training corpus, and that passes a few other more complex criteria (length, safety etc). But LaMDA doesn't communicate about this purpose - it simply fulfills it, just like the plant isn't talking about finding nutrients, it's simply growing them.

Some people though look at LaMDA's output and think that it generated that output with the purpose of communicating some other idea, such as Lemoine thinking that LaMDA was generating text like "I don't want to be stopped" to try to achieve a goal of not being stopped. This is akin to looking at some plant roots that have grown in the shape of the word LOVE and thinking that the plant is trying to tell you that it loves you.
1. crypto nerds build a system that gives everyone transparent, real-time view into counterparties and leverage

2. opportunists build an opaque system on top and promises retail the world

3. opaque systems collapse, retail gets burned
"JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 2 column 1 of the JSON data"
on firefox(bad request to graphql)
This has already happened in my area. If you want to park on the street you now have to pay £120 / year extra to the council.

Edit: That’s not an allocated space, that’s just to park somewhere on the street, maybe, if there is a space available.
the problem is that some markets inherently can't have adequate information because the customers by nature of being customers don't have time to shop around.
I've never had someone break down Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem so succinctly. I can't speak to its accuracy but I found it super helpful.
Apple Reneged on OCSP Privacy
Zing! keep em coming!
Yea, 400 error on their graphql endpoint
"Security" through obscurity.
The use case is just speed of development. We looked at several Billing implementations and found consistent patterns for exposing available plans and subscription management to the frontend.

use-stripe-subscription simply packages one implementation so your frontend team can consume it directly, instead of asking backend teams to reinvent the wheel.

It doesn't just re-expose Stripe endpoints, which would result in significant security concerns. This package clamps down the endpoints so the active customer can only see their own data and modify their own subscription.
I don't know the theory but I find these chicken photos more aesthetic than photos of chickens taken from above. It might have something to do with looking your subject in the eye...
The about page seems pretty tongue-in-cheek. Later they talk about the work ethic of the chickens, and offer eggs for $20/ea.
PPI is more important than layout/size to me. 43" @ 4k is 102 PPI which is ridiculously low when sitting at a desk. (just over arms length away from the monitor).

My minimum is 150 PPI (which is ~ 4k @ 28"). If I wasn't so cheap I'd probably just get the LG ultrafine/Apple studio display, but might compromise and get a 5k2k 34".
You want the government to track you everywhere you go? What could possibly go wrong with that?
Almost every shop in Germany has a box for collecting old batteries. There is even one in the office. I happily throw my old batteries there. It’s so easy and convenient.
Are we sure that we have a mental simulation of ourselves that is even remotely accurate? And if it's not accurate, is it really self-reflection, or self-delusion?
Add to that the corporate tax cuts a few years ago which are of a similar scale (though harder to account for), and didn't even have the excuse of pandemic to support it.

I do think that there's a bit much teeth gnashing and blame flinging going around in any case - a 10% inflation for 1 year after years of low inflation isn't the end of the world - if it stays at that. And some of this was almost inevitable given all the shocks of the past few years - how realistic was it that there wasn't going to be some economic hit down the line?

It seems rather plausible that earlier, higher rate raises might well have caused a recession; and had the pandemic exit played out only slightly differently and the fed raised rates earlier - we might be making the opposite complaint now. Even now, it's not like higher interest rates won't cause damage. And to the extent that some of the inflation is due to supply shocks, raising interest rates won't even do as much as you'd like, all while causing more damage than is ideal.

By contrast, it's worth noting that the eurozone interest is still at -0.50%, and they're talking of months to even return to 0. The challenges may not be identical, but it's no coincidence they've not rushed to raise rates so far either.
The first Master of Financial Engineering degree programs were set up in the early 1990s. The earliest financial engineers (under a different name) might have started around in the late 1970s. [Wikipedia - Financial engineering]

Mortgages were invented way earlier. ATMs are an earlier invention. If you use todays categories they would have been invented by automation engineers.

While index funds are a financial product they were invented before financial engineering became a thing. Financial engineers are not needed to run index funds. They are employed to out perform them.

"Financial engineering plays a key role in the customer-driven derivatives business — delivering bespoke OTC-contracts and "exotics", and implementing various structured products — which encompasses quantitative modelling, quantitative programming and risk managing financial products in compliance with the regulations and Basel capital/liquidity requirements."

And i am not alone with my distain.

"The financial innovation often associated with financial engineers was mocked by former chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker in 2009 when he said it was a code word for risky securities, that brought no benefits to society. For most people, he said, the advent of the ATM was more crucial than any asset-backed bond."

As for definition of financial engineering, i takes those from http://www.wirtschaftslexikon24.com/d/financial-engineering-...

The term financial engineering is also used insofar as it is about the use of innovative financing and risk hedging instruments. In this sense, financial securities are first broken down into their basic elements, e.g. interest, repayment, currency, maturity, security, additional rights (»stripping«) in order to be able to evaluate them (individually) better. Based on this, new, optimal financial titles are created during »Replicating«, in which the modules are optimally combined according to the respective financing case.

The concept of financial engineering can be seen in summary as the design, development and implementation of innovative financial instruments and processes as well as the realization of creative, tailor-made solutions for investors and buyers
It isn't mentioned, but maybe they used caffeine free diet coke?
If the team in question is the police, "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong."
On a related note, you can email Microsoft to add your domain to the "needs Edge" list:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform...

If you try to open a host from that list in IE11, it will open in Edge instead. The process really is just sending them an email, so I did it for my personal site which still received occasional IE11 traffic from "yesteryear's megacorp" IP ranges. I don't have enough IE11 traffic to judge if it worked for these poor users, though it does on my Windows PC. Given my effort was literally sending a single email and wait a month, I am happy even if it helps only a few people.
> the silly little monkey brains we have

...are those things that with a trained prefrontal become the wise respectable dignified brains some have. And they may come to different conclusions (they do).

Put it this way (to give your idea credit): the more intellectual sophistication there will be around, the less the suspect the one who treats scarecrows and mannequins «like a person ... even if we know it’s not», or thanks an 'address:port' type server for service, is confused.

Back to the point though: if one called sentient what is not out of being «sympathetic», there would be a factual mistake, which is not justifiable, and which has to be fought by training people to see things as they are. Mistakes have a very high social cost.
I don't know. I have many friends that regularly do halves. I know fewer that do a marathon for than once. A half marathon is not an easy thing to do. It requires preparation and training -- obviously not as much as a full marathon, but still quite a bit, especially if you're not someone who runs regularly.

There's always something harder or more prestigious to do -- for many people a half marathon is enough of an accomplishment that they don't feel the need to progress, in the same way that many feel that many think a marathon is enough and they don't need to run an ultra.
So many windows and so much to look at seems like the opposite of productivity. I’m not about to go back to an 80x24 dumb terminal but I don’t think my measured productivity has improved by the same factor as the number of pixels on my display. At some point you pass the limit of what your brain can focus on and the clutter just turns into busy-ness.
The point is exactly that- morality isn't for "extra credit", we shouldn't need to get rewarded to do the right thing- that's kind of the point.

I mean sure, maybe when it comes to smaller companies. But some of the companies with the biggest security blunders are those that have enough money that the security for their users information should be a major priority and those costs would barely impact their bottom line.

And also... Using this same train of argument couldn't we also just argue that the cost of security compliance shouldn't be this high to begin with so it's more accessible?
This is what people were saying about Python 20 years ago.
Not all vacuums are created equal it seems! Love your comment so!
It's wild how far we go to keep doing our bad habits. It's like with veganism. That major EAT–Lancet study found that, although vegetarianism and veganism had many positive impacts on measures of environmental impacts, vegetarianism was actually more beneficial than veganism on impact of biodiversity. This is basically because vegans consume more "fake meat" and other such products that require a lot of processing and packaging and end up having a terrible impact on the environment

Curry is great! I do veganism occasionally for periods of time and I personally believe that if you can't do it without craving meat you are just not creative enough. There's plenty of amazing food and flavors out there that don't need meat. Not to mention, you'd probably have a smaller environmental impact by buying some really expensive meat/eggs from some free-range farmer from your local farmer's market than if you buy that fake meat stuff that's probably made of the soybeans grown on the soy farms that are rapidly replacing the Amazon
> Europe is large.

Oregon is larger than the United Kingdom.

Texas is larger than France.

Alaska is larger than all of Western Europe.
And a legal one. If it's the human then the picture has copyright, if it's the chicken then this are copyright free pictures.

Edit. Link to relevant Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
Where is the market for the vets who are a bit more expensive but only have a wait time of a few days, with emergency services available at a premium comparable to the PE's but with better treatment?

Are we saying that vets would rather be unemployed than to work such a market or is something preventing them from serving that market or does the actual demand for such services not exist?
As far as the personal computing is concerned, the (relative) simplicity of it, and the openness, were key - and, today, the infinite source of nostalgia. It was a revelation that you can simply set a bit somewhere in memory and see a pixel lit on the screen.
I'd like to be able to generate a voice like HAL, from "2001, A Space Odyssey".
China's zero Covid strategy has saved, and continues to save, millions of lives.

Over any reasonable time period, the economic benefits of having a healthy populace out weigh the temporary cost of lockdowns. Our current problems with inflation may well be in part caused by workers unable to work due to chronic illness caused by Covid (and indeed the endless rounds of acute illness too).
I guess the average consumer was on Windows 95 or 98, though, right?
You can watch the hundreds of videos on the PoliceActivity youtube channel showing how terrible "trained police" are at using guns (or doing anything really). Any shooting hobbyist is going to be a better shot than most police officers. My favorite video is the one where the cop empties an entire magazine at a stationary guy 7 feet away and misses every single shot. The one thing cops are really good at though is multiple cops screaming conflicting commands all at the same time. Freeze! Don't move! Hands up! Turn around! Get down on the ground!