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> This seems like an odd question to me. Social security? Medicare? Free education? The entire welfare state?

These benefit the wealthy. They are used the quell the thirst for wealthy blood that would otherwise be prevalent. They are crumbs thrown to the masses to keep them from revolting during uncertain times.

> The vast majority of regulatory apparatus

I'd argue most regulatory bodies are captured agenies in the US. The delineation between state and industry has been fading for decades. They either look the other way, or overregulate to choke out any competition that would unseat existing players. Regulation in the US is almost entirely in service to capital.

> weather forecasting, GPS

Again, these are likely more in service to the economy (capital) than normal citizens.

> state/federal parks

Fair enough. I'd add libraries to this list as well. These institutions are actually kind of an odd exception to America's complete obsession with privatization, consumerism, and capital.

> laws like the CRA, VRA or ADA which help those disadvantaged by racism, disability, etc.

Again, fair enough.

> federally funded research

Yes, often funded by the citizens such that private industry can sell the result without recompense.

> Look, I'm not going to say regulatory capture doesn't exist

It's the the rule, not the exception.
Yeah, I think fail to consider survivor bias to be relevant in cases like this.

It's also why there are occasional surges in cheating (or crime, or whatever) after significant instances - subsequent examination then finds other cases because it's now looking for them, but the reality is the cheating (or whatever) was always there and just not noticed.
Squared-cubed law for tank weight and fuel weight. So hydrogen will have poor energy density at small scales. Not sure where it dips below that of batteries but rockets are OK with it, so smaller than that.

Perhaps if you store it in a balloon? But then volume would bed a problem for an aeroplane.
Yeah, there are literally thousands of tech companies that don’t use HN.
This does not make me optimistic for Tesla's future. Unless this is truly a temporary thing due to a supply shortage and they are planning to return to normal when they can.

Tesla's track record is poor. They cheaped out on a few dollars for an IR rain sensor like everyone else uses, and as a result the wipers on a Model 3 are psychotic. Combine that with their hatred for manual controls, and I had a terrible experience every winter when the rains really started.

Now they don't have radar, which everyone else does. AFAIK they still haven't got that reliable IR sensor. No CarPlay yet, which 99% of all other cars have. No 360 degree camera view. No ultrasonic parking sensors. Why again would I buy another Tesla? The competition has more features.

The cherry on top is Tesla's demonstrated willingness to screw over their customers well after the sale, and not even for the benefit of the company. Just because they hate their customers, I guess. That alone is a deal killer for me now.
My main exposure is from his Netflix Marvel show appearances. It's been a while, but I do distinctly recall thinking he went easy on the people involved considering what they did.
Or, tangentially, atrazine.

https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc
I shall defer to your expertise, it does quite look like malicious intent cost the unfortunate officer his life. Hopefully his next of kin can receive the closure they deserve.
All electric airplane designs today appear to be frauds (like all crypto currency projects), because no one airplane project answers the most important problem: battery power density.
You invented a PID controller! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
We get lots of Amazon deliveries and only one missed that I can remember. The drivers here seem overworked. Amazon customer service always responsive though.
I'm redoing from scratch my portfolio using plain JavaScript and <template>s for most stuff, pulling everything from a JSON as a pseudo database. I think for this kind of uses <template> is great, but you can really wish it has some extra features like the ability to define repeating block sections so you didn't need to declare nested <template>s for what would be a single block code.
The Pinebook Pro uses off-the-shelf A53 cores that have existed for over a decade.
I am talking less about waste and more about consumerism as "you are what you have". It's this idea of people defining their identities around the brands they value or (even worse imo) the idea that having "expensive tastes" or paying exorbitant amounts of money for exclusive items makes someone "special".

There is an old saying: "the only difference between boys and men is in the price of their toys". It's kind sad if you think about it, and sadder still that some people treat this as a virtue.
My personal opinion is that Levine was always off base in one important way- Musk always intended to buy Twitter, and this was merely a negotiating tactic on price. He bid at the wrong time, so he's paying a lot more than he "should", and this whole thing was an attempt to get the price down.

I don't think at any point was he actually backing out of the deal, and I certainly don't think the whole thing was an elaborate scheme to sell Tesla stock.
Oh man, this is not my experience. We may be different because we are a small company, and Clojure is our main language. But, we have a Clojure codebase of 90K lines, and is 10 years old. It has its problems, and while your points about an opaque data model resonate, for us, tests, specs, and assertions provide enough hints to help newcomers. And... where I disagree the most: the quality and professionalism of the developers who work on it are unparalleled. New, senior-level developers, quickly catch on to the system. I am grateful to Clojure __because__ it attracts this caliber of developer.
It's almost by definition in some sense ... if it was obvious how to write the code you wouldn't need the REPL so by definition if it is uesful it must be producing non-obvious code.

That is a slightly shallow take though because its not really symmetrical like that. You can use a REPL as a way to arrive at the most easily understood rendition of something. But that is very prone to subjective bias as lots of things seem obvious in retrospect that are not at the start.

To the extent that the answer you eventually arrived at is a result of learning a mental model of the data and functions surround it, it will leave a significant residual gap for the next person who comes a long to bridge.
There was never any use to it or you're not interested in using the answer?
High-end as defined by what besides price? Not necessarily snark, I haven't heard too much good about fit and finish...
I hope he reads this and I hope he does it.

It has potential to become the most liked tweet in history.
Honestly. It honestly seems to me people want to tear down the man who noticed the elephant in the room.

I'm 100% "pro-Ukraine", what Putin is doing is ridiculous and there's literally no justification.

I have been absolutely trashed for pointing out some of the stories coming out of this war are just completely fake, though. Like the "Ghost of Kyiv" thing. I asked if there was any proof and just got instantly accused of supporting a "war-criminal."

Not a fan of an environment where people will straw man you if you venture out of the "pre-defined opinion limits."

I'm not an expert in this at all either... so forgive my ignorance but isn't there a very real risk of insane levels of carnage if the war ramps up to control over Crimea? What is stopping this from becoming a nuclear war?

I know we can't just fold to the demands of every insane dictator... but I think its totally appropriate to ask what the chances of nuclear war (or a war resulting in millions dead) and if we're ok risking that for Crimea. You can do that without even a neuron of support for Russia.
Very cool! I hope this becomes a standard feature of all common Unix OSes. Will have to look at what part of this is architecture specific so it can be properly abstracted.
How’s that going to work out for retinas?
Ah this must be a new feature? If you could share the docs related to this, I'd really appreciate it.
https://sendie.com

If anyone else does not trust Elon Musk like me, I've made a Twitter alternative. You can import your tweet history from Twitter and .. not give Elon Musk your data.
Still hiring? :)
They started playing it online so now it is an esport. /s
Hear me out: "Climate change" is a terrible phrase, of course climate changes, when talking to regular people that's like saying "water flow" to describe flooding. "Climate destabilization" or something akin to that would communicate what is happening better to the people that vote.
I haven’t ever bought a lightening cable. Every device that uses one (iPhone, Magic Mouse, whatever) has come with one. And lightening cables don’t require unique chargers or converters.

I don’t think it’s some great positive, but I also don’t think it is “clearly detrimental” to the user experience, either.
The valuing of economic growth seems to be almost required as a Darwinian feature of nations. Resolve as a nation to value economic growth less than your neighbors, and you will soon be overpowered by them.
> I don't like this answer but I kind of see how it fits this specific scenario - answering bunch of high-schoolers and keeping them somewhat motivated.

The great thing about kids is that they'll often accept shitty arguments as long as they seem legit at first glance. I mean, so will plenty of adults, but kids especially.

Which is handy since, as an adult, shitty arguments are most of what I've got.
Yeah but that’s not the whole picture… in 1962 the ford truck was $2000 now is around 40,000 so while a new one is better you still have to earn 2x as much to get the most basic one available
Modeling != diagramming. The fixation on drawing the system model was one root of the problem in my opinion. Also, xml for the meta model is a great way to dissuade people from building tools to consume the model.
The Econ 101 is the complete opposite. Bonds usually have fixed rates, whereas stock prices are in principal tied to revenues, and nominal revenues should increase with inflation--companies increasing prices is literally how most people experience inflation. But Econ 101 also suggests that in the short term things will be more complex than all that because price adjustments won't be instantaneous. Fear and volatility will create demand for bonds, which could offset to some extent the clearly diminishing nominal value of fixed-rate bonds.

Note that a key factor here isn't inflation, per se, but the rate of change in inflation. From an Econ 101 perspective 2% inflation is no different than 20% inflation if things are otherwise steady-state. Stocks are the better bet because in principal they should respond more quickly to changes in the inflation rate. If inflation is steady, bonds in principal are the simpler, cheaper instrument.
Hence why they said they want to "pay a little." If this is a common objection to the price of a good in a market, and if someone else comes by offering a simpler product at, for example, half the price, they could take the market. This is an example of a low-cost pricing strategy: https://stratechery.com/concept/strategy/low-cost-strategy/
Leaflet 1.9
COVID lockdowns didn't put a dent in climate change and caused immense suffering - and they were pretty tame for a "lockdown". We'd have to make suffering much, much worse, and permanent, to have any effect whatsoever.

This will never happen. Until there's an energy source that's more abundant than fossil fuels at the same or lower cost, this is just how it is going to be. Better to worry about how to adapt.
Why don't they just put the players into a Faraday cage with wired cameras on the inside? No communication out of the box by any means in that case.
How about No Law Enforcement Entity then...?

I'd still argue "no one" applies here because the listed acceptable cases is extremely small and specific to martime or aviation (both cases where other means of verbal communication can be difficult or impossible - as pointed out in both linked sources).

So it is still true, no one land-based is training to fire warning shots. It's just not a thing people do because it, in itself, is extremely dangerous and negligent.

That "warning shot" has to go somewhere... how can you be sure it won't injure or kill someone? How can you make sure the "bad guy" knows it's just a warning shot and not intended to be lethal? A warning shot does nothing but convince the "bad guy" they should return fire...

Lastly, how do we know these LEO's didn't shout warnings at the vehicle? Anecdotally, every police encounter I've seen where force was applied started off with a massive array of verbal warnings. It's part of their training...
> What's funny about the thing linked to? The satirical claim is that Applebee's is banning Greene from to go online ordering.

You have to look at when it was published, Jan 4, 2022. The previous day news dropped that both Facebook and Twitter suspended MTG for misinformation.
> Einsteins Nobel was for Brownian motion

"for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"
Well... isn't everything a give or take?

Seems they just have a "system" or "human" problem because tons of spam accounts get reported but it seems to take a long time to get them removed.
Citation: Pete Rose, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Curt Schilling will never get in the Hall of Fame.

You're right that that's not "basically done," but once they're retired, HoF is all they have to look forward to. Being officially in disgrace is pretty done.
Yes! This is one of the many bad incentives.
Capitalism is a composition of prior cognitive ideas. A required parameter is value assignment in relative to some shared value store.

The root of the problem is assigning authority to a minority. Consolidation of logistics has real resource wins, but we keep empowering grown children who think they’re beating a direct path to Star Trek TNG, or some other vague “greater good”, usually wrapped in memes of forever human prosperity and expansion. Never mind no theory of science says it’s actually achievable with the resources available on Earth. The morality of handing an aristocracies demands of fealty off to the future is suspect as well. I’m sure it’s merely a coincidence billions are spent selling that hype. Oh wait, behavioral economics is the intentional study of manufacturing consent; we manipulate the quirks of biology religion happened upon. My mistake.

Giving stocks value relative to dollars is optional. Let them keep ownership via ephemeral objects. I don’t think Tesla or MS shares are worth anything. But I’m trapped in a police state where my agency has to comply with the billions who believe otherwise.
Kmon Let's manage the Linux kernel modules
"Because cops are above the law"

Yes, that is what makes them cops, the police are authorized to do many things that are illegal for us ordinary citizens. they can restrain people, go through stop lights, speed, threaten, sometimes even kill.

We as society recognize that these things are in general bad to do, however there are special cases where it is needed. so we authorize some people to professionally break the law where needed.

That being said, the quote "Who watches the watchmen?" is as always very relevant and those authorized to break the law need to be held to a very high moral standard.
US housing market to see the second-biggest home price decline since 1939
Sure, it’s news, but more business news than tech news. Twitter isn’t doing any groundbreaking tech work. Worth noting but hardly front page or needing dozens of dup posts just because it has to do with Musk.
Yeah, the idea sounds like a black-or-white fallacy. The choice isn't, "calculus or nothing". There may be things we could teach that would be equally important that people would be more likely to use.
So, let me get this straight.

If the police are looking for a dangerous suspect in my town, I, as a civilian, can feel free to start shooting up any vehicle that is of the same type as that of the suspect?

And I should be in the clear, as long as I can reasonably argue that I don't know who I was shooting at?

Is this the society you think we live in? One where the prosecutor will not charge me, because, aw shucks, he can't prove that I knew what I was doing when I started blasting?
You could call me an AI-bred alien, existing mostly as a paranoid fabrication, haunting every move.
Could you tell me at a high level how you would implement in your mind/opinion passing USB devices through v86/WebUSB/libusb?
deps is more flexible, but I you just want to run a repl, build and deploy code then lein still works fine.

I usually default to leiningen: I can't be arsed to spend time configuring deps to do what lein does out of the box. (For example: building an uberjar)
I've not worked with PHP for over 8 years now, but I hear it's gotten much better recently.

It still has issues that are commonly associated with hosting provider configuration/control over the runtime, apparently.

(sources are anecdotal; two friends who've had the mental fortitude to stick with the language for so long)
> This doesn’t make the approach any less interventionist. “Either do what we want or we’ll pass an official regulation for you to do what we want” isn’t much of a choice.

The jobs of governing bodies is not to give "choice", they are here to make sure people and companies do what they should do, and take action when they don't and it becomes a problem. The UE wanted a universal connector, for a variety of reason, they never wanted to give "choice". However, they also understand that they are not engineers and inventors, and the industry has plenty of these people, so they said "get together and make the best universal connector". And the industry did, first with micro-USB, which was better than most of what was there at the time, then with USB-C, and the EU was happy. Except that one company was a problem, so the EU went back to the industry and said "I said I wanted a universal connector, why isn't the connector universal?", Apple said "Because blah blah blah (fuck you)", and the EU said "OK, we didn't want to do that but it looks like USB-C is good enough for everyone else, so if you want to continue to sell your gadgets in the EU, use USB-C".
> for example a dialog box

The <dialog> element is now supported by all modern browser. I suggest you use it. It has a lot of niceties over implementing one your self, including capturing the focus, correct announcing to assistive technologies, styling the ::backdrop element, etc.
Yes, embrace the futility.
But capitalism changes people
The problem with re-playing an old game I think is that it's already "solved". There's no sense of adventure or mystery any more, and it just becomes a race to accomplish whatever objectives the player base comes up with. WoW Classic is a great example of this - people had Ragnaros down in like 48 days after launch or something ridiculous.

Even though it's not an MMO, I caught a brief glimpse of that same feeling earlier this year playing through Elden Ring. No one really knew anything and the world was huge and inscrutable at first, it was a lot of fun to explore and sort-of interact with people doing the same thing through messages, ghosts etc.
Even worse, professional athletes fund full-time training through ways that wouldn't be available during a ban. Skip full-time training for a year and you'll probably not be competitive after.
MAXIMIZED Final Cut?! What a waste of screen space. You should resize that window, you're using windows incorrectly.

Personally, I can’t understand maximized windows on desktop at all. Apparently you use them though.
I can 100% garenty you that anyone interested enouhg to get into the top 50k chess players is going to be interested enough in chess to want to play around with a chess engine, and why not use it in the most convenient way possible, to play a few chess.com matches with it.
I've been hired to more than one job through these posts over the past ~15 years; and I've also done hiring for my teams successfully through these threads.

Having said that, in the last ~2 years, we've had FAR less success with these threads. Didn't post in the last one cuz it just didn't feel worth it.
The exact same thing can be said of Debian maintainers, Ubuntu maintainers, etc. They probably “own” as many servers as Microsoft.

The real-world number of linux admins who inspect all packages before applying them is basically zero. Most Linux/BSD systems likely have unattended upgrades enabled by default.
Didn't know that. Is this really true? What would be the point of it?

When chatting with a customer support it's quite apparent the csr is involved in many chats at once; wouldn't it be quite taxing for them to have to monitor not just the responses but every keystroke of the people they interact with?
Having used both professionally (several years each), Go is massively simpler than Java, at least for the problems we tackle. We sometimes will get a new dev on the team from Javaland, and the biggest thing for them is unlearning all of unnecessary complexity. YMMV.
WFH reduced the number of vehicles on the road and the traffic is still well below pre-Covid level.
I always viewed them as more of a reference where I could read up how to find and implement somewhat specialized algorithms. I really lack the discipline/interest to read those from front to back, so you are not alone. Incredible books though!
For those interested in following a Quantum Optics course of his:
https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~6471336
Like the Framework laptop?
My crypto project is powered by D batteries.

I don't know how dense they are, but they're pretty heavy.
This is pure ideology, nothing more than a religious screed. I’m not sure how people can not see this. If this were a fundamentalist Christian tirade against the decay of the “family” and the “gay agenda” it would be completely obvious.

Stuff like this is the main reason I was once a big climate change skeptic. I read stuff like this and it convinced me the whole thing was just religious apologetics. "Forgive me nature for I have sinned..." Over the time I was convinced by the evidence but also by hearing people talk about it outside this ideological framework.

Nature is simply that which is. Trees are nature and microchips are nature. Any division between that which is natural and that which is “artificial” is purely a human construction. An alien observing Earth would only see living systems and products of living systems and would see no intrinsic difference between a termite mound and a highway other than what apparently built it.

There is of course a very legitimate argument for care and restraint in our use of this planet’s resources, but that’s because it affects us. “Nature” doesn’t care. The Earth existed for billions of years before us and it will exist for billions of years after us.

The exploitation of nature in unsustainable ways is not a feature of any one political system. Humans have been doing it since there have been humans. Learning to live in a more sustainable manner is a goal that we only recently even named and started discussing.
Which is why regulation is important for capitalism to work correctly. Regulation is used to capture values outside of economic gains.

Maybe the goal of economic gains help accelerate climate change, but what is clear is that we need economic strength to solve this problem. The most successful method we know of for generating economic growth is capitalism.
Yep. My response was specific to your comment of reading in browser which is not a guarantee of what's downloaded.