skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UBI is paid for by workers producing items that they are then prevented from consuming so that those who refuse to take part in production can do so instead.

This is true exactly as much as it is true with “capitalism” in place of “UBI” (particularly if the UBI is, in the more direct sense, funded by taxes on capital.)
Rcmd: Instant app switching with a rarely used key
Maybe in a single still capture? Let’s not forget cameras can easily combine multiple exposures into a single capture to substantially increase dynamic range, and can do so at high frame rates, and can go well beyond 21 stops in doing so. The human eye is stuck with the same ~21 stop range regardless.

If you use a pair of digital sensors with a 15 stop exposure offset between them (seems fair - humans have two…), thats ~30 stops in a single shot if we assume best we get is 15 from a digital sensor. Again though with high-speed exposure blending and one sensor this is not really necessary in a lot of cases.

The practical reality is digital capture can exceed 21 stops and you don’t need particularly fancy equipment to do it. Two decent cellphone grade sensors (~12-14 stops) would be enough if you don’t want to do single sensor blends and would work well for real-time video applications.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-exposure_HDR_capture
I think Uber/Lyft is that company, they just use human drivers, which has apparently made traffic worse now, and I wouldn't expect it to get better.
And who will scrub the toilets
> other fantasy/science fiction where the religious stuff comes to the fore ala A Canticle for Leibowitz or the Dune series

My feeling is HDM is to Dune what Eragon is to Lord of the Rings. The former in these comparisons don't apply much imagination to their real-world influences.

The latter in these comparisons are still clearly inspired by real-world themes and tropes, but they're more imaginative in how they combine and diverge from their inspirations, probably owing to a richer depth of experiences and influences that the respective authors had been exposed to.
I don't think blame is the best approach. The general public/media takes time to catch up with "current" science. First pollinator awareness, then, oh, there is more than just honeybees polinating Almonds, rinse, repeat, then at some point, oh, there should be thousands of species in my back yard.

Regardless, I fear that until we put serious laws into regulating both pesticides and fertilizers (taxonomists anecdotally noticed diverity declines with the advent of fertilizers, think killing water quality, over 50 years ago), we're going to be fighting an uphill, if not impossible battle in this area.
Bootlickers gonna lick.

There's a reason tech is seen as the job that's "too plum to unionize." We are the most aligned with the beliefs and values of management and capital. We wouldn't have our nice jobs if we weren't.

All that's happened here is that one paranoid delusional billionaire has a reactionary conspiracy theory that the most elite bootlicking workers in the economy are secretly all trotskyites in league with the woke marxist antifa at Ford and GM and other major advertisers etc..

The collateral damage of this has caused mass cognitive dissonance for people in tech who are either going to realise that maybe robber barons don't have our best interests at heart (shock!) or just double down on the bootlicking to see if that makes papa stop hitting us and love us again.
they are not imagined and you anecdata of one demonstrates nothing.

anaphylaxis is highly individualized and can change within an individual over time.

It's also not necessarily just about preventing anaphylaxis but general food anxiety as well as alienation from a cultural and social staple of sharing food together. Most people will never understand the secondary effects of anaphylactic food allergies, no less CONSTANTLY downplay then as you did with your brother.

I know this sibling downplaying is very possible because my partner has MCAS, which causes random allergies to pop up like whack a mole. Her family caused her very much grief as a child but she developed strong coping mechanisms and it's similarly capable of "managing what she eats." However I am one of very few people who truly understand how completely alienated she feels because of it. The primary concerns (death by anaphylaxis) are bad but very infrequent. The secondary effects of social alienation are constant and boundaries are always being pushed even by close friends and family
Also a conflation of customers and the users (mentioned upthread).

The business's goal is generally to extract as much value as possible from its ability to balance servicing customers and users, and managing operations. I've never worked anywhere where there isn't a fair bit of conflict of interests between those three groups
> Soylent Green is “socially efficient.”

No it's not, but it's a good sniff test for people who have a zeroth-order model of utilitarianism and aren't thinking about things like incentives.

> It’s increasing, for some reason.

I agree - my suspicion is that accommodating the 0.1% of kids with peanut allergies means that another 0.5% of kids (or whatever, made up fractions) never get enough exposure to peanut allergens to develop a tolerance, so the problem is self-reinforcing.
In some California counties, and other adjacent states with similarly-minded sheriffs, the police treat armored cars carrying funds from legal dispensaries as piggy banks where they get to take the cash and the business is responsible for proving its legality. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-28/marijuan...
Good thing you can buy a car for $5k
What’s the regather size difference between Switzerland and the US?
The Kingdom of Bhutan. It sounds fabulous, but it's a real place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan
>you can usually find some extra info related to the original article from those comments

The real values of being lazy to a fault, reading the comments that come floating above with an experience.

These relatively small and fractured communities are what contains most of the uncluttered sources of outside information, organically getting reprinted for judgement by it's observers once more.

"News" sites are once more the old 1999 closed boxes asking for coin to enter.
Genetic changes cannot explain the dramatic rise in allergies (not just food-borne) over the last few decades.
How to Teach CS Students to Solve Problems
Why would you work for minimum wage if you had UBI
Yes, since ~2008. Yes, sometimes mails go straight to google's 'spam' folder or I get cryptic bounces from MS. Once you have your SPF, DKIM and DNS RTR records it's mostly a smooth sailing. Yes, I'm totally fine with investing 2-4 hours per year troubleshooting delivery issues. I don't by argument "I'm paid $50/hour so I won't", I, in contrast, paid yearly+bonus and outside of 40 hours/week my time is 'free' and I'm OK to spend it on activities like maintaining my servers or preparing my own food or cleaning my own house.
As an individual wanting stylistic consistency, I'd like for websites to leave my locally selected style the hell alone.
Proper editorial technique would be to put the headline itself in quotation marks, then.
But you can't use any libraries that maintain mutable state, which, in Ruby land, is many of them.
I get your point and it's valid. At the same time, why would Docker be an exception?

The Docker Desktop licensing fees range from $5-$24 USD per month, which translates to $60-$288 per annum. Is this a good value for a rarely used GUI required on Mac (and presumably Windows? I have no experience to offer here) for an otherwise FOSS platform?

https://www.docker.com/pricing/
"Nearest X place" is a task for map apps, not broad Web search. But ChatGPT can actually recommend restaurants. You can ask it for ideas, tell it to pick something appropriate for an occasion, be picky about what you don't like, etc.

Trustworthiness of the info is going to be an issue, partly because the model is too small to remember everything exactly, but also because restaurant reviews in general are problematic.
But you do need the government to mandate that allergens are accurately reported on packaging. Without government regulations on food packaging, some of your friends with severe peanut allergies would be dead now, because most manufacturers would not label trace amounts of peanut contamination.

It sounds like this law was very poorly written, in that rather than pushing manufacturers to a) be more careful about cross-contamination and b) accurately label, it pushes them to deliberately add sesame to the foods.

This is not because government "interference" in food is fundamentally bad; it's because this law is very poorly written.
This note makes it very obvious that customer's evaluation of the expected timeline might impact their purchase decision. In my non-expert opinion Tesla puts itself on notice that any false statements that might impact that evaluation would be fraudulent. If my opinion matches the legal consensus, then the doctored video would be such a false statement.
Well no, it depends on how severe their allergies are. And there have been multiple stories or examples in the past decade or two of kids hazing someone with peanut butter allergies by intentionally triggering it or even putting peanut butter on them.

This is why schools have taken drastic measures because all it takes is one incident to send a kid to the hospital, put the school in serious lawsuit territory and cause a massive news scandal. It's a matter of liability reduction.
I mean, I assume you’re trying to be sarcastic, but, yes, truth in advertising is usually considered to be desirable.

It’s mildly absurd that they need a specific law for this, but if the relevant regulators won’t act…
Moore's law ended? Because Nvidias CEO said so to have an excuse for their dud of a generation? ASM, TSMC, Intel, Apple and AMD are saying it's still going strong.
https://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/bond/usu19328aa89-coinbase-g...
Might be helpful to change the title here to reflect that this is an article about the origins of this quote, not about whether the quote is true. I think a lot of people are entering the comments thinking this is a debate about the quote itself.
> […] stop recommending it to non-technical people!

Excepting loved ones, there is not much of a choice is there?

If you help set them up in a way that covers all the basics (personal domain, mail hosted at one of the current batch of paid, reliable parties like fastmail.com), then whenever something goes wrong, or whenever the friction to do something (anything!) is too high, it's not only your fault, but they'll lose trust in anything that doesn't look like a megacorp.

The other alternative is to just point them to Apple/Microsoft/Google where everything just works¹, and when things go tits-up (which, statistically speaking, only happens to a small percentage of people) they'll just blame that faceless megacorp, knowing full well that real choice is limited to those with technical know-how (or direct access to them).

I dislike the status quo, but aside from making sure I and my family aren't stuck like this, I don't see much leeway to change it.

1: It doesn't. But it will feel like it does, which is all that matters, and when it doesn't work, they'll just blame themselves.
TikTok is banned because USA companies lost to its competition it has nothing to do with security or privacy. YouTube and others tried copying TikTok and failed, and now they are trying to remove the competion. But as we all know, this will not work! Cat is out of the bag, and there is no stopping it online.
> Each new rule is a barrier to entry.

To explain barriers to entry, consider that right now you can choose between an iOS phone and an Android phone and nothing else. Try to imagine how much it would cost to write a 3rd OS and kickstart a useful app store (you'd have to bribe devs to port their stuff, and not even that worked for Microsoft).

That is an extreme barrier to entry.

If you're not careful, you'll end up with one or two options for everything.
Do you host your own email?
The concise “yes” is correct, but a more explanatory answer might be helpful. Cannabis is still a schedule 1 substance by federal law. Almost all federal jurisdiction in state matters is derived from the interstate commerce clause in the constitution. When the first states passed legalization measures, the DOJ issued a memo (Cole) basically saying they would not intervene in states with well defined rules for tracking cannabis sales to prevent product crossing state lines. Credit card processors and most banks are either not willing or not allowed to process electronic transactions for cannabis because they do tend to cross state lines.
Mama Said Don't Talk To Strangers . . .
Averting doom by not building the doom machine
All my Apple cables have fallen apart, granted it took them 3-5 years, but still.
Never had so many issues with any other brand.
And it’s something I see with everybody I know. I’m in central Europe.
Migrating to Fastmail is pretty painless too if you already have your own domain.
Imagine trying to properly attribute that quote around 1925. You remember you heard it or read it somewhere, but you're not entirely sure where you heard it and the only option is to dig through years of multiple papers hoping to find the right one.

And even if you pulled off that headache inducing task, you have no real way of knowing if the source you found did the same work to properly attribute the quote. It's really easy to see how it'd be misattributed/altered over time, and reminds me how great grep truly is.
The stock answer is that such jobs will either need to raise their wages until they attract labor, be automated, or cease to exist.
First of all UBI might obviate the need for minimum wage. Secondly in a pure UBI system any earnings are on top. Everyone gets the same UBI at all times. So you have this minimum base that will keep you alive and fed but nothing luxurious, and can work for anything beyond that.
Why was the disclaimer "this product might not be safe" added, though?

And why did the courts decide it was not binding/not enough to protect from liability?

It seems the kind of thing a lawyer would want on pretty much every product.
Then the courts would respond by making it null.

IDK if this is what happened, but then the problem would be harder...
I self host a mailserver on a hetzner VPS running NixOS using nixos-mailserver [0] (dovecot and postfix under the hood).

[0] https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver
> And even if it were true, so what? Last I checked Tesla didn’t have software which can perfectly emulated a human agent.

GP was arguing against:

> The feature is impossible to implement with the sensor suite that comes with the car.

_For that statement_ it's immaterial whether Tesla does something right now, but rather whether it's in principle possible. Modulo your previous objection humans provide a counterexample to that (very general) statement.
I recall that discussion recently, and thus just happen to have it handy:

a very, very specialized "regex" based JS evaluator that presumably did just enough to make the YT one run: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/2021.12.17/youtu...

and its callsite: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/2021.12.17/youtu...

So the short version is that I would not classify that as a VM, and I don't even believe it's obfuscated. Perhaps there are other extractors that do what you're describing, I didn't go looking
Those businesses are not legal, since there are active law enforcement agencies active that could arrest them on sight.

They are defacto legalized, because practically those agencies won’t. But that is not the same thing.

The Supreme Court ruled back in the Great Depression days that the feds can regulate local businesses, if the goods sold are similar to goods sold that could be sold in interstate commerce.

So the DEA is still a thing.
No, it isn’t fair but that can be avoided by adding friction to wealth via an annual wealth tax, and then only applying it on the largest (100m+) fortunes. I don’t think anyone thinks someone who works hard and saves shouldn’t be able to pass on a few million, or even tens of millions, to their descendant. But what you refer to is equally true - no one but the beneficiaries agree that someone should be born into monstrous wealth and be able to sustain generation after generation on the basis only of winning the ovarian lottery.

I, personally, would have a tax of 100% on all wealth over $100m.
This looks like a good place to start…

App: https://squircley.app/ Code: https://dev.to/georgedoescode/codepen-soften-up-your-designs...
But it is free excrement
That's fair, for me security is never the issue with pre-check. It's getting to ORD or MDW via public transit or cab in crosstown traffic. It takes me almost an hour sometimes and at that point I could already be nearly a quarter of my way down the road.
This is a really well-done article! Very approachable for a non-math-expert. If it is useful at all, I noticed while reading that there are two misspellings. "moives" for "moves" and "tht" for "that". I am looking forward to more of your articles.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/marijuana-banking-bill-excluded-...

Actually, they made this move just recently, not tied to an election. But Republicans blocked it in Senate.

Obama was elected on his promise of "hope" and "change" and he asked his voter base what to spend his time on. The top two issues were health care and cannabis. He noped cannabis.

Perhaps making this an election issue is actually the necessary ingredient to bring republicans on board.
Yes I’ve read the document. Imagine you’re an AG. Your ego and career ride on getting the biggest settlements you can. The way I see it, Tether got chewed out for those past issues because there was no major present issue at the time of the investigation. That’s what I strongly inferred.
Brains aren’t neural nets and eyes aren’t cameras.
The first thing I thought of was the old simile widgets[0]. There is still a timeline demo online[1]. I think they're fascinating, but they are a bit of a challenge (for me at least) to understand how they work - I don't know JavaScript very well and that's what makes them work. Still, they're cool. Note that the timeline demo doesn't work over https, only over an http link. Good luck.

[0]: https://github.com/simile-widgets
[1]: http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
Still amazing that the country that started the drugs war is more liberal on this subject than The Netherlands were cannabis is illegal
A bit off-topic but those "Francisco Partners" ringed a bell. They are the same idiots who bought Verifone in France, fired everyone, and expected outsourced developers to understand and use a 20 years old codebase with specifications and requirements (multiple PDFs with more than 2000 pages) written in French.

If it happened to LastPass, I now understand why they have so much problems.
No, I don't agree that having to manually run protoc after modifying a proto file is even slightly reasonable. That is exactly the sort of thing which the build system is there for, and the idea of not spending the few minutes it takes to automate that is baffling to me.
Folks interested in this may like the page "B2 Security Evaluation" at
https://multicians.org/b2.html.

It looks at the Multics OS secuirty experience, and has pointers to the document titling this thread, which we called the "Anderson Report", and Steve's paper, as well as related documents including the Ware Report, MITRE theory papers, and conference papers. It also describes what Multics did to get the B2 rating and what we learned.
I was unclear. I tools not in the sense of software automation, but rather the mental toolbox required for a person to deal with the situation as it come up.
It used to say this on the MySQL web site. IIRC this is back in the 3.x days so quite some time ago now.

At the time it seemed like a ridiculous claim that no one took seriously. In the days of the 'structure, sequence and organization' of an API being copyrightable, I'm no longer so sure...
> it is not "socially efficient" to make any accommodations to disability

More or less. The overwhelming majority of legally mandated disability subsidies in the US are horrendously anti-utilitarian.

> It would be "socially efficient" to euthanize our elderly

This type of absurd claim is a crystal clear indicator of someone who's stuck on a zeroth-order approximation of utilitarianism and isn't factoring in any higher-order terms like people's responses to incentives.

If we started killing old people, would that result in a net decrease in pro-social behavior? Obviously.

If we stopped wasting huge quantities of marginal resources on infrastructure due to e.g. ADA requirements, would that result in a net decrease in pro-social behavior? It would not.

> We have, as a society, decided that we value human life and dignity more than any of that kind of "social efficiency"

Another common refrain of the economically illiterate - claiming to "value human life" while simultaneously working against policies that would actually improve human flourishing. It's also very generous to describe the outcome of selectorate mechanics and lobbying as "we, as a society, decided..."
Didn’t see that plot twist coming!
> Economics is a social science, not a hard science based on empirical evidence

Social sciences are based on empirical evidence the same way hard sciences are; to the extent they are more problematic it is because they deal with complex and
in part, chaotic systems where isolating effects is difficult (a problem shared, often, with life sciences), plus they frequently deal with issues about which political, religious, commercial, and/ir identity issues are tied up (this is true for subfields scattered across the rest of the sciences, but it is true of almost every subfield of the social sciences).
Here's a story from around 14 years ago where this was a serious problem [1]. I could probably find more from 20 years ago if I looked further.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/AllergiesNews/story?id=4659705...
"At its heart, our intervention is simple: it involves repeatedly approaching and talking to strangers."

So... the "intervention" to help people gain confidence talking to strangers was to have them talk to a bunch of strangers. What an odd thing to make an article about.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...
I'm not so sure. AAA estimates that it costs $10,728 to own and operate a new vehicle per year which is driven 15,0000 miles per year. This includes all the costs like depreciation, maintenance, gas, insurance, etc, and works out to be $0.71 per mile.

At least in my town, Ubers are more expensive than that. I can't seem to find a trip anywhere for under $15, even if its a few miles away, or like $3 per mile. Longer trips are more economical, but for example, my airport (40 miles away) is quoting me $80 at the moment, or $2 per mile. Also, these prices don't include tip.

I think if you lived in a big city with public transportation and occasionally took Uber, it would be more economical than a car. But as a 100% replacement, Ubers appear to be 3 to 5 times more expensive than having your own car.

And by the way, that AAA data is from a brand new car. You can easily go cheaper by getting a reliable used car.

source: https://newsroom.aaa.com/2022/08/annual-cost-of-new-car-owne...
driving a car in a video game with a steering wheel is easy because it's an experience designed from the ground up with that interface in mind. driving games happily do shit like change the fov to make the user think they're going faster, etc.

being easy to drive with a steering wheel in a driving game, and being easy to drive a real car with a steering wheel (with internet level latency and packet loss at play, mind you) are very different things
For anyone interested, a history of the "squircle": https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/02/history-of-the-ter...