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I agree, we have been making our own kefir at home for a few years now and its got far more character than what can be found at the supermarket. This year my wife started separating out the whey more often. We drink this as is, and put it in smoothies and other recipes. The thicker kefir is also great with cereal or in place of sour cream. That's pretty much what it is, just on a different part of the spectrum.
If you intend not to tip in an effort to “be the change”, declare your intention on arrival to the host and the server. They deserve to know that they are participating in your social project. The other option is to get the food and not the service. I.e. get your food to go. Recognize that in essence, you are buying the food from the restaurant, and the service from the waiter. If you don’t want to pay for the service, don’t ask for service.

Additionally it is disgusting to visit a country and intentionally violate social norms, especially ones around paying people for their labor. If Americans want to change their culture, they can do that. Behaving selfishly as a guest in another country isn’t “being the change you want to see in the world”.
I’ve had this book for years, but had some difficulty confronting the subject matter until more recently.

I’m a few chapters in now, and it has been very illuminating. I don’t think it’s coincidental that I started a yoga practice earlier this year, and it’s helped me move emotions through my body that I previously didn’t know how to handle.

Thanks for mentioning it here. This is a good reminder to finish reading it.
Every facet of the article is designed to wring sympathy, but it's worth asking the real question: what is this advocating for? What kind of change (or stasis) would the author actually prefer to see?

The existence of call-center work, which is intrinsically dehumanizing and unrelentingly laborious, is considered a failure of our society.

The replacement or automation of that work, which creates displacement and impacts the livelihood of people who cannot adequately retrain, is considered a failure of our society.

What, exactly, would constitute success?
"Windows developers don't need to depend on UNIX culture."

Need to? No. Microsoft seems to think the UNIX culture is very important to them and to their products and WSL has achieved wide success:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about#:~:text=....

There was "Microsoft POSIX Subsystem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

There was "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix"

The first Microsoft OS was a UNIX variant called Xenix "The first operating system publicly released by the company was a variant of Unix announced on August 25, 1980. Acquired from AT&T through a distribution license, Microsoft dubbed it Xenix": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft
I had to go through similar nonsense recently. I was getting pizza and the cashier said (smiling) "it's better with tip". The first time he did it I figured I'd tip him. He handed me the pizza when it was ready and that was that. The second time I didn't tip him and he was like, No tip?? I said yeah I don't understand why - isn't tip for service? He said well yeah, I'm trying to provide service. As I was about to reply "but that's already in..." he interjected "when you don't pay a tip, I just give you the pizza. But when you tip, I put in a little something extra." I was confused and just looked blankly and said I didn't ask for anything extra. He stopped arguing and when the pizza was ready, didn't say anything until I was about to inquire. Then he gave it to me - another pizza exactly like the one he'd given with the tip before.

I honestly kind of felt bad, in that he probably wasn't making that much money, and the tip probably meant more to him than it meant to me. But demanding a tip and falsely telling me I'm getting more than I'm paying for is not the right way to fix that, and the pizza wasn't particularly cheap either...
The ironic part is that the Simpsons was pretty much centered on a stereotype of the American family, with Homer being a really unflattering caricature of the average working class male.

Apu, in comparison, seems like a pretty flattering depiction of a south asian. Compared to Homer, he is kind, clever, and successful.
I read "body count 400+ orgs" and thought that so many companies had been put out of business, didn't notice the individuals part too. Not knowing what MOVEit is, I assumed it was some kind of boycott. Kind of surprised that it meant that 400 organizations and possibly 20 million customers data exposed. Definitely bad wording for the headline.

Of course, it's the Register, they try to be clever with every headline.
It's not Product Hunt, so please don't post "lead gen" stuff here. If you have a blog post on a related topic that mentions your product, I think that is usually OK, as it's not link spamming.
I just tip $1 (not percentage based, unless it's less than a dollar)
It’s amazing how many incredibly intelligent people are on this forum, working to build complex and beautiful things at the frontier of our technological understanding. And yet somehow every time an article on climate change pops up, the comments here are full of exuberant scientific denialism.

The most interesting thing about this phenomenon is also the saddest: some of our brightest minds are completely captured by the long standing, comprehensively documented, and exhaustively disproven anti-climate change propaganda machine. How is it that someone can be so in tune with the advance of science in some areas of technology, while completely unable to absorb any information at all with regards to climate science?
We call this "roll-over", when no-one wins so the pot accumulates. This week's draw doesn't need to be profitable, the overall scheme needs to be profitable.

Say $2MM in tickets are sold, putting $1MM in the pot. And no-one wins. So next week, $2MM in tickets are sold, putting $1MM in the pot - which already contained $1MM from last week. Continue this over a few weeks.

After 5 weeks you have $5MM in the pot - and another $5MM in profits. On week 5, $2MM in tickets could buy $5MM in winnings, but that doesn't mean the scheme is negative. It just means this week's draw looks like a good deal.

States love lotteries because the house cannot lose - their share is taken before it goes in the pot, so the pot is never a liability.
> Secondly, some of these, like storing at a low/high state of charge or high/low temperature performance are nowadays managed by the BMS - models that don't have that are already not competitive. The reason is that energy density already crossed the threshold at which some of the capacity can be spared for this purpose.

No - this is dishonesty by some battery/car manufacturers. They say "Our car can drive 300 miles", and "our car battery will last 10 years/100,000 miles", but the reality is that if you actually drive it 300 miles on each charge, you'll only be doing about 30,000 miles before it no longer meets your needs.

Instead car manufacturers say things like "only charge to 85% to prolong battery life" and "under 15% charge is for 'reserve capacity' use only".

An honest manufacturer would only advertise the amount of capacity you can actually use day to day, rather than the capacity that is there but you really shouldn't use unless you want your battery to die young.
Thank you! I won't deny you can customize and extend greatly on Android, but to be fair, my little browser is precisely about UI customization.
TTI is annoying because There is a bunch of Ryobi tools that have no Milwaukee counterpart.
Hollywood's present doesn't even belong to people, it belongs to intellectual property and corporations. Right now the film that is out in the multiplex that people are going crazy for is literally a toy commercial.
I’m not hoarding anything. They’re getting checks regularly. They’d be getting a lot more if I weren’t taxed at obscene rates relative to billionaires.
Caught me and my bad typo but sure it was a pun :P
Long distance at high speed is the worst case scenario for an EV, so it's a pretty useful figure to know, especially when cross-shopping cars. A fixed speed range test gives you a solid floor for range, with all other uses pretty much guaranteed to meet or exceed that number. The lone exception being cold weather performance, but the easy solution there is conduct the test at multiple temperatures.

Most drivers in an ICE car can get pretty close to the EPA fuel economy in the real world, but in EVs there are some pretty wild swings. Some EVs outperform their EPA number and others can't achieve it, making the EPA number not especially helpful.
https://archive.ph/WL6pi
"CLI and GUI are different languages"

CLI and GUI are User Experience (UX) paradigms. I do agree the CLI is supremely critical to most software development efforts.
It's only illegal if they are reporting it to the IRS as tip revenue. Mandatory tips aren't tips, they are service charges and must be reported to the IRS that way.
> Obsession with intelligence, stupidity, heredity thereof and, subsequently, eugenics, mostly dates from post-Darwin times.

Blame Social Darwinism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism) for this. Even today a lot of people (mainly in the Western world) try to promote this pseudoscience under any pretext possible.

Note : Despite the fact that Social Darwinism bears Charles Darwin's name, it is primarily linked today with others, notably Herbert Spencer, Thomas Malthus, and Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics.
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Yes, completely new models will need to use a different model to generate content for…

But you can absolutely create a fine tuning of llama2 base using llama2 output.
All my Milwaukee resides in US General toolboxes (the Milwaukee workbenches are for changing tables, after all).
Half duplex is in spec at 100 as well as 10, so I'd be surprised if it didn't.
Aren't monocultures great? Remember back 20 years ago, when a dumb VBScript macro virus like Melissa or ILOVEYOU could spread across the entire ecosystem in a couple of days?
there are a whole array of "neobanks" in Australia, a few of which have been bought out by large incumbents and their IT platforms subsumed into the colossus or whatever.

I can hazard a guess why this hasn't happened in Germany but I don't want to make assumptions based on stereotypes, lol.
You should examine how you are using your toilets, sinks, fridges, doors, and floors if you are causing measurable wear and tear by staying home an additional 9 to 10 hours.
>> Yet somehow this group believes that the future of humanity is on a less hospitable planet.

This is a mischaracterization. The majority of people that want a mars/moon/etc settlement believe that the future of humanity is multiplanetary. Serious people don't think that humans need to live on mars, they think the future of life on earth is bleak, and we need backups.
Working in a call center is terrible (I worked in one for 2 years), and any call center worker will tell you the ultimate goal should be to identify and solve the problems before the customer needs to call in, and empower the customer to solve the problem themselves (with requisite tools and documentation). Replacing the call center worker with an AI won't solve either of these things; in fact it probably makes the act of interacting with the support 'agent' worse in many ways; just another hurdle to customers getting help.

And in some cases it is antithetical to the business interest to let the customers solve the problem themselves, example: cancelling your ISP plan. Some state(s) (notably California) enforce giving customers the option to cancel online[1]; but most of these companies demand customers call in and be subjected to a wait queue, and a pathetic, dehumanizing customer retention plea before they are 'granted' the cancellation. The tools to simply cancel an internet plan are actively withheld from the customer. Will an AI change anything about that? Probably not.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/companies-mu...
This is similar to the arguments about music and movie piracy in the early 2000s. AI is coming and at some point, we will be able to not only create movies with fake actors that are AI generated, but also create them with existing actor's likeness or even their body/face. Movie scripts could even be AI generated and studios might just need to hire someone for less money to review and make updates to the AI generated script.

Anyone in Hollywood will either need to adapt or they will lose their livelihood.

I find it funny that now the shoe is on the other foot (instead of the music and movie industry losing their business, but it's the workers), the argument seems to be in favor of strikes and government protection rather than just adapting to the changing times.

They adapted, and so must you.
In 2022, 80% of new cars sold in Norway were EVs[1]. Even in our most cold and remote region, Finnmark, over 50% of new cars were EVs. All on the top 10 list are BEVs.

Of the top 10, five were German models. The top two, ID.4 and Enyaq are essentially the same car and combined outsold the only Tesla model, Model Y.

Yes Tesla has a tech advantage currently. Their advantage isn't magic though, and for some people other things matter more.

However I will agree that Toyota has some serious work ahead to get back into the lead here in Norway.

[1]: https://elbil.no/hele-10-pa-topp-lista-er-elektrisk/
I'd go with the one that hasn't lied to you yet ...

... the one that said nothing.
> Should these impossibly rote and dehumanizing kinds of jobs exist, or shouldn't they?

The question that precede this one is “should we care for people’s basic needs like housing, healthcare, food, etc?” In America, the answer to that question is largely “no” from which all the dehumanizing work then follows. Many conversations about AI on this site seem, perhaps intentionally, to elude this reality.

People aren’t angry at the prospect that these awful jobs will be taken away, but that their baseline survival will be made more difficult so that a handful of already wealthy people can get even more rich.
Walmart carries air compressors and fittings, at least at the rural ones.
Theo isn't a "Code of Conduct" type of guy. Not a good fit. Though the license of the Rust compiler (MIT/Apache) does at least make it a possibility.
I’ve come to believe that this is a universal principle: disbelief regarding feasibility prevents actualization of vision; once one sees that it is done it is as if a mental barrier has been removed.
I was intrigued by this so I started to read it, but stopped once I felt this is the standard "this cultural artifact is actually about my personal grievances" essay.
The social system we live in cannot tolerate mass unemployment, so I have no doubt that those "lost" jobs will be immediately replaced by newly invented jobs, just to keep the whole thing going just a little longer.

I'm quite certain that even the current generation of AI could already make 10-20% of first-world jobs obsolete, but of course those in power don't want that to happen. Not because of the poverty that would create, but because they don't want so many people having so much free time at their hands.
Twitter is a beached whale and Elon is Captain Ahab. I mean I appreciate your expressive comment, but your whale analogies are all over the place. ;-)

I'm guessing the Fail Whale is on your mind.

> Exorbitant cloud hosting fees are prohibiting most of the best ideas from rising now... What a ghastly grim tech innovation time we live in right now.

Not sure how you mean. We have a wide variety of hosting options, including self-hosting. You can start an app with a budget of basically $0. And if it grows... well then you have a validation to invest more.
No, it is degrading. Most soulless agonizing job I ever worked, would cry on my commute home on many days.
They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired
As said before there is no compariso , both in milk and cheese form.
I am surprised there are people who never drank raw milk.
Yes. However no one ever seems to show up with any counter arguments. Some people here miss going in.
https://archive.is/YjmUU
It is far easier to add plumbing to the ground floor of a building. In fact everything is easier if you’re not 1000 feet in the air.
Remember back a few weeks ago, when a single compromised Microsoft key allowed anyone to read everyone's mails?
> That's specifically about doctors washing their hands to prevent disease.

Not prevention of disease, but preventing its spread.

Doctors were a common transmission vector of infectious disease across history.
You are right, that is definitely not old Charles' fault.
Creating order out of chaos. That is all a job really does.
How do you prevent massive inflation as everyone dumps their money into buying goods and services instead of saving? Kind of like we have going now after the covid money and economic boom
Most stereotypes are false in that most real people (ones that aren't trying to fit a stereotype) don't fit perfectly into any stereotype.

A stereotype is an averaging of attributes. Humor based on stereotype is funny often because it is accurate to a point where people have to grudingly agree with it.
Working for US has many advantages, for start they will ask you to work at office. And there is a surplus of Ukrainians with right to work in EU.
Historically, each new tech wave also created more entry level / low pay jobs. The previous ones were Uber, package delivery workers ...

This new tech wave will also probably create low entry / low paid jobs, just different ones. Maybe there's going to be entry level AI tuning or similar. It's hard to say how it will play out.
But actually these are two markets: commercial real estate and the residential one. While you could have some (weak IMO) arguments in favor of the latter, it is the former that is undergoing changes and I see no reasons for taxpayers to bail anybody involved.
> Why adopt a solution that is worse than the status quo?

Depends. If you believe climate change is a hoax pushed by evil liberals or whatever, the status quo is fine.

If you understand that it is real, then you know that keeping the status quo of burning oil means working towards destroying human civilization. Then it's easy to decide that mild inconvenience of charging an EV is worth keeping humanity around.
I don’t understand HN’s obsession with posting articles from the WSJ, acting like we all just happen to have a subscription?
I did not know there is a song from Run DMC called "Two more weeks".
There’s more. Russians were talking with Trump kids from emails released and even tweets from his kids admitting to talking with them. Mueller never too bothered to put any of Trumps family in front of grand jury or prosecute the campaign finance violations they uncovered. It was a fake investigation to trick the American public.
Ah, thank you for the clarifications! I agree with all of the above.
Even for businesses that own buildings but are losing money, they can't sell their building in this market. So, they expect you to use it even though they would rather sell the building for the cash flow.
Travel and immigration restrictions were lifted from Ukraine for getting invaded by Russia. If it wasn't for this, their EU accession process would've remained dead in the water due to severe structural and societal issues that are now being entirely overlooked. Other countries that have been way up the queue aren't getting the same preferential treatment for some reason.

There's war and suffering in Ukraine. But there's even more war and more severe suffering in other parts of the world. They don't get the same "open arms" treatment though (often, it's where brown people live).
how is he qualified to talk about music in the new yorker? he is just jamming with his buddies.

he has no clue about software musical instruments and what they enable. he uses an early looper or wav editing program and compares that to playing a cello. wtf. smh.
So some are better than others.

For me i absolutely cannot see the text in the "Rome" image when full sized.

What is even crazier is i can see the text of the full sized image if i just hold my phone further away (say half a meter) from my face
> Government is defined by its monopoly on coercion — it cannot act but through aggression

That is not true. Government can provide incentives to people without enforcing that everybody follows those incentives.

Government is defined by its constitution (or lack thereof) which can be amended by democratic means. Democracy is not aggression. But government must and can coerce people not to cheat in elections. Else the powerful people with guns would show up on the voting sites and prevent minorities from voting.

Anarchy would probably mean that there are elections, right? Anarchy would simply mean there are no laws enforced except the rules of your local bullies, who might or might not call themselves "anarchists"

Of course a state can have too much power, that is the case in dictatorships. But without a democratic state enforcing the constitution the country would descend into dictatorship.

When voter-suppression happens even in democracies, how much more would it occur without any central authority ensuring constitution is not violated?
Definitely. The only place in the deserts in the US that will be an exception to this is Yuma AZ because it is close to the warm ocean waters to the south of it so it's more humid. But it doesn't have a huge population unlike Houston or Miami.
It's science fiction about economics, intellectual property, and the value of community.

But that tagline applies to nearly everything Doctorow's written.
Interesting. Both my retired parents don't exercise, yet my Mom seems to be in much better health than Dad (based on number of hospital visits required off late). And this kind of explains it. She is up to something or the other the whole day, while Dad is pretty much a couch potato.
I was about to comment on London then saw it in your username.

The City and Canary Wharf still feel like ghost towns compared to how they used to be, especially Mondays and Fridays.

I work in various WeWork offices when I’m in town and they seem 80% empty, and I think they’ve relatively done well.

I don’t understand how it makes sense to keep these offices open.
Depends a lot on the call center. I worked in technical support for a while, and while dealing with awful customers was awful, I did get to use my brain and creativity to solve problems and that was fun.

I have family and friends who have worked in call centers where they have quite literally been selecting lines from a script to read off. That's a very different kind of experience, and it's the obvious type of job for AI to replace. Those family and friends might be stressed to have to find a new job, but they're not going to miss it for its own sake.
Double? More like Triple.
I don't see a meaningful distinction between "preventing disease" and "preventing spread of disease" in this context given we're talking about pathogens.
> The social system we live in cannot tolerate mass unemployment, so I have no doubt that those "lost" jobs will be immediately replaced by newly invented jobs, just to keep the whole thing going just a little longer.

In the US, they’ll be left to rot like they were before in the industrial Midwest, post-NAFTA. Or is happening now in most major US cities, where real estate speculation is favored over everything else, resulting in an affordability crisis and widespread homelessness.
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A growing trend in corruption in the USA has nothing to do with secret societies or Nancy Pelosi?