skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other people disagree. From the article:

"Todd Henderson, a legal scholar at the University of Chicago, says that on the face of it, the cities suing might have a case. It would rest, he says, on the argument that when a simple and cheap technology is available that can radically reduce the chance of a product causing enormous damage, “the non-inclusion makes the product defective.” A car that is so easily stolen might be analogous to an iron that does not automatically switch off, and so burns down a house."

So, if a company sells an iron that doesn't switch off when not in use and houses burn down, would you think lawsuits against that company are ridiculous? Or is that iron that burns houses down a defective product?

From my perspective, I've lived through this and I've had enough of the car thieves on my block. I hope Kia gets sued out of existence.
Is it really true that most Anglophone countries are the same? Is that how they do it in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, the Philippines, Jamaica, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, Botswana, Ghana, South Africa, and Fiji?

There are a lot more Anglophone countries than just the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
It's honestly insane how a company can just claim this cost us X without a shred of evidence. I very much even doubt this cost Valve a single dollar. In fact it would not even surprise me that this helped sell Half-Life 2. The game that some people where willing to risk years of jail time to get it a month earlier. Can't get better marketing then that honestly.
Hm, I guess I wasn't specific enough - you're right that you could just be excited by the mission of the company and that seems healthy and cool. It's the borderline worship and the cheering (to be fair I think this might be an American cultural thing) that seems off.

Or maybe it's my gut feeling that many of the people involved in aforementioned rah-rah-rah behavior are just putting on their "work persona" face a little bit too enthusiastically, which itself feels a bit sus to me.
This is exactly why tort law exists, to argue in court that someone else is causing an undue burden and should compensate you.

> The courts aren't a way to enforce unwritten legislation.

OK, so some big company storing your PII gets hacked and you get hacked as a result and your bank account was drained. Assuming no laws were broken by the company storing your PII, should you not be entitled to sue? This is exactly why lawsuits exist.

If there are no digital privacy laws on the books, then no big company should ever be held responsible for a data breach, that's absurd.
What are the legal implications for taking down an unidentified drone hovering over your private property?
Some of it may come from them rebuilding a lot of the game after the leak, but that was arguably an unnecessary exercise to protect their IP. Even then, not close to that figure. Federal agencies are keen to protect corporations' quarterly profits, even if it ruins people's lives. Nothing new about that.
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I agree on not including the offset.

However I'm saying that the solution should be radically different and much more user focused.

There is a difference between a description of when to capture a moment (which should favor the way the normal person describes moments) and an absolute moment event.
Cool! Any plans to make this also work for flights?
Perhaps it would help to give an overly simplistic scenario.

If you have 12,800 critters all alive at one point in time, they each spread evenly to 10 different regions and then each 10x their population sizes before 9/10 of those regions experienced some cataclysmic event which wiped ALL of that group out.

At no point did you have less than 12,800 critters alive, however all critters alive now show as descending from only 1280 critters.
But isn't that part of the poor comparison with other sorts of engineering? If I build a bridge or design a machine, I have a pretty good idea of who will use it and for what, and it's engineered for those use cases, and some reasonable edge cases. Plenty of medical and chemical engineering isn't tested on anything close to the breadth of humanity that could be harmed or excluded from using it.

There's plenty of "engineered" products that are designed in ways that don't support unicode or international electrical systems, or other factors that exclude "millions of people from non western countries", but they also just don't sell those products outside of western countries.

Just because I put something on the internet doesn't mean I'm thus required to support literally the entire planet's use of it, and I don't think that's "stakes". Sure, if your company has a Korean division and you forget to have Unicode support, that's a problem, but if you work for a regional company in Virginia, it doesn't seem like some failing of professional responsibility to not support Unicode in my forms.
I could be wrong. Its been at least 5 years since I used either of them. I wonder if I had a number or something on one of them.
It seems to be entirely possible that someone can simultaneously believe that porn is bad and that the government should have no particular insight into whether you watch it.
That’s not really how civil court works though.

You don’t have to break the law to be judged to be liable for harming someone else financially in civil court.

Civil cases work on the “preponderance of the evidence.” The judge or jury must believe that your case is stronger than the other side’s case.

I think there is so much data pointing to Kia and Hyundai’s practice being unusual, and I’d guess that discovery will find out that decision makes at Hyundai knew that increased thefts would occur. If so, it stands to reason that they knew their decision to forego immobilizers would directly shoulder cities with extra costs.
> So while the AMD driver is open source, the community is basically excluded from contributing?

Because it is open source, but not open contribution.

Open source vs. open contribution are orthogonal concepts: the former is about licensing, the latter about the organization of the development process.
I don't understand this at all. I get just as much extremist content, but I get it advertised at me as well. I've had Daily Wire and Epoch Times content forced on me at preroll thousands of times now, and before that it was Prager U.
People are also probably way more active in middle or high school as well and age out. Without the fodder ad content filling the feed, you’d probably only need to check facebook once every two months to be current, maybe even with less frequency.
It's a civil case. One of the main purposes of the civil law system is to address harms from things that are not illegal.
> The benefit (prevent rash action and ensure control of a single branch/chamber/etc does not lead to negative outcomes) are effectively being presented while the downside is not, and people then go on to blindly chant these merits in their adult life and political life too.

I feel like you're just ranting against a strawman here. I did public k-12 in a deep red state with teachers who were vocally conservative, and I remember them teaching the trade off (which is: checks and balances slow things down and make government more rigid, but can protect against abuse of power, especially from the executive). The thing is, most likely neither of us actually knows what's being taught in K-12 classrooms and we can only really speculate

> but having 30-40% of the public able to drag the whole system to a halt is a bad design even if it springs from well-intentioned goals.

It's only bad design if you don't agree with that 30-40%, else it's a lifesaver. Similar reasoning where you advocate for empowering the execute branch. In certain rare cases like FDR you could make the argument that it's beneficial and it wouldn't be far off, but FDR is the exception, not the rule
> when a simple and cheap technology is available that can radically reduce the chance of a product causing enormous damage, “the non-inclusion makes the product defective.”

This is a reasonable argument (except for blaming poor anti-theft technology for "causing enormous damage"), but I don't like where it leads. Thefts would be further deterred if the car took a photo of the driver every time the engine starts (and used facial recognition to refuse to start if they're wearing a mask), then sent that photo, with date+time+GPS coordinates to a central server somewhere. There are countless other cheap and corrosive to liberty "solutions" you can use to deter crime. Like force cars to act as networked security cameras.

No laws have been passed, just a creative legal theory, and suddenly it's illegal to sell a car that's not an arm of the police state. I'd rather see the manufacturer just forced to reveal the known serious vulnerabilities before purchase.
"Whatever time 6pm is where we are" is a reasonable concept to want to express. You can't guarantee ahead of time when it will be, but it matters to people.

When I worked on a system that provided schedules for appointments, it was quite difficult to furnish a link that put this on someone's calendar reliably, and to set up reminders that went out every third Monday of the month at 9am to remind people to go to their clinic appt at 11am. People are equally annoyed at 8am or 10am reminders in such a case, so you can't tie it to a specific time, and daylight savings time gets changed from time to time, and various locations have "9am" at different times. We didn't even get into the weeds of whether someone who lives in Phenix City, AL should get notices in Central or Eastern (it's Eastern for most people, except if they work for the government or are going to school... unless it's a private school, which might still be on Eastern...).

Telling someone they can get their notice at any time they want as long as it's specified in UTC year round just doesn't solve the problem they have.
Maybe take up a team sport, or martial art. Or do some physical labor part time, to see if you actually want to do it full time, or if this is just an itch you can scratch on the weekends
> it's not truly corruption

I'm not taking a position on whether or not type 1 corruption is "truly corruption". That's just pointless quibbling over terminology. I'm just saying that these two things are different enough that they ought not to be conflated.

> everyone in business must be unethical, because unethical businesspeople are more likely to succeed

Yes, I think that's probably true.

> empirically it's untrue that everyone in business is unethical

How would you know? Part of the craft of business is making it appear that you are ethical even (especially!) when you aren't.

> What differentiates politics, in large part, is that it's not a free, competitive market

ROTFL. There are no free, competitive markets. Even in commerce the vast majority of industries are dominated and controlled by a very small number (often just two, sometimes one) of major players.

> I've seen no evidence

Have you looked? It's not hard to find. e.g.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/citizens-united-c...
Content wise it felt less and less relevant to me as time went by, even before the mod hissyfits. After the drama, there’s even less. So it’s my death scroll of last resort now.
The answer is "then a viable fork will sprout up and we can switch to that instead" which is what has happened for every notable widely used OSS project I can think of.

And it's not like you have to sit idly while that's happening. A small company might not be able to fork and maintain their own fork but they can pitch in with other companies by providing some development time, or money or infrastructure to help make an OSS fork successful as a community project.
It requires intent to maintain a certain level of ignorance, and apathy is often exaggerated on purpose which is also intent.
Re:Zinc quite likely, but there is no scientific method to identify what is the right amount to take. Thats the catch 22. No one can audit ever cell in the body!

As an example:
I can do 250mg of zinc oxide a day and have minimal effect from it whatso ever, I just crave eating chicken and tomatoes. Add 100mg of manganese chloride alongside that intake and then I get an immune system response in the jaw, with aching around the bone where the teeth that have been filled are and the mandible. Ears discharge fluid which would suggest I have some sort of glue ear, ear infection or exposure to swimming pool chlorine. If I reduce those amounts, the ear discharge clears up and the jaw bone aches go, which would lead me to think everything is ok, when clearly its not.
At that dose, I have a bit of tenderness in a tendon on each elbow and a little activity around the knees, so maybe its doing some good.

Its certainly not in the tens of mg/kg toxic dose ranges for these chemicals, but well above the rda amounts. However some chemicals have a toxic dose range in the 0.0X mg/kg range, making it highly toxic.

The manganese is normalising my blood sugars which help immune system responses. The doctors had been notified by the opticians a few years ago of possible diabetic implications, but the NHS GP has not been in touch about it, or anything from when I was at hospital for that matter, unless letters are going lost in the post, which isnt the first time that stuff has been done to me. So many criminals in the Royal Mail, it will be good to see their monopoly go.

So are vitamin RDA's high enough, or are just cautiously minimal in order to address the existence of said multi vitamin chemicals whilst not contributing to rude health?

Zinc chloride is an effective Lewis acid catalyst in the Diels–Alder reactions of the keto esters, but do these Diels–Alder reactions exist in the human body?

Oxide + gut hydrochloric acid = chlorine + water which is why I do zinc oxide, but might get some zinc chloride to dilute in deionised water. Dont want to chemically burn any holes in my guts now.

Re the fungus, so Bipolaris can be inhaled from compost bins, it seems a lot of fungus seems to get into the sinus from a variety of locations, and even I've smelt mould when doing manganese and beta alanine for no explicable reason other than it might have been in a sinus but the body hasn't been given the chemicals to respond until now. The manganese has seriously improved my sinuses. It also makes me think, forensic pathologists use these sinuses to work out if someone had snorted any drugs and other things that might contribute to an opinion on the cause of death.

From 1990
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2312993/
Allergic Bipolaris sinusitis: clinical and immunopathologic characteristics

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC254347
Bipolaris spicifera Causes Fungus Balls of the Sinuses and Triggers Polypoid Chronic Rhinosinusitis in an Immunocompetent Patient
People are ostensibly downvoting you because you're baselessly linking porn to "population collapse."

Plenty of people think that porn is bad or, more weakly, that it's a mild social ill that requires counter-education to help (mostly) young men understand that porn isn't the same thing as a healthy adult relationship. You can believe these things without catastrophizing.
Not only that but it was due to their portable software architecture which was by design. Carmack isolated the platform dependent stuff so that you can port it to any other platform without too much effort.
Maybe make a list of fields or areas that interest you... and then see if anyone in your social network or friends group are in those fields? Buy them a cup of coffee or a beer and pick their brains. See what the like or don't like about it, how they got started, what they would do different, etc.
Yep- I can't unpost the link so I put "[Broken - Undeployed]" once I got comments coming in.
I pay my monthly bill in cash at the Verizon store that’s on my way to work.
Fun fact about cheetahs is that they’re so interrelated that any cheetah can accept a skin graft from nearly any other cheetah. They’re so similar that their immune system can’t recognize that the transplanted skin is from a different individual
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It's pretty sad that you rejoice in other people being treated badly (or unfairly).

With a 200k CAD income, I'm likely[1] a top 10% earner. Most immigrants to Canada likely earn more than the average Canadian, since the Canadian immigration system heavy selects for high-skilled individuals with. So, considering skilled immigrants' tax contributions are likely quite a bit higher, don't immigrants' parents deserve to have full access to free healthcare?

[1] The statistics top out at 100k: https://www.statista.com/statistics/464262/percentage-distri...
Wow. An interesting and detailed discussion of the legal ins and outs of rescheduling marijuana. No hype, no advocacy, just an insightful analysis of the regulatory environment.
Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists
M.A.C.E. – M*C Application Compatibility Environment
> same grifters are migrating to AI

This just in:

"MetaQuiz is the brainchild of MetFi DAO, a true trailblazer, investor, and incubator in the realms of AI, Metaverse, and Web3. With its unwavering commitment to innovation, MetFi DAO is reshaping education and entertainment in unprecedented ways. The platform aspires to redefine how individuals from diverse backgrounds learn, grow, and earn rewards in a secure and engaging environment. ... MetaQuiz introduces an unprecedented pathway, where the allure of learning seamlessly merges with tangible opportunities for earning."

AI, Metaverse, Web3, DAO, education, and gambling! What could possibly go wrong?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what’s the pricing on that? When I see “sign up for free” I’m trained to expect a hidden, costly upsell.

If it’s actually free it may actually be helpful to add a prominent Pricing in the nav, where you explain why it’s free, how you make money (or how you might plan to), and whether there are any catches, like selling all the data to someone (not that you’d likely do that, but if I stumbled upon the site from anywhere else, I might assume a catch exists)

Anyway what I can see of this looks really professional, so nice job! I’m curious to try it!
I broke into some systems at my high school, and got hired jr/sr year at my school district. Their issue was a permission misconfiguration in AD, and allowed me to do all sorts of things like adjust the backgrounds for all the computers in the district

I thought it'd be an interesting entry into tech jobs, specifically around microsoft AD, which was something I never got to really play with enough at home (licensing, and hardware limitations)

They ended up just using me to re-image and setup machines :(
I see your point, but I guess I don't see the difference between it being structured as a string with a second deserialization step after JSON deserialization. I see the convenience of a standard way to deserialize the time stamp.

But either way you need multiple pieces of data for the duration to be correct and useful. Without the created-at time in your example the duration will be invalid in the presence of leap years/seconds.

If you want to unambiguously encode a duration of time, it needs to be in the smallest unambiguous unit that is meaningful (usually seconds/nano seconds). That will allow your duration to be correctly used without any additional logic/metadata packed along with it.
Smoking hot take but: lower the line to 30. 80 hours a week is an absurd amount of your week taken up working and it is nearly impossible to fit in a M-F schedule of 16 hours between 2 employers. two 30 hour jobs come down to 12 hour work days. Which sucks immensely but is manageable. Especially between a day and night shift.

Then again, asking for 30 hours is also like asking for a 33% pay raise. But there are very slow movements towards 4 day/32 hour work weeks, so maybe this will be a thing in due time.
It was more than the public, it was authority itself. So many people were grounded. Then came the ads shortly after the parents and then it really was over as it was.
Off topic, but the stylesheet for this page is just a couple of tweaks away from not being unreadable trash on mobile.

I don't understand how in 2023 some sites still insist on using fixed minimum values instead of just adjusting the layout for narrow viewport widths in a media query. The images just need properly scaling thumbnails, and the gutters around the single column of text need to go away.
It's literally on Github. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013
I’ve made so much money stacking my pitch decks and websites with AI generated media that I don't care if someone copy and pastes it and uses it commercially too

People married to their prompt engineering outputs are really missing the forest for the trees
I've just realized that MUDs can become and absurdly incredible experience with the advent of LLMs and diffusion models. You can drawn the most absurd and complex situations. The NPCs can be truly intelligent.

Now I want to retire and work on this :)
I work remotely, but even when they had me coming into an office, I'd go for walks with my girl at the time, who I worked with, and then I'd come back, and there'd be moments where nothing was going on, so I'd work on my own side projects and still do it to this day.

You could say I definitely have an undiagnosed ADHD or Autism and I need to be doing something aside from the thing I'm doing. Don't get me wrong.. if work requires me to focus on it, I'll work on it to completion.
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>Over rap music

Tangential, but: that's an interesting detail to note. I've been told that TikTok's Chinese counterpart, Douyin, tends to push educational videos, rather than just entertainment, to youth. In effect, one could reasonably assume that the videos that are surfaced are ones that the app's owners want to be surfaced, to a particular consumer. I suppose we'll never know if an "over country music" clone exists. Likewise, it's interesting that associations with rap music is what The Economist wants us to make with the subjects of the article.
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I didn't see anything about the MAC authentication but I do remember MaddoxX at the time and all he was doing. I think the forum he was posting on ended up purging all his posts after he was arrested.
TouchHLE v0.2.0: iOS 2.0 Emulator adds Android release
Track Transition Curve
Then you're using the term differently than the GOP is.
Varicap, variable capacitor used in tuning radio circuits
Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: A Proof Assistant Approach
It's because of SEO. SEO is why you can't quit it.

I run a similar platform and google has basically broken the internet over the past five years with SEO. Wordpress garbage is everywhere. Oh well, the correction is coming but who knows when.

BTW, if you're into kpop check out kpopping.com for your kpop needs (Of course, there's a shitty wordpress that outranks us on every single* page -- here's a funny thread from some SEO guy about it https://twitter.com/paulk139/status/1550532282288508929 )
> ...if a generation would be 25 years on average, only 5 million individuals lived during those 100k years.

Related: roughly 8% of people who have ever lived are still alive today [1]. And in one year we have 25x more children born than homo sapiens in those first hundreds of thousands of years (140M/yr vs. a few millions).

[1] https://www.techopian.com/eight-per-cent-of-people-who-have-...
Any evidence to back up that claim?