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If you think Democrats were "determined" to beat Trump "at all costs" this last election, please, explain why they couldn't promise to stop arming Israel's genocide.

Democrat elites knew full well, as did the world, that 77% of Democrat voters wanted an arms embargo. Everyone who cared to look knew that in close battleground states over 3 in 10 Biden 2020 voters were saying that their vote could be affected by this, such was their feeling on this issue - understandable, given the daily atrocities livestreamed around the world.

Kamala's campaign had an easy win, a landslide victory for the taking. All they had to do was promise an arms embargo. Instead, she promised to keep sending bombs "no matter what"; even before her campaign page had a single policy on it. Does that look like they were fighting to beat the Republicans "at all costs"?

... How did Democrats hold Trump accountable for his insurrection attempt? Did that look like 'determination to win' to you? [0]

Did Blinken, Miller, Patel, Karine etc look or sound any less cartoonishly evil than the Trump goons? The things they said up there were mind-bogglingly cruel; staggeringly disrespectful of our intelligence.

The Biden admin censored millions of posts, pushed knowingly fake stories, physically removed journalists from the press room for asking legitimate questions, etc. Not super Democratic.

Sure; Republicans are much worse on some issues. But this corporate plutocracy didn't come out of nowhere. Despite the claims from the current Dem team, they do in fact take a lot of money from "bad" billionaires.

Even now, Democrats are crowing that Trump isn't deporting as many immigrants as they did. Because that's what's important right now??

Biden's admin pulled out all the stops to shut down student protesters - compare that to their response to Musk raiding the Treasury!

The two sides are not quite the same (neither are heels and heroes, ya know), but they are funded and owned by the same people. The difference is very clear when you see the unanimous support across the political and media class for things which the American people don't actually want - forever wars, environmental exploitation, tax cuts for the wealthy, full on genocide etc.

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What happens if you lose your fingerprints in some way? Deep burns on your fingers can permanently change your fingerprints. What if you are in an accident and both hands or arms have to be amputated?

Could a bad actor put some sort of coating or prosthetic on their fingers to successfully impersonate someone else?

Ugh, biometrics...
>laughable to think that AI can replace an actual human

Any particular human competency that you believe that AI wouldn't attain in a decade?
This is madness - I get preventing huge premium jumps (although given that it’s a competitive landscape and many do jump ship between providers year on year, I suspect it is protecting largely the less financially astute), but if the upshot is that providers end up withdrawing cover, then that’s an objectively worse situation.
Volvo saw this coming 2019 and their CEO said they will accept full liability.

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/455/volvo-accepting-full-liabi...
Open source but my impression is that this contains verilog generated by another program?
It's a nice hobby project, but why not just use a browsers built-in reader mode? It has all the same features, and works on (almost) any website.
Ripping apart institutions is a great way to increase interest rates.
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Using this logic, having good genes represents an even greater injustice.

As you have said, money is a fuzzy representation of at least some value created via societal transactions.

Genetics, on the other hand, are wholly undeserved, even by the people passing them on. If we aim to champion fairness, I don't see how this cannot be part of the conversation.
Fun to note no word about Epstein's...
I've come dangerously close to being acquired by one of his companies.

His management style is best described as humiliation and abuse.

Or to put it another way, you can build a lot of pyramids when you use disposable slaves.
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That's why one records the check amount in a ledger kept electronically or physically with the checkbook. You will then always know what you have even if the pesky landlord waits 3 months to cash a check. It's old school but works flawlessly for one person.

(Dunno if banking apps have the ability to record written checks then automatically reconcile when those checks clear. It'd be a nice banking app feature but would reduce revenue obtained from overdraft fees, on which banks gorge.)

For a couple, one needs the has-the-checkbook? mutex to write new checks. Each spouse having a credit card paid down monthly reduces the mutex contention for negative cost (considering float and rewards, ignoring credit-only prices).

Supposing the above fails from time-to-time, there's a defense in depth approach: If you write those checks from a margin-enabled brokerage account, anytime you make a mistake you self-fund the overdraft. This can be useful if the checks you write in a month are small relative to your margin collateral. This can also be useful if one occasionally needs to write a check for larger, one-off purchases where it'll take a few days to move the money around to satisfy the check. This is conceptually nice because a negative checkbook balance stops being haltingly terrifying if you know a regular paycheck will land before some checks clear. Do not trigger margin calls on yourself!
Unusually, regulation is the issue - instead of raising rates (prohibited beyond a certain amount in CA), they just pull out.
Is this true in an absolute sense?

There are impossibility proofs in many domains and I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that there are certain conditions that create circumstances that aren’t insurable.

Asking sincerely
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Depends. From a global point of view this might be a net positive. For a family that has to move it's a life altering problem, sometimes impossible to address because of financial, emotional, or other toll.
For those less familiar with this topic, Facebook did indeed know about this while it was going on, they just didn't prioritize it.
Handling personal information of citizens is subject to a lot of laws and protections. You can’t just put whatever software installed by whomever.
Will this let me filter for jobs in a specific region? For e.g. Europe or Australia?
> If a week long outage is enough to make or break your business, your business isn't gonna work out anyway.

If your business has an SLA with its customers, having a week long outage is going to break your business.
Some contracts I saw had a 15 minute reaction time where you had to acknowledge the issue, and after 1 hour of downtime there are penalties. The same contract also required redundancy (of hardware, internet lines as well as location for the DCs). We could not have hosted that on a Raspi, or a single machine.

I don't think reducing the scale issue to "you ain't gonna need it" is right. Obviously to most projects it's not gonna be needed. But when it does and you need to grow, you'll be happy you have a redundant infrastructure that you can spin up/down easily instead of having to call your DC to ask for more hardware to be installed.
We could put all of humanity in the space of Texas at the density of Manhattan, so I don't think we lack space.
As a counter, inflationary systems slowly transfer more and more wealth from those without assets, to those with.

It might be different if wages grew at the same rate as inflation, but they rarely do.

The standard target rate of 2% inflation does not take into account the deflationary effects of ever increasing technology / efficiency. So in reality, it's much higher then the 2% stated figures.
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> regulation to help ensure the solvency of insurers seems like a good thing

Seems like a good thing for the insurers if the state takes only the risks. It means operating the business at the very limit of how much profit you can extract from it knowing failure is cost free. Safety nets only take the beating and the falls. So if you're going to be the safety net, you're probably better served by running the business yourself.

I get helping out up to a ceiling but not unlimited liability from the state, guaranteeing an insurer is always solvent. How do you keep bad actors out of the "state guarantees you stay solvent" business?
At that lower end you get two of these machines, https://www.hetzner.com/sb/#price_from=100, plus another hundred bucks per month for fun and CDN and some DDOS protection if that's your thing and a backup solution. Pick a 256 GB RAM machine and one with 3-4 TB SSD.

It'll reliably cost exactly that and you'll be able to handle quite a lot of traffic. Probably enough that the same load would land you around 3k/month on AWS or GCP or whatever.

For 3k/month you can get hundreds of cores and 1-2 TB RAM on a couple of machines physically separated in a redundant data center setup. That's with markup from the data center selling it to you and the credit cost. After two-three years you own the hardware and can sell it if you want. A rig like this makes it rather easy to build HA-systems, have your devs experiment a bit with Ansible and keepalived and ProxySQL and they'll figure it out.

The beauty of Unix-like systems is that they're trivially discoverable and well documented. The clown platforms are not, and if your systems go down for whatever reason it's typically much harder and more labour intensive to get them back up again when they're clowned. This is especially the case if they get transfered to new management, e.g. due to bankruptcy proceedings. Paying a premium to get locked-in is a bad deal, unless you're the kind of organisation that is likely to also have mainframes in production.
> Do you know that our voter registration, which is organized by state and ultimately administered at the county level, does include that information?

There are lots of people in the US who are not registered to vote. A few reasons:

* They are non-citizens.

* They are children.

* They are convicted felons and live in a state where they are not eligible to vote (either while serving their sentences or after).

* They are eligible, but have chosen not to register.

I'm sure there are other categories of people who are not registered to vote. But even just these represent more than a hundred million people, a good third of the population, at least.
So similar in that regard to Herb Sutter's experimental Cpp2 perhaps?
> Nobody really knows

That's not quite true.

> A mixture of their environment, parenting

One would wonder what could be behind that... Also, poorer schools in poor neighborhoods because they receive less funding, lowering the value or real estate in the neighborhood, attracting poor people to it.

> and genetics probably

Funny how this always comes up.
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is this you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913544
I think that that’s the crux of the issue—efficiency is very often in tension with resilience. In an economic system that optimizes for efficiency above all, you end up with fragility. Not only do you have fragility, but because the system is complex, the fragility shows up in unpredictable places.
California advocates frequently accused home insurers of price gouging (see: https://consumerwatchdog.org/insurance/study-public-scrutiny...) arguing that price increases need expensive and time consuming hearings processes to the point of calling these practices "illegal".

If the government doesn't recognize that there is a very real, very significant risk of wildfire and prohibits pricing it in (whether based upon location or mitigation factors) insurers will leave the market, effectively rendering the houses ineligible for subsidized mortgages.
> Nothing is uninsurable for the right premium.

Of course, but there are some markets that are unsustainable from a cost perspective, to the consumer and the provider.

> And there is plenty that can be done to reduce the fire risk to bring premiums down.

Agreed, this should be the priority -- really my point is that it has nothing to do with regulation or lack of, not that I would be unsupportive of requiring that all homes in high-risk areas be built up to a more strict code.
A lot of progress in many fields largely moves in the direction of inertia. Pretty much always.

That of course means drawing upon experience, work and ongoing contributions of people who are around for long. Obviously they would be old.

Getting old is a part of life no? Unless of course some one is planning on dying early.
Genuinely curious: What are those nice things Europe cannot have?
The American populous has decided that this is not the case - drill, baby drill.

In the current landscape I think very few people on a global scale has any sympathy with Americans being affected by the changing climate.
The point of raising rates is to compensate for higher risk. However that is politically very unpopular, so voters put pressure on politicians to prevent insurers from adequately pricing risk through premiums.

Also, I don't think the government is predominantly to blame. I'd wager plenty of people in local, state, federal governments know that these locations need to be expensive to insure or are basically uninsurable. However, voters refuse to accept the reality of increasing risks due climate change, urban sprawl, and other factors. Politicians lack the incentive (or spine) to be honest about these risks. And anyone else in government, especially scientists, that do state the risks plainly are either ignored, censored, or fired.

And its only going to get worse. As more companies pull out, governments will step in (pressured by voters) to be the insurers of last resort. This is already true in Florida (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Property_Insurance_Co...) and (I believe) California. At some point, natural disasters will probably cause these government insurers to go (basically) bankrupt since they're insuring rich people's million dollar houses on Florida's coast and in California forests.

Edit: I'd also wager companies are more than happy to price-gouge in situations like this too. I expect this is both premiums being insufficiently high and companies seeing profit opportunities.
You guys expect to see the teacher every single day?
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There could be though. That's a manufacturing problem.
And another factor is that those surveillance laws haven't passed, despite some member states pushing for them since at least 5 years ago.

It's an ongoing war.
Good. You cannot have a functioning society where decisions are made in a non-deterministic way. Especially when those decision deviate from agreed protocols (laws, bylaws, contracts, etc.).
I mean, if your house costs a million and gets destroyed by fire every year I can insure you for 100k per month, so it is insurable just. Not usefully.
Yeah, like, do they not know what to support or oppose here? (I think they're all pretty decided one way or the other.)
With this kind of money, I have a feeling we'll only come up with a good dataset. LLM will be a completely different beast with completely different requirements.
As an European, respectfully, I am not too interested in comparing the stability of my system of government with that of another country. I try to compare my circumstances to a better ideal, not a worse.
I don't have the numbers at hand or know if they're even public somewhere, but telemetry shows that Firefox Translations is used a lot. Definitely on the list of successful new Firefox features.

(I'm a Mozilla employee, but I have not worked on Firefox Translations.)
Some people have a lot of unexpressed sadness and anger and fear from the pandemic (and housing crisis before that) and are projecting it on to indirectly or totally unrelated things.
As the author mentions, `panic!` is also not an acceptable failure mode in some applications. If you're developing safety-critical software and a process stopping is part of your risk analysis, many frameworks will ask you about the frequency of that happening. In that analysis, you may be required to set all systematic contributions to that frequency to zero. This happens, for example, if you try to control the associated risk using redundancy. If there is a code path that may panic, you may not be able to do this at all as you maybe just cannot conclude that your code does not panic systematically.
Listen, you need to start somewhere..
What's your point?

That's what the usa did to the entire south and middle America.
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> When it launched, employees were told that we'd soon be able to receive a portion of our salaries in Libra.

LOL, crypto-company scrip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip) coupled with a touch of pump (and possibly dump).
If I got an Euro for every time someone has expressed this opinion, I'd be a rich man. Save it until the EU really doesn't exist.
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They really really have deteriorated. I’m not sure that dang’s efforts alone would be enough to hold back the tide though. I worry this is a culture shift :/
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Corruptible is relative to the goal you're trying to achieve.

If you're the king of a nation, anyone trying to convince your knights to overthrow you is a corrupting force. But at the same time you could be a brutal ruler corrupted by power, and it is the knights that are trying to upturn the corrupt system.
> He bought a company and claims all the credit for it

Dude, Musk founded Space X. It's because of these kinds of ridiculous comments that I find it hard to take the Left (at least the ones on the internet) seriously.
Oh no, I was disputing the "burned and destroyed" part – don't pick and choose what I said and ignore the rest.

I know what I saw: between 2020 and 2024 I worked at PSU and took a bus that went over the Hawthorne Bridge, went past the Justice Center, and dropped me off near City Hall. Once in a while I went to Pioneer Square to eat lunch. I worked late nights, and on the way back home after midnight I either walked back on Broadway or 4th, to City Hall, and took the same bus back. Those are the "10 blocks" you're talking about. The fact that they were all standing, not burnt, and were in use during business hours is fairly relevant to the conversation.

The worst I saw was the glass broken in the fancy glass entrance to the Oregon Historical Society. The best I saw was murals painted on the boards Apple had put up to protect their store in Pioneer Square.

So: what did you see?
I ask, are you yourself doing anything other than this when you think and act?
Yeah I did the same thing about a year ago only on GCP. I tried to stay in the free tier but "hidden" networking costs got me at $20/month.

The site was a blog with traffic of 1, load balancer, cloud run and storage bucket.

I shut it down. It was a nice exercise but not worth it to me long term.
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Yes, and England was at that time and for almost another century causing famines in its colonies abroad by preventing them from becoming either capitalist or liberal. Ireland didn't even get the worst of it; India suffered much worse under the English yoke.
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I know some of the people involved, and named in this article. So do many other people on HN. I pitched my startup to one of these zoomers just a few months ago. I can tell you that whatever this is, it isn't that kind of cronyism corruption. We can do better than such accusations, and that's what the person you are replying to is asking for.
Oh, we have automated tests out the wazoo. Mostly unit tests, or single-service tests with mocked dependencies.

Due to unfortunate constraints of operating in the real world, one can only run integration tests in-situ, as it were (on real hardware, with real dependencies).
It is worth noting that anonymous sources allege Elez had R/W access. Wired has been seen around the web fishing for anonymous tips from gov. employees. Gov. employees may not be friendly to the incoming administration, which is looking to make wholesale cuts.

It isn't immediately clear what kind of system is in use. There may be backups which could conclusively prove files had been edited.

> a likely and terrible endgame there is union and NGO lawyers getting de facto judgement power.

They were always going to fight on every possible avenue. How much do anonymous press leaks really mean here?
Once China has a CPU that is really good enough for most critical tasks, it might as well start dealing with Taiwan in order to let other countries see how well they progress if they no longer have the manufacturing capabilities of TSMC and others at their disposal.

If played well, it could even let them win the AI race even if they and everyone else have to struggle for a decade.