missingcolours

Even people who have read news articles about ChatGPT lying often think "that was a weird, once in a blue moon bug that will be fixed soon" as opposed to "yes that's how this works and it happens constantly".

I asked ChatGPT and Bard some factual questions about elected officials and upcoming election dates. 80% of them were flat out wrong. They told me most US states were having gubernatorial elections this November, that the governor of Texas is an independent, etc - simple basic facts that you Wikipedia could show you are wrong.

That's usually the political calculation for free fares (aside from the virtue signaling aspect) - free fares = more riders = more political support for increased public funding.

The potential peril is that compared to the counterfactual of spending this money on improved service, free fares may attract few new riders or fail to generate additional political capital, or even lead to reduced funding if transit starts to be seen as a welfare expenditure rather than a system for everyone that pays for itself to some degree.

Of course, some of those unincorporated areas can be fairly urban, e.g. East LA[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Los_Angeles,_California

The entire concept that induced demand means there's no benefit to increased capacity seems so silly to me, and it seems to skate by with little scrutiny in the urban planning world.

To analogize to technology, this is like saying "more bandwidth doesn't improve connectivity; increases in bandwidth get eaten up by more bandwidth-hungry applications". Sure, broadband connections were "eaten up" by new applications, like YouTube. But that's good! New things are possible that weren't before and users are benefiting!

Similarly, if 20% more cars are traveling on a freeway now... they're choosing to do that for some reason. They're benefiting somehow, either because it's not actually as bad as before, or more people can be carried at the same speed (and they've switched away from an alternate route that was slower and reduced traffic on that route, or they're able to go somewhere at a certain time when they previously weren't, or something). No one's like "there's a new lane on the 5 and it's not moving any faster than it was before, I think I'll start taking it".

Not anymore! https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2022/07/2...

Nah.

Everywhere I've ever worked, you can tell any boss things they don't want to hear. What you have to do is do it respectfully. I've told directors and VPs multiple levels up from me that I thought they were wrong about something in large meetings. I said it to their face and respectfully, and that was fine. As long as you understand your place and don't publicly trash your boss, there's normally no problem.

The tweet in question here was... not that.

> Consider a program in which an array was accessed based on the index provided by some user input -- how could this ever be proven to never go out of bounds?

In fairness, the approach to similar operations in Rust is usually by returning an Option or a Result, so it is arguably counterintuitive that a few specific operations like array indexing panic instead.

(you can do Vec.get(), but normally the "safe" behavior is the default and the "unsafe" behavior is optional and more verbose, e.g unwrap)

Right, AFAIK they were prevented from posting by one of those interstitials demanding that they delete a specific tweet in order to access their account. Still no new posts from the account so presumably that is still the case.

This seems like a very Big Coastal Metro-centric view that is probably true in those areas but doesn't capture what's happening elsewhere. Home prices in Metro Detroit, for example, used to be quite reasonable and have recently exploded to being rather unaffordable for most people. There hasn't really been any population growth to speak of, so it's not clear to me why would we need or want more housing to be constructed in order for prices to be reasonable, as was the historic norm.

I imagine the quality is pretty low with the number of menu items that single batch of cooks is trying to make. When you read about struggling restaurants trying to make a comeback, a common theme is an attempt at simplifying the menu so that they can focus on a core set of high quality dishes, as their menu had gotten bloated and thus the average quality of a dish inevitably declined.

Yeah... I always develop against the latest Python available and have probably run into 1 package in my career with a version incompatibility, and that was with a C API portion. 20-40% is not correct.

> The North American Amish population grew by an estimated 195,710 since 2000, increasing from approximately 177,910 in 2000 to 373,620 in 2022, an increase of 110 percent.

Wow... for context, compare to the fact that (at least according to the decennial census) the white population of the US actually decreased from 2010-2020.

He says he doesn't earn equity, not that he doesn't have any. He's the founder of his company, he probably has quite a bit of equity.

In my case I paid the balance online and picked "Notice of Proposed Assessment" as the payment type. When I asked the chat agent why it was in suspense, that was their explanation.

Actually ran into something similar this past week.

FTB sent me a Notice of Proposed Assessment related to my 2017(!) return. Apparently I had taken a deduction that the FTB decided was invalid. After researching and concluding the deduction was indeed invalid, I went on their website and paid the balance including the interest.

Then a month later I got a Balance Due Notice informing me they would soon pursue collections actions against me, e.g. garnishing wages etc. Looked online, showed I still had a balance. Check bank account, sure enough, they had deducted it. Payment history on their website showed the payment, but status was "Suspense".

Called them several times, each time was told they were too busy to take my call, try the website. On my second attempt I finally got someone on their chat system to release the funds. Apparently, their practice is to release the funds only when you file your next tax return... but in our case we moved out of state, so they potentially would have started forcibly collecting money that I had already paid them.

Cool agency.

Glad to see others are also frustrated with Google's extremely excessive "security" gimmicks.

The one that I run into sometimes: in order to do "Find My Phone" for my wife's phone, I try to sign in as her. In order to 2FA authenticate, I need to press yes on her (lost) phone, or answer a phone call or text on her (lost) phone. What exactly is the point of a find phone feature that requires you to have the phone?

Apple doesn't have this issue BTW; they have some 2FA stuff but Find My iPhone is excluded so you can use it if your phone is missing.

Given the apparently low efficacy of the current batch of vaccines in preventing infection and transmission, I'm not sure that it's any harder for variants to occur in, say, New Mexico than South Africa. If the case rates are higher, the odds of variants is higher.

More likely they do an HTTP request and if there's a redirect they update the link.

That's not really a reliable/actionable signal overall - my previous employer had like 20,000 employees NATed behind a single IP.

Almost every time I start a new job I find a list of "blacklisted IPs" in the firewall and no one seems to know from whence they came, they've just always been there. It's a perfectly reasonable short term solution in some situations where there are few options, but like, expire them after some period of time, don't leave random IPs blocked for years.

To quote arguments that were thrown at people who wanted to do things like hold funerals for loved ones, visit dying relatives, protest against destroying the life's work of small business owners, etc:

- You can do this over Zoom / online

- Just because this is important to YOU does NOT give you the right to sacrifice the lives of the others who will be denied hospital care because of your selfishness

- You really can't wait a couple months until this LITERAL PANDEMIC is over?

In fact it seems you could flatten the curve too much? Suppose this shelter in place is very successful we hold cases steady for the next 3 weeks. Then what? If we pull the band-aid off we're basically back where we started. The idea with flattening the curve is to have a controlled, lower flow of infections that slowly translates to herd immunity right?

I wonder if Uber could require their drivers to operate a similar structure to side-skirt this law.

Gotta be something to that, end of legislative session maybe?

API? Why bother with that when you can just "git clone ... git log"

That seems to be a thus-far unsubstantiated Twitter rumor: https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-camera-malfun...

Nah. "Move fast and break things" usually has an implicit "and bypass all the security, we'll fix it later"

This kind of sounds to me like "you can stop smoking by not buying anymore cigarettes". True, but glosses over the addictive aspects which led to cigarettes being regulated as they are. And this isn't an accidental property of these apps, they're intentionally engineered features to drive "engagement"/addiction.

The King County homeless census[1] found the overwhelming majority of homeless in the area were living in the area before becoming homeless.

[1] http://allhomekc.org/king-county-point-in-time-pit-count/

And the crazier thing is that in my experience SF is much less interested in taking your report than other cities I've lived (even Detroit), so it may even be substantially understated.