Seems like the obvious confounding factor is just aging: Old people have problems with hearing, and old people are also less likely to walk briskly. The subset of people with undiagnosed hearing problems probably aren't taking care of their health in general.
> substantial amount of money from $99/year developer subscriptions
You actually do get some value, you can file two DTS tickets [1] a year which are (supposedly) looked at by a real apple engineer. Assuming they haven't outsourced it, that feels worth about $100 considering how badly documented their APIs are.
I remember you used to be able to right-click and then press open instead of double-clicking which would bypass gatekeeper just for that run. Not sure if it still exists though, I don't have any unsigned apps handy to test.
Skimming the video there's also important unstated context that the person was non-white foreigner, had tattoos, and on visa. It's possible that the combination made an ambiguous grey-area situation much worse.
>In any technologically advanced society the individual’s fate must depend on decisions that he personally cannot influence to any great extent. A technological society cannot be broken down into small, autonomous communities, because production depends on the cooperation of very large numbers of people and machines. Such a society must be highly organized and decisions have to be made that affect very large numbers of people. When a decision affects, say, a million people, then each of the affected individuals has, on the average, only a one-millionth share in making the decision
I don't know what you're quoting, but I wish it were the case that something affecting a million people granted each affected individual about a one-millionth share in the decision. I don't think that would always yield good outcomes, but at least it would be democratic. Structures that enable that are what we should be building.
With our level of technology I don't see why we couldn't have that kind of decision directly put into the hands of individuals rather than leave it to "representatives" or worse yet corporations that aren't even required to ask. Maybe I'm not thinking through the difficulties well enough, be what we have with elected representatives campaigning on one set of ideals and then voting the complete opposite way is unacceptable. At least, that should be grounds for imprisonment. Maybe that would be sufficient to get the representative voting system working well enough.
> With our level of technology I don't see why we couldn't have that kind of decision directly put into the hands of individuals rather than leave it to "representatives" or worse yet corporations that aren't even required to ask.
Reading the contents of proposed bills is a herculean task, to the extent that even our elected representatives dedicated to the task don't do so a significant fraction of the time. There's perhaps a good argument that's mostly because representatives (particularly in the House) spend too much time fundraising, but imagine the outcome when the burden is placed on people who have (sometimes several) completely independent, full-time jobs.
I would also argue that there's value in debating bills before passing them, but this opportunity for debate would all but disappear in a direct democracy, both because it's an additional burden on top of the time needed to read the bills and because it's a logistical nightmare to set up a proper debate venue that can properly accommodate everyone.
On top of that, you have to deal with the fact that the majority of US adults' literacy levels are below 6th grade, making them less likely to understand legislation they read or be able to engage in meaningful debate about it.
I think I'd want to fix our electoral system to make it more representative of the public (i.e. use something better than winner-take-all, first-past-the-post) before I'd even want to try tackling the monumental problems that we'd face in trying to enable a direct democracy for anything beyond the local city/municipality level.
> Maybe I'm not thinking through the difficulties well enough, be what we have with elected representatives campaigning on one set of ideals and then voting the complete opposite way is unacceptable. At least, that should be grounds for imprisonment.
I'm with you somewhat in spirit, but I think the devil's in the details.
A particular concern I'd have with doing this is that it's fairly common for representatives to attach riders to bills that have little to nothing to do with the original text. As such, there may be times when my representative may be forced to vote against a bill, the core of which is something they campaigned on, because one or more riders are completely unacceptable.
I do think there's probably value in providing a mechanism to recall representatives and senators, not the least of which is because we've seen in recent history several such politicians do full 180s and even change political parties upon election.
I don't think we want to open the pandora's box of incarcerating representatives based upon their voting history, though.
In the 1960's there was a young man graduated from the University of Michigan. Did some brilliant work in mathematics. Specifically bounded harmonic functions. Then he went on to Berkeley, was assistant professor, showed amazing potential, then he moved to Montana and he blew the competition away.
That is why the writer specified "on average", which clearly remains true, at least in the case that the decisionmaker is part of the affected group. The optimistic part is in assuming that latter.
I’m guessing it’s all the same effect as CGNAT exit IPs. You need to get big enough to be unblockable. That’s why everyone is trying to get in on the VPN game.
This new reCAPTCHA setup is probably a good indicator that big tech wants to shift to verified access only. Personally, I’m just going to quit spending money via the internet and go back to piracy + retail stores with a physical location.
Half-serious thought: Would giving them an appropriately sized dose LSD (with proper setting/supervision) or similar thing be a better alternative? If the issue is lack of empathy for others isn't this a much better solution that actually fixes the root cause instead of papering things over. Maybe caning might fix the superficial symptom, but those people may well end up as sociopath CEOs or something or find other ways to gain satisfaction from asserting their power (just look at the state of the world, you can be a "bully" in many other ways than physical ones).
James "Whitey" Bulger was given LSD in exchange for a reduced prison sentence after some low level crime. He went on to work as a professional hitman, taking out politicians and trafficking drugs.
LSD does work for things such as alcoholism, but MDMA is usually used in treatment programmes as it doesn't have such life changing mental effects.
Note that as I understand the main claim of Marx is that the efficiency and productivity gains from automation don't actually go to the laborer, they're captured by the "capital owner". Example being how despite all the automation we're all still working 8 hr days, 5 days a week just to get by.
Now of course there's also jevon's "paradox" here, and the automation does allow us to support a larger population so in that sense not all the increased productivity is just "skimmed off the top" as profit. But on the flipside the crux of the other recent [1] HN post is that the wealth disparity is increasing. And if all the increased productivity directly translated to more "physical resources" in the world, that wouldn't be the case.
So something must be getting skimmed of the top, and intuitively you can feel the "rent seeking" layers in society have increased. Gains in efficiency are no longer resulting in surplus of physical products and decrease in prices.
It is. The EOTF wasn’t an engineered function in 1996, it was the natural response of CRTs. The EOTFs of later technologies like LCDs were developed to approximate this response, not to be an inverse of the encoding gamma.
Sure but modern ICC color-managed workflows (e.g. digital photography, printing) basically don't distinguish between EOTF and OETF. Assuming your source is tagged correctly and all displays have a profile matching their true response, you necessarily need to linearize with the inverse of the encoding gamma. All edits are done directly in the source color space, if the viewer's profile differs from the source it's up the viewer to translate accordingly. You don't edit images "on the assumption" that they'll be decoded with a 2.2 gamma.
For some reason video workflows never adapted to the ICC system (probably because in CRT days you couldn't really adapt your decode gamma on the fly) which is basically where the whole debate in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m... comes from.
I'm not saying that the people using 2.2 EOTF are wrong, but all this just adds to the absurdity: in the modern day where LUTs are cheap and plentiful, instead of tagging content as an ambiguous sRGB it could simply be tagged as gamma 2.2 if it's actually intended to be decoded at that gamma.
It depends what you want to apply your linear functions on. If you want to work directly in the source scene light (e.g. photography), then it would make sense to use the inverse OETF. If you are blending graded scenes of emissive light, i.e. a movie, then using the EOTF makes sense. The reason for this is that movies are graded with that EOTF in mind, so by linearizing with that EOTF, you get a resulting linear value as it is intended to be seen by a viewer.
Regardless of what you use for a linearizing function, the more important thing is that you use the correct encoding function afterward, so that you don’t introduce any additional gamma correction. For example, it was common to use a simple squaring function for speed. This gives fairly good results as long as you apply the square root function afterward to restore the original gamma correction. It doesn’t matter if the source is 2.2 or 2.4 gamma encoded or something else, that correction will be preserved. The blending post-linearization will be less accurate, but much better than not linearizing at all.
>The reason for this is that movies are graded with that EOTF in mind, so by linearizing with that EOTF
I guess this is the part I find anachronistic. Why do we work in the source scene light for photography, but do the opposite for videos? It makes sense if you assume the viewing device is "dumb" (like a television or CRT, especially in the analog days) but by now I assume the workflows are all fully digital, and even the most basic output device can apply LUTs. When digital video container formats were introduced, why didn't they align with what ICC did? It would have saved a lot of headache for everyone, compared to limited NCLC tags and the mess around EOTFs.
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