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Climate and weather are different. When people are forecasting 12 years into the future, they’re not predicting the weather, they’re predicting the climate.

Just pointing out this distinction because the “can’t predict next week’s weather” is a disingenuous soundbite that has been used by climate change deniers to discredit climatologists in the eyes of the of the public who don’t understand the difference. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you weren’t trying to be disingenuous, but the distinction still makes your question somewhat irrelevant.
> Section 230 may have helped that centralization, making it possible to create and extract rent from new forms of infrastructure without having to worry about moderating how that infrastructure is used.

Section 230 actually was adopted because without it hosts minimized liability by not moderating; moderation is what opened them up to liability as a publisher rather than being treated as a distributor, 230 gave a fairly ironclad (originally) guarantee that they would not be liable if they moderated content so long as they weren't actively leveraging the illegal content.
I have many long distance friends that I keep in touch with and have for years. Some I haven't seen IRL in nearly a decade. Looking now, almost none of our text conversations have any sign of "goodbye," sometimes picking up even months later on the same topic as the last thing we were discussing. Very interesting.

Side note though, my favorite part of this article, ironically, is the part in the first paragraph which she illustrates as something young people will dismiss: That Salt Lake City has the longest city blocks in the nation. I have lived here my whole life and have always known we have mega huge blocks, but wasn't aware they were the biggest in the nation, and it appears they could be the biggest in the world. This has interesting implications[0] and as someone very interested in urban planning I was taken aback by this and thought it funny that she used it as an example of something people find dismissable.

[0] https://www.governing.com/columns/urban-notebook/gov-salt-la...
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Sure - I see nothing wrong with separating out the categories. There are different types and different levels.

End of the day, at least in my opinion, it is acceptable to be added to blocklists, and it is acceptable to not use those blocklists and hit the beacon.
Regarding the car itself, shouldn't some responsibility lie with the previous owner? The first thing I do before selling a phone or laptop is wipe or factory reset it.

We rented a car last week that had 11 paired Bluetooth devices and like 1400 entries in the phone book. I was kind of jealous because my Leaf only allows 3 devices. I wiped it all out before returning the car.
The act of charging the battery does itself generate some heat, as does the charging circuitry within the phone. This will happen with either method of charging. Wireless inductive charging will also generate significantly larger amounts of waste heat.

Fundamentally, wireless charging is less efficient. Theoretically you could be putting 16w of heat into the phone but only getting 8w of charging.
Personal liability is absolutely still an issue in the EU as well.
It's still strange when you write to somebody and you see the person is online, but doesn't reply.

I guess turning off online status completely is the way to go. Maybe it should be off by default. What's the point of showing it if the person can answer anyway when he has the time?
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I have absolutely no idea what your experience is, but like... the one friend I’ve kept in touch with over the years, we communicate almost entirely over text (IRC) and meet up a handful of times a year. Your first paragraph here isn’t one of universal fact, it’s one of your own personal experience.
Personal attacks are not ok here, so please don't do that on HN.

Insinuations of shilling aren't allowed either. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.
Why is it weird? Companies can define email retention policies for their systems. Facebook (the company) uses Facebook (the product) as a communications platform, so Messages fills the same purpose as Slack or email would.

Facebook's Workplace product advertises "Schedule content retention/deletion based on your policy" as a feature[1]. The only reason they needed to manually delete Zuck's old messages is that Facebook's usage of the product in this way predates Workplace.

1: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/workplace/integrations/...
Just to add another anecdote; I had the same experience as viraptor. It was expected that you said bye if you were leaving, and the ghosting equivalent was to be online but not reply to a message. I knew a few people that used it async but most were not like that.
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> These days people do have to have self control, because all kinds of entertainment is just a click away, so people have to consciously set aside those to get things done.

Oh definitely. I mean It's not that people don't have self control. The problem is exactly that: we have to constantly vigilantly exercise it. I think technology shouldn't make you constantly exercise self control or anything else. I mean, not unless you want to.
Well, most distributions choose saner defaults. For instance, RHEL/CentOS/AmazonLinux use noop io-scheduler by default for SSD based machines.

Though, I get your point: for instance, the TCP keep-alive defaults aren't suitable for all kinds of workloads: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/connecting-...

I guess, that's why performance tuning is an art form as it is workload dependant: https://youtu.be/89fYOo1V2pA
> Couldn't you just sign off if you had other things to do, and answer later in the same conversation?

Sort of, but back then the expectations were different. It would have been uncommon, and sometimes impolite, to come back to a conversation several hours or minutes later as if there was no official end.

Feels weird now but having lived in the original chat room era, in which our parents' phone calls interrupted our internet connection, it was pretty different back then.
I would, if they wouldn't cost the same as a laptop and as most Europeans I don't do contracts.
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It feels like a regression. I don't really enjoy conversations with these tools. It's not as fun to converse with someone over the course of days when each message is some hours after the last. It is also not clear when people might want to talk. Synchronous IM was better because it was clear when people were available to talk, and when they were they would be attentive enough to have a real-time, fulfilling conversation. I haven't experienced that since MSN died.

Now everyone is always available on their phone, but also not truly available at any time. Presence indicators don't mean much any more because people may be online just to view Facebook, or on their phone only momentarily.

I think another contributing factor to the decline in quality of IM conversations is the use of phone keyboards. They are so much worse to type on than a real keyboard that I believe it changes the nature and quality of conversations people have considerably, for the worse.
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This was a problem as soon as ICQ and other instant messengers appeared in the '90s.

Now, the issue seems to have resolved itself thanks to the emoji. Whether it's a Slack or a text, the appearance of a thumbs up emoji is a friendly, succinct way to say "we're done now."
> Benchmarks are meaningless.

Random anecdotes are meaningless. I've looked at plenty of generated code, and I've written plenty of SIMD assembly too. If you can't measure it, you can't compare it or improve it. There's nothing to discuss.
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I understand your viewpoint, but I consider all script tags that a server provides to be merely suggestions.

A browser is, after all, a user-agent. The web was designed this way for a reason.

Would I be breaking some sort of inferred agreement if I browsed with no Javascript enabled at all?

In any case, a site server logs should provide ample information for analytics, unless they are measuring mouse movements or scrolling etc.
In this case it's better to remove that person from the contact list, isn't it? He knows in both cases he is ignored, but if he's removed as a contact then he at least knows he shouldn't send messages in vain.
I agree with you that car makers should stop trying to provide piss poor alternatives to our phones and instead acts as conduits for them and I remember things like PlaysForSure so I am much more in favor of an open standard like Bluetooth that doesn't live or die by one company.
There are plenty of wireless chargers out there, I don't think it's worth someone dying so you can have another apple toy
From your pings, it seems pretty likely that traffic from your Palo Alto location is going through europe to get to iceland, most likely through London.

The submarine cable map shows one cable going west to greenland and then Canada, one that goes to northern England, and two to Denmark. The Canadian landing isn't very close to any other transatlantic cables, so it may not be very well connected (land connectivity is much harder to map though).

Anyway, making location decisions based on assuming internet distance is similar to physical distance is kind of silly. There are many physically adjacent countries that don't have direct interconnects, it's pretty common for traffic to exchange through somewhere much farther away than the ultimate destination: many south american countries exchange traffic in Miami.
>Regarding the car itself, shouldn't some responsibility lie with the previous owner? The first thing I do before selling a phone or laptop is wipe or factory reset it.

Sure, but considering that most users don't even know how to pair a device without step-by-step instructions, I find it highly unlikely that they'll understand the implications of the car reading and storing personal information provided by their phone much less how to delete it.

And given that this is Tesla we're talking about, whose products directly encourage you to have your phone paired (more than any other car of its type), even more people would be affected than they would be from, say, a Leaf (where you don't have to do that, and where it's unlikely to be as easy as it is on a Tesla).
I agree, there's tracking and there's counting. SimpleAnalytics appears to just count hits, but doesn't track users - no cookies set, no browser fingerprinting. Sure, we have to trust in them really not storing IPs etc, but it does look good. Not tracking users, only global site usage.
Really, still making up your own definitions, and of basic vocabulary terms now? Pathetic.

Private contracts like non competes are not regulations. On the other hand, laws designed by the government are regulations. Which this bill will be if it becomes law. To disallow certain agreements in the labour market. To regulate it. Because it's regulation. That makes it less of a free market.
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Yeah. Thumbs up is the mildest form of rudeness imho.
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You would need some understanding of the device/car interaction to know this is necessary. For example you might assume that any SMS content the car displays is fetched in real time from the device.
That sounds pretty damn nice - would you happen to have a good link in mind for reading more on the subject?
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> On the other hand, I was astounded when I heard that F-22s stopped working after flying across the international date line.

As was I, when I learned about taking off from the Dead Sea:

https://www.avgeekery.com/challenge-flying-sea-level/
I think the point of this article is the difference between standing next to someone and online conversations. While I agree that is a major hint, especially in certain cases (especially in the sense of the stalker-esque men hounding women through DMs on social media), I've had very long periods of non-communication with long-distance friends I still consider "close" that pick up much later, sometimes with multiple messages on either side with varying degrees of response.
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Does anyone know what happened to Intel's once promised wireless power standard Rezence? It would use magnetic resonance instead of magnetic induction.
This is pretty much all i see whenever i see boston dynamics attempting to do a cute "oh look at the robot picking up a box" video.

put an ak47 in that robot's manipulators and install some level 3 armor on the important bits and you've basically build a automated mobile weapon of terror and oppression

i don't remember the source but the only reason big dog was rejected by the us military was the sound it generated + power requirements. not really a problem if it's also firing guns at the same time and is deployed from a mobile self driving charging base. maybe the robot charges itself from the nearest tesla power station...
very stupid but clickbaiting question... everything wastes everything...
> It is also not clear when people might want to talk. Synchronous IM was better because it was clear when people were available to talk

That's why async is great, because people can answer whenever they like.

> when they were they would be attentive enough to have a real-time, fulfilling conversation

For this kind of conversation IM is not a good medium. In case of a real time, attentive convesation a phone call is much better, isn't it?
> Comically...

Oh man, would have loved to see that conversation
A few people actually took it very personally when the common behaviour started to change. At some point an "internet etiquette" document started making rounds with "if I'm online it doesn't guarantee I'll respond immediately".

That was around the good old times when we argued whether utf-8 posts are acceptable, whether top-posters deserve life sentences, and other very important things...
It's a good card, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to everyone. For all but the biggest spenders, the Citi DoubleCash makes more sense because it also gives 2% but with no annual fee. Since you're paying the $89, you'd have to spend over $89,000 annually ($89 / 0.1% difference) to make the 2.1% worth it over the 2%.
What does “everything wastes everything” mean?
You can delete your old posts if you find them embarrassing.
I think parent was talking about navigation more than surveillance, so VORs and similar. Between that and inertial navigation, there's plenty of other location sources if your GPS receiver does fail.

Though if we're feeling pessimistic, we can guess at how a failure might occur. Let's say that your GPS receiver is poorly written enough that it just starts returning wrong location data on week rollover. Let's also say that that receiver is the aircraft's main time provider. Since the inertial navigation system also needs an accurate time source, it could be hooked up to this same time source. Hopefully it wouldn't be, but we're assuming the aircraft in question here is all-around subtly defective. The INS doesnt't include handling for bogus time jumps, so its speed and location tracking is also corrupted. So, you and your unfortunate copilot could find yourselves without your two main navigation sources a few hours into a trans-pacific flight, and assumedly the GPS-coupled autopilot had pointed you well off course before you'd noticed. In this situation you'd have to get yourselves reoriented based off your compass and best guess of a location. Hopefully you have enough fuel reserves after you little diversion to find land search for an airfield.

So that would be a pretty bad situation. I wouldn't worry though, aircraft systems are generally better isolated than that.
It is already works like this and works just fine.
> I think technology shouldn't make you constantly exercise self control or anything else.

Always having access to all kinds of online content makes you constantly exercise your self control by itself.
Absolutely. That was an error. I thought I deleted one, then left the other. By the time I noticed both were up, it was too late to delete. I apologize for that. I am new here. Was having some trouble earlier as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498218. I really respect this community and do not seek to offend.
The one I hate is the "are you around?" / "are you there now?" type message.

I hate synchronous online communication. Just ask the question, and I'll respond some hours later when I have time. If you want synchronous, schedule me in person.
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> shouldn't some responsibility lie with the previous owner?

If the secondhand purchase was a general person-to-person sale, sure.

If buying secondhand from a dealer, or the manufacturer, I'd be expecting some sort of refurbishment. At the minimum a proper detailed cleaned, full service, and software factory reset plus latest software upgrades at the relevant price-point.
One thing: it's become increasingly common to ditch in-seat entertainment units and just have people watch airline-provided entertainment on their own devices over wifi. This approach saves weight and money. Would it have been viable if electronic devices were still banned during takeoff?

Regardless, utility matters. This argument from frivolity --- that we shouldn't allow thing X that has rare side effect Y because X is just a "toy" --- is dangerous, because everything in modern civilization, from the right perspective, is frivolous. The whole point of technology is to make life easier, so it's not fair to argue against thing X merely because thing X exists to make life easier. Everything we really needed for survival was invented a long, long time ago.
Most GPS devices made at least after 1999 implement an unwrapping algorithm that has an epoch at some random date set by the maker in the firmware.

Essentially the firmware knows that the day is later than say, July 4th 2004 because that's when it was built. If the GPS date is less than that date, it adds 1024 weeks repeated until its greater than the hardcoded date.

This means that the exact wrap date will depend on the receiver, though some will wrap on April 6th

Fortunately GPS rollover doesn't normally get in the way of positioning. The only way it would is if the 'wrong' dates triggered some other bug.
My memory is fuzzy but I don't recall any central server saving the messages- nothing could be sent to you if you were not online. Which, considering dialup hogged the phone line, was most of the day.
ADSB is how planes see each other without relying on ATC, and feeds collision avoidance systems. The FAA instructs pilots to believe these systems over ATC because it updates faster than radar.

In a very hypothetical worst case scenario, a malfunctioning ADSB transmitter could suddenly put itself right in the path of a large commercial aircraft, forcing it to make dangerous maneuvers to avoid a collision.
No, they are Java only.

Even the permissions are Java only.

They worked around it on the NDK samples by removing the features that would require the use of the permissions API, just to show how seriously they take the NDK.
You're right. I didn't mean to make it sound universal, because it's not.

What I meant to say is that even though you can keep up on IRC and other instant media, the fact that they are instant often drives you to communicate reactively, instead of reflectively. Does that make more sense? Sure, you can be asynchronous if you don't look at your messages or regulate yourself so you have time to process before you reply. But I think no matter what, the instantaneity drives us to be reactive, even the most mindful among us.
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Its not a buffer overflow.
The thing that gives me pause is that we have spent two decades worrying about standby power, but now we are willfully adding an inefficiency. It feels like the wrong direction to be moving in.
Food prepared in a vegan manner provides all the nutrients you need, there have been several studies to confirm this and millions of vegans are also proof of this that we don't need to consume animal products to survive (depends where you are, e.g Inuits need to hunt to survive).

That leaves 2 criteria you listed that are not 100 covered, which are mouth feel and texture. Both of those things are not necessary for our survival.

Do you think mouth feel and texture are more important than reducing animal suffering, reducing destruction of our environment and eliminating horrible working conditions for other humans?

Do you have to have the exact mouth feel and texture to make that moral decision?

Foods without animal products are quite delicious, it just takes the willingness to try and take it step by step, like the author did.

We don't need replicators to make more compassionate and sustainable choices.

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In the article there is an example of a blog post that is missing on blog.facebook.com but can be found on web.archive.org. I could be wrong but I think changes to robots.txt can make pages "disappear" from Internet Archive, too. Many have made the mistake of assuming what is at web.archive.org is "permanent" only to watch it "disappear" when the domain name registration lapses and robots.txt changes.
I'll admit that I don't know the details, but I'll point out that they would not have been so far from land without tankers. If they were closer to a base or had longer range, a complete navigational failure would be far less of a problem as there are still pilots on board who know roughly where they are and what the heading is and where to find emergency airfields. They can make decisions and come up with a plan to get out of the situation. Perhaps, I'll claim that as the third error in doom predictions. When any real problems do come up, there are intelligent people working the problem.
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If an IDE exists that does indeed return such information, not using it is using the wrong tool for the job. And in almost all cases, it does. I can't think of a major language that doesn't have a jetbrains ide that does such things. If people want to spend time manually looking up signatures and manually formatting their code in whatever editor, fine. But if they are lazy and don't do this work, then blame it on not wanting to use a proper IDE when one exists, they are not doing their job and frankly, shitty engineers.
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