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Statistically, Teslas are much, much more dangerous than other new cars in the same price bracket.[1] To be fair, I suspect the driver demographics skew younger, maler and more urban than most luxury cars and that has at least as much impact as any actual driving characteristics, but the statistics really don't bear out the people killed by glitches or systematic flaws in Tesla's software pale into comparison compared with those saved by it line of defence.

I find it truly remarkable how on the one hand HN can rage for days over Boeing introducing software with flaws that killed people and on the other hand when it's Tesla's software flaws killing people in a similarly repeatable manner, the general consensus veers towards deaths from poor software implementation not mattering nearly as much as the potential of the technology...

[1]https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...
People will subscribe to another service. But you mean the local iTunes library? Isn't that DRM free? I mean having DRM on it still makes it their music that you "rent", so basically a subscription service.

My father was so ethical and bought a lot of music from some service of his ISP (Planet music or something), it is all lost. I'd never pay for DRMed music. At least with Spotify you know you don't own anything and just pay for access to a lot of stuff as long as you pay.
You could rehash the password the next time the user logs in.
Dear Lord no, the "mole removal" jokes in mainstream press would be too much.
Well, that's certainly one method of carbon sequestration...
You know those little smoking enclosures that some airports have?

Yeah, those are all over Japan outside (albeit not air-tight ones). You only see people smoking in them or in buildings where smoking is allowed, commonly bars.

It's a pretty great way of controlling cigarette butt litter, actually.
You can turn up at court but you don't have to be compelled to say things. In the UK "no comment" works to all questions except confirmation of one's identity.
You can import music in to spotify.
I am an ordinary software engineer and I could build "ransomware" that does nothing but wipe the victim's disks and demands money be paid to a hard-coded bitcoin address in a convincing looking way. I don't need criminal contacts to do that.
I also want to know how he manages to do any work with 5 or even 10 kids.

I realised I no longer had any spare time anymore once I had my first daughter. Then we had another and I realised I must have had so much spare time with just the one kid...

How lots of my family and friends manage time with 3 or more kids I don't know as you are then outnumbered.

5 or more seems impossible. You must either be a drill sergeant super efficient or the opposite, super relaxed and let the kids sort themselves out. Or rich and delegate it to nannies/au-pair etc.

I do appreciate now that by having two kids that they mostly spend their time at home playing with each other, as opposed to when we had just the one when we had to always play with them. I guess that scales well with more kids.

But I still do feel guilty that I am not always joining in. And have to be more selective of which school performance etc either one of us can attend. I am not sure my conscience could handle missing out on lots of these with more kids by allocating much less of my full time to each kid.
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I do understand the sentiment though.
That's not badly put, but aircraft carriers don't grow on trees, and it seems that historians correlate GDP with military success.

Which has been bumming out people for much longer than that example of Greece becoming a province of the Roman Republic.
For what it's worth, beer seems to be transitioning back to cans now on the high end. Cans are much lighter, still just as recyclable, and crucially, they keep the product fresher (which matters more for nice beer than for soda).
No, bartering with it doesn't make it a currency.

However what money is (the abstract concept) and what a currency is (the actual thing you use) is subjective. Art could be used as money and a currency, just as well as sea shells or cigarettes can.

The key is it being used as a medium of exchange, not as something you get for its own gain. So trading art, for the sole purpose to trade it for something else, is using it as a currency.
Only in practical terms, as that’s c^2 joules of photons, which is roughly equivalent to the Tsar Bomba detonation.
Spotify allows you to import tracks from your computer and add them to playlists as if it was on Spotify. Obviously you can only access them on the computer you added them from though.

Not sure about the mobile app, I assume it will skip the missing tracks in a playlist as normal but it might be possible that it picks them up if they're present on the device somewhere.
At least one ransomware program gives you the option to pick one file to decrypt for free, to prove that the files can be recovered.
An exchange of processed resources, which is where the wastage goes.
Spotify windows client can play local music just fine. At least could last time I've used it.
But then we need some sort of Protocol to Access the Directory. It should be something Lightweight, ideally. ;)
WordPress/Ghost on their hosting? Or for the completely non technical, the cloud hosted versions of said scripts on WordPress.com and Ghost.org?
There's a shifting demographic of medium readers that occurred with the recent introduction of more and more nagging on their site and plenty of blogs that moved away from medium mention it. You might still get your deserved readers if you target social medium experts and marketing managers, so good luck to those who's willing to circleyank with this.
> It then released, for one of the programs, an "uninstaller" that only un-hid the program, installed additional software which could not be easily removed, collected an email address from the user, and introduced further security vulnerabilities.
I updated a DB from MD5 to BCrypt at my last job. Essentially on the next login I updated the password (since the password isn't hashed on the client end). So all active users got switched over. After a relatively short period I reset the remaining passwords and forced users to send password reset emails to login.
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>Strictly speaking, you are only bemoaning the lack of multiple expression support, not multi-line lambdas.

Oh, I'm not bemoaning. I'm just answering GP about the likely limitations that the previous poster was complaining about.

>Maybe this is a common trick? I don't use Python; I hardly know anything about it.

I work around lambdas by naming internal functions. It's easier to read intent if I tell you what I'm trying to do.
The computer graphics pioneer Jim Blinn has a nice lecture on tensor diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40TdlWURkS8
What bugs me is that quite a lot of things are not available. I ripped my entire CD collection and uploaded into Google Music (not sure if that feature still exists). I have all this music available but I can not find it on other peoples google music. So if I share a song, they get an error. Most of this music is nothing special and quite mainstream but if I search on other peoples devices I can not find the songs only alternate versions from other people who made a cover version of the song.

I am also worried now that songs will just disappear. I no longer remember specific names but instead hit thumbs up to add them to a list. If the song gets removed from google due to license expiring or what ever that song just disappears from my list and in have no idea that I every had it on my list.
Do you have an issue with playing local files in Spotify itself? I do this for the ~30 or so songs I have on my computer (in Dropbox, actually) and it works just fine.
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To nitpick: Pure musics CD (CD-DA) can't contain any DRM or rootkits, because the format doesn't allow for data - it's all sound.

Only combined CD-ROM/CD-R + CD-DA formats together with the unfortunate eagerness of Windows to auto-execute everything allows such rootkits.

So if you feed a music CD to a real old CD player, or to (say) a properly configured Linux computer: No privacy terrors.
This is not related to GDPR afaics, but at least in Germany, there is an IT security law that governs how companies must disclose security breaches. (Don't get your hopes up, that law is entirely toothless in practice.)
> this is the kind of thinking that kills apps for power-users, and leads to dark patterns.

Not necessarily. Well-applied, this thinking is what gave you --no-preserve-root in rm command. You still can delete your entire drive, you just won't do it by accident anymore.

I agree with your anxiety here though, some people do take this idea and turn it into "this feature is too dangerous; let's remove it for your own good", and nerf an otherwise useful tool.

> "We don't want X people doing Y, so let's subtly make it harder for X people to continue doing Y, without wholeheartedly admitting our intent." seems like a really slippery slope.

That this work is at this point a Nobel-winning insight (the "nudge"), so it's a matter of who's doing it and for what. It turns out that "free will" is a concept with little meaning at scale - large populations behave predictably.
Unfortunately everyone (including GDPR laws) is scared of p2p
You can share them to an Android or iOS device [1], but it's a little fiddly. I'd love for them to offer a cloud music system like Apple Music or Google Play does, as Spotify checks all the other boxes that those services don't.

[1] https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen...
The gram was the original base unit in the French revolutionary metric system. It was defined as the weight of 1 cm^3 of water at the temperature of melting ice. The definition was too imprecise and the kilogram turned out to be more practical, but renaming the unit would have been too much trouble I guess.
I have at least a dozen albums that are not on any music service today! In 30 years they’ll be impossible to find in any form.

If you get deep into any small/independent music scene you’ll find CDs are still king.
I once was chatting with a producer who worked for Disney for around 15 years. He said the so-called “warm” tone of vinyl vs the “harsh” sound of CDs is really that the vinyl format acts as a partial low-pass filter. So it’s really just that you’re hearing less high-freq sound on vinyl than on a CD.
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Wondering if there’s a way to iterate between large scale and localised optimisation. Years ago I did a bit with multigrid for PDE solving which iterates through ranges of resolution - not quite the same but maybe something analogous is possible?
If it was that black and white then you better jail 99+% of the population who happens to jaywalk, drive a little too fast, drive past a yellow light, ride a bicycle without a helmet, etc.

Also, why would you want to focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation? The vast majority of those imprisoned are of no danger to society, and the way the US (and most other countries) focus on punishing someone for making a mistake greatly increase the chance that they'll continue to break the laws in the future and become a burden to society.
You can achieve most of the convenience with a downloaded collection of mp3 / flac / alac

why use CDS?
Hi, wanted to offer a little help! You can still use The Internet Archive (or the WayBack Machine, as it is popularly called) [https://archive.org/web/web.php] to find and download your articles.

It is very helpful and I once used it download some articles/pages for my friend from her blogging website. The website had got blocked as it was a paid domain, which she purchased from GoDaddy and her 1 year subscription got over.
Sometimes people litter by accident. On many hikes I've picked up things which have either fallen out of a backpack - like a still sealed energy drink - or was forgotten there - like a jacket.
I honestly prefer Spotify. The reality is that I have 1014 songs on my playlist at the time of writing, and it sets me back the equivalent of about $5 PM (Converted from ZAR), and I get to be picky about what I listen to frequently. In an album from someone, odds are that I might like 2 of the songs at most, so buying a CD for only 2 songs is a pointless activity for me.

This means that to collect 1000 songs that I like on CD I'll have to buy 500 CDS total. That's a lot of money.

I also enjoy being able to mix up my music and not having to swap out discs when I get tired of an artist. I understand privacy is an issue for some, but I don't really care if Spotify collects the data of who I listen to, it only improves their algorithm and makes my music discoveries easier.

The reality is that you're always connected to the internet, and even if you listen to CDs on your computer the media player is still collecting your data and behaviour.
> one of the Python core developers, said "Python 4.0 will merely be "the release that comes after Python 3.9"" [0], so I think your concerns are ill-based.

Why would they say that? They know breaking compatibility was a huge blunder, but they ignore the folks that it affected. Python 3 promoters are typically folks that don't have to deal with mess it created. If the Python foundation actually admitted to their mistake, it would engender far more confidence and credibility than pretending it does not exist.
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but it so happens that they are always zipping around at the speed of light so their actual mass as observed is nonzero.
>I see GP writes about s-exps specifically, missed it at first

My experience is with s-expressions being a wall of text. I haven't used prolog (end erlang uses the same syntax) enough to have a beef with them. Perhaps I was being over general.
Could you please lend me half a million for a couple of years?
Interesting. Quite a few years ago now though.
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One method is to take the approach of just uninstalling the games and then trying to live with the withdrawal symptoms until you're over it (while working towards new projects). The other method is to do it over a period of time, while also slowly getting rid of all the distractions that get you to play games in the first place.

I find the second method easier to work with, although some are able to just flick an internal switch and stop one fine day. At the same time it's good to start working on your side projects by starting small (extremely small, whatever you're willing to agree with), and then increasing it over a period of time. I've found this method to help. You could start with something as small as just 5 mins of work per day, or a really small task for that day. Once you feel like you're making progress (no matter how small), you'll automatically find the incentive to focus on it more, and spend more time on it.
Good question. When I recently wanted to buy an album as plain MP3 download, I was surprised there was only Google Music and Amazon (and iTunes, though it's a hassle with the terrible iTunes app) left.
Reminds me of a joke I read once.

Teacher: OK, who can start a sentence with "I"?

Student: I is...

Teacher: No, no no, it's "I am..."

Student: I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.
So is Facebook going the way of MySpace?

If so what will replace it?
Yeah, why should I log in with google just to read a random blog? There's not even an explanation for it, just a login prompt.
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What a difference 50 years have made.
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For the past year I've had a flexible Upwork contract, enjoying the convenience of working remotely, by the hour, for good money. But my hourly rate (based in part on the cheap cost of living here in the rural US) most likely underbid developers in more expensive places like NYC & SV.

I guess we will just need to admit to ourselves that remote work like software development, graphic design, translation, etc. has become an internationally-traded commodity, and that in order to compete we will need to physically move to cheaper places in order to survive.
> It's infuriating to me how so many Hacker Newsites refuse to hold corporations accountable for their design flaws.

I have a silent hope that each thread like this means some commenters who haven't thought about this much before will achieve the crucial insights, like: (per GP) assigning blame isn't productive, effective solutions are; (per you) there's no easy way to just make people "be better", at scale people are predictable and follow incentives, so the main points of intervention should be these incentives and systems that create them.
What do you mean by alias? Do you apply to jobs as “chii” or as an assumed name, like “John Smith”, when really your name is “Bob Jones”?
I live in Europe. If Hertz's charge was genuine, then the police had valid contact details for me for at least a year, and didn't get in touch - I can't see that being my responsibility.
What is you fettle state?
I came here to mention exactly this and am glad to see it at the top.

I, as a teenager bought a Sony BMG album with this rootkit.

At the time I didn't own a standalone music player, just my PC. I had a nice Creative sound card and some decent speakers, and an appreciation for audio quality.

To my surprise I found that the Sony album prevented you from playing back anything but some low-quality 128Kb MP3s stored in that data portion of the Disc if using a PC and there was zero chance I was allowing their crapware onto my machine.

I contacted them and they sent me out a replacement disc without the root-kit data rubbish but only upon me first posting back my own disc, without its case no less.
A good lesson for anyone considering user unfriendly features.
In theory even the personal writing style might be considered "personal" as it could be used to identify individuals, but I don't think that lawmakers thought that far.
I do understand the initial example; and I have a story similar to yours. But you're comparing apples to oranges here: the experience of having a decent working memory and getting good grades due to schools being unable to test for real knowledge (but regurgitation of facts) and catering to the lowest common denominator, vs the ability to play a musical instrument skillfully are two very, very different problems.

My claim is that the latter is a skill that nobody is born with. Autistic savants aren't some type of magic creature that know things just by virtue of being savants. They still have to go through the process of skill acquisition. Now that process may be accelerated compared to me or you, but I disagree with your claim of proficiency with zero effort, especially with skills that have shown to require thousands of hours of deliberate practice to establish proficiency.

I think the key is in your last statement: "or appeared effortless relative to peers' efforts". It seems you found yourself in an environment which didn't sufficiently challenge you. This would only argue that you should've been pushed up to more challenging AP/honors classes. This would again have the effect of placing you in a higher standing compared to your peers. So if both you and your peers would be pushed to your true potential, it seems consistent with your statements to say your performance/output would've been superior.

So why should colleges deny you entry because of your ability to be proficient in the system they've set up?
AFAIK all real work stopped around 2009 when it was rejected from by kernel developers.

The HN post of the time seems to have more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=921165
> Not to mention some of us are glad lots of things got fixed and not sore in the slightest.

The people who are not "sore in the slightest" probably don't have to deal with large Python 2 codebases that rely on libraries that have no plan to move to Python 3. They are typically people who are writing code from scratch.

Rendering a huge codebase obsolete in order to upgrade print statements, import statements, and internationalization (i.e., unicode) was not a fair trade for many existing projects.
Apple Music has a whole bunch of Henry Cow. No King Crimson though.
It seems like there's an opportunity for a tool to help solve this (ie something other than GitHub issues).
I'm just going to say that this is flat out amazing. Really super impressive.
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Your sister’s art is lovely!
> I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google.

This highlights one of the ways Google has gone off-piste. The host or platform shouldn't affect your ranking/SEO this much. The same article on two platforms show rank side-by-side when searching by content. There's no reason to trust Medium above other platforms.
Here in France, art is mostly tax-free, so it's used as a mean of tax avoidance by the rich
Onion hash: hash the existing hash with the new algorithm.
> In a single-target attack, I don't really see the concept of "pre-computation to trade space for time"

In a single-target attack the reason you'd do this is because you expect your target to react in a timely fashion to discovery of some other part of your attack by changing passwords.

e.g. maybe you're sure you can break in to get hashes, but you will trigger a reactive IDS. You figure you have some period of time after that trigger before your target is alerted and changes their password.

Time-space tradeoff lets you avoid doing all the work against the clock _after_ the IDS triggers, instead you can do it all _before_ you have the hashes, and only pull the trigger and set off the alarms when you're ready to quickly break the hash, get in and do whatever your actual attack requires.

It's not a _common_ scenario, but it's important to remember it exists in designing general purpose components like password hashes.
Also consider their automatic video encoding / re-encoding / resizing; I think there's services (e.g. Amazon Elastic Transcoder) that can do that for you, but that would require some development time of your own.

Is there a single video format supported by all browsers yet?
It seems inevitable that autonomous vehicles will be required to obey speed limits in the future. The question in my mind is will it be the same speed limits as for humans?
Agreed, given the choice between Medium and a custom blog if I am a publisher, Medium is much faster to get up and running with a blog and has a larger reach than me setting it all up myself.

Many people who aren't technical don't want to have to manage rolling their own comments system, custom SEO, analytics and all of that stuff.
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When a user whose password is hashed the old way logs in, after checking the password they just supplied against your stored old hash but before forgetting the plaintext, you can compute the new hash & update your records.

Of course, that only works for active users - it won't upgrade anyone that never logs in. Depending on just how weak the old hash is, you may want to eventually cut off any lingering un-upgraded accounts: just forget their old hash, requiring them to go through your password reset process should they ever come back. If you've left it long enough, those accounts will probably never be used again anyway, so that should be NBD.
Great. Last time I tried Firefox dev edition a few months ago I had huge memory leaks, upwards of 2GB with a single tab after a few hours of use. It seems much better with the latest version.