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Something that bothers me is why are companies so casual about attaching fragile networked software to long-lived durable goods like cars? The manufacturer has no economic or legal incentive to keep that patched over the life of the hardware.

This is the rotten shortsighted mindset of modern-day tech: all the benefit for the company, none of the responsibility.
Wheeler Dealers is another good one. It's been on for decades and Ant Antstead does some incredibly engaging and informative work despite the fast pace of the show.
Not to pick on you personally, but this habit of the new Microsoft irritates me to no end. Microsoft's response to everything is "give us feedback and we'll fix it"

Do people at Microsoft not use their own products, so they don't know something's broken unless a user reports it ?

Using users for QA has made Windows 10 the worst Windows I've ever used and it's something to see that same attitude permeate every Microsoft product.
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Yes.

But.

We haven't actually achieved that state of grace yet, so in the meantime, in some times and places people actually can be in danger because of who they are. Perhaps you have seen the names Muhlaysia Booker or Jamal Kashoggi in the news recently.
To be clear, for anyone confused about the "main HTML tag" in the title, this recommendation is essentially to eliminate <html><head></head><body></body></html>.
Yes so true
i don't do web stuff because it's horrible frustrating and difficult. C is nice, i love it as it matches the pc platform and you can debug it normally etc. A lot of people like to hate on 'frontent developers' or 'full stack javascript developers' or w/e but you are right. whatever floats your boat will be 'better' and 'more logical' than whatever sinks your ship. for me thank sinking is caused by scipring and CSS. for others that might be C.
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Shorting of a stock is used for both speculation and hedging a position. Tesla has been on a continuous downwards bear trend for the past YTD, so it is very likely that quite a bit of money has been made shorting Tesla up until now.

Just because a few players are able to buy Tesla entirely, it does not mean that shorting a position is necessarily bad.
I think Google has a set of very specific aims, that aren't so relevant to a lot of other organisations.

Cutting out optional tags will improve page size, download speed etc; something that's obviously important when you're serving so many billions of users.
If it were as simple as pushing a button a monkey could fit the bill. Or maybe a pigeon. [0]

The monitor would be in place to manage the last-mile driving and any other technically-challenging aberrations on the route. Human skill and judgement would still be required, just for much shorter periods.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
> I've also read that it takes more power (battery) to render black than it does white

This really depends on the display technology and for more modern monitors, the opposite is true.
Otherwise you end up with a Chrome situation where everyone just develops for a single browser.

You're commented needed to modified for current times. ;-)
Why do people not do a google search before they name things: http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/pythia81html/Welcome.html
Edit: Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PYTHIA
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Incidents like this, though alarming, are vanishingly rare. There have been something like ~170 mass shootings in the United States since 1966 (the UT sniper), resulting in ~1200 dead, according to a Washington Post tally. That is a minuscule number of deaths and perpetrators. 30% of the population does not need to be monitored in a national database because of this small number of people. Nor do everyone's guns need to be taken away because of this tiny number of people.

An alternative solution might be "media control", less reporting and headlining of shooters and shootings, to prevent copycats, sensationalism and the appeal of making a "statement" of this kind by going out and killing a bunch of people. Events like this percolate through the public consciousness and eventually erupt again; shooters are inspired by the stories of other shooters. This story itself might be more deadly than the gun the shooter was carrying, in the long run.

Rather than attempting to restrict the activity of the 99.9999% of people who don't commit mass shootings, perhaps we could build a media culture that isn't built on making money off the selling of lurid stories of violence?
> What do you mean by 'not allowed'. you have the option to not buy tsla if its such a concern to you.

This is a dangerous way of thinking. Transportation is a requirement for getting ahead in life. Signing away your rights to privacy should not ever be a requirement to obtain transportation.
In the case of Apple, Tim Cook has spent quite a while working with Steve Jobs so he's no stranger to collaborating with a loose canon and could probably handle Musk pretty well.

Just speculating, of course.
Do all other browsers behave the same way when dealing with the omission of these basic tags?

Because if not, then by following Google's advice here we are creating the new Internet Explorer.
And the homeless epidemic there :-(
I've used OpenTracing before with good results. Though at the time, 3rd party support (like DataDog etc.) was lacking, and we didn't really want to host our own Jaeger install.

I didn't know OpenCensus was a thing, but I hope this merger means that adoption spreads. A lot of cloud providers provide their own tracing, and it would be nice if they were all compatible.
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And if FB went away tomorrow the companies would find another way. It's not like they weren't successful before FB came around. FB is only "critical" for as long as it exists in it's current form... which makes it not at all critical to begin with.
You just sprayed links all over, expecting me to fish through that data? From what I can tell, your data shows mediocre growth that has barely kept pace with inflation. Half the links you show are for "median" values, which will always increase in an economy that is growing (as it did under the Obama years). It's fact that the middle class as stagnated as the ultra-wealth have gained immensely over the past decades, no amount of FUD will make your argument factual. I'm not arguing any further with someone who argues in bad faith.
Maybe 7 years ago. Even EPA is pretty expensive these days.
1) Huh, what makes you believe I own Tesla - maybe that is not what you're implying but kinda confused by your wording.

2) Still, thanks for pointing that out. Now, I'm even less inclined to buy a Tesla.

3) Wonder what happens in private sale of used Tesla, since the second owner never agreed to such terms, or did they? (Depends on when these terms are presented to them). Could lead to a class action, just saying...

4) Are we now at a place that in addition to the vague financial terms people will have to also comb through T&Cs before buying a car. If so, that is not a good heathy trend.
On the list of countries that the US hasn't invaded yet, most of them are on NATO.

So?

NATO: over.

War is over. If you want it.
Do as we say, not as we do. all the more reason not to trust them.
For anyone interested, may I recommend the History or Rome podcast. At over 150 episodes, each running roughly 25 minutes, the listener is taken from the city's founding by Romulus to the end of the empire at the hands of the Germans.

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com
Pickup trucks are the top selling vehicles in the US. Hard to replace those with bicycles.
Elon Musk isn't the only person trying to take over the world, some private entities just go about it a different, more subtle way due to a lack of personality or humanity. The only way to continue growth for apple is to expand into other industries that can contribute to the "apple ecosystem".
We're talking about the folks who host YouTube, right?

The savings from this won't be the slightest bit significant to them.
I disagree, having these tags give the document a structure that makes it easier for machines to understand. As for indenting, I usually break the consistency and put html, head and body at column 1, starting the indenting for anything inside head and body.
Could this be an instance of "saving face" as people do in East Asia?
Huawei and China will have a hard time finding any sympathy here, considering the companies they outright ban or block, or even just cut the legs off. Have any such US companies responded like this? It feels childish/immature to me, particularly given the circumstances & context.
This is just using different scales to mislead. 25GB/hr is about 7MB/s which isn't even the computing power of a cell phone.
We have a model like that in racing sports, it's called a claiming race. If you enter a $500 claims race you better not spend more than 500 bucks on your car or else someone will buy it out from under you.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15365342/yes-24-hours-of-...
I know it all adds up, but stripping <html><head></head><body></body></html> seems like a miniscule saving compared to the huge amounts of cruft stuffed into most websites.
Honestly I'm learning every single day for 6 years, but there are a bunch of words I simply don't know and a bunch of abstractions I don't understand the need described in this article. The future (maybe even the present) looks unnecessary complex to me.
Sometimes it feels like the conflict is partially about the 5G technology implementation.

What does 5G technology have that is making everyone so sensitive? Will it require complete overhaul of the existing hardware (so big business opportunity)? Will it enable something extraordinary, apart from the data speed, that can not be done with the existing network technologies? I am curious...
This is probably due for a re-examination. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to know how many, or which or even if laws apply. I mean, we've got situations (https://garson-law.com/can-state-governments-own-rights-in-c...) where a US state seems to think it can copyright its own laws. I'm sure some sophistry or other can justify this, but it makes laws seem less open, and more secret.

We have the computer power and human resources to get all laws into machine-readable, and indexable formats, but until that's done, I would thing this non-excuse is very much an excuse. Maybe not legally, but certainly logically and practically.
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> Why do you think Excel is so ingrained into all kinds of ...

Because it works.

Programmers underestimate and put down excel all the time, but I think it's actually how many projects they end up with get started.

Someone had a problem, solved it for themselves using excel, got noticed, expanded the solution to other problems until the excel solution itself became the problem and then... it ends up as a project for you.

There's nothing wrong with that. It does the job, and it's not like the first course of action when there's a problem should be to assemble a scrum team with a cast of characters like a sitcom, and blow a million dollars to implement a bespoke software solution. Sometimes excel is just enough (and then some).
And Web pages will load a lot faster. The whole Internet would speed up!
There's also Pancake (https://www.pancakeapp.com/), Thrive Solo (http://thrivesolo.com/), Duet (https://duetapp.com/), Invoice Ninja (https://www.invoiceninja.com/), Flowlu (https://www.flowlu.com), Plutio (https://www.plutio.com/), and Freelance Suite (http://freelancesuite.com/), and those are just the ones I've tried.
True, for source code it might be better to leave those in. However, the fact that omitting them is standard-compliant is interesting for automated minimizers.
Last I checked, there's physical limits to that kind of growth. According to the textbooks (and history), if you build a zillion super expensive condos in a single area without building an equivalent (or more) amount of low to medium income housing the market will rather quickly self-regulate to reduce the value/price of those luxury condos. It's a bubble.

Ask Miami how it works out. The vacancies in expensive condos are out of control. If it weren't for wealthy foreign investment trying to park their wealth in "safe" places the value of these properties would plummet.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/downtown-miami-has-six-ye...

The bubble will eventually burst and those properties will quickly go bankrupt. Resulting in massive loses to not only other property owners in the area but to the city from tax revenue. Revenue they desperately need to mitigate the effects of global warming.
Which machines have trouble, here?

Sounds superstitious.
Would that not risk heating the brain and injuring the neurons?
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Hey guys.

I'm working for an organisation building a real-time insights platform.

We're not necessarily focusing on processing and transforming data (although we can help with that). We understand that for most non-trivial domains, subject-matter experts are required to help make sense of data (whether it originate from sensors, machine or other sources) and transform them to actionable insights.

The problem were trying to solve is, once you have the insights, how would you then present that in a format that's accessible, easy to grok and actionable.

Some examples:
- a hospital patient is at high risk of a complication. Inform staff so they can monitor / respond to the situation.
- a water pipe is at risk of bursting. Dispatch personal for preventative maintenance.

I'm looking for validation as to whether this is a problem that exists in your industry and whether it's something that people would be willing to pay for?

If so, what are some of the problems that you think could be solved?

Additionally, would you being willing to own the transformation of your data and push insights to the platform using APIs OR would you expect the service provider to own the ingest and transformation of the raw data into insights?
My checks and balances: a well-worn passport, pay the taxes and obey local laws, and do everything possible to attain a sail-boat existence, if if a land-lubber.

And, eventually, get that sail boat.

Borders are thin and invisible. Don't be stopped by them.
From the article:

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<head>
<title>Spending money, spending bytes</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Sic.</p>
</body>
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<title>Saving money, saving bytes</title>
<p>Qed.
I don't use body or head tags, but I use the html tag so there's a place to put the lang attribute.
Anyone who has a lawn in San Francisco is doing pretty damn well for themselves.
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Yeah, but, come on. Isn’t this oversimplifying? “My computer uses bits. That means anything you can make out of bits can run on my computer.” It’s true but essentially vacuous. The value is/includes these difficult-to-build technologies, so the mere fact they could be included isn’t so meaningful and doesn’t add much value.
Apple iOS documentation in the beginning used to impressively good. Back in the ~2008-11 timeframe when I last looked at it seriously it was well organized, with plenty of samples and tutorials.

It was a nice change from the MSDN docs, where if you knew what you were looking for you could find a link, but good luck finding coherent articles or samples.

Sad to see that Apple has backslid in that department.
This is an anti-feature. Firefox enabled a deprecated standard because Google couldn't be bothered to move to the current standard. Classic catering to the big players.
I'm kinda confused by the graphs like this: https://nipunbatra.github.io/blog/2019/20d-conditional.gif

I would expect the graphs to curve (somewhat) smoothly between the 3rd and 4th known points, but instead the 4th point shows up as this weird discontinuity—the graphs are far above it, and then spike down to the 4th point only very close to that point. Why is that? The result doesn't seem (to my untrained eyes) to be very satisfactory.
Chrome is based on Webkit which is free and open source so that is a terrible analogy with IE that was proprietary.
Yeah, I know:

Spreadsheets > Web.
thats for tsla to decide how they do it.

They are stating upfront what they are collecting.
These are consumer product manuals and warranties they are legally required to provide, it's not even remotely the same.
Workers KV went out of beta today, and this is a great tutorial on building a small application entirely at the edge, with Workers for the code, and KV for the data.

I'm the new PM on KV; I'm happy to answer any questions about any of this!
Buffett's Truckstop buy was brilliant
From what I've read, totally agree: they need a strong COO to focus on delivery. A Gwynne Shotwell or --funnily enough-- a Tim Cook of old.

(It's odd that Elon presumably sees the benefit of Gwynne at SpaceX yet doesn't replicate the formula at Tesla.)
Having a QAM card and living in an apartment complex, there was a couple years where I never had to pay for big PPV sporting/wrestling events. And also, _other_ programming types late at night, which was a bit creepy and left me to which neighbors had which proclivities.

I also found that NBA League Pass and NHL Center Ice weren't encrypted that way too.
There likely is lots of money in health. Almost everybody claims it’s the most important thing to them, the aging population gets more health problems and many of them also get more disposable income (kids left the house, fewer holiday trips due to declining health)

That’s probably a big reason for the existence of the Apple Watch and HealthKit.
I can confirm that my children (mostly) acted this way, until they were about in 2nd grade. They'd accept the same punishment as they thought one of the other kids should get. Unfortunately, they were also terrible judges of who was guilty of an offense. It made for frustrating arguments.
Why???

Why should my data go someplace else so others can use it as the basis to build a case for further erosion of rights and perpetuation of economic business models biased in favor of centralization of control and decision making capability.

You:
>Privacy is a spectrum. I am getting kinda tired how people think data some widget I made to exfiltrates about other people is "theirs".

Us:
You wouldn't even be able to gather anything without me, and frankly, it's none of your damned business what I do. You want data collected? Go hire somebody to generate it for you.

Expected epiphany: Now maybe I should have to design telemetry collecting/sending devices to require an explicit, physical opt-in, by shipping the devices with the telemetry data collection physically turned off, and a statement about your data gathering program, tangible immediate benefits to the customer for opting in, legally binding language defining a strict procedure for my company to acquire informed consent when sharing said data with third parties, plus contingency plans detailing the destruction of, or end of life treatment of data on the event of merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other major business event, with concessions exposing the company to sufficient punitive damages in case of breach of contract, and a manual containing a procedure for physically enabling the data collection.

Epiphany instead achieved: but I am so tired of this extreme pricey movement.

Works both ways chief.

Industrialists/wannabe industrialists just prefer it when the sheep don't ask inconvenient questions like "hold up, how do you determine what you're eating for dinner?" or "We seem to be giving up quite a bit in return for what amounts to (thing that solves an already sufficiently solved physical problem, but now with computers, to exponentially increase the potential for new revenue extraction schemes through software and data collection), what are you putting on the line, or doing to ensure my privacy and confidentiality as a customer?".

Stop not thinking about anything more than first order consequences, using dark design patterns to get what you want anyway because no one checks the defaults or license agreements, and actually make a good run of proving you actually want to be above board with customers instead of scoring another quick buck off your position as the manufacturer and maybe reactionary forces won't be as extreme.

Not that hard, right? Just do the right thing.
The location of the crash is public. Who was involved is not. AFAIK You can download the locations of fatality crashes here. ftp://ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov/fars/
Free means no charge for the vast majority of people who can understand English.
It shows US homicides per 100,000 people.
Attending AA meetings, being treated for an STD or at a cancer center, and consistently leaving a bar at closing time are all perfectly legal, yet something people may wish to be able to exercise significant privacy over.
I think that’s a good point. Unfortunately, soon after, the Tesla keyboards probably won’t work well anymore.
Sigh, I don't assume that and I know it is not from many experiences. My point is a lot of these seems to be a fear-based response driving extreme privacy reactions. I want a measured response that recognizes that data is hugely powerful in improving society, and we need strong regulations to protect both sides.

This extreme privacy movement annoys the hell out of me. And, it is really strong on HN.
The comparison is obvious but I'll spell it out for you. You claimed that nobody needs Facebook, providing the reasons:

1. Facebook is not necessary because it's owned by a private corporation. This argument just doesn't make sense.

2. Facebook is not necessary because it's correlated with worse mental health. Even if we assume that there is indeed a correlation and it's Facebook that tends to cause bad mental health, it does not mean that Facebook is bad for the mental health of everyone in every situation.

3. Or do you have higher standards for "need"? If by "need" you mean that it's impossible to live without Facebook: Same for electricity. If you just mean that it doesn't cross your personal threshold of what constitutes "need", then you're of course right, but why should anyone care?

4. Another way to understand your post is that Facebook is not necessary (in general, not for every single human) because it tends to worsen mental health. That would mean that if (strict) Amish have better mental health than us, electricity is not critical. But it is.
their segment on the corvette for astronauts was also quite good!
Was Steve Jobs comparable to Musk? Any examples?

Jobs/Apple overhyped (and sometimes still do) features of their products, but never to the point of making promises they couldn't keep, IMO.
Saying "I don't mean any disrespect" does not grant you carte blanche to speak nonchalantly about a recently-deceased motoring legend's life achievements.
Huawei sells 5G equipment. Think the equivalent of routers, switches but for cellular network. If they have backdoors then China can intercept and disrupt communication across many countries. That's the concern in a nutshell.
> It is a symbiotic relationship :)

What you are saying is that users don't have a choice in the matter.
Needs new infrastructure, so its big spend. Plus whoever builds the physical network will inevitably have backdoors
I was slightly confused.

I thought it was referring to the <main> tag.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
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Do you use Google?
This explains all that "iCar" nonsense. I mean, even as a seasoned and dyed Apple fanboix, I can honestly tell you, I don't want Apple to make cars.

I want them to make computers.