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I agree and I will add another reason... I had an original IBM thinkpad and I loved it. Even the red nipple thing on the keyboard. I bought a cheaper one from lenovo labelled 'thinkpad' and it was disgustingly cheap. The keyboard felt cheap, the trackpad was unusable. You want to make a cheap laptop, fine, but don't tarnish the 'thinkpad' brand.

I've never looked back.
Not really self-driving. Waymo is still using "safety drivers". Until the technology gets past that, it's not adding any value.
It is not just this isolated case. Youtube changed their terms and conditions in such a way that affects all educational content related to infosec, more info in the other HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346865
Ask HN: Is there any way to make a MCU send a signal like keyboard?
I want to make a device with MCU, something like Arduino or Raspberry Pi, which can connect the computer through USB cable and is programmable to send some key signals like keyboard.

Thanks!
Is your analogy trying to say that Google is the only search engine you can use, and that it doesn't list rival video sites?

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
> The medical definition of conciseness includes things like responding to bright light by constructing the iris.

Which has an interesting parallel with many plant's ability to rotate the face of their leaves towards the current position of the sun.
Urban/suburban government tends to be... anti-self-sufficiency. Not so long ago a Florida town was making headlines for going after a resident who'd disconnected from the power grid. New wells and septic permits are often disallowed once a city starts offering water and sewer. Etc.

I'm on the border of where my area turns more rural. There are a couple of properties with horses just outside my single street subdivision where I have ~1 1/2 acres. I can have chickens but I can't eat them. Can't have any other foul or livestock without at least twice as much land and a bunch of other restrictions, and I wouldn't be allowed to eat them, either. There's actually _no_ land zoned for general agricultural purposes in my county. None at all. In theory we have a zoning classification for a small farm / ranch type property that allows a smaller than 3ac lot and fewer restrictions on setbacks but I can't find any actual properties with that zoning in the county GIS.

I am allowed to shoot a gun in my back yard tho. Just not at any of the delicious wild animals that pass thru.
The vacant lot stage, I assume, is due to the lengthy process of permitting. If you're referring to the same sort of "vacant lot" as I am, there is often a foundation and a single wall or so left so that it qualifies as a remodel as opposed to new construction (though in reality is effectively new construction). Presumably there is some regulatory and/or tax advantage to doing this.

In a lot of places in California, "how are such projects economic" goes beyond regulatory delays and their associated financial impacts. When you are spending $1M on a 1/4 acre property that you tear down and spend an additional $400k redeveloping, its certainly more than just regulatory costs making that so much more expensive than the vast majority of the US and the world.
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Don't know, but I bet they'll be delicious.
YouTube is less and less about You.
That’ll be fixed once autonomous farming takes over.
I'm a developer myself and I'm currently looking for new projects to work on. I'm interested in hearing about your idea if you don't mind sharing it. You can email me at sanv725@hotmail.com
Those are just really rare - only a few states (Wisconsin, California, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Arizona) even allow private companies to accept charter money, and for-profit charters make up the vast majority of for-profit schools in America (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For-profit_education and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_management_organiz...). Whether these corporations should even be allowed to exist is controversial and it’s entirely possible Zach doesn’t support them. Sounds like the place you worked was an edge case.
There is no clear indication when you’re buying from third parties vs. Amazon. Too many times I have bought things thinking I am buying from Amazon but turns out I bought from a third party with a different return policy. Amazon needs to make this more obvious.
I do this often but a little less complicated than what is proposed here.

* Start with an Ubuntu Server base

* Install tasksel: sudo apt install tasksel

* Install the Xubuntu core desktop: sudo tasksel install xubuntu-core

* Install XRDP: sudo apt install xrdp

Then two small changes to make XRDP work:

* sed -i 's/allowed_users=console/allowed_users=anybody/g' /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config

* echo "startxfce4" > ~/.Xclients

Give the machine a reboot and you're good to go. You can log in with an RDP client and continue configuring as you see fit.
Could it be a physical infrastructure problem? There are occasional issues with fiber cuts that cause outages. I'd imagine many companies rely on such a critical piece of infrastructure.
Ugly as opposed as opposed to what exactly? A toughbook is ugly. Those hp envys are ugly.
A lot of people genuinely didn't know about pixel tracking in emails until they read about it in recent coverage. I agree that Superhuman is being somewhat unfairly singled out here, but that doesn't make the outrage "manufactured"
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If a human has to be behind the wheel, then it will be even more expensive than Uber. They won't be able to handle the demand and wait times will be huge. So as a competitor to Uber I can't see how it will be effective. It's definitely an interesting development but financially it doesn't make sense unless the human is out of the equation.
I don't think you're describing a solution.

Saying that if something is bad, you should try to make it good is just restating the problem.
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Heard about this a while ago. It's the new venture of the Anaconda guys
It's not nearly so academic (in fact, it's for middle-grade readers) but Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist bases its magic system on a unique take on some foundational geometric principles.
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I really wish discussions about how regulations protect the consumer didn’t start with the assumption that there was no better option than government regulation to afford that same protection.
That was exactly the point. According to panpsychism, everything has consciousness.

We us as humans on the other hand, want to compare our consciousness to the one of animals/plants/etc.

Trying to bridge the two things, you could say that everything has consciousness, but that there's a "level" of it, which to make it simple, you could attribute to (or be roughly correlated to) complexity/size.

In a way, it's exactly how gravity is defined.
Boeing does a ton of defense contracting. Why is the counter party not Lockheed, Rockwell, etc?

Also, companies don’t need to be direct competitors to have adverse interests. For example, Google lobbied heavily on copyright issues because it wants to commoditize a downstream product input to its own services. That places Google at odds with media companies, even though the companies don’t compete directly.
> For what it's worth

Not much in my book. The problem isn't Superfish, the problem is leadership that allowed it.
It took nearly 6 months to learn to accidentally stop hitting the "reduce traction control" button in a 2013 Subaru BRZ with my arm. I considered printing a custom cover for it. In the end it turns out I learned not to hit it, but it's recessed and flat, unlike this Renault nonsense.
I'm not sure more "Agree to do X with my data" popups are the right direction to move in.
Just like Uber, it will burn investor money in the hopes of one day making financial sense.
Google search, reddit, HN, social media of various sorts? There's a ton of discoverability out there. Youtube is not the only path
Yes. Book value does not account correctly for the value of intangible assets.
Tobin's Q works if entering the market is about building plants and so on, but not when the moat is an asset that is not measured.
I assure you, the Japanese have their own HOA type rules and laws to be annoyed at.
Sure, but to what extent are they "showing" us that they "Ported Python to WebAssembly". Isn't this more of a "Show HN: Python packaged for Wasmer"? To my mind, part of the purpose of these show HN threads is to ask questions and give feedback about whatever it is that the post is showing, so I'm asking to what extent the Wasmer folks actually did any "porting", since (to me) that seems like the interesting part.
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Despite recent improvements, it's still pretty easy to accidentally make a bucket public that you meant to keep private.
> Look at the bios of the Go authors.

Appeal to authority fallacy. Furthermore, this was evident several times when discussions about things like generics came up. I think they even admitted it at some point.
Exactly. And it's not just marketing emails.

The dichotomy between "marketing tracks, 1-to-1 emails don't" is false. There are hundreds of millions if not a billion installs of people using tracking for 1-to-1 email.

Sales people use dozens prospecting tools like Outreach.io, Salesloft, etc for tracking.

Likewise, millions of individual consumers use tools like Gmelius, Mixmax, Streak, etc.

This feels like either manufactured outrage or willful ignorance by a community of supposedly technology-savvy people who should know better.
Can we at least disallow iframes containing file:// URIs? Essentially treat them as if they had X-Frame-Option: DENY.
> To simply exist, free markets require a ton of government-backed regulations, the most obvious one being the right to private property.

Actually, that's pretty much the only one.
> You say favorable regulatory environment, but favorable to who? If you have a bunch of regulations that make it hard to start a new ISP and compete with the incumbents, but also get rid of the ones that prevent them from buying each other, it's hard to call that "deregulation" rather than regulatory capture.

Can you point to a non-hypothetical example of the former?
Cool ! Thanks for pointing out those differences ! It helps when deciding on which library is best for the use-case at hand.
Ignoring the obvious one that you can pay for things you don't currently have enough money for (bad idea in general), I pay for almost everything on a visa card for travel points.
Right. Most "free speech absolutists" are only absolutists when it comes to viewpoint neutrality, not when it comes to issues like incitement, false advertising, or defamation.

And frankly, a lot of people who loudly proclaim their love of free speech aren't even close to being absolutists in that sense; they'll talk up the marketplace of ideas and the importance of rational discourse as long as they're under threat, then suddenly lose interest in the issue when restrictions are applied to the outgroup.
Many numpy functions have an `inplace` (or maybe there’s an underscore there?) argument that tells whether to perform the operation in place or return a new array.
Self-driving cars are just a scam to get investor money out of people who want to hop on the next big thing. The point of this is optics, not profit.
Boeing 737 Max Victim Fund, $100 Mil / $289,017 per person
Every news about authoritarian overreach prompts some discussion about the need for decentralization.

Yet, decentralization of services is moot if the underlying physical connectivity layer can still be controlled/filtered from a single point. Then there's the matter of discovering decentralized/distributed services.

We have literally billions of devices capable of sending and receiving signals, including millions of independent computing devices that are powered 24/7. Do we really need centralized entities to keep our species connected?
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I tend to disagree on this, and offer a different perspective: I believe a markdown-like syntax can be way more efficient and RSI-free than a mouse-based WYSIWYG-like UX.

That said, I think both Latex and WYSIWYG editors tend to lure users into unhealthy habits the moment they get over the basics.

In the case of WYSIWYG - users tend to spend way too much time on fine tuning every single instance of produced output, which is very much labor intensive busywork. Powerpoint is IMO the canonical example to watch this behavior.

In the case of LaTeX/markdown, the somewhat more experienced users get lured into learning more esoteric portions of the underlying system and soon wants to automate everything, by writing TeX or LaTeX macros, hacking emacs modes and whatnot. Arguably, this second mode of wasting time is more intellectually challenging and more fun for some, but maybe just a waste of time still.

If one sticks to standard TeX or LaTeX, one can be fast and produce good (but maybe not super spectacular) output.
Haha, yeah I read that exact piece.
> So there's a somewhat high probability that a bug that works totally different from what anyone expects is just waiting to happen and it's steering a 4000 pound block of metal

Are you talking about bugs in artificial intelligence, or bugs in regular 'ol human intelligence?

Because that statement rings true for both, lol.
Oh, I know people do it. My point isn't that they should or shouldn't do it, but rather that supporting sqlite as a low-config option specifically to facilitate testing makes a lot of sense. Arguably more sense than continuing to support mysql when postgres exists.
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Why speculate? Watch the I vestor day video and see for yourself why it's not just hot air.
You can ignore him but the reality that he has been impressively predicting won't ignore you. It will come for you, just a matter of time, if you keep ignoring it.
This made me laugh hysterically and gave me PTSD.
$100 million sounds like big bucks, but really to think their one day be proven to be criminal negligence ... they think they are getting off free almost free...

$289,017 a person just doesn't cut it, or even come close to covering the lost income. Let alone cutting the passengers lives short...
>"Be sure to hit that like button and subscribe!"

When I hear this standard YouTuber meme, I always trip hard over the dislike button and never quite make it to subscribe. :^)
Sure, of course, and Indians and East Asians will "correct" those people for time immemorial.
Why irrational?

Cabs are SO convenient, and public transportation has all kinds of issues world-wide. Buenos Aires, for example, has subsidized metro (about 0.50U$S per ticket) vs a non-subsidized uber (5U$S per ride~) and still the experience is so much better and convenient and reliable that 5U$S is really worth it.

I think that the ride-hailing revolution is a classic case of great microeconomics.
No one here mentioned DRM, though that would be a valid subset of videos to delist under this new rule.

What if I want to reverse engineer my toaster, and make a video about it?
Before golang was a thing, there were highly scalable systems that handled way more traffic than anything written in golang today. Those systems were (and are) written in languages like C++ and Java and C#.

You're just seeing golang in articles because of hype.
I'd clicked hoping to find an interesting article about using a NN to make my home 2 channel audio system better...

(Still interesting enough to bookmark for reading later, just not what I'd assumed it would be about...)
Speaking personally (obv) that's scary and if they don't change the ToS I can imagine reviewers will keep making similar mistakes
> I see the point you're trying to make but it's completely wrong.

If it is, then it’s not for the reason you provided. If I made Knitter News, and somebody posted a thread about gardening, then nobody would comment on it or up vote it. If I went into a knitting thread, and started posted gardening comments, then they would be downvoted.

It’s also not just copyright infringement protection, it protects against a broad range of liability.

The reason common carrier protections exist, is because the service providers do not control the content they disseminate, or the goods they transport, etc... Providing common carrier protections to platforms that exert editorial control over the content they publish is granting common carrier protections to service providers that are not common carriers.

Logically, this is precisely equivalent to providing common carrier protections to an ISP, but completely removing all regulations that mandate any form of net neutrality.

The law was specifically created to protect free expression online, and in the mid 90s, that’s exactly what it did. However since then, most online expression as become concentrated into a small handful of platforms, who all leverage their position (often in concert) to restrict expression to only that which they deem acceptable.

Regardless of what you think about their judgements of what is acceptable, the law is not consistent with other common carrier regulations, and it is absolutely not doing what it was originally designed to do.
There was a tangentiel post earlier today on HN about letting your garden grow wild.

Also, when I was a kid in southern California, my parents used to dry laundry on a clothes line, outside. We were lucky to have a big backyard so you would imagine not many neighbors would complain.

We got a letter from the neighborhood saying the laundry was unsightly.

This is strange to me to this day. First, air dryed laundry smells and feels amazing. Second, you're saving a ton of energy by not using an electric or gas dryer.

But the sight of some towels and bed sheets on a clothes line makes people really upset....
Though, I still wish there were some modern apps that mimicked the workflow of Deluxe Paint. :)
Thanks for sharing this by the way. I actually checked out a published book of his (and associated) essay from my local library and read it just yesterday.

His perspective against for-profit wars, yet lean towards defensive military spending (not to be conflated with modern offensive military spending) was nuanced and very insightful.
As long as the ledger is replicated on machines that are outside the affected areas, the network would be fine.
Shameless plug: I'm building lilit.dev, which is a "true" Java code intelligence on browser (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20228115).

It's true in the sense that the features like jump-to-definition/find-usage are accurate. This is especially important around overloaded methods and parameterized types.

A few days back, we recently launched parameter hints (blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20320481) and type info (tweet: https://twitter.com/tanin/status/1145502393708081152).

We're looking for private beta users. Please let us know if anyone is interested :)
What's the point of collecting HN karma if you're not going to spend it occasionally voicing unpopular opinions and making cheap sarcastic replies?
So Noah Smith has discovered that the economy is over-regulated.

Conservatives and libertarians have said this for decades, but they don't exist in his world, so he treats it as a brand new independent discovery?
That pretty much doesn’t function like any sort of oppression that we know of. By this reasoning, poor people would simultaneously be overwhelmingly CEOs as well as homeless. Black people would be overwhelmingly POTUS multiple times over.
There's no such thing as a deterministic experiment. There are so many sources of uncertainty in all fields of experimental physics, and statistics can help quantify and even design better experiments. It's just a shame statistics has never become a part of the standard physicist's education.
Yep. As a bigger org you want automatic compliance checks that verify that all buckets are not publically accessible.
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“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” --Gandhi.
One of the main advantages of Thinkpad is Coreboot/Libreboot support to free yourself from Lenovo BIOS - and even neuter Intel ME. Aesthetics are a personal matter, but ergonomically I also prefer Thinkpad over MacBooks.
"If you connect to a website not behind a CDN, you probably don't have to use SNI, but, the website is revealed by doing a simple reverse DNS query."

As an example, I tried a reverse DNS query for the IP address of matrixssl.org. All I got was a subdomain at gandi.net.

Reverse DNS was originally intended for troubleshooting. It is not required for websites (cf. email) and not everyone bothers to set it up. That is one group of websites where we have to do more work to get the names that are using the remote IP address and figure out which one the user asked for.

In fact, DNS is not required for a functional website. IP address of course works fine. That is another group of websites where we have to do additional work to figure out what is at the remote IP address. We do not know what the user sent in her HTTP headers.

By comparison, SNI makes the process of invading user privacy easy and reliable, less work. The user is required to send a name, and to send that name in the clear.
Sydney is not the shining beacon for public transport. London is far superior.
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Economies of scale and network effects mean that government (or comparable entity) will have to go out of their way to foster competition way beyond what the market will bear. How can we make this happen?
Learning web programming is amazing, since you can just start writing a .html file and open it in a browser. There is no need to learn how go set up a local http server. Chrome truly is killing that experience; you can't even load javascript modules without http involved now outside of Firefox.

I really hope Mozilla doesn't "fix" this "vulnerability" by destroying the experience of people learning web programming like Google did.
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So like, no more defcon talks? That’d be enough to make me switch
I think he was a bit off with regards to source code/open source, because while having source code helps in understanding and modification, it's not essential; you could similarly imagine a world in which open-source wasn't a huge movement but instead the right to reverse-engineer (or basically, understand) software was guaranteed, and it would have as great an effect on freedom; perhaps even more so, because now it'd be the norm for people to disassemble/decompile anything they wanted, and the lack of any "chilling effects" would greatly increase advances in program analysis in general. It could even be argued that the rise of open-source lead to a decrease in interest and skills of RE.

In fact, PC magazines of the 80s and early 90s used to contain articles specifically about patching software to do interesting things, complete with instructions of the form "change byte at X to Y"; AFAIK they didn't violate any copyrights because they didn't distribute copyrighted material. Then there's the whole series of "undocumented DOS/Windows" books written by people like Matt Pietrek, Andrew Schulman, and Mark Russinovich; all of which required substantial amounts of reverse-engineering and analysis, but instead of them being persecuted, two of them now work at Microsoft.

"If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."
The comment I was replying to was literally a link to a RAND report warning of such things in the US, the reporting starting off as:

"The chances are growing that the United States will find itself in a crisis in cyberspace, with the escalation of tensions associated with a major cyberattack, suspicions that one has taken place, or fears that it might do so soon."
My fav part is repeatedly getting recommendations for many years old videos when something like a week’s worth of new comments is uploaded every minute ... why youtube why?