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That's actually what I like about Kotlin the most -- it's just syntactic sugar over Java, I wouldn't call it a new language.

E.g. if you want to parse a CSV or JSON, you would google "how to parse it in Java", not "... in Kotlin". That's different, from e.g. Scala, where everything should be Scala-way (of course you could use Java libs in Scala, but it was always second-class I feel).
Our decision to go down the B2B route rather than the B2C route is predominately two fold:

- We think the product works better as a solution in the B2B space.

- At the moment we only really have the resources to focus on one product.

At some point through I'd really like for us to have a B2C offering but realistically it won't be for a while - sorry!

"there doesn't seem to be (and should be) some sort of proximity tech based on roundtrip time -- make it beep rapidly as roundtrip time gets shorter (waiting for massive comments about why this doesn't necessarily indicate proximity)"

To be fair to Tile, this is a limitation of BLE and the hardware on phones. Measuring round trip time would require hardware support on the phone and probably a much more expensive tracker. Instead what is available is RSSI or received signal strength indicator. It's an ok measurement but suffers from:

- Multi path, signals being reflected and arriving from different directions

- Antenna that aren't perfectly omni directional

- Signal absorption e.g. large bodies of water (usually people) not being great at letting signals go through them.

That said the new BLE 5.1 standard ratified at the beginning of this year provides angle of arrival and or angle or departure for bluetooth signals so you can tell which direction a bluetooth signal is coming from. We're eagerly waiting to find out if it will be supported on smartphones as it's an optional part of the specification and requires additional hardware. Honestly though it's a long shot - getting one antenna working well on a smartphone is difficult. Getting 4 (which 5.1 A0A requires) may end up being too difficult / not worth it for smartphone manufacturers.
I'm really wondering how much this will impact Boeing in the future and what their plans are for the 737 Max replacement.
> I was in NYC for a week and had to swipe my card at least 6 times during that period. I imagine the rest of the country isn't leaps and bounds ahead.

Really? I have worked in NYC for over three years, and the only card I have ever had to swipe in that time is my FSA/transit card that, inexplicably, does not have a chip yet. There were a few smaller merchants in suburban New Jersey that lagged behind, but even they were on chip by 2017.
This is more of a business calculation (e.g. it's cheaper to keep the supply chain running & park the planes than it is to shut the supply chain down & then start it back up).
Would the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights.
How is the tech different from https://www.wiliot.com/ and how did you guys manage to be first to market as I thought they were the pioneers of the ultra-thin thin bluetooth stickers?
You might find this article interesting.
https://www.pragmaticobjects.com/chapters/001_checked_except...
Yes, communication is already encrypted or "protected" in almost all modern cars. New interfaces like FlexRay offer true cryptographic protection (albeit usually weak - things like AES with a universally shared key/IV across a whole model line are common), but even older systems have "protection" in the form of obfuscation, XOR and transformation based challenge-response algorithms (the one in VW cars runs a cute bytecode script against the challenge to yield the appropriate response), serial-number validation, and so on.

For example, most modern VW AG cars have all of their core modules protected by Component Protection, a system where the identities of the modules are synchronized together as a (somewhat successful, actually) anti-theft measure. If modules are "mixed and matched" (for example, a used head unit is installed in a different car), they don't function. Private shops can subscribe to a service to reprogram this protection (GeKo) at a cost of around $1000 USD/year.

By and large these systems are usually reverse engineered over time as the protection is usually not very good, but the overall ability to add additional hardware is, indeed, getting more challenging.
What is a solution then?
A lot of the distaste for public transit in the US is ultimately motivated by a "fuck poor people" mentality, especially in regards to bus transit (rail systems tend to attract a somewhat wealthier clientele).
Renton sobs.
> This is very normal for anyone in an executive role.

Do you have any study showing a correlation between the success of a company and the number of emails in the inbox of its executives?
> the worst that could happen is a wasted call to the bank.

Well, no. The worst (and probably very likely) thing that would happen is they would call the bank, the bank would block withdrawals from their payroll processor, and they would miss payroll for that period. This could also have severe financial consequences for the company's employees, given how many people live paycheck to paycheck.

Small businesses are constantly inundated with all varieties of scam calls, so it's not at all unreasonable to be suspicious of someone who calls you out of the blue and says, "Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money. You should contact your bank immediately." The odds of ever getting a call from a good samaritan like Brian Krebs are vanishingly small, while you're probably getting called by scammers every day.
They are suspending production until the grounding is lifted.

Not killing off the product.

They will of course not be paying the tens of thousands of workers that work on that product while production is suspended.
I guess Salt Lake City must be too small to count. Or not qualify on some other metric. All the light rail trains in the city are free, but once you get outside of a certain region there is a charge.
Yeah and I just got apackage from them where everything was damaged. The book was just thrown in along with a large item. It was all creased and useless as a gift.

The carton for the small appliance they bundled with the book had what looked like a punch mark in it.

The whole shipment was an utter mess.
There's a bunch of new python web frameworks built for asyncio that I'd like to try.
"all without talking to anyone"? Personally, I enjoy talking to my hair stylist while getting a cut. I've gone to the same stylist for years, so it wouldn't feel the same getting a cut by either a non-conversational machine or a stylist who doesn't know me as well.
If we care about workers and corporate behavior we need to change the law (and elect/appoint legislators and political executives and law enforcement agents and judges who will follow/enforce existing laws) to allow workers to unionize, increase the minimum wage, enforce fairer working hours, safer working conditions, better worker protections from fraud and theft, etc.

If Amazon wants to run a delivery network it should have to own the trucks, pay the workers a salary, guarantee them basic labor rights, and so on. Foisting all of the legal and financial liability for bad practices onto fragmented and poorly managed subcontractors who only exist to serve Amazon as a single customer is a tremendous abuse.

Federal antitrust action against monopolies and monopsonies would be helpful too.

Individual consumers can’t possibly have full information about the supply chain of every item they buy, and we can’t expect consumers to solve this type of problem.
What is a IPv6 application?
Do a run with an Amazon driver and see the kind of job it is. I have, and it is not a job I'd have versus a traditional retail job. Agree with your point though that you're buying a job, not a business. Lots of better businesses to buy, lots of better jobs one could have.
You're generous. I'd give them no more then 10. Which is all I need in the first place. But I am worried about them this or next year, after that if they get decrypted would just be mildly annoying.
I did Scala first, then recently took over a codebase with both. I think the people who did Scala were not good and they made a total mess, however, their Kotlin miscroservice was actually quite nice and was the best code in the project. So I reluctantly have concluded Kotlin is a better level of expressivity. Scala is full of footguns... I love it ... but it's hard to write well.

One example was they were using enumerations and got boxed in. They had to add unit tests to ensure they enumerated all the options. Why does Scala have that feature? It's full of bad features you should avoid.
> How do you prevent your system from a ransomware attack?

You don't (well, not with 100% certainty anyways), you mitigate the harm.
It is a question, but the answer is probably pretty mundane.

An airplane is a tremendously complex machine, and building them is a well honed process with lots of checks and balances built in which protect the investment the company is making in building such a complex device.

So no doubt there are many many root cause analysis meetings which are going on to root out the failures in the process that let the plane get to this point.

But historically, the company has made modifications to the 737 airframe to provide new models and those changes have gone well. Certainly in the sense that they produced a viable airplane that was safe to fly.

I would speculate that due to the history of the 737 airframe, and the track record of creating new variants that are safe, and the challenge of stopping the manufacturing line for such a plane which literally has thousands of suppliers making parts on a schedule that has years of deliveries in it, it took this long to get through the various options that would not require stopping the production of the plane. Stopping production is literally the second worse scenario[1] for Boeing.

[1] The worst is scrapping all existing planes.
They were gambling on a quick fix that would be acceptable to regulators, and which could be easily retrofit to existing aircraft, including the ones still rolling off the production line. Pausing production has cost -- and if the planes were recertified by now, the cost of storing finished planes in parking lots is probably quite a bit less.
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APL may be a counterexample, at least when trying to understand what you have written a few months later.
Nice, I love it.

Love the vibe of that intro video.

Tangential question about the video: what's the name of thar movie with Nicolas Cage at 4:17?

Thanks!
I wonder if we'll see a similar trend for speakers as they integrate with Google Home and Alexa.

Currently people are willing to pay for virtual assistants but in the near future subsidization is inevitable as the data collection and advertising opportunities are too great.
I've been thinking the same thing, lately.

When Randsomware was a new idea and seemed to be primarily targeting individuals, it made sense that paying your way out should ultimately be legal. Any law against it would be difficult to enforce, so bad actors would still be incentivized to launch attacks, and only law abiding citizens would be hurt.

But now they're attacking banks, and hospitals, and cities. I have trouble imagining large hospital systems would be able to discretely pay hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally without anyone noticing—and if they did, it would be easy to prosecute.

Ergo, outlawing these payments should very significantly reduce the number of ransomware attacks against these large targets. If no one can pay, there's no incentive to attack.
Ridiculous.

Americans are practical like anyone else. Transit in the US tends to be (much) slower than driving, so people drive.

In the few places where transit actually works, like New York, Americans use it.
To sum up my experience: Scala can be even more terse than Kotlin, but I found Scala code generally harder to read and understand compared to Java. It has the kitchen sink thrown in in terms of features and the idiomatic way of writing code is pretty complex and very different from Java.

Kotlin on the other hand is just a breath of fresh air, very easy to pick up and get productive.

I just hope they keep the language to a manageable size and don't keep putting things on top.
I tend to get bizarre and seemingly incorrect network errors randomly from various npm packages from time to time. Yarn does it too (sometimes worse). They will fail with a network error yet I can reach both the package repository and the package files themselves just fine using a browser, and the problem will persist for a while. It might be that.
The "no shouting fire in a crowded theater" quote isn't good law, and hasn't been for 50 years: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
The measure was sold largely as a general flipping of the bird towards King and neighboring counties by the rest of the state. Generally there is opposition from eastern Washington for car tabs going to fund Sound Transit's investments on the western corridor, which doesn't really do anything to benefit those that don't live in the western corridor.

And yes, I am aware that King net exports money to the east. I'm not sure how impactful that argument is for a minimum wage worker living far away from Seattle paying $500 a year on car tabs, for a car that they have no alternative but owning in order to get to their job.
Sure, that user can encrypt all the documents that they have access to and care about, so that can be the target of a ransom. Also, in many smallish organizations users have access to e.g. a common network share, so in the absence of proper backups, a single compromised user (e.g. the owner/manager's administrative assistant with access to all kinds of documents) may be able to seriously disrupt the whole organization.
I sincerely doubt many people will remember anything about this five years from now. There have been dozens of crashes involving various models of the 737 series, and the vast majority of the population could not name a single incident.

As soon as this is out of the news cycle, everyone will forget.
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Exactly, it's an early stage proof-of-concept prototype (TRL 3, if you prefer that scale). While I have my reservations about how difficult it will be to actually get this into something you can safely and reliably use on a consumer without lawsuits (that's a long road), it makes no sense to judge the idea solely based on an early bench prototype.

They're just proving out the idea - it makes perfect sense to buy/rent/borrow a COTS robot arm and use commodity hardware (iPhone X 3D scanner) to demonstrate that there's potential and that the software can be made to work. What follows are progressively higher and higher fidelity prototypes to eventually converge on a marketable solution (maybe with a custom mechanical solution rather than a generic 6DOF manipulator - several iterations are required for sure).

Hardware is a long road, something like this takes years. They are doing exactly the right thing by producing a basic demo - it doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to show that the idea has the potential to work. After this they can go and try to raise some money for the next step.

I think there is real under-appreciation by a lot of software engineers on HN regarding how much hardware development actually costs in dollars and time terms. The robot arm in the video costs north of $20k. The prototype phases between here and a consumer product will probably consume tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in materials and likely a few million in labour. It's not at all like firing up a pretty-looking SaaS MVP with a few months of labour and some negligible AWS costs, and I think the HN crowd often forgets that.
Apple really knows how to kill a new craze here. Keeping a harmless iPod simulator on the App Store hardly threatens the sales of iPods these days. (Even though the result of it being pulled probably comes under copyright infringement.)

Even long after their extinction, They still want you to buy the real thing for 100x the original price.
The founder of General Fusion was somebody who lived in the same small island community as me. He's a true hacker. Very eccentric. If I recall correctly, he bought the old gas station which was on the main street of the island and that's where he brought his prototype to life. I think people were surprised to learn that the eccentric mad scientist was working on nuclear experiments next to their homes :)
If I have to watch a show chosen by KFC, but in the end I get a free sandwich, I really don't care. You call it a paid promotion, I call it a subsidized benefit.

The church is engaged in a giving action that is subsidized in part by their ability to get paying members. So in a sense, the church is a two legged business. One is to genuinely help people. The other is to find people that are willing to assist in the continuation of that goal.

(Thanks for the downvote. I've always noticed that the most heartless people downvote the most.)
> I suspect that Amazon does not want to put additional cognitive load on the purchaser right at the most critical point of the conversion funnel.

> As a customer, I want a delivery time/date and let Amazon figure out how to do it.

The big problem here is that Amazon no longer offers you the ability to pick the delivery date. They'll tell you when your package will arrive, and you'll suck it up.

It's a huge step backwards from the old system, where slow shipping was free, two-day shipping was moderately priced, and one-day shipping was expensive. (Or, with Prime, two-day shipping was free and one-day shipping was $7.99.)

Under normal circumstances, I don't care which delivery company drops off my package. I might develop a preference if one of them is chronically late, or usually damages the package[1]. But I always care what the delivery date is!

[1] Guess what! Amazon's also stopped shipping individual books in boxes with bubble padding. Now they come in manila envelopes. And they usually take damage in transit from being squeezed by the envelope.
I don’t think you have any experience with one of these encampments. They bring crime, perpetrated both on and by homeless people. These are facts. No one has implied that homeless people are criminal masterminds operating vast syndicates.
I don't see how concurrency isn't a first class citizen in Java, especially compared to kotlin/native's concurrency package which is barely a package.
> but I worry that its just the Prepper in me trying to come out.

Fixed it for you :-)

There's nothing crazy with a little prepping, is it? Many of the practices are even recommended around here (stock up on food with long shelf life, keep clean water around, some iodine, a battery powered radio etc)
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Seattle has tried that.

People with chemical addictions will not go to shelters because shelters don't allow you to be drunk or high.

So shelter beds go unused, and people shoot up and drink in parks, on sidewalks, and on busses.
Yep, I am using Tor! Privacy Pass has been suggested to me before and I have tried it but it didn't do anything for me (other than consuming tokens).

It does work after I turn cookies on for the page but that's not something I wanna do for every website I visit (that sits behind Cloudflare).

I understand that there's a limit as to where websites can reasonably be expected to work and I'm not sure if my case is crossing it.
I'm sorry, I have to push back here. Is it a "fuck poor people" mentality, as you state, to not want to be near people who smell of urine, excrement, BO, stale drug smells? This is simply the modern nose being accustomed to sanitary smells, can you really say it's a "fuck poor people mentality" if it's down to literally never smelling those smells except on public transport?
I had a ton of fun reading Infinite Jest, it took me two months of reading daily but after a while I couldn't wait to get home from work to read it (I didn't have a kid yet mind you). There are many things about it that are dissatisfying, frustrating even maddening. But there are so many points of brilliance it makes the whole thing worth it. The ambitiousness, audacity and shortcomings are part of it. I felt similarly about Pale King, DFW's posthumously published unfinished novel. Was it a great book? No. But there is about a 50 page section in the middle that makes the whole damn thing worth it.
It's not just the free fare - it's the abysmal lack of shelter options and the attempts by cities to criminalize encampments and force people to find somewhere indoors to avoid arrest.
It doesn't even have that.

In 3 messages I went from a peasant in a fantasy setting, to someone who is reading a book in 1869, to someone who watches TV in a cottage.

Half the time it also seems to completely ignore your input and tell your character that you did something else instead.
Isn't final optional?
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The table could really use some sticky headers, alternating colors, or highlighting to make it easier to make it easier to read, especially on a small screen.

I'd love some insight into why certain answers were selected, some don't seem right to me (but I may be misunderstanding what the row means).
Yep, I personally would much sooner use public transportation that charged $10 (with no exceptions) than free public transportation. Sharing close quarters with aggressive, smelly, intoxicated, unstable people is stressful and unpleasant
Just get a Chromecast or any other streaming player device and hook it up to the TV with only HDMI. Solved- TV don't need to be able to spy on you.
I’m not disagreeing with your broader point but none of those studies account for space utilization issues. Transit uses space better due to lack of parking and more density per track.

No idea how that impacts the actual dollar numbers but it’s worth noting.
I just purchased a 55" 4K LG TV from Costco for under $400 out the door. The TV's sole purpose is to display an Apple TV's output, and will not be connected to the internet. Interestingly, it has AirPlay and Homekit built-in, but that's largely irrelevant due to the Apple TV.

This TV is replacing a 46" ~10yo Samsung purchased for over 1.1k that has very basic "Smart" capabilities like playing MKV files from a USB drive and network, which in my opinion is when smart TVs peaked.
Sad it had to come through death and wallet-vote... may agencies reinforce checking and limit absurd loopholes
Yet Google still manages to dtive me nuts to the point that I enjoy using duckduckgo :-/
Indeed they are doing exactly that. I get a notification when the driver is a few stops away from me along with a map. They also take a picture of the package where they left it and it is all visible from the Amazon app.
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I think it's still a reduction in risk overall. In the old model, they were vulnerable to S3 failing in one region, a thing that's happened many times. Now they've mitigated the S3-failure-in-one-region issue, at least mostly (though as you point out, how they do so is unknown), and in exchange they've picked up a dependency on Lambda@Edge. But Lambda@Edge, like CloudFront, is a global service distributed across many regions, and to my knowledge AWS has never had a global Lambda@Edge outage.

It's not impossible, of course. Some kind of control plane error could probably knock the whole global service offline. But I'd rather bet on a multi-region service than have all my eggs in one regional basket.