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Now a robot is about to rob a mom somewhere of a decent job. Soon a kitchen robot will make another mom afraid of the kitchen since she will not spend any time there but the question is are robbers going to get their jobs taken by robots? Robot robbers fancy anyone? Or Rob-o-robot?
My last town, the bus at busy times would literally stop on every major corner to let on or off one person. Plus, there was no actual place for the bus to pull out of traffic, so every block, it would stop in the right lane.

So the bus took at least 4 times longer to get to downtown, and caused TONS of frustration with other drivers, who were always frantic to get to the left lane to get around the bus. Tends to not leave a great impression on people. Now, if there was something like a BRT, with limited stops, out of traffic, with much faster loading, then that would probably really change its image in my town.
That link has your ZIP in it, if you weren’t aware.
I'm glad to see this happen. Suspect that a network exec somewhere said: "Sci-fi! Dystopia! Rogue AI! Cyberpunk!" and then HBO went through the list of books meeting that criteria (copying the Game of Thrones formula) and picked a best-seller to make a screen play out of. The subject matter seems to fit quite well with the tech malaise we are feeling at the end of the 2010's.
That's why URI has a factory method that you're only supposed to use for known strings (although of course this can't be checked):

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URI.html#...

After URI appeared in 1.4, the only reason to use URL was to create a URLConnection from a URI. Since openConnection() throws IOException, it's not a big deal that toURL() throws a MalformedURLException - just catch it along with all the other IOExceptions.

Since 11, there's no reason to use URL at all, because you can use HttpClient to actually do HTTP.
I got a notification today that a signature-required package had been received by "signature not required".
In Pittsburgh, travel within Downtown and the North Shore is free 24/7 on the "T" (light rail).

Buses still aren't free and the "T" doesn't cover a ton of Downtown Pittsburgh, though. The "T" has been like this for 20+ years and is an awesome resource.
I am sympathetic to that review, as I didn't manage to finish the damn book.
You can get a smart TV and just not connect it to the internet. Even lobotomized like this, they still work fine as normal TVs.

You can also get a smart device (Roku, Amazon Fire, etc.) and hook that up to any TV to stream things (including Disney+). You can also just hook that computer up and it would work as well (a TV is just a big monitor with sound).

So there is no need to ever "cave", even if you want streaming on a big screen and don't want a smart TV.
So far, TCL has provided a way to turn off the internal Roku...

https://support.tclusa.com/televisions-setup-configurations/...
>You simply refrain from injecting situations with those views when they're not called for

In other words, you tend to avoid sensitive topics at certain times.
We have small companies who fulfill the needs of the people. In the Netherlands people don't use Google maps for public transport navigation, we use 9292.nl, whose service is much better than that of Google's spotty timetables.
And yet you believe you’re entitled to drive on the roads for free?
The beauty of the ternary operator is that it isn't one. It's just taking advantage of the fact that if/else is an expression in Kotlin and it turns out that when if/else yields a value, a dedicated ternary operator is redundant. It's one of a small number of things that I like better about Kotlin than Groovy.
Wow, so exciting. This has got to be one of my favourite books of all time.

The first time I read around the year 2000, I enjoyed but I essentially thought "That was neat, and funny, but man did he miss how things would turn out! haha". If you read it today, you might be shocked by how many things it has gotten right.
I'm a bit skeptical that the income from the tracking/advertising makes up for such a large drop in price.
Your understanding is correct. It doesn't matter if the equipment is free: if it breaks down during a planting window or harvest season you stand to lose significant amounts of money.

Dealers may not have the parts, may not be able to provide the repair without calling in a technician, or may be located far away.

People are talking about R2R making things more expensive but the opposite can be true: service centers can often be lossy operations, so if you have to service machines at a lower rate (because people are DIYing it basically) it stands to reason you no longer have to price that in. Scaling out repair literature and part availability is cheaper than the actual service.
I've been reading articles like this for twenty years now, and i've never found one anything other than idiotic.
I have a 43" Panasonic plasma TV, which has THX certified display panel. Paid about 800USD for it back 2013 I believe. I'd like to replace it with a LCD one, but oh boy how much do the THX certified ones cost - https://www.thx.com/product-finder/
I think they were gambling on the delay being a reasonable amount of time, say 6 months. Now the FAA has had the final updated software for something like a month and a half and just started certification testing.

This smacks of some incompetence on behalf of the FAA, since if they had a clear idea of what the requirements were for re-certification, they would also have a clear idea of how long it should take, and the last 6 months have been delays and "we will be done when were done".

I'm also not too keen on the machisimo of the FAA Administrator insisting on testing the aircraft himself.

Everyone here on HN wants this to be drawn out to punish Boeing, but its really punishing everyone, including the wallets of people buying airline tickets. Ticket prices have been high with many airlines because of their grounded fleet.
Their initial reaction was "nothing to see here, keep moving". When it was clear that wouldn't fly, it was "don't worry, we'll have a fix ready before you know it". It should have been clear when the entire world stopped trusting their certification that this was going to be a long drawn out process. The scariest part of this event is their apparent disconnect from reality. Their gamble was a losing one from the beginning.
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The effect of this is “fuck poor people”. It’s political, not avoidable. Refusing to actively take account of such systemic matters has an outcome. Most people in the world seem to understand this, but not Americans. Americans only think of themselves.
Regressive sales and vice taxes.

j/k
Seriously though, this year is the first I've ever made over median income and I'm happy to pay taxes if they can actually improve QOL rather than be used to subsidize and oil company or two
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> Strategically, airlines are in a worse position if Boeing goes under.

It is an interesting situation for airlines.

Boeing is kind of a leaky abstraction layer on flying. End users deal with the airlines, not so much Boeing directly.

For example, if Amazon ships your package and it comes 4 days late because FedEx screwed up, you're going to likely think negatively of Amazon not FedEx. Because from your POV it's "Amazon said it will be here today but it's not".

Likewise if a major US airline's plane went down due to Boeing's fault it would probably ruin the entire airline. It gets even more weird when you think about airlines making questionable decisions to push Boeing into making poor decisions or knowingly operate when captains of those airlines are aware of the faults but the airline still flies them anyways and this is where it leaks.
> then blocked the device from my router.

Hmm. Thanks.
You still need to gain the privilege to mount filesystems in order to exploit the flaw. So it is a privilege escalation in that you can go from "sudo mount" to a root shell, but it is: 1) not exploitable unless you have sudo 2) pointless if you are authorized to "sudo" any command.
Why does it matter if the tech belongs to a startup? If any of these projects ever actually works, 1) they're still going to be very capital-intensive, and 2) it's still going to be a private company that builds the production plants. Patent exclusivity only lasts a couple of decades anyway, so personally I'd rather go with whatever approach gets us commercial fusion power in my lifetime.
>That is the meaning of "appointment".

He says "waiting after scheduling an appointment", which to me seems to imply that the wait for scheduling the appointment is the part that takes time. E.g., your barber is booked up until a week from today, so you have to wait until the date of the closest appointment you managed to schedule comes up.
Dealerships generally can't conduct a real credit check unless you give them an SSN. You can absolutely still pay cash for a vehicle if you have it, but with interest rates so low right now it's wiser for most consumers with good credit to stay liquid.
Isn’t that exactly what passwd is? A system service that has permission to change the passwords file?
In Portland, you will be cited for non-payment and repeat offenders are "excluded", typically for 30 days. Meaning if you try to board a bus or train you can be arrested for trespass. Does Baltimore not do this?
If you save you have options. If you have options you can tell employers to stick it somewhere.

Why do you think healthcare is tied to your job even though it costs around twice as much to the employer as any comparative system in the developed world?
I'm so excited for this. Snowcrash is one of the best pieces of Science Fiction I've read. It's up there with Permutation City and Stories of Your Life and Others.
Surely a 737 Max is orders of magnitude safer than a paraglider...
Yeah, after the second time this happened I stopped ordering anything from Amazon.
I'm sorry but there is no way your characterization is accurate for any given point on the map. The entire Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area only authorizes about 2500 new dwellings per month, and not all of them get built. Prior to 1990, the rate was normally above 5000 dwellings per month. This is despite the fact that Greater LA has grown more than 22% in population since 1990.

So, my point stands. The only people who believe this is a boom haven't looked at this graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LOSA106BPPRIVSA
No worries with sound. There are plenty of audio enthusiasts that will have nothing to do with a system like this and there will always be plenty of options because of them.
California has electronic waste recycling fees at time of purchase for televisions, monitors, laptops, and tablets. The questions is given that we are paying this fee, are they properly recycling those devices?
Some of the most unsafe driving I've seen is from those Amazon Sprinter vans. I blame Amazon more than the driver.
An efficient monopoly is that much more concerning. The efficiency with which it can squeeze FedEx applies to its customers, as well.
Stop buying stuff online and start buying from locals.
GraalVM can build native images: https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/native-image/

I haven't heard of kotlin-native, but apparently it isn't using GraalVM under the sheets which is interesting.
Nearly thirty years on, any adaptation will have to lose some of the book’s charming elements that made sense at the time, such as an America dealing with the fallout of specifically the Reagan administration, or a conspicuous amount of immigrants from early post-Soviet Tajikistan. Still, the theme of everything being privatized has held up well.

The one downside of bringing Snow Crash back into the public consciousness, though, is that uninformed viewers may well take Stephenson’s use of Sumerian as the "original human language" seriously, and Julian Jaynes’ work will be probably be accepted as a valid thing when in fact it is extremely controversial.
luckily Chromecast seems to be an important piece of Stadia, so it should be around for a long while
A few years ago my parents walked in to a Toyota dealership to buy a new Camry with cash. They were talked into financing it, bought it, then got home and realized they should have just paid cash. The next day they went back to the dealership to pay it off and the guy who gave them the loan was a huge asshole to them the whole time.
I'm not using the Tor browser but I can see how your statement could be valid for other browsers as well. TLDR it makes you more unique on the web.
I don't think humanity will be around in a thousand years. Really a bummer, but it doesn't seem that way. Now I just code for entertainment and not to build something that will last forever.
Amazon needs to add a "Deliver next week, given them a break" instead of the $1 it offers me which I never use anyways.
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The Null II example and the Elvis operator look like special cases of monadic bind/functorial map.
Reminds me of this somewhat terrifying robotic sheep shearer from the 80s [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAh2zv7TMM
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Is this like Graal (e.g. build the VM into the “native” image) or actually compiling to a just a native binary?
The problem is even though we can do this, the average user doesn't. They get the unsupported message and they then throw the laptop in the bin and buy the same thing again.

All electronics makers should be required by law to supply security updates and spare parts for devices for at least 10 years after the point of sale (not after the release date).

Another thing I think would have a big impact is requiring all consumer electronics with a battery to have a user accessible method for replacing the battery. This used to be standard with all consumer electronics until very recently.

These laws aren't just needed to protect the customers from corporate bullshit, they are critical for the survival of our environment. Designing electronics to last for 2-3 years is devastating.
I really like the Chromecast UX model, your TV is completely brainless, has no native user interface, no cheap and nasty remote, and any of your other devices boss it around like the dumb wireless monitor it should be.
Farmers are very well aware of repair and maintenance costs, the problem is you can't tell what parts and service will cost 20 years down the line. Nor do you know what is going to break 20 years down the line because none of a new model tractor or equipment is that old yet. The only people who would know would be the manufacturer who did the original stress testing on the design and cut it down to whatever price point/reliability level they wanted to achieve, and they obviously don't want you to know and you couldn't trust them even if they did tell you without seeing the testing data.
I do not understand why the prices of these have not fallen to $0, in much the same way an inktjet printer has. Or why the TV does not come as a freebie with some kind of (cable, otherwise) content subscription.

(Disclaimer: I hate “smart” TVs)
Sure! There are many reasonable compromises. I'm just making the point is that people sometimes have very localized view of what's reasonable, and what's reasonable or not from a bird's eye view may not seem so to those in the situation.

We should be able to interact in the best manner of the business and out coworkers. Sometimes doing that may be perceived by others around you as having crossed a line. Sometimes, there isn't a great answer.

What if bringing an office problem forth exposes that the person causing the problem has personal reasons for doing so (a disability they don't want to advertise, for example). The end situation may just be the status quo (neither the company nor the staff really want to impede the person with the disability once it becomes known), but with two people now uncomfortable either with each other, with coworkers, or both. I would say that's often a case that can be helped by being able to talk about sensitive things, but also a case where people may have good reasons for wanting their privacy (people do not always act rationally). The "right" answer is often contextual, and in some cases it may not exist.

This isn't to say that we should just forget it all. It's just that it's hard, and we should be careful before assuming even somewhat obvious statements such as yours (which I agree with) are enough.
I had the same feeling... We shouldn't be surprised if, after that, we see a Neuromancer series on Netflix or Amazon Prime (not Disney, pls God!).
The erudite of the LRB might never understand the simple and unexaggerated beauty of Mark Twain nor David Foster Wallace. Perhaps the only thing less appealing than a dissenting opinion is an op-ed to ride the coattails of success and make a name for oneself through dissension. Yeah Shakespeare sucks too, here's my card.
React w/ Typescript

Firebase coz cbf backends
I'm pretty sure it's not true that more than half of Americans avoid paying FICA because their income is too low. It would have to be $0.
The last time this happened to me, Amazon's CSR told me that "GPS says it was delivered nearby your building." To which I responded that there were multiple suites inside the building. She then asked if my suite had a mailroom, and I repeated that I had a one-room suite.
No layoffs at Boeing because of IAM, but you can bet when Boeing stops placing orders from their supplier network, people are going to be laid off.
The Kansas City Zoo has to let people in certain counties visit for free every so often, as part of the agreement by which it receives funding from those counties. This used to be implemented as periodic "free" days, but those became so notorious for outbreaks of violence that they switched to sending vouchers for different days to every household in those counties so the free-day visitors are spread out rather than all there at once.
The Chromecast is a small stick that hangs off the hdmi port. It’s not really plausible for it to not fit in a room layout.
I work for Tableau, we've been using it for over a year to handle local map interactions, and soon it'll be powering our animation system on the web.
No, the point is that passwd should obtain its privilege by virtue of being started by a privileged process, not by virtue of being marked as a privileged program when it's run by an unprivileged user.
There are definitely cable bundles that include a tv in some places at least. The value of cable is now so far in the negative for a lot of people though that you'd need to be giving them a hell of a tv to justify it. :P
which is why it's insane that it was ever an option for people selling under the prime label. If it's ground, FedEx manages to take the longest possible time they can, even if it's only going a few miles.
Interesting, never heard of A Cloud Guru. LA’s content is fantastic, but I feel like, ironically, that they were in a little over their head in the cloud/devops management of their own lab VM infrastructure in AWS. Not sure if they have fixed all that, but they would never stay up, and DNS names to the instances would either never work or fail after a bit, leading one to be forced to remove the lab instances and start all over from scratch, with all your lab work to that point gone with it...

Perhaps A Cloud Guru can improve some of these processes.
Yes. And there are cases where omitting it is specifically useful.
Because the spying and advertising isn't worth that much?
IIRC, gas stations are doing it voluntarily to get lower transaction fees. If we had chip+pin, we'd be entering a pin everywhere, right?

Call me old-fashioned, but I still like being able to open a bar tab.
Or just download more from https://downloadmoreram.com
Don't play with my emotions that way. There's been talk of adapting Neuromancer to screen for waaaay to long.
Very cool. For my clarity:

Any pictures demonstrating the flexibilty?

What happens after a year, when the battery dies? Do I have to peel this off all my tools?

Proximity to employee I understand, but how do you get absolute position? Employee phone's GPS?

Have you considered some kind of flexible solar cell? Even indoor fluorescent would probably power the few uW this would sip, quasi-indefinitely.
yes we're supposed to fucking solve homelessness.
These days I explicitly order items with a later delivery date (usually an amazon suggested 'amazon delivery day'). The good thing about this that I get to claim/reserve a limited-sale item, but at the same time have the luxury of re-considering my choice on the impulse-buy one or two more days before the item is shipped.
I bet you'd be singing a different tune if the life of someone you loved was at stake.
I haven't finished it... I started to listen Whool, but yeah it's a really great book. Geek, nerd piece of art.
That's indeed the case with my failures, persisting for two days now. I suspected filtering based on something in HTTP headers, but spoofing the User-Agent string with one copy-pasted from Firefox yielded no change. Command-line NPM has an option for the User-Agent spoof -- but not much otherwise, and I guess there's plenty of other metadata for T-mo to fingerprint on.
NoScript is a great addition to Firefox. I kept reading recommendations for it and when I finally installed it I wondered why I'd waited so long.
An extra fee on imported goods isn't a subsidy, it's a tarrif.
That's not always the case, since Kotlin can generate Java 6 compatible bytecode.
I will agree with the writers sentiment about Infinite Jest. I read about 1/3 before deciding I could not make it the whole way through. I think a good chunk of the reasons for the books popularity is the persona of DFW. His personality, physical looks, melancholic and thoughtful disposition make a him a quintessential writer. He looks the part very well, and produces this obscure monstrosity called Infinite Jest. My impression is that tons of people who read the book are never quite sure if its pure genius or complete non sense. His persona tips them over the edge.
RE: UPS - The hours aren't bad. You get overtime past 40 and are generally glad when it happens. If you work at a normal pace you won't get into trouble for productivity with your boss, and you're never at risk of making less money because you're not productive enough. UPS guarantees you a certain number of hours so you don't get trapped committing to a job that ends up only giving you 20/wk

What sucks about the job is how brainless and repetitive delivering packages is. It is nice that everyone is typically happy to see you, but conversations typically don't get very far past "hello" and "goodbye"

I don't know what it's like working for Amazon, but if it's typical gig economy BS, they are getting shafted by hidden costs and have bad incentives to make rushed and sloppy deliveries while overburdening themselves
These undesirable aspects are at least partially a result of the same fuck the poor mentality. In countries that actually care for their populations, homeless and otherwise, this problem is far less severe.
That's fine and well, but again, I don't think the existence of it is new; if they generate 1 lie a day, or 1000, or a million, it doesn't change much. It gets resolved by the trust distribution network.

When that network breaks down, you only need a single good lie to do the damage.