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>Furthermore, if a customer changes the car to stop data upload, that could be seen as tampering with a vehicle. This could lead to legal consequences, but I'm not a lawyer so I can't dwell on the specifics.

Where are you getting this crazy idea? If it's your car, you can tamper with it all you want, as long as you don't violate emissions laws and stuff like that. There's no law preventing you from tampering with your car's data collection or transmission, or most other things for that matter. How do you think the entire aftermarket parts industry exists?
Uh, what?

"About Page likes ads": https://www.facebook.com/business/help/209213872548401

> Page likes ads help you reach people who may like your Page. If your goal is to increase awareness of your business, these ads are a way to promote your Page to people who are interested in your content or businesses like yours.

"Advertising your channel": https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/ad-promotion

> To help drive more views and subscribers to your channel, you can pay to run an ad campaign for your videos on YouTube through Google Ads. You can create an ad that appears before a video starts, or alongside a video on its watch page on YouTube.

Both ban purchasing fake followers, but they'll happily take money to put your page/channel in front of potential genuine subscribers.
Robert Evans (from Behind the Bastards podcast) mentioned in one of his episodes what happened at Cracked when FB's falsified lure led to a strong content pivot to FB.

This, obviously, didn't pan out according to what was advertised. The way I understand it, management trusted FB more than they should've, overhauling the way they approached content, which resulted in all the eggs being in one dropped basket.
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To put that in perspective..

In Q3 2019, Facebook had nearly $18B in revenue. Therefore, $40M is about 5 hours of their revenue.
Thank God for the advertisements that motivated Jonas Salk to invent the polio vaccine, huh?
I’m not sure why you say that video fames are a new medium. We’ve had video game for a pretty long time.
My car doesn't even have a transmission. Seriously though, a long time ago, I tore down a 1990 Mustang Automatic transmission and rebuilt it myself and, even back then, it was an amazing piece of machinery. The planetary gear systems are really cool. I don't think I completely understood it, but it was a lot of fun. It did take me two months, heh.
I have never seen so much petty pointless drama about a bunch of people being told "don't be jerks" and then responding like children who have had their toys (diamonds) taken away when they acted like jerks in my entire life.

Ten trillion years of unending stellar-scale nuclear fusion could pass and less energy would have been released into the entire Universe than has been expended in one femtosecond as impotent rage by Stack Exchange contributors being "fired" and then complaining about it.

If Hacker News implemented a policy wherein I had to refer to everyone as "cutie pie" and I questioned it and then they nuked my account-- so what?
So where do OpenGL developers move to, when 4.6 moves into "this legacy thing we would like to drop"?
Name one advertising agency which has honesty as one of its core precepts.
Is that really whats happening?
The way I see it is the old guys without even degrees worked on higher quality code than their younger counterparts with increasing levels of education.

I think the issue is probably touched on by something like " bullshit jobs" by David graeber
This is a misleading title based on even the article. CH still has an owner (Sam Reich) and still has content that they are still airing (D20 with the McElroy family among other things) through Dropout. Basically they went to being an externally funded company to turning into a startup that has to bootstrap, but still has an entire video subscription streaming infrastructure built out with Dropout and some content to stay afloat.
I was the first person in my family to do the "cord cutting" thing, where I only had an Amazon Prime and Netflix account, and a bunch of DVDs and Blu-Rays (around 2012). People asked me why, and I said that I think it's dumb to pay money for advertisements, and that I think ads are bad for you.

My brother-in-law is overall a smart guy, but he works at Taco Bell full-time, making minimum wage in NYC (~$15/hour). He decided that he needed the newest iPhone 11, presumably because of some good marketing, spent over a grand (through financing of course...ugh), and he'll spend the next year paying it off.

I have nothing against the iPhone, I have one, but let's be honest here, do most people even benefit from the "newest" phones? He mostly watches YouTube and listens to music, and occasionally plays PUBG, all of which you could do on previous versions. He's also not some passionate photographer, so the fancier camera isn't going to make a huge difference.
People keep saying this, but I have at least a half-dozen (admittedly cheap) USB cables with no symbol or logo printed on them at all.
I thought we were talking about a SWE making a late-life career change, so I offered one perspective. Certainly I'm glad that doctors exist, and I hope they chose their profession for altruistic reasons (although I'm not sure I believe that to be the common case).
It's more like not subjecting employees who bake cookies and share them with coworkers to the same inspection requirements as commercial kitchens whose entire business is selling food to the public.

Even moreso because one person distributing bad food can give a dozen others food poisoning, but the concerns with data collection come from mass surveillance and aggregation, which implies a scale that large entities have and smaller ones don't.
You really don't need to specify where in the EU, because there are vastly more people in France communicating regularly with people in other neighboring countries. If you need to specify where in the EU, then you need to specify where in the US as well, because France is about the size of a single US state.

Americans mostly talk to other Americans, who also have unlimited texting plans. French people are probably talking to people who live in Belgium, Germany, the UK, Spain, etc. who will all encourage them to use WhatsApp.
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I think it's like,

1) get a product owner to describe requirements (not sure why they are gathering raw mats instead of producing blue prints)

2) He tries to steal code from previous jobs to bring to new jobs, because he pretend that he "owns" them.

3) He can't steal code from previous jobs because he left them in the walls.

4) Javascript is glue.
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Driving a newish car is a pretty good idea though, they are generally way safer.
>That said, I believe that there is very limited legal recourse for a vehicle OEM who wants to prevent an end user from changing the data collection and upload features of their vehicles. The worst thing would be potentially voiding the warranty, but for 10-15 year old used vehicles, that's not an issue.

>I work as an in-house counsel at a vehicle OEM

If you're really a lawyer, I'm surprised you'd write any of this, because it's blatantly false. The Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 makes it blatantly illegal to "void" a warranty for any modification, unless it can be proven that the modification caused the issue that the customer is making a warranty claim for.
Any continuous symmetry. Noether's theorem doesn't cover discrete symmetries.

Also, only in classical physics. In the quantum realm, Noether's theorem is basically a tautology.
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Apple Music even works on Android and the app is pretty darn good.
Why would the author include that when it's not in their best interests? In the disclosures they clearly state they are financially biased towards TSLA's failure. It's little more than a hit piece intended to influence their stock price downwards so the author will make money.
I believe it's because Facebook seemed more lucrative because they faked viewership numbers: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-10/hiltzik-fa...
That is what is politely referred to as a "cost of doing business"....
Oh I definitely know there are things Julia is not good at. It is just that Julia does not get in my way as frequently as many other languages.

But I kind of keep a collection of favorite languages under my belt which cover different areas. My favorites are probably Julia, Go, Swift, Python, Lua and LISP in that order.

If I need more low level style coding I would go with Go (pun not intended). Swift is nice if you want to actually want to make GUI applications and something that is quite robust. The type system in Swift is quite good at catching many problems.
It's all the things. QI is basically just an consciousness-centric view of the already-understood truth that in the quantum multiverse, everything that can possibly happen does. It just means that there is some way in which you may actually experience some aspect of that, because your future conscious experience excludes all the universes in which you are not conscious. You can draw a subset of future universes in which you are minimally conscious, in which you're just a wee bit more conscious than that, in which you're conscious enough to be aware of your plight indefinitely, in which as I say in another message you're healthy indefinitely. You're not causing anything to be or not to be, you're just carving various subsets of radically differing, but non-zero, size out of the near-infinity of the full quantum multiverse, which exist whether or not you choose to regard them.

So, you know, in a fraction of the universes in which you remain conscious that would require something like 1 over a number in arrow notation to describe, you'll be conscious enough to be perturbed. This is utterly, utterly dominated by the universes in which you're just sort of there. However, if you then choose to exclude those latter universes on the grounds that you consider that to be "dead", then that brings that tiny fraction back to the fore by virtue of eliminating everything else.

It's a lot of definition chopping and manipulating rather enormous exponentials in the probabilities. However, there is still an underlying truth there, if the multiverse is true. It's just more subtle than the casual human view of "survival" or a brief gloss of the argument might entail. You have to think in quantum terms about whether or not this spin goes that way or the other, not in human terms like whether or not the gun fires. The latter is made up of an incomprehensibly large number of the former sort of things, and as you start talking about the fringe cases the quantum events require staggeringly enormous exponential probabilities to describe anything even remotely human-visible.
> Those things are modern car transmissions, ..

Even though it may be off-topic, but could you elaborate on this a little bit more?
Your item (3) definitely seems to match the current situation in the wild - FAANG companies are genuinely invested in maintaining their brand and reputation and so I do completely agree that they wouldn't tend to collect seemingly shady or 'underground' data themselves.

I think the definition of malware is blurring though. On some websites when I view the list of advertisers & third parties listed in consent dialogs, it's literally hundreds of them. There's no way to tell how many of those are equally motivated to protect user data and be on best behaviour.

It's also easy to forget that many users simply don't have the same understanding or reasoning about phone permissions that the audience on HN does.

I worry a great deal that we're walking into a world where older generations in particular are exploited by technology via a bombardment of settings and dialog boxes -- and that we're veering away from the real promise of technology, which is to provide clear, simple, fast and effective life improvements.
No one will care (that it's messy). This is a common reason people don't open source software, and it doesn't matter.
It could be possible, but I see no reason to compel it. If you want other stores, use a different platform.
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You're thinking dodgy likes. I think the parent comment is referring to ads

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I worked for a company that was structured like that.

Basically I worked for a very small company that was in the same offices as several other similar sized companies. All those companies where on the same network and there was no distinction of who was working for which company. They all just mixed together.

No one really cared who you work for anyway since it was all owned by the same 3 people and it behaved like a single large company. Technically though it was just lots of small companies as far as the Government was concerned.
Reading this article made me think of how different you tn felt to use YouTube without ads. So much so that I'd consider paying a bit more to be free of search ads. And Twitter Ads.
Especially not CollegeHumor content, most of which was scattershot hope-something-goes-viral bro humor.
This is why I take 280 instead of 101 when traveling to and from SF to South Bay even though it's slightly longer.
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A good argument against (long-term) storage could be that it does not exist yet. Not in commercial quantities at least. I think it would be accurate to state we can build nuclear in sufficient required TWh's right now, but we could not do the same for the storage we would need in a 100% renewable scenario.

More and more I think we just don't have the time for research anymore, and we should prioritize getting rid of carbon over going as green as possible. (Naturally I will agree that renewable is ultimately better than non-renewable nuclear.)
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My oldest code has been in use for about twenty years. Not because it's any good but because it does a job and the organization cannot be bothered to spend the minimal amount of money it would take to replace it with something better. I cringe every time I hear about this code.
Yes, advertising creates a tension by creating needs. Excessive tension creates stress, which leads to unhappiness.
Why does the article start with a false premise that "internet used to be fun" and "bygone era". Come on, if you don't want to follow Twitter drama just go to some other place. Ugh.
The only thing you could argue that loss is temporary (sort of a stock going down but only to go back up later)...not sure how a loss is compared to a drop in economy.

Otherwise they are stating facts: they know how much UK paid into EU funds for 47 years, and know how much their econ went down these Brexit years.
People have pointed out many flaws in this argument, but I haven’t seen what I believe is the simplest flaw: specifically, if QI as defined in the article is true, you can’t conclude that the universe will take every possible opportunity to extend your life, only that you will always fail to experience life-ending events. A failure to receive a message about extending your life is not a life ending event, as your life could be saved later through other means. And it doesn’t matter how unlikely those other means are, because your consciousness will simply follow the path in which it still exists, regardless of the likelihood of that path.

And if you think about that for a minute, the prospect of QI ought to horrify you. What sort of being will you be in 1000 years, if the only thing preventing you from dying is the ability to follow infinitesimal paths through the evolving wave function?
That is also not foolproof.

There is no method or approach that is foolproof for all cables and ports. I have cables with no logo, cables with rounded and heavy cable parts on both sides, cables with holes in the metal jacketing on both sides, and so on.

The only truly foolproof method is to look inside both the plug and the port before attempting to plug it in, to see where the metal is. Of course, that only works when you can clearly see into the port, so it doesn't work in the dark or for ports behind other things.

So yeah, nothing is foolproof when it comes to USB-A. Not 100% of the time.
LOLNO.

Tucker is right wing. He also has a very casual relationship with the truth.

Oliver is definitely to the left, but he also doesn't lie.
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That's an unrelated issue. In this context that could be avoided simply by counting more than half time individual contractors as employees when measuring entity size.
But what problem does it solve? How is it better than what we have? What are the practical uses? What is a concrete example of the benefits?

I read the documentation and the FAQ, but it's all very nebulous. It's supposedly better, but no explanation is given to how or in what way.

I'd love to have a clear and understandable answer. I'm sure the project would benefit from having such an explanation on their web page.
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Ask HN: Popular books that stand up to scrutiny?
There was a recent thread on HN that got my attention - "what were the best books you read in th last decade". I decided that in 2020 I should read a handful of these.

I just finished my first one - "Why We Sleep". I thought it was very good - informative but accessible. Not a ton of self-help drivel. The action item from it is mostly just to be cognizant of your sleep schedule and don't take it for granted.

My next book was going to be Thinking Fast and Slow.

However, before I started my next book, I revisited that thread to see what else I should read. Lo and behold - both these books received lots of criticism that I was unaware. Replication problems and manipulated data. The tide had turned and these books were now spurned.

What are some similar books (not entirely dumbed down pop psychology I guess) that hold up to scrutiny? Are there any? Or is book bound to have errors that some people will criticize them for?
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Even if you yourself are not too directly affected by advertising, it can still affect your friends and family members. Collectively, it can create expectations and social pressure on you which makes your life less pleasant and more complicated than it needs to be.
Oh absolutely! I'm commenting that fuel economy is likely not the deciding factor for people considering purchasing a Tesla vs a Camry.

In fact, I can't imagine many car purchase decisions boil down to "Camry vs Model 3".
They haven't lied. They've said that this is HOW they're keeping the platform secure. Perhaps there are other ways, but this is the path they've chosen.

>We can have alternate App Stores run by other trusted/neutral entities or app side loading or certificates and tools like gatekeeper for iOS.

You could, if Apple wanted. Apple doesn't want to. If you want that, use another platform.

I'm 100% fine with the phone being curated by the vendor in this way, largely because I trust Apple and Apple's motivations here. (I wouldn't trust Google in a similar situation, since their revenue is dependent on advertising and monetizing data about their users.)
As opposed to 'real' Triple A games which do not prey on addiction and monetization...
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They probably got more of their aspirations from sitcoms featuring black families and less from advertisements.
I'm super confused, are the using a... well, I don't know the terms, but a fancy "a" for the straight face and a simple "a" that's the circle-bar O|-shaped "a" for italics?

Is that common in fonts and I never noticed before?
You sound angry, wanna talk?

Looks like you haven't really understood what the issue is but I can't be arsed to care enough and explain.
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It's not a false premise for many of us.

I miss the indie internet, before big corps and big tech started taking over.

I miss IRC and forums and personal websites. I miss the time when Digg was new and hadn't taken over, and memes weren't the most upvoted content. When websites weren't all Javascript and Google wasn't Yahoo.

MySpace and LiveJournal and Xanga were never as sterile as Facebook and Instagram.

The internet that appealed to the Technorati got put on dopamine-fueled monetization rails and turned into a bulk commodity that maximizes engagement over the population.
My uncle was a 33rd Deg FreeMason also. I learned this at his funeral... He served in 3 wars, WW2, Korea, & Vietnam.
Is it correct that to be considered for membership, you must approach a member? But they cannot approach you and try to sell you on it?
If you are talking about one from the 80s probably yes, 2009 not so much.
Healthcare has tons of potential to be improved by technology. There are regulatory and incumbent forces that will make it difficult and unfun to work on, but the general stance that automation can help reduce difficulty and human errors seems like a given to me.

I actually have hands on experience with EMR (epic) and I can tell you their convoluted solutions only make a complex system worse. As for actual clinical care, all the experience I have is second-hand, through friends and family in the field, but the ones I've talked to have admitted that most of med school is rote learning and bemoaned how easy it is to make mistakes.
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What is that typeface? Every vowel looks like an "o" that was cut up to look like another vowel, its absolutely hard to read. It's also ironic that there's (allegedly) a focus on readability for the language but absolutely none of that concern found its way to the website.

I do like the piping syntax.
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I think this video points out Epicurus' opinions on advertisement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L3dLWwmDDw.

I don't have time to re-watch the video, but I remember the gist being that the _point_ of advertisements is to make you feel like you're missing out on something. If an ad can't make you feel that way, how will it sell you on its product? Someone who feels they have everything doesn't need to purchase anything to fill a need/want.

Really it's simple when you think about it. Company wants to sell you a product. You think you don't need anything else in your life because you're content. Company tells you your life could be better with their product; therefore, your life is missing something (said product). You are no longer content until you have said product.

It's nice to have evidence that supports an idea proposed centuries ago.
Unless you have a RAID card in the middle.
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Oh they did fail indeed, Objective-C libraries were crashing left and right due to underlying C semantics and mixing frameworks compiled with and without GC enabled.

So they did the only possible exit, automate the manual retain / release Cocoa patterns on the compiler, and sell a marketing story about ARC and how GC is bad.

Pity that Borland and Microsoft haven't done the same about their compiler support for COM RC, done years before.

Android UI is janky due to bad coding practices, specially doing too much on UI thread.

Our phones are super computers compared with Lisp Machines.

If you want to start counting devices sold, it is pretty clear that tracing GC has won, specially when we had any kind of device with a web browser on it.
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