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I have a VW Atlas. It’s the biggest car I have ever had. It’s volume is great for road trips with multiple kids and a dog in a cage.

I too worried about lane departures (even though of course I think I’m a better than average driver;). It has automatic lane assist which warns me if I’m on the lane line without putting on my blinker. I’m pleasantly surprised how infrequently it needs to remind me!

However more importantly I think it’s safety features of lane assist, adaptive cruise control, front and rear assist (emergency breaking), and blind spot sensing with haptic feedback are fantastic! If every can had these, I’m certain driving would be safer even without autonomous driving.
Why would younger folks up and quit if they couldn't come to an office? This doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Probably one of the least painful digital buses.

If anyone is wondering how to access an I2C bus from a Linux computer, say, a raspberry pi:

int fd = open("/dev/i2c-1", O_RDWR);

ioctl(fd, I2C_SLAVE, [slave address here]);

Then you can read() and write() to the device with the kernel taking care of all the transmission details. Usually all that's exposed is a few bytes for the registers. To set a register, write two bytes: first the register address, and then the value. To read a register, write the register address and then read a byte. Most of the devices have linear address spaces, so reading out multiple registers is as simple as reading multiple bytes.

The i2c-tools package has some very handy CLI tools for exploring an I2C bus.

Electrically, the bus is an open-collector design on both ends, so devices can only pull the lines to low, and they release them to set them high. Don't forget pull-up resistors!
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Chris Hughes made millions founding Facebook. Now he wants to break it up
If everything is being transferred off your device locally, why can't you use whatever backup arrangements you normally make for your other data?

We already have a good, properly secured backup system that we use for all our workstations and servers. We just want to be able to export data from any mobile devices we use and manage that data using the same policies and tools. In most cases, that is straightforward. The one big exception is the iOS devices.
If you add `.md` suffix to your doc files, github will render them for you.
I think including prices in this list would significantly improve it.
>I'll be very mad at the rest of you lot that choose convenience over privacy, rights, and autonomy if 2030 sees our freedoms and liberties eroded further.

> Our collective choices matter, and that's why I'm calling you out.

I'll be direct and say that your passion inspires me and your articulation of the issue is very close to my deep feelings about privacy, encryption, and law enforcement. Of course, human brains are complicated pieces of kit and the rational part of me tempers "my deep feelings" with the context I elaborated in the parent comment.

Still, I wanted to take the time to thank you for expressing this in precisely the way you did. Thank you.

I also want to take a moment to recommend an article by John Gruber (Daring Fireball), "Regarding Reuters’s Report That Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting iCloud Backups" which critiques the basis of the Reuter's article. [0] (I'd have made it a post except for being a bit overactive this morning with submitting Daring Fireball-sourced links to HN.)

You might feel less disillusioned considering Gruber's points, many of which are excellent.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2020/01/reuters_report_on_apple_d...
Quite agree. I want nuclear power on the moon and mars bases. Let's use it where energy density of fuel actually matters.
The thing is housing almost comes with a rock solid business plan and as a basic need is somewhat resistant to radical decreases in price (it is almost impossible that your house would depreciate by 100% - company stock/your own business investments could).

With the way the market is it is likely that mortgage principal + interest + maintenance is actually less than rent...
You can make the argument that military drones are necessary for defense (although that point is debatable). There is no justification for going to a random person and shooting them in the head.

False analogy.
I find this comparison dead on arrival. Full stop.

UL, a private company, can only exist because they charge manufacturers of electronics for their certification.

No one is manufacturing the air we breathe (at least not yet...) so there is no revenue source for this kind of testing outside of public funding.

Your whole comment is a classic example of attempting to apply market forces to a problem that has no market.

I'll be blunt - Capitalism is a nifty trick for situations where there's a market and low barrier to entry. IT IS NOT A SILVER BULLET.
Around 70% of Australia's electricity is made with coal.

This whole report smells like propaganda to keep it like that under the cover that renewables are better than nuclear power.

Nuclear is better than coal and if they really want to lower the CO2 emissions they should replace coal with nuclear power.

https://www.energy.gov.au/australian-electricity-generation-...

Coal is probably still cheaper than Nuclear.

Coal kills a lot of people every year but its not direct so we accept coal.
If you browse the scrath projects online, people make full video game clones in scratch.
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spins drumstick

Indeed, if someone wants to check it out, I do have a YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/c/AndreasKling

I’m glad you like the content, throwaway8879. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to link it :)
But used coke is also worthless.
I dunno, the TLDR page highlighted tar which seems a bit odd since tar has always gone out of its way to have a very strong and useful manpage - specifically having several examples[1] at the top of the page before diving into all the intricacies of the arguments.

1. Including tar -cf and tar -xf probably the two you want to run in most cases. See: https://linux.die.net/man/1/tar
When I tell people to grow a pair and say no, they tell me to grow up, it's not how the "real" world works, they say. The fact is, they have no role models to look up to and teach them how to say no to corruption and immoral or unethical behavior.
The idea of a free market is a bit of a fantasy, but the market does influence policy significantly, which is why there's a lot of car-centric planning around. There are also car-unfriendly places are the world that also have extremely high property values, so it's not due to policy alone.
Speaking from recent experience, that offer seems like a lot of money when you're eating ramen for the 4th time this week and have $30k of debt.
Why are carseats so big? It can't all be safety. Do you think it gives a luxurious appearance and parents tend to buy them more?
Just because any proportion of people think something or are willing to do something doesn't validate, justify, or excuse that thing.
I really wish someone would give an example of an ethically-biased algorithm in common use. So many times I discuss this topic with colleagues and come to realize that their complaints are not valid. The algorithm would perform "unbiased" when given different data. To me this indicates a complaint about disparity of the data, but in a more sinister, impossible to reason about way since it is not logically sound (i.e. the counter example with alternate data producing unbiased results exists.)
This challenge isn't new or unique to the tech industry. Pretty much all sacred texts and books of ancient wisdom say something akin to "don't value money above everything else", because it's always been difficult to resist the temptation to trade some of your principles for cash. What those texts have to teach us is that the value of that cash has diminishing returns, and eventually you'll be disappointed that you made the trade.

I applaud Mozilla for suggesting that people should consider where they draw their personal red lines, and encouraging them not to cross it for any amount of cash.
Great idea. Thanks for setting that up!
That's false, Lula had always been the frontrunner in popular polls for the 2018 election. He was convicted by the ex-judge in the year before and jailed a few months before the election. Moreover, just a few days before the election ex-judge Moro and his group was actively providing"dirty" about Bolsonaro's opponent to the press, even though he had already negotiated a position in Bolsonaro's cabinet.

All this political activity is revealed by Greenwald's reporting on the leaked messages.
You are welcome! As the author, of course, you are free to do whatever you want with your content. I was just sharing my friendly suggestion, based on my experience and UX taste ... :-)
Wouldn't the home value model predict support for public transit because public transit tends to increase nearby property values?
The announcement of that game definitely got me to look into VR setups. But when I went and tried my buddy's Oculus, I got sick in about 5 minutes. I've never had motion sickness problems in my life, so I was sort of disappointed. Defintely try out a setup before you buy it.
Well the thing is, even if the value of your house tanks, you still have something. You have a house you can live in.

If the value of your stocks tank, you have nothing to show for it...
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Thanks for spreading the word, Mozilla! I completely stand beside you on this one. I had an interview for a job that sounded great all around: good pay, interesting work, technically challenging. But during the interview, the more I learned about the role, the shiftier it sounded. Before the morning was over, I realized I'd never be able to attend an EFF meeting or look my privacy-interested friends in the eye if I accepted the position. I left early and gave the recruiter a quick note that it wasn't right for me.

I totally get that you've gotta eat, and it would have to be a really bad job for me suggest that someone choose to go hungry or homeless. However, if you have the option of taking more than one job, I do think we're ethically obligated not to go with the awful one. You've got to be able to look at yourself in the mirror, and to get up each morning without feeling like you're making the world worse. That counts for a lot.
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Where are you? In the UK you can easily fit 2 kids seats into something like a VW Polo or mini
Nice yeah. Most of the time I just skip the controversies on Hackernews and stick with my philosophy of "just clone and move on"

You can tell when some repositories are going to be hot and removed soon, often times that nukes the forks too. So just download.
That's swell and all, but you are going to find businesses still going to Google Analytics because it is easy to setup and free. The cost to consumers by having their data shared everywhere isn't even thought on the horizon.
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Sure, I didn't say "useless". The post I was responding to was worded in such a way as if FP was the only suitable paradigm everybody should be using. FP is a nice and useful abstraction, but in some areas it is just too inefficient and despite all the great compiler progress of the last decade, it is still not there yet.

FP languages are not in the same problem domain as system programming languages, so claiming FP should replace Rust is just ridiculous (and as a side note: Rust borrows many things from Haskell/Scala as well, so some FP is there).
> they serve two different purposes

I agree, but I'm also painfully aware of man page incompleteness every time I'm on a non-OpenBSD system. I'd be grateful to anyone who chipped away at proper tagging for any GNU software. One should be able to :t to jump to the reference for any flag.
Storage of spent fuel is almost entirely passive. You're literally burying it in a geologically stable site, where even if the containers completely dissolve it will take hundreds of thousands or millions of years for that waste to even potentially impact the greater environment to any significant degree.

The only conceivable risk is for some future civilization coming across the cache, not knowing what it is, and potentially suffering as a result. Which presumes that such a civilization will have declined substantially in scientific knowledge at which point it is unlikely that such access would even affect more than a small group of future peoples.

The risk is practically non existent, especially when compared to the risk of continuing to ignore nuclear now. This is pure, unsubstantiated fearmongering.
Europe clear cut most of their trees in the Middle Ages to such an extent that monarchs were forbidding the use of wood for numerous non-naval uses. It was one of those edicts forbidding use of wood in glass production, and a bunch of other uses that tipped the UK toward the industrial revolution. Coal became far more widely used, whereas it had previously been seen as dirty and to be avoided. Some see that lack of wood as a push to colonise.

If we're talking regeneratable resources, such as plants and wood, we've exceeded the capacity of the planet since about 1970. It's been measured by earth overshoot day[1], which has steadily been getting earlier since its first calculation of Dec 31st. In 2019 it was July 29. We would need 1.7 earths to sustainably supply the resources we use.

Humanity already uses over 50% of the earth's land -- the best, most productive, most fertile 50% for our homes and agriculture, and what's left is the least productive and unusable.

The idea that we're not running out on a finite planet, with exponentially growing population, and nearly all the productive landmass already in service of humanity is what doesn't make sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day
I personally know of someone that suffered permanent short-term memory loss from a terrible crash in an original mini. A woman pulled out in front of him without looking properly, his car was pretty much completely destroyed, and he was lucky to survive. It's all well and good to praise their size and practicality, but they come at a heavy price.
Books: https://books.pharo.org/

Pharo by Example should be a good starting point.

Developing in Smalltalk is unlike EVERYTHING else. As noted by seandenigris standard assumptions about things like "hello world" don't apply.
I think it’s great that more and more people are spending time working on programming languages.
I have a few questions for you about the type system / type checking. Does llvm make it easier to implement a statically type language than other backends? For example luajit? And how did you learn to implement the typechecker? Is it algorithm W?
I'm a little confused at how this happens. Dupont is just made up of people. Those people need to live somewhere, drink water, and do normal people things. Do they not realize what they are doing as they are doing it, and only become aware it's a problem after the fact? Because if they knew it was problematic from the start, they would almost seem suicidal.
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Not only that, thieves are very crafty nowadays with skimmers even with card that have EMV chips.

I remember being paranoid everytime I would gas up and check the pump because I have been skimmed once. All of that is eliminated on Superchargers.

Another benefit I forgot to mention:

"The company also doesn’t take advantage of the extra travels during states of emergency and it generally offers free Supercharging in the affected areas."

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/12/tesla-opens-up-free-sup...

Imagine getting free gas during a calamity to get safely to your destination.
One significant aspect of increasing house prices is increasing house sizes, amenities, and services (from an HOA). People keep buying more because they think they need it, and I think a return to spartan living would do well for the country but I don't see that happening for a variety of reasons.
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You'll see whatever is practical and economical. It'll be a combination of fiber/wireless in cities and low orbit satellites in rural areas.
I feel the same way. I have a VW Atlas. It’s big but I often take advantage of its size including road trips with 4 adults, two kids in car seats, and luggage. I think
I use the volume of it enough to justify a large vehicle versus renting one when needed.
Unfortunately I can’t afford To also have a small car for the times I don’t need the volume. I definitely feel a little guilty when there are only 2 people in it.
Made an IPFS copy using 2read

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRZ66CkuDYq3xbJUssAQkUt4rGaAujXwnCKsGD...
And yet we are in the middle of a Great Extinction event. The numbers of lots of species turned out to be finite and market forces didn't prevent their extinction.
> Java and C# are a morass of complexity. There is no job or project where you just use the language Java/C#, you have to pull their immense libraries and frameworks in too

I used Delphi for years back in the day, and will always have a soft spot for it. But your claims here are simply not true - the .NET standard library is huge, and you can get a lot done without any other packages.
Not explicitly outlawed. However, cars are favored over everything. An example: when it snows, giant plow trucks come and clear the roads but the snow gets pushed to the side often covering the sidewalks so nobody can walk unless they walk in the road. Jaywalking is considered a crime in many places since the road is only for cars. Spending on infrastructure meaning 98% for cars and 2% for everything else. Scooters/lighter vehicles/bikes could be a bigger way to get around but made more dangerous and less practical because all of the money for transport is spent on cars and roads are often designed just to make cars go faster at the expense of everything else.
Here's the arxiv paper this article is reporting on, it's a short 6 page read:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.07421.pdf

Basically Safari keeps track of which domains are being requested in a 3rd party context (i.e. I load example.com in my browser and the page loads the facebook sdk - Safari increments a counter for facebook by 1). Once a given domain reaches 3 hits, Safari will strip cookies and some other data in 3rd party requests to that domain.

The problem is that advertisers can use this to fingerprint users: register arbitrary domains, make 3rd party requests to them, and detect whether or not that request is having data stripped. Each domain is an additional "bit" of data.

This is similar to "HSTS Cookies" [1] and also to issues with Chrome's XSS auditor, which is why it was removed [2].

[1]: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/02/anatomy-of-a-bro...

[2]: https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1220021377064849410
We had Conectiva as well.
For a database, why Redis over something like Postgres?

Doesn't Redis generally keep all keys in memory and have features for deleting keys? (mostly meant as a cache)
I dunno, I liked it. Every joke sounds bad when someone breaks it down like I did.
> All current home owners take on debt so they can remodel their houses and become landlords

Not all of them, just whoever wants to. It becomes a natural balancing act, as rent swings higher, so do the incentives to replace a single family home with a duplex (or heaven forbid, a 3-unit or 4-unit home, which I may add all use single family construction techniques and have similar costs per sqft to construct). I mean, that's how free market economics is SUPPOSED to work, if a commodity is overvalued then more people enter the market to sell and bid the price back down. What we have now is some abomination where there's a limited quantity of housing with a growing number of elite bidding it up and up and up.

> seems like an insane proposition relative to the government just building housing and charging rent pegged to their wages, no?

I mean, that sounds great to you, and it also sounds great to me, but in the united states atleast I'm sure a large percentage of the population would view this as blasphemy.

To be specific, this is politically infeasible in most or all of the country. Most places can't even agree that "building housing" should be legal at all, much less building done by and managed by the government and all the policy implications built around financing that operation.

Furthermore, in the places where this is needed most, cost of construction is already high (part of the reason why rent is so high, see my section on supply and demand), which means a municipal government could only afford to build a very few number of units. So either way the first step is to lower the costs of housing, both by making it legal to utilize land more efficiently and by streamlining regulations that hamper construction.
They make money from affiliate links too. IOW their "organic" search results are actually money-making advertisements. Obviously DDG claims this revenue doesn't influence search rankings, but if you're the kind of cynic who tars all tech companies with the FB brush, I don't know why you'd believe that.

Also, while the ads shown to you may not use as many personalized signals as Google, they are syndicated through Yahoo/Bing which means if you ever click on one, that ad network knows that much more about you. They are tracking you just as much as Google, you just don't get the benefit of increased ad relevancy. So I really don't understand the win, except inasmuch as a lot of commenters on HN hate all things Google and this gives them a way to unplug.
But that was basically quite late in the game, microsoft had been making a phone OS's for ~ a decade at that point. In 2011 it seemed like MS was already putting it on life support.
Honest question: If rank-and-file employees are expected to work for market rates, should executives be expected to work for market rates also? Or do we think they should work for less than market rates? If so, wouldn't Mozilla be at risk of having their executives poached by higher paying companies, which would likely lead to more than 70 employees losing their jobs?

If someone's gonna downvote me I'd appreciate some color on your choice too, thanks. ;-)
> Stack Overflow has dumbed people down significantly because of the mental laziness it engenders.

I don't think SO has dumbed down people. It's just the average level has tanked because of influx of people in tech. In 1980s average computer person was highly skilled, educated and intelligent, because even to get access to even the simplest computer required a solid dedication and investment. Now, tech is ubiquitous, easily accessible, and lots of people with most different backgrounds jump in. You'd be amazed how many 'developers' fail to solve FizzBuzz test. We actually DO test applicants with it, and results are extremely appalling. I am unable to understand how a person who calls himself a developer and has experience can fail this, but I have learned to accept this as an observed phenomenon.
I believe they meant 'CU Boulder' not 'CSU Boulder'.
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
That's just business, it's not unethical
It's Chrome on Android, which doesn't do extensions, right? And I don't think Sonic is putting JS on the page. I wonder if it's a race that occurs when you just navigate past a page that _does_ ask. On the Pixel 3a there are noticeable pauses when browsing. Could be something like that.
Restructuring is necessary in any business large or small. Without that you would be working on products that will never be released. A 'digging holes to fill them again' problem.

We can certainly disagree on what should and shouldn't be restructured itself.