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As a simple matter of grammar, that's not what he's saying. He says that Chevron is a manufacturer of a "group of commodities" that "on which every one of us depends every single day." The sentence means that people rely on the group of commodities, of which Chevron is one producer.
In the UK at least the customer would be well protected (assuming that the dealer they bought the car from was still in business etc).

The car was not as described, so the dealer they bought it from would have to compensate them appropriately for that as contract has been breached.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/11/enact...
> except for a comparatively little bit of radioactively decaying material inside the earth, and some tidal forces

There's also geothermal energy.

EDIT: I erased what I said about tidal forces. I thought it referred to all currents in the ocean, but it specifically refers to the periodic pull the moon has on the Earth, to greater effect, on its water.
Good to expose myths about neuroscience but debunking is getting out of hand
I’ve never had a loan where the bank required Gap insurance. I usually get it anyway through my insurance company.
I could see an argument that Buyer 1 was accidentally given this feature, if it was not advertised as present, and if there was no way for Buyer 1 to know the feature was enabled at that time (auctions probably don't have test drives).

Under those circumstances, the fact that it was in fact enabled was sort of a windfall to Buyer 1. If Tesla could have pulled it back and notified Buyer 1 prior to the subsequent sale to Buyer 2, maybe this wouldn't seem so bad. But to hit Buyer 2 with this — especially since Buyer 2 is a person, not a business — makes this very unsavory.
> Their systems are extremely targeted and I like the optimized ads for new brands that are finding me.

Then it would be fine for them to switch to opt-in tracking, right?
If I didn’t need a paycheck I wouldn’t be at the interview, or working at all. Getting a consistent paycheck is “planning long term” for 99% of people. Hell, half my social circle probably doesn’t even know what the S&P500 is.
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It is written in Julia. [Usually the language you are using is important here.]

Do you have some blog posts about how to use the software? Each subtitle looks like a blog-post-worthy subject. Usually here it is better to post each week/month something interesting done in the project and add a link at the top and at the bottom asking for support. YMMV.
> throttle their own devices to manage power/battery trade-off?

With modern power management, the system constantly makes decisions on throttling up and down at the sub-millisecond level, balancing performance, power usage, battery lifetime and thermal constraints which affect component lifetimes. There are probably hundreds of combinations of criteria it uses to decide what to do and when.

This has nothing to do with Apple versus Android or open versus closed. All modern phone systems do this, the Android device makers face exactly the same issues. There isn't a single modern smartphone on the market that doesn't throttle the CPU in order to preserve device lifetime, because that's a big part of what thermal management is about. It's why people overclocking their CPUs are taking a risk. That running older batteries hotter and harder degrades them rapidly and risks device outages is simply a fact of physics. Painting these practices as 'planned obsolescence' is, frankly, incredibly ignorant.
He just commented on the video saying the copyright claim was removed.
> Are you going to pretend either AirPods or Apple Watch are meaningfully competitive against other offerings on the market?

The definition of meaningfully competitive is growth, revenue, and market share. You're implying they're not competitive, which implies you think they're not making money. By what metric are they not competitive?

> There are headphones with better spec than airpods at half the price available right now. They're not locked to any ecosystem. Apple has no idea how to continue competing in the envelope of modern hardware because competitors either beat them or match them on every move but without the premium.

This claim has always been made, for 35 years, and has always been true of all Apple hardware. Yet they compete and make a lot of money. What you're demonstrating is you don't understand what Apple is making or why people buy their products. What you're demonstrating is that better spec cheaper hardware isn't enough to beat the competition.
Funny, but I don't talk about the same manufacturer.
Think like the cloud providers: #1 Buy a server from Dell #2 launch an AWS EC2 instance.
We have the same model. It's a much better machine than my old one. I agree with you on all points except the USB-C hate. I don't use it often enough to have to worry about what cable does what. I usually route everything through the TS3 Caldigit, and only ever hook up the TB3 cables to the laptop.
Oh dear ... the 737MAX of spacecraft.
There's such a focus on being proficient in our society... but being bad at stuff is not all bad. It's only bad if you don't accept it and move forward more strategically.

The ability to recognize and admit the areas where we struggle / are mediocre actually allows us to better accomplish our goals.

It took me a long time to realize this... I don't need to be good at anything to make and sell an app, for example. I can outsource the app development, outsource the website design, outsource the marketing... basically - hire people to do all of the work for me. You might say - that takes money! I don't even need to have the money or know how to write a business plan. All I need is an idea - then I outsource the writing of the business plan and use that business plan to attract investors.

There are a lot of very skilled people out there - why not just borrow their skills to accomplish what you want to accomplish?
Sort of. You'd only know based on the interpreter you were using. You wouldn't know unless you tested other Python interpreters.

For example, if you wrote something in pypy it would be ordered versus cpython.
So it is a real question. How can they get away with it? I genuinely love Tesla as a piece of technology and I think they brought ridiculous amount of progress to otherwise stagnant market.

That said, how is that legal? To me it is as bad as disabling brakes or changing the way battery behaves.

News like that make me hate the future.
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What you're hearing in that video is a space heater running in my office — I don't put a ton of effort into making everything perfect for ad hoc live streams.

A proper screencast is probably the better thing to judge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff_n_QClipQ

I'm sure you'll find something to nitpick over but I think it's pretty good for a programming tutorial recorded in my home office.
Beautiful answer, thank you!

Since I want to support as many browsers as possible, I'm going to still use CSRF tokens, but a single token per session as you suggested. I just outlined the approach here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22268152 .

Thanks for your detailed feedback, it's very valuable to me.
AnandTech mentions 512GB RAM limit for 3990X - that would mean there are 64GB ECC UDIMM modules somewhere? All I could find were rare 32GB UDIMM modules at best, capping RAM to 256GB instead...
I'm not sure how this is relevant. Throttling has been present in iOS since at least version 10 (2016), if not longer - IIRC 10 added the settings UI to override throttling if you want to, but I'm not sure when the actual capability landed.

Preventing ecosystem fragmentation is well and good, but it's orthogonal to publicizing that the OS does CPU throttling on devices with batteries whose power delivery is compromised by age, and making clear that a cheap battery replacement will do as much to solve that problem as an expensive new phone will.

(I do my own refurbs, so I can vouch from experience for a battery replacement solving throttling. There's no deliberate derating of older devices qua older devices that I can see, but it's reasonable that people believe there is, because Apple has done a terrible job of making clear what's actually going on. One of many cases where their habitual allergy to transparency has harmed them and their userbase alike; it's hard to blame kremlinologists for being kremlinologists when that's the only way to try to figure out what the hell your company is doing.)
Note that the DMCA isn’t involved here. YouTube has their own system for copyright claims that allow 3rd parties to take down videos without filing a DMCA takedown.

If the claimant filed a DMCA request, the video owner could file a counter-notice which would put the video back up unless the claimant decides to sue. Since YouTube allows copyright holders to take down a video without going through the DMCA, then the video owner loses the right to file a counter-notice, and the copyright holder gets the final word on whether the video is taken down.
In fairness the Raspberry Pi is only $5 so it’s not like it’s a huge deal
I've seen this.

It would be neat to randomly generate faces until it generates a "doppelganger" of yourself.
Android accepts contributions and your complete rust rewrite of bluedroid would be most welcome
PDF to non-paywalled article: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olivia_Judson/publicati...
So you are the missing link in their hardware team? If you have the answers, go work for them. You probably wouldn’t even have to interview, just tell them in your cover letter than you are better than 1000 of their hardware and materials science guys. While you’re at it, you might as well offer to rewrite the operating system as well, because why not?

As far as “clearly screwed up,” I’m not sure how clear that is. A few people on a forum complaining about something out of hundreds of thousands of those computers sold. In all of the rigorous professional reviews, this “screw up” hasn’t been mentioned. Not sure exactly what the screw up was, that fans turn on? On a huge, high end, powerful laptop?
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Nice — I've long wanted to write an article up along the same lines, but focused on getting these same layouts working on the console as well (those are the bits I am unfamiliar with).

In the old days, a friend and I did some special modifier-key handling to emit shortcuts with Latin script instead of the Cyrillic used for the Serbian layout: I long wanted to revive that since we didn't push it into xkeyboard-config (it also conflicted with built-in gtk+ similar functionality).
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> users should be warned of the issue so they can act accordingly, and not stay in the dark until someone discovers the hack.

What part of this sentence did you not understand?

It's about WARNING the user before they do the upgrade so they 1) know what will happen and 2) know how they could fix it.
Height is tricky, because its indirect to real goals. So it would depend what you'd want to achieve. Also, I'd think the 95%-ile of height might actually be better then the 100%-ile. Being too tall comes with its own set of limitations.

So again, its all about the framing. If you just frame ir as taller is better, then ya, 95%-ile starts being impressive, but not as much as 96%-ile.
I've seen this work before.
That is the point: do they sell the car to you, license or rent it? It does not look at all that they sell it.
> But in this case Tesla had not been paid for this. Not by anyone.

Tesla specifically sold the car with these features when it was auctioned: https://jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-featur...
Surprised why? Companies do illegal shit all the time and get away with it. Just recently Lenovo did not cancel my order for a p1 laptop after almost two months, way longer than the 30 days of their estimate and allowed buy federal law. What can I do? Nothing. Just like the guy in this story. He has no recourse against Tesla and I doubt he'll get it from the dealer either. They will definitely win in court. The dealer probably will too. The customer will get stuck with this.

When laws aren't enforced, their existence is irrelevant. We are seeing this with this monroney sticker and I'm sure this is the standard, default policy of Tesla. Hell, even if there's a class action lawsuit, Tesla will not admit fault, they will not change, and the only people who will get actual compensation are the lawyers. It won't hurt Tesla so civil penalties are just as ineffective as the law in this case. Corporate profits over everything is the norm. Let's not pretend that the law or civil suits get in the way of that now. Hell, can you even sue Tesla, or do they require arbitration?
Cut back to 10 years from now, insert "99.99th% percentile isn't that good" article on Hacker News. Someone tag me then.

No percentiles are good IMO. Often, the overall shape matters, in some cases, like in latency.

And in many other cases, it often becomes the way to go, due to practical challenges in sourcing.
I've said nowhere that all of Android should be written in Rust. I've only said that had this specific component been written in Rust, the issues wouldn't have shown up. Of course the code base is old and predates Rust.

But I think this vulnerability serves as an important lesson about which language to choose for new projects in the embedded area. Thus I'm very glad that Google uses Rust for its new OpenSK security key firmware. I hope that future versions of Android will adopt Rust, at least in newly written components. Some Google developed Android related projects are already using Rust, like Cuttlefish which uses crosvm.
In general, only if you can be very specific about exactly how underestimated they are, which is equivalent to the problem of knowing the correct values in the first place, so, basically, no.

(Sometimes statistics can help you out, but I think that's best understood as a set of fairly specific exceptions with very strong conditions on them, rather than the rule.)
Great insights and very well put. I agree with almost all of them. The data we've gathered supports your claims in two places. 1- top topics discussed in meetups (not software as opposed to SF for example) and 2-London startups being less open to equity share schemes with employees.
Yep, and with the ease of concurrency in Go and Rust, it'll be freakin' awesome. And hopefully, we'll get some novel security research in areas dealing with attacks against concurrency and parallel execution.
That’s true, but adapter classes can be pretty clunky to use, and while static methods are fairly lightweight, they aren’t very convenient if you’re trying to extend a fluent API.
One of the better managers I have had in the past, when he setup weekly 1:1s, said that the agenda for our weekly 1:1s would be “about whatever you want to discuss”.

Key word: you.
Key point: the agenda was employee-led, and it encouraged open and honest feedback.

Many managers focus on what ‘they’ want to discuss in 1:1 meetings, but the best people managers, in my experience, also ensure that the employee’s views are represented.
They’ll need a forensic accountant to find this fine in their balance sheet. What is even the point of a fine of this amount?

I’m not arguing for or against Apple being fined. It’s just such a pointlessly trivial amount for Apple as to be totally meaningless.
If my recollection of the events is correct, I do think this fine is fair as the slowing down of people's iPhones when a new iOS was released, combined with newer iPhone models being launched made people think that it was due them perceiving the phone was old tech and unable to power the latest iOS features, not the software doing it for the lifespan of the battery.

Apple were silent about this for many years and were pressured to put the option to disable this in. This is what is important. They were happy to be silent and let users feel like the only option was to upgrade to have a fast phone. And since it's not feasible to replace batteries on older phone, everything was stacked in Apple's favour.
Tech startups change a lot, when you use something one and off over a long period of time, I find it difficult to navigate within their ecosystems.

As for sports tracking, there are a few reasons I can see to use them: Social, Health, Visualization, & Data collection/management

Maybe a little off topic for some, but here is my experience with sports tracking after using a couple of different solutions during the past 10 years:

I like Endomondo, and joined fairly short after they launched the website.

They have had a pro version, a plus version, and now a premium version.
Just when the app launched, I bought the paid version from the app store, which was a single payment and I liked to support a new, and in my case local, initiative.

One thing which was really nice with particularly this app, was the audio feedback, while running, so no need to look at a screen to get the lap time, pace, heart rate, etc.

I don't use the social features a lot, but it seems that Strava[0] now dominates in this space, I have tried their app, but I don't like their data vis, and find their privacy/sharing permissions to distracting to modify to suit my preference.

I have since moved to using a running watch from Garmin and don't really rely on the tracking capability of a smartphone.

Now I have copied my running activities to runalyze[1] a project which used to have all their code base on github in their earlier days. They do a fantastic job at visualizing data from both my watch and surprisingly also very well from 3rd party footpod powermeters[2], they do this much better than Garmin does on their own website[3] because they overlay right and left shoe on the same graph. They do on the other hand, not have 'social' features, but you can generate a public sharable URL.

Luckily, Garmin is a pretty big company, and the will hopefully not close their service any time soon, but it bothers me a little that on my newer watch, 920XT, I need data connection to extract my activities from my watch directly directly to their platform in order to view it.

On my old 910XT, it was possible to extract activities to my laptop, or even to my phone with a 3rd party app[4] and an ANT+ chip. There was even a nice app for viewing activities locally on the device [5] - a really nice solution if you don't have a data connection, and you are using an older watch with an android phone.

Over all, I have been very happy with Garmin, just with the tiny exceptions of need for online sync, and the decision to remove support for their temperature sensor data field.

-cheers

[0] https://www.strava.com/

[1] https://runalyze.com/

[2] https://runscribe.com/

[3] https://connect.garmin.com/

[4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quantrity....

[5] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.flashdev.gc...
I have some Eddie Bauer oxford shirts, but yeah, it was by and large a preppy, sorta get the outdoorsy "look" kind of mall store, not the real deal "hell and back" type of gear you would actually want.

Aren't most things like this? It's getting so that I have to buy online for solid gear for downhill skiing, for example. Even Sports Authority, who is not long gone, had only a so-so selection of skis and boots, mostly arranged around the needs of beginners. The store they had in Summit County was quite different, but that was the only one like that.
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95th percentile of the Overwatch ladder is also not the same thing as 95th percentile of competitive tournament players. This entire article is just full of category fallacies to try to support a vague subjective assertion.

Gaming ladders with automated ELO systems are also not run like tournament ELO systems in more controlled environments like competitive chess. Games like Overwatch, WoW, Starcraft, Hearthstone, etc. will not dynamically update when the player is inactive in order to not discourage players. You have to lose games to lose your ELO category rank, although obviously you can go up and down the leaderboard without playing games. There are some gaming rank systems like CSGO that have some rank decay for inactivity but it is just at a flat rate.

So, "95th percentile" in these systems is not actually indicative of that unless it is based on the precise rank on the leaderboard. In many of these seasonal games rank inflation happens towards the end of the season because of this lack of passive decay. It means that at the beginning of the season, the top rank is very competitive, but as people become less active as the season goes on, it becomes easier to attain rank.

In a lot of domains, if you are 95th percentile, you are extremely competitive. You may be noncompetitive with the 99%ile cohort and the bottom of the 99%ile may be noncompetitive with the 0.1%ile, but to argue that that's not "very good" is just goofy perfectionism. The fact that the author is using goofy noncontrolled systems as an example to support his weakly-defined subjective argument only undermines his own case.
I hope you'll forgive my ignorance, but what do you (as a "sneakerhead") look for in shoe design? Is this a matter of visual aethetics, or of performance/support metrics? I buy shoes relatively rarely, and usually end up getting something similar to what I had before, so I feel like I have no idea what "good design" even means in a shoe, any more than I would consider design of a screwdriver.

Obviously, such good design exists -- I like one cordless drill better than the other, for example -- but often time good design is not immediately obvious. What are the hallmarks of good shoe design that you look for? What excites you about one shoe vs another, and that prompts you to buy specific shoes rather than whatever happens to fit at $store?
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Waves don't innovate. An app won't mitigate the risk of drowning. Neither will a new board. Serious surfing revolves around risk assessment and mitigation and a flow of opportunities. If you can look out the window and see the waves, there's not much point in an app. In the old days, the surf report was a recorded message over POTS. The local spot doesn't need an app. Serious surfing is local.
Having used older Android phones with dying batteries, that's something that will happen. If I was under 30% battery, opening the camera immediately shut off the phone. Same for playing a video or running an intensive app.
Why not both? Something about babies and bathwater...
Which they presumably did - uploaded Dark Horse to the content ID system.
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This article doesn't make clear if the sticker on the first sale listed this feature. I think this could be relevant if Tesla were dealing with Buyer 1, but totally irrelevant with regard to Buyer 2 (who would have never seen the sticker from the first sale).
If people want to gain the most benefit from my software, I recommend hiring me as a consultant.

While I may publish some blogs in the future, it is not my priority to help random strangers who do not invest in my work.
How far is the modding scene there? Can you activate functions (which don't need an online connection obviously) if you've cut the cord? Are people actually meddling with it?
Continuing the analogy, Michael Jordan doesn't get to display his full Jordan-ness on the court unless he's got a teammate like Pippen who creates opportunities and solves problems that will be huge energy drains on Jordan if only Jordan is there to solve them. (Guarding opponents; salvaging something out of busted plays, etc.)

Finding stars and paying them a lot is pretty easy. It also isn't necessarily the path to great success, especially if you can't build a coherent rest of the team. Just ask Allen Iverson.