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How can we simultaneously believe it's possible to instantly engage with driving and that people can't be trusted to text or make phone calls while driving?

Exactly. Driving while distracted by phones is well-known to be very dangerous, which is why it's against the law in many places. Encouraging drivers who might need to take over in an emergency to zone out and focus on other activities seems unwise for the same reason. This is why the middle levels on the self-driving scale could be very dangerous.
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Light sport aircraft (in USA) or advanced ultralights (Canada) are a lot more affordable than certified aircraft.
iVCam is one of those. They use h.264 with quality equivalent to a video recorded on the phone.

Not-so-vague hint from the future: Don't run the Windows-only client on untrusted networks.
What's better about the classroom?
> It seems to me that Tesla has been coyly but deliberately encouraging and facilitating a usage pattern which, for legal/liability reasons, they forbid in the manual.

I'd agree with you there. Same with Summon. "Deal with a fussy child while your car comes to you" says the promotion. Legalese says "must not be distracted (like you might be by a fussy child)".

I'm sure that the manual probably says something exactly like that: "Driver is required to keep hands on the wheel. Your vehicle will warn you to put your hands on the wheel if they are not every fifteen minutes". Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, and don't mind our CEO blatantly not keeping his hands on the wheel in our videos.
In what world is "leaving" "intolerant", but "harassment" is "criticism"? Why are all of Weiss's critics in this thread making these kinds of overtly fallacious arguments? Surely there's something Weiss has actually done to merit criticism?
History is a series of bad remakes that should never have been made. The US seem to be going on a very good direction, toppling Washington and Jefferson's statues lately.
No, from my experience even a single empty repo disqualifies you from takeover. The point is to prevent name squatting, i.e. registering a name and then going nothing with it.
Is the US set up such that the executive can do anything they want unless the legislative branch has put in restrictions?

I'm not that familiar with the structure of the US government, but I thought it was the opposite, and the executive has an approve list of powers rather than a deny list
I never once thought of restarting the browser. I always reboot my computer. Thanks.
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tweet quoted from the article:

>No one has figured out how to count logged-out mobile users, as I learned at reddit. Every time someone switches cell towers, it looks like another user and inflates company user metrics

How hard is it to generate a uuid on first startup and use that to track logged out app users? Or are they being willfully blind just so they can inflate their metrics?
Apple keeps data in China. [1] They specifically made the move because of China's National Intelligence Law. [2]

>To comply with the law, for instance, Apple announced that it would transfer the operation of iCloud in Mainland China to a government-sponsored data company named Guizhou-Cloud Big Data.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Internet_Security_Law#Ef...
Yes, that is why the remark about cancel culture is spot-on. Debate centres around opinions which are shared and discussed so as to end up with a winning argument or position. Dialectic centres around people voicing opposing opinions to try to find out the truth. Neither of these two can work when voicing an opinion outside of the Overton window can and often does end up with the person voicing said opinion being silenced or removed. Cancel culture is not about a robust debate, it is about staging a debate where only approved opinions are allowed to be heard.
On my team, we call this the "Jobs Rule" (i.e. Steve Jobs). As opposed to the Elon rule: promise the moon (or Mars).
There's 3 small independent WISPs in kittitas county in addition to Charter cable in Ellensburg, and whatever Consolidated (the ILEC phone company) is doing. Definitely some more rural parts of kittitas the only thing you can get is a consumer-grade vsat terminal, but those are really quite small amounts of population.

For okanogan, Google NCI datacom, they're a wisp that covers much of the county. But not out to the fringes. Okanogan county itself and the PUD have fiber along the highway all the way from Brewster to the Canadian border, with POPs in the towns along the way. Several WISPs make use of it.

If you were using either of those counties as an example because you actually know people who are finding it difficult to get last-mile broadband, let me know and perhaps I can help put them in touch with the right people.

If we were going to use a very rural Washington State location as an example of where starlink might do well, somewhere such as people who live on acreages outside of Republic might be a better example. Or somewhere like Stehekin.

If I had to guess, the reason why Washington state is a good test market for them, is a combination of relatively low cost and easy to provision lit transport services they can buy from each earth station back to Seattle, reasonable driving times and hassle for people to come and go from the Redmond facility to the test sites for physical install and modification of equipment, and a fairly good sized base of consumers in very rural locations presently dependent on hughesnet/wildblue type cheap consumer VSAT.
Netflix DVD is solving a different problem. The issue with Redbox or streaming services is they frequently have absolutely nothing I want to watch. I tend to go to the movies enough to have seen any new releases that I had any interest in. However, with a vastly larger selection I can load up on classics or random recommendations. It might not be what I was in the mood for, but it will be good.
Not certainly, but most likely ITP meets your use case better than containers, as it's automatic.
Show of hands, who looks around today at the biggest challenges and problems we face, the ones that affect the greatest numbers of people the most perniciously, and that need swift & decisive solutions at almost any cost, and concludes that they're the ones having to do with foreign students being in the country taking online classes?
> If she says something I consider offensive, I might say I think it's offensive. If she says something dumb, I might say I think it's dumb.

Respectfully, I think you're missing the point. She works at a journalistic outlet that claims to be neutral and factual. When her peers demean her openly within the company for "writing about the Jews" (because she supports Israel), that shows that NYT is no longer operating like a legitimate news house. After all, their employees feel a freedom and psychological safety in openly harassing peers for their ideas and political views. The comments here are not asking to insulate Bari Weiss's ideas from intellectual critique or from public criticism. They are against biases in journalism, the censorship of ideas, and ideological bullying/discrimination in the workplace.

> Fourth, when I hear people complain about "going against the progressive party line" or whatever, I generally hear people wanting to be some flavor of racist, sexist, transphobic, or just asshole-ish without consequence.

The problem is that words like "transphobic" have a wide range of meanings, and are purposely vague to dismiss anyone who doesn't pass an arbitrary purity test. There are very few people who wish violence (physical harm) against trans people. But there are lots of people, who very reasonably, think trans women shouldn't compete in women's sports and that trans women are not women. The attempts to censor or deplatform THOSE discussions are exactly the type of hate speech mission creep that characterizes "cancel culture".
Shouldn’t the caught party be identified and what the illegal scheme was?

It feels like the public should at least know that, if not the whistleblower.
slow clap you've pointed out something very true and very problematic that I've never even really noticed
(1) Inflation doesn't matter if you're not hoarding cash. By and large, real estate tracks inflation across the United States. Stock indices exceed inflation. Inflation doesn't matter to you if you aren't holding cash.

(2) It doesn't matter how we got here, we're here, and it's useless.
You gotta see it from the other sides too. Vietnam had a strong standing army and took over a sovereign country, not that they had many choices, but that made the whole South East Asia uncomfortable. Who would be next? Thailand? Malaysia? Singapore? In fact, ASEAN was formed originally to fight communism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASEAN_Declaration
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Setting aside blue states with moderate Republican governors, I see:
1/10 (Duke)
5/20 (Duke, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Rice, Wash U)
15/45 (Duke, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Rice, Wash U, Emory, Ann Arbor, Wake Forest, UVa, Georgia Tech, UNC-CH, UF, Case Western, College of William and Mary, Tulane)

I doubt the split would be at the top 10 because they're simply too small to absorb all the domestic demand. I'm not sure how far down the list, however, would be the switch point between benefit and harm (or if it would be determined purely by rankings vs. some other consideration).
Heh, they should reverse engineer the devices and do their own software firmware.
This is effectively what TikTok is (claims to be) doing as well https://www.bytedance.com/en/#corporate-structure
The "analog hole" is still there. Point a camera at your TV and record it that way. Yes, the quality may be bad...
The advertising to prescribers is fairly strictly regulated, though; you certainly couldn’t put ‘we anticipate this malaria drug will cure COVID-19’, say.
So your response to him pointing out that the author talks in absolutes, and tries to shit on any tech he doesn't like...is to talk in absolutes and shit on tech you don't like, with little jabs and dumb in jokes? Very convincing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
A half cent coin doesn't provide a way to pay in increments of 0.1 cents.
ok, so I would have thought someone would have taken the bait on my earlier post, but true to HN form there's was much over analysis due after my early response.

Here's the deal. The UK, politically in no way want's to kick the Chinese out. But! Boris has to appease the facile idiot in the White House, so the answer is (produced after much coaching from his MP's and Constituents), to announce a ban that will come to fruition long after The Donald has left the White House...DUH!

But wait there's more. There's no question the Chinese run supply chain operations just like the 5 Eye's do. That's how the game is played, so it's telling how quiet GCHQ has been on this.

How many times do people have to see the I/CI/I game get played out before they connect the dots? FFS, this has been going on for close to a hundred years in modern society alone...
I think one of the ARM based workstations that'll eventually appear has a better chance but I wouldn't count on that.

Another option is to fill all the blanks in GNUStep and make a macOS compatible layer sitting on top of another OS. That'd be really helpful.
The European Renaissance was very similar with lots of actual innovations being ascribed to the wisdom of the ancient Romans or Greeks.
Yep! That's the nuanced argument I'd look for, as opposed to 'gRPC bad, they added it because they're from google!'

Simplicity wise my favorite scenario is where if I'm using Python I can pip install an interface (or maven, or NPM, etc. etc) which is the versioned, supported interface for a component. REST + Swagger can help a lot there. So can gRPC. But I can also get how your favorite scenario might be to explore a REST API and build your own client.
I run a paid service called Kopi (https://kopi.cloud) that is meant to deal with exactly this issue.

You can use a shared domain:`hackernews@snorremd.kopi.cloud`
Or, after setting up an MX and a TXT DNS record, you can use your own domain: `hackernews@mail.snorremd.com`.

You can change the "real address" of any "forwarder" (`snorremd.kopi.cloud`/`mail.snorremd.com`) to relay to any address you want, whenever you want.

You can block individual addresses like `hackernews@mail.snorremd.com` with two clicks starting from your mail client.

You can also configure individual addresses to redirect to RSS so you can read newsletters or other "chatty" services as part of your normal browsing habits.
The Hewlett Packard calculators had their binary code inserted into the ROMs as part of the fabrication of the chip. The code was written in assembly language, then heavily tested on hardware simulators. The original HP-35 had a bug in the logarithm code. The bug had to be found and fixed, retested, new ROM chips fabricated and packages. Then owners that wanted it fixed had to mail their calculator back to HP. The unit was opened up, a ROM chip removed, the new ROM soldered in, unit closed up, tested, mailed back. All for free.
There was a very strong demand that this never happen again. I am unaware of any other HP calculator recalls.
Each calculator code was considered complete.

The early video games, both console and arcade, were delivered in ROM chips. Also early embedded systems like DVD/CD disk players, televisions, modules in cars, routers, etc.
Isn't the solution to that as simple as viewing a chain of PRs together, by diffing one got branch against another?
Heck I was the dev lead at a medium size non tech company ($1 billion revenue) and I didn’t find out they had to decided to “move to the cloud” until all of the decisions were made.

Of course, the company’s idea of “moving to the cloud” was a “lift and shift” and still having to go through the same procurement process as if we were on prem just to get some EC2 instances provisioned and not taking advantage of any AWS services.

I didn’t realize how dumb that was until it was too late. By the time I learned anything about AWS, the infrastructure gatekeepers had taken over.
The idea of a total moderation log comes up from time to time: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... I think it would be a mistake—it would drain our resources while convincing no one. People who see "every" comment they disagree with "always" at the top, and "every" comment they disagree with "always" flagged and removed, are not looking objectively.

I don't mean to pick on you personally!—these are common feelings, rooted in cognitive biases we all share. But the patterns they claim are not even close to true, so anyone who wants to be convinced by evidence can just look at HN in the first place.

Beyond that, there's plenty of transparency available through HN Search and the moderation record of https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang. Anyone who looks through the record can find numerous examples of us moderating opposite views in exactly the same way, if they want to. The litigious type of user tends not to want to, and although that group is small in numbers, their capacity to consume moderator time and energy is prodigious. It steals a lot of resources away from other users and from the things we need to be doing to improve the site in general.

By the way, I don't claim there's no moderation bias. How can we know what unconscious biases we may have? I'm just saying that certain stock allegations about it are incorrect and have clear explanations.
I was in a tiny surfing town in Costa Rica and they had gig fiber. You reach it via 3 hour car ride through the jungle and rivers on a single lane dirt road. Better internet than I have in the US.
Still, the MacPro exposes all sides in a more accessible way by rotating a handle. I don't think there's anything that comes close.
Why would a gaming company have any interest in your medical records?
In Chile they have 1 peso pieces so small and light you can blow them from your hand like fairy dust.

The only stores that use them are big chains that operate on enormous economies of scale, e.g. Hiper Lider.

When backpacking there (on very little $) a homeless person asked me for some change. I dug into my pocket and offered him some change and he just lauuuughed at me.

Interestingly, $1 USD = ~800 Chilean pesos in 2020, but was over 2000 Chilean pesos in 2006.
On the other hand, programmers are very good at wasting weeks creating incredible software architectures to try the latest library they read about or try a design pattern, or in general over engineer something so that it’s “better designed”, more generic, more “flexible”, and so on.

In other words, if a project manager sets an expectation that a task is a “task that takes two weeks”, the developer will somehow manage to use about two weeks to make it, that is find the “best way” to do it given that timeframe, where “best” is probably evaluated under some kind of metric which has nothing to do with product or user value.

Sometimes the question “explain me why it should take more than two days, when i know it takes two days to do just that in the context of a minimal MVP” goes a long way in making programmers focusing on delivering the maximum value for the product.

So I think there is actually some value in having a technical person continuously challenging developers in shortening their path to implement a feature.
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https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/
They're absolutely allergic to it.
> What about hardware-level cursors? (I think that's a thing?)

Software that wants to capture the desktop has to emulate the hardware cursor by getting the current cursor position and bitmap and blit it into its copy of the framebuffer. That's because the hardware cursor doesn't exist in the framebuffer, it's overlaid by the GPU during readout.

For the same reason screen-effects like "nightlight" don't affect the cursor in Windows, because the effect is applied as a shader, which can't touch the cursor. They could fix this by updating the cursor bitmap, but they don't.
Presumably the NSA wouldn't let something like Starlink get off the ground unless they had a way of listening. How are they addressing this?
> "It's just that the faster mirroring, feedback and propagation of digits over atoms are generating waves rather than ripples. Beware of tsunamis."

that's how the hysteria concerning corona has crashed all over our economy and social infrastructure.

as in, lockdowns won't stop the virus and they're immaterially better than distancing (with masks for when you can't), but the economic and social costs (including the politically motivated backlash) are massive, and yet we keep imposing that enormous cost on ourselves to make us feel like we're doing something about it, no matter how trivial the effect or how great the costs, to assuage our irrational fears.
This is a pretty common management strategy to stroke your ego and put you in a elevated position where you awkwardly feel the need to agree.

I do the opposite, I say well it's not entirely clear how much work this is going to take, I'll need to do some initial assessment to get a more accurate idea.

If they continue to pressure I ask them what changes they imagine need to be done since they're so assured of the scope and timeline of their request. I have not a care in the world of letting someone else be the "expert." If they are, I'm more than happy to go with their idea.

I've yet to get a response back outside of a collaboratige conversation with another developer working on the same codebase for similar efforts. This is usually where people realize just how much ignorance they have around their request and that they should leave it to the people more familiar with the work to make accurate assessments.
"can we sell it" demo day then. Makes perfect sense.
Right, the video is a tech demo of FSD. Directly above - the first words on the page - are:

"All new Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features today, and full self-driving capabilities in the future" (emphasis mine)

> They also sell a package literally named "Full Self-Driving Capability"

Yes, and the option explains exactly what's included and what's future: https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#autopilot

> an implication that the car can almost drive itself and is constantly learning and getting better

The car can almost drive itself, with driver supervision. On-ramp to off-ramp autopilot including lane changes and exits is real today. The car is constantly learning and getting better, we get neural network updates pushed to us that improve AP performance roughly monthly.

Frankly your arguments prove the opposite of your point -- I know what AP does, you know what AP does; where are all these plebs that are supposedly being hoodwinked?
Texas approves tax breaks for Tesla, if it builds a $1.1B car plant
Nit: the nickle wasn't made of silver, either.
To add on, Amazon always brags that it has twice as many Windows instances running as Azure....
Yep. They did the same thing to Amazon. Say the delete Tiktok email was sent in error or else risk losing our business.
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That comes to 2% of this year’s revenue. I’d say that’s a pretty big deal. I can’t imagine Google has many individual customers representing more than 2% of revenue. Math says that at the least, they are one of the top 50 customers.
Eh, but they should be open to sell to people who aren't after ISV certification though, should they not? Really depends how AMD/Lenovo wants to position and limit the supply I guess.

Thanks a lot for the helpful explanations.
Same as any other ISP, probably.
having internet closer to normal standards would allow more people to enjoy such a thing. I could afford to buy a sailboat now, but if I were to take it out to sea I would be unable to work the job that funds my existence. starlink (or others) bringing cheap and reasonably fast internet to the ocean would open up a world of exploration to people who can work remotely. supposing you are okay with the inherent compromises of being aboard a sailboat, something like starlink is really the only missing piece for being able to do it without being a successful lifestyle vlogger or very very wealthy.
Which place is that?
No, Chinese people will be free if the CCP is overthrown, and a popular form of government is established.
If you’re trying to describe a file format or algorithm in the most accessible way, wouldn’t pseudocode be the best thing to use?

If that’s not an option (because you want the code to be executable), I think Python is the closest popular language to pseudocode.
Are WISPs really a viable broadband option? The pricing vs data caps that you get are pretty ridiculous, especially for rural customers

And yes I do know people who have had problems in these counties. I also had an absolutely miserable experience using Charter due to their poor infrastructure in the valley. Internet on nights, weekends, holidays, etc. was unusable due to their high utilization of low bandwidth lines
Netflix’s video encoding and I believe video delivery starts at AWS. They have their own boxes in data centers but those are cache servers.