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We got different advice from different rangers. One ranger on the phone told us to hike out. Another ranger on the ground tried driving out and told others to follow of she didn’t return.

The opportunity cost of trying to drive out was low. The fire’s eastward progress was slow so the hike out would still be there.
They would only have no standing on the fact that you can't provide other payment methods in your app. They bring up many complaints in their lawsuit[0], mainly there being no competing app store for iOS and 30% being 10x the 3% most regular payment processors charge for processing and fraud detection. I (and you) obviously can't say whether or not the case would be thrown out in a different situation since it didn't happen, but I don't see why it would be thrown out since both of those points seems fair for a antitrust lawsuit, and 30% of sales is enough to mean millions in potential damages.

0: https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf
In the UK we have to deposit with the institution you were working/studying at. It's a bit annoying as there's no central place to deposit.
Fixed the typos. Yeah that's kind of my point. You are going to have less interest from investors - but not only that you will have less interest from boards or executives. What's the advantage of being listed on the LTSE, if all I get are more rules? It's a neat option for investors, but there's two sides to every market. What does it offer that a long-term-conscious board couldn't implement themselves?

I can't say "I'm starting a food truck which will sell popsicles that don't melt even in the face of great heat. Sure the suppliers have to put in a little extra work to make sure they don't melt, but you as a buyer will benefit" - that doesn't really work unless there is a path for those popsicles to be created and offered for sale in a way that makes sense for the supplier.
how often do you do 1-day projects like this
I'm not sure if you are joking or not, but regenerative elevators exist, and have existed for over 100 years:

> DC-driven winding-drum elevators—the leading design until the 1930s—use a DC motor in the basement that winds and unwinds the elevator’s steel cable on a steel drum, thus lifting and lowering the car from pulleys atop the elevator shaft. DC drive was the only way to go at the time for a speedy elevator, because only DC could deliver variable-speed operation for smooth starts and stops. The DC motors were also energy efficient, capable of something that has only recently become possible with modern elevator designs: regenerating power when the elevator descends.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/s...
So it's the brown m&ms
Yeah this one of the selling points, IMO. It's a gigantic Go static executable and easily available for a wide variety of architectures.
The whole concept is that we should launch a fleet of them every few months. Very lightweight semi-autonomous smart lightsails with some optics.

The first fleet helps targeting the second, and all those who come after them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI (already linked by a sibling comment, but yes, can't recommend this enough!)
That question is too abstract for me to reason about. A "rectangle" couldn't move at the speed of light; light is point-like (oh dear, saying that could get me in trouble). Anything with mass cannot move at the speed of light, and anything without mass must move at the speed of light, and all known objects without mass are point-like. And then there's the question of observation in the first place - observation itself is governed by fundamental particles, and observing a fundamental particle at its scale is theoretically impossible.

I know you want me to cheat and set aside all of these complications and just imagine a rectangle moving at the speed of light, but such an answer would be nonsensical.

But the answer to the more specific question, "does the expansion of space make something move faster than the speed of light?", is "no", but it does cause the distance between objects to increase faster than the speed of light. To an external observer (which is inherently difficult to reason about, for the record), these objects would appear to "move" away from one another faster than lightspeed. However, the very idea of "movement" is rooted in the context of spacetime, and is bounded by the speed of light, so it's a confusing/nonsensical question.
The fact that it's needed in a precisely made complex machine, suggests something is wrong. I think a better question is where's the evidence this is safe?
100th Anniversary of Antonov Serial Production Plant [video]
If I spend that kind of money I don't want some supply chain hack in my car.
IdeasAI: A GPT-3-powered business idea generator
Just downloaded it and it looks very nice. One of my favorite features of Gmail is multiples inboxes which I use for a GTD-like set up with "To Do"/"To Read"/"Waiting For" etc. Any plans to add support for that?
A simple solution: don't read books that do not require that you use your own brain while reading them.
I always thought that the LTSE would be an excellent crypto/ICO use-case.
Ok, thanks for clarifying - indeed i seem to have had quite a few misconceptions. But from outside the universe, are things inside of our universe moving faster than the speed of light due to our universe expanding, and as such, things traveling at the speed of light when seen from the outside are traveling at the speed of light + speed of expansion?
ManyActive App – Classpass for Africa Launched in Nairobi
No more rigid membership programs, no more rigid schedules, no more being blindsided by subpar quality of service across Africa. ManyActive provides flexibility, reliability and affordability to fitness and wellness clients through its booking membership platform.
Looks great! I’d use it with my kids if it was in arcade (I don’t install anything with ads or in app purchases, but I’m sure I’m a minority)
This is literally attached to a cooling system.
There's no reason for this to be posted to Hacker News. There's nothing tech-related here, and it's not even news-worthy.
Yes, it does! Flagging messages as important/unimportant is already supported in the code, but the feature is currently disabled in the UI. I plan to enable it once I add sections support to the Inbox to match up to Gmail's Priority Inbox feature.
> That's correct, they were not big enough to take on Apple and win.

I think reasonable people can disagree on the meaning of "win" in this case.

From my POV, Hey won because (1) they were handsomely rewarded with free national news coverage for Raging Against the Fruit at the cost of having to make very minor and unsurprising changes to their app, and (2) they forced Apple to make changes to their app review process.

> Apple: "Additionally, two changes are coming to the app review process and will be implemented this summer. First, developers will not only be able to appeal decisions about whether an app violates a given guideline of the App Store Review Guidelines, but will also have a mechanism to challenge the guideline itself. Second, for apps that are already on the App Store, bug fixes will no longer be delayed over guideline violations except for those related to legal issues. Developers will instead be able to address the issue in their next submission."

WordPress is another example of a small company who "won", receiving an very public apology from Apple.
There's a bit of a difference since you can easily have multiple consoles as well as a PC, but you can't easily have multiple mobile phones, since it's very inconvenient to carry them, charge them, pay for multiple data plans, sync data, etc.

Consoles should also be forced to open up though, and there's no reason why that would "destroy the console ecosystem". They might have to raise the prices of the consoles, but everyone has to do it so it won't matter, and the consoles can also either be financed or monthly fees for online play can be increased.
You can't just say "Definitely not" and leave it at that. You have to explain why or you come off as a huckster.
Wood will not self-combust until reaching around 300°c. Hopefully that temperature is never reached.
> Most importantly, consoles are standardized PCs. It's not that they're closed, it's that if a game says it works on the Switch, and you have a Switch, that's it. That's all you need to know. PCs offer a lot more complication because there are multiple hardware variations and because the OS isn't specially designed to provide a lot of dedicated frameworks and interfaces to make running games and taking advantage of the hardware easy.

Yes, I'm familiar with the economic reasons for the existence of consoles. But look at the parent comment:

>>> I'd happily invest in consoles if I could build it myself with open hardware.

And poof, all the benefits of standardization are gone. This is just an ordinary PC. You put in the parts you want. And developers suddenly have to support every part anyone might want.

> I don't think any of those benefits would go away if 3rd-parties were allowed to make compatible games without asking permission.

As I read inetknght, he's talking about making the hardware open, not letting people sell games for it.
This looks good -- but it looks like they host the mail server, correct?
I think there are two sets of burdens of proof here.

The engineer who made this decision has a burden of proof to his boss (and maybe regulators, don't know) to show that this is safe.

The random internet commenter suggesting it is unsafe has a burden of proof to show that either it is actually unsafe, or that at least that Tesla didn't internally meet it's burden of proof.
It's not a microphone. It's four microphones!
Stop talking about a subject matter you know nothing about.
I haven't read every comment here but is this a direct repeal to the common business logic: "do what increases the shareholder's profits"?. i.e. moving business focus away from pure profit and onto values that benefit the greater good (environmentalism, diversity, etc.)
I was on a call with Tesla salesperson to purchase a Model Y. After watching a few Youtube videos on quality and now this I'm 100% backing off from it. A BMW is cheaper and much better built
I recall reading that basically, unlike most other cars, where a 2018 Toyota Camry XLE can be reasonably expected to have X configuration, every Tesla is pretty much serial-number-specific from a service standpoint, because of the ridiculous number of mid-model iterations Tesla is doing on their fleet.

A big part of their hesitation to allow outside service is probably the fact that any given Tesla may have any number of slight adjustments that require slightly different parts or repair tactics, and they don't really want to publicly admit how many different variations of everything there is.

You can see in these pictures that in addition to them using some stock wood trim pieces... those wood trim pieces differ a bit from car to car. One would hope if the materials used between these cars differ, that their system knows this, in case one approach proves to be defective or dangerous, and they need to track down every car that they employed this hack in.
This seems like a perfectly good solution to me. You're trying to stabilize the cooler, spread the clamping force, and avoid sharp edges and wear. The part chosen seems perfectly suitable for that, albeit slightly unconventional looking.

(I say this as someone who is short $TSLA right now [and a non-practicing Mech E]; this looks perfectly reasonable to me.)
The iron rod didn't shrink, it's more like it just held together. If I have a rubber sheet with a ball on it, and I pull at the ends of the rubber sheet, it's not going to pull the ball apart. The binding force of the ball's constituent atoms is sufficient to overcome the pulling force. And in the case of dark energy, the pulling force is absoultely miniscule at those scales.
I can understand the perception that this is an unreasonable cut corner with potential consequences, or that it's unknowable if it's reasonable or not without knowing more, but it's hard to wrap my mind around the 3rd option I keep seeing: That this is obviously a harmless example of scrappy ingenuity. Where do people get that kind of confidence in something with so many variables, both physical and financial?
Ferraris aren’t mass produced though.
Giving you the benefit of the doubt, since I didn't read everything, all you have proven is they came to the same implementation(s) as you have. That doesn't mean they literally copied your work.

But since you seem to have a patent, good luck in the patent fight.
Folks are always talking about whether tech companies are monopolies or not, and I just don't think we're using the right vocabulary. Why not just create a new legal definition of a platform and create regulations that rein in the companies that fit that description?

Namely, self-preference on the platform (Google, Amazon), false information (Facebook, Twitter), transparency of the source of ads, or in Apple's case usurious rates.

I imagine if platforms came with some regulations, all those folks clambering to "be the Uber of X" would sound about as cool as being a wastewater treatment plant, or a fire station.
Many/most who have a lifelong cigarette addiction would not describe them as “cool”.
It has been discovered long time ago, in early August (at least I first heard about it back then) and have been known for quite awhile, but no one paid attention, except for those who lives in Korea and Central Asia. I do not have proofs, but I live in that area, in a major Central Asian city and I can observe myself - say whatever you want, anecdotal evidence etc.; the article you've linked for some reason is actually by South Korean scientists, and of course they would care. I guarantee you, no one will ever care about what happens in less known localities; ex-USSR is not some glamorous location and is often ignored.
That's really valuable, thank you!
I think most people here aren't specifically siding with epic the entity, they're just siding with a preferred outcome due to its implications
Anyone know what this means for U.S.-Irish dual citizens living in the U.S.?

I've never heard a clear answer about how GDPR applies in dual-citizenship or non-EU-residence situations.
If I'm doing this to my own car, fine. But if I'm buying a new car or having it professionally repaired? No. Just No. Period. There's no discussion.
The answer is similar to the one I gave for your other question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424912

But I'll give you another analogy anyway. Say you put two rocks into a mass of water in an environment without gravity (e.g. the ISS), then freeze the water, causing it to expand. The expanding ice will cause the rocks to become more distant from each other, but they're not "moving" in local terms - the manifold in which they exist is itself expanding. That said, the frozen water and the rocks both exist in space, and the expanding ice moved the rocks through space. But, in this metaphor, there is no second, external "space" - the water itself represents space.

And so to for our universe. Space itself isn't a part some other, second "space" that it's expanding into (at least not so far as we're aware). The existence of somewhere for space to expand "into" is not necessary for the expansion to take place. Remember, it's the scale factor which is changing, not a discrete object (i.e. the universe) physically expanding.
Wow. The intense orange colour in the sky almost seems photoshopped.
Furniture full of drugs and money
Could you please elaborate/navigate to some theory/resources? What is Domain-Driven Design? What are the “bound contexts”?
He may also want to read this https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/10/20859399/linkedin-hiq-dat...
You say absurd, I say awesome.

Why would we expect value to scale linearly with memory and transistor count? I would in fact expect it to be logarithmic: each doubling would lead to a roughly linear increase in cool stuff we can do.

I think that's what we see. Yes, our computers could be radically better experiences if it weren't for the bad habit of squandering improvements with layers of unnecessary abstraction and laziness. But the only thing standing in our way is those unnecessary and that laziness, so maybe we should stop doing that, now that real gains in speed are slowing down.
There's no "special deal" for large companies because of who they are, there are multiple exemptions [1] for which types of Apps are free, what sales are exempt and which are subject to Royalty, e.g. "Reader" Apps like Kindle, Audible, Netflix & Spotify don't pay any Royalty. They have been relaxing the categories of Apps which are exempt as previously Spotify & Netflix were subject to the 30% Royalty.

[1] https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/#:~...
Same deal with GM restoration judging. Judges at Bloomington Gold will get very specific about the bolts used on a car, but a panel was held with a retired GM factory employee who put together first or second-gen Corvettes, and he said something similar: Sometimes they ran out of bolts at the factory, and when they did somebody would run down to the local hardware outlet and just buy whatever bolts fit the spec.
My expenses dont go away, but I dont have to work in the same time either. Time is money, so for 8h/day I get 80% of pay and still have those 8h..
I never quite understood what the value add was for email-client developers to use intermediary servers. Is it to gather usage telemetry or something else?
> The browser has no real concept of "page navigation" or "site navigation" with any kind of state, or the "current" navigation item, or of hierarchy, breadcrumbs, menus, or other core navigational concepts involving site and page structure.

Why do you believe the browser should support that with primitives? Advocating for that kind of specialization lies somewhere between forgetting important and basic historical lessons on software engineering or an unsubstantiated belief that now everything will be different.

> A large part of "knowing about usability" is just knowing how to execute these basic navigation features without goofing up on the many pitfalls available to you.

You're leaving out a part where said usability principles lie somewhere between emerging requirements that are still under development or fads that are scheduled to be replaced with the latest and greatest promising idea.

Suffice to say arguing to force them into browser as primitives is demanding that they should be set in stone as is.
What comparable BMW is cheaper?
The purpose of these pieces of fake wood appears to be to spread out the stress from the strap. I have no idea whether this method is any more likely to fail than a purposely designed part or what the dangers are if this does fail, but that isn't a particularly complicated or demanding task. It is possible that a purposely designed part would provide no real benefit over this seemingly hacky solution. If that is the case, why not go this route if it makes assembling things easier?

I have no idea the risk/reward equation here. I am guessing most people voting and commenting here have no idea the risk/reward equation. My comment was only pointing at that lots of people are going to have an opinion on this that is mostly dictated by their previous assumptions about Tesla as a company.
I see it from both sides, and I think a person's view of this type of hack all comes down to trust.

Do you trust that some engineers at Tesla needed a solution to a problem, modelled it out, did some materials testing and discovered that this plastic panelling was the right material for this job?

It does look bad because it's obviously not produced by Tesla, but so many parts are outsourced already in car manufacturing, this could be a solid engineering choice that's getting some bad publicity.

Of course, it could also be because some intern was tasked at solving a design problem and slapped this together overnight, and no one ever checked his work, and it went into production.

Alllll about trust.
> you destroy the console ecosystem by forcing them all to open up

Consoles opening up would be a good thing. I'm not sure why you say it would destroy their ecosystem.
That doesn't apply to automotive. Many, many things that work in the factory will fail miles down the road. We don't know the design criteria for this and whether they were verified for the replacement. Maybe it needed to be free of a specific chemical or have specific properties within a temperature range and the supply chain can't guarantee that in the replacement.

Sure, it's more likely than not that the fix was signed off on and totally acceptable, but the story doesn't have enough information to be certain of that.
Nope, both are slowly decelerating as they leave the solar system: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Voyager_...
Hold my beer
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/evlkdv/shrin...
I'm a lot more sympathetic to snowmobiles given that they mostly don't damage the tracks/trails and a lot of the clubs actually do maintenance work for blowdowns etc. I mostly don't love the noise when I'm skiing/hiking in winter but I find I can mostly avoid them in New England.
Model Y vs. X1
> As I read inetknght, he's talking about making the hardware open, not letting people sell games for it.

My apologies, I misread inetknght's comment.

Agreed, a user-built console without any standardization is just a PC, maybe with a different OS.
Perhaps limiting use by companies or individuals with income less than one million dollars directly or indirectly would help.
Please forgive the humor, but this immediately made a Jerry Lee Lewis song play in my head.
The thing I find fascinating is how people come together in groups to form companies. And then the behaviour of those people is no longer assigned to them, but the company.
Apple does this, Epic does that.
But both are made of individuals. All those individuals have choices.
Some of those individuals are unspeakably greedy.
Yes, disagree.

1. The importance of a piece of scholarly work need not be immediately apparent to its contemporaries.

2. Being cited is a poor proxy for importance.

3. Work that is cited is rarely paraphrased or duplicated in a meaningful way.

4. Paraphrased citations are a poor proxy for canonical source; papers are often cited incompletely or sometimes outright inaccurately.

5. These are the fruits of people's labour. They spent days and months producing them. To lose them, especially when digital copies are so cheap, is an unnecessary disregard for said labour.
Uh oh.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869
"The original poster of the thread had reportedly spent more than ten hours disassembling their Model Y to correct poor panel fitment when they came across a large chunk of metal secured with green tape and a small strap."

Bad quality followed up by bad quality.

When I benchmarked Tesla years ago, the exterior(and interior) panels were awful in their Autoshow build. I'm genuinely surprised they haven't fixed it yet.

I gave them a pass at the time because everything was new and in low runs. Now with 500k/yr, there's really no excuse.

Tesla is the Apple of Automotive.
That looks like real wood to me, not just the grain but the way it flaked from sawing. Who would use fake wood for trimmings anyway?
Open source and its discontents as a model for the virtual economy
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> On January 20, 2017, Lavabit owner Ladar Levison relaunched the service.

It's right there in the link you're replying to.
This is the exact same thing they said they wouldn't do, and now they're doing it.

This is very unfortunate. I'm not liking how the future is looking here. Fired a bunch of people, then announce a partnership with Google, and now this.
Too Much CO2 Has an Unnerving Effect on the World's Trees, New Study Finds
The iron rod started out being 1 meter long, and now it's 0.952 meters long. In what sense did it not shrink?
My family in Southern Idaho are a good 30 min from the nearest EMS, and probably 45-60 from a major hospital.

Pretty normal stuff out in the sticks.