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I think what we really need is strong, mandatory warranties for everything. It should just be law that an appliance like a fridge or TV are expected to last 10 years (and adjust this value for all expected product lifetimes)

And if samsung pushes out a software update that breaks the original experience (adding adverts for example) you are entitled for at least a partial refund. So if you owned it for 9 years and on the 9th they added adverts, you get a 1/10th refund.

That way it becomes unprofitable to pump out IoT junk and then discontinue support a year later.
I recently noticed plastic pieces getting into my food from a plastic cutting board I had used for several years. While this was easy to replace with wood, it's not going to be easy to replace plastic pipes, packaging and other materials that regularly contact our food.
As far as I understand Nokia was doing fine and was even ready to launch its own smartphone OS before it got subverted by a Microsoft manager that brought Windows Mobile and killed any chance it had to compete.

> Both Tesla and Apple have that premium brand reputation, and older brands are perceived as legacy.

In other words: overpriced crap vs. tried and tested.
As a general rule, one should be cautious about adding new substances into the human body, especially if you’re doing it accidentally and without prior planning or study.
> never seeing a single cyclist cited for the law breaking

Every cyclist I know has at least one story of being pulled over by a cop for perfectly safe, oftentimes strictly legal riding.

On the other hand, you'd be hard-pressed to find a motorist that ever faced consequences for murdering a cyclist.
I thought enough (5 or so?) downvotes resulted in an automatic [flagged][dead]? Did I misunderstand?
IMO it's easy to avoid politics, activism, and the associated drama if it doesn't interest you. Most people seem uninterested in that stuff. I think you're spot on with the availability bias assessment. It exists and there are conversations happening all the time, but nobody expects you to participate.

Amazon has a more singleminded focus on succeeding in the business and making money. This can be good or bad depending on your personality and goals.
Regularly bankrupting drivers who seriously injure others would probably lead quickly to either safer drivers or better insurance.
I look at a lot of retro computing stuff, old engineering / lab equipment, old telecom stuff, etc. I tend to look at things and wonder “what can I make this do”, “how can I interface this to something more modern”, “how can I make this thing do what I want, against its original intended use”, among other things. I do this irl too but my eBay feed tends to be curated with things a bit more feasible.
The reloading I see on this site is actually super annoying since it resets my zoom level every time, so I, for one, fully agree.
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I don't think it's fair to equate the "fun of driving" with reckless driving.

The difference between driving a little sports car with the top down and a 4door sedan or big SUV on a curvey mountain road is not all about how fast you can go. They're just a lot more fun.

One of my favorite cars was a little Suzuki Samurai. It wasn't at all fast but it was a blast to drive with the top down and go 4wheeling on the National Forest roads.

Consider "lowriders". Those aren't famous for being fast, they're famous for going slow, but they're a lot of fun to cruise the strip in.

I think people fumbling with their phone while driving is a bigger issue right now than people speeding and racing.
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> Freshwater mussels have existed in these ecosystems for thousands of years, evolving to mimic intricate fish

this is a throwaway comment in here but it describes a really cool adaptation of some bivalves which is that their mantle looks like a fishing lure -- it sticks out of the shell and mimics a prey species. When the predator comes to strike, the mussell injects its eggs, which mature in the predator's gills.
ironic that you spelled ‘lede’ correctly but not ‘led’
I kinda wish we could fast forward to whatever ecological nadir we end up bottoming out on. This slow drip of Earth death is agonizing.
Lot of natural foods do the exact same thing. Soy isoflavones have a very strong estrogen effect.
Yes. Gender diversity is a goal. Therefore requires direct action. In the 1950’s schools were forced to let black kids in. If in n number of years we have a female dominated work environment and men only make up 10% of our leadership then let’s make a men’s movement.
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It's common to downvote questions/statements such as-"Has the United States government released evidence to back the claim that the hack was committed by Russia?" and "The word of the United States is not trustworthy to take on face value alone." on Hacker News?

Because that's what I believe.
Yes, lets be frank.

I believe the Constitution is color blind. The words, "All men are created equal...", did not specify a race. The problem the right has the how the left tells them how to think.

This is where progressives go wrong. Stop telling people how they should think.
>Sure. I meant vouch for it if the post warrants it, and not otherwise. If it deserves to be buried, leave it buried.

A fair point. And a correct one too. I took that as a given, but apparently folks are unable to read my mind. :)

Thanks for clarifying. I should have been more explicit.
In other words: Every day bitcoin survives its safety as an investment grows a little bit.
It seems absurdly difficult as someone who didn't have a wrenching father, to learn how to wrench.

I learned how to change my oil, change a tire, and do ultra basic shit like change the engine oil filter and head/tail lights on my wifes 2014 ford fiesta. Outside of this, I'm SOL. Sure, I can youtube some of this - but not all of it.

I'd sometimes feel like I'd understand how cars work at some points after doing research and watching videos about my own car, and then I'll hear someone talk about a part I've never even heard of. I don't know where to even begin with learning the more fun parts of modding, or tuning. The fact that it's apperently impossible to get proper workshop manuals now makes it feel like this industry is as hostile to DIYers as it gets.

I don't know all the institutional knowledge to even begin with purchasing tools. Apparently I want to avoid harper-freight jack-stands (as the common meme goes) because they are very likely to fail and crush people. I'm concerned that not knowing enough about automotive memes may get myself killed one day. I don't know what I don't know and it scares me.

It's doubly bad because the automotive industry is especially full of frauds and cheats. They don't call them "stealerships" for nothing. Mechanics are extremely unsavory (even the "good" ones) and I do not feel comfortable letting other people do work on my vehicle. Anecdotal stories of work conditions within dealer repair shops give me further reasons to be uncomfortable.
^ specialist in straw man arguments found solely in your own head

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/pe-rat...
Not sure if people should be worried about possible plastic they might be eating or the loads of junk food they're stuffing themselves with every day.
This looks like the real nightmare scenario for a supply chain attack. How long has SolarWinds has been breached? Were the attackers after a small number of US government targets + Fireeye or will we (more likely) discover extensive breaches at other companies worldwide as a result of this disclosure? Interesting times for those working in security.
Love for my engine not to start after I've used mouthwash in the morning.
There have been two trends that have drastically affected my car repair experience:

- cars have become more electronic, more complicated and more ruthlessly "designed for assembly"

- the cars I could afford when young were usually older than I was and domestic - this meant they were simpler in all respects.

Those two trends have made car repair a lot different over the years and the manuals have become somewhat less useful.
I made two changes.

1) My regular prescription glasses now have a blue blocking coating. It gives them a slight yellow tint that I don’t notice, and it noticeably reduces eye strain (but does not eliminate).

2) Bias lighting behind my monitor that lights up the wall behind it. Staring at a bright screen in front of a black wall is no bueno, bias lighting at least alleviates the contrast between the two.
Yes, happened to me on three different machines with the 20H2 update.
I found this OU courses [1] in the archive. Are this the ones your are talking about? i bookmarked them a while ago to check them later.

[1] https://archive.org/details/@educational_progs
I hate how Reddit is still viable after removing their warrant canary, having a CEO edit comments, and banning thousands of subreddits. Now they're acquiring a new video platform? I hope they become less and less relevant.
They do allow that, just not after 60 days, on consumables no less. Taking months after your initial credit card bill to find out your damn kid is spending thousands (which you can’t afford) through frictionless IAP you set up is just stupid. Not saying the microtransactions aren’t scummy though.
I've been building a GoodReads scraper for a long time that (I think) can do just about anything the API can.

https://github.com/KyleBenzle/Good-Reads-Scraper
> Many people who don't really enjoy cars are now caught in a car-centered society where they have no choice but to drive to go anywhere.

I used to think that way. But the past year has shown me that private car ownership has massive upsides. Public transit is wonderful in many ways, and I have used it as much as possible for a long time, but during the pandemic it has been very nice to have my own car. I would never be willing to go without one.

Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way, because used car prices have been unusually high this past year.

At the moment I would rather have a car commute than a bus or train commute, and that won't change until the pandemic is over.

Don't tell me to ride a bike to work -- this isn't the 1800s. We are accustomed to living miles away from work, and modern public transit was built with that assumption -- if we all lived within a mile of work we would just walk. Cities are not spread out merely because of cars. Cities are spread out because people want space, and all modern transit infrastructure, including streetcars 100 years ago, was built to accommodate the fact that people were already living miles away from work.
I mainly thought it was neat there's a way to do matching on encrypted data without deterministic encryption. It's based on this example - https://github.com/homenc/HElib/tree/master/examples/BGV_cou... - which explains more about how it works and why it's O(N).
Accident statistics in Berlin show that in accidents involving motor vehicles and cyclists, the motor vehicle is at fault about 2/3rds of the time. The ratio is a lot worse if you restrict it to trucks. It's also worse if you restrict it to accidents causing serious injury (a lot of accidents caused by cyclists happen while filtering through a line of stopped cars and touching a mirror).
i will certainly pour one out for them.
more capital expenditures, more ZEC credit?
Do you actually think gas stations make most profit off of gas? (The Shell down the street from me takes a cut of the drug deals in its parking lot but hardly the usual case...)
right, but where does that interest come from? so SPY dividend comes from the stocks making money and earning cashflows. Bitcoin lending interest comes from people borrowing it to trade, a somewhat circular arrangement.
Or Saturn Vs?

https://amzn.com/0857338285
Not to mention that safety is more important than getting a ticket. It is unsurprising that people choose the safer option over the legal option. Plenty of laws are broken and "it's the law" has never been a great excuse.

We should also consider that many people have different definitions for "running a stop sign" and it isn't equally applied to cars and bikes. A roll at a stop sign is ignored for a car but "running" for a bike. I don't blow through (that's irresponsible), but I do roll, per the given reasons above (funny enough I never roll when driving).
For #2, get a monitor arm that lets you readjust the height of the monitor, especially if you regularly alternate between sitting and standing. The mono price one is good value for money here.
Goodreads Scraper, do everything without an API
Nice, but not perfect, at 6:05am I was shown an image of 16:05, so it was off by 10 hours.
What do you think are the most reliable/repairable cars? Can be from any era.
Stop shilling.

As multiple commenters to that nonsense story said, it's CC's customers, rather than CC, who litter. If they didn't litter Coke PET bottles they'd litter others (as they do, it's just that Coke has a big market share worldwide so they came out on top).
Why didn't you pick (2019 numbers)

- Toyota, $272 billion

- Volkswagen Group, $282 billion

And yes, even compared to Ford, Daimler etc. Tesla's revenues are quite small.
It says that "blabrecs" is a better sounding version of the original word "brablecs", which IS accepted
Maybe it's a bit out of place here. But if are into Stephen Fry And Hugh Laurie act, I'd recommend watching spy agency parody in addition to BBC's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

The Tony And Control sketches from A Bit Of Fry And Laurie
A sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i18bH4XCmHw
“ More than 425 of the US Fortune 500
All ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies
All five branches of the US Military
The US Pentagon, State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of the President of the United States
All five of the top five US accounting firms”

What’s the opposite of security through obscurity?
I grew up on the Clinch. While it's not as bad as other rivers in the area, one has to think the coal industry may have contributed to this. There's a coal-fired power plant and a massive coal wash plant in Russell County, VA that sits upstream from where I think the article is featured.
> Doesn't this seem inherently dysfunctional?

The whole point of the thread is that bikes and cars sharing the road with these sharrows is dysfunctional so yes, that's the point...

> The maximum is there precisely so drivers can respond to slower traffic, not so all traffic will conform to that maximum.

I don't know of a single place in the US where the maximum isn't treated as something to conform to. I've driven in the Northeast, South, and California. You'll get honked at for going noticeably under the maximum in all three places. What you describe just simply isn't the practicality of the US roads.
I feel like I had these same discussions in 2017 when Bitcoin enthusiasts were saying it could only keep going up. New justifications for it to keep rising don’t outweigh the reality that no one knows what the future price will be.

And regarding Saylor, you say that holding it in cash is literally losing money - if Bitcoin drops 80% again, he’ll be losing a LOT more than the 1% he’d lose if he had cash.
It's crazy to me that you get downvoted for this comment, especially on HN. Everything you said is true.
Everyone is eating small amounts of plastic and very few people have issues that can be traced to that cause.

Like with radiation or other alarmist nonsense, 99.99% of people have nothing to worry about.

Nice try. I'm not going to click on that link.
Can't agree more. As a longtime user of Eclipse CDT on Ubuntu Desktop， I've not seen the kind of bugs mentioned in the article for more than five years.
I missed that detail, thank you for the info. But that just raises another question:

Chase would not unilaterally make such a decision, they would contact the Apple and request information from them.

So would that request not come in before the 60 days?
If I were a black man in America, which I am, and they wanted me as as volunteer in Phase 1, I'd say hell yes.

You say "if I were a black man", as if you have any idea of what it means to be a black man in America
> So 2025 is when major brands are serious about electric cars? Doesn't that seem late?

Why would that be late? It might be too early!

There is not a good infrastructure for electric car charging. Right now it is a luxury for homeowners and people who rent high-end apartments.

Even in California, where I see electric cars literally every time I drive somewhere, the infrastructure is easily overwhelmed -- last year there were long lines outside of Tesla Supercharger stations on Thanksgiving and Christmas, and that was just for Tesla owners! Imagine how bad it will get when electric cars become available at prices that most people can afford!

Considering those challenges, it's really very encouraging that mass-market automakers are willing to take the risk - especially since the government has not been willing to take the complementary risk of building charging stations on public streets to the extent that would be necessary for apartment-dwellers to be able to realistically consider owning electric cars.
Homomorphic encryption reveals less information to the server about the query than if you were to encrypt keys (with deterministic encryption) and values. It hides the fact that the same query was run multiple times and which key (if any) was matched.
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It is though. It asks for biometric auth or a password by default.
Sounds very plausible from the outside.

Also implies a widely varying experience with the program; levels of promotion politics must vary across the company, and levels of recognition for anyone's particular project must also vary.
> I think what we really need is strong, mandatory warranties for everything.

Maybe, but laws so far are slow and being circumvented in some areas of significant commercial interest. Maybe some technological approach could be better. A crude example - we already have more and more available spectrometers, which can analyze surface composition of many things, from which some properties can be estimated; of course, it's a long way to "quality meter".
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What do you mean by "institutionally favored"?
That's absolutely a component of many laws in the United States. One pertinent example would be in case of a rear end collision.
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> Why would I spend something that will be worth a lot more 5 years from now, while the fiat currency in my pocket loses value every week?

Everything is predicated on it going up in value. If it always goes up why would anyone ever sell? And if everyone is just HODL, what use is bitcoin? It seems enough to strangle itself.
I'm trying to learn more about car maintenance. I can change oil, take the wheels on and off, check fluids. I even was able to test some faulty speed sensors on the wheels for a speedometer issue I was having.

What is considered going too far, to get into situations where technicians such as yourself smirk at DIYers? Right now I'm trying to diagnose a power steering leak and might have to replace the high pressure line. I'm going to try do it regardless, but I'm just curious as to what is considered "good for them for trying" vs. "dang it why did they try".
Maybe it was this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...
And one more that addresses broad research funding priorities rather than specific opportunities. Get used reading these sorts of dry documents if you get involved in this space:

https://www.arl.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/arl-baa-...
Yes, that is indeed a sensible approach, but it will be difficult to implement here because the law in North America tends to side with drivers first and foremost.

I found it very enlightening to learn that even in the Netherlands, there used to be car culture similar to here, and it took the death of some children, and a grassroots campaign, before meaningful change began to occur.

There are many lessons to learn from the Netherlands with regard to bicycle infrastructure, and for our sake I certainly hope it doesn't involve the death of children.
Anything below replacement is removal, even if gradual or slow.
> it's not clear why money going to criminal organization is better than the government.

Don't put words in my mouth that I didn't say (or rather, typed). I never said it's better. Government&banks-robbing-all is a worthy cause to fight anytime, even if it doesn't directly help the criminals-robbing-a-few problem, because actually, the latter already happens today, and will always happen (sadly). So we must fix one thing at a time.
I'm reminded of a video installation somewhere of a clock where ever minute a guy repaints the minute line, but I don't remember where or what it was...does this ring a bell with anyone?
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Most of the income statements / ratios were a whole lot worse in 1999/2000
Random aside: the Windows Error Reporting system (aka Dr Watson) was primarily a tool to help people write better code. Crash reports got sent to Microsoft, referenced against symbol files and aggregated into call stacks that crashed by frequency. Companies could sign up to get summaries of the reports and improve their software based on real world usage. At the time, this was a big deal.

Then someone realized it was also a good early warning system for new viruses, as many viruses would crash their host process in novel ways that were unlike the usual software-induced errors.

WER reports also could do other things. Sometimes bizarre, impossible crashes would happen. Microsoft would investigate some of these by showing a popup to the user inviting them to participate in analysis. If the user consented, they were put in contact with a Microsoft engineer. Turned out a lot of people were running unstable, overclocked hardware sold to them by vendors who had fraudulently misrepresented the hardware.

The telemetry that is out there is amazing, but not as amazing as the secrets it can reveal.
> And if samsung pushes out a software update

With software we can have some differential analysis systems. Maybe we can have a working system where the software is analyzable - say, is stored on an easily analyzable module. Then we can try to check changes...
> its almost impossible to find the well built stuff unless you are looking at something trivial like a shoe

Granted, there are no software in shoes. Yet, I'd like to know how you manage to assess the build quality of one without being a professional.
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Nothing about the proprietary options, green hills etc. I recall green hills had reverse debugging about 15 years ago, 5+ before gdb. I never used it in anger.

Anyone got a link to anything that compares things that aren't just gdb frontends or under-developed workalikes?
Yeah, this is almost certainly the same bug. Some more info here [1] [2] [3]. In my case, using the second direct HDMI cable like you did was a non-starter because my Thinkpad only supports 4k at 30 Hz via the built-in HDMI port (!), vs. 4k at 60 Hz if you use the Thunderbolt port or a dock / adapter connected to that port. 30 Hz gave me eye strain after less than 5 minutes.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/37

[2] https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/11

[3] https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/146
Which is why I was delighted to discover True Gum [1] at my local organic food market. It's plastic-free chewing gum.

[1] https://truegum.com/