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Deweaponising Accountability
I was the same way, except apparently I just figured out how to read by watching my parents point at the words as they read and understanding the patterns. (Nobody realized until decades later that I was autistic and had a superpower with patterns.)

But I was the oldest, so neither of them figured out that was unusual until my pre-k teachers pulled them aside after my first day and were like, "Did you know smeej can read? Not look at pictures and make up a story. Lots of kids do that. I mean books without pictures." My folks thought nothing of it.

Even now, I'm told the way I read is weird. I don't read a word at a time. I read blocks of text several lines long all at once. I don't have to subvocalize each word.

In the end, it all comes down to how this child is developing, not how some abstract theoretical child "ought" to develop.

The trouble with schooling is that it's trying to make one size fit too many. Separating classrooms by ages instead of educating children in flexible cohorts based on interest and skill makes kids who develop later--or even just who are chronologically younger than most of their classmates--feel "dumb," but it doesn't have to be that way.

There's no reason any child needs to learn at the same pace as any other, or even that children need to learn subjects in some sort of balance.

It might simplify things for the instructors, and their instructors, but it happens at the expense of the children.
NFTs are a good idea, but if the file for the NFT can be deleted then people are ripped off of their money. Nothing lasts forever on the Internet when you need the room. Unless it goes to the Internet Archive.
Model S and X buyers are the only ones who can use them. Therefore logic dictates they should be the only ones who pay for them.

You conflate scaling Tesla up with scaling the technology up. You want everyone to invest in Tesla so that Tesla can fulfill the promises Tesla made to Tesla owners.
Obamacare has an annual out of pocket cost cap of ~$6300 on healthcare including prescriptions.

Sure, that is still pretty high, but it basically saved my life. If not for Obamacare I would need to come up with over 300k per year to not get very sick.

This isn't an either party is the same situation. One party would let me be seriously ill. One would give me a possible solution.
My social circle seems to be similar to what the research says about covid long haul.

Which claims that 1/3rd who got it has covid-19 long term problems ( WHO ), my circle doesn't seem to be needing an differentiator for age. Since I don't know any elderly who got it.

So my perception is more pessimistic about the research, but I could have a more pessimistic circle, while you had a more optimistic one.

( Except for you ofc, that sucks. I wish you a speedy recovery)
Sure we know that hazardous waste can make people sick, but what we expect is that it would make dozens or hundreds of people in this apartment complex sick--not just one.
LG officially shutting down worldwide mobile phone business
What’s old is new again <3

Great example, btw!
It is already capable of driving by itself, albeit its not perfect and not in all situation. Tesla never promised its perfect.
Speaking of halves...

If you half the number, it would be just 453,223,693 more than world population as of March 2020 according to Wikipedia’s article “World Population”.
Oh god, he is such a complete bull shitter that it's embarrassing.

A while back, I was like "This Elon Musk guy is really an example of what we need more of in the world".

It makes me cringe.

This was the days of solar rooftiles, Boring company, going to mars soon, the hyperloop, battery technologies, self driving vehicles.

All of it was complete horseshit.

The worst thing of all is that, I can hold my hands up and be laughed at but since then there are armies of Elon fans that don't recognise it.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

EDIT: Even on hackernews, there are people with this fetish. "It isn't his fault, the public is to blame for thinking that fully automated self driving cars, meant fully automated self driving cars". Ugh.
> Model S and X buyers are the only ones who can use them. Therefore logic dictates they should be the only ones who pay for them.

You misunderstand. All Tesla vehicles can use Superchargers. S and X owners paid for the network build out for the 3 and Y buyers (and future S and X owners, which there are less of naturally due to the 3 and Y cannibalizing higher end sales [Musk's statement from an earnings call indicates they continue to sell the S and X as "art pieces" and for "sentimental reasons", backed up by their most recent quarterly report]). Tesla has offered the network to other automakers in a cost sharing agreement, and publicly no one has agreed to that (privately, an automaker is testing interoperability). The point is that someone has to make the investment, those funds have to come from someone's pocket. The US government didn't cough up significant EV charger funds until this year as part of COVID relief [1] (and the goal is for 500k chargers by 2030 ಠ_ಠ). As of February 18, 2021, Tesla operates over 23,277 Superchargers in over 2,564 stations worldwide (an average of 9 chargers per station). Tesla's Supercharger network build was started in 2012 [2].

> You conflate scaling Tesla up with scaling the technology up. You want everyone to invest in Tesla so that Tesla can fulfill the promises Tesla made to Tesla owners.

No. I don't care if you invest in Tesla. I'm not invested in Tesla. It won't even matter if you invest in Tesla (institutional money and index funds are driving the show there, retail is just along for the ride). You're arguing that someone should come along and invest in self driving for everyone's mutual benefit, and that entity doesn't exist. Tesla likely won't even be held accountable for false marketing if they can't deliver on FSD other than a class action (for those who were savvy enough to opt out of arbitration) where purchasers receive a trivial payout, attorneys walk away with a chunk of change, but it's a slap on the wrist compared to revenue and enterprise value (which was able to grow faster than the potential penalty cost of Musk's tenuous promises). Not saying it's fair, nor right, just how it's always played out.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... (Control-F "EV chargers")

[2] https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-motors-launches-rev... ("Tesla Motors Launches Revolutionary Supercharger Enabling Convenient Long Distance Driving", September 24th, 2012)
The tweet didn't do any of those.
>Otoh, their cost of capital is lower

According to [1], the average rate (or prime rate?) right now is 3.18% for a 30 year mortgage. OTOH, rate for 30 year "High Quality Market Corporate Bond" is 3.38%.

> and they are more efficient managers than individual homeowners, so this might be a more efficient way of providing housing.

They might be more efficient at being landlords, but that doesn't exactly translate into higher efficiency when it comes to providing housing. Owning a house and doing the repairs yourself is probably much cheaper than hiring someone to do it, not to mention you save all the taxes on the imputed rent.

[1] http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/
Such a shame it didn't survive in the mobile space. I still have a HP Touchpad. WebOS was a really good mobile OS.

After HP wound it down, the main guy behind WebOS, Matias Duarte went on to Android and then implemented Material Design there.
Several insurance companies like UnitedHealthCare had to be sued into covering PrEP. Not many insurance companies are going to happily cover a medication that can cost ~$30,000+ a year to fill.

Even now, United is making it clear that they don't intend to cover new PrEP medication like Descovy even though the medication doesn't cause as much renal damage and failure as Truvada does: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/payer-issues/unitedhea...

If you have a high deductible insurance plan, it is not going to be fun to pay for your first few months of PrEP entirely out of pocket. Many people are priced out of PrEP because of that, as are the uninsured and underinsured.
Indeed, this is why I wanted to get some feedback. It definitely seemed exaggerated and I'm not sure what his point was supposed to be by the end of it.

I also found it odd that somehow his practice was seeing incredible results with drug combinations in keeping people out of hospitals, but somehow this effect wasn't noticed by any other medical professionals or researchers anywhere else in the world. Are combination protocols really that under-studied?
I'm really enjoying working with MDX (JSX & markdown hybrid). https://mdxjs.com/

I was able to quickly put together a blog with some pretty nice features (e.g. margin notes): https://pratik.is/writing/essays/media-as-food

Writing content in markdown while adding interactivity with JSX is pretty nifty.

If you click "Raw" here you can see how the blog post is just markdown with some custom JSX elements littered in, e.g. <WrappedSidenote />: https://github.com/pringshia/pratik.is/blob/master/pages/wri...
Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators
One thing not mentioned often enough about SPAs is how complicated they make simple operations. In this component - https://gist.github.com/polydevuk/96d89642f114707b2f1a0cc316... - I have a select box for tzdata Regions (Europe, America etc.) and when a region is selected it populates a Locations menu beneath it (London, Paris etc.). Simple in jQuery or pure JS. In React, however, once a region and location has been chosen it caches some kind of hidden index value for the selected option such that a subsequent region choice
(without a page refresh) selects the item in the new Locations menu with the same hidden index value as the previous selection instead of the default header option. What was initially simple HTML + minimal JS becomes a complex attempt to manipulate React-specific magic. Using react-form? Fine .... until you need to mix it with react-select or material-ui then you're in for a world of pain deciding how to mix controlled and uncontrolled components. Add Redux into the mix and you're adding orders of magnitude more complexity. Frankly, I don't have the time. I would much rather be using that time to add features to my Rails back-end and spend time with my family. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s CSS browser compatibility and DHTML was the big time-sink. Now it's SPAs. Back then we dreamt of a day when web standards were fully supported. Today that dream is a reality but you wouldn't know it because we've just made everything even more complex.

The only development which I can see saving us from this mess is Stimulus/Hotwire from the Rails team and implemented in other frameworks such as Djano, Laravel and Phoenix.
I hope someone starts a class action lawsuit. We’ve paid for a product that we didn’t receive.
Wouldn't they block you or something if you send hundreds of thousands of texts to random numbers? It can't be that there isn't some kind of a monitoring system on the consumer SIM cards.
> I went to public school in Canada, and my wife did the same in the US. Neither of us had a kindergarten experience with desks and assignments - it was much like what you describe your experience as.

> Perhaps your fancy kindergarten wasn’t as different from public school as you thought?

I went to US public school for kindergarten and first grade, then a Montessori school for grades 2-5. I don't recall desks in kindergarten, but they were definitely out in full force for first grade. The Montessori school didn't have desks for every student, and it sounds similar in some of the other ways: no assignments, more hands-on learning, more play (think we got something like an hour of recess), etc.

There's also likely regional variation. I have a friend who moved to SV, but moved to Redwood City because he thought the public schools closer to San Jose were too cut throat and competitive, and some parents sent their kids to cram schools. I wouldn't be surprised of that kind of attitude rubbed off on the kindergartens and made their curriculums too aggressively academic.
Buddy of mine got the vaccine because someone from the pharmacy was walking around the store asking if anyone wanted a spare dose so it would not go to waste.
I've used talon voice for software development as a replacement for typing a while back due to an arm injury. It ain't faster than typing.
where should we go for your tool?
Please do give me the definition you used to come to the conclusion that what Tesla has is full self driving.
MeeGo survives in the form of Sailfish OS, doesn't it?

Not to mention Maemo, Moblin, Mer, etc. - for whatever reason, that project somehow became a zombie Voltron of other failed Linux mobile OS's, and involved big names: the Linux Foundation, Intel, Nokia, and all of these other companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo#Companies_supporting_the...).

It then got replaced by Tizen, which is a similar improbable survivor that was once backed by a bunch of big names and now lives on mostly in Samsung smartwatches.

Maybe it's proof that too many chefs spoil the broth. At least webOS now only has LG to look after it, rather than some sort of Linux-HP/Palm-LG consortium or whatever.
SvelteKit, Serverless, Backendless.com

SvelteKit[1] is a framework for SvelteJS (like Next.js is a framework for ReactJS). I've tried both Svelte and React. Svelte seems to be more elegant and lets me implement my ideas faster with less code. Svelte is very flexible; SvelteKit adds some opinions on how to do things like routing.

SvelteKit also embraces the serverless paradigm[2] (AKA JAMstack[3]). Although a node.js server is still an option, you can also have pages rendered in serverless functions or pre-rendered at build time. Even static pages can be "hydrated" on the client so they are not totally static. So this results in fine-grained SSR (server-side rendering) at the page level. The two main reasons for SSR are performance (especially on mobile devices) and SEO.

Backendless[4] is a VADP/MBaaS. This platform offers a lot of services, but the main one I'm looking at is authentication/identity. I was looking for an authentication service that supports anonymous guest login, social login, as well as traditional email/password login. The other contenders were Google Firebase (slow, and confusing sign in/sign up flow[5]) and AWS Cognito (too complicated/difficult to use). Auth0 was a contender, but they don't support guest logins.

[1]: https://kit.svelte.dev

[2]: https://www.serverless.com

[3]: https://jamstack.org

[4]: https://backendless.com

[5]: https://github.com/firebase/firebaseui-web/issues/665
Yes, an increase in the scale of slavery enabled by the commercial instruments (bonds and commercial insurance) that mitigated risk for the trade.

Whilst contracts had previously been written by hand, the standardisation and scale of reproduction enabled by Gutenberg meant that risk could be transacted in open markets by complete strangers.
WHO had research about long haulers, including the biggest hospitals in italy.

Not that "self reported", i suppose...
> "When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?"

> "We don't know ..."

Why does SA have to use such a clickbait-y title?
This. Listen to this person right here. Remember that what’s most valuable to businesses is often not what’s hardest technically.
> China still follows the central planning model, and has had much success.

No. Not at all.

China was centrally controlled and planned by one man 1949-1976. That was maybe the worst regime in human history, and killed 50-100 million of its own citizens.

After some turmoil China moved to a decentralized market model for the economy, which has produced the biggest raise in living standard in history.
That sounds like a good business model if you ask me!
He did ship a flamethrower though.

https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower
Get a dedicated ebook reader if you can.

The price is pretty reasonable up to about 7-8", and not too high to 10".

I splurged for 13" as I read a lot and often low-quality scans of small, three-column print.

The pixel density of an ebook reader (200-300 DPI) is far higher than even Retina displays. Monocrome/greyscale gives higher resolution as well (the three-elements-per-pel aspect of colour displays means you're always left with about 30% the effective resolution, though subpixel aliasing helps a lot).

Portrait will display a single page well (laptop displays suck for reading text), and for larger devices or larger-print materials, you can often manage a two-page-up display.
That’s not my experience, all the way from Meraki enterprise access points to the standard consumer WRT54GL.

First problem is 5GHz is terrible at going through walls, I don’t believe it will even go through a single brick wall and maintain decent bandwidth. Even 2.4GHz is considerably slowed by 2 or 3 drywall/plywood obstructions.

Second problem is can the mobile device you’re using return that signal through all those walls to the access point. I have noticed an huge increase in quality and snappiness of FaceTime and other high up and down bandwidth activities once I added more access points so that connections are going through only 2 or 3 walls.

For another reference, I have a hotel that needed to upgrade its network to meet the brand standards for signal strength in all the rooms, and we had to end up installing 6 access points in the drop ceiling of each hallway 15 guest rooms in length (each guest room is ~15ft wide, so the corridor was ~225ft long). It resulted in the elimination of almost all guest complaints about the wireless network.
Everything newfangled is expensive and thus available only to the wealthy. But if governments never spurred economic investment in new technologies we’d be 100 years behind where we are.
Presumably he can change compensation easily, as long as it's equivalent. A company a friend was at made the change and they got more money (than they'd have made with RSUs that were sold at acquisition). The 'more' part made it legal without renegotiating.

Removing stock options just means that many fewer communionists have a say over other matters in the company because they won't buy stock.
Actually in general, you can ask for a copy of any document, for a somewhat reasonable copying/handling fee, and have it sent to you.

If somebody’s hogging the book all day it can’t be copied as much, though...
You can read it here
https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot
Intro to DeFi
What if intelligent, self-aware systems existed in the earlier phases of the universe? Would they have understood the changes taking place in the universe, their eventual demise, and taken steps to allow life of a new form to emerge after the universal condensation?

Obviously there is no way of knowing, but it was an amusing thought to consider for a moment.
HPE seems to be aiming squarely at Ubiquiti with their Aruba Instant On line (which is distinct from the Aruba Instant line because what's life without some confusing branding?). I installed some of their APs and switches in my home a few weeks ago and it's working well. It ended up a little less expensive than comparable UBNT gear would have been and there's actual availability on their Wifi6 APs.

The APs are cloud managed only, but, personally, I trust HPE not to make a complete clown show of things the way UBNT has. But that's absolutely going to be a deal-breaker for a lot of people (especially with the way UBNT's now poisoned the well to a degree).

The big hole in that lineup is a gateway device. They just don't have anything comparable to the UDM (Pro). I'd be surprised if they don't eventually introduce something, though, given how the rest of the lineup seems pointed directly at the niche Ubiquiti is currently occupying.
> Doing most of the work on the client instead of the server can often make scaling much easier.

Spitting out html from the server is incredibly easy to scale.
PDFs are designed to be printed and HTML tends to be overrun by ads. The former is nicer for reading and the latter is nicer still with ad-blocking, reader mode and/or a tasteful design.
I think the issue is that he has had enough successes that people are assuming his current ideas will also, necessarily, be successes. And his self-confidence conveys that.

The thing people need to realize is that people can start hitting misses at any time.

Elon Musk is perhaps a con man (in the fully expounded sense of the term "confidence man"), but particularly one who believes his own bull.
No, but that's never stopped anyone.
Mirror Sections of Notes (Workflowy)
I hate comments like this.

Yes, it's statistically true that women are questioned more often than men about (among other things) whether their symptoms are "real", are psychosomatic, are caused by the thing they think they're caused by, etc. It's totally appropriate to point that out, as gdubs did, and to remind people that unconscious bias is a thing.

It's another thing to just tell someone they've questioned a woman in a way they wouldn't have questioned a man, without knowing anything more about them. It's obviously incorrect that men are never questioned in the same fashion or that this line of questioning is always inappropriate. It's generally unknowable what would have happened in the same situation with reversed genders. What do you think is gained by this kind of specific, confident accusation? Do you think they're going to say "oh, I thought about this, and you're right, I was being sexist, thanks, all better now?" No! Everyone digs into their positions, flamewars erupt, reputations are damaged, and/or people think (correctly, IMHO) that accusations of sexism are often false, etc. And I don't think you're following the HN guidelines of assuming good faith.

Personally, I have no idea if the author's symptoms are caused by the environmental conditions at the building site. The evidence presented isn't compelling. She has made a compelling case though that gathering this evidence is hard, if not impossible, due to broken regulatory structures.
> Time-to-market is greatly improved

I've experienced and have witnessed quite the opposite with SPAs
This is just a trailer. For anyone who still "foolisly believes" that foreign telcos wont follow this order, understand India, the biggest fucking autocracy did this in 2019 for year and a half. With no legal or any repercussions for that matter.

Myanmar has a legal precident to follow. If India walks away with it, why not us so enjoy.
Remote team tools.
Yes... then form a pod with another kid or kids and let them play. A 5 year old shouldn’t be trying to do anything over videoconferencing. Hell my toddler won’t even talk to his grandfather on videoconference, who is his absolute favorite person in the world.
He was real. He did deliver Tesla and SpaceX. Both of them are huge.

Im a fan of what he was. Not a fan of what he has become.
You’re just armchair guessing based on your hunch and this time you were wrong.

It is not a myth. That doesn’t mean sending a DVD to a government employee puts the movie in the public domain. It’s more nuanced than that.
WWDC 2002 Session 000 – Mac OS X: State of the Union [video]
Roads are already hostile to humans. We need to make human islands, areas where the roads have been converted into gardens or grassy areas, where people can walk freely without cars. And then make safe, robot friendly ways to transport humans between them.
What about epub? Under the hood it is basically html, but viewers know to treat it as a written work.
Tizen is about to be phased out of Samsung smartwatches. It's a bit unfortunate since battery life and a lot of other things are quite nice, but Samsung is really really really really bad at making developer friendly anything and pushing an open source firmware outside of their own borders which resulted in abysmal adoption and its ultimate demise.

Keep in mind that HP did the same with webOS, Sun with OpenSolaris etc. So, its not exclusive to Samsung, but rather big enterprise not understanding the outside world.