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> if a mall closes a cinema because it doesn't like a movie, or a bakery because it baked a cake,...

Would they though? If a movie theater refuses to show a certain movie, that’s legal. A mall is just refusing to house a tenant they don’t agree with. Apartment owners are allowed to refuse to rent to you for any reason (not covered under a protected class).
Because money, political capital, organizational resources, etc. is mostly a zero sum game. Effort spent on rail is effort not being spent on solving the most pressing problem. And at least in my locality the money and focus is on rail.

I'm pretty dubious about the demand. There's not even a megabus between Nashville and Atlanta.
I have tried moving the boolean into the function, as a hard-coded variable. That stops the "crashing"; weird, indeed.
UK Court Grants Permission for Bitcoin Copyright Infringement Claim
If you look closer at O'Keefe and his organization you'll find that since the ham-fisted attempts to slander ACORN backfired, they've grown more savvy, and they now release more unedited footage and have won more lawsuits than they've lost
The Execution Model of APZ/Plex – An Informal Description [pdf]
Those other scientists didn't coerce any of their female graduate students to pose naked so they could practice for their painting hobby.
He’s been in tech business for decades, and has long history of both failed and successful projects - he knows how R&D projects work, and how rarely they deliver, and how never they’re there on time. He has board of directors to control him.

He’s lying on purpose, because he knows he immune from any consequences. And he’s right - those lies propelled him to be one of the richest people in the world.
Development of an Erlang System Adapted to Embedded Devices (2011) [pdf]
I think this is easy to resolve. With Netflix, the terms are that you pay a fixed amount and you get one month's access to stream whatever they choose to offer at the time, repeat. If Netflix terminates your account, well, you lose out on less than a month of access, so they should refund one month.

It's very different if (a) you pay per individual item, (b) there's an explicit or implied agreement that you have access to that item indefinitely. Then if your account is terminated, you should be refunded the value of having access indefinitely, which is the original purchase price.

Now maybe you're saying Apple can go to a subscription service where it rents "access" to the library, but those are very different terms.
The Beta program is Level 2, this is well known already. It’s intended to collect data amongst volunteers, not as a final end consumer product. The end goal for FSD that most paid for is for Level 5. Not sure why this is confusing. The 10k FSD “add on” is NOT for the Beta they are planning to offer soon, but the final post-beta release, which will be Level 5. The information sent to regulators is for the BETA they are hoping to release in the next month or so. I don’t know why the press in general can’t seem to acknowledge the difference here.

Tesla needs to explain better, but given the intentional mis understanding by journalists lately, I sense they feel silence is better than being taken out of context yet again.
The Source is WW1 and WW2. Germany was the world powerhouse in production not population. Their ability to out manufacture their neighboring countries lead to some pretty horrible things.
Cause it's cool and hip. They wanted art/cinematic look, instead of product shots that would be useful.

I felt the same way though. Some of the shots, they used a background simulating a blurred out star field which was a tremendous improvement over the solid black, but still very difficult to see. I did like the red highlight, but still that background.
I strongly agree that bringing in new dependencies is not a small consideration. But at the same time, third-party dependencies will always be necessary and by carefully choosing those that are best suited for the job, you might be able to get a net reduction in complexity.

Old, established third-party dependencies are not necessarily better for the job than new, trendy dependencies. Their entrenched nature can be an advantage and also a limitation. And when you roll it yourself, then that is of course the newest and least established solution of all.
Some low-cost CDNs allow this, like BelugaCDN and BunnyCDN, probably others, with a web GUI for setup.
You can have different variants so you try one and if that's not it then you try the backup/alternative. In my case, this was only a problem with a couple of websites which I rarely used. I just did a password reset every time I wanted to log into these websites.
they may just be misunderstanding or have mis-spoken/written

90% of the tech rant blog spam on HN is people who don't fully understand the tool they're using.

Something doesn't work the way they expect for their particular project or their specific need, and they blather on about how bad it is.

When the reality is that these things are often done for a reason, but the author's myopia prevents him from understanding that there are other people doing other things in the world.
Yes, I do know that.

The policy is not about them being physically prevented from emailing from not-a-umn-researcher@yahoo.com.

It’s a symbolic policy, but I would be extremely surprised if a university flouted a clear and explicit ban on their participation.
Given that I mainly drive in the city I don't care much about lane detection but I do care about automatic break system and similar.

Some which supposedly Tesla had the best of.

Until people ran tests on it and realized it's much worse then some much less hi-tech solutions. (And it wasn't just one group which ran similar tests and came to the same result).

So I'm always very careful when Tesla (or other Car manufacturers) promise that "their tech works the best"/"very good" until I have seen some reasonable independent tests.
> If I had expected to own it forever, I'd probably have bought DVD's, not digital.

This is the opposite of what it should be. DVDs degrade over time, and can last for as little as 10 years. Digital should be mean transportable and convertible indefinitely.
What's the benefit of a centralized entity for putting the effort/brainpower into making a decentralized currency?
Well it could be your own secret hashing or concatenation algorithm which you can do in your head. For example, you could use parts of the domain name to map to a specific word from a list that you've memorized. But there is an infinite number of rules you can choose from so you don't lose any security.
Nice. Now how about the Occulus Quest?

You know, that lovely physical device you supposedly buy and own, but can be denied its use indefinitely if Facebook's algorithms decide to terminate your account for some reason (which tends to be more likely if you opened an account just so you could play).
Isn't this the company that has a single prototype that the CEO has driven in the hype videos?

They've got a long ways to go on the manufacturing side of things and at best look like they're 2-4 years behind where Tesla is today.

Disclosure: Don't hold stock in either or anything in EV space.
> I don't get the point of all those cross-country routes,

Same. I10 is pointless - no-one drives from Santa Monica to Jacksonville - flying is much faster once you’re going long distance. I mean I would love to cross the country by car for entertainment, but as a common method of travel it doesn’t seem to make much sense.

/sarcasm (for those who need it pointing out...)

Cross country rail lines are just like cross-country interstates: mostly used by people for specific regional connectivity.
Nicely done. You have a gift for technical communication.
Every developer in my company unanimously hates Xcode, and we only use it if a client explicitly insists on an iOS app. Otherwise, it's PWAs all the way for 99% of use cases.
I am reasonably okay with a driver assist system attempting to do more. But I'd agree they need to be better about both knowing what they can't do well yet, and that they need to be much better about detecting driver presence and attention, so that the car can't be used in manners they don't intend.
I wonder if Apple will use this product as a Guinea Pig to test the possibility of building a device-to-device network over UWB. From what I've read (I'm not technical) this was tried sometime ago by a consortium but they gave up over the difficulties of sending communications over UWB.
Maybe Apple will manage a breaktrough by pouring money and brains over it like it did with M1?
Sometimes I wonder if modern corporate culture has adopted soviet style newspeak.

Why are we immigrating to the new thing? For the same reasons as we migrated to the old thing. Why is the new thing better? Because it’s just so much better.
The industry is balkanized on it. Functional languages which tend to model closed systems, with strict types, and hence easier ad-hoc refactoring swear by tuples. OOP platforms which deal with the "outside world" a lot and so need stable API that can evolve without BC breaks avoid tuples.

Notice also web APIs virtually never use tuples (everything is objects with named fields both in complex input and virtually all output).

A language that targets the browser is going to be inherently open. It has to deal with browser DOM, it has to deal with service APIs, it also has to potentially interact with JS libraries.

It'll be an uphill struggle to apply Ocaml style in it.
> Yep I don’t get why they always build these fantastic concept cars but always dumb down the design for the release.

Probably because 90% of a concept car is one-off (and that’s for the rare cases where it actually is a whole car, and not a shell), and re-tooling to create it (not to mention addding all the usual safety features) would make the mass production car cost hundreds of thousands.
Ok, I’ll rephrase: I can’t use any of those self-driving competitors, so it doesn’t seem to matter.
This is how things should be and I really hope we arrive at this in the future.

I like to call this "ownership light" and it would remove unilateral unaccountable suspension decisions from the equation.

The service provider is not burdened beyond reason and there is still a distinction made between this and "physical ownership" (e.g. no right to inherit / sell the content).
Tesla is just asking for a lawsuit at some point. First "Autopilot" and now "Full Self-Driving"—it's no wonder people keep treating these vehicles as more capable than they are and getting in accidents! You can't tell someone their car has full self driving capabilities and then expect them to listen when you tell them that they also have to be paying attention 100% of the time. The two ideas are antithetical, and people are going to (consciously or unconsciously) believe the one they see pushed the most.
None of the existing routes are built for high speed trains and the infrastructure investment proposed ($80B) is far too small to even begin any sort of meaningful high speed rail service.
Why? You can rent a car for a day or lease it for years.
In the 12 months prior my electric bill averaged $140/mo at an average rate of $0.23/KWh (includes supply and delivery - split about 1:2).
What clickbait nonsense. This is clearly what they are saying about the current system for the current Testers in California.

This by no means means that they are not attempting to develop a Level 5 system and it also doesn't mean eventually they call it FSD.
You can open source a file for use in 3D priting. Lots of work goes into creating those files, so releasing it as open source is a concious decision the maker made.
Agreed. Boosters will probably be required yearly or so, and those will then be the “second shot” for lots of people.

The only caveat is that partial immunization can create the conditions for viral escape, but hopefully we’ll have boosters by then.
Ironic considering the political leanings of West Virginia today.
How is autopilot misleading? Autopilot describes the feature well - assisting driver with the operation of the vehicle, some of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot
Why try to fit this story into some arbitrary modern concept that was invented in order to sell books?
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They have facial recognition, but Face ID involves a complicated array of sensors and an IR projector to create a 3D mapping of your face. Iirc, the module is fairly expensive to produce which is why we aren’t seeing it on more products.
YouTube Won’t Let “Bogus DMCA” Plaintiff Pirate Monitor Off the Hook
Ask HN: How do people orchestrate microservices for development on macOS?
We've been having problems with Docker For Mac running poorly and in general being broken on release (this time for proxies, for previous 3 years just general performance issues and battery life problems). I'm looking for solutions on how to orchestrate many (3+) microservices together locally and still be able to develop against them all in concert by loading the local file system into the running containers. Ideally, this would use Kubernetes and still enable running local code.

So far, on the virtualization side, I've tried multipass (buggy), VMWare (expensive) and Qemu (difficult to use for people not used to it). We use Docker Compose.

Is there any simple, mac native way to orchestrate containers? Or is it better to somehow expose them via the network but only redirect for one service at a time to some local instance?

Thanks in advance for the discussion, thoughts, and time! Really appreciate the HN community!
There's some places where you can't put the Powerwalls indoors. In CT where I live it's just fine. I did add in a fire suppression system in my basement when I had them installed. This was not a requirement and was included in my overall cost figure provided. It's a big red thingy in between the rafters that goes "boom" when there's a fire. That's a technical term.
I'm a fan of overnight rail. If high speed rail were available, Toronto to Edmonton would be about 11 hours. Grab a 10pm train and arrive at 7am (with time change). I'd take that over a 5 hour flight.
Should small businesses accept crypto for payments?
Wish he'd found video of the street vendor rice puffing process; much more dramatic than any factory system could be. Seems like it'd be a good thing to include when explaining it to kids too.
I'm not sure how there isn't a large amount of fraud happening here. Maybe because Tesla fans don't care enough to make noise?
Yes, it's cheaper for utility scale solar because the environmental cost of dedicating land to an industrial purpose is ignored.

In the case of solar it is still preferable to do fields of solar to replace carbon-emitting power generation though.

But I do think governments should subsidize rooftop solar to within shouting distance of "utility" solar.

Heck I think they should be subsidizing solar and storage regardless of location. Once tech curves make existing utility installations obsolete in a few decades, then maybe move them back to rooftop.
This is key. I can drive faster than Amtrak if there's no traffic. Modern high speed trains change a lot of the math.
>You can't tell someone their car has full self driving capabilities and then expect them to listen when you tell them that they also have to be paying attention 100% of the time

So its Tesla fault if people doesn't listen?
To your point, Jules Verne imagined shooting men to the moon with a big gun. But to OP’s point, the vision inspired enough people that we eventually built rockets. There’s no dichotomy here. But there is a dependency: means for nowhere without ends, and the ends often generate the means (so much so that we speak of ends not justifying means).
I think that's a dangerous way to evaluate self-driving systems. With a little practice, any 10-year-old can "drive quite well" under limited conditions. But what makes for a good driver is not the 99% of the time dealing with optimum conditions, but the how they handle the long tail of increasingly challenging/dangerous situations.

I suspect a lot of companies could deliver a Tesla-equivalent system. They're just opposed to killing people in the process. See, for example, this thread from a host of The Autonocast contrasting Tesla's approach with others: https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1383778011766398983
github motivation says "aerc is really hard to configure" - not to me vs the sample config on github page.

Another command line clients written in Rust is meli.delivery
Why is this book shilled so much on here? Literally all those conclusions are basic. Like my mom would say to do those.
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CHAR(1) to Boolean datatype transformations while migrating to PostgreSQL
Having worked in the auto industry I can say this is the sort of thing was never, ever expected from a supply shortage. The frailty of the global supply chain network has been brutally exposed these last 14 months.
Reminds me of this slime mold video: https://youtu.be/GwKuFREOgmo

The mold “operates” in roughly two modes: exploring and exploiting. It explores to find the food and then it exploits the best paths to the food to consume it.

I feel our minds work in a similar way, we explore when learning new stuff and then we exploit when using what we learned to accomplish something.

Probably most of the work that majority of people do is mostly exploiting previously learned stuff, with some limited exploration sprinkled into it every now and then.
Why do you see it as an “intentional misunderstanding” on the part of journalists (and regulators and customers, for that matter) rather than an intentional misstatement, or at least exaggeration, on the part of Tesla?
Honestly, it is a decent use case. Sell NFTs that grant the owner the right to play / use a certain song, movie, ebook, etc. Ideally have some sort of file storage layer that only grants the ability to stream the content if you own the nft - not sure how feasible that is, so the alternative is to establish a few providers that can stream the content, and get paid a small amount for their services by the movie studios.

Reselling rights don't have to be granted, and if they are, they could even include "fees" for reselling to limit a rental market from taking place.
An aside for future or present dad's (and all Parents.) There is so much joy and learning that happens with raising kids, that I think the secret is not fight it, but enjoy it. Almost sounds cliché, but embrace the experience. From the very beginning to when they are adults, to experience a window into your own life, a window into the world. These windows allow you to explore your surroundings and relationships with a different eye, with more understanding.
The best way to get into that zone, is to forget your own desires for a bit, forget your schedule. Just live in the moment of the kid (s). After you relax a bit, and surrender to their schedule, then all of a sudden you find opportunities for your time in between. But with passion and effectiveness. As mentioned below in a comment, you can be more focused, I believe because you are more relaxed. If you fight all the time to make 'your' schedule fit, you become frustrated. As you let go, you find a schedule that works, and with enthusiasm for that time to create and build. Cherish the moment with the kids, everything from diaper changing to eating, because they are a reflective window on your own soul, and a fresh mirror to the insanity if the world around you.
> The cars by themselves are really good.

* citation needed. Tesla level quality control and wonky reliability is what personally turns me off from paying top dollar to be both 'owner' and beta tester.
> Musk recently admitted on Twitter that Google is far ahead, so he finally seems to face reality.

Wrong. He didn't say that about self driving, he said that about overall use of AI.

> Some acquaintances in the industry have said for years that Tesla is in the bottom of the self driving competitors.

Yeah, because people form the industry have been so great at predicting what Musk companies will achieve.

Nobody knows how to do generalized self driving and nobody knows how to get there. Its pure value judgments about the right process.
Everything Everywhere Is Securities Fraud

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
I can't agree more! I make the same argument, but much less eloquently than you did "I just randomly got interested in this particular topic and decided to play aorund with it".

Using the same motivation: "let's play with things and see what I can figure out", I created a video [1] where I figure out what I need to do to create a silly version of the cat command that prints text out upside-down.

I did it for a bunch of reasons: figuring out how to replace system commands, learning a bit more about Unicode, trying out our C extension for VS Code, learning the process for building YouTube video (which was a very deep rabbit hole) ... all to produce a single video. It was fun, scratched an itch that I've had for a while that I'll continue to work on.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ2ivP2llFs
Not entirely, but they absolutely share a portion of the blame. Their marketing campaign clearly wants people to believe that these vehicles can drive themselves. They're trying to create that belief in people. That makes them accountable when some subset actually do believe what they've been saying.
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Brining Comic Book Guy level of pedanticism, the thing that stood out the most for me was that the space shuttle in the sim had a glass cockpit with full colour displays.

The shuttle cockpit upgrades didn’t take place until late-1990s/early-2000s, and before then, it was just green text on CRTs.

Regardless, it’s amazing to see what people can achieve with enough interest and time.
So instead of attacking Microsoft about giving VS, we attack apple for not having enough ram lol
Any company is expected to operate under the laws of the land it does business in. Twitter is not the culprit here.
Tesla’s profit narrative changed from making cars to self driving. They even hosted investors day, where they hyped it. Raises where largely made on a story of autonomy being just around the corner. And general hype around Musk being Ironman, that he carefully works on maintaining, exactly through events like this.
> When will the Elon fanatics stop listening to his bullsh*t?

When someone else will sell us a car.

I literally just ordered a model Y, with the $10k FSD package. Would I have bought something else if I could get it? Maybe. But this is here, and I can get it. Look, the product as it exists today is real and has value. Maybe you're not exited by it, but I am. And I can buy it. And I just did.

I'm old enough to remember when "make something people want" wasn't considered "bullshit" on this site.
The real scandal is US not exporting enough vaccines and vaccines materials while sitting on stockpiles sufficient to meet domestic demand many times over. Everything else is just noise
So why build the concept car in the first place? As a consumer seeing them at this point is just aggravating. It's just setting me up for disappointment. What's the point in setting your potential customers up for disappointment?
Because it's very easy for it to become accidentally quadratic in a loop.
Even if Apple may be justified, I would expect more professionalism from such a large company. their PR image is certainly worth many multiples of $25000. By issuing their tone deaf statement about "no reasonable person etc" they are alienating many customers. even if the are legally 100% right, that's irrelevant.

Actually, Apple isn't the first to introduce a rather novel interpretation of the word "buy". John Deere did that first saying that buying really means an "implied license" or something. I've got no idea how they can get away with redefining words in the English language.