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Depends what you're outsourcing. We outsourced manufacturing and those cost savings were certainly not illusory.

A lot of communications type work suffered from outsourcing due to language barriers and poor connectivity and poorer skillset from workers in other areas of the world (or even the US). That may not always continue to be the case.

I'm guessing the top 10% or 20% of workers do not need to be worried since they can provide so much value that outsourcing is not worth it. But if you're in the bottom 4 quintiles, I would be wary.
I don't understand this argument. End users don't care about browser engines and they can install "Chrome" right now. But most iOS users don't.
So why is HN steaming over this?

It's the classic antagonist to the Colonial pipeline hysteria, which stopped their pumps because they would not be able to account for the exact gallons delivered to which customer. So they rather stopped a critical infrastructure. Hilarious. Plus Windows.

Here again the Windows office PCs were affected, but the steamships themselves didn't care much. They kept going, you only had to pay for your ticket onboard, not online. Online reservations were not honored.
They don’t typically work below 25 MPH, and definitely don’t stop and go and keep you within the lane.
>Basically, I would say that unauthorized access should require some material deception to gain access. So if you socially engineer your way in, it's unauthorized--you lied to someone. If you use a computer virus, it's unauthorized--you lied to the computer to get it to execute that code, probably misrepresenting it as some other type of data. If they set the permissions wrong or it's just an AUP thing, it's not unauthorized access. Though, as here, it might be against the law for some other reason (violation of privacy or whatever).

Interesting test. What if you set your user agent to chrome instead of firefox and that grants you access to a website?
> Basically, I would say that unauthorized access should require some material deception to gain access.

This seems like a poor definition, IMO.

For example, what if I tell you I'm going to club you over the head and get access to the computer you're on. And I do so. There was no material deception. I did exactly what I said.

Another example is what if I just walk around the counter while you're not there. There is no one around to deceive.
Hmm, I generally take the pro-Apple stance on this. I don’t want side loading or third party stores. It’s Apples product and they get to decide what features it has, IMHO. I don’t want government committees dictating the security model and software architecture of my phone, thanks.

However Marco’s argument is spot on. Apple is saying in Senate hearings that App developers are picking up crumbs from the App Store’s floor and should be grateful for what they get, while reassuring devs that they are what makes iPhone so great. Too many of Apples moves against devs on the store recently have bordered on the abusive. Yes they’re greatly trimmed charges for small dev shops, but the rules on that are awkward and are clearly about optics not substance.

To your questions.

1. Then Apple would have failed to offer a compelling product. There are other phones and app stores out there. If Apple can’t compete with Samsung on the quality of their phones, then they’re not the Apple I know and love anymore. It’s up to them to add value, not leech it off others. They do deserve fair recompense for their services, but that’s all.

2. We know very well what their hardware margins are. From their own filings, their phone hardware margins are over 35%.
Except Waffle Houses don't typically coincide with your typical Tesla demographic, it will take education to teach how good a grilled chicken biscuit with a double order of hash browns topped actually is. They do have tons of real estate in rural areas that would be ideal (cheap) for placing charging stations.

I've seen maybe a dozen Tesla charging stations in Meijer (Michigan/midwestern mid-market grocery superstore) parking lots. Typically the cars are empty while charging, but will have already cycled through by the time you get groceries-- so I've always assumed the owners run in for some supplies or walk to a nearby restaurant.
> The odd thing is that even a randomly stupid AI for self driving is statistically safer than most drivers.

A strong claim, lacking actual evidence for it. All we have to go on are some Elon tweets (rather the definition of a biased source) and the actual crash rate. Without a lot more data (which Tesla steadfastly refuses to release) about environments, corrections, etc, it's quite impossible to make that sort of statement with any confidence.

The Tesla hardware is a weird combination of capable and insanely dumb, and it's far from obvious which it will be in any given situation until it's gone through it.

If an honest statistical analysis of the data indicated that Tesla's automation was better than human drivers (or better than other driver assist systems), I would fully expect them to have released the values. Since they haven't, and only hint at it and make statements that sound statistical but really aren't, I assume they've done the numbers internally and know it's not nearly as good as they like to imply.

If I drove in a city like their "self driving" beta was a few months back, I would be hauled from the car on suspicions of driving while hammered.
I saw a good recent youtube video showing numerous concerning FSD failures in urban driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antLneVlxcs
If it's literally just burning out LEDs, you could probably do some fairly simple modifications to protect those LEDs. It's not exactly ideal, but a simple resistor in line with each LED would almost certainly solve the issue.
Not directly, no. Gov't uses parts of the oil tax money to fund budget deficits, but they've limited themselves to how much.

https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/okonomi-og-budsjett/norsk...
I'm very curious how a LIDAR based system would have faired here. It very much looks like problem that would only appear with a limited vision-only system like Tesla has.
They really were. Honda wasn't really successful with them. I suppose they were too impractical for a Honda buyer and too Honda for a "sports car" buyer.

I enjoyed it for a long time as a second vehicle. It was also the most reliable vehicle I had owned up to that point. But as I stopped commuting and ended up traveling a lot more I just wasn't using it enough to justify the insurance/registration/etc. cost especially as it hit 170K miles or so and I didn't really rust it for long trips at that point.
I've been doing remote contract work since I became a digital nomad in 2018. Before the pandemic it was absolutely a minority of companies that were comfortable with the concept. A lot of them from the Basecamp school of thinking.

Since the pandemic kicked off, this has changed. Despite the fact that there are many employers out there trying to force everybody back into the office, there is also a large pool of companies that have realised the wheels didn't fall off during the pandemic.

I've been speaking to a lot of current and ex-colleagues in the tech industry. Both on the management and on the employee side. Even the managers are increasing looking at where they're going to work from long term. Realising that they really can move to cheaper cities (in Europe), possibly with better weather, and keep working just the same.

I think there will be a bit of tension this year, but I can't see it just going back to the way it was previously. So many of the previous objections are just obviously false now. In a lot of cases I've seen teams become more productive (not to mention happier), because they're not sitting in an office.

I've seen the faces of most of their kids and pets now, and it turns out that's pretty cool as well.

That BBC host was a real trendsetter :D
If you can't trust your people in an office you have a hiring process problem or the leader needs therapy, not an office space problem.
In the USA, the Kia 10 year 100k limited powertrain warranty only applies to the first owner. Otherwise, it reverts at that point to the 5 year 60k one. You can usually buy a certified pre-owned though and that ups it back to 100k though.
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IP laws is a fiction. If the US authorities want to enforce rules like "you can't paint your car green because the green color has been patented" they can, but I see no reason why other countries would adopt this nonsense. Besides, countries aren't governed by laws, they only have treaties and agreement between each other that they can enter and leave voluntarily.
He wasn’t fired, and the entire point of that job is to provide leadership on that topic. You can’t be a figurehead against racism after having publicly been racist.
In one episode Naomi inhales in just before exposure to the vacuum - it would have been fatal according to the article.
So what? The issues it raises are pretty universal.
>Less likely to be arrested or incarcerated, less likely to be stopped or harassed by police

Communities which experience more crime tend to interact more with law enforcement. The perpetrators of those crimes, who generally come from the same communities as their victims, tend to get arrested and incarcerated in proportion to their rate of criminality. Most murder in the US is committed by black men [1], and mainly concentrated in a handful of poor urban areas: St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Oakland, etc. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) [2][3], widely seen as the gold standard for data on criminal victimization, confirms that violent crime is simply a larger problem in America's urabn black communities compared to the white, Asian, and Hispanic communities. Rates of arrest, conviction, and incarceration reflect this.

It is no longer the 1960s. Body cameras and smartphones are everywhere. Racism has been taboo for decades. Police know that if they unjustly shoot or abuse a black person, there's a good chance their careers and lives as free citizens will be over. The notion that law enforcement arrests and incarcertates more black people mainly due to racial antipathy, rather than that community's starkly higher rate of criminal violence, is not supported by evidence.

Tracing back through history, the forces which led to the present situation such as slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and redlining were undoubtedly racist and systemic. However, these systemic forces are now gone. They have even been replaced in many areas by systemic counter-forces, such as in university admissions [4], law school admissions [5], med school admissions [6], access to government debt relief [7], and access to the COVID vaccine [8]. The problems which bedevil many black Americans today- disproportionate poverty, broken families, drug addiction, all resultant criminality- would appear to be the results of historical inequities, not ongoing systemic racism.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

[2] https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ncvs.html

[3] https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/affirmative-action-50-...

[5] https://blog.powerscore.com/lsat/do-underrepresented-minorit...

[6] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-chart-illustrates-graphic...

[7] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wisconsin-dairy-farmer-sue...

[8] https://khn.org/news/article/vermont-gives-blacks-and-other-...
The article would have been a lot better if it had mentioned the classical definition of entropy (by Clausius), which is essentially energy dividided by temperature. From this definition it is easy to see that incoming energy from the Sun at 5700 K which is then dissipated at 250 K, will result in a local entropy decrease.
> mid-2020s should probably be read as more ~2025 +/- 1

Estimating mid-2020s on a start-up’s new platform and landing it in 2028 is a massive win and far from B.S.
Yeah, then again dealers have service bullitens regularly and lots of experience with common failures across a model. Hard to know hence why some dealers can rip people off. Happens in any scenario where trust is high and information low
Just want to provide a counter-story to your anecdote. Many of my colleagues are excited to go back to the office to increase collaboration and work satisfaction. Personally, wfh is really difficult for me and I can't wait to get back in the office. Working from home feels like grinding away at an endless list of tasks and waiting for the day to be over. Working at an office feels like playing a sport with a team - every day is significantly more enjoyable and satisfying.

Granted: I am a young, single person working in design/product and my job requires a ton of collaboration. I don't really consider myself an extrovert FWIW
Is store-bought communism as good as freshly made communism?

Store-bought communism offers better value, but freshly made communism is so much better I think.
>> productivity increased

Did it, though? GDP has just reached pre-pandemic levels.
This has only been my experience in very small startups with all the people in the same room or at least the same building.

In all my other jobs, including the startups that have grown into more traditional businesses, I have been pretty much a heads-down worker. I come in, do my work, and go home. There's not really much bonding or common culture going on that remote/on-site would really change anything.
May I ask, is traveling through a bumper to bumper traffic a frequent occurrence for you? If so, are there options for you to avoid it (e.g. change commuting times, work from home, walk, bike, or use public transportation)? If also yes, why do you tolerate it?

Personally I see bumper to bumper traffic maybe 3 or 4 times a year (when driving home from a vacation or being forced to a doctor’s appointment during rush hour). And I honestly don’t get why anyone would subjugate them self to this kind of traffic as part of their daily commute.
> Initially, the Apple device would play in three days. Now it'll begin to play at a random time inside a window that lasts between 8 and 24 hours.

This seems like a good compromise. Remember, this won't be triggered if the AirTag is also with its owner during this period. (I've wondered about whether this would enable someone to stalk a neighbor in a nearby apartment. It's pretty easy to get within 90 feet or whatever the range is.)
Trying to Keep Gearheads from Tinkering with the High-Tech of AI Autonomous Cars
CFAA now is about violating technical controls, not policy controls. If policy says "Don't look at HR data", but nothing technically stops you from looking, it's not a CFAA violation to look.
Is it possible that this pushback against working from home might (at least in part) be motivated by a desire of keeping real-estate prices up? After all, if offices aren't needed anymore, prices would probably plummet, and real estate is a very popular asset among a certain group of people.
If Apple believes they are offering so much value to developers then they should open their devices to other stores. Surely no one would choose a competing store when Apple offers such a great deal to them.
People that have been struggling socially are not the sort of people I would want to be stuck in an office with, if for no other reason that they are going to be wasting my time at work.
There are some nice pines in http://marief.soler.free.fr/Monsite/lsystem0_en_css.htm and http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lsys/.
Don't need to have 100% market share to be anti-trusted in the US. You just need to use your market power in anti-competitive ways that harm consumers.
Yes to all of this. My personal feeling is WFH is a threat to those who actors who need the office as a place to be seen.
I know engineers who worked for Porsche, they are doing things independently from VW. The only thing they took from VW was the cayenne chassis and it's diesel engine. They were absolutely pissed by the diesel gate as they were unaware of it and quickly removed diesel from their lineup.

They share some functions like brake SW or ACC, but they do their own engine and chassis.

Otherwise they source their stuff alone, and due to the low sales number they struggle to find willing suppliers.
This is far from the only arena allocator written in Rust.

From the same author, a zero-unsafe arena allocator: https://github.com/fitzgen/generational-arena

There are many, many arena implementations available with varying characteristics. It's disingenuous to act like Rust requires the author of an arena library to write "unsafe" everywhere.
And your last sentence says it all. Somehow all these people want/require everyone else to come back to the office which is just unfair.
Clearly the probability of it happening is rather low unless you live close to the local municipality road maintenance depot.

But it clearly means another edge case like detecting deer (wonder if they can handle our local Kudu) that they need to deal with.

They might as well develop AGI at this rate.
I've had this argument pre-covid too. WFH has some trade offs but it works fine at scale. I worked at a place that was occasionally hostile to WFH (depended on the team) even when we had teams split across offices around the world. Like why would I need to sit at a desk in New York to talk to people over video in Chicago and London?
> You really think that it makes sense to require the axiom of choice to prove that the derivative of x^2 is 2x as Robinson's ultrafilter construction does?

This was just what I meant to say—the details of the construction shouldn't matter, only the axiomatics of the structure that's been constructed. You can use infinitesimals perfectly well without having to get into the weeds of how they're constructed. To be sure, your results only apply within that structure, but that's the way of mathematics, that things are proven only within some structure.

I think one wouldn't expect, for example, a constructivist mathematician to disparage classical mathematics because it relies on such inelegant logical machinery as the law of the excluded middle. Well, maybe some constructivists do that, but more often they offer the better response of showing how many of the same results you can recover without requiring that logical machinery.

The same response seems appropriate here: there's no reason to cast aspersions on people whose work rests on the axiom of choice; but, if it bothers you, then see how much of their work you can do without the axiom of choice. If you can prove the equivalent, then great; no need to complain! If part of their work genuinely requires choice, then that's an interesting fact, too.
Free speech exists to prevent "nasty behavior". The whole point is that you speak your mind instead of getting violent. The whole idea is to invite criticism for "nasty behavior," and to allow everyone to see why that behavior is nasty, what's wrong with it, and why.
That's not an excuse for them to be driving such insane margins then. Plus, who's to say that the iPhone doesn't receive another overhaul in the next few years, driving the margins back down? Apple will continue to play this game of cat-and-mouse for as long as you let them, and that's ultimately how they accumulate wealth. It's a campaign almost entirely ran on deception.
So Apple’s argument stands…

Basically, Apple is a wealthy neighborhood. If you sell nice bags or expensive cars, you want to be near the people who can afford them. So you need to rent store space in the wealthy neighborhood. Where rent is higher than in the outskirts.

Sure you could try to sell your goods in the outskirts (the Play Store) but you won’t sell as much.

To bring it back to non-metaphors. Apple is the only maker of premium phones. Therefor people who are willing to spend on apps are very often iPhone users. So if you want to reach these people and their money you need to be on the App Store. Apple knows this, and charges developers accordingly for the privilege.
While I think a hybrid situation is perfectly fine, there are also a bunch of solutions to this that don't require a permanent office. For example, co-working can facilitate some of the desired interaction while at the same time putting the power in your hands.
Years ago, a friend worked in the Autopilot group. It took them a year to procure servers to store the telemetry of the existing cars, and then weeks to have them setup.

They don't work there anymore.

From their experience, I know one thing: I will never work for Elon Musk. He may be a great visionary and salesman, but he's a horrible manager.
> even a randomly stupid AI ... Is statistically safer than most drivers

the fact that people still trot this out every Tesla thread is super annoying. Sorry to break it to you but this is a 100% false claim
> One idea I had is to separate the unique component into its own library then give my own project the right to license/distribute the library, but I do not know if there are any off the shelf licenses that support that.

> I know that once it is viewed by competitors, they could reimplement the idea without directly using the 'source code' and add it to their pipeline/product.

These two things appear to be in conflict. If a competitor could easily re-implement the idea after seeing it work, then why do you care about exclusive rights to the library containing your implementation?
United Airlines press release for woke jetsetters: carbon neutral, carbon capture, soybean oil fuel.
Nah. The poor have more children than the middle class and rich so increasing economic security will likely only cause birthrates to fall even more.
> flight regimes that have only been done one other time (intentionally anyway) in commercial aviation

TIL the Tu-144 was designed, built and then operated commercially entirely by accident...
The problem with fully remote work is that once you accept that a job can be done from anywhere, you have to compete on a global level. It can be done from India, China, Pakistan, or any other place where they have smart people willing to work for less than you! So don't get too excited about it ;-)
I really believe that if the push to return to the office continues, we're going to see articles crying as to how "entitled workers" are leaving companies who push for limiting/ending remote work.

As an anecdote, I had a conference call with coworkers from another company who said that there were lots of people from their company that were leaving because the company had reneged on their promise to continue full time remote work.
That's basically true, but there's no reason to limit it to Autopilot. Although the high points of AP are better than any other system that I've tried so far. I've seen it do amazingly well in the rain at night, and in the rain on a road with faded markings that were hard to pick out. I've also seen it thoroughly confused by double-dashed lines at hov lanes.

I'll still take that over the ones that beep proudly to tell you that they are about to fail to maintain their lane (hi ProPilot).
I hate seeing these downvotes, because you're absolutely right. The parent comment is missing that the average price of these Android phones is often an order of magnitude less than the price of the average iPhone, so it makes sense that the phone which costs 10x as much has people willing to spend more money. It's not rocket science, and arguably not even economics.
One could argue that this is a bit like saying “if McDonald’s burgers are so good, they should be able to withstand putting competing restaurants’ burgers on their menu.”
To be fair, the 787 isn't bog standard. It's built from composites, which change a lot of dynamics in the plane. Similarly, there were a lot of avionics updates from the previous generations. It looks standard, but there were a lot of improvements to the plane that required a lot of work.
The significance of 20ms isn't clear so this is hard to judge.

Perhaps they have significant external (network) latency leaving only a few ms budget for the application stack - so they could easily be up against a wall.