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I am thinking that Twitter has reached saturation for the most part. Pretty much everyone has heard of it and has an opinion about it. The areas of the world that do have an untapped audience also have authoritarian regimes that do not like Twitter very much.

At the same time, there is some manager with a spreadsheet that has new account creation metrics. S/he wants that number to be as high as possible. How do you do that if people do not actually want to make an account? Try capturing the people who usually click in from other sites and bounce back.

I think the end result will be that social media somehow becomes even more pictures of text than previously.
Country clubs are specifically made as exclusionary spaces for wealthy, almost always white, people.
Hacker News's a great source of rage.
It's fantastic to see Waymo's progress. SF is a real nightmare to drive. If they can nail it there, that's 2/2 for busy, urban street driving (SF) and "boring" suburban driving (Chandler, AZ). They've been quietly very confident of their tech, but this is a real test.

Tangentially, I've also noticed that Waymo has picked up pace ever since the recent leadership changes. They are publishing more blog posts, offering more insights into their tech and generally seem to have increased their PR game. I wonder if that was a mandate from Alphabet leadership to show some urgency.
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> So, how is Tesla's autopilot meaningfully different from that?

Simple.

The user of the tesla autopilot is a car driver that is 'qualified' to drive a car. Driving licence doesnt entail knowledge of how to use tesla's 'autopilot'

You are literately equating a car driver to an air-plane pilot!

A pilot that need to be specifically train for a given model of a plane, and its autopilot. A pilot that is fully aware of the scope of the planes autopilot functionality, also pilot cannot 'go for a nap' when autopilot is engaged.
Indeed I do! I am not tired of self driving cars at all and in fact look forward to more of them. Thanks for pointing out.
What was this Indian citizen doing in a country that is not his and is currently deep in war?
PyPI did this in 2018: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3411
You realize you started this with a weird tangent, right, and that the article concerns African-Americans?
That would not be a very efficient feature to have enabled here in Mexico
I was 25 at that time. The tech was obscure, so I didn't have the option to move. If moving was an option, then I would have taken it. Instead I'm in my 30s, burnt out, doing the minimum (sort of), and still a midlevel.
If you're still into that same domain, then sure you should have another look. There's plenty of chatrooms where you can ask questions, jdev@muc.xmpp.org is a popular one for implementers. The Jabber/XMPP community, despite a too-much-information syndrom, is full of very friendly folks who always take time to answer questions in public chats to guide you in the right direction. That's something i truly miss in most dev chatrooms where i often feel like i'm talking into the void (or to other people like me who have different problems and no clue).

From a client perspective, picking a good/modern XMPP library will save you a lot of headaches, because a good library is supposed to hide away the complexity. If you're not sure what to pick, just ask around in dev chatrooms.

Happy hacking
Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course?
I would say no. I made the first post on Bitcoin here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
That would be the absolute free market proposed solution for addressing social externalities in the absence of regulation: companies that make employees unhappy are rendered less competitive due to higher churn and a need for above market wage levels to act as a perpetual retention bonus. I expect that the more readily an industry can convert novel thinking into economic advantage, the greater the strength of that phenomenon, and the more challenging it is to find a global minimum for both individual and organization prosperity.

My last 9-5, many years ago, involved writing logistics software in an industry that: didn't present moral dilemmas, didn't especially reward creativity, and certainly didn't leave one feeling any real sense of accomplishment - outside of occasionally conquering another rung on the corporate ladder. It did, however, regularly present interesting problems - so I was pretty happy getting paid to solve non-contrived puzzles. But as I assumed more responsibility I surrendered more independence, and it eventually got to the point were it was a job - so I asked for a pay bump large enough to compensate the loss of intellectually challenging problems. I found myself reading IRS guidance for independent contractors shortly thereafter.

Over the years I've considered paths that would eventually necessitate hiring, but I haven't been able to come up with a solution for the problem of balanced interests. One that would have been able to retain my younger self while also maximizing utility. I'm not sure if such a financial instrument exists, one that incentivizes the execution of long term objectives in the company's interest, doesn't collect dead weight silent partners, doesn't leave anyone starving, and doesn't end in a coup.
>I see a lot of spam on Reddit.

Where? I've seens a couple of ghost subreddits with spam, but then you see the same with ghost fb groups, weird twitter profiles, youtube, etc On even moderately sized subs I've seen any that wasn't removed quickly by the mods.

People can say mods are too expensive for fb and twitter, but there is the dishonesty, instead of paying mods they pass on that cost to us with our pii while pretending it's free.
Got it, don't connect the stolen TV to the internet. Just plug in a Fire Stick, Apple TV or what have you. Fortunately, that's good advice in general anyway.
Don't worry, the later terminator models are much more effective.
Disclosure: I work at Waymo.

At least the current fleets of AVs (Waymo, Cruise, etc.) are "obviously" potentially autonomous. I'm honestly more cautious now as a pedestrian when I see a Tesla coming after the FSD videos. I wish I could know "Is that Tesla owner using the FSD mode?"...
> Amazon Sidewalk or even just a 3g/4g sim

The fix for these is in this video: https://youtu.be/urglg3WimHA
> What are the chances that they could be snooping and monitoring what I am watching.

100%.

> Samsung Smart TVs have built-in Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology that can understand viewing behavior and usage including programs, movies, ads, gaming content and OTT apps in real-time. It’s a simple 3-step process:

Linked elsewhere itt: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-...
Well, in terms of this article, we're talking about black barbers. This isn't a racism thing. There is a culture associated with black barbers. I was a white kid, I grew up in the hood. I would hang out with my friends while they got their haircut. Racism didn't keep me from getting my haircut there, the literal texture and makeup of my hair did. They specialized. And in black culture, the barber shop is one of the main socialization spots. It's a place demanding similar levels of respect as going to church, minus the dress code. It's a place, outside of so many other places in this white dominated world, where they can be themselves. It's a place "for them and by them". They can be themselves, the subconscious relaxes, they don't have to worry about someone being a bigot towards them.

Like it or not, black culture is a thing. Just like white culture is a thing. No one has to feel bad about it. Color is beautiful. The whole "I don't see color" concept is disingenuous to the human experience.
I know it has been a huge pain in the ass for some applications that use older ODBC drivers when Azure made TLS 1.2 the default for Azure SQL databases.
I've tested this multiple times with friends who use an IPhone, and indeed I got better rates on Android. Might do course also been other aspects involved, maybe they analysed my data realised I'm a penny pincher.
Also at top of the list: “We care about your privacy” (and not that we are required by law to give you these options that follow)
I believe this behaviour is endemic to companies trying to morph into a "tech company" with MBAs leading the charge.

> Customer intimacy. Modern tech companies collect, store, organize, and analyze years of user data. This data is virtual gold, as it enables companies to run targeted ads and personalize the customer experience. The key difference between a customer walking into a Walmart supercenter and Amazon's online store is that Amazon instantaneously reorganizes the whole store (layout, displays, product offerings, etc.) in a way that's tailormade for that customer.

https://archive.is/wK1bC (why wework is not a tech company, hbr.org, 2019)

https://archive.is/G7rSR (why zomato.com is a tech company, hbr.org, 2021)
I don't see nearly as many people claiming Google could be built in a weekend, but I do see that sentiment a lot in threads about Uber. It's easy to think it's a simple app, but there was a great response from a former EM highlighting just why that isn't so[0].

> This reminds me of a common fallacy we see in unreliable systems, where people build the happy path with the idea that the happy path is the “real” work, and that error handling can be tacked on later. For reliable systems, error handling is more work than the happy path.

Is there a name for this fallacy? I think this isn't merely a familiar anecdote, but something that points to the root of why armchair architects think things are easier than they actually are.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
The generational house is probably different from something like this though. Even if all the second cousins don't necessarily really know each other, a lot of the owners will have grown up going to the house starting as kids. And, as you say, families will get together etc. That seems a rather different situation from buying a luxury timeshare with strangers.
I wrote a little Python service which combines multiple rss/atom feeds into a single feed, in case anyone wants to host their own API for doing that:

https://github.com/cristoper/feedmixer
The creator stated on his subreddit:

> CAD files are not available for the mouse... [Will it ever be?] It's certainly possible, but my focus is not currently on the mouse, so there's no timeline. [0]

> I haven't released the design files for the Mouse, no. I may revisit that decision at a later date, since I've slated some major design revisions to it, but that won't be any time soon. Sorry. [1]

> I made the decision some time ago to keep the mechanical files for the Mouse closed-source. I could spend all day trying to convince you that my reasoning was good, but you'd still leave unsatisfied. All I can do is tell you that I'm sorry the files aren't available, and that I hope you can find something that will satisfy your needs. [2]

The Open Source Hardware Association describes OSHW as "hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design. The hardware’s source, the design from which it is made, is available in the preferred format for making modifications to it." Kicad/Altium would certainly be appropriate for the electronics.

Gerbers are to Kicad schematics and PCBs as the STEPs and STLs are to the mechanical design files in Freecad .FCStd or (more likely) Autodesk dwg/f3d/iam or Solidworks SLDPRT/SLDASM formats. For the other products like the trackballs, the author did not release the mechanical design files, only the output STEPs and STLs. This isn't quite as bad as, for example, getting only the compiled code out of a software project. Mechanical design tools are good at working with STEP files; each step of hardware->electronics->software gets increasingly more obfuscated. But I agree, it's hard to put "Open" as the first word on your website and then describe your products as:

> Our products are accessible. Often, we release some or even all of the design files and source code for our products.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ploopy/comments/k4olxc/cad_availabl...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ploopy/comments/l3r783/ploopy_mouse...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ploopy/comments/mkzmv7/stl_for_ploo...
How has it been banned?
> We can’t wait to hear from more San Franciscans as they experience the Waymo Driver themselves. Beginning later today, San Franciscans can sign up for the Trusted Tester program and help us shape the future of mobility in this city. Just download the Waymo One app to get involved.

Anyone else got this to work? I only see a message that says "It looks like you're not in our service area..."
I don't have a Twitter account, and this now makes it far, far less likely that I will even click on a Twitter link or engage with the platform whatsoever.

I could obviously be in the minority (though I'm certainly not alone), but I'm curious if you think that my scenario will be the less common one and this will actually increase signups, or if it will have a positive impact on the stock price in another way.
> that is such a rare desire

Not rare among a certain wealthy, striving, social class. Not rare at all.

In some circles I intersect with (but do not belong to), the years, or decades your family has been part-time residents in a place is a factor in your self-image and/or place in the pecking order.

Aside from that, part of what I think is fueling this company's growth is that it's not about vacationing. It's about having a (another) pretty place to take your family for 2 months a year, wrapped up in a promise that it's a compelling real estate investment, so you're practically losing money if you don't buy now!
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> When one is on the streets of San Francisco does a Waymo Jaguar just drive by every couple of minutes?

I live on Dolores park. They drive by multiple times an hour
Sounds like a business opportunity: "promotion as a service". Do it for other people, in return for them paying you the next year 30% of the extra money they got after the promotion.
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Here's one on bitcoin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
Brain is interested how it thinks so made me click
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Probably got them for free/really cheap. Waymo has regularly looked for partnership deals with car manufacturers, driven by the push to make Waymo look good on the budget sheets.

Also, companies pushing their own self-driving or ADAS solutions may be hesitant to partner with Waymo, excluding some of the large players.
Don't they have an explicit exception for login screens on their T&C?
Kind of interesting to consider how this adjusts priors on these outcomes:

- Self driving is not possible

- Self driving is not possible anytime soon

- Self driving is possible, but requires LIDAR

- Self driving is possible, and can be done with normal cameras

I've engaged with a lot of people who presume self-driving reduces onto AGI, therefore it will not be achieved anytime soon if ever. I wonder which of their assumptions is wrong, if this ends up being successful.
> Why does the media make us segregate ego formation based off of these shallow descriptors? Black white etc.

the basic scenario is that we’ve had a years-long moral panic in which elite white tastemakers adopted the political posture of radical Black academics out of purely competitive social impulses, trying on a ready-made political eschatology that blames the worlds ills on whiteness and men and yet somehow leaves space for an army of good white people and good men to cluck their tongue about it all.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/who-tells-them-what-the...
The spectrum of hash functions can be outlined in a fairly straightforward manner:

A) Perceptual (fast, similar inputs result in similar hashes - by design)

B) Checksum (fast, hash collisions from different inputs should be expected - by chance)

C) Cryptographic (slow, similar inputs results in very different hashes - by design)

Many security vulnerabilities involving hash functions come from using A or B when C should have been used. More subtle vulnerabilities come from not using a cryptographically strong algorithm for C (eg SHA1, and more recently SHA2), or not appending a unique and random "salt" to every input of C - so when your database is compromised attackers can pre-compute hashes for common passwords (if the attacker also has access to the secret key supplied to the hash function).

As the OP notes, these are fairly well known hazards which are easy to find more information on. I enjoyed reading about the more nuanced scenarios brought up by OP since they aren't as commonly discussed.
We also were in this phase. So first, we searched for some other tool to expose scripts, and we even tried Rundeck, but then we just built a custom "DevOps Portal" that made sense for our requirements.
Sounds good. Thanks for the suggestion!
In case it's helpful to you, you can ADB over the network to your Android TV and uninstall packages which are annoying to you. I'd wager there's one which this prompt comes from. I have disabled all but the essential apps (for HDMI-CEC function, etc) on my Sony Android TV.

Alternatively, set it up once then ban it from the internet.
Actually, not at all.

What does a "white" working class Italian who's parents came over in the 50's have in common with a "white" old money millionaire guy who's German ancestors came over in the mid 1800's?

What does a "black" kid who went to a private school, then Ivy League, and now works at a Private Equity fund in NYC (this is my actual friend) have in common with a "black" kid growing up in Detroit?

The "white" and "black" descriptors of all of these people have little correlation with their daily lives... and yet it's the single adjective that media/Instagram etc speak the loudest about and make it into this huge thing.

Really the biggest separator in our society is socioeconomic wealth. And that should be the main descriptor.
I had no idea it was available anywhere to just anyone, and without a backup driver in the driver seat. It still isn't to me in the UK, but really cool to see, it's a lot further along (especially in terms of regulation/being allowed) than I realised.

Couple of articles deep from the submission, blogger taking one for a ride (alone, in the back seat) in Arizona:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/zdKCQKBvH-A
Which reminds you that HN moderation got outsourced to affiliates of the Democratic Party
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Very true, but if you're a country with porous borders then it's going to be much harder to enforce. Border control is a prerequisite to enforcing transit quarantine, as well as having said rules in place, and border control is easier for an island.
Oh the tyranny of having to pay…
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One of the CIA leaks included malware for turning Samsung tvs into a listening device

So it's not unrealistic for it to be done my others
At least you can't say you were not warned.
Maybe. I know mainframe programmers out of work because they couldn't adapt. I know programmers who made a lifetime of supporting obsolete products after everyone else forgot about them.

There is a difference in attitude even though from the outside they look the same, the prospects are very different.
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Shared config != shared machine
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Could we please stop using this "no code required" bullshit? You have to configure it somehow and once you get to the edge of "we guess what our customer needs", which is quite soon, you quickly get to the docs for advanced users where you have to use code in the end again...
Thanks for sharing something different. Very interesting. Will go through this.
What leads you to believe they are not monitoring eveything you watch now?
So will I now need a 2nd account to view all the users who have blocked me? Lame.
HBO Max is almost unusable. It is so slow and buggy that on some days we literally could not watch something we wanted. The interface is also atrocious.

Netflix is good. Amazon Prime is pretty good. HBO Max is terrible. Hulu is kinda crappy. Paramount plus is okay (only use it for Star Trek).
Yeah, and over time the significant costs of plane ownership are directly tied to "runtime" on the engine - so a plane that's not being "rented" doesn't cost a ton to keep on the flight-line.
While it is true that there is much diversity within each minority group, it is also true that the society often imposes discrimination solely based on one's skin color, and we can't just ignore society. I also think that this article is really mainly talking about the descendants of the enslaved people, which form the majority of US's black population, and is commonly referred to as the Black community.
They’re also in my neighborhood - I generally see one every time I do an errand. They tend to drive 5-10 mph under the rest of traffic which can be frustrating. They also tend to be slow when making lane changes and turns to the point where it holds up other vehicles.
There's also therapy. Way more expensive than a haircut, and it's highly stigmatized especially among men. It doesn't provide community, per se, but it can help a person work through the issues that are making it hard for them to find and keep friends.

And, yeah. A barbershop is a decent stand-in.
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They operate in only a small area of Phoenix metro – Chandler and some parts of Tempe. That's why the numbers are small.

My guess is Chandler is purely a testing ground for them to learn to operate a robotaxi service. Things like remote assistance, customer support, emergency protocols, fleet maintenance etc.
HN is the best way of learning about future tech trends before they happen. But it's not because there's any kind of prescient consensus here. The important stuff is a small minority. You have to do your own filtering.

I was ahead of the curve on Bitcoin, VR, and deep learning because I read about them early here, but they weren't the most popular things at the time. HN hates Bitcoin to this day. But I learned about it from HN and decided that HN was wrong about it. When lots of people are wrong about something, I see it as an opportunity.
I have a 10 year old Sony TV that I have NO proof of purchase for, I threw out that receipt with the box about 3 moves ago.
I bought one of Samsung's smart televisions a couple years ago. I think I paid $1500 for it. Anyway, it started showing me ads and the TV eventually became sluggish less than a month after owning it. Returned it as defective. Ever since that experience, I swore of all smart televisions and will never buy another Samsung television or smartphone again if I can help it.
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They don’t have Uber in STL, Detroit or Baltimore?
Any chance you could add, that wide text is really hard to read
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I saw a few of them when I went to visit my friend in SF a few weeks ago.
He really does do all his own stunts.
Except the four element theory was rendered irrelevant by the germ theory. I doubt that understanding the brain will render memory and perception irrelevant.

Robots literally have memory and perception (we know because we built them), so clearly these are real phenomena that exist in the real world.

It seems to me unlikely that we are totally mistaken in conceptualizing ourselves in terms of these known real phenomena.
Sounds like the Pareto Principle at play: 80% of the product is created with 20% of the effort. It is getting the next 19%, then 0.9%, then 0.09%, and so on, that is the challenge.
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