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EVs are slightly heavier than their ICE counterparts, and while aggressive regeneration negates the need for large amounts of day to day braking, disc brakes are still superior for short stopping distance you’d need for emergency braking (and regenerative braking is insufficient).

The article mentions VW’s EVs with rear drum brakes; premium EVs still use four wheel disc brakes, and those that have the capability to tow are going to need them. This piece feels like an attempt to sell a substandard technology choice as smart engineering when it’s more (imho) being cheap to protect margins on cheaper EVs (where you have to cut corners because of the battery per unit cost).
The politicians, yes, probably.

The dashboard (https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/)) is pretty trust worthy.

Lying is simple, and even then Government routinely fucks it up. I doubt they have the capacity to convincingly forge the data required to generate that website.
On HN, I rarely downvote. I only downvote when it's blatant spam, or out of topic, or provocative.

But on Reddit, I now tend to downvote things I dislike. I originally acted like on HN, but I noticed that _everyone_ else is downvoting because 'they don't like it', so I got on it too.
The system they proposed would only have scanned images in the process of being uploaded—so, the opposite of your 2nd sentence.

There was some reporting that Apple does server-side CSAM scanning, but based on the volume of matches they report, it must be extremely limited.

Apple never said it this way, but many people assumed that Apple designed this client-side scanning system so that they could then encrypt iCloud data with client-side keys, which would provide end to end encryption for customer backups… and prevent any server-side scanning. This is likely what Matthew is referring to.
> Things like comparing the Model 3 to all cars on the road when the average car is something like 12 years old and driven by a very different demographic.

Even worse than that their go-to stat is freeway miles where people feel comfortable enough to have Autopilot on miles compared to all cars all roads all conditions for others
Consider Project Alice. Runs on Raspberry Pi or AMD docker. https://github.com/project-alice-assistant/ProjectAlice
We have entirely too many antivax fools.
If there were government bank accounts, there wouldn't be instances of banks closing accounts for people's politics. The government bank would have to issue accounts for everyone because of first amendment protections
Isn’t this mostly a complaint about tooling? If getting the text form of a message just meant piping to a command would it be fine?
> I don't see anybody objecting to corporations scanning content uploaded to the corporation's own computers.

That depends on how "BYOD" the company is. There's an awful lot of companies that provide work machines that most of their employees reasonably use for some sort of personal work, be it checking their bank statements to see if they got a deposit or logging into a handful of services so their settings sync. In my opinion it is unreasonable to expect people to not do this, especially given that the alternative is quite painful with modern software. Corporate searches have a problem of not really having clear limits like a legal search might, so going through e.g. your synced web history when trying to find evidence of credential abuse (check your own audit logs!) is common.
Which apple device is now scanning client side for CSAM?
Yeah, I have that on my servers in case somebody tries to hack them. There is a secret to logging to my machines and if you miss it the machine self destructs in a reversible way. Can't give more information but it is pretty easy to boot it again.

One thing of note here, don't put LUKS header on any kind of flash (like SSD) or SMR HDD.
It doesn't seem, to me, to be designed for illegal activities any more than, say, a car is. People commit crimes with those every day.
The bit about "mechanical sympathy" is wrong, though. Plenty of languages inline map/reduce or iterator type code down to very efficient cache-friendly traversal of memory, most notably Rust.

Go's compiler is just particularly naive.
> If they wanted to use more it's right there and available.

But they'd have to pay more. We're postulating a scenario in which electricity prices fall precipitously. As far as I'm aware, any time the prices fall for any resource, society consumes it with increasing inefficiency. For example, broadband Internet becomes readily available and people start streaming cat videos, CPU clock speeds skyrocket and Microsoft releases Windows Vista. If renewable energy prices decline thus driving down costs for all energy prices, I suspect we'll find something equally stupid (e.g., mining more bitcoins) to do with the extra capacity rather than decommissioning fossil fuels.

Ultimately we have to choose to decommission fossil fuel plants at the expense of our frivolities, but at least in America we seem to be disappointingly bad at this kind of impulse control (in aggregate).
It's removed from marketing material, but is it removed from the code?

Since the OS is proprietary, how do we know they didn't go for it anyway?
Why does one get bothered with that argument anyway? If it works, it works. People who complain are the people who have a problem. But it’s a different problem and they don’t realise that.
What is "crippled"?

That you can't steal keystrokes from other programs?

Screensharing? (which is an adoption issue for clients, not a "problem" with Wayland)

Your X11 programs (not hacks) already work as if they were X11 with Xwayland, but it has the same drawbacks as running it natively with X11. (with a small bonus that it's rootless... unlike X11 which is assuredly not rootless by default).

Do you honestly believe that wayland developers should reimplement all software that has leveraged and abused the X11 system? Seems asinine, what are your _real needs_ that Wayland isn't providing support for?
You can blame them when that happens but it’s odd to blame OS X for being locked when clearly OS X is not… locked.
The same as described in OP. Btw, it is not my personal trait, I just know how it supposed to be here and how it makes HN HN. Maybe it’s in the rules/faq, visited it pretty long ago.

Edit: I think that the common idea of downvoting on HN is that it’s not your own opinion on a post content, but actually a public moderation mechanism allowing you to decide if that comment fits HN, not you, without flagging it to a moderator.
Crazy self-spreading vaccine idea
New pandemics are a given. So I am thinking of potential defense mechanisms against new viruses.

If a new virus appears, how crazy would it be to quickly create a super spreading stable virus that produces no symptoms and has the same viral spike as a newly appeared virus?

Could that be a self-spreading vaccine that protects us from new viruses and solves the logistics of vaccines? Anti-vacs would not pose a general health risk because they'd get immunised without even noticing.

What are the ethical implications? How could a government even prevent other countries from developing such a protection and spreading around the world?
How to know what you want
> for example popular messengers can send and receive text,

Your messenger isn't sending tens of megabytes for every message.

> metadata and blurry image previews just fine.

One might wonder why they don't just send the 4 MB JPEGs instead of those down scaled to hell previews if they work so well.

> . In some cases even voice calls are possible

Not only kilobytes of data, but kilobytes of data where transmission errors can be completely ignored. I have been in enough VoIP calls to notice how "well" that works in bad conditions.

Everything points to putting websites on a diet being the correct solution.

> And if the connection drops, then it almost certainly won't recover and full page reload is necessary.

I would consider that a browser bug. No idea why the connection wont just timeout and retry by itself.
The biggest problem is talking about 'statically typed' and 'dynamically typed' languages as if Haskell and C and Javascript, Python and Common Lisp (or Clojure) are the same.
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So this "inverted triangle CSS" is normal CSS as intended, then?
Can you be specific - Which sites are you actually complaining about here?

This site, which we're on, delivers pages of comments (this very comment thread is around 50K of comment text) almost instantly.

The Washington Post homepage loads in 600ms for me. 20K of text. Images load within about another 500ms. Their lead article right now is one of those visual feature ones with animations that trigger on scroll, so after the text first appears after 600ms, it takes a second or so longer for the layout to finish. But a routine text article page, I have a scrollable, readable text view within 500ms.

CNN.com, a fraction slower, for a little less text, but a lot more pictures. When I click into one of their articles, within a few seconds, it starts streaming me 1080p video of their news coverage of the article. Imagine that on your 'fast functional 90s and early 00s' web.

Or let's pick a technical resource. go.dev's landing page? No noticeable delay in loading for me, and that page has an embedded form for trying out Go code.

Or reactjs.org, say? Loads up in 200ms for me, and then subsequent navigations on site among documentation pages take about 60ms.

How about a government resource? irs.gov? The homepage maybe loads a little slower than I'd like, but FAQ pages are pretty responsive for me, with text appearing almost as soon as I've clicked the link.

I'm not cherrypicking, these were the first few websites that came to mind to test to see if things are really as bad as you're portraying. And my impression is... you know? It's not that bad?

I am not arguing that there aren't bad sites out there, but we need to stop pretending that the entire world has gone to hell in a handcart and the kids building websites today don't care about optimization. Substantive websites deliver substantive content efficiently and effectively, with a level of functionality and visual flair that the 90s/00s web could only have dreamed of.
"Capitalism" and "government" aren't opposites.
From a capitalistic POV, it's irresponsible not to exploit ("make full use of and derive benefit from") underlying economic systems, no? This is why a purely capitalist, free market economy would be a societal disaster.
Should you fix errors and contribute to Google Maps for free?
Well my point was not that all technologies are equivalent. And it could well be than a new iteration of B is better than ancient version of A. But that the way industry celebrates new (or if you wish, rediscovered) paradigms is too detached from reality to be useful as any objective metric.
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In the UK, and my experience was similar. I did my 15 minute wait sitting in my car, and it was only recommended because I was driving. When my wife did hers, I drove her, so we didn't bother waiting around (and no one asked us to). I really don't know where this is coming from.
Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about OS'es and login and so on.

I had an idea once, would it be possible to set up two sets of passwords? One to properly unlock your device, and one to trigger either encryption or scrambling of the data when entered?
Popos installer didn't work for me either. It ended with a message saying 'something went wrong, try installing again', lol.
How do you know it’s not on android?
Same. A person I know was buying physical gold about 8 years ago in preparation for a mega economic collapse which leaves gold as king. However he himself said that he will lose in the end because someone with a gun will come and take what he's got.
We were promised this wouldn't happen by our governments last year right?

It feels like the public are building their own prisons. Why are private companies stuck policing these absurd policies?
I too have C++ experience and would never take "it compiles" as a sign that it'll work. I don't dispute that there are languages which have sufficiently powerful and complex type systems and compilers that enable you to model significant amounts of domain constraints such that you feel you don't "need" tests, because it'll probably work if it compiles (though I'd argue that you really ought to still have tests to verify your modelling of the domain in the type system is correct, i.e. a set of programs that must typecheck and a set of programs that mustn't typecheck) -- C++ is not usually one of those.
Also you have to factor in the probability to catch Covid to begin with. Some say everybody will get it eventually, but I don't think it is a given. Or maybe when you get it, it could be a less severe strain by then.
While that may be true, I'm not sure that's evidence that DSL's are the reason. I would argue the explanation is: JavaScript. I think many people are compelled by the idea that you can learn one language, and handle both back and front-end development. As the language has improved over the past ~10 years, this angle has only become more compelling, and has eaten into the popularity of other "traditional" web frameworks like Django, Rails, Spring, etc.
People like us who do not want this kind of intrusion have other things to do and lives to live. People driving such initiatives do such things to make their living. They will keep pushing for it and eventually we will be too busy/forgetful/tired to stop it. Unfortunately these issues are never prominent points in the political discussion and get sidelined either by vested interests or people's ignorance/lack of information or combination of such factors. I wish I had the optimism to see hope in these matters.
The problem is, if they are serious and suspect you might be prepared and technical savvy, they will never allow you to operate the device.
Uhm, I just don't use any voice assistant.

Every time I try a voice recognition this or that, I find the experience so frustrating that I don't want to deal with it when I need to turn on the lights.

Ironically, the first time someone tried to demo Alexia turning on the lights, it didn't work. I just laughed.
Are there any photos from the spacecraft just to get an idea how close it is?

I am wondering why the sun looks like from there.
This is yours-only collapse [-], not downvote. Downvoting is enabled at 500, afaik, I just upvoted you to 500 for you to see/test it :)
> However, the major issue for me is the database of "forbidden" neural hashes which you are not permitted to have on your phone. Who controls what goes into that database? Right now, it's only CSAM and Apple have said they pinky-swear that if they're told to add other things they will refuse.

This isn't what was being proposed. What was being proposed was that if you had a photo that resolved to a "forbidden" hash, upon being uploaded to iCloud data would be sent to Apple. Presumably after some arbitrary amount of times this happens, information would then be sent to the local government.

If you were not using iCloud to store photos then it wouldn't matter either way (according to Apple).
I've done it a bit in a professional environment and it worked well. I wouldn't want to do it 100% of the time, but it has its uses.
2 jabs is fine, its just you're about 20% more likely to get symptoms (assuming you are 18-50 and of good health). The issue is you're still going to have a week of feeling like shite. but you're much less likley to need hospital care

3 jabs gives you an 80-95% chance of not exhibiting symptoms. This is what most people expect of a vaccine. (frankly its what I had hoped that two jabs would provide. But I am naive )
> Would you feel fine paying around 100 bucks to... well... whom?

I’d feel fine deciding if I feel fine.

That’s also why I have a credit card. I can get scammed and not be out $100.
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You bring up a good point. Last year when Parlor was kicked off of AWS, it was a dude awakening. Before that, I had (correctly) thought that AWS doesn't read the data you store and (incorrectly) AWS doesn't care what you store.

I now realize the cloud providers are willing and able to express political opinions and delist people/companies that disagree with political parties.
Will you check your emails over Christmas?
Check out https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P98854S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... for a great history of all this.
i understand your frustration

Still not getting the vaccine.
That's so cool! Should be one hell of a wireless router. Maybe it would even work on bonding multiple connections.
While the GP was a bit...harsh, the main reason people have that view is generics, as a problem space, were solved. Java's way was published years ago. As was .NET's. Other languages exist which have some form generics. The argument of "gather enough use cases to decide on the matter" feels like a punt given the use cases already exist and were known in the industry for the past 30 years.
If the additional room has N seats you can vaccinate at most N people per 15 minutes. Many vaccination venues are small and the size of these rooms could easily be the limiting factor compared to the throughput potentially achievable by a couple of staff giving the actual injections.

When I had mine there were maybe 8 seats, which were full, and they were calling the next patient as seats became free.
One may note that, but you seem to imply that «big organization»s are authoritative. That is "not how it works". Entities have boundaries - in general "political", in terms of policies of caution towards other powers.

Edit: the article seems a valid journalistic effort, and - specifying just in case - is richer in information than just mentioning a couple of opinions.
If you use Home Assistant and want something that is easy to setup, there is Home Intent: https://homeintent.io

It uses Rhasspy under the covers, and automatically imports lights, switches, fans, etc and sets up sentences and intents for you. After initial setup, it can be used without an active internet connection.

All you need is some container knowledge, an extra Pi, and a good speakerphone (like a Jabra Speak 410) to get going.

Disclosure: I am the main author of Home Intent.
I had come to accept my brother's COVID denial after this loop played out a few times. Now it looks like the world is going for another spin, and sure enough, the arguments rev up again.

Particularly, Rogan interviewing the quack Peter McCullough set my brother off again. I sent him info on McCullough's membership in AAPS[1][2], which seems to be made up of fringe pseudoscience-enamored doctors. That only changed the goalpost, "It's not about him dude, x and y and z and blah blah".

I find it suspect when my views align with abhorrent people, at the very least giving me a signal to reconsider my conclusions.

I'm sorry for the anecdotal tangent, but your comment fit perfectly with what I'm going through. I am doubly frustrated that I can't seem to muster the intellectual power to figure out how to get him to at least reconsider his viewpoints. I WANT TO FIGURE THIS PROBLEM OUT!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._McCullough
[2] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physic...
"Mobbing" means "bullying" in Swedish, which initially confused me greatly.
i think your expertise in C++ might be affecting your view of python more than expected. i used to feel this way about languages other than my « primary » one and it turned out i just wasn’t as good at others and blamed the language for it
Have you never heard of the saying “you catch more flies with honey”?

Is the law really the driving force behind why most people wear seatbelts? I don’t think so.
That is pretty much what Tails is doing: If you disconnect the USB drive with the system, it will wipe the RAM and then shut down. However the data on the USB drive isn't modified, so if you don't trust its encryption you should prepare for quick physical destruction and/or disposal.
How on earth does this speed vaccination rates? The 15-minute wait is after the jab, and so presents zero bandwidth constraints on the actual vaccination process. It’s just a bunch of people sitting quietly in a room requiring almost no attention, then leaving.

I don’t have a huge objection to the decision itself; if folks have found that GBS is really low risk, sure, tell people they can stay or go at their leisure. But the justification here is so transparently ridiculous that it makes me wonder what the real reason is.
No, I'm not. You're way overthinking this and your attitude is weirdly gatekeepy. I'm asking TypeScript to implement a shortcut feature for the tedious, boilerplate code we already write to use type guards to inspect objects from APIs before passing them on.
And why do we think that? Because public health agencies said so?

It's not because the trials proved it - they didn't. At only ~64,000 participants the e.g. Pfizer trial was not powered to show any difference to deaths and didn't use hospitalizations as a goal metric either, only infections.

And so we're forced to rely on the testimony of the same people in charge of the program, where their data is often missing or deceptive in some way. For example Germany has been claiming nearly all cases occur in the unvaccinated. It turned out this wasn't true. Rather, they don't have data at all on the status of most cases, and then reallocate all the "unknown" column to "unvaccinated" because ... well, why not? No matter what they do, plenty of people will still take their word for everything. This was revealed by Die Welt and the response was nothing. They still do it, as far as I know.

The UK data is usually considered to be the best, as in, the most detailed. And there, when the data on deaths is studied carefully it turns out to be riddled with anomalies and problems that cast doubt on whether vaccines did in fact reduce mortality (the numbers are low enough that statistical artifacts can actually matter). For example, in the UK data vaccination reduces non-COVID deaths in unvaccinated people. Don't take my word for it, ask a professor of risk management:

http://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/12/possible-syste...

"Our research team have now analysed the ONS England November mortality data. We conclude that, despite seeming evidence to support vaccine effectiveness, this conclusion is doubtful because of a range of serious inconsistencies and anomalies", "The ONS data provide no reliable evidence that the vaccines reduce all-cause mortality."
The second design flaw is manufacturing stretched airplanes in the first place, which are hacks in general. Even as an amateur one can see that the proportions are off without understanding anything else. They look ugly and fly ugly.

The stretched cargo version of the MD-11 had many issues and accidents, particularly during landing.
> While capitalism doesn’t lend well to maintaining open source software (which I find to be a surprising comment given that GitHub exists)

Github doesn't maintain the open source software they host.

> it does lend well to things like having a house

Capitalism isn't the originating point of houses though. However, it is the originating point of mortgages, and the massive profits banks draw off of them. I'd say it's a double-edged sword on that front.

> The world’s most capitalist countries also have the highest standards of living (Norway, Sweden, etc.).

Those countries are social democracies - they invest a lot into welfare and the state. The US is probably the world's most capitalist country, that or South Korea. Both have terrible standards of living for poorer people.

Fundamentally, the incentives of capital drive towards maximising profits and minimising costs - everything else is surplus to requirements. I'm not on board with the people who think capitalism is the worst thing ever, but its incentives are pretty bad and it's usually better off mixed with taxes, regulation, nationalisation etc into a mixed economy.
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