skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding out if someone is running an ad blocker is not easy. After all a good ad blocker tries to be stealthy about it.

(anti ad blocker leads to anti anti ad blocker)
The US interstate speed limits are at most 120 kph (75 mph) and are 105 kph on average (65 mph), and can be as low as 90 kph (55 mph), so that's almost certainly what Tesla bases their "highway" estimates off of.

160 kph+ (100 mph+) is way past the efficiency sweet spot :)

US interstate speed limits have their roots in fuel conservation for WW2 (or noise control in wealthier spots), safety was just a side effect at least at first.
You're pearl clutching. The song does sound insensitive, but kids aren't going to start massacring Indians after hearing the song.

Take it as an opportunity to learn and raise antifragile kids.
I have seen these things closely. It kinda works out fine in big companies with large/slow IT departments. It takes ~3-6 months to figure out that person hired is not really up to task assigned. But still works in candidates favor because usually low level IT consultants are hired for 3/6 months + extension up to year or so. This means there is no point to proceed with firing that person as by then contract is about to be over.

Also I do not have latest info on this. The stories I have are from 2006-2016 period. So maybe with agile and all it is no longer possible.
The easy solution here would be to eschew such features. Remote start seems like it provides no benefit except to waste slightly more gas, and also to occasionally suffocate the elderly or otherwise forgetful.
I have a theory most ads (especially invasive ones) don't actually target most people, not just tech-savvy users but anyone. They target "dumb", very-manipulable people who see these crazy ads and actually spend loads of money on them, out of impulse or whatever reason.

I feel cruel saying this but I really think it's true. Just like how most games have microtransactions because a minority of people who will spend an incredible amount of money on them. Most people are caught in the crossfire and ads just annoy them and steer them away from the product, but mass advertising is an effective way to target the minority who ultimately spend enough on the product to offset the cost.
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Part of Seattle is currently experiencing this issue because under-bridge cables were cut and stolen under a bridge, twice: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/wiring...

It's hitting affected businesses hard; they can't process credit cards or receive call-in orders.
I disagree. I use an adblocker because I refuse to be monetized via freemium tactics. I pay to support some sites that are of interest to me, on most other sites I'm never even given the option.

Advertisements directly lower the quality of any content I'm consuming and I am expecting high quality content.
GP is possibly referencing the "you cyclists don't pay for the roads get out of my way" view held by some people.
Most management software on a company laptop (or endpoint in jargon-speak) will be set up to allow this and your company's policy will allow them to activate monitoring software if an investigation is required. It probably won't be used unless you're already in deep shit, which the person in TFA pretty much was.

It's not that unusual.
Ad blocking these days is actually just a security measure. When sites like nytimes.com serve malware through third party ad networks they’ve put on their page, it’s silly to not use an ad blocker.

On sites that handles all their own ad sales and display directly, I still see their ads.
A cable that's carrying traffic for 30,000 subscribers is "backbone" enough. I don't expect redundant paths to my block, but 30,000 is a big enough area that it's reasonable to expect it not to be knocked out by single, reasonably likely events. Even for power, which is much, much more expensive to make redundant, single transmission lines that can knock out that many people should be rare.

Let's not normalize bad behavior here.
I won't lie, I'm looking forward to greater range. I've had a Model 3 (Performance trim, though, for which range is not a feature to brag about). My wife drives a Bolt. Neither car is/was capable of making a trip to grandma's house and back without a stop at a DC fast charging station. It's a day trip for us, 315 miles round trip, and setting aside 45-60 minutes for a pit stop has a significant impact.

I want an EV that can pull off this 315 mile trip without dipping into reserves, even in the winter. I expect we'll get there in a few years, and I'm willing to pay a bit extra for that battery.
The Reform uses an upgradable SoM, there's already an RPi CM4 based unit in the works.

What's great is you'd keep the user-serviceable batteries, nice keyboard, modern display...
Wow, 160 kph! That's why. That extra drag really kills the battery. In the US I have never driven above about 130kph, anything higher is pretty much illegal everywhere.
If you equivocate on the meaning of "search results", then sure.
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I started a project with react!
Stripped everything and went back to server side generated pages with sprinkles of jquery!
what is the difference between 99% and 100% in the cost of electricity though? 1/50th of a cent?
Accidentally transferring half a million dollars to the wrong external account is going to be an absolute mess to recover. There are ways to stop it if you catch it RIGHT away, but it will turn into a nightmare pretty quickly.
When the latest car we bought came pre-loaded with 2048 on the absurdly large central touchscreen control, but had no physical knobs to control the heater, I resolved to never buy another new vehicle again.
I don’t expect free content, I expect that if your business can’t survive without ads it should disappear from the face of the earth.

Going without is better than ad funded. The goal of me running ad blockers is not just to make my life nicer but to make ad funded shit (i.e. most of the current internet) unviable.

Paywall away! If it’s good enough for the money, I’ll always pay for it.
Isn’t it fun how our years of combined nerd opposition toward surveillance of Internet infrastructure was a total waste of time when all it took was flashing some cash to make advertisers implement even more intrusive client-side surveillance in a distributed infinitely-scalable way instead?

Even our response to the Snowden releases was to get Google Analytics running over TLS and to make it even harder for a normal solo person to host a website that isn’t through one of the major silos.
[rich](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29945848) was recently discussed as well.
It was 100 million doses, but that's a minor point.

The orders were through OWS. The best part was OWS that they would spend billions on hundreds of millions of doses even if the vaccines didn't work or had side effects. They could start production knowing they sell even if they made people grow gills. The US government also agreed not to ship the doses to other countries that might not fully indemnify Pfizer from any side effects that might occur like the US did. This is the part that's different, where normally the US government doesn't buy snake oil, insisting on seeing it works first.

Fortunately, the vaccines worked and are safe, so that's good. For some reason, I need to explicitly state this every fucking time vaccines come up because idiots keep insisting the opposite.

And "not receiving the money in advance" is pretty meaningless. If I have a guarantee the US government will give me $2 billion in 6 months, it should be trivial to debt-finance anything I need. Even if Pfizer didn't have the capital to do so internally.

Look, there were a lot of dumb things done by the US, especially by the executive branch, 2017-2021. This was not one of them. There were other parts of OWS that were stupid. But one of the best (if easiest) decisions was writing giant checks to pharma companies.
or any open micropaymemts type platform. I always expected the journalists to make such a thing-pay whatever $50 bucks a month and it is split between the content publishers you visit. Better than a few people like me subscribing to as many papers as i can and most people being the prey of the asveetisers and having terrible roadblocks to just learning the news.
One market where this has always been a problem is tools. So almost 20 years ago we were told in shop class that the industry magazines and reviews were basically all paid for by manufacturers. The solution we learned was to always buy the cheapest option first. If it breaks or fails to meet your needs understand how and why and then move on to a more costly tool that you can demonstrate is better in the specific way you need it to be. Of course thats not always practical or feasible but for the majority of items it really is.
There is, I think, a valid argument that we got here today because in the early days of the web:

1. People wanted content without paying for it.

2. Creators wanted/needed financial support to make and host their work.

Advertising filled the void between those two things. You can think of it as sort of a natural, emergent property. No one wanted advertising, but the way the individual actors behaved—web users preferring sites that didn't charge them, creators that didn't advertise going out of business—led to the rise of advertising.

I think that is part of why some people don't think of advertising as morally bad. No one deliberately nefariously foisted it onto the world, it just arose from the behavior of individuals. That behavior created an environment, and the environment evolved the dominance of ads.

You can use that exact same argument justify the use of ad-blockers now.

People using ad blockers are not actively trying to harm creators. They are just using the web and tools available in the way that makes the most sense for them. This is exactly the same as when they chose to prefer non-paid ad-supported content before. The system gave them options, and they chose the ones that they prefer.

Creators will in turn make the choices that make the most sense for them. If ad blockers mean that they no longer make money from ads, they'll find other ways to be sustainably creative. Markets aren't magic solutions to all problems, but in this case I think the market is working pretty damn efficiently.

People are using ad blockers because ads are bad for them. If consumers improving the quality of their own life is a problem for the system, the system should change. And in order to change, it needs systemic incentives to do so. Ad blockers create that incentive.

An argument against ad blockers is essentially an argument for forcing users to consume something toxic. Imagine if McDonald's stopped selling burgers in isolation, required you to buy combos, and then forced you to drink your entire soda. When people who wanted to cut back on unhealthy sugar complained, they were told that they're the problem because McDonald's makes most of its profit from drinks. If they don't drink the soda then McDonald's won't be as profitable and then they won't be in business. That's basically the argument against ad blockers.

But... a burger joint that forced you to chug soda should be out of business, or should at least have to change its pricing in a way that lets people eat in a healthier manner. Ad blockers enable consumers to "stop drinking the soda" in the attention combo offered by sites.
I do think there's a reasonable argument for ads, since people don't always know what they could be looking for [1]. Independent magazines can serve a similar purpose, but the difference is between an organization that claims to be unaffiliated with the manufacturer, and needs to be constantly policed to make sure they aren't lying about it, and just being up-front about your affiliation, and only needing to be constantly policed to make sure you aren't lying about the product itself.

Unfortunately, web ads suck. Because there isn't enough Gatekeeping(tm), I can't buy things from web ads, because the probability of it being a scam is too high.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_mLxyIXpSY
Bitcoin kept Wikileaks going for years after Visa, Matercard, and Paypal cut off service for no reason.
Did you look into Subaru? They are still using physical controls for all car functionality. You can get heated seats, heated steering, stereoscopic lane keep assist & adaptive cruise control, etc. There is a touch screen, but I only use it for Apple Car Play.
Proposed definition of "immoral debates":

An immoral debate depends on the definition of a corrupt debate. A corrupt debate is where:

1) debaters willfully produce responses that contain bad arguments or logical fallacies

2) debaters willfully conduct arguments toward an audience without knowledge of logical fallacies and/or without knowledge of critical thinking

3) debaters willfully conduct arguments in a venue or theater where non-logical aspects of communication could manipulate the behavior of others, and leverage those aspects in the delivery of their arguments.

A corrupt debate is an immoral debate if performed where the debate is part of a process affecting a large number of people who consider themselves a society, because:

1) while those debating look like they are arguing and analyzing an issue, and trying to come to a logically correct conclusion, they are really manipulating an audience to effect a desired outcome,

2) if debate is the foundation of determining the direction of a society, corrupt debate skews it towards the will of specific individuals rather than objective truth.
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> I wonder how well my car will age when miscellaneous sensor all over the car start failing.

That's just it, the tech is making the cars less reliable. Will all of these bespoke parts be available in 10, 15, 20 years? I would hate to have to dispose of a working car because the dead now obsolete chip on the bespoke LCD dash module shaped like the cars dashboard is no longer in production. I had cars who's odometers didn't roll 100k miles until they hit 15 years. I have a 2002 van that has 102k miles on it.

> Now as others have mentioned, these unwanted smart features might actually be required by law/regulation/tax-credit/legal-dept, so it's not bad programming/design but "design by committee" that's dooming our chances of a good dumb car.

None of that requires LCD dash boards, tablets, touch screens, phone home, internet, subscriptions, etc. Everyone is just high on the concept of rent seeking and perpetual cash flows. They hate the fact that you buy something and walk away from them. They want you on a leash like a dog and they've been doing a damn fine job leash training you and your children.

Opinion: Mandated lane keeping and other lane keeping/self driving safety garbage is papering over the failure of the human race to govern itself. The people who I see swerving all over the road are either selfish assholes who insist on playing with phones/speeding while piloting a 3000+ lb machine or people who should not be driving at all. Now we have TV commercials that show people diddling touch screens while driving. We have failed.
> these unwanted smart features

Only within the niche HN-type tech crowd. Most people outside of this group want these features, even other techies, including myself.

It's the same discussion on any thread involving smart devices. People want this stuff, that's why there have been over 200M standalone smart speakers sold.

As far as why these things get bundled, that’s just how auto manufacturing works. Every unique configuration costs an additional overhead to the OEM. Bundling allows them to reduce this overhead.
If anyone is wondering why field extensions aren't transitive, you can watch Fields medalist Dr. Richard Borcherds explain it: https://youtu.be/zAqVrdNE81g?t=798
that's so Fetch
It's not available in my country.
Exactly. When people broadcast such immature emotional arguments, they can't be surprised when they get immature emotional responses.
4chan's /g/ for tech gear and /diy/ for bigger gear is great for that sort of thing. There's "generals" for common subjects like headphones, PC building etc, and "stupid questions thread" where you can ask about anything. Do note that 4chan can be very offensive and politically incorrect, you need a bit of a thick skin to get along there.
I think it's just a matter of time before we see a Super Bowl or World Series thrown due to the legalization of Sport betting...

We have been here before and seen all of this before and it's really hard to believe history won't repeat itself.

It's stupid all the way down.
This is exactly what I did recently. No more "you need to take this to the dealer to fix for thousands with their machine™", and I can replace every single component on the thing my damn self. The less parts, the less that can fail.
I came here to say exactly the same thing.
I'll go one step further... not only are the equipment/fabs fully depreciated, but they are 8" rather than 12" and so none of the new equipment/processes will work with them. It's a huge fight to even get anything older than 90-110nm in 12". That is why the relatively high volume, but very margin constrained, display industry is stuck at those nodes. It doesn't make sense to build and bring up a new fab with new equipment at margins below 30%, but the entire industry is built on that cost structure.

Further, a lot of the designs for older processes have been iteratively improved (yield, performance, etc), but the older models (simulations) for them are insufficient to design new chips without explicit reuse or iteration. They are effectively stuck on that node at that foundry, unless they want to incur significant (opportunity) costs.
Most pedestrian crash tests are at low enough speed that there isn't visible energy absorption, plus most dummies aren't equivalent to most human scales. They tend to be modeled after a 6' adult male at around 200lbs.

The bigger issue with larger vehicles is their height around people current full size or even mid-size SUVs and trucks have gotten larger than their former variants. You're much more likely as a pedestrian to get run over than to be hit by a car and land on the hood or the windshield (which is by far the better position to be in during an accident). The crash bar behind the bumper on all cars have a thick layer of foam that contributes to the 'softness' of a bumper.
This is a pretty uncommon scenario, though. Making everyone work on-site on the off-chance that someone will fake an interview seems like a severe over-reaction.
In my experience, At large companies that hire a lot of contractors, it is not that hard to pull this off. I've seen where the contractors A team do all the interviewing, then you get a C or C- team assigned to work in your project. By the time you "give them a chance", complain up the management chain, go sideways to HR and actually change the team, the contracting firm already got 6 months worth of salary from the team.
In short, they do it because it is profitable.

PS.. To add insult to injury, the "engineers" on the team will update ther CV's to show that they worked for "large company X".
I spent some time in Montana and was shocked to see how many businesses have "casinos" attached to them. I never got to look inside but I think these are basically a small room with a few slot machines. They were everywhere. For example, I ate at a chinese restaurant and there was a side room advertising poker and keno.

I came away feeling like there was a web that would catch every single person in the state who had a predilection for gambling addiction.

The weirdest sign I saw was attached to a gas station casino: "Weekly grand prize jackpot: $50." That was hard to parse coming from tech salaries that a $50 grand prize would motivate anyone.
Youtube is the reason I installed an adblocker in the first place. I don't mind watching an ad, but at some point they went from an ad every other video, to unskippable ads in-front of every video (love a 1m ad on every 10s video when I'm just browsing clips) and mid-content ads that literally just cut in and disrupt what I'm watching.
I’d like to see this comparison but made with the top 50 most sold food items of the time.
Depends on where you live. Here in the Pacific Northwest, there are plenty of TV-free restaurant choices. Back when I lived in the South, it was a lot harder to find.
Horrifying?

People always have made and always will make mistakes and we've been using technology to avoid accidents or minimize the consequences of them for a long time.

Technology preventing accidents is not horrifying.

The trouble of regulatory bureaucracy or liability is adjacent but separate.
What was tweeted isn't what the page says. I work for Google Search. That's about our Honest Results policy, which means we don't allow people to buy better rankings in non-paid Search results: https://www.google.com/about/honestresults/

Like many newspapers separate ads and editorial, Google has a strict separation between our Ads departments and our Search departments -- and our results. Buying ads will not gain you any better ability to rank in the non-paid Search results. Nor will it get you any special support.

That's what the page explains. It never says we don't have ads that show at the top of the page and, in fact, acknowledges that we do: "While advertisers can pay more to be displayed higher in the advertising area." Nor is it true that at the time, we only had ads that appeared on the right-side of the page. Google's first ads appeared at the top of the page way back in 1999.

In addition, we continue to keep ads separated from Search and labeled so they can be identified.

I totally get that some people would like to see fewer ads. I don't work on the Ad side of Google, but I know that feedback has been heard.
Am try to raise my 3yo daughter completely ad free. When watching a show, we exclusively use paid providers like YT, Netflix, Disney where no ads are present. Additionally, AdGuard helps removing some annoying Ads from minigame-Apps.
For now, she is very young and it doesn't matter so much. But still, I want to keep up with this as long as possible.
No free TV and no ads on web for her!
Thank you for the tips! But it wasn't either of those. Looked far more refined/less chaotic. And as far as I can recall, it was not a mainstream or popular platform. I believe my favorite avatar was an anthropomorphic unicorn? And the selection of avatars was fairly limited.
And I learn that Google is actually upset that its search results are suffering degradation by rampant, runaway SEO—they reap what they sow, and at everyone’s expense. Such brought to mind The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner as the web faces its own environmental collapse:

“You…treated the world like a fucking great toilet bowl. You shat in it and boasted about the mess you’d made. And now it’s full and overflowing, and you’re fat and happy and black kids are going crazy to keep you rich. Goodbye!”

Adblocking isn’t simply convenience it’s life-preserving.
Another option is to look at existing modules on MELPA, standing on the shoulders of the giants etc.

I really learned a lot from org-roam-ui [0]:

- websockets
- http server
- creating an API
- and of course internal emacs functionality.

[0]: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-ui
Available land is not the limiting factor on new cities or communes. Look at the chart in the article and compare the amount of land used for urban development.

Starting a new city or commune is the same as starting a new social media platform, why should I move from my current platform/city to your new one? How do you get your first 1000 subscribers/residents? What do you offer that other places don't already have 10x of? I'm not going to move to your commune/app unless all of my friends and family do too. etc.
That's not the left, that's the UnitedStatesLeft which is basically the right with better marketing.

Left-anarchists oppose ALL forms of power hierarchy, state and corporate alike.