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I found the announced enhancements to car play very interesting. To my understanding, it aims for replacing most of the user-facing software in cars. This is very tempting for car manufacturers, not to compete with car play, but just embrace it. It almost looks as if car play is to become the Windows of the car industry - instead of trying to come up with your own solution, just install the most widely used software available on the market. That could be a big step for Apple and hugely profitable, in the same way Windows made Microsoft into the giant it is.

It just could be that. But that would depend on the car manufacturers giving up on their own software so easily and it would be a completely new strategy for Apple. They love to control the whole stack. Even in cases, where they entered a market with a collaboration - the early iPod Phones come to my mind - they later switched to their own product.

Also, the rumor about an Apple car does keep coming back. And they spend a lot of money on what ever they are doing. So while the play on just Car Play might be strong, they do have something brewing in case car manufacturers don't just jump onto it. My favorite theory though is: they are building something which will be a "car" but as different from current cars as the iPhone was from mobile phones of its day and age. I would be really curious to see that.
I would prefer if “the fine was so large we nearly went out of business overnight” to be the norm in these situations. The pricetag is so low that it might as well be encouragement to commit more crime in the future.
States are moving to penalize 'cyber-flashing'
Well they don't call it polyfills but they implement e.g. Promise in their own way. And I've used it in the past so to get rid of jquery I would have to rewrite that code to use the native one now. For approx. 0 benefit to the end user.
I laugh at comments like this. Every major social media network in the US feeds all data directly to the NSA without any kind of warrant.

Did everyone forget about the Snowden leaks? Or did everyone just decide to trust the same people who lied to us about committing the crime in the first place when they said they stopped?
Bringing people down for the sake of equality? Depends.

Bring in more tax money from the rich and build a safety net...that's pretty popular.

Don't allow a student advanced math classes because he'll get ahead of his peers. Unfortunately this is actually being pursued.

Title IX in the US might be used for either side of the argument. Everyone should have equal access in education -- positive. We need to get rid of men's soccer so we can balance the scholarship numbers (bad for men's soccer players). No idea why we can't balance football scholarships with academic/art/engineering/architecture/whatever scholarships.
Why would it quickly receive any adoption? Of all of the behemoths, I would trust FB the least here. Not that I trust any of the other big players enough not to use Firefox everywhere I can.
You sure? https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Russia_Should_Do_with_Ukr...)
Energy doesn't decrease. Entropy increases.
Suppressors are legally required in many european areas, and completely unrestricted in many countries even with restrictive gun laws. They are primarily a nuisance reduction and hearing safety device. The US's strict regulations mostly stem from people watching spy movies and failing to understand that they are not realistic.
The fact that you consider stable systems edge cases speaks to the issue.

Wealth is built up over generations via systems that are extensible and reusable by those that come after. If we changed the standard size of screws because we thought it looked better aesthetically, we'd instantly make massive swaths of previous work unusable.

Exploratory change is needed to figure out where improvements can be found, and I generally enjoy building and working with novel technology much more than trying to interface with older systems, but there should be some sort of purpose for the change. Older systems also need a certain amount of pruning and destruction to remove accumulated cruft, so it's not like it's always best to use what's been accumulated.

The correct balance is hard. Achieving that balance requires intentional effort, not arbitrary change or arbitrary preservation, if only in some sort of testing/evaluation phase (sometimes it does make sense to just arbitrarily tweak stuff and see if it ends up working better, but you need to actually do some sort of intentional verification to see if it's worth keeping).
Can you show some page load metrics between a page without any of these and the same page with several different widgets packaged with this?

Interested in things like kB transferred, first contentful paint, time to interactive, etc.
This is as easy to execute as dropping a depth charge from a boat. Examining shipping tracks could shed some light as of who executed this attack.
takes huge bong hit this is how you turn things around and switch the lightbulb
> It did not even occur to me this was part of JS spec,

It has nothing to do with JS spec; it's part of the DOM as defined by the HTML spec.
I'll believe corporations are people when the government executes one in Texas.

Liquidate all assets via public auction, zero out all stocks, and jail C levels for X days for violations of the public trust.

Make it *painful*.
They forked it on their github which is linked from their landing page: https://github.com/orgs/DataBorg/repositories

edit: also https://github.com/DataBorg/wikineural which has a non-commercial license as well. Does HN like to see this kind of discussion here?
From that line of argument, we should really get folks off Linux. And nginx.
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There are places in the world where if you do not bribe an official, you could suffer for your morals. So, yeah, a private citizen only representing themselves is not covered by the foreign corrupt practices act. That said, many US Gov't Officials do bribe foreign actors, though they may not call them bribes.
> It’s impossible for Niemann to prove he didn’t cheat.

Niemann doesn't have to approve such a thing. It falls on the accuser to prove that the accused is guilty.
I'm surprised to find that this trick still works even in the new backwards-incompatible JavaScript Modules (using <script type="module">), which enables "strict" mode and a number of other strictness improvements by default.

I believe it works because the global object ("globalThis") is the Window in either case; this is why JavaScript Modules can refer to "window" in the global scope without explicitly importing it.

<!DOCTYPE html><body>
<div id="cool">cool</div>
<script>
console.log(this); // Window
console.log(globalThis); // Window
console.log("script", cool.innerHTML); // script cool
</script>
<script type="module">
console.log(this); // undefined
console.log(globalThis); // Window
console.log("module", cool.innerHTML); // module cool
</script>
</body></html>

This seems like a missed opportunity. JavaScript Modules should have been required to "import {window} from 'dom'" or something, clearing out its global namespace.
> The rhetoric around this war is too hot

In your opinion, what would be adequate rhetoric around a war?
The game inside the game: VC vs. PE
The "downvotes magnet" thing was tongue-in-cheek – any name is either not famous enough, making it a bad answer, or famous enough to have lots of fans that will disapprove of the nomination.

> why Kay?

I don't think his actual, lasting influences justify the near-mythical status bestowed on him by his disciples. Not saying he's completely unimportant, just that he's overrated. I'm not very confident on that assessment though, which is why I listed him last (and ESR first).
Disappointed but not surprised to see graduate students thrown under the bus like that. They're an easy target for blame: powerless and also by the time the retraction rolls around, not there anymore. Very easy to blame someone who can't hit back.
>a well-made electric car can run to a million miles over 50+ years. That's a very different build philosophy.

Source? Apple currently makes the longest lasting consumer devices with the longest lasting software support, so not sure how one can conclude longevity is not in their build “philosophy”.

>I would imagine an Apple car that only supports Apple Maps, Apple Music/Podcasts, and Siri and will only connect to iOS devices...and that costs twice as much as the Tesla for the base model, and more if you want a reasonable range. Pandora? Spotify? Waze? Meh. Sorry. Oh, and don't forget monthly fees for navigation; probably more like the $36/month of the Audi EV than the free navigation for the Tesla.

Why? All of those apps are
usable in every Apple device’s OS today, including Carplay. And Apple Maps has had free navigation since inception.

Also, I can get into almost any recent car and plug in my iPhone or Android phone and have access to CarPlay and Android Auto, and get access to a ton of apps, except in a Tesla. Seems like Tesla is being the more restrictive party here.
> What was most striking is that I don't remember TV being so low-key in the culture

That is really interesting. For want of a better way to put it, I also agree that it had a "long-tail" quality to it; it was just implicitly part of the status quo.

Communication nowadays seems to be broadly impacted by disproportionate focus on explicit definition, disambiguation, structure, etc, but in such a way that abolishes and shuns implied cohesion. Constantly trying to define and underline the way things should be instead of just getting on with letting things be the way they already are. My current chicken-and-egg "hmm" is whether this came before or after the worldwide obsession around security and safety (which arguably started just before the turn of the century - I once read the "no no stay inside" thing started in America circa 1998).

From this perspective I definitely think TV occupied more of the "tribal knowledge" side of written vs implied culture, than it does today - both in terms of production and societal impact. Kind of weird, that; it had more of an impact when it wasn't trying to shoehorn and corral. Heh.

I lastly wouldn't say that TV "crept up in importance" so much as turned into a vacuous foghorn contest to see who can bellow the hottest air the furthest :P

(AU here, aka UK Lite Edition)
The modern day book banking is preventing people from DMing about laptops on Twitter. Humanity rhymes over the ages.
Isn’t methane much, much more potent?
You'll also need to own and pay for marketing and distribution in that case.

I don't know of any indie consumer video-based product that got popular without being on Youtube. Note that I am excluding "video courses".

Most people can't do the marketing, it requires too much time to learn and implement, time that cuts into video production. For a lot of people, it's better to delegate it to the platform itself.
If as part of the hiring process, something old school and simple as calling just a referenced ex-teammate (or two) of the candidate and tell you things about him/her wouldn't massively remove this risk?
I had to read it in high school, and hated it for those reasons as well as just being a pretty literal minded person. My mind is wired such that I would much rather read an opinion piece stating your actual opinion rather than some lame bit of allegory where the actual story and characters are weak and the whole thing is about Conveying The Author's Message. And that message tends to be some extreme version of something with no nuance or real debate.
Well when you are moving at about a mile per second, a few minutes is a long flight.

The issue with scramjets is they operate under extreme conditions which are both unforgiving (small errors are catastrophic) and difficult to model (experimental data is limited and expensive to gain). The only path to development is to produce lots of full scale, fully functional prototypes with the understanding most will be destroyed in seconds and there will be little if anything recoverable afterwards to study to determine what went wrong.
I've definitely hit rate limits when bulk replying.
Sabotage the control system so that it blows up instead. There are a couple of previous claimed cyberwarfare attacks on pipelines that resulted in pipelines blowing up (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss, although that's one that I do not believe to be true).
I've been remote hiring for years. Remote positions are a magnet for fraud of all types.

If you have the budget, I highly recommend moving your compensation points up and focusing on top engineers in remote locations. It's much easier to vet people who have an established online track record and you can tap references from well-known companies. Unfortunately this way you will miss out on some great candidates that haven't yet established themselves, so you still have to branch out.

For remote work we require video interviews and cameras on during meetings. We'd make an exception if someone really needed accommodations to keep their camera off for some reason, but otherwise it's cameras on. I know some people don't like this, but it improves communication and team cohesion in a noticeable way. It also immediately highlights fraud like this.

Get your security team involved. You should be tracking where remote employees access your VPN and company services. Don't be afraid to ask about discrepancies and changes. If someone has logged in from one IP or region for the first 4 weeks and then suddenly you're seeing new logins from a different city or country, investigate. I don't care if people travel, but we need to firmly understand the security situation.

Watch out for people with frequent excuses for missing meetings, having to turn their camera off, excuses like "my camera isn't working today", and so on. Send everyone known-good webcams and company laptops.

And as always, performance management is key. Managing remote is harder than managing in person, and I say that as someone who manages remote and loves remote teams. You need strong performance management practices in place and clear ways to measure it. People who aren't getting their work done should show up quickly in your system and warrant additional manager investigation.

But if someone shows up in Zoom who isn't the person you hired, lock it down ASAP. Don't let being "nice" get in the way of handling an urgent security situation. Someone you didn't hire who hasn't agreed to your contracts is in your system, and that's a red alert emergency.
This is a straw man. Truth values of paradoxes can not be determined, only postulated. It is a paradox because if it were proven true it would be false, and vice versa. In precisely the same way, "this phrase is false," is also a paradox, and whether or not the truth value can be determined (it can not) is not relevant to whether it is a paradox.
Sure, I go to events in fursuit for similar reasons. It's fun and I feel better.
HN seems like the sort of audience who can tell me. This is a serious question: Why would anybody listen to Jean-Louis Gassée?

What I see is a career of failures, at Apple, at Be, at Palm, JLG was dealt good hands and some bad hands but played each indifferently. Did I miss something important ?
Again a strawman.
> I'm not sure what world you live in but the majority of the global population is by all accounts on Russia's side albeit silently.

This is one of the most insane things I've read on the internet today, and that's saying something. I'm sure that most of the "global population" is on the side of a genocidal psychopath who thinks that imperialism and wars for territory are still OK.

The modern world has moved past this, and past you. Please educate yourself or stfu.
I worked for a consulting (bodyshop) almost 10 years ago and they had this happen. Someone did phone interviews with flying colours. The candidate himself was barely functional with English and had a pocket translator in hand at all times. He was let go within a couple months.
NS1 was in operation years before even the 2014 events in Ukraine.
The biggest reason that cars have horrible UX is that consumers don't care about it. No one is buying one for how good the speedometer looks. Give me a good performance and MPG. Make the components last long and be serviceable. Make it look good on the outside. Put advanced safety features. Perform well in crash tests. A hundred more of these and maybe the car will be worth buying.

People here are delusional when they go oh, Apple can make a better Carplay integration and easily outsell Ford and Tesla.
What about US sabotage? What if peace was about to break out, and this is the United States way of eliminating the option of restoring energy to Europe this winter?
Ah yes..chuggers [1] (charity muggers)

Sometime in the early 2000s the most of British charity was
transformed (dragged through the mud) by corporate whackjobs, PR
gurus, and Feng Shui design soothsayers to align their ley-lines and
whatnot.

Charity shops stopped having any actual bargains in them, and the
money boxes we used to enjoy putting spare change into vanished.

They made up all kinds of bizarre, frankly unbelievable stories about
how the staff "weren't trained to handle cash" and that robbers would
steal their charity tins (in broad daylight outside Waterloo station
under 200 CCTV cameras... like Jimmy Reckon!)

Then all those charity scandals about abuse and corruption came out.

Heartbreaking what a few clueless, vicious vandals and scumbags in
suits can do to brand reputations earned over centuries.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/04/secret...
I read for the discussion of Firebase, but I found the local emulator suite especially interesting.
If you can fake an actual interviewer, asking for references is easy.
Yes. I plan to be there in San Diego next week.
> "Siri, order medicine X and deliver to address Y" is a simple example of how a simple command…

FWIW, Siri isn't capable of anything resembling this. For fun, ask "Siri, how many days are left in this year?"
Isn't the point of CarPlay and Android Auto to make this possible, without needing to actually replace hardware? The idea is to make it so the hardware in your car is just a dumb terminal that doesn't ever need to be upgraded. Your infotainment system gets upgraded every time you get a new phone or iOS/Android upgrade.
I liked the theory that Russia did it as a warning that they can blow up Poland's pipeline anytime.
Yes, experienced the exact same situation in 2020. Person starting day 1 was different than person interviewed. They weren't too smart about it either - a little online sleuthing showed how the two people were related. We confronted him about it and fired him the first week. We also notified the feds about it (person had been submitted for clearance so we had to).
Terrible idea, the Philippines is not known for innovation.
Depends on the question. I wouldn't mind waiting 30s for a thoughtful answer.
I've been on the hiring process for rather big company and all kind of frauds happened on daily basis.

Faux identities, sub-hiring for work, outsourcing to low cost countries, even stuff like hiring actors for interviews and intimidation tactics (sic) plus a lot lot more.

Hiring (especially remotely) is a game and at some level you need to incorporate some anti-fraud techniques.
I think you would have a hard time getting a valid candidate from Louisville, MO, to take a ~5 hours flight to LA, for a job that was supposed to be remote. Maybe the reason the candidate is looking for a remote job, is they don't have to travel? But I get what you say, maybe this approach is better when hiring in the same city/area.
I bet that if I moved back to Windows, KatMouse would work just as well as ever—and it was already nearly a decade out-of-date when I stopped being a daily Windows user.
Maybe We Won’t End Up Like the Dinosaurs
Maybe I'm missing something basic, but why is this a remote issue? The person who interviewed is not the person who tried to start working, and the company immediately saw this. In the old days one could also try to fraudulently arrange to have the person who did in-person interviews be different than the person who shows up on day 1 ... and you'd likely still be caught, right? Is the only additional risk of remote work that fraudulent applicants have a broader pool of fake interviewees to hire?

Generally in my experiences as a candidate, _someone_ on the interview loop is with the team one would end up working with, and should catch this kind of thing. Generally as an interviewer, whether remote or onsite, it hasn't been part of the process to check the ID of the person I'm speaking to (and I'm not confident I could spot a fake anyway). Thinking back to a time where I did a day of interviews at a BigCorp and I don't know that any of my interviewers were on the specific team I'd work with ... I don't recall any rigorous attempt to establish my identity on the day.
Can't say about building or selling an entire car, but they did have a massive self driving division which went nowhere.
Thanks! Some notes on your notes:

1. We float a couple patches on V8 but we keep it very up-to-date. Generally by the time a version of V8 hits Chrome Stable, we're already using it. I would indeed like to upstream the patches, which should be easier now that everything is open.

2. FWIW the one protobuf file in the repo is from Jaeger, a third-party tracing framework. We actually aim to factor that out into something more generalized, which may eliminate the protobuf dependency. Workerd is very much based on Cap'n Proto for most things (and the Workers team does most of the maintenance of Cap'n Proto itself these days).

3. Yep, one of our main goals was to bake this into our `wrangler` CLI tooling to make local testing easier. I'd also like to ship distro packages once things are a bit more stable.

4. The code includes the ability to configure KV bindings, so you can run code based on Workers KV. But, the binding is a thin API wrapper over an HTTP GET/PUT protocol. You can in principle put whatever you want behind that, and we plan to provide an implementation that stores to disk soon. The actual Workers KV implementation wouldn't really be that interesting to release as it mostly just pushes data over to some commodity storage back-ends in a way that's specific to our network.
Magnus is not just a chess player anymore. He is a chess tycoon, an owner of the significant portion of chess business. Power corrupts people.
> while a well-made electric car can run to a million miles over 50+ years

That is a big claim, which is completely unsupported by reality. ICEVs do not get recycled because the engine died. Body rot, repairs that cost more than the value of the car, etc, this is why cars are taken off the road.

If anything, the current batch of early generation EVs are probably going to have shorter than average lifespans compared to established ICEVs, not longer.
Nuclear fuel for those plants is generally produced in Russia, through Swedish manufacturer acquired in the previous decade the patents/designs to produces fuel rods that fit those plants.

Sure, it will still be hard to separated Rosatom from those power plants but it not impossible.
Product led growth is absolutely a valuable practice but it almost always is tightly coupled with a sales team for anything B2B and/or considered purchase.