skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with any subscription, there is a time bound to it, after which either side can refuse to renew it. The account was never "unlimited for life".

Let's assume it's AWS storage. After you stop paying (renewing) would you still expect to keep your data forever free of cost?
The Bahamas Atlantis Resort has it figured out. They charge you a fixed 15% gratuity you cannot avoid, and you can tip on top of that. This way a breakfast ham/egg croissant + jerk chicken sandwich + 2 coffees will set you back $45.
For one thing, rich lists are self-reported. Too get more granular, SpaceX was worth $150B on the basis of a Saudi fund buying 0.02% of the cap table. The #2 rich guy, who sells overpriced handbags, is on a sounder footing.
Culture in the United States is a disturbing heap of consumerist oppression. I have friends overseas, and when they ask, I say "we do not have culture here, we have stores."

I can't think of ~ anything ~ from mainstream culture anymore that doesn't have a price tag attached to it in some way, shape, or form. Nothing of intrinsic value is being preserved by the mainstream at this point for longer than a few months before it is poached by corporations looking to make a buck on a once-unique cultural facet of our society. All of this is amplified by the globalized echo chamber you're talking about: as soon as anything of real value comes along, marketers and applications wring it dry of all of its heart until the general population is bored of it and moves on.

More and more it seems like the only escape from this technocratic capitalist culture is to return to valuable or forgotten traditions -- creation without expectation of return, sharing of stories of heritage and history lost by our parents, etc.

But then I don't think this is a purely modern thing. I think it has developed over the last century. I read an article recently that put it somewhat succinctly ( though I can't remember the article off the top of my head ) -- that the baby boomers enjoyed a kind of "in-between" period, where they were able to enjoy both the community and traditions put in place by their parents and grandparents, but also the individualism and consumer comforts of the modern age.

Now, we struggle for that, though it's all but gone. We cannot have it both ways: it wasn't sustainable then, and so now we're dealing with the fruits of the usury of our culture. To return, I think we'll need to ditch some of our modern ideals around value and build up the long-lost communities of the start of the last century and beyond.

I think you're only nostalgic if you're pining for something that can never return, or that doesn't have true value. I don't think that's true of the community-centric culture of our past, and I think everything of value -- real value -- follows from that kind of culture.

There's a fine line, though. I have trouble breaking out of the consumer mindset -- that culture can be bought and sold readily, and that culture boils down to a dollar -- because it's what I was raised to know. It's what I was brought up in, and trained for. Then, it's a paradigm shift -- and a hard one -- to consider any other path.

Art will come with a real culture, a culture that isn't self-centered. And invention, and innovation, and stories, and real value -- value that you can feel in yourself, not in the next object you're looking at.

'Phew. Big rant, sorry.

Anyway,

You're not alone.
Am I the only one who watched a movie in the 1980s? C'mon people.
I am sure they will survive but it would be huge loss and emotional shock.

It is like saying losing electricity forever should not be catastrophic event, people were living happily without it for 1000s of years.
Pinion: Generate interactive and nice-looking diagrams for PCBs
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Tailwind allows you to build a design system, but it certainly doesn't come with one out of the box.

Bootstrap on the other hand does.
I wanted a better dashboard for my Tesla solar/battery system:
https://www.netzeroapp.io/
Remember when Uber and all the other gigwork apps boasted of their "no tipping" rules, differentiating themselves from old-fashioned cabs and delivery services?

Every single one of them have added a big fat tip button now. Uber shows you the tip screen before the driver has even arrived!
Sounds to be like not a tip, but a bribe...

Maybe we should just start calling all of these types money payments as bribes.
You can arrive at your own conclusion. I think its pretty obvious whats happening here (the commissioners voted along party lines right down the middle). And theres no other company thats even close to Starlink now or in the medium term future. So I dont know who would practically fill this spot.

For below comment: This is for "rural" connection. You're not laying wire for that regardless of what Comcast wants you to believe. They can barely service what they have and the cost/benefit of laying 30 miles of wire to reach someone in the woods is never going to make sense.
Incompressible files that don't use a standard compression format (like a video codec) are usually encrypted
It's an OTA update, as you know. It's great that they can do this.

It's just a semantic thing. I think the actual mechanism (that there is a regulatory body that can force auto makers to improve safety, whether OTA or in the shop) is cool, but I agree that the word "recall" is confusing. It's just a holdover from old processes. Maybe the terminology will change in time. Probably not.
During covid the company I worked at had their Series A fall through- we had a signed term sheet and everything, but the venture company lost their shit and pulled out of the deal. We only had a few months runway left at this point.

I reached out to our account rep at AWS and asked if we could delay our bills for three months. They laughed and said that if we didn't pay our bill for three months their system would just send us a bunch of emails, but that they wouldn't even start the process of closing the account until at least three months had passed- and even then they'd delay it further for us.

We got a new funding round and paid all of our bills, but we would not have been able to make payroll if AWS wasn't so lenient about it. That was 2020, so almost three years ago, and that company is still regularly featured at AWS talks and product announcements.
This, I'm also trying to learn say no

Especially in places where there's not even real service (e.g. having to dispose of dishes yourself etc)

But at the end, it is a structural problem. If the job can't pay a minimum to live a normal life, then the business should be restructured to allow fewer but better jobs, in my view.
They were never used as Military centers, they is zero evidence Hamas was there.

And they just committed a new massacre in a school.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/12/13/israel-ha...
Yep. As for what a design system "is", one thing I've always disagreed with is that it's referred to as a thing, like it's an artifact or output. I like to think of it as a process, as in designing systematically. I also think that the notion of systematic design comes into play even at very small scale - it's not something that's only relevant to large teams. I call it vertical vs horizontal design.

Before the digital era, designers typically worked on things like posters, advertisements, book covers, etc - scenarios where you have a single context and multiple graphical elements that need to co-exist in harmony. This is vertical design - one context with multiple elements.

For digital applications, another dimension is introduced. Because now you'll have multiple pages, views, etc, with some repeating elements. So like a button that exists on both the signup page as well as a checkout page. You may not need the buttons to look exactly the same, but they need to co-exist in harmony with one another just as they do in their surrounding context. So now you have one element with multiple contexts - what I call horizontal design. This second dimension is what requires a shift in thinking from designers to an approach I would call "systematic."

Figma is the first product that takes horizontal design seriously, with the introduction of variants and variables and all that. But there hasn't really been a tool that bakes it in from the beginning.
The world of Deepness in the Sky (at that time, A Fire Upon the Deep is a very different time) doesn't have AI. It has civilizations that rise and fall every few centuries. The Qeng Ho are a trading culture that was formed to try to bind the wandering traders of the universe together into something that could stifle those collapses. This is probably strongly influenced by Foundation by Asimov.

Other things are quite advanced - but computing is rather "dumb". What is there is driven by a great weight of inertia of massive software (all written by regular humans) that itself is too large to fully audit and understand.

The story it tells is very much one about humans and societies.
No. Recall is a legal term, and just means Tesla is required by law to fix a defect. And that certain penalties and duties apply to them. The recall can be totally remote.
> It’s possible that all physical processes involve a sensory component

Sure it is possible but we have way more evidence neurons have a sensory component, or at least things made of neurons.
Twitter probably isn't official but some companies have official social media support channels. Azure has an issues-only GitHub repo for Kubernetes (AKS) and you generally get a project team member instead of fighting through layers of support.
If the average user on HN needs an explanation that a word in a title actually has a completely different effective meaning, I'd say that it is unlikely to be a clear title.
Until they can't find seniors anymore.
sorry if its annoying.
I had put it there to not overwhelm with info right from the start. Seems not to work for some.
You don't need to, there are proper support channels.

I think that parent post was just implying that AWS cares about it's image and will provide support even if you don't go down the correct channels.

Google doesn't give a shit regardless of the method of request.
Cortical Labs working on this

https://twitter.com/scobleizer/status/1716312250422796590

Found it pretty scary personally
eminent domain
Which means they chose not to contest the NHTSA.
With modern connected devices, I absolutely do expect for features (or even total functionality) to be removed on a whim by the manufacturer. Cloud services are no different.

Lesson being: do not rely on devices or services that rely on a third party. They absolutely will screw you; it’s only a matter of time.

If you do not believe this, then I would say that you have not been around this industry long enough. There may be rare exceptions, but this should be your rule if you care about the longevity of your software and data.
It is a regular OTA update.

Negligent drivers have killed people, not autopilot capabilities. Take the example in the recent Washington Post article where a driver ran through a stop sign at a T intersection, left the road, and killed a bystander.

What the article didn't say is that the system reduced cruise set point to 45 mph due to the road type, but the driver was _holding down the accelerator pedal_ to maintain 60 mph as it flew through the stop sign. The driver admitted they knew they were responsible for the controlling the car.

What is your evidence that drivers not knowing Autopilot capabilities, and not intentional misuse by negligent drivers, killed several people?
This has been my experience for a while. The rate of scammy ads has been on the rise recently (I mostly only see them from within my Gmail app) and reporting does nothing. Not a good look for Google though not sure they’ll care as long as money keeps flowing.
Then they should do it in this instance as well. Until there's guidance, "autonomy" is just a word like any other and open to interpretation. In those instances, free speech should protect any company using the term and I say this as someone who 100% believes Tesla's advertising was deceptive.
The issue is that you can not make a law/regulation that says statement X about products Y is not allowed because its wrong/misleading.
A court has to decide if it is wrong/misleading AFTER the fact and someone sued.

30 Years ago any statement about any modern vehicle feature would have been misleading no one had to preemptively make them illegal. Such "laws" should simply not exists.
From the article:

"Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account."

I don't see how can this be seen as "taking advantage of a system".
S3 is not where this belongs. Backblaze B2 would be better and cheaper (~$1428/month) and no egress fees due to Cloudflare bandwidth alliance, the Internet Archive also has a private offering [3].

If the journalist in question sees this, or someone knows them, I am happy to assist in a migration at no cost. If someone from Google sees this (HN Google support), it would be swell if the delete lifecycle could be paused while this migration is facilitated.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

[3] https://webservices.archive.org/pages/vault
Because he stopped paying for the service of unlimited storage for this month (as that service was no longer offered), didn't migrate the data to somebody offering a better deal, and expected for it to be retained indefinitely?
Tesla gets to address recalls via OTA software updates right up to the point where they can not. Then, as you note, 2M+ vehicles needing physical replacement parts or rework will kill them because they have no way to do that. EVs are simple enough that they might avoid that scenario entirely.

But imagine one of those massive castings developing cracks and needing some reinforcements welded on in the field, or really any part. FEA is probably the most important tech that Tesla is dependent on.
There's Tailwind as a technology, but then there's Tailwind as a set of reasonable defaults. The original comment is referring to the latter, not the former.
Star Trek gel packs, here we go?
As per the GMO, that is one of the few areas/subject on which Eurocrats are on the same side with the majority of the EU citizens. Related, if left to the same citizens there’s no way in hell that the US beef/chicken would enter the EU market, but that might be subject to change depending on what the Americans will further ask from us in exchange for their defense umbrella (the same goes for GMOs, of course).

Of course, your comment is spot on, just wanted to add some small stuff.
NHtSA can force them to recall the cars, the "voluntary" part is to save face.
Highly recommend reading the article again, slowly, until you fully understand the situation.

This was a paid service until Google changed the terms; afterwards, Google claimed that the files would merely be read only (indefinitely), not deleted. After THAT, they then gave the user 1 week to deal with 250 terabytes.

Read it again you understand that properly.
Unifying Business, Data, and Code: Designing Data Products with JSON Schema
It's great until you want to read that book about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
I bought Clara 2e and was very disappointed with the requirement to create an account.

After some googling I found you can start it in "sideloader" mode. To do that I plugged it in as USB device and updated a config file by adding "sideloaderMode=true". After restart it skipped account creation and allowed me to start reading the books.

I use Calibri to manage my books and collections. Haven't found how to add dictionaries as of yet but I think it can be done too.
Simplification is only accessible when understanding all systems are complex. Meaning, to simplify is just the ability to break down complexity into smaller parts.

We do this through categorization. For example, integrated circuits can be broken down into simplistic AND, OR, XOR, NOR, NAND, X OR, and NOt gates. Yet tying those together creates usable components such as Wifi radios and manufacturing automation.

Over simplification are concepts that lack understanding of complex systems. These are exploited by politicians. For example, deregulation will help drive the economy. Yet regulations have been proven to assist the economy long term by preventing the next variation of thalidomide. The panacea drug of the 1950s and 1960s that killed their users or caused massive birth defects.
The Google Catch-22
This isn't new and Aaron Swartz actually wrote a blog post back in 2006 about his gmail account being gone [1].

1. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/gmaildown
Softcore: The old Twitter was an idealist's workplace and a naive business
For it to be considered as such I think that it would need to be easily recognised by a relatively large portion of the world compared to other shows. Anecdotal but I have only 1 friend who watched B99, but almost all of my friends would be able to recognise actors/scenes from Breaking Bad even if they haven't watched the show itself. Breaking Bad is referenced a lot in pop culture, much more so than B99 (an example I can think of would be the rehashing of the sentence "This is the moment when [Walter White] became [Heisenberg]").

The same can be said of The Office. People have been exposed to it enough that they can recognize a scene from it based on the production style even if they have never watched the show. I do not think Brooklynn 99 is at that stage yet. Perhaps it will reach it in the future.

This has nothing to do with the merits of B99 though. I personally think it is a great show. It has good characters, fantastic actors, decent writing and an alright overarching plot. But I would not call it a cultural artifact (yet).
Does anyone know how to find out information on progress or updates if you live in one of the RDOF auction blocks? I can see that Charter won a bid for my location 4 years ago. The FCC page also states "Winning bidders must meet periodic buildout requirements that will require them to reach all assigned locations by the end of the sixth year." We're going on 4 years now since the auction closed. I'm just curious if this is actually going to happen as it impacts my decision whether to move or not. The cynic in me says they haven't even started yet, and inevitably will push for extensions and do everything conceivable to take this money and not deliver within 6 years or possibly ever.

Meanwhile for the past 2 years Starlink is the only service I can actually use with any reasonable stability and low(ish) latency. They have at times delivered up to 200Mbps down and 20 up but it is not consistent. I have much more faith that they will deliver 100/20 consistently by 2025 than Charter will be delivering gigabit to me by then.
How should I proceed as a programmer/architect? Go to my company's customers and ask for tips? Hey, if you like that feature, how about giving me 15%?
Just because a manufacturer applies a fix OTA doesn’t make it not a recall. Recall is just a term. Regulators issue the recall. How the manufacturer performs the fix can vary.
"Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account."

Thats highly subjective to the point of meaningless.
It all is really messy, I would assume that almost any model is poorly optimized to run on Apple Silicon as well.
A 'Void' Hurtling Through the Solar System Blew Up Mars' Atmosphere
what do you mean by this?
there is hardly any JS on the site.
Any suggestions on how to improve it?
> But this is a custom setup that's not portable?

Caught me.

> And how is it less tedious to have to select previously typed text all the time?

This is tedious, but I have that automated (AutoHotKey). So a single, AHK-managed hotkey does the equivalent of:

CTRL + SHIFT + HOME
CTRL + C
feed into tool, paste back
CTRL + V

So once done writing, I press that single button and it's done (CTRL+SHIFT+HOME select all text from cursor to beginning). To me, that's a better tradeoff than fiddling with compose keys, which I find to break flow. For very short text, compose key is possibly better; but again, once in AHK, it's a single shortcut. So once more than 1 compose key combination is needed, it's "worth it". But you're right: this is a custom setup and might not work for everyone.
> He can buy his own drives, with redundancy, for less than 2 months of that.

He did do that. The FBI raided his house and took all the drives. In the middle of trying to get them back (it’s unclear if he’ll be able to), Google terminated his storage. If this had happened at a different time he could’ve just backed up to a different (likely more expensive) service. But that’s not an option that’s open at the moment or possibly ever.
> Access restricted
You do not have permission to view this page.

Wait only in the US?

Edit: I can access it through the Google Cloud Console.

https://imgur.com/a/NXAgvFb
Google offered unlimited storage, no? It’s reasonable to believe that they can do that since it averages out to a small amount per user, meaning most users overpay and the power users get peace of mind. Of course nothing is unlimited but a company like Google is perhaps best positioned in the world to offer that. And sure, if someone writes /dev/urandom at 1Gbit/s you could claim abuse, but for people working with video TBs of data is normal. 200+ is a lot but again averages out among users. In either case it’s extremely easy to avoid the word “unlimited” if you don’t intend to honor it for legitimate customers.

It’s also reasonable that companies products change. And maybe it doesn’t last forever, fair enough. But if your product is backup, and you pull the rug with a 7 day grace period, of course people are going to be upset and warn others not to trust you.
"Command Economy"

The Illuminati decided Google's "AI" was smart enough around 2004 and started implementing its programs.

They moved it to Utah a few years later. That's when "Google search" stopped working well for most people; "they" took away googles' personality profiles.
Mailing lists only require an email to participate with, there is no requirement to make an account.

They are very archivable, accessible and search engine friendly. The volume of availability and visibility is greater in audience than when compared to instant messaging.

Nothing fancy required, you can access all issues and previous responses with ease from your own email inbox.

Everyone can be on the same page rapidly. And the lookup of pervious correspondence is easier than with IM.

You don't get interruptions like memes. Your responsible for what you post promoting maturity and professionalism.

It provides easier development workflows. If a developer posts a patch, your able with ease in applying it to your terminal.

As much confusion I have with the UI of web mailing lists it is one of the few tools that I think that outranks all other communication methods for development.
First time I ever seen someone I know in the newspaper.

Very interesting read.
Which is a big reason why you don't often see these promoted as heavily as stuff like supplements and ivermectin was. I don't remember ever seeing those promoted in mainstream media, or even most 'alternative' media. Mostly just instragram influencers promoting their course.
> People really need to understand that Google is a garbage company that can't be relied on for anything.

Normally the response to this is, yes, it sucks, but you're not paying Google to host your data.

However, it looks like this journalist did pay Google to host his data. So this immediately puts it in a worse category.