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I liked this article, because (1) it's well-written and detailed, and (2) I somehow disagree with it in my gut, though I'm not sure precisely why. So, it makes me think — another plus.

I suppose the thing that bothers me is the general sense that it is advocating for "non owned" software — let someone else handle the support, etc. Makes sense from a business perspective, of course.

But I suppose the thing I don't like about such "non-owned" software is its tendency to mutate in ways I don't like, outside of my control.

Eg: perhaps a feature I like is removed, with no genuine alternative. Maybe I am a niche user of that feature, so the business is (understandably) focusing on their "core" product, and my pleas to the contrary don't really move the needle.

Basically, while I agree with the point that ownership is more expensive than it seems on the surface, I'd also like recognition that non-ownership is also more expensive than it seems on the surface, just in a different way.

Agreed overall about the various gradations of ownership available today, and it's worth thinking about the pros and cons all the way along the spectrum.
X-Wing required a joystick.
There's a sign indicating the default speed limit in my town, 25mph, with some extra text that anyone who can read will realize it's indicating the default speed and is not a speed limit sign. But otherwise it looks exactly like a speed limit sign, and it sits in the middle of a 50mph zone. Apple and Google Maps both tell me the speed limit is 25mph for about 1/4mile until the next sign indicating 50mph shows up. I have been told it trips up Teslas (but don't have one and haven't driven one here so cannot personally confirm).

It'll be fun to have everyone's car slow down suddenly to match this non-existent speed limit, going from 50-60mph down to 25-35mph.
Boston can really confuse a GPS. While driving in the underground freeway, the GPS was giving me turn-by-turn instructions for the city streets above.
Is that moral justification for eating or stepping on the sentient being over the plant, just because they’re both alive?
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Utah already has had surgeon general's warning billboards for some time.
Looked at the shirt, it looks pretty nice. Definitely something I'd wear and not feel like I am a walking ad.
I don't even see a K!
If it was about ethics then the signal wouldn’t come from prominence in the media (do you scrutinize ceos of your everyday products, tesla is an org far beyond Elon, etc).

> mileage shenanigans

Sour grapes
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SEO should be called "GEO", it's google optimization. Spam keyword blogsites only work because google prioritizes that stuff. They're driven by ad revenue so they're incentivized to show commerical sites over non commercial ones, etc. ,etc, etc.,etc.
It sounds like you're describing a system based on GPS and map data, not one of the systems that read the actual signs posted as you drive by them. The only problems I've had with the speed limit sign reader in my car are conditional speed limits (e.g. school zones during certain hours, truck-specific limits). Otherwise, they're just limited by the prevalence of the physical signs.
I'm not the OP, but I strongly agree with their statement.

The problem is not Ruby's dynamic typing; table stakes here is the good-not-great tooling support for other dynamic languages like Python and JavaScript, not the great support for more typeful languages.

I think Ruby plays really poorly with editor/static analysis tooling because of the culture and conventions around blocks.

The fact that so many libraries/frameworks in Ruby use the very common pattern of "provide variables/context/symbols to blocks via scope (rather than block arguments)" massively increases the difficulty for tools to provide useful type info, completions, and validity analysis. As a pattern, "scope injection" is just harder to statically analyze from the outside, and, while not ubiquitous, it's alarmingly normalized in the Ruby community.

I'm not sure if it's the chicken or the egg for many Ruby programmers' heavy reliance on the REPL for autocompletion and probes of local/instance/class/global variables. Regardless, editors' and linters' usefulness is reduced in proportion to the dominance of this pattern across the Ruby ecosystem. Heck, even when heavily block-oriented libraries are well supported by IDEs (rspec, rails) the support turns out to be based on brittle pattern matching and hardcoded guesswork in the tools.

There are other cultural (e.g. tendency to overuse stringy method calls and method_missing, though this thankfully seems to be less common these days) and technical (e.g. autoloading, open classes) things that increase the difficulty of writing good Ruby tooling, but I suspect that they're much less responsible for the anemic tooling landscape than block-oriented programming.

I really do think it's largely cultural. You can do block/scope-injection -based programming (and eval, and method_missing via getattribute, and so on) in e.g. Python without too much trouble, but it's not nearly as much of a community norm as it is in Ruby, so people do it less.

And that's OK! Many prolific Ruby programmers have found ways around the tooling deficit and are productive with the language, and Ruby remains a go-to for people writing "DSL"s (though I find when people refer to DSLs in ruby they really mean the combined effect of parens-optional plus method_missing plus block scope injection), so this seems like far from a fatal flaw.
> they need to include factors other than money in the allocation criteria

They already do, and simply being able to pay the fee does nothing to qualify you for an allocation: https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#6-ipv6

At least, in theory. I'm not going to attempt to defend the Capital One allocation.
> The electricity gains to be had are likely very small. Minuscule, even. Humans are not ecologically neutral, we consume food that has environmental impacts.

A human who spends his day writing code is going to consume (at worst) the exact same amount of food as if he spent only half his day coding and the other half on something else. He might even consume less food while coding, if his non-coding activity is something physically intensive (i.e. burns more calories). I don't really see how the implication (that saving human time saves energy too) can possibly be true.
Cars are already ridiculously expensive thanks to all the mandates and many cars are not sold in the U.S due to prohibitive regulations (I wish I could buy a new Land Cruiser 76), this will only make things worse.
What is the new cars endgame? Only the elites will be able to afford them?
I remember reading this in the Seattle times first, this morning. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein.... Archive.is link for paywall issues - https://archive.is/uXTSY
It's funny, Kagi has almost been worth it just to allow me to prioritise Wikipedia results which for literally 80-90% of my searches is all I'm really looking for. Wikipedia has seemingly been relegated to the 8th or 10th result for most Google searches I noticed.
It sounds like you're enthusiastically agreeing with me?
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Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119387
When the money goes to the employee of the institution providing the benefit instead of the institution itself.
In 20 years, no-one watching an action film will understand or believe a car race anymore...
>my impression is that many see some good in organized religion for the community aspects and historical continuity, but all that despite being quite certain that no god actually exists

Americans don't have a lot of respect for, for example, Jehovah's Witnesses - just look at all the jokes about them knocking on doors.
> Joe Soccer Dad is going to get t-boned trying the same thing on the way to the ER.

Depends on the zone and the speed limit. Going 35 mph in a 20 MPH zone isn’t even noticeable.
Why on earth would you assume that?
For posterity more info:

They also had general instruction units, not a specific one for floating point or integer or SIMD, they were all the same.
> that takes hundreds if not thousands of years.

Wut. Where are you getting this from? It takes few decades max.
The germans have the autobahn, it’s a better example
they make that back in revenue, at least, in 2 and a half months

who knows about their overhead costs though
You can say anything but I just let them go thru phase 3 first before talking
We're talking past each other. You can accuse Israel of violating any number of international laws, but none of that can possibly immunize Ansar Allah, which is what we're talking about here. You cannot engage in piracy as a protest action for violations elsewhere in the world. Or --- again --- you can, but you're going to end up reduced to your combustion products by the world's largest navies.

If you follow the subthread back to the point where I joined it, you'll see that's been my consistent point throughout.
This seems like a useful service for cities to provide: street maps and traffic rules for each segment in a standard format.
My understanding is that these systems use a combination of posted sign identification and GPS data.
> These results could well be made up.

OK, so how can we analyze whether results are made up, partially made up, credible, etc.?

> you'd hate to be the guy who spends years studying spiders just to conclude that they're about as stupid as everyone thinks they are.

I'm sure people would hate to fund that too, or have their lab or university associated with it. How could they avoid it?
Their end of year video recap and discussion answers a lot of questions asked here and gives some pretty deep insight into the product and its future. Highly recommend giving it a watch. https://youtu.be/DRVY-74lkBA?si=VsUW_09u53d7a8D2
Google Search is a victim of its own success.

They are the biggest search engine; every SEO trick, every spam attack is spearheaded against them. But also being the biggest and the inevitable, they can afford to blunt their search tool somehow in order to show more lucrative sort-of-hits and sell more ads. A moral hazard to do such a thing is always present fr any market-dominating player.

Kagi, in comparison, is tiny, and almost nobody cares to attack their algorithms. Back in 1990s, when Macs were a small minority in the PC-dominated world, they were the safest desktop machines, because almost nobody cared to write malware for them. Now that Macs are a sizable segment of computers in hands of important people, they are targeted by malware all right.
I drove a moving van once between to major cities. It was governed not to go over 65. On some two lane roads I would run come upon a slower moving vehicle. If I tried to pass the governor would kick in and make it really dangerous to pass safely. I would have to sit behind the car for a long time going 50 in a 65 before there was a huge gap in oncoming traffic to be able to pass.
The question to about the obvious quality drop for Google is, Is this intentional? Perhaps some cost saving or ROI measures? Or the motive always was to just train their AI and we just helped with that?
I wish they’d make dash cams mandatory in new cars
It's highly probable we will have enough economically viable lithium from ground mining, we have "known measured reserves" that are less than we need (but have been explored, drilled, and modelled) and an excess of indicated resources (which are places trace tested that look a lot like other places with good reserves, but have not yet been drilled).

Then there's seawater (which always gets bought up but isn't really a thing yet).

More to the bigger picture, it's not just lithium - Vanadium redox batteries are better for grid storage where light nimble weight for a mobile vehicle doesn't matter so much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery

Not to mention other ongoing battery research and forms of energy storage (thermal mass, hydrogen, ammonia, etc) that make sense in an abundance of renewable energy that may soon arrive.
Unacceptable behavior would be unacceptable camera or no camera, since you're in public (even in countries that limit recording you generally can record illegal behavior, if it's to report it to law enforcement).

But the minimal standard for simply walking among strangers and for being recorded forever for the world to see is very different, if you care about your dignity.

And that's all assuming there are surveillance cameras to limit other actions in the first place
That is logically correct, but it’s not how insurance companies think.
Yes, indeed. Not very likely but still...

I would like to have an annoying warning sound that prevents me from getting speeding tickets, but I would not like to have technology limit me artificially without the possibility of a "human override", for the reasons you cite.
Interesting idea. I think most people will hate it and there are many technological reasons for it to be problematic.

Can it be abused too? Say I have an old car without that limit, harass or attack someone then speed up by only going 15 over the limit? What about emergencies? What about motorbikes in that law?

A ton of unintended consequences to consider.

However, I don’t think any car needs to be able to go over certain speeds, and that could be a place to start. Would the limit be 90, 100mph?

Maybe get a way to unlock on a race track, but beyond that, some advertised top speeds are absurd.
QR decomposition isn’t in BLAS, you’re probably thinking of LAPACK.
Ah yes, social media, my favorite chemical byproduct. Politicians doing what they do best, chaining words into listless strings of noise.
It's highly likely the site they go to will have Google's ads on it so they aren't really losing out. AdSense has 90% market share according to a couple sources I read (which I searched for using Kagi).
Sorry it really depends on the situation, road conditions, etc. Ambulances responding to a call is different than transport to a hospital. And many times the paramedics are treating a patient in the back so it doesn't make sense to drive fast if the injuries are treatable or non-life threatening. Firefighters and cops are typically first responders in accidents and incidents and many times they do need to travel faster than speed limit.
I didn't see published costs on the link, but it did mention the shirts were produced in Serbia... I imagine at a substantially lower cost than your assumption of full retail per shirt..
It sure sounds like you're ascribing religious values or the lack thereof as the source of what you believe is wrong with the world. The thing is, what is wrong with the world has often been derived from religion and the burden it places upon the weak or disadvantaged, and the way in which it has held women down. Modern research is very clear on the topic, removing religion does not remove core values that benefit society, and in fact its quite the contrary, removing religion removes stigma and dogma whilst key values of humanity stay on.
Maybe we are on our way out of medival style medicine and actually get a cure and stead of attacking it with ball and chain style therapies
We're talking about the 2023 Q4 earnings report.
Yes, almost definitely unless it was repaired with a faulty part, still unlikely to fall back on Boeing though.
Yay Creative Commons! My heart is warmed any time I see someone sharing their work freely like that.
I grew up around the LA area and found that was common under a short interval but not for a long one. I had a diesel & sometimes tried to see how high I could keep the mileage on a tank (record was 52mpg), and one thing I noticed was that the guys blowing by at 90 were just burning cash: they’d fly by but then stomp on the brakes due to traffic over and over again, while I was having a much less stressful time going the average speed and rarely even touching the brakes.
You're confusing a system.of unsubstantiated belief with social mental healthcare.
Same. 8-o
The first time I ran into one of these cute little jumping spiders was in a backyard while I was reading a book. I felt something on my chair and moved and I saw something jump across to the small table next to me. I noticed that it was a spider. I didn't know spiders could jump like that. I was very surprised when it turned around and looked at me. Scrutinizing me. It literally was moving its head looking at me trying to figure out what had disturbed it. After that my girlfriend at the time joked that he was my little friend.
American drivers' entitlement around speeding and other forms of unsafe driving is easily one of our least commendable qualities as a country. I'm not aware of any other developed country with a comparable culture of neglect; it's good to see a large state take steps towards addressing that culture.

There's a valid point to be made about automation being a blunt tool, versus stronger enforcement of existing laws. My only response to that point is that vehicle unsafety is, at least in my state, remarkably resistant to human enforcement: the people tasked with enforcing these laws are often the ones who feel most entitled to violate them[1].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/nyregion/mathew-bianchi-n...
They have one
It is so awesome to be able to put `!code` or `!expert` At the beginning of my search query and hit enter and have an AI do research for me with the query as the prompt. It doesn't interrupt my flow anymore to get AI insight. It's a game changer, a lot like github co-pilot was for me.

As to the search results, it's always as good or better as Google. Sometimes I checked Google results just to make sure.
Commissioned in the US Public Health Service, not the US Navy. Their ranks are the same as the Navy's, but they have no connection to the Navy.
Regardless of whether this is good or bad, I'd be amazed if it were even feasible with many 9's. How would it even work?
Not really. Imagine you want to buy my car. I give you the make, model and let you test drive it. I also tell you that I paid $X for it and so I’m selling it at some related price F(x). At this point you have all the information to make an independent valuation. You may or may not be influenced by my view of the valuation but that’s on you to decide if you will pay what I’m asking or not.
I know a lab that tried to publish names along with scores for the likelihood that they were h-index hacking.
It's a very popular thing to do for more well known scientists.

Unfortunately legal teams were very discouraging to do so and publishing that type of thing is hard, so it didn't happen.
Emacs server is quite straightforward. M-x server-start in a running emacs, then emacsclient <filename>. emacsclient -c if you want to open the file in a new window, or emacsclient -t if you want to open it in your current terminal. C-x # when you're done editing the file.
Unless it's added to the FMVSS, they often just temporarily import their own car: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/tempin...
Your organization sounds like amateur hour, no offence
Related from a few days ago:

Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102021
> The other thing Flash had going for it that nothing else does is animation. Even today, motion designers are stuck using After Effects (a tool designed for movie titles and broadcast news graphics). We still don't have a good tool for making interfaces that move, which means our ability to make properly interactive interfaces was severely knee-capped when Flash was removed.

We definitely need an easy to use GUI for building complex animations. Exporting animations from After Effects via Lottie is not an ideal solution. Maybe Rive or some other startup will fully supplant this workflow at some point.
do you not drive much? or not have much life experience? i've driven people in emergency situations many times both during day and night. it seems extremely naive to just paper over ALL the situations that happen on roadways with some ivory tower response. dang tree just fell on my car..couldn't accelerate any faster to make it
I think it's silly to assume that emergency vehicles would be included.
Same, well, I’ll do the speed limit. But the end result is the same. I get to where I’m going without stressing over navigating around aggressive drivers. They tend to avoid the right lane anyway.

If my travels are so time sensitive that a couple minutes will make or break it the. I’m planning things wrong well before I leave the house.
SvelteKit for the website. Pandoc for the epub book and PDF book. Markdown for the content. Some small homegrown shell scripts as glue.

You can actually see for yourself, if you like. The site and the books are free open source. If you're a coder, you may want to start with the Makefile files and /bin/ shell scripts.

https://github.com/sixarm/mast-cell-help
Right. Here the databases are wrong so the GPS data will indicate 25mph and the sign looks like a speed limit sign so posted sign identification will likely be tripped up (again, based on reports from Tesla owner friends and colleagues). So for 1/4 of a mile on a 50mph road cars that automatically enforce the speed limit will be screwing up.

And I doubt this is a unique situation.
It happens every day. Happened to me several times yesterday. Often the google maps / internet version of the speed limit is wildly different than the actual speed limits. I drove for an hour on a highway that google thjngs is 40mph but is actually 65. Have fun being that one car whose computer doesnt understand how to read signs. Also, speed variable highways are common in my area.
Roadside Picnic was by the Strugatsky brothers. (Lem wrote some other relevant things, yes -- maybe particularly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae which I haven't read.)
I live in a rural area with a lot of straight/open roads with visibility and little traffic. Driving 98 mph (since 100 is a felony here lol) shaves nontrivial time off my trips vs. the speed limits which are far too low anyway.

If it’s okay for you to drive 10mph over the speed limit then it’s also okay for me to drive 28mph over. Laws are just words written by people who are irrelevant to me. Reality is about risk vs. reward.
I'm more surprised that they are making 3 billion in profits from the printer business! I'd be even more surprised if non-corporate customers were a big chunk of that. Anecdotal, but no one I know wants to buy a HP printer due to them not actually owning the printer, since any arbitrary DRM can be pushed on to the printer disabling its features.

I can see printing as a service be successful, since a large chunk of non-corporate users would prefer not to own a printer(and maintain it regularly), but outside of big cities it is a challenge to provide this service reliably.