Boxbot's comments

the fireball was canadian (though maybe not "whiskey") ;)

i don’t think a 43” display would even fit on my desk, and i think i would personally prefer two smaller displays, but i would whole heartedly recommend dell’s ultrasharp or similar displays to anyone who wasn’t lookin for super high fps gaming. their stands are some of the best (most adjustable and stable) i’ve seen and the panels themselves have great colour reproduction and a good resolution/ppi.

the idea is to have multiple timers with alarms running simultaneously e.g. if you're cooking dinner and have multiple items that will need attention at different times. the stock iOS clock app only supports one active timer. it's a small thing that'd be very handy and shouldn't be much trouble to implement.

Wealth generation is not wealth distribution. It is entirely possible for you to become very, very rich thru wealth distribution resulting from processes that retard wealth generation or reduce wealth globally.

Actually generating wealth is hard, it's so much easier to inject yourself into existing transactions and take a cut instead.

It will never be made illegal because the threat of ostracization for any dissent or minor opposition to the status quo is an enormously powerful political tool. You don't even have to put much effort into it, just arrest someone for "resisting arrest" and every reputable company and landlord will do the work for you.

I run a Pi-hole (mostly for my phone and paired with OpenVPN and iOS/MacOS content blockers) and run into the same "problem". My advice is to stop patronizing those sites at all. Just like paywalled articles linked on HN, just stop visiting.

Seriously, just stop. It's the only way we're going to move to something less damaging and invasive than the current ad/data economy.

I should note that I do pay quite a lot for journalism and art via subscriptions, Patreon, Kickstater, etc, but I'm not going to tolerate sites clogging up search results with paywalled articles or piles of tracking scripts and media downloads.

Yeah, but then you are working for AirBbB or Uber (or worse, Facebook). Eww.

Private companies/startups are still doing options.

And options are worthless. My employee recently loaded all employee stock options / holdings into a stock trading/tracking system and as soon as the FMV from the latest 409a was loaded in people flipped their shit. Turns out that no, joining a nearly decade old private company with limited stock options and a "mature" FMV isn't going to make you millions of dollars. Especially when you're going to be spending five figgies to exercise.

don’t worry, they’re losing money on every sale but they’ll make it up in volume.

The algorithm has been designed to ignore stationary objects because the algorithm and associated hardware is incapable of determining which stationary objects are actually in the path of the vehicle. Regardless of whether the car slammed on the brakes or blared a klaxon there are so many false positives that to do otherwise would make it useless.

So of course the only sensible thing to do is release a product that happily accelerates into the back of a bright red emergency vehicle with flashing lights. Or into a stationary concrete barrier. Or into the side of a massive tractor-trailer.

I mean, who wants to bother with false positives?

That's not how human attention and focus works. There are literally decades of study on this sort of thing. Almost every other major carmaker and autonomous vehicle development company (except Uber, and some poor woman was killed because of it) have publicly abandoned plans for SAE Level 3 autonomous vehicles because over years of testing they've found that their own engineers, test drivers, directors, etc, who are intimately familiar with the technology and the peculiarities of their own product, can't stay focused on the car and the driving environment under those conditions.

Same reason the autopilot crashes happen: Driver isn't paying attention.

Problem is that the autopilot system makes it harder for the driver to pay attention.

Binging with Babish - good cooking basics and some really entertaining dishes from tv / movies

Alex French Guy Cooking - deeper dives into the technology and chemistry of cooking

Primitive Technology - what it says on the tin

AvE - Really informative and entertaining tear downs of equipment and shop talk

SV Seeker - fascinating vlog of someone building a big steel boat with the help of the internet

having seen what BART janitors have to deal with, I say give them a raise and double the headcount.

Not gonna argue that integrating with their platform is a gigantic pain in the ass, but I feel that part of it is the flexibility (and complexity) of their subscription model. Would you say different? Not too familiar with the other players in the field so I don't know how they compare really.

Definitely some reliability and performance concerns, though. I feel like half the pain is just having to shove so much defensive programming in our integration.

If housing prices were indeed inflated then there's little difference between a "recovery" and the bubble inflating again (assuming prices didn't crash to something well below reasonable value).

> Now, fellers can earn as little as $18 an hour.

So they get paid a little more than someone serving burgers in California but have to deal with much more remote, skilled, difficult, dangerous work. I'm getting really tired of articles posing this sort of thing as a "labor shortage".

The admonishment is deserved; High capital requirements don't necessarily mean high burn rates, they mean that you'd better be damn sure that you have a viable business model to make returns on all that capital. The "unlimited exposure to high expenses" isn't some nit, it's a fatal flaw in their strategy.

Probably something like 1 in 10 of the Gmail users examined have weak / short enough passwords that by knowing the length the dictionary used becomes small enough that a brute force attack becomes feasible.

My (admittedly limited) understanding of the case so far is that neither Uber nor the former Google employee dispute that the theft did in fact take place.

I have my doubts that playing with the stock market is in any way conducive to "financial health" for the average consumer.