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LordOfWolves··on Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on the same road [video]
Mercedes is the first company to sell vehicles with SAE Level 3 Autonomous Driving enabled in the United States [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40098468

LordOfWolves··on “HustleGPT” prompted to make as much money from $100
See previous discussion of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35175529
LordOfWolves··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
It might help to explain what your friend says is “wrong and useless” so others could provide feedback.

It also might help to avoid insinuating things about strangers online in order to promote discussion and not stifle it.

LordOfWolves··on I write code 100 hours/week, here's why I probably won't stop
I worked nearly 100 hrs per week at the beginning of my twenties. Between an undergraduate engineering program, business school minors, a busy college life, running a boutique software agency for small-to-medium sized businesses, and creating & building startups of my own, it took its toll.

A couple years later, I was completely burnt without knowing it. I only realized it after talking with others about the not-so-admirable things I had been feeling, something many like myself hesitate to do when trying to grow into the leaders we aspire to be. It was at that point that my situation became clear.

I ended up taking almost two years away from any form of work in order to bring balance back to not only my mind, but my life as well. Suffice it to say this process was not as simple as it sounds.

I implore anyone caught in the “just keep going with everything despite the stress, you’re almost there” mentality to consider what is driving you and if it is healthy for you in the long run. Being healthy and happy, with loved ones abound, is tremendously underrated by types like myself.

LordOfWolves··on ‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Google Earth Algorithm
This is quite impressive for ‘94, thank you for sharing.

I found it funny - in a “how ridiculous/silly” kind of way - that at 4:40 we get to look inside a building by entering through its windows, but here we are in the 21st century with that exact capability. Individuals providing photos and/or footage of the interior of their commercial space does not seem so silly these days.

LordOfWolves··on Surveilling the Gamers: Privacy Impacts of the Video Game Industry
In the meantime, most users with that anticheat software installed presume that it is simply looking out for them, in terms of eliminating cheaters in __ video game, and could not possibly be doing the nefarious things you mention. Yet, all of us working in software know this is not a far stretch, given the application is already designed to gather information about the environment surrounding the running game. We have a long way to go with software, put simply..
LordOfWolves··on YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative
I’m going to take a guess that perhaps it has to do with Google’s ability to continue to commercially operate in China.

Perhaps X leadership from Google spoke with Y leadership from China and reached this compromise in order to avoid a potential all-out ban of Google’s services in China, similar to - though nowhere close to the same reasoning behind - the US’ ban of Huawei telecommunications equipment.

PLEASE NOTE that this is purely conjecture. I am not affiliated with Google or China, in any way, shape, or form. This should not be taken as fact.

LordOfWolves··on 140k lines of code: why we built our own licensing system
Proprietary and Git don’t really go well together. Anyone can use Git and you certainly don’t have to use this or any additional software with it. I’ve never used Tower, as everything I’ve wanted to do in Git has been accomplishable via the command line.

The necessity of this article is debatable however. As with the majority (all?) of software products (excluding games), there’s often always that “this tool solves a problem we had ourselves” component. A somewhat shallow piece of content marketing is what this appears to be.

LordOfWolves··on New material shows zero heat expansion from 4 to 1400 K
This could be quite a revolutionary find so long as the research can be replicated and validated.

However, we may be a ways off from seeing it actually implemented…

> The team says the exact mechanism behind this extreme thermal stability isn't totally clear, but that perhaps bond lengths, angles and oxygen atom positions are changing in concert with one another to preserve the overall volume.

With that said, I am optimistic and very hopeful that answers - and a more elaborate description of its operation and its operational boundaries - are discovered soon. Only then could I see, say, the USAF utilizing this as the “skin” for their latest generation craft, particularly, UAVs or missiles operating at Mach >=5.

LordOfWolves··on Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $25k donation this year
From Zerodium’s FAQ page:

> Zerodium customers are government organizations (mainly from Europe and North America) in need of advanced zero-day exploits and cybersecurity capabilities.

Based off Zerodium’s origin and reputation, it seems an exploit is sought which enables a governmental actor to examine information that it otherwise could not. I am assuming they do not have a legal basis for doing so or courts would have granted/ordered such access.

LordOfWolves··on One man’s journey to the center of the bowling ball
> ...and bowling-world fame.

[Unrelated to the core topic] Is anyone else on mobile only seeing the first paragraph? If I open the article on desktop, I see the full article, but on mobile, it simply ends after that paragraph (followed by a featured video about the “dreaded 7-10 split”). There’s no “Continue Reading” (or similar) button/link and no notice that I may have exceeded a monthly limit of “free articles”.

LordOfWolves··on Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
> ..[the] space debris problem does seem to be increasing. Last year, the ISS had to perform emergency maneuvers three times in order to avoid collisions with space debris at its altitude of around 400 kilometers (250 miles).

I wish I could do something about this. What can an “ordinary” civilian in the US do to help? Are we limited to electing politicians with the hope they follow through on a potential campaign promise?

LordOfWolves··on Identify a Facebook user by his phone number despite privacy settings set
Can you please elaborate on what this has to do with the topic at-hand?
LordOfWolves··on Florida bill to fine social media for banning politicians
This will not play out well for FL in courts. Just because you can sue someone does not mean that you should. In this scenario, the state is risking taxpayer monies with every new suit.

A case out of Miami, FL that reached the U.S. Supreme Court is nearly directly applicable [1].

[1] https://casetext.com/case/miami-herald-publishing-co-v-torni...

LordOfWolves··on Florida bill to fine social media for banning politicians
I do not believe this to be the case.

This will not play out well for FL in courts. Just because you can sue someone does not mean that you should, as you can fail and waste taxpayer monies in this scenario. There is a U.S. Supreme Court case out of MIA that is almost directly applicable [1].

[1] https://casetext.com/case/miami-herald-publishing-co-v-torni...

LordOfWolves··on FB JavaScript SDK down
It’s too bad the core website didn’t go down with it. I believe the majority of users, at least those in the USA where FB is based, would be better off without it.

A week-long FB outage would surely result in a very interesting study of society’s response and adaptation to said event.

LordOfWolves··on Intel seeks $10B in subsidies for European chip plant
Only an already large, successful company can ask for - and frequently receive - funds which will primarily benefit said (for-profit) company..

Competition is often the catalyst for the creation of the many innovations that society makes use of. What am I missing here..?

LordOfWolves··on Make an Interactive Sculpture with Twilio Autopilot and Airtable
This seems like a fun, educational project, yet I am surprised to see this on the front page of HN given that the article is - at its core - promotional material for Twilio and was submitted by “Director of Developer Content @ Twilio”. We surely do not need Twilio or Airtable to send data to displays/monitors/screens.
LordOfWolves··on Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
Will we not need some sort of interface for the ordinary user to perform perhaps unordinary action on said data (the same data that’s in airtable)?

The command line can be daunting until you play with it a bit and I know many web devs try to avoid it as much as possible while working.

LordOfWolves··on When 70M people visit your joke site
Thanks Tom, nothing better than hearing directly from you regarding this.
LordOfWolves··on When 70M people visit your joke site
I'd love to learn about the financials. How much did everything cost? Was it worth it?* How does one reason with the expenditure?

*I do understand that Tom Neill created this while bored at home. I also understand that if created via modern methods, this project could have cost him next to nothing, and thus only benefits awaited him. I'd love to learn more.

LordOfWolves··on Estate agent's hi-tech house tour exposes personal data
Beyond assisting with contractual matters and negotiation, I feel this is the last value proposition of real estate agents.

We've had videos and virtual tours for a long time. I no longer need someone to show me around a physical space.

Making the process of searching for - and hopefully purchasing - your "dream home" as smooth and safe as possible is arguably the best way for these agents to retain their jobs as we enter an age where much of what they do can be automated.

LordOfWolves··on ‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite
It's always unfortunate when a presumably valuable asset - CS:GO brought in over $400M in 2018 [1] - does not receive the attention it deserves, nonetheless requires, for continued successful operation.

We see this with other games as studios spend more time preparing "future IP" and less time preserving their existing. One example is Bungie's Destiny franchise. Studios need to continue monitoring - and interacting with - their playerbase to find a middle that satisfies all. Bungie made a decision a few months ago that has been reversed, per community feedback about the massively negative impact said decision would have on the game and its playerbase.

Studios like Valve, Bungie, and others truly need to step up what is essentially customer service, especially as the digital entertainment market only continues to grow and open up even more opportunities for success than before.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/808773/csgo-revenue/

LordOfWolves··on Iran Says It Will Enrich Uranium to 60%
This was announced following an attack on their primary nuclear facility (in Natanz, Iran), but given the clear disparity between the necessary level of enrichment for weapons production and 60%, this comes off as "we won't stand idly by while being attacked" versus "we are preparing to enter the global nuclear arena".

I am no nuclear arms expert, but based off their nuclear history, I surmise they intended this statement to be somewhat of a scare tactic that rings hollow at the end of the day.

LordOfWolves··on Artists in the Stone Age Were High at Work, New Study Suggests
This study quite literally contends that Stone Age artists specifically sought the effects of Hypnoxia and would even use the act of creating such art as an excuse to go "get high".

This reads more like a random theory than a newly discovered pattern of behavior from the past.

Direct link to the study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1751696X.2021.19...

LordOfWolves··on A Brief History of the Hedge Fund
I like to think that most of us folk on HN can agree that hedge funds have had very little to do with the progression of the world beyond the growth of its key members’ pockets and convoluted new “investment methods”.

Pension funds - and similar - can easily be moved to ETFs and other asset classes without the management fees from these funds.

LordOfWolves··on A Brief History of the Hedge Fund
Given your username, bio, and the article itself, you’d think your comment is sarcastic, though it does not come off as such.
LordOfWolves··on Tusk – Short-lived anonymous feedback
The last two paragraphs of your experiences ring within me as well. The “power” we give people over our well-being when socially anxious is absolutely unwarranted.
LordOfWolves··on Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
Apple’s (often critical) review process for app updates is shining right now!

Edit: /s

LordOfWolves··on Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
I'm also curious about Beeper's plan re: potential response/pushback from Apple and the status of (likely broken?) E2E in iMessage.
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