akira2501

> pioneering a backup system to keep an airplane on course when it cannot rely on global positioning system satellites.

So like the already existing VOR/DME network?

> The idea is to use these alternative signals to calculate a vehicle’s position and velocity.

All commercial planes have an IMU/ADIRU in them. Most are doubly if not triply redundant.

> There is no question GPS is still the gold standard for navigation

Not for flight. There are plenty of areas in Europe where it is compromised to the point of being useless.

> Scientists refer to it as “signals of opportunity”

Way back in the day pilots would use FM radio stations in the same way. If you were really lost out somewhere over a dark patch.

> If these signals are clean enough for navigation,

The bigger problem you have is while these are "fixed location" services our database of the locations isn't exactly awesome or well maintained in the face of maintenance or physical changes.

"Signals of opportunity" for flight is a bizarre regime to even consider.

> Complete horseshit.

Wonderful brand of rationality you have on display here.

> This sort of nonsense is what I’m talking about.

https://www.newsweek.com/science-fact-check-definition-vacci...

> and we’re expected to take it seriously

You have refused to take any of this seriously. You have a preconceived idea of the world and you are absolutely unwilling to accept any debate or challenge over it. You are acting as a bully and not as a scientist. No wonder you constantly appeal to authority.

See Also: Swine Flu Vaccine

They have high forward voltage /drop/ which is a useful property. You drive them with constant current for constant brightness and improved lifespan which is most pertinent for LED light bulb replacements than it is for a simple signal status light. Fixed delay before standby isn't hard to enforce either.

Even so this whole attack vector isn't solved with this. How long should the light stay on for after the camera is put in standby before a user considers it a nuisance? 5 seconds? So if I turn my back for longer than that I'm out of luck anyways.

The anti-TSO means would be a hardware serial counter with a display on the camera. Each time the camera is activated the number is incremented effectively forming a camera odometer. Then if my previous value does not match the current value I know it's been activated outside of my control.

Yea it's a strawman.

So I'll rephrase my question to "what does yelling a response to a strawman do to improve the outcome?"

You appeal to rationality then immediately abandon it. The COVID vaccine was not a traditional vaccine and the definitions were changed after it's release to match it. It relied on an entirely novel technology and novel delivery technique that was a part of a military strategy goal for a decade for no practical reason. The goalposts were constantly changed and "boosters" added to measurably diminished returns.

Which is all bad enough, but for people with your sort of "rational" to then decide that vaccines are _all_ uncritically "good," and any questions or any sort of reservations that I've just covered were thus uncritically "bad" and those having them deserved to have their civil rights stripped from them, is what made this a horror.

Finally, we have sanitized water and sewers and we live in first world conditions, the precursors to the diseases you mention are almost entirely absent from our living conditions, and those vaccinations use time tested and proven technologies which haven't ever been in question. Perhaps some of the popular adjuvants are worthy of concern, but in your version of rationality, this is apparently an evil thing to even consider out loud in the presence of the vaunted "technophiles."

You completely fail to maintain rationality in the face of a very narrow and specific critique.

You assume everything is in good working order. Perhaps it was. Is this the type of vehicle that is designed for offroad abuse? Is this the type of owner that would do that anyways? Was there a secondary malfunction or perhaps something caught in the area before or after the accident that contributed to the cause?

Brakes get hot. Hot enough to burn you pretty good even on a car that hasn't been to the track and maybe even hot enough to light organic debris that comes in contact with it on fire. Which is probably pretty difficult normally but might be a lot easier if you bash a bunch of that structure to bits in a high speed accident.

Real mystery though.

> would be "late night drunks relying on self driving" .. but that remains to be reported.

Alcohol and speed are the cause of _most_ fatalities on our roads. It's a pretty good bet.

I'm personally waiting for the story wherein a police officer finds an unattended child in one of these vehicles because the parents couldn't be bothered to bring their child somewhere. Much more likely to happen once these systems become more affordable.

> one is left wondering how the vehicle managed to catch fire in the first place.

Any heavy vehicle with _friction_ brakes can generate enough heat to create fire, it turns out spinning metal is always a stored energy hazard regardless of how the motive power was originally supplied.

Plus upholstery is pretty flammable. They lace it with chemicals to try to retard that tendency but after a certain point they're going to light up and fuel the fire.

Yea, it's a real surprise that a new and unique product with seemingly little regulatory oversight causing death is going to cause people to report on it!

LEDs are diodes. So you can run power _through_ them. Power Supply -> LED -> Camera.

> vaccine misinformation has created entire groups of people irrationally terrified

I am terrified of them but I'm fairly certain it's rationalized. The medical community decided it's more important to bully their patients into compliance than to listen to their concerns and work with them. The vaccine absolutely had side effects for some individuals and they were treated very poorly, in particular at the beginning of the pandemic, due to this attitude of "fighting misinformation." Our medical institutions were put to propaganda purposes rather than healthcare purposes and the results were absolutely horrific.

> to cause more death and suffering

This is predicated on the belief that "herd immunity" is valid and universal to all vaccines and that, again, bullying people who are afraid into choices they're not comfortable with is somehow justifiable due to it. As if letting a for profit institution inject random goop into me is a natural thing to _not_ be generally wary or afraid of.

Just because you think you have "the science" doesn't mean you get a free pass on "patient rights."

Injecting a bunch of shouting and bullying drama into a medical discussion is not likely to produce improved results. Why are you doing this?

Their ToS enforcement seems weak and/or arbitrary. There are a lot of scummy and criminal sites that use their services without any issues it seems. At least they generally cooperate with law enforcement when requested to do so but they otherwise don't seem to notice on their own.

Typically you would use S3 with CloudFront for hosting. S3 provides no protections because it's meant to be a durable and global service. CloudFront provides DDoS and other types of protection while making it easy to get prepaid bandwidth discounts.

Not at all. I appreciate the reporting because I do use Cognito and did miss this update. Amazon took something that used to be pretty flat and simple and has now made it "tired" in a way that most of their other services aren't.

I'm not wild about it. Particularly because the web console now has a bunch of "upgrade your user pool tier" buttons littered all over the interface. You end up with a very hazy sense of what is covered and included and what isn't.

Anyways.. thanks for the update!

I think the author is confused. The previous "basic tier" is actually the "lite" tier. The prices are the same, but the number of "free" MAUs is reduced. The "advanced" and "essentials" tier include what seems to be new or expanded features like fully customizable logins and passwordless login options, so you have to pay more to access these features, but it looks like everything Cognito previously provided is in the "lite" tier.

> when I eat potato chips I eat more because they never quite satisfy me.

This is why I have paper bowls. Pour out a portion of chips. Eat that. If you're not satisfied after eat something _else_. This is probably as much about ingredients as it is about packaging and delivery.

This is the MPW way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBj9H6z6Uxw

"Perfection is lots of little things done well."

> if Russia itself suffers for long enough.

Do you want Russia, a geopolitical entity, to somehow measurably suffer, or do you want an end to pointless bloodshed? Are you willing to put your own life to this lofty goal?

> placating an invading army is the best way to peace.

If you're not capable of repelling the invasion effectively, then yes, this is absolutely true. How could it not be? There's no reason that you can't have peace today and sue for justice tomorrow.

What makes you so confident in the absence of something? In particular given that there is a massive amount of reporting that conflicts with your single sentence assertion?

> quite a fair way to do it

Are your parents retired? Ask them if they think this was fair.

The embargo caused the spike. Which makes having thrown away a workable peace deal a criminal act.

> and my comment was sarcastic, right?

Pardon me for not realizing and treating it appropriately.

> with the same inelegant workarounds that's been rediscovered since the late sixties or so

Short of creating instructions that take 64bit immediate operands you're always going to pay the same price. An indirection. This will look different because it will be implemented most efficiently differently on different architectures.

> GOT and PLT versus pools of absolute 64-bit addresses, pick the least worst one.

Or statically define all those addresses within your binary. That seems more "elegant" to you? You'll have the same problem but your loader will now be inside out or you'll have none of the features the loader can provide for you.

At that point just statically link all your dependencies and call it an early day.

> I've mentioned "leaving struct fields uninitialized". This happens easily when you make a code change from something like this:

Really? Are you not using gopls? It absolutely will warn you about this. And the mutex case. And a lot of the other similar criticisms.

> Go not letting you do operator overloading, harkening back to the Java days where a == b isn't the same as a.equals(b)

In languages that have it I've never used operator overloading to produce anything good or that was obviously better than just using methods.

> The Go toolchain does not use the assembly language everyone else knows about.

Honestly I've never noticed or had to care. And you can build plenty of things that don't require CGO.

The whole "gnostic" tone in language articles on HN is becoming overbearing. There are parts of the language to criticize but couching it in this "lies _we_ tell ourselves" and somewhat kitchy writing that presents minor matters of taste as fully existential issues makes this an unsatisfying read.

...and then x86_64 went ahead and added RIP relative addressing back in, and you get the full 64 bits of address space.

> but this is not one

It really is though. Memory and thus data _and_ instruction encoding were incredibly important. Physical wires on the circuit board were at a premium then as well. It was an incredibly popular platform because it was highly capable while being stupidly cheap compared to other setups.

Engineering is all about tradeoffs. "Purity" almost never makes it on the whiteboard.

S3 is rated as "durable" as opposed to "best effort." It has lots of interesting guarantees as a result.

These laws "belong" to the citizens. If the government is not applying it's rules correctly who is there to monitor that? Do I not have that _basic right_?

> overtaking Threads

So the lowest bar possibly imaginable?