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I wasn't familiar with Project Aria, as mentioned in the article. Searched for it, and found the facebook connect demo. I enjoyed that the demo'er was kind enough to refer to Aria as an Evil-lution @ 32 seconds in. https://youtu.be/a0QVh5TJl3c?t=30

I would happily pay $5 a month For an ad free search engine that didn’t index Pinterest.

I’m assuming you’re talking about private app based transit here, not public busses and trains, based on the relationship to software. If that’s true you may be shifting the ownership of the physical goods used to transport you, but as long as they are private (as in no more efficient than a private car from a consumptive standpoint) there are just as many physical goods at play- more if you’re using any of the last mile scooter/bike/non-durable options out there

West coast experience does not match the rest of the country. Outside the largest cities and wealthy suburbs, you’d be hard pressed. Especially on an average salary.

okay, there are millions of users paying money directly to use the service. they clearly find utility in it.

There's no moral issue here. Sales people are going in and copying and pasting data field by field, and we made that process more efficient. All that software did is replace multiple clicks with one. Scrape the DOM and dump it into their salesforce instance. A sales person still needs to initiate the action. I'm happy to admit that I don't like sales people, I don't like cold calls, and what we did made it slightly more efficient for them to cold call people. But calling it a/immoral or an invasion of privacy is silly, unless you've already established that cold calls are immoral and I missed that.

There are millions of dollars of software sales that say otherwise.

There’s actually quite a bit of data that’s viewable to anyone, logged in or not, that’s public. All we did was speed up what was happening anyway. Sales people all across the world copy and paste data from LinkedIn to sales force every day. They either do it manually, using the app I worked on, or one of the literally hundreds of competitors.

I used to work on one of those extensions. The lengths linkedin goes to "protect" public data is kind of absurd. If they poured those resources into building tools for salespeople the site would be far more valuable. Or, they could reopen their now closed developer program. It has also been established by lawsuit that those extensions have a right to do what they do.

Those extensions would break the site far less frequently if linkedin would stop trying to break them. And, our users definitely knew when it was us breaking linkedin.

I'm not sure it's as much a catch 22 as it is a self inflicted wound.

Overwork is better than no work. Automation may be part of the solution, but on its own it fails.

While the UMWA certainly has a vested interested in keeping coal mining jobs around, blaming unions for protectionism here is a little far down the value chain.

seems like gore-tex is all over hacker news this week. From corneas to voiceboxes.

No, but that’s often regulated against, and much easier politically to deal with.

The problem is that a flag is, well, a flag. It’s treated as if they’d planted a tree and I’m upset but the wind rustling the leaves.

I’ve looked for anything analogous where wind acts upon an object to make loud noises, and I haven’t had luck.

Oh, interesting idea. Thank you, I’ll give that a shot!

It’s a regional thing I suspect. It’s a big problem in utah, home of the Diesel Brothers and some of the worst air pollution in the country. It’s just recently illegal here.

One guy doing it might not be that meaningful but, that’s true of just about everything.

My neighbors put up a 20 foot plus wide American flag. It’s absurdly loud. When it storms and gets wet, it’s all I can hear inside my house.

While I don’t think it’s the next public health crisis, it’s certainly a crisis for me. And no, there’s nothing I can do about it. Good luck getting a city official to take up that battle. I’ve been told that maybe I’m just more sensitive to noise than others, and that their sensors can’t pick up noises over wind.

You could even have your own!

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/storage-case-pieces/cupboa...

My mail carrier can't read my mail because I'm in the US and there are laws against it. There are certainly mail carriers in the world that can and do read mail.

The answer here is privacy laws and auditability.

Phase 1 - give scooters away basically for free Phase 2 - sell same scooters for 1300USD

This is a business strategy that only works with heroin.

As a field, I think UI/UX has a ton of anxiety about it's place in the cannon of design. There's a pretty clear path from that anxiety to these hollow attempts to justify itself as a "serious discipline."

Look at the other paths that visual designers could take, from "pure art" illustration to a much "harder science" like architecture, UI/UX sits pretty square in the middle. So many of the people I've worked with want it desperately to be both art and science. I'm sure we've all had conversations with a UX/UI designer who will ping-pong between space "feeling better" with different padding, and something like Millers Law, or perhaps a misapplied statistical inference from Optimizely.

I'd love to see UI/UX split into a more art focused design field and a more science focused HCI field. This might stop the navel-gazing and impulse toward faux-science, and publications like this: https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/why-designers-shou...

Forget the headlines, it's a pickup truck that doesn't list bed length in the marketing materials.

The pickup truck is the new SUV, but come on. At least let me pretend to consider if I can fit a sheet of drywall in there.

Also, I hate,hate,hate the trend of putting the spare under the bed floor, instead of under the frame. Clearly a design decision by someone that doesn't use their pickup bed for picking things up...

Livestreamed sexual exploitation was undoubtedly included as a way to extend law enforcement a way to act on "distribution of an intimate image" as defined in 76-5b-203.

Abuse and exploitation do, in fact, have different legal definitions in Utah.

Livestreaming a sexual act without the consent of the 2nd party wouldn't be covered under sexual abuse, as the party is consenting to the sexual act. But, would be covered as exploitation, if the party doesn't consent to the distribution of their image [2].

I'm a huge critic of the church's influence on our legislature, but it's not an extension to porn and/or prostitution. If anything, it's a strengthening of privacy.

[Edit] spelling, sources, and clarification [1] https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5/76-5-S406.html [2] https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter5B/C76-5b-P2_180001...

I would hesitate to call the current mayor popular. She's not seeking a second term for a reason. I'd also question how strong the socialist tensions are. There's definitely tensions between moderate old guard pro-regulation republicans and libertarians with a small vocal minority of socialists.

Asking someone if they are aware of something introduces its own set of biases, eg observer bias. Do you expect is more neutral as the respondent is not "clued in" to the "right" answer through the question.

The cynicism you describe would only be felt if the respondent is aware that tracking is status quo, and thinks that it's problematic. In which case, you'd get the same answer.

When I visited last AWS was planning to open a large data center near taipei with similar AI ambitions. It's a small island and it's interesting to me that these two giants are both headed there with similar projects in mind.

Gall's Law : A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

I immediately thought of the discourse surrounding Sally Mann upon reading this. The intent is different, the medium different, but I don't think the questions around her work have been satisfactorily resolved. If anything, they're heightened by the ease with which non-famous artists can gain extensive audience.

"Can a child freely give consent to be photographed, especially in vulnerable positions including nudity, when the photographer is a parent? Do these photographs unintentionally put children at greater risk given the reality of pedophilia in society? Do they unintentionally encourage a sexualized view of childhood? Does such work on any level exploit these actual children?"

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;...

I’m trying to recall some of the more recent air accidents and the resultant investigations. I don’t remember getting blow by blow updates to the ongoing investigation. Is this new?

Warhol and Hirst's work were both commentaries on this. As were Christo and Jeanne-Claude's, though theirs focused a little more on the role the "self."

I hate subscription services and smart home solutions, but you've hit on an actual solution to an actual problem. I have a subscription with Peace Coffee right now that I have to manually manage. I only subscribed because it saves a good bit of cash. I'm sitting on an extra 5lbs of coffee because I'm not good at that kind of thing. This resolves that.

I'd totally sign up today, but why only a dark roast option? Add light roast and I'm 100% in.