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> a single engineer personally adding a jet engine to his car while seemingly being very in touch with the dangers of operating it

What if a non-engineer who doesn’t understand the dangers makes this type of modification? This is is why it needs to be illegal. Just because someone straps a jet engine to their car it doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing, and _that_ is the risk, and why pretty much all laws exist in the first place. Many people could drive safely without speed limits, but we have speed limits to cater for people who can’t. My point is that if this type of modification truly is legal in America, that’s scary, and Australia got the laws right. A jet-powered car is not inherently safer in the US than Australia.

It’s important to understand most things happen for a reason, and as a Brit American living in the US you might be missing some context.

In the area I grew up, it was expected that your first car would be a V8. Hooning was ingrained into the culture. Back then it was a single spinner, no ABS, no airbags, basically no safety features at all. So what would happen is someone would get their licence, grab as many mates as they could, drive as fast as they could, and wrap their car around a tree killing everyone. Every week there was a news story about a multiple fatality P plate accident caused by hooning.

A culture of dangerous driving and dangerous vehicles led to Australia’s anti-hoon laws. It’s not just “ooh silly nanny state laws for no reason”.

This is weird on so many levels.

Sure, there’s a complete lack of contextual awareness. However, I take issue with the fact censoring is occurring at all in a product like Teams.

Censoring comes from an extremely outdated world view that children need to be “protected” from “bad” words lest they become bad children.

Regardless of whether you agree with this is or not, Teams is not a tool for children. It’s a tool for communication between adults in a place of employment. It has no job censoring anything. Adults are capable of understanding intent. If someone uses “naughty” words to insult someone else, censoring them does nothing. It doesn’t make the insult less insulting. It doesn’t address the problem, which is the insult itself. And Microsoft has no job policing the entire world on what words we are and are not allowed to use.

20 years ago in Australia my car got canaried because I had LPG and a pod filter, which was illegal because you were only allowed 1 modification to the intake system. I am 100% confident that if I strapped a jet to the car, it would be illegal. As it should be. If you want to do extremely dangerous modifications, do it on your own property. Not a public road where you risk killing a family of 5.

What made you decide to cut it out completely rather than just reducing intake? I don’t have a problem drinking a couple of days a week with mates, but at the moment I drink daily by myself which I’m not happy with, so I’m trying to cut down on that.

Where’s the assumption that he won’t be on the job coming from? What work would he be doing at his desk in Germany that he wouldn’t be able to do remotely?

Here’s hoping, but it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Ford is going to start forcing ads on you in your own car [0], and Samsung is planning to make all of its devices “smart”. I can’t wait for the day when my overpriced microwave forces me to watch a 30 second ad before it cooks my food.

It used to be that if you weren’t paying, you were the product. But these companies figured out something better - they can make you pay to be the product.

[0] https://techxplore.com/news/2021-05-ford-infotainment-screen...

Why is the principle stupid? He’s a climate scientist and flying is terrible for the environment.

IMHO “stupid” is when people fly private jets to climate summits.

That doesn’t really have anything to do with what we’re talking about, but many of those types of accidents can also be avoided.

There’s a significant number of people who feel personally attacked by a car merging in front of them, despite the fact that a merging vehicle has right of way (in all countries I’ve ever driven in). There’s a video that keeps popping up on my Instagram where a car changes lanes, and the car behind has plenty of time to react and slow down slightly, but they instead crash into the merging vehicle intentionally without touching the brakes at all. Most of the comments side with the driver who caused the incident, not the merging vehicle who did nothing wrong.

Anyway, my point is, there are a lot of people who refuse to give space to merging vehicles, which increases the chance of these accidents happening (fraud or not).

If you put your ego aside and immediately back off when a vehicle in front merges, you’ll be far more likely to avoid this type of accident. Alternatively, if you tailgate a merging vehicle out of “principle” you’re just inviting an accident.

Last time I visited NYC was 2015. Just checked my Airbnb history, $45 a night for a room in bed stuy.

$250 a night is insanity. I guess I should be thankful I visited NYC when I did, because it looks like I’ll never be able to afford to go back.

I haven’t been to America in quite a few years, but 10ish years ago a private room in an Airbnb was cheaper than a hostel in NYC.

I’m currently in Poland and I’m renting an entire apartment on Airbnb for less than a bed in a hostel, let alone a hotel. Anywhere in Europe a room in an Airbnb seems to be on par with the price of a bed in a hostel.

For me it’s the price of single occupancy.

I’ve spent a lot of time nomadic freelancing in the past 10 years. In most cities around the world, a room on Airbnb is about the same price as a bed in a hostel. And a hotel is usually double the price.

My needs as a traveller are certainly less important than those of the residents in the cities I visit. Nonetheless, I still lament, as the ever-growing ban on Airbnbs effectively kills the nomadic lifestyle.

> E.g. a Tesla driving under a semi because it thought it was a billboard.

People don’t like what they can’t understand. Most of the accidents caused by autonomous vehicles are weird and probably would have been avoided by human drivers. However, this isn’t the whole picture, because those same vehicles also avoided a bunch of accidents that humans would have caused.

My interpretation of the data is that autonomous vehicles are already statistically safer than human drivers.

Problem is, humans are emotional beings who aren’t always capable of pure rationale. If you tell someone they’re statistically safer in a Tesla, but it might accelerate into a wall at 60mph, many people won’t take that risk.

I’m genuinely surprised “human drivers can't comprehend or anticipate a driverless car hitting the brakes for no apparent reason” is an argument people can relate to.

You absolutely should be expecting the driver in front to slam on the brakes at full force without warning. There’s an infinite number of things that could cause any driver - human or autonomous - to do this. If you drive without this expectation then you’re a very dangerous driver and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near you on the road.

> Promoters claim self driving cars are safer than human drivers.

And opposers always ignore or brush off the fact that humans have proved themselves to be terrible drivers. A human driver ran over this woman first yet you didn’t even recognise this anywhere in your argument against autonomous vehicles.

I’ve used these tools on all sorts of network configurations and there’s always lag.

One thing I will say is that this was all within Australia. Surely the packets aren’t going overseas, but perhaps whatever servers they use in AU just aren’t optimised for ultra low latency.

Why is this getting downvoted? The parent asked for critique and they got critique.

I worked for a company that did something similar to this, most of the day was spent “team building” and it was painful. The fun bit was going to the pub after.

I’d say the best thing to do is to not organise any activities and just make time and space for people to hang out. The people who want to come will come, and for the people who don’t, you aren’t gaining much by forcing them to attend, so why bother.

If you’re more concerned with how long a software engineer sits in front of a computer, opposed to the work they actually get done, you’ve already lost.

Edit: if you’re going to downvote me that’s fine, but please explain why “number of hours spent at computer” is at all a useful metric. It’s a genuine question; I’m not being facetious. I’ll get nothing done all day then wake up in the middle of the night with the solution to a problem. The amount of time I spend coding doesn’t really correlate with business value.

My issue with every piece of commercial software I’ve used is the lag. Slack, Google Meet, Zoom… All have noticeable delay which make conversation unnatural and painful.

I’ve been using FaceTime Audio to communicate with family on the other side of the world and it’s incredible. Zero latency and great audio quality. It’s an extremely underrated piece of tech. Not sure about FaceTime video as I’ve never used it, but I bet it’s equally impressive.

Amazing that no one else was able to solve this problem considering the demand for such software during the pandemic. Not my area of expertise, but I assume it must be quite difficult.

Passkeys are often marketed as a replacement for password + MFA, but I don’t understand how users are protected from malicious passkey resets.

Suppose I’m signed up to a service with a password and TOTP, and my email account gets compromised or the attacker uses social engineering to change the email address on the account. They initiate a password reset, but the TOTP either prevents them from doing so or prevents access after the password is reset.

Now let’s say I use a passkey instead. I guess the reset flow is the same - initiate a reset with the service using email address, then the passkey can be regenerated. Now the attacker has access to my account. There’s no second factor to protect me, because it was baked into the passkey that has now been replaced.

This scenario seems less secure to me. So what’s the solution? Continue to use other methods of MFA with passkeys, such as TOTP/hardware keys etc?

I get passkeys increase security for the average person who reuses passwords and doesn’t use MFA, but for advanced users who already use complex random passwords and MFA, passkeys seem to offer little additional security, but they do reduce convenience (eg, logging into a service on an untrusted device becomes painful).

I’ll continue to use passwords for as long as I can.

This argument is often brought up as “proof” that socialism doesn’t work, yet completely ignores the reality of late-stage capitalism.

Of course boomers love capitalism when in the 60s a factory worker could easily pay off a huge house, two brand new cars every 3 years, and support a family of 5 on a single income.

But that isn’t capitalism today. Young people are working themselves into the ground just to share a room in a house with 6 other people, barely able to put food on the table.

What do you suppose the current generation will say about capitalism when they get old?

Wealth is flowing from poor people to rich people at an ever increasing rate. It’s no wonder alternative economic systems are gaining in popularity.

I don’t understand this comment. In a city like Amsterdam you certainly don’t need a car to go to the supermarket or college. I’ve lived in cities with far worse public transport and no car and had no issues.

What do you mean by suffer? I’ve never had any problem driving at any speed in any car apart from crawling (1-2km/h) in a manual.

I thought the parent was making a joke. Is this actually a thing in America? In Australia I have never seen this in any of my contracts.

As soon as you mention childfree on HN, you get downvoted into oblivion. It’s happened to me quite a few times now. Perhaps people with children find it offensive whenever someone talks about a different lifestyle, regardless of their reasons.

Just because someone has a different opinion to you, it doesn’t mean they’re fanboying. Your anecdotal evidence is irrelevant; it’s well known that average Mac ownership costs are lower than the average PC. Straight from the horses mouth: “IBM confirms that Macs are $535 less expensive than PCs”

https://www.jamf.com/blog/debate-over-ibm-confirms-that-macs...

Consumer Freedom is a conspiracy theorist website with no qualifications and a strong agenda against veganism. The article attempts to instil fear by listing off chemicals with alternative uses and irrelevant “dangers”, and then hits you with this:

> Are the chemicals in fake meat harmful? Probably not.

So even they admit that their claims about the health impacts of plant-based alternatives are completely unsubstantiated and baseless.

You know what actually is harmful according to the WHO (an organisation who actually has qualifications assessing the health impacts of foods)? Red meat, which is classified as a Group 1 carcinogen.

Of course, there’s no mention of that on Consumer Freedom because it doesn’t fit the agenda.

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/can...

And what does the WHO say about plant based meats? TLDR is that we need more information, but as always, minimising intake of processed foods is a generally a good call.

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/22-12-2021-new-who-fact...

Is it really though, when you consider the realistic lifespan of the device? I literally got 10 years of use out of a 2011 MacBook pro, and I now run a second-hand 2018 Macbook Pro which is still going strong, despite being an Intel the performance is still fine, and it should hit the 10 year mark as well.

I don’t think there are many other brands getting a real 10 years of use.

The author doesn’t mention whether iCloud Keychain is enabled or not. When iCloud Keychain is enabled, this is the expected behaviour - internet accounts get synced to keychain.

Probably what happened is that iCloud Keychain became enabled (I wouldn’t be surprised it enabled itself by default on a fresh install), and the accounts got synced. Unlikely to be malicious. Also, I’m pretty sure Keychain is end-to-end encrypted, so Apple doesn’t _technically_ have your email addresses.

This has been one of the most polarising conversations I’ve been a part of on HN.

Your comment made me think. I’ll preface this with an I also have code in your favourite web framework.

There are many people like myself who don’t care about attribution, and don’t understand people who care more about attribution than the project itself.

Then there are just as many people like you, who are only interested in contributing as long as credit is given. And you seem just as equally unable to empathise with my position.

And I feel like this is causing such a heated environment, because neither of these groups are seeing eye to eye.

Just a thought.