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IIRC a copyright notice was added to the bottom of the site, because in early user testing, people thought the page was still loading because it was so barren

+1 rage against walled gardens

If it’s wildly overdue and only a fraction of what was promised, it’s a significant failure as a product.

It might be a great achievement if it hadn’t been hyped up well beyond what has been released

To clarify: I too am not excusing Boeing and think they’re likely a hot trash mess that deserves to have C-levels lose their heads with no golden parachute (or maybe their punishment should be a Boeing-produced parachute)

Along with the very low actual incident rate, grandparent comment also suggests a certain degree of functional organizational coherence which is often wildly missing at large organizations

If you ask 50 people at Boeing what happened, you may receive 50 very different answers

This seems like a way to accelerate the move to electric. If you’re giving up the V8 sound and RWD driveline, might as well go electric and get oodles of torque

It’s the worst of both worlds

You have to assume an unappealing photo of yourself you posted in your youth is stored somewhere forever

And, things you actually want to be stored forever and be retrievable when useful, probably won’t.

I take it one more step: if you step across any of my personal lines, I will stop doing business with you where feasible.

For example:

- I unsubscribe from your mailing list. But you have another, slightly different one, so I must unsubscribe from each - >1 click to unsubscribe - physically mail me more than about 4 times a year: your product probably sucks - make it difficult to cancel my account or subscription - and many more

At this point I may end up living in the woods with no internet, but that sounds delightful!

Agreed. I actually get ads for “start your own drone-based deer recovery business”; this reinforces the idea that you need to stay legal in your state.

This is a big part of it

Same reason many areas (eg Alaska) allow you to fly into a hunting area, but not hunt the day you land. Otherwise you could use the plane for locating and/or driving animals fairly precisely

I started scrolling that article to read, and not far into it, 100% of my (mobile) screen was ads.

I’m not interested enough in what the article is trying to tell me to put up with that.

> Maybe larger companies have their own infra for this, or have redundancy in place (e.g. their own GPS devices)?

Modern trucks have cell modems tied to a private APN that are used for updating vehicle firmware & doing telematics. They also typically have a route to the internet that provides a WiFi hotspot in the cab.

Depending where the fault was in the telco stack, that APN may have still been functional

Not saying this was a significant resolution, but at least a possibility.

I was just saving folks a google, as I had no idea what the acronym was.

I propose rill-hiff until someone who actually know what they’re doing shows up!

People would 1000% complain if a search for “skilled scientist” was 90% white men, even if that tracked completely true to statistical reality.

Is mastodon a success? I agree federation is the best strategy (I have a blog and HN and nothing else), but twitter seems to still utterly dominate

Add in a really significant requirement for cheap compute, and I don’t know that a federated or distributed model is even slightly possible?

rlhf: Reinforcement learning from human feedback

Can we trust the media and congress to distinguish the two?

So many platforms have come under fire for “supporting” a theme, when all they’ve done in reality is provide media hosting services for user generated content, and %0.001 of bad content isn’t removed, thus Facebook/twitter/YouTube is held to blame

FWIW I don’t think there’s a clear answer to the underlying problem. I have just learnt to expect the media to blame whoever is easiest for clicks at any given point. Right now, it’s big tech.

At the same time, nearly daily there’s a “google did a bad thing” post on HN front page.

Can’t win I guess?

> big tech could just follow the rules. It's not that hard.

The EU can create new rules out of thin air with arbitrary timelines to implement.

It wouldn’t characterize it as “not that hard”.

Prioritization of work (security)

Feed in a collection of docs about applications in use at an organization including their user guides; summarize what the capability of each application is; identify what capabilities are high risk; prioritize which applications need the most security visibility

Usually this is a classic difficult problem of inventory and 100 meetings.

Perfect? Nope. A huge leap forward? Yes.

5) is the killer app for me. I don’t really search to discover or learn any more, at least not to satiate curiosity. I chat with an LLM

I don’t know that they’d have the skill or patience for this. If you’re running cables to other rooms, they’re not going to start tracing wires everywhere (to potentially find the wire connected to a router anyhow)

As I understand it, the US system is pretty poorly set up to deal with things related to the internet, so wire fraud is often the go to. Happens often with hacking as well.

> He’s not being harassed by the swatters.

+1 my cars are relatively easy to keep track of (modern), but I own ~15 smaller engines that all have specific timelines and requirements.

Currently using a google doc with a section for each. It has no built-in reminder capability

This is really useful context, but doesn’t entirely invalidate my point, right?

We should reduce one type (possibly the most urgent), and then move on to solving the next?

This seems to be pretty wildly left out of the gas->electric push then?

I’m not saying it makes electrification less valuable, but rather the push for electric has very much been sold as “solving” emissions (with some minor debate about the emissions of manufacturing & supply chain)

I guess electrification is phase 1, tire compound science is going to have to be phase 2?

They mention Zero Trust, yet you can gain access to applications with just a single bearer token?

Am I missing something here?

There’s no machine cert used? AuthN tokens aren’t cryptographically bound?

This doesn’t meet my definition of ZT, it seems more like “we don’t have a VPN”

> What a pity so few in the Western world can experience the delights of their own self-locomotion being sufficient to their daily needs ..

Most countries do indeed have cities and high-population areas that support this, and many folks do experience it.

I lived that life for ~15 years, and it was truly great at the time. Turns out I started disliking the sheer density, and prefer to be slightly more self sufficient.

In general, I advocate for the people to have freedom against any negative and controlling centralized power. Government and corporates both.