This is incorrect and thinking this can get you sued

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The appeal to human biology and argument against fusion between disparate sensors kinda falls flat when you’re building a world model by fusing feeds from cameras all around the car. Humans don’t have 8 eyes in a 360 array around their head. What they do have is two eyes (super cameras) on ~180 degree swiveling and ~180 degree tilting gimbal. With mics attached that help sense other vehicles via road noise. And equilibrioception, vibration detection, and more all in the same system, all fused. If someone were actually building this system to drive the car, the argument based on “how did you drive here today?” gets a lot stronger. One time I had some water blocking my ear and I drove myself to the hospital to get it fixed. That was a shockingly scary drive — your hearing is doing a lot of sensing while driving that you don’t value until it’s gone.

Everything regarding encrypted messaging is downstream of the reality that it’s better for UX for the app developer to own the keys. Once developers have the keys, they’re going to be compelled by governments to provide them when warrants are issued. Force and violence, not mathematical proofs, are the ultimate authority.

It’s fun to get into the “conspiratorial” discussions, like where the P-256 curve constants came from or whether the HSMs have backdoors. Ultimately, none of that stuff matters. Users don’t want their messages to go poof when their phone breaks, and governments will compel you to change whatever bulletproof architecture you have to better serve their warrants.

Google tried to tackle this with notification channels, but the onus falls on the developer to actually use them honestly. No company trying to draw attention back to their app with advertisement notifications will willingly name a notification channel “advertisements” or “user re-engagement” or similar — they’ll just interleave spam with all the non-spam. This API from G hasn’t worked.

Seoul is in artillery range of the border.

AOSP with 50M LoC uses a manifest-based, depth=1 tool called repo to glue together a repository of repositories. If you’re thinking “why not just use git submodules?”, it’s because git submodules has a rough UX and would require so much wrangling that a custom tool is more favorable.

Meta uses a custom VCS. They recently released sapling: https://sapling-scm.com/docs/introduction/

In general, the philosophy of distributed VCS being better than centralized is actually quite questionable. I want to know what my coworkers are up to and what they’re working on to avoid merge conflicts. DVCS without constant out-of-VCS synchronization causes more merge hell. Git’s default packfile settings are nightmarish — most checkouts should be depth==1, and they should be dynamic only when that file is accessed locally. Deeper integrations of VCS with build systems and file systems can make things even better. I think there’s still tons of room for innovation in the VCS space. The domain naturally opposes change because people don’t want to break their core workflows.

I am naive about Nix, but...

...isn't that like...the whole selling point of Nix? That it's specific about what you're getting, instead of allowing ticking time bombs like python:latest or npm-style glibc:^4.4.4

Odd to attach yourself to Nix then blog against its USP.

I think thousands of innocent teenagers without credit cards will be furious. Not to mention anyone that takes a game semi-seriously and cares about their reputation after getting banned. Also, with real-dollar values tied to skins, you’re not just nuking someone’s $50 account — accounts and their associated items can be worth a lot of money.

Anti-cheats should need to be certain. They should also, however, ban the hardware ID, which lots of games companies choose not to do (because they’d lose money).

>clearly China is capable of catching up with ASML’s tooling

The only thing clear to me is precisely the opposite. Nobody has been able to catch up with ASML, including China. If China is capable of catching up on their own (without espionage), why would Taiwan even matter? Why would export controls on ASML tooling even matter?

They matter because ASML and TSMC are companies built on secret know-how that others can’t replicate. Do we really need to explain on HN that companies are built on secrets?

In those cases, I’m grateful for mildly less concise languages that are more explicit at call and declaration sites.

val/var/let/auto declarations destroy the locality of understanding of a variable declaration without an IDE + a required jump-to-definition of a naive code reader. Also, a corollary of this problem also exists: if you don’t have an explicit type hint in a variable declaration, even readers that are using an IDE have to do TWO jump-to-definition actions to read the source of the variable type.

eg.

val foo = generateFoo()

Where generateFoo() has the signature fun generateFoo(): Foo

With the above code one would have to jump to definition on generateFoo, then jump to definition on Foo to understand what Foo is. In a language that requires the explicit type hint at declaration, this is only one step.

There’s a tradeoff here between pleasantries while writing the code vs less immediate local understanding of future readers / maintainers. It really bothers me when a ktlint plugin actually fails a compilation because a code author threw in an “unnecessary” type hint for clarity.

Related (but not directly addressing auto declarations): “Greppability is an underrated code metric”: https://morizbuesing.com/blog/greppability-code-metric/

The concept of a large and powerful entity allowing free speech is in the spirit of the Bill of Rights, whether the large and powerful entity is government or not.

The parent poster was taking the position that allowing speech is somehow a Musk-derived idea, which is absurd.

Meta, as a large and powerful entity with the ability to censor as much or more than many governments, is opting to allow free speech on its platforms. So is X. That spirit is inspired by the Bill of Rights, not Elon Musk.