alexhawdon

Questions about how this is going to be implemented and enforced from a technical and legal perspective are missing the point/benefit: this is about empowering parents and collectively changing behaviours.

"It's against the law so no you can't" isn't going to work with EVERY 14 year old. But it will work for many and hopefully that's enough.

Saran Wrap (https://www.itconsultancy.org/malware/name/saran-wrap-1-0)

My last ADSL router/modem from Vodafone (UK telecoms/broadband company - unsure who the OEM was) was amazing in this respect. You could configure it to have all the lights off by default, and it had an infrared proximity sensor built into the top - wave your hand to activate the blinkenlights.

Seems to me the quick solution would be to grant a blanket exemption based on the resolution of surface features.

I believe it would though. It's already happening higher up the supply chain where conveyor belts of produce are graded using computer vision (and other techniques, I'm sure).

This is about moving these techniques further down the chain. A robot picker arm with a few cameras attached that can tell whether something is rotten is well within our grasp. (Awful pun intended!)

A new pair of dark-coloured jeans is enough to mess up light coloured seats; it's probably not 'dirt' in the traditional sense. (I agree with you that the staff should be ensuring the showroom stock is spotless.)

Actually some Volvos do have pedestrian air bags!

(But your point still stands, of course.)

I think it might have been something by William Gibson? I believe she had to cut through the seatbelt and then call a friend to step out in front of the car causing it to career off the bridge and into the water, at which point the locks would release. (The ethics calculation deemed it preferable that she escape rather than perish.)

Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS) could work on smartwatches?

I'm hoping that this will be the 'solution' if AI eats many jobs. With an ageing population there's plenty of caring to be done. Hopefully society will figure out a way to value it more, so that it becomes a proper, first-class career-option/alternative rather than underpaid low-skilled work, or something that people find themselves obliged to do.

Don't see why not. Just make sure they have accessible ISOFIX (UAS) connectors and it'd be very straightforward.

They aren't really 'human rights' until they are applied to all humans. They're merely 'American Rights'.

Hmm.

I think if you try posit a canonical definition of the word 'Hacking' here, you're going to have a bad time. The community decides the relevance by voting.

> The status quo is established by the actions of large-scale corporate and political actors

Then isn't it important for people to learn about the status quo? Especially given it's moving so fast. Without this article I would have probably considered a startup doing the same to be cutting-edge, disruptive and most definitely 'hacking'. Now we all know where the bar is set.

That's a great story. It'd be interesting to know whether that was all they could afford, or if they were being very forward-thinking in using COTS hardware and a failure-tolerant architecture.

From TFA: "It represents less than one percent of all known water ice on Mars..."

Maybe incorporate an Ubuntu-style 'suggested payment' part to the signup? You could have one or two reminders during the course if they choose 'Free'. Or supplement with paid-for content that goes beyond the course?

I agree that it's a lot of work and wouldn't be unfair to seek some compensation.

If it does actually work faster than fibre then some early high-paying customers could be high-frequency traders (HFT). Those folks already go to amazing lengths and great expense to shave milliseconds off latency. They could get a huge early cash injection by auctioning off exclusive, prioritised access between certain locations.

That is interesting. I wouldn't say it puts Tesla in direct competition with LG & Samsung, but does address the 'how will they ever catch up?' questions wrt traditional car makers. (Not that I'd give these arguments that much credence.)

A commoditised battery/drivetrain solution allows the incumbents to focus on what they do best - building high quality cars at scale. So in this respect the challenge lies with Tesla.

(FWIW I'm a huge Tesla fan but I enjoy reading EV articles on HN because the discourse is a bit more balanced than more pro-Tesla communities.)

> This isn't really a place for relationship advice

Yes. If we could let people relate their experience as customers without giving unwanted relationship advice that'd be great.

I'd agree with you if this were any other product. The marketing campaign in this instance was so utterly, totally, disastrously successful that it's become a cultural phenomena.

Really, you've got to hand it to them. And I have to agree it's not a fault to be sensitive to the judgement of your peers.

Whenever I've seen high-end Windows laptops with a build quality to rival Apple's, they cost the same or more and have poorer resale value.

The substance of her comment was a distaste for the establishment's views and treatment of African Americans. I wouldn't say makes her a racist.

Of course the term 'blacks' is, certainly to the college-educated and those living in California and New York, very un-politically correct. I can appreciate such an audience would be moved to call her out that point rather than engaging with what she's actually saying.

As in external GPUs? Would these connect to USB3 or do they require something more heavy duty?

Okay, slight hyperbole from OP, but the point still stands: most people need to buy (and find room for) a desktop PC in order to experience VR.

Also, you linked to a parts list. This automatically excludes most people who don't have the knowledge or motivation to assemble their own computer.

I believe that's because their original focus, and still the primary focus of the mobile app, is 'hyperlocal', near-term precipitation prediction.

To do this they require access to high-resolution (spatial and temporal) rain radar data, which isn't universally available. (In the USA this is provided by the NOAA, in the UK by the Met Office.)

I remember some study being conducted where they tasked a duplicate of some Mars rover with finding life... on Earth. It found none.

Whilst it might be valid that you could launch a more-effective-in-aggregate fleet of rovers for the cost of a manned mission, I'm still a huge proponent of getting people out there to have a look around.

As someone who self-labels as an 'agnostic atheist' I'd say an interest in those topics sounds likely; 'Interest' does not imply that you're a proponent, only what you engage with...

As has been noted elsewhere, 'unlimited vacation' is usually at best an aspiration, at worst a scam.

Has anybody tried asking up front what the average number of days actually taken is? And if you asked and then took the job - were they telling the truth?

IIRC Trucks are the shape they are because of maximum length restrictions. (Making the 'nose' longer and more aerodynamic sacrifices cargo space.)

I believe that, in Europe at least, these restrictions are due to be relaxed, so we'll start seeing more aerodynamic trucks in the coming years.