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drag0nballz··on After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
Part of the worry is all the used GPUs that are going to come on the market since it doesn't make sense to mine anymore (or less sense). Their core business will be depressed until that is worked through
drag0nballz··on Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
Pigs are actually great pets. They've been domesticated practically as long as dogs
drag0nballz··on Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
I think he's talking about when you are in turn by turn directions you can get into a mode where there is no way to get out. You need to throw away the app to get out.
drag0nballz··on NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
This is a Tesla issue. Waymo uses Lidar and most likely won't run into walls.
drag0nballz··on NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
I think this is proper usage of "by design". The design part is that it uses a camera and low resolution radar and can see lanes and other cars and not obstacles. So this is an unintended edge case but the result is per the design.
drag0nballz··on Ask HN: Why is Gmail search so bad?
I've had it not find an email that I know exists. When I go track it down and then search again it finds it.
drag0nballz··on EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides
>> You can drive your car and not wipe off your windshield

This. When I was a kid in California a quick trip in summer and it would be carnage on the window and grill. Now I can drive for hours and not get a single bug. Part of this could be increasing traffic. But it is really dramatic and scary.

drag0nballz··on Ford to Stop Selling Every Car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active
Not just them but my buddy calls his Jeep SUV a "truck". Some of this is history. I have an original Jeep Cherokee which is built on a truck platform. His is a Grand, which is built on a car platform. I'm always like, yours is a car, mine's a truck. Then I realize this is dumb to argue about. Just a bad headline.
drag0nballz··on Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf]
Well, we are in a "post-privacy" world already. At least in the US. I'm not OK with that. I'm ok with the concept of anonymized targeted ads, but also realize that this attitude enabled bad actors and loose regulation to tear down that wall.
drag0nballz··on Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings Slides [pdf]
I struggled with this initially with FB and then decided all posts would be public. Never post anything that I wouldn't want public, and not allow on my timeline posts from other people that I don't want public (I know there are limits to this).

Targeted ads are fine to me. My bigger concern is the vast amount of data sharing on the back end that is easily non-anonymized and FB is a huge part of the problem.

drag0nballz··on Ford to Stop Selling Every Car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active
They are not. F150, SUVs, Crossovers still selling. Headline was a bit off
drag0nballz··on 90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housing shortage intensifies
Renters do vote (I'm a renter, rent a house in Oakland, before that rented a place in San Francisco for 13 years). Buuuuuuuuuuut, that place was rent controlled. So it didn't seem like an issue to me. SB827 would have made my Bart commute worse but it seemed like the right thing to do.
drag0nballz··on NASA reveals delay for Hubble successor
Also, it's not being made to be serviceable.
drag0nballz··on Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked
Agreed. In my understanding the CA data wasn't a friends list, which it what OFA got, but your friends Facebook data (their photos, posts, likes AND their friends data). That's how they got to 50M users. And how they used it sounds pretty different too.
drag0nballz··on Circular Shock Acoustic Waves in Ionosphere Triggered by Launch of Formosat‐5
I'm not sure if you consider this "mission critical" but US military drones use GPS for navigation. There have been several cases of them being captured via GPS jamming.
drag0nballz··on Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning a Median Profit of $3.37 per Hour, Study Says
Exactly -- and companies would not want to hire contractors because it's impossible for them to know if someone is going to be treated as an employee all of a sudden (say they hired them part-time but their other p/t gig ended). I don't know how Australia deals with this.