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There is a perhaps a trend of local payment means being less accessible to tourists. I haven't experienced it first hand but WeChat/Alipay are in the same boat as I understand, and PromptPay in Indonesia can be somewhat be used but needs preparation before making the trip.

Now, if you're not a tourist passing by for 3 days, Suica has most of your gripes solved and is an incredibly useful general payment mean. I use the Felica version on my phone (so no card), charge it with 3 taps in the app from my credit card, could have it auto charge if I really wanted to and is my payment choice wherever QR codes or QuickPay won't cut it.

BTW you can now use your credit card to ride JR trains.

Tremendous effort and circumstances were needed for that, and as parent points out there were significant numbers of defectors, sometimes to the point they tuppled the whole process.

No system is perfect, but I read the whole thread as needing more AIs having a different goal in the chain and be able to ignore the orders they received.

I'm not in the field, but that sounds like something we're probably studying for decades at least, with possible solutions that could be applied efficiently.

You're arguing for diffusion of responsibility, and we've seen it leading to outcomes that screw the whole society.

Engineers, as everyone involved, should definitely assess whether what they're doing is legal or even ethical. Not everyone has a choice, or the luxury to stand for their principles, but that's a matter of means, there needs to be a will in the first place.

Just some anecdata, but I have yet to be asked by Microsoft for some bitcoin ransom to get back my computer data.

> the cost of switching is just not that high.

For you. I mean, obviously it's still high enough that they're not switching. Beside the point, I'm bouncing between the different OSes at home and work, and honestly they're all deeply broken in different ways that require significant effort to make the best of it. I get people hate ads, so Windows is at the bottom of the list, but honestly I could care less for that additional 2 min of initial tweak when I'm spending half a day doing the setup anyway.

On Notepad stopping being raw text only, the main issue to me would be the safety it provided. Being first party meant never having to care about security (e.g. the company getting bought by a random malware vendor) or availability.

I see "deforestation" as the destruction of an existing ecosystem.

Convincing people on the internet to care for local ecosystems is a fool's errand. I see your point about cartoon ecologism, but you seem to be jumping way too far in the opposite direction, and only looking at numbers will never tell what's actually happening on the ground. I'm not a diver, and don't know much about the great barrier reef, but the 40% and 34% number don't resonate in any way to me...was the volume of the coral the only point that mattered ?

There is evidence for the benefit of wood production done at a pace and in a way that preserves the forest's balance, but that's also not what the article is about, and explicitely so.

I think most people reading a headline about tree count would care primarily about deforestation and loss of habitat of indigenous species.

This article isn't about that, and explicitely states it doesn't touch deforestation per se, just sheer tree count, including production targeted tree farms.

TFA:

> While the classification may seem simplistic, powerful conclusions can be drawn from the data, including assessing agricultural expansion, climate-driven expansion and contraction of ecosystems, and forest clearing and recovery.

This case has a very specific legal framing to it, but border agents don't actually need anything more than suspicion to keep you locked for a day or two.

Then it could last a lot longer. Technically they don't have the right to do that, but you won't have any physical mean to enforce your rights, and suing afterwards won't lead you anywhere in the current climate.

We'e had a few of these stories in HN before.

> It is quite believable that it's easier to describe what a program should result in versus actually programming it to produce that result

This is obvious for the central cases of a program. It becomes less and less true when going toward the edge cases, especially for a wide array of input.

Complex specs becoming programs is IMHO the direct effect of that (defining what we want is just that burdensome, and special cases we haven't though of will still have a coherent definition in the spec), and we fall back to the base "is this spec even correct" issue the parent points out.

To note, this isn't just banning random scams: calls coming from a known entity, but abusing their existing relation to push marketing calls also fall under this law.

For instance your main bank calling you for "special offers", even as you've already explicitly told them you don't want any marketing calls, would be candidate to punishment under this rule.

I always wondered how actually cheaper a QR menu is, compared for instance to an android tablet you set there or pass to the client so they order.

People immediately see the cost of a tablet, the issues with charging, building the app and updating the data, customers not understanding the interface etc.

Yet, they don't seem to grasp all of these are basically the same for a QR code: you're now maintaining an online service just for your restaurant. People still need to understand your site. You'll be dealing with their browser, extensions, languages etc. And you still need the QR code somewhere on the table, visible, explain that it needs to be scanned (by one person ? everyone ? do they need to keep the tab open ? etc.). These will all be costs, you pay either upfront by hiring experts to make the experience good, or on the go with crappy customer experience, your staff spending more time than needed working around the system and explaining it to your customers, and those not coming back.

There are super cheap and simplistic ways to deal with all of that, and I assume GP has seen many of these.

PS: The weirdest experience I ever had was someone at our table scanning the code, to copy/paste it on the browser on their personal profile (default was work browser). They missed a digit in the url params and ended up opening the order menu of a table at the other side of the restaurant, and just started ordering, then waiting for a pretty long time while the other table was dealing with the mess.

Good point. IMHO we're thinking of too much in single entities doing everything.

Right now it's kinda the world we live in, with Apple or Google doing the total vertical integration from chip design to retail shops, but it doesn't have to be that way.

It could be done the traditional way with for instance a joint venture receiving funds and expertise from several players in each of the field and collaborating with external companies to get to the final package.

> They don't want 100 apps that do the exact same thing.

I read it as the "insane" part parent is pointing at.

It's nothing new, has been going on basically since the existence of the App store and Apple has explicitly built their whole business to put themselves as the arbiter of who gets to have their app on people's phones.

Still it's healthy that from times to time we stop and shout "that whole situation is insane" (short of finding a way to actually do something about it)

Slightly besides your point, but it's interesting how many here naturally ponder about how the current winner could or "should" keep winning, instead of how another company could become a competitor by doing the more clever thing the incumbent isn't thinking about.

You're right on the principle, and this camera is purposefully aimed at a subpar viewfinder experience.

As a comparison point, many people shoot street photography "from the hip", aiming the camera at the rough spot they want to get with a forgiving aperture setting (around 8 or more). This help either for speed, or engage with the scene without having to stick a camera on one's face.

I think this camera is basically aimed at the same crowd, those who will want some idea of what the camera is pointed at, but want to stay "in the moment" and no fully focus on the capturing process. This is pretty close to a phone camera perhaps, but I'd assume it's a lot more fun and carefree.

I'd totally love to play with one.

Absolutely not defending anything the US gov is doing now or for the past years, and in general agreement (Iran is targeted for totally stupid reasons), just to point out:

> With the abundance of onshore oil through fracking revolution

Fracking isn't free of consequences, and while the current US gov doesn't care about them, people are directly affected and are rightfully pissed about it.

Bombing/invading foreign countries to get the oil is obviously not the right approach, but relying on fracking isn't a clean solution either.

> He didn’t get the job because even though the technical attributes were all good, he should have pressured the customer.

I'd say he didn't get the job because they would have asked him to pressure customers day in day out, he would refuse, never get promoted and be otherwise miserable in an aggressive culture.

IMHO he shouldn't change his answer to please the interviewer, the process is working as intended and I'd assume he found a job that better matched him somewhere else, where his mindset will be better valued.

For most foreign dishes you can't just compare the total price to local food. I'm saying that having ordered pizza in Japan, and an actually good one with Buffala for instance will be twice to three times the price you'd pay in Italy.

Ramen chains managed by Japanese people are decently good when I tried them in France (Ippudo for instance), it's not that far from what's served in Japan. It costs 1.5x to 2x more, and the default orders will be slightly adapted to the locals (harder noodles and lower grease by default) but that's par for the course.

> BTW, you can also replicate the form factor using western cooking ingredients/traditions and it still works pretty well.

The toughest part is the sheer amount of time to prepare the soup and dexterity to get good noodles. Spending 8h on the soup with all the ingredients, and repeat I don't know how many times to get to a decent balance is a dedication I don't think I'll ever have to be honest.

If the tooling allows rollbacking X, Y and Z as a set, it could make sense ?

I'm also on the "compare to the main branch" camp in general, but will sometimes end up with a set of X,Y,Z branches that have different purposes but all depend on X.

More often than not, the base dependency is a set of constants or additional class/methods that could be released with no impact (no reference in live code) but still need a somewhat lenghty review process. Reverts would be happening on the higher level PRs, which hopefully are independent.

> high ranking Apple employee

Jony Ive basically works for Open AI (it's more complicated, but it's a good approximation), and has more or less rebuilt a designing team over there.

He's not the central person mentioned in Apple's accusations but that's arguably the central point that's triggering all of this.

Yes, but the situation got a lot better and a lot worse...

Sadly there has been a bunch of pretty devastating earthquakes in recent years. In particular in Kumamoto the one in 2016 (magnitude 6.5) was huge and many of the houses built at lower standard or not in great shape anymore got partially or totally wrecked. Right now the house that are left are relatively well built.

The bad news is, that still doesn't help as the cumulative damage can still bring them down, and they're still subject to landslides, water damage, and other second order disastrous events.

On top of that, one of the toughest part could be the extent of the power outage.

It's reported at around 46000 homes, the region has many elders and the outage will impact air conditionners, but also medical equipment they keep at home and supporting appliances.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/55a0a3ebb9d0087ae8492ce85c...

Can you think of anything open-source that has to go through mandatory tests to be distributed and still survived ?

There is a reason to it, that's as good as any angle to find why IMHO.

> strong decisions that WILL alienate people, but will better target your intended audience. That, IMHO, is a great thing

That's supposing you have a well defined intended audience. Many people see it as a prerequisite, that's also how we ended up with the personas during research.

I'd argue there are many designs that should go beyond a specific intended audience and allow for larger reach and minimize alienating people. My reasoning is that in part we're just not good at properly analyzing requirements (it's just hard) and people's needs are also volatile. Trying to design the perfect things for a narrow target often results in something just really bad.

As a concrete example, mouse makers targeting specific hand size and shape for specific actions usually end up with a worse product even for their intended audience. Having more leeway to hold it differently, change the way you use it e.g. depending on the time of the day or task at hand is just more comfortable. The best mouses on the market are pretty forgiving and flexible. Heck, the most clamored pointing devices (Apple trackpads and Kensington style trackballs) are completely hand agnostic.

You're not really addressing parent's point IMHO. They could totally be taking well summarized notes on their computer, and free more time to properly listen instead of scribing it painfully.

I'm sure people have anecdotes of students furiously typing down every word of a lecture, but that's the same point for people handwriting/half stenographing fast enough to do the same. The attitude isn't bound to the medium.

I'm curious how many times you end up in the similar situations as an exam after you graduate from college.

I share your experience of remembering written notes while a student, but I also don't have any critical need to perfectly remember any of the notes I'm taking now so comparison points are scarce.

I still remember the code shape of methods, classes or screens I work the most on while programming, so I don't see it as bound to a specific medium. That's one reason why I use figjam or Miro type tools so much as well.

Visual and spacial memory are powerful for many of us, but the relation to handwriting and perfectly memorizing things isn't straightforward, and getting adapted tool will tremendously help IMHO.

To parent's point, A24 is expressing respect for the community, but with no further commitment to do anything about it.

We use to point the finger at youtube channels uploading whole movies with a "no copyright intended, this isn't my work" as an expression of no ill intention in the description. I'd see this case as basically equivalent in regards to what they say their intentions are, and what they're actively doing.

On (1), models are an aggregation of large volumes of data sources, whatever the culture producing them, you'll get the average bias of that culture.

We see that on what minorities are associated with inside the model, or how things that aren't online will have a completely different weight. Or how 2/4/5/8ch or X will be disproportionately present in specific models despite being the places where facts go to die.

> Arguing against it when that's how it's being used is, in my opinion, essentially arguing against the very concept of eminent domain

You're giving a blank check to use it as long as it's infrastructure, and as any simple rule, it's prone to get abused way beyond it's primary goal. IMHO the issue is nuance and balance, we should accept that whether it's applicable is an "it depends" matter.

Keeping it too simple and black and white means companies can now strategically place data centers and get the local government to seize all the land leading to it, and vice versa, local govs can nudge companies to target specific places to seize wherever they want. Especially as the plans aren't required to come to fruition.

I read "resolution" as pixel count more than DPI.

As it becomes cheaper to capture and process higher res content, we're bound to push it to bigger displays (VR included). I guess the human eye will be the limit when we're at retina levels of DPI on a sphere.