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tobylane

1,094 karma · joined February 7, 2011

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/tobylane; my proof: https://keybase.io/tobylane/sigs/m7i9buvF_fegt2tXdB-7pidqnYjgizgRXDQ5fWLE7qc ]
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tobylane··on Boeing CEO warns of possible industry bankruptcy
That kind of happened to supersonic travel. We don’t have Concorde any more but we still know how to make them, and there’s a lot of development into unmanned supersonic flight. Now I have a hankering to go to an airplane museum.
tobylane··on Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online
Related: The Van Eyck exhibition in Ghent has put up a highly detailed photograph of the Ghent Altarpiece at http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be

This review talks about the birds outside you can only see with zooming in many times https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n08/julian-bell/kestrel-...

tobylane··on Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
They scan the item before putting the new sticker on, then usually put the item in a known, high traffic area so it’s gone by the end of the day. Maybe they just consider it out the door at that scan then bin whatever reduced items didn’t sell.
tobylane··on Air travel is going to be very bad, for a very long time
The low cost airlines, maybe this is more of a Europe thing, can’t afford to block off some seats. This will affect American companies, Delta owns half of Virgin which complicates Virgins access to UK government money.
tobylane··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/160

There is still (apparently under another command name) this ability to upload your private key.

tobylane··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
@Keybase users: Check if you uploaded your private key. I hope it is rare but now is the time to make that non existent.
tobylane··on Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak
You could have one group document what the leaks describe, then another group implement from the documentation?
tobylane··on Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
Bluetooth is only really an option for Apple, not any iOS developer. Slightly different for Google, where Android lets background apps use Bluetooth. So no country has tried to use bluetooth in their apps. Other than South Korea it sounded like contract tracing had been abandoned.
tobylane··on Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
Kensington and Chelsea don't like segregated bike lanes. One upcoming bike lane of CS3 quality is from the borough border (Olympia) towards Heathrow.
tobylane··on Europe’s cities are making less room for cars after coronavirus
London’s Embankment from Westminster to Blackfriars (and the rest of CS3 on other roads) added a bike lane by removing car capacity despite it being full every rush hour. The road as a whole has higher throughput now.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-cycle-lane-superhighway-em...

tobylane··on Permanent.org – Nonprofit, secure cloud storage
What’s a cryptographic guarantee?
tobylane··on My book on defending from deplatform attacks is now free
What happened was people knowingly sharing far from mainstream views demanded that they were defended/protected from the government (per the first amendment) and privately owned online platforms (not covered) equally. I wish for everyone to be accurate and treat these situations differently. Censorship hardly ever happens because it ends in a first amendment court case. Deplatforming happens all the time because the law permits it.
tobylane··on How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally
What if it’s a non profit who use Western profits to subsidise third world efforts? This already happens in other areas of medicine, far more so in the for profit sector. Limit what one can do without a visa, up the artificial demand to useful levels of herd immunity, and use the profits to fund doing the same in Africa.
tobylane··on How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs globally
There’s also the Patriot Act renewals which happened at a relatively quieter time.
tobylane··on First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework
Librem is the usual answer, but aren’t there other, existing, baked in parts of Android that compromise your privacy? It won’t change much because of this project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5

tobylane··on Landlord service Naborly makes blacklist of tenants who missed 4/1 rent (YC '18)
The UK government announced and started support for pay (income tax) as you earn employees a while before support for the self employed/contractors, so maybe the AI prefers standard salaried employment above all else.
tobylane··on Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
If you mean animal flus that didn’t cross over to humans then certainly. Some of them are in wild animals where we might not casually notice a drop unrelated to our activity, or in farm animals where the heavy use of antibiotics reduces the spread within some farms.
tobylane··on The godfather of fake news (2018)
It’s somewhat true, but not really in the way it’s used. He worked there for two years during WWII and didn’t like the language required in BBC news reports. I don’t think that says anything about what content was allowed out, which was restricted even after the war ended. https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/d3a46264-89b...
tobylane··on What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Of that 20m/day normal use, the reserves can only bring up about 4.5m/day, so that’s more like 150 days.
tobylane··on What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
They’re up to 1000m deep. I expect that it’s rock salt that needs considerable agitation to free it up, and would be easily sieved.
tobylane··on The internet should be a public utility
Those few roads can be tiny and out of the way, see this Utrecht redevelopment. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/forward-thinki...
tobylane··on Ask HN: Best Office Chair?
An exercise ball, the right one for the height of your desk. I'm tall, at a high fixed desk, so I'm on a 75cm ball. It forces me to wiggle a little, and to straighten my back. They're better than the mesh chairs, and under £40. It's certainly more acceptable for home than the office, though I hope that changes.
tobylane··on Mycroft – An open-source voice assistant
Last time this came up the options were the Mozilla TTS service or do it locally with tensorflow lite and DeepSpeech.
tobylane··on Ask HN: Best sleep trackers?
I used this app for a few years but found it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know, and that the most vital components to good sleep (time of start, length of time asleep, activity the day before, mood) can be part of a habit without needing the history.
tobylane··on Don't write documentation in Markdown
The backslash\ may qualify, and it’s part of the standard.
tobylane··on Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down
Because tenants rights are poor? The difference in safety felt between owning and renting is related to perception of tenants rights. I think they (the difference and the rights) vary accordingly worldwide.
tobylane··on Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls
What if you’re known for loudly announcing “Google, turn off your microphone”? Then you are protecting people’s expectation of your privacy/defence of it/fourth amendment rights? I’m tempted to be that person and have done it twice.
tobylane··on TfL closes 40 tube stations, suspends Night Tube, fewer trains, buses next week
The peak tube is usually crowded to the point of you can’t get on, this week there’s photos of spare seats as they leave zone 1.

This image is from six days ago, I’d usually expect to see ~25 people in this space https://imgur.com/lUC9hO4

tobylane··on GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
That well meaning law means there’s one cruise ship that fits the requirements, all the others visit one foreign port. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_America

It looks like the cargo ship law, Jones Act, is more successful in creating capacity.

tobylane··on Tiny electric car looks like a washing machine and costs just $6,600
Clarkson drove a similar sized car on Top Gear and talked about that issue. https://youtu.be/dJfSS0ZXYdo
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