Essentially decentralisation sounds nice, but doesnt work in practice.
Bitcoin, tor, bittorrent are all perfect examples of decentralization simply not working in practice
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eof commented on The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns e360.yale.edu/features/cl... · Posted by u/gardenfelder
Can someone ELI5 me how a gas that occupies 400ppm (0.04%) of our atmosphere creates a massively scaled “heating blanket” around the entire Earth? More than “scientists have determined”. What is the physical effect that enables the minuscule presence of an element to multiply to such effect.
It’s not massive. It’s extremely tiny. It’s just that the system is very delicate and we are even tinier, so the effects from our perspective are large. (Think getting hit with a little 1/100000000th of earth mass meteor. The earth will barely react on galactic scale/ long term, but the momentary occupants will sure get a shock)
Microsoft “turned it around” by extracting money out of its existing enterprise customer base. Apple had a base of fanatic customers even during its lowest point.
What does Google have?
How many times have you used google or gmail or YouTube or android today?
Interesting and surprising comments. Anyone ever heard of AOL? Are they dead?
I think Google will likely go through similar path as Microsoft; such a tech powerhouse and cash cow for so long, innovation became eclipsed by profit optimization.
Microsoft turned it around a decade ago with a successful cloud pivot.
Google would have to fail fabulously for minimum of a decade before we could even begin to start claiming it’s terminal.
eof commented on Ask HN: Has anyone here left the big city in pursue of a simpler life? · Posted by u/rockbruno
Much much happier working remote in a small town. That satisfaction would likely drop with the salary arbitrage dropping. If I could afford privacy in Palo Alto, I’m sure I could be just as happy there.
How do you like it? And why did you pick the Telluride over the Palisade?
It's of course a huge improvement. It was close and I'd probably have been happy with either but ultimately the telluride had features i cared about (better towing) and palisade had some i didn't (electified third row seats); and I like the look of the telluride better.
I live in a rural area and got the trim with the 'offroadish' appeal; which didn't really exist in palisade.
The headline on the site is a bit misleading. It's not "because of viral TikTok challenge", it's because the software and physical ignition interface is, in fact, totally broken:
"The thefts are reportedly easy to pull off because many 2015-2019 Hyundai and Kia vehicles lack electronic immobilizers that prevent thieves from simply breaking in and bypassing the ignition. The feature is standard equipment on nearly all vehicles from the same period made by other manufacturers."
And from: https://www.hotcars.com/kia-boyz-easily-steal-base-kia-hyund...
"Based on research conducted by Donut Media, we see that stealing a Hyundai or a Kia model produced between 2011 and 2021 is astonishingly simple. Folks at Donut Media started this research with a regular screwdriver and a USB cable. They start by unscrewing the steering column case and exposing the wires and the ignition cylinder. Once they pull out the ignition cylinder, they find a twist lever that fits perfectly into the slot of a USB-A cable. Once they connect their spare USB Type-A to the ignition cylinder male port, they rotate the unit in a clockwise motion to find the car starting without a proper car key. "
This is like saying that movies in the 1980s sparked a rash of car thefts because they showed people hotwiring cars all the time.
I just bought a 23 Kia Telluride (was also looking at palisades) to upgrade my 05 outback; I did extensive research, and ended up zoning in on Hyundai-Kia specifically because their electronics are so 'hackable,' while still containing all the cutting edge sensors.
I think it is going to be a tiny sliver of cars that are allowed to get away with having a vehicle be able to be controlled like a remote control from a completely unencrypted, trivially intercepted-and-changed protocol. In the future I suspect if manufacturers want to put these features on cars, they will have to protect the communication between the different systems.
> you'll need to work on POCs (new products) in your off-time. Most of these companies don't schedule innovation.
Like, your personal time? For company products?
I’ve never worked at a huge org. I assume though that there is a hypocrisy between what you are asked to do (trivial small things) and what is rewarded (big bold changes).
eof commented on Competing Paradigms: On “The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn” lareviewofbooks.org/artic... · Posted by u/Hooke
I don't disagree with you at some level, but I also see a lot of hype in modern science and intellectual discourse. Maybe not for all fields, but for many.
A recent paper has been making the rounds suggesting that disruptive research is becoming less common. This seems critically important for interpreting Kuhn.
Perhaps, for instance, Kuhn was writing or formulating his ideas in an unusually disruptive era. Or maybe our current era is less disruptive, and so discourse about ideas has to be approached differently, maybe more skeptically.
How do you know if you’re the one calling disruptive ideas “hype?”
Because statistically, you probably are. We all are.