ehsankia

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1. 1081.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   There's a difference between can't and won't. Yes their operation in Phoenix is heavily mapped and fenced, that doesn't mean that their technology can't and hasn't driven in more improvised environment before,
2. 1082.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   What Tesla has now, Waymo had back in 2012. They literally had a FSD program they were testing with certain employees, and once they found that that people quickly get distracted and stop paying attention, they gave up on that approach and
3. 1083.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   > The syncing part was open source Well depends on your definition of open source. Most of the code for the sync, as well as these other internal APIs, is on Google's backend and is very much closed source. The thin client code call
4. 1084.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   Yeah as far as I know every major Chromium browser has their own system. Why would they want to use Google's system?
5. 1085.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   Isn't Chromium exactly Chrome minus Google extras? I was under the impression that the difference between the two was exactly said Google-specific features that were apparently only cut off now.
6. 1086.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   I think Amazon already has mastered logistic, and it's a pretty difficult field to get into. Similarly, Apple has decades of experience in hardware now. It is definitely hard to find a sector that is large enough yet under developed. O
7. 1087.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   I still have my .purple backup. It even had a Steam plugin I recall which was great since Steam itself didn't have chat logs.
8. 1088.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   They have at least a dozen services that have over a billion users. Others not mentioned in your list: Youtube, Photos, Drive, Maps, Gmail, Docs. And probably slightly more trivial ones like translate, calendar, flights, news, finance, and
9. 1089.▲
   by ehsankia 6y ago

   Honestly this shouldn't even get put in the same pile. The whole point of X is to try moonshot ideas that are truly out there. By definition they are ideas that have a low chance of making it.
10. 1090.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Not giving power to some other outside group doesn't reduce any power or teeth from W3C.
11. 1091.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Or because it's bashing Google which is a sure way of making it to the top of HN.
12. 1092.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Well this is strange, this was up until a few minutes ago but it now 404s. Whitehouse took the page down (coincidentally at the same time Biden was sworn in). EDIT: Well whitehouse.gov itself was switched to Biden's page, so I assume t
13. 1093.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    This extends beyond vulnerabilities to bugs in general too. No company, or programmer for that fact, is immune to making mistakes. Some people like to think that if you're a very good programmer you'll magically write bug-free cod
14. 1094.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    I especially noticed this when I accidentally browsed logged out once. The same thing that was $X + $Y shipping became $(X + Y) + 0 Prime shipping...
15. 1095.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    > Free shipping if I order 5 at a time. I wouldn't want to be the delivery guy who has to bring that to your door...
16. 1096.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Every bounty bug write up I've seen on HN was after it had been long fixed, so that should be a given when you see a write up like this.
17. 1097.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Oh I know that's how that works, I meant, does Google transmit back the URLs once it does get a hit, to protect others from downloading that file?
18. 1098.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    What happens if it is a hit against the bloom filter / checksum? Would it transmit the URL so that it can be blocklisted?
19. 1099.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Is this list only maintained by Google? Do Firefox and Bing use the same list, is their process better/different? Is there any sharing happening?
20. 1100.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    I mean, it was barely a decade ago when my parents computers regularly got filled with malware and popups and scams. They regularly fell for bullshit online. Maybe they have gotten more savvy, but I feel like this has overall greatly decrea
21. 1101.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Malware may be easier to catch, but for phishing, it was fairly small (under 150k) until around 2016 where it starts growing linearly.
22. 1102.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Are you implying that the list no longer has a good intention? I wouldn't be surprised if there are multiple orders of magnitude more phishing and hacked websites in 2021 than there was in 2004. Even with human checking, I doubt you&#x
23. 1103.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    It is pretty awesome. Honestly the one complaint I've heard is that helpers are sad that they aren't getting more calls and get super excited when they finally get one. Which really is the best kind of the problem to have.
24. 1104.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    I don't really see the issue, since the laptop will still be chargeable by USB-C anyways, unlike iPhone's with a single port. I believe Microsoft also uses their own charger port but also have power delivery USB-C port. As long as
25. 1105.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    I definitely never knew about this, and I too find it pretty fascinating. I don't think it's too uncommon to see Wiki links to random fun TIL stuff on HN.
26. 1106.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    According to the linked article, most of the tweets were about open science issue, though a few tweets may have had a link to Sci-Hub’s website. The latter probably used as an excuse to ban them. I just checked and the pirate bay for exampl
27. 1107.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    There is zero credible evidence about pay for access. Meanwhile the people spending their entire life digging through Burisma seem to not give a single shit about the hundreds of pay-for-access story surrounding Trump and his properties. Fo
28. 1108.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    Again, TPB, Sci-hub and many others have done it for decades. It's nothing new.
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    by ehsankia 6y ago

    As with almost everything with these lower quality right wing media content, there's a whole lot of brouhaha, and then suddenly it all goes silent and they're never called out for their lies. They just sweep it under the rug and m
30. 1110.▲
    by ehsankia 6y ago

    All the investigation as far as I know is on the web store side of their business, with Amazon Basics specifically. The blog above is talking about AWS, which is a different side of their business.