encryption exists. so to an extent, yes there is privacy, but in the end, people are always the weak link.

There are countless large, high paying, morally bankrupt companies out there. It’s no mystery that people continue to work for them.

There’s a lot of “won’t someone think of the GitHub employees” on here

Right...employees who are almost certainly paid a whole lot more than I am doing the same job.

Many of those employees actually had stock options that exited at unicorn valuation. Must be nice.

You can download torrents on an android and plug usb media devices into it. When I was bicycle touring Europe with my wife a couple years ago we constantly downloaded books for direct input into our kobos and shows and movies to fall asleep to at night you could play from random, often old and crappy, hotel and airbnb televisions. You can’t do any of that on an iPhone.

That said; iPhone is my main phone, has been for a decade or more. But I deeply appreciate what you can do with an android.

Android to me is like a tool. I use it and then I want it as far away as I can when I don't need it.

Iphones makes my life easier but are too limited.

Best case scenario, carry both.

Look at the current state of YC. It’s not. This is the mindset now. Move fast, explicitly pile up mountains of technical debt with mindless code generation. The code generators of the future will fix it later.

You can fit at least 6 in one of those booths. Get closer with your friends! You can also play musical chairs and lean over the divider (or could before covid)

Love for "America" the country is a lot different than love for it's government, institutions, and corporations - often the two are at odds. Your most recent comment, shilling for Palantir, is not an expression of love for America the country - in my ungenerous view, it's uncritical, blind, misplaced patriotism. Being critical of large organizations with too much power over the American people is not "hating America". Seems you have trouble seeing the difference. I don't hate America, but I might hate the America you hope to achieve by placing your support behind corporate behemoths.

Beyond that, "HN" isn't one set of view points. Hell, look at this comment thread, there's clearly an anti vs. pro-Israel divide. Many other such divides exist.

This is a cautionary not to not let your thinking become so stratified and black/white.

It's an amazing feat of engineering because it requires constant micro-adjustments, something that robots couldn't do a few years ago.

Yeah, thinking through it a bit further, the real story here, aside from the mechanical engineering, is the application of AI/machine learning/computer vision processing. The advancements that have made it possible to reason about, simulate, and react to the complexities of a spinning ball in a fraction of a second are pretty cool. My gripe is mostly that this article isn't focusing on and detailing this.

Coming soon to an ICE Goon Squad near you!

isn't this a technology forum?

The article's main focus is on the "vs. human" aspect and is light on technical details. I would love to hear specifics from the engineers behind this.

Privacy and security conscious Tor users don’t.

I recently got hit by a car on my bike. While I was starting the claim filing process the web portal for ICBC (British Columbia insurance) was acting a little funky / stalling / and then gave me a weird access error. Down at the bottom of the error page was a little grey underlined link that said “vercel”.

I’m not exactly surprised, but it seems like the unserious, ill-informed and lazy are taking over. There is absolutely zero reason why a large, essential public service should be overspending and running on an unnecessary managed service like vercel… yet, here we are.