Absolutely random thought semi-related to the topic.
This is one of the better voice clones of Musk but it's still really bad because he never lost his whatever accent, and every voice clone I've heard (mostly the ones on fake Starship launch videos) speaks with perfect American accent.
Something to think about I guess :)
UberFly 2 hours ago [-]
South African accent is the one you're looking for.
Lammy 39 minutes ago [-]
Souf Êfrican
reubenswartz 12 hours ago [-]
And is Seattle, “Jeff Bezos” says the crosswalk is sponsored by Amazon Prime and exhorts you not to tax the rich.
divbzero 11 hours ago [-]
At South Lake Union and University District crosswalks earlier this week:
I love that it played the Bo Burnham "jeff bezos" song - such incredible art.
jimmydoe 7 days ago [-]
this is fun.
it seems most of these crosswalks can be configured via app from https://polara.com/ . So either the authentication was leaked or got physically flashed/hacked?
janalsncm 15 hours ago [-]
> SIMPLE WIRELESS PROGRAMMING
The iNX is easily programmed using our industry-leading
Field Service App, available for iOS® & Android® – no
expensive software or proprietary devices required! The app allows technicians to configure system settings and
sounds, as well as access actionable data on button counts, flashing cycles, and more.
Security not included!
TheAceOfHearts 14 hours ago [-]
The S in IoT stands for Security.
jen729w 8 hours ago [-]
At work we used to say that “security puts the ‘no’ in ‘innovation’”.
They said "The app allows technicians to configure system settings and sounds"; They never said the app _doesn't_ allow _non-technicians_ to do the same. What's the big deal?
systemswizard 7 days ago [-]
Probably factory defaults exposed to the world
SoftTalker 14 hours ago [-]
Or a mischievous or disgruntled employee did it, or gave the password to someone.
tinix 11 hours ago [-]
The manual says the default password is 1234
temp0826 2 hours ago [-]
I've got the same combination on my luggage!!
Natsu 5 hours ago [-]
Someone is either guessing the passwords, which may well be the same all over the city given the number of these devices out there, or cities could just be using the default password of 1234. Yes, really:
> PASSWORD ISSUES: The iCCU can be connected to thru Wi-Fi. The buttons can be connected to thru Bluetooth.
A. Once Wi-Fi is turned on at the iCCU, the Wi-Fi password is DEFAULT1 (ALL CAPS).
B. Following power up, each button will say “change password” every 30 seconds, until the default password is changed. There is one shared password for logging into an iCCU and all PBS connected to it. The factory default password is 1234. Using a Field Service app, use 1234 to log into the iCCU or any PBS the first time, and change the password. This changes the password for all PBS and the iCCU. See Section 5.2 in the Manual for details.
C. If the password is unknown, a Password Reset requires a call to Polara Tech Support.
JKCalhoun 10 hours ago [-]
Hoping it comes to the Flipper Zero.
magixx 14 hours ago [-]
I wonder how soon it will be before some company starts renting these out from the city for ad space.
cooper_ganglia 11 hours ago [-]
That's actually a genius idea in the worst way possible!
potato3732842 10 hours ago [-]
I'll take garbage ads over dystopian "the city implores you to <some thing I probably would have done anyway if left to my own devices>" messages any day.
idle_zealot 10 hours ago [-]
Yeah, PSAs are dystopian, ads designed to get me to act against my best interests are the sign of a functioning non-dystopian society.
XorNot 10 hours ago [-]
I really do not understand people complaining about PSAs. Like learn some emotional maturity? If you weren't going to do the thing they're asking you not to do, then the message wasn't directed at you and you can go about your day just fine.
_Algernon_ 2 hours ago [-]
It's pure noise pollution for the people who don't need to hear it. The rest wont listen anyway.
ccppurcell 3 hours ago [-]
Some British right wing journalist/politician made a splash complaining about health and safety announcements and signs on the underground recently. I think the issue they have is that it's a tacit admission that we have a responsibility to other people, individually and collectively. And not just to those who pay us or who we can benefit from, but to humanity as a whole.
chgs 55 minutes ago [-]
The “see it say it sorted” messages have been fodder for left wing comedians for years. Everyone hates them. Most people ignore them by donning headphones.
garbagewoman 9 hours ago [-]
Different people have different responses to condescension, perhaps? You probably never even considered that. Consider it next time and be better. Hope that helps.
idle_zealot 8 hours ago [-]
Perceiving a PSA as condescending is the emotional immaturity being critiqued.
kulahan 9 hours ago [-]
Ironically, this is such a condescending comment.
ConspiracyFact 9 hours ago [-]
I think it was meant to be.
markhahn 8 hours ago [-]
not all sarcasm is trollery?
stevenAthompson 9 hours ago [-]
Fifty four percent of Americans read below the sixth grade level. All effective PSA's must primarily target people who don't understand the world around them, and likely never will.
It's not condescending, because it's not targeted to you.
robocat 3 hours ago [-]
You are implying that people don't understand the world if their reading level is low?
Maybe your literacy level is high, but perhaps your level of understanding people could be higher.
theshackleford 3 hours ago [-]
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. You probably never even considered that. Consider it next time and be better. Hope that helps.
garbagewoman 1 hours ago [-]
Well at least you nearly got the point of my comment
bolognafairy 9 hours ago [-]
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ashoeafoot 3 hours ago [-]
PSAs earned their dystopianess in every Mao Village where some politic got to rile up the masses to kill the other.
jpollock 8 hours ago [-]
I've come across several of these that if you press them enough say "Change Password". I'm guessing they've never had their passwords changed from default.
userbinator 2 hours ago [-]
Political satire is the best form of satire, but someone should hack them in the other direction too.
binarno_sp 2 hours ago [-]
The other direction lacks sense of humor.
userbinator 55 minutes ago [-]
"Walk into traffic and be unburdened by what has been."
mattigames 1 hours ago [-]
"vaccines cause autism" == the other direction actual positions that lack any humour at all because they are the dumbest bunch of them all to even fathom something that could be considered humorous by any working brain and instead only positions are made by the emotional impulses given by saying "fuck the liberals" or "own the liberals" or anything close enough.
Edit: I see that I'm already in the negative numbers with this comment, I fear that entertaining the idea that the right has any positions worth entertaining its the thing that got us into this mess in the first place, and I'm sure you know exactly what "mess" means in this context.
ryandrake 7 days ago [-]
Very nice. Totally harmless prank and it clowns on jerks who deserve a good clowning! Hope the pranksters continue and keep it lowkey so they don’t get caught.
vkou 12 hours ago [-]
The targets of this deserve every bit of shade that can be thrown at them, but unfortunately, this fucks with crosswalk accessibility for the visually impaired.
thomassmith65 5 hours ago [-]
That's a fair point, but what is surprising is that - unlike 99% of exploits one has heard about, over the years - these hackers:
• had some civic-mindedness - enough to leave in the initial 'wait!' audio
• chose messages that, while falling short of comedy genius, are amusing and above the level of an adolescent
• didn't include any extremist nonsense
Grading on a curve, that's a lot to be thankful for.
DennisP 12 hours ago [-]
Not by much though, since "wait" and the tones still play. I suspect most visually impaired people will enjoy this as much as the rest of us.
ashoeafoot 3 hours ago [-]
You can not override the sound feature for the blind
gopher_space 9 hours ago [-]
All of these machines loudly shout to begin walking before they tell you which intersection is safe. It’s really weird.
fuzztester 9 hours ago [-]
high pitch?
pun intended.
aaron695 7 days ago [-]
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relistan 7 days ago [-]
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borski 14 hours ago [-]
The hackers didn’t make them hackable. They were already hackable. Your issue is with the city and/or company, not with the “hackers.”
googlryas 14 hours ago [-]
The hackers didn't make them hackable, but they did hack them.
michaelt 13 hours ago [-]
Apparently hacking is something the denizens of Hacker News disapprove of these days?
krapht 13 hours ago [-]
Hackers are not crackers.
yellowapple 13 hours ago [-]
This is one of those rare cases where "hack" and "crack" ain't mutually exclusive.
googlryas 11 hours ago [-]
You apparently don't understand that "hacker" has multiple definitions. Sorry to hear that. The guy who named this site wrote extensively on "hackers", which you're free to read. Try "hackers and painters" first.
If you think this is a site all about people who gain illicit access to systems which they shouldn't have, then you must be very confused by the content frequently appearing here.
borski 9 hours ago [-]
If you think there is no overlap between those definitions of “hacker,” you do not understand them.
googlryas 7 hours ago [-]
I don't, so I guess I'm good by that heuristic.
Now, I'm curious why you responded to me, but you didn't bother responding to OP who seemed to think that the only definition of hacker was essentially "someone who illicitly breaks into other people's systems".
borski 3 hours ago [-]
Because that is not what they said. Their comment was “Apparently hacking is something the denizens of Hacker News disapprove of these days?”
Hacking, by one common definition, generally refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, often challenging to execute and amusing to the community. This was certainly true at MIT.
This fits all of those characteristics. That it happened to involve doing something illegal was not the point.
Putting something on the MIT dome is also illegal; if you get caught, you’ll get charged with trespassing. But trespassing was never the point.
borski 14 hours ago [-]
And did not do anything malicious like remove the actual accessibility tones.
My point isn’t that they are some kind of Robin Hood, but that their actions don’t warrant anger, whereas the insecurity of a public system we rely on… should.
googlryas 11 hours ago [-]
How confident are you that you understand the requirements and design of accessibility systems to make that determination?
borski 10 hours ago [-]
Okay, you caught me. They’re evil.
ai_slurp_bot 10 hours ago [-]
They could just be "not thoughtful". I understand that you want to present the alternate viewpoint as absurd in order to bolster your own viewpoints, but this isn't reddit and you don't need to operate this way here
borski 9 hours ago [-]
No, please don’t misunderstand me. My goal wasn’t to mischaracterize your viewpoint, but to point out what I thought was a bad argument.
I do not need a PhD in Accessibility Studies to know that the same tones and messages were played as normal, plus the message from “Elon” or “Bill”
Even the hearing aid connectivity was left intact; my dad has one.
So no, I don’t have an intimate knowledge of the field. And I don’t think you need one for this discussion.
ai_slurp_bot 7 hours ago [-]
Can you look in the mirror for a second? You accuse me of a bad argument, but then this entire post is you just asserting your viewpoint as true, with basically just a "cmon, obviously!".
borski 3 hours ago [-]
That is not what I did. I provided multiple examples of how they left various accessibility features intact. In fact, I have not found one they hadn’t left intact.
Have you? If so, that would be a useful argument, and I would not respond in the same way.
Thus far, I have provided some semblance of evidence, and you have provided speculation, which is a bad argument.
I’m not saying I’m right. I might not be. I am saying your argument is not.
Dylan16807 6 hours ago [-]
They're not being as dismissive as "cmon, obviously!", and they're citing a pretty good piece of evidence (the tones still being there) while the other side is citing nothing.
The reddit crack is worse.
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streetmeat 6 days ago [-]
Yeah except the tones and walk messages still play, it just doesn't spam wait over and over at a red. Do you think because it's playing a satirical message blind people will ignore the tones and just start running into traffic?
relistan 5 days ago [-]
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streetmeat 4 days ago [-]
I stand corrected I didn't read it properly.
dboreham 15 hours ago [-]
Seems like: yes because the hacked message could say "cross quick right now".
googlryas 14 hours ago [-]
Why does it spam wait over and over? Have you considered that there's a reason?
yellowapple 13 hours ago [-]
I don't think it even does spam "wait" over and over; I've never heard that in my life. With every such crosswalk I've encountered (in multiple cities across the US) it only says "wait" for each time you press the button.
renewiltord 13 hours ago [-]
Why don't you explain the reason and then after you've done that, I can inform you that they don't actually do that. I always mash them to DJ up a Wait-Wa-wa-wa-wai-wai-wait-wa-wa-wa-wait. But I always enjoy it when a Hacker News user provides reasons for why something is a certain way only to find that it's not actually that way.
googlryas 11 hours ago [-]
Why are you calling me out for asking why it does a thing that OP claimed it did?
(You don't need to answer, I know exactly why - because you agree with OPs viewpoint and disagree with mine)
renewiltord 9 hours ago [-]
Haha I have a pet peeve where people “explain why things are a certain way” when they are not that way. Apart from that you can argue about programmable speakers all you like.
googlryas 7 hours ago [-]
Who explained why a thing was a certain way, but then the thing was not that actually way?
Sorry, I have a pet peeve about poor reading comprehension.
Dylan16807 6 hours ago [-]
They're annoyed at your "Have you considered that there's a reason?" for strongly implying there's an explanation for the incorrect fact. They dislike that whole type of statement. Their reading comprehension is fine and you're just nitpicking their wording.
Also, saying "Have you considered that there's a reason?" is not at all the same as "asking why it does a thing". It's a strong statement on its own. If your original comment had stopped after the first sentence then you would have gotten a very different response.
renewiltord 5 hours ago [-]
Cheers, mate. Glad to know I’m not speaking Sumerian here. Right on the money.
googlryas 6 hours ago [-]
Wow, your edit of your post is completely different from your original message - "You asked why it spams wait over and over. But it doesn't. That's the incorrect claim."
Why did you edit it so drastically? Was it because of poor reading comprehension?
> They said they dislike the person that says to explain an incorrect fact.
No, they said - literally - 'I have a pet peeve where people “explain why things are a certain way” when they are not that way'. Your reading is not what they said. I'm sorry but you're batting .000 here.
> You're the one that said to explain an incorrect fact.
A person asserted something (through conversational norms), and I basically said "Isn't there a reason for that?", and now I'm the one who is being argued with as if I asserted the thing in the first place. Why aren't you responding to streetmeat, telling them that it doesn't spam "wait...wait"?
edit: Dude, you've edited your post at least 4 times in the past 12 minutes, all of your posts being drastically different points, so I'm not sure which one I should respond to. I think I've responded to your 2nd edit, which I've essentially quoted in entirety as I saw it on my screen. Your current post is equally as ridiculous, but it isn't clear to me that I should spend any time on it if you are just going to edit it to be a completely different point again.
Dylan16807 6 hours ago [-]
> Why did you edit it so drastically? Was it because of poor reading comprehension?
Yes I fucked up reading at first.
It's correct now.
Appending without editing: I've had a long day, I don't usually edit nearly as much.
Appending without editing: I should have just deleted it and made a new comment, I guess? I didn't know you were trying to reply, sorry.
Appending without editing:
> A person asserted something (through conversational norms), and I basically said "Isn't there a reason for that?", and now I'm the one who is being argued with as if I asserted the thing in the first place. Why aren't you responding to streetmeat, telling them that it doesn't spam "wait...wait"?
The problem was not the first sentence where you did that. The problem was the second sentence. Don't motte and bailey this.
Appending without editing:
Also for the record I stand by the intent of the lines you quoted, though the wording is flawed in the first quote and fixed in my final version. The entirely incorrect thing I said at first is gone and you didn't respond to it so at least that worked out.
ndesaulniers 7 days ago [-]
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relistan 6 days ago [-]
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lupusreal 15 hours ago [-]
If we could not fuck with accessibility devices which disabled people rely on, that'd be great. Thanks.
delusional 14 hours ago [-]
It sounds like they still make the normal/expected sounds. So kudos to the pranksters for keeping them safe and available for the people in need of accessibility.
xoxxala 13 hours ago [-]
Deviant Ollam has a video with clips from the crosswalks. He also mentions the accessibility is not impacted. Worth a watch if you haven’t heard the AI impressions.
That being said at least in one case “The pedestrian push buttons have been deactivated and crosswalks are currently operating on a timer”.
hedora 7 hours ago [-]
Isn’t needlessly disabling the safety device on the authorities though?
SV road signs are constantly covered in graffiti. They don’t just take them down until a replacement arrives.
googlryas 14 hours ago [-]
The expected sounds are mark Zuckerberg talking about AI for 20 seconds?
No, no kudos to anyone who fucks with safety devices to make some point of theirs.
yellowapple 13 hours ago [-]
The expected sound is the "WAIT!" voice, which you can clearly still hear. Anything in addition to that is of zero detriment to the accessibility of the system.
googlryas 11 hours ago [-]
And you know this how? Because your gut tells you?
pkaeding 8 hours ago [-]
Because TFA includes videos with sound showing the actual crosswalk signals are present at before the "PSA" plays.
yellowapple 8 hours ago [-]
If "your gut" is a synonym for "the multiple videos in the actual article", then sure.
Larrikin 7 hours ago [-]
How is it impacted?
badgersnake 13 hours ago [-]
Don’t be such a killjoy. It still makes sounds.
lysace 14 hours ago [-]
Were you severely inconvenienced by this hack? If so, how?
scubbo 14 hours ago [-]
One does not have to be harmed by an action to be able to call out that it would have harmful impact.
ffsm8 14 hours ago [-]
As far as the messages I heard, they still announce whatever they should - just with zucks voice and sarcasticly and extra text. But I haven't listened to everything, maybe they did significantly impact someone's life.
I'd prefer to hear an actual example over broad outrage tho
lysace 14 hours ago [-]
No harmful impact has been called out.
scubbo 14 hours ago [-]
Not explicitly, but
> which disabled people rely on
is pretty clear implication. But I'll spell it out for you - people with impairment to senses (primarily vision) rely on this infrastructure to know when it's safe to cross a road.
toast0 13 hours ago [-]
These devices will also often indicate their location when you hold the button. That can help a visually impared person confirm that they're oriented correctly. That use case is likely why these are field programmable; factory programming would be sufficient for limited prompts (wait, begin crossing, count down, clicks and whistles, etc) but not for street names.
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elpocko 14 hours ago [-]
This HN post is seven days old but displayed and ranked as if it was posted 9 hours ago, with all timestamps falsified. The déjà vu effect is disconcerting and an absolute mind fuck. Please stop doing this, ffs. The person who thought this would be a good idea is a madman.
Wild! I definitely remember commenting on this last week and sure enough my comment shows below as “8 hours ago” (while I was asleep). What kind of sorcery is going on?
yellowapple 13 hours ago [-]
HN has a "second chance queue" for posts that the powers-that-be believe could've/should've gotten more attention but didn't. Happened to one of my posts once, which was confusing as all hell at first but made sense once I learned about it.
KORraN 11 hours ago [-]
But this should not change the time when the thing (comment, link) has been posted, should it?
yellowapple 8 hours ago [-]
I agree that it shouldn't, but for whatever reason (possibly a limitation of HN's underlying software, or for algorithmic/engagement reasons) it does.
ryandrake 10 hours ago [-]
Yea that’s what I found surprising: the re-timestamping of the article and the comments.
The fact that previously undiscovered posts sometimes get upvoted and make it to the front page after getting their "second chance" demonstrates the feature's utility.
rtkwe 11 hours ago [-]
Not really. Interesting posts can get buried easily just because they were posted at a bad time and people don't delve that far into the second or further pages. It's been going for almost 9 years now. I think it's a good idea.
immibis 10 hours ago [-]
Ok but why do they falsify all the comment timestamps?
Can confirm. Once dang pinged me directly by email saying that my story was re-upped. The story went again to the frontpage and the date was adapted (IIRC), but the comments were kept:
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Hi denysvitali,
The submission "PostmarketOS-Powered Kubernetes Cluster" that you posted to Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352075) looks good, but hasn't had much attention so far. We put it in the second-chance pool, so it will get a random placement on the front page some time in the next day or so.
This is a way of giving good HN submissions multiple chances at the front page. If you're curious, you can read about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and other links there. And if you don't want these emails, sorry! Let us know and we won't do it again.
Thanks for posting good things to HN!
Daniel (moderator)
Rendered at 10:05:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
This is one of the better voice clones of Musk but it's still really bad because he never lost his whatever accent, and every voice clone I've heard (mostly the ones on fake Starship launch videos) speaks with perfect American accent.
Something to think about I guess :)
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-crosswalk-...
it seems most of these crosswalks can be configured via app from https://polara.com/ . So either the authentication was leaked or got physically flashed/hacked?
Security not included!
H/t Baggott if he’s reading. ;-)
Or it can work.
Not both
https://www.reddit.com/r/theinternetofshit/
https://www.polara.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Polara-iN2...
> PASSWORD ISSUES: The iCCU can be connected to thru Wi-Fi. The buttons can be connected to thru Bluetooth. A. Once Wi-Fi is turned on at the iCCU, the Wi-Fi password is DEFAULT1 (ALL CAPS). B. Following power up, each button will say “change password” every 30 seconds, until the default password is changed. There is one shared password for logging into an iCCU and all PBS connected to it. The factory default password is 1234. Using a Field Service app, use 1234 to log into the iCCU or any PBS the first time, and change the password. This changes the password for all PBS and the iCCU. See Section 5.2 in the Manual for details. C. If the password is unknown, a Password Reset requires a call to Polara Tech Support.
It's not condescending, because it's not targeted to you.
Maybe your literacy level is high, but perhaps your level of understanding people could be higher.
Edit: I see that I'm already in the negative numbers with this comment, I fear that entertaining the idea that the right has any positions worth entertaining its the thing that got us into this mess in the first place, and I'm sure you know exactly what "mess" means in this context.
• had some civic-mindedness - enough to leave in the initial 'wait!' audio
• chose messages that, while falling short of comedy genius, are amusing and above the level of an adolescent
• didn't include any extremist nonsense
Grading on a curve, that's a lot to be thankful for.
pun intended.
If you think this is a site all about people who gain illicit access to systems which they shouldn't have, then you must be very confused by the content frequently appearing here.
Now, I'm curious why you responded to me, but you didn't bother responding to OP who seemed to think that the only definition of hacker was essentially "someone who illicitly breaks into other people's systems".
Hacking, by one common definition, generally refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, often challenging to execute and amusing to the community. This was certainly true at MIT.
This fits all of those characteristics. That it happened to involve doing something illegal was not the point.
Putting something on the MIT dome is also illegal; if you get caught, you’ll get charged with trespassing. But trespassing was never the point.
My point isn’t that they are some kind of Robin Hood, but that their actions don’t warrant anger, whereas the insecurity of a public system we rely on… should.
I do not need a PhD in Accessibility Studies to know that the same tones and messages were played as normal, plus the message from “Elon” or “Bill”
Even the hearing aid connectivity was left intact; my dad has one.
So no, I don’t have an intimate knowledge of the field. And I don’t think you need one for this discussion.
Have you? If so, that would be a useful argument, and I would not respond in the same way.
Thus far, I have provided some semblance of evidence, and you have provided speculation, which is a bad argument.
I’m not saying I’m right. I might not be. I am saying your argument is not.
The reddit crack is worse.
(You don't need to answer, I know exactly why - because you agree with OPs viewpoint and disagree with mine)
Sorry, I have a pet peeve about poor reading comprehension.
Also, saying "Have you considered that there's a reason?" is not at all the same as "asking why it does a thing". It's a strong statement on its own. If your original comment had stopped after the first sentence then you would have gotten a very different response.
Why did you edit it so drastically? Was it because of poor reading comprehension?
> They said they dislike the person that says to explain an incorrect fact.
No, they said - literally - 'I have a pet peeve where people “explain why things are a certain way” when they are not that way'. Your reading is not what they said. I'm sorry but you're batting .000 here.
> You're the one that said to explain an incorrect fact.
A person asserted something (through conversational norms), and I basically said "Isn't there a reason for that?", and now I'm the one who is being argued with as if I asserted the thing in the first place. Why aren't you responding to streetmeat, telling them that it doesn't spam "wait...wait"?
edit: Dude, you've edited your post at least 4 times in the past 12 minutes, all of your posts being drastically different points, so I'm not sure which one I should respond to. I think I've responded to your 2nd edit, which I've essentially quoted in entirety as I saw it on my screen. Your current post is equally as ridiculous, but it isn't clear to me that I should spend any time on it if you are just going to edit it to be a completely different point again.
Yes I fucked up reading at first.
It's correct now.
Appending without editing: I've had a long day, I don't usually edit nearly as much.
Appending without editing: I should have just deleted it and made a new comment, I guess? I didn't know you were trying to reply, sorry.
Appending without editing:
> A person asserted something (through conversational norms), and I basically said "Isn't there a reason for that?", and now I'm the one who is being argued with as if I asserted the thing in the first place. Why aren't you responding to streetmeat, telling them that it doesn't spam "wait...wait"?
The problem was not the first sentence where you did that. The problem was the second sentence. Don't motte and bailey this.
Appending without editing:
Also for the record I stand by the intent of the lines you quoted, though the wording is flawed in the first quote and fixed in my final version. The entirely incorrect thing I said at first is gone and you didn't respond to it so at least that worked out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=woQEJ_fY8Mw
SV road signs are constantly covered in graffiti. They don’t just take them down until a replacement arrives.
No, no kudos to anyone who fucks with safety devices to make some point of theirs.
I'd prefer to hear an actual example over broad outrage tho
> which disabled people rely on
is pretty clear implication. But I'll spell it out for you - people with impairment to senses (primarily vision) rely on this infrastructure to know when it's safe to cross a road.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%2...
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool (specifically, this post can be found on page 8: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43673425)
---
Hi denysvitali,
The submission "PostmarketOS-Powered Kubernetes Cluster" that you posted to Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352075) looks good, but hasn't had much attention so far. We put it in the second-chance pool, so it will get a random placement on the front page some time in the next day or so.
This is a way of giving good HN submissions multiple chances at the front page. If you're curious, you can read about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and other links there. And if you don't want these emails, sorry! Let us know and we won't do it again.
Thanks for posting good things to HN!
Daniel (moderator)