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Hmm, apparently it would have been useful..

These days, software development

This is what Cottonwood Day School on the Navajo reservation actually looks like.

https://cds.bie.edu/

Clean modern buildings, desks, air conditioning, running water, very nice. You were fooled by that photo into making a bigger assumption about the full school and situation.


The story that photograph is from is about distance learning enforced by the COVID pandemic. https://navajotimes.com/edu/hill-becomes-makeshift-classroom.... The family does not have internet access, and while they were issued a laptop and mobile hotspot, it only gets signal from the top of that hill.

OP may have misunderstood the context but I think it's a stretch to say they were intentionally fooled.


What I meant was they fooled themselves. They had negative assumptions about how Native Americans live and are treated, then they see a photo of a dirt pit, and even though it is completely implausible, assume it is a school. It is so far off reality it is notable.


I can’t imagine why anyone would be deliberately misled to believe Cottonwood Day School on the Navajo reservation is not very nice. Oh wait


Not American born so there is some obvious thing here that’s not so obvious to me. What’s the ref? Is it a race thing


Not sure exactly how obvious it is to most Americans, but the Navajo reservation is extremely poor by American standards. When I went there, the local roads were all dirt and the houses seemed to have no electricity.


I used to have Hopi and Navajo friends and I have no idea what they are referring to.

One thing I can tell you that the whole situation up there is contentious and complicated between the tribes, the states and the feds where one could support any argument as there isn't some standard "Rez Life" one can point at.

I mean, I used to have this one friend who grew up (and still had family) on a part of the reservation which was completely surrounded by the other tribe and her and my other friends (from the other tribe, don't quite remember which was which here) would get into some serious arguments at the bar over the issue where we'd have to separate them before it came to fisticuffs.


I can’t imagine why anyone would be deliberately misled to believe Cottonwood Day School on the Navajo reservation is not very nice. Oh wait

The real world isn't TV. Not everything is a grand conspiracy.


Given the rarity of celiac disease, the amount of shelf space dedicated to gluten free products suggest a lot of self diagnosis.


Well, I'm grateful for that. As is my wife, who is Celiac.

And some gluten free things are pretty good (I'll generally take a gf brownie, cornbread, or carrot cake over the alternative).

But since when is accessibility a bad thing? Are people really troubled by there being options?


A literal bus factory may not be critical for national security, but the ability to manufacture a vehicle is. So the know-how, the supply lines, and the manufacturing facility are important. The ability to manufacture a fuel injector, a transmission, a windshield is going going to apply to a bus, a plane, a tank..


So subsidise the bus manufacturers to make competitive products directly, rather than an indirect subsidy via forcing transport authorities to buy uncompetitive junk.

Forcing transport authorities etc to buy local seems like clearly the worst way to subsidise industry; there is little incentive for the manufacturers to make a good or cost-competitive product.


If only there was an entire American city filled with people and companies who had this expertise. We could call it the "Motor City".


You ignored "supply lines"

I encourage you to find a vehicle made in said city with zero parts sourced from China.

That is the point.


Or “Fremont”


Sure that's why the Hummer was a great vehicle with all the institutional knowledge from GM. /s Also modern engines in tanks and planes are turbine engines with nothing in common to lighter vehicles (APCs trucks etc). Tanks don't have windshields either.



But then sometimes it’s not?


"US to target more businesses" - they are!


I think what parent is referring to is the simple fact that the management making the decisions to hire illegal immigrants are rarely ( as in effectively never ) brought on any kind of charges despite it being ostensibly against the law. What we end up with a system, where companies get highly malleable ( and replaceable ) workforce afraid to raise a complaint and zero consequences for people making the actual decisions.

edit: A cynic would argue that the system is in place is working exactly as designed.


What specific action did the US government take against Hyundai here?

Or did they just gut their workforce and claim that was "enough of a penalty".

Historically the US has implicitly condoned these illegal actions by employers by refusing to ever take action against them.

There has only ever been action taken against employees, who sometimes aren't even meaningfully informed that they are breaking the law. (Certainly they often know but the employer always knows)


> What specific action did the US government take against Hyundai here?

There are levels of plausible deniability that need to be pierced for actions to stand up in a court of law. Hyundai has already claimed these workers were not employees and were subcontractors or sub-subcontractors. Just the negative press and pressure from the SK govt may do a lot in the future for Korean carmakers to try and do better checking on workers working in their factories.


And how is that different from previous situations?

I responded to someone claiming a difference in action was taken.

You responded with "well that is hard" as if to reclassify action to include previous actions.


The previous situation being that such raids didn't happen, at least not on this scale. So Hyundai had zero pressure to change anything, not even bad publicity or interruption to car production via 400 workers being detained.


We just didn't raid places.

We instead took the much cheaper option of asking them to stop and in most cases they complied to avoid legal action.

This also created bad publicity and interruption.

The raid serves no purpose but to have video of people.


To be clear those business won’t be punished except for having to find more workers.


GM has 6 month attention span, abandoning self driving is suicidal short term thinking.

Waymo has been slow and steady, and has built something pretty great.


The M17/M18/P320 has a striker block, and you have to pull the trigger to disengage it.


Notably, the FBI found it was entirely possible to disable the striker block without the trigger being pulled. A combination of wear, inadequate design, and loose manufacturing tolerances.

They couldn’t get it to fire uncommanded however, unless they bypassed the trigger.

However, they got the gun because it had gone off uncommanded in the holster - with witnesses - and no hands or anything else near it.


FBI found it was entirely possible to disable the striker block without the trigger being pulled. A combination of wear, inadequate design, and loose manufacturing tolerances.

To disable the striker block, they removed the rear plate, applied pressure to lift the slide up and away from the grip, then stuck a punch into the back of the gun to manually release the sear. Maybe this is the beginning of discovering an issue with the striker block, but this isn't simulating a failure that could happen under normal circumstances (specifically jamming a punch in the back and releasing the sear).


That is how they bypassed the trigger. The internal safety released when it should not and that is how they proved it.

How else do you want them to demonstrate an internal safety that was supposed to work was non-functional?


Not really, it doesn't have a firing pin block like every other striker fired handgun, it has a weird sear block thing from a hammer fired handgun because it's a shitty hack job conversion from the P250


The P320 does have a firing pin block. There is a lever that physically blocks the striker from moving. When you pull the trigger, the trigger bar lifts the lever, allowing the striker to move if the sear is also disengaged.

None of this is a sear block, or has anything to do directly with the sear. It will prevent the gun from firing if the sear were to fail.

You can see the lever in green in this animation:

https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/dd_dev/origina...


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