skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. Charlie has been the driving developer and force behind litecoin since its inception, and while he may continue to fill that role, nothing signals actual stake in the success of a project like ownership. If Satoshi dumped his coins and then said he wanted the project to succeed the price of Bitcoin would be negligible, a very clear market signal that he didn't believe in it's future prospects. It's like saying, I got mine, thanks guys.

Also, with respect to this being like a CEO taking a $1 salary. Most CEOs have massive stock and performance incentives linked with their company's success. Charlie has none.
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> Hyper-V can run a full-blown Linux kernel + OS with virtually no performance loss compared to native

That's true only for CPU scheduling, or losing CPU performance. For I/O, that's not true.
I love this thing. Every time you have to wait somewhere, you can do something good. :)
You can do this with phone companies in Denmark, and you'll get your location history. As they are required to keep that.
I honestly don't see why anyone would want to use this DE today.

Rewind 15 years and I had a laptop with 256M RAM and would use a very bare bones tiling window manager to keep resource use down.

But today my Linux system is much more close to a replacement of a Windows or Mac OS system. I'm quite happy with the resources available and the advances made in Gnome/KDE.

I would never go back to using bare bones DE's or OpenMotif.
There's a clear distinction. Mathematics is axiomatic, anything that is proven in mathematics is also true in physics, provided it's in the correct context. This can be extended to the other sciences as well, anything that is true in a model of physics is also true in chemistry or biology as well, again, provided the right context.

This doesn't hold true for philosophy, since philosophy has no requirement of logical or empirical consistency which mathematics and the sciences do.
They did that recently in India - not sure if and when they'll roll it out to the rest of the world.
Quite sophisticated are their ways. Chinese and Russian companies are simply relying on armies of human surveyor. Chinese went event further by hiring 3d artists to manually model and texture each building.
pump solar

No, this:

http://www.genexpower.com.au/the-kidston-pumped-storage-hydr...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-21/pumped-hydro-renewable...

base load

Oh, the old baseload argument. I haven't heard that one for a couple of years now.

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kevin-steinberger/debunking-thr...

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/02/3081889.ht...

https://theconversation.com/baseload-power-is-a-myth-even-in...

nuclear... relatively cheap across an entire life cycle

> Between 2002 and 2008, for example, cost estimates for new nuclear plant construction rose from between $2 billion and $4 billion per unit to $9 billion per unit, according to a 2009 UCS report, while experience with new construction in Europe has seen costs continue to soar.

https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power

Plenty of other studies showing similar.
Common Lisp. OOP with plenty of features (and more), compiles to native code on many platforms.
Good for poor people but too bad for the families of these artists/writers, as they won’t be able to benefit from it anymore. This is why government regulation is terrible.
That's true too.

Maybe, in a way, Uber was a necessary evil. From following the discussions about it here for years now, I realize there are many places around the world where taxi situation is absolutely horrible. All of that created an opportunity for a bunch of evil assholes (and I'm not using these words lightly) with VC money to take over and earn money breaking laws, knowing in full that the locals will appreciate the increase in quality and decrease in price to the point of actually defending them from regulators.
130 EUR (Home, OEM) or 160 EUR (Pro, OEM) is not something I would consider "free" for personal use.
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Looked up XView, and the example on Wikipedia reminds me a whole lot of the current flat/paper thing going on with Mobile UIs.
He just banked for what ever reason he has and is probably right.
Many CEO's drop shares when the outlook is good and something is on the horizon - regulations and a bubble.

Price rallied from $3 to $360 within 8 months and only once in 4 years went over $30 he could easily have 20k+ LTCs that's a nice payout :)

His side project / startup just went public now he does not have to worry about money anymore and can do whatever he wants.
Thats the best goal you can achieve in modern society "breaking the wheel".
I'm looking forward to the EU regulations kicking in and you having to get consent from everyone ou save data on.
Google cant be blamed if companies mess up their LLM Local Listings Management or hide their store locations on their websites. This is why companies like DAC Yext etc exist
I understand the feeling, i had the same thoughts first time I've seen the guy on video, i think he just comes across as a sort of salesman-type which can give a wrong first impression on his actual experience and knowledge.
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This post is more reasonable than your previous one, but it doesn't add much meat to your initial thesis.

Initially you seemed to be objecting to the EU's privacy actions against private companies such as Facebook, based on what appeared to be the idea that it's hypocritical for the EU to do so while invading privacy themselves. You also suggested that EU privacy rules are drawn as part of a strategy to make it easier to get access to such data themselves.

I still fail to see any mechanism for these arguments to work: It's perfectly possible that the EU takes a hard line of private company's use of data with purely good intentions, while not living up to those standards themselves. That is, in fact, what Occam's Razor would suggest, considering we all see our use of user data as benign, at least in comparison to others'.

I still disagree with the idea that the EU itself is a bad actor with regards to private data. Conflating legislation in member states in your criticism only serves Anti-EU populism, when the EU has in reality been a force for citizens' right across the continent.

To use your own example: the EU's Data Retention Directive was actually invalidated by the European Court of Justice in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive. In the course of that case, it also established "that general and blanket data retention is no longer possible".

This has a lasting effect on efforts in member states to create their own data retention laws. Quote: In a television interview, the EU Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón highlighted the risk that the retained data might be used illegally in ways that are "potentially detrimental to privacy or, more broadly, fraudulent or even malicious".

As to the second point, namely that action on private data collection somehow makes it easier for governments to access such data, you fail to give a mechanism for this process, as well.

Yes, the toll-road example shows that any collection of data will sooner or later attract the attention of, for example, law enforcement. But how does action against WhatsApp/Facebook make any efforts to access WhatsApp/Facebook data easier? Everyone already knows that Facebook's data is incredibly valuable for law enforcement, yet also sensitive. Law enforcement agencies have for years accessed that data via court orders.

Toll Collect happens to be a great example showing that the best way to keep law enforcements' grubby hands off our data is to never collect such data in the first place. That's something called "data minimisation", and it's the cornerstone of the EU's privacy directive, and also at the heart of this WhatsApp/FB action.
> From a German point of view, a credit card is a downgrade.

Not only germans use the german system. When other Europeans go to European institutions that are placed in Germany, we can't use electronic payments. A system established 34 years ago should not be an acceptable excuse for a subpar service.

It is a shame (and quite fraud-risky!) to go on a taxi and have to wait 5-10 minutes for the taxi driver to carbon copy your credit card details in the invoice (now he only needs to memorize 3-4 digits for the security number), whilst in the same country Uber, and other similar services that provide immediate payment facilities with no open handling of sensitive data, have been banned.
I loathe ads and tracking. I run ublock origin/https everywhere/privacy badger (the latter of those 2 are from the EFF).

I run a dedicated pfsense machine (old optiplex 755 with an old ssd) I added a nic to it. All network traffic must physically flow through it (1 nic goes to lan 1 goes directly to the cable modem). It's running pfblockerng and DNSBL with a bunch of sources. It's amazing. I can watch youtube videos on my smart tv in the living room streaming with 0 ads.
It is, but in world of the OS walled garden its Apple and Google (via Google Play) who made it popular. With the important notion that you can sideload with Android. Symbian and Windows Mobile back in the days didn't use a centralized repository with a GUI (aka an "app store").
How does the app get to know who are your friends?
Why not friends of friends of friends?

Anyway, this seems like a good use-case for https://debtmoney.xyz/
Same price point, except that credit cards usually cost extra here.

Since bank transfers are immediate now (unlike in the past when monthly batching was cost effective) and most credit cards in Germany are managed by the banks and coupled to bank accounts, they could just reconcile all transactions immediately (and even reject those that overdraw too much).

In such a situation, credit would become a risk adjusted premium feature and you'd have to calculate if it's worth it (vs the bank's regular interest rate on overdraw).

Plus, according to the OECD Germans have somewhat higher household savings (relative to household income) than Americans, so the liquidity might be comparable without using credit.
A big part of my point above was that I was surprised that given those resources (many of which you've listed) the aggregate product is surprisingly poor.

Nobody else has the amount of data Google has, that could, with good design, potentially contribute to a good mapping experience.

Even so, to go through the things you list (ignoring Street View and satellite which I already mentioned above):

- Nokia maps has much better business listings, up to date opening hours and reviews than Google

- Maps.ME has far superior walking directions - their pathfinding algorithms can be a bit iffy, but OSM data has, in my experience, far better pedestrian- and walker-oriented trail data than Google. Particularly in remote areas, on mountains, etc. If by "terrain view", you mean the 3d visualisation, then Google's is quite pretty, but not as useful as more accurate and complete trails with graphed route altitudes.

- I'm not in the US, so Google's public transit data is likely better there, but here in Ireland it really isn't. This despite the fact all of our public transit services provide open real-time APIs. I'm not aware of any mapping service here that gets public transport integrate right, but OSM at least has better stop data than Google, which can be fed to RTPI APIs. Google's EU headquarters is here, which includes their Google Maps team...

- I find OSM coverage in is higher quality than Google in more than "dozens of countries".

I'm aware that all of the above is anecdotal, and much of it being from a non-US perspective, I guess some of this could just be an overly strong focus on the US on Google's part.

However, most of my issues with their Maps service is down to UX, performance (their web-based maps are particularly awful here), accessibility, and general consistency (e.g. their Android Street View app is really limiting and doesn't seem to integrate with anything else - the switching between it and the Android Maps app is unintuitive and generally makes very little sense in terms of actual use-cases). So I think this is somewhat independent of geographic focus.
Reminds me that i should really sit down and bang out a FVWM config i can be comfortable with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM
It is showing now! I am at home. I may have been at work when checking it, and work blocks a bunch of APIs and different things.
Can automation help deliver great CX?
And it would be a gain for the society, too - because currently it seems the more absurd a valuation is, the more there is something wrong with a company - either it's doing useless crap, antisocial crap, or behaving immorally while doing something potentially useful.

I would love to see the valuations go down, to reduce the incentives for smart people to grow harmful businesses.
OSM data is highly variable in quality. Features like building footprint geometries will be great in some areas and completely missing in others. This is not easily detectable, and when you pull open a google map, they often have those features.
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They added offline support for POIs last year I think. Offline navigation works too, but it's not always as good as it lacks traffic data.
Why wouldn't you still want to keep resource use down?
Seriously? 70 years after the original author is dead, it's terrible that others cannot continue live off it?
Hm yeah, except without government regulation there would be no copyright in the first place..
I thought it was weird you mentioned educating daughter and didn't mention sons.

I was speaking to a specific individual about educating their own child. That child happens to be a daughter. That's it. You are entirely fabricating this idea that I was talking about the need to educate girls, but not boys.

My very first sentence is gender neutral:

Teach your child that hugs and kisses require mutual consent.

I only switched to female pronouns after that because I was addressing a specific person who had specified the gender of their own child. That first sentence stands well on its own for speaking to any parent, regardless of the gender of their child. It was intentionally framed that way because the message is gender neutral on purpose.

There can't be a fair agreement if one side can threaten the other, even if that side is unaware of their advantage.

Therein lies your problem. You fundamentally see men as predators and women as prey.

This is an issue that isn't going to be resolved via some internet conversation. I could talk at you until I am blue in the face, you would continue to not understand, continue to accuse me of victim blaming etc.

Most likely, there is no point in investing more of my time in this discussion. There can be no meeting of the minds here.
Aye, its a can of worms because of the complexity and subjectivity alone.

The other day saw a comment on HN on how to best get signal as a customer. IIRC was something like IM < e-mail < phone < real-life. Did you try phone as a follow-up?
AFAIR Uber didn't start with taking over the regular taxi market with shiny apps and illegal behaviour; that only came later.
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>the best and most customizable

Everything I've seen in the software industry suggests that these two qualities are at odds. The more config parameters there are, the more bugs and crap there will be. Unless by "best" you mean "most configurable" in which case, sure.

These days I run away from customizability. I'm actively choosing the least customizable software I can find.
100% this. They will also be treating PWA (progressive web apps) as first class citizens. Same as everyone else.

Honestly, I think if they would just buy Nox (https://www.bignox.com/) and bake it into Windows 10/S as a side channel in the Windows store they would start to control the PC narrative again.

I'm currently on a slick Dell XPS 13, using the linux subsystem _and_ android apps through NOX without issue. This is also my dev machine and I get 9 hours consistently.
You're spectacularly (and snarkily) missing the point.

It's artistic because it's designed to make you think about different ways of interacting with technology. It is a choice to build a system under imposed constraints, which the Telex obviously was not.
Cab driving is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US.
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> Cab drivers with shitty attitudes, refusing to unlock the doors and just cracking open the window to ask how far it was you were planning to go: Too short? Don't want to take you, fare is too small. Too long? Don't want to take you, won't get a fare back. I

You are citing some problems that aren't "uber vs taxi" but seem to be due to a lack of competition among taxis.

- Taxis shouldn't be allowed to reject you

- Taxis should all take cards, and preferably pre-payment

- Taxis should be bookable with apps

- Taxis should compete for service meaning a nice attitude and a nice car will be common.

So this isn't about "uber vs taxi" this is about monopoly taxi vs. non-monopoly taxi. Once the monopoly is out, Uber will just be like every other taxi company. And better still, all the taxi companies will be like Uber.

It might be that "taxi" in a lot of cities, especially US cities, are monopolies, have shitty cars, no apps, rude drivers etc. But that isn't because they are taxis, it's because they are a monopoly. Uber should be considered a taxi company, because they are taxi. But they should of course be allowed also to operate as a taxi, everywhere they want.
I can make an application as fast as you want if it doesn't have to run correctly.
That's interesting, and sounds really disappointing. What are the reasons behind that decision?
Google Maps tends to thrive where there are lots of people, at least in my region. I live in a medium-sized town with lots of new buildings under construction, and Google Maps seems frozen in time. I even registered as Local Guide and tried adding a new restaurant in May. Still waiting. There are inexistent shops, duplicated restaurants (when they changed name, the old remains but a new one has been added next to it), and mislabeled buildings. I quit trying to work for free for Google, they take too long to accept my changes.
What? Copyright itself is a regulated affair. Not only that, but our idea of "intellectual property" rights is a modern notion.

Familiarize yourself with the Copyright Act of 1976 [0] before you start making the claim that copyright expiration is somehow "government regulation". It's the only good part about the the act. The copyright and IP law in general have been abused to do some very greedy shit.

[0]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92appa.pdf
I've noticed that Google maps doesn't correctly render a spaghetti junction near my neighbourhood ...

Amsterdam is a very interesting case. From my own personal experience it's very easy to get lost there. There's even a coffee shop with that name!
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When going to less developed regions, it's the reverse.

You don't even know if towns will be on the map with Google, but with OSM, there's always at least something.
Not just poor people. Walt Disney wasn't poor, but he made massive use of public domain works. Now his family cries into $1000 bills about how allowing his works to go into public domain will cut their income by 1%. Give me a break.
> what is holding Apple back?

If you worked at Apple would you want to be working on Apple Maps? I just doubt any of the core talents in Apple are interested in it at all, it's not what the company is known for.
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Yes, in it’s current state it most certainly is. Though as I recall there are already proposed updates to address this threat.
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(I often drop this into PD threads so sorry if you’ve seen this before, but) the Standard Ebooks project[1] that I contribute to takes PD texts, updates them with better markup and a high quality house style, adds PD cover artwork, then releases them again back into the public domain. Although I’m outside the US the project is US-based, so I’d love to see a yearly update interval again there for both texts to produce and sources of cover art.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/
Win10 is still ridiculously easy to pirate, and the "assistive technology loophole" remains open. I don't think this is accidental, especially after all the underhanded tactics MS was using in an attempt to force everyone to upgrade. They probably figured monetising your personal data was worth far more than just selling Win10 licenses.
No doubt Google Maps is A/B testing towards maximizing their key metrics; the decline in usability is a reflection of how poorly this aligns with the best interests of the end users!
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I don't disagree with that. I disagree with your original premise that all websites will eventually be compiled WASM blobs. There's simply no reason for that to ever be the case, no matter how nice the tooling gets.

Not every site is a business site and not every business with a website has the budget or impetus to chase the bleeding edge of web development. HTML and javascript will continue to exist and be supported by browsers for the forseeable future (meaning the option to choose not to use WASM will also always be there.) Billions and billions of sites already on the web which would have to be completely taken down and rebuilt for no practical reason.

I look forward to the age of embedded binary apps on the web . I think the web is the only real option we have to preserve software long-term, and the likelihood of software being preserved is enhanced by that software remaining executable. But even in my wildest fantasies where every program ever written maps to a URL, I doubt that use case will take up more than a fraction of online content. The web is just too big and too complex and too general to reduce to any single heuristic or use case.

People are still using COBOL and Perl and pushing code to production with Notepad++ and Filezilla. The real world doesn't optimize the way you're suggesting it would. The business world certainly doesn't.
> To take [0] as an example, the driver was easily arrested. If she had been travelling in a taxi, is it likely she would have memorised the plates?

It was a he who got robbed by a she and it could only happen because he got drugged by the water she offered and then abused his trust-advance, towards ridesharing drivers, by asking to use his toilet.

Her getting caught on his surveillance cam, leaving the house only two hours later, probably did more leading to her arrest than her being an Uber driver instead of a Cab driver because the victim didn't remember a whole lot of anything after having been drugged.

> The use of apps to book rides makes it very easy to trace drivers if anything untoward happens.

Afaik taxis also keep logs about where they go, tho that might depend on the country we are talking about, just like the background check practices of any given ridesharing service.

But I don't see why regular taxi services couldn't do the background check that Uber supposedly does.

Tho I agree with your last two points, I still think the only real difference here is that criminals and scammers haven't fully adapted to these ridesharing services yet, but the potential is there none the less.