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Using (and improving) Open Street Maps to make life better for everyone might be a better overall net win for society as a whole though.

Is Google Maps better? Yes. Without a doubt. Will OSM improve to "good enough" if enough people and corporations care enough to use it? Possibly. If we get really lucky, a cycle might just form of companies using OSM (like Niantic/Pokemon Go) because it's good enough, and a small subset of people/corporations improving OSM because it's cheaper to push OSM to good enough for their use than to use proprietary maps.

Is it likely? Not really. But Free, Libre, Open-Source and Community-Owned maps for the entire world is a big enough goal that getting partway there can still be a win :)
I don't think we should "bust unions", we need to pass laws that hold them accountable and have consequences. Make disciplinary records permanent and on a national registry. Many employees get "points" from getting to work late and fired after too many points. Excessive force should be on this list for police.

Make lying in police reports a crime that results in firing, make not reporting on other cops a crime.
"Police are public servants granted enormous power over the citizenry. They are tasked with protecting the public and serving their interests. Police unions, in contrast, are tasked with protecting police and serving their interests—even in direct contravention of serving the public. That distinction makes them a barrier to reforms aimed at improving public safety and increasing oversight of how law enforcement behaves. "

But the same could be said for many unions, such as public service employees, doctors, nurses, airline pilots, etc.
I ran fedora from version 1 though I think version 14ish It's entirely possible its better now than it was.
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I'm not arguing for anything here. I'm explaining that the original commenter has it right: the result of this will be less innovation within a company under intense antitrust scrutiny (whether it be IBM, Microsoft, Google, or any other).
Whether innovation happens elsewhere is a separate question. Personally I think it's pretty likely - it worked out for Microsoft and Google, after all - and probably would be a good thing over the long term, but there was also an "innovation desert" for ~4-5 years while the big incumbents were too scared to innovate or compete and yet the new startups were not big or wealthy enough to field an effective challenge.
Yep, originally the Open Tech Fund was a big funder. They funded apps like our own Umbrella App and also lots of Guardian Project and Tor etc
All encryption is broken wrt a quantum cracker. How will, say, the future look at these Signal uses?
Same with teacher unions. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/31/the-rubber-roo...
The Cambridge Analytica scandal already proved to be harmful for democracy. False (and illegally financed) advertising on facebook is also believed to have influenced the brexit election enough to swing the vote. The current (lack of/bad) moderation is already causing harm to society.
Except a bunch of people who matter to me are not as comfortable with technology as HN's readership and for them the easiest way to get hold of me (or anyone else) is via Facebook.

> Anyone that matters will be able to figure out how to get a hold of you.

I used to think like this in university and even a few years after but having grown my social circle beyond tech, I now find this line of thinking snobbish. On the contrary, since these people matter to me, I don't want them to have to figure out how to get hold of me. There should be a default option to get to me and for most of them that is, unfortunately, Facebook.

Yes email didn't suddenly stop working, IRC is still a thing, there are a lot of other apps out there that respect your privacy, etc., but these people buy the Android phone that fits their budget, sees that FB is installed by default and keeps in touch with that. And the UX of Messenger is just, hands down better and more personal than any email client their phone comes with.
You sound like you have a lot of fear... it's literally just a chat app. No one is forcing you to use it, no one is forcing you to answer questions. No one is stopping you from joining the app, you get a question you don't like, and you hit quit. Objectively, how does this affect you or reality outside of this awesome thing called choice?

Not to downplay what you're saying, or sound harsh, but people these days certainly are hitting a level of sensitivity that I cannot even fathom.
Well, in 1999-2000 once you get into emulation surely you could play a lot of games again. Once you got ZSNES/Callus who cared about lots of games. Except Max Payne, but well, that was an excuse to get a new Geforce 2 :D.

Also, some Linux games bundled in the distros were damn addictive and run under anything. Abuse, Nethack, Crack-Attack...
Unions, in general all suffer from the same problem with removing bad employees and in this case, cops that can do harm.

It can be seen with police, automotive employees, and teachers.
The real solution is switching to open source mobile operating systems.
USB-C is still a mess
Is this an argument against the parent post? If so, it's not clear what the argument is.
Pulls your lower jaw forward to make room at the back of your throat. I had the Somnodent Air [0] for several years, but switched to a CPAP when my lower molars started to cant forward.

[0]: https://somnomed.com/en/dentists/somnodent/somnodent-air/
Good idea. Things are never as easy as they look from the outside.
The CPAP does not "fix it completely" for everyone. That is FALSE. Granted, the machine should make a noticeable difference, but it does not restore "normal" sleep in all patients. I would be interested to see statistics from a "CPAP satisfaction" survey. Instead of solely looking at AHI, ask patients to rate their sleep. There are at least a couple of commenters in this thread who are telling us the CPAP has not restored their sleep to "normal". CPAP may be the "Gold Standard" in OSA treatment but it is not the "Holy Grail" for everyone suffering from sleep disordered breathing.
Well, then what is it besides a term for antifascism? And how was the "is there not a consensus on antifascism" question invalid?
That is how all our tickets work. We have a lot of autonomy in that regard, put the product owner still sets the priorities
This reminded me a little bit of a writing-pedagogy course I took, where we had recurring discussions about the difference between being a gate-way and a gate-keeper.

These discussions circled around the power and responsibility we'd have as instructors to simultaneously help our students obtain the important credential on our side of the gate, and on the other hand to protect the value of that credential.

There wasn't a one-size-fits answer to this question; the point was to make us wrestle with the values involved and come to defensible conclusions. We had to think about what was inside the gate, what was outside the gate, and when it was our responsibility to stand between them.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like many people running these platforms (not to point fingers; I was just as blind) realized something like "As a <world leader>, I want <to incite violence> so that <someone else might do crimes>." was missing from their user stories.
What I always wanted to know is what prevents Amazon to create a service 'inspired by' an open source project. Like...check the source, take ideas, write in 'your own words'?
If you can, reach out for help. Talk to your GP and don't discount any advice they give you. If you can talk to a cbti sleep specialist (usually a psych), it's worth trying out. I did group cbti and in conjunction with other things, it helped a lot. I was in a similar boat to you a couple of years ago
If we couldn't stop people from literally using "literally" figuratively, what makes you so optimistic about stopping them from zooming?

> telling people why you object to something in hopes they agree and maybe do something about it

It's fine to object, but the "do something about it" part is not as simple – it's really hard to police discourse. Previous attempts for the most part have either completely failed or catastrophically backfired
Just to clarify, the bug you're talking about was in WebRTC. We submitted a patch upstream:

https://webrtc-review.googlesource.com/c/src/+/175960
I think it's time for tech to flex it's political muscle a bit. We're talking about humongous corporations with billions of dollars in cash silently giving to both Republican and Democratic super PACs since forever and the only political drama we had is Msft vs Amzn for the defence cloud contract. Media companies are puny by comparison.

The tech stance so far has been don't bother us and we'll continue to innovate, grow earnings and help users do cool things and investors make some money in the market. That has worked tremendously well for both the companies and their customers. I don't think changing that is in the users' interests at all.

I don't trust big media to provide accurate reporting here because they don't have the best of the relationships with G / FB.

Let's have privacy laws or platform regulation laws regarding censorship / free speech. Breaking big tech up is pointless.
Not to mention you can do this on iOS in about 10 lines with AVPlayerViewController [1]

Don't get me wrong, this is a cool SDL <> ffmpeg integration tutorial.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avkit/avplayerview...
Jobs never wore a turtleneck, so it’s worse than that. He wore a black low collar long sleeve t-shirt. People can’t even look closely enough to tell if someone is a good copy.
what were those projects?
Using a monopoly in one area (and how could it not be effectively a monopoly if it prints money) to gain marketshare in another is textbook anti-competitive practice though, isn't it? I recognize that I'm using the European legal definition, but that doesn't make it incorrect, just inapplicable in American courts.
Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but every time I see praise for Gmail I just think there is some serious Stockholm syndrome going on. There is a reason "inbox zero" became a thing and people started complaining about mail piling up after Gmail. And I think it has everything to do with Gmail's tools of organization. Or shall I say, lack of organization. Gmail's interface is also slow and terrible compared to a quality desktop client.

Gmail is basically synonymous with email today, and no one wants to use email now. What does that really say about Gmail, then? Never mind the fact that they pretty much killed off non-Google mail servers.
This tech is not new but it is new to have it integrated into common tech many people use and it appears to be free. This could literally disrupt an entire industry. Life line services the "help I've fallen but I can't get up" companies I see in my daily job collecting a monthly fee to wait for the customer to push a button could see this take a big part of their customers if people catch on. Very cool.
Not only that, the purpose of a private sector union is to negotiate with capital. The capitalist has no duty to give the workers a fair deal. Whereas the government in a democracy represents everybody, and public workers are a large voting block. Having a union on top of that gives them undue and disproportionate influence at the expense of, not corporate shareholders, but the general public.
You are being downvoted because the current understanding here, AFAIU, is that there is no good identifier of the "they" where you say "they purport" because there does not currently exist an organized group that identifies themselves as "ANTIFA".

If you are aware of sources that indicate otherwise, would you mind sharing them?
Startup and build performance of containers are both expected to be slower than docker, but it varies by how much. Mostly a byproduct of limitations with 9pfs and multi-threading, and we're working on it.

Once running in a vmx process it consumes only as much memory as it needs, with a configurable upper limit, whereas docker reserves 3GB off the bat by default. So a bare nginx container will eat up like 250MB of memory, but in DD it's a part of the already consumed 3gb.

We haven't finished our more exhaustive testing just yet, but we think it should result in better battery life.

That said, we don't have compose support yet. It's something we're working on in a way that we're hoping goes a little beyond the spec that we're seeing today.
That's painfully PR-ish even by PR standards. Lots of words not much substance. Review this, review that...
> I just want an OS, not a hobby

> If you have linux experience Arch Linux can be a good idea

Something doesn’t add up there...
Maybe tag title with the year (2008)
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That is an impossible question to give one answer to. There are lots of considerations. For example:

1) Do you trust facebook with messaging metadata? For example, do you want them to know that you messaged your friend Jane a specific number of times on specific dates, knowing that they can coorelate this information to facebook profiles, and will give up this information for ad, and law enforcement purposes.

2) Do you trust Signal's infrastructure to be reliable when you need it?

3) What is you're threat model? For me, I want to be kept out of all ad-related data sets, and I want to have conversations with friends without having to think about a paper trail.

4) Do you care that you will have to convince people to install yet another messaging app?

5) Do you trust that Signal and WhatsApp have correctly integrated the underlying crypto protocol? I assume that you would, considering its history. Still, I would trust signal more in this regard.

6) Do you think that Facebook or Signal is more likely to cut a privacy corner in support of a ease-of-use feature? Do you care?

For my friends, the answer is that I use signal. Everyone who doesn't use signal falls back to getting SMS, or phone calls. The problem here is that SMS and phone calls are both huge privacy holes. For my threat model, I don't care, but you might.
I mean, look, if we're going to quantify these things, you stand a greater chance of damaging the sensor by using the camera than not. It's a tool. It's a toy. Just like action figures, they're more fun out of the box.

Here's a study from 2014: https://www.lmscope.com/en/warming_camera_sensor_en.html

You can see a sharp rise in the first 15 minutes and the camera asymptotically approach 43ºC after an hour.

Nikons are rated for 0-40ºC so there is some truth to them not wanting to warranty cameras used for more than half an hour.

But 43º??? Come on. These components are easily rated for 60º.

Anyone that's done any weather testing on consumer electronics can tell that it's the process of thermally cycling the DUT that will kill you (i.e. going from 20º to 30º hundreds of times, not holding it at 40º).

If you are worried about the heat, I may recommend you mill off the CCD and install one of these bad boys: http://instein.eu/d3000.htm
The precautionary principle could only be the initial condition if it had been followed since the beginning of time; you want it to be our initial presumption, a presumption whose sole virtue is its convenience for PP advocates.
Last year I spent about twenty minutes writing mine (Julia #3) in the n-body example and it tied the naive java. I'm not even a Julia programmer anymore.
General artificial intelligence is nowhere on the horizon, but in it's lesser form - deep learning - it is already happening and already hurting a lot of people. The problem is that its development is concentrated at the hands of a handful of companies and they use it to their competitive advantage. Smaller firms just can't compete. You need 1) algorithms - these are more or less public 2) a lot of hardware - this is very expensive 3) a lot of (labeled) data - this is just not available. You can't get access to the training set that Google collects when billions of people solve reCaptchas, or the NSA listening to billions of conversations, or the Amazon looking at what people buy and what people search.
I use it for YNAB4. Works perfectly.
i find your comment sensible.

there is that podcast called rabbit hole (by nytimes) which was very revealing to me.

i started using youtube before it became a popular platform and never in my life have i ever watched a conspiracy theory video on youtube! i don't think i have ever been recommended one either. i only hear about them in the news.

so hearing that person talk about how youtube recommended videos upon videos to them was really surprising. there were names that i have never even heard of.

so yes, social platforms changing people's view is real and a problem.
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Now if corrects for being fat/thin in real time then that would be a buy.
Not pricey if you are ok with the open source MIT version.

Also their modular system is very easy to extend so you can always write your substitute adapters for their enterprise code without even forking it.
Yes, but none of that is related to someone else foisting their pollution off onto a poor area. It's entirely an own-goal.
> "You want that "if" to be taken for granted as an unchallenged starting premise to your entire argument."

I don't want that 'if' to be anything. It was the premise, because the parent comment I was responding to was stating it as a fact for where they live.

My point is that signal revealing your phone number and when you signed up doesn't reveal anything new about you. The issue is the case K2L8M11N2 mentioned when they have compromised a device (and can now tie content to IDs via the phone number).

> "That's going true in any context where your number can be revealed...under any conceivable hypothetical scenario."

This is just false? Without access to the content on a compromised device a phone number alone doesn't reveal much (that's the entire point of the e2ee), if it limits the ability for Signal to hand over the social graph or any other metadata (which does reveal a lot) that seems like a win.

Obviously revealing the phone number still reveals more than a username would, and if you can get all the benefits of not having to upload your social graph to their servers or share metadata without having to use phone numbers that would be better - I think they're working on that.

People using apps that upload their social graph and collect their metadata so they don't have to use their phone number are probably making the wrong choice when considering the trade-offs.
I find this quite amusing because method_missing? has always been the difference between 'true' OO languages Smalltalk/Ruby and pseudo-OO language like C++; with the implication that true OO is better than pseudo OO for the ones making such distinction..
I get that. Will work on making it big and well known then :p Till later, cheers!
Is this a startup/young company or a more established one? “Enterprise”, “consumer”, “b2c”? Some comment threads are related to a “publish or perish” situation at under-resourced startups. If this is “b2b” enterprise, I’d despair and look for greener pastures.

I am working now with a code base that was created during a time of such a mentality, but it wasn’t true, just fashionable 8 years ago. So much of it sucks, no functioning architect to ensure basic design quality or consistency. Thankfully, for the first time in my career, I have management committed to getting the worst bits in order, they seem to understand how costly all those earlier “savings” were. Thing is, it wouldn’t have cost more to do it right the first time. Engineers just would have needed to design correctly and implement correctly.
Which may have cost more eng $$ in the beginning, but we’d also have had $MM more in referenceable customers as a result.

FWIW I have the responsibility of raising the quality via design review and code review, as well as designing and coding. I’m one of those architects now. Seems to be working.
> Are you going to have a single API (and perhaps console) where you say: I want a machine with specs X, image Y and parameters Z to do that and have the lower layers resolve it? Probably not.

Why not? Isn't Kubernetes already most of the way there? (I have only played with it very briefly, but it looks like it should solve this.

The workload is most likely a container anyways, mostly resolving the "image" issue, so the key parameters are CPU, storage and RAM. Ignoring dependencies between containers (e.g. you probably want your web app server and database to be colocated), for the simplest implementation, couldn't you simply create a Kubernetes cluster covering VMs from all providers?

It seems like an orchestrator that places your jobs is part of what the project tries to develop, according to https://www.heise.de/news/Bundeswirtschaftsminister-Gaia-X-a...
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IME, the problem more usually happens because someone in management read a book and thought "I know, we can change our entire development process to do this thing I just heard of and overnight my team will all become 10x developers!"

If you've got a team that is genuinely interested in improving and willing to work on new ideas to make the best use of them, both reviews and testing can obviously be very helpful. That's not really the situation I'm talking about above, though.
> Google recently broke Magisk (likely forever)

Can you give more details on this? I wasn't able to find anything with google-fu except this post, which is surprising.
We've had lots of problems over last few decades which went from "practically impossible" to "doable on home computers", whether that's with improvements in software or hardware design. Extreme cases - realtime raytracing and fluid simulations, hardware-assisted encryption, practical NN.

Why do you think HE value map cannot be ever improved?
I haven't had a FB account in about 10 years. I can't stop them from harvesting anyone else's data. Or controlling what they see.
how does having phone numbers help with storing contacts in the client? they could store any other contact id just as well.

the only thing that phone numbers help with is discovability of signal users among your existing phone contact list.

that is something i explicitly do not want. ever.

telegram and wechat allow to block being found via phone numbers.
No, preventing that would be the CSP's job.
The author made no mention of concerns about the (potential) long term negative health effects that recovered Covid patients might suffer. Not that I have any answers, but that's one talking point I've seen bandied about as a reason for continuing lockdowns.
We are not, we've got a full-on shopify site that we put on a subdomain, update the cart via the storefront API, and our checkout link takes you to the shopify checkout.

Headless, AFAIK, is a higher pricing tier. We're just sorta hacking the standard plan.
That's a great point. I forgot about this story.
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You could similarly say, Well, what is there to "all lives matter" except the simple claim that all lives, do in fact matter? Which is wrong: people who say "all lives matter" as a rule have some amount of shared views, such as not thinking police abusing their power is a major issue and opposing the current protests. Similarly, people identify as "antifa" tend to have shared views, for example being anti-capitalist, left-wing, and having a higher affinity for violent protest than protesters at large.
We've been doing that for a few years now. Basically we have two queues: The queue for escalated defects, and an ordered queue of about 10 prioritized enhancements that we've ordered based on what we think is most important comparatively. There is also a backlog of ideas/garbage work.

It works fine, except that the product is complex and old enough (and the team has too few developers so) that the bug queue rarely gets to zero.
Does this help?

https://signal.org/docs/