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I think a reasonable definition for addiction is the compulsion to keep doing something even though on some level you realize that what you are doing is harmful to you because it either gets in the way of life’s basic necessities or there is simply something better you can be doing, whether it’s work on longer term goals or even just enjoying an activity that is more fun or relaxing than whatever it is you are addicted to.

For example, in my case, my technology addiction for the last few years has been hacker news, which I consider to be in the “social media” sub-category of tech addiction. After procrastinating work with an hours long session on hacker news, it is often annoyingly apparent that nothing of value was gained (at the cost of my job) and if I wasn’t going to work anyway, that there were actually much more enjoyable ways I could have spent those hours, like maybe doing a hobby, talking to friends, or even playing a quality video game.

I know it might seem contradictory to play a video game if I’m claiming to be a “tech addict”, but in my case, I don’t count that as part of my addiction because I don’t have a huge compulsion to play video games, and when I do, it usually feels like enjoyable time well spent afterwords (unless the game is shitty, but I avoid those).

However I do know people with video game addictions (which I also categorize under “tech addiction”) that play games even though it doesn’t feel like time well spent for them afterwords and they know they should be doing something else.
> Open source software is more than a license and code. It is a community and the digital public square.

Unfortunately, there's absolutely nothing about the OSS community that actually instills this mantra in people. I like to think that I also see OSS as a community and digital public square, but there's no universality to that philosophy.

> Either we as a community hold ourselves and others within our community to a higher standard than the text of a license, or licenses will inevitably become increasingly restrictive in the future, to the detriment of all.

There's just no way that the community will ever do this because there are inherently conflicting incentives to participating in OSS. If you tried to explicitly motivate people to do this, you'd immediately get pushback from the individualistic elements of the community that don't want to participate in something that they feel is politically motivated or that Amazon did nothing wrong.

OSS is a great thing that has tremendously benefited the industry, but the idealism of a community acting together without any consequences or incentives to do so is truly folly. As much as I wish OSS had more of a true community feel to it (and I think there are little pockets where this is tangibly felt), OSS largely exists to provide tools for commercial software development. Those people are out to build businesses and accrue wealth, not fortify the OSS community. I'm sure there are people that actually work to accomplish both, but the vast majority of founders and companies I've worked for in my career don't see OSS as a community. They see it as a giant puzzle box where each piece is an OSS project and their goal is connect pieces together in order to sell a product to somebody. Get acquired/IPO and you've solved the puzzle.
This is analogous to "hey, fella, I have a First Amendment protects right to be a manipulative, sociopathic liar" - it's true, and it doesn't invalidate people complaining about your behavior.

AWS did something rude, unprofessional, and indicative of bad OSS citizenship. The fact that the lawyers can sign off on it is irrelevant.
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Absolutely. They aren’t mutually exclusive. You can have both. Some phones have fingerprint sensor on back and face sensors on front. You can choose which way you prefer (or both).

Other than Apple wanting to save cost, I don’t see why this wouldn’t have been possible.
Re. the scale of the effort required on the client side by the user, I think you missed the "kludgy UI/UX" bit. Obviously, we need to address the kludgy kill-file approach.

> you're falling for ..

You seem to think that you know a lot about me. Let me gently suggest that possibly your technical imagination is failing to show you alternatives that solves all these issues.

So, actually, it is not a case of falling for anything, rather waiting since 1996 for someone else to start discussing having social models for networked virtual spaces.

> If you're being legit with your post

And why would I be otherwise? I found that quite offensive, and entirely un-necessary.
Doesn't require an account for me ...
I'm trying to say that right now, as far as I'm concerned, there are only a few confirmed facts. One of those facts is that there are newly released pictures of Hunter smoking crack, which isn't particularly interesting. All the other stuff about emails, provenance of said emails, etc., has not been verified by anyone but the NYP, who, contrary to typical reporting practices, are not sharing their info so other venues can confirm the accuracy. So, as far as I am concerned, that is unverified and quite likely inaccurate info and Twitter and Facebook has no responsibility to disseminate unverified and quite likely inaccurate info.
Free speech as an ideal is older than the US government. It means limiting negative consequences for people speaking their minds.

Also, when FAANG eats the world, Google/Facebook's moderation team becomes a de facto arm of the local government.
It's a slightly complex sentence, but when AzzieElbab says "All US outlets other than FoxNews(obviously) are keeping quiet", they mean that Fox News is the only outlet that is covering the story, and everyone else is not. Thus when you reply that Fox News has "plenty of articles", you are agreeing with their claim. Since your response seems to imply disagreement, Const-me presumes (I think correctly) that you misread the original.
Hopefully the electorate.
The author needs to decide what's more important then, getting a pat on the back, or contributing to OSS. It's pretty crappy using a permissive license so companies are willing to use the software, then trying to make them look bad for not following unwritten rules.
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Sources certainly can add some factual, concrete evidence to someone's argument to ask for a source or two.

That being said, I think some just near-reflexively reply 'Source? Source?' as a sort of low-effort 'rebuttal' by implying it's just, like, your opinion, man when they haven't necessarily come up with a well-thought-out argument.

I won't disagree that well-sourced arguments add much to a discussion, especially if you're not well-informed about the topic at hand.

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But don't worry about the down-votes. It happens, who can know for sure why, they don't really matter, and if you're earnest in your comments, you'll almost always going to end up in the black. :)
OpenPilot doesn't "trick" the steering system using "false sensor data". The steering controller just accepts messages for commanding steering over CAN bus. The same messages are used by the stock ADAS system.

Also, this bus is not usually exposed to the OBD port, so OpenPilot just connects to the same port the stock ADAS ECU uses.
I think that even this article is overly generous, marking predictions as "true" that were equally true when they were made as they are today. For example, "Most colleges will follow MIT's lead, and students will increasingly attend classes virtually" is marked as "true", which reads to me as particularly laughable in light of the enormous disruption to universities that COVID-19 has caused. Yeah, distance learning is a thing; it was a thing in the 70s too.
Really good points! Motivation, incentive, social component, and sources of assistance will all need to be meticulously crafted if one were to challenge the current system.
You may want to hire a qualified lawyer to "settle" the matter with Amazon;
I’d say Elon Musk has been acting more and more erratically as time has gone on. Just this week he changed the price of the Model S to a meme, $69,420. Seriously.
We should revisit it, for sure.

I do not think that law is adequate to cover the current state of affairs.

Personally, I'd allow curation/gatekeeping by platforms like Twitter as long as (1) it's transparent (2) there are viable alternatives, including totally unmoderated places where people can post all the coronavirus hoaxes and exhortations to "join the race war" they desire.

It's also worth noting that you are posting this on Hacker News, platform that is far more stringently curated/moderated than Twitter. Why are you here if moderation is so objectionable to you?

You are here presumably because you like the job they do. If that changes you can go someplace else. There are countless alternatives to both HN and Twitter and you can even start your own. Either from scratch, or just spin up a Wordpress site or a Mastodon instance or whatever.
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You want to make permissive licenses illegal or what? That's ridiculous.

Pick something like the MariaDB or CockroachDB license if you don't want Amazon to provide a hosted version of your software.
Yes. Or some footpaths cross major roads with no real crossing in place.

It's a bit scary using this foot path crossing, especially in poor weather or at night. Cars can travel at 70 mph (112 km/h) on this road.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6832617,-1.9031193,3a,75y,...
> when we finally have realtime monitoring of blood sugar

Continuous Glucose Monitors exist and, at least for the one I have, test your blood on a fairly regular basis (every 5 minutes). As a diabetic, getting one was life altering; the best positive change in my life for a very long time.

I would highly recommend a CGM to type 1 diabetics. I have the Dexcom G6, and the low blood sugar (current and impending) are amazing.
Corporations have nothing to do with community or people or ethical standards or environmental stuff or privacy. For a company an open source license is nothing else than the code and a license. For them, this is a very narrow legal question.

Corporations does not care about much but shareholders' interests. If you want to change that, you need to come up with a different system than capitalism, which encourages the standards you want to see.
This seems a simple and exaggerated view of social activity drivers, but I think the answer to the question of what would happen if men stopped constantly hitting on women, would be that women would get some peace & quiet for a change and be able to enjoy their time in public without the constant fear of harassment. So definitely a positive change.
You should be able to use the "Legacy" (their new words) ISO installer. I'd be interested in your results if you get a chance to followup here. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-legacy-server/releases/20.0...
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I hope Nix takes off for one reason. I don't want people to do same builds again and again especially for Rust it's painful.

I want to install binaries with cargo instead of doing the same build again and again. Similar to https://cachix.org

I don't honestly know why that isn't the case yet, perhaps storing binaries takes too much storage that Mozilla doesn't have money for. Or perhaps it can't do guarantees like the ones Nix gives to allow binaries being shared of builds.

This is the main reason that makes interfacing with Rust as a plain user a pain.
> any more running someone through a printing press to kill them is “free press”.

This sounds like a horror movie scene, and the killer would make some terrible pun at the end.

"Extra extra, read all about it...You're dead."
That is the question being discussed in the thread where you are replying.
The urge to be a polymath comes from a desire to understand the world, hardly a worthless aim.

If the polymath claims expertise, I suppose that’s one thing, but he needn’t have expertise to have useful insights for himself.
I think thats the ultimate plan, but if you listen to GeoHotz talk about it, he really wants an economical self driving solution. E.g. waymo cars cost 100k+ and thus isn't economical.

It's also opensource so I think the end game is to have manufactures adopt this and go through the whole song and dance of getting it full validated on their vehicles.
ive been looking at getting this for my CRV for about 1 year. most insurance companies are fine with adding this device to your plan as ive inquired and read about several experiences with it.
> We already understand this intuitively, but only in a limited set of cases. If a pop star becomes an actor, we are not impressed by their wide range of talents. Instead, we understand that popularity is a semi-fungible good.

Yes. But where we got wrong is when the currency of celebrity is used as justification for worshipping their thoughts and ideas in other areas unrelated to their expertise/fame.

I suppose this simply human nature on our part. None the like, like other biases, we should be mindful of it siren-like power. We should guard against the influence of false gods.
From your numbers, you'd need to be about twice as good as LeoLabs. A one sigma CI of +/- 9 metres and a predicted separation of 70 metres leads to almost exactly your 8 sigma event (I got 6.5 sigma, but whatever).

So if you think LeoLabs' numbers were credible for an outfit with 30 people, what's hard to believe about the US military being able to track satellites twice as accurately?
Very doubtful. I think you misunderstood the tweet; the person who posted that tweet is asking the founder and leader of Collaborative Fund to be responsible for the actions of his partners. Craig isn't the one who was sitting on the board.
The rules you're proposing would lead to most blogs closing their comment sections entirely. People simply would not want to take the risk. This situation would not be an improvement over the status quo.
This was a great read, thanks for posting.
Also adding a keyboard and maybe a mouse could be done. Say, for reading the news ...
Not true, although he seems like he is doing crazy speculations, there is a method to his madness. It is driven by all the exponential growth laws which he documented and extrapolated very well.
But that's fundamentally the prediction; VR tech has been available in niches since the 90s.
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Sounds good. My question would be where can I get hold of this water?
I didn't mean anything specific by abundance of talent. Just an expression. Of course, the Renaissance had unique historical conditions that led to its artistic flourishing.
There are plenty of companies that’ll create a professional looking website for your product, whether it exists or not. That doesn’t mean anything.

What I find more surprising is announcing such a project if there is no result yet, now they get buzz and create disappointment and I don’t see what they gain for it.
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I'm not sure that counts as a phantom object. That's something that looks like a stop sign, positioned where a stop sign could be.

Admittedly its only shown for half a second but I imagine a distracted driver who looked up suddenly could be equally fooled.

Having video ads on screens that drivers can see and be distracted by is the real problem.
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Neither site responds to the 'prefers-reduced-motion' request either.

Tangent: as I've only recently learned about 'prefers-reduced-motion, I've become a bit obsessive about checking whether animation-heavy websites respect the request. Many websites, sadly, don't bother about it.
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I'm not so sure about that. "This" WFH situation we are now in is very different from what a normal remote-only situation would be like after COVID times are over. People are at their wit's ends right now because they cannot do many of the things outside of work that they used to do. If you have a small child, you used to be able to take them with you on errands and impromptu meetups with other parents and families to break up the day and entertain them.

Now, many people carefully plan out these occasions to make sure they're not bringing anything back home to their own family members. The same can be applied to childcare and even senior care. In normal times, you wouldn't have your kids home all day to interrupt you and require help with schoolwork (or even logging into Zoom).

Additionally, I've found the hardest part of this year is that there just isn't much to look forward to on the weekends - no big group dinners to celebrate birthdays, no vacations to other cities, no bar nights with old friends.
Exponential growth is not a law, nor is extrapolation a valid scientific technique.
What makes you so sure your mind hasn't been pwned in an analogous way targeted towards smarter/more sophisticated demographics?
A priori, I would expect more educated people to be more easily controlled/brainwashed; that's what the original point of education was- to inclcate a certain ideology/worldview.

The people on facebook get weak waves of brainwashing targeted via algorithm; people in universities get a more powerful version of the same.
What about Zerotier 2.0 btw?
Was supposed to surface before summer, but seems to have stalled.
Might actually be relevant as more people are working from home now.
I don't think so. Dropbox are not closing the office (they will likely downsize) so folks who want can still go in if they live nearby. I'm sure most companies would keep some office space available. Also, I'm sure most fully remote companies would pay their employees for home office expenses, which includes co-working space if an employee prefers that. (most people don't have an extra room available for office). By co-working space I mean a dedicated space where you can leave your laptop, monitor, etc. It's not like going to an actual office where your co-workers are, but the big advantage is the commute. Co-working spaces are everywhere so you can pick one close to you.
It's good practice to cite your sources. Even if you're strictly legal, being ethical doesn't hurt.
Exactly, but we can check for feature support and adapt accordingly. We did it for the seen for years.
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AXIOM: Inherent bias will always prevail, proportional to self-interest.

CONCLUSION: In this case, we know there's self-interest involved. Who, what, where, and why is relatively unknown to us, the pseudo-washed masses, so we must resort to our preconceived views.

And, naturally, FB/Twitter make good money on all these preconceived views, so there's something recursive here.
The whole point of these highly permissive licenses is that we don't want to constrain independent hackers, or put people in a position where they are unsure if their fork might expose them to liability.

It is undoubtedly discourteous of AWS to release an OSS fork as a new feature without crediting the original author. It is not the end of the world. It is not a reason to go and change your licenses to make things more difficult for the other 95% of developers. But it is a reason to say "some people at AWS are just dang ol' jerks."
...right, because Git doesn't use CRDTs. Those example point to where Git has state/operations, not where Git uses CRDTs (because it doesn't).
Have a separate replica system supplying the API, so even if it's DDoSed or whatever the cell alerts will be unaffected. The value of this API would be strictly additive.

Think of the emergency weather alert radio broadcast channels as a form of primitive public API. We need something like that but over the Internet.
Because it’s a great idea but for instance the Linux kernel would have to come with documentation that mentions the tens of thousands of authors. A massive undertaking that doesn’t help anyone, really.
I sympathize with the author of course, and tasteless tactic from AWS, but this is also why it's important to choose the appropriate license for what you want out of your project.
I did not downvote, but license proliferation is a big problem in free software. People cannot combine software with incompatible licenses.
Or human drivers for that matter. I heard that they have a very high failure rate and cause over 6,500,000 collisions a year in the US alone. Take them back to the drawing board and work out all the bugs until they can put a safe species of driver on the road.
> Regularly operating billboards make Humans see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop (somehow-no-newspaper-ever.com)
Because nobody should be above the rules they agree to before using. You are arguing for political immunity based on holding a job that is neither elected nor approved by elected officials. That is authoritarian, whether or not you find it “gross”.

Your desires to insult those who disagree with you and fast forward to some “corporate sovereignty” fantasy aren’t relevant to the discussion of whether this action broke the terms Twitter has laid out.

==if we want to go that way we have to argue in favor of corporate sovereignty given the power these companies have.==

Or, we just allow them to manage their users, user agreements, and platform like we do other businesses. Your argument is to take that power away from companies and give it to government.
For those who don't know, the Rambler Association has been fighting for new and ancient foot paths and "rights to roam" for 90 years in the UK.

England in particular has a long and complex history of land being gifted by royalty and clergy to sycophants leading to the rest of us being screwed over for literally a thousand years!

Green and pleasant land indeed!
According to ToS you might be required to provide your real name. They can delete your stuff or cancel your account at anytime without warning for any reason.

As for the landing page. It uses spans with javascript for links instead of normal a, thus stopping people from opening link in new tab (I'm not even mentioning accessibility or using it without javascript).
I had the opportunity to beta test it and while it still has rough edges my daughter and me had a lot of fun with it. Everyone learns differently but in my experience direct feedback is often such a boost in learning speed and efficiency that I wish there were more applications like this. Also the attitude towards user privacy is highly appreciated.
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oh yeah, that was his name! Here's the chair: http://www.dr-li.net/360.html

apparently he passed away last year, pity. Nice fellow.
Common courtesy is made of unwritten rules and it does serve a purpose.
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Every Kurzweil's prediction that came true is riding on the advances with semiconductors and networking. Even many of the true predictions are 'on the way' in the sense that they exist but the impact for the society is not there.

Only 2 of them rely on advances in machine learning (real-time translation of foreign languages, personal assistant).

Most of these are consumer tech or interaction with computer advances. Two predictions about education are nice.

All predictions about advances in biotech, medicine, nanotech, etc. have failed.
I think macOS and Windows are covered in that regard, though with different JavaScript and HTML engines. A normalizing layer above could be an interesting approach.
I would prefer to see these things enforced by culture and norms rather than laws and licenses. I don't want to have to parse legalese as part of my role as an engineer. I don't want companies to have to hire more lawyers to verify they can use software I wrote. I want them to be able to just use it, then contribute back after they've experienced using it. I don't want a restrictive license may prevent them from ever even trying my software in the first place. I want culture and norms that encourage the company to contribute to the project, not laws.