skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Nokia in the maps unit around the time that MS tried to leverage OSM and ended up licensing maps from Navteq. Trust me, everybody was very interested in OSM but also very aware of the legalities of that.

Google started building its own maps in response to Nokia first buying Navteq (in 2006, which Google was depending on at the time) and subsequently offering free navigation on the N95 (S60) and later phones.

Right then the obvious move for Google would have been take open street maps (it was already growing quite nicely then) and improve on it. They even created their own community map tool so they obviously liked the idea of crowdsourcing their data. The reason neither Google, MS, and later Apple opted to use OSM is very simple: the OSM license is a problem for their level of ambition. The baseline OSM experience is nice but the differentiation is what you do on top. That would be things like street-view, having lots of POI data, traffic information, public transport maps, 3D buildings, etc. Those are differentiators in the market and key for these companies to attract more users. They're not interested in helping their competitors get their hands on that. Apple at some point fell out with Google and it became crucial for them to take ownership of the map experience: so they ignored OSM and built their own maps. That's expensive and they pulled it off successfully and it's a decent; competitive experience these days. But it was a conscious choice and not some strategic blunder.

The dilemma these companies have is wanting to keep those things proprietary and OSM not really allowing for bundling proprietary and open data. So, you have basically Google and Apple bootstrapping their own maps in the last 10 years and Navteq and Teleatlas surviving as key data suppliers in the hands of Here and Tom Tom.

Each of those spend billions on improving their maps every year; they are competing with each other and with the OSM community; which is impressively good these days as a baseline map experience. The point this article is making is that a lot of companies that are smarter about pooling their resources are rallying around OSM thus making it increasingly competitive with these big proprietary data silos. So even poring billions in Google and Apple Maps may long term be not enough to keep up. OSM makes maps a commodity and bad maps a liability. Making good maps is expensive and unless you have a trillion $ valuation, you probably should use OSM instead of embarking on your own maps project at great expense. Apple and Google are doing well. I'd argue Here maps is a lot less attractive these days then it was when Nokia bought Navteq (which became Here later). It's still alright for car navigation but that's just one niche application of maps these days.
you can set custom grids in Figma (like a 4px grid for instance), and you use workaround like spacer elements, and you can setup margins/padding with auto-layout for your components, but yeah there aren't reusable classes in Figma for spacing. Would be nice if there was
I think not. But with 2FA codes/phone numbers/IP addresses, I tend to repeat back to myself what I'm trying to remember a in a melodic way.
I found the article independently, linked on this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/longevity/comments/jwnqvu/aging_hyp...
Have you recently used Google to search for something slightly out of accepted-by-mainstream compared to search engines like Yandex? I'm not saying Russian propaganda is not real, but it's a helpful guide to compare and contrast the results specially relevant results that is being omitted by Google[0]. Of course this is mainly because we have hate speech societal norms, hate speech laws and such, but how do we know the countries on this map with low "Freedom Score" don't have their own reasons for removing content? Are we to judge their actions but our standards? If so why don't we just declare the world must obey our rule of law or else! Since there cannot in principle be any justifiable deviation from it. Unless we want to only give the _perception_ of tolerance for others' points of view, but not a real one.

[0] I'm not going to provide an example, shouldn't be too hard to come up with a slightly controversial example yourself.
"What really amazes me is folks who complain about SHA1 being insecure, without even having an understanding of how preimage attacks work.

Either explain to us the attack vector against actual SHA1 certificates that could result in wide-spread faking of certificates, or withdraw your claim.

Your explanation needs to also explain how this attack could cicumvent the various defense-in-depth official and unofficial checks (certificate transparency, certificate revocation lists, limited time validity)."

I hope we can at least agree that this is not the way to argue about security protocols at least when it comes to crypto.
Sure. And you know who we should celebrate for this improvement? Epic Games and antitrust authorities. So let's put more wind behind their sails! Let's keep pushing and finally get a fair market that will benefit everyone fairly, and not just Apple.
>What if we had international cooperation instead of a death match? I guess certain business people would not make as much money.

Cooperation is hard because of the prisoner's dilemma etc. You don't need "certain business people" to malevolently prevent international cooperation.
I mean, since this is an argument about semantics

> a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader

is the definition of fascism. This is a tool often deployed by fascists.
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Legos constrain creativity to simple objects that get stuck together. The creativity is not applicable in the real world and hurts imagination of the world that exists. Yes, what you said.

And now after saying all that I realize when comparisons are made of US to developing countries the same harbingers to creativity and innovation appear where if a situation in America can be resolved through a particular means, the lack of such means become an obstacle to the similar rise of developing countries.
I was also an avid reader growing up and spent many nights under the covers with a flashlight.

I think the big difference is the adaptivity of the phone. Books don't figure out what personally engrosses you and tweak the rest of the book so you can't put it down. That feels too powerful IMO.
I admit I didn't read the article before commenting.

Really just seems like anyone that can get away with it is censoring people with differing opinions.

Seems like something that will surely end well /s
A free and open internet also allows propaganda and hate to flourish which are two bedrocks of most authoritarian and nationalist regimes. It isn't as simple as ending censorship will allow everyone to be free.
> Ensafi’s team found that censorship is increasing in 103 of the countries studied, including unexpected places like Norway, Japan, Italy, India, Israel and Poland. These countries, the team notes, are rated some of the world’s freest by Freedom House, a nonprofit that advocates for democracy and human rights.

Freedom House is a non-profit that is almost entirely funded by the US government. The only ones who would find it "unexpected" that US allies rank high on the "freedom index" but practically have problems with freedom of speech would probably buy a bridge in Brooklyn.
> What if we had international cooperation instead of a death match?

competition is at the heart of our economies at a deep level, both within and without... i suspect this wont change until internally our economies are more cooperative than competitive (im not holding my breath)
When I read that, I immediately dismissed the whole article.
Both HRW and match.com are available on the 4/5 ISPs I have access to ATM. Home (Telenor), mobile (Telia), server host (domeneshop), my office (Telia, wired) and a customer network (Not sure about the downstream ISP). On the last one match.com is blocked by a firewall not the ISP.

They should really check thier sources. My guess is that they tested on a network that has a filtering firewall.

Now that that is said. Norway is not perfect. The biggest ISPs use a easy to bypass DNS blocklist by the judiciary. The list contains CP-sites, gambling, piracy, terrorism. This is bad enough. Why lie about match.com and hrw.org? Jeez.
>Now that Microsoft and Apple have introduced app stores on Windows and macOS, they plan to slowly erode our freedom on PCs too so that they can reap the same financial benefits on our labour on all computing platforms

I haven’t seen any indication that MS is trending in this direction, nor could I envision how they would go about doing such a thing. Fuck Apple though. Rent-seeking scum.
That's still not how you use the word "literally".

It is a technique used by fascist regimes, communist regimes, dictatorships (basically totalitarian regimes of all stripes.)

It is a separate concept from fascism.

EDIT downvoters seem to have weak English skills...
> You would be hard pressed to find liberal / progressive content being censored online.

No, I wouldn't.

https://fair.org/home/that-facebook-will-turn-to-censoring-t...

I might have to work harder to find high-traffic social-media accounts peddling stories about the left being censored online than finding the same thing about the right.

But, if so, would that really be evidence that the right was being censored more, or just that its complaints are being amplified more by the very same platforms they claim to be selectively censoring them?
That's unnecessary since there's pre-calibrated mixtures referred to, unsurprisingly, as "calibration gas" readily available. Googling for "carbon dioxide calibration gas" will find you what you need as well as the appropriate pressure regulators.

Note that even the professional meters require calibration on a regular basis; for example the calibration schedule for the Fluke 975 for CO2 is yearly and for carbon monoxide is monthly.
This is more of a direct response to Internet as a political weapon, which matured in the weaponized social media in Arab Spring [1] as the regime-changing tool used by Hilary Clinton, who eventually becomes the victim in the 2016 presidential election.

Thanks to its long-standing "controlled by CCP in order to do business" practices, China enjoys a very strong position to be less vulnerable to potential external Internet propaganda.

CCP learned this, and start to use various online forum to spread its own world view and alternative reporting on various Chinese domestic and international affairs. So far it looks like it actually helps to supply diverse views on issues like eliminating poverty, development strategy for poor country, etc. I still not see much hard evidences of proactive propaganda campaign from CCP towards foreign nations.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/10/09/655824435/the-weaponization-o...
> One very good strategic reason to do this, I think, would be to gain independence from cloud providers, who unfortunately happen to be your major competitors.

All of the questions you asked before (risks, capex, etc.) all would have been answered during an assessment period. It's almost as if you assumed that none of that was done and that their sys admin group just through together a proposal to move to a colo and their executive management made a decision to do so. That's not how this works.

The number one priority of this type of initiative was cost and reliability. Going exclusively cloud is not a silver bullet for every company - that trope needs to die.
You assume communication can only benefit a party, because it cannot decrease the amount of information in your possession. How Shannon-esque.

In my life however, I've often met people who could and did harm others (meaning: me) using verbal communication only. And so, I don't share your assumption.

I don't feel responsible for processing it all. If I'm suspicious about the intent, I'll likely just cut it off and drop it on the floor like it never happened. If I see the intent is improvement and self-improvement, I'm ~100% invested right there; you can literally put me through hell and I'll be grateful.
Agreed. We got used to thinking of any Javascript as "business logic" rather than "presentation" because it's an imperative language, but React/JSX are tailored to using JS in a way that acts more like presentation. If you write it imperatively, it won't be idiomatic React, and sooner or later something will break.

So it may help to think of JSX as using a functional subset of Javascript. It's not, and that veil gets pierced pretty often, but the better you contain it, the more you can effectively use both Javascript and HTML together as part of a single concern.

Using Redux with sagas even further separates out the most side-effecty parts of it, though sagas are really heavyweight and I'm still not certain if I think they're worth it.
Yes, it's feudalism
From what I can tell as a complete layman, the title is quite sensationalist: the only process being reversed is telomere lengthening, which has a tenuous relationship with aging at best.
Well unfortunately I'm seeing this in my microscopic way. I moved off all of my domains and hosting from GoDaddy (shrugging in disgust) to Google domain+GCE. yikes, with virtually no traffic outside of me ssh'ing, my 2 vm instances is costing me $45/mon just basically sitting idle. I gotta be doing something wrong!
> it really is the most sensible way to communicate.

The way you’re talking matches the GP’s warning, and I’m not sure if the irony is intentional.
Regardless of whether or not that was a tactic of Mussolini, that is most definitely not the definition of fascism.
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I am definitely missing something. What I don't get: if tailwind provides all the preprocessor parts, why do people need to put the class definitions as part of the HTML?

I would completely get behind tailwind if it was only the SASS part. Give me a bunch of mixins and consistent variable naming, which I could just `@import` into a sass file where I get the definitions for UI elements, widgets, etc... the whole "Design system" if that is the word kids use these days.

All of that can (and should if you actually paid attention at the CSS Zen Garden) stay outside of the HTML. So why when I go to any introduction to Tailwind it still shows all that <div class="size-foo color-blah rounded-baz"> code, I get major WTFs on my head and then I just go back to my simple SASS-based workflow.

What I'd like to see in the next generation of CSS frameworks would be for it to be able to take a completely classless HTML document (like CSS Zen Garden, modernized to HTML5?) and have it look like 3 or 4 different design systems without touching the HTML. Or for extra points, take a web application like webapp (web version of winamp) and show how you can make completely different skins just be redefining the base types and the color palette.
I don't mean to be mean and I support the plight of the moderators but this is just simple supply and demand. What are the skill required to be a moderator: eyesight and motor functions. Who has those skills: almost everyone. What will the companies therefore pay: almost nothing.
I think the best thing that can happen to those jobs are they they are automated out of existence with AI, or heavily reduced,
Expect the standard 'Mistakes made, Accidental access, Lessons Learned & Never happen again' response from the NSA.

And this only a mere 5 years after [1] " American spies may have snooped on Angela Merkel's mobile phone for more than ten years, according to reports in Germany."

Lessons Learned, Accidental, Never Happen Again etc etc indeed.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nsa-allegati...
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That's still a filter effect. Now, crazy bullshit is being peddled at 100x the rates from before. It's not sustainable.
> On the other hand, Google has good reason to hold back TPUs from general public, and instead only offer them on Cloud.

What is the reason? Just competitive advantage for running Google level AI/ML workloads?
It's actually quite a bit easier than flying a space shuttle. See [1], or for a less technical description [2].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
> You probably haven't actually delved into Tailwind on a non-trivial project.

This is precisely where Tailwind breaks down IMO. It's fast for landing pages and smaller sites--but when implementing a real design system across a complex web app, Tailwind is a nightmare. We've had to add so much custom stuff to the config file it's basically the same mess our CSS was before.

I've been-there-done-that with the whole CSS framework world (have used Bootstrap, Tachyons, Bulma, Tailwind in many projects) and have completely reverted back to custom stylesheets with a few select utility classes that make sense.

Padding, margins, widths, heights do not make sense as utility classes IMO.

Type scales, type modifiers (like font-weight), and commonly used things like margin-x-auto and 100% width do.

I wish there was a CSS framework that only contained a minimal set of common utilities (like the ones mentioned above) and required no complex build process BS or NPM.

I just want a simple boilerplate, nothing else.
> bans

Ironic given the context

> redemption

I'm actually in the confession booth right now, so consider my sins redeemed!

In seriousness, what do you find so horrible about this post? I thought it was fun.
Right you are! My mistake on including them as an example there. I should fix that.

Edit: While they're not taking the same fee (honestly, 5% is pretty great!), they are the original company recognized for their "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy. I'm super impressed with Microsoft's turnaround on open source, but I'm still leery of them long-term, especially if leadership changes down the road.
There's cause for concern re: the company/leadership/quality, but nothing remotely related to the NSA.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T...

http://techrights.org/2019/10/31/purism-false-promises/
> You would be hard pressed to find liberal / progressive content being censored online.

I think this is a false dichotomy. Whenever speech calls for violence that upsets the current social-political order in the US, it is censored regardless of being "left" or "right;" one example being the very-left chapo trap house crowd on reddit. My understanding that there is less violent content coming from voices identified as "progressives" that tend to value other more acceptable* methods for social change.

* Acceptable meaning something different per platform, but if we are being honest seems to usually mean "can sell mainstream ads space alongside them"
As someone who worked deeply with OpenCL at one point, it's because it went off the rails and became a useless hodge-podge. They recently announced that V3 is basically a reversion to 1.0, and that is the first good decision they've made in a while.
I spent a year of my starting teenage years tinkering with my android phone. Custom ROM and stuff.

Then I got a better PC and spent time trying to make website to earn money because everyone was doing it.

I failed. AdSense didn't pay me anything. I realized it was more profitable to make a blog on how to make money online than go try if yourself.

I built my first gaming rig. Played few games and got bored after a few months.

I ended up watching death note on YouTube through recommendations.

Finished 500+ anime within a year. It was the best past time after school.

Got bored of that. This time, I though of making money using software. Worked with WordPress, earned some cash fixing people's site and optimizing them by removing useless plugins, adding yoast SEO, improving cache and moving people from shared hosting on GoDaddy.

I started to tinker with PHP code and themes like Divi, adata. Then I wanted to build a CMS. Looked up stuff and it felt complicated so after trying for a few weeks, dropped the idea.

Now I got into novels and manga because I was running out of anime. Probably 700+ or so titles. Enjoyed that for a bit. Finished Chinese, russian, Japanese, etc light novels using Google translate. It was fun. I was addicted.

Now something clicked again and I purchased courses on udemy for 90% discount (yeah it is always discounted). Finally, I knew enough programming after few weeks to create a CMS. I did that but it turned pretty poor compared to WordPress.

Joined an online non-profit therapy group. Listened to people and gave advice...in retrospect, k shouldn't have done that.

Joined discord, spent time there and well learnt more about weird internet cultures and spheres.

Started to get worried about future. Spent time researching health insurance, FIRE, investment and saving strategies. Opened broker account on few online sites using my dad's identity. Landed on r/wsb. Spent few weeks researching and stalking people there. Concluded it was nothing more than gambling. I started buying equity. Built a decent portfolio. Then diversified with Forex and SIP index fund.

Roughly more or less how I spent my teenage years. There are lot of other small and things I did but will be too personal.
It's better to leave basic updates for OS changes, security, etc free but charge for new features as in-app purchases. Unfortunately most users expect free upgrades for life for their $2 purchase so this makes life very hard for non-game developers.
Indeed! The guy was a true Nostradamus!!
Abandon this thread, all ye who enter.
For GMail have you tried the basic html view or using a mail client?
What is better? Macbook with Apple's M1 or (old) Macbook with Intel CPU and external AMD GPU?
Apple is so huge it doesn’t know what “small” is
I've babysat for friends with a 3 and 5 yr old, and it is phenomenal how you could grab their attention (and distract from any ailment they had a second earlier) by showing them youtube videos of fire engines with sirens.
> Other countries will have to do the same if they want to protect their national interests.

2030: EU bans Google
I bought an S50 from China and it constantly errors out on carpet. It seems to be a common thing, I guess China doesn't do full carpet like we have in the US so it's something they didn't test for on my version.

The lidar is impressive though. Cleans way faster since it's taking efficient paths.
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Again, M1 chip shows impressive performance gains. First graph shows, what, 3-4x improvement over Intel?
None! Don't use these tools they massively complicate everything.

Single Page Applications were the wrong direction for us. Tens of megabytes of massive js libraries built using bundlers and minifiers and shims and whatnot, only to render something on the screen that would've been rendered with pure html using ssr.

Honestly I enjoy coding with React a lot. Components are a really robust way of reasoning about UI logic. But it's not worth the problems it solved.

The usecase for SPA's is really small. Maybe Slack should use React sure. But not all the other apps out there. Look at Github and Heroku. Smooth, beautiful and fast experiences. So reliable.

I miss the old days of Smarty + jQuery UI. That was a better direction.

Had we invested this much effort into that approach, we would've had a much better performing web today.