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A few days go, in the front page thread "Opted out, yet tracked: Are regulations enough to protect privacy?", the top comment contained this common dismissal: "Until that happens, just passing more and more laws is going to be meaningless."

Yet Big Tech makes significant effort to try to delay and thwart the passage of these laws.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2020/12/big-tech-brings-out-b...

How do we reconcile this with the common HN commenter dismissal something like, "No one cares. Things will never change."

This is perhaps a nice fantasy for people who have bet their futures on "tech" companies, but how long does this fantasy last. Current reality indicates Big Tech cares. The lobbyists and lawyers hired to help Big Tech fend off governments can confirm it. Why should Big Tech care, if the language in proposed regulations is, to borrow the top comment's term, "laughable".

Has any country besides Sweden expressed reservations about "free speech".1

https://www.brusselsreport.eu/2022/04/25/the-eus-digital-ser...

A country like Estonia might oppose regulating "tech" companies but it seems to be an outlier.

1. She thinks that courts should be the sole arbiters of what should be taken down. It is funny to contrast this with Kagan's comments in the US Supreme Court's recent hearing on Section 230 in the Gonzalez case. When petitioner's counsel mentioned regulation in Europe, Kagan was quick to point out that was not the work of courts. According to Kagan, courts lack the expertise. Several justices seemed to think that requiring compaints about content be reviewed by courts, e.g., on a motion to dismiss, was too burdensome on defendants, nevermind the courts. No doubt Big Tech loves it when legislatures and courts go around in circles on how to grapple with the novel problems "tech" companies have created. The question is how long can this delay be relied on.

HN comments often take a fatalistic tact, more or less advocating "Just give up." Personally, I would bet against anyone "giving up" on regulating "tech" companies. It's a slow, ugly process, thanks in no small part to the work of Big Tech to make it a mess. We are just getting started. I would be more willing to take a bet that many "tech" companies will "give up" when faced with having to comply with the quantum of regulation that legitimate businesses do.
The author uses a one-sentence writing style ubiquitous in "long-form" ad copy.

You say one thing.

Then another.

And another.

See how it hooks you?

And makes you want to read further?

Me neither. But apparently it "works" very well.
I know you don’t agree, but the results speak for themselves. I do agree that things don’t “have to be this way” but where I’d differ is that to solve the problem the vast majority of Americans or Seattle residents would disagree with how to solve that problem. You’d have to do something like tax people at 50-60% or their income to pay for the new housing and it just won’t work. Zoning slows down development sure but so do environmental review processes and such. Also even if new development was instantly approved it takes time to build and developers have to spend so much money on the land that they just build very expensive apartments or condos. But this doesn’t alleviate price pressure because the demand to live in Seattle is too high. The evidence is that like in the OP a chef at a top restaurant is living miserably in a 400sqft apartment just to be in Seattle instead of leaving to alleviate their own dissatisfaction.

I’d also personally avoid framing things as such “build homes for the workers” because it implies a very top-down industrial capitalist or communist viewpoint that I think many are resistant to.

Like water flows through the path of least resistance the easy solution here is people are just going to put up with it or move. If it’s a burden I recommend moving.

If you think there is hope with price pressure relief you only have to look to Manhattan, because that’s the future you are facing in my opinion.

-edit-

For the example I can’t think of any tier-1 city that has gotten less expensive over time (please do not cite Tokyo or Japan) except maybe Chicago and even then I doubt that it has really gotten cheaper versus just not as expensive as fast as peer cities.
No it wouldn't. Basically all mobile networks would break and have to do even more layers of NAT to meet demand.

> IPv6 does not do anything to save the planet.

The world doesn't have enough IPV4 addresses. It literally solves the problem. It is crazy to me so many people here are arguing for multileveled NAT instead of the obvious solution we have had for 20 years.
This isn't surprising. "With our slower pace of hiring, we are planning for fewer promotions into L6 and above than when Google was growing quickly." Pretty straightforward, when you have fewer employees you need fewer leadership roles.
This.

The "files and folders" metaphor never worked even in the heyday of computer literacy, most people never understood it and just dumped all their crap on the desktop.

Seeing as the metaphor did not, does not, and will not work it is only reasonable that personal computing is slowly moving away from it and towards something the users actually want: One singular place to store everything (and I mean everything) and a one-stop quick way to find something in there, organization be damned.

Email is perhaps one of the earliest manifestations of this user desire: Everything goes in the one singular Inbox, and you search for whatever mail you need.
How much does being able to call an expense an expense figure into things? Like, why wouldn't I set up a company owns my house and rents it back to me?
Almost all simulation games suffer this problem of, well, winning. You'll see complaints that the late game of Civilization 6 is boring, as a sufficient advantage means a winner has been effectively determined.

The only fix I can see is to have much better scenarios, or AI opponents, which I tend to think only the external communities around these games can produce. They generally don't allow that level of access for mods though.
I prefer a good bullet tree that breaks down an idea.

This is just my opinion, but I'm sick of stories and other long form content like youtube videos. They take way too long to communicate very little information and are full of ads.
But it is not only people cargo culting at home. It is also people doing that on the job. Instead of looking at various alternatives and truly evaluating them, looking at benefit and downsides each brings, people jump to whatever is the current hype or what is fashionable and then justify it with a circular argument of popularity.

Instead of immediately when the talk is about clusters jumping to kubernetes, people should think about whether the conceptual overhead is actually worth it. They should think about, whether the Google scale tool is truly appropriate for what they want to do. Similar situation of course with all the hyped JS frameworks, when a simple statically rendered website/page would do.

Basically it is not engineering any longer, but cargo cult and hype. And that is how shitty products are made.
Subscriptions should still work with scale to 0. NOTIFY/LISTEN doesn't: https://neon.tech/docs/reference/compatibility.

We will have an option to not scale all the way to 0 to support this scenario.
Maybe it's time to start one, I group myself w/ anarcho-syndicalist, but a practical one that believes some hybrid system like what we have now meets star trek is probably the best we can hope for, but LVT seems like the best way to move us there, other than creating huge employee-owned syndicates that compete w/ the other big companies, and have very loyal employees and customers.
* This is based on the first six months of 2022 only -- it's unfortunate how long it takes data to filter in.

* They're comparing against 2019, which is good: too many similar things compare to 2020 which was a very unusual year.

* Pedestrian fatalities are up 18% comparing the first half of 2022 with the first half of 2019

* It's not that people are driving more: it's a 22% increase on a per-mile basis.

* Looking at figure 4, there's no obvious pattern in which states are seeing the largest increases (or decreases)
But how does eg a device programmatically tell the firewall to allow traffic in in this case? This is done via UPNP on ipv4 NAT.

If you're going to say there isn't a way and you need to add the firewall rules manually, then this is absolutely no improvement for 99%+ of consumer users who have absolutely no chance of understanding how to configure that.

Think of for example Xbox users. On ipv4 with NAT it automatically configures it for serving games using upnp. If you had ipv6 only with a default deny rule and no upnp equivalent then the Xbox cannot open itself up to incoming connections. It's actually a downgrade in terms of "P2P" connectivity from NAT.
Question: why use TextMate instead of tree-sitter?

Tree-sitter's drawbacks compared to TextMate and other regex-based solutions are slower speeds and chance of edits breaking parse trees, which are not issues here. Its advantages are that the grammar definition can be more expressive and is much more readable.

Not saying you should abandon using TextMate, "if it ain't broke..." and I doubt all of the grammars you support right now have as pretty tree-sitter equivalents. But maybe add support for tree-sitter as well, especially because it seems to be growing in popularity, with growing support in emacs and neovim.
Actually I was being too charitable in my other reply.

"Olaf Scholz suggested that Germany received bilateral assurances from China that it won't supply Russia with weapons for its war against Ukraine.

EU Commission President von der Leyen said she had seen "no evidence" of Chinese considerations to send arms."

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-ukraine-war-russia-wea...

So you're essentially saying that it's okay to attack Asians in the west even though China has not actually supplied weapons to Russia!?!?!
US position is frankly irrelevant. What matters is the international law, the UN position, and the fact that US acknowledges the UN as an institution. US has no unilateral right to interfere in affairs of other countries any more than other countries.

>If the people of Florida want Russian-backed independence, as the people of Taiwan want US-backed independence then sure, go for it, my friend.

Do you believe even for a second that US would allow China or Russia to do in Florida what US is doing in Taiwan?

Some of us are old enough to remember the Russiagate freakout.
I like this line of thought. Growing up, I was bombarded with "networking is everything!", "99% of jobs come from connections!", and it was really stressful for me because I'm really terrible at networking and I know it. Felt like I'll never get a job. But guess what? It turns out being freakishly obsessed with something makes you good at it, and being good at something is also a really good way to find a job. All of my engineering jobs thus far were cold contacts with a strong portfolio. Didn't need the network after all.

(that said, of course networking is still effective. it's just, as you said, people overcorrect - even in their advice!)
The problem is that IPv4 is not forward-compatible and therefore there cannot be a protocol that is entirely interoperable.
There can only be ones that are somewhat interoperable.
And IPv6 has plenty of mechanisms that make things interoperable (NAT64, embedding ipv4 addresses in ipv6, etc.).
Original article [1]
and product website [2]

[1] https://www.keptlight.com/a-microscope-for-your-phone/

[2] https://www.shopapexel.com/products/new-mobile-200x-microsco...
I think a lot of people on this site don’t understand how much materials cost as well as labor today.
You can set up a git hook on repositories that listens for the completion of the docker_build task and then redeploys the app while pulling new images?
"who cares" is an attitude able to be held only by those that have cauterized their own souls (or had their souls cauterized by others.)

I'd caution you against leaning too far into this attitude. Some day your own children, for example, might bring to you an injustice or sadness, and they'll see the emotion in your face proclaiming "who cares?" and they'll know... you sure don't.
You seem to be providing a brilliant explanation why Google has failed -> I don't need to be found, I need to find a specific piece of information. It's a report by a major university about children. It's basically impossible to find. The university probably has crap website, maybe it's slow, it doesn't follow google guidelines - but so what? As a consumer, I don't care if the website is fast, if it's providing wrong information.

Alternatively, if I search for something related to registering a company in UK, the top 3 results are scams. Does Google rate scammers higher because their website is fast? Is it too difficult for Google to identify the .gov domain and rank the result appropriately?

I am not claiming Google is evil, I am claiming Google is incompetent.

They have destroyed their own food supply or they failed to protect it, and that's why now their search results have gone to shit.

It seems the average Joe that used to run their own website or forum has gone bankrupt or is berried under SEO spam. Joe was replaced by Average Tom.

Average Tom doesn't even know how to make a website, instead he registers on 5 different platforms - Instagram, Ticktok, Etsy, whatever else is popular, and pushes their content there. No SEO spam, they get results. Yes, they lose freedom, have to deal with arbitrary rules, moderation, etc. They are willing to take that deal over what google is offering. Maybe Google should have parted with some of the profit to convince content creators not to go to closed platforms.

Users have voted with their feet, and most of the world's content is no longer accessible to Google. Today's teenagers don't even search on Google to find a barber, they search on Instagram, and make a booking right there.

Google search is already dead inside, they just don't know it yet.
It’s not a good harbinger for fully unsupervised autonomous driving if autonomous trucking companies are experiencing widespread trouble [0,1,2]. In theory, autonomous trucks should be the first fully self-driving vehicles to see widespread adoption, since highway driving is among the easiest, most straightforward forms of driving there is. If investors are not convinced that these trucking companies are close to nailing that, it does not speak well for the viability of unsupervised autonomous driving overall.

[0] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/reports-autonomous-platoon...

[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/business/jobs/2023/02/06/two-comp...

[2] https://www.truckinginfo.com/10189392/autonomous-truck-compa...
This window to self-nominate (6-8 Match, so starting today) is ahead of the layoff decision for many of the European offices. There will be people who have spent the last month prepping for promo only to get the axe in about 10-15 days.
That's complete and utter nonsense because US has formal relations with PRC and does not have formal relations with ROC.
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Hi, I saw your other post about the co op programming collective . I'm having some of the same feelings and i was hoping you would want to tell me about that . If you do , hit me up on discord at metalforever#4052
Yes, but that's also title inflation
There's brand destroying short term strategies, and strategies that optimize for longevity.
The word "senior" varies by level for different job tracks -- for some it's not even until L7 (or at least it was this way in the past).

But my understanding is that, across most job tracks, it's expected that everyone should get promoted to L5 eventually just by working hard.

While it's never expected to get to L6. You might get to L5 and just stay there forever. L6 requires a certain level of achievement that they don't expect everyone to be able to achieve. That's what sets it apart.

So it makes sense this is the level where they're closing the gate even more.
IPv6 doesn't remove fragmentation. IPv6 fragmentation works differently. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8200#section-4.5

The Fragment header is used by an IPv6 source to send a packet larger
than would fit in the path MTU to its destination. (Note: unlike
IPv4, fragmentation in IPv6 is performed only by source nodes, not by
routers along a packet's delivery path -- see Section 5.)
Land goes up in value. We have more people and more demand.

Structures get repaired and renovated. My house is over 100 years old but I just pumped 700k into it. Does its value not increase?

Homes are expensive to maintain.
> And who decides which information is valid and which isn't? Also, what if governments engages in misinformation or violence, as they often do?

Yep. All the sociopaths who lied about nonexistent WMDs for 8 years have never been censored in ANY platform until today. In fact, most of them were apparently 'amplified' by pre-Musk Twitter.
I dunno about you, but the chron feed on FB has been broken for most of the last decade for me. Almost every time I go to it, I'm shown a handful of posts from multiple days ago (even though I just saw there were posts from minutes/hours ago right before switching to chron), and after about a dozen posts it says "this is the end".
Personally I use portainer for basically the same thing. My only real requirement was that I could easily copy-paste in docker-compose files and have it just work.

I use caddy as the proxy, since I found the traefik configuration absolutely incomprehensible. Now I use only 2 labels to proxy instead of 15.
Child of alumnus should be considered legacy, but that's not to say that thay factor doesn't also skew wealthy.
I skimmed the article to see if they mentioned whether this change involves their big change that they announced last year (I think?), where they're moving away from html/css rendering to a completely custom UI engine, presumably in webgl or something. Anyone know whether that change has already taken into effect?
Or just select the text in Emacs and run `M-x rot13-region`.
I think you would still need the glass envelopes to prevent electrons roaming between devices.
I've tried the nvidia one and it's really not particularly noticeable. On low resolution media (eg below 720) it really looks like it has removed a lot of the details - mostly as at such a small resolution, there aren't any details haha, but up scaling makes it very noticeable.

There are much better options for non-realtime.
Just spitballing: in a use case like TFA, building pieces and structures in/around an asteroid, would they not be subject to fouling by dust and debris from the processes going on around them?
Giving up is a great strategy, then we can let the market self regulate -- keep in mind that Tik Tok has to compete viciously with Facebook on who can design a more trusted platform :) In the end, we all win if we just let things play out.
SSDs are a consumable, so depending on how much writing you do per day to it you can run it down pretty quickly.

The vast majority of people never write enough for this to become a problem, though.
Good point! I wonder whether text-davinci-003 is enough to test this?
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The other day I was aimlessly browsing through Youtube, and I found a video by a man named Ira Glass. I had never heard of him but apparently he's a famous NPR journalist. He told a story about how in English class he learned to start with a theses and then explain facts. But, in broadcasting, he learned that doesn't work.

Instead, you start with an anecdote - the purest form of a story. Ira pointed out that humans are naturally drawn to listen to stories, so by framing facts as a sequence of events, it gives them momentum that can make even the most boring of facts more interesting and engaging.

As I listened, he elucidated by talking about a man waking up and walking around his house. While nothing in his story happened, the way he told it was very suspenseful, which did make me much more curious as to what Ira was going to say next.

I think Ira makes a great point, and even if you are just trying to educate people on a topic matter, framing the facts you're trying to convey as a sequence of events makes it much more likely you will succeed at conveying the information you intend to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ezU57J8YI
Makes you wonder why autonomous trucking isn't the full and dedicated focus of Google et al. Vastly easier to accomplish, and arguably a bigger societal impact than autonomous passenger vehicles.

Plus it just makes sense to solve an easier problem first and work it into the broader solution later
Usually the medieval European universities are distinguished by not being primarily religious institutions, although there have been objections to this definition. Otherwise, several older madrasas remain in operation, the oldest being the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco (847), which is listed as the world's oldest university by e.g. the Guinness Book of World Records:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_al-Qarawiyyin

Surprisingly, there are some schools for adolescents in England which are even older, the oldest dating to 597:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_School,_Canterbur...

That the oldest continuously operating institutions in the world are mostly in England (schools), Japan (hotels) and the desert mountains of North Africa (madrasas and St. Catherine's Monastery) is likely a consequence of "splendid isolation". Nobody is quite sure how old the government of Haida Gwaii is.
You're literally describing business. That's how all businesses work. The gardeners get the market rate for being a gardener regardless of whether they're working on a residential masterpiece or somewhere mundane
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Main barrier for me is there’s no interoperability with ipv4, and no official transition plan (just a bunch of rfcs suggesting different transition plans).
So this is like requiring hunters to wear GPS tags so the game wardens can locate and interview them more efficiently. Half the country will think this is a good idea.
My wife is from Taiwan, so I’m kinda clued into this even if once removed. Doesn’t trump your inside source though. My understanding is that in the last few decades the KMT had been following (in practice at least) a more business-friendly economic and regulatory unification with the mainland. The deals negotiated by the KMT with the PRC that led to the sunflower movement and the rise of the DPP were very much pro-status quo, pro-stability rejection of the historical KMT policy.

The KMT has never officially given up the reconquest position, but it has been decades since that that was anymore than lip service to the one China idea. In practice KMT policies have been pro-unification in the EU or HK sense.
> actually they (the asian you say) would face less discrimination but they just dont know it so they could be also racist by themselve (english is not my best, just trying to explain, of course they are not racist)

Thank you for speaking on our behalf and enlightening us on where we would/would not experience more/less racism.
Not sure it's what you are looking for, but how Spanner mitigated CAP to delivery a relational DB at scale is a really interesting read[1]

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub45855/
I mean the core issue is poor and capricious management either way.
Florida has significantly older drivers. That probably explains all of the difference.
> 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing.

Of course they are. They have no freedom of speech.
Depends on your goal. If you want to reduce injuries and fatalities, you recognize that there are multiple contributing factors and you try to address all of them if you can.
It’s possible they are asleep at the wheel