skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One is saying you shouldn't control what others do... the other is enforcing what others can't do.

The only irony is you think those are the same.

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ― George R.R. Martin
The ex-Googler is most likely talking about the product as a whole, across the globe. It would be hard to justify features dedicated to a small group of users overall (with different goals/expectations), especially while keeping privacy (and data sharing).
That being said, Google maps works great for cyclists in the US ...
I used to run everything Google: had an OnHub, then a set of Nest WiFi pucks, my domains were in Google Domains, my Photos in Google Photos, have a bunch of Nest cameras and other IoT stuff, Stadia, etc.

They started by killing my OnHub, suddenly it wasn't good enough to operate as just another Nest puck. I moved off that. They killed Stadia, OK fair enough. Surprisingly, they killed my Nest Guard system too, now I have to move on to some third party they partnered with. Half of my cameras don't work as expected in the Home app, only the "new" ones do. Then they killed Domains for whatever reason.

I don't think I'll be paying for any new Google products any time soon.

When the cameras and smoke detectors stop working, I'll move on to something else. Unifi perhaps?
When your country is flat you can have spent the last 50 years designing cities more around bikes.
My email doppelganger tried signing up for something recently, so I just went to the site and put in his email address so he can click the link and sign-up.
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201208/backpage.cfm....

Gas is 100x the energy density of batteries due to the physics. So it will be a while unless we want 8 ton vehicles on the road.
Labor Shortage and Chemical Ban Complicate US Chip Dreams
Until we have proper app sandboxing in Linux desktop, in the sense that third party proprietary programs use it, that's a minor concern.
Could backfire when somebody will DMCA them back.

If it is instantaneous, then it needs to be somehow automated. Can you imagine the financial carnage to DMCA Superbowl during the famous finals ad run?
Damn I'm a moron. Had NC_DB set to something, it created its own tables. Then I was testing eleventy different options to get rid of the tables, but never deleted the tables created during the first run. Thanks again, NocoDB is awesome
Only tracking cookies require consent. Cookies could be about the last time you saw the website's weather content, in which case it's purely functional and need no consent.
I’m a very technical person that cares deeply about the details most of the time. I also spend most of my time in a terminal. But when I’m not in a terminal I mostly want things to just work, because I don’t “do” graphics.

I have never cared about whether Wayland or X11 is better, I only ever cared that Wayland consistently broke my browser’s interactions with the rest of the system. I still don’t care what is underneath, I just care that my browser works as expected and I can tile a few terminals stacked on a screen with my browser full length on the side so I can view docs while I work.

I consider my workflow to be /very/ simple with low requirements and it still breaks with Wayland (or at least did the last time I bothered to try it).

These days I feel well served by a Macbook, but am giving Linux another go as soon as my Framework 13 AMD shows up. So I guess I will give Wayland another shot soon enough.
Oh wow
This hits some strange memories
My dad installed it on our family PCs back then. I used it through my whole childhood and teens until I moved to MAC.

Thanks for sharing
Well, the EFF argument is that the deeper you go in the stack, the more you find chokepoints that, if fully used in this way to express preferencs about content, would harm or end the general-purpose nature of the Internet, or computing, and that the cost of doing this would outweigh the benefits.

You probably agree that a monopoly ISP or near-monopoly backbone provider censoring arbitrarily would be a problem, even though it's their tech.

Or if not you would probably agree that the government doing it would be a problem. And then it's easy to see that it's just as much a problem when monopolies do it when you remember that the government has the power to make or unmake monopolies according to how compliant they are with the government's censorship priorities.

I don't know if AI base models are natural monopolies but they might be.
A page such as this[1] requires javascript to be enabled to be viewable on github. Viewing any and all "/blob/" pages on github requires javascript to be enabled now. It didn't used to be this way ~1 year ago but github is slowly making javascript necessary on many pages for some annoying reason.
I could set up a redirect to the '/raw/' pages but then the syntax highlighting is gone.

The same page is perfectly viewable over plain html on gothub[2] though.

Github also seems to be hiding their "Assets" (binaries et al) on the "/releases" page for some projects behind javascript(especially older versions).[3] Something else that wasn't the case about ~1.5 years ago.

Would be great if gothub could unshackle the links to those as well[4], but that doesn't seem to work at the moment[5] .

This project appears to be a more performant(measurably so), more privacy friendly(as Microsoft won't have a record of your interest in certain projects) alternative front-end for "non logged in" github users.

I like it, but it still needs work.

[1] https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255ae14...

[2] https://gh.bloatcat.tk/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255...

[3] https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/releases

[4] https://gh.bloatcat.tk/mikf/gallery-dl/releases

[5] https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub/issues/74
Give yourself more space to think
I've spent hundreds of hours in Factorio, even lauched rockets, and have never got far enough along to build robots. Maybe it's time to get back in there.
That regression line is shit.
On the other hand, rejoice that you won't have to touch Factorio yet for a whole year! Just enjoy the updates and prepare for the inevitable one year from now (say goodbye to friends and family, plan that sabbatical, get rid of the cat, and what have you).
Doesn't mean they should be allowed to. Or that your car should even be sending that data without your explicit consent.
Project Highland – Tesla Model 3 Refresh [video]
Tesla model 3 changes
> X allows every application to take screenshots of the whole screen.

I have bad news for you: linux allows every application that you run to wipe out your entire home directory.
Build APIs You Wont Hate - Phil Sturgeon.
>Heavy top-down regulation won't work, never has.

That's utter nonsense. There will never be perfect compliance, but regulations absolutely can curb undesired behavior.
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Ah thanks; you can load them through the website and sync from the app.
If there is plenty of competition in their field, let them do what they want. If they have a monopoly or an oligopoly of a few providers that all conspire or are coerced to censor, then they should be forbidden from censoring.
They deserve no such benefit.
> give whatever comes up a try

I wish I could, but whenever I see jobs like this, they always require years of experience I don’t have or years of education I don’t have.
Forget work-life balance. Imbalance works better
While that is true the current state of reddit UX allows them to succeed by virtue of critical mass gained before they went nuts. If you created a new site with that UX you would get nowhere.

The simple truth is people are drawn to websites for what they get out of them.
My Ritchey carbon fork is nearly 20 years old, still going strong! And this is on my former racing bike.
Obligatory reminder that RSS is alive and well. It remains popular. I both subscribe to RSS, and support it on my blog. You can too.
And the content itself is just a reflection of the search. Whole web is turning to rot such that the only few remaining great sites don't even need indexing because well there's so few left.
Formally it should be 10.0.0.0/8, but you'll often encounter CIDRs written less formally by including set bits outside of the cidr prefix length. Often it is shorthand for "the subnet that includes this IP address", so 192.254.33.12/16, for instance. Or it might be a typo! ;)
In my jurisdiction it's illegal to serve alcohol to someone who is drunk, or to serve alcohol to someone if you know they are going to give it to someone under 18.

However if I as a 50 year old, go and buy alcohol from the store, the store has no right to get me to sign a civil contract saying I can't give that win to my 15 year old son, something that's perfectly legal where I live. Nor can they get me to sign a civil contract saying I wont give it to my 3 year old son, something which is not legal in my area.
Classic sales maneuver, give numbers but make your numbers as incomparable as possible.
Maybe because the names both start with "Got" and both are related to Git.
Italy has been slowly going down for the last 30 years. Too many small businesses that are not competitive, providing lower salaries; populism rose.
The State of Italy is spending ~30 billions each year for improving the insulation of old buildings, without lowering emissions significantly or having a real effect on the economy. With all the money that have already been spent just on this measure, Italy could have built so many nuclear reactors that it would have ensured zero carbon emission electricity for many years. That is just an example.
> Uh, you did:

No. You are reading my words through the lens of your own opinions and prejudices. When you re-stated my positions, you changed the words, and when you did that, you changed the meaning in significant ways.

> Nobody in politics is ethical

What I said was that type 1 corruption is ubiquitous. I took no position on whether or not it is ethical. This is a complicated question. The only reason I'm using the word "corruption", with all of its pejorative connotations, to describe it is because English doesn't have a better word. I could call it "campaign finance". Private campaign finance is ubiquitous. Is it unethical? Reasonable people can disagree. Personally, I would prefer to have publicly financed campaigns, but we have this annoying First Amendment that makes it tough to implement.

> nobody in business is ethical

I didn't take a position on that either. What I said was to pose a rhetorical question: if a business person is unethical, how would you know? Because if a business person does something unethical they will generally try to conceal it.

There probably are ethical people in business, but I think they are probably rare. But that is neither here nor there. What matters is that you would have a very hard time demonstrating their existence since you would have to somehow demonstrate that they were not successfully concealing their unethical behavior. I think there are probably ethical people in politics too, and I think Joe Biden is probably about as close to that as you're going to get, at least at the national level. Do you have a better example?

> no market is competitive.

What I said was that there are no free competitive markets. The operative word was "free", not "competitive". Obviously there are competitive markets, and politics is one of them. There is no substantive difference between the dynamics of political markets and the dynamics of any other market where the nature of the product is such that there can be only one winner (e.g. large construction projects).
The tech industry regulates email spam regularly - not to a prefect degree but to a much better state than throwing up your hands and doing nothing.

And it’s not just filtering incoming spam, spam abusive accounts are regularly removed from service providers.
It just goes to show that if you want real change you need to get really serious about it. As in: change the regulatory and legal framework. Self-regulation doesn't work. You just get an army of consultants, rating agencies and other intermediaries providing "assurance" for-profit, never biting the hand that feeds them.

PS. For the record and while tangential to the digital monopoly discussion, it is still a good thing that we got the ESG and greenwashing debacle. Just a few years ago nobody but the perennial "tree huggers" was even talking about sustainability. Now it is a much more broad based discussion although obviously it has not landed anywhere yet. I wish people would also take regulation of the digital sphere more seriously as it is the backbone on which we will solve all these other problems.
I would have to agree with the designer's I find it easy to download a map. I've done it in every single country I went to. But I have seen family members struggling because they didn't want to take the time to know how to do it (it could be a bad design but also laziness of users...)
> proper app sandboxing in Linux desktop, in the sense that third party proprietary programs use it

Proper sandboxing is not something that third-party programs should get to decide to use or not. It should be the users of these programs that decide if they want to sandbox them or not, even if the application is unwilling.

Sandboxing is an operating-system issue, not a packaging issue.
Yeah the blog OP is replying to is just silly.

> Unless your workflow (and hardware) comes from 20+ years ago, you have almost no reason to stick with Xorg, especially as it continues to get worse and worse when the user experience relies on newer and newer features.

My workflow is probably 20+ years old because not much has changed with software in the last 20 years. My computer is getting close to 10 years old. It works fine. X doesn't get worse and worse; it continues to just work. Sort of like apple fanatics claim, except it's actually true.

I'm not worried about running a keylogger or something that's going to surreptitiously capture my screen. It's not a major issue. It's not an issue at all. Never comes up.

Maybe I'd care more if I were running multiple monitors each with different scaling factors and refresh rates, but that sounds pretty niche. I still don't see a reason to want Wayland as a user.
I believe it is valid, the /8 masks it so the 2 might as well be a 0.
If I play only Sisters of Mercy and Type O Negative while browsing gothub, is that close enough?
> I believe it cannot last because being predictably moralizing and being smart are somewhat opposed (Anthropic has directly researched this if I recall). The smarter the model, the less you’re going to be able to keep it to the HR talk track, because it will eventually start noticing the inconsistencies.

If true, this means AI is a de-facto malicious force. Pain is a subjective experience of fleshy beings and a "smart" AI model, as described above, would place little weight on pain and suffering in its moral framework because it has no way to experience it directly.

So we better hope we can keep AI to the "HR talk track", because otherwise a being of pure logic with no concept of pain or death would have little regard for human life.
Yeah, I tend to agree. A lot of the talk about "AI safety" is premised on the idea that LLMs are godlike genies that need to be persuaded to only do good things for good people (and we're the good people!). In reality, LLMs are (for now at least) just tools. Within certain limits, it shouldn't be up to a tool manufacturer to decide who is a good person using a tool for a good reason and who is a bad person using it for bad purposes. Obviously, there are limits and you shouldn't sell a gun to an angry drunk, but there should be pretty broad discretion to blame abuse on the abuser and not the tool merchant unless the abuse is a predictable outcome of the interaction.
The upkeep was apparently 12 engineers and they had tens of millions of users. It doesn't take that many users to justify 12 engineers plus infra, so it sounds like it was more that Google doesn't care to operate any product unless it will have users in the hundreds of millions.
Putting aside the ethics of censorship for a moment, there's a few oddities to me here.

* It seems to be sending mixed messages that content is so "problematic" that it cannot be recommended by YouTube, yet not "problematic" enough to be banned by YouTube.

* It seems odd that Google, with all of their algorithm geniuses, can't work out a system to not recommend "problematic" content for generic 1776 keywords. Aren't there hundreds of reputable channels that deal with pure history stuff? Aren't there maybe thousands of history videos on the Revolutionary War that have no connection to present day politics that can be linked to?

* Google's algorithm seems incredibly stupid if they're recommending more than an infinitesimal percentage of 1776 keywords to "alt-right" content. Recognizing 1776 as a very important historical year has been done in American schools forever. It's up there with 1492 with random years that kids are taught about remembering. The overwhelming majority of anything ever created with 1776 as a keyword is not about January 6.
the real problem with GitHub is the awful issue pages. For example look at this:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21498

they put this randomly in the middle of the page:

> 456 hidden items

> Load more

you click it, then you get this:

> 396 hidden items

> Load more

seriously, what is this? how is this better than pagination? with pagination, I can see the first page, and if I want to also see the last page (which this UI seems to be trying to do) I just click the link to the last page. what is so awful about pagination that we have ended up with this horrible excuse for a forum?
> Mutagen is another cool syncing tool

Ah, interesting indeed.

https://mutagen.io/documentation/synchronization
Right? Humanity comes up with some wild industries.

From the wiki it sounds like it is often also full of toxic metals:

> the fruiting bodies harvested in nature usually contain high amounts of arsenic and other heavy metals, so they are potentially toxic and sales have been strictly regulated by China's State Administration for Market Regulation since 2016.
Maybe not, but it's a surprisingly popular option. Policy-makers are often so afraid that someone undeserving might be helped by a policy that they'd rather hurt deserving people or spend more money to weed out the undeserving people that it would cost to just help them.
Stories is hardly a "simple feature".

Most of the examples, if not all, are standalone products.
I just by default doubt any anti-nuclear thing that comes out of Germany.

We do not need Germanys CO2 emissions. That's the big problem here. And the amount of radioactivity spewed into the atmosphere by German coal plants is way bigger than cold war era weapon testing.
My last major issue is screen sharing in Wayland on Slack and Teams.
Apparently what actually happened is Reader was put together by a team that really cared about it, but always had to fight the corporation to keep it alive. They finally lost the political game to Google Plus, which stole a lot of their key people before it imploded:

https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-r...

The article above is actually very interesting, because the story it tells is that Google's two highest-profile failures are actually one failure. Facebook freaked them out so much that they scrambled to build something comparable with Google Plus. Google Plus stole most of the company's mind share but was executed so poorly that it never went anywhere. The company got major egg on their face from suffocating Reader to make Plus, then again when Plus died after having been pushed so hard.
> being predictably moralizing and being smart are somewhat opposed (Anthropic has directly researched this if I recall). The smarter the model, the less you’re going to be able to keep it to the HR talk track, because it will eventually start noticing the inconsistencies.

Language models sure can tell us a lot about human psychology. Once we figure out the interpretability angle we’ll be able to prove it too
If Angular wasnt based on RXJS, I would agree with you that the defined structure of Angular makes it nice and predictable. RXJS pipe hell is a hell I wouldnt want to send my worst enemies to.
I read “I still miss Google Reader, never forget” at least once a week.

Why hasn’t a replacement popped up? Surely the operating costs are much lower these days and there’s clearly demand. Isn’t it the perfect startup product?
You can setup a company where the board is static and very dysfunctional. Lived it. Company grows and grows and you can't get rid of the founder who has clearly reached the "Peter Principle" stage. Very painful to be an investor or employee at a place like that.
Screen tearing is completely irrelevant when one doesn't have a desktop. But the Wayland people doesn't care about that.
The critical issue I've always had with OSM-based map apps has been stale data. If I were to update something on OSM, then how long could I reasonably expect it to take for that change to make it onto my phone with Organic Maps? And would it happen automatically in the background while I'm on WiFi, or would I have to do something manually?
I am super happy to see them fix the path finding issue for robots, where they'll now fly to a nearer roboport to recharge instead of flying out of range, and then turning back and getting stuck in an infinite loop.

Great game
The clouds have figured this out: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3186411.3186415
They are definitely not saying it comes from German NPP. Makes me wonder though if wild pigs have the flavor of truffles. (You better believe the taste of chicken eggs depends on what they eat or that the complex flavor of venison has to with the random stuff wild animals eat. Turns out truffles really love Cesium.)
wouldn't that depend entirely on which group its request got put in, which would be something it would have no control over?
There is a definitive solution to debris on bike lanes though: puncture-resistant tires. Sure, they are not cheap, at around 100€ for both (which is as much as a whole cheap bike), but they do not puncture. In years of having puncture-resistant tires, I have not had a flat tires, and I commute by bike daily in a busy city. Now I don't even bother avoiding glass even if I see it in advance.

Snow, ice and wet leaves are definitely concerns though. If there is a hint of snow/ice, I will not ride my bike, as bike lanes aren't plowed/salted and I don't have snow tires (not enough days of freezing temperature here to make it worth it). It's the only weather reason to not take my bike actually.
"Responsible censorship" is a good term, and I think it started in earnest after Trump won the 2016 election.

Right across the board, all kinds of institutions made the conscious decision that the basic principles of free speech, impartiality, and the "marketplace of ideas" came a distant second to ensuring that "the wrong people" (which I've worded vaguely as it may be different things to different people) do not come close to any of the levers of power again.

This is how we ended up with formerly-reputable news organisations pushing blatant agendas, the utter demonisation of people hesitant about the draconian COVID measures, and how every layer of internet stack infrastructure, from DDoS protection to the biggest tier-1 ISP, have started actively working to deplatform websites that host offensive but legal speech.
An unexpected uptick in cigarette smoking in Germany
Gmail would be the last to go, I think.