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There’s some irony in writing a lengthy document telling people that they should not tell other people what to do.
Off topic, but I'm confused about the IPv4 notation in this quote:

> When we launched EC2 in 2006, it was one giant network of 10.2.0.0/8.

In my understanding, /8 means the first octet would be fixed (10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255) and I'm having trouble understanding the significance of the 2 here. If the 2 is significant, wouldn't you write it as /16? Given the source and my confidence on this notation, I feel like there must be some meaning an expert can glean from this. If so, I'm curious to learn. If it's just a typo, then that's fine and I apologize if this is nit-picky.
Abandoning e-scooters but keeping the Vespas and Lambrettas (operated by Citiscoot and Cooltra) doesn't make any sense.

The Vespas and Lambrettas are way bigger and create higher disruption of foot traffic on sidewalks.

With e-scooters gone people will jump on those even more often and consequently leave them on sidewalks even more often.
Im fine with the stable diffusion license. It’s just there to cover their ass from lawsuits. Releasing the weights is enough to be good guys in my book.
My habit for college essays was to write scratch notes on paper, with lots of bullet points, and arrows for re-arranging text, to get the outline of the essay in place, but to actually put the real words together on the computer.

I remember my mother once doing the opposite: she wrote a long letter on the computer, so she could edit and re-write until she was happy with it, then printed it out and copied it by hand, for the personal touch of a hand-written letter (a peacemaking letter to a relative).
It's a major problem in anti-aging that many forms of "senescence" disable cancer cells. You might think you want more active stem cells to heal nicks and cuts and stuff like that but you don't want them running amok.
You say Asian, but same order in Hungary too.

Funny part, now living in Taiwan, when the forms ask me for my "English Name", I never know it means "First Last" (which would be the opposite order for me of the original form), or merely "Name in Latin characters".

Names are hard.
Seeing all the praise in this thread, I downloaded the app, and I must admit I'm disappointed and confused at the effusion, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

I tried a very basic task of getting driving directions to a specific address and that doesn't seem to be supported. For some streets, it will give me directions to the street as a whole, but that's not useful for long streets. Other streets don't seem to exist in the map.

Then I typed in a simple query: "ice cream", and the closest result listed was 4 miles away, but there are several ice cream shops within less than a mile. Other business listings are out of date or inaccurate.
You have to create at minimum a vpc, internet gateway and at least one subnet/route table pointing to the igw
I mean, I know its not practical for everyone or every application - that being said I have made it my highest priority to go out of my way to not use services or products that require apps to be installed. Obviously I make exceptions for stuff I deem "required" but for coffee chains, fast food restaurants, grocery stores and other services if they need an "app" for me to use it. I just won't use it. Or I will go out of my way to use another service that does not require it. Or, if I need to use it, I will just install the app, use it, then remove it. Is it a hassle? Sure. Will the company still be able to access my data? Some of it. But it won't be a persistent install so I'm fine with it. I don't have many other choices.

That being said, I am now running into what I call the "Non-App Tax". The most prominent example I can think of in my own experience is my towns local parking payment system. You actually don't need to use the app to find parking or pay. You can scan a QR code and pay via text. Then I looked at the prices on the app vs prices via text and the prices were a decent amount higher ($1-2 more) and less flexible than if I had just used the app. Kinda shitty and I can absolutely see this becoming the norm.
> If it could scale up and still operate the same way...

Once they scale up, they will be encountering more other Waymo cars on the roads, eliminating a lot of the accidents where someone else crashed into Waymo, or made an upredictable move. So then they could afford to drive less conservatively.

We are pretty sure that our roads would be much safer if all cars were self-driving, but that cannot happen overnight and there will be an interim phase when robo-cars have to mix with human drivers, which is the hard engineering challenge.
There are cities that are not in california, and some of them get snow.

Self-driving cars don't have to drive in snowy conditions; indeed, they don't have to drive in any conditions at all. It'd be nice if they could though.
I remember running Hummingbird Exceed on Windows to access the “proper” applications on Solaris in a stock trading environment (like 25 years ago)
Right? First time I run into a README file on Github and I think "Oh, this text is for search engines, not readers".
If by "objective truth" we mean the qualities of nature that exist irrespective of any individual's perception, then I think the continued reliance of our scientific knowledge in producing effective and consistent results are at least some measure of that.

> The best that we can do is probably say something along the lines of "these are the best methods of getting closer to the truth that we have available - if anyone claims to have better methods, they are very likely wrong", but you still need to have the humility to accept that even the best models that we have to date are not infallible.

This last sentence slightly conflates the scientific method with the models they produce. I am not claiming that the models are "true", I am claiming that the scientific method is the only reasonable means of gaining a reliable understanding of the objective nature of reality, assuming it exists; and that you cannot pick and choose what you believe in based on your intuition.

Quantum principles have been proven in experiments that have as tight a margin of error as measuring the width of the United States to one human hair, producing shockingly consistent and effective models that were absolutely critical to the development of modern technology. Yet some people somehow refuse to accept these models as an "accurate" reflection of reality, whereas they'll take, at face value, psych/sociological/economic studies that are frankly nothing short of pathetic in comparison.

In regards to science, I am saying that there is a hierarchy of belief. You can draw the line wherever you like in terms of what you think is "true", but you cannot reorder this hierarchy and believe these sorts of psych studies while at the same time questioning the physical models that power the technology that is used to publish them.

And this isn't speaking about math, which is a particularly special case given that it is not scientific but still produces shockingly effective results.
> with a postcode "N1C 4DN" we soon learn that means North London (the N), the innermost district (the 1)

N1 is innermost, yes, but N2 onwards are sorted alphabetically, and N1C isn't really more "inner" than N1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_postal_district
Yes, but the reality is that EC2 is optimized for a target audience who wants to customize the deployment beyond a linux box with a public IP.

But iirc following the "Launch Instance" wizard and choosing defaults for everything, as well as a (default) public subnet gives the exact thing you're asking for.
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This is the shit we're meant to do not worrying about KPIs or building ad delivery networks or whatever.
Xorg has very bad support for display scaling (for HiDPI) and multiple displays and especially multiple displays with non-uniform scaling factors. Architecturally speaking, this will never be fixed, even if new maintainers do show up. Wayland may be over-complex or under-complete or under-supported (by Cinnamon and XFCE) (or by Nvidia), but it is as the article says, the only game in town.
Weirdly, a lot of Windows games run fine on Proton. There are a couple that only work on the Steam Deck, which is an Arch Linux system. (There's actually a complete Linux desktop UI if you dig for it!)

But the Steam client is weirdly dodgy, even though it should just be a web UI that makes a few system calls. It's much worse than an Electron app like Visual Studio Code.

There's the next-gen Steam Deck UI which is less buggy but pushes a lot of graphics cards pretty hard.
The ones we limit are quite specific and generally are specifically dangerous - like guns, etc.

Many dual use technologies, including computing devices, including personal as well as IoT, can be used for a lot of bad things because they are general purpose. And we generally do not limit them at all.

I think that LLMs fall into dual-use category where they are mostly used for good but because they are general purpose can be used for all sorts of things.
This is what I had in mind, thank you for putting it into better words that I could.

Taking responsibility for messing up is important and part of personal growth. Having the team be aware of an issue and then together develop a way to avoid that issue in the future is huge.

I had a boss who told me that when something like this happened, it was usually an issue with a system in place. Merged bad code that shouldn't have gone to production? We need to improve review processes and testing. Production server outage after system dependencies changed? We need a more accurate staging environment and testing process for our infra.

That mindset was so great to learn and I fully embrace it still.
It’s pretty much right on the money actually…

Our users in less digitally connected countries were insanely patient. The main problem was less the time than the cost, actually. The app required updates that were enormous. The cost to download them using the most common pay-as-you-go services in India represented a month of the local salary for day laborers… That information got hammered until developers learned to be more parsimonious.

I never heard anyone suggest that FAANG engineers had to forgo their monthly wage to download the test version of the app, but that probably would have triggered their empathy a little too much.
That sounds like a worse alternate history, there's no way SF could retain what made it unique if it became 'amongst the largest cities in the world'.

For example, even if only 10% of new residents insisted on driving a car no matter what for daily transportation, due to whatever personal reasons, then that would still be enough to put the city in permanent gridlock all day.
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> "Any insights into what went wrong?"

For one thing, things like Aeropress, Nespresso/Keurig, and cheaper/better home espresso and bean-to-cup coffee machines came along. People don't necessarily need to muck around with a Moka pot to make quality coffee at home any more.

And if you really do want a Moka pot, there's a lot of cheaper Chinese competitors now that look the part and actually have reasonable quality.
Not yet available in the US, as of a couple days ago:

https://murena.com/america/murena-fairphone-5-availibility/

> Murena... partnered with Fairphone to bring you the Fairphone 4 in the USA a few weeks ago... the Fairphone 5 is not ready to hit the US market, and we have no visibility yet when it will be
Could you elaborate on the last point or link me please?

I disagree on the convenience point - it's bloat and not in the sense that people say "IDEs are bloat". It's regressive in going back to an MVC pattern in a framework that's meant to be an SPA and completely violates the "There should be one, and only one, way of doing things" principle in that it adds confusing options that people end up using in practice.
They have live migration now (for many years) but they didn’t back in the early era. I’m not sure they set it up for the classic environment but I think they must have - in the early 2010s you could get notices that your VM’s host had failed or was about to fail and you needed to launch a new one but I think that stopped by around 2015 as I had servers running for a deprecated project which were finally shutdown this decade and it seems like rather good luck not to have any failures in 7+ years on old hardware.
Wayland is the IPv6 of desktop technology
Hmm... but somehow hardware stores don't feel the need to make you sign an agreement to not cut off anyone's head before selling you a machete, and gas stations don't make you sign an agreement to not burn down buildings before selling you gasoline.
Midshipman's hitch is under-appreciated - my 2 cents!
OK, Organic Maps looks great. But how the heck do I transfer to it all my bookmarks from Maps.me ?
This should have been a huge red flag that your health data (!) should not be given to Samsung in any way.
There is a difference between personal data and personally identifiable data. In many ways it is unavoidable to use personal data. Predictive text uses personal data (they 'learn' from everyone) - is the sentence and paragraph personal? Search engines record what you have typed in - do you classify your search query as 'personal'? I can copy paste the first comment from this thread - is it personal data. I may be flat out wrong, and shouldn't type anything into a web page ever.

Those four lawyers and three privacy experts didn't seem to come to a conclusion on what personal data is. Does big tech feed data created by people into 'AI' tools? Yes. Does little tech? Yes.

I'm okay to join Mozilla with my pitchfork if I know what it is about. I would like to have people that are clear about how they are looking after my interests, rather than just getting the mob riled up. Use of data, any data, is subject to an agreement. Go on and read the 'legal' that you have agreed to using Hacker News - they have a whole section on how they use personal information. Do we get our pitchforks out for HN, or are they cool?
A fantastic app that has saved me a few times when I didn't have service. I know they're actively working on Android Auto support and I'm eagerly awaiting it!
Yeah 10 different files with 10k unorganized lines each is totally different :D

I swear you js haters never fail to make me laugh with all the ignorant lamentations.
Auditing a representative sample of their profiles for accuracy would be trivial, and the obvious check. They pointedly choose not to.
I setup an AWS account in college before I had ever worked and dealt with enterprise security. Didn’t use the account for anything. No 2FA and a weak password and all of a sudden I have a $15,000 bill from a crypto mining script. Worked with Amazon, got everything cleaned up, turned on 2FA and was only charged $100. Pretty generous considering it was entirely my fault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_Jewish_culture_i...

I have to find the letter (possibly a Jewish reader can dig it out?) but I remember reading and being amused by a letter penned by Maimonides to iirc Jews in Arabian peninsula. Apparently they had written to him having heard of the paradise of tolerance in Muslim Spain and his letter poo pooing it, telling them it’s no better than their locale. I always read that letter as a sort of rabbinical wisdom on his part: he knew they wouldn’t be able to get there so he painted a dismal picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides
There was actually a lot more money put into art deco (which happened post WW1) than art nouveau, but yeah bauhaus and modernism certainly flourished in a resource-scarce post-war environment.
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In 1999 or 2000 I read a paper which compared remote desktop protocols and RDP was the clear winner, even then.
In my experience, most people do care, quite a lot. The trouble is that they don't understand the issue, and when told what these companies are doing, they don't believe it.
How is it a notes app? it just seems like a calculator with tabs
Quite a lot of mildly dangerous things are up to the discretion of the seller.

Bartenders cutting people off is one well known example. It’s not necessarily a legal requirement, but sellers can have morals just like anyone else.
For me a lot of the above and many others fall into the category "products that work/society trends put more pressure into me to use even though I'd rather not, or that I'd rather use alternatives but they killed them or they have been actively shittified since".
They couldn't without some Rosetta-like layer. It'd lock their phones out of too many apps.
Why is Texas, a small government state, interfering with things like this??
I never said I think it is an individual problem. If we don't switch the energy sector away from oil there is not a chance in hell we are getting anywhere. What I said is, on an individual level, not eating animal products is a lot easier than avoiding oil use.

Regardless of how we chose to tackle the problem, we can't look away from the fact that meat - and especially beef - is an incredibly inefficient way to produce food. Not just with regards to CO2e. It uses a pretty staggering amount of land and often a staggering amount of fresh water.

I am looking out the window right now at a seemingly endless field of crops that will be fed to pigs and chicken. Sure, they are a lot better at converting plant calories to meat calories than cows, but it seems pretty wasteful. I remember calculating grams of protein per acre and was blown away at how inefficient everything except farmed fish and maybe chicken (which preformed worse than most pulses when comparing the most intensive husbandry).

I haven't looked it up, but I wouldn't be surprised if more than half of the used arable land in Norway (where I am right now) is used for feed. Everywhere I look there are crops grown for cows, pigs and chicken (not counting the rest products they get from other types of crops).
I did an experiment: I deleted all the cookies using privacy settings of my browser then I avoid to click anything about cookies' authorisation, i.e. if a page present that kind of requests I immediately close the page itself. At the and, I verified that cookies are presente on browser's storage despite my absence of authorisation, even third parties cookies. So, yes, I agree: commercial surveillance is creepy and I guess is some organisation do effective control to avoid abuse from those actors.
> If cops can't qualify for a NYC mortgage and are forced to live in NYC, many will quit. They have very transferable skills and there are loads of police departments with staff shortages in places where housing is affordable on a police officer's salary.

This is true for every other civil servant in NYC; they haven't quit. People want to live here.

Overtime does indeed contribute to burnout. But overtime use by the NYPD is culturally endemic and rampant[1]; individual anecdotes don't make a trend, but you can look up "NYPD overtime abuse" for widely shared "tricks" among NY's finest for getting paid extra money for indefinitely detaining suspects, conducting calls where they know an arrest won't be made, &c.

Finally: I agree that policing is a nasty, unpleasant job. To a certain degree, it's fundamentally nasty and unpleasant. But the current degree to which it's that way is a problem of our own making: police departments have been happy to absorb the budget that was slashed from mental health and community building programs, all while complaining about the overflowed social ills that come with doing that. I'd rather make the job more attractive by funding those things than dumping more money into the black hole that is the NYPD's labor budget.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-20/nypd-blow...
Some flying robot behavior improvements
Ever heard of GNU Hurd ?
Spinlocks Considered Harmful (2020)
Infantilization and job security
Why is it not okay at all? That's what our intelligence agencies do with their bulk data collection capabilities, and they have an immense positive impact on society.
But that's just a restatement of the OP's position ("Mass surveillance is never an appropriate solution"). You're not attempting to justify that position.
For itself.
EDI never became a thing. One of the greatest selling points of HTML/XML/JSON is that they are human-readable. Even if gzip compressed, most tools will decompress automatically and show you the raw text.

So the tooling nor library support never came for EDI (i.e., Chrome, libxml, etc.)

Also, if you really wanna go full-throttle binary for speed, size, etc., you probably don't want something heavy like XML anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serializati...
200? If you use cf workers + wildcard you can do unlimited, I do it that way + have it auto-click any verification emails
It us unfortunate that there is no hybrid Wayland / X compositor that would offer backwards compatibility for existing WMs, so people could switch to Wayland and keep all existing X-based desktops, while allowing new native Wayland applications.

Something like UI-less Wayland compositor that is also an X server, doing 1:1 mapping between top level X windows and Wayland windows.

(There is XWayland, but it is AFAIK does not work with WMs and does not map Wayland windows back to X model.)
What was the copy/paste issue?
It’s Microsoft that for years tried to kill Linux and still sharpens the knife.
We do actually police dual use things if the other use is deemed dangerous enough. I don't see LLMs as particularly dangerous, so would not put them in that category.
Thousands of octopuses gather off California to brood eggs at a warm spot
An obvious one is Windows, doing that since 1995.

A wise guy can get Windows, Office, Server etc. for free and also the software and games installed on Windows also for free.

The combination of free Windows + Torrenting content is a sugar high for the whole world but especially the developing world, for sure there will be a withdrawl syndrome when/if it eventually ends due to better enforcement of copyright laws or countries installing big impenetrable firewalls to circumscript internet access.
Since when? I switched from MacOS to Linux with Wayland directly with no experience with X11. I’ve never had any issues with electron
Everyone wants to be a crazy artist until someone whips out the modified sewing machine to give matching tattoos.
https://archive.li/SYU1O
In the future ChromeOS will use Wayland, and Chrome on Linux will be the same as Chrome on ChromeOS. Chrome/Electron will be better supported on Wayland, and that's the only thing that matters.
Oh man, I don't know any of these concepts (rather I've heard of all of them, but don't know how they apply in practice). I'm probably not the target customer for AWS any more haha. Been so long since I did anything web related. Time to find some networking for dummies youtube channels I guess.
Hah - yeah. There is no money in YouTube - trust me.
They do this without the help of third parties - by offering a hundred+ dollars off your policy every 6 months (or over 6 months) for having their driving habit tracking app enabled at all, more if you actually drive like they want you to.
I was totally prepared to avoid checking because it’s too good of a story to ruin with a misguided insistence on facts. And then you ruined it. For shame.