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> Organic Maps doesn't request excessive permissions to spy on you

To be fair, the requesting of these permissions doesn't mean the other app highlighted is "spying on you." Some of those permissions are required for certain features. Not everyone will be comfortable with that, and that's ok. But I think it's unfair to suggest that the intention is spying.
This is a level of support all software companies should aspire to. It's also what the enterprise likes to see and will give you money for.
Technically, it doesn't matter what number you stick after the first stop in a /8 network. Might as well write it as 10.X.X.X/8, it's all the same. I'm not sure where I've seen this done, but >90% certain some of the ip commands output this kind of CIDRs by simply concatenating the IP of the node you are querying and the size of the network.
Pronounced "goat-hub" ?
What does that do that using uBlock with a decent block list doesn't?

Not trying to be contrarian here, genuinely curious and wondering if I should install it on my phone.
How many cyclists use Google Maps to navigate? I guess (with no true facts) most cyclists know their primary routes and when going somewhere new have a rough idea and just check for the last part.

Whereas car drivers often use navigation all the time to see traffic and alternatives, which are non-issues for cyclists.

Thus even with many cyclists the information they collect is less.
> Common antioxidants, such as vitamins A, C, selenium, and zinc, can stimulate the growth of blood vessels in cancer when taken in excess.

Is this to say that once you have cancer, these are bad, or that they promote the possibility of getting cancer. The second part is because we are continuously getting cancerous cells, but for the most part our immune system can deal with them before they become a problem.
You may need a paid developer account but I don't believe you need an app. I'm pretty sure I played around with it in the past and managed to get a working implementation without having any published apps.
When my mother in law (RIP) was going through treatment for lymphoma, the doctors did in fact advise against taking supplements. Because -- either doing nothing (waste of $$), doing "something" that could likely discourage cell death and therefore maybe cancer, or doing... who knows what? because under-regulated and studied.

Chemo is rough, for sure.
These are excellent reasons to disarm ordinary police, not to give our overarmed police drones. As noted in another thread: the drone can’t give out a ticket; it isn’t as if this eliminates the shoe-leather work that cops are still doing here (and the corresponding risk due to them being overarmed.)

NY has a privacy law that enshrines a reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s backyard. But I haven’t made any argument around this: I don’t think we should be paying cops to fly drones around, regardless of whether or not it’s a civil liberties issue.
The thing that really made me get over the pain of switching window managers just so that I could go to Wayland was my multi monitor HiPI setup. I had high DPI monitors at work but two 1080p monitors at home. Switching back and forth between them on x is a huge pain because you have to change the scale factor back to one and then restart the window manager. Wayland allows me to switch the scale factor per monitor on the fly and switch back to low DPI screens. I also noticed that screen tearing went away and everything just looked better on Wayland.

I used to use XFCE most of the time but I switched to KDE recently and I noticed it was a lot faster than it used to be. Plasma used to be laggy which is why I switched to XFCE but it's a lot faster now and well-behaved.

The last holdout for X for me was the inability to share my screen on Zoom or Google Meet. Once PipeWire became stable, that problem went away as well, which was a huge win for my work experience.

The network thing doesn't hold water for me. X11 forwarding has been useful in the past, but nowadays I find little use for it on my day to day.

All that said, I believe X will never really go away, and that's a good thing. Open source means the freedom to keep on doing what works for you.

Wayland will likely catch up though. A rewrite of this size was always going to be painful, but the tangible benefits for me was worth it.
> self-driving cars should drive conservatively

I agree, but the specifics get tricky. It is possible to drive so conservatively that it’s unpredictable and therefore dangerous.

I’ve known some terrible conservative drivers in my time; I was a passenger with someone who stopped abruptly in an intersection despite having a green light because they were afraid someone else was going to run the red (while it’s fair to say the person who rear-ended us was at fault, it was an accident that would not happen with a more normal driver).

Maybe I’m nit picking on the difference between conservative and unsurprising.
Interesting actual useful stat would be - insurance companies covering Tesla owners, reported accident rates on that pool of owners before & after Tesla ownership.

I raise this because the pool of people buying a Tesla is different than the full driver pool. There is likely serious sampling bias in this pool of drivers due to demographics, geographics, etc..
I don't understand how someone could sign up for a site with f.o.o@gmail.com in this example. That person would never receive email from the site (like a confirmation), because the foo@gmail.com owner would receive the confirmation. Doesn't Facebook require confirmation before the account is created?
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What I meant was that the delivery person taking a picture of the package sitting on your doorstep is weak evidence that the package was properly delivered, because delivery people have been known to steal the package immediately after they take the "proof of delivery" photo.
Can it replicate the input 0.1:0.1?
AI training data, can be thousands of files.
They don't have enough data to brute force the problem with machine learning. The dataset available will never be large enough to allow ML autonomous cars to solve every situation a human driver can. Another AI breakthrough is needed.

LLMs are so good because they have almost the entire digitized text output of humanity available for training. They may not always provide factually correct information, but it is dished out in near perfect English (or whichever language you prefer).

Personally i think if we want to recreate a human driver full AGI is needed. But, in the right conditions current autonomous cars will work well. They just need some external helpers, like being geo-fenced to a set of roads which have all the correct sign posts and markings.
Curious how this handles sites behind CloudFlare using bot detection.
Having been involved with physics, I'm not sure if the hard sciences are really better than psychology. That is, the difficulty of certain problems has ground progress to a halt. I mean, we've known dark matter exists for about 90 years but we've got no real idea what it is. Neutrinos have been deeply mysterious for 60 years and still are. The time gap between developments in high energy theory and their experimental validation is growing, at some point it will be longer than the lifetime of the theorist so you'll never see one get a Nobel Prize.
I think you may be overstating the rise of conspiracy theories throughout the '00s, or rather, understating their weight in previous periods.

If you want to point to the marked rise of conspiracy theorists then you have to at least stretch back to the Kennedy assassination. This is easily the most widespread, actually believed theory, and its impact on people at the time was monumental.

The moon landing theories are obviously prevalent, though likely with fewer true believers and less implications on them.

Even in the 90s this was a rampant thing. Columbine shootings. Cobain's suicide. AIDS.

I would posit that conspiracy theories are a byproduct of mass media. However, you could easily stretch it back further and draw parallels to witch hunts as being attributable to earlier conspiracy theories on a smaller scale.
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It depends on whether the argument is that I should use an autonomous vehicle or that everyone else should.

If it's a worse driver than me but better than average; I'd still be safer driving myself.

I'd be safer if I could force the idiots into a self driving car.
I'm surprised I haven't seen my aunt post a Facebook status update like "I do not give Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg permission to use my data, images or messages for AI training. Repost so you don't give Facebook your personal information. I heard from a friend this works"
Oops.

Looks like someone ignored the domain expiration emails.

I see that constantly, especially where there's high turnover.
Over ten years ago, this article pointed out that "The Ethics of Saving Lives With Autonomous Cars Is Far Murkier Than You Think".[0]

>"Let’s say that autonomous cars slash overall traffic-fatality rates by half. So instead of 32,000 drivers, passengers, and pedestrians killed every year, robotic vehicles save 16,000 lives per year and prevent many more injuries.

>"But here’s the thing. Those 16,000 lives are unlikely to all be the same ones lost in an alternate world without robot cars. When we say autonomous cars can slash fatality rates by half, we really mean that they can save a net total of 16,000 lives a year: for example, saving 20,000 people but still being implicated in 4,000 new deaths."

[0]https://www.wired.com/2013/07/the-surprising-ethics-of-robot...
Have you thought about becoming a mechanic? It's physical enough, a highly useful skill for your own use, and engages problem solving that isn't too dissimilar from debugging.
> they don't want to do without features and performance they currently have

FWIW I do agree about the features problem, especially on Ubuntu - where I can only assume they have altered Wayland/Mutter just enough to break screen sharing. I don't have the problems on my personal NisOS machine, although to be fair I haven't used GNOME on my personal machine in >1y. Then there's also missing functionality, such as input emulation. I can absolutely see why someone wouldn't use Wayland from this perspective, even though I "deal with it" for one major reason:

Performance. Wayland uses significantly fewer resources than X - as demonstrated by laptop battery life (like-for-like, GNOME Wayland vs. X). I lose about 30% to X, which is 2 hours during light usage. There's also the latency - where I suspect that people who claim to "not care" have not experienced using a GPU accelerated terminal on a >=144hz display. People are adverse to change (which is fine), haven't tried it in earnest (which is also fine), and yet have strong opinions about how bad it is.
I bike in Mexico. I usually get a flat patched with the bike mechanic for $1 USD and they do it in less than 5 minutes. They check the tire throughly to find the source of the puncture. More often than not they pull out a piece of metal debris from the tire (like small pieces of wire or nails). If the roads are cleaned, it will be a person with a broom doing it, which is why metal debris stays on the shoulder of the road instead of being suctioned by a mechanical cleaner.

Would good tires still save me from these punctures?
The synthetic data makes it really hard to understand what you've done here. Is it fast because of some revolutionary tech or is it just fast because it's broken and thinks Vegas doesn't exist and there's only one hotel in Paris?

If you're going to use fake bookings, how about having a real feed of bot agents booking hundreds of rooms a second across the world and having the index reflect those in real time? As it is, I can't even find a real city with bookings available. Hard to know what the demo is showing when I can't do the basic thing it wants to show off...
I agree. You have the best answer IMHO.

In my opinion, management is typically not tech so they are never sure you know anything. As such by relying on an outside organization they can shift the responsibility.
Ec2 classic was dirt simple. You basically were on a big public lan it felt like. If I remember right there were some issues with folks running scans / abuse originating inside AWS that felt like got a touch slow of a response - then at some point it all cleared up? I remember hardening internal systems as if the they were public which was a good practice even as vpc arrived. They might have gotten a default public ip as well?

I used google app engine which was orphaned (at least version I tried) so that was a clear contrast w AWS.
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> (one 8K, three 4K, and one high-refresh-rate 1440p portable)

More power to you, pushing the limits. But frankly with this setup, you are in a tiny minority. What is your use case?

What is the technical reason that this works on Wayland but not X?

I've had one 4K screen since 2018, never had a problem. Other than the fact that older applications don't respect high-dpi so need manual tweaking, or need to be replaced.
Feels like bloated garbage to me. "Hold on, let me make an MVC React framework with a Node API, so you can call your APIs from another API!". Thanks Next.js. Really wanted this. Honestly, might as well go back to Angular at that point - no redundant "API" there, at least.

Also, automagic, automagic everywhere. "Let me just intercept your request and send it to a HANDLER, wow." "Let me just have a magical 'getServerSideProps' function that will do magic and generate component props, but it has to live in the page, so the page gets extremely bloated, oooo."

I hate Next. And I realize "hate" is a strong word that takes some earning.
> Therefore they must be avoided and you have to take medication that is bad for you, but hopefully even worse for tumors.

Is that basically what chemotherapy is?
trying to use google voice SMS to verify 6 digit codes is like 50/50 shot. Some sites allow VoIP some don't. Without getting a full burner cell phone, is there a service that lets me get a REAL SMS number?
>for the types of situations where autopilot was used, human drivers actually had fewer accidents on average.

Do you have any source for that? As far as I'm aware, there simply isn't enough public data released to actually make an unbiased comparison here. So whichever side of this you're on, you can always twist the data to confirm your point of view. Only when Tesla and all other carmakers begin to hand out all of their data, we will get a useful comparison.
the claim 'I was only following orders' has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history.
Thank you for sharing, and sorry about your layoff! I hope you land on your feet.
What do they even do with this information? The ads they feed me haven’t become more relevant.
Because the idea is that the iCloud data would be encrypted so their servers couldn’t scan it. With the plan being they would do on device scanning of photos that were marked as being stored on iCloud.

It’s objectively better than what google does but I’m glad we somehow ended up with no scanning at all.
These two references are both really good, and freely available:

Bayesian Optimization - https://bayesoptbook.com/

Surrogates - https://bobby.gramacy.com/surrogates/
Those aren't really "tech innovations", though, aside from maybe the plagiarism machine.

Uber and AirBnB are just using very-widely-available technology—that some taxi services and hotels are also using!—and claiming that they're completely different when the main difference is that they're just ignoring the laws and regulations around their industries.

Cryptocurrencies are using a tech innovation as a front for what's 99.9999% a financial "innovation"...which is really just a Ponzi scheme and/or related scams in sheep's clothing.

LLMs are genuinely a tech innovation, but the primary problem they bring to the fore is really a conversation we've needed to have for a while about copying in the digital age. The signs have been there for some time that such a shift was coming; the only question was exactly when.

In none of these cases is technology actually doing anything "messed up". Companies that denote themselves as being "in the tech industry" do bad things all the time, but blaming the technology for the corporate (and otherwise human) malfeasance is very unhelpful. In particular, trying to limit technological progress, or ban widely useful technological innovations because a small minority of people use them for ill, is horrifically counterproductive.

Enforce the laws we have better, be more willing to turn the screws on people even if they have lots of money, and where necessary put new regulations on human and corporate behavior in place (eg, requiring informed consent to have works you created included in the training set of an LLM or similar model).
no this is insufficiently informed.. company bylaws can vary quite a lot about voting rights. Your typical SiliValley cut-n-paste corp less so..
> No, I'd say X11 wasn't designed to be run on the network [...]

That's just wrong. X11 was designed from the ground up to be used on the network. It just happens that nowadays requirements are different from when it was originally designed.

Running X11 on the network was quite a thing in Unis all over the world, where you could have dedicated dozens of X11 graphic terminal servers (tektronix used to make good ones) connected (100Mbits) to a single mainframe, and everyone running an Xemacs session without slowdown.

Wayland design is all about framebuffers, which clearly shows how focus has shifted. X11 was not designed for pixmap heavy, shader heavy scenarios.
Why are you assuming they have your PII in it in the first place and that the identifying part would not be stripped?

If the personal part is gone, I'm not sure you have any claim.
We had one patient with meningitis (bacterial) during my Zivildienst. The doctor didn't think it was meningitis until after the lab tests said so, and we all had to take rifampicine for post-exposure prophylaxis.

Fortunately, the patient made a full recovery, and nobody else (at the hospital) got infected, so at least there was a happy ending to that story.
At this point we are definitely treating SpaceX as the US space agency and not a private business. People were outraged when Musk was considering whether to continue supporting Ukraine with StarLink. Imagine if he refused to do the same when China cuts the cables to Taiwan, someone will probably try to charge him with treason, only to realize that a private business has no obligation to do so.
I know somehow Andalusians really seem to enjoy self-deprecation, and put down anyone who talks about the region in a positive light, but the numbers show it's not that poor. I know very well these kind of numbers don't reflect on perceived poverty in rural villages, but Andalusia as a whole is not doing that bad at all, objectively. Actually even has pockets of extreme wealth, like Marbella or Sotogrande.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_autonomous_com...
You can do that too in Twitter

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Of course it means something. If every reckless drunk <25 year old was replaced by autonomous driving YOUR driving experience would automatically become safer, do you see why?
It's a domain parking page full of ads for Chinese porn apps. The company closed shop and some squatters took over their domain. A recall seems unnecessary to me, but I'm guessing they got complaints and figured this was just safer.
> If I won the lottery, and I just sent, say, a $500M check to a regular discount broker and bought an index fund, is someone going to take it away from me?

Not from you, but the IRS will take 40% of everything when you die.* Only 60%, at best, goes to your heirs depending on state law. Unless you proactively plan.

* Yes, yes the $13M federal exemption but that's a rounding error at the $500M+returns scale.
It only just came out this year and it comes with some pretty serious UX issues around potentially getting locked out of your data.
As an example, with a postcode "N1C 4DN" we soon learn that means North London (the N), the innermost district (the 1) and the innermost bit of that (the C). Stick it in https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode and we have 5 addresses to choose from.

There are usually 10 to 30 — if you work in a large office it probably has a postcode just for that office, for houses you share with 20-30 or so others. (Very large businesses might have separate postcodes for individual departments, e.g. an electric utility probably has one for handling bills, and another for everything else.)

"What's the postcode please?"

"N1C 4DN"

"And the number?"

"12"

Now they have the whole address. Satnav can take "N1C 4DN" and be very close: https://goo.gl/maps/sGR5XXhmUsLmD2UBA (not the best polygon, should be Handyside Street.)
I don't know the details of this particular migration, but I used to have a VM in some low-price tier that was running for a long time (few years), and, eventually AWS sent me an email telling they are going to shut it down for maintenance reasons.

Guess this was something similar. VMs, if not specifically configured to be able to move cannot really be moved automatically. Think about eg. randomness of ordering in PCIe bus (i.e. after moving the devices may not come up in the same order as before moving), various machine ids, like MAC address -- if you don't make sure VM isn't affected by these changes, it's likely that it will be, if moved.
I imagine they're doing a lot of development and it can be hard to make sure new products are eg gdpr compatible (not to mention the fact that they might want to have it do different things in order to help students in other countries)
React is orders of magnitude more embedded than jQuery ever was.

On top of that, the breadth and depth of its complexity and ecosystem and the solutions it helped build means it's really not going away in a hurry.

Updating a 2013 site from jQuery to Angular was small potatoes compared to updating a site now from react to react2.
Also we then get to some more interesting challenges. Certain snow conditions can have rather bad traction like very muddy roads do. And self-driving should be able to navigate these better than regular drivers.
>Something is different these days, and it doesn't appear to be a net positive, considering the suicide statistics.

I guess people are trained by infinite scrolling pages to be mindless consumption zombies.
When the calculator came out, people had the same worries.
I am a programmer, outdoor plumber and currently training to go to selection for Wildland firefighter.

If you like being active and more physical - just look at what interests you in terms of what you want to do physically and try to match it with something that can yield an income or trade.
I remember being hired for a short consulting gig, and my customer asked that the back end be hosted on an EC2 classic instance, I think while it was still in beta. The project was a simple App running on what I think was some sort of Google TV prototype box (it was a long time ago and it was a one or two day project so I really don’t remember the details).

I used to love AWS but after I worked a while at Google in 2013, I switched all my personal projects to GCP for nostalgia (but for work, just used whatever platform customers wanted).
Argh, way too much busywork nonsense indeed. I slightly suspect the intention behind it is to mould kids into mindless worker drones that corporations want, but on the other hand per Hanlon's razor it's more likely to just be teachers exercising their ego because they can.
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