skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll grant you those points, I was 13 or 14 when all this was happening so I wasn't aware of the finer points. Now that I think of it I remember all the trouble they went through to send physical mail to business addresses to allow the owners to update their own data. That was smart.

I wasn't sure of the details of acquisition vs invention so I went to Google Earth's wiki and found a pretty interesting timeline. iirc Google News was invented right after 9/11 because the news sites themselves were falling over from increased traffic, and Google Earth has its ties to the war as well:

>> During the [2003 Iraq] invasion, It was used extensively by Miles O'Brien and other on-air broadcasters, allowing CNN and millions of viewers to follow the progress of the war in a way that had never been seen before. Public interest in the software exploded and Keyhole servers were not able to keep up with demand. Keyhole was soon contacted by the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for use with defense mapping databases, which gave Keyhole a much-needed cash infusion.

>> In October 2004, Google acquired Keyhole as part of a strategy to better serve its users.
Yes, this happens because most of us are unconsciously repeating our own histories.
I take it that your catalogue of the failures of modern "capitalism"
is not an argument in favour of it, but you concurring with me that
it's destructive. That we are in a catastrophic local minima in 5,000
years of human history isn't a great argument that "no such world ever
existed". That would be parochialism [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochialism
> And, one single distribution channel (the amazon website) doesn't define a market (with almost zero exceptions, amazon's website not being one).

if amazon captures a large ratio of people buying goods online, i would certainly consider amazon itself a market. But unless they also control some other aspect of the online market, it would be hard to claim they're a monopoly tbh.

_Anyone_ can setup an e-commerce site and sell online. Amazon doesn't quite fully control the hosting, IP and backend servers completely!
I am told iPhones are for young people and Samsungs are for "old" 20s adults.

I don't want either, at least not without a stable iPhone jailbreak. I guess that makes me really old.
> I travel for work.

That seems important, since most people don't travel for work and only fly once per year or less. They might appreciate the extra confirmation they're going the right way.

I'd rather have the Apple map in this case. But of course, I'll stick to OSM!
Unfortunately, this. I have expected more from Ikea, but I guess they have to keep the prices low. :/
I switched because Macports reliably borked itself doing ordinary operations every 4-6 months, and Brew didn’t. That was like 2012 to be fair, but Brew’s never given me much trouble and the package selection is insanely good, so I’ve had no reason to look at other options since.

Its being in ruby is a strike against it, for me. I use it anyway. It’s probably my favorite package manager, all things considered, and I’ve used a lot.
Well my problem is not that I want governments to have their own, but rather that I don't want a private company to have control over the backbone.
OK, so now you're arguing the meaning of "modern", but perhaps you should refine your original point. Do you have specific examples of incorrect applications of the label "modern"? Are you just objecting to vagueness?
I agree with your point about AI being a more general tool. I can also appreciate the point in article, that tech services are pushing AI, rushing to normalize it. Some are concerned how our data is used to facilitate new AI features, given the track record of tech companies to put profit ahead of privacy, or ecosystem lock-in ahead of open flexibility.
It would be pretty hard to argue that iMessage has a market domineering position in Europe and therefore not appropriate for the EU to regulate it.

That being said, I hope that once the other services are forced to interop apple will have no choice than to do the same.

It's probably hard to imagine in the US but people here absolutely will abandon iMessage over this. Their market position is weak enough that none of my family/friends/acquaintances who own an iPhone has even considered asking for anything but the "default" aka WhatsApp.

Sometimes Signal or telegram but never iMessage.
Agreed. It’s still hacking- it just might not be good hacking, in more than one sense of the word. So perhaps it depends on the nature of the hacker itself!
Same in Germany (well, lamb (regulated as max age 1 year), I haven’t actually seen mutton anywhere. Even the middle eastern butcher only sells lamb), though we mostly tend to import it from NZ for some reason.
Samsung has shipped a similar feature for phones and tvs for many years. Tech suppory can not connect randomly, the customer has to manually approve by entering a key. similar to how teamviewer does it.
Yes and the current submission is a result of this subthreaed from there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37635094
TFA stands for “the fucking article”
Just because you call it consumer protections doesn't mean that they actually improve consumers' lives, which is the point the other commenter is trying to make but you insist on flattening into a straw man.
Am I misunderstanding something or couldn't this just be made an optional setting?

So users can lockdown the ability to install stuff if they want without overcoming various hurdles (maybe allow users to add customised message so if a user tries to do it a message will pop-up saying "Your Son/Daughter/whoever has said you should never disable this! Call them before doing this if someone has asked you to!").

I feel like there is so many options/info hidden from consumers about their devices that really shouldn't be. And preventing it or hiding it only really serves the companies themselves, not the end user.
> we have to believe something

No. This is the exact trap. We have to act, but we have to keep our actual belief in line with the evidence.
Obviously denting the universe at such scale comes with upsides and downsides. Aside from the impact they've had product wise, it's important to highlight the contribution they have made by shaping the culture of Silicon Valley technically, socially, and economically and second and third order effects of that (e.g. folks find their partners and have kids at Google :). I myself am a beneficiary and thankful for that.
Apple's Statement Regarding the Parties' Examination of Eddy Cue [pdf]
Yes this is the issue for consumers as well. The first 16 pages of every search are nearly identical low quality fba products. Need a search layer to find the small sellers!
I have about four or more different products, including Hue, Ikea, Mirabella Genio.

So far Genio is cheaper and works at least as well as the rest.
How about not installing them at all?
Was wondering if everyone was supposed to know who this was....read some of the comments that mention these kinds of wisdom lists ending up on HN here and there...

It's like a name that seems sorta familiar but dunno if it just sounds like someone else from tech or something.

Interesting a quick HN search shows a bunch of shares posts that got any traction but they're all like 14-15 years ago?

Was Merlin Mann more of a thing a decade+ ago?
If you burnt to the ground everything doing the best it can probably 75% of the public and every instution would spontaneously combust.
At least some versions of OSX let you pull widgets out of Dashboard (don't remember if that feature was there in the initial release of Widgets, and it required a defaults setting)
Ugh, yes. My kids play this one at school and when I read about the game mechanics I was super disappointed. Luckily they stopped begging me to subscribe eventually since I wouldn't budge.
oh come on, of all the things Elon can take credit for, paraphrasing thomas edison cannot be one of them

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"
You know, the rise in popularity of airsoft was probably driven as much by people coming from 3rd person shooter games as it was people wanting a more realistic military force-on-force simulation than paintball.
0day malwares are due to OS security fault. Hardening must be done by OS rather than store. There are already ways to install non-inspected iOS app.
Yes it has its own cookies etc
I used to enjoy this blog written by a person who hated US medical school:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101218031844/http://www.medsch...

People will probably find it offensive but it does explain a lot about why the stuff being taught is almost always not questioned.

This post in particular:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101211180021/http://www.medsch...
Not saying it’s right but this has been their business model from day one back when it was just books
You can do device graph launch in cuda

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/enabling-dynamic-control-f...
Wow! creating APIs is really fun with Buildship. I also loved that I could generate nodes with AI!
Ruminants inherently have large methane output that drives up climate impact. There are only very early efforts to reduce methane output through diet change.
> I have no sympathy for Japanese folks who are against this, they need to get into the 20th century.

We shouldn't demand much paperwork from people that are making almost no money. I have lots of sympathy.

> If they're selling something they pay taxes on those sales.

But they're supposed to be exempt. Registering requires them to pay this tax even though they shouldn't have to.
think of it as something like teamviewer. there is many objective reasons not to use apple, but this is probably not one of them. I could be wrong of course
I used IMERG because it's historical satellite measurements, not re-analysis using a model.

The focus was on creating extreme precipitation stats at a global scale, something that wasn't previously available. Many potential customers wouldn't even be aware of GloH20, ERA5, etc.
Made a purchase that was cancelled with shop with points. The points won't return and are "stuck in limbo". Cancelled Order doesn't show in order history either. I've contacted support with at least 50 support agents over several months and the standard you won't be charged if it's cancelled templated response is all they can muster to reply with. There's no way to contact anyone besides the templated responses. Essentially 900 dollars are gone and no support possible.
And in cycling.
(searches some more)

I'm not out of the loop here generally... I just now realized I hadn't heard the name in a good while. Of course back in a certain era of blogging and stuff mid-00s now it's coming back but shrug!
Personally I'm very happy with my ConBee II for Zigbee control. Just stick it in a RPi and put it with your router.
Is the dark side Medium paywalls? Because for some reason that's my first thought . . .
It's really funny that there are hackers arguing sincerely that software freedom is worth any price but think it's a "pain in the ass" to press a couple buttons for software freedom once a week (or annually, for $99).
Philips hasn’t bern involved since the spin-off in 2016, other than Signify being allowed to sell under their name.
Perhaps it just change you are drawn to, which is totally cool.

I was a die-hard Apple user forever until like 10 years ago when I saw quality and ability to customize personal experience get more and more difficult. I went to Linux, Windows, and then back to Linux now on the desktop side and Android for the last decade or so. Initially, rooting and doing all that but eventually just running as clean of an Android as possible and been quite happy.

Recently, I had to get back into iPhone for a relative to help them work through a new iPhone 14 a few months ago. I suppose they are happy with it, but it has been great to see it again and where that has gone.

I want no part of it for me but will always assist others on that if they feel it works for them.
I’m going to get pilloried for this but I like the rather draconian heavy handed way Apple keeps iOS locked down. It’s an appliance. I can trust it.

If or when it gets opened up I’ll still stick to all the Apple or first party stores and things.

That the iPhone is locked down and android is open is a feature and difference that consumers choose I think.
> There is nothing inevitable about the dollar store putting the grocer out of business.

I recently came across this, and I think it does a good job explaining the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpUV--2Jao
It’s faring much worse, sadly
How about this?

1. You update a copy of a repo which defines all inputs in a repeatable way (all inputs are either part of the repo or their hashes are verified during build). Nix does this.

2. You upload the build outputs to a publicly available cache server, like Cachix.

3. You send the changes to someone else for inclusion in their repo.

4. They verify that your code doesn't do anything that looks like sandbox breaking, and that at least all the original tests are still in place. Or they have their own way to keep the run sandboxed and to test coverage.

5. They run the code (pointing at the cache server), which should reuse the cached results and finish almost immediately.
Okay, then you get into fights over how many grams your bike is below UCI weight, everyone is tested for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, your bike is torn down after your second-place finish so they can search for the hidden electric motor, and turns out your aero bars are 3mm too long so, welp, say goodbye to your victory.

This is what competition is like. It has nothing to do with "virtual" vs "real" sports, and everything to do with human nature.
The Philips Hue system has been a simple and reliable system for years. And now they are enshittifying this service. "Home Automation" perhaps has always been shit, but this specific system used to be great and now it is being made shittier in the name of short term profits. That is enshittification IMO.
> I was an early adapter

I see what you did there.
Are you not aware of the last 70 years of us arming Taiwan?

Or all the military bases in the Asia Pacific area, controlled by either the US or it's allies?

Those bases aren't for show.

They are for taking out invading forces and enacting an oil blockage if it comes to that.
You might actually need two hubs, which is why the sync box doesn’t work very well. I don’t have the sync box but I noticed the hub struggling with automations on about 60 something lights.

I now have two hue hubs, and a zigbee 3.0 controller with over 120 devices.

Easily run 8m of the best (high density, super bright which is actually too bright) RGB CCT rope light from a single zigbee controller. Perhaps its the controller and power supply you are using?
And when you need to use it, it's gone.

I have some bus schedule apps that i use when i travel to other cities so Android removing them will be an inconvenience.
I hate that google shuts down their services so much. I was using Google Podcast a lot and then I switched to Pocket Casts a year ago. Luckily I have no dependency on it. I have so much notes on Google Keep that I am genuinely worried if they shut it down. They might give prior notice and I can easily export. I think except Search, Maps, Mail, YouTube anything else could be taken down any time.
Same happening with their Domains. I was also using hangouts a lot. It just makes my so anxious to use any of their product.
I have to use any google product keeping in mind that it could get shut down any day.
Try: https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer/

or https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
Thanks! Chloropeths of extreme depths in the map page is a good idea actually.
There was one lasting lesson I learned from AOC's first election and the subsequent attempts to challenge many seats at all levels of government. That incumbents have organizations that will spend as much money as they can to stop a challenger. In the case of the Queens DA race(which is the first time AOC endorsed somebody), I seem to recall that the local democratic council had to blow their entire budget to try and stop Caban(AOC's endorsed candidate). They did manage to defeat her by 60 votes but the lesson I learned is that we should be running candidates in every single seat in every single race in every single election. Some groups like Brand New Congress have attempted this but it is tough to challenge all 435 members of the house. Unfortunately all these groups are on retreat since Biden got elected. It took a candidate like Trump to make people realize that they had hit a new low and to start doing something. Biden and the party is using the fear of Trump coming back to now suppress any dissent.

Yes the overwhelming majority will lose but it makes continuing business as usual as expensive as humanly possible. There is no way all these companies can recover every last penny if this is continually done every election. (There are small time elections happening every year so there really needs to be challengers at all levels)
I think this article is insightful in a lot of ways, but it actually doesn't even mention the easiest way to cheat: all you have to do is report your weight to be a couple kilos less than what you are. This is so prevalent that your "Zwift weight" is basically a meme in the cycling community. This is actually even complicated a little bit further since you weigh a lot of things throughout the week. If you go for a long ride and are a bit dehydrated, you can easily weigh 2.5kg less at the end than you do after dinner, which means you can report an unrealistic weight without "lying".

For me, this alone always made Zwift racing a really hard sell. Bike racing is already hard enough without having to grapple with doubts that the people ahead of you reported their weight correctly.
Those people are generally sick in the head, and ruin things for everyone else. Endless growth and competition are objectively killing the planet. Seeking wealth for the sake of comparison to others misses all of the reasons life is worth living.
I’ve read many of his short stories, but not that one. Loved it. Thanks for mentioning it
They also expected some percentage of pilots to die during development. That is no longer acceptable.
Maybe they chose that color. Maybe they didn’t know any better. Maybe they bought them from Amazon, but the listing was a switcheroo. Who really knows. But if they’re using “bright” white at night it’s just flat out rude. It’s unnatural, it’s unholy, it’s just wrong
China switched to free markets. They also had the advantage of technology that didn't exist in the 1800s.

Before China switched to free markets, they had an equal distribution of all income economy. You might want to check it out.

So, too, the USSR, Cambodia, Vietnam, Jamestown, Plymouth, etc.
Peloton co-founder Tom Cortese is stepping down
Thanks for the tip. I needed something like this from a long time.
The one that got me was the implicit wrapping of structs into interface types. As an example, the below code segfaults with `fatal error: panic while printing panic value: type runtime.errorString`:

package main

type SomeError struct {
SomeMessage string
}

func (se *SomeError) Error() string {
return se.SomeMessage
}

func doSomethingSomeWay() *SomeError {
return nil
}

func DoSomething() error {
return doSomethingSomeWay()
}

func main() {
err := DoSomething()
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}
> Should an enterprise created for profit consider other values than profit?

Enterprises don't consider anything, enterprises cannot think. Only people do. Enterprise is made of people. Should people consider other values than profit?
Depends on what you're looking for.

It runs Android (likely even has Google Play Store), so you can build an app within that, and use their eink-specific APIs in some ways (iirc, not totally confident on that though. Might just be vanilla Android.).

The device itself is fairly closed beyond that though, and Boox is a fairly widely known GPL violator so you can't really get sources or run your own OS on it.

Basically all of this is true for all Boox products.
We can prioritize the child without forcing someone nearby to become the parent.
> The article is overblown. He's not trying to end cheating altogether. He found a bug and demonstrated it

The article says he did more than demonstrate a bug:

"He became a founding member of FERA, the Fair E-Racing Alliance, where he works with 25 other volunteers to assess suspected cheats across ~60 online cycling teams. The list of ways to cheat on Zwift he amassed? It’s now up to 127."
> do they expect a dad to raise a kid that is not his?

You just need a court order to do a paternity test, they're not banned but regulated by law.
Can someone explain concretely and specifically what this thing does?
it's not doing anything particularly interesting from a formal perspective. If you're familiar with Haskell's newtype deriving, the tilde is solving the same problem—just at the use-sites of the type instead of at the declaration site. The types it tends to be useful for are the types that Go allows as constants (https://go.dev/ref/spec#Constants), which tend to be the type classes that modern Preludes will overload the literals for.
It’s like saying that you should only eat organic food. Sure, there is lots of science backing it up, but that’s besides the point. It’s not always possible or easy for everyone to get organic food. Any food is better than no food.
CGP Grey has a great video [0] that goes into why some animals are better to farm/breed/eat than others. The top selection criteria are animals that are:

1. Friendly
2. Feedable
3. "Fecund"
4. Family-friendly

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmjnioNulo
Works fine for me. On the other hand I wonder why such a framework needs to be written in Bash itself.
Restorative justice at it's finest.
This is a fork of Terraform after Hashicorp changed the license
Not the GP, but I've been tinkering with HA on a Pi4 and use a Sonoff one on a long USB cable (per the manufacturer's recommendation to avoid interference from the Pi). It's the EZSP based one, https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0B6P22YJC

They do another one on a different chipset too; the EZSP one is the newer hotness, and so far unlike the older model, there's no firmware update to flash.
or SAR imaging, because that would be cool.
Windows had a vast majority of consumer installs. Microsoft was slapped around for using that monopoly position to push out other competitors.

Without even approaching whether it's a good case or not, Apple's situation is different: The monopoly claims against Apple are that they have complete dominance on their platform, not on all consumer platforms.
> and currently we're paying for one of the only geocoding services that permits us to persist the coordinates involved.

I'll ask blatantly: Which one is that?
Great, you get goat meat when you order mutton in the Bay Area? Here where I live, people sell mutton (sheep/lamb) even when asked for goat meat. I don't know why but people here always prefer goat meat to mutton.
> Amazing that bit about child welfare organisations fighting against the science, when clearly taking children away based on false accusations is clearly far worse for the child’s welfare, not to mention the parents’!

This is just speculation, but I bet those groups (or their members) aren't always calmly and coolly trying to find the best policies protect the welfare of children. Instead they feel themselves on a kind of righteous moral crusade, and what's more heroic than swooping in to take the child away from the clutches of the villain? The feelings of heroism could obscure understanding the harm the "heroic act" could cause.