skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"EU politicians" don't exist. The EU agenda is set by national governments in the Council - including the German one, which happens to have produced important Commissioners like the current Commission President.

The woes of VW have little to do with the green agenda (the electric switch is a reality worldwide), and more to do with a brand tarnished by the emission scandal and the whiff of corruption emanated by the (lack of real) consequences in Germany - because the German government largely looked the other way.
10 seconds is absolutely a long enough time to context switch
Toronto expressly bans robots on it's sidewalks (granted, pending further review): https://cities-today.com/toronto-city-council-votes-to-ban-p...

Canada can be a hostile place for technology companies. I was involved in the robot delivery company in Toronto, the founder was so angry at Toronto he said F you Canada, picked up and moved the company to the states. Le sigh.
Windows 2000 is my favorite OS of all time. It was fast, stable, snappy and the UI was remarkable with so much thought put in everything.
systemd socket activation opens extra fds starting from fd 3 (SD_LISTEN_FDS_START). Though I can't think of a scenario where this may be relevant for dehydrated. Maybe some weird systemd unit somewhere that invoke dehydrated does this?
> Could action against TikTok be better framed as a first step focused on low hanging fruit?

Absolutely no, because if you are making first steps, you need generalize approach and not selectively target companies

> TikTok directly asking users to contact their lawmakers was an overt act that shows the platform is capable of spurring on political action by its users.

What's wrong with this exactly? You have rights to call your congress representatives when you need them, it is normal and expected in functioning democracy, why this is an exception?
Note that the author of this piece is also directly responsible for blocking the acceptance of many new features in Carto, including community-developed and broadly accepted features like highway=busway:

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4...

Carto is of course just one style for OpenStreetMap, but it is also the default style shown on openstreetmap.org, with direct support from the operational team (server resources etc.). If a high-profile feature is not rendered by Carto, gaps show up all over the world where people use Carto-based screenshots, etc., and of course on openstreetmap.org.

The stagnation of Carto, and thus openstreetmap.org, the website, is one of the major pain points for many mappers and developers in the OSM community, including myself. (It also highlighted the failure of the OpenStreetMap Foundation to deal with this situation, although the recent move to develop a successor vector style is somewhat hopeful).

Personally, this makes me very hesitant to consider anything Christoph Hormann writes regarding OpenStreetMap in a positive light.
This. It matters how you achieve level three. MBs solution requires a lot of legwork to build the datasets describing the specific roads where the L3 capability can then operate. There’s a massive amount to do in this approach to even come close to supporting a useful subset of all roads in their key markets.
To my mind, Tesla is playing a long game betting on achieving a more generalised solution that doesn’t rely on having a detailed database encompassing every inch of many roads in vast amounts of detail that have to be captured in a costly, resource intensive effort. That, or their vast fleet of vehicles is gathering the data for them to leapfrog the likes of MB to higher levels of autonomy using a fused approach in the future. No other manufacturer yet has a comparable on the road data gathering capability. It’s a matter of opinion right now which of these stands a better chance of succeeding at higher levels of autonomy alone - the best chance may be a synthesis of both, or something else entirely. Fanboy holy wars aren’t going to resolve any of this.
This is the nub of the matter. I could have saved myself a decade. The only thing from YC that survived our relationship was the incorporation of the company.

I still think there's a massive gap in the market for an ergodic startup community where the young ambitious people tell the Gen-X's to go fuck themselves with a police baton and instead enjoy the benefits of pooling the risks & sharing the rewards.
Again, China owns a minority share at 20%. And data for US citizens is stored on US soil, managed by a US company: Oracle.

Come back when there’s a verified threat that Facebook doesn’t already pose to US citizens.
If I was a pilot on one of those planes I would immediately get off the runway because clearly the air controllers are confused/incompetent. They can tow the plane back.
Fitting and ironic that it's shoved in with the fund Israel and Ukraine bill. Which is the real reason that the government gives a single shit about controlling TikTok in the first place. (Read what the ADL has posted about TikTok and that point becomes extremely clear, the US government does not give a shit about the safety and security of ITS citizens, only questionable foreign policy)
They do. Towers can use light flashes to transmit a set of different messages both to ground and incoming planes
It seems unlikely that Byte Dance would divest of all of TikTok, since the US users are only about 10% of global TikTok users.

They would more likely either shut down the US operation, support US users from outside the US, or sell the US users to one of the other social media networks.
Okay reading all of that link, in totality it's getting fairly ridiculous.
Heaven might not forbid, but the two ruling parties certainly do. Breaking out of the status quo would crush their cartel, end their monopoly. They don't want to do that. The cycle continues.
The caller can just specify the output format that they want, and ever since I switched to nushell I pretty much always want json.
Sorry, I don't buy this. The vandalism only persisted in the rendered map tiles due to CDN caching. Actual map data (which is input to the geocoding) was reverted very quickly by the DWG (moderators).

This is also possibly a violation of Tile Usage Policy, you're not supposed to use OSM infrastructure in volume. OSM data is free, but hosting not so. Either self-host or use other providers.
If the tool is available, everyone has an incentive to use it, whether everyone else is using it or not, because the benefits of speed/volume accrue to the individual, while the drawbacks of a less-useful process and less-reliable signals are distributed among everyone.
AI may be a problem for some hiring managers but I haven’t seen it yet. My problem is an ATS that can’t filter out the applicants who obviously live in India but list a US address, for some reason usually in TX. Almost everyone else at least gets a look.
Others posted great reasons to dislike TikTok. I hear you, but I'll miss it because of how great the recommendations are/were for me. Instagram's recommendation engine is in a lower league in my experience.

It's important to click "not interested" on meme videos for both platforms though. Instagram keeps reverting to meme videos for me (probably because my habits get away from me), but my TikTok account never gives me memes or what I consider low value content.

I wish there was something more like HN, in that it's text-centric, doesn't put my dopamine mechanics into overdrive, but with the content multitude and recommendation accuracy of TikTok. HN is great, but tech stuff isn't the only stuff I care about, and I've not seen good manual moderation scale beyond a frontpage or so.
> I don't think you alter your fundamental world view on things like human rights, the environment and such because of "liberal media"

I haven't, it's part of the reason I said I probably won't vote right.

> In short, I am always skeptical about "I used to be a liberal, but..."

I guess I could link you to my past social media where I used to argue with conservatives over fake news on the right etc.

I can't stand fake news. So then when I saw fake news against Tesla in prestigious media it changed something in me to see liberal hypocrisy. And no, I didn't turn into a conservative.
Not sure I like to speak truth to 1st graders, but the days of YouTube influencer being something you could aspire to are kind of over.
For me, this pattern is just common sense. I’ve had no more than one subscription active at a time for over two years. I keep a list of things that sound interesting, and when it gets to be more than a couple for a single provider, I’ll re-up. Why keep paying for content you don’t care about?

Of course, if you have kids, I can understand keeping the subscription meter running.
So like, 10 people? I don't even know where you buy a computer that comes with S mode, my understanding is that it was massively unpopular, and you can turn off S mode.

Windows on ARM can install software outside of the Windows Store, and VLC offers an EXE binary for it.
Yep. Entirely anecdotally, when Apple TV was eight dollars a month I just left it subscribed and when they raised it, I canceled not watching.

I’m not sure thee services’ pricing takes this into effect yet.
Thanks, I read that book as well (which is remarkable for me as I've only read like four books ever in life), can recommend.

What do you think of Emil Cioran, btw? It may pique your interest.
Simply put: don't be a "private" party. Join an association or affinity group, and then you can more effectively lobby your representatives. An association with leverage, especially, is effective. Principally, economic leverage in the form of either capital or industrial relevance, ie a union.
The name is usually assigned in a publication, but there is a long and wonderful tradition of involving laypeople in the naming, and/or naming it after them.
Jewish conspiracy theories? Nice!
Yes the chancellor of Germany just got his TikTok account a couple of days ago and they said that they are using a separat phone without any sensible information and access for it.
> when he's saying "Delta 29 Heavy", I cannot for the life of me make out a "nine" in there

Delta two niner heavy.
A lot of headwinds that they're going to face with the public is due to tik tok buying their audience's favor.

Their creator program pays a lot of people decent amounts of money and pays an not insignificant amount of people life-changing amounts of money. YouTube can't match it and Instagram isn't even trying.
What do you mean by opinionated on surveillance? When did the Constitution become an opinion?
Downtime for your own staff is a quantifiable cost you can expect them to put up with. It's outside customers whose trust will be hard to restore.
It seems to me that nobody teaches anybody how to think. Instead we teach people to do things that require thinking, and trust that they will develop an ability to think as a “byproduct”. Which is a bit strange to me, since there are definitely some general principles that can be taught.
> Well, let's just put the tiger on the table and yell at it

Gladly. I feel like my basic human rights as a citizen of a first world county are being impinged by Israel and their far-right regime. And this is just one other example of that. At this point my real fear of Israel far surpasses any fear I have of any other geopolitical adversary nation.
I have nothing to do with Israel or the middle east and yet this country has this insane influence in my country as it does in every other western country.
How did this happen and how can we win our democracy back? Since when does Israel get to have a say in the public and private goings of other countries?
> > TikTok directly asking users to contact their lawmakers was an overt act that shows the platform is capable of spurring on political action by its users.

> What's wrong with this exactly? You have rights to call your congress representatives when you need them, it is normal and expected in functioning democracy, why this is an exception?

There may not be anything inherently wrong with political action, but when one of the concerns is that the CCP can use TikTok to influence Americans' political behavior, that whole episode proved exactly why everyone believes it. What happens if they start pushing overtly anti-NATO and anti-Taiwan messages instead?
Non-native ATC staff speaks better English because they are non-native. They have to mentally "switch" to a different mode, so it is their second nature to stick to standard phraseology. The ATC staff outside NA talks to more non-native pilots than native ones, so even if they wanted to deviate from standard phrasing there's a decent chance the pilot wouldn't even understand them.

On the other hand, ATC staff in the US talks to mostly native pilots in their native language. It's really easy for them to use non-standard phrasing or slang, and most of the time it'll work out okay. With the exception of some key items like "cleared for takeoff" the FAA just doesn't really seem to care about it, so ATC will keep doing it.
When I was a kid marbles were the big thing, and if you were playing with them in class the teacher would put it in a big glass jar. When it was full he would call out the kids and each would get a handful.

I was last in the alphabet; this was already an issue with books we had to read; you could choose which book to read, but it was always in alphabetical order. When it was my turn there were just a few left, and certainly all the popular high-demand ones were gone.

Anyway, when it finally was my turn to get my marbles he was all out. When I asked "where's my marbles?" he just shrugged and said "all out". I must've been about 7. Lots of crying ensued and I think I got some marbles from other kids, but it wasn't about the marbles – not really.

I still don't understand how anyone can expect any different result...
I think the message actually is

"The government only wants your personal data harvested by companies that aren't run by an enterprise operated by actors from a hostile foreign government which itself is hellbent on taking America's place in the global economic and soft power hierarchy"
The head office - leadership - is in Singapore, not China. Bytedance does have an office in China, but they also have one in the US (and most other countries they operate in).
There is no constitutional freedom to own a company, nor is there a constitutional right for any particular company to exist.
> Come back when

Or instead of waiting until a world war happens, we eliminate the threat now before it can be wielded and the damage is already done.
Sure, my wife and I had to deal with that not too long ago when I was unemployed and had to use the subsidized MetroPlus stuff in NYC. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be but it was definitely not as good as my fancy PPO I get from sexy desk jobs.

I guess what I am getting at is that insurance sort of makes things worse for everyone here. When a person comes in with good insurance the doctor has incentive to abuse it, artificially driving up costs, making it harder for people with crappy/no insurance to get the treatments they need because insurance won’t cover it. It’s a messy system.

A large part of me would prefer that we abolish private insurance entirely, but I fear that’s not likely in the states.
Oh man the "sell Tiktok" thing is just pure corporate welfare for whatever US-based BigCo buys Tiktok. Spoiler alert, it will be one of the BigCo's that enthusiastically lobbied for this bill. Regulatory capture at its finest, in service of a social media tri-opoly.

Microsoft and Google must be absolutely salivating right now, imagine being able to buy your way into operating a major social network in 2024, and not only do the Feds not come after you for antitrust, they actually mandate the sale and greenlight it in advance!
It does seem surprising, but after working with medicinal chemists for many years, it really don't surprise me at all. Hoffman was brilliant, had an excellent memory and observational mind, extremely well trained, working in very well stocked labs, in a time when people didn't really think about chemical safety as much ("do not pipette by mouth") or worry about controlled substances. Of course, for some time after his discovery, Sandoz would send free samples to anybody who wrote in(!)

Probably also there was a lot of failure and frustration that just doesn't get written about, because it's less interesting.

Owsley Stanley was also quite impressive- beyond his ability to synthesize large amounts of very pure LSD in dodgy apartments, he helped revolutionize audio technology with the Grateful Dead. Much of what we appreciate in large stadium sound these days was a direct descendent of the ideas he and Meyer explored in the late sixties through the late seventies.
That looks way better for PC, didn't know that existed.
Using the repo prefix allows them to put the same auth on uploads. So if you don’t have access to a repo, you can’t access files uploaded in its issues either.
I wonder if live events are going to become more important to these services. Eg the NFL playoffs or the Olympics. It forces someone to have the service at a particular point in time. If a service can get good coverage of live events throughout the year, it might push people to stay subscribed.
> are you required to share the source with any third party your browser makes any request to?

The source to your changes to the binary, you mean, maybe? I don't understand the question. You seem to be implying that using an AGPL WASM binary would require you to share the browser's source. If that binary were a network application that was serving other clients, it makes sense to me that you'd be required to share modifications that you made to that binary, but I have no idea of how you would include the entire browser in that calculation.

If there's anything scary, I'd say it would be that if you were serving a WASM blob to someone's browser, you'd have to be prepared to also distribute the source (and changes) to the binary if it was AGPL licensed.
TikTok managers overseeing the protection of U.S. data "sometimes instruct workers to share data with colleagues in other parts of the company and with ByteDance workers without going through official channels, according to current and former employees and internal documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tiktok-pledged-to-prot...
Yeah, there was a bad bit of vandalism recently. The data was quickly restored though. This is not too different from vandalism on Wikipedia, but instead of facts getting mangled, navigation can be impacted.

Odd that that company hit one of the bits of map which was impacted though; the chance of anyone actually hitting the bad data seems quite small (as in, lottery jackpot winning small).
You're just cherrypicking things, not to mention all cars have issues but only Tesla issues get magnified, so you think Tesla is worse. Propaganda works, that's why the liberals are doing what they're doing, spreading FUD about Tesla, and joining the oil lobby in it's crusade against EVs. That's why I don't consider myself a liberal anymore.

E.g. A brand new CRV has issues https://www.reddit.com/r/Honda/comments/11ch594/brand_new_ho...

If that was Tesla it would be a news story because all media hates Tesla.
How to avoid machine learning pitfalls
Let’s maybe find a way to aggregate them and give discount on the monthly bill, eh? :)
Tempting. never_look_back.bin firmware?
Read a book. Or watch TV, stream a movie, documentary, an audio book, play a video game. There are plenty of substitutes to media consumption/entertainment, and some are actually good for your mental health.
Mexican elites were a brutal and repressive bunch, both before and long after this time, and "fascism" doesn't even begin to describe the evil racist systems of repression of indigenous people from the 16th up through at least the mid 20th century.

But Texas anglos didn't really give a shit about any of that. They just wanted to left alone to build their own little profitable slave plantation economy modeled after the US southern states.
Agree! Outsiders sadly wouldn't have experienced this first-hand. The thing is, PR acceptance criteria aren't even firm. If imagico after a long back-and-forth decides he doesn't like it, then too bad for the prospective contributor.

A similar situation holds with openstreetmap-website. Sadly currently barely anyone uses Rails...
> Toronto expressly bans robots on it's sidewalks

That's a good thing, they are just in the way (especially for people with disabilities). Sidewalks are for pedestrians, not robots.
> Companies that don't violate Chinese laws and approach China with realistic deals are allowed to operate there

China isn’t a country with the rule of law. They don’t even pretend as much. If you appease Xi, you can stay. If you don’t, you’re out.
That mode can be unlocked via the windows store iirc.
One could only make that assertion if one has never actually used Douyin. Try it on douyin.com and see how much education content you see.
I am surprised there is such resistance here to be honest. The Chinese government has had trade restrictions for decades - including forced disclosures and forced local ownership for investing firms, forced disclosure of tech, been caught hacking into systems and stealing IP etc. - as well as banning multiple western companies apps under their own excuses without substantive evidence.

Why should the US or any other trade partner with China therefore keep such a lopsided relationship? Seems like the US has a case here IMO, given all this history and practice. We should have been tougher on this years ago
Technically, it’s if you communicate to a target of a foreign intelligence investigation AND they deem you suspect enough to request FISA approval to access your side of the communication.
The highest tier of Nintendo Switch Online (which gives access to N64, GBA, and Genesis games) is for a year only.
Good for US consumers, wielding negative feedback.

In this case, towards companies that have scattered the product people actually want sparsely among numerous outlets.

Each of which acts like they have a captive audience, to which they can do whatever they want (e.g., anti-usability dark patterns, advertising-centric thinking, not thinking of the content as the sole product).

We don't vote with our pocketbooks as much as we should. This is a start.
There's a roughly 5 year gap from ~1996-2002, tracking the rise of early GPUs and predating widespread Windows NT support and the release of DirectX 9, where it can be difficult to run old games.

Otherwise, Dosbox is great for really old games and you can directly run most games released in the last 20 years on modern hardware.
They also ban TikTok -- the Chinese version doesn't push the type of content TikTok does and doesn't mix international user data into the local version. Notably, several other countries with mediocre relationships with China also ban TikTok, for example India.
>And given how small the US install base is compared to the rest of the world, it’s not an unreasonable stance to take.

US = 10% of users, but 50% of revenue.
It’s also what having lots of subscriptions with no other opportunity for purchase does.
How will you eliminate the threat of Facebook then? China and Russia have been proven to be actively using that platform today.
Seems fine to me. When people have activation energy to repeat that they should do it.
> Tiktok really lucked out that Congress is not smart enough to pass the bill Cantwell had in mind

This is literally the bill rewritten with Cantwell’s input.
Some already punish you by deleting your account history after 9 months.

I'm surprised we haven't seen activation and cancelation fees start to get added.

But this was the whole value add of streaming over cable - the ability to stop paying for channels you don't want to watch - so... duh?
YT2009 – A First Look (2023) [video]
American users do have the right to receive Chinese Communist propaganda. See Lamont vs. Postmaster General [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamont_v._Postmaster_General#:...