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There's a whole statement-of-principles thing that at least implies that the intention isn't to cannibalize the existing offerings: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Princip...

Though I imagine that only works so far as you feel you can trust the Foundation to stick to those principles, so that's complicated. :D

There's also a bunch of FAQs here that sort of get at how the funding streams are supposed to integrate into the existing structures and how it's supposed to avoid pushing out the free services: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ

(As I said elsewhere, I work for the WMF but I don't work on anything related to this so I'm just commenting as someone who has more experience searching through our public info than most HN commenters would...)

No idea whether it's any quicker than the event stream APIs, but it sounds like the machine-readable aspect does a lot of processing that just using parsoid wouldn't get you. Parsoid is only a wikitext-to-HTML service, so you'd still need to do significant work on it to get meaning out of that HTML. The data dictionary page[1] suggests that it's exposing things like "how many citation-needed templates are in this?" (presumably localized, since those template names change across wikis), which I could see being handy for services like that.

That said, I suspect that the real value is just the "reliable" bit on that summary page.

> Written agreements, no additional content restrictions, SLAs, 24/7 support, and contractual guarantees against surprise breaking changes make working with Wikimedia Enterprise safe and reliable at scale.

i.e. If I was building a big enterprise thing using wikipedia data, getting a SLA and a promise that us rando open source devs won't completely change the APIs on a whim would be nice.

[1]: https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/data-dictionary/

My understanding is that Enterprise is mostly about smoother delivery of content. E.g. Google has those informational summaries in search results, and it's easier for it to keep those current if there's a stream of updates it can subscribe to, rather than having to constantly download the full Wikipedia database dumps and parse them out. It also puts it all into conveniently formatted responses, and tries to do some signaling of content reliability.

The API responses do include information about the content license, which differs a bit between different wikimedia properties: https://helpcenter.enterprise.wikimedia.com/hc/en-us/article...

(I work for the WMF. I don't work on the Enterprise stuff, or have any insider knowledge of it. E.g. I used Google as an illustrative example, but I have no idea whether they're actually using this service. :D)

The way Microsoft keeps pushing ads into the start menu doesn't make me incredibly trusting here, no...

That article is just a journalist who read that tweet, and is bulking it out with a bunch of sales numbers in a kind of rambling manner. The tweet on its own was a better way to get this information.

There was a comment in the results call where Furukawa was asked whether it was a whole new console-type or another Switch, and he said "Switch next model is the appropriate way to describe it", so it sounds like they're staying the course on this one.

Questioning the premise... is there a need for this? Chasing analytics is famously poisonous in other fields of content-creation.

I guess advertisers want to know exactly who's listening. The point of centralizing it like this would then seem to be to make it possible to validate your traffic through a theoretically impartial third-party.

The bits of this controversy about "where's the LAM?" are strange to me. My impression from the beginning was that the "Large Action Model" was a server-side thing, and the hardware was going to be almost-entirely a way to talk to their services.

Apparently this impression was far from universal.

You understand that you're an outlier here, right?

The whole snippet, for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KdlJlHAAbQ

(It's great vintage Steve Jobs. He's trying to sound high-minded for a documentary-interview, but he really can't resist getting some digs in.)

You don't need a Google account. Googlebot respects robots.txt, as far as I know.

The proposed California law is written so that it basically only applies to Google and other social media giants. You need to have 50M+ monthly users, or be owned by someone with either a market cap of $550B+ or 1B+ monthly users.

The text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB886/id/2832517

So, at least in theory, some nimble startup could come in and have a lasting advantage against the big existing platforms until they got big enough that they could handle dealing with the regulations.

I do have mixed feelings about the recent laws written like this. It feels like if it's important that we pay news publishers, that should apply to everyone.

Yeah, specifically you need to find a copy of the WoW client waaaaay back at version 3.3.5a and then tweak it slightly so that it connects to your custom server instead.

https://www.azerothcore.org/wiki/client-setup

Can't speak for what Google plans to do in the future, but currently news results in search can either be a "top stories" block at the top of the results, or regular search results. In "top stories" you get just the headline and maybe an associated picture. In regular search results you get the headline, and a fragment of the first sentence of the article.

If seeing the headline and maybe a tiny fragment of the first words is enough to remove commercial viability, there's a lot of things that do that. Physical newspapers/magazines are generally displayed in a way that provides that information, for instance.

I'm sure there are people who search, see the headline, and don't click through. But the counterargument is that other people do click through, and without the search results then the news website wouldn't have received any of that traffic.

Perhaps-ironically, it looks like a full AI-synthesis approach would be a way to get around paying the news orgs under this law. If the Google results just give a synthesized blend of news from across the web without linking to anything in particular...

I don't think we're going to agree on this one.

I don't think Google is pretending. Its linking is legitimate. Also, it feels strange to draw an equivalence between Google downranking a spam website and the government charging to link to things.

That seems unrelated to the issue? I don't think those link-farms should have to pay to link to things either...

I agree with Google on this one. Charging a fee just for linking to something is a bad idea.

It does get fuzzier if you're also summarizing, and there's clearly some sort of spectrum from "just the URL" to "AI synopsis of the entire article". But at the level we see on Google News (headline + maybe a picture), I don't feel there's any good justification for charging.

It's easy and cheap to get USB-C to headphone jack adaptors, so anyone who wants to use wired headphones can do so. (The Apple one is $9, and we know how they like to gouge on accessories.) I've also seen simultaneous headphone-and-charging variants for under $10.

Personally, I could never stand using wired headphones with my phone, so I wouldn't want to do it. But the option's there.

Never having used one of these before, is there anything (ideally conveniently built in) that you can use to know before you cut a particular material whether it'll trigger the stop? Touch it against the blade while it's not running and see whether an LED lights up, or similar?

(I think it's unambiguously a good thing to mandate, but I'd also prefer not to have to memorize a table of materials and their interactions with the stopping device...)

There's a bunch of parts of CarPlay which assume you can use Siri. Interacting with notifications, sending / responding-to messages, searching for things in maps, etc. Apple could disable everything that would kick itself out to a Siri-interaction for input, but that'd probably feel confusingly-broken.

My understanding is that the "learn from app" setting relates to it watching out for NSUserActivity, which is something the app developer has to explicitly send out. The app developer is motivated to do so because NSUserActivity powers a lot of system-integration features.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsusera...

This is from when I was using Linux full-time around 2010, but I was a foobar2000 user on Windows and wound up using Quod Libet as the best Linux-side replacement for it I could find. It wasn't a perfect substitute, but it worked for my needs.

(Some searching suggests that DeaDBeeF might be an even closer match these days, but it was brand new and I didn't hear about it back then.)

It doesn't have to be identical. For the method they're describing you just have to get search results -- so you can use regex in that. You can also just command-click anywhere you want to leave a new selection-point. (Or use various other find commands that search for things and add them to your selection pool.)

The benefit of it is that you're left with a cursor in each location, and you can then do absolutely anything that you'd normally do with a single cursor in every place at once. This includes things like copy/paste, which will maintain a separate buffer in each selection. This also includes things that're actually tough to do with normal find/replace -- I could select the bit after a search result and switch it to title-case, for instance.

You can do most things you'd use it for with find/replace. But sometimes it's easier to watch it happen as you type, rather than construct a fairly complex regex with groups and suchlike.

I mean, the transcripts don't look great even if it turns out that he was actually talking to a FBI agent who never actually did anything about it:

> Dread Pirate Roberts 3/31/2013 8:59: Don't want to be a pain here, but the price seems high. Not long ago, I had a clean hit done for $80k. Are the prices you quoted the best you can do?

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...

In terms of "ruins your life", anything past a few years does that.

Speaking purely for myself, I don't feel much difference in the deterrent effect from the punishment being 5 years or 25 years. Either one would utterly wreck everything about my life, and although the latter is worse it's not enough so to change my decisions.

...didn't the Silk Road guy (which is what I assume you're referencing) also hire assassins to attack his criminal-enterprise opponents?

I don't think I've seen him do opposition to workers rights / unions? He hasn't been constantly yelling about supporting them either, but that's different.

E.g. a quick google for "daring fireball unions" turned up mostly articles like this one which were pro union-demands: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/11/24/wirecutter-unio...

Closest to a negative I found in that quick search was him making fun of the Maryland Apple Store union that was asking to be allowed to request tips from Apple Store customers... while also saying that the rest of their demands sounded like good things to ask for.

> If for example the marketshare of Edge and Chrome suddenly traded places, very little would change in terms of Google’s control of the web.

I think it'd make a bit of a difference, because Microsoft would now have the threat available of changing rendering engines and taking all their users with them (via Windows automatic updates). It'd be expensive and risky, so they wouldn't really want to do it, but they'd have it as leverage against any Google decisions.

Apple doesn't break it down, so this is all analysts-guessing, but the guesses I've seen for the share of Services revenue that App Store represents have been in the 25-35% range.

e.g. https://www.trefis.com/data/companies/AAPL/no-login-required...