skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK there's no such lock-in in PWAs, even if the app stores are probably going to be the most important venues for their distribution. PWA is a web app that gets more 'app-like' progressively when you need it to. You can use it like any other web application in your browser, but if it's okay to you, it can store data (and cache it's own assets) to your machine, start in it's own window from a launcher, use the filesystem and so on. Many web apps already have this sort of behaviors when you create a home screen launcher for them from your browser.
I suspected that someone might bring it up :). I agree I was not clear.

The distinction is in having a sustained effort behind the project. One may have 6 messengers while none of them gets the resources to succeed. The projects are used for a short-term career advancement, not for a long-term effort to open a new market.

The logic is indeed to have "... 10 projects if one of them will be successful and kill others". It just does not work that way. Google's leadership (the top ~10 people) position themselves above the fight. They don't throw their weight behind one of the (for example) messengers because if it fails it's their failure too (remember Google +?). As a result the users are confused, the resources are spread thin, and none of the 10 wins the market.
In essence, yes. Except the human assistant could technically be coerced to spill the beans on you. Via bribes or blackmail, etc.

Gmail dosen't. The ads you see have nothing to do with your mail activity. They haven't for a while now. Not saying Google is a paragon of privacy, mind you.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en
Almost all professional criminals know the antidote for this kind of interrogation. Military must know it too.

You don't talk with the interrogators at all (except name, rank, serial number, and date of birth). If they interrogate you 8 hours per day, you stay mum. No friendly chatter, nothing.
Yes, outbound has been solid for us, too. The issue is inbound. We literally have hundreds if not thousands of customer support agents unable to work because of this.
This seems a bit exaggerated. You definitely don't need to start with certbot or even with a domain name. Why can't you just start with a regular server on localhost, which can be set up in way less than ten minutes, and publish it only when you're ready? Not to mention that Firebase Functions is way less beginner-friendly than Express.
We moved over to SES a long time ago. Mandrill was basically the cheapest game in town, but their terrible service coupled with Mailchimp essentially abandoning the platform after their acquisition made us jump ship. I feel bad for anyone still using their service.
Digital fabrication/manufacturing is a collective term used for any kind of process where the digital model is transformed into a physical piece with minimal human intervention.

Digital model -> (digital fabrication) -> fabricated object.

Examples are CNC mills, lasercutting, waterjet, FDM/SLS/SLA 3d-printing, plasmacutter, CNC sheet bending machines, etc. The article uses the term to indicate that it belongs in this category of manufacturing technology. Not that it is any more digital than the rest of them.
The problem with this thinking is that google et al will profit! They have the resources to deal with this. Smaller companies will not be able to deal with this so easily.

Thus, we are subsidizing people with the help of google at the expense of smaller competitors (incl those in Europe). That’s a though trade-off
Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction by Microsoft Research [pdf]
> because of their inability to make smart and pragmatic regulations.

It didn't start 3 months ago... :D
I just setup an account with mailgun. Pleasantly surprised at how easy it was.
The parent's point was we have made those strides in productivity, but the wages were denied us.
I’ve also experienced this.

I have also found that often on the motorway the lane isn’t really closed, so I have no intention of changing my behaviour.
This does not in any way diminish my point. If I contract a publisher to print my book or movie is still not right for Google to steal that book or movie and put ads on it.

I don't know why society let's them get away with that.
I never understood the whole: we are throwing you in jail to protect you from yourself approach with the war on drugs. Decriminalize it!
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Why not AWS SES?
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I think the argument is that most people are truly only attaining maximum productivity for 5-6 hours in a day, so why are they even there for the extra 2-3? If you make $100/hr for 8 hours but are only productive for 5 of those hours, your employer is really paying you $160/hr. Why are we wasting employees time and employers money?
You are assuming all work is paid work. The majority of people would find very productive things to do, and yes, higher income should be taxed more.
I have seen many similar profiles over at linkedin, but i would like to ask you not to get carried away.

They are outliers who, if you carefully observed, had got some stroke of beginners luck or an influence that guided them correctly or it could be any of the many advantages of being privileged.
Thank you sir, for the great summarisation of the heart and heart rate variability.
> Why should companies like Google be allowed to profit off content creators' work
> without complying with those content creators' licenses?

If it's about profit, simply having YouTube pay all revenue from infringing videos to the real owner, might be a much better idea than to block all content.

The process might work like this: A publishes something, gets revenue from it. B claims copyright. YT suspends payment to A until the issue is settled. When B turns out to be right, B gets all the withheld revenue plus however much YT already paid to A, either to be paid by A, or to be withheld by YT from other payments to A.
This is about disabling silent videos autoplaying. Firefox is already disabling videos with audio autoplaying. I am not sure how silent videos could be much more embarrassing or disturbing to people on public transport or your co-workers than an inappropriate image, and I do not agree that they are idiotic or anti-social.
This just makes them 'lowest priority', and only to denver police and courts. Still very much a crime, still prosecuted, just way less.

Yay selective local enforcement! What a huge leap forward! /s

While I am happy any effort and attention is here, it doesn't do anything even for people who get busted. The colorado courts are still happy to assume any more than one is intent to sell, and weigh the box the came in to charge you. I welcome a step forward, but this is closer to a twitch.
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One surefire way I've seen is to work at a company in which your bosses keep quitting. I've seen people jump from IC to VP over the course of a handful of years.

Another is to start a startup and then get acquihired into a large company.
No, it's the opposite. In a highway/motorway situation with more queuing space it's not such an issue.
In urban situations where queuing space is limited, using both lanes is more important, as longer tail backs will cause problems with junctions further back on the route.
It really is kind of insane that we have a law that criminalizes possession of a plant you can literally pick out of the grass in your lawn in some places.
Unfortunately with the chaos with the UK and it likely crashing out, there will be a less of vocal opposition. Though, ironically, the UK itself right now can't seem to make up its own mind up about anything.
The UK was not a totalitarian state whose most important and well-known characteristic was absolute control by a single political party.
It's not impossible. Bookstores do it. Libraries do it.

I just don't understand why OSPs get a free pass while brick and mortar content curators have to obey the law while struggling to pay the bills.
I'm glad you enjoyed reading it! I for sure enjoyed writing it :)
Legalize it. Please. 'Decriminalization' is a spin word for things still very much illegal.
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You're boring and your discourse is rancid. Still scared of girls?

Ursula is a living legend.
I'm not sure this service qualifies. It's not browsable, so it's arguably more like a cloud storage service, which are explicitly exempt.
We have made those strides in productivity and they all went to rent seeking and taxation/regulation of small businesses and personal conduct (see also $150 red light cameras and $350,000 school admin salaries)
Based on your description of the scenario I'd think the driver in question considered you a "queue jumper", and their fury at what they perceived as your objectionable driving would cause them to act unsafely.

I see similar things from time to time on a road I use frequently. In cases where it's very busy and both lanes fill up then merging in turn tends to happen quite well, but when there's only moderate traffic and it's queuing in one lane then events such as that you describe may occur. Perhaps some signs saying "queue in both lanes" and "merge in turn" at the appropriate points on the road might improve things.
Easier said than done ...
There are some of the "broken" designs (like corner radius or capitalization) that amount to design choices and not necessarily constitute a good or bad design by themselves. Also, most of the examples seem to be taken from Skype. And why should we log in at the end, what do I get if I login?
It's not French lawmakers (in this precise occurrence), it's the French Government.

Note that the French MEPs voted quasi-unanimously in favour of the directive, so yes that's a French issue.

The main issue IMHO is the proximity (some would way "collusion") between the French ministry of Culture and the companies (such as SACD[1]) undertaking collective rights management for authors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_des_Auteurs_...
Somewhat related, I wish people would learn that, when turning right or left onto a two or more lane road, you are to turn into the lane nearest you and never the far lane. This way, a car facing you can turn onto the same road at the same time.
For those that don't know, here is Michael Crichton's speech where it comes from:

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

Whole speech here: http://docdro.id/4wgVecr
That was only 3 and a bit years after the publication of POSIX 1003.1:1988 itself.
> They can’t all be right.

I think people just adjust the scale to what they actually see. Deveoping countries with a new car culture are probably objectively worse, but not many people go there and see what it’s like.
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There was a fair bit of teetotaling going on in the late 1800s, but I think they probably just got sick and tired of high assholes running all over, dangerously operating heavy machinery, crashing their carts, and falling off their horses. Oh, and a father who is drunk/stoned all the time isn't much good to a family.

We're going to re-learn all those lessons all over again.
I wonder, if trump declares an emergency for his wall, whether the next president could declare an emergency and legalize all drugs.
AWS SES doesn't have things like reporting, bounce handling etc. out of the box - you need to set up all of that yourself (or at least you did when I last looked at it a few years ago).
Too fast too soon?

I fear this gives rhetorical ammo to folks who don’t want any “drugs” (besides caffeine and alcohol, of course) in their communities legal. I can hear the argument now. “Maybe you want weed, because it’s harmless? How about magic mushrooms? Where do we stop? Cocaine? Meth? How about we empty out the pharmacy for all to get high on whatever they want!” Slippery slope.

I fear the successful movement thus far is about to have breaks applied in the “on the fence” states after this news.
That is pretty confusing - I didn't expect to land on a specific album/single/song download page after clicking the "band" name.
Since this is driven by the entertainment industry, a solution would be to just stop consuming entertainment. They've been fucking with copyright long enough trying to get their old business models to stop failing, why are we still giving them money?
I don't read news, don't use social media. I find it working fine. Although hacker news kind of works like a news source to me.

I find almost everything in news noise now. Don't following any of that on purpose makes me feel calm.

Now if there is something that I should really know, it comes to me. I meet people all the time and then they tell me if something important is going on. I don't have to go after news. I adopted this after going through all the political bs in last few years. It works like a filter and I enjoy it.
Chaining function calls makes things harder to debug, so I don’t do it.
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> MOST outbound emails are sending

oh, so normal operation then
Blog Wandering is a free tool that allows a user to explore a blog visually: you choose a blog from which to start and you get a map composed of the author and of her/his commenters, then you can click on a commenter and open the map of her/his blog, if she/he owns one, and so on.
Double clicking on a user opens a blog in a new tab, right clicking opens the gravatar profile.
If you have any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them!
Tell me this documentary won't change your mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrabKK9Bhds

(They Shall Not Grow Old)
Capitalism is one allowed me to start my own business and discover what true freedom is. No other form of economics or government in history can hold a candle to the benefits and possibilities of capitalism. It’s not perfect, but I live a pretty good life and make a good living.
It’s much worse in my city in the US. People will actually block the lane that is closing forcing you to merge early. Especially if there’s a long line in the open lane. I had it happen the other day.
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Things like this influence stakeholder decisions down the road. I've been evaluating migrating to Mandrill for some time to give our designer more control over transactional emails. Now, it's unlikely that I'll do so.

(Worth noting, that I'm a happy long-time Mailchimp customer)
I'm surprised that this change did not receive much publicity when it was rolled out. Could it be that journalists did not look into what the changes entailed, or should I put a tinfoil hat on? It seems a bit... convenient that we are only now getting to know this when its already been active for many months.

Personally I never browse logged-in to Google or Facebook, and only use Chrome minimally. If I do need to use Gmail or Google Calendar, I either launch a private window or use a Container Tab in Firefox.
May I suggest maybe reading the manual before writing this kind of comment?

https://pijul.org/manual/why_pijul.html
Each server can have its own rules and can choose to block whichever other servers it wants. But besides that, they're pretty similar. The big draw of Mastodon is that it doesn't really matter that much which server you use. If the admin of your server starts doing stuff you don't like, you can move to another server and direct your followers there. (Compare this to centralized social networks like Twitter and Facebook. If you don't like what their owners do, your only option is to leave and lose access to the network entirely.)
It's a cliché among journalists rather than a theory among linguists.

According to that Wikipedia article, it's the Sami languages that have lots of words for snow, though it all critically depends on what you mean by "word", "snow", "language", "have", ... The question "How many words for snow does language X have?" is impossible to answer for many different reasons.
It really depends on one's knowledge/skill/experience in a particular field, so there's no "vs".
I just can't imagine why it sounds like you are arguing against me while describing exactly the problem.

That Google can force a comply or die decision on content producers is exactly the problem.

I don't accept the "they are too big to be required to follow the law like everyone else" argument. I don't accept that Jane's bookstore has to follow the law but Google doesn't.
Gym was awful. The teachers were awful, the bullies were awful, we learned absolutely nothing and felt like they were just trying to make us expend energy. What time would’ve better been spent in a class talking about cooking and nutrition, and how to prepare healthy meals
No, the declaration of emergency is used to free up funds not change the law.
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You're telling me, the only green Greek MEPs are the neonazis! What the hell is everyone else doing?
This is from three years ago. Why being posted now?
I meant in slow, or waiting, traffic.
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I have been seeing only and only promoted tweets which are clearly scams, impersonating banks we use in Turkey on Twitter.
This is what is going on for 2 months and it came to a point where I feel like I am being targeted intentionally by those people.

How do I get targeted this aggressively? Is this happening to you as well?

Is there anything I can do rather than reporting 2-3 scams per day? I feel like I volunteer for Twitter Community.
It's not exactly clear what you're asking, but the quoted statement is just one of those things I find probable, as illustrated by this article for example.

Granted, it is (sadly) not conventional wisdom.
You don't like awk?
Le Guin is hard to stomach as you get older. I can read CS Lewis and Tolkien with a forgiving eye but not Lewis. Rowling is terrible. Susan Cooper should have had her success.
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Stau is a bad example for most cases, but yes you will always get some who think they know better, even if they had to learn in the driving school that lane jumping makes it just slower for everyone.
no they effing do not!!

I grew up with a few....they bought the 1960s chemical company line what is good for Monsanto is good for farmers...
A supplemental fyi to the article...

Lera Boroditsky (who is mentioned in the SA article) gave a short TED talk about language affecting thinking. In addition to the "Russian blue" anecdote, she also talks about language usage causing heightened perceptions of cardinal directions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k

(It's an interesting talk but I have no idea how other cognitive scientists judge her research findings.)
Seems like everyone "knows a guy" that does that but when I attempted the same thing it failed miserably. I took a paltry three months off and then every recruiter and hiring manager was immediately suspicious of me when I started going on interviews again. They all suspected I was in jail or something. Meanwhile, I literally just took three months to catch up on my life.

In my current role, I could probably work 3 days a week and meet my same obligations. Our scrum master could be fired and nobody would even notice.
I've done the same, but only for the past few years. I grew tired, emotionally exhausted even, of being bombarded with strongly biased negativity, images of war, brutality, poverty and injustice, NIMBYism and fake outrage - and most of all, at my sense of helplessness against it all. I could do nothing about any of it, and resolved to remove it from my life.

Since I did so, I've been much happier. I can't avoid all news - for example, I see non-tech stuff on HN sometimes, or see Trump's latest nonsense in my Twitter timeline - but with the exception of technical stuff on HN, I never seek it out.
There seem to be quite a few snarky comments about Mandrill here, but we've been using it for a few years and until today we've been happy with the service. I'd be interested to hear concrete reasons (apart from the current outage!) why Mandrill isn't as good as other services for a use case where I want reporting, bounce handling etc. as part of the service (e.g. not AWS SES).
You're right that Beme had many similar elements, but IIRC it was focused outwards - you'd place the phone screen down on your chest triggering it to take a video (or the wall to take a selfie)

Demo video: https://youtu.be/mixsze6uJPg?t=101

What's interesting to me is that IG seems to emphasize a very specific form of "curated authenticity" that's distinct from Beme + taking raw video. Maybe IG's the "Based on a True Story" of social photo apps.
I'm pretty sure this whole intelligence is merely thinking faster idea is non sense. From my own personal experience, I think quite slowly, I'm bad at mental arithmetic, but I have a very high IQ. Look at IQ tests, our best measure for intelligence: getting the questions right is not about speed, it's about insight. The harder questions do not require more time, it is not simply a matter of enumerating through the different options. One has to "see" the patterns and then apply the rules.
AR and VR. So many people love to talk about an augmented world, well, this would be the perfect place for it. You would use AR/VR to help lower IQ people be more productive and still be able to earn themselves a decent wage.
Citizens of developing countries often take more of the infrastructure into their own hands than first-worlders. I can completely see someone buying a cheap-ish EV and a bunch of solar cells to go on their roof with it. Once you pay off the initial costs, you have free energy and cheap transportation. Not to mention that the power grid is often more reliable at night, when most EVs would be charged, than in the daytime.