skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only way to have free content is if the user is the product being sold.

Or we could provide robust public funding, like the BBC

> It's what we must accept if we don't want the government to provide the news.

Public funding of media does not make it "government news". In fact, it's subject to far more scrutiny than private media. You would rather Jeff Bezos and friends control the news rather than a transparent & highly regulated independent publicly funded organization?
The proposed Token Taxonomy Act is relevant. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2144...

I think its really necessary to differentiate between ICOs and cryptocurrency in general.
Jacking up prices when revisiting the site from the same browser is a separate thing. It’s there to encourage you to buy ASAP as prices appear to be increasing rapidly.
"It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sorts of ammonia & phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc present, that a protein compound was chemically formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured, or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed"

~Charles Darwin, in a letter to Joseph Hooker (1871)

I heard researcher Bruce Damer explain how Darwin was likely correct in this letter. As we understand it today, enzymes and oxygen would prevent a second biological genesis. Also, there is less "feed stock" of star dust falling on our present warm little ponds. https://www.mindpodnetwork.com/future-fossils-109/
If you keep the training wheels on your economy forever it would certainly make it uncompetitive. The U.S. engaged in such practices too, and continues to do so in areas like pickup trucks. At the end of the day, you can’t really fudge leadership.

The U.S. has been fudging leadership for some time. Now it’s looking for someone to blame. It’s looking for a Plaza Accords 2.0. But China is not Japan, geopolitically.
No it's not. It could be DRM for the biotech industry though.
If you are miss using service then you accept the consequences, which in this case is paying for it.
Sure, but Syncthing doesn't miss the point at all,so it's slightly out of place to bring up that line.
Not that it is a fair comparison but if you look at Walmart - Gross Margin is 20ish% but net margins at 1.3%
Maybe check this out too?:

https://prudent.me/

Not just for budgeting, but in the same space! :)
It's basically the same thing as Wine - Wine provides the Windows API and implements it using Linux syscalls. Gvisor implements the Linux API using Linux syscalls, but with an extra authorization layer. I think people are just so gung ho about VMs that they forgot this was possible and easy (I did).

This is also similar to what Microsoft is doing in Windows with the WSL. This is another example of how we're really just in a big technology cycle. Dynamically typed -> statically typed -> dynamically typed; bare metal -> API wrappers -> VMs -> containers -> API wrappers. Soon we'll probably be back to bare metal.
Have you heard of freecodecamp? The idea is for non-profits to work with currently self-teaching devs.

Non-profits get free labor and the devs get real world experience.
According to ABlogToWatch, you're completely incorrect.

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/rolex-prices-past-60-years-reve...

It's a pretty stable increase, and adjusting for inflation it's actually a fairly low increase for a product that has improved over time.
I wrote an entire I2C stack for an 8-bit microcontrolller using this protothread library.

I would highly recommend using an RTOS instead. ;)
I think the business model associated with these paywalls is what is flawed. I'm not going to subscribe to a site just because I viewed a number of articles if I didn't perceive them to be high value.

They must demonstrate value for money, and this problem seems to present evidence that the perceived value isn't there.
Only Americans have fundamental rights.

Everyone else has "hate speech," which depending on how that's interpreted, can mean anything from thinly veiled blasphemy laws, an inability to bluntly criticize Scientology or Islam, or charges for making Nazi jokes.
I have a Xiaomi phone. The hardware is pretty nice and I enjoy using it. But I don't trust it and find it creepy as hell.

The built-in file browser shows ads related to random conversations I've had(not related to searches or my general interests) way to often for me to consider it a coincidence.

I'm seriously considering getting an iphone again, just because I trust Apple a bit more(and only a little).

But there would be no way in hell I would do sensitive work on Huawei or Xiaomi laptop.
People who support them are being censored. So it hurts their chances in the coming election. Also in managing public opinion about impeachment.

Is that legally justifiable? IANAL, so ???
It's good enough that for the average consumer, they'd never decide to look in to the source code, edit it and then reload the page with the changes. However this type of stuff just allows someone to easily come along with a counterforce app and scale the paywall.
Is there any sort of technical evidence, documentation or anything out there justifying this?
This is about labor rights. If you're paid for 40h your employer should not be able to press you to do more without compensation. Easy as that.

If the added working time has much value they'll find a way to compensate. This way it simply means that you can't force a fastfood worker to do closing shift and then still clean after they've done their work.

Outside of the pure "pair of hands" work there is a lot of evidence that more working time doesn't increase productivity.

And, really, life is about more than just work. No need to allow companies to slowly erode the rights previous generations of workers have fought for.
If it takes you 3 years to build a product alone, you’re doing something wrong.
One thing I learned over the past years is a v1 should be the bare minimum to get sales. You can add all the bells and whistles later.
Uh, you didn't give them your business earlier either, because you were using the free tier?
https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
>It also falls under the US supreme court test for obscenity and is equally illegal in the US

I don't think that's correct.

There are no federal obscenity laws. The U.S. government does not expressly prohibit obscene conduct. In fact, the U.S. government expressly protects some communications in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

https://legalcareerpath.com/obscenity-law/
In my family I always volunteer to go to Grocery Outlet. I have an optimized route throughout the store so I can check every shelf for anything new.
Next stage.. Piracy prevention as one copies articles and republished.. Every incapable Industrie from movies to music dies the same insane way.
Tesla to update battery software following car fires
No idea why you're so bitter about this, but obviously there is no expectation that each minute is recorded. This just spreads a common practice to the exploitative employers that don't respect workers rights - such as the right to have a20 minute break during the day.
I don't think we disagree that they can charge whatever they like. I think we disagree that having 4+ devices attached to an account is uncommon. I suspect that its actually the common case like a netflix or hulu account.
It's an interesting development because the amount of people who actively seek to bypass paywalls must be negligible. While it's mostly second nature to a large swathe of the HN crowd, devtools/private browsing/Google-refe[r]rer plays aren't exactly typical browsing tricks for the average person. I can only extrapolate that it's either it's either a) a bid to be seen to be doing something to higher-ups or b) an attempt to garner subscriptions from the tech crowd with the nous to bypass a paywall ue to low numbers [0]. The latter seems unlikely on account of actual conversions and the former seems myopic. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at some of these meetings!

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/business/media/new-york-t...
Fyi, Mexico (+52) and Argentina +(+54) have mobile and landline integrated into the same geographic numbering, although there's an extra digit for dialing a mobile, to indicate cost (will be phased out in Mexico soon)

Brazil (+55) has mobile in geographic area codes, but separate prefixes within the area codes and longer than landlines (except for Nextel, which is a radio phone, not a mobile phone).

Some countries have been getting mobile phones in landline ranges as tarriff arbitrage, like Germany (+49) and Russia (+7, along with Kazakhstan, but I think it's only getting fuzzy in Russia). Others have been getting mobiles filtering in as fixed CDMA carriers using landline ranges start supporting mobile CDMA handsets (I forget where, but a few countries in Africa and southeast Asia)
> It may be enshrined in our constitution, but that has never stopped us from selectively applying constitutional rights to different classes of citizens or people we consider to be non-people.

So, because some people were denied their rights in the past, it proves that right doesn't exist and shouldn't be protected?
"Our product offering is ever-changing with a constant rotation of opportunistic products, complemented by an assortment of competitively priced everyday staples across grocery, produce, refrigerated and frozen foods, beer and wine, fresh meat and seafood, general merchandise and health and beauty care"

What do they mean by "opportunistic products"? Google fails to come up with any proper explanation.
That was the original implementation (and still used for non-GNU C).

On GCC and Clang though, labels-as-values allows a cleaner implementation: https://github.com/Akagi201/protothreads/blob/master/include...
Public funding makes it "government news" in Germany. And very expensive at that.
I suspect it means, "products our distributors offered to us at a steep discount." Like Big Lots or TJ Maxx would carry.
An interesting fact of ENIAC is, although it was originally programmed by plugboards in 1946, it was soon retrofitted to a stored-program computer in 1948 to simplify programming, using its spare function table units as ROM, and its extra accumulators as a program counter and a pointer. I wonder if there's any project to recreate an ENIAC simulation in stored-program mode.
Overstock sales from manufacturers/distributors, mislabeled, close-to-expiration, etc. I tend to fine good deals on things, but it's unlikely to be there next time you go back.
I know that route. :)
and in the 80s too. anarchist &Nazi&friends in Italy were engaging in an actual bomb marathon with huge loss of innocent life, and I'd argue that if being mean on internet is action enough today for these groups so that they disregard their traditional methods, like literally bombing places, then we are all better off with that
Kind of an aside, but on ExpertsExchange you simply had to scroll down past the blurred div to see the full content.
The moon may be tectonically active
That's the conclusion I came to as well. I use Dropbox but I found the notice about increasing restrictions a couple months ago, and looked at iCloud and OneDrive.

Other than what you mentioned, OneDrive always offering Office Online and the apps with a lot of shared storage for other users. And iCloud gives you that device backup for multiple people, another thing it grants you is the ability to use iCloud email. The web interface is the cleanest and most dignified looking of all major vendors. The snag with iCloud email is their calendar isn't the best, you can't have it email you reminders for appointments as you can with Outlook.com and Gmail. iOS notifications only, which is a very annoying restriction. I like to be notified, but also have an email sitting in my inbox on more detailed instructions on what may need to be done.

Starting from scratch today with the goal being zero-cost, I'd pick Outlook.com and OneDrive. If I'm willing to perpetually pay, iCloud.

May have to get on that and at least get over to Outlook/OneDrive, but tough to leave Gmail when everything is all setup as you like it. Dropbox is easier to leave, they're pushing it by decreasing value rather than improving it.
Absolutely - I also use it, for very similar reasons.
It's the closest I can recommend to people when trying to help ween them off of Facebook Messenger

My commentary is more around the seemingly bait-and-switch approach of riding in on the "we respect privacy" wave, but ultimately having that as secondary to bells and whistles
Having lived in a small town surrounded by rural area for a bit:

> You can't exercise, because dogs don't just bark but also chase you, and no one cares or thinks you're the asshole for complaining because you're in the country.

This is literally what pepper spray and similar is intended for. Don't go cycling without it! You have to look out for yourself if you're in the middle of nowhere. Not willing to do that? Then don't live or do things there. Idiot dog owners are everywhere, but a pack of farm dogs is no joke when the nearest person is more than a mile away.
I live in China as an expat. I haven't seen any bashing of US companies from the media in the limited amount of Chinese media that I consume.

There is propaganda everywhere but it is about China. They don't tend to bash other countries but keep going on about how good China is. They just ignore everyone else because China is everything.

The US media bashes China all the time but that may just be because I read English news. If you have seen the Chinese equivalent I would like to check it out since I haven't seen that side of China yet.

The Chinese people are strongly nationalistic just like people from the USA (I'm from Australia which is nice ... but not really important). Social media is big over here and people organise boycotts of companies all the time.

You said "state-controlled media puts out massive amounts of propaganda railing foreign firms" and "China is far worse". It should be easy to find one if this is true otherwise it is just "fake news" that gets repeated so often that people think it is true.

It should be easy to find one example.
I hope one day we will be able to condemn these politicians, bureaucrats and big corps for their crimes against free speech, just like we did with the nazis when they tried to subvert Europe.
We need serious laws with draconian punishments to protect our rights, what we have now is insufficient.
Counterpoint/anecdote: I stopped using Turo because every single car owner was a shady "entrepreneur" with 5+ cars. The car was often dirty, and some of the pickup locations were weird and scary (like an empty underground parking garage).

I get roughly the same pricing from big car companies anyway.
> cannon

Psst, I think you meant "canon" :)
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> Extremism was spreading long before the internet.

Yes but not as quickly, cheaply, or effectively. You might as well say "planes do nothing because people were migrating between continents before they existed".
I came here to grumble about exactly this

(edit: 'I')
A neural tube isn't a baby.
Read until you're not asking that =] Only option. You're in control.

Start here: disable auto-download of MMS.

...and then, of course, don't download them from random numbers you're not expecting them from.
Years ago a company similarly contacted me for some "emergency" tasks. I flied all the way to Japan and realise they haven't got the tasks ready, more than half of the time I wasn't doing anything. I honestly (stupidly?) charged them with my actual working hours, they seems surprised. A lesson learnt and the next time it'll be a different story.
In old neighborhoods like mine, most people don't have driveways. I've found that this is most common in the oldest US cities, like Philadelphia.
> how is adhd linked to gifted children?, i find this fact interesting...

They diagnose pretty much any child who can't sit still in class with ADHD. Lots of gifted children are bored by school, which the authorities see as a disorder since most teachers don't care (or don't have to time) to bother giving any students individual attention, and the system is ill equipped to provide gifted students with more learning opportunities.
That's such obvious selection bias. People who join Mensa have something to prove.
I find it interesting that the moderators were quick to remove the word Israel from the headline of the Whatsapp exploit article, but not China in this article.
Can you explain what exactly their product is?
Since we are mostly talking about hardware; it should be possible to proof the existence of a backdoor or similar by careful analysis.

I remember a few years back where all of sudden it was made an issue that members of the Danish parlament had Lenovo laptops. I think it turned out to be unfounded. Today the largest 4G network here in Denmark is made by Huawei; though they have lost the bid for the 5G network to Ericsson.
... bargain market.

I live across the street from one. It's effectively my pantry, so I go there quite a bit, but the same way they have opportunistic products I'm shopping opportunistically half the time. If it wasn't so close (and Safeway wasn't so shitty) I'd probably go much less frequently, but I can't complain much.

Their produce has gotten a little better, their meat too. Some staples are variable (eggs only in Jumbo size, shit for olive oil, mayonnaise 1 week before it expires), but if you go there with an open mind and relatively frequently.
Of course, part of the reason for so many kids is to minimize the percentage of my family that would be lost if one did die.

I think I just read the most insane sentence I'll read all year.
China is blocking Wikipedia in every language
> You can't exercise, because dogs don't just bark but also chase you, and no one cares or thinks you're the asshole for complaining because you're in the country.

Even if your neighbor or neighbors have well-trained or well-controlled dogs, you have to worry about wild animals more than you do in urban areas. I'm not talking about predators as much as prey: A mountain lion is scary, but most of them pretty well leave humans alone. A buck deer in rut is big and deer in general are just really, amazingly stupid.

Plus... there's nowhere to walk to unless you really like seeing not only scenery, but the same scenery, over and over again, unless you spend more money to drive someplace with noticeably different scenery. (Rural areas are big. You can drive for days without seeing noticeably different scenery.)

> Depression, drug use, and other adverse coping strategies are literally epidemic -- my entire neighborhood of stable working adults where I grew up all ended up on some combination of meth/oxycontin/xanax/antidepressants with alcohol use in excess of anything I ever see at 2 am throughout the nightlife districts of a top 10 US city.

Another reason to stay in your home or stick to a small group of friends with no real ability to branch out. Want another friend? OK, pick the person with whom you have no common interests, the other person you have nothing in common with but this person's an alcoholic, or the person who moved there and obviously left the big town for a reason you'll hear about in gossip which will make you very happy you didn't interact with them.

> Oh, do you think you might need to get actual mental help?

Have fun driving hours to and from the next big town in all kinds of dangerously crappy weather!

> Any "green space" consists of trespassing behind barbed wire instead of a neatly maintained park.

Yes. This is something which needs to be mentioned more often: Cities have more public spaces than rural areas, because in rural areas, land is being used. You can't just wander into a wheat field or a cattle ranch. You could be arrested. National Parks are wonderful, but most rural areas aren't parkland, and most rural areas aren't even close to parkland. BLM land is by no means even close to being the same thing.

Some European countries have "freedom to roam" laws, but they're also more dense than rural North America, so most of those countries don't have "rural" to begin with, by and large.
Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud.

We actually introduced “pin code sharing” [1], so that you can share (and even let folks comment and edit) without requiring a Google Account (which to be clear, isn’t actually identical to “GSuite Login”, you can register any email as a Google Account, but I recognize you may not want to).

[1] https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/12/share-files-mor...
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https://ssd.eff.org/en/playlist/want-security-starter-pack

https://www.eff.org/issues/security

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/your-security-plan

Links from (E)lectronic (F)rontier (F)oundation. Should point someone in the right direction.
Reading the article and the comments here makes me consider raising the price of a self-hosted help desk software I recently released. Or at least, adding a new premium price package.
If I had to guess: Computer, Tablet, Phone.
Makes me think about the intro to Huxley's Doors of Perception[0] - genius is probably a pretty lonely place. Fortunately that's one problem I don't have to deal with.

> From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another to permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or "feeling into" ... But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling.

[0] https://maps.org/images/pdf/books/HuxleyA1954TheDoorsOfPerce...