skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably. Prior to the touchbar model I could:

Charge, drive 2 displays, use a YubiKey, connect to a wired network and have a spare USB for charging my phone or connect a Time Machine backup.

Without daisy chain or a hub that's no longer possible.

I know I'm an outlier but still, new laptops offer less and less ports, including my Lenovo T580, and that's a shame for some.
POP3 for the win!

(unlike IMAP, it only downloads things No way the server can tell the client to delete something)
Sounds like some trolling to me, especially since he can't produce the email. If Google was actually doing this they would have emailed other NewPipe users, not just this one guy.
Entire lives are wrapped up in Google accounts! They're used for administering other accounts, taxes and payroll, subscriptions, keeping in touch with family, photos...

This could easily ruin someone's life.

What the fuck, Google.

We seriously need to break this company up into its constituent pieces. This is beyond unacceptable.
I get what you're saying, but the point is that no foreign company "has" to do business there. Companies are trying to walk the tightrope but they need to decide if complete capitulation is worth it.
Modeling Conceptual Understanding in Image Reference Games
Imagine being so retarded
Mint is such a wonderful distro for people who want to use Linux but don't want to mess with things. I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far. Canonical really dropped the ball with how great a no-config, no-bullshit distro can be. Ubuntu felt like it was on this path 10 years ago before they started adding all the unnecessary bullshit. I'm glad Mint is the fork that picked up the slack.
These huge TOS agreements are akin to governmental authoritarian control. Everyone has broken something in them, we are all a criminal. Knowing this, we all live in fear knowing that it's not a matter of 'if' but 'when' the government/corporate overlord can cancel everything we've been working on or living for because of an obscure clause that no one has ever read, which was created for this very purpose.
Is it possible this causes a lot of competition in the US as some companies bring work and manufacturing back home? Or will they just move to another country?
Or consumer will have to buy it at hourly market rate, and the price will swing and consumer will have to constantly watch a meter.
> I don't see how any country can guarantee political stability for 100+ years

> it feels like we'll need a new set of laws to govern nuclear power

One of the fun things about laws is they're very difficult to ensure they're designed well enough to last for 100+ years in the face of what currently is but unpredictably won't be a stable country.
I constantly still have problems with my Dell 4k monitor (first gen and last year's model), where it doesn't wake properly from sleep. Most of the time, I resolve it with the following.

- Switch the USB-C port from one to another
- Open up my laptop from clamshell mode and switch the cables around
- Unplug my monitor
- Restart my computer

The nuclear option of rebooting my computer and monitor always seems to work.
Here’s my fix:

“Oh, please. People don’t _actually use_ macs while drinking their lattes anymore (except maybe ironically). Lenovo (running Windows with the Linux Subsystem enabled) is the only halfway decent way to get work done. Unless of course you’re one of those hipsters running Arch. I’ve been meaning to try that, actually.” -actual 2019 computing hipster, probably
This sounds like simple accusation and speculation without any proof to me.
The richest and one of the biggest country in the world cannot move one city?
Do you think that the whole world should be captive to city that was basically build on sea level because they found it opportune.
Complexity Waterfall
This is frightening. I use newpipe and depend on Google for work, email, and data storage. I use Google cloud to host my websites, and Google domains to control their domain names. What's next? Will they suspend an account for using an adblocker on their website while using a browser?

The fact that Google would suspend their account instead of just blocking their access to YouTube is an abuse of their near-monopoly. I'll be taking steps to migrate off the Google stack for this.
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And be as independent of google services as possible.
Okay, but wouldn't you consider an ad campaign "political" if it was about voting that oil refineries can't dump run off into a water supply? Would that mean that the same folks running the anti-dumping, environmentally friendly campaign also have to donate money to the oil companies for their pro-dumping initiatives?

I'm not trying to be mean, just pointing out an unintended consequence of such a system.
Whole-wheat flour has everything that white flour has (including gluten), plus more. If you remove the "more", the proportion of gluten in the whole goes up.

The "more" also includes fat, as well as other things which might interfere with gluten formation.
Shipped and sold by Amazon is meaningless. Just search for "Amazon 3rd party commingling" Basically everything with the same UPC or SKU code is put into the same bin in the warehouses, regardless of where it came from. So legit and counterfeit inventory is stored in the same bin. When you order something it is the luck of the draw (literally) what you will get.

This is a problem for anything Amazon sells, not just books. I play board games and counterfeit board games are very very common. So much so that I wouldn't recommend anyone buy a boardgame from Amazon. Buy them from Cool Stuff Inc, Miniature Market, Cardhaus, etc. instead.

Incidentally, just this past week we allowed our Prime membership to lapse and don't plan on renewing it. With problems like this one, its just not worth it anymore.
You should read about James Simons, one of the richest of them all. He has a PhD in math from Berkeley and is, by all accounts, brilliant.
Seems simple enough to me: if it's funded by a political party or candidate, it's a political advertisement, regardless of the content. There are always ways of illegally hiding candidates' expenses, but most of the time it should be obvious who funded an ad opposing or promoting a politician.
Anyone have the original Chinese article for this?
As long as the intellectual property framework is ther, recognised and enforced, I'm more than open to discuss the specifics of how it should be done. The argument above is about abolishing the idea of intellectual property as a shackle around humanity's creative output - something which I disagree with. They are saying that since making a copy of something is essentially free in the digital era, there should be no protections for copying and distribution of the data - and that people would generate data of similar quality regardless of the incentive of profit proportional with the value of data. I think that is an absurd claim. And we can easily see that it is not the case because there are countries with lax or non-existent legal intellectual property frameworks and they lack productivity growth and they don't innovate.
After 10-Year Search, Scientists Find Second ‘Short Sleep’ Gene
My thoughts now: one of the reasons I use NewPipe is because it have no need for Google accounts (i.e. correlation to emails, no tracking of data gathering).

If evilG banned an account, it means the event that triggered it was a correlation between YT usage and IP addresses. Interesting.
Exactly. Healthcare doesn’t make nearly as much money as sickness management. Big pharma is just like big tobacco, they want customers for life.
I wonder how decentralized Google accounts were before the Google+ unification process. Funny that management of that project is still having long lasting negative affects!
> Your first job pretty much determines in what direction your career it's going to go.

This is untrue. Your first job shows you what all the variations in roles actually are in this industry. It isn't just coding. Do the work, take note of what everyone does. And if there is something that you like more than coding, try to learn that.

You have flexibility - nothing is set in stone. Many people change gears numerous times as their career progresses. Don't stress over it.
> such a pernicious and deadly design

Yes, MCAS is a pernicious and deadly design.

Equally, Boeing's corporate governance and FAA's regulation and oversight are also "pernicious and deadly".

All must be fixed before this aircraft flies again.
so it's an app that lets you watch youtube without using the youtube app? I don't get on what grounds can google ban you for this - esp. if you could very easily download youtube videos using youtube-dl...

Why not use firefox, and install ublock origin to block the ads?
Yep after reading a very similar story a couple of years ago (Google account closed and no recourse given) I’ve migrated all of my important accounts and subscriptions away from gmail and into an email address associated to a domain that I own. Now Gmail and Outlook.com are only used for spammy stuff that I don’t care about
My family gets several Amazon packages every week and I don't think we've received a single counterfeit or gray market item. We have had other problems with our orders but Amazon has always fixed the problem very quickly.

Some problems they seem unable to fix. I have a Nespresso machine and a few times now I've ordered a decaff selection and every single time they send me the caffeinated version of whatever I order. I call them and they refund the order. They've probably sent 16 sleeves of coffee for free (worth around $150) and have never sent the product I've actually ordered. It feels a little wrong to take advantage of their incompetence like this, but hey, free coffee!
Why such an optimistic assumption that the extreme rent seeking of today won't just balloon to unknown heights in the wake of a seismic shift between labor and capital, creating a permanent class of haves and have nots? Especially once personal security, law enforcement, and military operations are automated...

There's certainly a Brave New World style dystopia available in your scenario where only a select few are free and even fewer are wealthy.
> The HK property and stock market is also where a huge amount of of Chinese money is parked.

I wonder if this is the reason China wants to get rid of Hong Kong. Their capital restrictions are useless if Chinese can move a ton of value through Hong Kong. The world still needs China, though. So it'll make a new way to China.

Maybe China has figured out: Value from Hong Kong < Value going to Hong Kong.
I used PathFinder 5 extensively on Snow Leopard. I never had any leaks or issues. But, I did get the version wrong in my previous comment. I'm currently (sort of) using v8. I wasn't on macs with 6 or 7.
Any good tools for automating this that are already out in the world?
Once upon a time we have launched a rich media banner with three videos in it. What was interesting that all three videos generated around the same viewability stats. What was event more interesting that one video in banner was hidden with display:none.

I wonder if anybody does test like this - e.g. checks if hidden video generates views, button with visibility: hidden generates clicks and etc. and in this way evaluates traffic.
But why? The only difference I see is that one is less shocking to humans, makes worse news headlines.
What's the point of Google Photos if I've to keep backup. They may choose to lock me out and I've lost all my memories.
‘Inevitable’ That GE Brings Offshore Wind Manufacturing to the US
Does Gmail give access to your emails when your Google Account is suspended?
Any backup recommendations? Gmvault stopped working earlier this year, and for multi-gigabyte accounts via a connection that is prone to get interrupted every once in a while, I couldn't find anything that seemed as simple and robust (Gmvault allowed incremental backups, tolerated disconnections, ...).
Also the video with the car not stopping on the stop sign. Who gets a ticket?
> Checksums are also a pain for larger files. If a 4GB movie has a checksum, is the app supposed to read all the file in to calculate and validate the checksum prior to playing the movie? That’s inefficient.

The page did mention doing it for the header, not the whole file
To be honest this sounds like some fake story. NewPipe really don't use any Google credentials and even considering how little trust I have in Google I don't buy like they going to buy account this this kind of stuff. Like seriously think on it: why should they ban someone based off IP address alone that can be shared with many devices / accounts.
This is one of the reasons why I ditched google, especially gmail a few years ago.

Yandex, pretty decent email web interface, and I can have my own @domain.com emails for free, if I ever need to move away from Yandex I can do so without telling everybody I "changed my email".

But I doubt Yandex will ever "inspire" me to move away form them, I think they dont even think of me at all, unlike Googles algorithms.
We should improve the environment wherever and whenever we can which is what people demand when the get pulled out of poverty and into the middle class.

But the idea that we should upend the use of fossil fuels without any realistic alternative is simply anti-human and will for sure cause millions to die.

I haven't heard of a single scientifically demonstrated consequence of climate change that would lead to that and thus I see no need to worry more about climate change more than pulling people out of poverty.

We should always try and make energy cleaner and less pollutant but wouldn't you agree we should always make a cost benefit analysis and weigh the positive and negative consequences of our decisions?
> How one generation can be almost universally opposed to something like gay marriage, then suddenly in just a generation the majority of the population is in almost religious support of it.

2 reasons.

1. That isn't actually what happened, DADT was in the 90's, for example, and

2. Each generation learns from the mistakes of the generation before it (and makes mistakes of their own).

DADT was the death knell of anti-gay sentiment. It was the military drawing a line in the sand, and when that line got stepped over, drawing another line in the sand. It was inevitable that line would be stepped over as well.

This is how life works.
I don't that's true. Single clock-cycles of CPUs are measured in nano-seconds, and human's aren't that slow.
Those recommendations also apply to human rights advocacy groups operating in China... not all economic activity in China is related to those evil atrocities and very little actively contributes to making the situation worse.
sure but with hidpi display most of my apps are blurry, of browsers firefox nightly has it but chrome does not, intelij, vscode and so on.
I have not, but will check it out. My problem is I love the idea of being able to tinker and get to a super stable, lovable mobile Linux setup, but I just don't have time right now. Maybe someday. :)
Along with a bunch of other large american corporations.
China is a third world country by definition. India and China are industrialized now but they are still somewhat neutrally aligned to US/EU and Russia.
> China, by her own standards, has been very soft on the protests so far. China is much more concerned with its global image than back during the Tiananmen Square protests.

Surprisingly, things in this digital age are different and you can thank social media for that. If we didn't hav the Internet and live-broadcasting, the Hong Konguese are nothing but history now.
Opinions are a funny thing, I find MacOs vastly inferior to Windows, but I grew up with Windows so I'm biased that way; I'm betting you and people claiming 'the good old days of mac' are biased too.
> Prosecution is always discretionary

Not at all, and failing to do so can be itself a crime.
Irrespective of the undertones that you read in the word, that is what they are being judged for. It has a precise technical meaning in the law. And I’d like to know if there is any country whatsoever in which public uprising against the state from a government official, using public funds, and in the manner carried out by them in this case, is not prosecuted.
I pay yearly for G Suite to avoid this issue by using my own domain instead of @gmail.com. If I ever had an issue I can change my email provider (also backup email regularly using Takeout or in the past using offlineimap).

Unfortunate that it’s necessary but I think it’s a good idea for everyone who can.
We should be able to port emails like we are with phone numbers. Keep your @gmail.com address but host it with another provider.
How brilliant. It's a shame the post didn't get any traction at the time
Good suggestion, you mean post a link to a demo trip on the landing page or post here?
This is of course part of the cost/benefit thing you need to look at - but again it doesn't mean it is obviously the default. People can do things with my image if I leave the house, but going out in CCTV dazzling outfits with a fully covered face is not "the default".

> If you do, you turn yourself into a serf;

I'm really not sure I follow. This is about self hosting services, I can't really link (e.g.) hosting my data on github.com and turning myself "into a serf".

> someone with no recourse when those whom you place your trust in ultimately betray you.

There's obviously recourse - as an EU citizen (at least currently) it's possible that companies can lose 4% of their global turnover for misusing data.

> (Also, just like “owning” a timeshare is not like owning your house, having a VPS is not self-hosting.)

You can see from my post that I also put up the price of running a rpi if you didn't count a VPS as self hosting, which I absolutely would because to me it's about what services I run vs what services I pay others to run.
Is there a way to get your data out if your account is suspended? In the very least there needs to be some recourse and a way for users to export their data if their account is suspended.
Yeap, me too. I tried to update XCode a couple of times with 0 success.
Ouch. Somehow I missed hearing about Samsung.
Nice try, Boris.
Any reason we cannot melt the salt the conventional way while using excess electricity from renewables?
Hong Kong is very first world, though.
Google logs all apps you use on Android. Start time, how many times was used, device, OS etc.

You may disable history but that don't mean they will stop logging.

See the history at https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Edit: get out of Google now!
In Russian "raku" is a genitive of cancer / a derogatory term used for noob users.
"The first person who walked the final path."

But that person could not possibly have predicted the future actions of everyone else, and therefore it's a mockery of moral reasoning to hold them responsible.
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> Surely the author is aware of the inaccuracies in a direct comparison. The author is implicitly pointing out that a multi-billion dollar corporation is putting out a product that is not polished in several ways, while people who love the product do mental gymnastics to defend against any flaw rather than admitting that such flaws exist.

It's like the people on Reddit ios/apple/mac subs who run iOS 13 or Catalina betas and claim they haven't experienced a single bug.
I don't understand that mentality. One, you're defending a corporation. Two, even if they make your favorite devices/software, it's OK to say something negative.
>Tangent - is there a systems reason (aside from the "base ecological ethics" of wanting to preserve biodiversity and not eradicate any unique ecosystems) why humans would not want to get rid of deserts?

Getting rid of deserts could actually be quite bad for other ecosystems. The Amazon is fertilized by the Sahara for example https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...
Wow, this article is bad -- like, literally WRONG on nearly every boldfaced point.

1. "External monitors don't work". Wrong. I present often, and frequently use hotel projectors or monitors. I've never had a problem connecting to a monitor.

2. "You can only install software from the App Store". Wrong. Software installation is simple. Sure, you can use the App Store, but you absolutely do not have to.

3. "Only a limited number of hardware works out of the box". I have yet to run into a hardware compatibility problem. I use non-Apple keyboards and non-Apple mice, non-Apple cameras, non-Apple mass storage, Sennheiser headset, etc.

4. Tech support with Apple is better than I've had with any other major tech vendor, including Dell -- where we pay out the wazoo for supposedly gold-plated support -- with only one actual problem: Apple doesn't sell the 'we fix it RIGHT NOW' plan Dell offers. (Of course, Dell tends not to actually meet this promise, so ...)

5. "It is very difficult to find a laptop with more than 2 USB ports." Wrong. Apparently the author didn't look very hard, because the 15" Macbook Pro has 4 USB-C ports. Here, he seems to be mad that the other two models -- marketed as compact and slim over powerful -- have made more tradeoffs to be small than the 15".

So yeah, forgive me if I don't take his comments terribly seriously. It's not that there aren't some very legitimate criticisms to be made about Cupertino, even if you don't take a position on proprietary software. There definitely are. But absolutely none of these are valid.

However, I'm absolutely certain that the Apple-hating contingent on HN will eat it up with a spoon. :(
Lenovo ThinkPads have like a 2 day turnaround. Good service and speed isnt exclusive to Apple, do they really deserve credit for something many companies execute well? Apple brought enterprise level support to consumers, past enterprise price.

In my experience Lenovo Thinkpad hardware customer service easily beats Apple in efficiency and speed. You spend considerably less time debating the topic than with Apple and Dell. "Hey this is broken, did you try this, ok send it in, we will ship you a box." Or for less than $100 you can have 2-3 years on-site. On a higher end X1 Carbon right now 2 year on site with accidental damage (ad is usually depot only, but the on site covers normal failures) is less than $200. 5 days to get my laptop back to me would feel slow.
Google Takeout.

I used to use offlineimap and as far as I know it should still work...
hardware compatibility, laptop compatibility and perhaps plugging in monitors have definitely improved.
It also doesn't show ads, and basically make it convenient to use by the average user. I prefer YouTube-DL, but I also like NewPipe.
One of my GMail accounts was fairly recently disabled due to Google not recognizing any device logging into the account. I had to dig up some old Android phone to even attempt recovery which was unsuccessful. After I involved some of my Google contacts, the account was back within 2 days, yet while my phone can log in, none of my other computers are allowed to log in. I am guessing something in their ML system went seriously wrong in some corner cases (in my case, accessing the same account from >10 computers/phones/tablets on different operating systems via Firefox with private browsing, likely triggering their anomaly detection).
The article mentions that the solar plant produces 110MW, which I presume is the thermal energy captured. On average converting thermal to electric is about 1/3 efficient so this two-mile-wide field of mirrors, all of which require electric motors, maintenance, and regular cleaning for actual operation, will produce maybe 40MW of electricity? How many megawatts would be generated if all of those mirrors had PV panels installed instead?
I find it perfectly plausible that Google would suspend someone's account arbitrarily. Even if it's not true, it is a reminder that Google can and will suspend your account and fuck up your life because of some algorithm, and you should probably do something about it.
Keep in mind the link was referring to software UI's. It's not saying the mechanical rotary dial was bad, just software implementations imitating it...