skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Telephone_Company

That wasn’t a non-profit, neither were the first telegraph companies. Monopolies are problematic, private companies are not.

As far as cleaning out “old” politicians — that’s ageism. One’s birthdate doesn’t determine technical literacy.
I have been using email and password instead of Google SSO for a while now, never been fan on concentrating so much power on one single company, who just proved to be unreliable.

It's harder and harder, Sign-up UIs are hiding it. Sign-in with Google or Facebook is really the norm nowadays.
My understanding is that the remark was made in general terms, though of course it may be interpreted as aimed at HK.

The BBC chose to make it specifically about Hongkong from the very first words of their article's title.
The growth of "dark pools" for electronic trading off of the stock exchanges has also been an important development in the last couple of decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pool
A New Aristocracy: Yale Law School commencement address (2015) [pdf]
In a true sense the Orion 1.6i was shit but not at the time, at the time it was high in the list of cars you'd want at 18 (I was born 80 so I remember lusting after them) particularly since it was the same engine as the XR3i without the utterly cripling insurance/reputation.

I still have a soft spot for that era but I'd have the even more naff (and lethal) Capri.
Keycloak as a service - Create your own realm on our keycloak cluster
In some states (NY is one) those 10 year battery ones are the only ones legal to sell.

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/04/01/n...
It's now just a built feature of a traders bloomberg terminal. https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberg-launches-t...
From this story, it seems they only get to decide what apps you access their services through, which seems entirely reasonable, no?
A household wiki. Contains all kinds of information about our house and lives. We used to track stuff like this in a google doc but it was getting unwieldy.

I wasn't happy with any of the free wiki hosting solutions available so I ended up self-hosting a mediawiki site. It's been...challenging...to convince my wife and family to adapt and use wiki markup.

I've been considering switching to something that uses standard markdown instead since it's easier to write with.
Even without ad blocking, simply circumventing CSRF and hitting API endpoints is usually a breach of any TOS by itself, especially one that provides its own clients (or has occasionally refused to, see Amazon FireTV).

Those downvoting the parent, can you add to the discussion?
I see the point and I wouldn't want to go to live on Mars as the 'first wave', but there are people on earth living in the harshest environments because they are used to living there.

Some towns in Russia, or Canada where its deadly cold outside in the winter. Why don't they move out of there?

People are more adaptive then you'd give them credit for it.
> Everyone knows Spanish criminal law isn't up to modern European human rights standards

Sight. And there they go again... with their obvious lies and stupid statements that don't resist two minutes of research.
There are some call outs in this worth talking about...

> Apple 2019: only a limited number of hardware works out of the box, even for popular devices like Android phones.

Is the Android issue on Apple or on Google. Each is very much into ecosystem lock-in. Who is failing to write the integration software?

IMHO, it would be far better for consumers if these things were like plumbing or electrical. You can mix and match from different manufacturers because of standard sizes and interfaces.

> Apple 2019: if your problem is not google-trivial, there's nothing you can do. Calling Apple's tech support line does not help, because they will just type your problem description into Google and read the first hit.

How much of this is UX and expectations. I imagine the person writing this isn't an average consumer. Is the expectation someone who can do level 4 tech support rather than the tech support reps on the front lines? Those front line people trained to handle general consumers rather than people who read HN.
Yes. My 2012 retina MacBook was getting long in the tooth last year, so I got an X1 Carbon with all the bells and whistles. Remarkably, the on board LTE just plain never worked. (It would randomly die after a few uses requiring a hard reboot.) The screen bezel delaminated and has to be replaced. Developed three dead pixels after a few months of use. Recently started rebooting randomly with a full battery. My dad had similar problems with an X1 Carbon which he bought on my recommendation.

And Windows 10 is still bad. So many apps are not DPI aware. Windows Store apps are better in this regard, but often are stripped down and bereft of features. (Out of the box it was unusable. I installed LTSC which made things better. But I haven’t had to reinstall my OS, except to sell a machine, since I first moved to Mac from Linux in 2007.)

My wife, by contrast, bit the bullet and got a 2018 MacBook Pro to replace her 2012 retina. It took her a bit to adjust to the new keyboard, but she’s a much happier camper than I am.
Will Libra Be Stillborn?
I had the same intuition as well. I'm wondering if this is a scare story generated by a google employee to get people to stop using NewPipe.
How partitioned tables increase performance under the hood? Are they written to separate files, etc.?
Yeah, something with your config. I don't see those using uBlock Origin.
I use to have three Gmail accounts (notifications, mailing lists and personal). After the 2012 domestic spying revelations, I deleted all of them, extracted all my Gmail and hosted my own. It's so much nicer than dealing with Google's fucking terribly broken IMAP interface and over aggressive spam filter (which has bitten me too):

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made...

..although e-mail delivery has seemed to be getting better in the past year.

My current Google account has no g-mail connected to it, which has lead to some interested bugs in Hangouts (you can't search for Google contacts once G+ went away, even if you clearly see them in current chats).

I also host my own Calendar/Contacts using Radicale + DavX (formerly DavDroid)
I was more thinking of a kind of "Right to keep at least a basic service"... a bit like a kind of GDPR

ANY identity provider (meaning email, facebook, ...) can terminate any account BUT MUST provide a temporary (maybe 1 month) minimum service (maybe only replying to incoming emails for example, with a cap) to allow identity migration out of the platform... because identity can't be owned by anybody.

It doesn't need to apply to ANY website, ONLY to website providing some identity service (like email or auth provider).

And this could be quite a simple law. It wouldn't forbid the website to cancel accounts, only would they have to give enough time and functionalities to properly manage the cancellation and its impact on the user digital life
I stumbled on this accidentally when I started to dial information (411) and meant to hang up with my finger before the last '1'. Instead, the switch hook "bounced" (making the click signifying the last '1') and I got connected anyway. (A bummer since every call to information was a charge on your bill.)

Still, once I figured that out my friends and I would try to call girls we liked using this method. The skill involved and the fact that you'd fail 2/3 of the time would distract you from the fear of actually talking to the girl once you got connected. "Oh, sh*t! It worked. Oh, hi, Rachel. I was playing around with the phone and must've accidentally dialed you."
Subscription for plants? Really?
You're focusing on "files" as they compare to things very different from them. But imagine for a moment what an OS with an object store in place of a filesystem, would be like. Pretty much exactly the same, except that the scratch buffers backing temp files and databases wouldn't hang off the object-store "tree", but rather would either be anonymous (from mmap(2)), or would be represented by a device node (i.e. a logical volume) rather than being objects themselves. All the freestanding read-only asset bundles, executables, documents, etc. would stay the same, since these were always objects being emulated under a filesystem to begin with.

And downloads would also be objects. Because, when you think about it, at least over HTTP, downloads and uploads already are of objects—the source doesn't get allocated a scratch buffer on the destination that it can then freely seek(2) around and write(2) into; instead, the source just streams a representation to the dest, that gets buffered until it's complete, and then a new object is constructed on the dest from that full local stream-buffered copy. (WebDAV introduces some file semantics into HTTP's representational object semantics, but it doesn't actually go all the way to enabling you to mount a DBMS over WebDAV.) Other protocols are similar (e.g. FTP; SMTP.) Even BitTorrent is working with objects, once you realize that it's the pieces of your files that are the objects. Rsync is the only weird protocol, that would really need to be reimplemented in terms of syscalls to allocate explicit durable scratch buffers. (That and SMB/NFS/AFP/etc., but those are protocols with the explicit goal of exposing a share on a remote host as something with filesystem semantics, so you'd kind of expect them to need filesystem support on the local machine.)

Now, want to know something interesting? We already have this. Any inherently copy-on-write filesystem, like APFS or btrfs, is actually an object store masquerading as a filesystem. You get filesystem semantics, but they're layered on on top of object-storage semantics, and it's more efficient when you strip them away and use the object storage semantics directly (like when using btrfs send/receive, or when telling APFS to directly clone a container.) And these filesystems also have exactly what I mentioned above: special syscalls (or in this case, file attributes) to allocate scratch buffers that bypass Copy-on-Write, for things like databases.

There's no reason that a modern ground-up OS (e.g. Google's Fuchsia) would need to use a filesystem rather than an object store. A constructive proof's already there that it can be done, just obscured a bit behind a need for legacy compatibility; a need that wouldn't be there in a ground-up OS design.

(Or, you can take as a constructive proof any "cloud native" unikernel design that just uses IaaS object/KV/tuple/document-storage service requests as its "syscalls", and has no local persistent storage whatsoever, never even bothering to understand block devices attached to it by its hypervisor.)
Don't keep your photos in only one place if you care about them, even if that place is Google.

Google Photos is a handy worst-case backup for your photos, but it's not magic and you really need to keep another copy somewhere.
The terms "first world" and "third world" are often taken to mean a level of socioeconomic development, but that wasn't the intended meaning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
You seem to be failing at listening to dissenters yourself.

Turning on strict mode was wrong - yesterday. The correct thing is to understand why it isn't on, come up with a plan to get strict on, and then convince everybody the plan is correct. This is much harder and takes longer but is correct.
You should check first that lowering the desert's albedo with trees is not worse than keeping the CO2 in the air.
Unless I'm wrong Google explicitly allows you to use multiple Google Accounts for different purposes, unlike say Facebook. Were all your accounts banned together or your main account was closed for creating the rest? In any case they should give valid reason for account closure... this is just unethical.
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution
Because TSMC Taiwan is very important to the whole world.
Perhaps the easiest way to implement this is to require all ultra high efficiency vehicles.

- UPS already uses natural gas and often hybrid electric

- Prius-es are common as cabs (often lower tco)
Nice. I used this a dozen times over the outage period. Thank you for your work!
Obama vs. Trump: ideas flow and clustering with networks
Is your Mac running the external monitor in its native resolution?

I have a 4k display, and when I select the "Looks like 3840 x 2160" option, UI elements are too small. Selecting "Looks like 2560 x 1440" results in blurry fonts. So I've selected "Looks like 1920 x 1080", and thanks to Retina, fonts are crystal clear. Unfortunately, UI elements (such as the menu bar at the top of the screen) are pretty gigantic now, but I live with it.
Well, actually, AG Barr is actively trying to get rid of encrypted communications, and social scores are just as possible to implement in the US as in China, and indeed, we already know that a form of such scoring has already been applied to those thought to perhaps be "terrorists".

So although China is not equivalent to the US at this time, we don't exactly have much claim to the moral high ground, either, nor any right to get cocky about it.
Get a good engineer notebook or any notebook and take notes when someone is teaching/training you.

It looks really bad if you have to go ask them something they have already told you.
A film camera superimposes the date onto photos [video]
I mean, sort of. Many large companies seem happy enough to do whatever they think the CCP wants.
We thought some evil AI would take over the world and make arbitrary decisions that we struggle to undo.

But really humans are happy to do it to each other ...
There's a tool called arandr that'll let you do most of this visually: I use it everytime I rearrange my monitors.
+1 for even having a conversation with family about wiki markup. You are a baller.
I really appreciate the increasing levels of technical accuracy the further this thread grows. Hacker News draws in subject matter experts like moths to a flame.

Reminds me of the old futurama quote- technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Yeah the earth is a very complex system. When YC came out and proposed the idea of proposed turning the Sahara into a bunch of algae ponds [1] I cringed. First the plan requires more power than we currently produce just to pump all the water but then you would drastically reduce how much gets blown over to the Amazon AND you would suddenly introduce a tremendous amount of moisture to the atmosphere which would almost certainly change global weather patterns.

All of that moisture could cause a considerable increase in rainfall for somewhere (presumably the Amazon, I don't know anything about weather modelling though and am just guessing) which could be catastrophic for life there and even result in tremendous economic losses.

Even relatively small scale geoengineering like damns can have profound negative impacts on ecosystems with some being very predictable and some being completely wildcard. We know the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon but what level does it effect marine life by feeding stuff at the bottom of the food chain (plankton for example) and what would removing that mineral/nutrient source do to the food chain, would it increase rains (and cloud cover) over that area of ocean that might change temperatures subtly enough to make an impact on currents, etc. We're at the point now as a species where we have the power of gods but can't begin to understand the implications of what we are capable of doing.

[1] http://carbon.ycombinator.com/desert-flooding/
Digitize Your Standups
Sorry, I don't think that is true at all. For one developer there are 5 Job offers. I know multiple people who wrote 14 applications and got 14 offers. Others did not even bother to write any because they got so much offers from headhunters.
Tech Companies didn't plan for Chinese censorship
Listen. Talk very little. Good luck!
The point is - I didn't "ask" anybody to upgrade, this was pushed harder than a time share.

How about I rephrase: "I felt lied to and taken advantage of, and I decided not to bother being a customer any longer, given that I shopped there very infrequently and despise high pressure sales tactics."

In the end, this is about my personal customer experience, which I've subjectively decided sucked enough to outweigh the utility I got from Costco membership. I can't stand pushy salespeople, and I basically argued with the cashier for several minutes telling him that I didn't want to upgrade. I said no at least five or six times.

I should have just stuck to my position, but after I was told that there was literally no way to lose money even if I never took any action to get a refund, I caved because I wanted to go home.
If Google PlayProtect is enabled it'll be aware of the NewPipe app on the phone or any other Google components may track its usage. Alternatively Youtube could detect the newpipe usage on their end and cross check with the client IP adress collected via the regular YT app. It's certainly possible to detect it.
What I find most ironic is that outside of Search, Youtube is probably the least linked Google service to your account that springs to mind. Ban your account? Private mode and/or VPN and you can access YouTube again. Can't get the curated lists thing that your data can provide, but you can still access the site.

Whereas Drive, Mail, etc. are all deeply connected to it. So seems the punitive measure is specifically setup to have the most impact on you. Within their right, granted, but I feel for anyone who shares a device with someone who wants to circumvent ads in YouTube while they're logged in as they could be the person punished for reasons they don't understand.
There should be a law like GDPR that forces them to justify account terminations, provide feedback, and even be sued for doing so, whatever their EULAs saw (and make that part illegal to enforce).
An app that exclusively offers third party sign in.. not all apps. Apple is forcing choice: it isn’t going to allow an app that only allows Google for sign in (and not email.) That’s a win. Apple is saying that you can’t only offer Google sign in. If you allow standard email/password you don’t have to allow Sign In with Apple. Apple says: “either allow normal sign in or, if you only allow 3rd party, then one of the choices should be Apple.

Basically Apple says: you are required to offer choices and you can’t force users to only use Facebook/Google. A big difference and a big win for choice.
> whatever China does in its own borders is it’s own business

No. Even if this were a moral position, China doesn't follow this either.

Human rights should not be geofenced.
Ultimately the people who buy up housing in major cities as a place to park money are going to end up shooting themselves in the foot.

Parking a few million dollars in a Manhattan apartment is desirable because it's unlikely to lose value and you can actually use it when you visit. But if all the apartments are owned by people who mostly don't live there and only visit a few times a year, the thing that made them valuable - being located in a desirable, dynamic city where lots of people live and work, is no longer going to be true and they're going to lose value.

Cities should implement punitively high property taxes on any homes or apartments that are not used as a primary residence, either by the owner or a tenant.
Hmm, I don't see "Do you have to destroy another email account in order to set it up?" on the FAQ list. I suppose, arguably, a user would be impelled to use the service by witnessing the destruction of an account near and dear to them, perhaps enough to split their soul...
Not just private entities; democratic states tend not to produce meaningful policy that reaches beyond their electoral terms.
It's just LiDAR.

They manipulate the data on a computer to explore the landscape (digitally removing tree canopies and things like that)
This is an idiom.

It's like if a politician/government member in the UK/US said that the opposition would be crushed. Would anyone focus on whether that was meant literally?

I think sometimes Western media try a bit too hard to interpret statements by the Chinese government in the worst and most sensationalist way.
I've heard from one Android freelancer developer, that he creates pristine VM for new project, uses it via VPN, creates new Google Account, uses it only inside that VM and does not use that VM for other tasks, so there's no correlation between his accounts.
and distributed in a progressive manner

and run without a profit motive
The thing about SIDS is that it's basically a catch-all for every infant death that can't be explained otherwise. The relative risk is already very low and didn't really change after the back to sleep campaign started.[1]

If you look into the research there are a number of things that greatly elevate the relative risk of SIDS. Belly sleeping is, as far as I understand it, way down on the list but for parents that don't have any of the other risk factors going on it's really easy to point at and say "if you do this you will kill your baby because SIDS".

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3356149/
Becasue X11 doesn't support mixed dpi monitors, so you are using a hack where it pretends to have the same dpi and downsample where necessary.

For proper mixed dpi under Linux, you must use Wayland. But then, under Wayland, the fractional scaling is still not done (the wayland apps will work fine at given fractional scale, but x11 app will be @1 upsampled, i.e. blurry. That includes the browsers).
If it takes taxes from some other BS, like military spending, it is practically free.
These LIDAR maps are really cool. There are some really interesting maps of the Amazon too:

https://www.businessinsider.nl/archaeologists-found-previous...
I'd say this is a perfect example of the opposite.

The title makes this sound quite odd, but when you actually see the finished result it's fascinating and beautiful.
Genre is important here. One's choice of language when playfully communicating with friends will be different than the language used to communicate in a legal brief or a scientific paper. We adapt our language to our audience and the occasion to communicate our ideas. Being thoughtful and considerate to our audience is important on all occasions.
It's not permanent though, the land is reclaimed after mining
That's fair.

In the shorter term, I think it's true enough. Germany and Japan (both wealthy, highly developed nations) have both increased consumption of coal in order to move away from nuclear. I won't argue that's what they will do in the longer term though.
Some commenters on the thread suggested that Play Protect reports to Google that your device (linked to your account) uses this app. I'm not sure that's true, but I disabled it nonetheless.
Wanted to stay.

I've generally either agreed with or appreciated your points in this thread, but this one triggered a reflex in me which has been honed by Brexit.

If we're talking about what a population of people want, we should qualify it with a reference to which poll we are citing. Otherwise it sounds far too agenda-y.
Every time an automatic google account suspension comes up, I like to let everyone know that my google adsense account has been suspended for 15 years. I’m still waiting waiting for my follow up on why.

Even 15 years ago right after they launched the service they were already having computers make decisions without human review or oversight.