skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not entirely sure how I feel about everything becoming a "subscription". On one hand, it is great for people new to an area to just jump right in, on the other, do we really need to pay someone to ship us plants every so often? Not just plants, but other things too. It is getting harder and harder to find something you can't get in subscription form.

I guess if it is working, keep at it. If anyone has the resources, a list outlining all these niche subscription services would be neat to see.
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Well, that makes perfect sense!

If Google is providing an API to easily download things through (e.g.) HTTPS, it may also intercept and poison these requests when they are directed to one of their services and get some extra information from it!
This thing isn't by Hiren. It's by “fans” of Hiren. If Hiren had anything at all to do with it I wouldn’t have said anything. The fact that a totally anonymous group is appropriating Hiren’s name means I won’t be touching this thing with a ten-foot pole until someone has vetted it.
I call BS on the story. But the fact that this is somewhat plausible and probably within Google’s rights is telling.
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A few years ago, I lost my primary Google account to a mishap with two factor authentication.

It was a stupid mistake on my part. I didn't save any of my backup codes, and then ended up doing a factory reset on my Android phone. Well, on a fresh device, I no longer had the Authenticaor app that spits out the 2FA codes. And that was all.. she... wrote.

My primary e-mail. All of my play store purchases. Everything... gone. I tried the accounts recovery process. Followed everything to a 'T. Even directly identified recent e-mail in my inbox as they asked. But it was not sufficient, and I have never been able to get it back.
> Putting aside the horrible human rights issues with China, it’s amazing to see what they’re doing with infrastructure.

Mussolini got the trains running on time, and China has hundreds of thousands of Uyghur and Muslim people locked away in concentration camps.

Do you consider what side of history you're on when you "put aside" such behavior?
Why does JavaScript have so many names?
On Digital Ocean's S3-compatible service for example, $5/month gets you 250GB storage and 1TB egress. $0.02/GB additional storage and $0.01/GB additional egress.

So if you have 5GB of videos that ALL get watched 10,000 times you will be out $500, so maybe problematic. Or calculated another way, 2.2mbps is good for 720p and comes out to 1GB/hour, so your cost is basically $0.01 per hour of video streamed (plus $5/month).
wireframes are 'blocky' on purpose, they are meant to aid in initial stages of the design process.
Do you guys think Vanced for YouTube and ViperFX could be next? It could be that it's happened to a lot of people but gone unreported.
I. Might. When. Google. Sells. A. Sub. $300. Phone.
I am not a native english speaker so I don't know if you're trying to take my words literally too.

It's just conveying an intensity, not any specific action. Just like how "wiping the floor" with someone doesn't mean you're going to beat someone unconscious and use their body as a literal mop. That would warrant immediately calling the police or justifiable homicide in self-defense. That's obviously an insane way to interpret that phrase but that's what I am seeing here.

It's still a menacing threat but no chinese person is interpreting it as tanks being imminent (like how many english speakers would interpret the threat of literal crushed bones). If tanks do roll in, it is an escalation of the current situation but it's nowhere close to what is being said here.
It should have more demonstrations of the product. I've readed the text 2-3 times and still didn't get what does it do.
So if I use Adblock then am i screwed as well?
That comment was obviously a metaphor choosing "nano" as it's the coolest prefix, but since this is Hacker news I suppose now we have to fact-check a metaphor.

A Geforce 1080, at the high end of "normal" computing claims about 350 gigaflops. Divide through and we get 350 floating point calculations per nanosecond as an absolute maximum. Depending on what the numbers actually are and what method we make the human use (expert abacus users are surprisingly fast) that looks more like an hour's work for the human.

This just highlights how absolutely tiny a nanosecond is, though. Those speeds are only valid for numbers already within the processor; fetching from DRAM could be hundreds of nanoseconds. Also recall Grace Hopper's excellent video with a nanosecond of cable length, which is about a foot long.
I'm 4 months into my new job and was pulled into a meeting on thursday. Apparently I ruffled feathers by asking questions in an email chain, which is how I found myself spending this weekend thinking about how I'm going to transition out of this job.

You don't just lose out on the opportunity to improve, you lose your best developers.

And the way they went about it was just shitty. I suddenly found myself getting blamed for lost productivity because I turned on MySQL's "strict" mode in our QA DB. Apparently it was better to continue allowing MySQL to silently truncate data across the app.

This was my first foray back into a "job" and I've decided it isn't for me. I don't think I'm built for it, I'm going back to working for myself.
Why do you think Smart Meters are being pushed?
Finish my CS degree and do internships while in college instead of switching to English because it was easy. Biggest regret of my life (so far) that I'm still struggling to overcome 14 years later.
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All the fees were kind of B.S. especially as technology made providing the switching, call-forwarding and caller ID ring services easier and cheaper to provide.

Besides, remember that they used to charge _rent_ for your phone and wouldn't allow 3rd party phones at all until the late 60's or so.
not the person you're responding to, but I have G Suite and I have my domain pointed at Google for mail. If for some reason Google came down hard on me, I could login to Namecheap and setup email to be handled by another provider (Microsoft, ProtonMail, whoever). So if someone emailed me at my email address, the only gap I risk is between the last time I read my emails and when I setup the new provider. Added bonus, "forgot password" on various sites will continue to work at this stage and I don't have to mass email people that my email address is now name@domain.tld.
> but it will come as a shock to many people when they have to start paying for email again

I bet people will prefer "need to pay" as a shock instead of "locked out" as a shock (with no option of getting your stuff back). I certainly would prefer the former.
It wasn’t actually a joke. The group that made this thing is completely anonymous and they have appropriated a respected name to get attention for their thing. So I want it vetted before I’ll rely on it for anything.
I don't know how we came to this point. Laptops in 2019 certainly suck across the board. A good keyboard is almost impossible to find and reliability isn't a thing we even consider.

In contrast, I don't think there has ever been a better time for desktops. Mechanical keyboards have become fashionable again, AMD has brought the fight to Intel's table, and GPUs have never been faster and cheaper.
Okay, to be fair to the blog post, I overlooked this later in the article:

> Though Article 10 “restricts” access to matters involving national security, the definition of national security in China is so broad that there is no real limitation on what can be accessed, copied and removed.

Well, if you say so.
One possibility is to work on contract only, billing appropriately (i.e. significantly more than "permanent" salary), so that you _know_ it's just temporary. This way, you don't have as much emotional whiplash of thinking of this as your future and then it gets pulled away. Of course, it's not for everyone, just suggesting a possibility.
BTW, this is the command I'm using:

sudo xrandr --output DP-3 --scale 2x2 --mode 1920x1080 --fb 7680x2160 --pos 3840x0 --output eDP-1 --mode 3840x2160 --pos 0x0

DP-3 being my external full-HD display, placed to the right.
Many pharmaceutical manufacturers offer the same sort of online verification portal, especially for products sold outside the USA.
lmao and I thought it was just the apps I was using, glad to know it is Twitter
> These types of systems are generally not competitive with PV for electricity, since they require a lot of concentrated solar energy thus limiting the options for deployment.

> However, they are great for generating heat. And with heat you can trivially desalinate water.

Not trying to be a PITA, but to your first point, suggest you provide a citation if you're going to make a sweeping claim. I'm actually interested in this claim.

To your second point, while desalination at scale isn't 'rocket science', it isn't exactly trivial. Having designed and worked on desalination plants for commercial ships, yes, you can buy an off the shelf evaporator. However, you still need to carefully design the heat supply system and pressure regulation.

Also, you have to carefully manage the highly corrosive brine discharge. When I say corrosive, I mean this stuff is NASTY. At sea, it's a little easier, because you are constantly moving can kust discharge it overboard (although the environmental impacts are becoming increasingly apparent, so I'm not sure that direct discharge option will last much longer). However, you still need thick/expensive corrosion resistant brine discharge line piping/valves/etc. (or you will be replacing pipe often). Ashore, you need to manage to transport the brine away and somehow dilute it to a point where it's non-toxic.

You also have to carefully manage scaling inside of the evaporator, and I'm telling you this scaling is not something you can just brush off. This stuff is like a mollusk she'll coating on all of your internally heat transfer surfaces. If you can remove it with a chisel and hammer and not damage your system, you're a better person than I.

I'm not saying it's not doable, there are land-based desalination plants all over the place. I'm just saying it's not as simple as running some heating coils in a tub of water and collecting the evaporated water.
By commenting that you are European, are you trying to stay out of the US hosting megalith entirely?

Fastmail has been a great provider for me but, despite being Australian, I believe they are US hosted.
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This sucks, but... is NewPipe just a proxy to YouTube videos (and other services, it looks like) that excludes the ads?

After a few pages, the linked github issue devolves into discussions around "how Google could detect you're using NewPipe" instead of whether or not you should be allowed to use it. That makes me think it's more in the realm of "we know this is against the rules but you can secretly use it" rather than a grey area of what's allowed or not.

It's more of a controversial take, but I'm honestly surprised people don't get banned for using Adblockers in general. This seems even worse than an adblocker (in that it just flat-out steals videos from YouTube and puts it in its own ad-less interface), so I'm not surprised that 1) it likely violates YouTube's terms and conditions, and 2) that violating YouTube's T&C is grounds for terminating your account.
Posteo (which i use) and mailbox are great paid options
For free e-mail you'd go with protomail or tutanota
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I've had a little cactus on my desk before but have always thought it would be nice to have something a little greener, maybe leafier.

Does anyone have any suggestions for bringing a little bit of nature to a desk? One of those enclosed terrariums? Some kind of hardy succulent?
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Being able to reliably run it on hardware that isn't marked up to an absurd degree.
Microsoft flight simulator 2020 This looks
This seems silly?

a) Plants need to be carefully picked for their habitat/location/which room in the house etc

b) Plants need varying amounts of care

c) 1 a month quickly scales to unwieldy numbers if you are able to keep your plants alive, unless this is aimed at the disposable "fast fashion" part of plants?

That being said, indoor plants are the best. I can't help but feel like this is the equivalent of those fake/plastic plants though.
I haven't had a Google account for over 5 years now, after my account got suspended for no apparent reason. The only thing I can think of that raised the alarm at Google was that I created two other accounts using the same IP and device, and Google must have thought I was gaming their system and engaging in some sort of Sybil attack[0] on their network. Two other accounts is hardly grounds for suspension. But 100 or even 1000 other accounts and Google are within their rights to ban me.

Anyways I since switched to Protonmail for frivolous web signups & registering on sites, and then I use Fastmail for various business dealings / freelancing / anything related to finance like Paypal, online banking, etc. I simply can't afford to be arbitrarily banned by Google again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
I recommend watching Arthur Kent's documentary (2019) of Tiananmen Square. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA4iKSeijZI
I'm not using GMail's web interface. My mailreader (Apple Mail) allows me to select from which address I'm mailing.

Admittedly this doesn't work from my mobile GMail app, but I don't send a lot of work-related email (which my alternate address is for) from my smartphone.
Doubtful, the youtube-dl python library is used by thousands of people and sites to download youtube videos and while API changes break it often, I've never heard of anyone getting their IP banned or an associated account banned from using it.

Even though I have Youtube Red (through my google music subscription), I watch most of my Youtube videos through mpv which uses youtube-dl to download the videos. There are no ads and it requires no account to use yet I've seen no reports on their bug tracker of getting banned.
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It sounds to me like this user was banned for an entirely different reason. Like for example, someone stole his login credentials, fired up hundreds of VM's on GCloud, and started mining Monero.
This reads like the "Deploying on a Friday Afternoon Greatest Hits".
They could also buy the existing debt from current lenders then wait for the inevitable restructuring before putting more money in and getting equity out of that without having to buy it from Neumann. They seem to have rejected that approach given this news but it would be interesting to know why - is it because they think it would damage the business (tenants leaving etc in reaction to a restructuring/insolvency) or because they were worried about the reputational damage to Softbank/Vision Fund?
your definition of "trivial" is different from mine haha

(fwiw: my propensity for installing new DEs and distros in the hope of solving all my problems was what made me leave linux in the first place)
I last used KDE about a year ago, so I'm not sure if this is still a problem, but even KDE doesn't let you slow down mouse cursor speed, only make it faster. Is that still the case?

They didn't even have a slider for controlling mouse speed, only a numerical text entry. It boggles the mind.
NewPipe itself is open-source. It's using the OS infrastructure to make requests (https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/ce17ccad27af0aba...).

One would have to do a deep-read of the implementation of those APIs to know what they might leak (or toss a packet sniffer in the network stack).
In a different comment, you wrote:

> The 737 can be flown just fine without MCAS turned on as it has absolutely nothing to do with making the aircraft stable.

which suggests that MCAS would not have been necessary for certification, if the MAX was being certified as a completely new aircraft type.
> Catalonia has been part of Spain for around 300 years.

I bet that this land didn't arrived in a ship and was in the same place for a few millions of years at least. Spain has more than 300 years of history.
It looks unfinished because it's meant for you to apply your own styles to it. It's unopinionated.

From what they say on Product Hunt, it's all connected to a design so you can change styles once, and they get applied everywhere, so you can apply your project's palette etc, and boom, it looks right.

The idea is that you can very quickly wireframe any kind of sales site and make it your own. It looks like it could be very useful, as there are so many variations on each component.

What's really interesting is that it seems to also have a bootstrap version of everything, so after you quickly mock it up, you can quickly code something that matches. Again, adding your own styles. With Figma outputting CSS, that should work very nicely.

Wow. By answering your question, I've just sold myself on buying it.

[EDIT - EXPIRED CODE] Discount code on the product hunt site: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/source-wireframe-kit?utm_s...
FWIW, my new MacBook using an external dock and USB-C to display port has insane problems. I have to unplug and plug back in at least once per day, and even worse, sometimes after sleep the monitor will work, but typing and clicking will be laggy, which I am sometimes able to resolve only by unplugging the monitor and plugging back in, but other times it requires a restart.
Even if that's the case they may change it with some new ML/AI solution in the future. Then run it retroactively on past data.

That's the thing, you have no control over what Google does and little recourse once they do it.
That doesn't sound like it would survive a fight with an Information Commissioner.
Yes, I acknowledge this in the second sentence of my comment.
Epic comment :)

If it makes anyone feel better wrt their religion of choice, Mac users have been using scripts in this spirit to force WiFi reconnection on wakeup.

Sent from my iPhone
Moved my email to Tutanota for $12/yr... well worth the $
Yes. Whatever the real specifics of this particular case, some number of users will inevitably lose access to their accounts in a way that they can't recover from. Arguably, with business services, there will always to some way to reliably establish identity with fallback systems. But, at some point with free/ad-supported/etc. consumer services a provider is sometimes, if hopefully rarely, just going to go "Nope. Can't establish your identity or overlook this ToS violation. No recourse." and showing up in Mountain View with physical documentation isn't going to be an option.

It's not an ideal state of affairs. But the alternative would probably need to be more rigorous identity verification and locking down of systems.
It is possible to not use google for payroll, subscriptions and keeping in touch with family. That people allow Google to have prongs in every aspect of their life — that’s on them. Just because Google enables you to put all of your eggs in one basket doesn’t mean you should.
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I started working on forecasting revenue/cost with Facebook Prophet and I have all the history revenue data at hand.
Are there any better options to do such tasks though? Many thanks.
If you were to be moving capital illegally, my bet is that Hong Kong is the way you go if you are Chinese. It's close, people speak the language, lots of established chinese companies there; and if the gov. find out you just hide there since they can't extradite you?
Not everyone does that. I don't. ;)
Or how it works at all. Is it like a shallow ground-penetrating radar? If not, how does it find these sites? The article left more questions than it gave answers.
for anyone interested - HL-NHB285-NP08B is a 30k lumen light for 150 dollars. it's 5000 kelvin color temperature. i parked one over my home office desk. it's like being outside at the park feeding birds, but inside. says 92 dollars per year power consumption. i dont know the terms of that calculation

tbf i know your unit of lux takes into account the distance over which the energy is dispersed and mine of lumens, does not

edit: a friend asked how to wire it. this is probably illegal in your jurisdiction but you can just lop the ends of an extension cord off, and direct wire the copper ends in and plug it into a wall outlet. you dont even need to buy wire nuts or any other accessory, other than possibly a hook, to hang the hook mount that comes with this unit. it took me like 10 minutes. this is not advice, no warranty is implied by my comment, i disavow all your actions if you do this. someone please correct my post and i will edit mine.
> So, Apple products should not be used in towns without an Apple Store. Sounds about right.

FTFY.

I don’t care if there’s an Apple-store 50km away if I need my computer working now.
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Really surprising that more companies aren’t doing this. I did a quick search and saw that The Princeton Review was doing this (https://techscience.org/a/2015090102/index.php) on their own. Of course I bet if this became more common, consumers would start to get annoyed and try to game the system.

Cool website though.
Disclaimer: I don't currently save anything, because I'm building my own tool to manage this. My tool is partially designed around human retention of information and relationship between pieces of information, ala mind-mapping/etc - this influences what I plan on saving.

In the past, I've used most of the software out there to lots of varying types of data. From birthdays, to work notes, goals, thoughts, plans and more. In the end I've found that the more dynamic pieces of information like notes, todos, plans and such are so flexible and hastily created that inserting them into some robust tooling felt unneeded. Furthermore, when trying to jot down ideas or software design plans I wanted something more free flying. A single input box didn't feel as open as a piece of paper. So for these pieces of data I've taken to writing into a dotted journal, and enjoy it quite a bit.

My plans for the longer lasting PKB data are focused on retaining conclusions I create in life, the context of the time, and the sources that went into this conclusion. Politics, science, relationships and life. I realized that the information I build my identity around is, at least for me, all too easily forgotten. I decide that X political candidate is unqualified, but not why they were, and especially not what sources of information I got that from. Furthermore, I fear manipulation, and I want to keep track of facts, not simply be swayed by the masses of opinions on the internet.

My primary goal for a PKB is to help me navigate the world of over information. Keeping track of sources, to help me back trace information if it's subject to question. I want to be able to back up things I "believe" with the facts that led me to that conclusion. My PKB is, I guess, a sort of version control for the mutable state of my mind. At least, that is what I am attempting.

As an aside, this software is being designed around information sharing as well. I want the effort people put into research to be easily digestible, trackable, searchable and sharable. I've made a whole host of decisions and concessions around these goals for this software, and I hope one day it helps people, more than just myself.

.. quite the long post. sorry :)