skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The occasional post on HN to the tune of "proprietary solution our company relies on just increased price by 10x - what can we do?" validates your feelings. When you rely on something you don't own, you are in someone else's control. And they tend to use that control to benefit at your expense.
You're not out of touch with the technically-inclined. That's not the majority of people. Everything you describe w/ incredulity is what I see, in some part, the majority of non-technical people people doing. They usually have a phone as their primary computing device, too, which further erodes the concept of owning your data (and of files, for that matter).
The reason relativity calls their rocket Terran 1 is they want to make “Ares 1/Luna 1“ someday :)
Maybe, but more important, a potential hacker cannot see me nor my family anymore
A few friends and I created a community to help maintain abandoned OSS projects, and one of our goals is to foster newcomers and help them make their first contributions to open source projects.

If you want to start (or know someone who does), please point them to our page:

https://www.codeshelter.co/mentorship/
Presumably from third party channels, but keep in mind steam balance can be used to purchase (and I think also gift) games from a storefront that offers the vast majority of modern releases. So it's still pretty useful to have steam balance.
decentralization or fragmented market.
Same here. I even make a point to grab a cracked copy of any game I buy on steam so that if the service goes under, or they decide to remove it from my library (like when amazon secretly removed copies of "1984" from people's kindles) I'll still have access to the games I paid for.
The new Azure Kinect is really impressive.

I've used the og Kinect, Kinect v2, and intel realsense d435 and it was much more accurate then all of those.
Our industry was attempted to be shaken down by hacks filing frivolous lawsuits against single owners.
Yeah, you can’t sneak past Amazon too easily. I am using their official API, so I’m trying to follow all of their rules and policies. Otherwise, I lose my affiliate status, and beyond having fun with this data, those affiliate fees are a significant motivator.
For universities, it actually is free (as in beer), aside from the university staff's compensation toward the migration.
There are two of them (although so far only one has been up at a time)
EDIT: Just read the README of the gov-takedowns repo and GitHub takes a much saner approach than I thought they did, so kudos to them.

If the letter appears in the official "gov-takedowns" repo, does that mean the content was actually taken down?

I find this whole trend quite worrying, where private companies based in one country, comply with the court orders of another country. Sure, they are allowed to, but what motivates them? Do they genuinely think they are helping the world? Are they worried about bad press? The freedom of information and thought seems like an ideal that has been lost from most major sites nowadays and isn't coming back.
Agreed. I'm in the same boat and have been a happy Vue subscriber for a couple years now. With regard to Vue being "far from the cheapest" I'd argue Sony offers a far more compelling service for the money. Everyone else has janky "DVR" pricing. For example Hulu charges you for "enhanced" DVR which gives you 200 hours and adds in the capability to fast-forward. Really? We all know there's no such thing as cloud "DVR" so the hourly limit imposed is just a ridiculous upsell strategy for something every service is storing everything already and just playing it on demand. But Sony did it the right way. Unlimited DVR but you could only save a recorded program for a specific amount of time. And they don't upsell you into fast-forward or streaming on more than 2 devices simultaneously (I believe Sony allowed 5 which is way more than I need but also far more reasonable). I'm not the biggest fan of Sony but the service only had two outages I experienced. Anyway... RIP Sony Vue. Now I'm stuck finding another service that works well across a few different platforms again.
> I certainly don't feel exploited.

Sure this is your subjective perception, maybe fuelled by the positive reinforcement that rituals of accomplishment provide and the fact that working on physics is really fun. As long as you realise that you are playing a game that is unlikely to yield any economic or societal value (in the case of high-energy physics) at any time-scale with a group of people that have been playing the same game for >20 years with no discernible progress except for the discovery of one particle predicted >40 years ago.

> Suppose all TeV-scale colliders [..]

Well this is hypothetical, but what would most likely have happened is that the ~10000+ scientists involved with the LHC and high-energy physics had gone into different subfields of physics. Hopefully the same would have happened with funding (we don't want it to go to biologists, do we?). Since high-energy physics still attracts some of the best students, this would have actually disproportionately improved human capital in other areas of physics. Whether the Higgs was there or not was never a super pressing concern anyways. Condensed matter physics, bio-physics, environmental physics, all kinds of (mostly experimental) quantum physics still have discoveries to be made with ~1-10s of million in budget. Not only that a lot of those discoveries will have society level consequences in a time frame of decades. We are in contrast very unlikely to derive any benefit from studying the energy scales high-energy physics has reached. For those reasons I think funding high-energy physics is a huge net negative to overall societal progress.
> Interesting! I thought the first time 370/390 got some Unix features was around the late 90s. Wasn't very successful but interesting to play around on.

You are thinking of the Unix compatibility subsystem of z/OS (formerly known as OS/390, and before that as MVS). That came out around 1993. But prior to that there was a long history of running Unix on IBM (and IBM-compatible) mainframes as an independent operating system. This work at AT&T, I don't even think it was the first port, I think Princeton's port in 1977 was the first [1].

And then, as well as Princeton's VM/370-based port and AT&T's TSS/370-based port for 5ESS development, Amdahl UTS came out in 1981 (descended from the Princeton port) and IBM/Interactive Systems VM/IX around 1984; then in 1988, the IBM/Locus AIX/370, followed by AIX/390.

(Also some 1980s-era Japanese supercomputers from Hitachi and Fujitsu had a hardware architecture based on IBM mainframes and some of them also ran Unix, although I'm not sure which version.)

> Anyway, as far as I can remember it was soon superseded by the Linux subsystem.

It was never superseded per se, it still exists. But the use cases are different. If you just want a vanilla Unix-like environment on an IBM mainframe, run Linux – which is not a z/OS subsystem, it is separate independent operating system. If you want a Unix application environment which supports deep integration into legacy mainframe applications and subsystems (VSAM, CICS, IMS, ISPF, etc) then that is the use case for the z/OS Unix subsystem.

In the latest release of z/OS, IBM has brought in a third option: zCX [2]. This runs Linux-based Docker containers on a hypervisor inside z/OS. This is positioned for z/OS system administrators to be able to easily deploy and manage Docker containers on the mainframe without learning extensive Linux skills (which managing z/Linux requires), using mainly their existing z/OS skills along with learning a bit about Docker.

[1] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/portpap.pdf

[2] https://www.ibm.com/support/z-content-solutions/container-ex...
Yeah, I think so.

I wonder if is a special case of "surprise" - things that are surprising have more information value, and people react to information.

There's also the aspect of something being wrong - if something is wrong, people want to correct it - often angrily if the source advancing the wrong viewpoint is obstinate - and that's engagement.

I wonder if both of those can be teased out. Like, if something is surprising and correct, what's the engagement of that? That probably doesn't drive engagement as much as surprising and wrong.
Sure beats recording to a loop cassette tape and pitching down with vari-speed. From a convenience standpoint anyway
"Worlds of scarcity are made out of things. Worlds of abundance are made out of dependencies."

I don't necessarily agree with the abundance premise. Worlds of dependencies are worlds that demand time-consuming labor (ours or someone else's) to resolve and manage those dependencies, and time today is considerably more scarce than matter or energy. Even worse time unlike matter or energy cannot be manufactured or extracted with increasing efficiency. We have only so much time, period.

I remain unconvinced that post-skeuomorphism and everything-is-a-service are steps forward. In particular everything-is-a-service seems to work well only in domains where the thing being offered actually is a service in that it actually does require a continuous input of something behind the scenes.
LaTeX makes them obsolete in either case.
Yes, absolutely. Cloud is the new mainframe and SaaS is the new closed-source even if the software it's running behind the scenes is nominally open.
It’s difficult for me to feel sorry for Facebook. They do the world a disservice. I just hope this moves more people away from WhatsApp

Edit

Wow -2 in less than a minute. YC loves Facebook.
That, and all the other senses (GDPR, contracts) outlined in this thread.
Just open it in incognito mode to bypass the paywall.
I was curious too and looked into it.

Someone originally thought it would be a good idea to ignore EXIF data, and by the time someone else cared enough to address it, they were worried about breaking sites that had bad rotation EXIF data if browsers suddenly started honoring it.

Mozilla tried to add image-orientation: from-image CSS for this purpose, so sites could say "no actually the EXIF data really is good", but then no other browser vendor followed along.

So as usual, everything in computer science is just terrible for the sake of legacy compatibility with the first implementations ever made.
But climbing’s a lot cheaper than those things. If you’re in a midsize city you can get an unlimited gym membership for maybe $50 per month. Shoes, generously will run you $200 per year. That’s $800 per year all-in. The equipment alone, even without the travel or membership expenses, seems higher for the other hobbies listed.
This is perfect for golf! Thanks!
All they'd have to do in order to survive a factory reset is to write to the /system partition, which contains the main OS. A factory reset only wipes /data and a few caches.

Writing to /system requires it to be mounted read/write and permissions to do so, so they'd need a root exploit in order to pull it off, but there's quite a few to choose from especially as devices age and given that they're doing this outside Play Store where Google won't pick them up.

I'm just crossing my fingers advanced users don't lose the ability to side-load apps over bad publicity like this, maybe they should make it harder to enable though.
It really seems like we should be close to having robots that can navigate a room.
Check out Good Ol' Games, which includes modern gems like Witcher 3, Hollow Knight, Factorio, Stardew Valley, Indivisible.

Everything on GoG is DRM-free, simple .exe installers that should work without any servers.
Or pay for it
This is a major rewrite, so there are a lot of cool changes like much better performance, better ts support, separating the underlying parts of vue to do things like have better control of making things reactive, then the api change that everyone has been panicking about, use of proxies (the implications of which I can't remember now), etc.
Nice of Google to spend so much time and effort finding security flaws in their competitors' devices.
I don't expect a band to live forever to keep doing live shows, but if I buy their CD I don't expect someone to break into my home and take it at any point in the future, but plenty of people have lost their music because of shitty DRM schemes and for those who are entirely dependent on streaming their music they will very likely not be able to find some of their favorite songs later, especially for more obscure stuff. I'm glad that I was able to pass some of my favorite games and music and books to the next generation and that they can pass them on to their kids. My collection of favorites will outlive many of the new things they enjoy today.
[UPDATED. It seems that the recording will happen after the elections, not before, so apparently spying the political preferences of people would not be the motive (yet). I had removed those parts]

Is easy to stablish a probable connection between this sudden need to watch all phones in relation to the disturbs in Catalonia coordinated by sms messages and apps.

Would be trivial to connect the pool of "people that went to the place X at the day Y", and the part of the city or neighborhoods where they mainly go to sleep after the disturbs. Many other sensible things can be disclosed from that, like how many people came from Euskadi to join the disturbs for example, and if they joined to eat before in a special place).

Nobody signed to accept to participate in this, and there is not a way that allow you to be excluded.

Is totally "1984" level, is outrageous, breaks many red lines all "in your face european parlament", and somebody should pay for that.
https://outline.com/8TFYuj

(Put the URL in bitly then submit to outline)
The one thing the DSLRs still have is high levels of quality zoom. I have a Sony RX10 IV with a 600mm lens. I use it for the kids' sports photos and it's truly awesome. I also use it for wildlife photography (the only handicap being my own skill). iPhones are not terribly useful for either of these things.
> Of course you should have the right to have that data deleted, but that's different from saying it should never be collected at all.

Err...do you have that right? The whole concept of a "right to be forgotten" is a relatively new thing that generally has not been observed in the past.

Like, if I want the library to erase all records of me checking out books, they probably just aren't going to do it, and I don't see how I have a right to force them to. I willingly gave them my information and used the books there.
The ability for people to have amazing technology and spend no currency on it is, in my opinion, a net positive for the world. But it would be nice if there were some provable toggle switch to choose between paying with data and paying with currency, for those who prefer the latter. Since proof is problematic, carefully selecting your vendor is the toggle switch, and that kind of switching unfortunately has switching costs including the massive inconvenience when, say, using an Android phone without a Google account.
In those RF cages, the phones are basically in a deep black void, pretty easy to tell you are in a void and not a rolling sunny hill.

Or do what VW did and detect the testing station, I am sure the locations of the FCC test facilities are widely known.
> Technology that’s Actually Yours could be the next great counter-trend

Or technology that's nobody's, aka decentralized networks
Perhaps 'nobody owns it, everybody can change (fix) it'
That's... not how culpability works.
I'm glad they reversed course and apologized but it still amazes me how powerful the reality distortion bubble can be even at well-meaning corporations. It's as if there was a meeting at the Red Cross where somebody said "Hey why don't we start selling guns? It would be a great fundraising tool." And everybody in the room just nodded and said "Yeah that's a pretty great idea. Let's start tomorrow!"
The fact that you leave your door unlocked doesn't excuse someone burglarizing your house. Facebook and Whatsapp totally deserve blame for lax security here, but that does absolutely nothing to absolve NSO of exploiting that weak security.
That doesn't scale terribly well for urls shared in a public space. How many subscriptions do I need? WaPo, NYT, Guardian, Financial Times, Medium, Boston Globe, LA Times, Scientific American, GQ, Epicurios, etc. Those folks should get together and offer a shared subscription model.
The link you provide says that is a famous example of a bad user interface. I can't tell if you're agreeing with me.
I wonder if this will create a precedent?
Good. People who work for companies doing immoral things should definitely face repercussions for it.
I don't believe hg has an equivalent of the git index, although there are other ways to get similar functionality if you want it. The repository formats are different, of course, but it's easy enough to convert from one to the other. Git branches are mutable pointers that don't get recorded in the commit history, while in hg each commit records the branch it was committed to. hg has "bookmarks" that work like git's branches; I don't think git has any equivalent of hg-style branches.

For the most part, you can do anything with either one that you could do with the other, and the practical differences are mostly just in the UI, as well as a cultural component (e.g. hg more strongly discouraging history rewriting is part UI, part culture). Personally, I prefer the git UI because it has a more direct mapping onto manipulating a DAG of commits, but obviously not everyone feels that way, and I don't expect them to. When I first started with DVCS, I started with hg since it seemed easier to learn.

(Although really, my DVCS UI of choice is Magit, which I use for 99.9% of git stuff, to the point where I almost never need to actually run git myself on the command line.)
I really want to use svelte, but I don't know when it'll be production ready. From what I can tell, it's aiming to do a lot more than be a simple js framework. For now, and probably the foreseeable future, vue is good enough. Tbh, the scope for svelte is so large I really wouldn't trust it unless it got really really popular.
I usually run screen within tmux if I need nested virtual terminals.
> Facebook closed down the personal accounts of anyone working for NSO which is quite the aggressive move

I’m sure your wife is a lovely lady. But NSO Group is a hostile intelligence asset. They actively undermine Americans and American security interests, here and abroad.

It’s not only reasonable for American companies to block them and their affiliates, it would also be reasonable for their travel to the country to be restricted (or monitored in the way a known spy would be).
Restricting User Access by Country using an IP Geolocation API
You can still charge less on other platforms and still use steam keys. You just can't charge less for steam keys. If you're selling on other platforms, use that platform's keys instead.
Oh, yeah, GOG has quite a lot of my money!
Laughing OnLine
obviously counterfactual argument here but:

NBA has one and done rule currently which means talented high schoolers are waiting 1 year, typically playing in college or abroad, before entering the draft.

why not make some money alongside your 1 glide year by playing in the wyoming league? you get to stay in the US, boosting your future earnings, have some fun in college, but also earning some cash off of jersey sales and maybe lock in some sponsorship deals with apparel/shoe companies earlier than your competitors.

once one successful person does it, it's easy to see how it morphs into a market for eager one and done players.
If there hadn't been an outcry gitlab wouldn't have changed their trajectory. Seems like it worked.
Are there any terms that cover the different digital native generations?

Natives that started with 3.5 and 5 1/4 floppies in the 80's vs starting when Gmail went from MB's to GB's in the mid/late 2k's probably view files much differently.

In 2019, we can carry 1 TB+ on a smartphone, so the next gen of natives may actually find a new appreciation for files and ownership (plus newfound privacy, not relying on expensive data plans and working/playing from anywhere w/o requiring a connection for most things).

Once storage and connections can exceed 10 Gb transfer rates on mobile, it'll take around 15 minutes to fill per TB... And the next era/counter trend begins!

The kids nowadays have it so easy (minus getting overserviced by every industry at the same time, being fed doom and gloom about climate change everyday and basically getting raked over the coals by pre-existing debt that was not of their doing).
> because I'm not going to buy it there.

But why not?
Yes. If you buy into the belief that we're living in a simulation. It's a crime if we murder, therefore it's a crime to murder a simulated person.
Yes, but only in the sense that it will threshold any input into a 1-bit signal. If you feed it audio you can use it as a primitive 1-bit sampler. You can even get something that you can play back as recognizable music that way. I haven't tried feeding audio straight in the read pin of the cassette port, but the C64 is so resilient that I'd be surprised if you wouldn't get reasonable results with some minor adjustments.
It's newer, not executable code, and not stored on analog media, but this made me think of the Information Society track "300bps N, 8, 1". It's a recording of a modem. I remember wiring an RJ-11 jack onto some alligator clips to play it into my modem.

Background: https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-greatest-hidden-...
This does not only apply to consumer software. I was just thinking that the past decade of business software has been about connecting off-the-shelf saas and cloud systems together to run businesses.

This was good for businesses wanting to quickly get onboard new technologies but it has real downsides because all these systems are scattered across the world and managed independently, making them more distributed, less transactional (more corruptible) and less tailored to the specific industries they're used in.

Overly distributed systems are fundamentally hard and fundamentally inefficient ( https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/podc89.pdf ). Data that spends more time in memory and cpu cache instead of being thrown over global networks can be processed a lot more efficiently.

Also, if your infrastructure is made of a lot of components that anyone can buy, it's much likely for competition to emerge. You lose an important moat. Plus, oftentimes, the outside organizations holding your data can leverage it to make you pay high prices.

The next decade might be about recreating the logic of these cobbled together generic saas systems into streamlined and fully tailored software systems for each industry. There is now a lot of mature open source code for companies to use as a foundation.

As the article suggests, this could also allow moving towards fully owning data and stack instead of having too much in other companies' platforms. There is probably more incentive for this reshoring of data and software to happen for businesses so it might happen there before it does for consumers.
I wasn't denying that at all. My whole point is that that's how it is, that's how it's marketed.

Sure it would be nice to get some special new features, but as mentioned, that also doesn't suit how Apple operates when it comes to new features. And that's quite alright.