skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That section 2 part is illegal in a lot of the world, and it’s not recent like GDPR. For Europe, PECR is from 2003. It’s illegal in Australia too since 2003: informed consent is required for such commercial messages, and merely being a customer is insufficient, it must be opt-in rather than opt-out (and that means you can’t even pretick a newsletter checkbox). (There used to be an excellent document outlining the legislation requirements at https://www.acma.gov.au/Industry/Marketers/Anti-Spam/Ensurin..., but that page seems to have disappeared recently with no obvious replacement.)
> It's luxury transportation for the upper middle-class on the back of disenfranchised metropolitan army of reserve labour.

People with more money tend to spend more. It's true for ridesharing but also plane tickets, car rentals, restaurants, grocery stores, hotels... All these businesses tend to be staffed with less wealthy employees to serve a wealthier clientele.
Narrationbox.com
Funny story about my vodafone.es SIM card I bought last year. I used it for about 3 months while traveling in Europe and Turkey. I bought 8 GB for around 10 EUR, and didn't use nearly that much. I renewed that plan the following month, but due to some glitch in Vodafone's system, the same 10 EUR bought me 16 GB for the upcoming month. I renewed the following month, and my 10 EUR again bought me 32 GB! I hope I can reactivate that SIM when I go back to Europe, the monthly alotment should be up in the PBs by now.
May be the in-display camera will solve it easier, where the camera is integrated beneath the display seeing through a semi transparent OLED panel.
Where? What carrier? That’s $15 cheaper than anything I’m aware of.
> The sudden realization a few years ago that no one could actually point to proof that flossing does anything.

Perhaps there's no existing study that says that, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful. Most of our day-to-day life hasn't been scientifically studied.
Someone asked this once and now I can't stop thinking about it:

There's so much good stuff out in the Oort cloud, why would you ever bother climbing down the gravity well, let alone attacking the poor primitives most of the way down it?

A more likely "War of the worlds" scenario would be someone mining the outer solar system to bits and leaving without us being able to throw so much as a rock at them. If they take enough, even our ability to hunt them down for revenge would be significantly hampered.
2 Out of 3 vulns which were involved in Stuxnet were not fully patched
> Could there be a market for friendertainment?

Aren't there tons of English-speaking people in third-world countries capable of being worthy pen-pals and filling this market gap?
I suspect most people are comparing the access they have to not having had access before though, not to canadian access
>..Wind turbines kill a negligible number of birds compared to other threats.

The source you list gives an estimate for bird deaths that is an order of magnitude less than the Audubon society or the US Fish and Wildlife service. But the issue isn't so much the number of birds, but the type:

>...Although fatality rates for raptors may be lower compared to passerines, raptors are especially vulnerable to collisions due to their flight behaviors. Given the life history traits of raptors (i.e., long-lived and low reproductive rates) their populations are more at risk of decline from the number of different sources of impacts that affect these species on a daily basis.

https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/...

This isn't to say that means we should drop wind, but we shouldn't hand wave away the issue.

>...It's not actually known definitively how many people Fukushima killed, but it is known definitively that the final economic costs wildly outweighed the "cheap" energy it produced.

The death rate from Fukishima is far less than the death rate from any properly working fossil fuels source (or wind or rooftop solar for that matter)

>...but it is known definitively that the final economic costs wildly outweighed the "cheap" energy it produced.

This is an argument to move away from 50 year old plant designs into something more modern and even safer.

>...And considering the number of accidents to date - and their economic cost - nuclear certainly isn't safe either. Is it really a good idea to create pools of extremely toxic heavy metal waste which is also radioactive?

In terms of safety, no major power source has as good of a safety record as nuclear. In terms of nuclear waste, as many people have already said in this discussion, it is very low volume, could be recycled right now and eventually most of it can be used as fuel on 4th gen reactors.

>...It also isn't cheap. Renewables have been consistently undercut the cost of nuclear electricity, and that's without any significant push towards an improved smart grid, a combination of centralised and local distribution, and clean pumped storage facilities that would be possible with a Green New Deal.

It is possible there will be some major advances in grid storage that will allow us to stop using natural gas to cover for the intermittent nature of wind and solar. But what if that doesn't pan out? The dangers we are facing in the coming decades are immense. Is your fear of nuclear power so great that if you had to choose, you would prefer the world to suffer through catastrophic climate change rather than use nuclear power?
well, I did find a grant in my own city (Montreal) which I did not know about

so there is some value to it

Grants are so oddly specific

most of the amounts are not game-changing, though

well, might be for someone starting off
there's a world of people without that broadband and storage.
Docker is good. Jenkins is a must.
Start with AWS Certified Developer and then take the AWS DevOps Engineering.
Next I would take on Kubernetes.
I would also learn Ansible and Terraform.
When you finish with the ELK stack, you have some basics.
I was on Bali when it all started and I am still here :)

Indonesian government allowed to stay everyone until the end of the pandemic even though the country is closed.
Chrome profiles avoids having to create another (Firefox) account to manage the sync and data. Also Chrome has an easy menu for switching profiles and creates desktop/taskbar shortcuts for them. Firefox requires going to the about:profiles settings page to manage them. Also chrome profiles are integrated with G-Suite including security and organization settings.

Overall Chrome's version is just smoother and easier to use compared to Firefox. Mozilla should add better UI/menus and SSO for Firefox Accounts to get closer.
Thanks. I was just about to ask if there was any good sci-fi about civilizations living on the internal heat of a rogue planet.
Let’s hope Epic beats Apple+Google to allow easier third-party stores.
I was referring to a payment record as something that would be useful to follow a trail, such as a cc auth# or transaction IP address.
Actually, this was a puzzle at the beginning, and I'm not sure when it stopped being so (though presumably it stopped being so long ago).

In the early days, there were just two of us programmers, and we began to sense that there was a backlog of programming tasks that we just didn't have the time to get to. We proposed the Jeff that we hire a third programmer. He wanted someone with a PhD in CS from one of the top 5 CS schools. We said "Jeff, we're a tiny startup in Seattle (remember, this is 1994, Seattle was different), we're never going to hire people like that". He insisted. We interviewed several of those people - they weren't interested (as we predicted). We bugged him and bugged him and eventually he relented and let us hire a less qualified, less stellar guy, just to get some tasks done.

In retrospect, Jeff had been exactly right. We should have held out for another A+ programmer, with the skills and vision to drive forward whatever tasks they were given (or self-identified). Instead we hired a capable, skilled person who needed a lot of hand-holding and encouragement (not to worry, I think he did pretty well for himself).

Jeff knew we had made a mistake (albeit not a very big one), and asserted very affirmatively that the company would not do that again. When we started hiring editors, he wanted people with "multiple years experience at a major national publication". The two of us founding programmers didn't try to talk him down from that, and eventually he was able to recruit such people. I don't know how he convinced them to join Amazon, even to this day.

Also, recall that in 1994, "the valley" wasn't what it later became. The people amazon was hiring in the 1995-1998 period weren't looking to the valley for alternative employment, for the most part.
Uber Rides business is profitable (EBITDA=$742 million).

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
>Sure, but if that happens... I think we're fucked either way?

Why?
> how important it will be for us to somehow find a way for the people at the top to not lead everyone else down a wrong path.

I'd argue that its more important for us to imbue everyone with a sense of personal responsibility. Instill in everyone that they are personally responsible for everything that they do without regard for what anyone else does.

>executing the same commands -- all just normal people who were caught up in a terrible arms race. Some of them out of duty, others out of ambition.

>Watching this film, if you turn off the narrator, you see the same guys as our guys, doing their jobs

We should teach our children that, "getting caught up" is never an excuse or a mitigation of their own personal responsibility for their actions. Whether they are motivated to participate in bad behavior out of duty, ambition or just "doing their job" - their motivations are ultimately irrelevant - they always remain personally responsible for their actions regardless of their motivations.

Unfortunately this is not a popular position because so few of us are willing to own total responsibility for our own actions. Its much easier to wave a finger in the air and blame "leadership" for our behavior, or point to the fact that very few people take explicit personal responsibility for the results of their behavior, and use that as a rationalization for not taking responsibility themselves. Many will argue that they shouldn't be held responsible for their actions because their individual actions are inconsequential in the big scheme of things, but I would argue that every individual's action is infinitely consequential in terms of their own personal responsibility. We are all completely responsible for what we do as individuals and not responsible for what others do (and consequently cannot use the bad behavior of others to excuse or mitigate our responsibility for our own bad behavior). You cannot willingly be a cog in the machine and at the same time disavow the product that the machine turns out.
It didn't ask me for anything except a password and secret questions.

(Someone is hell bent on downvoting any comments in favor of Apple)
Or "blow up our sun before we can get uppity" - 3 Body Problem.
Isn't VW now producing 2 fully electric cars at scale based on their new electric platform? I think the ID3 is shipping to customers in Europe already or in the near future.
Artificial-Intelligence Breakthrough? “The Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind”
What is Google's policy on accounts set up to forward all mail re: scanning contents of forwarded messages?
Watch out, you are sitting on a ticking time bomb. It's just a matter of time.
Sure, albeit in some concrete context where the processes, structures, and effects of transportation and education can be adequately compared in order to interpret the valuing to begin with.

The above commenter was clearly not interested in having a discussion about what they value in order to see this evident superiority, though, so I didn't see any point in pressing the conversation further.
The French Army Is Building Renaissance-Style Fortresses in Africa
And this is why HN users make bad lawyers.

I picked one at random.

“Topco, a cooperative association of about 25 small and medium-sized independent regional supermarket chains operating in 33 States.”

I also looked up one about Ford vs a limo company that you deleted.

They all involve multiple companies colluding. It has nothing to do with one company setting prices in their own store.
If you can't resell it, you don't own it. Do you have examples of commercial software that you were allowed to resell?
If I understand the methodology correctly this study seems to penalize unlimited plans quite a lot. In the linked methodology pdf they specify that the price for 1 GB of data for unlimited plans is calculated by dividing by the average data usage per user but limited plans are divided by the limit.

For example in Finland almost all plans are unlimited and users regularly use a lot of mobile data. Average monthly use is 34 GB and median 6 GB [0]. The cheapest mobile plan I can find is 9.90€/month for unlimited data at 1 Mbit/s [1]. Dividing it by 6 GB median data use gives $1.95 for 1 GB which is close to the their reported minimum price of $1.75. However if this plan was instead marketed with 100 GB monthly cap they would have divided it by 100 GB instead giving a much cheaper price.

[0] https://blog.telegeography.com/finns-lead-the-way-in-mobile-...
[1] https://elisa.fi/kauppa/puhelinliittymat
http://wiki.povray.org/content/HowTo:Use_POV-Ray_with_Blende...
It seems to be the case that most gravitationally-significant bodies sustain a planar ring system, and that over time the matter in the ring coalesces into moons. Earth is but a pebble in the Sun's ring.
Sweet sweet human flesh...
> nobody who works there is any good at "X", they should fail.

Except almost every software startup in the last three decades was started by folks that were not experts in the domain they eventually became successful in.
SPACs: A Brief Overview
Thank you for the recommendation; visiting one is on my to-do list now.
There are a lot of companies that transform themselves. They start some initial project, pivot, get a cash cow and then follow the market. Some don't.. all the typewriter manufacturers missed the computing revolution. Mainframe to the micro pc etc... Even say, nokia to iphone.
> Out of curiosity, what's the benefit of replacing Google Docs with Dropbox? [...] the same drive that would have me ditch Google would also make me ditch Dropbox

They're both for-profit US companies saving your data overseas, so yes, for your last point it doesn't matter much. However, there are two advantages:

1) You're giving your data to a company aiming to sell you storage space vs a company which tries to make money of selling your (meta-)data, where selling storage space is only a minor accounting item. This also gives clear priorities: Dropbox loosing or being caught selling your data is a big reputation hit to them [0], while for Google it would neither change their reputation nor their total revenue by much.

2) You're not putting your eggs in one basket. If you're all in on Google, loosing your account does kill your calendar, contacts, mail, storage (possibly with the backups you need right now) ... . Also, that one company has basically full access to your life. If you're using diversified services you're far less likely to suddenly loose access to multiple services [1] and those services only own a part of your data vs your whole life [2].

Concluding this, selfhosting surely is the superior solution. But if you must use external storage providers (i.e. as worst-case backup or due to lack of money/space for own servers), choosing Dropbox over Google has its advantages.

[0] Yes, I'm aware it has happened.

[1] Assuming 2FA and a reasonably secure mail service, of course.

[2] One could argue that Google is going to guard your data with world-class engineers while the other services are probably less well equipped and therefore you have an increased risk of (at least!) parts of your data being leaked. That's personal risk management, though, and the consensus seems to be diversification.
So the government should make decisions on a case by case basis? Isn’t that what everyone is whining about Apple doing - treating small developers and large developers differently?

I’m much more worried about the government deciding what happens to people randomly than a corporation. I don’t have to buy Apple products. It’s a lot harder for me not to have to deal with a capricious government.
This is perfect, thanks!
That word sounds very strange to a native Russian speaker (like myself).

drovokol, drovosek, lesorub are all actual Russian words.

"drovorub" is Ukrainian.
> It used to be quite expensive here at around $100/mo for 10GB but the government broke up the monopoly and forced competition into the market by making existing players share infrastructure. We went up from main 3 providers to around 10 and prices dropped sharply.

Exact same thing happened in France when the opened up phone operators for regular lines (not mobile). They made competitors rent the existing infrastructure and then compete on pricing/services. We went from paying for every call minute to unlimited phone plans very quickly.
This is all true, but I think also irrelevant. We built Amazon without convincing anyone that Jeff was right, other than the sort of people mentioned in the article. By the time he started reaching out for VC money (Kleiner Perkins, but also Nick Hanauer who wasn't really VC), it was clear to anyone with half a brain that there was a sensible investment to be made.

I remember that not long after we "opened the doors" to the public, we had a visit from some reps from either Ingram or Baker & Taylor, the US's two biggest book distributors (I forget which). Part of the reason Jeff had picked Seattle was that it was within the 1 day delivery radius for both companies. These guys came over to see what we were doing and they were completely flabbergasted. They could not believe that a few people in a small commercial building in Seattle had built what we had already done by that point. They had no idea of the technologies involved, they had no grasp of the vision. But we never had to convince companies like this - we just ordered books from them, as their customers, and then sold them to ours.
FedEx... the innovation was to ship all items to a central location and then ship them out.
That can change, and quickly. It isn't really plausible at this point that the US is, under any voluntary circumstances, going to attempt to pay its debts down unless the financial system completely collapses. Debt to GDP has been in a pretty solid uptrend for 40 years now. US economists are starting to lay a theoretical groundwork for why the government can just create money at will too.

At some point something will give. It is frankly stunning to me that merchants accept ongoing crisis level debts from the US as part of the normal order of things. Someone thinks they are owed something and in real terms they aren't going to get it.
Any thoughts on OVPN vs. Mullvad in terms of your preference for using one instead of the other?
AWS was the one part of this story that Jeff didn't foresee back at the outset.
There are people who see a post about it on social media and appear to believe it has.
8/20 Google fixes Gmail exploit reported in April
>Pi Zero?

Correct, sorry brain fart.

>That can totally run a desktop environment and browser. Especially something light like XFCE or Enlightenment

Even regular sized Pi struggle with web browsing on a standard browser (Firefox/Chromium), I know that it largely has to do with the web pages themselves being memory hogs, but then again a similar specced Chromebook x86 doesn't hang while browsing(Same web page/Same no of Tabs); I think it largely has to do with browsers not getting optimised for ARM architecture on Linux.

I had the same issue with XFCE i.e. browsers hang after sometime, as for Enlightenment 3rd party apps didn't work last time I tried with Pi3[1] has the situation changed now?

[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experien...
> In either case I still bought my slacks from the clothing store, my pint from the tavern, and slept soundly in my bed. You object to the company having your information, I object to it being used to impact my life. I don't give a damn about them just having it.

>And thus my question, how does this affect my life?

For the store metaphor, consider Amazon instead of Google. Amazon tracked sale data from its vendors then used that data to generate its own product line, competing (or outright replacing) the original vendors. You might look at this as a neutral "how does this affect me?" matter, but this puts the multitudes of other vendors/manufacturers out of business, and your own employer might be among their numbers one day. Even if not, the fact that it's harming so many others, and that you happen to not be in that group, doesn't mean Amazon's data collection doesn't do harm, or that you couldn't be taking steps to prevent that harm.

In the case of google, the harm isn't as clear cut as in Amazon's case, and it isn't quite as direct or imminent. Whereas Amazon's data is very concentrated (purchasing and retail browsing habits), Google's data is broad and allows for tracking almost every aspect of a person's life: location throughout the day, personal conversations, browsing habits, purchasing, plans of all sorts.

Their having this data on its own isn't harmful, but as others have noted, it represents harm in the sense of what how it _could_ be used if applied maliciously. This includes government actions, data leaks/hacks, Google abusing the data, etc. The potential consequences of each of those can be explored with tremendous depth in their own right, but that's not important for this conversation. What's important is that it allows for harm, even if the chance for that harm seems low, whether on a global level (it impact everyone) or on a local level (it has impact on individual people).

There's also the consideration that some services you use may be impacting other's privacy as well. You might not be concerned about Google reading your emails, but your email partners might be more averse to this tracking. If they are to exchange an email with you, they have no choice but expose that conversation to Google.

Consider what's going on in Belarus. They shut down the internet, but what if instead the government started demanding data from Google or Facebook to identify and track down members of the opposition? I think we all understand that such events as Belarus aren't a daily occurrence, but with persistent data stores, the opportunity for harm only needs to occur once.
I hope someone will officially propose a law that requires all hardware to be re-programmable by its owner (i.e. hardware should come with a fully documented and accessible interface); one good reason for this is the reduction of e-waste.
Just want to highlight the fact that manufacturing huge volumes of cheap plastic toys is not necessarily something to be celebrated.
And that’s why we need big government. People are definitely incapable of understanding the greatness of “openness” and are being forced to by Apple products at a premium instead of Android devices that fit their desires better.

You can’t imagine how little time I spend complaining about the piss poor upgrade and support of Android devices. I just don’t buy them. I don’t ask big daddy government to get involved.
the equivalent would be that you can only use an apple car to go shopping in the apple store, and you can't use that apple car to go shopping anywhere else.
Outliers exist. That's not news.
"Worth seeing but not worth going to see" –Charles Dickens
Running a telco is not that expensive. The problem is that building out the infrastructure in the first place is hugely expensive.

This is why most countries have only a few "real" operators that own and operate infra, and tons of virtual operators (MVNO) that run on top of others' gear.
> right wing populism is getting more and more unfashionable these days

Compared to WHEN? And based on what sources?