skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.wordnik.com/words/colonized

> adjective politically ruled by citizens of another country.

Seems to fit this definition
It may be more than a Western phenomena, I don't know. My experience is with Western culture though.

I wasn't trying to implicitly compare Western culture to some idealized other culture, I was trying to limit the scope of my critique based on my limited knowledge of the world.
The IP address alone will tell you that they're accessing the Tarsnap website.
It's similar to our reluctance to criticize Saudi Arabia even when there are links between their upper crust and the largest terror attack ever on American soil. Saudi Arabia is still one of the largest oil spigots with the easiest ability to turn that spigot on and off and therefore set global oil prices, so we don't dare offend them.
Use Spot VMs in Azure
The US government has exerted influence and control over Hollywood and pop culture for decades but it's so pervasive that you've just taken it for granted. Now you're seeing a foreign government to the same, at a much smaller scale and to a much smaller degree and you're hysterically suggesting that your freedom is being taken away by "the tremendous power of that machine". How do you think the rest of the world feels about having American culture shoved down their throats via every conceivable medium?

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hollywood-cia-washingto...
https://www.valuewalk.com/2014/08/hollywood-funding/
Don't know about the danger in there, but what else would you want to add to the mix besides determinism and randomness? I don't know of anything else that could possibly have any influence, unless you want to go supernatural.
I kept reading and reading, waiting for him to say what he thought _did_ work, then, and at the very end he finally got to what seems to have been his attempt at a point: he can conceive of some as-of-yet uninvented perfect knowledge transfer device that outperforms books, so hopefully somebody will be inspired by his post to invent one.
I've opened SVGs plenty of times as well, maybe something to do with file association?
The designer, Anouk Wipprecht, has some cool other devices as well. One monitors P300 waves (and is styled as a unicorn horn) to help kids with ADHD. https://www.anoukwipprecht.nl/gallery/
Glad to see this. The same thing (to a worse degree) has happened in Athens, where the supply of rental units has diminished to more than 1/3 (with average rents going 2-3x in a 1-2 year period), as landlords converted units to short-term rentals. This is particularly touchy for Greece, as tourism accounts for 25%+ of GDP, so tourist-friendly regulation has a big impact. OTOH, it's a country with one of the lowest average wages in the EU, which means that the rent increases has made the situation unlivable. Example: average net monthly salary is something in the 800-1000 EUR range, with 300EUR renting you something decent 5 years ago. Today, not only it's much harder to find vacant rental units, but their prices have also bumped to 600-700 EUR.

IMO, the best approach to this is similar to what the city of Santa Monica has -- hosts can only rent a room in a property (i.e. no "entire house to yourself"), i.e. similar to the couchsurfing model. I've found this a pleasant experience when visiting a new city, as living with a local can make the stay more personal and enjoyable.
> Google Tables has no migration tool or system for users to export their data angering some users.

Weird. Last I checked, even when deprecations happen, the data is accessible via Takeout.
I think he refers to the slightly "biggening" of fonts.

Which is a great thing, btw! because it helps with all that nonsense-designers-bs of suuuuper thin fonts nobody can actually read.
Everyone I've talked to in Madrid has had the same experience you describe.

Neighbor communities ("comunidad de vecinos", akin to a homeowner's association) are enshrined by Spanish law and I believe they can act against the AirBnBization of buildings in some cases, but further EU-level protection for locals are more than welcome.
This comment seems un-necessarily hostile. But yes, I have worked at a small construction company that operated like this with only very coarse grained record keeping.
Useful Python syntax that nobody knows about
The surveillance economy is getting creepier and more personal
What's your favorite PDF feature that causes a brain meltdown?

I've read a few comments on HN how PDF is, well, not developer-friendly. If people are interested in providing some more examples here, I'd be curious to know!
I'm not sure what it even means for the underlying basis to be one or nothing or everything (basis of what specificly?). That doesn't sound like an axiom thing to me.
I was put off buying a Fairphone3 because of reports like this about the ff2. In the end I bought one and I'm very happy with it. No problems like this at all. Shame issues with the old model tarnished the brand and hopefully the reputation of the ff3 will repair things.
I use multi account containers and it doesn't work for me. For instance, if I go to amazon.com directly, I get my Amazon container. But if I do a search in Google and then click an Amazon link I will still be in the Google container.
Nice list! Glad Killed by Google was an inspiration. :)
But you can't guarantee that the security won't be broken in 30 years, when we have another infineon-class fiasco (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15361 I think), or in 300 years when you'll be able to buy nanites by the kilogram at the convenience store.

It seems obvious (I hope) that you can't protect that kind of technology against secret leakage on these timescales. I think it's wishful thinking that the technology you are relying on won't be broken in a one-year timeframe. Unlikely, I agree, but that happens, and you just hope that it will be someone else's tech, not the one you rely on to keep your secrets. The only practical measure you can take at that point is buying insurance :)

So, in any case, you have to make sure the secrets you are storing in HW aren't too important, and can be rotated easily.

I would add a third kind of hardware attacks class to your list, which is the one I think justifies these developments: the kind that can be performed by an evil maid. No shutdown, 30s to 2 hours to perform the attack, on-site. Luckily, it's rather easy to protect against that (a solid case would).
Comcast has, on occasion, ranked below the IRS in terms of brand popularity...
Jjeaff is getting his information from a preponderance of valid sources and not one study with a tiny sample size. I suggest you do the same.
Fairphone employee here.

I totally agree with your assessment. So does Fairphone. That's why we trying to address both issues with a modular design for ease of repairs and long lasting software updates.

Have a look at our current effort to bring continued software updates to our five year old predecessor Fairphone 2:
https://www.fairphone.com/en/2020/06/18/fairphone-2-gets-and...
Whether or not there really were so many dead children or not does not change anything in Albright's statement.
If it serves the goals of the USA, they are willing to let 500.000 children die.
"Wasn't working" based on what data?

Yahoo was already down the drain at that point. Sounds like it was more about blaming the workers (and trying to shake things up) than anything else

Though to be fair, video conferencing systems at the time weren't great
I would push back a bit on a few points here:

- Airbnbs are generally concentrated in touristy urban areas - places that are pricey to begin with. Or spaces that did not make for good apartments (small mother-in-laws, basement conversions). Airbnbs are not displacing inventory on the low end of the market, and potentially bring new inventory to the market.

- Airbnbs rarely sit empty. The market is pretty efficient, and you can have the same occupancy year round, just at reduced rates (in winter months, it may even be cheaper than renting an equivalent unit).

- Splitting properties into multiple smaller units is a good thing. The fact that there are square footage requirements for apartments but not short term rentals is a zoning failure.

I think the takeaway should be that rental markets are very inefficient, and Airbnb reveals a lot of pent up demand.
> Yahoo was doing this way back in 2013 and Marissa Mayer banned it because it wasn’t working.

I've never seen anyone make the claim that Mayer banned it because 'it wasn't working'. That's quite a revisionist history take.
Appears so, I wasn't aware of air table until reading the other comments. Pretty much seals the grave on this one. Low effort clone from a company notorious for no customer support and killing services vs the original that specializes in this... easy choice
I had a very different reading of the article. The author acknowledges that books do work after the reader actively engages with the topic, does the exercises, rereads, etc. The issue is that this process of transmitting knowledge could be more efficient in a different medium. The post is not against books, but pro interactive teaching methods, as the author gives a link to his proposal https://quantum.country/qcvc
> It seems like there is a lot of problems baked into zoning

Talk about an understatement. The use of zoning, as far as I can tell, became a frenzy to use this tool to solve every pet problem. Lack of parking, businesses too loud near residences, blocking light, enforcing neighborhood character or feel, keeping "those people" out of your neighborhood, etc.

The end result is that zoning is just paralysis for urban development. You have a ton of funding to get through the zoning board and get exceptions for breaking the rules and to grease some wheels, or you don't build period.

I think a more free and more reasonable approach is like what you find in japan, where (as far as I can tell) it is both very easy to get approval for construction in a wide range of common projects and also very easy to convert a living space to a hotel space. While I was in Japan, i spent a few nights in a "standard" hotel (fancy highrise building with a nice lobby and so on), and a few nights in what was basically just a fairly large house in a desirable area converted into a ryokan-style hotel, with a few rooms downstairs where they served breakfast for guests every morning (it was delicious, by the way).

It wasn't peak tourist season, so the rates were ridiculously affordable for a fashionable and touristy region of a fashionable and touristy developed country.
I think Julia has a neat answer to the Expression Problem:

- To add a case to a type, the type needs to be abstract, which allows you to declare concrete subtypes. (Julia's subtyping is not OOPy, and it doesn't have FP-style algebraic types.) Then you can add methods to generic functions that are called when passed an argument of your new concrete type, when they need special cases.

- To add operations to an existing type, define a new generic function. You can often do so using just abstract supertypes, and let the compiler optimize to concrete types, but you can also define special-case methods for specific concrete types if you need to.
From what I can tell, there isn't a single person in this thread claiming GCP may be shut down. And if there is, it certainly isn't a meaningful number of people.

What you're doing is claiming people hold an easily attackable position that they don't hold, and attacking that position. It's called strawmanning.
For those interested, hourly pay for prisoners in the US can legally be as low as $0.04. Three orders of magnitude away from citizen wages, i.e. a citizen working 3 days ~= 10 years prison labor.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/
I don't know about you, but >98% of the PDFs I use are just for reading and don't contain a fillable form.

And implementing a PDF viewer is already a major undertaking; adding the form functionality complicates things even more.
Smart people just spell it l10n.
As far as I can tell, Windows doesn't ship with a web server bundled. You can however install IIS through "activate Windows features" dialogue but not many people use IIS outside enterprise I'd imagine.
More importantly, this is all released on Google's internal infrastructure. Any such work would require moving to the external infrastructure, and the cost of it likely wouldn't make sense.

The real issue is this: Why am I paying 10 dollars/user/month for this when G suite Business is 12? I could see using this for the organization, but not at that cost.
HN has this bizarre obsession with remote work having anything to do with what's best for the employee. When in the history of office space have decisions ever been made because upper management thought "oh the employees will really like this!"?

In one generation we've gone from everyone has an office with a door (even Homer Simpson has one!), to cube farms, to open offices. I've seen all of these and don't recall a single transition where employees thought "this is great!"

The pandemic has made corporate leadership realize that people will continue to work and produce things no matter what, even if their kids are pulling on their arm all day, because they need to work to live.

Additionally the benefits to corporations are obvious, reduced real estate is the just the tip of the iceberg. We've already seen companies can start thinking about reducing salaries based on location (which I can assure you will eventually translate to reduced salaries everywhere, why pay a premium for someone to live in SF 3 years from now?), the talent pool is now nation wide (and soon global) which will again reduce salaries. It's much easier to identify people who were just taking up space in the office and remove them. With no offices corporate travel becomes completely unnecessary etc.

None of these advantages have anything to do with whether or not employees are happier, or even more productive.
What, they bought inXile too? I'm waiting on the Mac version :)
I have to disagree. IRC/Slack/Discord only add to potential distractions. I have to have my phone near me for two factor auth but plagued by notifications from these communities. Hackathons have been a huge point of my community engagement; however, online hackathons are only a shadow of their in-person counterparts. Not arguing there is not technological enhancement. Think about how many services have had to deploy fully online services that were holdouts from the internet age. My school's club has been able to invite interesting hosts from around the globe because we are already meeting digitally. Remote/online has its strong-suits I just hate how much absolutism there is in these discussions.
>I think it's just Dunning–Kruger effect on a scale.

I find it incredibly pompous that you believe that people who have been writing C++/C even Java for decades in editors like Emacs, Vim or even Sublime don't know what they are doing. The IDE vs Editor argument is nearly as old as Emacs vs Vim.
> Ability to set root domain for example would be great, so I could keep all Bandcamp sites in a single container without micromanagement for example

I think you can already do that, unless I'm misunderstanding you. If you use the "Always open this site in..." menu option while you're on the bandcamp website, it'll automatically change the container then next time you visit any bandcamp.com url.
There are many generations of tibetans in India. Even down south in Mysore there are large settlements and monasteries.
Is airbnb controversial in Japan or a non-issue? Their zoning system should be a good test case.
Exactly. Some people are trying hard to change the definition of racism so that when people A harm or discriminat people B on a racial basis it’s supposedly not racist for some given A and some given B.
SDF Public Access Unix System – Free Shell Account and Shell Access Since 1987
There are two problems - coverage (trees, other houses ect get in the way) which means that for some places it's fine, for other places no good, and contention. In 5G the bearer (radio frequencies) is very well managed and I am 50/50 thinking that realistically contention will be ok for large scale consumption. But... ultimately, you have one set of radio between everyone whereas everyone has a fibre... (this is not quite true due to GPON but sorta!)
Fairphone employee here. As I just replied to a different thread: We are trying (and struggling) with continued software support for our five year old Fairphone 2. The Android 9 is currently in beta and my colleagues are trying to address the last remaining issues for Google certification.

For details read https://www.fairphone.com/en/2020/06/18/fairphone-2-gets-and...
I can see where the CEO would be momentarily impressed. Think of the savings on that office space. Offloading that onto the employee is great for the company. Sure, some employees might also benefit greatly from the elimination of their commute, but a lot of people also have no real space at home for any kind of proper work environment. Our living spaces would need to evolve if remote work is to become really common.

Someone here on HN nailed it last week, IMO, when they suggested that we only see a real benefit to remote work right now because it amounts to quiet time to get things done that we already knew needed to be done. The real test is how we are doing in a year. If my experience at a mid-size corporation is any indicator, it could get kinda ugly. We're surviving, but I don't feel at all like we are excelling. We spend half or more of every day in one Zoom call or another, trying desperately to make up for the lack of face-to-face time we just naturally had at the office. Some of our employees are clearly suffering mentally (especially the folks who live alone), and management hasn't really figured out how to manage in this brave new world.

I'm hoping for a hybrid solution to emerge. I want to go back to the office. Maybe two days a week. And when I'm remote, no f*cking Zoom meetings. Death by a million meetings is torture.
I'm not personally impacted by this one, but I've been impacted by a very similar deprecation (Google Wallet for Digital Goods) by Google. Can assure you that anyone impacted by this deprecation isn't feeling comfortable about it.
Hotels are specifically sited to keep the nuisance of short term visitors away from residents.

If people are staying for a short term they don’t have much incentive to keep the place nice. You can call the cops and they’ll get a warning the first time but that doesn’t matter when they will fly out of the jurisdiction next morning.
I would be interested to hear how this interacts with typeclasses/traits. In seems like they maybe give you more flexibility to separate the requirement to have an area from the requirement to have a perimeter. But I think you still run into the problem of having to "update your code" everywhere, just in a different way.
Otherwise known as DSL?
TikTok U.S. fiasco is a classic case of 'Rome Fire Fighting Brigade'
The two oldest of my three, I bought new in 2016. One is on its second screen assembly and battery, the other on its first, and I'm building up stock against eventual unavailability of new replacement parts.

Ask me in 2025 how well they've held up.
EU's farm animals 'produce more emissions than cars and vans combined'
It gets easier. I’ve been working remotely for a decade, and eventual you learn to communicate differently to mostly avoid these issues.
Exactly my point. Those are, however, the words Google used in the email they sent out about this.
I was taught the main reason for WWI was the Zimmermann Note[ 0] but wikipedia has a pretty good article on this [1]. I wonder if I were school age now if I'd research teacher comments and ask more questions in school... education and being a teacher really is changing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_entry_into_World_War_...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
This is the place I'm in too. In projects more under my own control, I use Emacs for JS and Clojure.

At work, I deal with JS, Python, and Java. I don't really care to spend the effort to configure Emacs to handle all the oddities of a super old codebase reliably. I just grab vscode or intellij. They're fine.
List of web platform changes to Gecko: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
I thought it was an Asana clone?
"nowhere near a real issue"

What does that mean?

Is what described in the article "nowhere near a real issue"?
Own Teacher Page
OPS Teacher Page
Your own teacher page

Share your knowledge and skills,
create a meaningful revenue stream
> Setting up eslint or related tools in a CI pipeline would let you catch these in an enforceable, consistent, decoupled way.

…minutes, hours or sometimes even days after the code was written. Not every project can run its CI pipeline in seconds, incrementally, or on the developer’s system.

The advantage of any IDE is the “integrated” part. Linting is one thing, showing the results in a way that makes it as easy as possible to act on them is where an IDE beats a DE that does the linting in a “decoupled way”.
The way Google builds software makes that approach tough.

Even if you had the source code to the app (which Google isn't about to give out at any price), what you'll find is that it's an app architected to link against libraries nobody has ever seen and run atop a distributed computing fabric that's loosely related to Kubernetes but, really, nobody's ever seen, storing data to a backing store nobody's ever seen, and identifying users via an authentication model that nobody's ever seen.

Dangling references all over the place, leading to special sauce Google is even less likely to publish, because it's deeply tied into a physical hardware architecture that Google can't publish, because even if they did nobody's going to build it.

Some of Google's user-facing stuff runs on the architectures they make public, like GCP. But a lot of it runs on Google's proprietary fabric of service management and distributed storage, which is an alien planet relative to the world outside their walls. Publishing an app out of that part of the ecosystem would be like Google handing a company a koala with no eucalyptus trees. It'd be dead in days.
Looks like Cookie AutoDelete does support IndexedDB [1] and Service Workers [2] by the way.

[1] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/...
[2] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/...
Why not reduce it further? Everything is matter or energy, and the entire universe can be reduced to quantum/chemical/kinetic processes.

I don't disagree with you, but I find more subjective meaning in the difference between normal cognition and metacognition, compared to viewing the system up close.
I guess I could have asked for the CC information, setup a new AWS account, and have them pay for the storage and egress of 1.5TB of data. However, that very likely would have lasted quite a while as well, and in my case I had to minimize downtime as well. So, no, I would say even if you're allowed to do something, sometimes it is not the best solution.
The commonly used definition, even among non-economists, comes from the OECD and Eurostat. You are rich if your equivalised household income is over 150% of the median.
It's the definition used by specialists in the field. You wouldn't want to be anti-science by rejecting it, would you?
We're already seeing massive movement of manufacturing out of China. Samsung no longer builds smartphones in China, and even Apple has been moving some of its products to India and Taiwan. While it should have been done years ago when it was overtly obvious that China isn't going to liberalize, now is the second best time to do so.
Now you can move somewhere with a bigger apartment with cheap Internet. In-person networking is definitely convenient but, as the other poster says, there are significant virtual communities for software especially that are far better than going to some meetups. Github, Slack & Discord groups, etc.
International Sting Against Dark Web Vendors Leads to 179 Arrests