skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an impressively long list but some of those entries are a bit of a stretch. Google Nexus, for example, was rebranded as Google Pixel. Most people wouldn't describe rebranding as "killing" a product.
I’m in two minds about this. How many side projects have I abandoned? If it was my business, and a particular part of it wasn’t meeting a KPI and cost money, what would I do? Probably kill it off too.
Awesome! Thanks for the quick comparison
Recently a local data center provider in Central Texas was found to be a major nexus for Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) material. Data Foundry, formerly known as Texas.net.

It also now appears to have been a major collection node, codenamed WAXTITAN, for the NSA's BOUNDLESS INFORMANT program.

They had been accused back as far as 2013 by a former sysadmin for hosting CSA, and as recently as last year the OAG in New Mexico repeatedly asked them to do something about the content [1].

This data center provider was recently outted as part of the #BlueLeaks breach, because all 78 DHS Fusion Center sites were hosted there.

Several engineers in Austin, Texas, including myself, have been interviewed by the FBI. It is clear it was not a covert entrapment program or anything like that.

This all brings us to the question of, if the NSA can work with groups and on servers distributing enormous amounts of videos of child sex, they really can do anything they want can't they?

[1] - https://www.abolishapd.org/post/apd-nmoag-nsa
Not me personally, but I did see a couple surfers out! I was there for a kelp forest a couple miles up the 101 that I frequent for diving/spearfishing.

If you don't mind carrying your board down a rough path, then you'll never have a crowd!
FWIW even in places like Netherlands where it's legalised and controlled sex workers are still addicted to drugs, have mental problems and generally not getting great rent deals from owners of red light district.

Sure it's better than what's going on in illegal markets with pimping and abuse, but don't lull yourself you're doing someone a favour by using them.

Disclaimer: I've tried them in few places
There is a problem with the timezone database, which is that it can be a little too granular, since it defines a timezone as all places that share the same clocks since the Unix epoch. This means that if jurisdictions decide to move from one timezone to another, they each get their new timezones.

Take Indiana. Indiana is in the US Eastern time zone, except for some places near the Illinois border, which are US Central. But Indiana also didn't observe DST until 2006 (although some counties did observe DST). Consequently, what could generally be described as three timezones (as in the MS timezone selector) is actually described as 11 timezones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana#tz_database

From what I understand, locals in Indiana actually refer to time simply as Eastern or Central (with non-observance of DST meaning you shift from Eastern in winter to Central in summer).
Huh, but the very first word (Kakoune) in the article is hyper-linked to https://kakoune.org/

Do you mean something else?
Finally IPv6 scoped addresses, thanks!
> Have you considered that the people you told don't really believe you are as expert as you claim, or believe that you were overdramatizing the situation?

I don't claim to be an expert. I'm just a guy who cares a lot about this stuff. I suppose I can be dramatic but I don't think that makes me wrong.

> The consequences of losing access don't necessarily follow from that though.

Currently, they do. That could change in the future but right now when people spend money on media they're merely buying some company's permission to enjoy some content. That permission can be revoked at any time and for any reason or no reason.

> Lots of people for example understand the principle of leasing an apartment or car, and in those cases it's much harder for the true owner to arbitrarily take the property away from you.

People aren't leasing content though. They're buying it. They buy books, they buy video games...

> it can't be very practical advice

Ignoring copyright is actually the most practical advice there is.

Everybody understands how to do it. I've yet to meet a single person who has never infringed copyright. People do it without even realizing it. It's how people naturally operate, especially on the internet. When people want something, they right click on it and save it. Nobody really thinks about the creator's rights to monopolize imaginary property.

The only problem with this advice is it's technically illegal. We can fix this by abolishing copyright.
If you're referring to the same source more than once, you can reuse a footnote to avoid clutter.
> Biology is unusual among sciences in that a five year old can ask questions it can't answer.

You can do this in a lot of fields, but you're right, Bio is one where it's very easy to do.

I'm always struck by the 'pathways' side of mol-bio. It's not easy, but many grad students can come up with experiments that will lead to discoveries of new signaling pathways inside a cell. I'm sure someone has done a census of the number of pathways in their particular cell, but for all cells? It must be a gigantic number of proteins that interact.

And I'd hedge that we're no where even close to knowing how they all interact
Excel has its place. And it is excellent tool for some workflows. However, I have started to think that Microsoft should disable the option to save workbooks. That would kind of force people to use Excel as a numerical scratchpad with fast charting what is where Excel excels.

(There is some sarcasm in this comment, but not that much)
Some of these, like the Chromebook Pixel, seem like technicalities. They still sell the "Pixelbook". What's the difference?

The two things I really miss that are on this list are Inbox and Field Trip. I used to just browse Field Trip while I was riding the buses or trains. Was really enjoyable. I don't know why this page says 2015. Field Trip survived the spinoff of Niantic and was only recently shut down.
Because Bucklescript/ReScript is based on a modified fork of OCaml 4.06, before monadic let was added.

https://github.com/rescript-lang/ocaml "This branch is 387 commits ahead, 5444 commits behind ocaml:trunk"
I'd say 99% of my transactions are apple pay now, with 1% being rare place that doesn't take paywave. I still have couple buck of cash for those super rare cash purchases on side of the road (damn they need alipay or something like that - NZ is kinda stuck with 'good enough' banking and failing to see innovation from Revolut and the like in Europe - that said surprised how much cash still used in Europe).
now do Russia...
ActiveRecord surpasses all other ORMs in memory usage and slow execution, that's for sure.
Google’s products and naming of products/services seemingly have had no discernible strategies at all. It’s as if people get bonuses for “new” introductions that replace the “old” and then they move on, leaving someone else to try the same trick again.

It would be fun if Google published this list officially using the domain killedby.google.
Your job as an attorney is to serve your client, not the truth. A law school professor would seem to have no such incentive to deceive people- so I would not trust a word you've written here over the linked paper by the law professors.
I guess so too. Any self respecting jew distances themselves from things that have harmed them in the past. But they don’t have to, and they don’t have to be self respecting either. It’s a choice after all.
Still a very long way from that. What tools should non-programmers use instead?
> It is not normal to go from being a little tired to being so tired that you can actually fall asleep at the wheel just like that.

The point is that it isn't "just like that", but not everyone has experience with passing out from being tired while trying to continue doing something they were actively trying trying to concentrate on.

> If you're going to do something like that, you need to plan the journey sensibly, take plenty of breaks, make sure you got extra rest before you leave. Don't they teach this sort of stuff in basic driver training where you are?

Obviously not well enough, or I had forgotten some of it in the almost decade between taking the classes and actually experiencing it for the first time. And to be clear, I thought I was being cautious, it was definitely not my first time making that trip, and I didn't think I was so tired I would lose consciousness, and yet one second I was fine, and the next second (to my consciousness) I noticed I was halfway across the center divider. I didn't feel any more tired than I had on a a prior trip, yet, the conclusion is obvious, that level of tiredness feeling might lead to that outcome, therefore it was no longer acceptable.

So, here's the thing, prior to that situation I thought I was being responsible, and had years of experience to go by that indicated I could drive in that state. All it takes is once occurrence to let you know that what you thought as fine was not.

What exactly was a I supposed to obviously know from that beforehand? It's nice if you've always been able to know the correct level to stop at, or perhaps you stop far earlier than strictly needed, which is fine. You would never know if you stopped with plenty of attentive time left you could drive, but better safe than sorry.

All I see this meaning is that different people have different thresholds for this, and all I was saying originally is that I wish there was a way for us to impart this experience better during driver training, so people knew what the warning signs are better, in case their internal calibration was too far on the dangerous side initially, like mine was.
I have used GeForce NOW and Xcloud. I've not used Stadia, but I hear that its streaming technology is excellent, including 4K graphics.

That said, /r/stadia seems to be panicking; a lot of people are convinced that the new Chromecast launched this week with no Stadia support (not until "mid 2021") is yet more proof that Google has given up on the service.
Nvidia replaces video codecs with neural networks for virtual meetings
There are different types of random distributions. You can check the stats for the output and see if they fall in the expected distribution or not. To deal with someone tampering with the results and removing evidence of their tampering you'd need similar protections to what I'd expect on a device used for voting.
Parsica, Easiest Way to Build Robust Parsers in PHP
These jokers are kidding me, right? They're introducing a fee for inactivity of 300 CZK, and blocking the cancellation of my account at the same time, lol.
I actually have no problem with them being a 1-3, I just dont understand why they had to do 4 and 5.

Music was understandable given there are no Streaming Music alternative other than Spotify. ( But Apple Music still sucks after so many years, and barely caught on to Spotify ). But Making Apple Originals? Pouring Billions into it?

And Apple Card? Yes I think Banking and Finance will be there soon. If they have some sort of Apple Cash will minimal cash balance that doesn't require as much regulation as a bank, they will start with a potential 1 Billion customers. And then you have insurance, investment options....
I'd help, but don't know what programming language should be used.
Lack of higher-level language features requiring code duplication/generation, a lean standard library usually necessitating 3rd-party packages, and an utterly terrible module system and fragile tooling setup.

Go is still far better than JS, but both are behind in modules, packaging and overall structure as compared to .NET. gofmt is nice though, more languages should have that.
How can you achieve anything equivalent to unit testing? How can you do any kind of change control (unless you treat every edit to the sheet as a change)? Excel does some things well but for anything that needs to work robustly as part of a process (as opposed to one-time exploratory data analysis) it lacks things that were basic in 1996. It's an "unsafe at any speed" situation: it may work as long as you do everything right, but it's missing basic safeguards as soon as you make a single mistake; I'd put it in the same category as using a memory-unsafe language.
Which libraries? Could you give some examples?
Well your username here is well chosen, then :)

(I had a previous comment of the same sentiment that seems didn't fit well here)

Edit: I guess this one doesn't either?
A quick list:

Angular: v1 is "dead", but is still receiving major version updates https://angular.io/guide/updating-to-version-10

Hangouts: meet.google.com

Password Checkup: integrated into Chrome, Firefox has its own thing as well.

Google Photos Print: it's just no longer a subscription service that automatically selects photos (who would want something to pick a photo book's photos for you??). https://www.google.com/photos/printing/

Shoelace: Kind of disingenuous to include Area 120 projects, which are experiments by design.

Google Chrome Apps: Sunset in favor of PWAs which don't rely on Chrome Web Store? sign me up!

Dragonfly: Was never public so I don't see this as 'killed'.

I think these different announcement types should be noted or properly filtered, maybe by noting the app that replaces the app, eg "alternative: google meet".
.NET Core 3 can still use the existing NodeServices package, it'll just show `obsolete` warnings. Haven't tried with .NET 5 yet but will probably switch to that first linked package.
> There's a catch - you have to be OK with long-winded exposition

Saying Weber has long-winded exposition is a little like saying “Blade Runner” has the occasional sweeping visual. In his later Honorverse novels, especially the most recent, it really feels like our author is getting paid by the word. He has...a lot of story background he feels the need to fill in. If you’ve ever made it to the end of a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode and thought “wow, I wonder how that civilization came to be and what happened after our heroes left,” this is the series for you.

They’re good stories and I like the middle of the arc in particular but, yes, I hope future readers like very detailed backgrounds on the technology or in-universe history of the societies in question.
Agreed. I think schools that turns bad students into good ones deserve more funding and publicity than schools that turns good students into excellent ones.
Canadians are fortunate enough to have interac e-transfer, which is free and no fees for small to medium sized amounts of bank transfers between mutually trusted parties. It's built into the online banking platform of all the major banks. For a great many people it has entirely replaced paper checks.
I'm sure that a developer who's determined enough can mess up any system. And Excel is by no means the only system with that kind of dangerous default (I remember MySQL 4 had very similar behaviour, as did early versions of PHP). But the industry knows this is far from best practice.
cloud print was one of my favorite google products ever...it just worked, it was simple, it allowed me to print things I found to read and they were just on the printer at home when I got there. Still trying to find an effective non-home-serve based alternative.
Sure there's a way to finance it! Make everyone else in the country subsidize New Almaden! Works for hurricane and tornado areas too!
Not necessarily. I'm on mobile, so can't link to code right now, but here's how it would happen:

You can have another .background element which spans all the rows (using grid-row-start and grid-row-end) and positioned in the centre column. Apply the shadows on it, and keep it before the content div in DOM order. That should do it.
So you're saying Sonos'/Bose's efforts are trivial? Audio is a solved problem for five people and a pizza?

What isn't?

I mean, Apple is building a Hollywood studio. That's insane.

I get the feeling nothing is safe. If Apple wants to do it, they'll do it. Same for Amazon.
I agree with some of what you're saying but Hangouts didn't JUST get rebranded. Meet was introduced while Hangouts was still alive.
While the article is quite nice, the title is certainly misleading. The article is about complexity of products and services and its management, but not about complexity of life. The latter, I believe, mostly comes from a myriad of interactions between numerous underlying psychological, social and economic networks/graphs (it's the same thing in this context: https://bence.ferdinandy.com/2018/05/27/whats-the-difference...) of forces, types of actors, incentives and other factors.
Ccsds Primary Header implemented in Zig
> This data center provider was recently outted as part of the #BlueLeaks breach, because all 78 DHS Fusion Center sites were hosted there.

What's that?

I'm a little lost. Could you spell it out for someone who has no familiarity with any of these operations? (I.e., What exactly was the NSA doing, and what was its relationship to Data Foundry?)
I would love for people to steal Kakoune's text editor, I think it's an improvement over Vim for modal editing.

I've been a longtime user of the Vim style of editing, but I checked out Kakoune several years ago and was impressed. I tried it for a week or two and was starting to prefer it over Vim.

The problem is that while Kakoune is a very good competitor to Vim the program, I am only rarely in need of a terminal based editor. The vast majority of my time is spent in full fledged IDEs or in Web-based editors, all of whom have Vim plugins so that I can consistently use the same style.

It's always bummed me out a little bit. I spend the majority of my work days using Vim keys for editing text, and there is an editing style I'd actually prefer to use but I can't because there isn't already widespread adoption. There's not enough benefit for me to learn it if I can't use it everywhere, and switching back and forth with Vim seems extremely difficult.
You still hear the phrase “spend a penny” even in countries that haven’t had pennies in decades.
Microsoft actually has a reasonable migration path where you can use Excel backed by Access and then transition to Access backed by SQL Server. But you'd have to recognise that you had a problem first.
Outlook doesn't even have IE btw... It has a custom MS Word compliant HTML parser/renderer (Facepalm emoji)
The panic isn't unprecedented imo, Google should at least provide more updates on it.
Well they are still the leaders but the patents that are now expired give good-enough of an experience for most regular users.
> Since the Supreme Court's T.C. Heartland case, patent cases can only be brought in the defendant's state of incorporation, or "where the defendant . . . has a regular and established place of business."

That is an important distinction that the article overlooked. It also means that unlike the Eastern District, which doesn't contain any major metropolitan areas, the Western District includes Austin (as well as San Antonio, El Paso, and Corpus Christi). Companies will be far more reluctant to pull out of the Western District to avoid patent cases having jurisdiction there like they did with the Eastern District.
A Tale of Phone’s Betrayal and Internet’s Mercy
Really enjoyed this piece. It makes a lot of scientific rigor readable, and presents a few different, useful viewpoints on how this advances science (Or how we should be careful to over-reach). I especially like the frog story - the bacteria treatment solving the invasive fungus issue only for greater forces to keep their fate the same the next year.

A recent obsession has been understanding how much the Earth may be giving us that we don’t really comprehend fully. One clear item is a reservoir for bio-diversity - all the viruses, bacteria, fungi that we’ve evolved alongside. Our DNA is littered with battle scars or alliances. The reason for this interest is in the context of colonizing other planets - we’ll likely abandon a huge part of our biological history. This will be good in some ways, such as certain diseases (or pests) no longer being a threat, but also could leave our martian children less adaptable or equipped with fewer tools than their ancestors.
They won't let you use it in the interviews.
Sorry for miscommunication. The site is not actual service yet. It is just showing the concept and key values of this service. And the reason why I collect the email is that I wanna validate market needs for this service and notify the opted-in people when the service is launched.

So I changed the button name to 'get notified when launched'.
State Fact Sheets – Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
“Killed by Google” + Alternatives
Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms(2013)
I submitted a Cryptome post that might help some [1]. Scroll down and read points 1-5.

Being familiar with the original #BlueLeaks story is also helpful to understand [2].

[1] - https://cryptome.org/2020/09/dhs-fusion-center.htm

[2] - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/blueleaks-exposes-files-...
That's only recent. But they have a default NPS enrollment, which is more or less the same.
Yeah. I tried looking for some alternative service, but Bing's custom search is paid and has even lower limits.
Does this run a stock distribution and a distro provided stock kernel such as Ubuntu? If not, how good are the security updates and for how long does NVidia commit to providing them?
All products "killed" by google + their top alternatives.
I think we could talk about how much to trust internally generated assessments of how successful an ambitious engineering project will be. Projects have been badly designed by well meaning engineers before.

That said, I wasn't trying to say that the problem was technical in nature. It's that a sound technical design (and competent construction of that design) is only one part in a much larger problem set. A solution that the people who are paying for it don't want (for whatever reason) is unlikely to succeed. The Wikipedia article for MOSE (the Venice anti-flood system) lists many lawsuits worried that it's insufficient, will damage the environment, etc[1].

To me, this suggests that it may harm projects to leave it at "the engineering is fine." The engineering may actually be more flexible than other constraints. It's possible that the optimal design for a perfectly supportive environment may be less well suited for the world that exists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE_Project#Criticism,_corrup...
In the light of this post, I've built an extended version of this one that includes some of the top alternatives of each "killed" product - https://www.saashub.com/google-graveyard
If you want quiet go live in the woods. Cities are for doing stuff. Doing stuff makes noise.
And the US changes are here:

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-f...

I don't see anything about a withdrawal fee there.
No, the major artist's songs would not be downloadable. You would only check that the song is used in the Youtube video or channel.
> Research has shown that the ideal line length is about 65 characters. Anywhere between 45 and 85 is generally seen as acceptable, in the context of a roman alphabet.

This should be literally nailed into everyones head. It's really tiring to hack and patch website styles to make them readable; Desktop HN is guilty of this too. Sometimes I feel I'm reading an ancient papyrus scroll around here.

Brilliant blog and I'm excited to implement full-bleed in my blog. I feel that code snippets, data tables and even some screenshots can really take advantage of this!
Can one ballpark how many million acres must burn on average to reach steady state given the transformation of sunlight into captured energy via photosynthesis on the impacted areas? Can we say that a noble management goal is for precisely that amount to burn every calendar year? This feels like a simple control volume analysis.
WhatsApp and iMessage is all we need, but they should be more powerful