skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently culled a few of my larger gmail accounts.

This is what it took:

* Connect to Outlook and sync locally

* Sort All Mail by sender

* Delete All Mail per senders that aren't important

It took me a day, and I'm glad I did it. Not that painful. Outlook was a champ through the whole process.

Now I can move somewhere else, which I will.
Beautifully put. It is not, period.
Hi everyone, it's Quang from WebCatalog,

Certainly, if the built-in "install-as-app" of major browsers work well for you, then it's great.

WebCatalog tries to make the concept simpler and more accessible to average users. Most people are familiar with the concepts of apps and app stores so our vision is to build an app store for web apps that gives users easy access to desktop apps (many not available elsewhere). A user doesn't need to know what is difference between a website or an app, they just need to open WebCatalog and install the apps they want like they usually do on their phone. For a power user, this might sound unnecessary, but this is proven wrong as there are plenty of apps like "X for Gmail" or "Y for Netflix" on Mac App Store and Microsoft Store. It is also the reason why companies like Notion and Slack build web-wrapper desktop apps.

One more point, we're not only letting users install chromeless window apps. If you give it a try, for example, with the Gmail app on WebCatalog [1], you can switch between multiple accounts using workspaces, set the app as the default email client, attach it to the menu bar or taskbar, etc. They're real apps with executables, not just bash scripts. And we're trying to integrate the web apps with your system and make it feel native-like as much as possible. And we're going to add many more features soon. In other words, we're trying to bring the experience that web-wrapper apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Notions offer to every web app.

I've been bootstrapping WebCatalog since 2017. I and many people around the world use it every day. It's a well-tested idea. It's only now that we decide to launch the product widely.

[1] https://webcatalog.app/catalog/gmail/
This should be illegal if there is no way to contest/appeal.
Body safe resins exist, but they’re $200/liter. I don’t know anything about the chemistry but I remember they said they were “monomer free”.

https://www.3dresyns.com/

But yes, a cheap undeniably safe resin (there’s no MSDS on cheap resins) would be a boon! The sticky toxic mess my SLA printer leaves behind is a real issue.
How would recent leak of Windows XP source code help these guys? Would they be able to use some of it for reverse engineering and then create their own solutions?
Yes it is: https://github.com/hashicorp/horizon and https://github.com/hashicorp/waypoint-hzn

Not we haven’t tried to make that easier to self-run, but we didn’t purposely make it difficult either. It just wasn’t a priority for an initial launch. We’ll continue to improve this going forward.
Did it? Which agency audited and approved the development process? What was the basis for conformance (to what minimum standards are these vehicle systems said to meet)? What standards are used to demonstrate development and test compliance to that basis?
There's a very long tail here. I went car-less for a year and experienced the downsides pretty frequently. Carrying that damn stand mixer a few miles home sucked, going to events in nice clothes on warm nights wasn't great on a bike, getting groceries from far away or visiting ocean beach took way longer than it should, etc... I eventually gave up and just bought the car. Even though I didn't need it 90% of the time, many things became way easier with it.
Most methods easily find a local optimum, but it is very hard to tell if it is a global optimum.
I wonder what happens when these cars get in an accident. I don't even mean in the legal sense. What happens in the immediate wake of an accident? Is there a note on the car about what the other driver should do? Is there a way for someone back in the office to communicate to the other driver on the scene? Does the other driver need to wait around until some human shows up?
And we pass the burden of proof along like a hot-potato...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-gave-some-companies-pr...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/fact-check/201...

> But some researchers dispute that ad-targeting is any different than selling data.

> "As a data scientist, I am shocked that anyone continues to believe this claim," wrote Michael Kosinski, assistant professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, in a New York Times opinion piece. "Every time you click on a Facebook ad, Facebook sells data on you to that advertiser."

> "This is such a basic property of online targeted advertising that it would be impossible to avoid, even if Facebook somehow wanted to."
>but I've heard about astroid mining as an alternative to mining rare earth metals

Good idea, and lets go to mars so we dont have to care about earth ;)
> Anyone who's had to deal with Google support for paid business accounts will tell you that the situation is barely any different for paying customers. Things might be different for very large businesses who are spending millions per month, but that's hardly relevant to how Google might handle email customers hypothetically paying $9.95 a month for a personal mailbox.

Then don’t pay google $10 a month. I don’t. I do the work of supporting businesses that I think deserve it. I know some businesses have monopolies that customers can’t fix by voting with their wallet, but email isn’t one of them.

> Collaborating with hostile entities is not a redeeming quality.

Using their free services and not voting for the right candidate in the market by paying for the service is collaborating with hostile entities (in the example of email where there is no monopoly and almost zero cost to switching).
That's honestly unacceptable. Google deserves whatever anti-trust action comes their way. It's absolutely insane that they can lock you out of your phone, email, youtube, password manager, business, and everything you've ever used sign in with google for on the whims of some buggy algorithm.
My hypothesis is that WFH has been somewhat ostracized, generally, by companies for bad reasons that would otherwise benefit employees who find it beneficial.

The pendulum is now swinging in WFH's favor and those who it benefits want to cement it as a very viable and practical alternative to the traditional office model.
"Morally corrupt president" ... sounds like you go to bed watching Rachel Maddow on MSDNC. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, I'm sorry you suffer from it.
It Will Take More Than Antitrust Enforcement to Light Innovation’s Fire
If the fundamental problem is trust, are you really suggesting that "it can't be hard to create" that trust?
What I expect from something like this is:

The visits are either dictated by policy or agreed upon by the participants. A place will probably want both, a low frequency one by policy and freedom for the employees to set any frequency to themselves. Voting doesn't make any sense, you need all the participants to agree on a date.

The policy meetings ought to be fixed and with a low enough frequency that people can plan their lives after them. Like once every 6 months. Otherwise people will resent them.

After a date is set and the people come together, they can work on whatever they decided to have the meeting for. Of course, it's probably not for doing solo-work, but the company shouldn't dictate a lot here. It would go counter to the goal of the studios.

I imagine the company expects every worker to be able to meetup at some point.
I remember, long, long ago (2011) there was a similar story about a Google account that was banned, and Matt Cutts himself looked into it and came back with a boring, corporate, legalease answer that was most unlike him.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795465

The underlying reason in that instance, was the mistaken identification of childporn.

https://nhwn.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/the-thomas-monopoly-af...
This happened to me. Luckily on a gmail account I don't use much - but it's a wakeup call for sure. Moving out of Google, finally, after years of being on the fence.
Isn't that last bit retaliation, and explicitly illegal on its own?
> moderating any platform is a challenging endeavor, mostly because of malicious users. Having all the rules broken down in detail allows bad actors to either get close to the line but not cross it, or abuse the system while technically not breaking any rules.

Couldn't that same argument be used to support secret laws and secret courts enforcing those secret laws? After all, we're definitely seeing the problem of people going as close as possible to the line without overstepping.

I think those laws would help tremendously, but mostly by forcing everyone to be overly cautious not to break them, creating strong chilling effects. They'd stifle freedom, and so does Google's secret law system.

To minimize fallout, I think it's more useful to split up Google along services (Search, Youtube, Gmail, Office/Suite etc). You could search for double plus ungood things on Google Search then without running the risk to loose access to your emails.
This is great. I'm glad a good company is backing an open source project like this. I've built abstractions like this at two companies, and I hope one day I can stop writing my own. Some comments:

I see "promotion" on the roadmap, so this is probably in the works. But the current "Workspaces" each have their own build. I really want to be able to promote the same artifact from one environment (staging) to another (production). I'd also like to be able to choose the artifact build/version to deploy, not just what happens to be in my local repo.

The concept of multiple environments also brings up the need to vary things by environment. App config (env vars) are obvious. But also settings like number of replicas or auto scaling min/max (auto scaling is also required).

The biggest thing most of the tools in the space lack, like all the ones that try to copy the docker-compose.yml syntax, is standardized reusable app settings. Imagine I have two common types of app, "API services" and "background workers". They have common settings, like maybe they all default to using /healthz for health checks and auto-scaling at 70% CPU. Then within each group they vary, "API services" use internal load balancers and "background workers" don't.

I don't want every individual "API service" app to have to say "my health check endpoint is /healthz" and "I run on port 8080 and need a load balancer". Those are the defaults, and if the app uses the defaults it shouldn't need to be configured. But at the same time I want the app to be able to override the defaults. Within a well standardized environment 90% of app infra settings (not env vars) are the same, or can use the same template (like the image is docker.example.com/svc/{app_name}:{build_id}). I want to be able to reuse the settings.
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Local backup and sync for contacts and calendar can be made using vdirsyncer. mbsync or offlineimap does the same for mail. All of them can be deployed as services to do automatic sync. Some client software can use these local copies directly.
I wonder how new a phenomenon this really is. It's certainly been possible to get reviews taken down for many years.

Some time ago I worked for a company where I did a stint as a technical recruiter before moving into an interim head of IT role to tide them over whilst we hired someone permanent. One of the people I'd been instrumental in hiring whilst I was technical recruiter went on to join the company during my tenure IT.

It turned out that this person was not my - nor the company's - greatest ever hire. They were demanding, complaining, entitled and, above all, lazy. We bought this person a bunch of special equipment, including a ludicrously expensive keyboard supposed to help with RSI. Still, they continued to be obnoxious and lazy, literally doing nothing productive, until they were asked to leave during their probation period because they were basically insufferable.

Said person then went on to post a slanderously inaccurate review on Glassdoor about the company, their manager, and the people they'd been working with in that team. At this time I wasn't particularly happy at the company, for various reasons, but even so, I could see the review was completely unfair and, substantially, a work of embittered fiction.

I was pretty annoyed and felt somewhat responsible given that I'd been part of the team who'd brought them in to the company. So, with little hope of recourse, I contacted Glassdoor explaining the situation and detailing the inaccuracies in the review in a lot more depth - and a lot more specifically - than i've done here.

Now, whilst what I said in my email was accurate, and I had little motivation to lie or paint the company in a particularly positive light, Glassdoor really had no way of verifying that what I'd told them was true. Moreover I wasn't in a role related to hiring. Nevertheless, within a couple of days the extremely negative review had been taken down, and I was grateful to them for taking it down.

With that said, it sounds like what may have started out as a sane policy to handle complaints on a case by case basis has perhaps evolved into something rather less noble.
> I want to own my data and* my tools.*

More power to you! But this article is specifically about local-first/offline SaaS, which is what Creative Cloud is.
That was a fun read and made me realize that reinventing the wheel was good for society
This would be a very big deal in my industry - civil/environmental engineering. In the river/stream flood modeling space, the US Army Corps of Engineers' HEC-RAS program [1] is king. It's a critical part of FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program. HEC-RAS is free, but it's not open source, and USACE doesn't appear to have any plans to make it so.

HEC-RAS is a Windows-only GUI application. Supposedly USACE has an internal Linux version, not publicly available. HEC-RAS has a limited COM API, but it's not officially documented. I suspect that the API was exposed unintentionally. Most of the input files are text, but the format is very strange (very old-school), again with no official documentation. I spend much of my days reverse-engineering HEC-RAS file formats in order to make the process of building flood models more efficient and less error-prone. Other developers like me exist at competing civil engineering firms, working on similar reverse engineering projects and secret sauce tools for HEC-RAS.

If HEC-RAS was made open source, it would be a game changer. We'd be able to accomplish so much more. If the input/output files were officially documented, it would be a game changer. FEMA would benefit tremendously.

[1] https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/
> DNS based blocklists (and Google SafeBrowsing) which form a viable defence against Phising can only protect you from so much [2].

Can you explain why not? Your reference is talking about malware C&C trying to confuse reverse engineers, not phishing attacks happening in a browser.
If nothing else, looking at the history of the account (be it HN, Reddit, or something else) can give you a sense of legitimacy. Of course, even that could be faked or purchased, but if you have someone who seems to have a variety of other interests besides slagging companies, at least right now you can trust that it's a genuine review from a personal perspective.
I hope this is fixed by finding and fixing the cause of the erroneous lockout and not just "account restored, problem solved".
I forgot that anything directly or indirectly critical to China is quickly downvoted here.
He never said that Google attacks his life or sexuality, only his family.
If you think that "green tech" is "green" or that it somehow eliminates fossil fuels out of the equation, please watch Jeff Gibbs' "Planet of the Humans" documentary. It will open your eyes to how this "green tech" movement really works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q2m_mCIrQY
Ownership of data is not the same as ownership of publication rights. However, the pictures and emails in question were clearly not copyrighted or licensed.

If transferring ownership of a physical data storage device does not constitute transferring ownership of the data stored therein, then I don't know what does.

When it comes to the cloud, that sounds more to me like leasing storage rights, but I'm no lawyer.
What's your take on Facebook and Twitter censoring the New York Post article on Hunter Biden, including disabling the Post's Twitter account and prohibiting the article's URL from being shared, and how that would apply to what Justice Thomas is talking about here?
It's hard to keep track because they keep encroaching on knife ownership.

It's illegal to sell a knife to someone under 18! As a Canadian, I owned a half dozen pocket knives by the time I was 10, and took them camping and so forth.

It's illegal for an adult to carry a knife without good reason! I carry one on me all the time, because I often need one.

It blows my mind how far down the authoritarian rabbit hole they're going, rather than addressing the root causes of violence.

https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
Same question, but with minikube.
Earth’s New Gilded Era
We're finally seeing the death of overpriced, elitest community colleges and tech schools siting in their Ivory Tower. You don't need an expansive college degree to work as a dental hygiene or to do underwater wielding. Just get out-there and get some Hands On Experience! There are literally tons of great-paying jobs that no one will apply to because Americans are allergic to blue-collar work that makes them get off their Facebook and roll up their sleeves! Bad!!

Edit: typos.
Nothing provable in a court of law. However, the look of disappointment in some of the interviewers' faces when we finally met for the face-to-face interview told me everything I needed to know about their expectations even before they said hello.
Lots of people with free gmail accounts have their app store purchases locked up behind that very email, don't they? Or their phones.
It's allowed/encouraged to repost links from time to time, but it's still a duplicate.
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> Are there serious research about how much this "green" tech is actually greener or not?

The Michael Moore produced documentary Planet of the Humans[0] tries to answer that question. Strongly recommended.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
Unfortunately, it really is Thomas trying to enforce what he wants the law to be rather than what the law actually says.

Thomas ignores the definition actually provided for "information content provider" and substitutes his own, because it's ideologically convenient for him to do so.

"information content provider" is defined in section 230 as "person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service", and as written, clearly contemplates the individual users can be information content providers for purposes of section 230 if they are providing information through the use of the Internet.

The law doesn't say that the provider has to pass-along any content it receives, only that it has to receive the content from another. Importantly, section 230's shield, as written, only restricts liability where the provider is also the creator of the content, such as when it alters content received (because in that context, it is the creator of the altered content).

But Thomas has decided that the law really means that you either post everything you get sent (unless it's illegal), or you don't get to exercise any editorial control over what shows up on your website at all unless it clearly falls within the filterable catgories of 230(c)(2) (i.e., objectionable content). But 230(c)(2) is just a safe harbor that explicitly delineates what is definitely protected provider activity, it isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of what is protected provider activity.

In fact, if you look at all the cases cited by Thomas as being wrong and actually read the decisions...you find that they are logically sound and based on technical interpretations of section 230 as actually written and not what Thomas fantasizes in his head.

TLDR: it's just Thomas being Thomas.
Buy a cheap domain from Gandi for 10 years. They provide free email and DNS. Use that email for anything you care about. Stop using your gmail account and forward your gmail to your domain's email account. Gradually, you'll switch your recovery emails to the domain that you own and control.

The other nice thing about this is you can be bob@domain.com rather than bob2746293@gmail.com and you can provide email accounts to your family and friends.
Trust is valuable, build your business , give it away for free, build trust, then sell out.
I don't know if that's the right metric to look at.

There's not a huge difference in going from 91% efficiency (10:1) to 99.5% efficiency (200:1).

What's more concerning are the other negative externalities -- pollution, ecosystem destruction, etc, as described in the original article. This won't be captured by looking at energy stored vs. energy used in production.
In my defense, that article was published around the time I was writing the comment.

If I see the DKIM I'll start buying that there's smoke but until then I don't trust the messengers.
Rare earth metals are rare; it isn't an energy tradeoff as it isn't like we are synthesizing this stuff... it is a "eventually we run out" situation (and presumably a lot sooner than oil, with less ability to swap in replacements).
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So... it's pretty easy to find reviews that you are confident are fake, and you're probably right about most of them.

But that only leaves us an uncorrupted signal if, given a review you have deemed authentic, it actually has a good chance of being so. Do you know that that's the case? How?

I'm not sure it's true in your case, but statements like this are often made when people don't realize they're (implicitly) marking their predictions against those same predictions.
If you want to become a platform that everyone in the world uses and reap those billions in profits that come with that, maybe... just maybe you should be responsible for sane, humane moderation as well. Don't build something that's manageable and then complain when people ask you to manage it.

I've said this before here, I'm pretty libertarian, and very much in favor of small gov, but at this point its become clear that anyone who strives to become an internet platform where market dominance equals monopoly or duopoly, should be held to strict regulatory standards, re: free speech, appeals, etc. similar to what a gov entity is held to.
Hey! Filecoin Tech Lead here, I really wouldn't take any prices you see for deals as authoritative yet. Things are gonna be pretty crazy up and down until the markets settle.

Filecoin miners right now are making about 0.25FIL per day per TB they store. Thats just in block rewards (remember, Filecoin is a proof of SpaceTime network). Any amount the user is paying is on top of that price, so basically, if the user pays enough to cover the transaction fees and bandwidth costs (very small), it makes sense for the miner to accept the deal. This effectively means the block reward is subsidizing the price of storage.