skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been soaking in this space for the past couple years as I've developed PhotoStructure, a local-first photo and video manager [1]. I have opinions.

While I'm certainly sold, personally, on local-first software (obviously), I think it's going to become an increasingly harder sell for Normal People. 15 years ago, a large percentage of households had at least one desktop or laptop, as it was the only way to get on to the internet.

As smartphones have taken that place for most people, nowadays if you've got a desktop, it's likely only for gaming, and most commonly-purchased laptops (esp that don't come with Windows) have stagnated in performance and capability, as their companies push people to use their cloud service offerings. NAS devices seem to remain niche products. This drove me to have to support everything: Windows, macOS, Linux desktops, and everything that can run Docker. I've been very surprised to find an almost perfect split of users for each edition (desktop vs docker).

Given the popularity of personal-information-selling social platforms (however it may be waning), I don't think most people are concerned about privacy to give up (almost any) convenience. I'd love to be wrong. I'm hoping to make something easy enough to install and live with that it isn't an inconvenience, but it's hard to compete against enjoying someone else's infrastructure and application management teams, for "free" (where "free" === all of your personal information and telemetry).

(For what it's worth, PhotoStructure only runs on hardware you own, and none of your data leaves your computer, except for error reporting, and even that can be disabled).

[1] https://photostructure.com/
As a former user: good.
I think we're seeing Twitter and Facebook draw a line in the sand about behaviors that cause damage. Note that Twitter and Facebook removed comments hoping for the worst when the president was diagnosed with Covid which they hadn't done for AOC or other liberals who were receiving death threats.

Things are changing, I don't think we can point to prior behavior of these companies as the line they're going to hold in the future.
I always figure they just 'rerun the script' and it produces the same results and there you go.

With no new input from the user, how could anything change?

Has anyone tried "Try to restore" and had it ... work?
Galileos tend to work alone or almost alone.

If someone joins a mob against a single person, odds are that their self-identification as Galileo is ... unsound.
Seems nice.

1. Needs more blockchain for versioning/authenticity

2. Needs additional knowledge management beyond collections and tags
Automerge: A library [..] for building collaborative applications in JavaScript
Looks like an advertisement pretending to be interesting tech.
We are enforcing websocket since 4 years now and not using long polling since. It works really great as it is widely supported.

We removed polling from SocketIO because it was just useless since 4 years.
These are usually written by hedgefunds right? So ITM: the retail investors make money off investment banks hedging bets, OTM: retail investors loose money gambling.
I couldn't have made my point better than you just did.
Reporting chain wasn't helping him. This is obviously his last resort. I pay for Google services and stuff like this is motivating me to look into migrating away (the only thing I _actually_ care about is mail).
Flight time of a jetsuit is about 10 minutes. Rate of climb on a full tank is 500 ft/min and doubles as fuel burns off. Flying a jetsuit to 6000 ft seems like a spectacular way to commit suicide.
I earned the money I have. Citizens didn't earn their citizenship. You're completely misguided too, immigration is in no way akin to "giving people free money." It's very difficult to immigrate. I would love to kick everyone who was born here out and make them reapply with the same process as want to be immigrants.
That's a poor analogy. We're not talking about a service that is trying to help users achieve clearly definable goals like eliminating fraud with their customers' consent. No one is claiming that Amazon customers object to having Amazon's help to prevent being defrauded.

We're talking about communication platforms where politically motivated decisions are being made to filter out information that the decision-makers don't like, and the users are saying, "We don't want you to make those decisions for us."

But also think through my original point. Why should we value democracy, the notion that each person has valuable and necessary input in building a society, when we hand control of information over to the very few? Shouldn't we cut out the middlemen and just have our information overlords be in charge of creating and implementing all our policies? Why trust people to vote when we don't trust them to choose and evaluate information?
Have they completed the official escalation procedure for resolving issues with Google products?

It sounds like they're at the point where they are supposed to contact a friend who writes for the New York Times, or similarly prominent outlet, to have a story written about their predicament.

This usually resolves the issue, but if it does not, they should run for and win a U. S. Senate seat, then forward the details of their issue on official Senate letterhead.
What does the ethnic cleansing of Uighurs have to do with economic growth? You think imprisoning people in concentration camps accelerates poverty reduction?
ReactOS needs help with its web infrastructure. Joun the official chat and discuss the details https://chat.reactos.org :)
I also have 15C from my early University days and my 28S from graduate work, both still working. I got the 15C used from a junior EEE student that was quitting the program. I think it's on the 3rd set of batteries in 35 years. It got used several hours a day for the first three years.

The 28S burns through three N batteries every two years, even when it doesn't get used much. That may have contributed to the battery doors wearing out on the 28S. Mine is still in great shape however, as spent most of it's life on a desk rather than thrown in a backpack with heavy books that the 15C endured with aplomb in it's case.

The 28S was at work and the 15C at home. Now that I'm working from home and they both are on the same desk, I find I pull out the 15C unless it's complex enough that I want the four line display on the 28S. And if it's slightly more complex than that, a spreadsheet is probably the better tool.
The new price of Tesla’s Model S is based on sex and pot jokes
I am unsure between this and Pinboard.in.

Raindrop certainly looks better, but Pinboard seems to have better integrations across other services. Those permanent archives are nice to have, but it does not feel that permanent without a local copy and a perceived bus-factor of 1 on both of them.

I requested an Archive Backup in my Pinboard settings, but I am still waiting for a download link three weeks later.

Thankfully, those bookmarks.html exports and imports seem to be very reliable across different bookmarking services.
Asking as a noob. How is this any different from the `install as an app` option already present in Edge?
Yeah, just shipping alone takes longer than 3d printing.
Requesting federal funding for interstate highways is really an admission of failure.

It is an admission that the transportation infrastructure concept cannot survive on its own merit in the marketplace.
Well IMO it kinda makes sense that internally of all places you might actually make it hard to address it along that specific path to avoid any kinda of local shenanigans.
When I click on the link, then I read that raindrop-io is fast intuitive and smart, and at the very bottom I see a link to tell me its an extension. I like fast, intuituive and smart extensions, I'm looking forward to buying pizza with this ;). In otherwards what does it do!?! :)
My best guess:

Filecoin is hovering at around $65 USD / FIL [0]. The rolling 24-hr reward for storage on the Filecoin network is currently about 0.25 FIL / TB, or $16.25 / TB. Backblaze says that they manage around $36 / TB [2], and they have incredible knowledge and scale, so that leads me to believe something is wrong in this calculation I just did. Maybe the reward isn't a good measure of the price of the storage?

EDIT: I think the issue is that I didn't take into account storage duration. Not sure how to do that. Storing a blob for two years will be more expensive than for a month, and I know that the Filecoin network accounts for this. After a brief exploration of their site, it seems like you actually make bids to store your data at a certain price. I wish there were an obvious place that showed the most recent offers so people could get a good idea of how much it costs.

Also, I had a thought that a smart miner will just create a thin layer between Backblaze B2 and Filecoin to earn some FIL basically for free since no one is going to out-price B2. And then we're just back to storing everything on B2 and S3, except in a less efficient and more opaque way.

[0]: https://www.kraken.com/prices/fil-filecoin-price-chart/usd-u...

[1]: https://filfox.info/en

[2]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...
Yes except that IBM has revenue it generates from people (not) being there, while WeWork only loses money :D.
Same here. Happy HP 4000 owner. 1999 technology and it never fails. Maybe get a paper jam once a year. The only trouble I have is the plastic is getting kind of brittle and little odds and ends snap off but the printer still functions exactly the way it did 20 years ago.
Right now I have everything tied up to my Google account (primary email, drive, photos). Has anyone moved away and if so, to what?
The fundamentals were not bad ideas. Regus has been doing things similar to WeWork for decades.

Neumann committing fraud, poor cash management, and self-dealing conflicts of interest are what killed WeWork. Not the coworking space concept.
I see it too. Same software stack, iPhone 11 Pro.
Every time this happens I think about reducing my dependence on google, however I'd love to be able to make this decision by evaluating the actual risk of this happening.

Does anyone know an estimate of how likely this is to happen to an individual on a per year basis?

Obviously that risk will change as the organization changes, but if it's happening to a couple hundred good faith accounts a year I'd probably put it off for quite some time.
Running 50k Jobs on Kubernetes
I have been thinking about this for a while. Considering I prefer to keep the important data/emails on Gmail or Google drive for security and I really consider it important. Would it help if Google had a paid tier?

Say, if you can get into an annual plan, similar to what's there for hardware devices like Apple Care+. Just that, in this there is someone to help you through issues.

We used to pay 10% of our AWS bill for the AWS support plan because when you needed the help, it really made sense to have someone looking at it with some SLAs.

A second option is, Google can just make consumer Gmail as an ad free paid service and then provide support for it as well. Plenty of people are paying $10/month for email services, so we have a price point that works for people. Email is very crucial to online identity, and I would trust Google the most with security among the other providers so I would happily pay for it.

Edit: As someone pointed out, they have Google One at least for storage. It has proper support. Maybe it makes sense to extend it for other services as well. https://one.google.com/about
The mednafen PSX emulator uses this trick to implement some of the modules (the MDEC and SPU use it IIRC). I always found it hard to follow and personally prefer simpler, more verbose code with explicit state management.
This is one of the reasons why I've finally began migrating to a custom domain + proton mail. Can't imagine the time it would take me to get back all the accounts registered to my email, not to mention those to which access would be lost forever.
Daily reminder that you should not stake your digital identity/data on any Google service that you cannot pay support for. And even then, be wary.
Unfortunately that still chills legitimate negative reviews. If I know my real identity is tied, somehow, to the gripes I posted about my employer, there's a risk of subpoenas unmasking me when that employer decides I've libeled them.

I don't know how to solve this dilemma. Or if it can be solved. Sometimes anonymity is required to get the unvarnished truth, but it also clearly enables sock puppets and astroturfing.
https://reactos.org/wiki/Audit
Minor side note, but most runs of the game of life actually will produce spaceships and/or oscillators, even starting from a random configuration. (Initialize a 100 x 100 box of cells randomly, and you're virtually guaranteed to get several gliders flying off of the resulting mess.)
Relevant, I think:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/dis...
> but is it being used by a sufficient amount of people?

yes, it is. It's a pretty healthy and vibrant ecosystem (I'm referring to the W3C ActivityPub ecosystem here because I didn't mention it in the grandparent comment)
The fact that ATC is suggesting it normalizes jetpacks in a way that no amount of pilot reports could.
> they should do more of this, not less

> The less people trust twitter popularity as an indication of importance, the better off society is

How exactly will Twitter doing "more of this" result in "less people trust[ing] twitter popularity as an indication of importance"?

If anything, I think Twitter should just wear their bias on their sleave and stop pretending to be an open platform. Same goes for all social media.

There is no such thing as an unbiased disinformation watchdog. These are not public spaces with rights to freedom of expression. Distributed social media networks are the future.
Currently I am trying to figure out how to move e-mail away from google, not my personal one, but my company e-mail.

Couldn't figure out yet...

The reason is that despite being a corporate costuemer we don't pay enough to have access to support, and some issues we had, the only thing the FAQ and documentation did was redirect us to a page behind payment.
I use nextcloud with s3 as the backend for file sharing and storage. Backblaze backs up the folder that contains nextcloud.

I self host email using the standard dovecot/postfix
Shopify store from 0 – $1k in profit
Ah. So, to be clear, this entire performance discussion was a red herring?

For completeness's sake I will just note that DEs are vastly different from 2005, notably in using GPU compositing; this is nicer in many ways and more power efficient, but stresses the driver stack a lot more. The crashing issues you mention are not common, so I would try running it on some different machines before blaming the instability on Plasma.

Interestingly, 2011 smartphones and 2005 desktops have broadly similar specs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker
I would love to see a step-by-step guide on how to move away from centralized services entirely. Maybe in favor of the various federated services that are popping up.
I'm still pissed that Google disabled the Photo sync with GDrive. It makes backing up my photos 100x harder than it should be.
meh, seems like an opinion not backed up by any content in the article.

I don't think a "general belief in white racial superiority" would ever be an impediment to employing natives who were good at a job. (You can find examples of this in, for example, the armies of the British Empire.)

I think that's true to this day, regardless of the specific races of the employer or employee. If you need a job done, you find the best person for the job.

It's when that person wants to marry your daughter that you truly find out what you are made of.
This is kind of funny because of course everything before about 2001 was “local first”. There have been multiple generations of patterns for connecting a local app to a network for collaboration, so there is a lot of history to check out. Ray Ozzie’s Groove was the closest thing I can remember to this: a local object store with P2P and central-store connectivity, based on a common synchronization algorithm. CRDTs have come a long way so that may be an important new angle.
Wow, A real life libertarian true believer, look at that. I didn't know there was such a thing
Indeed, I once did some work for the Library of Congress. Despite all of it being developed and served on Linux, I was forced to boot a Windows VM to connect to their VPN and work through it.

Who's the "cancer" now?
So he's going to piss away a $300k+ job over this. And then what? The account will still be locked out.
It depends what happens in congress. Trump might win the whitehouse, but lose congress. congress makes the rules around social media and breaking up big tech.
> I have been thinking about this for a while. Considering I prefer to keep the important data/emails on Gmail or Google drive for security and I really consider it important. Would it help if Google had a paid tier?

It wouldn't, because Google is averse to any kind of customer support even for paying services. Even the "support" people that get attached to highly paid YouTube, GSuite, and other accounts get regularly stonewalled like this person and cannot help.

The only solution? Make sure all of your data is always backed up somewhere else.
> has no ability to defend itself?

Well, in the legislative bodies, they have much less ability to defend itself, than in the past, due to both parties having significant, albeit different, problems with these companies.

> trying to create a false equivalence.

They are equivalent in the specific aspect of them having less allies in congress, and that this makes them more vulnerable than in the past.

IE, less people in our legislative bodies will be willing to stick their neck out to defend them.

> to fit into a narrative

It is absolutely accurate to say that these companies have less allies in congress, than in the past, and that being hit, from both sides, on these 2 issues, hurts these companies.
I often advice founders to find friends who work there to get their issues resolved - because there is no formal sensible way to get it done.

Yes, Facebook is a complete train wreck, which survives in spite of its abysmal technology and support for its real customers rather than because of them. Even then, speaking only from the point of view of a much smaller business that has been a regular Facebook advertiser in the past, it probably left 33-50% of the money we would have spent with it on the table simply because we couldn't spend that money on the Facebook platform due to all the bugs. We redirected those funds to other channels instead. And yes, we too only got around Facebook's systems demanding nonsensical or literally impossible things that would have totally blocked our access at least once because we knew a senior dev who worked there and could escalate internally.

Unfortunately, this model seems to have become SOP for big tech service providers in recent years. Google are similarly non-communicative and have also provided such a bad experience to us as an advertiser that we stopped all our ads on their platforms for a long time. It's not just the big advertising platforms, either. Every payment service we use (including some that are darlings of HN) has messed us around horribly over the years, too. Unless you're spending literally millions of dollars per months with these tech giants, it seems they've decided it's not commercially sensible to offer any meaningful support, and presumably to accept that in some cases they'll lose customers entirely and damage their reputation as a result.
They have a nice landing page: https://raindrop.io/
Google does have a paid tier and they have terrible support unless you're at the enterprise level.
This module works well too.
https://github.com/Fuzion24/JustTrustMe
I'm sorry for what was done to you in the military. Please try to find a different way of existing in our society. People you'd never suspect have firearms, and will use them to kill you in response to the behavior you describe here.
OP isn’t citing it for the top-line conclusion, but for the bulk of the article that collects various references together.
Thats a little bit unfair, even the W3C's web-agency has a hard time building an accessible website and needed spend two weeks (of billable time) reviewing different web frameworks because of it:

https://w3c.studio24.net/updates/on-not-choosing-wordpress/
> Does anyone know an estimate of how likely this is to happen to an individual on a per year basis?

There's zero chance Google would ever volunteer this information, anything you see on here is probably a WAG at best.
7 billion people use Google. If you look at the likeliness of it happening to one guy out of 7 billion, it would be very, very small. But the problem is, once it is banned, you will probably lose a lot of important stuff permanently.
No. You should be backing up your Google digital artifacts to local storage or an object store you have access to and can control access to (for example, my partner knows how to get to our Backblaze B2 storage buckets and request a USB drive of all the data if needed, which contains a lifetime of documents, emails, voicemails, iCloud photo backups, etc).

If you insist on using Google, keep backups elsewhere. You cannot rely on them for support (although you might be able to get it, don’t count on it).
Ummm the early web is a counter example. Any one can publish a website. And a lot of the content that makes these monoliths popular is user generated - it could easily be captured by decentralized system. Put an Insta UI on email and make it cool.

The whole American system says it is ok for successful companies to grow large and powerful. I personally wouldn’t mind some anti-trust actions, but even better would be for people to prefer non-mass media. Visit my website and listen to the guitarist at the local bar and watch indie films and read good books rather than popular books. But others have other preferences.

Making real change is society is not the same as propagating memes or conspiracy theories - it takes time and effort and a lot of eyeball to eyeball persuasion. If you don’t like what Twitter is doing you can create a competitor, and make it popular. The difference is competition - if you persuade enough people, you can replace Twitter. If Twitter is anti-competitive then there is a legal recourse. If you fail to persuade people that twitters method of trying to encourage truth and virtue are bad, that is a fact of your social world. Try again or give up.
Well, there is the by now classical story of BottoBistro:

https://thehustle.co/botto-bistro-1-star-yelp/
I will happily concede that your three year old is a more advanced thinker than mine is.

As for violent content, with YouTube specifically it is easy to watch it without being forewarned. I don't know if you are aware of Elsagate but the whole goal is to get kids to watch horribly disturbing content without warning.
Wouldn't the WFH culture also encourage (post-COVID) a lot of informal meetings, people getting together in coffee shops, bars etc to discuss things in person?
There's a GitHub repo that goes along with this video here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/50k-k8s-jobs

One thing I discovered (while debugging the problems I was having with deploying 50,000 Jobs in one go, without manual garbage collection) was that it seems the default Linode Kubernetes Engine control plane may have 2 GB of RAM, and is likely not set up in an HA cluster (which is how they can make the control plane free).

I was debugging the issue through this kubernetes/kubernetes GitHub issue: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/95492

Even if you have enough RAM, running Kubernetes Jobs (in large numbers) seems to result in a slow but steady increase in time-to-complete: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/95492#issuec...