skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument that customers chose to be ripped off by opting for 'free' is not supported by evidence that paid services are any more accountable.

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.

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I do not understand why anyone defends consumer abuse by businesses. Unless they work for said businesses, or own their stock, there is absolutely nothing to gain by siding with an abusive business over an abused customer. The business isn't going to reward their supporters' loyalty by treating them better.

Collaborating with hostile entities is not a redeeming quality.
You have a tiny window to download a huge archive and you can't restart the download.

In theory it's great in practice you don't have access to it.
It’s The Federalist. No one needs to read further than the URL to know how separate from reality everything the piece is.
Flying into the approach path of LAX also seems suicidal. If the reports from this and the previous incident are accurate, the person responsible is exceedingly reckless.
Note: this opinion is independent of the current president, and I'm not stating any opinion on President Trump's conduct.

This seems like a really bad standard to apply to the president. I'd argue that morally there are two relevant factors when it comes to finding someone guilty: the damage that would be done to others by failing to punish the perpetrator, and the damage that would be done to the alleged perpetrator by punishing them. We choose different standards depending on those two factors. For example, in civil cases, someone specific has lost something and someone else has gained at their expense. And you're not seeking to imprison someone, but to take away some of their wealth. So we pick a standard of evidence (preponderance of the evidence) that's lower than in criminal cases (with a very high injury to the perpetrator and typically lower injury to the community).

In contrast, an impeachment is not a prison sentence. It would injure a president only insofar as that president would no longer keep the most prestigious title and position of power in American society. And failing to impeach for serious corruption or crimes (say, if a president were conspiring with China to weaken America's standing overseas) could be catastrophic. So I think a much weaker presumption of innocence is in order.
I was thinking that iPhones in pockets would suffice as more than one tag, especially in public spaces with plenty of people. With that, the floor plan or walkable space could be mapped out programatically. I agree it doesn't seem to be a plus for privacy, but I hope, and expect that is a consideration. I was recalling the approach taken to find-my: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet... which seems to protect a users individual location while leveraging location of devices in the environment.

I am just speculating here, but I think this is part of a larger play to map out indoor space which could bring amazing new features to maps, "find my", and AR applications.
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And also, the structure of our "democracy" is such that there is nothing that citizens can do about this, or most any other obvious major problem at this point. The aligned interests of corporations, the government, and the media seem to have put the citizens of the country into a kind of inescapable checkmate position.
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What island ? Are beaches open for individual activities like snorkeling / swimming ?
> Twitter should just wear their bias on their sleave and stop pretending to be an open platform.

This is kind of what I was getting at.
Nomad is still technically being supported, but looks looks to be low in priority and resources at the moment.
Not too long ago, Dropbox signed the largest office lease in SF history[1]. What changes are you making to Dropbox's RE plan in light of this?

[1] - https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/10/10/dro...
Just cook up a WebAudio backend for SC, and you're done :)
> Is there a technology that we should be driving adoption of that would allow me to host my own SSO?

OpenID was that technology, but it didn't really get any adoption. OpenID Connect seems to be the replacement based upon OAuth, and seems to be pretty easy to implement if you already support OAuth.
Stocks are their own product. They have value because people are willing to buy them, which is only incidental to their belief that the value of the underlying company will increase. The price of a stock goes up because people want to buy it.
If driverless taxi services become cheap enough, they can help with this. Let's build parking garages outside the core neighborhoods, and then remove street parking throughout the city.

That's 20 linear feet of space on nearly all our streets for sidewalks, bikes, restaurants, green spaces, or whatever else.
I think this is an exaggeration.

The "massive tax benefit" is not that large for most people. Perhaps if you have dedicated office space and a large mortgage.

I did the math for my T2200 and the total tax benefit was $500/yr.
I have done this and it depends. There were several ways provided by Google how to export the pictures and upload them and they killed them all. The last good way was to link your Google Drive with Google Photos and then install it on desktop and let it download the whole library (and then install iCloud and let it upload everything). Google Takeout isn't without issues, a lot of people including me had problems generating the takeout link, it failed for several tries and took days. And then they break Live Photos take on iPhone which were backed up by Google Photos, Takeout doesn't export them in a proper way (maybe it does now, I don't know).
There is just no simple way how download Google Photos. Compare this with iCloud which does this by default.
So what I did was kind of stupid - but it allowed me to transfer all pictures from Photos to iCloud in full quality and including Live Photos. I downloaded Google Photos on iPhone and then I selected as many pictures as I could by dragging the finger and then click "Save to Photos". iCloud will back it up. Rinse and repeat. You can't select more than few hundred, so it took me a while to upload 70 GB.
Totally worth it - I am never going back to Google Photos.
Also in academia. A bunch of professors recently wrote an article about this because they don’t know what they can say anymore without offending someone.
And never forget a break. And triple check the type of those case labels. And keep them short, so all of the above is verifiable.

Or, alternatively, you can default to some syntax where the compiler will help you, and leave switches to use with care only where they bring a huge gain.
Sure, there are standards for SSO, like OpenID Connect. Your biggest problem is just that most websites and apps refuse to support open standards, preferring to give people the choice of Google, Facebook, or Twitter.

So you can easily set up your own SSO, but nobody will let you use it to log in.
> But I'm tired of the idea that they should NEVER be able to even try to recognize the difference between truth and lies.

But that's not what they are doing, is it? They are recognizing the difference between potential truths that would benefit whomever they are politically aligned with from potential truths that would benefit whomever they aren't politically aligned with.

They don't ask for truth, proof or anything similar, they ask for consequences, and whether those consequences appear to be good for their political agenda.
The Saver’s Dilemma
- Apple is using 100% recycled rare earths in their upcoming iPhones, but they are just one manufacturer out of many.
- No one has really figured out how to extract the elements out of phones after they have been manufactured.
- We don't yet know how to recycle solar panels either.
I've been a Google customer paying thousands per month and support was nothing more than lipservice. None of the support agents could do anything and I had to wait for an "account specialist" to reply every 24-48 hours with non-answers and requests for documents that I'd already sent 3-4 times again and again.

Support and customer experience is an afterthought for Google. They probably don't set out to be cruel, but they're very cavalier about incidental casual cruelty.
Sue in small claims court. Costs about $50 to file, plus $100 or so for a process server.

Check Google's terms of service.[1] They're not too bad.
There's no forced arbitration. You can go to Small Claims Court in Santa Clara County, CA.

Google lists the reasons they can terminate an account. It's not a "sole discretion" thing; they have specific reasons listed. So Google will have to show in court that you violated those terms.

Definitely go. Google will have to send someone, or they lose.

In practice, you'll probably have your problem fixed shortly after your process server delivers the subpoena to 1600 Amphitheater Parkway.

California small claims court instructions: [2]

[1] https://policies.google.com/terms

[2] https://www.courts.ca.gov/1007.htm
Indeed.
Kind of reminds me of that sayin' about how "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist ..."

Sometimes I think it is a great trick some big players are pulling off, in convincing the world to subsidize their infrastructure costs (and more than that) by using their resources because it is "simpler" or more effective or alternatives are hard, etc ...

... to where the ability to competently setup and maintain those services will vanish, in due time.
(Which, of course would only help to consolidate those -already- running such systems ...)
The Fall of the CDC
I used the internet without facebook before it existed. I had a Facebook account for over a decade. I haven't had a Facebook account in two years.

To the extent that what you are saying is true, it is only true because these companies have walled themselves off. You used to be able to chat with Facebook users over XMPP even.
Callee-saved registers are saved on function entry, all at once. There is no interaction other than the register allocation step choosing how many values need to be preserved across function calls.
Only way it's possible is if it's a jet-powered wingsuit dropped from a plane, but that is as unlikely as a jetpack, just for other reasons.
Lol. Although I guess that’s true in a “not letting Trumpers forget he is a Russian stooge” kind of sense.
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I understand the motivation. I work on platforms teams internally for companies (and have for a number of years). In smaller scale, this concept largely makes sense because developers at a single company come from a single culture which those developers largely have already bought into or are actively being shoveled into by corporate work. This is the role a lot of developer advocates play at companies who don't have external developer customers.

In large scale, what you're asking is more dubious. If you concede that the United States alone has 11 major cultures, then you have to begin a process of "on-boarding" everyone onto your new, structured culture that your platform is designed around. That's why these debates about who is represented in the building of the platform come about, because under that model those concerns take center stage and they should.

I guess what I'm saying is the whole problem never needed to exist. There's better ways to share information than being on one platform.
The Email Tips Collection
>The only thing Europeans may lack is access to funding and resources

I've met a lot of European founders... in the Bay Area. The stories they told me were eye opening.

There's so much regulation and red tape that one company's 5th employee had to be filling government grants and filing for tax exemptions full time.
> you do not give those actors information on how you detected them.

Not about how you detected them, but you should tell them what you detected. E.g. if you're using a spam filter, you don't want spammers to know which exact keywords triggered the classification, but it wouldn't hurt much to let people know that their account was locked for sending spam instead of some other reason.
Funny that you mention public squares vs shopping malls. In many places in the US the shopping malls have replaced the public squares and stores.

Maybe shopping mall alleys should be considered public space instead.
That's culturalist, then, not racist.
Thanks, this is helpful.

The $36/TB is how much it costs backblaze to build a storage pod.
Actual storage price for end consumer is $60/TB/year ($0.005/GB/month) on B2 [0], with triple redundancy[1].

It’s seems to be really hard to just get a price for the Filecoin storage, but according to some deals I found in Filecoin explorer, it comes out to about $65/TB/year with no redundancy [2].

[0] - https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

[1] - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

[2] - https://filfox.info/en/deal/731671
If something happened to him, how would I get access?
Short memcpy can also get lowered to ldm/stm.
Clearly satellites can't map a tree that is completely obscured by a higher tree. Trees that do OK in shade, like tanoaks in redwood forests, are an example of trees they'll never spot.
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Ah, the academy's amazing tap dance to obscure simple but inconvenient facts. Love it.
There's a lot of old people in SF who struggle to even walk to the end of a block for a bus stop. A society still needs some solution for picking Grandma up at her door and dropping her off at Thanksgiving.
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We talk a bit about how this works here: https://www.waypointproject.io/docs/url

Our entrypoint reaches back out to the URL service. This feature is optional. That’s how it works. On our roadmap page you can see that we are planning various improvements to continue to make this more secure as well.
Who is investing in R&D of less toxic methods of refining rare earths?
A well-known URL for privacy
There should be .well-known URLs[1] for privacy. Some possible examples:

* https://www.example.com/.well-known/privacy-settings

* https://www.example.com/.well-known/privacy-policy

* https://www.example.com/.well-known/terms-of-service

The first one would redirect to a page with privacy settings (so that after you set them the first time you visit a site, you can change them)

The second and third would simply redirect to these common pages.

Thoughts?

[1] Well known list on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_/.well-known/_services_offered_by_webservers
Do you know how are bools stored in the structs in ARM Cortex M4? I am getting faster code with IAR if bools are in the beginning of the struct with other members uint16 and uint8. However, it is claimed in the compiler manuals that the bools are 8bits, which means that faster code should be when the bools are at the end of the structs due to better alignment of other members. Also ARM has 32bits memory fetch access, so how bools are fetched then? Does it mean that a loading of a bool is not deterministic in terms of number of cycles?
The Puerto Rico bill had good support from both parties.

The vote in the House to send the bill to the Senate was 227-0 among Republicans and 186-10 among Democrats.

When the Senate's modified version came back to the House, the R vote was 160-70 and the D voter was 192-2.

When it got back to the Senate in final form, the Senate vote was 76-22. The stupid senate.gov site does not tabulate vote by party and I'm too lazy to do it by hand, but the Senate at the time was 55 R to 45 D. I do see that all 22 Nay votes were from R, and two D did not vote, so that would give the R vote as 33-22 and the D vote as 43-0.

Among the Yea votes in the Senate I see several current R Senators: Grassley, McConnell, Shelby, and Murkowski. I think Inhofe is the only current R Senator who was in the Nays.

I bet someone running against whichever of those first four Senators are up for re-election this year could put together a pretty good ad featuring Trump's talk of the bill "obliterating" Puerto Rico's pharmaceuticals and then calling out that Senator for doing so. How is the Senator going to respond? Say it was a bipartisan bill that was widely supported by both parties, which risks highlighting Trump's misleading use of it?
It can work. I installed one in my dad's old house and it worked like a charm. But when I went to put one in my house a few months ago, I did get it to work, but I had to try various locations of ethernet jacks and power plugs to find a combination that both worked and usefully extended my WiFi.
You don’t need to be huge to have brand identity
> Sure but for what it’s worth, Apple isn’t in the same position as other platforms in many ways, so we can’t always generalize.

How? I see absolutely no difference other than millions in publicity to create the illusion that their platform is somehow "better"... But none of Apple's platforms were created by aliens, they have the same error ratio as any other large platform. So what exactly are you basing this statement on?
Perhaps someone of a legal bent can explain what this means.
My small SF-based employer got a (positive!) review from our Mumbai office. That was a problem for us because 1) we've never had a Mumbai office, and 2) we'd told potential customers that their data would never leave the United States and that all engineering was local. The last thing I wanted to deal with at that moment was having to explain to those same customers that it was all a big mistake and that we weren't lying to them.

It took a rather undignified on my part Twitter rant to finally get someone from Glassdoor to look at the review and remove it -- not because it was bad, which it wasn't, but because it was factually impossible in a way that could cause real issues for us. Since then I've taken all of their reviews with a grain of salt.
Uhhh

Have any of y'all ever heard of something called "Adobe Creative Cloud", it's...

It is literally trying to answer most of these questions for a set of titanic applications that predate the entire world wide web, it solves, offhand, at least five of these seven principles - it's (1) built around apps that have been working with local files since the eighties, (2) can sync your work between multiple devices, I just carry my laptop everywhere so I dunno how well it works, haven't played with the iPad apps yet so I dunno about those, (3) works just fine with no net access (though it'll cut you off if you don't hit the authorization servers every few weeks), (4) I am not sure how it solves the conflicting changes problem as I work solo, (5) your data's on your local device and in Adobe's cloud for as long as you subscribe, (6) okay well stuff's probably stored unencrypted, unless "I turned on whole disc encryption" counts (7) it's your own files and your own backup strategy.

That's five checkboxes out of seven, better than the 4/7 that "email shit around" and "github" get.

And it is relentlessly uncool. But it has been here for a good while and none of y'all have noticed it because it's built for artists.
I've been using Raindrop for about a year. It's just a much better bookmarking app than what's come before.

It really comes down to UX. The browser integration is fantastic, and there's a really smooth native-feel Electron app that has an integrated browser.

One of my favourite uses is creating a temporary "project-oriented" collection. For example, let's say I'm researching places to travel. I can create a collection about this, bookmark things (destinations, discussion threads, Wikipedia entries, etc.) as I go along, and then use the built-in browser to go back and forth between each bookmark as I make notes or whatever. Normally you'd use browser tabs for this, except the Raindrop way means I'm not consuming lots of browser resources, and the collection stays persistent even if I close it.

The same workflow works for tech projects I work on (where I may want some documentation, papers, etc. "scrapbooked" in a temporary place), and many other things.

Safari is the only browser (that I know) that has a similar kind of bookmark-oriented browsing functionality, and it's just not very good.

Overall it's much nicer than the older services such as Delicious and Pinboard, not to mention the atrocious built-in bookmarking features in modern browsers, which have been ossifying since around 1998.
Thank you, terminology updated.
Probably because Europeans either made little worth attributing to aliens OR in cases where they did (Rome, Greece, later cathedrals, etc) lots of contemporary documentation exists today.

In cases where an impressive structure in Europe was created but for which no contemporary documentation survives, aliens are indeed given credit. Stonehenge comes to mind.
I have a lot of experience with this having developed a personal finance app that is local-first: https://actualbudget.com/

Having all of the data local is a superpower. It changes how you build the app, and you just never have to worry about the network. Everything is fast _by default_. It's great.

The app uses CRDTs to sync and it's unlocked a lot of powerful stuff like a robust undo system. We also offer end-to-end encryption.

On the negative side, over time I've stepped back a little from being truly local-first. The mobile app used to connect to the desktop by pointing the phone's camera at a QR code on desktop, and it would literally sync peer-to-peer. Maintaining that was nightmare and users had endless networking problems. Our network infrastructure unfortunately is not built for truly peer-to-peer apps. Maybe ipv6 will help, I don't know. My app now has a "centralized" server but it's really just a backup that gives some convenience - the app is still totally local but syncs through a single server. You can work on it for weeks offline and then sync up. In the future when p2p is ready, I'll be ready for it.
Because they are measured by thier performance on unseen data.
Yup.

In Canada, those who are overleveraged with massive mortgages far away form the office, are rewarded with mortgage deferrals and low interest rates.

Those who save money, rent, and made sacrifices to live close to work, are the ones to are losing.
Build this: an identity link.

A secure place where you put information about yourself that you want to share.

Then, you won’t have to fill in any more forms, you just put an identity link pointer that fills in the rest.
I'll play the devils advocate

Why?
Thanks! I was hoping it'd coincide enough but was probably too late. Maybe I'll do a write up article later and compare C/Nim/CircuitPython. It's amazing what even basic maps/tables with generics provide. No more `void ` blackholes.

That said, `Nesper` is basically stable. It'd be nice to make prettier Nim-first API wrappers. It's stable enough that I'm planning on shipping product out next couple of weeks with it.

P.S. all of the Nim runtime and a simple async http server only adds about 80kB vs the standard `smart_config` esp wifi example! Not sure even Rust matches that.

I'm curious, are you working on embedded devices for side projects or for work?
Exactly. Walmart very well could tell their suppliers "You can't put a paper within the box saying that the price is $5 more since our logistics software misplayed your deliveries for a whole month" even if it's true.