skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Drive has never really offered unlimited storage. Once you get above about 0.75TB upload in one day they throttle down your upload speed or cut you off completely.

It would take years to upload a petabyte, which keeps usage within well defined limits.
So basically there was a fully synced copy of the entire newsgroup contents for the groups I'm subscribed to? Like it would fetch all the new messages that arrived in alt.atheism and store it on my disk? But that surely wouldn't work on alt.binaries. Was there something like a cutoff at a certain size and you'd have to explicitly request the full content for some specific messages?
Only 2GB means they aren't including alt.binaries.
Given they both have the A14 chip and seemingly no other differences in their innards, the fact the pro can do 60fps Dolby digital vs the regular phones 30fps feels like a lame software lock?
Nest Audio was recently released and for the same price as the Homepod Mini. Curious to see how they stack up sound quality wise.. if the Nest holds it's own like I think it will I really see _no_ compelling reason for the Homepod.
I don’t think Google cares to have gotten, or cares if they lose the data hoarder market. For everyone else, it’s not a bait and switch because nothing changed, and for the data hoarders it’s not like it’s a bait and switch because there’s no bait. They knew this day would come, as it always has with every other service that’s ever made a similar offer. The TOS already limited usage in a number of ways, but Google didn’t bother to enforce them because the data hoarders hadn’t made enough of a nuisance of themselves to bother.
And divorce tends to be an expensive and painful process when both sides cannot come to an agreement.
It’s like ten thousand descriptivists, when all you need is a prescriptivist…

I think words like “ironic” and “literal” have a lot of staying power, even if they have seceded a little ground on informal use. There will always need to be a case when it’s important to disambiguate how ironic one is being. Irony is often made clear by over-exaggeration or stock phrases (eg “/s”, eye dialect “you guise”), but sincerity can be made unambiguously clear with a term such as “unironic”, which is often avoided in irony to keep things clear

Obviously this begs the question of if someone were to use “unironic” ironically, but outside of being used in rare cases of hyper-irony, the only use I can think of this misdirection is to be purposefully malicious. So even without prescriptivism, I believe that irony (at least as made clear in “I was being ironic”) is a word one that is very hard to kill.
Go to eternal-september.org, sign up, set up Thunderbird or another NNTP client, and you can experience Usenet today in all its glory. Comp.misc is a good group to start with.
My baseline is grilled cheddar cheese on plain white bread with Campbell's Tomato Soup is the greatest food ever invented. I once went to a work lunch at one of the city's most raved about restaurants. I ordered the grilled cheese and tomato soup. That was when I realized that I really am not a food connoisseur. How can something so simple as grilled cheese and tomato soup be so thoroughly ruined, just in an effort to make it fancy?
George Orwell wrote in 1946: "Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the fact. For example, toe the line is sometimes written as tow the line. Another example is the hammer and the anvil, now always used with the implication that the anvil gets the worst of it. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase." http://people.ucalgary.ca/~rseiler/orwell46.htm
At the risk of being pedantic (or misremembering college classes), there's more to it than that. First, at the relevant distance scales, the magnets aren't point particles, they have an extent and very close to that surface it should be 1/r. Secondly, magnets are dipoles and at greater distances the two poles cancel out to first order and you have a 1/r^4.
What Color Is This? Part 2
You can allocate pools of memory so that you have a fixed memory footprint. That way you have (almost) no risk of OOMing later on in the process.

This can also give you better control over cache locality of memory.
I agree with this "innovation is dead" sentiment. Apple used to be pioneers and futurists. Now they focus on retaining their well-defined market. This almost makes sense, except they have such a tremendous amount of cash they can afford to take risks.
Impro: A Retrospective with Keith Johnstone [video]
It's alive and kicking on HN as well. I suspect that a lot of people here simply aren't aware that it's a thing, so unless somebody goes around telling people that they're left libertarian (and then explaining what this means), the corresponding specific policy positions don't necessarily get construed that way.

While we're at it, a reminder that economic left/right distinction is not the same as command/free-market:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_market_anarchism
Had its own protocol, "NetNews", and used a peer to peer network called "UUCP" which is short for "unix to Unix copy" (the unix copy command being cp).

One would "post" a message and periodically one or more systems would poll your system. Either over the ARPAnet or via an actual modem. It would fetch all of the posts that had been created on that system and add them to its list of new posts, and it would send you all of the posts you hadn't yet seen.

In a directory on your system would be all of the posts from everyone on Usenet for all of the groups you cared to "follow."

Back in the 80's I could read everything posted in a couple of hours in the morning. :-) That changed quickly.
Yes, it is related to mail, but with open groups. Country to mailing list you have the complete archive. In a way a world readable impact server with append permissions (well, actually there are ways to pull old messages back etc.) and synchronisation between servers. (Not correct comparison, but maybe helps) The individual messages are also structured like mail using MIME.

For what you download in sync depends on your config. alt.binaries is special, I believe relatively young and many providers didn't offer them to begin with ...

When fetching you configured your client "please fetch all of comp.lang.cpp" and it would do. I believe you could also say "just give me the headers" and load only selected messages on next sync (i.e. for fetching only binaries from messages with interesting subjects)

If your ISP didn't have a server, there were multiple open ones in universities or other ISPs (not all locked down for their customers only but either didn't care or saw it as an ad for them), but they could be far away (modern cross ocean cables are younger ...) and busy/slow.

And yes, a server can decide which groups it syncs.
Unless upper management goes full-time remote, then power (and ambitious employees) will always consolidate.
What a historical treasure!!!

(Sorry for the shallow comment, but it's my hot take on the title)
Likely it’s the upload associated with all those video conference sessions, since pre-pandemic everyone would still be watching Netflix at the same time in the evenings.
Part of the question is, why is market rate so location-dependent. COL is obviously a function of location, but it's much less obvious that market rate should be. In fact, if you assume that the market rate of an individual is based on the options available to them, and that individual has the option of moving to the Bay Area/Seattle and is just as happy to live there as anywhere else, then the Bay Area / Seattle rate, minus the COL difference, is that individual's market rate, regardless of where they actually live.

Of course some SE's in London don't have a visa to work in the USA, and others wouldn't want to even for a huge pay boost. But it's still quite fascinating that a location-dependent "market rate" materializes from this dynamic. In some cases it seems like location is used as a proxy for skill -- as though an engineer who opts to drive three hours south from Vancouver, BC to Seattle, WA is now a higher-skilled "Seattle dev" than they were three hours before.

If that assumption is taken away, then the fascinating thing is not that companies would pay less in areas like Vancouver or London, but rather that they are willing to pay such a high premium to engineers who live in Seattle and the Bay area.

It's hard to think of any explanation other than that very profitable companies (like Google and Netflix in the Bay area, and Microsoft and Amazon in Seattle) started there, and paid a lot for engineers to move in and join them in an era where remote work was rare; then, when remote work became common, the legacy of a location-dependent market rate created a self-sustaining expectation (Schelling point) that engineers in that area wouldn't work for less to compete with talent elsewhere, sometimes using high COL as an excuse. That might gradually be reversed as companies seek to reduce their payroll expenses, or it might not.
iPhone12 Mini/SE first gen size comparison
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You would (typically) have a dumb terminal experience. You'd use your computer and modem to log into a remote system. You would use a newsreader to browse newsgroups. If there was something that you wanted, like binaries, they would be saved on the remote system. You'd then need to ftp them from that system to your own.

If you were one of the fortunate ones to have a hard-wired connection, well, that happened a lot faster.

Newsreaders were awesome for reading newsgroups. You were able to add someone or a topic to a kill file for one group or all groups.

As binaries got bigger and bigger, the retention time for them on the remote system got shorter and shorter. You might have 7 days of binaries and 90 days of everything else.

For a while some forum software would be accessible via NNTP which was awesome. It let more people use the forums but gave more experienced users much better tools.
Hello markosaric,
Have you thought on requiring contributions to be dual licensed MIT + AGPL? This would avoid you the need of a CLA because you can use MIT to incorporate the contribution to your cloud solution and/or to sell a license to a corporation that would like to keep their modifications closed.
This would also lower the barrier to contributors due they don't need to sign the CLA.
Can that 30k/year be squirreled away for college untaxed?
I'd also add that taking vitamin D cofactors is essential.

Just look up any chemical database like Kegg or Reactome. Vitamin D reactions tend to consume magnesium, boron, etc. Supplementing those is very important, both for effectiveness and long-term safety.

I know some multiple sclerosis patients that are taking megadoses, under medical supervision. Doctors have learned that cofactors are crucial to avoid nasty side effects.
Because if it falls to the ground you can just pull of the $10 glass layer and replace it like nothing happened, instead of sending in your phone for repair.
Hospitals Need to Be Able to Repair Their Own Medical Equipment
Sort of like mailing lists with a dedicated client so you can see everything in nice threaded fashion. You could explore new groups through the client as well. I never found the web based Usenet mirrors comparable to a dedicated client.

Typically you synced the equivalent of headers and bodies separately (for the groups you were interested in). This way you only grabbed what you wanted. For binary groups, people settled on patterns in subjects, etc so that clients could automate downloading of files (binaries had to be encoded and split into parts due to post length limits).

On regular text type newsgroups you might set your client to download headers+bodies in one shot for offline mode. With offline mode you would then just download what's new vs your cache. Then work against your local cache for reading/replying. Once online again, your batched replies could be sent.

If your ISP didn't have the newsgroup you wanted, you would have to point to another NTTP server. For a while there were public ones that anyone could use. Over time, those public ones went away or dropped problematic areas like alt.binaries.*. These days Usenet is available as a for-pay service.
> I'm starting to think the biggest selling point for Java and dotNET platforms is, not platform-independence, but code obfuscation.

I wouldn't agree for that in the case of .NET Framework.

On one hand, the safety of both languages does make it easier for obfuscators to pull certain tricks i.e. swapping out direct calls for Delegates (memory safe pointers for those unfamiliar with .NET terms) or throwing a bunch of indirect method calls, etc etc because in most cases object lifetime is something you don't think about in LOB .NET.

On the other hand, the problem is that almost any IL can be pulled back into a representation that may not be -fully- comprehensible, but again there are tools to even help with that b/c the C# language spec is well defined enough you know what you need to strip that isn't truly needed for a decompile.

Java/C# got big because of (1) hype, (2) somewhat-filled promises of xplat, (3) somewhat filled promises of better productivity because you don't have to think about most object lifetimes.

We're seeing a shift back to Go/C/Rust/Etc because people are realizing as data grows that a lot of their C#/Java code suddenly isn't so great at huge scale when a GC is churning all the time.

Both C# and Java are working on this in their own way of course; Java is doing a lot of work on their GC, .NET is doing a lot of work to make sure that their IO pipelines for things like sockets are better handled; after that it's up to the dev to decide if they want to go struct-happy.
I don't know - it seems like you're assuming that authorized dealerships are a lot more trustworthy than general repair shops. That authorization is usually more "expensive" rather than "difficult" to acquire so a lot of the smaller shops have struggled to secure it.

I think one way to read the decrease in volume is that - yea it'd sure be nice if six fewer dealerships had access to this information, so why don't we make sure they all get forced to close their doors because the automakers don't want competition - there would be fewer in count, but that doesn't really speak to the security of that data at all (additionally, most of the sensitive data you probably care about doesn't appear to be on the table for this bill - specifically telemetry about driving habits doesn't appear to be under consideration)
> That's how society works. Can't believe this needs to be explained.

That's not how the market works, though. Would you pay $100/m for borrowing your neighbors tools anytime?

What if you're running a business and you depend on those tools, what hours can you get them? How does maintenance work? What is he obligated to do, anything? If he decided to retract the offer, change the terms, not give you the drill on a Wednesday because he's feeling sick, do you get refunds?

None of your "casual neighbor verbal agreement" example applies here of course because we're not exchanging money. It's not a service, they're not a seller and you're not a buyer.

When you are a buyer, and they are a seller, suddenly people want explicit terms of a contract.

Imaging pumping gas in your neighbor model. "Eh, just pump an honest amount, pay what you think it's worth" - would that fly? Of course not, the gas owner wants a very specific amount for each and every drop of gas.

Do you think Apple or Google has short contracts for when you signup? They must, if they have good faith right? No, they don't. They have pages, and pages, and pages of written legal terms that you as a user are "agreeing" to try and cover their asses should you decide to try and sue.

All these companies with huge lines of legal spaghetti are doing that because good faith doesn't in the majority of cases.

Look at it a different way: I have "unlimited" internet from tmobile. Are you telling me there's no fine print that dictates exactly how limited my "unlimited" is? So Tmobile clearly knows unlimited isn't unlimited - the users are the only ones with "good faith" apparently. But that's how marketing works, isn't it?
I think you have quite a limited view of science if you think it can only tell you obvious things. My view is that Myers-Briggs is less popular with scientists/academics than Big5 because they haven't worked out how to measure it accurately yet.
I'm not sure that's what they meant - any group of people shares certain beliefs and values, and those beliefs differ from another group's. Values and beliefs influence our communication style as well.

Further, on an anonymous discussion board, the risks of things like "jumping to conclusions" [not what I would call "less contrarian"] are much lower than in real life, where your reputation as a human is on the line.
I’m honestly surprised so many people put Bay Area/SF food on the same scale as NYC and LA. It only makes sense when you consider top-tier fine dining (like, Michelin star(s)) IMO. For middle-tier dining I think SF and the Bay Area don’t even come close to either of those cities. In fact I think those hip young college towns are much better, in my experience. It’s just that it’s going to be a different set of foods: more barbecue, Mexican, Central European, soul food, and less asian/what I would call “California health” foods.
This type of beyondcorp problem is what cloudflare's new product Cloudflare One is supposed to solve:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-one/
Unwind: Interactive Fish Straightening
Eh, at least some of those people would be out and about at the movies, fitness classes, bars, restaurants, etc., none of which (at least here in WA) are anywhere close to being back to normal.
I immediately thought of the same thing.

I dig their channel but if they tried this out for anything more than the views they're crazy.

There's no cheap way to back up a Petabyte of data. If you find a loophole to do it, you can consider yourself one of the reasons it'll shortly be closed.
whew. https://www.usenetarchives.com/?q=asah
Where are you thinking of moving? I live here for more than the job, so just wondering what other cities are on the radar.
Open network border and SSH to servers/workstations (key access only). I can easily work from anywhere. I tunnel my web browser via SSH, too, when I need to access internal org websites. SSH is really all you need. You definitely don't need (largely useless) network firewalls that make you feel secure.
Off-topic nitpick: is the way to get people interested in what your software company is doing about %thing% to slap the suffix -"Ops" to whatever %thing% is? I've noticed it in some curious and interesting uses lately. CrimeOps being the most recent one via this very post.

Maybe not a nitpick, I don't mean to dismiss Okta's endeavors; but it's certainly something that's caused a flutter of the eyebrow and an almost automatic reaching of the hand to ponderously scratch the beard.
> Begging the question is about assuming the truth of one or more premises

No, begging the question (the fallacy) is about assuming the conclusion you are attempting to support.

> Assuming the conclusion sounds equivalent to "non-sequitur" or just not making any argument at all.

It is very different from non-sequitur, but since it means making an argument that reduces to "P, because P", describing it as "not making an argument at all" is not wholly wrong.

I actually like the common (so-called "incorrect") use a lot because:

* It is distinct from the fallacy use because the fallacy is always intransitive and the common use is invariably transitive, naming the question so "begged" as the direct object; thus, it is impossible to confuse one use for the other.

* The fallacy use, as noted elsewhere, is the result of a series of mistranslations and, standing on its own, is bizarre in English.

* the "incorrect" use is a much more natural use of the English words which also makes the fallacy use more natural, since it is exactly equivalent to the "incorrect" use with the unstated, implicit direct object of "the question the debate was attempting to resolve".

So, accepting the "incorrect" use has no conflict with the use to denote a particular fallacy and, indeed, makes that use more natural.
This exists: https://github.com/plexdrive/plexdrive

It mounts your Google Drive as a read only FUSE-style filesystem, so that programs can read from your unlimited storage. It was designed to be used with plex, but Kodi works just as well.
> Put this way: a device that requires proprietary firmware loaded by an open driver from /lib/firmware is, by any reasonable metric, strictly more free than a device with the same firmware burned into ROM

I would disagree. AFAIK you do not need to agree to a separate licence in order to use firmware embedded in hardware, your right to use it is implied from legal ownership of the item.

But if the firmware is distributed independently (like as a part of a Linux distribution), then there are legal complications. The firmware licence must allow redistribution - some do not and then OS contains just script to download it from vendor webpage, which is super awkward, has privacy issues and may force you to accept some vendor conditions. Even if it allows redistribution, it may have some conditions that precludes it from being part of Linux distribution for practical reasons (e.g. advertising clause). And it forces the third party to accept such non-free licence in order to have the right to redistribute it (as a part of Linux distribution).

So it creates plenty of logistical and legal issues for users and third parties just to spare some cents on flash.

Note that having embedded flash with firmware does not preclude having ability to load newer firmware from /lib/firmware during boot.
I don’t see those details changing the essentials.

* An investor acting as middleman between the Treasury selling a bond and the Fed buying it hardly matters. The Fed is supporting the price and ends up with the bond.

* Whether or not an interest payment is made to the Fed, this is money that the government has in the end. The point is that nobody outside the government gets any payments, so the debt is effectively neutralized.

I’m not sure the third point is true. Revenue from the Fed’s operations aren’t restricted funds, are they? It may add a lag, though.

It’s true that this maintains the independence of the Fed, but currently the Fed is openly advocating that Congress should spend more. They can cooperate to create and spend money when they agree that it’s a good thing.

They might not say explicitly say that this is what they’re doing, though.
You'd subscribe to specific groups and many clients were smart enough to do varying levels of selective sync: fetch all of the message headers but not the bodies over a certain size, only messages matching certain patterns, etc. It was definitely high-volume and could have been risky — imagine if the predecessors to e.g. 4chan decided to cross-post illegal content to a channel.

This was also where the term “spam” really got popularized (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...) so many things which we now take for granted were being tried at scale for the first time there. There was a [relatively weak] moderation system which could be used to restrict posting and there were bots which would retroactively cancel messages so you might not see so much junk if a group used such a bot and ruthlessly nuked spam.

Regarding ISPs, in many cases it worked like your last case: start storing anything that at least one client has asked for recently. This was a notorious source of disk space consumption if you ran a low-capacity server and then had someone fire up a client, request the world, and then stop reading it but your system was still downloading everything.