skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Takeout no longer includes actual image files. Either that or it broke for me.

Someone recommended the github project called Timeliner to help me get the photos though. I just haven’t tried it yet.
Seems like Google is making a new push for people to be logged in at all times. Youtube nags me continually to log in when I watch videos on the website, pausing the video to display a pop up and then restarting from the beginning even if I had a timestamp in the URL.
Some negative points highlighted below but I think this is right tract still. Maybe an updated GPL with prohibition against DMCA?
I subscribed to Google Play Music All-Access for years and wouldn't have cancelled[1] if not for regional pricing making Spotify half the price. The music selection was far greater than Spotify and the like, I could upload and match my purchases elsewhere, and their radio algorithm was actually really good. (I sorely miss it after using Spotify's)

But YouTube Music is just a mess. I migrated my library to YTM and my experience is like the rest, but worse:

* You can't migrate to brand (aka alias) accounts. All of my likes, uploads, favorites, recommendation profile are on my alias but to listen to my music I have to switch to my real name account. Oh, but aliases can still use YT Music, so there's virtually no reason for this restriction.

* Switching accounts is for both YT and YT Music. So if I switch back to my alias on [normal] YT, the already-open YT Music tab will stop the music and ask me to switch back or refresh.

* All of my music poured into "Liked Videos". Except only about ~180 songs are there and I had over a thousand saved, if not thousands. No idea where the rest are.

* Some of the songs are "not available in your country" but if I search for it and find the official music video, that one is.

* This applied to GPM too, but: no desktop app. You can pretend the web app is a desktop app (and it's a little smoother than GPM at least) but it's still much more taxing than even a webview app like Spotify's.

[1] Fun fact: if you unsubscribe from GPM All-Access, your liked/saved songs that aren't uploaded disappear but are still in the DB, so you can't even see them. I don't know if they're part of Google Takeout, but when I moved to Spotify that meant I had to remember what songs I liked.
Great alternatives, but without selfhosting it's just the other bad alternative.
What’s the program of anki they use? Somehow none of the links mention that.
I hate physical media and I think most others do as well. It is inconvenient, you can't make a playlist and it gets damaged.

I can buy downloadable MP3s from Amazon, if I wanted to own the music.

Thing is, I don't. I want a streaming service that has all the music ever produced, that I can hook into the player of my choice, and one that works on my phone when I am driving, and at my computer at work when I am working and at my home computer when I am at home.

CDs wouldn't do any of that and they are a pain to rip and I don't want the music on different devices.

I can't hear the difference between a 256+ MP3 and neither can most people. I won't argue that nobody can, but most people who have thousands of dollars in audio equipment probably weren't streaming to begin with.
I was recommended the github project “timeliner”. I’m open to other ideas though!
Anki is a program. The first link in the entire article is to https://apps.ankiweb.net.
I still don't see how the name is relevant to the general use (or not). You're saying youtube can invoke DMCA, but not vimeo?
Walking through my local hardware store (in NZ) there's a bunch of cheap wifi controlled wall outlets - every one I've looked at has an esp8266 in it - maybe it's Trump's bogus trade war that's keeping them out of the US
They put it under “security”. Can anyone enlighten me about this being an honest statement?
The point is they aren't. Mac batteries fail too. Batteries are consumables.

The iPad Air 2 complaint was a 6 year old device. It needs a battery replacement. This is normal lithium battery longevity.
There's probably also the issue that there is no _one_ 5GHz band. Suddenly you have to deal with DFS radar detection, and different regulatory compliance domains. It now matters which country you're selling to, or which firmware they're using.
I stopped paying for Google Play Music years ago, once I found out about this behavior. Playlists carefully built over time, suddenly changing and shifting. Music is huge to me, and here was Google, playing with my memories. Not being able to listen to some songs is bad enough, but entirely remoing them from the lists felt like gaslighting. My memories were being played with, and Google was telling me "here's your playlist", but that wasn't my playlist anymore.
The precise root cause was Postgres statistics on a given table were completely off. This caused, as you well pointed out, that a frequent query that normally takes 1-2ms started timing out (timeout is 15s). This caused an error spike and slow down across most of the read-only replicas.

There's correlation with the reindex operation, which affected the index that provided the necessary speedup on the operation, and the incident.

The reindex creates a concurrent index on the table and drops the old index afterwards. How it precisely affected the statistics is not determined yet.

There's more information on the incident issue. FYI: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/2...

Update: the cause seems to be determined by the fact that the index was a functional index. In this case, table statistics are not applicable and the index requires its own statistics, which can only be generated via ANALYZE (manual or via autovacuum, ofc).

Disclaimer: I work at OnGres, and we help GitLab with PostgreSQL Support.
Well, so ends Meet's use by sales folks and conferences. The friction to require the use of account is a turn off for many situations. Heck, even when I have an account on some of these services, I might not login when sent an invite. Friction is a killer.
I may be wrong, but looks like fiverr
The Age of Wonders series was heavily inspired by Master of Magic, and it's keeping its spirit alive and modernized to the present day.
I myself preferred realplayer ("buffering...") and its more advanced cousin realplayer G2.
not OP, but for me the killer feature of photos is having a phone gallery that syncs with the cloud and is easy to browse in my phone and my pc. My phone breaking or being lost is way less of a worry now since I don't have to worry about backups, and I can take a picture and have it available in my pc instantly.

iPhoto is mostly the same but it's too tied to the os, which is a problem if I want to move to android for a while or need a photo in my work laptop that isn't tied to my apple account.
Yes this team is great. They also plan to offer their own hosting services.
The Unwritten Laws Engineering (1944) [pdf]
Thank you, appreciated that! I think the "quackery" part reads as too arrogant. Was not intention and I will make sure we get that rewritten.

Same paragraph has a mixture of E2EE and Encryption at rest topics which may confuse users. We'll separate that.
Hi there.

I'm also using Anki for Finish vocab, and it had helped me a lot. To the point it does feel like a super power.

If you are going to use Anki, it's important to switch the knobs to adapt to what you are learning.

I will share some of the things that have worked for me, for Finnish vocab:

- Intervals for new cards (until they are considered 'learned'): 1 10 15 50 240.
The 240 is critical for me: if I forgot it after 4 hours, it goes back to 1 again... if I got it after 4 hours, then it will have better chances in a couple of days.
Of course this is personal, I have been tweaking those until something makes sense to me.

- Lapese (when a known card is forgotten, and how to re-learn): 10 30 240. Again the 240 check.

- Set an ammount of new cards and max reviews per day that does not make you feel misserable... there needs to be some joy on learning...

If I may ask, are you just learning the vocab ? have you taken courses? Where are you getting the vocab from ?
At the time I thought, “Okay, I’m going to be building this website to run a bookstore and I haven’t done that before but it doesn’t sound so hard. When I’m done with that I’m not sure what I’ll do.”

Love this attitude. As flippant as it seems, the statement speaks volumes about confidence and the ability to venture into unknown areas. Skills often overlooked while hiring.
I think it doesn't apply to the Google Suite version (i.e. the non-free version) of Google Meet, but I can't be entirely sure.
If every dev is allowed to spin up their own service, what happens when the dev leaves? Or the service goes down while the dev is on vacation? What if the service becomes a single point of failure other devs' services rely on?
Yeah cobox rules. Especially the functionality to seed data that you don’t have access to.

Their documentation is super nice too.
They don't do that anymore: unplayable songs are greyed out, but they still show on playlists.

It would be great to get notifications when this happens, though.
The only thing that is truly permanent is change. Things never stop changing.

I don't know how many years we will be on this increased remote thing. Hopefully for some time.

But imagine a few years from now when there is no pandemic. Say someone creates a futuristic smart city with good density, lots of parks, and 100% autonomous cars. In that situation you may find that working from home becomes uncool.

Or another totally different possibility. Virtual and augmented reality become so good that whether you are actually in your home or not does not really determine much about your working situation. It's down to software configuration, such as whether you place your avatar in the shared virtual space or your virtual office.
the US is free to decide whatever they want. that doesn’t mean it will also be accepted by other states.
Covid in UK: The hospital workers 'still recovering' as second wave looms
Why, yes, as long as each cloned repo is a copy of some set of revisions, it makes perfect sense to use peer to peer downloads.

Internal hash consistently could be used for verification.
Even state polling in 2016 was pretty good, historically. The reason to think otherwise is that there was a specific error (non-college white voters swinging to R) that happened not to be tracked well (those voters don't respond as well to polling) nor accounted for (most pollsters didn't weight for education). And it happened to be most concentrated in a few states in the upper midwest that were close to the tipping point. AND it happened to be JUST ENOUGH to have predicted a very narrow (sub 1% in PA/WI/MI) win incorrectly.

To wit: 2016 was a perfect storm. Swap any of those factors above and 538 would have been predicting a 50:50 race (instead of 70:30) at election day and Trump's very narrow victory would have been "correctly predicted".

Assuming that's going to happen again seems a bit like magical thinking to me. Remember that in 2012 the polls were "wrong" in the opposite direction (undercounting Obama votes by a bit) and no one cared.
The Future of Data in Serverless Will Be API-Driven – The New Stack
One thing to call out is that this is true for consumer created Meet calls, but not for G Suite/Workspace created Meet calls. Users w/o a Google account can join those calls by “knocking” and being accepted to the call (by the organizer or a user on the same domain) [1]. There's also a dial-in by phone option.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/7582940#top&privacy&encr...

[Edit to clarify wording and add citation to Workspace specific HC article]
NXIVM had an “executive development” and self fulfillment training side that attracted a lot of people. It was more than a weird sex cult. There were rumors about potential connections that started when the local US Attorneys never took any action. Prosecution was run out of NYC.

No idea if that is true, but the local paper reported on shady stuff and nothing happened. The Albany County DA was essentially implicated in helping the cult in various ways that has been documented in the press, so who knows. Albany is a weird, tightly connected place.
You could watch YouTube using one of the Invidious mirrors if you prefer: https://invidio.us/
Yeah, I was reading this and my immediate thought was to take the client and store on IPFS and/or integrate with Syncthing.
I am for now. There was the upfront controller investment as I already had the Chromecasts. For the most part I just play the free games on offer because of the fear of throwing money down a hole.
Yes, South Dakota v. Wayfair a couple years ago basically overturned Quill v. North Dakota and requires companies over a certain size to collect sales tax wherever they are. (Prior to that a few states had independent agreements with Amazon to collect tax.)
I have a Tacx Neo and I’d like to try battery charging with it. Anybody know the easiest way to do that?
>Young attractive women also get an excellent financial education through dating, at least in terms of how much money people have made through various means, and how smart they have to be for it. I think this is yet another reason why women quit the engineering pipeline.

This is a garbage comment.
What volumes does it speak?
I guess in this case the reason is that the Orlyonok simply used the engine of the Tu-95 bomber, this was the most powerful turboprop engine at the time (probably still is).

As for the Kamov helicopters, no idea, but apparently coaxial rotors are more efficient (e.g. better climb rate) than the traditional helicopter design. The "next generation" Sikorsky–Boeing SB-1 also uses coaxial rotors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky%E2%80%93Boeing_SB-1_D...
PayPal cuts ties with registrar for Proud Boys, Gab, and other right-wing sites
After using REBOL, I found the "standard" GUI functionality in Python for creating interfaces so unhappy I used pyPEG to write a DSL parser that would turn REBOL-style interface descriptions into introspective wxPython GUI's.

I say REBOL-style, since it was superficially similar to REBOL (or REBOL/VID, if you prefer), the full power of the Visual Interface Dialect requires an actual REBOL interpreter...! Instead, I used mostly static layouts and a simple escapement to call Python handlers as necessary.
Did you try again? Takeout is pretty flaky sometimes... especially with large libraries.
> I ended up simply printing my photos.

Your house burns down, now what?

> I have a picture of my great-grandmother and her parents from 1898 when she was 3 in my photo album. It survived several wars, regimes, and revolutions. No current digital tech in general can provide this kind of longevity

That's because digital storage didn't exist then... Now it's easier and cheaper to store media than ever before

Maybe I'm missing something in your argument, but to me it sounds naive?

Or maybe you're just in a nostalgic mood!
How do you talk to webdav ? what client ?
Thank you for posting this. Interesting!

But in this case, if user were to forget password, the data would be lost, would it not?
try finding any type of contact information, a name, an email, a company name. There is nothing.

What I gain is trust, without it, I have suspicion.
OwnCloud / NextCloud? I haven't used either but would be interested to hear from any folks who have.
> Complaints about Rust's learning curve is something I really do not get.

I've been programming C++ for living since 2000, recently it's C++/17. I think I have good understanding how software works in general, including heap and ownership. Tried to use Rust a couple times for hobby project, failed for various reasons. I don't have issues picking other languages: VBScript, C#, Objective C, Python, Go had little to no learning curve.

Another evidence in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24878434

> while not being in a walled closed ecosystem.

Wasn't always the case, but .NET is open, thanks to competition. Python always was.

> it's very easy to interop with C

It's equally easy and almost as efficient in C#. The issue with both, someone has to write and then support the bindings. This ain't hard but has costs, while languages like C++ or Objective-C can directly consume C libraries.
Using Bazel to create Minecraft modpacks
As a catholic, it doesn't affect me either :)
Knowing right principles spares one from memorising all the details.

Nginx is highly optimized zero-copy sockets-reuse code, while docker's network code is crappy, does NAT and other stuff.

I would classify it as unnecessary, redundant set of abstractions. Definitely for production.
> Needing 6 months before being considered useful?

I don’t think this is ‘useful’ so much as ‘having a clue what is going on’.

It’s easy to be productive on the one project you are assigned to, but you won’t have any context for the implications of what you are working on.
NoScript that into the past.
Against Scale: Provocations and Resistances to Scale Thinking [pdf]
others would argue that it's a sign of stability and maturity.
Even to this day, employee no 1 will be offered stocks in the range of 0.5 - 1%.

Calling BS on this has not yielded any great results. If not anything, there should be some clause that benefits the first 2 or 3 employees with an outsized monetary outcome, if the company becomes immensely successful.

The above equity numbers probably make sense if founders have worked on the idea for a while, built some reasonable MVPs, done market validation, have found reasonable PMF and all that.

Bottom line, it's not worth being the first engineer purely from a monetary standpoint.
This is a good visualisation. It’s also a nice reminder of why the standard model feels unsatisfying. The unexplained symmetries, and the strange duplications and gaps really do strongly suggest there is something more fundamental happening behind this picture.
I have used Anki productively, I think it's a great tool, and should be a component of learning in many fields.

But I can't help but think it could be a lot better, a lot more efficient, perhaps even 2x more. Anki allows you to customise many aspects of when cards are shown. But presumably those settings can be tuned for a individual, a subject, or even a card. One person probably doesn't have enough data to know what would be most efficient, so they guess, or stay with the defaults.

Part of this is due to the lack of data - and the privacy concerns that would accompany Anki harvesting it all and feeding it to a machine learning system. But if an SRS system were recommended by and developed by a national curriculum, I suspect it could be a lot cleverer and more efficient.

As one example, consider if you had to learn the translations of 2 words. And students often got them confused. Then perhaps getting one wrong should also prompt a test of the other, or indeed maybe it should delay the test of the other? Who knows...
Just another brick in the wall.
One of the main duties of executives is communication to employees, to make sure that everyone is swimming in the same direction. For a small firm, Friday afternoon beer bashes work. For a mid-sized firm, those usually slip to monthly events and the beer quality drops..

For a large firm getting everyone into the same room for a meeting isn't possible any more - either because they're remote (especially so these days) or there just isn't a room large enough. So something like a podcast or a Teams meeting becomes the best way to communicate with everyone.
Wasn't this always the case?
You missed it. OP has rights to the work. The question was whether downloading from Youtube breaks any laws. Youtube's add is transcoding, which is not a creative transformation. Ergo, OP probably has a legal right to download from Youtube, at least as far as copyright law is concerned.
I jumped into a greenfield project that had been already polluted and “using” TS. The build was still running with a 1/0 and other explicitly broken code somehow.
The barrier's space is warped and compressed, so the particles are traveling a shorter distance, and thus at a lower speed than c.
This was written over 20 years ago, and predicted things like the kindle.

The tech community nowadays seems to consider Stallman as at best an object of pity, which is a shame. His only failing in his predictions seems to have been not realising just how many other ways we will be attacked beyond simple copyright
Outline Of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
After being thrust into a sort of leadership role, I think I understand this.

The people that are great are the ones that do both great work and can communicate.
Can a “Niche Mentor” Provide Better Help Than a “Business Mentor”?
https://thebradymentality.substack.com/p/can-a-niche-mentor-...
Any issues with Google domains? I switched to them when I saw that they were a tenth of the price of competition and haven’t had any issues.
this is technically impressive, and slightly fun initially, due to its novelty. But I have no idea what Mozilla thinks is going to happen with this that is relevant (let alone strategically important) to Mozilla.
> Aristotle and Marx have zero to do with it and the way people on HN bring super old classics in completely unrelated context is getting obnoxious.

The Greeks are the source for a lot of our language and a lot of how we think about the world. Marx turned much of that upside down.

It's fine if you don't agree with the idea of "intellectual heritage" (or the influence of that heritage). But I (and others) do, so clearly we're going to talk about it.

It seems, uh, strange to fail to notice Marx's influence in particular given what happened in the 20th century and what continues to happen in China. Furthermore, the idea of the government as an instrument of violence used by the ruling class (which is so common these days, on HN too) is clearly straight out of Marx.

> The private sphere is where the most severe abuse happens.

Certainly plenty of abuse happens in the private sphere. My original post was hasty.

My opinion is more complicated than "everyone is good in private". It's more like, at a certain point, "publicness" becomes a problem. And things that we can do in private (like goodness, love, and hatred) do not work in public. And yet we seem to be reaching for them anyway.
The title is simply not correct - you can join GSuite Meet sessions anonymously. I just tested it and confirmed it was still possible.

This only applies to personal accounts, and was already the case in April when consumer Meet launched:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200429182608/https://support.g...

So, nothing changed and this is just spreading FUD about the product. How is it #6 on the front page?
Well, now you just need to get a "livecode player" shipped in something widely distributed by default. :-D

The ability to cross compile is VERY cool, and I don't mean to belittle it or suggest that passing stack files around is better. As someone who builds software for distribution, the cross compilation is much better, and getting it done with compatibility that wide is technically really impressive.

But putting myself back in the headspace that had me using HyperCard, sharing my stuff without any build step at all was a big deal.

I like your loader stack technique. It sounds like just the sort of thing we'd have tried in HC if network access had been a common, reliable thing.
Shows - how so? In a simulation based on some model? Okay.
these all worked for me; I didn't understand the difference between the native version and the new component.
I love AWS, but they've been struggling lately (probably understandable with increased unexpected load this year?). Not going into details to keep on topic, but every time it's green status. Rarely any acknowledgement of problems or degradation
Find out everything about your Linux distribution – Cool Stuff
Hm, neither of these appear to support self-hosting the server/data component? That's what I'd be most interested in as an alternative to eg: Google photos.