skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly!

With mail, search, maps and various others, there is no community lock-in. Who cares who else uses their same mail provider?

YouTube is the only thing where I do not see an alternative, simply because that website is not about the product itself, but about the people who use it. Replacing the product is easy-ish, but the people are impossible to.
really sad about this.

when we [grafana labs] was first starting, dan was someone that i talked to a fair bit. he was always so welcoming and willing to help us in any way he could. a few years ago he was super excited about the growth of kubecon, and his excitement was infectious.

we have offices in lower manhattan, so we'd meet up fairly impromptu pretty often. he always wanted to meet at le pain quotidien; i think he had a special affinity for that place ;-)

i can't believe this news... i'll miss dan.
This is a good heuristic for the sale of trading strategies. If someone has a viable trading strategy, they should be raising capital or joining a prop shop instead of selling it.

But it's not maximally rational to trade on data instead of selling it if you don't have any experience trading.
I think you use Google VPN because I like the idea of supporting companies that aren’t already a dominant force in the industry. The same reason I shop at local stores rather than the big boxes.
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>If Obergefell gets overturned (it won't), an actual law can be passed this time, hell maybe even a constitutional amendment, since nearly a supermajority of Americans outright support gay marriage.

While that sounds good on paper, 50 percent of people in this country live in 9 states. The population distribution is not compatible with passing legislation in that way.

Edit to add: those 9 states only have 44.5 percent of the electoral college and 18 percent of the Senate.
Even without the crypto stuff, when I installed it, it felt like an intern first eclipse plugin. Few buttons more, a different help page and that's it. Didn't inspire technical strength and quality.
Hacker News is incredibly biased against Google. There was recently an informal survey[0] in "Tech Twitter" (i.e. other technical people) regarding opinions about the top tech companies and Google scored second highest overall behind Apple, with something like 85-90% positivity overall across different questions. Facebook, for reference, was something like 35-40%.

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Edit: n=3017, 93% are in tech industry.
Same, I was about to post a link to them: https://app.hellobonsai.com/invite/9f297324

^ That's a referral link. I can sub for a different link if it's not allowed.
Official statistic https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org/
13.49 billion

so 1 trillion = 1000 billion = 1,000,000 million
1 billion = 1000 million

New Zealand = let say 500 million trees ? = 0.5 billion = 0.0005 trillion trees
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I realise covid is highly politicised right now, but give me the benefit of the doubt. I said I'm not a covid skeptic and I meant it. In its current form it's more virulent than the flu (albeit with a different distribution of mortality outcomes). And of course we have to deal with the general additional affect of immunity (or lack thereof) in the general populace.

But it's possible to seek out new information on covid, and also to seek to stop spreading disinformation on it, while still accepting its serious nature.
I've partially degoogled, and it was certainly influenced by these kinds of discussions.

The most compelling reason I have found for degoogling is to make the question "what happens if they ban me?" get the anwser "nothing much".
The next most compelling reason is to protect the world from their influence. i.e. take my influence amongst my family and peers and use it to steer another small part of the world away from googlopoly.

So I use firefox (of course Mozilla is massively dependent on google for money), and I use DDG, and I have fastmail.

My phone is Android, yet its replacable and correctly backed up (not google auto backups). I try and avoid google apps and services.

I barely use other google services.

With the exception of my day job. Currently we are a GCP shop, for good reasons. At some point in the hand wavy future we should be able to hop clouds as we will though.
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Absolutely. Mezzanines are critical in flow management during peak. You know how if you go to a Disney ride, most of the line is inside the structure? Same concept. Get people out of the rain/snow/heat and normalize flow.
It intuitively feels more likely to me that that future may come to New York than to other cities.
The title says "Privacy friendly alternatives that don't track you":

Then there are entries for Google authenticator -> Authy, Google weather -> DarkSky (whose Android app was killed), Google Scholar -> Arxiv, etc.

I can't take these posts seriously no matter how loud their proponents have become
In the past I've used emacs org-mode to do time tracking against particular projects with breakdown level you can easily control. This can be used to produce summary tables in a variety of ways, which I usually cleaned up a little before plugging into an invoice (typically monthly or by project, sometimes more often). They don't have to be pretty, just accurate.

I've also used an accounting system like xero which will generate invoices and give payment options, but that was more about the back end matching an accountant's system.
I'm gradually moving off Google and those posts do remind me to try push a bit harder from time to time. I still rely on YouTube and maps. Email is also there, but more and more getting migrated to Zoho. Having the periodic reminders does help.
I’ve removed Google for everything except search, two old gmail accounts, and the occasional Google doc when I can’t avoid it.

My replacements are Fastmail for Mail, Contacts, and Calendar; Apple for photos, notes, and music; and Microsoft 365 for all of my office apps. I’d already used Dropbox for storage.

The Gmail accounts are still active because I’m still finding services I missed during the switch. It’s easier to notice this if I don’t forward them.

Search, I tried DuckDuckGo for a month, but just wasn’t good enough. Every fourth search ended up on Google anyway.
Companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit are becoming the gatekeepers of the internet but I think that's a byproduct of the endless list of people who keep trying to fit moralistic arguments ("the way things should be" that is specific to their community) onto a platform where "one size also fits all".

This platform is in constant competition with it's own capitalistic and identity-less values. I say they're identity-less because let's face it, it's almost guaranteed that Google/Facebook/Twitter/Reddit don't have enough people that are like you and your community on every team that touches stuff that you and your community interact with to give a proper shit about your values or how you will perceive something. I might even take this a step further and say they've developed their own culture for the internet and you either adhere or die. You can swap in and extrapolate any group that has some measure of depth to it in that statement and it'll still be true. That's why, in my mind, there's this desperate race for diversity and to reflect all things at all times. Don't get me wrong, I love to have a diverse workforce, and in my experience the teams that weren't all predominately one characteristic have always been more productive and fun. I'm just extrapolating why these things suddenly matter, almost ten fold, to companies that run platforms.

I've seen people here suggest that developing more tools will help suppression, faulty-auto-moderation, deplatforming, etc... but let's be real. It won't. Maybe you'll more accurately identify people who are violating your terms of service and can vomit up some reason as to why with explainable AI. I don't really view that as a win though and here's why:

Americans ran from King Henry because he was willing to chop peoples heads off and imprison them without having to answer to the public that he ruled over. We created The Boston Tea Party because of a relatively small tax. Some people laugh at that event, but it goes to show you that when you have the haunting memory of a tyrant in your past, the latest cut feels like open heart surgery without anesthesia.

In the end Americans decided that if even one person were sent to the guillotine without a fair trial it was one too many. Our laws have reflected that since, but
we have also stripped many of those ideals away in favor of racist ones or convenient ones (at times). Now Mega Corporations are your new King Henry, and all the smaller corporations who buy services from them are their Dukes. They'll either do as the King says or as the saying goes, "Off with their heads!".
Is Google actually under any scrutiny? I get an impression that they can pay their way out of anything or get a slap on the wrist.

I agree though that you cannot check if the VPN provider logs your traffic or not even if they claim they don't log it.
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Personal observation:

I purchased a company that was locked into cloud infrastructure. They had received over $10M in venture capital several years ago, and had been running their own servers at some point because I found some of them in their warehouse.

At some point they had switched to AWS, and then at a later point switched to GC. When I encountered them they had shut down due to lack of funding.

Their servers were running in zombie mode racking up over $6k per month in charges. Data export would have cost over $10k. They were also renting warehouse and office space.

They had very few assets, and not enough income to cover expenses.

If their server costs had been reasonable, they might have survived, but they couldn't bring those costs down.
I moved to DDG on all devices 2 years ago after an article here on HN.
Returning an Option<newtype> is closer to "parsing" than returning a bool.
Out of curiosity, how come the block on Microsoft domains?
It’s an ownership problem primarily - cities can blame states and states can blame the fed and the fed can blame the contractors. By the time anyone can figure out who’s really at fault it’s election time again.

Swiss cantons have virtually complete authority over their territories - it’s not surprising to me their large projects go much more smoothly: there are a single entity in charge and at blame.

In American society we deal constantly with our division of power: funding comes from all levels and therefore a single hiccup can break the entire chain. Suggesting that a city or state have authority over its own systems makes one persona-non-grata in most conversations - even in SF where our Mayor doesn’t have the authority to even replace the MTA director. The failure of American politics isn’t that we’re all federal or all local - it’s that the buck stops nowhere. Fascism and confederacy have their obvious issues: but inability to build a subway is not one of them.
Well, the average cpc cost tells a good story of averages and who is willing to spend - America is the first by a mile.
Multicamera deep fakes are already a thing. I just saw some patches for injecting the same hardware codec fingerprints into the synthesized video so that one appears to come from a samsung and the other an iphone 11.
It’s good advice but I’m not sure how you count “top 3 popular distros” these days.

A lot of people into Linux seem to go through a phase where they try out a rolling release distro like Arch or Gentoo, and then after a couple years get sick of dealing with broken systems & switch to something more stable like Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/Mint/etc. As I get older, the amount of system administration and customization of my system that I want to do is dropping rapidly. I barely even change the desktop wallpaper any more.
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I degoogled as much as possible about 5 years ago after finally having enough. Some things are hard to ditch; I still use YouTube, Adsense and Analytics, but that’s it. On a rare occasion I’ll use Search when DDG isn’t surfacing what I’m looking for, but even that is pretty rare these days.
I don't understand. That's not the tradeoff MTA is making. They're building more capacity now rather than having to try to do it later.

Later would be nigh-impossible because of the skyscrapers going up on every side, and the railyard above. Hudson Yards is a massively complex project.
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The data-storage offering isn't the issue. The issue's a related service, i.e. publication, which hasn't occurred yet.

Again, I see how this makes sense IF we assume that the "private" in "private data hosting" is severable. But while not a lawyer, I don't think that's true without a contractual agreement establishing it.

To be clear, I can appreciate that a provider might intend to offer privacy as a severable feature. But that seems like something they have to tell the customer. Before the customer uploads private information, they should be made aware that, should they stop paying, that private information will be published.

While not a lawyer, I don't think any reasonable court would buy the argument that customers who upload private information are consenting to have it published once they cancel the service unless there's strong evidence to that effect. It seems like a toxic arrangement that people would be unlikely to agree to, so I'd think that there would be a high standard of proof for the provider to establish that the customer intended to agree to it. I'm not sure if merely being buried in the fine print would be enough in a case like this, but is it even in the fine print?
I think we should consider it to be as yet unproven - a person I know through my wife caught it in April (and tested positive them) and wasn't that ill.

They just got very ill again in the last week and tested positive again. Might be totally a-typical or it could just be that we've not seen that many people actually have the chance to catch it twice yet.
I use Google Workplace, less friction for getting things done.

Just my opinion, but if you want a one-stop-shop for a Google replacement, probably Fastmail is your best bet: email+calendar+notes. ProtonMail is less well integrated, but in a year I would bet their email+calendar+vpn+secure data storage will have a better workflow. In addition to Google Workplace, I am also a paying customer of ProtonMail and Fastmail - I just don't use these alternatives right now.

Lots of choices is a good thing.
> her own actions are forcing people away from her.

This reminds me about a situation when a parent says to the kid: I didn't want to beat you, but you forced me to.
That's where my mind went as well. There are some audio artifacts right around the time he says that that almost hint at the audio being generated. I really enjoyed the ambiguity.
I'm on a late 2013 which I've only actually paid for a battery replacement on, so I can anecdote believe you.

I'm not in love with macos though and there's more good options nowadays than there was in 2013.
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Not to mention I think these days Poles and Berliners get along better than Mississippians and New Yorkers. It's depressing to type but it's probably true.
Regardless of Google shenanigans, cutting youtube off your life is a pretty good move (as well as reddit, twitter and the like).
It existed, but why bother?

When Atom was released in 2008, the A9 had already been announced (a year before). A9 was around 10-15% faster per clock and were often multicore meaning a 1.5GHz chip was faster in all metrics over the 1.6GHz Atom.

A few articles came out June/July of this year with Analysts saying that Intel had spent over 10 Billion dollars trying to break into the mobile market with no success. ARM's current R&D budget (according to Nvidia a month or so ago) is 0.5B. If they spent that much every year since 2000, they would barely match Intel, but their entire market cap in stayed under 4B all the way until 2009. Remember, that R&D includes their high-end ARM cores, but also GPU, midrange designs, various microcontroller designs, a realtime OS, ARM tooling, NPUs, various kernel support, etc

If that much money can't fix up x86 to keep up with a budget a fraction of the size, I take that as proof that the ISA really does matter.
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This whole spiel is only relevant when the programmer specifies an array index in a distinct variable.
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Yes you can upload: https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9716522?hl=en .

The UI/UX of youtube music is lacking compared to GPM, but at least the file locker functionality that I use is still here.
There are many laws in regards to investment that are like that. Laws that "protect" inexperienced investors from getting had. I understand the intent but I feel the result is undesirable. They restrict investment opportunities to people that already have money. The message that they give is that just because you dont have dollars you dont have any financial sense.
Been very happy with Namecheap. That is maybe not saying terribly much, having moved from GoDaddy (arguably one of the worst out there).
Screenwriters will be able to make entire movies using literally only their voice. I tell a story to a computer, it will "imagine" the entire thing.

And after that, the computer will make the stories and we will watch, at which point the Drake Equation takes over.
It's a mixed bag.

There's a bit more context recently released here:
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4017337/privacy-focused-sea...
That's not how Brave works.
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I've tried and failed. I've been with Gmail since day one and I'm too deep to change every address. It'll never go away. I even use DDG but keep going back to Google & Bing when I'm dissatisfied. Google Drive is better than Duplicity and Carbonite, and way easier than OneDrive. Google Voice has no competition.
And even if you're somehow able to figure out a trading strategy on this with no expertise, there are extremely few data sources that are actually proprietary so alpha decay is a very real thing.
Monitors last much longer than their desirability these days, there are hundreds of thousands of old clunky Dells just sitting around.

It does call for a bit of scrounging, but an acceptable used monitor should be twenty bucks or free. Including a screen is optimizing for pessimism: the best you could do is something useless for the majority, and only as good/cheap as the minority could get a new one for.
If you work on brave and are reading this... can you stop showing random Crypto banners over nytimes.com and the like? It's very tacky
First I've heard of Sandstorm[0]. Very interesting, I need to give this a try soon.

0: sandstorm.io
They seem to have a very active marketing team. There was even a post on HN about "onboarding" onto Notion recently.