skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they started off at a good spot. Then realized they wanted more control of the data going through them. Then they realized they wanted to control the way the data flowed in an ideological way. It is a natural reaction to someone who gets a decent amount of wealth. They think 'how can I make the world a better place'. But the mistake many make is not realizing that their way is not the best way for others. Sometimes the best way is just to kick the actual trolls and just let everyone be they way they are. They are no longer satisfied with that. Doing what they are doing is going to 'dismantle' their people network. In 10 years people may be saying 'oh yeah remember google'. It can happen. At one point a lot of people were on AOL now it is a ghosttown of what it was.
VLC in playlist mode has been working great for me. To enable it, just go to View > Playlist.
Same here, on both Firefox and Chromium using an RX580.
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> With Fastmail or another provider, you're trusting another corp.

You're trusting a corp that offers customer support, a service you pay them for. With Gmail you're completely on your own because you're only a small cog in the massive data mining machine. That's a pretty big difference.

That said, it's a good idea to set up a custom domain with a trusted registrar.
Sounds a lot like what india is trending to
"Hi all, Please be aware that this account is closed and I may now be reached at foo@bar.baz."
The Pi Keyboard was decent. I would expect this to be the same just with the Pi integrated.
Sure, if they retain the think-and-click feel versus becoming reaction-based hack and slash / shooters. In that case an emphatic yes.
Thanks. Oof. 54 pages is no joke. It will take me some time to absorb it
This blows my mind. I know, it's much more incremental than it is revolutionary, but I think the form factor achieves a much greater degree of access for many people than a typical Pi whose bare hardware may be a lot more intimidating. Now, it's "just" a computer, which happens to expose a 40-pin connector for the standard Pi hardware fun. And unlike other options you might find, this has the massive built-in community that comes with Pi

It reminds me of what Apple does when it redefines a product category by "just" bringing together existing technology into a more convenient form factor and UX.

I don't know if this will quite have that level of impact, but I see the potential, especially now with remote learning: My kids are on a hybrid schedule. I'm fortunate to be able to provide them their necessary computing resources. Not everyone can: The district couldn't secure all of the necessary Chrome Books, and some students have been left attempting remote learning via their parent's phone, or simply left behind. A cheap mass market device has some truly amazing potential to fill in these gaps at the same time that it enables more advanced S(T)EM learning than you could get with a typical cheap Chrome Book.

I'm also old enough to remember when you'd be hard pressed to find a desktop computer for under $1000, perhaps $1500 adjusted for inflation. One for $70-$100 really just hammers home how far we've come.
Just Launched in Product Hunt
Hi!!!!

We just launched HomeFlow in Product Hunt I was wondering if you could check it out an upvote it if you like it. This is the link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/homeflow-0d717497-7899-4855-a4d8-fd4c41935c35

So why did we create HomeFlow?

Buying a home is one of the most stressful experiences in one’s life and 10 million Americans go through it every year!

And HomeFlow is an app that educates you at your own pace so that you can avoid stress & really expensive mistakes buying your first home.

I hope you really like it!

Thanks so much in advance!!!

Laura
Founder
I have it on my IdeaPad with Pop_OS, too. The buttons work as intended and you can easily mute/unmute at any time whatever application has the focus.
This is horrific beyond measure.

There should be a lawsuit over this.

There should also be legislation that mandates that companies like Google (or Apple) that hold critical amounts of user data, need to have a reasonable process for customers to restore their accounts, or take out their data.

At the very least, Google should allow him to take his data out of their system.
> As a developer at a big company, if I try to buy a server, then I have to deal with my IT department.

This. AWS is a way to put control back into the hands of developers and work around the internal IT mafia. People are quick to forget how that was like.

For startups, AWS is either a really dumb idea or a valuable tool to go faster than the competition, depending on funding and growth rate.
Shame, tianocore/edk2-platforms#22542627 sounded really promising!
I would imagine that a USB-C controller, would add a fair bit to the price, maybe a later SOC will support it.
I like the idea, but remember that the SLA with your fiber provider doesn't mean your fiber magically will come back within a few hours when someone in the street cuts through the cable by accident. Your clients will still experience downtime unless you have two fiber lines going in different directions - completely redundant. If you don't have that, I would recommend some kind of a licensed microwave link on your roof as a failover.
How was it solved?
Consider that a designed environment is different from a built-up city with paths intended for horse-and-carriage.
This is not a real saving in my experience. The DevOps time for an app is so trivial. I actually just setup a .Net core app on Linux/mysql.

My Linux experience is old and very limited. I have used AWS for years for other things (S3, cloudfront, transcribe, etc.).

Initially I setup an elastic beanstalk app/separate mysql instance on my own AWS account just so I could quickly deploy (all new to me).

Then I setup the app on my client's VM, had to configure Apache, .net core app, service, mysql, mailing.

I would say the elastic beanstalk stuff took about 3 hours (some problems with IAM and Amazon's visual studio plugin, basically ended up having to use my master key). Setting up the VM server, plus a new way to deploying .net core apps and learning/relearning much of linux took 4-5?

So no significant savings there.

Deploys are a few clicks from VS on EB, and take a little longer to the VM, but only because I haven't bothered writing a script that I estimate would take me 1/2 hour at most, in reality probably 5 minutes.

I have clients on (windows) servers that have been running for 10 years with little intervention from me (had to clear some space a couple of times as that client's app saves large files just in case, but they are all backed up on S3 as well).

TL;DR; in my experience DevOps part of running a startup/small enterprise app is basically trivial, a rounding error, compared to time spent on development.
Except that nearly all companies greater than a certain size have an engagement with AWS so they shifted CapEx to CapEx.
Yes, but they're also all different, so you need to play mind games to remember what the shortcut is for which solution.

Global hotkey would be nicer, I think.
There are a few things that protonmail is not good at, but I guess I've learned to live with them.

1. You can't search message content. gmail is very good at this, so I've had to become more organized to make sure that I can find a particular message in protonmail.

2. Notifications on mobile do not clear if I've read the message on another device. I have to open up the app and sync to stop them from popping up with outdated information.

3. I wish that there was a way to mark a message as archived and read from the mobile notification.

Other than that, I can't complain.
Wouldn't you hit strange results doing this much earlier - there are leap seconds (or worse) every few years
> The creation of Google, for example, has added immeasurably to the wealth of the world.

Google and other software advancements have offered amazing utility to everyone, freeing up people to do other tasks by reducing many hours spent on previously tedious tasks.

However, unless there is opportunity for the people who used to perform the obviated tasks to produce something others will value, then all of the wealth that was added will only show up in the profits of Google and other capital owners who benefit from decreased labor costs.

It is possible that previous technological advances obviated people slowly enough that it does not result in their labor’s value being reduced so abruptly. But what happens if it occurs in the course of 5 to 10 years? Certainly, the previously valuable travel agents, secretaries, cashiers, retail employees, etc experience a drop in demand for their labor, so unless they are able to offer the market something else, their value has dropped precipitously.
You are correct. Unfortunately I can't see any comparable chip in a package other than some kind of BGA.

edit: that makes me think if they could release something less capable but in more friendly packages? That will probably not have enough market share to be viable.
Once identified, I would expect their "Incident Report" in some way would mention the root cause of the incident. However, that does not seem to be the case here: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/4mzhxxpwgvqg

Maybe someone could get fired for this or does it have more to do with Microsoft's stock/public image?
South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes
No, I'm personally not a fan of the term because I generally don't like reducing people to caricatures - but IMO equating it to a slur is just... wrong. It's ignorant of what actually has been happening to the oppressed people in this country since... forever? And is trying to equate someone, who is generally in a position of power (a middle class white woman) to minority groups who have experienced racism since this country's founding.

Food for thought: In the (rough) words of John Mulaney, if you equate something to another word, but you won't even say the other word, then one is clearly worse than the other.
If you live in the EU, Google are legally obligated to hand over your data under GDPR notice.
The market does not on itself account for externalities: it can be better for the individual to drive a car even if it's better for all the road's users collectively if as many people as possible took the bus or rode a bike (less congestion).

Likewise your personal air pollution doesn't make a perceptible difference but if everyone is driving cleaner vehicles it benefits everyone collectively with cleaner air (this was very noticable when e.g. Delhi required auto-rickshaws to convert to natural gas).
How and why to send personal network updates
And Stackoverflow and Google.
Okay but then you have to engineer your application around interuptable spot instances. You're also making a 36 month commitment when you sign that contract (generally buying the hardware for Amazon.)
> That would backfire spectacularly, and would probably kill gmail.

How would that kill gmail? It's not like they're going to lose any real part of their user base. Short of a press release from google confirming the behavior, the average user is not going to go through the hassle of finding a replacement provider and then changing every email address associated with every service they use (if it's even possible for the service) all for some nebulous and impossible-to-confirm conspiracy theory put forth by tech experts and security experts that don't get listened to even when there is proof. And it's not like other companies and services would take a stand by ceasing to offer service to customers with gmail accounts- that's an incredible way to lose a vast portion of your customer base.

I wish it weren't this way, but I just can't see that bringing down gmail. Especially not when every google service requires a gmail account- probably the same one most people have had for years.
Not completely related to personal accounts being banned, but something that happened to me recently:

I started a side business with some friends during lockdown. We created an online store selling some hard-to-get long tail items, and almost instantly got some traction and growth thanks to Google Shopping. A month ago we received one of these generic automated mails that our account is banned and we were misrepresenting ourselves or a product with no details on what we did wrong. We went through the T&C's in some detail and we think we did everything they asked, and we have no idea what we didn't do well enough. We also checked in with every single client and we had near perfect scores on trust pilot, I can't recall a single incident with a client.

We've been contacting Google almost daily but almost never been able to find a human to talk to. Through unofficial channels we've found a few people in Goolge but whenever they gave us any advice on what to do it's always "off the record" or "you didn't hear it from me". Something is very rotten.

There are always replies on here about not betting your entire business on Google. Google shopping gives 2 orders of mag better conversion than any other channel we tried. For search-to-buy there really just aren't any alternatives and if Google decides to lock you out your business is basically dead. Lucky for us it was a side hustle. Here in Africa e-bay and Amazon aren't options.

More scary, since then we've found TONS of businesses in our country who have suffered the same fate in the last month, and many are well-established, popular businesses now facing existential threat.

It's incredibly scary that Google's moderation bots can be a single point of failure for a business employing 20+ people.
I feel like this is the opposite direction of the 400 ...
I work for a 3D anatomy company and the biggest advantage is compatibility. You can embed 3D content using an iframe just like video. For example here's Healthline using our content to explain knee anatomy.

https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/knee#1

This makes it possible for all the online learning companies to integrate 3D into their courseware without requiring any additional download.
The enforcement is a joke, diesel cars pass without catalytic comverter without any problems.
For diesels they measure only the "smoke"(dumingumas) level at high RPM, so cars that are constantly spewing black smoke still barely pass.
The amount of Audi 80 is decreasing and being replaced by golf mk4 as "bottom" tier cars.
vote for biden, save the country!
Not sure you would know the difference. Hit at 20MPH differential speed is a lights-out moment.
Steam has so much volume, it's tough to pick the signal from the noise.
Well timed release for Christmas!
This is good news because it suggests that immunity for SARS-CoV2 isn't worse than that for other coronaviruses (e.g. those causing the common cold), even for those individuals who didn't become so sick they had to be hospitalised.

In a nutshell, you can't catch it again right away after having recovered.
I recently was interviewed by a national/international news organization, I have concerns "Fame will get to me".

Although, the big lesson I learned from this is Einstein cheated, and that caused the collapse. Solutions could be resisting urges or open relationships (although I have doubts).

Anyway, my wife has contributed or provoked ideas, editing, and real life implementation of the ideas. She didn't get interviewed.

I'm not famous (yet), I was a B+ student, I feel normal. But over the years strangers greeting me. IRL, or strangers being dissapointed in a personal political opinion, or the interviews make me realize it might happen.

I don't want to destroy the family I love.
Cute and relatable for someone who was dumped recently. :P
Win or lose, nobody knows impermanent loss quite like President Trump (DeFI)
Which companies are better positioned to leverage AI advances?
You don't think there is variance in performance when you rent hardware? You've never had an HDD or SSD that underperformed vs. others of the same type or model? You've never had a stick of RAM that underperformed, or threw lots of CEs?

I'll be frank: If you haven't seen performance variance with physical hardware, you either have been incredibly lucky, not paying attention, or not working at a very large scale.
Even FOSS seems to be being slowly eaten up by corporate interests these days.
Seriously, he has been wrong too many times.
You mean due to history substitution? If so: I have never seen that kick in in a script. Only in interactive shells.
A super-cheap USB soundcard is another option albeit an ugly one. But I do agree it's a shame they couldn't squeeze an audio output into the design somewhere.
Who would have thunk it!?
How to write good unit tests
Block chain, bit torrent, freenet.

There are plenty of alternatives that don't require centralization, they are just unpolished because there is no money in them.

Again, github only exists because for some reason my generation of developers has decided that js is the only way to use the internet and a pretty interface makes up for not knowing the tools you are using.
Oooof. I've read a few of these now.
Not yet at least.

Jitsi also has background blur but it's only ok-ish on Chrome and unusably slow on Firefox.
"do you think that most people are not really productive most of the time?"

lawyers, bankers, patent trolls, most government employees, middle management, motivational coaches, ...

Hmm. Yes?

But to get back to the original topic, I'd agree with Joker_vD that we have lots of services around where the economic damage of pausing them for a few months seems rather low. I mean closing schools for 3 months now is something you could easily catch up for in the upcoming year(s).
> it is very good in Amsterdam, but also perhaps even better in say Berlin

Oh, it’s fantastic in Berlin. Within 1.6 km of me, there are 18 tram stops, a similar number of bus stops, and 3 stops on the Ringbahn. The trams and the trains come roughly every 5 minutes.

I suspect one other big difference between American and European when it comes to the feeling of car-derived Liberty is the fact that, before the Schengen Agreement, Europeans needed passports to travel between countries (and European counties are about the same size as American states); and after the Schengen Agreement, air travel was cheap enough that it (rather than cars) represents the large scale freedom of movement.

At least, that’s how it feels to me.
Hmm, if I copy/paste this, I get a different output:

~ ~/certdays.sh google.com 14
date: illegal time format
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-
v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
[-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]]
[+format]
google.com: -18568
-n Lasts longer then 14 days?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you use the keyboard.... as a keyboard for other computers?
Every startup needs a niche – here's how I found mine
vote for biden - save the nation!
If they want a full access to the EU market they will have to use the EU regulations like Norway does. However they may prefer a hard brexit for some reasons.
Happened to me too after 10 years of Gmail use. Exactly the same story. No explanation. As I remember at that time I checked Google servers data as to uptime—the data was public, not sure about now—and it appeared that there was a serious problem with servers right before I was blocked. It looked like Google just completely lost data in some server cluster. Anyway, there was no way to get any response from Google or at least my gmail address reactivated even with data lost for me to be able to access other services that I used the email to access. I think it was Google's fault. The company lost data, but didn't want to admit it and blamed me for breaking some policy without any further details to explain absence of access to my data.

Since then I use my own domain for email, could easily switch email provider while keeping the address in case there is a problem, and I'd still control access via the email to other services. Also I never rely on Google as to files, photos, or videos. I mean yeah I use Google, YouTube etc., but everything is first of all backed up on MS OneDrive. Even on my Android phone there is automatic upload of all new photos to OneDrive. Google Photos is more like for easy viewing, sharing and presentation. Not backup. Not to mention that MS Office + OneDrive storage subscription provides much more value that Google G Suite.
Pretty close to true in practice, actually. Yes, some of us have funky domains that we take email at, but it's not like we don't have backup plans.
I think that for Open Source projects the better CI is still SourceHut. They're not currently limiting any of their resources for free accounts, relying on the funding from paid accounts to pay for their resources.

I find this pay it forward model better than any other option.
The large tech company I work for puts a lot of emphasis on writing. Here are a few suggestions:

1. If you want people to read what you wrote and give you feedback, conciseness is important. We have a general rule of thumb that it takes people 30 minutes to read 4-6 pages of terse material, and it takes roughly an hour to then discuss it. As a result, pretty much all our docs are 6 pages (in the main body; appendixes might be added but are written in a way so that the doc stands on its own without them).

2. For many forms of (non-fiction) communication, the inverted pyramid is a helpful way to structure your thoughts. People are most likely to read the beginning of something, When we read the whole thing, we're more likely to pay more attention to the beginning. It's important then to get the most important information in the beginning, with supporting details as you go.

3. Know the audience, and focus on why the audience should care. If it's not clear why the audience would care, try rephrasing or restructuring to focus on the part they actually would care about.

4. Do lots of iterations. Get feedback from others. You can also iterate on your writing yourself: I find that when I write something and come back to it later, I'm better at finding issues. In order to do a lot of iterations, that means you need to plan out your time. In my company, we often kick-off the doc writing process with a "working backwards" schedule: we're presenting to such-and-such VP on Day X, so we have to have a rough draft of the whole doc on Day Y, so we have to have drafts of individual pieces by Day Z.

5. Be aware of what kind of thing your writing. I'd say 75% of my writing, my audience is myself: I'm writing in order to work through thoughts. I approach that differently when I'm writing something for review by teammates, which I again approach differently from a doc written for other groups.

6. Maybe a bit controversial in some circles, but: Strunk and White (https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/...). It's a short book, and even if you don't do everything in it, the focus on clarity and succinctness is still useful.
By cautious rules and the ability to fire anybody who didn't follow them.
A Gentle Introduction to Non-Determinism in Scheme
Or a honkey tonk bar
I would have presumed the perceived gap was "yesterday we were using Julian, today we'll use Gregorian" (or Gregorian v0 to v1). Instead the article suggests it is "before today Julian and Gregorian both existed and were the same, now Gregorian has jumped".
IO_uring Passthrough for KVM Guests Is Yielding Fantastic Results
How to learn to become a good software developer
Good grief can we not be done with the needless tribal politics already?
Unless it isn't. I thought that ~15% of common cold infections come from Coronavirii - wouldn't that imply that these 15% should cease to exist at a point in time?