skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case though, a smaller company might not be around forever. When you’re looking at storing important photos, the service you think will last longest may be best.

(I use Flickr, Gphotos and an S3 bucket but I’m paranoid)
If you want "unnecessarily graphic" look no further than the left's paper of record, the New York Times. For a tweet linking to their 2017 review of late night hosts roasting Trump advisor Stephen Miller they created their own image of his severed head on a pike:

Original: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/831483401467265024

Archived: https://archive.is/tqfYU
In the example illustrations it is quite interesting how a number of them are framed in pure nature, and a few of those are the only ones depicting any possible chemically toxic activity.

It does seem like the study of nature is supposed to yield philosophy for the most part, and that should guide the application of hazardous materials or processes.

There is one well-to-do gentleman with a precision balance and a treasure chest who has busy chemical workers producing presumably valuable products.

Somebody must have done some experimentation & discovery before they could have even initiated the R & D needed in order to have successfully gone into full production.

Without any more useful literature to guide them than this type of reference here, so you know the real scientific advances were not from things learned for the most part out of books.

And that might have taken centuries, or good portions thereof.

When one person finally surpassed all the milestones necessary, chances are they were the only one who fully foresaw and somewhat understood how that could be applied, and started their unique process of molecular rearangement turning less valuable materials into more valuable materials.

When that person is gone the process can continue without the full understanding ever reoccurring, and this ancient book seems to show some signs of that.

And then eventually to more reliably carry on the chemical operation into the future, a later generation finally documents it _as accurately as possible considering it's been going on since before anyone living was ever born we know not how_.

Many scientists with unique processes do not publish, whether they want to keep confidentiality or not. Besides, some will outperform in a non-academic environment, and I'm sure every gifted one today is still not even fully literate in their native tongue. Literacy was way less common among scientists and everybody else in previous generations too, so the documentation has been all over the place.

Just like many other chemical plants or operations.

You have to figure the fumes have always been capable of affecting people's thinking, and that could have an effect on philosophy though.
> Why would I care whether my program is on one disk or another?

A lot of reasons. Maybe your OS disk is on a ludicrously fast SSD but is space-limited and you don't want to waste that space on applications that don't need it.

> Why would I even "install" something, instead of dragging/dropping a single "file" (yes I know it's a directory) like I usually do.

Agree wholeheartedly. It makes perfect intuitive sense: the application is exactly where I think it is, and if I move it somewhere else then it is exactly there, and if I delete it then it is exactly gone.
Amazon under fire in France as coronavirus restrictions hit rivals
Which, since its largely automated, is also essentially free.
Buy the kids a raspberry pi.
This is the dumbest thing ever.
If I understand that correctly, this violates the GPDR. So it should be possible to sue them - at least in Europe.
Who is laughing at the Gentoo folks now ey?
Maybe https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/#three-info ?

Supposedly $5.99/TB/Month
One data center for 1B people? Yes, per person.

Folks, try to understand marginal cost. Its a tiny number per person now, and plummeting.
Last time I checked there wasn't a google photos api for expiring photos and metadata.
If they're managing their heart disease and living their life they're not living in a hospice, which the people in that particular study did.
While this may be true, we should still be impressed by the number of laptops Linux operates flawlessly on. Very few people would expect Windows to run properly on a MacBook and far fewer would expect macOS to run on a generic PC. Yet people expect Linux to work flawlessly on almost anything thrown at it. From my experience, it does a very good job of this (at least in recent years).
This does not sound true at all. Everyone has a camera and most everyone takes a lot of photos. A large number of people take videos too. I would be shocked if the median smartphone user didn’t take at least 5 GB of photo/video every year.
I wouldn't advise using anything other than the tools blessed by the PSF for mission-critical stuff. Using Poetry for local development is fine but don't build a huge infrastructure around it and don't use in production.

I migrated the CI/CD of my company to Poetry some time ago, it worked fine for some time until we needed a feature that Poetry didn't support. I submitted a PR adding the feature to Poetry but their sole developer was apparently taking some time off and the project remained without any development for several months.

I migrated the CI/CD to use my own Poetry fork but it was very cumbersome, Poetry has a very weird build system so forking it is not simple.

At this point, I realized that I was just wasting time. There is nothing that Poetry does that the other (old and stable) tools don't do. Poetry was the result of me falling for the shiny toy syndrome.
CLI Applications with GraalVM Native Image
That video has nothing to do with this. This plug-in is just a sampling strategy to make rendered depth of field less noisy.

The video you linked just talks about a shot that was purposely made to be an homage to a classic cinematic technique even though it isn't necessary. Depth of field in production computer graphics is almost exclusively done with depth maps in compositing. Because there are many different layers that won't give seam artifacts around the edges as well as floating point outputs that don't clip, depth maps are even easier to make work.
Yeah, but show HN to regular users. Most of them would be appalled by the looks, the way it is structured, the simplicity.

Users say they want simplicity like they say they want to start diets: everyone says they want it but when they're actually forced to do it, nobody wants it for more than 5 minutes.
I kinda pity them, I have a track-point.
What sucks about the current food stamp program?
Dutch young adults spend around 7 hours behind screens per day
That's the thing though, you don't really get it for free do you? You just pay with your privacy and data instead.
Open source pytest snapshot testing plugin
In my opinion, the main reason for using one or the other is the language in question.

For a statically typed language an IDE makes much more sense than for a dynamically typed one.

When PHP got more static typing features over the years I switched to an IDE and it was awesome. When I started using JavaScript in 2011, an IDE didn't help that much.
Why the Release of Ruby 3 Will Be Monumental
In the US, I have seen Verizon Fios shut off a user’s connection in response to a DMCA takedown notice (hosting a server at home).
That's what Google is organizationally unable to understand. They consider you giving them all your data to be a perfectly private thing to do. In fact, in a way, they consider themselves to be sort of guardians of your privacy, since they only look at it themselves and don't let anybody else take advantage of it. To anyone outside Google this not what "privacy" means, of course, but that's the internal mantra.

I don't think they thought this through actually. If I have to pay, I'll pay for Apple iCloud instead, since it has better integration with my devices.
I love using HammerSpoon for this sort of thing. Not for the faint-hearted to get to a point where you're happy with the configuration, but it's a total Swiss Army knife for scripting just about anything on your system, from window placement/moving to changing DNS or proxy settings when connecting to different networks, to preventing sleep, etc. It pretty much does the job of 15 other tools I might need to install otherwise. Yeah, you need to learn Lua (easy), and be willing to invest a bunch of time in it initially for setup, but once you have done that, you won't want to go back!
Seriously!?

Thank Darwin we had ancestors with thicker skin and stronger will.

Nobody wants nuclear war or to live in the aftermath of it.

However, should it ever happen I intend to do everything in my power to survive. Early humans endured terrible hardships so we had the privilege of building great comfortable societies. It's our duty to the future to keep carrying the flame.
Can't upvote that enough times. Funny how the truth hurts sometimes.
Thanks for the link.
Can we talk about alternatives? I am not a Google Photos user but I struggle to find a good privacy-aware or self-hosting solution.

Currently I am hosting my photos on my nextcloud instance. But the support from the iOS app for photos is really bad and there seems to be no good webdav photo viewer on iOS.

So what about Piwigo [1] then? They allow self-hosting (does it run well on a raspi?) and have a pretty reasonably priced commercial solution (you have to go to the "individual" tab).

What else is there?

[1] piwigo.org
[2] https://piwigo.com/pricing
>Only toward the mid-20th century did that view begin to shift, with courts sometimes noting that a prosecutor’s job should be to seek justice, not just win convictions.

Has the US justice system regressed? As an outsider prosecutors seems fixated on 'wins' and quotas.
I'm personally quite fond of System76.
> Predates so-called "Streisand Effect"

DeCSS was released in 1999; Mecha Streisand episode of South Park was 1998.
$100 isn't cheap for a curious kid with no income, especially if they're not already sold on it as an interest.

There's a big difference between buying a computer explicitly for the purpose (even if it's cheaper), vs being able to play around with the hardware that you already have, for no new monetary investment at all.
All the ubuntu cloud images can be easily customized via cloud-init

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/
Soon, phoning home a hash of every file your computer has.
SaaS Needs a Single Point of Purchase
Here’s how I’ve typically structured deals I’ve done.

1. Use a SAFE. It’s simple (literally what the S stands for) and defers granting the actual equity until the company is further along and has some kind of major event.

2. Agree on a discount and a cap. These are the two terms an investor and founder will negotiate on.

Discount of 0% to 20% is normal.

The cap isn’t a valuation, but it’s kind of “like” one. In terms of its value, it depends on a bunch of factors:

1. Market opportunity / TAM
2. Strength of the founders
3. The amount of the company the investor wants to own
4. Growth plan of the company. Will this be a lifestyle business or a hyperscale VC startup?

You can also do an uncapped safe.

It’s hard to give a range on cap because it depends on so many factors. I’ve seen deals for a small amount ($1MM) and for gigantic amounts (highest was $50MM, but that was a massive outlier). Most deals I consider are in the $3MM - $10MM range.

As an investor, you obviously want to maximize your share. But you also want to leave enough that the founders feel they have skin in the game. Also, if they’re going to raise additional fund in the future, you want to ensure the founders aren’t diluted too much on later rounds, again so they have skin in the game.

Ownership targets of 1% on the low end to 30% on the high end are “normal”.

Finally, I wrote “normal”, but every deal is unique. If you decide to invest, only go forward with what you feel comfortable with.

Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor and I am not your financial advisor. This is not legal advice. I’m just a person on the Internet.
The major factor behind the decline of the USA will be dysgenics and changing demographics. Similar to much of the West.
Direct link with no paywall or Facebook advert here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25069976
Jelly Bean World: An Environment for Never-Ending Learning
Perhaps it is a sign the project is too large and need to be broken up in more manageable parts?
They can buy a PC with GNU/Linux preinstalled then. If I bought a mac and tried to install windows there it would be a shitshow too.
> How is one supposed to exercise their right to Fair Use without "bypassing" technological measures via tools like these?

Fair use is not a right. It's a defence. You're still infringing copyright, but this is an infringement that they cannot punish. Importantly, law makers see fair use as a restriction of the rights of the copyright holder, not as a right granted to users of that IP.

People have always known that DMCA interferes with these defences. See for example this from 2001: https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
I don't really understand why people complain.

First of attracting customers with the low or zero price is kind of standard way of attracting customers. I've never heard people complaining that some shampoo free sample is no longer free or that some discounted item is no longer discounted.

Second, another mistake people make is personification of companies. Company is not a human being, it cannot be honest, nice, make promises, etc. Company is a business entity, it just have contract with the users (officially signed or some TOS, like Google has that people agree with). Companies typically reserves the right to change terms of such contracts and it just happened.

Some companies might have good PR and make PR driven promises - if someone believes that, it is only that person problem.

If someone really thinks that companies support gay community because they "like" gay people, they are wrong. They support gay people only in countries where gay people are accepted and such PR move will bring them popularity (putting six colors rainbow as a company logo background costs companies $0, and they get good, cheap PR in return).

If companies really wanted to support gay people they would do all those "gay pride" stuff in countries where gays are sent to jail, but, as one can easily check, they carefully omit those places.
I hate walled in gardens and in Microsoft land it did get a lot of flack which I am thankful for. I doubt many Apple users have the foresight of a Stallman to see where their environment is headed.

There is money in creating apps for Apple systems, but you are giving up a lot in exchange.

Some developers use it for convenience but I would not say it is widespread and most are fundamentally opposed to use a mac.

Our advertising department is the only one with macs. Sadly, we still support Apple because every sales rep gets the whole suite. iPhones and iPad Pros (because the others are too small and you cannot work with them... what a new revelation...), that is a few thousand bucks for every employee that Apple gets. They even get the ridiculously priced pen (120$?) and keyboard (300$+). And our sales people still complain about not have notebooks, because they are superior devices. There is just the presentation argument.
> Just pop in the live installation media

So... way harder than Mac OS.

In fact, that’s literally impossible on my computer.
Similar story. My mind was in fragments from diseases.
Vit D in low teens. Started high level vit D at start of Covid
Brain function is approaching my old levels.
Now I take a lot of supplements, so it’s always tricky to pin it down. But so far so goods.
There are lots of good ideas to make US elections more secure and trustworthy that are low-hanging fruit, easily implemented.

Here's my prediction: None of these excellent ideas will be implemented by either party, and so people will continue to be baffled by the US system. "How is it possible that the US has such chaos every election season?"

The potential for bumping up "our guy" in a close race is way too appealing to the party in power. When the reigns change hands, the new party could take the time to tighten election security, but to what benefit? They are now in control. Making things more fair to the other team would only hurt their chances.

Election fraud is deeply ingrained in the long democratic political history of the US, from the very beginning. Direct democracy was an untried, unknown concept when the country started. No one but a few ivory tower eggheads who read dense philosophy books really understood what it was all about: "You mean if our guy gets more pieces of paper into that box than the other guy, we can award ourselves all of the government contracts?" It didn't even necessarily start out as nefarious or unethical, just clueless.
Diagnosing Parkinson's disease from a person's copy-typing
There is an urgent need for non-intrusive tests that can detect early signs of Parkinson’s disease (PD), a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that affects motor control. Recent promising research has focused on disease markers evident in the fine-motor behaviour of typing. Most work to date has focused solely on the timing of keypresses without reference to the linguistic content. In this paper we argue that the identity of the key combinations being produced should impact how they are handled by people with PD, and provide evidence that natural language processing methods can thus be of help in identifying signs of disease. We test the performance of a bi-directional LSTM with convolutional features in distinguishing people with PD from age-matched controls typing in English and Spanish, both in clinics and online.
Any idea if I can buy the family plan and use 6TB for myself?
Funny seeing this here, but a decade ago, this professor's differential equations explanations saved me from endlessly meandering through tough engineering lectures and dense math textbooks. I'm frankly curious to know if undergraduates and high school students still use this...
“Unlimited”, until it is limited. Amazon already bait-and-switched on unlimited Amazon Cloud Drive storage. Microsoft, too, on OneDrive, before Amazon. Now Google. What makes you believe Amazon will honor “unlimited” this time round?
Antitrust in the Digital Age – Google, Amazon, and What Follows
> I am most efficient at my desktop.

It would be weird if the person you’re responding to were referring to personal efficiency—that depends on the person. They were likely referring to power efficiency.
> and for which candidate

That's by design, it's an important feature to prevent people from being pressured into/persecuted for voting a certain way, or selling their vote.

If there's no way to verify your specific vote you can just lie about who you voted for.
> He times his narration to end with a rocket launch, down to the beat!

What timestamp?
Brainfuck. Mr. Müller is the father of Brainfuck.
Have used it but this sounds a lot like kicking the can down the road. Don’t be surprised if/when Amazon does the same thing and/or just lets photos Languish.

I encourage a self-hosted solution with backups. There are many, some super easy for non-tech folk to use (synology for example)
Not being able to verify who you voted for is by design, it's an important feature to prevent people from being pressured into/persecuted for voting a certain way, or selling their vote.

If there's no way to verify your specific vote you can just lie about who you voted for.
I've bought a Synology NAS which comes with a builtin Synology Moments application. It's pretty much a self-hosted Google Photos (including web gallery, sharing and mobile app which autobackups directly to your NAS).

I still use Google Photos for convenience sake, but having a safe copy owned by myself on harddrives I own by myself is still worthwhile.

And setup was very easy - couple of clicks on web UI to enable the package and installing the mobile app.
The tone of this article makes it pretty difficult to have a substantive discussion, but I do think there are a few good points. Primarily that users would benefit from a deprecation path.

I think there's also a mostly unspoken idea in there that it is really difficult to address socially sensitive issues in an email listserv format.

Finally, I do think there's something to the Munchausen's by proxy argument. It's a good metaphor, but an inflammatory one, and I wish it were handled with more sensitivity because of that.
It was too good to be true (for ever)
> The goal of DRM is and always have been to lock users inside a platform,

In that case it fails to accomplish that goal for the same reason. It doesn't work and will be defeated. When you download a song, or movie, or ebook that has been stripped of its DRM you aren't tied to anything. Why introduce unnecessary annoyances for paying customers which often drives them to pirate copies that aren't crippled by DRM? As long as something works like they want it to, most people wont care what platform they use to get it.
Probably not much - the reality is that rendering depth of field in camera in production CG is a very tough sell. Even if there is no speed penalty, renders are usually so expensive that it isn't even a question of doing it in real time in compositing.
You could argue that all hyper growth “build it and they will come” types of companies do this bait and switch. It’s inherent to the startup culture that emphasizes capturing users above earning profit in the early stages of a company.

Think about how many VC-backed companies offer services at discounted rates today in hopes of being able charge higher rates for that service in the future. This is endemic to tech generally, not just Google.
I don't have much of a problem with Google wanting to charge for photo storage, as services aren't free to run. However, with Google's track record of spontaneously killing services (even paid ones), I'm looking to find alternatives that are less at risk of being rebranded or shut down on a manager's whim. Does anyone have experience with a competing product?
I’m allergic to the sun. Autoimmune. A day in full sun will mean months of agony.
That’s similar to what Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/compa...) and Apple (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238; for fun/education, check the pricing in Colombia. I had to google to find the explanation for that) charge.

I also think syncing to one of those is the best solution for most consumers, even though its not a true backup and it runs the risk of account closure for uploading forbidden content.
You build your Linux workstation at home to have static ip/domain and you ssh from your Apple product. VSCode have excellent support for this type of workflow.

For me 16Gb would not be enough. But it depends on type of work and your worflows (editor/tooling) you use.
We can't draw that line when dealing with individuals either. Laws against libel and slander should not exist.
See also "2020 Is An Election Security Success Story (So Far)" [1] which Bruce Schneier referenced and summarized here [2]

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/2020-election-security-success-s...

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/11/2020-was-a-se...
"Slavery was an institution, and masters simply played a role, they were not inherently good or bad, in fact some masters treated their slaves really well, to the point that many didn’t want to stop being slaves."

I thought that this was going to be a technical article about specific problems that would occur if we changed the branch name, but nope, straight up defence of slavery.
maybe all their cars can ship with 12 actual cylinders. base model gets to use 4. pay for more cylinders. pay for turbo. pay for higher turbo pressure. pay for hybrid regenerative braking.
That’s like 5000 photos with today’s resolutions. Many people go through that in a year or two.

Source: Anecdata
UV bath in Russia.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-...